#clearing the mailbox

[of-buzzing-melodies]

Orion stands on Clive’s porch. He just stares at the door for a long time. This is a bad idea. A horrible one. But he had said. He had said, and didn’t Clive deserve that grace?

They knock on the door.

A knock at the door? My, why should he answer after what the last one brought him? How could it possibly be anything even approaching good?

Alas, this cat is ever curious, he would at least like to see what he's being threatened with. More fuel for the fire if that thing ever turns up, after all.

After some deliberation, the door creaks open, just enough for him to peek out of, and the moment as he lays his gaze on who waits for him, the door slams shut. He wants them to hurt, but some part buried deep, deep down knows to have restraint, despite the fury that bubbles up every nerve.

[yuutaguro]

If reqs still open could you draw Ino?

my mf DAWG 🤝 (im back to do more of these lol)

[iinryer]

i’m confused, what’s the context for hotshots?

this morning 911bts posted the 9-1-1 segment from this EW article!

this is the bit we’re riffing on—

“The ABC first responder drama returns for season 8 with every member of the 118 firehouse facing a crisis: Bobby (Peter Krause) is forced to follow through with his retirement and takes a job as a technical advisor on an action TV show called Hotshots (how meta!) […]”

this is the only info we have, everything else has just been everyone joking around about an in-universe firefighter show!

[sunniques]

I've been on this blog too much 😮‍💨 i think like %70 of your blog posts nowadays are me but ANYWAYS

I CAN IMAGINE YOUR SEUNGCHEOL'S WIFE FOR LIKE 4 YEARS AND HIS MOM IS DYING FOR A GRANDBABY, SO SHE SNEAKS VIAGRA (whats with me and viagra...?) INTO A DRINK FOR BOTH OF YOU. Damn I'm so 𝓕𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂 🤪. (Your type of 𝓕𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂 I hope 😘🥰)

maybe so but i love it honestly 🥹 also you always match my freak so well and now i have to elaborate so … 👇

i’m thinking like mil loves you so much that she can’t wait until you’re carrying her grandkids (literally). so she makes you and her lovely son some tea, then leaves around thirty minutes later to leave you two to things.

now, cheol is just as desperate for you to have his kids as his mom is so the second you rub your thighs together and look at him with your wet, needy eyes saying that you’re really wet for some reason, he’s shoving his painfully hard cock inside you.

he fucks you all over the house — in the living room, in the kitchen, in your master bedroom, literally anywhere with a flat surface or a wall. neither of you know why your libido is so high or why cheol’s cock stays hard even though it’s been hours, but neither of you care.

it feels to good to have his hot cock ramming into your sloppy pussy, fucking all of his previous orgasms deeper into your womb. the fact that you’re ovulating just turns the both of you on even more.

[vinnigami]

Aogami and Narumi should meet. It would be funny. They can bond over having gnc Little Guys (tm)

I would love to be a fly on the wall for that, especially considering Narumi’s only seen demons to play Mahjong

[thus-spoke-lo]

hi ive been reading a lot of your fics but im starting to think your a proshipper is that true

[musings-of-miss-j]

SPOILER below

Maybe don’t read chapter 117😬

(New chapter in 7 hours I don’t know what to feel)

we don’t speak of chapter 117. in fact it never happened. 117 isn’t even a number

[dogtoling]

What is art fight? Do all you artists just. Punch in face

ok it's slightly better than that. As a quick introduction, Art Fight is a website with a yearly event that takes place every year in July. Very simply put, you make an account there, upload whatever OCs you have and want to display on there, and then just sit and wait around until July pops up. A week or so before the event starts, there is a theme reveal (this year the teams are Vampire and Werewolf), and people may choose a team to join, or be randomly assigned to a team after the event starts.

For the event itself, the objective is to "attack" artists that are on the opposing team by drawing their OCs. Attacking people on the other team nets your team points, which are tallied at the end of the event. But to be honest I feel like no one cares about which team actually wins. That might be "the objective", but really the objective is doing gift art and trades largely with strangers on the internet and making their day, and maybe getting surprise art in return!

When you attack someone, people might attack you back by drawing your OC, which begins something called a revenge chain! So that's when you're doing art trades (for people who have never heard the term art trade before because i've realized deviantart isn't hip or mainstream anymore, an art trade is an occasion where two artists draw a thing for each other). Not everyone does revenges though and ESPECIALLY not chains, so the main draw of the event is gift art. In general expecting stuff back tends to set people up for disappointment, especially if attacking the same team. Drawing OCs from your own team counts as "friendly fire", and while your team still gets points for it, you get DRAMATICALLY less points than you would for drawing for the opposing team. Either way it is a thing that you CAN still do.

The amount of points you get from an attack depends on the medium (which include stuff that isn't just drawing!), level of finish and polish, the general complexity of the art, the amount of characters in the piece et cetera. You determine these categories yourself while posting your attack, so it can be a bit daunting if you're not sure on things.

Art Fight recently introduced tag search, which lets you tag your OCs with specific tags (for example, "splatoon", "furry", "pokemon" or whatever) and search for characters with those same tags if you have preferences on what you want to draw. It also has some nifty other things, like the ability to customize your profile sometimes to insane degrees if you want, the ability to set permissions for characters (what people are and are not allowed to do with them), a storage for hiding characters if you want to retire them for a specific year but don't want to delete and re-add them later, the ability to link stuff to character profiles such as their toyhouse or full reference sheets, fields for crediting artists for the design or art if you got it from somebody else... et cetera. It also has some achievements, if you're into that kind of stuff.

The barrier of entry is really kind of low and the event is very versatile - you can go the whole fight making pixel sprite attacks, you can do 3D models, you can do halfbodies, you could even just do sketches and call it a day and that's all very valid and usually always fun. Personally I find Art Fight really fun because not only do you get to pick characters to draw that you might never have seen otherwise, but also have a completely good excuse to draw other people's characters and make their day. I usually spend a lot of Art Fight trying out different art styles and dabbling in stuff I normally do less, and don't have much motivation to do with my own characters - for example, last year I did digital art, painting, pixel sprites, pixel animation, 3D modeling and 3D animation and yeah I wouldn't have done any of those without the Art Fight excuse of "yeah why not draw this guy's OC". So it's also a really good way to step out of what you usually do with your art, and try different styles or mediums just to see what it's about.

And of course, the most important tidbit: the site is always, and I mean always, EVERY year, down at the start of the event. Every year the first week of Art Fight the site is completely unusable. The good news is, you can join Art Fight even in the middle of the event, and joining the site doesn't require you to partake in every upcoming Art Fight or even to pick a team. You can simply spectate and not partake one year, then come back the next and pick a team. TL;DR it's fun.

[pink-sugar]

Awesome sweet shop.. Can i get 55 burgers 55 fries 55 tacos 55 pies 55 cokes 100 tater tots 100 pizzas 100 tenders 100 meatballs 100 coffees 55 wings 55 shakes 55 pancakes 55 pastas 55 peppers and 155 taters /ref/silly

ORDER UP!!!!

[discoidal]

hi this is one of your mutuals being shy. how did you get into publishing your works with lit magazines?? i dont even know where to begin or how to be organized and Professional

HIIII omg i am not organized or professional at all and dw u can always talk to me<33 esp mutuals omg we're like already friends! just in case u want to stay anon tho, ill get this as detailed as possible under the cut; sorry if it gets long or wordy

anyways so i got into publishing after following jasmine from candied/spit for a long time, and i've found it's mostly a game of knowing your work and finding the right publisher market for it.

there are sites that like collect magazines and presses for ease of submission; i got started with submission grinder, but the most effective and convenient right now is chillsubs.com ! chillsubs has a browse feature with a bunch of filters; u can use those filters to find magazines that are right for u, for example like looking for specifically poetry mags or looking for specific demographics

once you've found smth u want to submit ur work to, u go to their site and usually they have a submit page with instructions on what to submit and how to. there might be some terms that you're unfamiliar with at first; u can always google them or ask me for clarification. if you follow those conditions, you'll get a better chance at getting accepted by that mag obviously. a lot of mags will straight up not read your work if you don't follow the submission rules or whatever.

mostly, in my experience, the mags have you submit by submittable (a site that you sign up to), emails, or gforms. they may ask you for a cover letter, which doesn't need to be detailed or formal; i usually just do a hi im zoe heres my shit thanks for your time peace out. think like office emails or emails to yr teacher; some litmags want it more formal while others are v v lax

they may also ask you for a 3rd person bio; thats the stuff like "zoe adrien is a megahot swagapino" or whatever. usually people take that opportunity to list previous notable publications ot credentials, but esp when you're starting out that doesnt need to be the case! you can put socmed or your website if ever, describe yourself, or you can even just joke. some litmags want a more formal tone; others will literally accept the "zoe adrien is a megahot swagapino" one, so while you can do just a rote one, i usually like to customize it per submission.

sometimes litmags have a "reading fee" which is where YOU pay THEM to read YOUR work; this does not guarantee an acceptance, and i try to avoid paying when possible. some other litmags have an "expedition fee" where you can submit things for free and it might take months, but if you pay the fee your work gets read faster or gets read straight by the editor; again, does not guarantee acceptance, but can be a good way to support a struggling lit mag that you're passionate about or get a quicker acceptance or rejection.

a big term that i remember being confused by is simultaneous submissions. that's the way i usually work, and it's when you have work that you submit to a bunch of markets simultaneously. this makes it faster for you, the writer, since you don't have to wait for markets to get back to you before submitting; otherwise, you'll have to do that, and esp with rlly prestigious litmags (literature magazines) the wait time can be months to years. sometimes though the litmags dont accept simsubs; that means if you submit to them, u submit to only them and wait for their reply before submitting again. theyre dicks if they do this imo but u gotta do what u gotta do

anyways, back on track. once a market gets back to you with an acceptance, you can accept their acceptance (thereby entering into an agreement or contract with them, especially if there's payment involved— note that payment isnt always involved). they might want to do some editing, but usually you'll get the chance to approve or reject their edits before it goes live. typos are common and you can absolutely contact them abt GETTING THAT SHIT FIXED!! (im still listed as zoe adrian in one mag anyway)

if you simsubbed like detailed above, especially if they have an exclusivity clause in the agreement, you'll then have to withdraw your work from the submissions queue of all the other markets. this is to say that that specific work isn't available anymore, as you have found a market for it. if thru email or gform u can just do a quick email like "thx this has been accepted elsewhere thx for ur time" and theyre usually like congrats and thts it

acceptance to publication usually takes months. usually, in my experience, the contract with the litmag will tell you how many months you have to withhold the specific work you've published with them from being published again. for example, i published with foglifter press and agreed for them to have six months exclusivity. if another market agrees to publish it, you have to make sure it's after the six months or the exclusivity period you agreed to, just to make sure no contracts are broken.

you're allowed to publish work you've published before again, usually if they are the first publication mags will ask that you credit them as where that work first appeared . while you are allowed to republish, a lot of mags don't accept "previous publications" so you have to check for that.

a lot of lit mags are online-only nowadays, but i've got a fair few print publications; print pubs will usually send you an author's copy, though in some cases you might have to buy it yourself.

now that i think (?) i've detailed the process, ill tell u smth: u dont need to be professional if u dont want to be! theres prestigious litmags, sure, and they should be paying better, but if you're content with small mags a lot of them are no fucks given. if you go off anon i could help you find some chill mags to start with; im very fortunate to have published with some cool people.

some small mags are my absolute favorites. being smaller, they sometimes only pay nominal author fees to you, or often they cant pay at all, but they can take more risks bc of that. their audiences, while smaller, might be more vocal and supportive. gotta shoutout my absolute fav indie mag, bodyfluids lit; they pay YOU 1 euro per submission and theyre my fav to work with, communication is so quick and easy, and i find almost all the work they publish to be right up my alley

if you can afford to be picky, i would say try to submit your work to magazines you yourself want to or love to read. ive gotten pieces published for relatively a lot of money but felt no joy in it beyond that money; meanwhile, getting published in wrong publishing and bodyfluids brought me so much joy and community. if writing was my main source of income or even a source i was reliant on, i'd have to be working harder for less joy, i feel

a thing i have to say when encouraging people to submit: you're going to get rejected. like a lotttt. it's not about you or the quality of your work, even, it's just that markets have specific tastes or themes and they have limited slots and maybe you mentioned bacon and the editor's hungry right now so they hate you for it and so they throw you in the reject pile. it happens.

publishing for me has been a game of so much luck and wild persistence and, im sorry to say it, thick skin. it hurt a lot when i first started, so much so that i stopped submitting for like 6 months after i got my first few rejections. you gotta keep trucking friens!!!

also im talking like i know sooo much i have like. 11 publications counting one that isnt even available anymore bc the litmag went down lmao i am a little baby! and i am unfortunately so lazy with submitting sometimes like i havent sat down and submitted to a bunch of places in like. 6 months. so yeah i dont know that much el oh el

omfg this is so long but i hope this wasnt overwhelming; theres so much more i want to say abt like readings and submission calls and themes and categories and shit. dont be overwhelmed tho, its usually a pretty streamlined process. again, it's a long game, but it's worth it to me :)) ask me anything any time! and i am SOOOO excited for you!!

[of-buzzing-melodies]

ellery knocks on the door timidly. “clive? i’m, um.. i’m here.” it mumbles.

After a few moments, the door creaks open. Clive gestures for Ellery to come in. "Make yourself at home! Oh, I do hope you are feeling better..." He sports a slight frown. That sort of thing is far from his specialty, but he does care.

[yingren]

"wait... are you jealous?"

(have an angst to even it out kek)

JEALOUSY PROMPTS.

“ the fuck do you think ? ” it infuriates ren that clear would even ask such a ridiculous question, especially since ren is certain clear already knows the answer. whatever twisted attempt this is to make things worse, it’s maddeningly effective. like salt poured into a wound or teeth pulled from his own clenched jaw, each passing second pressing more weight onto his shoulders. feeling this way is hard enough, having it pointed out only makes it more unbearable.

the thought alone turns his stomach. clear belongs to him. at least, that’s how ren sees it, and he doesn’t share. it’s a rule as basic as breathing, simple and unchanging, like an iron law set down ages ago. this isn’t some gentle, idyllic dream of budding blooms, soft breezes, and spring meadows dusted in pastels. no, this is like trudging through an acidic swamp that eats through flesh, revealing brittle bones beneath. it’s biting, unrelenting cold that leaves cheeks numb and limbs lifeless. every word that leaves his mouth drips with venom, heavy with disdain at the mere suggestion of someone else having clear the way he does. 

he shuts his eyes, exhales a deep, frustrated sigh, seated on the edge of a rickety old bed in yet another tucked-away hideout, the kind they use for weekends when they can find the time. it starts with just one night and stretches into one more if they both can manage. but here he is, jaw clenched so tight he can almost hear his own teeth grinding down to dust.

in his mind, clear is as untamable as a wild flame, exasperatingly carefree, impossible to pin down. he’s loud, bold, maddeningly independent; a person ren could never truly hate, no matter how hard he tries. and as much as he’d hate to admit it, clear’s charm is magnetic, aggravatingly appealing. that allure is the problem, it draws others to clear, and ren can’t stand watching them try to claim even a piece of what he believes is his alone. worse than that, he can't understand why clear would ever let them.

“ getting bored already ? are you so desperate for something real to hold onto that you’d do whatever or whoever the fuck you come across ? ”

[kithtaehyung]

3TAN YOONGI PLS SPEAK INTO THE MIC

https://twitter.com/ador_kv/status/1678750910699261956?s=46&t=r_f1DN-AB6Y6NHloajF35w

pics below bc :)))))))))

[kodaiki]

not yuji starting the chant whsjkejr do megumi yuta and yuji suspect anything at all and do they talk about them (gojo n yn) at all outside the group chat

the boys are in full belief that they’re a real couple!! beside them kissing, gojo was attached at y/n’s hip for most of the night so there was no reason to be suspicious! 😌😌 they mention him in every day convo and ask y/n how he’s doing since she hangs out w him more often that they see him on set!

[sunniques]

Guys, pretty little freak cheol can not leave me alone...

Like I'm imagining, cheol, telling you to be quiet because you two are having sex IN THEIR BED, while your mom is in the shower. 🤧

you’re so real for that tbh ❤️

AND STOPPPP IF ANYTHING IS CANON, IT’S THISSS

like seungcheol would be on his back with yours pressed against his chest as his big cock is splitting you open. he’s rubbing fast circles on your clit while his other hand is slapped over your mouth. that’s barely enough to stifle your moans, but he loves it.

“be quiet, princess. what will you do if your mom comes out of the shower and finds her daughter getting split open on my cock?”

tears are streaming down your face from how good you feel, the word daddy still distinguishable behind his palm. he just fucks you harder until you’re squirting on his cock, not caring that you’re leaving a mess for his wife to find later. he keeps ramming his throbbing cock into you until he’s releasing thick ropes of cum into your pretty pussy

[bbina]

i think wonbin switches from just frames to actual prescription glasses… my theory is that the chunky ones and the ones w the thin frames which we’ve seen him wear a lot are probably have lenses

i think the chunky ones are the ones with prescription too ... cus if we look at the predebut photos theres a like 3 photos where he was wearing chunky glasses (SO CUTE BTW)