#been in an au kick lately

[imperfectcourt]

I have been feeling closer and closer to being able to see through this wave of depressy and creating something. I even cleaned my apartment 🥺 I might not be able to write anything but I have 2 pieces of art I started ages and ages ago and maybe I might be able to look work on one of them 🥺🥺🥺

[reluctanttrabbit]

GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS!!!!!

figuring out roxy and chica's designs :333 i love what i have so far!!!

(ALSO I'VE FINALLY FIGURED OUT HOW TO DRAW ROXY. i hate drawing her normally i'll just stylize her lmao)

closeups under tha cut vv

[aether-weather]

SAGESUNE MIKU >:DDD

[j-liz]

the way spyfam chap 78.1 makes me think of your fanarts….. i want this group of friends to be silly together forever

One can say I got a little inspired after reading it lol🙊

It’s okay sweetie go at whatever pace you need to.

[skrunksthatwunk]

never have i ever with the in-laws

[seasaltandcopper]

sometimes space piracy isn't all it's cracked up to be. sometimes you and your girl both get stabbed by bounty hunters and have to patch each other up in the medbay before either of you bleeds out

and after all that, someone still has to fix the ship :/

lyra belongs to @calico-heart

[the-far-bright-center]

The weird feeling of being a longtime fan and realising that my own views of Anakin and Padme don’t seem to align with hardly anyone else’s these days… not even the current pro-Anidala side of tumblr fandom.

[beekindtobees]

ok !! hopefully the last chapter of origins will be out sometime this week ( maybe !! )

i got distracted by sorta kinda redesigning them . i wanted them to be less recognizable . idk if i accomplished that but i like the new designs so i’m sticking with em . sorry if you don’t lol .

im also working on answering my ask box , so if you sent me one and it still hasn’t been answered i promise i haven’t forgotten or ignored !! im just busy teehee .

[ny000mdraws]

Do you have any plans for Deadlock/Drift? And can we see some Red Alert x Inferno x Firestar, pls?🙏🏻

I don’t, no. Mainly because he’s already in the Aligned universe and I like him as is. But I did make two designs of him back in 2022, one that’s more inspired by MTMTE Deadlock (and meant to be his own separate character) and another that’s meant to be Pre-RiD15 Drift/ Deadlock.

But who knows? If enough people want me to, I can work on these again.

And here’s TFP AU Red Alert x Inferno x Firestar that I definitely didn’t give up on and also not one sketch has all three together.

[miwachan2]

lil expression practice with vampire moon

[wyn0rrific]

Vitus in primarch sandwich, fulgrim and ferrus (im sorry)

i faintly remember looking at this ask at work and audibly gasping

anyways!

nasty ass fucker (affectionate)

[egginfroggin]

I feel the need to simply talk about the Dying of the Light AU with regards to Emmet's powers and why I wrote The Sun in Flight with such an emphasis on heat.

Of course Reshiram is a fire-type Legendary and as such is extremely powerful, and this extends somewhat to Emmet, as well. I wanted to emphasize the sheer intensity of Reshiram's fires, and did so by having Emmet describe it as "unbearable" and "incinerating," because Emmet himself can melt glass and sand.

And this is where we get to the main inspiration that set off all this hot-themed prose: a few tags on the reblog that inspired this au talked about Emmet possibly having a castle of glass, to mirror Ingo's castle of ice in Iced Tracks. Here's the thing.

Glass is made from melted sand -- or more accurately, silica, which is abundant in sand.

Sand melts at about 3,090 degrees Fahrenheit, or 1,700 degrees Celsius.

For comparison, lava is about 2,200 Fahrenheit.

LAVA.

[starculler]

strap in for this week's fic flavor: the failsafe episode of season one of the young justice cartoon except the simulation just won't. fuckin. end.

(fics that inspired this at the end)

If I ever did sit down to make my own fic, I'd split it in 3 parts:

The Simulation: bits and pieces of the 40 years Dick lives after most everyone he knows has died

The Return: the immediate aftermath and healing from the trauma of having not-quite-actually lived a whole life only to wake up and find out it was all fake. nothing traumatizing about that whatsoever.

The Unintended Consequence: aka the twist I'd love to add and would hint to in the second part - finding out the simulation, through martian mind fuckery, pulled from the real world (and in many cases, from real minds). Dick meets a bunch of people he didn't think were real outside the confines of his simulated life. A bunch of rowdy, heroism-inclined teens across the years get to meet the sibling/friend/mentor figure they all dreamed up one night.

(actual idea snippets under the cut)

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Dick Grayson is 14 and most of the world's heroes have died. He planned a suicide mission that left him the sole survivor of a doomed team he helped found. The invasion may have been stopped, but is this really the price he wanted to pay?

The first face he sees in the infirmary is Roy's, and he has to close his eyes and just breathe for a few minutes because for one painful moment he'd thought it was Wally. But this isn't the world where his best friend miraculously survived alongside him. This is the one where he got his best friend killed and didn't even give him the courtesy of following behind him. Behind them.

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Dick Grayson is 27 and has lived longer without Bruce than with him. The invasion's anniversary is always a tough day for him, but that morning seems especially harrowing. He'll get shit for it later, but can't resist stepping out onto the balcony of the manor's master bedroom (Bruce's old bedroom) for a smoke -- his first since he'd promised to quit if Jason, just 15 then, did too.

"Bad habits tend to pile up," he'd said, a rueful quirk to his tired grin. He'd tapped the cigarette twice on the railing and added, lower, "and this one's especially nasty, huh."

He inhales, watches the sun creep across the horizon, and lets acrid smoke burn through his lungs for a long moment before blowing it out in a small cloud. His eyes water, but he doesn't cough. It tastes just as bad as it did the first time he smoked one, not even a year after the invasion and treading water as Robin proved insufficient.

There hadn't been enough heroes to go around then, and Dick had been trained by one of the best. It hadn't been fair, but it had been his plan that had ultimately stopped the invasion. His shoulders everyone's expectations fell on.

He takes another drag, then smudges the lit end against the rail he's leaned on when he hears a boot scuff purposefully against the roofing above him.

"Todd and Pennyworth will be upset with you."

He doesn't turn around. Damian doesn't jump down to join him.

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Dick Grayson is 54 and wakes up in a room full of ghosts. He hears his long-dead father-figure tell his long-dead team about a simulation they weren't meant to win. A training exercise gone wrong and only half a day spent under their mentors' careful, if slightly panicked, supervision.

He looks at his hands, watching the way his gloves crease when he flexes them in and out of tight fists. He looks at his team, their eyes a little haunted but shoulders slumped with relief even as they grumble. Batman's heavy, gloved hand settles on his shoulder and the weight of it is a nauseating mix of foreign-familiar.

He opens his mouth. Closes it.

Tears prick his eyes behind his domino mask, and he tells himself the suffocating, acidic void building in his chest is just some leftover side effect of the ordeal and not the grief-guilt of outliving yet another family (no matter that they hadn't been real in the end).

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Dick Grayson is 16-going-on-56 and well used to the coincidences piling up between his simulated life and the real thing. Some of it -- missions and villains he remembers cropping up -- he's marked for Bruce to review and sort as he pleases. Some -- security for the cave, team building anecdotes, and training regimens -- he's shared with the team. And some he keeps only for himself.

Tim is one of those. He knows it's not fair to the kid (so much smaller now than he ever was when Dick lived his simulated life), but he can't help being selfish just for this. Tim is the one kid he's sure he didn't make up, and if Dick's taken to babysitting the kid just to be near at least one member of the family he built for himself in the wake of the worst days of his life .... Well, anyone who says shit about it can happily stand in line to have their teeth kicked in.

Despite this, it still catches him off-guard when he sees a familiar face pop up in one of Bruce's reports.

Jason Todd, caught boosting tires off the batmobile, is nearly the same age now as he was when Dick met him. He stares at the words, but none of them really sink in beyond the kid's name and address. He's moving before he's even made the decision.

He's used to the world kicking him when he's down - lived it for 40 frustrating years. But he has Bruce again. And things with Tim have been so good. And he's always been selfish when it comes to family. If he could just see Jason. If he could just meet him. If he could talk to him.

If if if if if--

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Inspirations:

Circles in Shattered Mirrors by InfinityIllusion

Fine (But Not Okay) by CharlotteDaBookworm

Verisimilitude by mutemelody

[sincerely-sofie]

Pre-Betrayal Dadnoir for your viewing pleasure

(Audio source)

[eclipsedrawsthings]

@mambapools Magpie you made me revisit this AU, now you get to see it drawn with my current skill

Senator Midoriya of Alderaan and Jedi bodyguard Shouto, feat. Some lightsaber blades that I’m completely in love with.

If you’re gonna hit like, please do me a favor and reblog while you’re there! It helps more people to see my art and I really appreciate it •w•

[ladychandraofthemoone]

HAPPY 35TH ANNIVERSARY SHINING TIME STATION 🚂✨☁️💨🎉🎊🎂

(the conductor family is in the background just facepalming he’s fine btw😅😅)