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pipperoo · 2 months ago

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how the fuck is it already november 25th?!!?!!?

(time is so fucked up)

anyway, happy one year anniversary to my fic “if only there was more time” and posting on ao3 for the first time!

sincerely can’t believe that i’ve been writing for a year, how did that happen???

#i still can’t believe i decided to post anything at all #i remember wanting to keep fic writing to myself #but right after clicking post on ch 1 i went to my roommates and was like #guess what i just did!!!!#i didn’t even know i liked creative writing until this fic #but i feel so incredibly happy that i found this hobby #it helped me in so many ways #it got me out of the cave #i got my creative spark back that i foolishly thought i lost #this is the largest writing project i've ever worked on #i had no idea what i was doing at any point #the idea just needed to get out and i tried my best #is it completely accurate to the characters? probably not but who’s to say?#i like to think i have some idea now but i can never really be sure #i sincerely love this fic despite its flaws it'll always hold a special place in my heart #also still can’t believe that ppl actually liked it and left such nice comments!! that's actually crazy!!#like i’ll never get over that it still doesn’t feel real #here i am now with 6 works and 227k words in total written #that is so fucking much i have no idea how i did that #and how the fuck did i write this fic in less than 6 months??? where did that drive go???#anyways shout out to my followers that are here bc of this fic #i love you more than anything <3 #and to the few that have read the entire series: i will write the last installment one day!!#i will not leave it unfinished!!

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peace-hunter · 2 months ago

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tfone au where OP is created as the last of the primes but way after them, a sparkling born at what were thought to be the last days of the war against the quintessons, the beginning of a new generation of peace after eons of war. a child meant to be loved and raised knowing nothing of war nor sacrifice.

he's kept mostly out of the spotlight by his siblings, who don't wish to expose him to everyone's optics so young, and want to wait until the war is done and over to properly introduce him to their people.

except of course the primes are betrayed and murdered by sentinel, the war is lost and everyone who knows and cared for the truth is either banished or outright killed in order to suppress it.

and the high guard, the ones the primes trusted the most, the ones that were supposed to protect them, the ones who failed in their most important duty, have to make a choice. to take the last prime, their last hope, with them to the surface, a hostile environment where there's little to no supplies and where they'll be hunted down by both sentinel and the quintessons as the biggest threat to their regimen.

or hide him in plain sight. place him where sentinel won't think to look for him. one more sparkling among many. and hope it will be enough to keep him alive. pray to primus that he'll protect his last child long enough for them to come back for him when it's safer (even if most of them have already lost their faith on him when he allowed the rest of his children to be massacred like that)

they almost lose their resolve when they realize they will have to take the little one's cog away in order to make him blend in with the rest of the newborns (and oh do they burn with murderous intent when they see what sentinel has done to their people but it's not the time yet-) but in the end they decide an impaired little prime is better than a dead one.

and so in the chaos of thirteen dead primes and a sudden energon crisis, a little sparkling who very few mechs really knew about and even fewer had seen completely vanishes. and in the depths of iacon a mech in charge of a new batch of newborns scratches their helm in confusion as they realize they must have miscounted the first time.

optimus prime is quietly erased from any official records by sentinel, written off as dead when they find a sparkling's frame mangled beyond recognition after an attack on the base of those rebels that insist on being a thorn on his side. killing the sparkling hadn't been precisely in his plans, he probably could've found some use for it after all, but he's not particularly upset about it either.

and orion pax grows up with an ache on his spark that tells him he's missing something far more important than a t-cog and dreams of gentle and loving hands, cradling him against the frames of mechs he cannot recall the faces of.

#i talk a lot <3 #transformers #transformers one #tfone #optimus prime #orion pax #baby prime orion au #this is mostly an excuse for me to draw the primes and baby OP later on. just to be clear.#i WILL be drawing this at some point lmao #tbh i'm a little uncertain how i want things to progress #because on one hand it would be very tasty and tense if sentinel recognized optimus during the race #but that means a lot of changes very early on in the plot and i would have to do a lot of Thinking on how to justify getting the gang #to still pick up bee and elita. cause i love them <3 #i do think it'd be very funny if the high guard's plan worked like a charm except for the very tiny fact that they didn't count #on orion being an absolute hellion. like. this kid is Not Going Unnoticed and it's completely his own fault lmao #in this version maybe a member of the high guard stayed behind to keep an eye on orion and is able to get them out before they're killed #but instead of taking them to where the primes fell they take them directly to the high guard #which is very awkward because it's a very moving and emotional moment for the high guard who are finally reunited with their little prime #all grown up and healthy and blessedly *alive*. except orion doesn't fucking remember any of them and is very confused as to why #the legendary warriors of cybertron are getting all weepy over him. they finally explain the truth to him which is a Fucking Bomb #to drop on anyone but especially a group of kids who almost got killed by the person they all thought the world of just hours ago #they also return orion's t-cog to him which would create some tension between him and the rest of the gang because this time #he's the only one getting his cog back. add to it that they were just told he's the equivalent of a demi-god and... well.#there's a gap between him and them that wasn't there before #on the other version of events that follows canon more closely everything goes the same up until the gang finds the primes in the cave #and wake up alpha trion who now not only has to deal with the fact the rest of his siblings are dead but that he missed fifty cycles #of his baby brother's life. that the only sibling he has left does not remember him or his true identity at all.#he has to choose between telling him the truth which has the risk of unbalancing him in a critical moment where he cannot afford to #be distracted because they're being hunted down. or let him remain unaware. let him forget their family and the love they had for him #but letting him remain free of the knowledge of what he lost and the heartbreak it would bring.

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jacqcrisis · 1 month ago

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I think my favorite thing in rewatching season 1 of arcane...other than, you know, jayce and viktor meeting, 'what were you doing?' 'I dunno, science???', viktor calling Jayce's ass out with that 'you signed your initials on every page', Jayce being so goddamn precious about his partner, Vitkor just tagging along with Jayce in his counselor duties like a jilted wife watching her husband slowly lose himself to his new job and the Other Woman, Jayce's absolutely BONKERS decision to smith shirtless like that still boggles the mind and is the best character decision ever made-

But!! My favorite thing is when I think it was Mel asks Jayce where Viktor is and Jayce, in the most 'I'm not bothered by this but I absolutely secretly kind of am' tone, says 'I don't know, he just disappears sometimes'. Like goddamn, you were just cavorting around with the Piltover elite and getting your guillible ass led around by your dick by Mel, but god forbid Viktor go somewhere without you. How many times has Viktor come back from doing his own shit to Jayce just a little pissy he wasn't included in the field trip? Just a little, just a tiny bit offended that Viktor didn't invite him cause you know, he just invites Viktor literally everywhere every time and Viktor could extend the courtesy but it's fine! He'll get over it. Again.

And then Viktor is immediately not in Jayce's line of sight maybe a day later and Jayce is throwing up his hands like 'Ugh! Guess I'll just hang out with this lesbian I just met and go kill a bunch of miners and maybe even a minor >:('

Amazing. Spectacular. No one's doing it like Jayce.

#arcane #jayvik #god forbid viktor have a life #also that dude gets around #hes got a plot death cough and hes across the fucking river down in a cave getting drugs #no car. no bike. no skateboard. no hoverboard. just him his cane and shit. needing. to. be. done.#nothing stopping that guy from getting something. not distance or locked doors or plot coughs or the laws of reality.#anyways that post about them being codependent made remember this one line that made me laugh out loud #like a lot of jayces decisions and little character details do #season 1 Jayce is a delight and I will not hear any slander against him

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fisheito · 5 months ago

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rereading the nuca pink doujin and seeing yakumo tear himself apart re: his snake form vs his human form all this agony and self-doubt and silent suffering and fear of rejection like "if i looked less human would u hate me" , "if u saw me in my true form wouldn't that be horrible. terrifying. disgusting" , "if i admitted i want to swallow you whole would you think worse of me"

and i imagine him asking something like this to the crowd of clan members , who are , undeniably,, a group of Kinky Fuckers

they all smile with the serenity and carefully masked excitement of a horny olivine. masterful beautiful reassuring expressions (errr..... masked to different degrees depending on the clan member)

#yaku is in his head so much about that #he thinks his snake form would be gross right? right????#eiden might give me Wet Hole privileges when i look like this carefully crafted human avatar #but if i revert to my original body there's no way anyone would ever want to ..be with me... like that? right???#meanwhile eiden's just got that sly look on his face in the corner waiting for yakumo to make the proposal #i can't imagine any of the clan members being particularly freaked out about yaku in snake form.....#all the yokai are immediately eliminated from Grossed Out pool. like. that's them. they know how it be #then you got the ppl who have lived way too long to be shocked by a sweet little snakewife being more noodley than usual #rei and quincy fall into that category most likely. blade by association because . well. blade.#he's gonna make a Yakuchan Snake sculpture and it's gonna be extra cute so yakumo doesn't feel shy about his snake form anymore #(actually it's going to freak yaku out even more and he's gonna spiral thinking that he's uglier than he ever imagined)#(and he's gonna run away feeling more insecurity while blade is SUPER CONFUSED because he captured his cuteness perfectly??)#(eiden's gonna have to reconcile another misunderstanding. sorry eiden. artistic differences are rough)#and you have the general Kinky Fuckers like eiden oli and morv #morv won't care as long as you feed him LOL #and eiden and oli are just sideeyeing excitedly like. snake? snake??? can we. can we try that 👀#i imagine that the only people who might express hesitation at first are edmond and dante #eddie would probably cave though once he realises it is IN FACT still yakumo in there. and he can fully consent #(then we give way to Kinky Fucker Edmond. Welcome to the party eddie!)#hmm... dante... never really thought about him and snakekumo...#how would that even go DOWN? like what is even the siTUATION here? how did we get here??#dante catches sooley who has a tiny snakekumo in his mouth??? a tiny lil guy who was lurking in his palace for some reason???#hm. warrants more thought exploration. we'll come back to that another time.#nu carnival yakumo

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yasmeensh · 11 months ago

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I finished reading 4 books from Earth's Children series. The last three were really hard to read. After finishing Plains of Passage, I have come to really appreciate Clan of the Cave Bear as a standalone. I miss all the Neanderthals and Ayla's character arc. Gotta do some fanart!

PS. I MISS IZA! Best character in the series.

#clan of the cave bear #earth's children #after the first book it just goes downhill #REALLY DOWNHILL #Ayla becomes the biggest mary sue EVER #in the first book it was believable because it's established in the story the Neanderthals have different skills that Ayla must adapt to #and she wasn't doing anything over the top #She was just adapting #but later she starts doing insane things #like wtf?? NO human ever figured out they could strike iron pyrite to get sparks?#NO ONE ever figured out they could make a needle?#She invented the arrow too (or whatever that thin short spear things they did? not the spear thrower #I will not be surprised if she ends up inventing the wheel in the next two books #also domesticating animals #also there were so many traumatizing scenes #three different rape scenes in book 4 !!???#I was going to throw up #It just.. got very uncomfortable to read #it changed me #so I now I'm thinking about the first book #yes it has all these same elements from the later books but they were sparse and were actually part of the plot #part of the character development. in other books they were just things that happened. Like. the characters are not impacted by it at all.#you could read the end of the book and nothing about the characters change after witnessing these traumatic experiences #they are the same from beginning to end #uh um sorry for the rant O_O #anyways I miss izaaaa #bye

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mondaymelon · 10 months ago

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me n who ?!?!?!? ME N WHO GUYS ...

picrews: 1 2 3 4

mking silly girlfailure picrews are the only thing saving my sanity which took quite a number of blows today ( its hanging on by the measliest thread but i think its better to consider it go n e )

anyways i wanna make a silly tag game so we are going to make a silly tag game because in the wise words of martin luther king i think wait it was probably gandhi "be the change you wish to see in the world" arent i so cool guys im taking like the first step forward and :stareyes: ahahah

(no pressure) tags !! 🏷️ : @cienxpidity, @ilyuu, @anonbinaryweirdo, @suntoru, @tuesdayberries, @lume-nosity, @mrcrazyvillainvillainn, @ceneid, @amalythea, @xianyoon, @aeon-yao, @ryuryuryuyurboat, @auroratumbles, @snobwaffles, @the-white-void + everyone i probably forgot to tag (SPS IM SORRY) n anyone else whod like to join !!

#💬 ⌗ 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭'𝐬 𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 . . . ✧#i was in a very silly mood ( mental breakdown ish ) i cried like 16 times in the past hour and that's probably not a good thing but HEY #its fine #im so fine #im so #im so...#*perishes*#begone negativity #its time for me and my delusions #speaking of delusions i actually had the WILDEST Dream last night #and its so crazy because its like the first dream I've had in the past year that's not about a fictional character #yes im pathtetic #carrying on #and i was like escaping from t h e. m a. n i n t he. h a l l w a y #and i was like runnning away yk and then shrek comes over and helps me out by defenestrating me and so i land in some bushes and then start #like putting candy into a bag??? and im like HURRY UP SHREK HES GONNA COME AFTER US #and then i got to this like cult area #where it splits into two paths and i remember it so vividly because there was this gate security and i had to type in my student id to get #and so it opens up to this room and there's two pathways #the one to the right has this giant ass shrine golden statue surrounded by a bunch of children #and the one i go to has little cube spaces caved into the walls for like little decorations and a stair for like a lower other half of the #room #and theres a bunch of children and my irls #and so we break outta there yk #we escape #we get out #and we run into like osme shopping place #and my friend is planning to abandon me with her other friend and they're running away to china #but they refuse to take me with them (ultimate betrayal)#HELP edit but the tags didnt show up cause there were too many...

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pluvio-floret · 5 months ago

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..Nothing at all?

#my art #chilaios #tragedy au #hey hey hi come into this cave with me. It’s safe don’t worry. Yeah Idk the way out why do you ask. No no don’t run you’re here now #dungeon meshi #laichil #dunmeshi #chilchuck tims #laios touden #laios #chilchuck #hey also there’s a broken heart looking thing here and yeah that’s not an accident I’m a little creature who likes stuffing stupid symbolis #in. yeah #ALTHOUGH. Now thinking. If you really think about it. If you extend meanings. If you ponder. If you know the context and if you connect the #heartbeat headcannon then it can be a little. A little thing into the au part of this #haha. Lies facedown and bleeds #actually I was undecided if the au part was when Chilchuck begs Laios to believe him that he’s <BEEP> or some later point when Laios’s back #& <WILHELM SCREAM>#probably the first one though. so …….#HAHa ANYWAY. Have fun with this. Or don’t. Idk if you got here by the main tag or by chilaios or what #But yeah #Yipee cartwheels away back into the trench #oh and #id in alt text #I don’t think I’m forgetting any tags so off you go little page of pain

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discjude · 2 months ago

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guess my favourite sge chapter challenge (impossible edition). yes i think aric shouldve had long hair he was in that cave for nine whole ass years leave me alone

#if tumblr destroys the image quality of this im ending up on the news #yeah great chapter really good stuff soman. tedros youre on thin fucking ice buddy #also if youre one of the like two people on the discord who saw this before i added the text #and you saw me say that this would be done in like a week #i fucking lied!!!!!!!!! i took the EASY way out i was gonna handwrite it and then caved #this is the first full art piece ive ever finished ever!!!!!!! whoop whoop #this is the first time ive ever drawn a full-body sketch!!!!! whoop whoop #finished this over the course of a four hour long book review #got so insane about f+b that i had to draw it #sge #the school for good and evil #tsfgae #school for good and evil #japethposting #japethposting to the MAX baby!!!!!!!!!!!#there is also a video that exists of me turning the japeth silhouette into the saddam hussein hiding spot thing #which will never see the light of day

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deoidesign · 8 months ago

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how did u learn to paint?? like i just cant wrap my head around it

<3 I love answering asks like this!

You will have to bare with me, I don't save many of my studies, and my files aren't that organized so I don't have as many images as I would like.

The studies I've found most helpful for myself personally with painting are various master studies. (This is also, as always, alongside study of fundamentals.) And always follow a study with self-critique (and, if you can get it, outside critique!)

"Master" in this sense means anyone who you want to learn something from.

One way you can do this is by copying an artist's work directly. This is to try and understand some of their stylistic techniques. Leyendecker, Andrew Loomis, and John Singer Sargent are personal favorites of mine! I try to keep these quick, I'm not trying to get an exact copy.

I also get a lot out of copying photos. In this case, I'm not trying to glean some technique, rather, I'm trying to interpret the photo and explore my own stylizations.

(photo credit mountain men of alaska )

I also really enjoy taking a painting or piece that already exists, and making it "mine" by putting my characters in it haha, which is sort of a combination of master studies and photo studies!

(William Bruce Ellis - Covent Garden (1930)) (Barberini Faun)

And then, in my work that's not a study at all, I'm informed by all of these!

What master studies do is help me refine my style and practice my technique, but also I'm communicating with artists of the past through my art! They're teaching me! And I have so much to learn.

And of course... most importantly... I paint.

a lot.

I don't do as much study anymore, not because I feel I've learned all I need to, but because for work I draw 50+ drawings a week. 'Drawing for work' and 'study' occupy the same space in my brain and I need some fun drawing time!

So to sum up, draw a lot, reference constantly, and copy the people you want to draw more like!

(and, of course, when doing a study off of someone else's work, always give them credit. If it's your photos there's no need.)

#I really tried to pare this one down cause it got LONG #as always I am more than happy to delve deeper into any of these particular points!#I'm always always always happy to explain as much of my process as possible #and I'd love to pass off some of my knowledge to others!#I love to see people creating art and want to do anything I can to help empower people to do so more #I love you mwa mwa mwa #asks #edsheerankinnie #art tips #painting tips #I pretty much wear my influences on my sleeve #like I don't care #I honestly get so so so excited about art I'm like shaking a little #like oh my god #we get to MAKE Things #we get to sit down and through the power of our own hands we get to CREATE #and I get to access the knowledge of humanity. throughout history #I get to reach my hand out and have people who are long gone pass their knowledge on to me.#like come on. that's unreal...#at some point you will unlock this feeling if you let yourself #the feeling of connection over centuries #when you hear michelangelo was so shocked by the lifelike nature of his own sculpture he threw his chisel at it to see if it would move #when you see rockwell's love for simple moments between normal people #when you see cave paintings of a woman and you know she was loved.#you get to fucking connect #and feel human #and it's really special #and it's why I think everyone should draw. everyone should draw a LITTLE #music too #augh I'm emotional

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faunandfloraas · 9 months ago

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It is kinda funny seeing people talk about Seungmin lately because he definitely has gotten more bold and confident for sure. He's also just getting opportunities to be perceived as an individual on his own as well for the first time in a while but it's still jarring to see people be like Aw he was always such a quiet goodie two shoes little nerd and it's like...... he was the one to leave and seek out his own vocal coach and blatantly talk about it, which of course lead to I.N and Lee Know also doing the same, he was the one to go on bubble and tell off sasaengs who used to camp outside their old dorm for invading members privacy but also because it effected other residents and staff at the complex, something that i'm certain upper management wouldnt have been happy about, and he wasn't curt or nice about it either. like he's never actually been a wallflower, he's always had a pretty strong backbone and seems to stick to his principals, its not really new.

#even silly shit like bringing up drinking even tho staff has clearly told him not too #like yeah its silly but its still sticking to his guns of being like we arent actually children anymore thanks #the food thing too like in an old 2 kids room he said something about not being able to eat on his bday bc they were filming so evidently #there was a moment in time when he caved to the shitty diet obsession kpop had but ever since hes never really said anything like it again #instead hes telling everyone to eat well and reminding people to have dinner or lunch every other day #even the comment about growing his hair out but then being like lol the stylist probably wont like me saying that or whatever #and like the yeah im going to the gym but im not lifting. dont expect me to bulk up. im doing it for stamina<< that made me cackle #bc i did see people on twt being like but what if seungmin got buff tho omg hed be so hot 🥺 Well him bein buff isnt what this is about #so he went and made sure people were realistic. not everyone needs to be noticeably cut yk #idk maybe bc i watched most all the skz content all the way through #and now i go back and gif stuff i notice patterns more easily than if youve been here for longer and havent watched older stuff #for a while- maybe? idk its just funny but i also see takes a lot and have to stop myself from going No <3 #anyway this is my obligatory insane ksm tangent of the week. see you in 5 minutes.#🐶

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septemberlikeastorm · 6 months ago

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qimir/the stranger writing his will & saying each word aloud like A Teen Girl In A 90's Movie Writing In Her Diary because as we all know that is who he is at his core

qimir: to osha i leave all my worldly belongings, including but not limited to my spaceship, my helmet, the deed to my cave

qimir: the $576,743 debt i still owe on the cave

qimir: & of course my trusty crockpot

plagueis bursting in like the kool-aid man: you said I could have the crockpot, you absolutely fucking slut

#would love for qimir to be a canonically Terrible haggler #the bank foreclosed on the previous owner (a cave bear rip buddy you'll land back on your paws) & was ready to sell it for a buck & a song #& qimir came swaggering in & accidentally drove the price up to $750k #he hasn't got a bank account so every month he comes in with a burlap sack with a dollar sign on it #& dumps out a mound of dimes & pretty seashells he found #& when they say it's not enough he says listen Space Sephora cut back on my hours you gotta cut me some slack this month #the acolyte #qimir #star wars qimir #oshamir

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shamebats · 27 days ago

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Maybe it's the evil little contarian goblin in me but I kind of agree with the messages the writes had for ppl in the finale. Nobody can tell you how to enjoy a piece of art but like if you watch 6 seasons of a tv show just to see two guys kiss & nothing else they could do would matter to you enough to make you say you like the show, you might be watching the wrong show. As someone who was mostly bored by the pirate show & the angel show (I liked them but not that much & I never bothered finishing the former) but really loved both of the vampire shows, I don't think shadows could've ever pulled off a romance that would even come close to interview, so I'm glad they didn't try too hard. If you want that kind of show, there already is one! An even better show you can watch right now! It's serious, it's romance, it's drama and there's gay sex in the first episode. Shadows was never going to have a grand romance storyline. The guys were basically already married. As someone who's been in that kind of relationship for over a decade I can tell you it's not that interesting.

When a piece of media doesn't turn out to be exactly what you wanted, you can either accept that & appreciate it for what it is or move on to something that is what you want. Don't keep ordering the wrong sandwich in hopes that it will some day have an ingredient you want. Just order a different sandwich at that point.

#that's just me but I stopped caring as much about the ship after interview came out #I got the steamy gay vampire romance I wanted #shadows was a silly goofy show I enjoyed for its lack of seriousness & consequences and it delivered on that #I'm glad the writers didn't cave & go down a direction they didn't want to just bc of audience expectations. things always go to shit when #shows do that too much #also why would I wait for crumbs from a bunch of straight guy directions when there are queer books by queer ppl who do it better

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intertexts · 6 months ago

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man do you think the trickster just, like, dropped the um. parts of william. they were in the air! did he just... toss them down? did everything spill out? did the blood land on tide and mark and vyncent?

#pd lb #YAY back got shit done caved and had a lovely small nap that did NOT!! have me waking up with a head full of oatmeal acquired a delightful #small bunch of fresh green grapes shoutout 2 whoever did groceries this morning & i have. another art idea that i wanna sketch out! :3

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harvestmoth · 1 year ago

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