#anyways probably not gonna continue this

[seaseren]

Chiaki was so fucking sick of Starlight.

It’s not like they wanted to be. It’s a wonderful time of year, a time about giving and sharing and community- they’d heard enough speeches about the true meaning of Starlight to know that only a Grinch would oppose the holiday.

They had certainly heard enough speeches about the true meaning of Starlight. Early on, after the Calamity, they honestly leapt at the chance to be one of the Saint’s Helpers. It felt important- or at least everyone else acted like it was, and Chiaki just wanted to do something to give back. Even back when they were extremely sick, they did what they could- help make soup for the community, repair old and scavenged toys because there weren’t enough materials to make new ones, even making decorations that covered up lingering damage from that fateful day. The mood, still dark from the advent of another Umbral Era, was so much brighter for the holiday. It wasn’t just Starlight Cheer, it was a tangible reminder that they had survived, had persisted, that their traditions would not end with them. It was hope in as raw and undiluted a form as Chiaki had ever seen, and they had been honored to help make that happen. 

And every year since then it mattered less and less, and yet everybody else got more and more excited. As Eorzea came out of the Umbral Era, as the Empire lost more and more of their footholds in Aldenard, and things just got better, well, helping out on Starlight felt less like rekindling a precious flame and more like being the one stuck sitting around the campfire and poking it every half hour. Which was fine, Chiaki knew that doing good didn’t always feel good, but somehow inversely proportional to the actual substance of the holiday as how many godsdamned speeches people made about it. That first year nobody had really felt the need to pontificate on holiday magic, or togetherness, or goodwill towards man. It had just sort of been…implied. But as the years went on plays (about the true meaning of Starlight) started running through all of the Sixth Umbral Moon, and songs (about the true meaning of Starlight) filled the air in every Aetheryte Plaza, and speeches (about the true meaning of Starlight) seemed ready at everybody’s lips, no matter what the occasion was or if the holiday was actually relevant or how many times everybody else in the room had heard-

Chiaki took a deep breath and forced themselves to stop pacing about the room. This year, they had decided no more- no more helping with the holiday, no more carols, no more parties, nothing. They had procured presents for everyone they felt socially obligated to, left them in a heap on Tataru’s desk with a note detailed which was for who, and gone to the one place Starlight couldn’t find them- Norvrandt. Lyna had been a bit surprised when they showed up asking for work, but thankfully for Chiaki Norvrandt still had enough actual problems, despite how most of the Crystalline Mean managed to be just as concerned with money and status as any Ul’Da-

More deep breaths. There was plenty of work to be done in Norvrandt, and Chiaki was happy to do it. They had just finished some guard duty for the teams of people working to survey and assess the repairability of towns and farms once lost to the Sin Eaters, and now that they were back they were hoping to catch up with Ryne and lend their botanical know-how to her efforts in-

There was a knock at the door to Chiaki’s suite- the familiar call that Thancred drilled into all the Scions. It seemed Ryne had come to them. Chiaki rushed to pull a robe over their house dress, a small smile on their face, and opened the door-

That small smile suddenly had to fight to stay on.

From the other side Ryne smiled up at them- all decked out in reds and white, wearing a sweater despite the fact that Norvrandtic winters were mild. She had on a little cap, pom-pom and everything, that someone had surely handmade- of the three major culprits Chiaki didn’t actually know which was most likely to knit. 

“Chiaki!” she said, and they both hugged. “Lyna told us you were in town! She and I were wondering if you would help us with a project!” Chiaki knew what was coming next. They also knew that they didn’t have to do this, that agreeing to this would be reaching new levels of self-parody, and that it wouldn’t even be that hard to explain that they needed to head back to the Source. And yet even as their mind was reaching for last ditch escape plans- would it be feasible to spend a month in Elpis?- their mouth said, with an ease that came from far, far too much practice- “Of course! What can I do to help?”

[tango-but-everywhere]

bogos binted?

mumbo, wild life 5

[ID: a minecraft screenshot from within the spanners’ tnt minecart tower. from left to right, impulse, pearl and tango are all facing the viewer, though pearl is looking at tango. end ID]

[math-memes]

[upsidedownsmore]

(edited to fix page 3, oops!)

Hello! Here's a Hollowframe zine I made for my 2D design class final last week!

We basically got to make an 8-paged zine + poster designed for a double-sided 11x17" sheet of paper about anything we wanted, so I elected to just reuse stuff I already drew for my ongoing Hollowframe project since I was already buried under other assignments (though I still ended up putting way too much effort into it lol, I even remade the full group arrangement!)

The idea was to split the timeline of the Hollowframe project into four rough "phases", take a warframe from each, and then condense a bunch of info about the design I drew for them into a page each.

Hollowframe tag!

Google drive link with high quality pdfs, pngs, and more for printing and whatever! :) (and send me pics if you actually print it!!)

Pics of the irl folded zine and more under the cut!

And here's an unfolded view of all of the pages:

Feel free to try printing and folding it yourself! (here is a random zine folding tutorial I found: https://zineopolis.blogspot.com/p/h.html) (meant for 11x17" paper but idk maybe you can make a really small one lol)

I used Photoshop for the page backgrounds, Illustrator to arrange the pages themselves, and Krita to rearrange the full group image.

Pretty happy with how it turned out! I'm honestly mostly glad I finally got an excuse to remake that full group arrangement cause man that dull bluish gray background was not doing it for me anymore lol (though now it's 11x17" rather than 16:9 ratio so maybe not as good for desktop backgrounds but idk if that matters that much? idk i might adjust it back to a 16:9 ratio if people really want me to)

Anyways that's it for now bye bye :)

[change-your-view]

Stobotnik day 1: Entertaiment

let me explain under the cut.

My intention wasn't to just draw them sitting, but in my mind i had an idea for an animatic with a Waitress au, because i got obsessed with the song: it only takes a taste. I have a draft for the scenes but exams happened and i wasn't able to even finish the draft so yeah that's why i draw them just as a reference for later, Robotnik has the same outfit so it's unclear this is an au but he is supposed to be Dr Pomatter in this scenario, Stone is Jenna.

my idea was more like a meet cute with Robotnik not changing much at all only that Stone doesn't work for him, he works at a cafeteria and well you can guess the rest because is similar to the fics of barista Stone.

this is the ref i used for the drawing:

[midnight333-studios]

Guess who turns a year older today!

🥳💥🎂

But that also means…

A D U L T

[helielune]

and stalling only goes so far when you've got a head start

[charmac]

Did my last ask go through because sometimes tumblr eats them 😭

I did get it, I just don't agree or wanna publish something like that to my blog, sorry.

Rob is very obviously a straight man, imo.

He is actually a beautiful example of sexuality not being a choice: guy who has a lot of gay family/friends and is so immersed in the community and really loves it, feels like he belongs to a point where it almost seems incorrect that he isn't queer, but he's "tried" and just. is not into guys. and has to admit that means he's straight.

And that's okay, because the majority of the world is straight, and we actually really value and need allies like him in the real world: straight guys who talk about queerness wistfully, who praise the community and think the concept of guys sucking each other off is awesome, if you're into that, and consistently reaffirm those ideas under a spotlight.

Rob being an ally in the way that he is is actually really important to me, and the reason I have an annoyingly soft spot for him

(and I promise if he was sexually attracted to men to any sliver of a degree, he would claim to be bisexual in a heartbeat. He wants that.)

[alagrams]

I’m gonna be honest, I am excited for the new Tron Ares film but solely for the fact that Jeff Bridges is coming back and there’s a possibility that Sam Flynn will have a post-credit scene (also the idea of seeing a Tron movie on opening day is awesome to me, whether it sucks or not). I hope this movie really just serves as a preview to what we could see in a Tron 4 if it’s green lit, and I want it to do well because then Disney will finally understand how much people like Tron

[qoldenskies]

Now that 2024 is coming to a close:

1) Of everything you've made this year, which ones are you the most proud of?

2) What are a few of your favorite things (art, comics, fics, etc) that someone else has made this past year?

ngl for the first question, i think itd have to be caged lungs .... i continue to stew in silence about cw doing so much better than it because there's a lot of moments in it that fuck harddd even though its a little undercooked (i released it earlier than i wanted to because i didnt want to obsess over a bunch of little details, and i kind of regret that now! there are two scenes i would have added if i were able to change things now.) im also very proud of coming undone, especially because it was kind of my,, ig breakout in the fandom? it doing reasonably well is the REASON I AM HERE so be kind to my baby. if that hadnt happened, canary continuity wouldnt exist!!!

as for the second. goddd you cannot make me choose because there is SO MUCH so like. fanart? i'll just bring up some fanart that i think about so much.

this piece by vulstare is like my favorite thing ever STILL. id say its made my month but honestly its kind of made my year, i still gush so hard about it and go back to look at it CONSTANTLY. the idea that ive made something deemed good enough to have fanart of THIS QUALITY still makes me walk around in my home grinning like an idiot, so much that i think my family just thinks its my resting face. im never gonna get over it. whaaaat. i think i have seen this in my dreams

AND OH OH THIS ART BY KAYSDENOFCHAOS. IS SO BANGER. i absolutely adore the symbolism and color in it still, its such a well done and creative way to depict the closet scene with the time metaphor especially. i think its even influenced some of the ways that ive written it in cw chapters in particular. fantastic brilliant showstopping etc.

AND OF COURSE THIS COMIC BY VANGH17A OHHHH MY GODDDDDD!! i am SO mad that this only has like 400 notes when it is so utterly fucking fantastic yall should go and reblog it a billion times to make up for this awful horrible error. its so heart wrenching and beautifully done im gonna go fucking crazy

and this art of chapter 12 by cupcakeslushie of COURSEE!!! its super flattering because their work got me into the fandom in the first place so it was a bit magical bghdhghf. and god do i adore the perspective and lighting, its so haunting,,,, im insaneeee asylum /ref

AND THERE IS A TON MORE THAT PROBABLY JUST ISNT COMING TO ME BUT THIS IS WHAT I REMEMBERED ON THE FLY, please for the love of god just scroll through my fanart tag and go support all the lovely people that drew for me because WHAT DID I DO. TO DESERVE THIS. IM LITERALLY GOING CRAZY

also OF COURSE i gotta give a shout out to i want for us this (that we are well), that's the last song you'll ever sing, and i will save you when your lights go out. I HAVE,,, FICS OF MY FIC???? I HAVE LITERALLY CRIED REAL TEARS OVER THIS

i feel pampered as fuck LMAO. you guys do not understand what you do to me

[wyrmagedon]

woah molly how’d you do that. rambly in the tags

[shouyuus]

Holy fuck I’m so excited. Do you have a schedule for when you’ll release each chapter?

!!! im glad ur excited!!!!

tbh. im bopping between releasing a chapter a day, so that it'll all be up by like this coming week, or every other day, so that i can like let each chapter sit for a while LOL.

i know personally i love binge-reading shit, so i might just do a chapter a day. that way, i can like, write some other things and queue it up for when the series is over! i missed writing like lil blurbs and headcanons and stuff like that

[soggy-fishsticks]

guys ive been drawing so much lately I've been starting to actually hate it 🙁

[sophiethewitch1]

chapter 8 literally has like 3-4 more paragraphs what am i doing... im sitting at my desk rereading this thing and just staring staring staring like. geniunely have slammed my desk a couple times like a little baby throwing a tantrum <3 <3

[avephelis]

Ave. Avph. If you were a Pokémon gym leader what would your team and typing be!! Your nuzlocke Art driving me crazy!21!1!:3

so maybe i went a little overboard because i got excited. and maybe did a little play on caustic because that's silly. maybe.

also a post-game rematch team for good measure. BATON PASS ISN'T BANNED IN CORE GAMEPLAY BABY !!

[harvestmoth]

eugh