#day 1 alternate universe

[sharpth1ng]

STUILLY WEEK DAY 1: ALTERNATE UNIVERSE

It's Billy and Stacy y'all!

Top: 1996 (pre-massacre), Bottom: 1997 (post-massacre)

People in my server: you may have seen this one already. Shhhhhh. It fit for the AU prompt ok)

@kikiteaa (remember to tag them in your stuilly week posts, i def forgot)

[howtodrawyourdragon]

A late piece for AU-gust 2024's Day 1 "Canon Divergence." A late piece because I really wanted to come up with something for that day and I just could not come up with anything until I had the brilliant idea to genderbend the blorbo of our shows.

Her hair is a mess because she's Hiccup and she just spend some time either flying or wrestling with Toothless, probably.

Is she looking guilty? Worried? Did she get caught with her dragon? Perhaps!

-XOXOX-

Please do not repost or misuse my art.

AU-gust card and gradient layerless version below.

[theartsynebulawhodoodles]

𖠣“Stitches and Deer”𖠣

{Tw: Wounds (Arrows), slight nudity (covered up by flowers, stitches}⚠︎

[Killer Sans Art]

It’s quite hard to stitch up wounds when more arrows keep coming.

[Killer Sans belongs to Rahafwabas, dividers from sister Lucifer]

[versedicis]

reckless pursuits.

charles/max | ~150k, hunger games au | rated t tags: hurt/comfort, heavy angst, canon-typical violence, major character injury, getting together (sort of), found family (maybe), other additional tags to be added

It began with a crispness in the old autumn air, the browning of the trees nearly finished. The wind whistled through the Seam, the leaves blowing up cobblestone streets as if they were the tumbleweeds Charles had only ever seen described in illustrations of a faraway District Ten. The pads of his thumbs rubbed at the soft petals in his hands, ruby-red as they bloomed against his skin. They were the only luxury he could afford to give his father’s grave, their stomachs too empty and their clothes too threadbare to consider anything else to adorn the rickety carved wood.  Then, boom. The silence was deafening, as were the screams that came after, wretched voices echoing out around the districts as wives were told that their husbands were dead. Accidents in the mines weren’t uncommon; for one to happen so close to the winter, however, was a death sentence. If there was one thing that he knew from the year prior, it was that. When the widows poured into the streets, all there was to hear was the wails of women waiting for the freeze, their infants carefully swaddled to their chests unlikely to survive the cold, and the crunch, crunch, crunch of their feet as they swarmed the mining company’s headquarters for their husbands’ final cheques. The sounds of a mining accident in the district weren't unusual. Usually, his father would come home early, before his father’s life was claimed by the ashen earth too. When it was time for his brother to join the ranks of the District’s miners, too, he would come home weary and rough, coal-dust pressed deeply into the lines of his already-aged face despite the short year he’d been working. The sight of a man outside his family’s home, face stony and emotionless as he spoke to their mother, however, was. All Charles could see was the little drops of blood spattered on the wooden steps leading to pooled fabric, his mother’s skirt folding in on itself as she collapsed to the floor in grief; behind her, the terrified face of his little brother peeked out from where it was hidden behind the door frame. In the distance, the browning of the leaves around the faded balcony of his house seemed to quicken.  Blood, again, and again. The man’s hands were covered in it. Charles knew, then, that somebody’s life had been swallowed by the earth again. As he brought his hands up to his face in order to choke back his own scream, all he could smell was the clove-like scent of carnations; and with it, the blurry sight of his own fingers stained with the residue of their red, red petals.

like in the coliseum of the old days, pt. 1 | read on ao3 for the lovely @vi0letchemistry <3

[goginaporter]

rina + iconic couples in media

this is my fun way of responding to the alternate universe prompt for @rinaweek <3. rina and their parents in every universe, finding each other and falling in love. alsooo this post was slightly inspired by this absolutely brilliant edit linked here (x) and if you want rinatroyella or rinajacey edits, please lmk and I'll send my favorite ones <3333

troyella

the essays that can and have been written about troyella and rina are extensive (and I'm happy to do a longer form one in a separate post). but from being the new girl x boy who's never moved, girl encouraging boy to audition for the musical and actually commit, kissing in the rain, starring in the school musical together, to making a huge commitment to the other person on a stage in front of a bunch of people, rina is quite literally troyella reincarnated. and yeah, lots of people can argue that troyella is perfect as is, that they didn't need another version. and on one hand, i agree. but the way in which rina takes core parts of troyella's story while standing on their own as a ship is beautiful and truly does justice to the original franchise by anchoring the story around these two, both individually and as a couple, just as was done with troyella in the original trilogy. my favorite troyella parallel moment from s4!

4x01 - ricky sneaking into gina's room just like troy would come into gabriella's room through her balcony

4x02 - the note ricky gives gina in the hallway to meet in their secret staircase is just like the note troy slips in gabriella's locker in hsm to meet on the rooftop. (honorable mention to them auditioning for and getting the roles of troy and gabriella in this ep as well <33)

4x03 - of course, it has to go to their rendition of can i have this dance. their voices sound gorgeous and though the choreo they do has similarities to the original, they've made it their own.

4x04 - this one is kinda reaching but I wanted something for each ep! in hsm2, sharpay forces troy to sing a song with her, one she prepared for the talent show, instead of allowing him to go on a date with gabriella. in a similar vein, though with considerably less scheming from dani's side, dani is selected to replace gina as gabriella because she is so busy with the movie, though this is done behind her back.

4x05 - has to go to the rain kiss obviously. although troy and gabriella only ever kiss under sprinklers, it's the same vibes. there's also a still (not included in the scene) of the rain kiss of ricky holding gina's waist as she throws her arms up that's so reminiscent of troyella in the rain during cihtd.

4x06 - ricky and gina running down the hallway at the beginning of the episode feels like a direct parallel to troy and gabriella running to auditions in hsm. also rina fighting to save the show is super similar to gabriella (and troy once gabriella convinces him) pushing for the theater department to put on a show about them for their spring musical.

4x07 - they're literally playing troyella in this ep so I could say so much. i'll just use this space to talk about how much I love them in a night to remember and how much it looked like they were dancing at their wedding. I will say that terri, gina's mom, telling ricky about gina's movie with a smile on her face, reminds me a lot of gabriella's fans setting troy up to talk shit about her on camera to convince her to focus on the decatholon. also reflects sharpay telling troy about stanford, again with a smile on her face.

4x08 - again, this ep is rife with toryella coding because they're literally playing troyella, but the show goes super meta in having them sing the right here, right now reprise as ricky has just found out that gina is potentially moving across the world to film her movie, just as troy finds out about stanford and struggles with gabriella not being there for the rest of their senior year. on a much less angsty note, ricky singing love you forever to gina has the same vibes as troy choosing gabriella and going to school close to her, not to mention that lines in the song directly reference the song "high school musical" (which you can read more about here <3). gina also deciding to move the movie to salt lake is very much her "I choose basketball but I also choose theater but more than all of that, I choose gabriella" her version is "I choose filming this movie but I also choose theater but more than all of that, I choose ricky" just a beautiful perfect scene all around.

these s4 moments only scratch the surface of the troyellarina tether but i'll stop ranting for now and move on to rina's teen drama parent sets.

jacey

after s1, tim federle did an interview where they asked him about him about the ricky / nini / gina triangle, he directly mentioned dawson's creek in guiding his writing process, stating that at the center of his thought process was "how do I surprise audience members with who they're going to ship?" (x). for those who don't know the jacey lore, to make a long story short, their love triangle centered around joey, pacey, and dawson. joey and dawson were childhood best friends and joey has a crush on dawson. pacey and dawson are best friends and joey and pacey do not get along initially. after events of life, dawson asks pacey to "look after joey" at the beginning of s3, the two get super close and eventually catch feelings for each other and they secretly date as they figure out a way to break it to dawson (sound familiar?). they do break up but come back together at the end of the show and are endgame. the parallels between jacey and rina exist both on and off screen. dawson and joey were the initial endgame for the show, just like rini was the show's s1 endgame. however, electrifying chemistry between katie and joshua (jackson) & sofia & joshua (bassett) in their respective shows changed everything. rina is one of the strongest examples of continuing this legacy of disrupting the initial plans concocted in the writer's room to make way for insane chemistry. some of my fave jaceyrina parallels

rina and jacey having a formative, chemistry presenting moment in a car (rina in 1x05 during homecoming, joey and pacey in 1x during their science project)

the sheer parallels between them in 3x19 of dawson's creek and 3x08 of hsmtmts with their kiss scenes. just watch here (x) and here (x) to see. the "stop me" "wait" parallels actually make me go crazy

joey tutoring pacey in 3x09 and gina (presumably) becoming ricky's tutor after 4x06

i'm rewatching 3x09 in preparation for this and jacey has a scene where dawson catches them talking about pacey helping joey with a ballroom dance scholarship thing in exchange for tutoring and he asks them what no one can find out about and a) pacey sucksssss at improv just like gina it's like that 4x02 scene with rina and ashlyn and b) it also feels like rina with the chocolates, again with ashlyn LMAOOO in 2x04

ALSO in this ep (wow it's a goldmine), when dawson and jen catch joey and pacey ballroom dancing, they're forced to join the class and the instructor psychoanalyzes both couples. for jacey, she mentions that the tension and bickering between them suggests their underlying attraction for one another. this is literally what val (their choreographer!!) does after watching rina perform wdykal in 3x05

too much to explain for the final scene of this episode but i just encourage everyone to watch 3x09 to get the same sense of a major scene in a coat check and an ensuing apology

pacey telling joey he remembers everything in 3x22 and ricky telling gina he's never forgotten a thing she's said in 4x03

pacey telling joey that the simple act of loving her is enough for him and that she's "off the hook" and ricky telling gina that of course she has to go and be a star, as well as singing lyf not knowing that she was staying in slc, so he just wanted to let her know that he loved her for the sake of it, not to convince her of anything

pacey having to tell joey something but lying to protect her (and ricky having something to tell gina but lying to protect her (3x07)

naley

another paragon of teen drama royalty is naley. literally the best people ever and it makes sooo much sense that rina is similar to them because they're actually rina's grandparents. naley birthed troyella, who birthed rina. a beautiful family tree. anyways, naley doesn't seem to, on the surface at least, seem to have a lot of parallels to rina. a shy tutor girl and a cocky basketball player who get married after knowing each other for less than a year? (though I will go down with my headcanon that rina gets married super duper young, will not be taking any arguments). despite this, at their core, naley's love for each other is so reminiscent of rina's love for each other, not to mention some incredibly direct parallels that the two have, listed below:

nathan dropping haley home after a party & ricky dropping gina home after homecoming ("yeah, this is my house" & "so, this is where I live")

connecting over dubious circumstances (nathan requesting haley as a tutor/getting close to her to get back at lucas & gina convincing ricky to stay in the show so she could get gabriella, attending hoco with ej to psych nini out but instead connecting with ricky)

nathan putting haley's hand to his heart after telling her it's racing (it was because of drugs but still, it beats for haley) and ricky putting gina's hand on his heart after telling her that his heart's racing (i'm telling y'all this scene is the same, just with the characters and setting swapped)

alllllll of naley's s2 angst is like the intense and more painful version of rina's angst in s4

naley invented rain kisses (even if they existed before them, no they didn't) and rina obviously does justice with their own rain kiss in 4x05

when nathan proposes to haley (their first proposal), he tells her that "I could love you forever." audience, what's the title of ricky's love song for gina? i rest my case

haley being nathan's tutor and gina being ricky's tutor <3333

nathan sneaking into haley's bedroom to study and makeout and ricky sneaking into gina's bedroom to sing and makeout

nathan and ricky being haley and gina's biggest fans when it comes to their careers, putting their success over their personal feelings (nathan collecting clippings of haley's tour, paying chris to let her record music & ricky decorating gina'ss trailer, encouraging her to go to nz to be a star)

rina served cheerleader x basketball player (though at different times and both were fictional but wtv) just like naley

this was super nonexhaustive as rina also has parallels to jam, mondler, sethmer, romeo & juliet, and so many other ships. however, I'm lazy and didn't want to write all of those out. maybe I'll return to them another time, but for now, pls enjoy this <3333

[gastersreturn]

It's only been months since the prologue is finished, and I already want to do a remake to improve it.

I never made comics before so there a lot of errors in those, it's frustrating. But at least I'm improving, which is really good

[starlightmeadowbloomthesecond]

A Quiet Place in Encanto

What if the magical home had to suffer in the universe where if you made a nose, the creature will hunt you and you have to find a way to survive by staying silent?

[linked-history]

Completed for Day 1 of Linktober, I'm gonna try and finish as many pieces as I can this month, though I'm also challenging myself to not just use the prompts from Linktober 2024, but also Linktober Quest and Linktober Shadow. I plan to work all three prompts into the images for everyday.

I'll be honest originally I planned to use Prince for these prompts but I was never happy with the plans I would sketch out and then today at work this image kinda popped into my head.

[agua-cat]

APHTOBER DAY 1; TOGETHER

Hi guys I forgot to draw for day one as I’ve been busy making designs for an apocalypse AU and talking about pretty men to mutuals (if you’re interested hmu…)

Anyways all I can provide to you is this old drawing I did of said apocalypse AU

TW: WEAPONS, BLOOD

It’s not my greatest work and it’s a bit outdated but I thought the Ro’meave brothers were a really strong contender for day 1 of Aphtober!!

The prompts are kinda vague so I’m gonna cry in a hole if i got this wrong

Enjoy the artwork anyhow?! This is my food to the people… until you see my Kul’Zak design, at least

AND LET ME KNOW IF YOU WANT THE LORE FOR THESE GUYS

[howtowhumpyourhiccup]

Hallowtober Day 1

For The Family

Summary: Hallowtober 2024 Day 1.

Set in a Modern AU, Post-apocalypse AU. A tightknit family closed off from the rest of the dying world living in a cabin in the middle of nowhere? In an effort to provide for his family, Dagur lives up to the cliche when a stranger turns up on his front door.

Warnings: Cannibalism, Pregnancy, brief mention of zombies

Rating: Mature

Dead Dove: Yes

Words: 4 050

Prompts: Cannibalism

Fandom: How to Train Your Dragon

Characters: Hiccup, Dagur, Toothless, httyd ocs (Vigi Tiny)

Pairing: Dagcup

Author's Notes: Didn't really vibe with AI-less Whumptober's prompts this year, so I figured I wouldn't be particupating in any events. Until I came across someone's personal list for October and figured I could make my own. So I did and this is what I wrote for day 1.

I literally immediately fell in love with this version of Dagcup. I haven't written anything for them since, but I wouldn't be surprised if I did end up writing more for this one day.

Enjoy!

[itzrhymesgamers]

"Joy isnt amongst us...it is against us"

THE VANILLAVERSE PURGE

Heat miser Pure vanilla

A beloved heat miser now becoming a full eruption as she now survives alone , she cutted her hair off as she held a bag around her shoulder to waist as she kept on going on this loop

[cozycompositions]

WHUMPTOBER DAY 1 BABYYYYY

Quite short, but a very old WIP.

Whumptober Day 1: “How many fingers am I holding up?”

All he could smell when his senses first returned to him, was smoke. It was his smell that came back first, then his hearing. The first thing he heard was the sirens. They were so faint and distant that he wasn’t entirely sure whether or not he was hallucinating them in his concussed state.

When his sight finally flooded back to him, it took him a beat to realize. Everything was fuzzy, though he wasn’t sure if that was because of the smoke or his head being cracked against something beneath him. He was acutely aware of the fact that he was laying horizontally, that didn’t make sense. Why would the car be-

There was a car crash, he suddenly remembered. A flash in his mind’s eye saw the rain, John losing control, the tree rushing towards them-

Get out.

Unbuckling his frayed seatbelt, he lifted his arms above his head and began to drag himself from the rubble. Something in his chest screamed, and maybe he did too. But it didn’t matter. He had to get out.

He felt himself collapse onto his stomach with wet grass beneath him. He could feel the rain pelting down on his back and hear it on the metal of the car. It was strange the way the smell of the weather mixed with that of the burning rubble. Soon he faintly heard someone calling out his name.

“Al-x-er!”

All that escaped from his throat was a breathy moan, and he tried to open his eyes. It took too much effort, but he did it, and was greeted with the blurry sight of John half walking, half crawling towards him. He had a mangled arm wrapped around his midsection and a nasty looking wound pouring blood from his hairline.

Alex tried to call out to him, but he hadn’t the energy. It felt as though all of the life had been sucked out of him.

His eyes peeked open when he felt a hand on his forehead - he wasn’t sure when he had closed them - and saw John suddenly leaning over him.

“Al’x… you… hear me-?”

Another moan escaped from him in response. The noise quickly turned pained and desperate when John scooped him up to cradle him in his arms.

Something was very wrong.

“Al.. How many… ‘olding up-?”

And then they were surrounded by paramedics and cops and everything was so bright and loud and he wanted it to stop.

An oxygen mask was placed over his mouth and nose, and Alex freaked. He attempted to rip the mask off of his face, at the same time as desperately reaching out for John. At that moment he realized he had actually no idea where John was, the paramedics must have taken him, too.

And then the doctors were tying Alex down to the stretcher. Wild noises escaped from his throat as the fear took over him. He didn’t want to go to the hospital. He wanted John!

He struggled, oh how he struggled to get away. But when the needle pierced his skin, it all faded, just like it did when the car hit the tree…

[blackberrysummerblog]

I’m really excited to post the first chapter of one of my CORB pieces tomorrow)! (It’s the Merman-Simon/Demon-Baz fic, if anyone wonders) In the meantime, I’m continuing to work on the succeeding chapters, as well as the second fic, which I’m expecting to post at the end of the week. And because I am a total head case, I went ahead and decided to start COC23. Below is a link to the fic I’ve written for Day 1. Hope you like it :)

There’s something under Baz’s bed at the start of term and Simon is NOT here for it.

There’s a low, unpleasant chuckling sound, followed by more absolutely vile horking noises. Merlin, I would get stuck dealing with this so Baz can breeze in here tomorrow evening without a care in the world, the jammy prick.

[gifti3]

tomorrow friday

[icefeather22]

Posted Day 1 for the Rarepair Week!

Relationships: Fujisaki Chihiro/Celestia Ludenberg

Summary: Works for the Rarepair Week from June 16 to June 22.

Chapter summary: Chihiro and Celestia meet for the first time at Hope's Peak... or is it really the first time?

@dr-rarepair-week-blog

[rainbowcarousels]

tell them you won't be long

(or bianca & nicolas' excellent adventures through the 20th century)

“You know if you’re going to go sneaking into my head,” her companion said. “I think we ought to be on a first name basis.” “That sounds agreeable,” Bianca agreed, if only because she was intent to find out exactly what they were doing to cause such a familiar expression on her beloved Amadeo’s face. “I am Bianca.” “Nicolas,” he replied. “And I've also eaten him, so it was hardly unricprocated. A piercing the back of the knee – oddly ticklish.” “So I remember,” Bianca replied, smiling in return when Nicolas looked at her askew. “Did you imagine you were the only person he has eaten?” Five times Nicki and Bianca met across the 20th Century and parted, and the one time they chose to leave together.

Here on ao3!