#itll get done

[newobsessioneveryweek]

Hey y'all who are keeping up with this, here's another one of these random updates on my Connor fic. It's, uh, going slowly but have faith 🙏 I still think about it so it's gonna get done eventually! Trust!

I don't have an official title for it yet so I'm just gonna call it Road Trip To Florida for now lol

Enjoy!💛

Start of sneak peak

The walk to the Waffle House was short, quiet, and uncomfortable. It was early morning so thankfully there were very few pedestrians but no one Connor could recognise and, even better, no one who recognised him. When they got to the restaurant, though, an influx of memories came flooding back- good ones this time! Well, bittersweet ones which was as good as they came in this town.

The place was an average diner-style building with booths all along the walls and a counter at the back. The smell of sweet waffles and maple syrup wafted in the air and sent pangs of nostalgia poking at his heart. When they walked in Connor heard a gasp and turned to the counter. There he saw a tall teenage boy barely older than himself with tied up black hair and dark eyes wide with recognition. “It can't be,” he said with a hint of wonder. “Connor Stoll?”

Connor smiled for the first time in two weeks. “Hey, Andy,” he said.

Andrés grinned at him. “It is you, isn't it?” He turned around and called out to someone in the storage room. “Ey, Miguel! You won't believe who's here!”

The other patrons turned to look at the commotion but Andrés didn't seem to care. Next to him, Will shuffled his feet awkwardly and studied the floor while Nico glared at the customers staring at them.

“Who is it!” came Miguel's reply.

“It's Connor!”

“Get out!” Connor heard a small crash from the other room then frantic scrambling before Miguel burst from the doorway. His eyes were wild and his short curly hair messy as ever. The second he saw Connor standing in the entrance he bounded over and crushed him in a hug. Connor tried to say “hello” or something along the lines of a greeting but he couldn't breathe so he settled for a friendly pat on the back.

Miguel called him something very rude in Spanish before letting him go, giving Connor's lungs a chance to recover. In more polite terms, he said, “Where the hell have you been, man? It’s been like ten years!”

Connor stopped himself from saying “clown college” to satisfy the running joke they had that he would one day run away with the circus and just decided to be almost-truthful about whereabouts since actually running away. “Travis and I are in New York now. It's kind of been a permanent thing, you know?” They both nodded. Gods he missed these guys. If it weren't for the monsters chasing them across the country, he and Travis probably would have just stayed with them and their aunt for the past ten. As it stood, though, he hoped they didn't ask too many questions. It would just hurt to answer without being able to tell them the whole truth. “But enough about me, how have you guys been? How's Tía Julia?”

“She's great, prickly as ever.” Miguel said, rolling his eyes and Andrés snickered.

“You were always her favourite, as soon as you left she was out for our asses all the time, wouldn't let us get away with anything anymore!”

Connor laughed but his heart fluttered. Hearing that he was someone's favourite reassured him that he must have been doing something right at least. “Oh come on, Tía Julia is a saint, you guys are just nothing but trouble for the poor woman,” he joked and Miguel punched him lightly in the arm.

“Chupamedias,” Miguel grumbled but gave him a lighthearted grin.

“You haven't changed a bit, Con.”

Will and Nico didn't seem to know what to do with themselves among the company so Connor decided to introduce them to clear the awkwardness a bit. “These are my friends, Will and Nico. We're just here to… visit Will's cousins.”

Will's eyes shot up from the floor and he held out his hand politely for a handshake, smiling sweetly. “Nice to meet you.”

Miguel frowned at it. “No ese, we don't shake hands here.” He yanked Will's outstretched hand and pulled him in for just as crushing a hug as Connor received. The boy's face turned red from the lack of air and Connor forced down a laugh at the way Will's eyes almost bugged out of his head. “If you're friends with Connor you're close to family. And family don't shake hands.”

Will wheezed out an affirmative.

Andrés shook hands with Nico, probably sensing the son of Hades' off-putting demeanour around strangers. “Nice to meet you, Nico. I'm Andrés, and el tonto over there is my brother Miguel.”

Miguel let go of Will and yelled at his brother for the nickname. Connor took in the interaction with longing for a second before Will asked, once his chest recovered, “I’ve never been here, do you only sell waffles?”

Miguel whipped around with an expression of something like embarrassment. “Ay, my apologies, new customers! He handed them a menu he'd materialised and pointed to a booth in the far corner. “Take a seat and I'll be right with you! I just have to, uh, clean up at the back.”

He scurried off to the storage room. Connor suddenly remembered the small crash he heard earlier and chuckled to himself.

Andrés rolled his eyes again and shook his head good-naturedly. “El tonto.” He smiled at Connor once more before he walked back to the counter. “Come say goodbye when you're done.”

Connor nodded in response because if he had spoken at that moment he would have cried.

“Are they always like that?” Nico asked once they slid into the booth.

“Like what?” Connor asked just to be difficult as he perused the menu. He wasn't going to order anything, but it was nice to look at the familiar pictures.

“I don't know,” Nico said. “Energetic? Intense?”

“Friendly?” Will supplied.

Connor glanced up from the beverage list. “Since we were kids,” he admitted fondly.

End of sneak peak

I hope you enjoyed what you read so far! There are other snippets lurking around here somewhere if you're interested ☺️

[silverstonesainz-archive]

okay also I KNOW i have like 7 requests but pls im in a good place with writing i can't even begin to think about looking on pinterest for hours to do them. maybe after this chapter. so sorry

[erik-christine]

I have bookclub on monday and I have yet to read a single page

[choccy-milky]

herbology class 🌹🌿 (from chap 2 of my fic!)

[suntails]

another series wip. he has to sleep EVERYWHERE

[jaylestial]

I haven’t been able to do any serious digital art because Inktober and fic writing is consuming my life, so have some really sketchy stuff instead for now … as a treat.

[min-play]

testing a few things

updated the code so you can easily customise by just swapping the image files

[kheprriverse]

With the results of the recent poll I decided to give y'all the updated design of Ares (HW Link)! There's more I probably need to add but I'm happy with him for now. Maybe y'all will get to see more when it's added or maybe I'll keep it to myself :>

-> Support me on Kofi!

His main roles in the group happens to go: strategist, combat medic, second in command. All of the roles the group has usually come to each hero naturally based on past experience, but Ares making it clear what his roles and experience in Zelda’s military are pretty much solidified where he stands in the group.

While a few members of the group know varying degrees of magic and healing magic (Legend, Hyrule, Mini, and Ballad), Ares is the only one that has in-depth training as a combat medic during the War of Eras.

He was also one of Zelda’s top strategists, and his experience with groups of soldiers has helped convince Ballad enough to allow him to lead if he weren’t around. Though, I’m sure if Ares hadn’t noticed Ballad’s ranking then he would have been more than comfortable leading everyone himself.

[lokh]

WAIT SHUROS DAD SAID HE WANTED HIM TO BRING SOMETHING BACK INTERESTING.... AND WHO IS MORE INTERESTING THAN LAIOS....

[mooreaux]

your comms are like always open and then you do patreon. do you ever get burnt out? just curious!!

I get overwhelmed more than burnt out I think. I LOVE what I do so deeply: but there's just not enough hours in the day for how much of it I want to do. If anyone has commissioned me before they're aware I always thank them for their patience and generally take a lil longer than I mean to. And it's not because I'm not working. I'm just working on SO much. But rent has to get paid and food has to go on the table and I'm not really interested in raising my prices at the moment so... *Shrug* this is the volume I gotta work with.

As to how I avoid burnout and mental breakdowns from workload drama; I've got a real active social life. DND every weekend like clockwork, friends that swoop into my house to drag me out of it. Kitties that keep me running after them all day, and a watch that beeps at me every hour to get up and move. I love video games and roleplay writing and art is also my hobby to visualize those characters I play and write about!

But for real, I'm sick constantly bc my immune system is shit, my wedding is in three weeks, I'm trying to conceive for the first time 😳 - sometimes the craving to just sit and draw for 48 hours straight is a relief from how busy it all gets!!!! It's all about balance.

And five years into doing this full time, I can tell you balance is the key to avoiding burnout. Making time for people, for joy, for self care, and also for the Grind (tm) 🤣

[snailfen]

sorry for no ruff&ruff on sunday! so here since @spotsupstuff made a good point

[starrysharks]

"may god have mercy on your wretched soul! ...that is what i should say when i kill them, is it not?"

vivica, one of the key supporting characters of reassassination. a scythe-wielding overachiever, her primary goal is to defeat octavia under the orders of the clear crucifix organisation.

[puppyeared]

its so hard to watch time pass when things like careers and assignments exist. what do you mean im supposed to take that seriously

[kenjo-arts]

Oh would you look at that! It's monday! Is this still a thing?

🥚💚 <3

C!DREAM EGGS MONDAY!!!! but lil blob!

[saltynsassy31]

Frye Fest - Final Countdown

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🍕Team Grub🍕

Splatfest 24-09-2022

[Master Post - coming soon]

[rouge-the-bat]

can ppl let others have time to have fun for a while without reminding them of awful shit going on, insisting they "cant forget" that these things are happening. as if just going around being silly and enjoying yourself for a while means youre ignoring the suffering of the whole world 🙄