#im kinda drowning in wips so

[printershorts]

ALRIGHT BITCHES

IM CHANGING THE NUMBERS I UNDERESTIMATED YOU GUYS - we know people have done this so im doing it too

10 notes - i'll drink me some water

20 notes - i'll try to fix my sleep schedule

50 notes - i'll ask my parents for a binder*

70 notes - ill finish one of my wips

200 notes - i'll tell my parents that im ftm and not nonbinary

500 notes - i'll fully clean my room

1000 - i'll apply for jobs again

*my mom and i already talked about it with her sort of but im really scared still so i kinda need like a push i guess

tags ig 😖: @the-stars-drowning @wishiknew224 @i-like-her-like-that @aesthetic-writer18 @chaserofstars11

go nuts guys

[choccy-milky]

Hey just wanted to say how much I adore the Raven and The Snake! It kept me sane during some hard times last year screaming at Seb distracted me from my real problems LOL! In fact I love it so much I would love to print the fic and turn it into a book for my own personal enjoyment of course, would it be okay with you if I did that and posted the final product on Twitter? I'd tag you of course! Don't know if it's a dumb question but I wanted to check. Anyways love your work you are SUPER talented!

YES YES YES??? OMG PLSSS I WOULD DIE!!!!!!!

IM HONOURED YOU LIKED IT ENOUGH TO WANT TO BIND IT!!! AND PLS, TAG ME EVERYWHERE WHEN/IF YOU DO IT😭😭 ive considered commissioning someone to bind it myself just to have as a memento bc im the author, but omg the fact that someone else would wanna do it too......im glad sebs dumbassery (and lets be real, clora's too. if not MOSTLY cloras) could distract you from your irl problems by yelling at those two idiots🥰🥰 THANK YOU AGAIN IM HONOURED ARGHHH🧎‍♀️💖💖

LMFAOOO THE WAY I THOUGHT THIS WAS ANON HATE AT FIRST LMAOOO i mean i guess it kinda could still be considered it??? but i love your love for clora BAHAH bc you are so right, let seb drown, this aint about him✋😔...to satiate you heres a wip of her ive had for a while, and maybe ill finally finish it soon JUST FOR YOU🫵🫵💖

[heretoobsessstuff]

Last line tag

Ahhhhh im so happy u tagged me @valstarsandgalaxies thank u so muchhhh 🥹🫶🏻

Here’s a little piece of the “babe can I call?” WIP i wrote recently (a 5+1 fic, 5 times John call Gale in the middle of the night and one time Gale does instead!)

“Gale,” he breathes, relief flooding him at the sound of that familiar voice. He hears Gale shuffle before he speaks again.

“John? Is that you?”

John took a shaky breath, trying to drown in that voice, willing it to pull the fear from his body. His hand shook as he gripped the phone like a lifeline.

“Are you drunk again?” Gale sighed, his voice heavy with sleep. John felt floaty, dread sitting at the pit of his stomach as he tried to calm his breathing. He felt desperate to make sure Gale is okay. That he’s alive. That he’s still here. He jumped to answer.

“No—not drunk. Gale, I—”

“John? What’s the matter? Where are you?” Gale interrupts, urgency threading through his words.

Breathe. Breathe. Breathe.

“Nothing. I’m home. I’m sorry—I shouldn’t have called.”

“Are you okay? You’re kinda freakin’ me out right now.”

Gale sounded concerned—panicked, even, his voice rising in pitch. John took another deep breath, fighting to steady himself.

“I just-just need to hear your voice.”

His eyes burnt with tears, so he closed them, feeling the weight of the night press down on him.

“Did something happen?” Gale’s worry is palpable, and John shook his head even though Gale couldn’t see him, exhaling deeply as the lump in his throat threatened to choke him.

“No. Just wanted to know-needed to know you’re there.” The words were finally out and he felt his stomach clench with anxiety. As if he was expecting Gale to say he wasn’t okay and that he was dead and that these past months of leaving England and flying back home were all a dream. That Bucky was still in Stalag, without Gale, counting the days until something happened and ridded him of this misery-

“I’m here, John,” Gale says softly, voice gentle, cutting through the chaos like a knife.

“You’re okay,” John says shakily.

“Yeah, I’m all in one piece.” A pause. “As okay as I ever was, Bucky.”

Ahhhhh this is going slow but im rlly excited to share snippets 🤭 absolutely no pressure tagging @amiserableseriesofevents @happy-days19 @onyxsboxes @joeyalohadream i’m rlly sorry if you’ve done it already ❤️❤️

[liquidstar]

im going to ask here bc i have more followers

cohost is going down and im trying to find a good alternative for it (obviously not tumblr, bc, well im already here and i want a separate social media that can be more personal)

i want a place where i can privately share my wips with my close friends, as well as more personal life stuff that i wouldnt share on here. its so important that the account can be fully 100% private- no one who i dont approve as a follower should be able to find it or see it. i dont want a lot of my writing+art to go public before im ready for it to, and i also dont want irls to find me.

BUT because im sharing wips, it cant be a twitter clone with a character small limit. i tried mastodon servers with huge character limits (like 5000) but then the issue became every reply someone makes shows up on your main feed. which doesnt work for me. there was a toggle for this but it didnt actually work to turn off the reply spam drowning out actual posts- it all just becomes noise and gives me a headache

webpages like neocities wont work bc i wanna use it as a social media (i also want to see my friends posts and writing), not a webpage! also idek if you can make those actually private

and... in theory facebook actually works for character limit+comment reasons buuuut its just kinda too public. i know you can make a private account but it seems to connect to everything you do anyway and i just cant trust it to not recommend me as a friend to my mom and completely and utterly out me.

a small microblogging site like cohost was perfect and fit everything i was looking for. now that its going down, yeah, ill probably have to make do with something else, but nothing else really seems to fit what im looking for.

if all else fails i can make a more private tumblr blog but... thats just kinda not what i want. i want a separate site for me and all my friends. turning back to tumblr feels like going backwards

[brendughh]

Always appreciate your tags, @roomwithanopenfire @run-for-chamo-miles 🫶🫶🫶

Its a day late i know but finally i have something to share again

So, back in 2022, I made a we dont talk about the mage parody of the Encanto song, posted it here, and days after that, I started writing other parodies including Taylor Swift songs. The thing is after 2 full years, they are still WIPs. And i kinda need to finish one of them now because I promised @yoursecho one and they shall have it!!

So here are SIX SENTENCES (lines but whatever im proud its six) to pressure myself:

Im in the woods with your girlfriend she's upset

You know I really didn't get a things she said

'Cause she uses actual words unlike you...

You're in our room it's a typical Tuesday night

I'm eating my crisps and you glare as I take my bite

But I'd rather, lick your face and suck you...

Also, I've been so so invested recently in @philaet0s ' Social Media au that it literally spiked my interest again on tumblr, I thought maybe I'd try to give lyrics into one of Baz's songs.

And look, when i saw the part where baz and niall flirts on stage, i immediately thought of Troye Sivan's performance with Ross Lynch. (how could you not??) So the lyrics are based on the melody of his song, One Of Your Girls (the mv is good too, its soo raw)

Your hand, so rough so heavy

Yes god, both cheeks they're burning

Look at you

Have me drowning in your ocean blue

Taste the drip off our honey dew

Give me a blow if i ever defy you

Come and play, I'll be your toy

aaa! The vibes of these two parodies are so different. Whenever i do the ts one, it's like hacking Baz's hormonal mind, and it's easy in the sense that i know that teen! Baz could go full cringe. But the professional singer! Baz, well I'm saying sorry in advance if i can't hack it😆

Tags and hellos, @ic3-que3n @raenestee @cutestkilla @supercutedinosaurs @hertragedyconnoisseur

@comesitintheclover @hushed-chorus @ionlydrinkhotwater @wellbelesbian @palimpsessed

@martsonmars @that-disabled-princess @plantsnpeace @you-remind-me-of-the-babe @youarenevertooold

[mad-c1oud]

Eating your essays like ten course meals frfr :D

I really want to know the bone things now though 0-0 share the worldbuilding (only if you want to ofc!!) And also, with saltwater vs freshwater slimes, because of the biology difference, would they sort of have it in a we don't like each other/refuse to interact with each other because of it? Or do they just kinda not really run into each other?

Also love the idea of subtypes though!! Diversity among non-human somewhat-humanoid species <3

With the subtypes, would that affect their way of speaking at all? Like accent wise? Or would they pick up whatever they heard most while developing?

If you can't tell, I have. A lot of questions. LMAO

I just love world building and small pieces of it :> hope you don't mind though ._.

I LOVE QUESTIONS!!!!!!!

i am going to get carpal tunnel and i think i shall blame all of you and not myself :)

more ranting under the cut o777

for salt and fresh, they don't hate each other at all! they don't get a chance to really interact often so they are just unfamiliar with each other, however they are all still slimes so they get along just fine when they can (usually at estuaries or other areas where fresh merges into salt). other than that they just never really see the other.

AND AHHHHH YEAH!!!! ACCENTS!!! i didn't even think about that, i was more focused on how the color of their slime might be different based on sub group and their diet/climate/environment but oh my god yeah, there is so very much an accent that only other slimes might notice ily anon thank you. I think some does come from "family", but there's always a chance for it to chnage when you move, just like real life. Like another slime could tell charlie was a cave slime at some point maybe by how he talks or acts

and the bones..... ough the bones............

I have thoughts on the bones. the most significant one is how important a skeletion is to slime hybrids. Slime mobs don't care for that sort of thing, but since hyrbids are just that, a combination of slime and (in my head) human- hybrids like bones. It's the biggest think that sets them apart from their mob counter part.

Salt slimes build their skeletons from drowned, sea life, and literal drownings, giving them slightly abnormal appearances compared to fresh that only pull from skeletons and strays and humans. when desperate, they will make do with what they have and go without bones or fashion something out of what they do have. I hc as charlie having a pretty fucked skeleton during eggxile

also i have. a wip based on the idea of étoiles giving charlie bones to help his bro out and it spirals into the accidental courting ritual cause bones are really important to hybrids. I WANT TO SAY SO MUCB MOOOREEEEEE but im trying to hold back for this wip where i explore it more. ugh

i will say that the idea of giving and sharing bones is also a familial and friendly thing too. There's different meanings and different intentions. I like to think of big slime families having hand-me-down sets of bones as slime hybrids age and grow until they are able to get their own complete skeleton, almost like a rite of passage before they leave if they decide to. they keep a bone from their family and either keep it in their skeleton or on their person. Same goes for offers from friends and more...

charlie was not afforded the same... generosity and kindness as other slimes in other families and he had to build his skeleton by force. I am going to leave that there lest i say too much :) dw you'll learn more soon

i have thoughts and feelins and ideas and things i just *head in fucking hands*

feel free to ask more questions i love talking :3333 you guys are so nice too <333

[crazylittlejester]

DAILY BRAINROT

I'm working on the drowning fic and had to check a few things on the wiki real quick. Turns out that mermaids and Zora are two separate species in LA, and that they do interact. Obviously, LA is a dream, and it isn't technically real, but hear me out. In WW and PH the Zora only survived The Great Sea because they evolved into the Rito. Which means if there were mermaids, they either died or turned into something else, too.

That also reminds me that I found another AU idea in my notes. I'm not sure exactly what I had in mind at the time, but the general idea is that each of them embody a specific abstract concept if I remember right. Some sort of personification thing.

I think I could work in some interesting themes and stuff about the philosophies surrounding divinity and deification, especially given the way that the LoZ pantheon is canonically set up. We already have clear differences between creator gods, more general gods, patron spirits, and other types of spirits. Even mortals can bypass death in limited ways, given the existence of the hero's shade and the fact that ghosts exist in multiple games.

Anyway, don't really have anything else interesting to report other than the fact that Time's WIP is staring at me from its corner in the WIP folder. I'm trying to decide if starting over again from scratch is a good idea or a bad idea while I procrastinate.

oooooooh both of these are really interesting!

i totally feel ya on the starting from scratch thing, i have so many wips that are begging me to just be redone but also thats soooo much work and im just kinda stuck 💔

as always, thanks for sharing!!

[writingmoth]

aroaceprincess opening lines - then and now

thanks @treesandwords for the idea!

this is from a wip i don't talk about much here, mostly bc it's kinda shelved? i haven't touched it in years. my current projects (fantasy romance wip + antisnowwhite) are literally in their first draft and the one that got left behind also never made past its first draft (merpirate) so here it's aroaceprincess!! it was the first thing i ever wrote in english so uh. im sorry in advance?

no weird forests here!!! but there were weird, sentient floating cities, so

2016 (??? i think ???):

In the darkness of the city’s belly, Valentina thinks of Auntie Mira, of her stories about Vitória, the most powerful of the Seven Cities, the city that was always watching, always silent, but never missing anything. The Inquisitor used to scoff at that. Everyone knew, she used to say, that the floating cities couldn’t think. They were enchanted, yes, relics of an age long gone and of a power long lost, but still nothing beyond polished stone.

2018 (maybe?):

When they steal her in the middle of the night, the city is the only one watching. She hums below Valentina’s fingertips while the girl struggles and grabs at the walls, heart a delicate drum against her ribcage. The green, vibrant stone is warm against her skin, and even with the chilly air, the cloth sealing her lips and the fear threatening to drown her mind, the city’s pulses are impossible to ignore. They follow the girl as her captors drag her through the empty streets and then under the city’s bones, down to the temple’s dungeons – they never go away.

[sixofsol]

@johaerys-writes tagged my main (@heypax) for this, but since ive talked about my fics more on this blog i decided to do it here instead !

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

26!

2. What is your AO3 word count?

151,778

3. What fandoms do you write for?

I mean, I haven’t written anything for anything but six of crows since like year back… But! I do miss writing patrochilles, and tsoa is the fandom i’ve written the absolute most for! If we’re looking back, I’ve written hadestown, steven universe, haikyuu!! and a bunch more years ago.

4. What are your top five fics by kudos?

we were shotgun lovers // I’m a shotgun running away - six of crows, wesper, 772 kudos

like moss climbs a tree - song of achilles, patrochilles, 446

i want someone to try, and let me down easy — six of crows, wesper, 405 kudos

from the outside looking in - the song of achilles, patrochilles, 371 kudos

twisted roots and sunny days, the song of achilles, patrochilles, 363 kudos

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

YES if i dont miss when i get them (i dont have the email motifs on) i always do ! it means so much someone commented and i always love having a lil conversation about this thing that i wrote.

6. What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

as much of an lover i am of hurt no comfort i very rarely write it lmao but a lot of my tsoa fics had sad endings. autumn’s coming around is the first one that popped into mind, but that’s at least slightly open ? i’ll hold your hand while you drown, less so.

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

I feel like a lot of my fics have equally happy endings haha, the one that came to mind was our hair tangled in the breeze, simply because its a happy ending canon complaint tsoa fic which is a feat lmao

8. Do you get hate on fics?

nope the closets ive ever come was when i was 12 and people were like nice story but god your grammar and spelling is terrible! which was fair!

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

nah I’m a fade to black kinda girlie

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

I never anymore but well,, Once upon a time i was 14 and obsessed with glee and sherlock and well….

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

not as far as ik

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

nope !

13. Have you ever cowritten a fic before?

nope, but I would enjoy trying!

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

…this is hard because wesper has been running around in my head for a year but simply cause ive been obsessed with patrochilles longer im still gonna say them

15. What's a WIP you'd like to finish but doubt you ever will?

I’d love to continue for everyone im about to prove wrong, and I think I even have a mostly finished chapter lying around somewhere, but I’ve just not had the inspiration rip.

16. What are your writing strengths?

I think I’m good at writing characters in general, especially when it’s from their pov. first person pov my beloved.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

I’m not really a person who uses a lot of metaphors of writes flowery language, but i wish i was!! i love very beautiful language and poetic writing but i just don’t do that that much im pretty straight forward, which isn’t a bad thing but I wish i could expand a bit more.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

takes me out the story way too much, it’s fine if it’s like one word every now and then but nah. ive read a couple of young royals fics, and as a swedish speaker its a bit jarring to suddenly have swedish words there lmao

19. First fandom you wrote for?

If non published count, harry potter. if only published, glee!

20. Favourite fic you've ever written?

i’m gonna be fair to myself and choose one for soc and one for tsoa.

autumn’s coming around for tsoa and a fire died last winter for soc, which ironically are my least popular fics in the respective fandoms!

thank you !! and im tagging @leglesslouie @jackwolfes @wesperbrekkered @deathless--aphrodite

[acerathia]

twenty questions for fic writers 💖

thank u for the dag erika @kedsandtubesocks !! and!! open tag for everyone who wants to!!

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

as of now, 10! i'd like to think im pretty consistent with posting on there fjsdlkf

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

88,099 words lolol

3. What fandoms do you write for?

honestly, anything that tickles my fancy. a lot of bnha, some jjk, naruto ofc, and honestly, even genshin, hsr, lds, undertale, orv. i even had a phase where i was writing marvel fics hahaha

4. Top five fics by kudos

let's see

drowning in you (Rafayel x reader)

The Apple of my Eye (Izuku x reader)

equilibrium (Aventurine x reader)

Grave Robbery (Katsuki x reader)

two birds: a tragedy in five acts (Obito x reader)

5. Do you respond to comments?

I honestly get so excited over every comment i get, i cant help but immediately respond 😔

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

idk if it's considered a fic, but that short dabi piece, i cant find the link o7 but it was pretty angsty but in terms of an actual fic, i would consider the ending of 'two birds' as the angstiest ending? maybe

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

i would say that on terms of happiness, most of them are equal, bc i tend to end fics on the same place during the momentum hahaha

8. Do you get hate on fics?

this question assumes that people outside of my mutuals read my fics hahaha, no, not really o7

9. Do you write smut?

i've never written explicit smut, just alluding to it or using metaphors. i dont feel comfy writing smut (yet) hahaha

10. Craziest crossover?

never done a crossover o7

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

again, no hahaha

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

boring answer, again no

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

yes,,, i did write a fics with my bsf in middle school. but also, kinda during my wattpad days... dont ask hahaha

14. All time favorite ship?

my mutualy x happiness <3

15. What's a wip you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

my marvel fics honestly had pretty cool ideas, but i'm just not into it anymore lolol. but also, one huge fic ive written in ms for mm, but bc it was on paper, i lost everything o7 i'd like to think that even if i take breaks, that i pull through most of the time, unless i completely lose interest

16. What are your writing strengths?

good question, uhm, i think my writing style is nice? idk

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

I often cant pull through if the plot is supposed to be longer, as it feels like i lose momentum, also, i often get distracted in the middle of writing and lose my thoughts hahah

18. Thoughts on dialogue in another language?

It depends imo, whole dialogue in another language can rip one out of the vibe, but bits and pieces if done correctly can hint at the personality of the character. esp if one considers how people do that too (i loveee using random english words while speaking other languages)

19. First fandom you wrote in?

naruto o7 ive got a track record worth years atp

20. Favorite fic you've written?

in terms of the overall writing, i like 'two birds' a lot bc the foreshadowing was real hahaha, but also the way i used rhetorical figures and stuff plotwise i like drowning in you, bc it was so self-indulgend and very soft

[uriekukistan]

you're honestly so cute ughfhsjfjj everytime you ask for a spare interaction it just makes me wanna collate every interaction on this app and pour them into your hands😩😩 for the ask game — 3, 9 and 18!! but if you feel 18 is revealing too much, you can skip🥺

fjdhgfkd thank u i suppose 😭😭 and thank u for the ask !!!! hope youre having a good day/night :D

hmm bc of 18, i'll do the fic i last wrote something for, which was a piece for itafushi week! heres a lil scrap of it i posted yesterday

3. Whose your favorite character for this chapter/fic?

it's very megumi-centric, so probably him :D other than him and yuuji there's not really anyone else in the fic, and although i do love yuuji's role in this fic, i just get more attached to the pov character when im writing

9. What is your favorite dialogue you’ve written so far?

“I don’t know what it felt like when you were Sukuna’s vessel,” Megumi said, his voice unsteady, “but for me, it felt like drowning."

idk why i just enjoy it.

18. Share the scene you just wrote, written from another character’s POV.

kinda shortened version of the scene bc im lazy

Hearing sniffles from his lap, Yuuji looked down, noticing the tears that had gathered on Megumi's eyelashes, slipping down his face. He brushed them away, hoping to soothe his boyfriend's pain. "Cursed bath?" he asked. This was the first he was hearing about a cursed bath. Just how much of his suffering had Megumi kept locked away? Yuuji's heart twisted painfully. "Yeah," Megumi replied, his voice trembling with emotion. "When Sukuna first took hold of me, I kept trying to fight back, so Uraume prepared this bath that was just pure cursed energy, and they bathed me in it. It was so painful, Yuuji. It was so cold that it burned. It was almost like bathing in acid. I kept trying to swim to the surface, but I kept sinking further, no matter how hard I tried, but I still didn’t give up. Not until Tsumiki…I tried so hard, Yuuji, I really did." Megumi's voice broke off in something akin to a sob. Yuuji felt his heart shatter into a million pieces. This guilt...this burden...it was supposed to be his alone to carry. No matter how many times Megumi insisted upon trying to carry it with him, this was supposed to be the one thing Yuuji could save Megumi from, and Sukuna had robbed him of that opportunity. “You did well, Megumi,” Yuuji whispered. “You didn’t give up, and that’s enough.”

WIP Ask Game

[cypreus-and-willow]

2, 8, 29, 43 For the fic asks if u wanna

2. Where do you get your fic ideas?

Honestly, just from random places. I tend to theorize a lot. But sometimes the theories border on headcanon and are kinda whack (hence my other name 'The Crack Theorist') even tho they're mostly based on actual observations. For example, my Digimon Survive Highschool gang came to me when I was wondering abt the job of Shuuji's dad - is he a doctor? A politician?

Then i remembered his dad tells Shuuji he doesnt have the 'qualities befitting a Kayama son'. So I thought well what are the opposites of Shuuji's natural qualities? Possibly strength, ruthlessness, cunning, blah blah. And the stupid area of my brain concludes that his dad works for the mafia. And thats how the Gang AU was born.

As for my non AU fics, I try to stick as close to canon as possible... but they're still centered around some headcanons.

29. What's something about your writing that your proud of?

That they're self indulgent. Ive spent a lot of time, worrying abt word count thinking that its only good if its 1000+ words every chapter.

But now, esp w/ my shorter fics, i try to just write whatever feels right for the story. To let a story end at 300 words because its what feels right to me. Sometimes I sit down to write one memo and 2000 words come out and its fantastic but Ive stopped trying to force that feeling every time I write.

(And also that I can somewhat effectively mix purple and biege prose together even tho ive never heard of those terms until recently)

43. Is there a trope or idea that you'd really like to write but haven't yet?

Coffee Shop AU? Or maybe the florist and tattoo artist? Lol

Im mostly an angst writer. So sometimes I get curious abt what its like to write the cheezy cliche stuff. It doesnt have to be romance, I just want them to be happy.

(I cant believe Pet Shop AU is canon in TokRev - I feel blessed)

Oh, I was watching the first Pacific Rim the other day and wanted to write something on that. That drift compatibility is really something huh?

8. Post an out-of-context spoiler from a wip

CW mentions child death

The boy of red hair and twenty years looks up to the sky as a creature of thundering swords swoops down from the heavens. The strike of his blade cleaving the ground in two. From afar, he watches Ifrit crawl with the last of his strength towards the open ground bubbling with grief's plague. Raindrops hang on the tips of red eyelashes. Refusing to blink as the water falls over smouldering rock. There he sees the body of his keeper burning atop the lifeless earth. And remembers the day they drowned his mother. Fire is the essence of life in Solheim. In the temple of Ifrit, his mother taught him the ways of fire. Of healing warmth. Water. Rain. Is the herald of death. “Tianna.” “Yes child?” Though now his height inches over hers, she calls him child all the same. And it gives his heart comfort that some things remain the same. Even in this strange new world where fire burns under the rain and children are taken from their beds to their graves. “Stay with me.”

From the first ever fic I wrote in June 2018 but never published. I wrote like 3000+ words in one night. Also based on a crack theory.

Tho maybe I misunderstand this question...

Spoiler: Aoi slaps Shuuji’s brother while saying "How f*cking dare you"

[adelaidedrubman]

wednesday detested

i was tagged by my beloveds @direwombat @socially-awkward-skeleton for wip day! and it is now sure a wednesday. sending out tags for any day of the week to @unholymilf (shhh i know) @henbased (shhh) @florbelles @derelictheretic @belorage @heroofpenamstan @noetikat @ishwaris @shallow-gravy @purplehairsecretlair @strangefable @confidentandgood @nuclearstorms @marivenah @schoute @a-far-cry-from-my-main @strafethesesinners and anyone else im missing, head empty no thoughts!

more of the unwieldy beast that is wildfire 16, scene that might get cut as it becomes Too unwieldy. warning extra no proof reading + liz continues choosing to incorporate all her weakest writing points.

“Say, while we’re playing catch up, that also reminds me,” Adelaide hummed, a little too thoughtfully for Jessie’s liking. She wasn’t really trying to play catch up, she just wanted some firepower. “Speakin’ of marital discord, how’s the ol’ ball and chain handling you being gone from the Valley for so long now?”

“Hm, who you mean?” Jessie asked, removing a hand from her pocket to run through her hair in that trying-to-be casual way. “Mary May?” she suggested. “Truth be told I haven’t heard much from her as of late. I guess we did have something of a little spat last time I was there…”

Adelaide shook her head and scoffed. “Nah, you know who I’m talking about —” she replied under her breath, pulling at the stiff cuff of the denim sleeve to reel Jessie closer. “John,” she whispered, raising her shoulder to block Hurk’s line of sight, her own stare unavoidable as she leaned in.

Jessie blinked, hard, resisting the impulse to avert her gaze completely, to fidget and shirk beneath the weight of her stare, the lilting hiss of the name jolting a cold shockwave of misplaced adrenaline through her veins, an odd flash of guilt. It had been the first time she thought she’d really heard someone speak his name aloud to her since —

Well, she wasn’t thinking about that.

Not that there was anything to think about, it was just —

“Huh?” She cocked her head to the side. She scrunched her nose, raised a brow in some semblance of innocent bemusement. “What about him?”

“What about him?” she repeated, dripping with incredulity. “Honey, did you forget I was there last time to see what a giant bug he got up his ass from you spending a whopping fifteen minutes away, not answering his every little call?” she questioned in a low hush. Too low, too rustling like the wind. “There must be a whole fuckin’ swarm buzzing around up there by now.”

“Well, what do I fuckin’ care if there is?” she grumbled defensively. “Not my circus, not my monkeys. Not my bugs, not my asshole.”

“Did I hear you whispering something about monkeys over there? ’Cause that’s the kinda conversation I should definitely be included —”

“Well that’s a major change in tune,” Adelaide exclaimed loudly enough to drown out the man trying to worm his way into their chat, pulling Jessie’s arm to lead her out of earshot again. Closer to the water, which glittered too brightly, flecks of light too vivid despite the thick mist that hung over it. Strange. Adelaide lowered her voice back to a whisper. “What happened to wanting to know everything you could about him?”

“Decided I knew all I fucking needed,” she hissed in reply. “He’s fuckin’ crazy. No explaining it.”

“And aren’tcha a bit curious about what kinda crazy he’s going right now?” she questioned, whisper sharpening into a playful whine. “If not on his account, then for the sake of everyone else stuck there with him.” That pesky guilt churned fresh in Jestiny’s stomach, the bile of it stinging her tongue. “By now he’s gotta be —”

“Can the two of you stop whispering secrets over here?” The smell of rotting flowers gained an undercurrent of watery beer and gunpowder. “Or at least let me in on ’em, man. I can keep secrets too,” Hurk complained.

[aether-owo]

alralralr uhh my take on sink [kinda] + an excuse to practice black shading

the design is a wip and this was my first ever drawing of him

basically his name is tempest

his life as sonic was normal until sonic cd, where he got trapped underwater by a surprise trap badnik thing in tidal tempest zone

the trap was right over a bubble so every time he nearly drowned he'd be supplied with just enough oxygen to live

he couldn't spindash through it because the scd spindash is super weak yk yk

eventually he did break free but only because the badnik's power source [the plant] died

he would have escaped but the exit and entrance were walled off by robotnik

he pretty much survived on nothing but dirty sea water and the bodies of animals [the small ones that pop out of non-cd badniks, flicky et al] that were unlucky enough to be trapped along with him

the world outside of the dilapidated tidal tempest has practically forgotten the name of sonic, as he rots away in some crypt on little planet.

some previous visitors say you can still hear his silent pleas to this day

so uh yeah i think i might cover him in vines in his final design idk

and in this drawing his quills look too neat uhh that was my b

he's also practically blind bc well he was walled off in a dark underwater crypt

anyways anyone bold enough to comment please give me ideas on how to make him look a bit less generic uhhhggh im bad at character design

[actualbird]

merry xmas eve kuya zak!!!! sorry in advance if this is filled wiht typos i had my very first bottles of soju and san mig light tonight haha.

hope ur noche buena was fun <33 hope this year was good to u and i hope the next year is gonna b good to both of us

also if ur willing to divulge what was it first drinking experience like??? what did u drink and with whom and what did u feel the day after etc etc idk now that im tipsy i wan know how othe rpeople experience it

neway thank u for being here in general ur blog and ur fics brought me so much joy and im glad u made every wip and published fuc and every analysis and every silly and not so silly but sad headcanons

lotsa love !!!!

that one marikenyo In Ur Inbox All The Time

wahhh merry christmas, inbox-marikenyo :DDD!!! i saw this ask on christmas eve but during then i too was also drunk off a few cocktails and promptly passed out a little bit later orz

i had a great noche buena!! i kept falling into a food coma because i kept eating so much, as the lord intended <3 JHVSKJHFVSD. i hope you also had a great christmas eve and are having a lovely christmas day today ^w^

and as for ur q, my first Real drinking experience was at a party i went to on my last year of college actually in 2020 right before the pandemic hit omg, kinda "late" by some people's standards. i say Real drinking experience, cuz prior to that party i did drink sometimes, but never enough to get drunk!

at that party though, i was with my girlfriend and it was the party of her college org and i was continually handed drinks. i Definitely Got Drunk.

what did i drink? no idea. a mutual friend of my gf and i was mixing the drinks and i never ask whats in stuff, i just drink whatever tastes sweet enough or is drowned in enough soda that i can stomach the bitterness of whatever alcohol content is within.

how was i when i was drunk? the same way i am when i get drunk nowadays: absolute disaster jahsfvasfhasvkfjh. i tend to get loud and lose all my filter when im drunk. also clingy. two things i remember clearly at that party are

1 ) my girlfriend went to the bathroom and i sat on the floor texting another friend about how i missed my girlfriend So Much and i love her So Much. later, when my gf had to leave early before me, i loudly announced "IM GOING HOME, MY GIRLFRIEND IS GONE SO I DONT WANNA BE HERE ANYMORE"

2 ) i was talking to the mutual friend who was mixing the drinks and he was talking about how he plays billiards. i remembered how billiards gloves looked like (it's like a normal glove but two fingers are out in the open) and i said something along the lines of "oh my god so you wear the WHORE GLOVES. why are billiards gloves so fucking SLUTTY"

thats pretty much how i am when im drunk up to this day ajhfvajshf but i seldom drink enough to get to That point, basically only at parties since like, im not the one paying for the drinks LMAO. when i drink lots, i get drunk. but when i drink little, i just get sleepy.

and when i drink enough to get drunk, the next morning always has me regretting Every Decision Ive Ever Made because i always...always....forget to drink water the night before....people around me try their Best to hydrate me while im drinking, but i get stubborn and forgetful and when im handed water i just put it down instinctively and look for something sweeter and usually with alcohol in it and im caught in a vicious cycle that ends with a fuckoff terrible hangover

but it's nothing a soft boiled egg breakfast cant fix HAHA

hope that answered ur q :DDD!! and thank you for the well wishes and the kind words ;v; im really glad that the stuff i make here can bring joy, and i really hope i can make more things in the future

sending u all the love too, inbox marikenyo!!!

[rarepairnation]

for the ao3 wrapped!! 1, 6, 28! (also you are not alone in believing you can finish one more thing. i am also doing that :P)

happy (newly i guess, for u!) new year anna!!! waving at u NOT from the google doc! we did it! we finished the one more thing! [ao3 wrapped]

1. How many words have you written this year?

nearly 14k (13,924 to be exact) published and at least 6-7k more of wips! tragically my least prolific year since uhhhhhhhh a long time. 2017? but thats ok it was a hard year all that matters is that i survived<3 im proud of myself for what i did bc im in that kinda moment where im relearning how to write and reengaging the creative part of my brain. and next year will be better!! i have a lot of plans and a wip list as long as a cvs receipt<33

6. Favorite title you used

this one is actually your body drowning in gravity! i havent reread it in a long long while (aside: wow i was a totally different person when i wrote that (i published it jan 3)) bc my brain has temporarily been caught by other things. but it was an idea that i'd been turning over in my head for over a year at the time when i wrote it and i think i saw the richard siken poem that the title is from (it's "the dislocated room" btw) on my dash in the middle of the writing process and it was like. Perfect. like i choose all my titles very carefully but this one really knocks it out of the park. when the fic is literally about tanner thinking mallory is the one that's fallen from the top of the cns building at the end of spectre and not knowing until the body hits the ground.

28. Favorite work you wrote this year?

OUGHHH this is hard. Ough. ok i DO think it's just so long as this thing's loaded. im chronically an "i wrote this for me but you can read it if you want" guy bc i have rarepair disease. if i want to read it i have to be the one to write it. but this fic was really an exercise in like. getting weird with it. remembering that u cannot judge ur creation by any possible bad faith interpretation of it. letting myself write the kind of wildly unhinged horny possessive devotion that eats the inside of my brain but ive never been able to put on the page bc of the Fear of like ohhh that would be sooo bad in real life. dude theyre. not real. idk im not good at that sort of thing the panopticon inside my mind is sometimes kind of crazy. but like yeah actually they do think the power dynamic is hot. yeah nick made jasper fake betraying him obviously here is this situation where jasper comes back to nick after his faked death and both of them are pretending not to know the betrayal wasn't real. its just roleplay 2 them. sorry to quote a line in this already extremely long answer but like "The only thing he wants to keep is right here at his side and hasn’t that been the point of all of this, the knife to his throat and the blood in his kiss and the slow simmer of barely leashed desire. Jasper has come to him like this, the traitor slinking his guilty way home, to show Nick the lengths to which he would go for him. To which he has always gone for him, giving up everything to play Nick’s triple agent, just what the Director ordered." is literally the thesis statement of the whole thing. Anyway

also its the kind of fic where every line is trying to be The Line which...is a quirk of my writing style that comes out every now and then that im usually (for good reason tbh) always trying to cut back on. but this...Needed It. sometimes the prose DOES need to be purple. and i had fun. it was really fun dude lol i had a great time