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not impressed.
#judging you 2.0#watched the geonosis episode with the creepy ass giant bug#this was inspired by a screenshot from there— except i added a mullet LOL#and the bitch faces#im on a sw art roll right now#star wars#clone wars#obi wan kenobi#anakin skywalker#sw art#star wars fanart
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oh my GOD the latest sw au comic is incredible holy shit, this au is so so dear to my heart for many reasons, both personal and artistic/writing appreciation, i am SO invested and you are doing SUCH a great job, i love your art style and i also love your writing and your use of astarions scars as a tattoo, and its such a good idea having the tattoo get infected!!!! as someone in the replies said, you went exactly as hard as is needed for this topic, youre doing a wonderful job and its amazing to see and to read, thank you for posting your work!!!!
also poor astarion omg, dudes goin THROUGH it but im glad halsins got him now! hopefully now he gets a good ol hospital trip, a soft comfortable and safe place to rest, a bunch of iv antibiotics and painkillers, and halsin is by his side the whole time he recovers... and hopefully that tattoo comes back round to destroy cazador, its gotta be able to be traced back to the bastard right!?
i especially love the last pannel though, ive always loved how you draw people holding and cradling each other, its beautiful and so realistic to how bodies are shaped and how bodies interact when in contact, and its totally perfect for all the emotions in the comic!!!!
this is a huge ramble haha no need to respond if youd rather not of course, but had to get the appreciation out!!
this seriously rocks, i love the sw au its so well done and i always ADORE seeing updates!!!! love your art and i hope you have a wonderful day/night :D
Ah I may cry thank you very much! Yes, I promise only good things from now on :').
Honestly I don't know about revenge on cazador! In game he Needs Astarion for the ritual so tracks him down...but in this situation he doesn't need him, he used threats to keep him under control but I don't think he would go to another city to search. I also think it's more realistic, traffickers lose their grip on people who actually get out, and find new people who are easier to control. Its also like...I made it easier than it often would be, because I didn't want to write drugs into an AU, but often that's a big factor in being trapped- dealer+employer+protector all rolled into one grim bundle.
ANYWAY thank you for the lovely words <3
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#5
I adore that little headshake thing dean does when he's spitting out something angry, "he was an obsessed bastard" and "what's dead should stay dead" like a dog, bite and rip and tear it up
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#4
first-time-in-a-long-time hits so well with samdean. i love the idea of them fooling around s1-2 era, to then be too busy with dying and not dying and saving the world to bring that bag-of-worms back into play. late bunker era s14~ when they’re more comfortable with themselves and their lives and the damnation of it is less relevant, slipping back in with each other and remembering how it was and how they’ve changed... peak
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#3
im never not thinking about mystery spot unrequited wincest
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#2
"They think we're in love" for wincest please
At a beachside resort in Florida there are disembodied knives dancing around the kitchen, second degree burns from boiling soups tipped over hands nowhere near handles and hypothermic staff found in the walk-in after hours.
They trudge in with grubby duffels over their shoulders and stand out amongst brightly coloured beach-goers with mini-wheeled suitcases. When the concierge says you must be here for the couples retreat Sam says yes and Dean says no.
Sam is taller and louder and generally more domineering when he wants to be, so Dean covers his response with a cough and plans a vicious assault on his brother for when no one will be able to hear him cry for help. The woman at the desk is giving Dean flighty little looks and Sam is smiling bright like he’s won something.
Dean steps back, wholly unequipped to deal with whatever is going on here, flips through the magazines next to the complimentary cucumber and watermelon sparkling water and pretends he can’t hear her jovially listing off the weekend’s planned activities. Dean readjusts his bag and thumbs through Men’s Health in attempt to quash whatever disastrous impression he’s giving off to make her assume he and Sam are fucking.
Which they are.
But that’s not the point.
Sam had kissed him three months ago like he’d had the terminal desire to for a lifetime. Short and fast and crushing and Dean hadn’t pried for the how-longs because it didn’t matter when a week later his hands were down Sam’s pants and Sam was burying his face into Dean’s jugular making unholy little noises into his skin.
Sam didn’t need to go parade it around. He prays his brother is checking them in under different surnames.
Sam returns to him with their room key. He looks like he’s about to slide an arm over Dean’s shoulders for show but thinks better of it when Dean raises his metaphorical hackles and threatens to bite. Sam spreads his hands in surrender, the key dangling from his fingers, Dean reads the number and heads towards the elevator with Sam on his heels.
He jabs the number five and then the close-door button repeatedly so Sam has to Lara Croft his huge body between the gap to make it in time. It makes Dean laugh and dislodges some of his anger.
The ride up is awkward and Dean clicks his tongue, rolls back and forth on his heels, thinks about what could have been. “If I wasn’t so pissed we could have been making out right now, just so you know.”
Sam actually looks pained. “Cruel, Dean.”
The bell chimes and the doors open onto a wide carpeted hallway. Their door is at the end because of course it is.
The room is stupid. Grossly lavish. It’s so obviously a couple’s suite; there are pink rose petals scattered on the bed and an ensuite separated by a wall with built in shutters.
On the pros side, the television is half the size of the wall and they’ve got an awesome view of the long strip of beach through the floor to ceiling window. There’s also a mirror above the bed which Dean can’t think about right now, he’s trying to be angry.
“Cool, you’ll have a nice dying view for when I murder you,” Dean says gesturing towards the window while trying to push down the urge to fall face first onto the hundred thread count bedsheets.
“I didn’t expect it to be this fancy,” Sam says, snooping around in the bar fridge. “And it’s not like I planned it either. It’s just less suspicious this way.”
“They think we’re in love.” Dean says, unable to look directly at the heart-shaped complimentary soaps.
Sam laughs like it’s the funniest joke he’s ever heard. Fucking lunacy; Sam stands and says, “I am in love with you, Dean.”
He flounders.
It’s not something that should stump him this bad. Of course Sam loves him, he’s told him that before - since he was old enough to get his mouth to sound out the words. With his actions, more recently, the saving-his-life kind and the sucking-his-dick kind.
It is in desperate need of redefining, the word love. The way he feels for his brother is too big to fit within its four letters. It isn’t conventional romantic love and it isn’t brotherly love. There is no word for this. Love feels too trivial.
Dean walks over to his brother, jabs a finger hard to his sternum. “You better start thinking about how you plan to make it up to me then, because I sure as shit ain’t doing the couples beachside yoga and massage.”
Sam grabs his finger so he can’t get away, leans in to kiss him once. “They have a twenty-four-hour all you can eat buffet.”
And all is forgiven.
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MCSM - a more Real..
Author’s Notes;
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abus
e)
Setting: Change to an ice
land
(A excessive
place To keep the characters from being hateable from the ,offset)
Several Char �� had to be edited slightly
The
Orde
r
of
th
e
Ston
e,
Gabriel,
Magnus,
Eligard,
United
By
Soren
Defeated
the
Ender
Drag
on
Trac
in
g
the
word
s
wi
th
hi
s
fi
n
g
e
r
“Right
we
shou
l
d
b
e
going
Now
,
‘’
Shifted
fro
m
th
ei
r
perch,
in
Brigh
t
Light
in
g
Of
Day
Gil,
loung
in
g
wi
t
h
a
cop
y
of
‘Gabriel and
a Guide
to
defense,’
Jess
e
Olivia
+
Axel
Drap
p
e
d
wit
h
‘Log
ist
ics
fo
r
th
e
Loose
assorted,”
By
Magnus
Aiden
a
wkward
ly
Propp
e
d
Wi
t
h,
“Action
ali
zatio
n
fo
r
th
e
il
begotten
~Eligard
and
hi
s
pre
viou
s
dis
card
ed
“Evaluation
E
valati
on
of
Happ
ine
s
s
,”
By
Soren,
some
where
“Aw,
I was going
to
read
that
,”
Petra
(newly
Reach
in
g
for
On
e
of
the
many
stuffed
book
shelves
wi
t
h
“Tr
e
e
Car
e
You
r
Guide
to
th
e
Geo
phenomen
a
l
,”
,
“
‘Iv-
and the many uses of Po
-‘
(The book
so scruffed into its corner
that that’s all that could be
re -
,
An
d,
+
“Adventure;
Where
to
find
‘em
,
”
“Not
if
we’re
going
to
mak
e
it
to
th
e
con
ve
n
tio
n
,
”
“Besides
don’t
you
al
ready
hav
e
tha
t
c
op
y,
,“
“Yeah
but
it’s
a
go
od
re
a
d
,
”
“Besides
it’s different from the
traveling
edition
,”
“Trav
el
i
n
g
edi
t
io
n,”
,
Axel
sniffed
,
Lukas,
“C’mon
five
min
utes don’t want to be
late,”
“Con
v
en
t
io
n
s
,”
On
groun
d
Jesse
get
t
in
g
hi
s
pe
t
boar
Reube
n,
for
th
e
trek
To
be greeted by what seem
e
d
like 2 million Quest’N
‘answers
posters
with Gabriel‘s
face
posted
on
it,
“This
is
th
e
bes
t day
of
m
y
lif
e,”
While the others were there to roll
the
i
r
eyes
except Lukas
“leave
it
be,
“
“If it was anyone else
-
I’d have to
carry them off the
floor
to,”
,”
A
“riv
al
,”
Te
a
m,
Cordial
en
ough
wit
h
Luk
as
“Tell
Ethan
I
said
hell
o,
“
Not so much
with
th
e
rest of
them
“Our
Invention
Is
Goi
ng
to
be
Grea
t,
”
“Our
s
wil
l
be
great
er,”
�� “What
got
in
to
th
e
m,
“
,
“Ivor
fan boys
,”
Axel
Shrug
ged,
“Oh
speak
of
the
Devil,
You might have some company as
Ivor
fan
club
le
a
d
e
r,
Pet
r
a
,”
“oh,
The
m
agai
n,
”
“Wh
o
Cou
ld
n
’t
al
l
t
h
e
books
he’
s
Written
abou
t
po-,”
Fad
in
g
Into
com
fort
able
not
hing
As they made it to the
bu
i
ld
zon
e
And
Olivia
start
e
d
draw
in
g
u
p
sta
t
istics,
for
th
e
build
So you wouldn’t mind
coming with me
and
helping me
find him,
would
you
Jess
e,“
,
“Um,
Ye
ah,
Su
re,
We
should
be
done
here
right,
Lukas
“
Jesse
yelle
d
u
p
t
o
Lukus
Who
gave
hi
m
a
thu
mbs
u
p,
And away about
Olivia who is staying behind to talk to some
planners
“So what’s up with this
Ivor
guy
a
gain
, ”
I th
“I’ve
always
be
en
m
o
r
e
in
ter
es
t
e
d
i
n
Ma
g
n
u
s,
I mean all the
scientific
. .
stuff,
Realiz
in
g
he
had
inter
ru
p
t
e
d
,
”
Slyily
smili
ng,
“Iv
or
is
a
kno
wn
st
u
d
i
e
r
of
plant
s
an
d
the
ir
essence
,
“
“An
apothecary,”
“Not
Quite
,-“
“Huh
I’d
though
t
we
’
d
m
e
et
h
i
m
h
e
r
e,”
“Let
me
go
chec
k
“Jesse
stay
here,”
Please
“ what
are
you
doin
g
her
e?
“
Iriat
te
d,
“Mr.
Ivor
sir,
I
was
hoping
to
give
this
to
you
be
fore
the
sho
w,”
“Yes,
Yes-
Actual
ly
glancing
at
th
e
thin
g
Mouth
agape
at
th
e
“Withe
r
Skul
l,”
She
he
ld
in
h
e
r
h
a
n
d
s,
“ This
is
..perfect,
thank
you,”
“Hel
p
your
sel
f
to
t
h
e
di
a
monds
in
th
e
ches
t
o
ve
r
ther
e,
“
“Sir,
thes
e
aren’t
diamonds,
these
are
moissanite,
.”
“Maybe
we
should
te
l
l
hi
m
“Wh
y,”
“Because
thes
e
migh
t
b
e
im
por
t
an
t
t
o
h
i
m,
”
“Don’t
wanna
mess up the
show,”
,
Petra
&
Jess
e,
Mak
in
g
it’
ba
c
k,
an
d
Me
e
t
in
g
A
xl
e
the
re,
“ Axel
wha
t
ar
e
yo
u
doi
n
g
h
e
r
e
,
”
“Oh hey,”
Munching on
a bowl
of
pret
ze
l
s
“guys,
Gabriel
stop
pe
d
by
our
buil
d,
sai
d
it
was
“Clas
s,
and
gav
e
me
“this
,
[Sev
eral chains with the words
“back
stage
pas
s
e
s,
” etc
hed
on
th
e
m
,”
“ Luk
as
wen
t
t
o
giv
e
yo
u
you
r
s
J
ess
e,”
“Gill
is
geek
in
g
Out
over
Ga
briel,
Olivia’s
tal
kin
g with some
Pl
an
n
e
r
s
,-
“
“Oh
hey
Petr
a,
I requested
one
for
you,
Though don’t think you need it since you’re a
distributor
an
d
al
l,
,”
Petra
smil
in
g,
sly
ily
tak
in
g
ou
t
he
r
“dis
trib
u
tor,
”
tag,
“Anywa
y
we
can
’t
sto
p
t
o
tal
k
no
w
a
x
l
e,
“
“Hav
e
t
o
r
e
tur
n
som
e
th
i
n
g
to
on
e
o
f
th
e
guest
s
,
”
,
“That
woul
d
be
his
Room
,”
Jesse asked quickly as Petra lightly pushed him forward (from be
hind,
as he slid on
ward
s,
“Yeah, t
‘The door clicked
sh
u
t behind
th
e
m,
A flight o
f
stai
r
s ,
“Well,
this
is,
ambitious
,
“
“Are you
kidding
having to build
stairs
all the way down in
ice,”
,
“ I had no idea that Ivor was such a
builder
architect
,
”
“ It’s a shame it’s so
Dark in here,”
light
ing up a
light,
As they made it through what
see
med to be
big
book
shelves
,
The li
ghts
flick
ed
on
sud
den
ly
Jesse
gras
ping a
han
d
on
her
mouth
(For no
part
icular
re
a
s
o
n
,
“ Nice
to
see
me
again,
no,
no,
“
‘B
e
en
a
lon
g
tim
e,’
,no”
“FI
nally
out
of your
sh-“
“Mr.
Ivor,
sir,
“
“Aagh,”
,
Petra
pe
eping into the
dar
k
nes
s, of the
di
m,
ly
li
t,
dun
g
eo
n,
“I’m
her
e
to ask you about the
dia
Pe-
moissan
it
e,
yo
u,
gav
e,
me
,”
-
“It’s
,
”
“Get
Out
,”
“But-“
“Get out before I call
security,”
,
Petra
Slink
e
d,
Jesse
follow
ing
quietly
after
,
“Well
at least
we got
our
an
sw
er.
Come’ on let’s go join the
others
before the
show
st
arts,
“Jesse,
I was lo
ok
in
g
all
over
for
you,
-“
Lukas
“Axel
already
,told
us
,
”Course
he
did,”
gruff
ly,
just
as
pana
l,
Ivor
“Finally out of the dark
nes
s of
your
shadow
,”
“Now how about
a real monster
and we’ll see how we measure up
.”
“Ivor,
th
is
really
isn’t
th
e
plac
e,
-
or
th
e
tim-
,
“
A
Compartment
Reveal
in
g
th
e
Components
for
a
Wither
,
Ivo
r
ad
d
i
n
g
th
e
last
par
t,
a
“Wither
Skull,”
the
Withe
r
Skul
l ,
th
e
On
e
Petra
-
The audience burst into applause as it st
arted
mo
v
in
g believing it to be part of the
show,
Gabriel,
tak
in
g
out
a
wooden
sword
The
Crowd
Disperse
as the
Wither
start
e
d
at
tack
ing
th
e
m,
“Ivor
That’s
Eno
ugh,
Turn
this
thing
of
f,
Lukas
Confronted
“Oh,
I will
One o’
Soren,
Once,
hey
it’s
not
work
in
g,
Ivor pressing the button panicking
ly,
“Hey, guys
what’s going
on,
“
Axel
joi
ni
n
g
th
e
m,
at the cleared out
con
vent
i
on,
“Ivor’s
gon
e
Off
the
Wal
l
s
And
made an invention trying to
kill
every
one,”
Gill
repli
“Co
ol
,”
“ an
d
destroy,”
“ Why won’t
this
stupid
wire,”
“Hm,
Wire
,”
“Axel
,”
Oli
v
i
a,
“ I mean there was a
wire on
the
table,”
“Axel,
what
hap
pen
e
d
t
o
t
h
e
w
ir
e,
“Well,”
Axel
flush
ing,
“I um
I
took
it,”
“AXEL!!”
“What they did say take
whatever
you
wa
nt
,
”
“Wher
e
is-
it-
I used it to add
another light display to the
statue
c-
thing,
“Well you
might
want
to get it
now,”
Backing away from the
destruction
on
stage that seem to get
eve
r
clos
e
r
Stepping
ove
r the
woo
den
sw
ord
The
remote
next
dis
regar
d
ed
i
n
frustration
As they were driven back to the
statue
cr,
“Got
it
,“
“Hand
it
Gill
,
”
Gil
l
Pas
sin
g
i
t
to
wh
o
gave
to
Jess
e
who
Brok
e
it
dow
n,
whil
e,
Olivia
whisper
ed
instructions on how to
put it
together to Aiden
Whil
e
Axel
+
Olivia
play
ed
dis
trac
t
io
n
“Done,”
Tos
s
ed
up
to
Lukas,
Who
went
to
pres
s
th
e
but
to
n,
Only for
Ivor to
sn
atch it out of his hand and do the
Honor,
And,
It
Didn’t
wo
r
k,
“So
Losers
,”
A
Leather
Jacket
Rush
e
d
by,
“ Ethan,
if
you’re
not
goin
g
t
o
b
e
hel
p
fu
l-
,”
Lukas
snapped
but they were already
long
gone,
Trail
ing
afte
r
the
m
To the
Edge,
Ivor
hauling
Gabriel’s
unconscious
form,
“I
want
e
d
to see him
humiliated not
dead
,”
Gabriel
stirrin
g by the
Edge,
Talkin
g
to
“Gill,
you
need
to
tak
e
t
h
i
s
emble
m,”
Tak
in
g
it
ou
t
of
his
coat
,
“Fin
d
th
e
other
s
-
,
”
Pas
sing
Ou
t,
And
Gil
l
Run
n
ing off in the opposite direction with the
wheel,
It’s flashing a
slight blue at Gill’
s
tou
ch
Befor
e
a
brow
n
dot,
around
th
e
ri
m,
Mak
ing a small
streak
pa
t
h,
,
Shifting with the
users
stance to point in a
certain
dir
ec
t
io
n
Tak
in
g
Of
f
Af
te
r
it
A
Broken
Crate
r
Wi
t
h
h
i
m
a
s
K
i
n
g
,
It was
nearly
im
po
s
sib
le
to
m
a
k
e
it
t
o
h
i
m,
“Mag
nus,
Ga
bri
el
Sen
t
Us,”
“ Gabriel
huh,”
Magnus
hol
ding up the
tr
in
ke
t,
Before
throwing him down the pile
he’
d
jus
t
struggle
d
t
o
cli
m
b,
On
top of
Gil
l
Who’d
bee
n
s
u
p
por
t
in
g
hi
m
“This.
is
point
les
s.”
“He
’s
Insane,”
Jess
e
Admit
t
ed
dejected
ly,
Shar
in
g
a
lo
ok
wit
h
Axe
L
,
“Then
we
sh
ould
mo
ve
onto
the
nex
t
one-,”
Axel
shook
his
head,
“ We
need
to get
this
done,
We’re
stay
in
g
he
r
e
go
on
ah
e
a
d
,”
Lukas
Speech
less,
Before
Going
On
ahead,
Aidan
Wi
t
h
h
i
m,
“Hm,
Of
course
I’ll
go
with
you,”
Eligard
far
mor
e
Co Operative,
Soren
“I
should
stay
out
he
re,”
Whe
n
The
y
got
to
Soren’s
hous
e,
“Soren and I .. didn’t leave things off
too
go od
last time
I- we
spoke”
,
“It
would
be
better
if
you
go,
Soren, not so much..
.
Having
taking
to
knit
ting
a
lot,
And
docu
ment
ing his
rare
animal
fin
dings
Not p
l
ease
d
to be distur
b
ed
b
y
t
h
e
m,
How
eve
r very excited to see
Reuben,
Jess
e
’s
pe
t
pi
g,
“Animal
s,
lovely
creatures
,
Don’t
betray you
and take your
th
ings
,
I’ve seen
a few
of course
- but to see it
bonded
with
a
human,
,
You
must
tell
me
the
tale,
Sitting with
Soren
and having
tea
I found
Reuben
(That
’s his
name)
at the
place
we
built
our
treehouse,
”
While
So
ren
knit
Re
ub
en
a
ti
ny,
Sw
ea
te
r,
“Now
back
to
the
point,
we
could
reall
y
use-
appreci
ate-
,“
Soren’s
fac
e
chan
g
ing at his
change
in
words,
“you
r
he
l
p,
”
“I want-
to help you
I really do,
“
Soren
insist
e
d,
“But the Order
and
I, didn’t
leave things on
good
terms,
Hesitatin
g,
Cou,
“Would
Reuben be
t
here,
“
Jess
e
Nod
ded
“And you’d be helping a lot of
animals-“
“Fine-
I’ll
go,”
,
Jesse
em
er
gi
n
g
wi
t
h,
Soren
Only to find
Aidan
an
d
Eligard
No
Long
er
ther
e,
“They
went
ahead
to
th
e
Temple
,”
Lukas
whis
per
ed
Swa
pp
in
g
stories
wi
th
Luk
as
on
th
e
w
a
y
as
he
le
ad
t
h
e
m
b
a
c
k
to
th
e
Te
m
ple,
The
only
thing
left
after
th
e
Wither’s
rampage
“And
our
tree
house
is
ri
gh
t
ov
e
r
th
e
r
e,”
Lukas
poi
n
t
e
d
ou
t,
Petr
a
sho
w
in
g
u
p
w
i
t
h
I
v
o
r,
And
things
clearly
went
down
hi
ll from
th
er
e,
Ivor,
im mediately
taking charge of the whole
op eration
as Soren
watch
e
d
Irr
iat
e
d
o
n th
e
side
lin
e
s,
Goin
g
t
o
g
e
t
Mag
n
u
s
with
t
h
e
sp
ar
e
tim
e
,
“Who
dares-
So
r
e
n,
“
Dro
pp
ing the explosive behind his back as he went to
cuddle
Soren,
who
star
e
d
blank
l
y,
“Soren,
‘how you been
cute
pig,
Always
a sucker for
(cute
animals,
so
how,
“
Holding up the emblem
intimi
datingly
Sw
“Al right,
oh right,
,sure
“
Mak
in
g
it
b
a
c
k
t
o
t
h
e
Temple,
to
he
ar,
“It’s
Done!”
Soren
raisi
ng
an
ey
e
bro
w,
at
leas
t,
“This will
de
activate
the
Wither
storm,
“
“Once
in
walking distance so
of
course,
,”
Shoving
th
e
devic
e
of
f
on
Lukas
Who
went
to
suit
up
as well as the rest of
them,
At the moment
arrived,
“I’ll watch
Reuben
for
you,
“
Soren
Offe
r
ed
Reuben
Could take
a pretty
mighty
pun
ch,
but saf
er
no
t
to
risk
it,
“Sure
Reuben
likes
you,”
��As
he
went
through
Sl
ici
n
g
Thr
ou
g
h
th
e
Wit
her
Spawn
ed
hord
e,
The
Wither
storm
falte
r
in
g
an
d
fall
in
g
Com
in
g
ou
t
Rescuing those that the
Wither
storm
had
cap
tur
e
d,
Inc
Lud
in
g
Gab
r
i
el,
Wi
th
Fro
s
t
bi
t
e,
Only
for
it
to
star
t
mov
in
g
ag
a
i
n,
In
three,
“Run!”
Luk
as
Wa
rn
e
d,
They ran, castle destroyed,
and forced to find shelter in a
cave
“This never
would’ve
happened,
“
“Magnus please for once in your life shut your
accursed
mouth,”
Soren
snap
p
e
d
worriedly,
“Eligard help me attend to
Gabriel’s
frost
bite
,”
-
Into the Night
“Ivor,
I can’t believe
so such a fool
hardy
plan!”
Wak
in
g
up
Lukas
an
d
dis
turb
i
n
g
th
e
other
s,
Goin
g
ou
t
t
o
,
“I should’ve
stood up
for
m
yself
a
long time ago
Ivor
Give me that
in fernal device,”
“ it need
s
morganite
,”
“You use
d
dia-
mond,
”
as argument broke out
Lukas,
Petra coming behind
Lukas after being treated
for
minor
frost
-burn
Sm,
“Looks like I actually
wi
ll have use of that
mor
ganite,“
Petra crossed her arms clearly haven’t forgotten the abrasive
behavior
ear
lie
r,
“Pl-
huc
ke
d
Morganite
at
h
i
m,
“Yo
u
should
pro
bably
destroy
it
fo
r
goo
d
m
easur
e
,”
Soren
giv
in
g
Luk
as
h
i
s
s
w
or
d,
“Oh look at
Soren can’t kill an
ender
dragon-
O
op
s,”
“Ivor, you have
never,
Been
helpful
to
any
one
in
th
e
g
r
ou
p
ever”
“I-
Mag
nus
C’mon on
that isn’t
true
right
buddy ,”
Mag
nus
hid
ing
be
hin
d
Sore
n,
Eli
gar
d
Cros
s
in
g
he
r
ar
m
s,
“It’s
time you leave
Ivor,
“
Ivor looking at them before running
into the Wasteland
Of the
ir
ow
n
mak
i
n
g
“Come on we have inventions
to make
and things
to
rebuild
,”
“Is it true that you didn’t
slay
the
end
e
r
d
ra
g
on,
“No,
Aligardz’s
dragon
look
e
d
to
o
m
u
c
h
lik
e
an
an
i
mal,
I lulled
it
to
sl
e
ep,
Not a blade pierc
e
d it’s
pel
t
Soren
Stro
kin
g
R
ueben’s
h
ea
d,
“Ivor’s
ma-
,”
a sound,
“We should get back to
invent,”
So
ren’
s
word
s
fad
ed
of
f
as he enter
th
e
cav
e
Leav
ing
Jess
e with the
othe
r
s
Suit
ing up to take on the
Withe
r
on
e
last
tim
e,
Soren
watch
in
g
Reuben,
The
Withe
r
fell
And
Lukas
Aiden,
Olivia,
Jesse
Axel
and
Gil
l
As
we
l
l
a
s
Petr
a
Be
cam
e
hero
e
s,
Axel
Event
ually
re
turn
in
g
int
o
ac
count
abil
ity
,
The
End
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Making A Light & Airy Living Room (That’s Still Livable!)
Just when you thought the duplex was getting all the action, we snuck in some beach house updates. The backyard is slowly starting to come together (shed! patio! fence! I CAN’T WAIT to show it to you once it gets a little further along!!) but today we’re diving into our lightener & brighter (and much beachier) living room.
Now this place actually looks like it’s a few blocks from the beach! And the bonus is that everything is sand and popsicle friendly – which is a must for us (we pack this place with family and friends and all the kids). So our goal was never to make it too precious. In other words, we were going for a light and airy look… but it had to be durable, wipeable, and as close to worry-free as we could get it!
sofa | side table | coffee table | rug | bookcase | lamps | wall: SW White Heron | trim: SW Stone Isle
We wanted to use some of the furniture we designed, including one of our new sofas (performance fabric = all the yesses). So we started with our Mellow sofa. It’s sold out right now, but our other two sofas – the Pivot and the Spiffy – are discounted just for the next few days thanks to a Joss & Main’s flash sale (they’ve got different names on J&M for some reason). A lot of things are at the lowest prices they’ve ever been ($699 for the sofas!) so if you’ve had your eye on one of our designs, it’s a pretty great time to check it out.
sofa | side table | coffee table | rug | lamp | chandelier| wall: SW White Heron | trim: SW Stone Isle
Sadly, our trusty old Ikea sectional (Karl the Karlstad, remember?) was ready for retirement (aka: donation). The problem with moving a sectional from house to house to house (we moved it from our second house, to our current house, and then to the beach house over the last eight years) is that sometimes the space would be better suited for a sofa… but you have a sectional… so you just sort of keep moving it around and trying to make the best of it.
We could kind of make sense of it it photos, but in real life there were awkward things like the chaise cutting into the doorway. We tried putting the chaise on the other end of the living room (it’s reversible), but it wasn’t any better because it meant we couldn’t have the extra seating over there, which really comes in handy and gets used a lot.
So as we mentioned a few weeks ago on the podcast, after eight awesome years with Karl, we donated him to a local charity that we love, and he’s living it up with a sweet new family. His legacy lives on. (*cue that Celine Dion song from Titanic*).
Another way that we tried to make this room feel lighter and airier was the patterned gray rug that we bought to replace the vintage one below (which happily lives in a bedroom at the duplex now). OMG that was meant to be in there, guys.
Along with our rug switch, the new sofa is a HUGE step forward in lightening things up. Plus its smaller footprint meant there was room for a few more functional furnishings. Like, momma finally gets a side table on her end of the couch. Hello reading lamp! Hello spot for my tea!
sofa | side table | coffee table | rug | lamp | baskets | bookcase | chandelier
Also, a word about white wood furniture: it’s a GREAT WAY to achieve a lighter look that’s still livable (it’s all wipeable, but it looks so nice and bright). So if you’re staring at a space you’d love to lighten up, sometimes it’s as simple as a $15 quart of white paint with primer built in (we recently tried Behr Marquee and it had great coverage) and you can redo your coffee table and your end tables – or even a bookcase or a shelving unit in an afternoon. Light walls and white (gloriously washable) curtains help too!
The three tiers on our side table = all the spots for magazines, a basket full of legos, or whatever else you like to keep at arm’s length. We actually ordered two more of the same side tables for the duplex because we love it so much. It also comes in a smaller version (which is super marked down right now) and you know I want to make a coffee table version, so stay tuned!
side table | top art | bottom art | vase | lamp | baskets | pink pillow | blue pillow
I also hung some new art that I bought through an artist I found on Instagram. Her name is Sarah Madeira Day and her stuff is just beautiful and so well priced. These two 8 x 8″ canvas prints were $25 each! Printed on canvas with gorgeous vibrant colors! I just love them – and I framed them in simple Ribba frames from Ikea that I already had (with linen-like fabric behind them, which adds some really pretty texture and a double-mat effect).
And as much as we liked the coffee table we DIYed last summer, the dark wood legs started to feel pretty busy – especially as the room got lighter. So we carried over one of these coffee tables that we ordered for the duplex. I’m liking how visually airy it is and the size is better for the space, so I may end up ordering another one to make up for the one I yoinked from the duplex.
Also, John and I burst out laughing when we realized that we basically recreated this photoshoot set-up in our beach house. Even the rugs are similar!
It kind of makes sense that it would happen that way, because we chose some of our favorite stuff for that photo… so I love seeing it living together at the beach house now. Especially mixed with other stuff that we love (that CB2 ladder shelf is so glossy and gorgeous in person, and I feel a deep and meaningful connection to our pretty pink lamp from Target).
Funny story about this coffee table. A couple weeks after that photoshoot, John shot up in bed nervous that the scallops around the outside were a terrible idea. His concern was that it was going to prevent people from kicking their feet up on it (to which I said: “but not everyone puts their feet on the coffee table, right?”).
So imagine his palpable relief when he realized that his legs easily fit between the shallow rounded scallops, and he actually proclaimed it to be more comfortable than our coffee table at home (which also has a small lip on top, but it’s sharper and not rounded/smoothed out).
We’re also happy to report that the edge doesn’t get in the way of other tabletop activities like board games (you know we LOVE OUR BOARD GAMES). Actually the border does a nice job of corralling things. You know, if one of your crazy bear creations gets out of hand or you’re rolling dice and don’t want them flying all over the place. So if you DMed me about that, here’s your answer: works great for family board games – the scallops aren’t nearly tall enough to block your arms or anything like that.
I also had someone message me to say “be sure to put a shallow little remote drawer in your next coffee table design!” and the good news is that this one already has one! I love a little hidden drawer to keep that stuff contained.
Also a note on living room layouts, because I FEEL YOU OUT THERE. THEY ARE HARD. This room has been evolving for over a year and a half now (I know, it feels like just yesterday that we furnished the beach house!), and we still have plans to mount the TV on the wall, possibly paint the walls, and change out those diamond backed chairs that are living by the windows, but more on that in a second.
sofa | side table | coffee table | rug | lamps | media cabinet
One of the reasons that living room layouts are tough is because we make assumptions about the way we live or the things we want and then we’re too nervous to try something else. So it’s hard to unlock a fresh solution if we’re stuck in the same thought patterns. Like for example, it sounds counterintuitive to say getting a smaller sofa can create more seating, but we learned last summer that trying to cram all of our guests onto a sectional wasn’t always the most comfortable or the most conducive to conversation.
So we decided to try to “break up” the seating options a little more. With the chaise gone, we could also tuck a chair into the corner by the TV. So the sofa seats about three adults (the four of us fit on it just fine since the kids are smaller), and there are three other chairs in the room now, too. So even though your brain wants to believe that a sectional = the most seating, it’s not always true.
We’re still on the hunt to find some bigger / more relaxed feeling chairs for the window wall, but these thrifted ones (which you may remember from wayyyyy back in our old home office) are doing the trick for now. I spray painted them and recovered the seats to make them a little more neutral – and I always picture them ending up at the duplex because they have that diamond shape like the diamond windows over there.
Oh and the rug. Let’s talk about that for a second. We recently had a slime incident. Not just a “slime got on the rug” issue, but a “slime sat on the rug for months under the chaise and I only discovered it when we switched the sofa out and it left a huge grease stain that everyone could see thanks to no longer having a chaise” issue. ARGH!
But…. I got it out! After a lot of googling and some tips from people on InstaStories, the winning removal method was pouring white vinegar on the grease spot, letting it sit, scraping it with a spoon (to remove some leftover slime – it was actually “Thinking Putty”) and after it dried I dabbed it with nail polish remover. That was key in lifting the grease stain and you can’t even see where it was! Plus it gives me a new appreciation that this rug has such a variety of gray tones! Those lighter and darker areas make it much more forgiving.
Between that AND getting an immediate chocolate stain on the new sofa (which came right out dabbing it with water – thanks again, performance fabric!) – we feel like this room can take anything that these kids throw at it – both literally and figuratively. I mean… they might prove us wrong, but they’re gonna have to try harder than slime and chocolate…
The last thing I’ll mention while we’re on the topic of updates at the beach house is our dining room chandeliers. A few months ago in our email newsletter, we showed how we swapped out the old capiz chandeliers for these from our lighting line, but I’m not sure we ever shared a picture on the blog. We love that they’re a little more substantial and the polished nickel details tie into the other light fixtures throughout the living room and the kitchen.
capiz chandeliers | benches | chairs | marble vase
The previous chandeliers are now hanging in the master bedrooms at the duplex because it’s basically in the Sherry Petersik Decorating Handbook that every house we fix up must have a capiz fixture somewhere. And you know I love playing musical furniture & light fixtures! (p.s. this is a TV concept, I just don’t want to actually be on tv – but someone please make a series about switching things you already have around like that old show on HGTV called Freestyle and I’d be SO INTO IT! It goes back to my love of staging houses and being scrappy with things you already have on hand).
So there are our latest beach house updates – and I hope it’s comforting to hear that sometimes rooms take a little while to figure out, and it’s totally not a failure to move things around and keep experimenting and trying new things. Even in our very first home I used to rearrange stuff all the time! There truly is no better way to get a quick makeover.
If you want to catch some of our furniture while it’s on flash sale, it’s only on Joss & Main this week (actually, like only 3 more days). And if you want to learn more about the whole furniture designing process, here’s a post we wrote all about that. And for more on our (well, mostly John’s) idea of painting the living room walls a new color, that’s on this week’s podcast. We tried out some trendy online paint companies to see if they really would make picking paint colors easier…
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Making A Light & Airy Living Room (That’s Still Livable!)
Just when you thought the duplex was getting all the action, we snuck in some beach house updates. The backyard is slowly starting to come together (shed! patio! fence! I CAN’T WAIT to show it to you once it gets a little further along!!) but today we’re diving into our lightener & brighter (and much beachier) living room.
Now this place actually looks like it’s a few blocks from the beach! And the bonus is that everything is sand and popsicle friendly – which is a must for us (we pack this place with family and friends and all the kids). So our goal was never to make it too precious. In other words, we were going for a light and airy look… but it had to be durable, wipeable, and as close to worry-free as we could get it!
sofa | side table | coffee table | rug | bookcase | lamps | wall: SW White Heron | trim: SW Stone Isle
We wanted to use some of the furniture we designed, including one of our new sofas (performance fabric = all the yesses). So we started with our Mellow sofa. It’s sold out right now, but our other two sofas – the Pivot and the Spiffy – are discounted just for the next few days thanks to a Joss & Main’s flash sale (they’ve got different names on J&M for some reason). A lot of things are at the lowest prices they’ve ever been ($699 for the sofas!) so if you’ve had your eye on one of our designs, it’s a pretty great time to check it out.
sofa | side table | coffee table | rug | lamp | chandelier| wall: SW White Heron | trim: SW Stone Isle
Sadly, our trusty old Ikea sectional (Karl the Karlstad, remember?) was ready for retirement (aka: donation). The problem with moving a sectional from house to house to house (we moved it from our second house, to our current house, and then to the beach house over the last eight years) is that sometimes the space would be better suited for a sofa… but you have a sectional… so you just sort of keep moving it around and trying to make the best of it.
We could kind of make sense of it it photos, but in real life there were awkward things like the chaise cutting into the doorway. We tried putting the chaise on the other end of the living room (it’s reversible), but it wasn’t any better because it meant we couldn’t have the extra seating over there, which really comes in handy and gets used a lot.
So as we mentioned a few weeks ago on the podcast, after eight awesome years with Karl, we donated him to a local charity that we love, and he’s living it up with a sweet new family. His legacy lives on. (*cue that Celine Dion song from Titanic*).
Another way that we tried to make this room feel lighter and airier was the patterned gray rug that we bought to replace the vintage one below (which happily lives in a bedroom at the duplex now). OMG that was meant to be in there, guys.
Along with our rug switch, the new sofa is a HUGE step forward in lightening things up. Plus its smaller footprint meant there was room for a few more functional furnishings. Like, momma finally gets a side table on her end of the couch. Hello reading lamp! Hello spot for my tea!
sofa | side table | coffee table | rug | lamp | baskets | bookcase | chandelier
Also, a word about white wood furniture: it’s a GREAT WAY to achieve a lighter look that’s still livable (it’s all wipeable, but it looks so nice and bright). So if you’re staring at a space you’d love to lighten up, sometimes it’s as simple as a $15 quart of white paint with primer built in (we recently tried Behr Marquee and it had great coverage) and you can redo your coffee table and your end tables – or even a bookcase or a shelving unit in an afternoon. Light walls and white (gloriously washable) curtains help too!
The three tiers on our side table = all the spots for magazines, a basket full of legos, or whatever else you like to keep at arm’s length. We actually ordered two more of the same side tables for the duplex because we love it so much. It also comes in a smaller version (which is super marked down right now) and you know I want to make a coffee table version, so stay tuned!
side table | top art | bottom art | vase | lamp | baskets | pink pillow | blue pillow
I also hung some new art that I bought through an artist I found on Instagram. Her name is Sarah Madeira Day and her stuff is just beautiful and so well priced. These two 8 x 8″ canvas prints were $25 each! Printed on canvas with gorgeous vibrant colors! I just love them – and I framed them in simple Ribba frames from Ikea that I already had (with linen-like fabric behind them, which adds some really pretty texture and a double-mat effect).
And as much as we liked the coffee table we DIYed last summer, the dark wood legs started to feel pretty busy – especially as the room got lighter. So we carried over one of these coffee tables that we ordered for the duplex. I’m liking how visually airy it is and the size is better for the space, so I may end up ordering another one to make up for the one I yoinked from the duplex.
Also, John and I burst out laughing when we realized that we basically recreated this photoshoot set-up in our beach house. Even the rugs are similar!
It kind of makes sense that it would happen that way, because we chose some of our favorite stuff for that photo… so I love seeing it living together at the beach house now. Especially mixed with other stuff that we love (that CB2 ladder shelf is so glossy and gorgeous in person, and I feel a deep and meaningful connection to our pretty pink lamp from Target).
Funny story about this coffee table. A couple weeks after that photoshoot, John shot up in bed nervous that the scallops around the outside were a terrible idea. His concern was that it was going to prevent people from kicking their feet up on it (to which I said: “but not everyone puts their feet on the coffee table, right?”).
So imagine his palpable relief when he realized that his legs easily fit between the shallow rounded scallops, and he actually proclaimed it to be more comfortable than our coffee table at home (which also has a small lip on top, but it’s sharper and not rounded/smoothed out).
We’re also happy to report that the edge doesn’t get in the way of other tabletop activities like board games (you know we LOVE OUR BOARD GAMES). Actually the border does a nice job of corralling things. You know, if one of your crazy bear creations gets out of hand or you’re rolling dice and don’t want them flying all over the place. So if you DMed me about that, here’s your answer: works great for family board games – the scallops aren’t nearly tall enough to block your arms or anything like that.
I also had someone message me to say “be sure to put a shallow little remote drawer in your next coffee table design!” and the good news is that this one already has one! I love a little hidden drawer to keep that stuff contained.
Also a note on living room layouts, because I FEEL YOU OUT THERE. THEY ARE HARD. This room has been evolving for over a year and a half now (I know, it feels like just yesterday that we furnished the beach house!), and we still have plans to mount the TV on the wall, possibly paint the walls, and change out those diamond backed chairs that are living by the windows, but more on that in a second.
sofa | side table | coffee table | rug | lamps | media cabinet
One of the reasons that living room layouts are tough is because we make assumptions about the way we live or the things we want and then we’re too nervous to try something else. So it’s hard to unlock a fresh solution if we’re stuck in the same thought patterns. Like for example, it sounds counterintuitive to say getting a smaller sofa can create more seating, but we learned last summer that trying to cram all of our guests onto a sectional wasn’t always the most comfortable or the most conducive to conversation.
So we decided to try to “break up” the seating options a little more. With the chaise gone, we could also tuck a chair into the corner by the TV. So the sofa seats about three adults (the four of us fit on it just fine since the kids are smaller), and there are three other chairs in the room now, too. So even though your brain wants to believe that a sectional = the most seating, it’s not always true.
We’re still on the hunt to find some bigger / more relaxed feeling chairs for the window wall, but these thrifted ones (which you may remember from wayyyyy back in our old home office) are doing the trick for now. I spray painted them and recovered the seats to make them a little more neutral – and I always picture them ending up at the duplex because they have that diamond shape like the diamond windows over there.
Oh and the rug. Let’s talk about that for a second. We recently had a slime incident. Not just a “slime got on the rug” issue, but a “slime sat on the rug for months under the chaise and I only discovered it when we switched the sofa out and it left a huge grease stain that everyone could see thanks to no longer having a chaise” issue. ARGH!
But…. I got it out! After a lot of googling and some tips from people on InstaStories, the winning removal method was pouring white vinegar on the grease spot, letting it sit, scraping it with a spoon (to remove some leftover slime – it was actually “Thinking Putty”) and after it dried I dabbed it with nail polish remover. That was key in lifting the grease stain and you can’t even see where it was! Plus it gives me a new appreciation that this rug has such a variety of gray tones! Those lighter and darker areas make it much more forgiving.
Between that AND getting an immediate chocolate stain on the new sofa (which came right out dabbing it with water – thanks again, performance fabric!) – we feel like this room can take anything that these kids throw at it – both literally and figuratively. I mean… they might prove us wrong, but they’re gonna have to try harder than slime and chocolate…
The last thing I’ll mention while we’re on the topic of updates at the beach house is our dining room chandeliers. A few months ago in our email newsletter, we showed how we swapped out the old capiz chandeliers for these from our lighting line, but I’m not sure we ever shared a picture on the blog. We love that they’re a little more substantial and the polished nickel details tie into the other light fixtures throughout the living room and the kitchen.
capiz chandeliers | benches | chairs | marble vase
The previous chandeliers are now hanging in the master bedrooms at the duplex because it’s basically in the Sherry Petersik Decorating Handbook that every house we fix up must have a capiz fixture somewhere. And you know I love playing musical furniture & light fixtures! (p.s. this is a TV concept, I just don’t want to actually be on tv – but someone please make a series about switching things you already have around like that old show on HGTV called Freestyle and I’d be SO INTO IT! It goes back to my love of staging houses and being scrappy with things you already have on hand).
So there are our latest beach house updates – and I hope it’s comforting to hear that sometimes rooms take a little while to figure out, and it’s totally not a failure to move things around and keep experimenting and trying new things. Even in our very first home I used to rearrange stuff all the time! There truly is no better way to get a quick makeover.
If you want to catch some of our furniture while it’s on flash sale, it’s only on Joss & Main this week (actually, like only 3 more days). And if you want to learn more about the whole furniture designing process, here’s a post we wrote all about that. And for more on our (well, mostly John’s) idea of painting the living room walls a new color, that’s on this week’s podcast. We tried out some trendy online paint companies to see if they really would make picking paint colors easier…
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