#but they're SUCH good fics!!!

[every-moment-a-different-sound]

Hi Robin! Hope you're doing well <3 For the year in review asks: 13, 16, and 20?

Hi Olly 💜

Ooh thank you, these are interesting ones!!

13. What gifset was the most satisfying to finish?

That would definitley have to be this edit I made for the wonderful @dont-offend-the-bees' fic Though We're Strangers 'Til Now.

It was, and probably still is, the most ambitious edit I'd ever attempted. It took a lot of time and effort to make, and I had to learn so many new skills for it. I'd made a few edits previously, but I feel like I really did something of my own for that one. There's a lot I'd do different now having learned a lot of lessons from it (I def made life harder for myself in places lol), but I'm really proud of how it turned out. And I got to meet Newt through doing the Payneland week collab, which is brilliant because not only is Newt just such an incredibly talented writer, he's also the loveliest person ever and I adore him.

(If anyone hasn't read Though We're Strangers 'Til Now btw, go read it- it's fantastic!!!)

16. Do you have a favorite gifset you made this year?

Oooh tough one! There's a few that I considered- there's several edits I made for fics, and of course all of the gifs I made of charles chained up in Esther's kitchen definitley came to mind 🤣

But I think the one that I have to go with is the first gifs for AO3 comments post I made. I got to know @nix-nihili because of it, who very kindly let me use one of her fics to test the HTML on, and she's just the most amazing person ever! Plus I was later invited to a wonderful discord server because of that post, where I made so many wonderful friends who I can't imagine life without these days, including where I got to know you more, which has just been fantastic💜 I also had loads of fun making it, and I like the idea of doing something for our fandom community and making something that hopefully helps people like me that sometimes find it difficult or intimidating to comment on fics.

(Btw everyone please also read Nix's fic bright and burning!! It's wonderful!!)

20. What’s something you are expecting to gif in the upcoming year?

I still have only ever made gifs for Dead Boy Detectives, so probably more DBDA gifs 😂 I don't tend to watch very many films or shows, but there's a couple of films being released next year that I'm looking forward to, like The Old Guard 2, so we'll see if I might try my hand at making gifs for that.

Mainly though, I'm looking forward to finally finishing decorating and moving house so I have more time to make loads and loads of DBDA gifs. I have so many half-finished edits for fics that I'm excited to get on with. There's so many wonderfully talented people in this fandom, so I can't wait to see what everyone comes up with next year and be inspired by it all!

Gifmakers year in review post 💜

[itsbasicallycanon]

was reading little kid with a big death wish (@remedyturtles) and wanted to play around with visualizing leo and sensei's headspace and putting it alongside the outside world and i'm mostly happy with it so i'm posting it

[hollis-art]

fem hilson is attacking my brain like they're seagulls and i happened to bring food to the beach,,,

and in regard to my original fem hilson post where i mentioned that wilson for sure had an impulsive pixie cut that she very much regretted:

women,,,,

[writeouswriter]

People sorting ao3 solely by stats and only clicking on fics with a certain amount of kudos or comments, you will not survive the winter, nor the summer, nor at all, *brings out knife,* run

[petricorah]

scenes i loved from Real Enough to Get Me Through by @marriedzukka <333 [ids in alt]

[technically-human]

A commission for @jeff-yoshi based on the fic Partridge in a Pear Tree by Vamillepudding (with their permission, of course!)

It's a sort of Cinderella story but also not really. Very good! reading it was a delight, and the pigeons are the stars of the show. So Disney princess coded, our dear Charles. And he's not even the prince here!

[mollysunder]

This is the worst lie Jinx has ever told herself.

Felicia's literally just Vi with a braid.

Now young Silco, that's just male Jinx with less baby fat, but we all know Jinx's face is only getting sharper.

Forget the Felicia, it's like the artists decided Silco was literally Jinx's only parent. The resemblance is still there even when Silco gets older.

You think anyone who knew Silco when he was young looked at Jinx and went, "yh that's Silco in blue".

[cyancees]

read a fic where they were girls and had to draw cus yuri 🔛🔝

[starry-bi-sky]

Blood Blossom Au: Baby's First Commissioner Meeting :)

TL:DR This Post: Danny (orphan) gets poisoned with blood blossom extract by Vlad. He runs away from him and ends up under the care of one Pre-Robin Battinson Batman! Starry is loudly pushing her batdad agenda.

(Also known as "Late At Night, When The Nightingale Sings" on my ao3!)

This was a fun rough idea I've been sitting on for weeks, thinking about how Commissioner Gordon and Nightingale's first meeting might go.

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Commissioner Gordon likes to think that he's adjusting to the new normal of Gotham very well, -- the new normal being grown men running around dressed like bats, in military-grade strength body armor, committing acts of vigilantism, -- and slowly, little by little, he was no longer being surprised when this new normal pops up out of the shadows like the world's most terrifying daisy. His shaving lifespan thanks him for it.

....

The kid is a surprise though.

Granted, he seemed to be a surprise to the Bat too.

There's been a string of murders lately, -- which, in Gotham, is kind of like saying there's been another storm during monsoon season. And there's just been another; in some dilapidated building down in south Gotham, with the broken, boarded-up windows and mildew-crawling walls to match. The victim is a man in his thirties, multiple gunshot wounds to the chest, left in the center of the room for the blood to pool out around him.

The place is already secured when he arrives, the building swarmed with officers and the forensic detectives. The Bat emerges shortly after he does -- or, he might've been here the whole time, hiding someplace dark and shadowy. For his own sanity, Gordon doesn't think about it too hard.

The kid is a surprise, and he appears like a bolt of lightning.

He shows up in the middle of a conversation Gordon is having with the Bat.

A whistle, sharp and loud, slicing through the air, meant for open air rather than a confined space. Gordon's ears pierce and protest the sound, and the solemn, murmured chatter floating through the room abruptly cuts off like the swing of a gavel. As he turns towards the sound -- as they all do -- he swears, up and down, that he sees Batman's shoulders jump, just slightly.

At the source, perched on the window, is a boy. A boy in a gray-blue scarf and an oversized black hoodie, one that hangs off his frame and has ace bandages wrapped around the wrists in some attempt to cinch the sleeves. The hood is up, big like the rest of it, and threatens to swallow the upper half of the boy's face whole in the fabric. What upper half Gordon can see, is smeared with some kind of opaque, black face paint. He's holding onto the side of the frame with one hand, on his hip is a grappling hook. A familiar grappling hook.

Gordon has multiple questions, and his officers tense up.

Martinez puffs up, brows furrowing as his face shapes into a frown. Shoulders rolling back. "You can't be here, kid--"

The reaction is immediate, like a spark to gunpowder, the boy yanks his fingers from his mouth and his mouth twists into a scowl. Head snapping over to Officer Martinez, his hood manages to stay on but Gordon swears that as he bares his teeth, the glint makes them look sharper than they should be. His voice is rasp and quiet and harsh; snappish in its hissing; "Put a fuckin sock in it, Martinez. I'm not stayin."

Martinez reels back, and the boy immediately veers his attention off him. Like a switch, his demeanor drops. Despite half his face being covered, his mouth twists into a cringing, apologetic smile. Slanted and off-beat, embarrassed. It'd be disarming if this wasn't Gotham, and if he didn't just hiss at Martinez like he was about to bite his head off.

"Sorry." He whispers, voice deceptively polite and softer now. Gordon has to strain his ears to hear him. "I was looking for him."

He points his finger towards-- Gordon? No, Gordon follows the direction, and finds himself looking at -- the Bat.

The Bat, who always looks stiff as a pole, now looks even stiffer. Somehow. Well, the explains the grappling hook attached to the boy's waist.

"What are you doing here?" The Bat says, gruff and unable to completely smother the stumble of surprise in his tone.

The boy still holds a sheepish smile, and slips off the window ledge. His feet hit the creaky boards with a near-silent thud, the Batman finds his feet and rapidly begins crossing the room.

Gordon notes the slight tremble in the boy's legs as he straightens. He adjusts his scarf, which droops close to his knees now that he's standing, and slings a backpack -- how long has had that? -- off his shoulders. When the Bat reaches his side, he does as he always does, and looms over the boy like a spectre. A threatening mass of shadows cloaked in all-consuming black. Standing next to him, the boy looks teeny in comparison.

The Bat is a man who terrifies even the most hardened criminals, Gordon has seen grown men shiver in fear at the mention of his name. And yet when the boy looks up at him, he doesn't even flinch.

Instead, his sheepish smile melts away like ice under the sun, holding only traces of his previous embarrassment. It remains as a shadow on his face, a small upturn at the corners of his mouth. The boy pushes his hood back just enough to reveal glinting, ice-flint eyes surrounded in tar-black face paint. He holds the backpack up with one arm. "You forgot this."

[goodomensao3tagoftheday]

[calamitoustide]

james gets hit by a de-aging spell and little four year old james refuses to be anywhere but regulus' side he gets upset and all grouchy if he's taken away from him for longer than a couple hours (he sneaks away when sirius, remus and peter aren't watching him and randomly shows up at regulus' side with his hands up asking for uppies) so james is always in the Slytherin dorm and around barty and evan who 1) have no idea what to do with a kid and 2) should not be allowed anywhere near a kid but james is always there and when regulus is studying and not giving james the attention he wants he takes to following around barty or evan (whoever if around the dorm at the time) and if barty thought james was annoying before he became a literal toddler he doesn't even know what he's in for... chaos ensues

[boxfullaturtles]

03 Don adopting the Rise kids in any form immediately wins me over. Dragon in the Woods just took that concept and stabbed me three dozen times in the heart by throwing in a dash of Empathy is Learned and mind melding across the universes. How dare you.

Don't even LOOK at Dawn's kids or he'll stomp you to death.

anyway brb I gotta go cry about turtles

[lonely-night]

Happiest Season 2.0: Agathario Riley/Eve

Riley returned to her hometown for Christmas and she met Eve who's visiting the small town that she randomly picked on map. After bumping to each other a few times, Riley suggested to take Eve to a gay bar to see a drag performance.

[kikker-oma]

Art for Chapter 1 of "Travel Through the Darkness" by @mariasparrow ! (Also happy late birthday🎉)

Hope you like it❤️

[nobredoesart]

"You Make Me Want To Be Real"

So I've been obsessing over Lightcannon, because I am a nerd like that, and then I stumbled into the works of @calchexxis , and I had to draw them. I had to, and "Never Knows Best" might be one of the best stories set in Runeterra I've seen and my GODS what a good piece of art all that library of fics is.

[imclou]

can't believe fnaf brought me out of art hibernation man what a turn of events