#end of year round up

[simru-region]

This is my end-of-year round-up. 2023 has been a poor year for me personally, but for the part of me that's drawing Pokemon it has been the absolute best year ever. At the start of the year, I would never have guessed just how much I would accomplish in twelve months and how good it would make me feel along the way.

With the Pokemon I've just squeezed in at the last minute, I have made a massive 36 pieces of fakemon art this year. While some have been redraws of old designs, it still astonishes me how much my drawing ability has improved since I started this little project in 2019.

Ultimately, I have you to thank for this. Everyone who follows, likes, reblogs, or comments on any of the posts, you have done more for my confidence than anything else ever could. From the bottom of my heart...

THANK YOU.

[plague-of-insomnia]

Happy 2024…

Hey all. I’m not doing a end of year round up because I don’t feel like I accomplished much in 2023, and it’ll just remind me of how much I had hoped to do but wasn’t able to.

I still have my queue paused and am still on a kind of hiatus. Probably will restart the queue in 2024.

I do plan to continue updating In/Exhale, for the like 2 people who care about that series, getting season 2 fully posted on AO3 and beginning s3. I’m also hoping I can get the ebook for that season out this year at long last, and I’ve started working on S4, though it may be a long time until that is ready to see the light of day.

I hope to finish Synch and the Promise AU in 2024. I also will hopefully update WDH/Suicide Candy, but right now I can’t say how much or soon.

I have plenty more I hope to do in terms of writing projects and translations but that’s all I’m gonna mention for now, because I don’t wanna get hope up prematurely.

I’m still dealing with the effects of one of the worst mood episodes I’ve ever dealt with in my life, that’s been going on for ~4 months, and that on top of my physical symptoms. So I can’t make any hard and fast promises, even to myself.

I am hoping 2024 will finally be better than the last 4 years. 🤞🏻

Thanks to those of you who have continued to support me and my work and best of luck in 2024.

[yell0wsalt]

2023 Year-End Fic Round Up

Thanks @nyamadermont for the tag!

Words written (published or not, WIPs totally count too!):  Published on AO3 as of 2023, I have 128,421. But now that we've stepped a bit into 2024 and updated a few fics, that number has changed haha.

On Tumblr, there are several ficlets I did not bother to keep track of.

Smut scenes written (if applicable): I have mostly written sexually implied scenes in several of my fics. I've written 5 explicitly sexual scenes/fics.

A Lazy Winter Morning is my favorite inmyveryownopinion

New things I tried: Literally everything. Guess that's a pro to being new to writing in the year

Fic I spent the most time on: Kiss Me, Kill Me. It's not a popular fic, but it is one that I had the most fun on. It challenged me to write in ways I didn't think I could. I'm quite proud of it and has become a favorite of mine.

Fic I spent the least time on: My Hands, Your Bones. Let the mind wander off to a sad drabble and bust this one out pretty smoothly. Shy of 500 words, it's a wee baby fic.

While it may be a fic I spent the least time on, I still love and reread it frequently.

Favourite thing I wrote: Besides Kiss Me, Kill Me? Probably The Taste of Your Care and Say It.

I became such Ryu/Kuvira crack trash and I love this for me.

I'm this close to not letting go of Say It and expanding on it. Fingers crossed.

Favourite thing I read: Sooo many things! All of my moots are so talented and their stories are incredible. I love you all so much

Writing goals for next year:

Finish my WIPs. I've got that 2nd chapter of my 5+1 gathering dust in my drive I wrote months ago but have not edited

There's a fic I started on here a while back I want to see to completion. Turns out I have to write it first 😦 Now ain't that sumthin?

Push myself to writing things that are more out there. I think that's part of why I liked Kiss Me, Kill Me. It was very much out of my comfort zone and was where I could think differently.

Aside from writing for the OTPs, there are a lot of rare pairs and crack ships I want to try writing. Keeps the brain sparkly.

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An open tag for those interested!

[ectoplasmentity]

I keep reading the Pride Month Demon meme as this I fear

Edit: For people commenting that Pride Month is over, July is Disability Pride Month! Demoman is disabled (he does not have an eye) and I, the artist, am disabled, so what I say stands✌️I also say in the tags that Pride is year long and forever 🌈💖

[starlightaxolotl]

End of Year Writing Highlights compilation

All of these are by far some of my favorite lines and word combos of the year. In No Particular Order. Under a cut bc this got L O N G. Some are actual scenes, some are lines, some are outline notes!

Enjoy!

The kingdom of Fuckoffname

Conversation between Flare and Eleanor about names. (side note, I have no idea who tf Flare is. But this was a document in my folder. This was the entire document.)

He peels back the layers of thorny brambles choking out (name) and tries to help. He sees (name) the way he sees his cat Mitzy, a golden hearted angel behind all the feral attitude and hissing and spitting they started with. (I personally redacted this because it's funnier without context. I love the dynamic of sunshine character and their feral bestie)

"I’m sure between these bozos and the clown I can find work for them.” (I need to write more for this. I enjoyed the way that I wrote Kennedy. What a snarky supervisor. A shame what I planned for him.)

The document titled "Yee Haw, Stardew Valley"

Foxes, for example, you know there are five separate species of fox in North America. They have incredible hearing, and like you, they grin when they’re scared.

The following exchange from a Fatherless Support Group Text fic I joked about.

Skywalker: probably like the third worst betrayal in my life actually. DAD HELP: ??? DAD HELP: THIS is in top 3??? I can think of at least 4 worse betrayals??

(the betrayal in question here was the reveal that Skywalker used to have a bedtime)

The kid–a little girl–looked so much like she did. Dark hair, hopeful smile, boundless energy. Like a mirror of what she once was, before she was a weapon. (I need to work on this one again)

Would there even be an investigation if he vanished too?

He was syrup-sweet. He is still syrup-sweet, but there is a sour note too. Dark berries and something tangy in his attitude. Is it the recognition of the blood on his hands? (Can you tell I wrote this while hungry and wanted to focus on the idea of flavors in not food contexts?)

Josephine looked relaxed, laying on the couch. Yes, it was merciful. A true monster would have simply let her fall to the floor in a heap. They had made sure to make quite the show of laying her down as he stood there in terror. (I NEED TO CONTINUE THIS. I peaked with this whole warm up. Dear god this bit really was something. The sense of horror from the perspective of a man dying a slow death)

(From yet another RWBY au crackfic idea, you get a few notes)He has to be in this universe as a treat. As a human. Some kind of aura wrecking semblance. Asshole. Aura leech?// Maybe his semblance should be fire based. Maybe he’s got some fire immunity idk if that’s possible but like again, would be funny.

She can sing and she can dance and she is everything your father wishes you were, and you hate her. (this is still one of my favorite sentences of the year, and it's literally from the first day I was writing in 2nd person.)

The image on the monitor was static-y and glitchy, but she could see it was another kid, one who was excited to hear another voice, just like her. “Oh good, I was worried that it was just Chica tripping the motion sensor again.” They moved and a horrible crackling sound came over the speakers. “I’m trapped under Roxy Raceway, there’s an elevator going down and it won’t turn back on. Maybe you can find a way to get it some power? I wanna get out of this place!”

“Top drawer has your security pass for the job. Level ten clearance. I think that should get you wherever you want—also works on the vending machines, not sure how but it does.” (the Pizzaplex is my playground and I will make it as nonsensical as I want for comedy reasons.)

Long scene but I forgot how much I liked the Ballpit Multiverse crackfic and how I wrote my faves.

Alert severity: NONE. Unidentified Watch User pinging FRDY-1. He scoffed and rolled his eyes. If there was an unidentified user then there was either an error or an intruder present in the building. He would need to cut this game short. He turned on the spot and walked quickly, calmly—if he ran Lloyd would know immediately that something was wrong, and it would not do for the children to be afraid, no it would not do. He lifted the shutter up with ease and smiled at the boy inside. Lloyd groaned. “How did you find me?” He tucked Lloyd under his arm and carried him like he weighed nothing. “Consider it one of my many skills.”

Unknown guest profile. But the scanner identified him as a potential guest, he had to be real, yes?

Fazbear Entertainment had a bad habit of making headlines. Everyone knew that. It was widely joked about online, the same way that people talked about headlines that started with “Florida Man”. If Fazbear was in the news it was typically worth reading about.

When things did hurt, it was phantom feelings of wounds he couldn’t remember. It felt wrong. His body was wrong. He was broken, and he had no idea how or why or if he could fix it. Gregory wanted to fix it. (I've been meaning to revisit I, You, Me, We for a few weeks now, and rereading what I had for chapter 2 does make it more enticing...)

ATTENTION EMPLOYEES: Be safe on your shifts! Interfering with “Superstar Gregory” is not advised. If he seems to be somewhere he shouldn’t, contact MANAGER ON SHIFT or FREDDY directly. Do not attempt to stop or manhandle “Superstar Gregory” unless absolutely necessary. Let’s avoid further hospitalizations and paperwork as a team! (lmao I loved this little note, I think it was funny to write it. Freddy as a very overprotective parent is one of my faves and I think I can do this better now after reading....like 200 fics in a similar flavor. all of my faves are perfect for forced/surprise adoption fics.)

He was the fire, and he had been burning on empty for a long time.

“It’s a lot prettier as stars instead of exploded green goop all over the city.” (wheezing, the context is star gazing in Ninjago)

"Are we there yet?" “You know,” You started with a smirk. “Every time you ask that I’m going to walk slightly off course for two minutes just to make it take longer to get there.”

"Hi there, it's me, the local idiot."

[silusvesuius]

stream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncLoEunRqCc

:)

[mrs-gauche]

I hope the Lighthouse is full of weird looking magical things/artifacts/tools, that are just so old that simply no one knows what they were even made for, a bit like Howl's Moving Castle? Like, imagine there's a running gag or something where Rook and the rest come across a thing and everyone's like "Oh, better not touch that, we don't know what it does" and then they make a really big deal of how no one's allowed to ever touch. that. thing.

And then later on Rook has another Fade Call with Solas and they have this very serious conversation, when Rook just casually interjects "Oh yeah btw, what is that thing?" and Solas just sighs and waves it off in passing, super annoyed "Ugh, that's just an ancient elven bottle opener. Are you even listening to what I'm saying—"

[justaz]

oh fuck merlin following after arthur for five seasons, at his heel following him into every battle, every fight, every quest without regard for his own safety. arthur dying on the shore of that damn lake and merlin dying with him but his body remains. arthur goes to avalon and merlin is forced to stay on earth. merlin can’t follow arthur this time. this is one journey merlin and arthur can’t take together. two halves split and kept apart for over fifteen hundred years. goddamn it. these fucking assholes never fail to make me cry. i hate them i hate them i hate them i hate them

[gingerrhd]

Inktober 2024 day 10

Been listening to the jello dubs and tbh they're right.

One thing about the postal service, is it's taught me that a lot of adhd and autistic adults have found their home in running the same routes every day and I think that'd suit mae

[lynaiss]

Have some of my Rooks plus a random Lucanis ✨

[autisticaradiamegido]

day 5

ok tbh i was not pleased with how my last several marcilles have turned out so i felt like it was time to sit down and do some damn studying on this gal. i think it helped!

[gallawitchxx]

day thirty-one • @gallavichthings kinktober 2024

↳ 31 days of kinks & cards in 3 sentences

WAX PLAY x THREE OF WANDS

By the end of the night, you’re dripping with come and covered in the tri-colored candle Ian insisted on buying at the new sex shop down the block. You’ve survived hours of sensory overload like you’ve never before experienced: the hot sting of the wax, the cool caress of breath blowing it dry, the ache in your balls, the pulse of your prostate, the fullness of Ian’s cock buried so deep your belly bulges, the warm splatter of spunk—yours, a relief, a reward; his, a benefit, a brand. Later, you’ll breathe and bathe, cleaning yourself of all but your filthy memories, but now, you blink and beam, soaking up what you can of Ian’s attention, his praise, and his unconditional, unrelenting love.

[netherfeildren]

✨fellow fic writers!!!✨

i’ve been thinking it’d be so fun to do a year end round up with some of our favorite lines or snippets of our own writing of this year as 2023 comes to a close. i was so proud of myself for finally taking the leap and posting my first piece of fic, and i’m so proud of the body of work i’ve amassed this year, and i’m so so proud of everyone else who’s written their little hearts out this year too!

so please, if you’re so inclined, drop your most favorite quotes and lines from your own work of the year in the reblogs!!! i’m so keen to see everyone give themselves a dandy little pat on the back, i think we all deserve it! 🥰🤩💗

[charlotte-of-wales]

The Princess of Wales’ 2023 in outfits

[patcaps]

ghosts is over and now my mantlepiece makes me want to smile and cry every time i look at it

[tojiscrack]

guys i’m 18 today 😟

here are some random screenshots of my birthday walk around the neighbourhood (they aren’t aesthetically pleasing as they were taken from a shit ton of videos since i do not stop and take pics) 😀

(has my face in most of them and since i’m an attention whore, only a couple of seconds actually had the scenery and not me 😐)

p.s. the black scribbles are to hide my college lanyard. don’t need you stalkers to know where i attend 🤨