#chitsangenthusiast

[chiliger]

5 and 14!!!

5. Anything you haven’t drawn yet but want to?

Omg so many things... To name a couple: My original comics, first and foremost. Far too many ideas, so I gotta prioritize, but I'm nearly done polishing the plot for one of them. I still think about a short animatic of Yue, after surviving the siege, to part of the song "Champagne Problems."

14. How has your art changed over the years?

I found this old progress tracker and figured it was high time to add an update on it.

However! It skips a crucial part of my art development: My awkward kiddie weeb phase circa 2009-2011.

[erisenyo]

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ELECTRIC LOVE!!!

Ohhh this was tough to pick! I'll go with this bit from their shopping date:

“What’s this?” Zuko asks, holding up a deceptively simple-looking circle of thin, stamped leather. ���An armband? This is nice?”

“…Let’s do one thing at a time and save armbands for later,” Sokka suggests, doing a double take at the raised-eyebrow look the shopkeeper gives him over Zuko’s shoulder as Zuko shrugs and goes back to the basket.

“My son works for a wholesaler in Zhou,” she says, lips twitching.

“Ah,” Sokka says—it’s a frequent stop for Southern trading vessels, even before the end of the war—as he waves away Zuko’s questioning look and goes back to looking through the basket again with a new purpose in mind.

I am unable to resist teasing a proposal between the two of them but not actually writing it, as it turns out, and I really liked the idea of using that in particular to show the boys' relationship progression here and to orient the reader into this post-canon moment where they're together but also still figuring it out, to some degree.

(I also just love the detail of armbands for the SWT as a sign of commitment, from the novels)

Both Sokka and Zuko's attention is caught by something proposal related in the story (Sokka here with the armband, Zuko with the jewelry making to anyone who has read some of the other stories set in this AU). But neither of them directly references it or brings it up to the other, and Sokka outright redirects the conversation. There's a readiness that isn't there for either of them yet for that conversation, even though they feel very sure and happy with each other--which makes sense, since they're probably 18/19ish here (I don't feel like doing the math) and both still heavily involved in their individual post-canon rebuilding efforts and functionally in a long-distance relationship.

And there's still a level of unfamiliarity with the details of each other's cultures, too, in the fact that Zuko doesn't know about armbands (where this vendor whose son would interact with Southern traders does). I wanted to show the ways they're still learning and sharing with each other, and also suggest their tendency to get very caught up in each other and the giddiness of being back together. Plus, it felt like something Zuko wasn't likely to get in a Fire Lord briefing ahead of some formal visit South, and that no one else would think to tell him.

For this Fanfic Directors cut ask game!

[haroldtea]

OHH 'nonchalant'??

wheeheeee from rdtas again:

“Oh, so me winning the points for the cooking is boring?” Sokka asks, examining his nails with faux nonchalance. He gets a pillow to the face within the next breath, revealing a wide grin as it slides off.

“Yes, actually,” Zuko says, crossing his arms but allowing the very corners of his mouth to tick up. “Very boring. Snoozefest.”

“Uh-huh,” Sokka hums. “And I suppose it’ll be more exciting if you win the cuddle points, then.”

send me a word, if it’s in my wip document i’ll answer your ask with the sentence that it appears in!

[drive]

[pegasusdrawnchariots]

Poll over @chitsangenthusiast is the only real one here

As always with FMK, rest assured that any/all fucking/marrying is willing. Can't say the same for the killing, though!

[ash-and-starlight]

it’s been more than a month but i finally remembered that @chiptrillino tagged me in the last line challenge so here u go!

carefully drawing every single gray hair on their beards to distract myself from the fact that i intend to draw Several Sceneries

tagging hmmm @erisenyo @marriedzukka @chitsangenthusiast @faux-fires if u feel so inclined u3u

[luzho]

"you're not gonna believe this aang: did you know lee from the tea shop likes puns too?!"

"but i thought you didn't like him:/...?" "ahh... so that's where you're off to everyday, huh...". based on this pun found in @chitsangenthusiast's puns tag (hehe thanks kath :P this is like the second time i find a pun there!)

and i realized half way, but this works like a sorta prequel to the original puns comics from over a year ago! basically at this point, all my comics happen in an alternate universe where everything stays the same but sprinkled with anachronisms, such as sneakers and einstein :3

[chiptrillino]

Last Line Challenge

Rules: in a new post, show the last line you wrote (or drew) and tag as many people as there are words (or as many as you feel like). 

got tagged by @ranilla-bean with these huge eyes and expectation of sharing something specific, which i now pretend to completely forget what it was! also i forgot that i should share one thing but i already prepped 6 different ones soo... uhhh

(ID in ALT text)

tagging with absolutely no pressure, but if you would like to do! @ssreeder @chitsangenthusiast @petricorah @paramouradrift @blu3berrydraws and uh. -pointing at whom this perhaps could be crossing on the dash!- no seriously, tag me, i am noisy and curious!

[petricorah]

wip game!

rules: share a few lines or a snippet that sums up the main relationship(s) in your wip

i was tagged by @ash-and-starlight (thank you!) and you can see her version here~

ids in alt text. tagging @chitsangenthusiast @longhairsokka @yayee-prsp and @bisexuallsokka if they want to participate!

[colorofneurosis]

Last Line Challenge

tagged by @erisenyo🌿 (i salute you for still poking this hibernating bear) so here have a lounging Eddie covered in a mass of Very Unfinished Lines.

(We'll fix him up don't worry)

Rules: in a new post, show the last line you wrote (or drew) and tag as many people as there are words (or as many as you like).

tagging : @sparklyslug (yeah you know it) @carbonbased000 @jamiethegardener55 @flieslikeamoron @chitsangenthusiast @wingedquill @artbean and/or anyone who feels like sharing any kind of line (snort) (double snort) (ok she done bye)

[3cosmicfrogs]

Last line tag game!!

Rules: in a new post, show the last line you wrote (or drew) and tag as many people as there are words (or however many you like).

tagged by @frodo-of-the-nine-fingers

not a writer but i do draw. since yall have been SO lovely in welcoming me to Triangle Corner, here's a spoiler for my next 3zun art:

Anyway

Tagging @chitsangenthusiast and anyone else who wants to join (i have very few mdzs moots pls i just started going here)

[erisenyo]

6, 12, and 16 for the ask game!!

6. Favorite title you used

I really like Oh, The Way Your Makeup Stains My Pillowcase. I feel like it fits the fic really well, both as a title and that bit of the song itself, and it was very much a case of the story idea emerging alongside the title which is usually not the case for me.

(As anyone who has been the recipient of my panicked about-to-post-what-do-I-call-it DMs would know lol)

12. How many WIP’s do you have in your docs for next year?

This is a gooood question. How do we define a WIP haha? Currently, I have...

A gift for @demondarakna planned that I need to draft out

An outline for a fic that @ash-and-starlight inspired me to write about Zuko visiting the Southern Water Tribe for the first time as Sokka's boyfriend that I'm really excited for

A post-canon masquerade AU that's in the ideas stage that is a gift for @callmesinpai for being very good a guessing

The outline of a betrothal armbands fic I'd love to flesh out

A pure fluff smut modern AU roommates idea that is mostly outlined

A proposal fic set in my Burning Bright verse that I've got the bones of

A fun smutty Fandom Trumps Hate fill involving the secret horniness of bureaucratic administration when the right person is running all the meetings

My 'the man who loves the moon' idea for Sokka and Yue that I'd love to find the time to finally write

And one persistent idea that's slowly getting fleshed out, a modern AU enemies-to-lovers story where Zuko and Sokka fall in love in one night in a Waffle House lol

Which is...quite a bit now that I look at it...

16. What’s your most common “Additional Tags” tag?

I get pretty free form on these pretty fast, but post common is "Post Canon" (7 fics this year) and "Canon Compliant" (usually with a references to the comics not existing to me, 6 fics).

But those are more boring, so after that its "Established Relationship" (6 fics, I do like to write the boys in love and still flirting with each other) and some reference to Sokka's job (Detective Sokka, Kyoshi Sokka, Sokka trying to figure the job thing out, 4 fics)

For this AO3 Wrapped ask game!

[haroldtea]

!!!!!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAYYYYY i hope it's a, lovely one for you!!! 🧡 🧡 🧡

omg thank you beloved kath!!!! 🤍🤍🤍🤍

[marriedzukka]

was tagged by @ash-and-starlight ages ago to share last lines from a wip, and it's been a while since a retgmt16 snippet, so here you go 💙

A warm wind stirs the trees. Patches of clouds drift slowly overhead, the only movement in an otherwise peaceful landscape. It’s been a while since Zuko’s been here, but time passing or not, the long, winding paths among the graves are still the same. Izumi tightens her grip on his hand as Sokka, Mai, and Azula trail not far behind.

And it’s here, just under the shade of an old willow at the edge of the cemetery lot, where the Hasegawa family grave sits: a larger stone monument nearly as tall as Zuko, with the names of the deceased elegantly engraved. There’s a sick twinge in his chest when he sees Iroh. It still doesn’t feel right. By now he knows that it never will.

Then again, he’s not sure what he’s supposed to be feeling right now. The stone beneath his hand is hard, sharp, cold— and so unlike the people he knew and loved who now rest beneath it.

Through the numbness comes a sting of guilt: he should have come to visit the grave sooner. He should’ve done more, been better—

Forgive yourself, Nephew. Again and again and again, as many times as you need to. The time will pass anyway.

The breeze kisses his face. A hand on the small of his back pulls in another presence at his side. No matter what’s going on or who else is around, there’s one person who always considers him. Worries about him. Loves him.

“Okay?” Sokka asks.

“I think so.” Zuko glances over and finds grounding, lovely blue. “I’m glad you’re here.”

Sokka smiles, a soft thing, and drops a kiss on Zuko’s shoulder. “What first?”

tagging @chitsangenthusiast @lesmiserablol @backhurtyy and @ofherlionheart if you have anything you wanna share! 💙

[thepurpleether]

Dude wtf fanfiction is amazing for all the reasons already well known, but yesterday I read one and the way colours were described was just so beautiful and amazing!!!

Anyway this is a roundabout way of saying that I’m my English language exam today when I quite literally had no ideas of what to write about, this gave me inspiration and I started describing colours!!!

Fucking amazing!!!

Anyway shoutout to the fic Gold in the Air of Summer by @chitsangenthusiast on ao3, fucking amazing

[ash-and-starlight]

thank you @mafaldinablabla for the tag!! the game is to share 9 of my favourite books from the last 12 months, or 9 books on my tbr list for this year.

Here is what i’m looking forward to read this year! (my hunt for beautiful covers never ends. in this house books Shall be judged by their cover)

tagging uhh @erisenyo, @chitsangenthusiast, @ranilla-bean, @poikilotherm, @kyoshialone and whoever else wants to do it u.u