#i. conford

[hlfmoonshine]

RED AS...

anna james | angel silva | asmodeus moll | drew muller | halen price | icarus conford | ivy reyes | koa aroha | nellie dawson | otto james | poppy burton | royal woods | sasha antonova | sasha james

"red does not always signal danger and aggression. perhaps not surprisingly, red also symbolizes passion, love, and desire. red symbolizes energy, passion, strength, courage, physical activity, creativity, warmth, and security. it is also associated with aggression. In healing, use red to bring warmth and burn out disease."

[hlfmoonshine]

"i know it might sound like—" was there a polite way of saying 'fuck boy flirting'? "it's not a line, i promise." not that his promises carried much weight, at least not to beautiful women he met in bars. he followed her eyes and his smile grew, his ego taking in a little more air, though he tried not to let it show. "is that you're way of saying you think the universe approves of me? i don't know if i've ever gotten approval from the universe itself before." icarus should look for his friends, he should be doing something but he can't even bring himself to look away from her. "at least enough for you to let me buy you your next drink?" he asks, ever charming smile still on his lips. as someone who got just about whatever he asked for, from practically anyone he knew, getting five minutes of an angel's time seemed a task he'd have to pull off with on his own merit. "i'll even endure any teasing you want. you can tear apart all my worst lines."

her face felt hot and mylene softened a bit, her inner bird fluttering. as strangers to one another, there was no real way for her to know just yet if he was being totally genuine or not, but it felt oddly grounding to her to hear. " wow... an angel?? " she hummed and held her drink close to her again, her gaze flickering over to said friends, knowing they were watching and smirking to herself with the confirmation that they were when their gazes met and she heard them snickering amongst themselves through the hum of noise around them. " it's better to be in the moment with friends, i think, " her gaze found his again. " and i don't feel the need to search when i'm out... i prefer to let the universe bring me what i might like, "

[maddie-grove]

Best/Worst Books by Category So Far This Year

YA

Best: Call Me Ruth by Marilyn Sachs (1982)

Runner-Up: Out of Control by Norma Fox Mazer (1993)

Worst: The Girlfriend by R.L. Stine (1991)

Romance

Best: The Marquis Who Mustn't by Courtney Milan (2023)

Runner-Up: The Art of Catching Feelings by Alicia Thompson (2024)

Worst: Kilmeny of the Orchard by L.M. Montgomery (1910)

Other Fiction

Best: The Power of the Dog by Thomas Savage (1967)

Runner-Up: The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin (1972)

Worst: The House on the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune (2020)

Nonfiction

Best: Toxic by Sarah Ditum (2023)

Runner-Up: Meet Me by the Fountain by Alexandra Lange (2022)

Worst: Pathogenesis by Jonathan Kennedy (2023)

Rereads

Best: Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh (1964)

Runner-Up: How to Be Good by Nick Hornby (2001)

Worst: If This Is Love, I'll Take Spaghetti by Ellen Conford (1983)

[retrogirlsbooks]

Dear Lovey Hart, I Am Desperate by Ellen Conford

ISBN 0-590-43820-4

[erikiara80]

We swap plates (Kali)

I think you were swapped in the hospital, to tell you the truth (Karen in S3)

RUTH: I'd make a deal with God, and I'd get Him to swap our places

And there's a mix-up at birth in one of the books here (one of the many interesting things in this photo). A Royal Pain, by Ellen Conford

Plot:

Being a princess is tough, but someone's got to do it! Abby Adams of Kansas was born in a tiny European country, where she and another baby got accidentally switched. Now that the mix-up has been discovered, she's on her way back to Saxony Coburn to begin life as the real Princess Florinda XIV.

ELlen Conford. Kansas. El- Dorothy

[annlarimer]

I was reading YA in the 70s, and it went super hard though it was almost never explicit. I learned how to finance a clandestine abortion by using your parents' department store cards to buy clothes, then returning them for cash. (This was much easier in the 70s - being expected to take store credit for a return was borderline insulting.) Anyway, I direct you to the works of Paul Zindel, ME Kerr, Betsy Byars, Ellen Conford, Sylvia Engdahl, RR Knudson, John Neufeld, and a ton of others, usually published by Dell or Pocket. Ask your used bookseller about 70s YA and they'll bring you a pile.

As long as we're here, I had a very weird experience in B&N's YA section recently where two full-grown women were chatting and one asked the other brightly, "So! What's your favorite dystopia?" and I died a little inside.

So, like, the thing you have to understand is that prior to the mid-2000s, the "Young Adult" genre as we now know it didn't exist. The expectation was that you would graduate to the adult aisle of the book store at, like, 13-14. This worked because the only people still reading long form novels into their teens were precocious bookworms who were better read than their parents.

Harry Potter changed all this. The success of the Harry Potter books convinced the publishing industry that selling full length novels to normie children was a business model. The thing about the Harry Potter books, though, is that at least for the early books, the target audience was a bit younger than what we think of as the YA demographic; tweens, rather than teens. Now, the publishing very much wanted to keep all these normie kids buying books into their teens and beyond, but the previous model of treating teens as functionally adults for marketing purposes would not work; there was simply no way that normie parents were going to let their normie kids read fully adult novels where the characters, like, do drugs or have unprotected sex and stuff. So, in order to be allowed to market to the teen demographic, the YA genre was created.

However, teens have an inherent interest in reading about sex and violence and drugs, and so authors who are able to incorporate these kinds of themes into their YA novels in a discrete way such that it flies under the radar of the moral guardians are met with success. But this is a precarious tightrope to walk. Not enough "mature" themes and the teens will loose interest, to much or to blatant and the teens won't be allowed to read it. And so, it should come as no surprise, that the first person to successfully navigate this tight rope was a Mormon housewife with a vampire fetish.

[ozkar-krapo]

Georgina STARR

"I am the Medium"

(ss.LP. Le Conford Moderne. 2010) [GB]

[ibeatrizlorena]

I want to start again

Hice todo por salir de mi zona de conford , no se si se diga asi la cosa es que hice lo imposible para olvidarme de aquel recuerdo y memorias que me mataban cada dia a cada isntante . Me aleje para no sufrir y ahora sufro mas que nunca yo no pedi estar asi ni nadie pero como puedo hacer para sacarme estos recuerdos de mi cabeza aveces duele tanto el pasado que te pierdes en el presente y hasta entonces ya no llegas al futuro.

He estado haciendo cosas por hacer por no pensar y llegare hasta el final y despues me pondre a pensar en que fue con mi vida despues de lo pasado se que nunca podre olvidarlo pero podre alejarlo de mi mente por un tiempo. La vida es dificil lo se pero que de diverto seria si fuera facil llegaria a ser un poco aburrido no creen?

En fin creo que llevo como 3 años y medios encontrandome a mi misma y todavia sigo haciendolo espero algun dia encontrarme y podre saber como se siente de una p***** vez pero bueno espero que tenga una linda noche porque aqui son las 2:55 am y deberia dormir pero no puedo asi que fuck it jeje I love u quien sea que me lea 👽

[heamanit]

Week 1

shortcuts I have learned-

Z= zoom       Space= hand      P= pen tool       V= selection tool 

A= Direct selection    Command + clicking    Command Z  to undo 

Command then click screen to let go of curve 

Command U for curve tool 

- for this course I want to learn more on how to use adobe apps properly especially illustrator since I have never used it before. For photoshop, I definitely know how to use it but if I had to rate myself out of 10 of how experienced I am on using it , it would be 7.

I would really like to be more confordable on using illustrator and photoshop and make more fun projects I really want to do. 

Vector- the graphics are designed for digital art work that is rendered by a computer.

Raster- its made up of tiny pixels making them resolution dependant and is the best way creating photo/ pictures

Straight line shapes

Straight line shapes 

Single arc curves 

I really enjoyed learning how to create the straight line shapes and single arc curves and getting more confident on how to use illustartor. really enjoying learning new things 

[hlfmoonshine]

open to all! muse: icarus conford. thirty one. he/him. bisexual. unemployed. trust fund baby.

"the other options were ozymandias or midas. frankly, i think i fucking lucked out." he grinned, draped across the couch as if were a throne. "though the idea of being named after a king is still enticing." he tapped his chin lightly and finished his drink, devilish grin graced his lips.

[hlfmoonshine]

cobie's smile fell away, playful teasing and light flirting washed away with the shock of daisy's words. "you—" she cut herself off, patience was never a virture of the confords, not a single one of them. she refused to run daisy down, even if every word that left her mouth pricked a fresh new hole in cobie's heart. "daisy, are you always so unkind to yourself?" she was harsher on herself than cobie had been on the other girls in high school, which was saying something.

open to: anyone relationship: strangers, friends, neighbors, all kinds of fun stuff idk have fun !! ✨ daisy's in her mid 20s, eldest of three, works at her aunt and uncle's store and lives above it. her bios not up so if you want to know anything more about her just hmu ✨

" no, n-no, i'm... " they were flirting, and she was flattered, but bewildered all the same. what did they possibly see?? " you don't want me, i'm not... i'm-i'm weird, and i almost never leave me house, and my... i mean, i still sleep with my stuffed duck from when i was a kid and i... y-you don't... trust me. i'm boring, i suck, you don't want me... "

[100daysofbandnames]

41/100 - “Bandanas for Raccoons”

“What started as four 13-year-old boys on YouTube has, well, stayed on YouTube. But Bandanas for Raccoons hit music video for ‘I Like, Kinda Like You’ has been viewed over 2.3 million times just in the last year, which is an unqualified success. Now the band has released their first album, a digital-only download on their website. It contains another hit, ‘You’re the One, But She’s the Two’ that is an admittedly clever twist on love triangles. I asked Owen Armstrong, the band’s frontboy, how they got the catchy band name. ‘It was a dream,’ he tells me. ‘I’d just stayed up real late playing the Guardians of the Galaxy video game and I dreamed about a raccoon with a yellow bandana, just like on our cover. I had my cousin Caeden who’s good with Photoshop do it.’ A charming story, but unless you’re a 12 to 14-year-old girl, I suggest you give this album a miss. I am a 35-year-old woman, and I am definitely not  their target audience. I didn’t even, like, kinda like it.” 

— Ellen Conford, Music Today Online

[its-katme]

Things I’d like to see for Stranger Things 3

The pile of books given to Jane/Eleven by Mike, Nancy, and Joyce to read in the next year which I imagine to be filled with a mix of classics: Annie of Green Gables - the entire series, The Wizard of Oz, The Hobbit, Daddy-Long Legs; a lot of contemporary YA: Judy Blume, Ellen Conford, maybe even Richard Peck; Sci-Fi and Fantasy from the time (would the guys have given her any of Robert Heinlein’s juveniles?) and maybe some Sweet Dreams romance (passed along by Joyce or Nancy), but probably not to many horror books (no Stephen King or Lois Duncan) or special children being pursued or under study (a la Witch Mountain and The Girl with Silver Eyes).  Max might pass along her Wonder Woman comics (with strict instructions that she needs those back some time) and sports novels. 

A single Nancy who realized sometime after Easter that although she and Jonathan very good sex, shared trauma and a shared desire to get out of Hawkins, that they don’t really have much else in common. 

Jane reaching out to Kali in the in the Void, trying to communicate. Kali realizes that those moments at night where she feels she’s being watched is not old trauma and not paranoia, but little sister who wants to talk.

Joyce and Jim trying to quit smoking. Badly.

[bwgcq1qstar]

This Specail Fall Event is given by the @Yuga-Academy On DA

I tired to complete everything with details as shading and my owm fault to draw it with much detail but im happy with the outcomes ^^

Im really sorry it tooke so long @CaseyADasey

I also will send the other art for the other part of the Event later but that will also take long T^T (i hate that i take that long to draw something also sorry for the person i worke with in that other event but im still planning to show you the end result =3).

but Still i enjoyed the event very much i Really loved the Fact those two where choisen for Friendship category!! i also come more out of my conford zone little by little ^w^

Also guys give it a look at @CaseyADasey  page as Artwork on DA

i also used a new artapp for this soo it was also little tricky^^“  the time i took for this is 58:18:42 o.o…….. (aside of the may breaks or people didnt go into my way it whould be lesss hours)

Kaoru Jin © CaseyADasey

Emil Rosely © blackwhitegirlcat1/BWGC/Me

Fall Event - Friendship category © Yuga-Academy on DA

Art © blackwhitegirlcat1/BWGC/Me

[alayne-stonecoldfox]

Oh Conford J Australia I love your art

CONFORD J AUSTRALIA

[hlfmoonshine]

open to all! muse: icarus conford. thirty one. he/him. bisexual. unemployed. trust fund baby.

"you can do the dare, or you can get tossed in the pool. i don't make the rules." he did. he very much did make the rules, but icarus was far too used to getting his way.