megumitheultimateteacherspet

[cassecorrea]

who's your favorite titan?

I can’t choose between BBRae, some days I love Beast Boy more because he’s so underrated, but I was Raven for Halloween a couple years ago so… 👀

And then there’s Robin

[gingerale2017]

Recommend some good tlc blogs/writers?

MY ASKS WON’T POST ISTG

anyways, here are some (mostly) kaider writers :) @impossiblesuitcase @just2bubbly @salt-warrior @kaider-is-my-otp @kaiderforever @princessselene126

tlc fanfic writers 🫶 @moon-mirage @lovelunarchron @shellyseashell

crack accounts 💀 @deprivedmusicaljunkie @a-salting-the-world @incorrecttlcquotes @notjacinclay @yourfavshipsjacolf

FANARTISTS (they aren’t exclusively tlc but have drawn A LOT of tlc stuff so i put them here) just type in the lunar chronicles fanart in the search bar and a lot will pop up @eerna @shanlightyear @cassecorrea @captain-hooks @cosmicnovaflare @beebee-art @winterrhayle @minidoodles97 (ik ik there’s so much more and i’m not good with memory so mutuals please tag then in the notes 💕)

tlc blogs in general: basically the crack accs and the fanfic writers 😭 @slmkaider @rapunzelfromthemoon @ao3feed-thelunarchronicles @channary @cinderswrench @kaixiety @zephyr-thedragon @notcressdarnel @whimsicalxdragons

there are so many blogs out there and if you’re one of them that i haven’t mentioned, please tag yourself and tag others that you know :)

[swift-creates]

That’s The Laugh

a/n: this is my fic for @grishaversebigbang Reverse Mini Bang 2022! This was super fun to write and I hope those who read it enjoy ♥️

see @cassecorrea’s amazing art here

read @aceinejghafa’s wonderful fic here

read on Ao3 or under the cut

Jesper watched Kaz pace the length of the Slat and concluded that his best friend was really, irrevocably in love with his other best friend. 

“Calm down, Kaz,” Wylan tried, but as the past five thousand times they’d tried to get him to stop pacing, Kaz paid no mind. 

“Just like Kaz, to be so contrary.” Nina rolled her eyes. “Bet if we told him to keep pacing, he’d stop, right then and there.” Kaz said nothing, only shot Nina a glare before continuing past the billiards table.

Jesper had a suspicion, a hypothesis, if you would, as to why Kaz was being so moody- Well, moodier than he usually was, anyway. In Inej’s last letter to Jesper, she’d referred to a fight, or at least a chilly ending to a conversation, that she’d had with Kaz before sailing off for Ravka’s Southern Colonies. The sharpshooter suspected that was why the Crows’ favourite bastard wasn’t in the best of moods.

As Jesper wondered if he should try to say something, and if so, if he should mention Inej or not, Kaz suddenly deviated from his regular pacing path and started to limp up the stairs. The other Crows watched him go, and then Matthias broke the silence by asking, “Waffles, anyone?”, at which Nina kissed him very firmly on the lips.

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“Kaz?” Jesper poked his head into Kaz’s old office. The thin curtains had been drawn over every dingy window but the one at which he sat, staring out over Ketterdam, fingers trailing over the ledge. “Kaz?” Jesper said again, more tentatively this time. 

“Would Wylan hate you if you said his occupation was a waste of time right before he left Ketterdam?” Kaz asked suddenly without turning. 

The question took Jesper by surprise, and he blinked twice before it clicked that he was alluding to his situation with Inej. “Oh. Well, Wylan doesn’t really have an occupation now.”

“Right.” Jesper thought he saw Kaz frown, but it was hard to tell just by his silhouette against the cloudy Ketterdam sky. They fell into silence again before Kaz finally asked, “What are you doing up here, Jesper?”

“Oh, you know. The others are having a waffle party. Didn’t feel hungry, so Nina kicked me out and proclaimed herself queen of the waffle kingdom.” Jesper shrugged nonchalantly.

“Really, Jesper.”

Jesper bit his lip and winced. “I came to see if you were okay? If you needed relationship advice? If you wanted me to write Inej and just tell her, ‘Hey, don’t be mad at Kaz anymore because he’s sitting at his window all sad and moody thinking about your fight’?” “Came to ask you if you wanted a waffle.”

Kaz did turn then, and gave him an appraising look, arching one eyebrow at him with a short “No.”

“Okay. Good talk, then.” Jesper started to walk out, but then promptly turned on his heel and came back. “Nope, that wasn’t what I wanted to ask you.” 

“Then what was it?” Now Kaz was starting to sound a little annoyed.

“Just… Inej wrote me the other day.” He drew the crumpled letter out of his pocket and waved it around a little. “And she kinda mentioned something about, um…”

“About. What, Jesper.”

“That you guys might’ve, maybe, had a teensy, weensy bitty bit of… conflict, is all.” Jesper braced for wrath, maybe threats, probably yelling and the end of a years-long friendship, but all Kaz said was, “Oh. Okay.”

‘Okay’? “‘Okay’?” 

“Okay.”

Huh. “You’re not mad?” He stared at Kaz for a few moments in utter surprise.

“Why would I be? Inej chose to tell you. She thought you should know, so if anyone, I should be mad at her. And I’m not. We both trust her judgement more than that.” Kaz watched a small flock of birds cross the roof of a nearby house, settling on the window ledges of the building next door, and it brought Jesper no small amount of relief to hear that.

“Oh. Okay. Good, then.” He blew out a breath through his mouth before tentatively continuing on. “You sure you’re okay?”

There was a silent pause, then Kaz tore his gaze away from the birds — crows, Jesper realised — and sighed, suddenly looking exhausted and sad. “Maybe.” The moment was gone just as soon as it’d come, and he turned away again. Jesper waited a beat more, then another, then slowly backed away and exited when he realised Kaz wasn’t going to say anything more. 

The part he’d neglected to mention to the Barrel boss, his best friend, was that he was holding onto the hope that Inej would straighten all this up when she docked back in Ketterdam’s twenty-second berth the very next day.

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Matthias frowned at the Dreg messenger, then nodded, stood, and as the girl left, walked into the adjacent sitting room and said, “Inej is back.”

Kaz’s head snapped up, and he grabbed his cane and left the room just as fast as Matthias had entered. Under Nina’s inquisitive gaze, Jesper grinned sheepishly as the Slat door slammed behind their gang leader. “I forgot to tell him.” That was a lie, and the Fjerdan shared a glance with his partner to see she was thinking the same. 

“You better hope to all the Saints he doesn’t find out, Jes.” Nina pointed the end of a pastry at her friend. 

Matthias agreed. That conversation would likely go very, very badly.

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“Inej!” Kaz strode quickly down the quay, and the dock workers and sailors scrambled to duck out of his way — the Wraith may have his support and his heart, but he was still a Barrel boss, and one of the most ruthless in Ketterdam. 

When Inej looked up and saw him, her first instinct was to smile and take his gloved hand in hers, but then she remembered.

“Kaz.” His expression remained carefully blank, but she could tell her cold tone had thrown him off a little. Now she was the one with the armour and walls built up, keeping him at a distance.

He had no reply, and they stood there for a moment before he turned and started back up the quay. She fell in by his side as always, but said nothing. The silence lasted as they walked up towards Tuinpark, one of the only green spaces in the whole country, and Inej decided she’d rather focus her gaze at a patch of purple flowers struggling through the snow than talk to him. In the end, it was Kaz who spoke up first.

“We missed you. The Crows. You’re our best spider, you know.” He avoided her gaze as he said it, staring at a puffy cloud drifting over their heads. 

“Say it as you mean to, Kaz.” It came out harsher than she’d intended it, and she bit her lip to stop herself from saying anything else more hurtful. 

He paused, then met her gaze, thoughtful. Then he straightened and said, “I missed you”, and suddenly she found it that much harder to stay mad at him. They kept walking down the narrow path, stopping to let one of the new Dreg messengers pass by them at one point. They silently watched the young Zemeni disappear before Kaz spoke to her again. “Inej.”

“Yes?”

“I didn’t mean it. That day. When you left. And when I said ‘hunting slavers is a waste of time’.” He was looking at a plant with startlingly vibrant green leaves, so if he hadn’t called her name, or if she hadn’t been paying attention, she might have thought he was talking to the plant. Inej figured that was as close to a hug and apology as she was going to get, so she opened her mouth to accept it, but he cut her off before she could. “I was wrong to say it, and I’m… sorry.”

Now wasn’t that something. 

She looked up, met his gaze. “Then this action will have no echo?”

He paused for a moment, then nodded. They continued along the path with a new, soft feeling of peace, and Inej let her gloved knuckles brush his every few steps before she worked up the will to take his hand fully into hers. His grasp was surprisingly warm, and she felt his hand tremor slightly, but then he twined his fingers with hers, and they walked through the snow together, the handheld promise unbroken.

“How are the Crows?” she asked as they left the park and a light snow started to fall. 

“Managing. Jesper is somehow making profits with the Van Eck fortune, and for some reason, Wylan is letting him. Matthias is a snow-covered mountain of gloom. And Nina is, well, Nina. She proclaimed herself the queen of the waffle kingdom just yesterday.” Inej couldn’t help but throw her head back and laugh — Nina was and always would be indescribably, unapologetically and incomparably herself — and a soft smile pulled at the edges of Kaz’s mouth when she wasn’t looking. 

“That’s the laugh.” 

They stopped to buy roasted serdtsenuts from a vendor, and the snowflakes drifted down and down, coming to rest on her head and shoulders, nestling in her hair. He reached out, as if to take a nut, but then reached past the bag of food and tenderly brushed snow out of her ebony locks. She put a hand on his, so close to her face, and all of a sudden it was just that much harder to breathe. And all she could think of was how much she wanted to kiss him.

Then he abruptly pulled away, turned to walk quickly off, and the moment was gone. 

A million things ran through her head. Did she do something wrong? Maybe he wasn’t ready yet. Could she have set him off somehow… She tried her best to push them away as she fell in by his side, but they continued to nag at her anyway. They were almost back to the Slat by the time she managed to gather up enough courage to ask him about it.

“Kaz,” she said. 

“Yes, treasure of my heart?” he replied, and once those words would have been laced with caustic sarcasm, but now they fell pure and sweet as spun sugar upon her ears, and she felt her face warm, thanking the Saints for a dark complexion to hide blushes well. 

She took a moment to reel her wayward romantic feelings back in and calm her heart before she asked, “Do you think… Do you think we’ll ever be like everyone else?”

He tilted his head to the side just the slightest bit. “What do you mean, ‘like everyone else’?”

Inej looked helplessly at the tourists and citizens flooding the square in front of Tuinpark, couples holding hands and giggling, rosy-cheeked children following along behind their parents and siblings. “Could we ever have a family like that?” She looked wistfully at two adults and the wide-eyed little girl who was gazing at a frosted cake through a bakery shop window. 

Kaz followed her gaze to the young family, was silent for a long moment, and then cracked the barest of smiles. “Now, why would we want to be like everyone else?” She sighed, turning back to him, but he didn’t give her a chance to argue. “You are magic, Inej. You don’t need their life when you have yours. Maybe… Maybe we’ll have that. In time. But you are anything and everything I need, and the Saints will give you what you want, and what you so deserve. In time, darling.” He brushed one gloved finger against her snow-damp cheek before turning and continuing down the lane again. He tended to do that a lot. 

Inej felt as if the twinkling lights of the bakery warmed her from the inside, encompassing her heart in its soft yellow glow. She was preparing to catch up to him when she heard a chuckle from behind her, and turned to see an old woman standing in the bakery’s doorway. “Lucky girl, you, to have a boy like that,” the woman said with a smile.

Inej laughed. Most would have said she was ill-fated, to end up with the tyrant of Ketterdam, the bastard of the Barrel, but Inej knew the truth.

“You have no idea,” she replied, and ran after the treasure of her heart.

[pjocoloringbook]

HELLO! This has been something brewing over the summer, only to now drop on THEE Percy Jackson's birthday. To celebrate, we have the 2022 Iteration of the PJO Coloring Book! There is a STUNNING collection filled with so many styles and themes, that you're bound to love it. An epic number of 40+ Artists have come together to deliver to you 50+ Pages of 60+ Characters from the PJOverse!!! This has been entirely fan-driven and fan-created <3

The Coloring book is FREE to download and enjoy! Permissions are inside, and if you want to post your colorings, use the #pjocoloringbook2022 hashtag on your site of choice so all these awesome artists can see it!

If there are any questions or difficulties, send an ask! :) Otherwise, ENJOY!!!!! <3

Download Links:

GOOGLE DRIVE / DROPBOX / GUMROAD

Artists Involved Under the Cut! <3

Artists 💗:

@anniesology, @avohcup (insta), @cassecorrea , @clarvoyant , @clbl-arts , @cresendipity , @missedthememo , @duppys , @echostudies , @elliedaughterofapollo (insta) , @emiraee , @faowoo , @flyingdonuuts , @galactictrxgedy (twitter), @gayleafpool , @greasyjosh (insta), @jaasvandha (twitter), @jamjam.doodles (insta), @lamehaikus , @layes.art (insta) , @limmy , @lostinsummerwonder (insta), @maelstorm0505 , @marcoofthemoon , @meppiiii , @moonlight22oa , @nicohate , @north.of.art (insta), @oohpiart , @orbitsab , @osillygoose , @parcai , @peri-grin , @piperreyna , @purrfectlypunny , @santoriel_art (insta), @silima , @siminiiedoodles , @team-leo-v , @tumtive (insta) , @waffelton , @wingedrobins , @wondertrails , @worteltje7

Thank you!

[mrthology]

Walking Backward Into My Own Myth

"You should have ascended years ago," Zeus said without preamble, looking down at Percy. The other Olympians, even his father, remained silent, watching the proceedings with uncharacteristic solemnity. 

"I said no years ago," Percy snapped, rage making his voice tremble and hands shake. "I didn't want to be a God then, and I want to even less now. I've seen how horrible eternity is." 

"You would defy the fates themselves?" Athena asked softly, leaning forwards with narrowed eyes. She looked more godly than Percy had ever seen her, to the point where it was nearly unbearable to look at her face. Percy did so nevertheless, glaring at the Goddess he's lost almost all respect for. 

"You had children die today," he snapped, desperate to return to Camp. "Annabeth could still die—hasn't she done enough?" 

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Or, Percy keeps living the same horrible day over and over and over again, regardless of what he does. Eventually, something will have to give. Percy just isn't sure what.

For the @pjo-hoo-bigbang!! thank you to @intermediateills and @cassecorrea for the amazing art!!

[cassecorrea]

‘controversial’ takes that justify pedos???? what kind of takes have come up???????

The big one is Luke, and the way his “feelings” toward Annabeth are written in the last book.

Tons of people ship them and justify any romantic feelings he might’ve felt for her 😭 I never saw any romance from him but tons of people do and it’s just icky imo

[cassecorrea]

Hi um what are all the types of zombies and ghost in your monster high au and what is the color variation for werewolves and vampires and how do mummies happen and what species can or can't have children sorry for asking a lot anyway I hope you have a nice day bye.

Oh wow haha I never thought anyone would be interested in my au!

Past the ghouls that I’ve drawn so far, I haven’t really explored the au. But what I can answer is this:

Zombie Types:

- Cursed: Like I mentioned in my Ghoulia post, the Yelps are cursed so that when their bodies died, their souls remained alive as their bodies very, very slowly decay. Eventually they die completely, but not for a long, long, painful time.

- Reanimation: These are like traditional zombies, where people died and their mid-decomposed bodies now walk the earth, however, they were reanimated through spells and whatnot by someone else to bring them back to life, though their bodies are not revived, and they can’t die! In this case, my Cleo would be a reanimated zombie from a mummy in my au

Mummies:

- Like I mentioned in my Cleo post, she was a mummified body found in a tomb. Someone found her and her family, perhaps an archaeologist or sorcerer, and reanimated her, restoring her soul/life, as well as making her body more “livable,” i.e., not crumbling to pieces. However, bits of her will fall off from time to time, like ears, fingers, toes, same with Ghoulia

Ghosts:

- I never really gave much thought to ghosts, but I imagine they’re in the same vein as mummies and zombies. Their spirits were revived but their bodies were completely decomposed so they float instead as apparitions.

- Another type of ghost could be simply restless spirits that are unable to pass to the other side for some reason, left with unfinished business in the real world. Spectra would be this type imo.

Color Variation:

Interesting that you brought this up!

- Werewolves: I imagine werewolves can be any race under the sun, but as I mentioned in my Clawdeen post, since in my au they transform into actual wolves during the full moon, their hair color is 100% their fur color. As it gets closer to the full moon, their hair grows more and their claws grow longer, etc. just like the book

- Vampires: I kept Draculaura as pale pink because it’s so central to her design, but I imagine vampires as just paler versions of their skin tone when they died. They’d likely have more blue/purple tones in their skin.

As for which species can or can’t have children:

- Mummies, Zombies, Vampires, Ghosts cannot. They are dead. Frankie also wouldn’t be able to, as well as Rochelle.

- Werewolves, Yetis, Sea Monsters, Gorgons and other living creatures can.

Thank you so much for asking about my au!!

[cassecorrea]

hii:D i came across your mh redesigns and let me say i love them So Much. i'm curious abt the book designs tho, such as lagoona's being so different from her show design, where'd you find them? i wanna look them all up now i'm so invested bc i've never seen them <33 and one last time i love ur style sm

Ahh thank you so much, I’m so glad you like them!!

And I got all of the book designs from the MH books —

These ones! They’re pretty different from the show canon and the characters look a lot more tame haha, like Draculaura isn’t pink and Clawdeen doesn’t have wolf ears, etc! Lagoona isn’t blue in the books but she does have opalescent scales and fins she hides, so I tried conveying that in my drawing of her :)

[cassecorrea]

In case no one told you today, I’m proud of you! Don’t forget to hydrate and smile ☁️

Thank you so much, will do ☺️

[cassecorrea]

whats your favourite tlc character/ship?? :)))

omg okay so —

My favorite character is Cinder and my favorite ship is Kaider, BUT they’re lowkey all my favorites Jacinter are close seconds

[cassecorrea]

Hi just wanted to say that I love your TKC piece for the 2022 pjo coloring book. It's gorgeous!!!!

Ahh thank you!!! I’m so proud of that piece I’m glad you like it 😭💝

[cassecorrea]

Hello, I saw your sketch of Victorious and I thought it was great. Can I use it as the image art for a story I'm working on for Victorious?

I’m so glad you like it! And sure you can, as long as you make sure to credit me! ✨

[cassecorrea]

hi, i'm a mod for six of crows big bang (@sixofcrowsbb)! signups for the big bang are closing in a few days, so i'm sending you this in case you or any of your followers are interested in joining - we'd love to have you!! if you have any questions, the event askbox is always open :)

Oh thank you so much for letting me know! This wasn’t even on my radar, but I’ll definitely sign up!

[cassecorrea]

ace books:

- The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee

- Loveless by Alice Oseman

- Tarnished Are The Stars by Rosiee Thor

Omg thank you for the recs!

[cassecorrea]

would you look at that, i'm ace too! I call everything and anything sexy and my friends can't do anything about it heh. I'm very lucky to have such an accepting friend circle and I hope you find those people someday too <3 now, tell me anything ace related that you want to!!! this is a command!!!

Ahh so cool!! And thank you, I hope I find those people too 🤧

And um!!! I just got out of a relationship with someone who’s hyper sexual so !!! This ace is happy :)))

Also Sherlock Holmes is ace to me and we need more ace characters in the media 💔

[cassecorrea]

Hi, I love your art, especially the backgrounds, I love how they're so detailed and colorful! Not to be mean, but I feel like your faces all kinda look similar? A bit like a case of same-face syndrome. Maybe it's just me, but just trying to provide some constructive criticism, sorry again if this is offensive to your hard work.

Hi! You don’t have to apologize, I think same face syndrome should be pointed out (there are sO many popular artists out there who have same face syndrome, even when drawing poc, and it frustrates me that everyone ignores it or condones it and the artist thinks it’s okay)

Here are some examples of the most recent faces I’ve posted and an old post I made about SFS on Instagram, and I’ve never thought I fell into that category? Though I would like to know what you see that I can improve in terms of similarity, because I try to give as many varying eye shapes, face shapes, eyebrow shapes/length/thickness, nose shapes, and lip shapes as much as possible (when I actually draw lips hehe)