#i started writing this four years ago

[trash-gremlin]

could you imagine how good spirit animals would be if it wasn't written as a children's series

[bitchfitch]

I've started playing Potion Permit, and so far it's one of my favorite games I've messed around with, but the most big brained move the devs made was giving you a dog on day 1, and then making that dog able to track NPCs and lead you directly to them no matter where they are in the town.

[sentientcave]

Gonna post something original tomorrow get hyped

[iivari-ii]

Same character, redesigned and redrawn 8 months apart

Oliver Leorie; the quest giver in my homebrew campaign and god’s most hated little guy ^^ I could talk about him for hours but two of my players follow me on here and going into detail would lead to campaign spoilers :[

(Left picture is from a few days ago and right is from December 2023)

[kyouka-supremacy]

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[befuddled-calico-whump]

i just found out about this "whump" thing recently and i can't tell if it's a softcore kink? or just "we like torturing sketchbook boys platonically." bc if it's the latter I'm gonna start using this tag

your work is in good taste, at least, i hope that's not an exception to the community! any idea where the name comes from?

Welcome aboard, hope it's not too intimidating 😂

Whether it relates to kink or not depends on the person, but a good deal of the community are very much the latter (great description for it skfjfj)

Whump covers a pretty broad spectrum really, you can have anything from "character has a fever and is being taken care of by their friends" to "extreme torture and recovery" to "emotional distress surrounding one bad event" and beyond. "Whump" is essentially a more focused hurt/comfort, and the degree of the hurt and comfort involved varies a lot depending on the story and person

Most people tag the content or have a warning before the story, so you'll usually know what you're getting yourself into. Tags/warnings that cover more extreme topics include "vivisection", "torture", or "gore" for the more gruesome physical aspects, and "dubcon", "noncon" and variations on those for stories that may include sexual assault, so if you're browsing the whump tag and would like to avoid that type of content, those are some tags you can block :)

Most authors/artists will also tag for the genre, so if you're looking for something specific, you can try tags like "fantasy whump", "pirate whump", "spy whump", "superhero whump", etc. Fandom whump is popular as well, so if you're looking for a specific existing character, searching "*character name* whump" may get you sone fics or art.

I'm glad you enjoyed some of my work :D If you're looking for more whump writing/art, I can recommend a few blogs:

@i-can-even-burn-salad writes fantasy whump, usually character-driven with a decent amount of plot. She has some gorier descriptions, but very fun characters

@redwingedwhump has written both fantasy and soft sci-fi/speculative fiction. A lot of the fantasy is set in a world inspired by dungeons and dragons so there's some fun magic and dynamics

@demondamage has art, comics, and writing centered on angels and demons. There's a big focus on the lab/medical setting and experiments

@whumpwillow has a hero/villain story that focuses on the recovery of the heroes' enemy, and a story about a demon who was accidentally rescued by a witch

And of course, there's so many more great whump creators out there. (This got a little long, hope you don't mind 😅)

To answer the last question, I'm not entirely sure, but I think it originated in the Stargate fandom. Either just a slang term, or referring to the noise a specific character made when falling/getting hit lol

Once again, welcome!

[cultivating-wildflowers]

📒

[alichay]

When you get this, reply with your favourite five fics that you’ve written, then pass on to at least five other writers, if you can. Let’s spread the self-love. ♥️

thank you so much for your ask!! i kind of had a tough time with this because there are three i like, and the rest are kind of i get what i was going for, but i don't think they totally work. the three i really love are for similar reasons - i feel like they're stories where i really nailed a) characterisation, b) ship dynamics (to my preference), and c) plot/worldbuilding elements (especially plot twists):

Clarion | DCEU | Bruce/Clark | 16k | E

Clark’s halfway around the world when he hears the delicate crunch of Bruce Wayne breaking his back.

no church in the wild | Star Wars | Kylo/Hux | 56k | E

Fresh from their supposed victory on Crait, Hux attends a conference of First Order generals at the headquarters on Naboo. Adjusting to the prospect of the ever-volatile Kylo Ren as Supreme Leader swiftly proves to be the least of his problems.

An Uncommon War | Sherlock | Moriarty/Moran | 32k | E

Dishonourably discharged from Afghanistan, Sebastian Moran returns purposeless and freewheeling to London; here he finds himself recruited for a different fight by the most dangerous man in London.

that last one is kind of cringe for being Sherlock but honestly i think it's probably the best thing i've ever written (and i wrote it ten years ago lmao).

for the others there are kind of honourable mentions - some fandoms are really hard to write for and nail the tone/language, so i'm pleased from that perspective with e.g. this JS&MN fic, and the Henry IV Hal/Poins. i'm also very fond of the TTOI Eastbourne series, which was a huge gift for improving my writing (the difference between parts 1 and 3 is astonishing and basically all thanks to placet), but in retrospect i find them a bit OTT and ungrounded.

anyway thank you so much for asking!! i'm always down for chatting shit about fics what i wrote!

[many-gay-magpies]

okay as far as season four of teen wolf goes i am like. very confused as to what the fuck kate's motive even is? like she came back from the dead and she's screwing with derek and making her berserker servants kill people but like. WHY. ik there was like that one scene with peter where it was implied she wanted to make the argents great again (aka reinstate them to their former genocidal werewolf-hunting glory) but that doesn't make complete sense to me when she herself is now a shifter. or like maybe she's just that hypocritical idk (wouldn't put it past her). but even with that idk it doesn't make SENSE. why did she kill garrett and violet? why did she try to make scott's pack kill him? why did she do all that just to get derek to open the vault? literally what the fuck

if anyone has thoughts please share im at a loss here

[skitskatdacat63]

Me: *in the troes of finals week*

My brain, for some reason: *suddenly has the extreme motivation, passion and compulsion needed to work on fics and illustrations*

[arosebyan0thername]

Yall im down so so bad I haven't been down this bad in a long time

[theneighborhoodwatch]

Re:So Below. I have many theories on where WH will go, but I think one of my favorites is that some vestige of the show, whether it be Wally or Home, is sending out these snippets to WHRP in a desperate attempt to revitalize the neighbors. Yaknow, in one of those 'the power of memory' things?

The inky grip of oblivion encasing the entire neighborhood outside of one lone window. Technically even Wally's in the dark, with only the light from homes gaze outlining him.

Either way, it's very interesting!

(context)

so i've been thinking a lot about this ask in tandem with this reply from @totallynotadoptingallofthelnkids on one of my posts:

and for a while i couldn't really put my finger on Why, but then i realized i don't think i've ever talked about where i think we Are in welcome home's overarching narrative on this blog? i'm not talking about how much of WH we've seen - i know everything we have so far is just the prologue (or, part of the prologue?) it's more like...

... it's not a stretch of the imagination to say that we're probably starting in medias res, right? the content warnings page describes a story that centers the neighbors first and foremost, as their world falls apart around them - literally, figuratively, very likely some combination of the two. what we've seen of the prologue, though, is very much Not that; it's a research team trying to gather information about the show those puppets were from nearly 50 years after it last aired, ft. wally acting as the Bridge between these two aspects of the Overarching Narrative - and it's possible that other neighbors may follow suit, given some of the things that reply (and post) brings up.

i suppose the biggest question for me is whether the apparent Meat of the story (i.e. the puppet-centric part, the Prelude to our starting point with the WHRP in the same breath that it is the main event) will turn out to be the original four-year run of the show or the 50 years that have passed since its cancellation. was the show on a downward spiral since the day it began, or did things only begin to fall apart over the course of those 50 years with no human intervention given that puppets are made For The Sole Purpose of being used and perceived by humans? i think you can make a strong argument for either possibility - assuming they're even mutually exclusive, anyway.

all this to say: yeah, i think it is Reasonable to assume that wally, home, and/or the rest of the neighbors if not the entire town rely on being Perceived in order to continue existing; a blessing as much as it is a curse. and also to assume that everyone involved with the website (however many people that entails - wally, home, the WHRP, WHRP associates, possibly other neighbors, etc.) is banking Hard on this.

[lumenera]

Breaking out of art block by fucking around in adobe illustrator

[Image ID: A mock up of a Pokemon encounter, but the Pokemon is a blend between Swadloon and Kenma Kozume from Haikyuu. To his left is his name, his level and his health points bar. The text below reads: "Oh! A wild Swadloon has appeared! Wait a minute..."

/end ID]

[zackmartin]

Z THE CONCEPT OF YOU REBOOTING VALIANT KNIGHT LITERALLY HAS ME FROTHING AT THE MOUTH. it literally never left my head i am always thinking about it at least a little bit. literally recently i came up with a concept for how some of my original characters for my spinoff would fit into valiant knight fnsnskdj and so i technically have like a rewrite/sequel concept that includes zenry and jasper/[redacted] fnsmdnkxnsn which included me rereading the chapters i beta'd for you to remember some details and i was like UGH THIS WAS SO GOOD I MISS IT

LASKDJOSKJVMODKMVLDSKJFSOKJFSLDKFJ HELLO?????????? ARE YOU AWARE THAT I'D LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU???? CAUSE I SERIOUSLY WOULD LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU!!!!! BUT AHHHHHHHHHHH

SERIOUSLY THOUGH, THIS IS ONE OF THE HIGHEST COMPLIMENTS I'VE EVER RECEIVED, I'M LEGIT GONNA CRY (affectionate), I'VE BEEN STARING AT THIS ASK FOR LIKE SIX HOURS, LIKE THERE AREN'T ENOUGH WORDS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE TO ARTICULATE HOW MUCH THIS MEANS TO ME

but seriously, like I'm not trying to rag on my writing or anything, but I also know like. I'm not writing anything that's gonna be winning awards anytime soon or anything ground-breaking or anything, but that's never been my goal; and I just say all of that to say that the fact that you're still thinking about something of mine years later and it stuck with you so much that you want to put your own characters into it??????? That's literally so wild to me in the best way, I can't get over it. I'm so serious when I say again that this legit one of the best compliments I've ever received. (Also, if you're willing, I'd very much like to hear about this rewrite/sequel of sorts)

You have me legit thinking about it now. Like I told Pearl in the replies, I feel like my writing is leagues better (i reread stuff from that time period and just cringe now; but to be fair to my past self, she was a novice who was coming back to writing after a 10+ year break so it stands to reason) so I feel like I could do a lot more with it. There's soooo much of that world I want to flesh out that I wasn't skilled enough to do when I first started it. lsakdjf idk man, I might actually do it

[kneworder]

i have all these draft documents of half finished fics full of lines i love but that are so fundamentally flawed i can't figure out how to finish them and can't kill my darlings mercilessly enough to get past the roadblocks so i just reread them over and over and think damn this is kinda fire. wish it was anywhere near shareable.

[clumsyclifford]

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