#by the skin of my teeth tag

[thelittlestspider]

can you share more headcanons/facts about ur oc javier rojas. i keep rotating him in my mind... love him..........

javi is my boy

his family was part of a cult that was like a warped version of their religion bc of a goddess named zeris who sacrifices them to a sea god that gave her her powers. javier's parents were a polycule. he has three moms and a dad. he has a twin brother named iggy and a younger sister helena.

two of his moms were killed for going against the cult. his dad was beaten and left for dead out in the wilderness. his sister helena was exiled for necromancy (luckily she was found and adopted by a kind couple). his remaining mom decided to run away with javier's uncle's family to blackwood, where his wife had family. but they got separated from them and ended up in necropolis, where javier is kidnapped and forced to be a reaper for elysium city (which is a city who claims its a utopia by forcing citizens of necropolis to do labor for them and sucks up their resources. reapers are unwilling enforcers who are tortured and programmed to do the government's bidding).

javier is about 10 or 11 when he becomes a reaper. he thinks his family is dead. he's alone in the world. then he meets peter. who he feels something for. they don't click right away because it's such a hostile environment, where the reapers are pitted against each other and the programming does a bunch of nasty stuff to their perception of each other (like it gives them horrible nightmares about being killed by the other reapers. it also numbs them. but the programming only works for like a few weeks at most. it has to constantly be reinforced).

despite all of this, peter and javier become friends and they're inseparable. they're the only people who understand each other.

for years, peter was like the one positive connection he had.

later, once they get with carter and they settle down, javier is actually the most social one of the three. he has kind of a quiet, down to earth personality where he doesn't get mad easy, but when he does, watch out.

he likes reading about botany and he has plants in the house and in a little garden behind the house.

he likes playing with peter's cats.

the neighbors love javier. they invite him to everything. i think javier has an easier time adapting than peter and carter because he was part of a community when he was young, and it's his natural state to be involved with people. whereas peter and carter were more isolated when they were kids.

when javier meets scott for the first time, it's like meeting his weird guy soulmate. they love going fishing together and going on walks and exploring the woods together (peter is insanely jealous and bites scott when he comes near him.)

javier likes jazz music

[monkesupreme]

Maybe i SHOULD draft out my ‘Clark is a SuperPlant’ propaganda post

[thebrainrotsreal]

Connected the dots between two of my fav characters of all time. They're in a little club now.

[washiinmachiine]

drew this in like 2 hrs after i saw primordian briar for the first time before swarm got put on the pbe and forgot to post it here whoops.. riot i need her Now......

[femmepire-butchbiter]

In case you hadn't heard, vampiric femmes (me) are starving for the blood of werewolf butches and studs. The moment I- fuck I mean these femmes get their claws on these wolves it's so fucking over.

[opossun]

Simple symmetry sketch to kill the time!!

No internet means trying to remember what my dragon on flight rising looked like without any references

[stuck-in-jelly]

What am I supposed to do now? Go to work like normal? When my blorbos are suffering???? Fuck off

[starzwithapen]

OUR HCS FOR THESE GOOBERS USING TEMPLATES FROM @koppaitepaladin !! Plus bonus creek because I'm uhhh normal about him . They're All autistic 2 me but Branch and Poppy r most important to me <33

[raayllum]

I'm not afraid that he'll hurt me. I'm afraid that he'll use me to do awful things, or hurt people I care about. Which is why, all I'm asking, is that if he takes control of me again, you have to kill me. I need you to promise.

[aropride]

if he gives me a piercing i will never ever shut up about it btw

[pearl-kite]

2024 Top 10

Since Tumblr was too cheap to pay anyone to do custom year-in-reviews for folks, I'm making my own with that one site that lets you plug your user in and etc etc

#1 w/ 1661 notes: This very fun cross stitch I started in like, September of '23 but finished and turned into a pillow. This is my second most popular post of all time o3o

#2 w/ 319 notes: Drawing of Vega and my Warden. Love coloring space demons o3o

#3 w/ 87 notes: Idk I like sun dogs and I like birds and I was still trying to do more illustrative things at this point

#4 w/ 85 notes: Another cross stitch that didn't take as long but was very fun (psst you can buy the pattern from @antisocialxconstruct's ko-fi shop)

#5 w/ 76 notes: Gale my beloved :3c

#6 w/ 63 notes: Quick painting of a friend's very photogenic cat doing a blep

#7 w/ 43 notes: Animated version of #5, fiddled with procreate dreams and actually really liked how it turned out

#8 w/ 37 notes: Speedpaint study of a spotted towhee. REALLY proud of it for how quick it went, also has the time lapse in the post

#9 w/ 35 notes: that speedpaint I just did last week that I'm still a little high on pride for

#10 w/ 35 notes: The Trunk. Idk how much this counts, because a full 10th of the notes were just me reblogging with updates as it went.

I apologize for the length BUT there's not really a compressed way to do it. Maybe there would have been if tumblr hadn't copped out. I might reblog some of these on their own later, I still like a few of them a lot.

This isn't really a tag game, but if anyone else feels inspired and wants to share their top 10 from that link up top, feel free to tag me in it o3o

[thelittlestspider]

Hello! WIP question about 'By the skin of my teeth'

What is the worst thing your characters have done that they don't feel remorse about?

And conversely, what is the most positive/"good" thing they have done that they wish they hadn't?

- i can't really say killing because they do feel remorse about it. probably stealing? peter especially loves stealing.

- i have been wracking my brain since yesterday and i can't think of an answer to this question. which makes me so mad bc it's such a good question.

[sidereon-spaceace]

There's something very funny about how there aren't vampires in Skysail- despite not only having two characters that check off a concerning number of boxes, but also having other kinds of undead

[nanabanonana]

ugly snorted and laughed while editing today bc while i was thinking about how to fix a paragraph my brain was giving me the following treat

Zuko: i don't like sweet things

Zuko after seeing Sokka: i have suddenly developed a sweet tooth

[reverend-meat]

Achieved my New Year’s resolution with only two weeks to spare

[garrettwrites]

When someone tells you they don't like hugs, that's not an invitation for you to "cure them". It is not a "you" thing, although sometimes it might be. You thinking "they have to get used to it" because "your hugs are different" and "that's how you show love" is not a valid argument. Hugging them out of the blue as a goodbye is not cool either. Fuck off.