#i have like at least 2 wip art pieces with him to do that are more serious-y but i just h ave to doodle him

[savrr]

him again

[miru667]

The whole Once-ler family is working full tilt!

Here's my full piece for the VK Onceler Zine! I was very lucky to get to be a part of it...🥹 I used concept art as my inspiration this time: [link] Keep reading below for my process vid and all my director's commentary!

Thank you for being curious! Here's a video of my WIPs:

Deadlines were TIGHT for this zine! We were given only 2 months (compared to the 6 months I had on the previous onceler zine), so to make sure I could finish on time, I decided to do only base colours and lighting, with almost no shading anywhere. Still, trying to balance all the colours took the longest for me, as you can see in the vid. xP

Also idk if anyone noticed, but for the face I chose to use an already existing onceler doodle: [link] Why? Well, why not! I really liked that doodle and I didn't want it to go to waste. 😆

Things that I enjoyed sneaking in:

-the golden spiral! Vaguely, at least! At the very least I hope your eyes can follow the order of thneed production, from the fallen tree at the window to the tuft harvesting to the thread spinning, to knitting the thneed and then drawing up plans for bigger and better things, and then ending with him pulling on his iconic glove to show he's going to take control now

-15 cents, a nail, and a great great great grandfather snail, as well as a tin pail since that's where you're supposed to deposit your payment

-combining things from the 2012 movie and concept art, the 1972 movie, and the 1971 book (e.g. that funny wrench he uses to fix pipes)

-Miss O'Schmunce-ler! You can see from the vid that I added the bracelet pretty late, because it was a late decision to have a Miss O'Schumunce-ler somewhere. I chose her to be the one picking up the pencil in the end, since she's pretty good with a pencil in the movie hehe. You guys can pretend the arms holding the phone is Miss Funce-ler.

-a thneed, a seed, and a (grickle grass) weed on the floor. The thneed is just the first of many that will soon create a giant pile. The seed lies forgotten in the corner. The weed is foreshadowing the future.

-hinting that Lorax and Once-ler were actually good friends, like they were in the Lorax musical stageplay. 🥺 I kept this part of the script in my mind for this piece:

This was aftermath Once-ler talking to the Lorax, reminiscing on their good times...and also being stupid and inconsiderate because the Lorax was in fact there all along as his friend, trying to warn him of what was going to happen. 😔

So in my zine piece we're witnessing a peaceful time before all the real biggering really starts. I like to think that in this scene, the Lorax had been sitting on the Once-ler's lap, holding his gloves for him and having a nice chat together with maybe some harmless bickering, but then the Once-ler gets a phone call so he cuts their convo short and rolls his chair over to the window to answer it. Putting business over friendship as usual, of course. Inspo for the lap sitting comes from this fanart by Emi that I love: [link]

What else...the parts that I'm proud of the most are the stool (I spent 2 days just drawing this stool), the curtains, the fact that I was able to include every truffula colour, and the Once-ler's pose. I was close to giving up on that pose because I had no idea how to draw it but I'm glad that I tried again. I wanted to show him at ease during a stage in his life that we never got to see much: the happier and more innocent days of his biggering when he only had a small shop. 😊

That's all, I think! Thanks for reading if you did! Once again it was an honour to be part of this zine!!

[little-annie]

Genuine Leather

8.4k E Complete

Steve's belt keeps disappearing and when he does manage to find it, he's discovers much more than he expected to behind Eddie's bedroom door.

Or, a little bit of pining and some filthy smut

Or, a piece of fanart had me drooling and I felt legally obligated to write a fic to go along with it

[Roommates | Bondage | Breath Play | Improper Use of Steve's Belt]

Licorice Ice Cream

3.8k 2/?Ch T WIP but chapters can be read as stand alone

It's damn hot in Hawkins Indiana and of course the Munson's AC is busted. But at least Starcourt Mall has functional AC and an ice cream shop and what is that? Steve Harrington in a Sailors Costume?

[Eddie's POV | Scoops Ahoy | Supportive Uncle Wayne | Heat Wave]

Ghostly

3.6k 2Ch E Complete

"It started in the nights where he'd awake from the horrors of his nightmares to a sudden chill that'd linger at his side. An eerie but oddly comforting feeling that'd press against his body with intent. Pressure at his back and wrapping around his waist, a touch he'd longed for but never had the chance to experience. A touch he'd been desperate for since spring break of 86'. A touch he'd wish to experience in the aftermath of hell but never once had the opportunity before it was taken away and left to rot in the barren wasteland of the Upside Down.

A touch of a man he knows he could have grown to love."

OR Steve falls in love with Eddie's ghost

...but I was high on cold medicine when I wrote this lol so don't expect too much

[Post S4, Ghost Fucking, Happy Ending]

Something More

3.8k E Complete but may add to later

Steve Harrington's not gay.

He just needs more.

And well, 'The Freak's' more.

Or the start of something more between 'The King' and 'The Freak.'

[Internalized Homophobia | Public Blow Job | Steve's First Time With a Man]

In this Lifetime

2.4k T Complete

Years down the road Steve asks Eddie to help plan his proposal, specifically what to say to his future fiance and well, things don't go quite as planned when Eddie's the one who ends up down on one knee.

Or, Eddie never bothered coming out to the ragtag group of monster hunters and so Steve had always thought a future with him wasn't in the cards.

Or, they inevitably sort their shit out and realize they're in love with each other

[Roommates | Post S4 Eddie Lives | Requited Unrequited Love | Panic Attack]

Figured it'd be Different

9.7k E Complete

He has a big fat crush on Eddie and Steve Harrington's never really been good with words so he hoping his actions might spur Eddie to take charge and do something about it.

OR Steve decides to make Eddie jealous by sleeping with people while he knows Eddie's awake and has no choice but to listen.

OR Eddie goes half nuts trying to figure out if everything Steve's doing is intentional or not, he finally clues in when Steve tells him word for word what he's doing any why.

[College | Exhibitionism | Accidental Voyeurism | Fluff and Smut]

They Have to Tell Them

2.6k 3Ch T Complete

Eddie and Steve have been together for a while and they think it's finally time they tell their friends.

OR They come out to Dustin, Robin and The Party on three separate occasions and it's quiet hilarious

[Coming Out | The Party | Secret Relationship]

Closets and Dill Pickle Chips

11.8k E Complete

Steve comes out to Robin a few times whether he means to or not. When he finally does it sober, she helps him devise a plan on how to win over Eddie.

OR From Steve's Bi-Awakening, to Bi-Panic to figuring out he loves a boy.

OR A glimpse into Steve's self discovery and getting the boy of his dreams

OR The first time in years Steve allows himself to cry, is the first time he makes love to Eddie Munson

[Coming Out | Eddie is Steve's Bi Awakening | Friends to Lovers | Bi Panic]

Art by @ahhrenata

Mission: A Very Steddie Christmas

21.6 E Complete but may add to later

The Party and Robin are sick and tired of Steve and Eddie dancing around (read: being hopelessly blind to) each other's affection. So, like any good friends, they set out with a plan to have the pair coupled up before Christmas. Shenanigans and scheming ensue and sooner than later we find the boys giggling and entangled under the Mistletoe.

[My 1st Complete Steddie Fic | My First Time Writing Steddie Smut | Xmas Fic | The Party | Friends to Lovers | Fluff | Eventual Smut]

[n30n-allavita]

Asriels Followers!!

-Context-

So- this is more UnderStretch! Lore…because I can mwah hah hah!!

Once upon a time there was a young goat boy. Son of Toriel the Sentry and Asgore the Royal Scientist. The young boy was sweet and curious as he always was learning something. Often surprising his Dad who had once been in the scientific field himself. The two loved their son very much, as well as his friends. One day two humans fell into the underground. All in the days before the royal split. So they lived their lives with Asriels family becoming closer friends. Their small group traveling everywhere together. Mk and Dummy always in tow. Everything was great…until curiosity killed the goat. Well not killed…but scattered. When playing in the core that he had helped his Father build…something odd caught his eye. A golden locket was on a lower shelf. He asked his friends to lower him down….but he slipped and fell into the core. The explosion throwing his friends back and they all vanished. With no trace that they ever existed.

Asriel was lost for a long time….

But his friends found him again.

Things changed in the underground immensely from that day.

When the 3-

When the first human fell….

That’s a story for another time though.

(If you have questions you’d like to see drawn about the au comment them and I’ll draw a response!)

[TOOLS]

-iPad

-color pencil procreate pack

-lineart pack

-noise

-half tones

-color aberration

-Overlay

🪲❤️PROCESS💙🐞

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Sketch - I wanted it to be a scene of Asriels followers telling him all about the underground and interacting together. I think they would have gab sessions since Asriel can’t see that much of the underground. Only bits and pieces. Chara of course talks the most as she had the closest bond with the goat.

Line - I went with the ink bleed pen for this one as I wanted to try doing a new style of 90s anime filter I had learned. So I wanted a more hand drawn look

Color block and alpha lock - still my least favorite part- but it was easier since the color palette was smaller

Details - I just like adding all the silly bits and pieces that make it come together. I still always recommend hiding your signature somewhere AND having an obvious one plus adding noise. Prevents art theft!

🍿🛏️TIIIIIIMMMEEEEEE☎️🎨

Sketch - 30 minutes

Line art - 20 minutes (kept it simpler)

Color blocking - 2 hours

Details - 1 hour

Hope you like it!!! I only have three photos for this picture as it was a short process with not much to it.

Check out the wip WIKI

https://undertale-au.fandom.com/wiki/UnderStretch_/_EchoStretch_AU?so=search

Or the book!

https://www.wattpad.com/story/374748075?utm_source=ios&utm_medium=link&utm_content=story_info&wp_page=story_details&wp_uname=Neontolife

[dgdraws]

Artfight Postmortem

as you may know, i am prone to reflection on my art and process and progress. herein, i'm gonna navel gaze a bit about artfight 2024.

top line: really enjoyed myself, did a bunch of new things and this was "The Year of Artist Friends" which is spectacular.

i completed 20 attacks this year, including my first ever mass attacks! altogether I drew 28 different characters (incl 4 of my own).

for the first time, I had *users* i wanted to attack, rather than just characters i'd gathered via search or discord. honestly, three years ago when i picked up the stylus i was just excited at the prospect of drawing for other people, period. artfight was a cool way to be in community without prerequisites. i didn't quite dare to dream i might make some real connections and make proper friends. and yet :) here we are! i went in with three 'art friends' and i'm leaving with at least three more

in addition to being the year of artist friends, this could be "the year of clip studio paint was on megasale a week before artfight" because i knocked out like 2 practice pieces before July 1st so i wouldn't be starting with completely unfamiliar tools, but i used/learned csp for the vast majority of my attacks. one i finished in krita (lonnie), and my final attack i only used krita.

definitely trial-by-fired myself! but it motivated me to explore csp, and most important, gave me a reason to practice practice practice. last year i drew almost exclusively humans, lots of full bodys, because i wanted to get a better grip on anatomy and drawing a variety of faces. it worked then, and, well, i think i learned more of csp in one month of artfight than i would have if i was just plodding through my personal projects for 33 days :) *looks at my wip folder with months old files* pretty sure.

ok i'm gonna look at a few faves/standouts now:

came in hot with 0tt0 here! the main brush for this one (froggy pencil) was a mainstay for the whole month. so versatile!!! and lovely texture. this isn't quiiite brat green but this was what made me go, hmm, what if i... did a few pieces inspired by this album i can't stop listening to?

and then i took a huge turn and just used a soft round brush for Desa and Iryna for my dear friend @bobomcfoe bc i really wanted to turn these out in something approaching my "usual style" of late and i feared getting too deep into the temptations of csp if i put them off. and, um, yeah i love them. i got sooo close to matching that angle but ahh i can see the tilt now! nonetheless, love these two, not least bc brookie has some of the most pleasing color palettes to work w :)

then on to Rosé and baby's first vector lines! you can RESIZE lines in csp. did you know that? i didn't know that. i did forget to use it as much as i could have in later ones though, so i still only kinda know it ig. and halftone shading! bc why not? another thing i really only did this once, but want to experiment with more

Rook here, for my new friend @gender-premium-tm, was me realizing how to use filters/filter layers in csp. now THAT is something i used a lot this month! also something i use often in krita. i must say, though the csp options are slightly more limited (afaik), they have oomph!

okay these two are my "explicitly brat pieces"! artfight keeps you moving, which i find really valuable, bc i could have dithered foreverrr over Lonnie's gif here. like, do i add his arm? maybe he should be wearing a shirt? or, what if i just draw him twice, instead of splitting the expressi--see it just never ends. and as i am always going on about, art is so precious bc it is a reflection of us when we make it. maybe for some future artfight i'll redraw this (as Lonnie's artist @wenmistry did for me with Ebon this year), but for july 2024, i'm amazed at how well i executed this for just 2.5 days of work! (i did forget his glasses, which realization gave me a different take on the composition, so this is high on my list of potential redraws)

and then Aagatha. this is in my top 3 for this year. the pink just works so well with the green and her artist added the song to her character playlist AND added the necklace to her actual dnd inventory. like. omg. the impact your art can have!!! how freaking cool is that???

two mass attacks! i was in a silly goofy mood. i feel like i really got a handle on vectors w the anthro mass attack, i adjusted every single point on that one by hand. weird what hyperfocus makes you do sometimes, but i learned a lot from that. mainly that i will probably never user vectors as my main linework tool. there are circumstances it is perfect for, and outside of that i'm good w my raster lines lol

which is exactly what i used for this other mass attack, featuring mostly my ocs. hey, sometimes you need to shake things up! i can see here the style starting to hew back to my "usual style", though i'm thinking that might have a lot to do with drawing 5 people very quickly. falling back on practiced techniques. and by this time i apparently knew csp well enough to reproduce them pretty closely! ooh, one thing this made me miss was the transform tool in krita. that floor was ROUGH to wrestle into place in csp.

purple and green turned up a lot this year!

Echo is my crowning achievement with the froggy pencil, most of the shading here is just layers w that. and one last nod to brat green :)

i've worked in the paper cut style before (both my pfp's use it) but i really exploited csp's clipping layers to make Scraps here. they did make me briefly forget how they work in krita when i switched back, so well done w that

i played with gradient maps a little earlier in the month but for Okanar i actually made my own gradient! really a useful tool for ref'ing real human skin tones to make non-human ones, without muddying them up too much.

finally, Chaos. this actually might be my favorite! ironically this is the one that i made in krita. it was like, ahh, yes my old friend. wait where is the scroll bar. ah, okay, yes my old friend... the line layer is set to burn which just makes the whole thing so warm (and the cause of the red outlines on the earrings). used my old sable brush, a pattern fill set to overlay... my old stomping grounds! but plus a rendering technique i picked up this month and some other random habits i picked up in csp (like copying a detail to a new layer, moving it where i want a copy, and drawing/tracing it back onto the original layer in the new position. nothing i couldn't have been doing in krita all along, but made easier by the tool layout in csp, and therefore now discovered by me. amazing how one integrates new knowledge. it's like magic sometimes!!!)

that was a good roundup! if you actually read this to the end, wow! and thank you! i hope it was interesting... and inspiring! bc i want to read about your process and reflections too! yes you! and plz tag me, i'm always down to gush about art XD

[bittersweetresilience]

sunny's favorite asukiess creations

hearth (18,589 words)

Because how do you describe a dream once you wake up, when it’s fleeting and slipping through the cracks in your mind like it’s a sieve? You can barely wrap your lips around the concepts and words before you realize it has slipped through like water, and what lay in your hands is just a pang in your chest? When every moment away from it clouds your mind just a little more, until the memories are threadbare? or: Adrien understands what it means to have a home.

Back when I first met Autumn I was on a reading spree and I saved this fic for last and it just completely stunned me. I remember whipping out a textbox page to annotate for my comment, and that's what kicked off insanely long commenter™ Sunny. No matter what Autumn says! This! Is! My! Favorite! Autumn! Fic! At least until I see the secret one she won't let me see... but no, it will always be special to me.

the secrets we keep (14,661 words)

In the wake of a summer that Adrien never wanted to end, all that he wishes to push away comes back to haunt him when the school years starts again: self-doubt from identities that feel no more real than anything else; ghosts of parents who still talk to him; and most all, a fear that the people he loves will leave him in time, too. however, maybe the person who can relate most to him is the one he's never far from.

The best memories of reading this fic as Autumn wrote it and chatting about it and being teased with every Félix mention and being in love with her mind forever and always... if you've ever liked an asukiess meta post or idea post you'll love this. Combination of all of those beautiful things.

wip i saw as of yesterday

Perhaps premature to put it on this list but I have to include it because it was a taste of AUTUMN ORIGINAL WRITING!!!!!!!! AUTUMN ORIGINAL CHARACTERS!!!!!!!! And theater kid Autumn, too. Autumn could be published... Autumn could do anything... if those fools don't get it I'll start my own Autumn publishing company...

switching shenanigans (1,337 words)

Félix.............. first Autumn Félix.............................

felinette fics

FERAL EXPLODE BOOM DECEASED GRAVE HEADSTONE FIRE HOUSE EMOJIS

The art piece whose WIP inspired a fic out of me which was Autumn and my friendship's origin story... FUCKING NATHALIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I accept this. Such a drop dead gorgeous piece.

The most insane fic ever with the most insane fic art ever... WITNESS!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

EEEEEEEEEMOOOOOOOOOOTIOOOOOOOOOOOOON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love how much Autumn loves this piece, every time she reblogs it it makes me happy. Get some horror in this Felinette tonight.

POLAROIDS I LOVE THEM. LOVEYBUG AU WEEK I LOVE YOU

Can you even function after looking at this. They. Shrimping.

HE'S EVERYTHING TO MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

This is criminally underrated... Look At Him. HIS FUCKING BUNNY

I ran out of link blocks but I also wanted to share Unrequited. HAMBDS.

AND AUTUMN'S SUPER SECRET LOVEYBUG ZINE WIP

AUTUMN AND HER CLASSICS!!!!!!!!!! AUTUMN AND HER HUMONGOUS BRAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I worship this. It's all Autumn, I just helped with images.

Okay, I was slightly more involved with this one, but Autumn's contributions literally made it 1 billion times better and I will forever cherish the memory.

Hnwhnfhwnfjgnhsnghsnhsfshwhgwnhgwghgh... Emilie...

autumn's felinette and adrifelinette thoughts

Just in general. I am so lucky.

autumn's friendship

I scrolled through our pinned messages and almost cried laughing...

[panticwritten]

Reintroduction & 2025 Writing and Community Goals!

Hello!

My name is Sawyer, and I've been here on writeblr since 2017. My original writing material came from my daydreams, which were a maladaptive tool that I used to make myself feel like there was a reason for me to feel as terrible as I did.

I wrote a ton up until 2020, when I met my now-husband. I stopped daydreaming almost immediately when I met him. This unfortunately, meant that I stopped writing as well. I stopped spending time on Tumblr and, the bit that breaks my heart the most now that I'm starting to come back, I lost track of the many beautiful stories that I'd been following here.

I want to return to this and support my fellow writers. I want to relearn your characters, WIPs, and storylines. I also want to return to the many stories that I, myself, left unfinished.

However, I also have a few new projects that I am very excited about! I will be pretty secretive about the details of some of them, as I think they will be more fun that way when they are complete.

I write queer, multiversal fiction that spans many genres. What I already have posted from my daydreams will give you a good idea, and many of my original characters there will appear throughout the projects I am currently working on to publish.

That brings me to my four goals for this year. For each goal, I have a bare minimum, true goal, and overachiever goal.

The 'Professional' writing goal: Actually work on my novellas this year.

The bare minimum on this one is to complete the outline for the first trilogy, "Art Majors".

The true goal will be to draft the trilogy. I am aiming for 90,000 words between the three books, so if I put as much effort into this as I would like, this is more than reasonable.

The overachiever goal is to begin querying the set before the end of the year. This one is the tough one, because I have a LOT to learn about publishing.

2. The 'Unprofessional' writing goal: Return to my old daydreaming projects.

Bare minimum goal is to finish the fourth book in the Breaking Furnace series.

True goal is to complete the Breaking Furnace series.

The overachiever goal is to complete Jay's character biography, 'A Study in Morals'.

3. The 'Content Creation' community goal: Redesign and unify my online writing presence.

Bare minimum is a cosmetic redesign that will connect my blog, portfolio, and Facebook page.

True goal is to create and follow a posting schedule on all three.

There is no overachiever goal on this one. I don't want to put too much pressure on my online presence at this time, especially because the content creation portion is not my biggest priority!

4. The 'Content Consumption' community goal: Consume more of your content!!

Bare minimum goal is to read at least one piece from my read later tag each week and like/reblog with comments.

True goal is to catch up on my mutuals' projects. I have more specific goals in this, but feel weird listing out the ways I plan to diversify my reading priorities etc etc.

Overachiever goal is to start a monthly reading list where, at the end of each month, I post links to my favorite pieces from the month. Whether they were posted that month is immaterial, just that I read them that month.

Also please. Please. Mutuals send links to where they think I should start in their worlds, if you have a preferred starting point for readers! I am terrified to ask, because I don't want you to have to do more work than necessary for me to enjoy your writing, but I'm sure I'm not the only one with a road map of reading in their head for how their works are best enjoyed and I would love love LOVE to follow yours if it exists.

[mochibuni]

Monthly Update - January

Like last year I'll be going over my art goals for 2025, but before that I wanted to talk about the state of my Patreon, as well as my storefront, commissions, and so on.

Late last year I came across a post discussing that Patreon was really supposed to be a way for people to support their favorite creators to give them the ability to make the projects they want to do. Somewhere between the beginning and now Patreon has morphed to a kind of storefront with increasing amount of incentives that became the creator's sole work instead of the projects they wanted to work on.

I definitely fell trap to this, and like so many have pointed out, it's really not sustainable for so many artists to do this. I found that out pretty quickly and I felt like trash having to pull back nearly all of my incentives and felt like I wasn't giving anything deserving of support. Unsurprisingly this didn't help my depression and anxiety at all loool.

I know I've already pulled back a lot on Patreon and other venues, largely because of health problems. I'm hoping a lot of my health issues become less in 2025 and I can get back to making things with less pain. With that in mind, I'm trying to change my mindset about Patreon in that I am going to treat it as a place people can give me monthly support and understand it is because they want to support me and not solely because they want something more. I'm hoping freeing myself from thinking these obligations exist will improve my health and art overall.

That isn't to say I won't be offering bonuses for Patrons! Free members and Discord members still receive access to all of my WIPs and wallpapers (though this is because I don't want to Glaze my WIPs all the time, so I'm putting them behind a free membership to make it harder for bots to scrape). Paid members will receive high res files and any coloring pages and digital prints I make, which I like making both of those so those will continue to happen.

I will be posting coloring pages on my Ko-Fi storefront for purchase, and I'll try to be better about uploading my designs on INPRNT and TeePublic. I actually would love to create more T-Shirt specific designs, but, you know, health and time.

At some point I do plan on reopening commissions and streaming on Twitch again. Dan has been helping with my new set up and encouraging me to get back to it, and I've been more excited about the prospect by the day. Tarkin's death still weighs pretty heavily on me, especially since I liked to have him on stream and his health decline is also why I stopped streaming last year. But we have a new puppy! By the time you're reading this Sheev Pupatine has made it to our home and we're likely franticly trying to clean up after him.

Okay will all of that business talk out of the way, let's talk art goals for 2025! Please feel free to join me in making your own creative goals for the year.

1) Continue pursing full illustrations with detailed backgrounds.

I did a little bit of this in 2024 and it's something I really want to keep pushing for because I want to join projects that usually require such things in application portfolios.

2) Keep working on body diversity.

I actually think I did really well pushing myself on this last year to the point that it feels a lot more natural to not draw tiny pale shoujo girls. My diversity could always be better, though, so I'll keep at it in any of my work that suits it.

3) Practice traditional art.

Traditional Art August gave me confidence and inspiration working with traditional media that I have been itching to get back to it. I don't know if I'll need to make another monthly event to force myself time to work on it, but I will be pretty mad at myself if I don't have at least one traditional art piece next year.

4) Rework my promo and branding material.

I've been meaning to do this for a few year, but I always put it off because it requires so much work and new art and I've just never had the headspace for any of it. I don't even know if I have the headspace for it now. I did make a new icon for myself, but I'm not sure I'm entirely happy with it. I need a new banner to match the new logo I made over a year ago. I need new commission and storefront promotional graphics. I need to finish my sprite edits for stream. I need to work on Sparkling Sweets for stream as well.

5) Learn how to make a zine and other pdf projects.

My discord agreed to help me with this and we're going to be participating in a year long creative project that I can then use as practice for creating pdf spreads. I'm pretty excited about this in general as I haven't done a collab project since the Tumblr hate group tried to drive me and others out of fandom. As long as my group keeps me accountable, I'm confident this goal will actually happen!

I hope you all had a pleasant holiday season! As foreboding as 2025 is turning out to be, I do wish the very best for us and that we survive the year largely unscathed. Thank you for being here and continuing to support me! I really wouldn't be here doing what I do without all of you.

[sharkinlovewithadolphin]

top 5 rinharu fics? ❤️💙

Thank you!! &lt;3 put “top 5” anything in my ask and i will answer Okay so here’s a shameful fact about me: I rarely read rinharu fanfics anymore. This is not because I don’t want to or that there’s not any good ones I haven’t read already out there (there is!! so many!!), but I simply don’t have time to read that much fanfiction in general anymore. :/ If I have time for fanfiction, I either write or read through my own WIPs. I try my best to read other people’s RH fics, not just for the pleasure of reading, but also to engage with other writers and write comments for them, and discover and appreciate other ways of writing the characters, but there's only so much time in a day. ;-; That being said, I also never really kept tabs on the fics I used to read/still read. I never wrote them down or saved them in any way, not even with an ao3 bookmark (i regret this so much), and so it would require extensive amount of time to go through my giant ao3 history to try to rank them properly. However! I do want to answer this ask with some recs (that aren't my own fics lol) in some way, so here goes the ones that sticks out the most in my current memory: 1) Family (3577 words) by NamelessPastel. An absolutely adorable fic in which Rin is babysitting his cousin and Haru comes around and ends up helping him. 2) Chicken Scratch (Ongoing, 88.754 words) by MatsuokasPonytail (@matsuokas-ponytail). Lovely and captivating fic with gardener!Rin and rich kid!Haru. It was wild to follow from its origin in @tomakehimfree's wonderful and sexy art and all the anons in her askbox, to the fic's first chapter and all the exciting chapter updates that followed. Sadly it’s on hiatus (and likely stays that way), but 1) what's there is still 100% worth reading! 2) I still naively hope to get that new chapter mail notification any day now lol. You can read all the individual chapters here on tumblr too. 3) The Long Engagement (25/25 chapters, 175,128 words) by RubyEliz. It's an arranged marriage fic with tons of angst and miscommunication that'll have you at the edge of your seat, then leave you with a warm little hug of a happy ending. This is the last longfic I've read of RH. It grabbed a hold of my attention SO hard and made me pull an all-nighter just to finish it. I couldn't put it down at all. 4) AO3@Misila (@misila / @nenufair) has written SO many RH fics, way more than I’ll ever get the chance to read (i think. Might dare myself one day jkfdk). She writes extremely well, so I can recommend checking her extensive list of works out! She definitely has at least one fic for any rinharu shipper’s taste. 5) I own physical copies of the fanfics Inked (tattoo artist x biker au), Dinner For One (angst with a happy ending) and Fluid Like Water (Olympic setting) by AO3@ellerean/@ellereanwrites (formerly tumblr@letsswimtogethernanase. I love them all a lot. The fanfics were the first RH "fan-made" merch pieces I ever bought (I think?), so they mean a lot to me and I feel privileged that I can have them displayed on my RH alter. <3

[connorsjorts]

Fic tag game! Tagged by the lovely @sweeteatercat , thank you!!

1. How many works do you have on AO3? 4

2. What's your total AO3 word count? 229,987

3. What fandoms do you write for? DBH

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos? I don't even have 5 fics 😅 but here they are in order: 1. he's making a list; i'm checking him out 2. long way home 3. stupid sexy priest 4. make my wish come true

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not? Always! I haven't responded to comments on my latest chapter yet, but I will. It's really important to me: 1) If someone takes the time to read my work AND share their thoughts with me, that really does mean so much, saying thank you (and clumsily attempting to express the depth of my gratitude in an annoying amount of emojis) is the least I can do; and 2) This is a community! The validation is nice, yes, but I write to connect with people. I love hearing what people have to say and I love to talk with them about it! I've made friends through my ao3 comments, we're all here because we love the same thing, and if you're excited about my silly contributions OF COURSE I'm gonna want to talk to you! Your reactions to the work are just as important as the work itself imo. Art is a conversation!

6. What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? Probably make my wish come true, just because it's an alternate POV of a scene in a different fic so the main conflict remains unresolved. But it still has a feel-good ending! Sad endings don't exist in my world

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? I'm not sure! What do you guys think? Generally in my fics I try to wrap everything up in a happy little bow without everything being too perfect--we still have to work, we still make mistakes, life is still hell; but it's easier when we have each other and have found faith in ourselves.

8. Do you get hate on fics? I haven't yet...... (bracing myself for my first hate comment to come through as soon as I publish this post)

9. Do you write smut? If so what kind? Sure do! I write the over-the-top, too long, lots of emotion, lots of laughing/banter, taking-off-your-pants-is-awkward kind. Sex is cool but friendship is the most romantic thing to me ❤️ I enjoy writing smut the most when they really, genuinely like each other as people.

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written? I have not and I doubt I would. Probably the closest I would get is an au based on another piece of media (I do dream of a hankcon twin peaks au)

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen? I have never even considered that being a thing until now

12. Have you ever had a fic translated? Someone requested to translate one of my fics but I don't know if it will ever come to fruition. I hope it does though, I would love that!

13. Have you ever cowritten a fic before? No but I've briefly discussed it with a friend... now that I'm done with the bb I'll need to contact them and see if they're still interested because I sure am 👀👀

14. What's your all-time favourite ship? Hankconnnnnnnnnn

15. What's a WIP you want to finish, but doubt you ever will? I started a fic where Connor works in a sex shop and a very vanilla Hank comes in looking for something to spice things up with his girlfriend. He gets some fuzzy handcuffs and they do their job when it comes to Hank's boner, unfortunately that has more to do with Hank fantasizing about the person who sold them to him more than anything else. He breaks up with the girlfriend and most of the fic would be Hank continuing to frequent the sex shop as an excuse to talk to Connor as he gets more and more in over his head thanks to Connor's recommendations. It was really good in my head, but when I put it to paper it just... wasn't. So I'll probably never continue it.

16. What are your writing strengths? Characterization, I think! I get a lot of compliments on it. It's the best feeling when someone falls in love with one of my characters ❤️

17. What are your writing weaknesses? Setting 😖 I like to pepper in details as I go, I really struggle when the scene calls for describing the whole-ass place at once

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic? If y'all want a fic about the Duolingo characters, sure. Otherwise I'm sure I'd be abysmal at it. I'm not proficient enough in any other language to get the voice right.

19. First fandom you wrote for? DBH. I am a fic-writing newbie and also I tend to stick with one thing for 4,000 years

20. Favourite fic you've ever written? Probably long way home, it's not as popular as mall santa but there's so much of my soul in that fic. Artistically and thematically, it's very me, and it's also the story that taught me how to write. I had never written any work of fiction before I started it (Hankcon was just that strong) and now I never want to do anything else. Thank you for reading, if you want to play consider yourself tagged! 💖

[captain-grammar]

Tagged by the AMAZING and double-y talented @goldheartedsky to participate in this writer's ask:

1) How many works do you have on AO3? 22. Because I'm excellent at thinking up ideas and then scaring myself out of writing them. 2) What’s your total AO3 word count? 89,347. Again, I'm AMAZING at psyching myself out of projects.

3) What fandoms do you write for? The bulk of my paltry number of fics are The Old Guard focussed, but I have an ANCIENT, unfinished Stargate: Atlantis fic on there and a snippet of a LOTR/LOTRO piece that will never be completed.

4) What are your top 5 fics by kudos? Codeword Blue, For The First Time, The Slowest Burn, Lost in Translation and Close. Which is kind of amazing because the ship-focus for these is, arguably, not necessarily 'mainstream' in the TOG fan space so I massively appreciate that people rate them!

5) Do you respond to comments? I do! Or I used to, back when I posted something new/regularly. I haven't posted anything for a VERY long time now, and so actively avoid reading any new comments because then I'll feel guilty for not writing, or feel like a fraud.

6) What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? I don't really go for angsty, because I tend to just want happy endings for all. I have an unsatisfying cliff-hanger ending to what was supposed to be a two-parter fic (Homewrecker) so I supposed in a parallel universe where people are dying for me to finish it, the fact that it's resolutely NOT complete might be causing some angst?

7) What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? They all have happy endings in one form or another but I think the one that might have the most "aaawwh" factor is maybe I Won't Let You Sink. Any excuse for my boy Booker to get a hug, really.

8) Do you get hate on fics? I don't think so? At least none that I'm aware of! Nobody's leaving me comments or hitting up my DMs, put it that way.

9) Do you write smut? I do. With varying degrees of success, admittedly, but still...

10) Do you write crossovers? If so, what’s the craziest one you’ve written? Many moons ago, perhaps, on a long-forgotten fanfiction.net account but nothing I can remember!

11) Have you ever had a fic stolen? Darling, I don't want my fics half the time. Why the hell would anyone else?!

12) have you ever had a fic translated? I have not!

13) have you ever cowritten a fic before? I think I've made plans to with a few people but not followed through. I'm scared of not living up to the hype and letting them down!

14) What’s your all time favorite ship? Honestly? The Ongoing LOTRO Fic I'll Never Finish, featuring my OC and Lothrandir. That Ranger needs a hug, a break and therapy in that order and my elf will give him that.

15) What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? BITCH, THROW A DART AT ANY OF THE 40-ODD DRAFTS IN MY FOLDER AND YOU'RE A WINNER.

16) What are your writing strengths? I'm almost annoyingly descriptive. I can't draw for shit so I'll use words to try and conjure up an image that I could never in a million years manage with a paintbrush.

17) what are your writing weaknesses? My lack of self-belief...

18) thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic? I'm for it! As I'm not fluent in any other language, I'll keep it to short little snippets, italicised, that I'm confident aren't terrible and won't cause an international incident! I think it can be a nice nod to a character's past, who they are and their heritage.

19) First fandom you wrote for? Again, MANY moons ago and long-forgotten, but Stargate: SG-1 when I was maybe 13?

20) Favorite fic you’ve written? Probably Bloom. I just really like the idea that Booker and Joe's relationship is deep and probably has evolved and developed and fluctuated a LOT over the years and had fun exploring that! (And Goldie's art for it was just phenomenal!)

TAGGING: I honestly don't know who else may have been tagged in something like this already so hey, if you write fic and want to participate, by all means fill your boots!

[quinloki]

kink anon (i guess i’ll just go by that now? lmao) back again, with a question! so, you got ocs too, right? like the one you drew with marco the other day (incredible art btw!). if you’d like, i’d like to hear a bit more abt them, whatever random thoughts you’d like (their story, or whatever they like to do most with the other characters, etc)

Oh goodness, ah - thank you ^_^ I’m glad you liked the art 🥰

I wasn’t expecting anyone to ask, but I will happily share a bit.

Quill is kind of maybe more of a self-insert than an OC, but also kind of reader-ish too for the fact that most everything I have planned for them is Isekai’d into the One Piece world for someone from Earth.

Most of it is just an indulgent excuse to write what if’s and alternative versions of the story. I really REALLY love the kind of Korean vibe “reborn into a novel as the x” or whatever and changing the story, and I want to pay homage to that with Quill.

So who Quill was before may never come up, and while their appearance is set, it’s not meant to be their actual appearance, it’s the body of the person they ended up in.

I just don’t think I’m going to use an actual OP character so much as create a catalyst that helps tell an alternative story.

I want to do one for Quill x Doffy that’s just gonna be very dark and the villains win kind of deal (maybe, it might go from that to a Quill x Law if Quill betrays Doffy at Dressrosa >.> )

I want to do a Quill x Eustass where she helps him become the King of Pirates, while still having it be as close to the canon final ending. (Whatever that ends up being).

And finally a Quill x Marco that’s just a fix it story so that Ace, Thatch, etc. don’t die. That one ends with a nice raunchy retirement on a quiet island and waking up to coffee and 8am after your pretty bird rails you to sleep the night before >.>

But I don’t really even want to start any of those until the series finishes, which works out nicely because I have at least a year’s worth of WIPs and book 2’s to get done before then.

Quill’s adventures might be the only thing I write that I won’t ever post, but we’ll see ^_^

[feralandmoonstruck]

Moonstruck Ch. 5 Ezra Meets the Boys

18+ only! This wip contains explicit material

  Apollo’s phone buzzed. He picked it up and opened his messages.

Hey

Hey Ez, how’re you?

I’m good. Been thinking a lot about what you said

Apollo swallowed and took a deep breath. Yea?

I wanna see you again. And the others

A bubble of happiness bloomed in his chest. Yeah, no that sounds great When do you wanna meet?

Saturday?

“Kend?”

“Yea?”

“You busy Saturday?”

“What time?”

“Gimme a sec.”

When were you thinking?

Oh uhhh, mid afternoon?

“Mid-afternoon good?”

Kendrick came into the room and leaned against the back of the couch. “What’s up?”

Apollo looked up at him and held up his phone. “Ezra wants to meet you guys.”

Kendrick’s brows went up. “That’s good. Means I won’t have to eat him.”

“Thanks for the support,” Apollo laughed.

“Where did you want to go?”

“Oh, uh, one sec I’ll ask.”

Any ideas on where you want to go?

Shit I hadn’t thought about that 😅

No sweat. Wanna do lunch?

Lunch sounds good let’s go somewhere fun

“Looks like we’re doing lunch.”

“Cool. Where?”

Apollo held up his phone again. “He said “somewhere fun.””

“Hmm.” Kendrick crossed his arms and rested them on top of the couch. “Does he like Thai? Golden Lotus is fun.”

Apollo’s fingers tapped his keyboard. Thai?

Thai sounds good. Where?

Golden Lotus 35th and Baker

2?

“Two good?”

Kendrick shrugged, “Two should be fine.”

Sounds great

Awesome

“We need anything from the store?” Kendrick asked as he straightened.

“Plums and tapioca pudding.”

“Got it.”

On Saturday Apollo scented out Ezra as soon as they entered the restaurant. “We’re meeting someone,” he told the hostess.

She gave him a smile, “Sure thing. We’ll have someone by to get your drink orders soon.”

“Thanks.”

Kendrick flashed an easy smile at her as he and Ilya followed Apollo through the restaurant.

Ezra waved when he spotted Apollo.

Apollo waved back and headed in the direction of the table. He slid into the seat next to Ezra. Kendrick and Ilya took their seats across from them.

“Ezra, this is Kendrick and Ilya. Guys, this is Ezra.”

“Good to meet you, Ezra.” Kendrick stuck his hand out for a shake.

He shook Kendrick’s hand and held it out for Ilya to take. “It’s great to meet you guys too.”

“What awful things has Apollo told you about us?” Ilya grinned as he said it.

“Not much. Uhh, I know that the three of you are together. Or, at least you and Apollo are together. And then.. You’re with Kendrick, but Apollo isn’t?”

“Yep.”

Ezra let out a relieved sigh. “Oh good, I was afraid I was gonna get that wrong. How long have you and Apollo been together?”

“Kend and I grew up together,” Apollo said.

“I remember you saying something about that.”

Ilya’s cheeks tinged pink. “Apollo and I have been together since I was in high school.”

Ezra looked over at Apollo, “Oh?”

“Listen,” Apollo said, “he was a senior in high school.”

“Mhhm.” Ezra raised an eyebrow.

“Don’t worry,” Ilya told him. “He was a perfect gentleman until I graduated.”

Ezra giggled. “He is a gentleman.”

“I try,” Apollo laughed.

“Do you guys want any apps?” Kendrick asked, scanning his menu.

Ilya laid his head on Kendrick’s shoulder. “I want the satay chicken.”

“We’re definitely getting summer rolls,” Apollo said.

“Ezra? Anything you want?” Kendrick asked.

“Oh no, I’m okay.”

“You sure? It’s my treat.”

Apollo glared across the table at Kendrick. He opened his mouth to say something, but Ezra spoke first.

“I’m fine. I might share some of yours though. If that’s alright that is.”

“Of course it is,” Kendrick said with a smile.

“Thanks. I appreciate that.”

“No problem.”

“What do you guys do for work? I know Apollo’s a personal trainer.”

“Kendrick is a wildlife photographer. He’s actually got some pieces up in a gallery right now,” Ilya said.

Ezra’s eyes widened. “Impressive. I’ll have to go see them some time.”

Kendrick smiled. “I’m sure Apollo would love to take you.”

“I would. Maybe we can go next weekend.”

“That sounds great.” Ezra gave him a shy smile.

“Ilya is an art teacher,” Kendrick said, leaning his arm against Ilya’s briefly.

“That’s cool that you’re both in the arts field. I’m a nutritionist with a specialization in athletic health.”

Ilya's grin turned into a laugh. “And you’re both in fitness fields. Perfect.”

“Must be fate,” Ezra said, giving Apollo a knowing smile.

Their appetizers arrived and they placed their orders for dinner.

“Want one,” Apollo asked, sliding the plate of summer rolls towards Ezra.

He shook his head. “No thanks, I don’t actually like seafood.”

“Oh,” Apollo said. “If you would have told me we could have gotten something you like.”

Ezra shook his head again. “Don’t worry about it. If it’s alright with Kendrick and Ilya I’d love some of their chicken.”

“Help yourself,” Ilya said. He offered up a skewer.

“Thanks.” Ezra took the meat and bit into it, his eyes falling closed as he savored the spices coating it.

Kendrick reached across the table, stealing the summer roll Ezra had turned down. He gave Apollo a smile, flicking his eyes towards Ezra and back. He seems to like you.

Apollo smiled back. He tilted his chin up. I like him a lot, Kend. Kendrick shifted in his seat, one hand dropping below the table, no doubt to come to rest on Ilya’s thigh. We see how excited you are about him, and so quickly, too.

Apollo bit into his summer roll, crisp vegetables and cold shrimp bursting over his tongue as the sticky wrapper was broken. He tilted his head towards Ilya. Do you think Il will like him?

Kendrick shrugged. So far they seem okay.

Their silent conversation finished, Kendrick tore into his summer roll and turned his attention back to his mate.

“Has Apollo convinced you to go running with him yet,” Ilya was asking.

Ezra shook his head. “He told me about his sunrise runs and teased me about going with him, but that’s it.”

Ilya turned a slightly annoyed look on Apollo, but he continued speaking to Ezra. “Sunrise runs are like a rite of passage with him.”

“Oh,” Ezra said, fiddling with his empty skewer.

Beneath the table, Apollo kicked Ilya, who curled his lips and turned his attention back to his food. “You’re welcome to come running with me any time you want,” Apollo said.

Ezra gave him an embarrassed smile, “I’ll let you know next time I’m free. It’ll be a date.”

Apollo bit the inside of his lip. His eyes darted to Ilya and he tipped his head fractionally to the side. What the fuck was that?

Ilya rolled his eyes. His shrug was barely a twitch of his shoulders. Well it is.

Apollo took a slow breath. You didn’t have to say it like that.

Ilya dropped his gaze to the table. Sorry.

“D’you mind if I have another?” Ezra asked, pointing at the few chicken skewers left.

“By all means.” Ilya gave him a smile.

The rest of Apollo’s summer roll disappeared into his mouth. He dropped his hand to his thigh. Let his fingers drum nervously against his leg before he finally made the leap and let his fingers stretch out, barely brushing against Ezra’s leg. A small, hopeful invitation.

Ezra’s hand slipped beneath the edge of the table as well. His fingers stretched out in response, the backs of them grazing Apollo’s hand. Slowly, shyly, their fingers touched.

Apollo’s pinky touched Ezra’s before curling around it. His heart was in his throat, butterflies churned in his stomach. He hadn’t held the hand of someone new in years. The thrill of it terrified him.

One by one their fingers twined together. One by one they slotted themselves into the spaces between the other’s. Ezra’s hand was cool against Apollo’s warm one. He could barely breathe from the feel of Ezra’s small hand fitted against his.

Only when their food arrived did Ezra pull away.

“God that smells good,” Apollo said when the scent of Ezra’s food drifted to him.

“You’re welcome to have some.” He scooted his plate a little closer to Apollo.

“You first.”

Ezra picked up his side of rice and raked it into his curry. When it had thoroughly been mixed in he took a bite. “Seriously, you have to try this. It’s amazing.”

“Thanks Ez.” He scooped up a forkful and brought it to his mouth. “Damn. That is delicious.”

Ezra grinned.

Kendrick and Ilya leaned comfortably against each other while they ate. Apollo shared some of his food with Ezra.

After they’d eaten, Apollo walked Ezra to his car.

“Was that weird?” He asked, running one hand through his hair.

Ezra shifted his weight to one foot. “A little, but I’m glad I met them. They seem nice.”

“They are. I just. I’ve never done this before, y’know?”

“Because you’ve been in a relationship with Ilya for so long?”

Apollo’s fingertips began to tap against his thumb. “Would you like clearance for friendship level five?”

“Only if you want me to.”

He took a deep breath. “I used to be married. They died,” he said quickly.

“Apollo, I’m so sorry.”

Apollo chewed his lip for a moment, clenching and unclenching his hands. “We only had a few years together. But they already knew Kendrick and Ilya, so it was never like a ‘bring your boyfriend home to meet the family’ kind of thing. They just slid into our lives. Things changed a lot. I changed a lot. But we adapted. The four of us. So I’ve really never done something like this before.”

Ezra reached out and laid a hand on Apollo’s arm. “Thank you for telling me. I’m sorry that you lost them so soon.”

Apollo nodded, not trusting his own voice.

“This must be difficult for you.”

“It is.”

“Can I hug you?”

He nodded again.

Ezra opened his arms and let Apollo step into his embrace. Strong arms came up to place warm hands on Ezra’s ribs and shoulder blade.

“Thank you for trusting me with this.”

“I like you, Ezra,” Apollo mumbled against Ezra’s hair. “I’m glad you were willing to meet them.”

“I’m glad I met them.” He spoke against Apollo’s chest. “I’d like the chance to see them again.”

“I’d like that too.” He pulled away from the hug, but kept one hand on Ezra’s ribs. Not willing to let him go entirely.

Ezra smiled up at him. “I’m free tomorrow if you’d like to do something together, just us.”

“Let me know when you’d like to hang out.”

“I’ll text you when I get up.”

Apollo smiled. “See you tomorrow.” He let his hand drag across Ezra’s ribs as he moved to walk away. Ezra’s hand caught his wrist.

“Apollo?”

“Yeah?” He turned to look back at him.

Ezra brought his free hand up to cup Apollo’s cheek. He pulled his head down and pressed his lips to Apollo’s.

Apollo shifted. Pivoting until he was facing Ezra completely. His hand returned to Ezra’s ribs, his fingers pressing against his spine.

Ezra took a small step back, leading Apollo, until he was backed against his car door. His lips parted in offering.

Apollo pulled back, breathing hard. Something shone in his bright eyes. He pulled in a deep breath. “I’ll see you tomorrow, Ez.”

Ezra smiled and let him go. “See you tomorrow, Apollo.”

[mollywog]

Tell me about this “current chapter” wip! The title is so vague and I’m intrigued

Thanks for the ask @daydreamingandprocrastination !!

Hahaha. I probably should have left that off the list, because it’s just a continuation of a different fic… I try to break things into Posted, Future Ideas, Current Chapter… but this was named before I had multiple WIP and I haven’t updated the name

This would be for the next chapter (actually probably 2 chapters from now) of Misadventures (Modern High school AU). It’s a rough first draft of a conversation between Katniss and Peeta during the school’s ‘Fine Arts Night’…

“Wasn’t sure you would be here.”

“Prim had a flute solo earlier”

He hums and nods “But that was in the auditorium and here you are in the studio”

Her cheeks heat. She shrugs feigning nonchalance. “It’s quiet in here”

He lets her off the hook. “So this has been a popular piece tonight, what do you think?” Nodding to the piece she’d been scowling at

She shrugs.

“Oh come on! That’s it? A Katniss Everdeen shrug?”

“I’m not good at this” this could refer to anything at this point: talking about art, talking to people in general, or talking to Peeta specifically.

“That’s the beauty of art. 10 people can look at the same thing and each come up with a different interpretation. How does it make you feel?” By the end he’s doing a pretty good interpretation on of Ms Portia.

“Annoyed. It feels… artificial. Everything is too… Pristine? Symmetrical maybe?” She gestures to the one he referenced as well as the two on either side.

“Ouch, tell me how you really feel.”

“You asked!” Motioning to the original painting with an abundance of voting slips. “This is the worst of all. It’s supposed to be a nature shot, but there is nothing natural about it. That’s not how moss grows. A deer can’t turn its head like that. The wind somehow only affects half the things in the landscape. I don’t buy it.”

He’s looking amused. “Maybe that was the point of the picture?”

“No” she doesn’t know why she’s being so bold, but she knows Peeta’s art and this isn’t it. If she can’t compliment him outright, she can at least let him know he has no real competition here, or likely anywhere regardless of how the votes turn out. “This is... It’s shallow. It’s meant to be admired, not ‘felt’ or remembered.”

“I never took you for an art critic Ms Everdeen?” She jumped at the sound of Ms Portia’s voice.

[annawayne]

🎁 💭🧪💎💌

-Also Clouds bc I kinda commissioned those asks as a favor

Thank you once again for asking, you have no idea how I appreciate it <3 🎁 Have a piece of a WIP you want to share? Oh, well, chapter 2 of "My yellow light in your soft whispers" is going to be quite a ride :)

She saw the sea for the first time when the ship of Marley left for Paradis.  Standing on the deck, Annie gazed into the vast blue expanse that played with the smoky sky on the horizon when it was difficult to draw the line between them. The repetitive, on the verge of the irritating, sound of the gasping waves crashing against the ship’s hull almost erased the voices of Bertholdt, Reiner, and Marcel beside her, and the salty breeze brushed her face and tousled her hair, covering the dullness of her eyes. And while the three boys around her seemed to be captivated by the solace of the quavering sea in from of them and excitedly chatting about the mission, her mind was occupied with the words of the man, that called himself her father.  Forgive me, he pleaded on his knees. For what?  Annie didn’t understand it at that time, she didn’t even know the concept of being hurt, not with physical wounds, existed. She didn’t understand, so she obeyed. She forgave him at that moment. Everything I taught you had been wrong, he wailed through his tears. Why? She became the Warrior, the pride of the nation, and the shifter of the Female Titan. He became an Honorary Marleyan, with the solid guarantee of her being dead within thirteen years and a peaceful life with praise and money. Like everything it was supposed to be.  Annie didn’t understand why it was wrong when the goal of many years finally being achieved was wrong. She didn’t understand, so she obeyed. Everything she was, everything she knew, from now was a mistake. She was a mistake.  Please, come back to me, his voice was cracked by foreign emotions.  What’s the purpose of it? Annie didn’t understand, but…he saw her as her daughter, even if she was a mistake. At least, this is what she wanted to think of it at that moment.  She didn’t understand, so she obeyed. I will, I promise, she said, leaving the rusty anchor full of poison in Liberio.  The swirling currents of the ever-changing hues of blue kept crawling with its dormant strength, and their vessel destined for a deadly mission confidently took its course. Annie didn’t care about the large mass of water, she even hated it as its magnificence and power were inherited, given by nature, and she needed to go through blood and tears to gain something, someplace in this world. So the same second her small feet felt the sand of the land of devils, the open sea became just another goal, another step toward her way back home.

💭 What inspires you and your writing? Oh, well, I guess, a lot of things. For example, MYLYSW was born just from one of my art WIPs (yeah, it's going to be a part of the story too!), then all these ideas that were in my head for some time lined up into one story. But in general, I guess it's just what is interesting to me - some fanfics, that I admire, sometimes, it's music, sometimes it's just my own sketch for future artwork, even my own feelings sometimes work as inspiration because my writing is also my own reflection on topics that are important to me. 🧪 Do you research for your fics? Y E S Depending on fics, of course, some topics are quite familiar to me, some are the whole new world. Well, for MYLYSW I researched some bullets injuries to understand what I could do with Armin :D 💎 Do you often write about a relationship or focus on an individual? Hm, I would say - individuals in relationships. I don't really like the idea of dissolving in one another, so even if my characters share an enormous bond - they are still in the first place themselves. Their love is just a part of themselves, and not them entirely. That's why I always try to give my characters some "ordinary, simple" things, describing them VERY specifically to show the reader that they're alive. Like, for example, Annie loves not just sweets in general, she loves blueberry cupcakes. Armin doesn't smoke just because he wants to be sexy at 29 years old, it's an imitation of relaxation or just a few minutes just for himself or with Annie (who, yeah, through the year embraced this new habit of his, but not right at the beginning), it's like a ritual among the chaotic days. 💌 Is there a favorite trope you like to write? Oh, HEH, I guess My yellow light it's the whole tribute to the trope "Character A in danger, character B is losing it" :D So, yeah, I guess it's definitely one of my favorites. But to be honest, I don't really rely on tropes. Maybe, I have them, but I just don't recognize them as tropes.

[nightroo]

*Throws this on the ground and runs*

Heyyy how long have I not posted here? Like actually 2 fuckin years or something?? Who knows!

Anyway, I am very busy with uni work (I'm on my final year! Can you believe that bc I can't), and because they require us to keep a record of everything we do, I don't really feel like posting here (where I used to ramble). Also, the whole AI debacle put me off posting my big finalized paintings, which is what this blog was for. And so, it was abandoned.

I also have a secret side blog for an unnamed brain rot game that has consumed much of my free time lol

So, why am I posting now? Well, I wanted to post about this somewhere, and this isn't (technically) uni work, or related to the brain rot game...

On the left, is Lykena, drawn around 2021, last time I made large changes to her design.

On the right, is her newest design, still a WIP, but like, fuck man. This looks like a whole different person drew it lmao.

I am always blown away by the sheer difference every time I go back to that time, even 2021 compared to 2022 is kinda like this, and I'm like ???

Okay I should talk about the actual fuckin design instead of being incoherent lol. So I was going for her being not exactly pretty. She's still pretty, don't get me wrong (maybe I'm biased but I love her ok), but she's flawed. Eye bags, underbite, messy hair, and not to mention her scars. The little superficial lines on the 2021 are cowardly, in my honest opinion, and if you give a character scars, go all in.

In the 2025 version, I also showed her before the story really takes off (aka before she gets powers, and gets injured by her god) and God she's so <333

(yeah, I'm here to love my ocs, who else would)

Also, finally she looks androgynous. I'm heavily considering bringing back an idea I had a longgg time ago, to make Rana Bigender (she/he) because I need to make everything gayer, and she does get mistaken as a man in earlier parts of the story, so like why not?

I didn't even say why I'm doing this fuck. So I want more pieces for my concept art portfolio (more... current ones at least), and re-designing the main 4 from Old Blood seemed like just the thing to do. I've been wanting to redesign them forever now, didn't really get the opportunity until now.

So I will have a full outfit redesign for him in the near future (hopefully). I already have a bunch of cool ideas for it, made a whole moodboard lol

I'm not promising I'm back, but I will be finishing my degree soon (what a concept), and idk maybe I miss rambling here. It's not as... social? As the sideblog (it's... scarily popular for God knows why haha, somehow I got a lot of followers and notes, I honestly still can't wrap my head around that) but I kinda like that there's no pressure on me here. I can post whatever I want, because I know maybe 10 people will see it.

(also helps that future potential employers won't be here, because... it's Tumblr lol)

So expect more updates on him. Maybe.