#had to change stuff around

[lexa-griffins]

Please share your lady of the night Lexa x recently freed from prison Clarke thoughts

I'm gonna copy/paste what I sent @bottom-lexa and try and make it coherent 😅

Lexa lives in a trucker stop type town. Very small. Known for being safe for women so Lexa tends to get a lot of older butch women as clients. But she never saw any of them as more than that. She barely ever sees them again.

But one day she's approached by a car with a young pretty girl inside who offers to buy a drink. They dance and when they go back to Clarke's motel room it feels more like a one night stand than anything else….

That is until morning comes and Clarke thinks there's something there and Lexa asks for payment and leaves right after.

Clarke just got out of jail. It was a short sentence, some youth mistakes with drugs and robbery at the cusp of turning 18 that got her 8 years of which she only served 5 with good behavior. Her mom disowned her and the town hates her so she sets up north with the money her dad left her before he died, not long after she went to jail.

Lexa had a shitty home life, abusive parents who left her to fend for herself the moment she became an adult and after a few odd jobs as a server she ended up as a prostitute. Pays better anyways, and the ladies treat her right.

Its like these two women with such shit lives in a town so nicely nickname PolisDyke who don't know where to go who find comfort in each other.

Clarke does become a regular, against her better judgement really. After Lexa walks off Clarke is ready to leave and continue driving. She hits the road in her beat up car and she makes it half way down the deserted road when it breaks down and she has to call a tow company to get it checked. She goes back into the town to wait for it to be fixed but she finds its far more than she can afford.

That's the first night she goes back to Lexa. This time she pays without much fuss and they part ways.

She finds finds a job at the gas station. Lexa hangs there a lot too. Quickies do a lot for her. Soon enough, Clarke is paying her for those too on her breaks.

Clarke is living on a motel. Lexa has an apartment although its honestly not much better… or bigger. The motel is their preferred place to meet, although Lexa has made the call to bring Clarke over to hers.

At some point Clarke forgets she's working to pay her car. She's actually enjoying life here. She's made friends with Raven, the owner of the repair shop, Octavia and Lincoln who own the bar and Anya the owner of the gas station and well as the other guy who works there, Murphy. Its a small town, she doesn't feel like she has to go anywhere else and there are new faces newly everyday being such a frequent trucker stop. And then there's Lexa, who keeps pulling at her. Stability is not something Clarke is used to as although she was middle class, she barely saw her parents at all which lead her to act out. And this, this is nice. She has a job and a place to sleep. Despite its run down appearance the town is friendly and happy all around. And Clarke gets to feel like she made something out of herself, it gives her the purpose that she needed because before jail she was the disgraced child of hard working people and then became a criminal and now she gets to be who she wants to become. It feels stable and safe, Gustus the owner of the motel reminds her of the guards in jail but with a paternal aura to him that makes her feel safe and the entire town is just this collection of somewhat broken people who try to make it a good place to live in despite everything.

And Lexa just tries her best to stay away, she's a client, a regular. But then payment stops being discussed and although Clarke hands her the money Lexa feels dirty receiving it. It never felt dirty before, even with regulars.

Her and Lexa have this weird "flirty friends during the day fucking during the night" all wrapped in that client/escort dynamic that makes it weird and yet its like they've known each other for ages. They have lunch together and hang out but there's always that sexual tension between them. They are fwb really but Lexa cant put that label on them because Clarke is paying her and she doesn't have the capability to tell Clarke bot to pay her and that she wants to have sex with her just to have because does Clarke even want to have sex with her like that? That opens the door for something more neither are particularly sure they want.

And then... Clarke starts with drugs again. Nothing too heavy, but its an habit either way. Lexa was raised around drugs and she hates them and she raises hell when she watches Clarke smoke, as if they are dating and she has a say in it. That shit annoys Clarke so much because /why/ cant Lexa just say it? Why does she have to act like she cares and then immediately act all cold with the client bullshit? Clarke could make a good stable life here if it wasn't for Lexa making it all unstable and Lexa doesn't see that instead of talking she acts like her mom who snapped at her dad any time he did drugs but never trying to help him, only smacking him and kicking him while her dad did nothing other than stand there and numb himself with drugs and care little for the way his wife beat his daughter when he fucked up because Lexa was the reason she was "stuck in this shit hole with her shit father.

Lexa's dad never fought back, she remembers so vividly her mom just smacking him and him letting her. She never beat him, but Lexa knew the smacks weren't light. But he just did nothing, either too high or just not caring.

Its during a fight when Lexa got to Clarke's room to find her clearly high that she gets so mad she tries to smack her. But Clarke knows her limits. She doesnt let herself get high to a degree of not knowing her surroundings. And prison gave her a sixth sense for when a fight is gonna break so she grabs Lexa's wrists when she starts to smack her. And that jerks Lexa back to reality and she realizes she has seen this play out before. Clarke fights back, she holds Lexa down and refuses to let her push her around. And Lexa is so glad, because Clarke wont let her be her mom, because her mom was created with the help of her dad's attitude and Clarke wont have it. And its not a one time thing, it repeats itself a few times, usually all involving the same settings of the drugs and a tiring day at work but Clarke will stop her and tell her to go slapsh some cold water on her face while Clarke goes to the shower clothes and all under the freezing water to force herself out of her state. Its this insistence Clarke has that theyll figure it out, that she can fix it that makes Lexa really see shes copying her mothers behaviors and that if she wants her life to be different, better, she needs to make some changes to herself, but she also needs Clarke to make changes too

They are both just emotionally stunt. Neither know how to fully express their feelings without making it a fight. Because Clarke can still grab her car and go away. Lexa makes money by having sex with other women, its not something she can just stop because the people in town wont want to hire her known what she did before. Its not that simple and yet it could be if they just tried. But life has never been easy and simple for them, so they cant just let this between them be either...

[hotdogmchiggin]

Company Mandated Fancy Fits on the Tulpar 😏

Also had to include the REAL star of the show (and a bonus)

Based off of this and this. Thank you very much joetastic for being inspirational 👍

The REAL reason this is late

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

For moment, you are home.

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To me, what is so fantastic about One Piece Fan Letter is the emphasis on the way the Straw Hats have created these connections in the lives of people they have never met. The ending scene, with all the hands putting together the puzzle pieces, and the way that all these connections came together in one dazzling way-- I loved that. I teared up at that. Wherever the Straw Hats go, they leave behind all of these puzzle pieces for people to put together and create bonds that would not have existed had the Straw Hats not shown up!

And it also just... Makes me so in love with the concept of the world after Luffy becomes King of The Pirates. I know that Oda has the final chapter planned in his head, and I doubt we will really see the long lasting effects of Luffy achieving the title of Pirate King + his dream, and I really do not want a sequel series ala Boruto or Yasahime, but.... I want to see a world in which children believe they can become a Brave Warrior of the Sea thanks to Usopp, I want to see more children look at Nami and realize they don't NEED to have a Devil Fruit or Haki or muscles to have adventures. I want to see the next generation of the One Piece world believe so strongly in their dreams, that they set out to accomplish them.

One Piece Fan Letter really opened the door, I think, for more and more stories about the "regular" people in the world of One Piece, the people you don't see in the arcs because they're the nondescript background characters, and how the Straw Hat Crew has changed them. And I want that. To me, that is fantastic.

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Oh oof I slipped and hit them with dark and serious beam. 😣

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Kidpix commission for @facelessoldgargoyle! (character belongs to me)

[ninjasmudge]

make sure your cult leader is scooped up at least once a week so they dont get too cocky

[torchstelechos]

I love that In Stars and Time gives the nonconsensual kiss a proper horrified reaction, by the way. Most media where a character can kiss someone out of no where either make it a funny thing or the "romantic" thing, but here Siffrin kisses without permission out of no where and Isabeau reacts correctly! He pushed them away! Because thats surprising, and fucked up to do to someone with no lead up and no permission! Isabeau had no context, and at the time when the kiss happened, was under the impression that Siffrin didn't like touch which can have a variety of horrible reasons for it. Not only that but... We don't know what face Siffrin was pulling and I don't think it was a nice one. Which, again, means that we don't have all the context either! This is a horrible event that has horrible consequences and I love that it does. Because it's something that is horrible and objectively one of the worst things Siffrin did to one of the others in the loops, so I'm just!!! So excited it had bad consequences!!!

[asvidema]

finally got to sit down and draw my interpretation of Penelope, queen of Ithaca, from epic: the musical

also as a bonus, her namesake duck

[lonelysa1lor]

If I see another "if only silco had read that letter :[" literally anywhere im going to start gnawing on peoples computers

[puppppppppy]

auggie!!

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When Superboy Prime accidentally resurrected Jason Todd, it was described something like the universe righting itself. And, from a purely physical point of view, Jason never died. It brought his body back to it's state before his death, his injuries there but with just enough he could still survive

So, now I'm imagining like. What if there was an au where it was more than Jason just physically "never dying," but it affected memories of those around as well

Joker not remembering killing him, Dick not remembering hearing the news, Batman and Gotham not remembering the 6 months between Jason's death and resurrection, but not thinking much if it

Its all as if Jason never died

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It's crazy how I can be like "I'm having a depressive episode" until I'm with the right people and then it's like oh no I'm ok actually

[sysig]

I invite you to imagine (Patreon)

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Flake n Nymph sketches

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She para on my humans till I [GRUESOME SOUNDS OF BUG FUELED VIOLENCE]

Redraw of a skitter design I did a little over a year ago, comparison under the read more

And the sketch. As a little treat. Just for you.