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[thermodynamiclawyer]

Hey, thanks for your time in advance, as I was curious about JB Bronze. Have any snippets regarding him as a character (behavior, dislikes, etc)?

so Bronze is the underdog of the triplets. he’s very levelheaded and logical, always looking for the most reasonable explanations for things and trying to find easier ways to solve problems. he’s the brains and the brawn, both incredibly smart and full of strength. he likes to lift heavy objects for fun, along with utilizing his strength for repairing machines. since he’s also super small compared to other JBs, he can detach his weights and climb into small mechanical crevices if needed. Bronze gets annoyed when his brothers jump to stupid conclusions and wishes he was appreciated more. he’s the backbone of the Metals and hardly gets praise for it. probably the most sane JB

he also has a tank. this was from 2020😭

[pseudophan]

ahh yes, the christmas season. the time when most content creators take a step back, log off for a bit, let themselves breathe from the constant pressure of social media. that is except danisnotonfire, who when faced with a handful of days away from his coworker effectively doubles his tweet count for the whole year. never change

[juniper-clan]

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[metukika]

when ure apparently the only social person in your friend group

[sakasakiii]

Hii! I just wanna say, your blog is life to me! Literally come here to scroll on tough days, and seeing all the character designs and funny comics makes everything better! Really love your art style and designs. I know this has been asked before but I'm wondering if I could use your art as profile pictures? I really appreciate the joy your art brings!

hihi hello!!! first off, thank you so much for your kind words! i'm sorry for how delayed this response has been (im just getting back into tumblr after one of many hiatuses... AGAIN!!!), but it warms my heart on my own tough days to hear you enjoy my designs and comics! it means a lot, so thank you again!! ❤️❤️

now onto your question about using my art as a pfp: that's absolutely fine! by the time i'm answering this it's likely a bit late already, but i hope this clears things up in the long run. im absolutely ok with anyone using my art as pfps/icons, just so long as you remember to credit me, don't claim as own, dont use for AI training, etc etc.... hope that clears things up, and sorry again for taking so long to see this!

[diddlesnap]

gale having an unrequited crush on peeta is funny for me ok ?

[doodlelots]

Hello funny guy, Id like to see more from pocket cat and moonscoorched karin

pocketvalk is really funny to me (and interesting to study as reflections of daan and karin's dynamics)

[nkjemisin]

Hey there. I'm writing a story set in New York City and am not American. I have few characters, but most of them are arab or white. I can't help but feel a bit wrong about it, given that America is much more diverse than that, and NYC being an emblem of that. Do you think I should force myself to include more representation or should I just tell my story, and leave that more diverse cast to some other story I could write? I know this is a neverending debate and there are many opinions about it, but I've always agreed with everything you've said in matters of representation in fiction, and so I'd be curious to know your personal answer on it.

I'm a little confused by how you're using "representation," here. It sounds like you think representation = "randomly sticking BIPOC everywhere." I think when most people use that word, it means something more like "create an accurate or at least plausible depiction of a group or place." In actual New York, there are plenty of Middle Easterners and white people who live in relatively homogeneous small communities where they might only see someone of a different ethnicity on the subway. If your story is set in one of those communities -- and you do stick some random BIPOC in that subway scene, because that's plausible -- then it sounds like your characters might be an example of good representation.

(Note: if you're not writing something set in the real world, but it features human beings, it needs to represent humanity as a whole, unless there's a good in-world reason not to. But if it's our world? You can get specific.)

Here's the catch, tho: plausibility is relative. If you've absorbed some biases and haven't done enough research, then you might end up writing something that feels plausible to you, but which isn't actually representative or plausible to anyone else. The way to avoid this is to do the research and check (to the best of your ability) your biases. For example, you aren't American, I assume you've at least visited NYC? If not, you should. You can visit some of the communities I mentioned! You can eat in restaurants, visit mosques, have conversations with actual real people who are living the life you're writing about! If you don't have the time, money, or spoons to do that, there are other ways to do good research -- films and YT/Tiktok videos made by people from the communities in question, for example. But you'd need to watch a lot of them to get a good representative sample.

I recommend this book to all the writing students I've taught at Clarion, and other writer workshops: Writing the Other, by Nisi Shawl and Cynthia Ward. There's a particular part of it that seems relevant here, which is a kind of hierarchy of "appropriate" appropriation, I think first mentioned by Diantha Day Sprouse but included in Writing the Other. Basically it says that if you want to write about a culture that isn't your own, you can learn about that culture in one of several ways: a) You can be an Invader, and just go take whatever intellectual and artistic tidbits from that culture that you want, regardless of how damaging this might be to members of that group. Example: non-Indigenous people who write about actual secret practices, or who encourage the desecration of sacred places. b) You can be a Tourist, in which you're still mooching from that culture, but at least you're figuratively paying someone for it and accepting tidbits that the culture has chosen to sell. Example: getting a sensitivity reader. Or c) you can be an Invited Guest, who brings in as much as they take out, and who has formed relationships that are beneficial to all involved. Example: being part of an exchange program, both as a student and later as a host, and maintaining those friendships outside of the program.

The goal is to be an IG, but that isn't always possible. Tourist is still better than being an Invader. (...I feel like I'm leaving out a category. It's been a while since I read the book; any more recent readers want to check me here?) But the closer you can get to actually participating in that culture, the more your work will be informed by reality instead of biases or misinformation, and the more likely your work will read as plausible not just to you, but to your widest possible audience -- people familiar with the culture and people who aren't.

(I'm a little concerned about your phrasing of "force myself to include more representation," note. Why would that need to be a forced thing? A writer's goal should be to write something that feels lived-in and authentic to [if it's a real place] most people's experience -- not to meet some arbitrary standard, but because that's how you master immersion and characterization. If good immersion and characterization feel forced to you right now, that suggests you need more practice. I recommend writing short stories!)

[humbuns]

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Well if it isn't too much trouble, could we see Floyd or Jade in your style? I don't think you've drawn them before and ofc if this doesn't suit your fancy feel free to delete! :D

I have actually! In my Azul's divorce post lmao but I wish I could draw them more cause octavinelle is actually my favorite dorm with floyd being one of my top faves in general :0c

the problem lies on the fact that i can't draw the tweel's hair to save my life ����💀

[updatingranboo]

do we know how much the genloss patreon will cost?

ranboo was polling on twitter for $5, $10 $20 and $30+ options a few weeks back, so that looks to be around the range! there will almost certainly be a $5 tier as the cheapest, since that was the most popular choice. above that, i'm not sure what the exact other prices will be. ranboo also said the patreon will be free to follow, so even if you cant pay for the exclusive options there will likely still be posts over there you can see for free!

[meownotgood]

sorry but there’s something *really* hot about the idea of Aki covering your mouth with his hand while taking you from behind

"we have to be quiet."

aki's voice is a deep and murmured hum in your ear, tapering off into a hiss as he grips your hip tightly and slides inside you. his shoulders go slack, his eyelids flutter. he leans his body over yours, wrapping an arm around your stomach to keep you up. he's supposed to be better than this, normally he would be. but he's waited so long for you, and he isn't about to wait any longer. he's missed you way too much.

it doesn't quite matter to him that the only thing giving the two of you the tiniest amount of privacy is the thin, shut door to his bedroom. he can hear his coworkers talking in the living room, he takes shallow breaths and hopes to god they can't hear when his pelvis goes flush with your ass, every desperate rut of his hard cock into you echoing heavy and wet. he prays that no-one at the house party will notice how the two of you have disappeared, slipping away to aki's bedroom to fuck because you couldn't wait for everyone to finally leave.

"aki, I-" you cut yourself off with a whine, aki pressing into you so deeply that your whole body tenses, your hands fisting his navy blue sheets and your eyes screwing shut tight. it's taking everything in you not to cry out his name. he feels so good and so thick and you can't help but moan between every gasp for breath. "I can't."

you're still too loud. you're loud and only getting louder, which is a shame because aki really needs to fuck you harder. he sighs, he leans in close, mutters a soft shhh to you, his breath hot on your nape. when you aren't getting the idea, he reaches around and his palm comes to press gently over your mouth, muffling your noise.

you just need to keep it down for a little while longer. soon, everyone will leave, and aki can make up for this, for having to shut you up with his hand, for having to struggle to keep himself silent by biting down hard on his bottom lip. when it's just the two of you, he won't have to keep you quiet like this. he'll have you screaming for him until your throat's gone sore.

[katyspersonal]

i know it's very likely that Messmer is the child of MarikaRadadon (boring) i still headcanon him as a virgin birth child aka like Jesus/Mary/God but this time it is Messmer/Marika/Fell god

This is a great idea! Personally I am not so quick to throw away the idea that he might actually be simply a child of Marika and Godfrey instead: red hair of their child still works, since Rykard for one is blonde despite being a child of Radagon:

Marika'sRadagon's genes are an enigma XD And don't forget how Messmer's soldiers use his trademark stomps and moves, and an icon of Godfrey is found in Shadow's Keep! Though how @val-of-the-north ALSO (correctly) pointed out: Messmer can't be a selfcest child of Marika and Radagon because he doesn't have the child-bearing hips......

Godfrey and I ASSUME Fell Good are both assless so it is all fair enough fdhfdhssfdh In either case I think Messmer is a firstborn, and large part of it is my idea on why he is carrying Base Serpent inside! I'll share a post from earlier today that did touch this topic ( x ) but in short: Lightless Abyss IS the hole at the center of Greater Will itself and inability to reign/live forever seems to be hard-coded into any order it helps creating, so Messmer is a natural promise of everything eventually burning. Especially the Erdtree.

At the same time, Radagon's red hair is the result of curse of Fire Giants, and we can see some effects going to the children (most blunt examples are Omen Twins when Fell God apparently was connected with Crucible and Radahn growing into gigantic size).

But I also agree that Messmer's Flame and Flame of Ruin are very similar, and Messmer being some sort of extension of the Fell God like you suggested would explain many things!

^ It says eye (singular), and Fell God is infamous for single eye thing, so like! Was he born with just one eye already? Also his Base Serpent is held in check by Winged Serpent who has dragonic wings, when Fire Giants were enemies with the drakes 🤔 The Furnace Golems Messmer uses also have visage of the Fell God (apparently earlier version or a misinterpretation as it has two eyes?) and masks of heads of Fire Giants on them! Presumably to scare Hornsent as they are already afraid of the Fell God, but also these kinds of 'wickered men' are used to burn people trapped in them as sacrifices, and we all remember how the last Fire Giant was able to awaken presence of the Fell God in himself by burning his broken leg so who knows for sure, really!

^ A possible support for your idea is also how Godfrey's Duelists design features both symbol of the giants and snakes! If they culturally appropriated after the war with the giants, what snakes had to do with it, then? 🤔

[crimeronan]

alright. WHAT is a Raven Cycle. What is this story about. All this time seeing you pointed about these people, but it took me ages to figure out what the "trc" tag even stood for -- that poll you just reblogged in fact. I'm ready. Give me the pitch.

HI.

the raven cycle is a series of four books by maggie stiefvater: the raven boys, the dream thieves, blue lily lily blue, and the raven king. there is a follow-up trilogy called the dreamer trilogy made up of three books: call down the hawk, mister impossible, and greywaren.

(my 'cdth' tag is my tag for the sequel series, which i like even more than trc.)

it's a YA modern fantasy series set in a small town in rural virginia. the series focuses on a gang of five teenagers (a sixth joining in book 3/4) who are all dealing with various magic bullshit in their lives. one is looking for a dead welsh king along a ley line in the mountains of virginia, because legend says that the king can be woken and grant a wish.

the problem is that this boy, gansey, is going to die.

we know this because the one girl in the group (sorry women. there are more women in cdth i SWEAR), blue, saw his ghost on st mark's eve. which means he will die within the next year. why did she see his ghost?? because he's either her true love, or she killed him.

or, you know. both. if you're a girl who's cursed to kill your true love with a kiss. as she is.

blue does not want to kill anyone. blue also does not want gansey to be her true love. they get off on the wrong foot entirely and she decides he's the devil for a little while. blue is overall having a bad time with the world and her place in it and the fact that she's the only non-psychic person in a family of psychics, And Also She Doesn't Want To Kill Anyone.

so the question is -- for all four books -- what..... would make her kill gansey. how is gansey going to die.

gansey's three other closest friends are boys in varying states of emotional turmoil.

ronan, who is where my URL comes from, is a suicidal bipolar maniac alcoholic who spends all of his time trying to kill himself. and is also magic as fuck. and hiding it. and going out street racing with a guy who wants to eat him. and they're kind of fucking about it. they technically never fuck except like. they're kind of fucking about it

adam is a trailer trash kid paying his own way into the elite boarding school that gansey & ronan attend. his dad is physically abusive to the point of adam's life being in constant danger, but adam refuses to accept gansey's offers of help or safety, because he's determined that nobody else ever Own him.

noah is a quiet kid with a violent past that gansey cares about very deeply, getting into all of his backstory involves major book one spoilers but it is. Rough.

the plot points in the series are complicated to explain because there's a lot of mythology and strange worldbuilding and psychic bullshit and magic all going on and playing off each other. but the series is about these five kids being in a giant pseudo-polyamorous relationship and loving each other and hating each other and wanting each other and killing each other.

it has some of my favorite relationship arcs of all time in any media, ever, and also it like. taught me how to write. LOL. so if you're here from the owl house (??) or from a different fandom and you like how i talk about characters and how i write character conflicts and character arcs and character relationships....... U Get All Of That Shit In The Raven Cycle.

and that's it!

[arttsuka]

wish there was a natm musical

Me too anon, me too :(

[ephemeral-darkness]

Trick or Treat? 👻

Happy Halloween!!!!

Treat of course!

[flammableunicorn]

Sorry if it’s weird to ask or if you’ve answered it before, but what is your sexuality?

No, it is not weird!! 🦄🦄 No worries!!! 🌈 Though.. Now that you made me think about it!! Maybe.. no preference? nothing? anyone??? I dunno! I dont think i want this now! I don't think someone would find me nice enough for that!! i'm. too scary.