#i finally have the motivation to write

[wriothesleybear]

Sukuna is the type of boyfriend who won't vocally ask for your attention or affection. He expects it without him having to tell you. So when you're nose deep in your book on the couch, he's grumpy and contemplating burning the thing that's stealing your attention from him. Instead of resorting to doing such as thing that would make you upset, he walks over to where you are resting and silently stands next to you, glaring, waiting for you to finally acknowledge him. When you don't, he clicks his tongue and grabs ahold of your wrists. It finally pulls your attention from your book and you're taken by surprise when he lays his heavy body on top of yours, laying his head on your chest. It takes you a second to register, but when you do, your lips break into a smile as you lightly chuckle. He hears it and grumbles. He would tell you to shut up which you take as an empty threat. Not wanting to tease your grumpy king too much, you place your arms around him. You settle into a comfortable position where you're able to continue reading your book while using your other hand to stroke his hair. You can feel his shoulders relax under your gentle touch, silently relieved to finally get your attention. Your heart melts when you feel him faintly nuzzle his head against your soft chest and his arms wrap tighter against you. Even if your limbs go numb from the heavy weight of your boyfriend resting on top of you, you don't bother to move him off due to the desire to continue enjoying this intimate moment with him. He tries not to make it noticeable, but you can tell when your big, scary boyfriend is needy for your affection and attention.

[secretagentspydetectiveninja]

posting this with absolutely no context

[lonelysheepling]

Recently read @queenofthequillandink ’s DPxDC crossover fic Unearthed, Reborn

I got inspired to draw character sheets for Danny, Sam, Jason, and Jazz’s vigilante personas. Here’s a link to the author’s drawings of their outfits (these were a vital reference for me when doing this so thank you so much for sharing them Quill) More commentary (like 7+ paragraphs plus 2 images) about this project and the designs below the “keep reading” line.

None of these thoughts I have for each character are in order, but I have a lot of commentary for these since this project was a lot more conceptual than my normal work. I also just like talking about my art/design process. If you ever find yourself wondering at some point why an element from the original design wasn’t included, the answer is that the removal was completely intentional and part of my grandmaster vision for this work and wasn’t because I just forgot about it entirely during the design process.

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Aconite (Sam)

This was the first one I sketched out, I wasn’t even sure at the time if I was going to fully commit to drawing all of them. I thought that Sam was gonna be the hardest since her description was way longer than the others, but then bird boy beat her out. I took a lot of creative liberties with her design, the bag was added bc I couldn’t figure out how to add pockets to the skirt. I was trying to avoid a joker color scheme so I had a lot of ref images that I got by searching like “purple green aesthetic” on Pinterest. The dark purple and dark forest/blueish green won out in the end. I desaturated a lot of my colors for her just to get as far away from the neon Gotham rogue aesthetic. I also added the bdsm harness over the armor to add more punk elements to her design, I know that in real life that would be very uncomfortable to wear over scalemail armor but sometimes we take creative liberties when they look sick as fuck. Also, I didn’t realize until I went to look for a reference for aconite flowers that aconite is wolfsbane! That was neat to learn! Also, the font I used for Aconite is called “zai Art School Calendar 1931”, I’ve used this a few times for other projects, it’s one of my favorite fonts. The ‘zai’ fonts the creator has are all very good.

Shade (Danny)

There wasn't much to add to this page. His outfit is pretty simple (besides the patterning). I wasn’t sure how to pull of an optical illusion pattern but I was reminded how I sometimes get an eyestrain induced headache when looking at someone wearing a patterned shirt with really thin stripes so I just leaned into the idea of a small/detailed hard lined pattern. I originally made 5 separate patterns for him and then turned them into stamp brushes in procreate. I only ended up using three of them, the one on the chest, the one on the legs, and the one on his hand. But, I imagine the patterns fade and shift when he moves, sort of like a lenticular print. I gave him constellation freckles and stylized the hair’s fade into white. The hair was inspired by how time-woods draws Martin Blackwood’s hair (linked: time-woods’s fanart of Martin Blackwood). Also put way too much effort into the teeth on the mask. I just like the chunky teeth design. Oh yeah and the font I used for him is called “Typewriter_Condensed_Demi”

Erinys (Jason)

Repeatedly ran into the issue of not having enough canvas space bc of my fervent need to thoroughly document and plan out how the wings worked. I also reversed the colors for the bodysuit & armor so the under layer was black while the armor plates were red. I only realized afterwards that I may have been inspired by the red centipedes in Rain World (linked: gif of the red centipede, don’t click the link if you’re unsettled/afraid of bugs/insects), artists subconsciously draw inspiration from other artists all the time though so I’m not like upset about it. I stand by it because it looks sick as hell. Also leaned into the magpie theming for the wings. I think the vigilante form was supposed to be reverse magpie coloring? I can’t remember, but I stuck with normal magpie coloring. The anatomy of how the wings connected to the collarbone was inspired by JayEaton’s Magpie Bridge Project. Reference image link. Link to the article the image is from. I didn’t draw the wing armor because I couldn’t figure out how to would work with the wing anatomy and I ran out of canvas space. Finally, the font used for him is “DIN Condensed” this is a default font, I would’ve used something more punk but I needed the text to be legible.

Insight (Jazz)

I did Jazz after I’d already finished the initial trio, so I had to switch to a new canvas for her bc I’d hit the layer limit multiple times on the previous one. I really do love doing that spiked under-eyelash thing with characters. Don’t know when that started. Anyway, I added the shoulder pads to her outfit to help break up the empty space. The golden eyes were a nice accent color since her design is very overwhelmingly green. Honestly the braid hairstyle and gold eyes really do obscure her identity, multiple times when drawing her I was worried that she didn’t really resemble Jazz enough. There wasn’t a drawing from the author for her so I only had the text description to go off of. I just realized that she sort of reminds me of a forest ranger and I don’t know what to do with that realization. I copy/pasted my drawing of her eyes when gold and recolored them to match her normal eye color. There were two layers for that, a hue shift and a hard light layer to emphasize the shadows.

Here’s what it looks like without the hue shift: 

It looks really cool and I’m 100% that color combo in another drawing down the line. Oh yeah and the font used for this sheet was “Euphemia UCAS”. It comes with Apple’s operating system, I use it as a neutral default text most of the time bc it’s nicer than helvetica but not overly fancy like Times New Roman—and why am I talking about fonts. ——————————————————————— Anyway, this project was very fun to work on. The alt text for this was its own endeavor, hope the folks using screen-readers don’t mind 4-5 paragraphs of description text. Also, I cannot remember for the life of me if Dani got a costume description, but if she does I’ll make sure to update this image set with a sheet for her. And to the author, QueenOfTheQuill, if you’re reading this message that I’ve left at the very bottom of this post below a read more line, thank you for the fic. It’s very good and I’m glad I caught it during my slow decent into DPxDC brainrot. I love the interactions between Jason and Tim, it’s nice seeing a revived Jason that’s not bogged down by pit rage. They definitely seem like they could’ve been good friends if not for the unfortunate circumstances that led them to meet in canon. Also, I’m sure Jazz will love interacting with Batman and Nightwing. So much psychological & childhood trauma to unpack with them. Feel free to use/share these images if you so desire and thanks again for your work.

[myokk]

His lips brushed against hers when he spoke again. "Whatever it is, I can help you."

Eloise shivered at his proximity and leaned in a bit closer. Their lips were touching now, an approximation of a kiss, but neither of them moved to break it from its liminal meaning. Maybe if she breathed the words that she couldn't speak into his mouth, they would be swallowed whole by him. Maybe he could help her. Maybe putting them into reality somehow, not just allowing the events to remain some nebulous thing that was consuming her, could help.

"I..." the feeling of his lips brushing against hers as she tried to speak made her stomach clench in that strange way it had before, and all she wanted to do was lean into his embrace again. Eloise closed the distance again between them, her lips moving softly, sweetly against his as she whispered what she could not tell him about that weekend. She didn't know if he could understand her, but did it really matter?

She whispered everything she didn't have the words to articulate otherwise.

Sebastian tried pulling his head away, to better listen to her, perhaps, but Eloise chased his mouth with her own and before she knew it, he was as lost in the kiss as she was. It was...addicting, to be so close to him, to smell the faint cinnamon scent that always seemed to cling to his robes, to hear the small breaths coming from him - from her - as the kiss deepened. Eloise's wrapped her arms around Sebastian's neck, soon abandoning any words as she gave herself to him completely. She pressed herself tightly against him and his hands moved down to her waist, going up and down her back, causing her to shiver at the touch, grabbing at her and pulling her even closer but it wasn't enough. Sebastian's mouth broke away from hers and she whimpered in protest that soon turned into soft gasps as he started to kiss her jaw, her neck, going down as he slid her robe slightly off of her shoulder and kissed her collarbone.

It was as if his touch was sending jolts of pure magic through her body every time he made contact with her skin. Eloise hadn't known that anything could feel like this, so intimate, so lovely, as Sebastian's lips on her shoulder. But then, whispered softly, feverishly to her collarbone, lips brushing against her skin causing a shiver to run down her spine -

From chapter 25 of Before It Felt Like A Sin 🫶

[max-nico]

Sonic knows a lot of things, Tails thinks.

Tails knows a lot of things too, but Sonic seems to know everything about everything. He knows all about places, and people, and even planes—one of Tails' favorite things right now. Sonic always knows what to say and how to say it, and Tails still stumbles over his words with all the grace a five year old has.

Today, Sonic said a word that Tails is unfamiliar with. Sonic has said it multiple times before, every time with a soft voice and a specific facial expression that makes Tails want to cry. The one where his eyes lose that flighty sharpness he always carries, and his smile falls into something less playful and more gentle.

Today Tails repeats that word. It's nowhere near a perfect pronunciation, honestly the word is barely distinguishable from gibberish, but Sonic just repeats it slower. He's patient, something Tails always has been and something Sonic had to learn.

He asks Sonic what the word means.

Sonic shrugs, he doesn't know. Just a word he picked up, because Sonic is very good with language. It's something he's overheard a few times, he claims, because Sonic is very observant. Families say it to each other, and Sonic says Tails is his family so he likes to say it to him.

Something in the little Fox's chest moves, it's a bit jarring and a little painful, but it's hard to focus on.

Tails decides he will learn this word if it kills him. If Sonic—who is literally the smartest person Tails knows, and because of their adventures Tails knows a lot of people—says this word means family it must be true.

And if Sonic decides to use that word to talk to Tails, and by proxy decides that Tails is his family? Well, that must be true too.

[crowrrupt]

The Vampire and The Vicar

[torchstelechos]

I do think its really important to remember that SY was suppose to be the villain character but its only because of his kindness and newly gained life that he didn’t end as one. In the very beginning of the story we learn that Peerless Cucumber Bro often left comments on how SJ didn’t get his dues and needed to be punished more, and only after he transmigrated did he acknowledge how awful of a death SJ had. He also made point to explain that he only read the book for LBH, which he noted to enjoy his decisive actions and deft ability to kill. Markedly, he liked his brutality and personality over the erotica that the majority of PIDW fans enjoyed. Peerless Cucumber Bro is someone who loves action and the ability to cut right to the chase, something that he does not do and most likely has difficulty with in his world.

Speaking of, it is something to note that Peerless Cucumber bro is rich. He had head chefs, he could pay for a 6k+ chapter book of erotica in 20 days, he noted that he could not understand SJs envy and ambition for power since he lives well, and he even noted to himself that his family was well off. He is incredibly wealthy, and it shows. Which is important to note because he, not once, showed any guilt or remorse on dying and leaving his family behind. Yes, he sometimes refers to people as being similar to his family but he never showed any pain for losing that life like he did when he lost LBH. This is important because I genuinely think SY was depressed and self destructive to himself, which goes against popular HC that he was chronically/terminally ill (I do like this HC and like how its portrayed in fanfiction). It would explain how he ended up dying all alone by himself, and how blase he was to his own life and death.

SQQ is a self destructive force who ended up dying three times, and didn’t feel anything about death itself. He was worried about others and the effect it had on them, but for himself it was up and on again like it never happened. He does not care for his health, had self isolated as SY to the point he died alone, and has a horrible self esteem to the point that he continuously agrees when other people put him down and often calls himself the villain. Even though we have seen the evidence of someone who is always being thrust into new situations and awful plots, he calls himself lazy and easy going. He hides his thoughts and feelings behind his fan and has a remarkably thin face. At the very base of his actions and his thoughts, he is self destructive, powerful, and smart. This is the set up for a villain.

However, when shown the actual people in front of him and forced to act as SJ did towards LBH and his disciples, he flinches from it. He notes that it happening in front of him was different. His entire self soothing comedy monologue went quiet when he had to enforce the Endless Abyss scene, and grieved for the childish innocence he killed from one of his favourite people. SY was set up to be the villain and obviously thinks of himself as one, but can not act as one. If he had the choice LBH would have been his sticky sweet white lotus disciple for as long as LBH wished to be.

His kindness, as seen in the book, is what turned him from being “the scumbag villain” to the protagonist we see in the novels. Which, yes, he is a protagonist! He even has the protag halo that LBH has and its very funny in the meta way for SQQ not to realize this, but thats for another post. But he loves his disciples, he loves his peak lord siblings, he loves his Binghe, he loves his new life, and he is kind. That is what kept him from being the villain he sees himself as, his kindness and love for others. Whether that be romantic, platonic, or familial, he loves the people he has met and he treats them kindly. That is why it is important to remember that he was set up as the villain by everything in the story we do not see, but what we do see is him continuously changing the story to fit a new genre that lets as many people as he can save live. Sorry sorry, I just think about SY being set up as a villain so much. It changes a lot of views I have on the series when I remember the duality of SYs story and character development.

[dazais-guardian-angel]

Well, at least Fukuzawa got his wish granted, I guess.... he's finally inside Fukuchi <3

[soulsforsales]

a fic is on the way…….🤫

[sadistichaunt]

Okay *cracks knuckles* it's time for my Jason Todd post

Jason Todd, on a fundamental level, is a morally gray character. He is not a good or bad person. He's not a redeemed villian, he's not a corrupted hero, he is meant to serve *as the line.*

This starts with his parents. As much as Bruce is a product of his parents, a product of the "last good family in Gotham," and carries on their legacy, Jason does exactly that. Take a look at Willis Todd. He (I'm pretty sure) cheated on Sheila, remarried to Catherine, and decided that his son didn't need to know who his real mother was. He joined Two-Faces gang, not because he was an awful criminal or because he wanted to hurt and steal, but because he had a wife and son at home that didn't have food on the fucking table. What would you do? If the people you loved were starving, if they were relying on you and your honest efforts weren't good enough, would you do any differently?

Willis wasn't some abusive criminal that did it for the fun of it. He was doing it to survive, to keep his family fed and safe, and it got him killed. But in The Batman's eyes, would it matter? He's still stealing. He's still a *criminal.*

For Catherine, it's much the same. After Willis's death, she was forced to take care of a child that was not hers. She realistically didn't have much of a legal obligation to him, especially in a city like Gotham. She still did. Even when she was told by doctors that she was slowly dying, even as her pain got worse and worse, she still tried to raise Jason right.

She was an addict because she was in pain. What would you do? Catherine could either die in pain, slowly, or she could take the edge off. She could do *something* to make her body's rebellion quiet, even just for a little bit.

But she was still using. She was still an *addict*.

Even with Sheila. Yes, she sold Jason out to the Joker. Yes, she was selling off medical supplies. But she was in Ethiopia on a *humanitarian* mission. She was still trying to help people. She'd done some things wrong, she'd made some mistakes, but she was trying to turn over a new leaf.

She was genuinely happy to see Jason. She was so prepared to meet her son, to learn who he was and have him in her life. But Jason was the wrong person, in the wrong place at the wrong time, and so she got him killed. What would you do? If you were under threat by the Joker, scared and desperate, terrified of being turned into just another body on the news, what would you do? If you had one of the Joker's worst enemies right at your fingertips, what would you do?

I'm not saying that any of them were right for doing what they did. But, every single one of these characters are *sympathetic* in the original comics. They are flawed, human, fallible, but at their core they *try to do the right thing.* But they're the wrong people, at the wrong time, with the wrong influences. They're all criminals. They're all *people.*

Jason is no different. He is his parents' child. Bruce meets Jason stealing his tires, so he can fence them off later and make a bit of cash. He's squatting in a building, isn't going to school, and god knows what other petty crimes he's committing to *survive*. How long until he joined up with Two-Face? How long until he made the same mistakes his father did?

Jason Todd was a criminal. He was a kid, yes, and he was doing it to survive, but he was *a criminal.* People like to say that Jaybin was a ray of sunshine, that he was kind and childish and perfect, and he was! He was all that, and a criminal.

When Bruce takes Jason in, he takes to being Robin like a fish to water. There's something to be said about *Batman* adopting *Robin* instead of *Bruce* adopting *Jason,* but that's a post for another time. Point is, being Robin is something that Jason loves. He comes into it bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, but very quickly, he became disillusioned with Batman's methods. He wanted to do *more* to help people. He got in trouble for being too rough, for pushing the line too far. Jason's line of morality was *further* from Bruce's, just like Bruce's line of morality is further from most's. Especially growing up in Crime Alley, he didn't have the luxury to afford ethics. Of *course* that would stick with him.

One of the major catharsis moments for Jason is in the two storylines before a death in the family. I don't remember the order, but one is a serial killer who kept killing women and throwing them into dumpsters. Then, after almost a dozen murders, they find the guy dead. While Batman was looking into it, a woman had also noticed the disappearances and decided to *do* something about it. She dressed herself up, shadowed the killer, and baited him into coming after her. When he inevitably did, she killed him.

When speaking to Batman and the cops, she's asked if it bothers her that she killed a man. She responds that she didn't kill a man- she put down a mad dog.

When relaying this to Jason, Bruce emphasizes that no one is above the law, that it was wrong to break it and it was wrong to kill him. Jason, though, seems compelled by this. He sees someone, doing real good in the world in a brutal matter, and starts to believe that maybe Bruce's way of thinking doesn't line up with the real world.So is it such a surprise that, two issues later, Jason decides to try his own version? The story is standard. A rapist torments a woman, the law can't touch him, and he calls to threaten her again. She kills herself before Batman and Robin can stop her.

Robin, who had been begging Bruce to do something outside of the law, just this once. To take matters into his own hands and to get the rapist in prison for the awful things that he'd done. Bruce hadn't acted. He refused to do more than the law allowed him, and a woman died because of it. Jason pays the guy a visit, and it's heavily implied that he pushed him to fall to his death.

Why am I explaining this? Well, these comics are integral to Jason's robin run- he sees where Batman fails, sees what lines he doesn't cross, and sees what good can come from crossing those lines.

He is meant to be a foil for Bruce as Red Hood. He is the extreme of a vigilante, he's violent and a killer and a criminal, but who is judging where the line is?

I'd say there's three things that Jason Todd accomplishes as a character.

1) He is a warning that not everyone is going to fit into Bruce's line of thinking. There will be criminals who are good people, who do bad things because they have to. There will be people who kill and steal and hurt, who are enemies of The Batman, and still matter to someone. Jason is the representative of that. He represents his parents, every kid that grew up wrong in Crime Alley, of everyone that Batman could have possibly misjudged.

2) Bruce can't fix everyone and everything. He can't just go around busting crimes and offering jobs when, on a fundamental level, Gotham is built to make people fail. Bruce can't just have band-aid solutions to help individual people.

Additionally, he can't make Jason see things from his perspective. Sometimes there *are* situations where someone being dead is for the better. Sometimes, someone may have to cross the line that Bruce won't to keep people safe.3) Bruce can't save everyone. This is the most obvious, with Jason's death, but even with him as Red Hood he can't save him from the hereditary curse of survival. Of doing the wrong things for the right reasons, of coming from a life that encouraged selfishness because it *had to.*

(This is why it's so frustrating to see people saying that Jason is generous or selfless. He is an incredibly selfish character, that is built into his bones.)Jason's characterization in fandom isn't just wrong- it is antithetical to who he actually is. Jason is selfish, is violent and brutal and hurts people. He can be all of those things, he can be a criminal and he can be a festering wound in Bruce's gut, and still be a person. He is caring, determined and protective. These can coexist without having to flanderize him down to a caricature of one of the other.

[itspileofgoodthings]

I don’t even fully know why but “what do I do when I miss you so much?” / “Just wait, and pray desperately” was a knife to my heart in the best way.

[gracemarkss]

redux i and ii are such tough watches because you're witnessing a man try to walk the razor thin line between his fervent hope for a solution, however miraculous, and the increasingly sinking realization that his best friend is going to die. and he's realizing all the things he hasn't said to her, about her integrity and her strength, and all the conversations they've never had about the regular, the mundane, the everyday. the terrible fact that there is not enough time, there will never be enough time. they're losing time again. that in his hubris he led her here, though she would never agree with that. the driving force of his life since his sister's abduction is revealed to be an elaborate conspiracy of men, and the first and only person to give him any measure of purpose since is lying on her deathbed.

and as she's lying there she's still trying to save him. offering herself up, a martyr to the cause that is literally killing her. his work is his life, he told her. nothing else matters, he told her. but it's not true anymore, and when asked what he wants most desperately of all he doesn't hesitate for a second - for her to live.

she's lying there and she's dying and they're running out of time, and there are so many things they'll never talk about and so many things he'll never tell her. and she's trying to destroy herself for him, to give it all some meaning, but it already means so much. it means something because she was his friend. because she cared about him. she protected him. she loved him. that's more than enough. he doesn't need anything else. it's all he needs now. just the two of them and the little time they have left. "hey, scully, how about those yankees?"

[ginger-grimm]

PETRA MÜLLER stars in BLOOD RED

Years ago, a little girl in a flannel dress and hiking boots went into the woods to climb trees and returned home to find her mother and father dead. Eight years later, a naked, bloody girl finds herself sprawled in front of the gates of Auradon Prepatory School. At the behest of Prince Ben, Petra Müller is allowed to attend the prestigious school. Two months later, Petra is still not fully comfortable in this new place. Students don't like her, and staff fear her. But there are little glimmers of hope in between. Like Ben, who still rallies around her constantly. And Greer, her new best friend who, similarly to her, doesn't exactly have the same royal blood as most kids at Auradon Prep. And then there's Willa Darling, the girl Petra has been mooning after since the very first day she woke up and found the girl tending to her. Things seem to head in the right direction, even with Ben inviting the children of villains to attend Auadon for a new chance at a better life. Petra finally feels like she is starting to fit in, and she can see a future in this place. That is, until a gruesome murder rocks this usually serene place. And suddenly, Petra realizes that friend and foe alike cannot be trusted.

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[definitelynotshouting]

in case you're wondering how its going rn

[browneyesbrighteyes]

God I miss the golden era of Dinluke

[astrobei]

DID I JUST READ THAT YOU'RE GOING TO WRITE A CAITVI FIC omg one of my favorite byler writers (i've been out of ST fandom for like over a year now but i still reread some of my favorite fics occasionally) finally getting into Arcane and writing caitvi is the best news for me. I love my girls so much and the world always needs more beautiful caitvi stories from talented writers. Sorry i just got excited lmao

tentative yes! i’m wary of talking about my wips or ideas too much as of late since i’ve Just dug myself out of a creative rut and telling people my ideas is generally the best way to ensure i never actually write them lol. but i’m really enjoying the challenge of new characters and dynamics and i love the little concept i’ve come up with so i’m really hoping to see this through! here’s a little teaser, i give you all permission to clobber me over the head if this one ends up in the wip graveyard 🫡