#but that blog is much older lol

[blueequin0x]

I'm getting DMs from bots, is this a real blog now?

[xxplastic-cubexx]

Fam and i were passing a sock shop and we saw a cyclops one and In Devious Union my brother and i said ‘cysocks’

[vynnyal]

It's super late, but I wanted to do a quick "art vs artist" / summary of 2024 :] mostly long form animation and slugcat sketches this year, but I snuck in a few good ones.

[vimbry-moved]

"likes don't do anything" they do

"there's no algorithm" there is

"well nobody uses the for you tab" I do

"reblog all art and fics you see" there's no thought put into that. if this does work on people, then it's just pity engagement borne out of guilt rather than genuine interest, which is arguably worse than having none, because it's totally hollow.

[electricea]

listen, i take that shit incredibly seriously and try my best to do my due diligence - before i even send a meme to someone whose muse's age i'm not 100% aware of their age, i go and look first. i would never unintentionally or not want to put ryuji or another muse in an uncomfortable situation and i try my damndest to make that very clear and do my part and my due diligence.

[noonaishere]

A question, because I'm having trouble deciding:

I'm working on an original smut book series about a fictional idol group. Originally I was going to just self publish it, but now I'm thinking of maybe doing it serially, so it'd be like how my last three fics released once a week.

I was also thinking of doing this on Patreon and then using the money from subscriptions to like: pay an editor to edit it for self-pub on amazon later, pay artists for nice covers, I'd also like to comission art for photocards of each ML bevause I think that'd be cute. Also, I need to pay myself because my day job is filled with class-sniping old farts, and they caused a chain reaction that means I'm now teaching *one* lab class in the spring semester. (That's like *no* money. No one can fucking live on that. I don't even get paid an office hour, so my grading and everything is basically being done for free, and that's ALSO the part that takes the longest 😫😫😫.)

Anyway, I was just wondering if anyone would be into the idea of smut about a fictional group? There'd be ten members (so ten MLs, each one gets their own book), each sort of has a different classic kpop personality (golden retriever, ice prince, terror child, innocent cutie, etc), and they'd each meet a FL in a different meetcute (reconnecting with a childhood friend, random encounter, love at first sight, etc), each story would have different tropes (academic rivals, enemies to lovers, man vs the self, etc) and different sexual proclivities/kinks.

So yeah, would anyone be interested?

And should I make updates about it here? Or make a new blog just for them? 🤔

(I want to tag the taglist, but I'm on my phone so I'll just reblog this tomorrow and add it then lol)

[maydays-medbay]

Bubbles - He/They Bubbles here is a comfort sona of mine where I can draw cute fluffy stuff and not worry about accidentally throwing angst in their face lmao They are meant to be kind of fun and childish to bring out that side of me since I don't draw it much. That, and his design is perfect for practicing a cartoony style without worrying too much about anatomy and stuff. It's a good change of pace lol

[caramelmochacrow]

Day 7: Free Day (Proposal)

My Proposal To You (17.7k words)

Three years have passed since Yuka and Esora graduated and started to date. They, in addition, have started to live together. The problems from that night three years ago were resolved in a way, yet the public hasn't moved on. The idea of proposing enter the couple's minds, opening old wounds and lingering worries in the process. Yuka has thought of proposing for months, while Esora has kept that idea at the back of her mind until now. Her past with marriage doesn't exactly help. However, Yuka and that man are different, far different. She truly loves Yuka. And Esora knew Yuka was the same with her.

(no writing version under the cut)

awww theyre proposed :3c

[gamereign]

finally added the jjba verse to the carrd and also gave the the blog aesthetic a lil refresh hehe

[fappellmoan]

proof we were fated to know each other. how was miranda I was supposed to go but she cancelled the concert bc she sprained her ankle or some shit

😭😭😭 oh literally that’s sooo…. first of all come on miranda 🙄 i don’t remember how my mom got the tickets but it ended up being me her and my sister. and i remember going to a little italian restaurant afterward like it was a special night. sorry not to brag 😳 and ik my one cousin was there as well (of course this was a huge event for young girls) and stood outside to meet her and got a high five apparently. said the classic (im never washing my hand!) and high fived me so i had like meeting cooties idfk. anyway<3 literally we should’ve been chillin 😭😭

[fly-sky-high-dragon-hoard]

in the lights of someone finding my Sonic knight AU concept drawings from 2016, I'll share this little archive blog with you -> @kotngblog

Some of the characters belong to my old friends from dA days, Vain and @spamalika!

It's not something I'll come back to but I am very found of it nonetheless! (please don't mind my poor english and understanding of... things from way back then lol)

[insufferablemod]

is this your first read of homestuck or a reread?

imagine this was my first read,,, damn thatd be wild nah ive been here since 2013 lmao

[fenriskisser]

thinkign about my f/os helping me deal w my disorders n stuff makes me feel better.... my brain tries to shut me down sometimes and be like "Thats stupid" but Who Cares .

there's some thjngs it can't help, no matter how much i want to i still can't speak properly in public or even at all to strangers, but just imagining my f/os are near me & talking / helping me through my avpd has made me go from having anixety attacks just standing in my backyard to being able to go inside grocery stores and actually shop even while crowded like.... that is so awesome sauce...

i never in my life though i'd be able to do that again, for a time i didn't think i'd ever be able to go outside at all again, but selfshipping is awesome and i am mentally ill and i think the former is very helpful & epic when you're the latter but that might just be mmy pov though

[littlehouseoftrinkets]

We are officially at 300!! queued posts which means I should probably up the queue frequency again

Trying to find a good balance for the frequency is hard >.>"

[irhabiya]

Genuinely I think your trademark is hizuposting. I feel like everyday since I’ve followed you I see at least one #hizuposting on my dash it’s so cute actually. And also you love the Nile river

WAHHHHHH I LOVEEEEEE THIS MAKES ME SO HAPPY😭❤️❤️❤️❤️

[mermaidsirennikita]

So I saw your tags about how the Ravenel series is a bit mid, and I don't disagree despite liking some of them a lot? Marrying Winterborne was my first intro to Kleypas, and it fucks real hard, I love it. I have a soft spot for Chasing Cassandra because I enjoyed Tom in previous showings, and I found their dynamic compelling.

But I didn't even finish Ethan's book because I couldn't be arsed, and I bought West's and wished I hadn't I was so incapable of getting into it. Anyway, this is all to say that you're not wrong, and are in fact generally right.

(In positive news tho, re: Marrying Winterborne, never gonna be over the scene where she agrees to fuck him and then after she's in the bath and he's like "I'm changing her agreement" before realizing "Oh shit, I've made this woman panic, fuck shit". Anyway, have a great day.)

"you are not wrong, and are in fact generally right" I sincerely love this lol, it sounds like something I would say to a friend of mine

Marrying Winterborne DOES fuck so hard, and I think that because of this, the series in general gets a strong rep than maybe it should...? Because in terms of popularity, I think Rhys is absolutely up there with some of Lisa's top heroes--people like me who prefer her older books love him, people who prefer the Ravenels adore him (generally). I don't think I've met a Kleypas fan who doesn't love that book, though I'm SURE some don't. And you do really need to read Cold-Hearted Rake for the background of MW (the first time I tried to read MW I did it without CHR and was like "this fuck is this"). I wonder if this is why CHR gets so much flack? Even though, and I will die on this hill, it's PROBABLY better than Devil in Spring and definitely better than Devil's Daughter and Hello Stranger? (I really need to give Chasing Cassandra another fair shot because I remember very little of it; I think the one-two punch of Hello Stranger and Devil's Daughter, two of my least favorite Kleypas books, made me very burned out when I read it.)

Ethan's book was very disappointing to me because I actually was very excited about Garrett as a heroine beforehand. And I do.... wonder if Kleypas changed plans, the way she famously did with Scandal in Spring. Because there's a scene in... MW I think? Where Garrett and Tom have like, an arm wrestling moment, that makes me wonder if the original plan was Garrett/Tom. Again, I need to reread Chasing Cassandra to really experience THAT pairing again--but I do think Garrett/Tom would've been more interesting than Garrett/Ethan.

I mean, HS was also fucked from the jump because it had that really racist "Ethan got his sexual education from an exotic Indian woman" thing, which shocked people into calling Kleypas out, and I think triggered the Great Kleypas Editing Hackjob. Which, by the way--it does speak to how much name and expectation matters, because while what Kleypas wrote into that book is absolutely awful and unacceptable, I feel like it's portrayed as this shameful anomaly when I can think of at least one smaller name (but still notable) author who wrote a historical with a MUCH worse depiction of India around the same time. Which doesn't excuse what Kleypas did, I just dislike the idea that Kleypas was the only one doing that in the 2010s, when that's faaar from true. Historicals still haven't figured that out, and sometimes I think the recaps of how the Hello Stranger issue was handled read very "look Patrick, we saved the city" because the biggest name got dogged into apologizing/editing. Either way, Hello Stranger is mid without that content and it's gross with it, so I usually put it at the bottom of my rankings. Either way, it ain't up to par and I can't judge it fairly in its edited form at this point.

Devil's Daughter is just Not Good. And I will take my lashings from everyone who loves that book, because everyone loves Kleypas soyboy West Ravenel, and I just have to say--do these people like THE BOOK? Do they like PHOEBE? Because everything I see is all about West West West and even if I was into West, which I Am Not, I feel like there has to be more to a book that's being upheld as one of her recent bests than "I love him". Sorry, the plot of DD is boring at best and lame at worst. Phoebe hates West because he was her dead husband's childhood bully, and I do mean childhood? And sorry to Phoebe's dead husband, but he's dead and fictional and I never met him and I don't care. And West is a less interesting Leo Hathaway. He stopped drinking and realized booze was giving him the dad bod, so he's hot now (my kingdom for a dad bod historical hero). And now he's boring because he's not a rake anymore and has responsibilities, but like? He just sounds like a fuckboy before his redemption lmao. Like a bit of a wastrel. Leo Hathaway was out there crying in a public sphere and giving great advice to Kev Merripen like "if you don't get with my sister, one day you're gonna wake up covered in tears and your own come and realize you have nothing but regrets" to which Kev goes ".... is that what.... you do...?" Leo Hathaway readily admitted to waking up on the regular covered in tears and semen. That's a true wreck.

And Leo is in itself the softer Kleypas hero type--other "redemption" heroes are like, Sebastian, who kidnapped his wife's best friend and threatened to rape her! Derek Craven, who was born in a drainpipe and fucked for money for years (not that this is anything to feel bad about, but he does) and owns a degenerate gambling hell lol. John McKenna, who comes to find his childhood sweetheart with the explicit intention of like, filling her belly with his fetid seed and siring a bastard on her so that she'll be humiliated forever I cannot. Why would I be impressed with West going "I was kind of a loser tbh" YOU ARE FINE. THIS IS BORING. GIVE ME ANOTHER THING TO CARE ABOUT.

But yes, I love that scene in MW so much. To me, a lot of MW's charm is that Rhys severely does not know how to talk to women, or romance them in a tender way (him fucking shit up with Helen with the flower situation is hilarious sorry). And he also does get legit douchey with Kathleen, lol. He very much gets a little threatening and is all "SO YOU WANTED A BIT O' ROUGH" and Devon has to do a mild Westcliff moment. Kleypas heroes: always mad when their best friends get sexually aggressive with their women, always ready to forgive after like a week.