#but that was uuuh. end of 2020

[stilettobitearch]

🥀 ooc. its actually so fucked up when you like a song, then someone you dated (for 2.5 years) loves that song and artist so you think abt them when you hear it, so you associate it with them, and then you break up and the song applies to the breakup but you love the song but you just dont want to think about them so you lose it until 4 years later and you still think abt her but its like. fine now. you think abt her but you dont feel about her. its weird.

[iirulancorrino]

This kind of callous joke is actually a perfect demonstration of the fact that people on the East Coast don’t know shit about what it’s actually like to live in wildfire country, and maybe they should be grateful that this is (for now) a rare occurrence instead of using it as an excuse to be cruel to millions of people.

[midnightbears]

✿ tell 'em how the crowds went wild! tell 'em how i hope they shine!

⎯ in which you look back on how grateful you are for the opportunity bestowed upon you. aka: you joined the opla's cast!

#STARRING. iñaki godoy, mackenyu, jacob romero, taz skylar, emily rudd ft. fem!reader [elle fanning 4 faceclaim but u can imagine y/n anyway u wish!].

#TAGS. sfw, kind of context, a bit of smau but its tiny. mentions of covid just in case it's triggering?

#NOTE. pardon my rusty writing but i really wanted to get this out!!! i added an oc from one piece for the sake of the story but she's barely mentioned so uuuh yuh! timeline may be wrong but i work with what i'm given please bear with me. let me know if you would like more fics of this y/n??? ALSO IGNORE THE WATERMARKS ON THE PHOTOS I NEEDED TO MAKE THEM NEATER

© midnightbears on tumblr, apr 2024. please do not repost to another platform, plagiarize, translate, use for AI-related purposes or claim as your own.

In the past, if someone were to come up to you and tell you that you’d be a part of the One Piece Live Action main cast in the future, you would’ve probably laughed in their faces despite your wishful thinking.

At that time, you were content with your work, doing short theatre plays with companies or gaining minor roles in musicals. Everything changed when you landed the role for the one-woman show Fleabag for a limited time on London’s West End after the leading actress underwent emergency surgery for an appendectomy. You only acted as the sex-obsessed mess of a woman for about three weeks, but it was enough time for people to notice you, to really see you.

You believed your career had reached its pinnacle when you were cast as Katherine Howard in Six: The Musical in London. Your name had become somehow well-known in the musical theatre world, and you had a small but dedicated fan base who liked uploading edits of you being a dork during the Megasix on YouTube and TikTok. 

Months later, you were bound to play as Fantine for Les Miserables when COVID abruptly struck, and you were dismayed that your job was ripped from you so abruptly. Your best friend, the sweetest person on earth, insisted on you moving in with her in fear that you’d be evicted from your apartment.

Months passed, and you eventually found a small way to help your friend pay rent by offering singing and acting lessons online to musical-aspiring teenagers. Since you had gained many followers from your earlier work on social media, it didn’t surprise you when the classes became sold out.

Your friend also convinced you to create a YouTube channel for you to upload videos of yourself (sometimes joined by her) where you watched and commented shitty movies, followed DIY tutorials just for the fun of it, performed covers of your favorite songs, and just generally vlogged your life (along with reactions to Taylor Swift’s (From The Vault) songs).

At first, you thought it was pretty stupid, but you were delightfully proved wrong when your videos harbored over 200k-300k views on a bad day, so you found no reason to stop as COVID-19 continued, growing to gain a little over five hundred thousand followers. Your reactions were often used for TikTok audios or clips, so you found your popularity growing and evolving during that year.

You believed yourself to be a general, simple woman. People liked you because you were elegant and levelheaded, although you could sometimes be chaotic. You also had a subtle sense of humor that many found charming. But mostly, you grew a steady fan base because your videos and presence comforted countless young adults and teenagers.

You were an optimist and a reassuring one, so during the times when COVID was so prominent, people sought refuge from the monstrosities of the world in your videos, where you seemed to connect with them even though you were on the other side of the screen.

However, everything changed somewhere in 2020-2021. That evening, your best friend got home from work with excitement practically oozing out of her every pore. You and your best friend were avid anime watchers and manga readers, so you couldn’t help the face you made when she told you that One Piece was getting a live-action.

Although you were skeptical, your friend practically insisted you send an audition tape. You grimaced at that. It was well-known that live anime actions were almost always corny and cringeworthy compared to the original work, and people never liked them. You had learned that much from Death Note and a couple of others. However, your best friend convinced you with this argument:

“If it’s that bad, then at least you’ll gain more followers out of the memes that people will make, and if it’s good, you’ll still get famous anyway!”

Eventually, you sent a video of you performing one of the lengthy monologues from Fleabag to your agency and simply hoped for the best. Your friend was practically rooting for you to get the role of Anastasia, one of the first integrants of the Straw Hat crew, joining before Sanji and after Usopp. You adored her as she greatly reminded you of your late mother, although you would be happy with any role.

Somewhere in November 2021, you remember a lot of screaming and crying. When you try to look back on it, all you remember is the happiness you felt when you received confirmation of the role of Anastasia. You were practically over the moon, and you and your friend celebrated inside your small apartment. You were entirely alone, just two drunk girls dancing and cheering, until one of the neighbors knocked on the ceiling with a broom.

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yourusername actually lost for words and filled to the brim with gratitude...... i cannot express how excited i am to play my girl anastasia and bring her to life. from the bottom of my heart, thank you to everyone who has supported me. your faith in me means everything. congrats to iñaki, emily, jacob, mackenyu and taz, thank you to onepiecenetflix, thank you to my best friend for convincing me to audition for the role, and thank you, oda sensei, for putting anastasia's heart in my hands. love u all <3

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y/nsfanclub.02, AAAAAAAA SO EXCITED FOR THIS I ACTUALLY CANT BELIEVE IT

⤷ starl6ighwnb, LIKE FR IM GNAWING AT THE BARS OF MY ENCLOSURE THIS IS INSANE

user8392y3r927y, HELLO YOUR GRACE ANASTASIA

inakigo, Congrats!!!!!!!!

taz_skylar, 🔥🔥🔥

The One Piece fan base dearly loved the character of Anastasia, a well-mannered, bubbly, upbeat, fashion-loving duchess who always spoke in a Transatlantic accent but also had a quick wit and a bit of a sweet tooth. Anastasia’s dream was to become the most dangerous pirate to ever grace the seas and prove everyone who doubted her wrong.

Of course, with a big character came a big responsibility.

Sometimes, insecurity nearly got the better of you. You had to fill huge shoes, and there were many people to convince and impress. However, your love for this project was bigger than the gnawing uncertainty on the back of your neck, so you continued strongly until the end of Season One, finding comfort in your cast mates and the countless people who counted on you and, most importantly, believed in you.

Oda handpicked you, and that argument alone was enough to shoot any insecurities away.

Well, needless to say, people loved you!

Critics acclaimed your portrayal of the character, as well as the commendable chemistry you shared with the rest of the cast. The fans found it incredibly funny that your character was the complete opposite of how you actually acted in real life, and you often found yourself blissfully immersed in the fan base's love and praise.

Your channel and social media suddenly grew tenfold. Although you had stopped uploading videos every week due to the recording of season one, your followers were more than happy to wait for your return, and as one would expect, they were thrilled to have you back once you did upload a vlog explaining everything.

Over the course of the six months, you had been recording from time to time for a YouTube video in the set. Previously, you had asked the producers for permission to record some behind-the-scenes for your channel and your usual interactions with the rest of the cast with your personal Sony camera, as you felt it would be a nice way to bring the fans and the cast closer.

The producers gave the okay on the condition that you would wait until the first season aired on Netflix. You happily agreed and carefully began recording some scenes of your dressers and hairdressers as they prepared you, a few shots of your instructor showing you how you were supposed to use the guns that Anastasia employed... simple things.

Back in the day, you were still getting acquainted with the other cast members, and you didn't want to seem rude by forcibly making them appear on your videos, so you waited for a few weeks until you could properly call yourself companions. Then, you invited them to appear in the videos.

Iñaki, Taz, and Jacob liked to take advantage of the little free time they had between scenes they didn't appear in to innocently steal your camera and use it to their heart's content. One day, you got home only to find the memory card was completely full. It was an extensive video of them walking around the set, with Taz recording while Kiki and Jacob pointed out random stuff to the people who lived inside your camera, as Jacob liked to call them.

Mackenyu, being more reserved and introverted, mostly liked to act as a cameraman for you as you showed the props you used and other things, often making comments or turning the camera around whenever you referred to something.

Meanwhile, Emily had a natural knack for being in front of the camera. Whenever you asked her to join in, she effortlessly slipped into the co-host role, bantering with you and adding her own insights into the behind-the-scenes world of the show.

With the first season out of the way, you took the time to carefully pick what videos you wanted to use in the final tape, and it took you a little over a month and a half to properly edit it and turn it into a wonderful thirty-minute-long behind-the-scenes. You even sent it to the producers and your co-stars in case there was a scene they wanted deleted. Fortunately, they all gave you the okay.

You teased the video a bit on your Instagram before uploading it a few days later, and the support it received was out of this world. It gained over two million views and hundreds of thousands of likes.

You were kind of expecting this. While some BTS had already been uploaded on YouTube, yours was different because you were showing it from your perspective. The fans loved every second of it, and even started asking for a second or third part. You even saw new videos on YouTube of recompilations from your video with the titles being silly things like The One Piece Cast Being Chaotic for Seven Minutes.

At that moment, your life felt so full. You were getting contacted by industries who wanted you to appear on their videos and their stages, thousands of fans who loved you, and a feeling so peculiar that this would be eternal.

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yourusername missing my wig and my gang hours ☹️

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morganlogoff, love love love you💗💗💗

curlikaqy, NO ONE KNOWS I'M YOUR BIGGEST FAN

emilyrudd, GIRL I WANT TO SEE YOU COME BACK TO AMERICA

bookofjacob, missing your camera hours💔

[spatio-rift]

uuuh hanamiya AND imayoshi separatley, both7, 20, 24

THANK U LAB mwah interesting questions...

7 whats something the fandom does when it comes to them that i like: i think... for the both of them the animalification is always cute and fun no matter what... i love black cat hanamiya and fox imayoshi it always brings a smile to my face :)

20 which other character is the ideal best friend for them: u already know what im about to say... strky as a whole was a gift but miyaji especially clicks so well with imayoshi its such a crazy ass dynamic. susa was a fun close friend even if he had nothing going on because the freakazoid-normal ass person dynamic is always fun but miyaji miyaji miyaji... i think he and imayoshi are insane together. genuine soul mates. miyaji wants to kill him at least twice a day. ride or die. would laugh until they were out of breath instead of helping if the other tripped and faceplanted. just guy things

hanamiya on the other hand 🤔 i think im gonna have to be boring and say the rest of kirisaki daiichi!! its so funny to me that he goes to a preppy school and surrounded himself with assholes like him. its already so fun to me that the whole team is just his own friendgroup and that they have fun doing all that messed up stuff with him. whats wrong with them forreal

24 what other character from another fandom reminds me of them: mar hypmic origin story. there are three reasons i got into hypmic back in 2020: 1) my best friend was into it and it seemed crazy i was curious 2) ah osaka dreamin night is a very fun song 3) i was on pixiv looking at beautiful pictures of imayoshi back then and saw sasara. and in that moment i just knew. i knew he would be the one <- guy who ended up liking jyuto more but as it turns out imayoshi is sort of the middle point between jyuto and sasara so?

though i dont think ive ever consciously thought about who reminded me of hanamiya... 🤔

[zanarkandfayth]

11, 16, and 21 for love your fandom ask game! 😊✨

of course!

11. if you’re a writer or artist, what fic or piece of art are you proud of making? most of them! like the really old shit up until around 2005 can get yeeted into the sun and there's a few newer pieces in the ffxv stuff that I think about orphaning every day, but most of them I love, for differing reasons. if I had to pick… hhh. that's so hard. monsters, maybe, for being my longest completed and posted fic, and because it was just supposed to be a short suicidal noct vent before it turned into this… this mess of friendship and feelings that somehow works out in the end.

actually I'm also really proud of a digimon fic of mine called silence, one because I started it in 2007 and only wrote a couple pages and then came back in 2016 and somehow finished it haha, and two because I made the writing style match the main idea of the fic, where yamato doesn't talk much after experiencing a trauma, and the narrative itself starts out a lot more minimal to mimic that, and gradually grows more wordy as he himself begins opening up about what happened. I wasn't sure how well it would work but I love how it came out in the end.

16. a tiny detail in canon that you want more people to appreciate I let my other answer be so long because I'm struggling to think of anything for this one xD you'd think as much as I obsess over getting all the details of canon right for fic, I'd be able to immediately rattle off an answer, but no. I don't think I've touched the game since 2019, or maybe early 2020. I don't remember a lot of the tiny details now lol. fake fan /s because my only other answer is that I want people to appreciate prompto's full name more cough cough

21. a fandom you’re not active in anymore but that you still really like uuuh, define active XD other than writing my own fics for ffxv and occasionally reblogging fanart, I feel like I'm not active in anything. especially when I think about all the stuff I used to do in the LJ days. hhhh. I guess I'll say fullmetal alchemist? I don't really do anime anymore cos reasons but I still adore fma and I'll sit down for a watch every few years, but I don't really do anything with the fandom now. especially since it got invaded by antis… LJ days, I yearn.

also bbc merlin, my beloved. and skins uk, my beloved (but only series 1 and 2, 3-7 are of no interest to me).

I'll shut up now. thanks for the ask! <3

[italic-doing-random-shit]

all of them [to the favourites ask game]

1 - season?

Love the late spring

2 - classic film?

Mean girls

3 - nostalgia-inducing possession?

Small stuffed elephant I have

4 - shade of green?

Jade green

5 - gemstone?

Amethyst

6 - hour of the night?

1am

7 - quote?

'if you can't amaze them with your brilliance, baffle them with your bullshit'

8 - type of dream?

Any oneni can actually remember, I did have one with you in it and iwas very happy

9 - happy song?

break my face by ajr

10 - sad song?

Home by cavetown

11 - character from a book?

uuuh probably Scout from to kill a mocking bird

12 - creative medium?

Digital or painting

13 - memory?

I gust loved it when I met all of you

14 - aspect of a person's face?

The cheeks, so kissable

15 - decade before the 2020s?

1500

16 - band?

Ajr or Will wood

17 - animated film/tv show?

Th owl house

18 - constellation?

Little and big dipper

19 - poem?

Don't think I have one!

20 - album?

Neotheater

21 - ending in fictional media?

Found family staying together

22 - shade of blue?

Royal blue

23 - part of being alive?

As fucking corn as it sounds, the relationships I'm able to form, the people o meet and are able to love

24 - holiday?

Tie between Christmas and halloween

25 - kind of candy?

Anything with chocolate and peanut butter

26 - person you know?

Irl: My mom or my brother, online: Cmon don't mae me cho- its Zain

27 - musical movie?

Heathers

28 - superhero?

Peter Parker

29 - book longer than 500 pages?

The fucking dictionary

30 - book shorter than 300 pages?

I don't remember the name but it was about witness protection

[daughterofhecata]

3, 11, 14, 18, 19 aaaand 21? 🥰

[end of 2022 ask game]

3. Favorite musical artist / group you started listening to this year?

Definitely Blitz Union! Very cool stage presence, even better sound and lyrics, and as a plus they're czech and while the songs are generally in english, there are like six different versions of "Plastic" in different languages and I'm loving every version, but particularly the german one because the accent is so charming!

11. (just answered)

14. Favorite book you read this year?

Technically also already answered, but I'm taking the opportunity to talk about another one. Because I finally got around to Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues and man, that's a good book. Both to illustrate the experiences of queer generations before us, but also because so many of the feelings and issues and problems still remain the same and are still heartbreaking, and I've rarely felt this seen and understood while reading a book.

18. A memorable meal this year?

The first christmas dinner at our flat comes to mind, because that was really nice, but also the many times in summer where Ieft for work early and just sat down somewhere outside with my food and a book and took half an hour just eating and reading before my shift started, because that was very nice.

19. What’re you excited about for next year?

The ASP concert I've had tickets for since December 2020, which should finally happen in April. Also might finally get another piercing and maybe even another tattoo, if I can get off my ass and actually look for a studio.

21. What’s something new about your place of residence (room, home, or general location) now vs the start of the year?

Uuuh not much, but I did get two ASP merch Blechschilder, I just need to figure out where/how to put up the second one xD also I finally took down the Harry Potter poster that was in our bathroom and had been irritating me and my brother for quite some time (because, y'know, Rowling) and instead bought and put up a Doctor Who poster!

[mousesize]

March 2020 artist portrait uuuh blatant ghibli referencing here don't mind me I was trying to come up with a portrait for my about page on my portfolio. ended up going with the last one! also had fun experimenting with the coloring for the first one so much! really hoping to get some personal art that isn't these portrait exercises posted but i've been busy and scattered a bit (:」∠)_

[david-talks-sw]

Reblogging firstly to shine a spotlight on @limnsaber's excellent tags:

#this is what gets me abt what barriss said to the martez sisters in tcw #because to outsiders it’s callous and a dismissing phrase #‘the force will be with you’ as a response to something dire and horrible that has happened #but to the Jedi *they actually mean it* and they mean it as one of their truest kindnesses #that even when things are dire and tragedies never end there’s hope. We may not have an idea of what will come#but we have faith in the Force #and the Force will be with us #it’s not hypocritical#or hypothetical!! it’s the Force!!

But also to point out that in the later seasons of TCW, you see that there's a conflicting approach between storytellers in how the Jedi see and treat the Force.

"Obi-Wan doesn’t believe Ahsoka is guilty of these crimes, but he has a very hard time arguing politically that the Jedi Council shouldn’t do what they do to her. He trusts in the Force, which is what they love to say when they don’t know what they’re doing, and they expel her. He doesn’t like Tarkin’s logic [but he can’t argue] that they can’t try her within the Jedi because the public, which we show in this episode arc, who are losing faith in the Jedi, would cry foul ball." - Dave Filoni, starwars.com, 2013

It's no secret that if it was up to George, Ahsoka would've stayed with the Jedi at the end of the "Wrong Jedi" storyline, possibly dying during Order 66.

Instead, Filoni thought that having her leave the Jedi would be "something different". To further justify her departure, he frames the Jedi's belief in the Force as a platitude, like "the Lord works in mysterious ways".

But then I look at this:

"You never know what’s going to happen. That’s the challenge. And that’s the drama, which has gone through history. It’s all about what are they going to turn into." Paul Duncan: "Even if you don’t know how it’s going to turn out, you still carry on mentoring because you have to live with hope." "Hope and faith. I have faith that it’s going to turn out all right. I hope it’ll turn out all right. But either way, it’s the same." - George Lucas, The Star Wars Archives: 1999-2005, 2020

And it's clear the narrative of the films doesn't frame "trusting in the Force" as a bullshit thing. It's a hopeful thing.

So we're talking about a group of space monks whose faith is part of what makes them capable of levitating objects. Saying "we must trust in the Force" is not a generic phrase they just throw out there to justify some bullshit they're not sure about.

It's a fact: the Force exists, they know it, they sense it, otherwise they wouldn't be able to lift that object, they wouldn't have "a bad feeling about this", they wouldn't hear millions of people screaming when a planet lightyears away gets blown up.

And while they know that it exists and how it works, they're not arrogant enough to know its will for sure, but all they can do is hope that it'll turn out okay.

When Mace Windu says that to Ahsoka, seconds prior Plo Koon had apologized in the name of the entire Council.

So if we're trying to rationalize that moment by having it fit with Lucas' narrative, then it becomes clear that Mace is not saying:

"Uuuh, yes! It was totally all part of the plan! We didn't fuck up, this was a test, we just didn't know it!"

He's not covering up the Council's error, even though that's how Ahsoka takes it. He is complimenting Ahsoka, he's saying:

"Congrats for sticking to your guts, we made a mistake but, thankfully, the Force had your back".

Only in a Jedi-ish way.

“Jedi will just say, ‘Oh, this was a test from the Force.’ when anything happens or say ‘May the Force be with you.’ to someone who’s not a Jedi.” I mean, yeah, they do.  Because the Force is a demonstrable, provable thing that tests Jedi all throughout their lives and moves through them and bolsters them.  That’s literally how it works in-universe, the Jedi aren’t just going on faith that the Force exists or that it sends them trials, it’s literally what the Force does to Luke on Dagobah, the Jedi on Ilum, Ahsoka and Kanan and Ezra on Lothal.  The Jedi are not pulling “the Force is testing me” out of their asses, it’s genuinely just what the Force does.

[just-like-playing-tag]

A totally self indulgent compilation of my favorite works on this blog of the year June 13, 2020 - June 13, 2021

2019-2020

The following lists are all in chronological order according to the date each post was first published.

Top 10 panel edits:

#1: It's our first morning

Date: Aug 20th, 2020 Time: ~ 2:18 h I really like how this one turned out!!! The 2020 Emma b-day edit has a lot of major panel redraws, but this is probably my favorite. I I really enjoy how I made the shadows work!! And the ear banfage looks pretty neat. Nice!!! Immagine

#2: Norman birthday edit 2021

Date: Mar 20th, 2021 Time: ~ 2:21 h Awww, soft Norman :') There was a bit to redraw, but I think everything turned out pretty neat!!! I believe everything works out fine. Though looking back at it, the part of the ID I added is definitely top small :')

#3: Manga dub: Yuugo gets knocked out

Date: Mar 27th, 2021 Time: ~ 5:05 h Here start the Manga Dub redraws to which I gave my everything ahah. This one turned out nice! I think the shoes turned out particularly good eheh. I like how Yuugo's clothing lineart- for the texture, I wanted to go for something heterogeneous, but I'm not fully confident in the final result. Gilda looks very rushed but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#4: Manga dub: Yuugo makes his dramatic entrance

Date: Apr 5th, 2021 Time: ~ 4:02 h This is pretty cool!!!! The coat took ages to redraw, but sis it turned out perfect!!! I'm very proud of this.

#5: Manga dub: RayGildEmma hug!!!

Date: Apr 9th, 2021 Time: ~ 1:31 h Awww, a beautiful panel I was really happy to have the chance to redraw. Taking into account what there was to redraw, I'm actually surprised with how little this took! Ray's backpack was a pain to make, but I think it turned out fine. I'm very happy with Emma and Ray's heads!!

#6: Manga dub: Formalities

Date: Apr 12th, 2021 Time: ~ 5:31 h It is not always easy to give sense to Demizu's perspective, but I do my best!!! In this I am *so* happy with how Don and Ray turned out, they look neat! The background on the other hand... It took hours to make ahah. I'm not fully confident in the perspective, but I'm happy with the details I've added- I really did my best to make it look like athe other manga panels and I think it paid off!!!

#7: Manga dub: We may be weaklings, but we're still alive

Date: Apr 30th, 2021 Time: ~ 1:37 h This little Emma is so cute!!!!!! I think the redraw turned out pretty perfect. I'm really satisfied with how this one turned out, and it's such a cute little Emma!!!! She's so brave and optimistic, I love her. It's a shame this panel didn't make it to the episode :')

#8: Manga dub: Goldy Pond Gang

Date: May 7th, 2021 Time: ~ 8:44 h lmao This is probably the panel redraw I'm the most proud of ever :') Just think everyone turned out very nice!! The ceiling is not exactly perfect, but it still works somehow. I'm very happy with how Gillian's back turned out!! I don't really like the fading effect on the right, but 8h in I got pretty tired of working on this ahah

#9: Manga dub: This is Goldy Pond

Date: May 21st, 2021 Time: ~ 1:29 h I'm very glad for how the Manga dub has been challenging me to learn to redraw backgrounds, something I had quite literally never tried before. It can be a little frustrating, but it's so satisfying to see the final cleaned piece!! With this panel, I also learnt to use copy and paste, which is something I had never done before beyond texture

#10: Manga dub: Good morning doctor

Date: May 21st, 2021 Time: ~ 3:42 h This is another background that turned out pretty good!! That one Norman is one I knew I would have had to fully redraw sooner or lager- the background was a bonus ahah. I'm very happy with the final result!!

Top 5 edits as whole:

#1: The Promised Neverland manga ending edit

Date: Jun 14th 2020 Time: ~ 12h 41min (5h 45min of cleaning panels in the edit + 5h 37min of cleaning panels that didn't make it to the edit + 1h 19min of resizing) + time spent cleaning panels I've deleted the file of so I can't see lmao This is overall very nice!!! The concept of an Emma evolution through her back is cool, and I think overall the edit turned out very aesthetically pleasing. The concept idea came to me while I was working on the 2019 Emma's birthday edit, a long time before the manga ending announcement- back then I wouldn't have imagined using it in occasion of the manga ending, but I think it ended up making a nice tribute. The colors add a nice touch, since so far my edits had always been black and white- it makes a sweet closure. To make that edit I selected 76 panels of Emma framed from her back; I plan to make other versions of that edit using the discarded panels eventually!

#2: Emma - Chapter 181: Beyond Destiny

Date: Jul 12th 2020 Time: 2h 57min My last edit for the manga 🥺🥺 I think this one is my very "manga ending edit" because to me it really signed the ending of weekly chapters and their weekly chapter edits. It makes me a little sad to look at it, but it's also, I don't know, kinda sweet to see how I grew both in my panel cleaning and as a person since I first started my blog. I'm glad I got into TPN!

#3: Emma birthday edit 2020

Date: Aug 22nd 2020 Time: 8h 54min This one turned out so well!!! Though I used the same concept for all the trio edits, I think this one is the best one. The two panels on the left / two panels on the right alternation combo never fails ahah. The colors are nice (shout-out to my sister for making me a palette), despite the fact that it was hard for the lighter ones to make them work with the images without having those disappear. I'm very satisfied with the panels I chose for this, I think they work really good together! Also, it got me very happy to read everyone's comments saying they liked the fading effect in the last panel :)

#4: Emma + Eyes Close Ups [1/?]

Date: Jan 24th 2021 Time: 5h 55min This one was really nice!! Another idea I got when working on the 2019 Emma birthday edit I was glad to finally execute. Started the edit in September, finished it in December. I'm overall very happy with how it turned out... I hope I will be able to make more in the future!

#5: The Promised Neverland Parallels → (9/?) » 114 // 122

Date: Feb 23th 2021 Time: 5h 7min (panel cleaning only) Aaaaahh I really like this one!!!! A parallel I love very much, and I'm really happy with how the edit turned out. All the hair redrawing looks neat!!!! The gif is maybe a little excessive, but I think overall it's a nice edit. I like it!!! Fun fact, I completed it on August 26th 2020, but I couldn't find the right moment to post it ahah.

Honorable mention: The Promised Neverland Parallels → (5/?) » 08 // 16

Date: Aug 30th 2020 Time: 2h 52min (Second picture cleaning only; I deleted the first picture art file so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ) I don't have much to say about this one except!! It turned out very nice!!!!! Love the pen lmao.

Top 10 analysis:

Too many analysis,,

#1: Post chapter 181 Emma analysis

Date: Jul 9th 2020 Mmmh a nice analysis. I think it was important for me to put down in words what I think of Emma's characterization and the manga ending, so I'm happy I did it!

#2: A long Oliver analysis because I love him very much

Date: Dec 6th 2020 What can I say I just love Oliver tons 😔😔💕💕 This was very fun to make!!!

#3: TPN s2 previsions

Date: Jan 14th 2021 Really love the effort that went into this + me proving that 11 episodes GP could have possibly worked + it's just a lot of fun to read again after s2 ended pffft

#4: More s2 delusional previsions lmao

Date: Jan 27th 2021 I think the points and previsions I made where pretty neat!! In my defense, it was pretty impossible to predict the anime would have ended with this season. I always feel honoured when friends and Anon ask for my opinion, I'm like "you wanna know what I think? Wow. I'm flattered (◍•ᴗ•◍) " Thank you to anyone who ever sent me an ask!!

#5: Why Emma not wearing pants is 𝕨𝕣𝕠𝕟𝕘

Date: Jan 29th 2021 Really proud of this!!! Pants Emma is important!!!!!

#6: Post episode 5 manga Emma analysis

Date: Feb 4th 2021 A depressed analysis, but a necessary one 😔

#7: Norman analysis

Date: Feb 12th 2021 I love him!!!! And I'm happy I eventually got to put down in words what I love about his character. The day I posted this ww3.readneverland was in maintenance so I couldn't use the volume scans for it- the thought of that post having fan edited and fan translated scans still haunts me

#8: RayDon rambles

Date: May 12th 2021 I had a blast writing this and like. It's likely the post of mine I reread more often of them all. I love this ship tons!!!!! I'm satisfied with how I put down in words what I like about them. I LOVE THIS SHIP

#9: Chapter 58 analysis

Date: May 23th 2021 I've wanted to express this concept since like the first time reading the manga- I'm so happy I finally did!!!! This concept is one of my absolute favorite things about tpn- the feelings that people are good. The concept that kids who got to live in an healthy and supportive environment will always be inclined to kindness and altruism, because humans are just inherently good. From the Three Character Classic: “people at birth are inherently good”. I want to have faith and courage to hold on the goodness in myself, and to hold on the goodness in the world, no matter how difficult it to do that (Chloé Zhao).

#10: Norman and Lambda squad relationship analysis

Date: May 24th 2021 I think this was a pretty sharp analysis and I like what I did with it!!

Other stuff:

#1: Krone birthday edit

Date: Jul 15th 2020 This edit is so good ;; Like not perfect since it was my first attempt at coloring gifs but still I believe it turned out so good ;;;;;; The time and effort that went unto this is crazy, but... Maybe I'm happy to have dedicated time to something I like for a satisfying result.

#2: Get to know my ship- Wolfpack Trio

Date: Aug 24th 2020 Uuuh a good post. A good ship.

#3: Gilda + blank glasses

Date: Aug 27th 2020 This is such a cute nice compilation!!! I love looking at it. A few panels are missing but still :')

#4: Apollo Ray AU

Date: Sep 7th 2020 (Though it was written Sep 2nd 2019 lmao) I'm so happy I finally gathered the courage to post this 😭😭 I really enjoy what I did with this AU, so this one and its other installments are all posts I have a lot of fun rereading. More than everything, I was astounded and overjoyed by the positive response it got: that gave me tons of confidence to put my ideas out there, no matter how unique they sound!!! Here's to hoping I will be able to post my RayEmma Hadestown AU, by other big AU from late summer 2019 :')

#5: TPN timeline project

Date: Dec 2nd 2020 This is like. I don't know it's a lot ahah. Arguably the project I'm the most proud of ever making. I'm just so happy of all the months long hard work and of the final result!! The post didn't receive much response (though the ones I got were extremely kind and sweethearted so that totally makes up for it), but in the end I don't really mind? I'm just so proud I accomplished that idea :')

#6: TPN calendar

Date: Jan 4th 2021 A nice sum of the tpn timeline + everyone's birth dates!!! I really like how it turned out visually. It's a cute little tpn calendar!!!

#7: Ray smiles compilation

Date: Jan 17th 2021 Ray's smile. That's it that's the post :')

#8: Trans Oliver headcanons

Date: Jan 24th 2021 MMMH really like this headcanon I think about it a lot

#9: Thoma and Lani theory

Date: Jan 28th 2021 I really don't want to brag but this is the best joke I've ever made :')

#10: My TPN AUs

Date: May 10th 2021 Ok you gotta admit those are very good AUs, I'm glad to have made a list out of them!!!

#11: Ranking Emma promotional art outfits

Date: May 16th 2021 This is one people seem to have liked a lot which makes me happy ahah. I'm glad to know we can all agree Emma deserves more pants outfits!! Please stop it with the gendered clothing :') This is the post I want to be remembered for

#12: TPN musicals AU part 2

Date: May 20th 2021 A GREAT POST I can't stretch enough how happy I am with those character-song associations. I hope I have time to make a part 3 in the future!!

#13: TPN Drive folder

Date: May 30th 2021 This was born as a way for me to have all the tpn extra contents easily accessible, but I'm happy to have shared it with people- I hope it will turn out to be useful to others too!

#14: TPN s2 recolorings

Date: Jun 12th 2021 A more diverse children cast is good for the soul :')

That's it, this year was really fun!! Thank you to everyone who supported me through it, I can't express how grateful I am for all the kindness and validation I received. Here's to many more months in the fandom!!! (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*.✧

[nuncock]

it obvioulsty this stuff might just change i might be like i dont like this so ill just change it it might also be like cheesy as hell and i dont care. we are playing neokpets webkins vlub penguins no no i absolutely agree i got ummm im just very nervous. im just being a girlfriend right now. okay so um the setting its um um we're gonna call it- for now-m aybe a placeholder maybe not, megacity 1, in the year 2101. iyts sooo overproduced ill just tell you straight up i was just gonna use nightcity from cyberpunk 2077 but i was like noo i kjust gotta make up my own cuz theres other ones! the years 2101 iu think im gonna change that straight up to 2185 like the module. it was founded by a trillionaire in the year 2020 the magacities were supposed to be massive cities based on renewable energies and megacity 1 was the flagship city followed by megacity 2-25 --- and now thhe cioties ended up being much more powerfully tstructured than the country around them, the trillionaire is okay ii kinda wanna rename him because its kidna cringe, was i high when i wrote this. his name is lukas garth. lukas with a K. multi trillionaire its okay though. m3egatron pussy (laughs) the name of his favorite soda and the name of his least favorite soda. what if i named him the president. oh im gonna name him the admiral. so uuuh lets just call. first name the. he essentially bailed out the government by nefarious means that nobody knows! so hes become the defacto leader of the. get this. the NEO states of america. now shorten it? NSA. its cyberpunk you gotta put NEO in front of everything. NEO TOKYO. NEO. YORK. AND IT DOES EXIST its like one of the megacities- can you- can you

[mayans-sauce]

Tag game

Tagged by: @jade-marie 😘❤️ and later @admirehermind @tomhardydallasstarsgirl

Rules: answer 30 questions and tag 20 blogs you are contractually obligated to know better!

Name/nickname: Hanna

Gender: F

Star sign: Aries

Height: like 163-66 cm

Time: 01.03 am

Birthday: April 1

Favorite bands: don’t really have any but BLACKPINK I guess

Favorite solo artists: Dua Lipa, S-X and uuuh... idk there are just so many😅I listen to a lot of people

Song stuck in my head: I’ve been listening to it for the last 3 days now

Last movie: Underwater

Last show: I think the last show I finished completely was The Queen’s Gambit

When did I create this blog: like the end of September I think... of 2020 of course

What I post: writing and whatever the fuck I want😂

Last thing I Googled: what other word I can use for orgasm😬

Other blogs: no

Do I get asks: yes sometimes.. and they make my heart so full🥺

Why I choose my url: BangtanSauce is my username on a lot of stuff (it’s an inside joke) so I thought Mayans-Sauce would be good because I was making a blog for them😁

Following: 497

Followers: 651

Average hours of sleep: I try to get 6-7 at least

Lucky number: 4.. idk

Instruments: lol no

What am I wearing: Star Wars shorts and a minions t-shirt😂 it’s sleep time

Dream job: game developer

Dream trip: NEW ZEALAND!!

Favorite food: you can never go wrong with a good burger and fries🤤

Nationality: Norwegian/Croatian

Favorite song:

Last book I read: I don’t even know... Twilight I think...

Top three fictional universes I’d like to live in:

- Getting dicked down by Bishop au

- Getting dicked down by Klaus au

- As rich as Bill Gates au

Tagging (but no pressure to do btw): @-im-fantastic- @benshapirosdrybussy @chibsytelford @yourwonkywriter @angelreyesgirl @appropriate-writers-name @marvelmaree @blackmissfrizzle @skyofficialxx @supervalcsi @justlikebreathing @drabbles-mc @thegirlwhowritesfics @blessedboo @shelliechen @em0avacado @blue-angel-wings @ly--canthrope @whatupitshuff @auroraariza @justahopelessssromantic

[kangyeosaang]

get to know me tag

thanks @smallkore and @presenteyesonyou for the tag 💕

rules: answer questions and tag 20 blogs you are contractually obligated to know better

name/nickname: simi (klaudia btw, hi, i hate it) gender: female star sign: aries height: 167cm / 5'5 (?) time: 19:24 birthday: 18th april favorite bands: got7, ateez, hurts, bastille, kasabian, glass animals, interpol, tame impala  favorite solo artists: woodz, wolf colony, hozier, recondite... i uh really don’t listen to many solo artists, huh song stuck in my head: accident by woodz all day every day last movie: the way i have not watched anything new since my last tag game and i have to write down holidate again. i hate it here. i watched tenet before that... i just felt like adding this.  last show: bridgerton, and it was sooo made for me is just.... ahw when i created this blog: september 2020 last thing i googled: producthunt bc apparently adding .com at the end was too much of a hassle other blogs: my main which is just a multifandom mess. and my hbo war sideblog i neglected for too long now do i get asks: not really but it’s fiiiine i’ve accepted it rip why i chose my url: bc yugyeom chose violence for the bol cb and decided to get a perm..... following: 364 followers: here 522 💕 average hours of sleep: trying to get back up to 8 after i completely destroyed my very solid sleep schedule over the holidays lucky number(s): i don’t really have any i guess? 4 8 15 16 23 42. there let’s go with these. instruments: nope, but i always wanted to learn to play the piano, bc i’m a jane austen hoe, and then never done anything about it, obviously.  what i’m wearing: my mom’s old green and orange tracksuit, just going all out with some 80s fashion right here in my living room.  dream trip: uuuh a ‘let’s visit as many german castles as I can in two weeks’. uuhm i want to go back to australia for a longer time. I also wanted to go to jordan with a friend but covid happened. also just the rest of the countries in europe.  favorite food(s): honestly anything with hummus in it.  nationality: hungarian favorite song: that’s like.... an impossible thing to answer.  i finally listened to kai’s album and nothing on me is 10/10 also victon’s nostalgic night evokes something really deep in me and i just..... it’s sob time. overall tho... maybe wings by hurts, holy by wolf colony, tomorrow’s dust by tame impala or corvus by recondite??  top 3 fictional universes: star trek, doctor who... i just wanna be in space as it seems... also dark tagging: 20 blogs lmao who are we kidding @bamshine​ @blondesuga​ @defgyus​ @flowerbeom​ @hongseokkie​ @imdefs​ @jbums​ @limjaebom​ @ljaebeom​ @madeitwang​ @offtodef​ @ohyoungjae​ @tuantiddies​ as always feel free to ignore 

[redactedshapes]

Artist 2020 Year-End Round-up

I was going to post this next week, but I got tagged by @musetta3, thanks :D

Total Artwork for 2020: 542

(200 finished artworks, 155 studies, 187 Unfinished/Sketches)

Commissions: 47

Personal Work: Uuuh no idea, probably +200 counting sketches/unfinished projects.

Thanks for making me count, I realised I have no other skills or hobbies 🤣 Art is the one thing I do.

New Things I Tried This Year: 

MOTHERFUCKING BLENDER YEEEEHAAAAW

I had minimal knowledge of sculpting in Zbrush, and used Keyshot to get some basic renders, but after stumbling upon a couple Blender tutorials (no, not the donut one, that one came much later) I gave it a try and fell in love with it (that after the sheer terror the UI made me feel faded away). Started dipping my toes in photobashing, tracing and overpainting.

Took me months but I even tried retopo, doing UVs and painting textures (on PS because other programs still intimidate me). This guy was the result:

Also people, like human faces. Being a furry/creature artist for so long sure made me it difficult to try new things. Until I got deep into my fixation with WestWorld and The Expanse and ended up challenging myself to do 100 studies in 30 days, no more than 30 min. per study, so very rough/quick things. This was the result:

It was great and intense and I don't want to do something like this again anytime soon haha.

Artwork I spent the most time on -goes into the cut beause it's long and it's a doozy-:

This one is it, I decided to call it quits and move on.

Learning some Blender opened up the possibility to start working toward my other, biggest artistic weakness: ENVIRONMENT.

Yes I am that type of artists that prefers to do character portraits and characters standing in a black void. Now instead of having to figure out perspective and manually draw every fucking thing I could simply place everything in a Blender file, set some lights, and draw over the renders. Sounds stupidly easy no? Hahahhaha, ooooooh boy.

Starting with my character Kvrv, which the sculpt took months of working here and there over two versions, first model was done in 2019. Then working on the green guy model, which was the result of following many tutorials and trying new things I wanted to learn.

Then I found websites like Turbosquid and started downloading free models to set up the scene. That alone took a fuckton of time.

Setting the scene, experimenting with different configurations of the room, lighting scheme, camera placement, making renders, etc. started maybe in late May, then in June I had more or less decided to move on to the drawing part. On July and during August I did most of the painting progress, it was feeling all good and dandy.

And in late September I decided to call it quits. I have no bitter feeling towards this drawing. It mainly boils down to that between the time it took me to set it up and painting, I learned so much, both about 3D and 2D/Illustration fundamentals. I also developed these characters and world-building a ton, so it was all outdated and the most efficient way I saw to “fix” this drawing was by calling it quits and starting over. I wrote a post mortem of this project on Patreon.

I learned more from this by calling it a failure and analyzing it rather than trying to finish it and hate it altogether.

First artwork of the year: This commission, for a guy who wanted me to turn his fursona into a Warframe.

Last artwork of the year: A few VERY rough sketches I don't wanna show, they're part of a project I'll only tease ;D

[fvaleraye]

Ayyyyy, we lived through the year, guys. We did it. I got really experimental with my art this year, I tried a lot of shit, and surprisingly little of it stuck ASDLFKJN But! It did help me in the long run :>

I’m gonna put year ramblings under the cut, bc I’m sure I’ll find a way to make it long asdlfkjn-

So... 2020, huh? I’m gonna be 100% honest, I can barely remember anything that happened this year. Even while I was scrolling down my post archive, there were several moments where I went “Oh yeah, that WAS this year, huh?” and “Wait that was THIS year??? The fuck???” But this year was... a struggle. I know that much. I didn’t get it as hard as some people did, but it was still definitely a struggle. Surprisingly, a lot happened and yet not much happened either. I think it was lockdown, mostly. There was a lot of improvement with my art, clearly. I got a drawing tablet late into the year, think it was like... either late October or early November. We moved at... some. Point. I seriously forgot when we fucking moved, it so long and my sense of time is fucked as it is asdflkjn- Lets see, uuuh... I started Scintillam this year. Cycled through like... three sonas. Decided to try out some neopronouns and ended up really liking them. I started my first campaign of DND with some friends. It’s been a lot. But also not very much. Might just be my sense of time being out of wack, but y’know. I honestly don’t think I could have gotten through the year without my friends... y’all know who you are. Everybody in the DND server, the PDC server... y’all have honestly been my rock this year. I don’t know where I would have been without y’all...

[raelly-writing]

Prompt 9: Lush - FFXIVWrite 2020

... you ever question the word associations your brain will make? Uuuh, mentions of mature themes towards the end, did not stop and think too hard about whether the fruit would be available or not. Nor would I brave trying to hammer out smut at 2AM in the morning.

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Raising a fist, Viana knocked on the door. “Thancred?”

Immediately, she heard his muffled voice call out for her to come on in. She readjusted her grip on her book and the bowl she was carrying and nudged his door open so she could lean inside. Thancred was seated by his desk, as she had expected, his quill raised as if he was in the middle of writing something.

“Sorry, I hope I didn’t disturb you.”

Setting down his quill, Thancred leaned back in his chair with a reassuring smile. “Fear not, you didn’t.” Even from the door she could see the neat piles of journals and parchments that occupied most of the surface of his desk. “Something the matter?” he asked.

Giving him a small smile, she shook her head. “No, I was just wondering if I could read in here? I know you’re working but…” She glanced off to the side, shrugging sheepishly. It felt strange to adjust to dealing with their still new relationship while also readjusting to the routines and duties they had now to resume. It had seemed more… isolated, on the First, their time just split between the Empty and then whatever other tasks that may have cropped out, but there’d been little to stop them from just spending time with each other.

“Of course you may,” he replied warmly.

Relaxing, she slunk inside his room and nudged the door shut. “How’s it going?”

He heaved a slow sigh and looked down on the papers on his desk. “Unsurprisingly, Riol has done a good job managing everything on his own while we were gone. Turns out I’ve forgotten a fair bit of the finer details over the years though. Still have a fair few items to work my way through.”

“Perhaps a break is in order then,” she said softly and set down the bowl on an empty spot on his desk. “From F’lhammin.”

He instantly let out a low, throaty laugh. “Peaches?”

Shrugging, Viana turned and walked over to his bed. “Said they were from some orchard in Thanalan that you were familiar with,” she explained as she sat down to toe off her sandals.

“By the Twelve, that woman has a far too good memory.”

Chuckling, she glanced up at him. “I take it you enjoy those particular ones?”

Thancred was turning over one of the red and yellow fruits in his hands, a small smile on his face. “Mhm, I bought some when I was new in Ul’dah,” he mused. “After so many years in Sharlayan, I was fairly keen to explore food that actually tasted pleasantly.” He looked up at her, something in his expression turning a bit wry. “Nevermind being able to afford actually buying food for myself, for once.”

A sombre sense of understanding settled in her chest. Viana gave him a gentle look - it was a sentiment she was all too familiar with. Sometimes, when she was stressed especially, she could catch herself squirrelling away dry foods as if she was still a scrawny kid that risked going hungry. “Recurring favourite treat, I assume?”

He nodded. “Indeed, the orchard these are from boasts they’re the sweetest of its kind. Ever tried one?”

She shook her head. “Not from Thanalan at least - hey!” Dropping her book onto the bed, she quickly caught the fruit that Thancred suddenly tossed across the room to her.

A playful grin spread on his lips when she frowned at him. “Try it, I think you’ll like it.”

Viana looked down at the fruit while running her fingers over the soft, fuzzy surface. “Alright, alright, if you’re going to be tossing them at me like that,” she grumbled. The ones she’d had in Othard had not had such a hairy surface. Oh well, if he was sure they were that good. Carefully, she bit into the fruit. Luscious, sweet juices instantly filled her mouth, the fruitmeat silky smooth on her tongue.

“Oh!” She put her hand to her lips, blinking in surprise as she chewed. It certainly lived up to his praise. The fruit was so overflowing with its sweet juices that droplets of it were soon running down her hand - certainly a welcome treat were one to be standing in the middle of Ul’dah’s sunbaked streets, she could imagine. Without thinking of it, she moved the fruit to her other hand and licked away the errant droplets from her hand. “You weren’t exaggerating,” she finally said and looked up at Thancred. “It’s really good.”

Barely had the words left her mouth before he got up from his chair and crossed the short distance to her. A rush of heat spread across the back of her neck at the suddenly hungry look in his eyes.

As if he noticed her reaction, a charming smile curled the corner of his mouth just before he leaned down and caught her lips in a slow, firm kiss that swiftly scattered her thoughts like a flock of cloudkin. Inhaling sharply through her nose, Viana tilted her head back as her eyes fluttered shut, his hand warm where it settled at her jaw. There were such subtle differences to how he felt and tasted here on the Source - more tangible, as if there’d always been some sort of give to his form on the First. Clearer, like there was no longer a faint undercurrent of the alkaline taste of aether lingering on his lips anymore.

Before she knew it, he had gently pushed her back against the bed, the mattress dipping under his weight as he knelt over her. The kisses melted into one another, the texture of his thumb rough against her cheek as he caressed it. Aware of the sticky juices covering her free hand, Viana merely brushed her fingertips against his neck, yearning to bury them in his hair. Despite how he kept the kisses slow and controlled, she could sense the restrained hunger simmering beneath his touch.

Slowly, Thancred broke off the kiss with a pleased, humming sound. When she blinked her eyes open, he was staring down at her with a rakish smile, satisfaction sparkling in his hooded eyes. “Just as sweet as I remember,” he rumbled.

Snorting, Viana raised an eyebrow at him. “Think you tasted the wrong thing, ser,” she retorted, laughter lacing her words.

His gaze shifted to the peach when she held it up for him, then back to her. Gently, he grasped her wrist in his. Viana felt her mouth go dry as she watched him gingerly take a bite out of the fruit. It was nearly obscene how his tongue darted out to lick the juices from his lips as he contemplated her for a moment that seemed to stretch into an eternity. A searing heat rushed up over her cheeks, her heart thumping violently against her ribcage. The satisfied look in his eyes told her that he knew precisely what he was doing right then.

“Quite delicious,” he hummed. With a low, thoughtful sound he carefully took the fruit from her hand, then casually deposited it onto his nightstand. “But I think I’m in the mood for another treat entirely,” he finally continued as his voice dropped to a low timbre that instantly made her stomach twist pleasantly. Arousal quickly wound through her body, liquid heat pooling between her thighs.

Viana took a slow, steadying breath as she draped her arms over his shoulders. “What about your work?” she asked lightly.

Laughing quietly, Thancred placed another slow kiss to her mouth. “I think I have earned a little break,” he murmured against her lips.

“I suppose so,” she whispered with a smile, and tugged him down with her onto the bed.

Not that he needed much coaxing. His mouth was hot and hungry against hers, the sweet taste of the peach lingering on his tongue. Soon enough, their clothes lay scattered over the floor, her legs resting over his broad shoulders, fingers twisting in his silver tresses as he eagerly had his fill of her, only their breathless voices and sounds of pleasure filling the stillness of the room.