#curious to see if theres more to it

[aurorangen]

Riku playing cupid!

[xxplastic-cubexx]

Hi!! Your Cherik is so good and gorgeous 🤩🤩 If you don't mind wanna try to draw some Fall of X Cherik please?

thank you so much !!

i have a couple of ideas relating to the fall of x period specifically since theres. A Lot i wanna play with, so i hope this lil thing may be a satisfactory start :]]

and the obligatory bonus:

[luck-of-the-drawings]

EDYN TIDESTRIDER, CHALLENGER OF THE UNDERSEA, RIVAL OF THE DEEP. WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOUR BROTHER WAS CHOSEN TO BE A WEAPON OF THE GODS? HOW WILL YOU UNDO WHAT THEY HAVE DONE TO HIM?

[whump-polls]

(what gender do you prefer for a whumpee, not just generally in whump)

i know that this is simplified and doesn't include all possible combinations of preference and attraction, you can't explore a lot of nuance in this format but this is probably the most complex i can get within the poll options, feel free to pick other/nuance and elaborate in the tags or discuss in comments/reblogs!

e.g if you prefer female characters in whump and arent attracted to anyone (not women or anyone else) or multiple genders excluding women, pick the 4th option if you prefer female characters and are attracted to multiple genders including women, pick the 3rd

(of course male/female characters also include trans characters)

[anxiouslowercase]

sas rh: let eoin survive the fall au » a tale of two lieutenants (part two)

[triptychofvoids]

are u a medic fictionkin? /gq sorry im just really confused

there are some questions that science just cant answer-

[mosstrades]

im having an absolute unadulterated blast with the Ethersea prologue for many many reasons, it's beautiful and exceeds all my expectations.. but also. there's many moments here that genuinely make me go "oh god damn, these people are Americans." the Quiet Year system is a profoundly fascinating and revealing game - nothing tells you quite as much about how somebody sees the world than asking them to imagine a new one.

[valgeristik]

Here we are, back again 😊 Noel's got the head of her enemy as a trophy and shes thriving 😊

In a way, Howe did her a favor. Something about cutting the leash. She mauled him for it, but c'est la vie or however the saying goes. If he couldn't kill her before she got to him, that's his skill issue 🤷‍♂️ (some more talk abt the art and Noel + a close up +a song for flavor under the cut)

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this did not go the way i initially visualized it but i think its a banger regardless. Did not mean to add flower meanings to this one, failed step one, chose 4 flowers (yarrow for battle, palm leaf for victory, chestnut for restoration of justice, nettle for cruelty/mercilessness). the only ones that made it to the final cut are palm leaf and nettle, but i feel like this still works well thematically <3 I keep meaning to talk about Noel's sense of justice/morals. I say she's unhinged, and i suppose in some way she really is, but there's a strict method to the madness behind the scenes. She's not indiscriminate in her carnage. It has to have meaning, to have Challenge. She will not kill someone who begs for mercy. Not because she feels bad about it, but because it's not worth it. There is no honor in that, no point, no satisfaction. She will make them fight her if she absolutely wants the person dead (though, I don't think there's anyone like that besides Howe in her life), but killing someone who does not resist is something she feels is beneath her. Which is why she also hates people who take advantage of or kill those weaker than them. Like, have you no honor? Fight like a man or die like a coward. something like that. And she is here to ensure the dying part 😊 Though, maybe hate is a strong word. Disgust, maybe.

Which brings me to the point i mentioned earlier, the cutting of the leash. I think she would have felt obligated to follow the Societal Rules before her family was killed. She cared about them, their well-being, their reputation. Put herself in a box for their sake, to be someone they wanted her to be. And once that was all out of the window, and she had nothing more to lose.....Well, what does a rabid dog care about the laws of men? A girl's gotta bite once the muzzle is off, and by GOD she will. also if you're not familiar with what the fuck im talking about, heres a wiki description of the human noble origin story from DAO <3

BONUS song for flavor 😊 very "noel @ howe"-core to me. i love the idea of her calling him 'good friend' mockingly before killing him with violent intent

also honorary mentions of songs that ALSO fit very well (by the same band): 'you will never take my alive' (<-- general noel-core song to me) and 'a little place called trust' (<- another one that can be seen as noel @ howe <3)

OH AND as a deeper cut: 4 позиции бруно - сказка на ночь and an important addition:

[mochasucculent]

Art summary of 2024!

I did a good couple commissions in the last couple months so I used those to fill in the gaps of the honeycomb lol. Graphic design is my passion and all that

Previous years below!

[ratatatastic]

"what was it like to see ekky drop the gloves and see him just jump in there for you?" [proceeds to say you know and yeah like a lifeline until he can gather his thoughts properly.] "its just cool hes a good guy"

"i appreciate that but you know... yeah i would do the same thing to him"

post practise interview | 11.18.24 (x)

[saturnniidae]

Ngl atla AUs are so funny in the sense that white people don't really exist in the original avatar universe.

I think these concepts of putting your favorite characters into such a rich and interesting world and the allure of making them benders is fun and I enjoy it myself from time to time but. There is Something be said about inserting white characters into an inherently poc centered story and world that draws inspiration from those cultures, so it falls kinda flat. (And could even come across as tasteless since the story is again inherently a poc one and has such political? I guess. Themes as like the main conflict ignoring it kinda takes away from half the worldbulding or whatever. Whaaateeeverr idk)

Again this isn't like hate to people with atla AUs I enjoy them but idk food for thought.

[xxplastic-cubexx]

chat if i may speak

[infinitelyweary]

Has anyone endlessly dissected Armand's subtle Marius shade yet

[ourstarscollided]

Feel free to expand in the tags cause I’d love to know!

[ofpd]

I’d be interested in a non exr fic rec list

ok yes sorry this took a while to answer, i wanted to get through some fics on my tbr before posting it :)

The Pursuit of Light | enjolras & feuilly | 3.3k

"Let's start with the first conjugation," Enjolras says, taking up the pen beside him and scribbling down a list of words Feuilly is entirely unfamiliar with. "I hope my handwriting isn't too arcane."

True Fraternity | enjolras & feuilly | 2k

When Feuilly goes on a trip with his bourgeois friends to practice shooting, he feels increasingly out of place.

Farouche | combeferre/enjolras | 0.8k

Enjolras and Combeferre's friendly debate about love, family structures, and women goes a wee tiny bit off the rails, and Enjolras reacts even more severely to being hit on when he's interested than when he's not.

Driven Like the Snow | éponine/marius, éponine/montparnasse | 2.9k

The night after the Gorbeau robbery, Eponine wanders the streets of Paris.

Unravel | éponine/marius | 18.2k

Éponine Thénardier can "unravel" time--jump backward a few minutes or hours and let events play out again, sometimes slightly different from before. It's a secret little thing that she uses occasionally, to get herself out of trouble or avoid minor accidents. She's never tried to do anything big with it because, on the whole, she's happy with her life--her family's inn is successful, they live in a nice neighborhood in Paris, and she's in love with a kind and beautiful boy named Marius. But when her lover is killed on the barricades of the June Rebellion, she has to try to fix it--even if it means using her power on a scale she's never dreamed of. Even if it means throwing away everything else she has.

Under a Moonlit Sky | bahorel/fantine | 25.1k

The year is 1817. After Félix Tholomyès' little suprise, a despairing Fantine thinks she might go to her hometown of M-sur-M to find work. Instead, she decides to find Tholomyès and make him acknowledge Cosette. Enter a young man who would love to have an excuse to travel South (as far away from the law faculty as possible) and is uniquely suited to hunting down terrible men...

In Which Is To Be Learned The Name of Enjolras's Fake Fiancée | cosette & enjolras | 52.3k (unfinished)

It was true, Cosette allowed, that he was nothing at all like the beautiful young man from the Luxembourg, but she must not judge him unkindly for that. The world was full of young men, and it would be quite tedious if all the handsome ones were handsome in the same way.

[pens-and-paperbacks]

Honestly, I wish we would have been able to see more of Zaun and it's people outside of the main conflict. The culture that exists there underneath the hyper aggressive, survival mode that most have in the face of Piltovers absolute negligence is one of strong bonds, found families and loyalties that are treasured or at the very least highly respected.

We see it in how people like Vander, Silco, Benzo and Powder all take a child or two under their wing and love them unconditionally. We see it in how Vi treated Mylo and Claggor as brothers despite them not being related by blood at all. We see it in how, in nearly every case, no one in Zaun would turn over their own people, regardless of whatever trouble they caused for the ENTIRE city.

I know we only have so much time and so much focus in a show like Arcane, especially one so beautifully and meticulously animated, but I feel like we missed out on a lot of this. We got a glimpse of it here and there throughout the show and when people took up arms against Viktor, and I know we're most likely going to be moving on to Noxus with Mel but-

-I really, REALLY hope that we go back to Zaun and Piltover in another show. There is so much material to work with about social and power dynamics alone, especially after the events of season two, that I feel we could get another season or two out of that settling alone as we deal with the aftermath of the riots, the war and finally getting a child of Zaun, Sevika, on a councilor seat.