#just some gals bein pals !

[runawaymun]

doodling with some new tools and got to thinking what if Galadriel and Luthien made out, y’know? 

[wihlted]

❛     i listened to the ep you sent me. when its just you and your piano, and it's like magic.      ❜ / @deatheless

[shousetsubangbang]

Shousetsu Bang*Bang: Distracting You With Happy Endings Since 2005!

Sure, our whole zine focuses on smutty queer romance with a happily-ever-after aesthetic. But we asked our Discord which stories are especially warm and particularly fuzzy. Here's a list of the recommendations they gave, just in case you need something like that in your life right now, for whatever reason.

Arame Cove: Stardew Valley yaoi

c:\rano.bergerac: the Mechanical Turk, but make it sexy

Cheesecake and the Art of Political Warfare: the electoral college… IN SPACE!

Corvus, Cancer, And Other Constellations: friends don't let friends go through cancer treatments without smutfic

El Presidio Rides North: hurt/comfort while escaping zombies

A Fish Story, OR, The Ones That Got Away, OR, The Mermaid Solution: pretty much what the title implies

Moonstricken: knife-throwing, paperwork, chains, and other unorthodox ways to (not) approach your crush

Busted: same as above, but with 100% less werewolves and 100% more explosions

oh Charlie Harper we love you get up: everyone knows elocution lessons are very sexy

Out in the Wash: and you thought your laundry mix-ups were incriminating

Sid Stills’ Blues (Three-Quarters in the Bag in Alphabet City): aging musician falls in love, does not die of cancer

Up the Garden Path: D&D&D (Dungeons & Dragons & Dicks)

War Bonds: just two gals bein' pals while the men are off fighting in WWII

And of course if you're looking for something even more specific, we have https://www.s2b2search.com/ to help you navigate our enormous back catalog. You can search all 1200+ pieces in our archives by issue, by author, by artist, by tagged content, or by some combination of the above. Enjoy!

[the-face-in-the-mirror]

Sometimes what it's really all about is... just girls bein' friends. Just gals being pals. Lord knows Ellie could use some of those, and by god is she excited to have a girl friend. Diane is... a little less enthusiastic, but she'll warm up in no time, I'm sure.

Diane is so fun to draw, honestly, and I really enjoyed drawing Elizabeth on her shoulder and in her hair. They deserve to be cute and I'm here to deliver.

I also used a new brush this time around, and I think I like it so far! A little different than what I'm used to but I love the way it looks for anime lineart.

Enjoy!

[its-cripptid]

just gals bein pals

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redraw of some art i made a year or two ago

[sparklecinnamonbunny]

A Necessary Injury

Wishing a very happy birthday to @thatwritingho's Olive Axworthy today! Here's our gals bein' pals to celebrate! Some jokes in Discord gave me a fun idea for a birthday drabble.

(with the teeniest mentions of @the-loveliest-lotus' Lucy, @procrazedfan's Poppy, and @chordsykat's Caj!)

"Hey, darlin'." Sunday enters the clinic with one hand held up and the other holding a gift bag. "I'd knock, but..."

Dr. Olive Axworthy— mortician, assassin, and Dethklok's doctor/bodyguard— asks, frowning, "What did you do?"

"I uh, I broke a nail. It's bleeding."

The good doctor takes her hand to examine it. "You ripped off your acrylic on purpose, didn't you?"

"You can't prove that," Sunday replies, biting back a smile. "Anyway, I thought I'd swing by, get treatment for this totally legit injury, and drop off one of your birthday presents."

"One of? Sunday, I don't need anything for—"

"You gave me those kickass engraved knuckle bones for my birthday even though you don't believe in osteomancy. I only had a couple weeks notice, but I couldn't settle for anything less than greatness."

She sighs and relents, "Do you want me to open it now?"

"I'd love to see your reaction. How about I wash my hands with antibacterial soap and you unwrap?"

She proceeds to do so, setting the gift bag on the medical cot. Olive murmurs something about it being unnecessary again, but her gaze hasn't left the black and gold bag. As she lathers and repeats, she hears the telltale crinkle of tissue paper.

"Oh, she's gorgeous! Wow! Loooong," Olive coos at the skeleton. It wasn't easy to find a real intact king cobra skeleton, let alone one that met both her and her friend's discerning standards, but the smile on her face makes all the trouble she went to worth it.

"Yeah, it is. I made sure it was ethically sourced, there's some paperwork in the bag, too. I wouldn't give you something you wouldn't feel good about keeping."

"Thanks! I'll find a good place for it in my room. Did you know that king cobras aren't true cobras? They have their own genus, Ophiophagus."

Olive tells fun facts about the snake as she washes up, gets fresh gloves, and puts a tiny bandage on Sunday's fingernail. She's especially enthusiastic about the venom (a potent neurotoxin that could kill in half an hour if untreated), but she wouldn't be Olive if she wasn't. And it's pretty brutal to hear about necrotizing flesh. She should write a song about it before Nathan does. Cobratize? Wait, fuck, he's been writing a song about cobras since their second first date. Damn that talented man.

"Should I expect you to show up with another broken nail and present?" Olive asks, full lips pulled into a wide smile.

Sunday grins back. "Nope. The second gift's more of an experience. Skwisgaar and I maaaay have noticed that you own Smugly Dismissed's full discography. And signed it. We aren't doing a reunion show now or ever, but we thought we could play some songs for you sometime. Not tonight though. Big Pickles has got some, uh, very important plans."

"What's he doing?" She scrambles for her phone, but Sunday puts a hand over hers.

"I really shouldn't say," she starts to protest, but the birthday girl's pleading eyes win out. "It rhymes with uh, passive Georgie."

"Passive... Wait. He's planning a massive—"

"Well, I won't keep you any longer. You've got a line out there, and I promised to meet Caj at the helipad." Sunday grabs two lollipops, pocketing one and unwrapping the other.

"You can't just tell me we're having a massive orgy and split! And what do you mean there's a line?"

"Haven't you noticed you're running out of bandaids?"

As Sunday struts out, Olive looks out the door after her. No fewer than ten people stand in line, each nursing their own wounds, from the probably superficial (Lucy Desmond with a vial of blood and a grin) to the possibly complicated (#4245, Poppy, looking roughed up and delighted). It's looking like a long day and an even longer night. That's okay. She prefers it that way.

[gamesception]

let’s read rgu, chapter 24

So last time Akio went to the castle to kill Dios (sigh), while Utena stayed behind to free Anthy from her crystal coffin.  That done, Anthy now summons the castle so that everyone can chase after Akio and stop him.  This feels pretty close to the end, are there really four chapters left, including this one?  What spanner’s going to be thrown into the works to stop this careening free fall towards a conclusion?

Yay, the gang’s all coming with.  Oh, and hey look, it’s the gate from the anime.

Honestly, I feel like maybe the answers to /some/ of the mysteries could have been fed out before this point.  Like, it might have been better for the pacing, or allowed for like maybe a fun twist here at the end.  Oh, well!

Statues of the various characters who have been involved in the rose duels, even Chuchu.  And a dual/twin/gemini/janus sort of thing, two male figures staring into each others eyes, which I assume represents Akio and Dios.  Where they always a duel figure in the manga?  If so, staring inward at themselves implies maybe a level of narcissism or self obsession from even before they were split apart.

Whelp, Saionji didn’t make it very far.  Are we going to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory this, where in each room another student council member, in order of their duels, gets boxed away according to their bespoke character flaw?

Oh, wait, no, we’re just going to do them all at once.  Also, I want to say something like “really, Juri?  She’s a witch?” or make a ‘may we burn her’ joke or something, but mostly I’m just sad at how little weight the word ‘Witch’ carries here compared to in the anime.

There they go.  Seriously, what was the point of even bringing you doofuses along?

Of course, Touga gets special treatment.  The manga certainly has a favorite among the student council, so that’s not surprising.

Utena notices that Anthy’s been a bit more... direct than usual, and asks her about that, or just for more info in general.

Parallels again, and now I’m worried.  Are we setting up for a betrayal?  Was this all part of Akio’s plot?  Was he counting on Utena rejecting him, staying behind, and freeing Anthy?  Like she needed to do that to fully embody/become Dios, and only then can Akio kill the otherwise intangible Dios by killing Utena - or having Anthy kill Utena?

I... wait, what?  Was Akio and the prince not the same person?  No, no wait, we have the same inward facing double figure here.  This story doesn’t quite hold up.  Saving Anthy made dios the prince in the first place?  Or split the Dios persona from the Akio persona?  Or they were always separate, and saving Anthy made Dios more powerful?  If he was so much more powerful than Akio as to make him jealous, how was Akio able to defeat him?

“Fell in love with the same prince” - boooooo!  Just be in love with each other, come on.

“Friend”.  Just pals bein’ gals.

But just then there’s a big earthquake, and the castle starts to collapse!  And some masonry almost falls on Utena, but Touga pushes her out of the way at the last second!  And it falls on him instead!  and he’s not hurt, but he’s pinned and can’t go any further with them!

Thanks, Touga.  Might as well have put him in a box with the others.  In fact the student council as a whole might as well have been left behind.  Anthy could have taken just Utena to the castly and nothing would have changed.  Oh, well!

So Utena and Anthy reach the top of the castle, and there he is.  Dios.

Already dead.  Kind of anticlimactic, that.  Guess my prediction didn’t come true.

Oh, no!  He’s too small to be a Prince anymore.  I guess now he’ll have to be a...

short king.

This reveal that Akio used to be Dios would land a lot harder if we had gotten the story about him being a different person who got jealous and overthrew Dios before this same chapter.  Also the “from a certain point of view” obfuscation from Anthy seems really kind of pointless when there’s all of like one scene separating her story and this reveal twist to it.

But we’re here now!  The set up’s in place for a climactic final dual with lives on the line between Akio and Utena, but still three whole chapters left, so I’m not sure where things are going yet, and not knowing is still pretty exciting in its own right.

[finniesartblog]

Just some gals bein’ pals...

This sketch started as part of a larger project (which I will eventually still finish) of Jay and DJ with all of their high school friends, but I wasn’t feeling up to drawing all 8 of them and I really liked how the sketch of the girls looked so this was my compromise.

Jay is, as always, just the tiniest bit too short, but I don’t care. I love how the pose turned out and it just makes me so happy to draw them <3

[liongrl321]

just some "gals bein' pals"

hehe

[groovylizardgirl]

Hey, A video post! Watch?

The video begins with Riley grinning widely at the camera, her sharp teeth gleaming in the Alolan sun. "Heya there guys gals 'n other pals!" She begins, "Well... Ya see, I was thinkin' to myself. Hey Riley, didn' you always wanna have some sorta protégé? and I says to myself.... No!

But then I did some more thinkin' yakno? An' maybe it wouldn't really be so bad to have a coupla lil TURDS followin' me around, doin chores n shit." Her grin widens as she looks past the camera and a very faint "hey!" can be heard in the background. "... Anyways, I gotta introduce 'em now, think that's how this Rotumblr shit works anyways."

The camera turns around to show a young boy, maybe 12-14 at most, drawing some designs into the sand. From the tiny bit that's visible, it appears to be some sort of personal flying machine. "This turd here is the one who likes listenin to my private videos!" Riley states, prompting the child to look up at her. He puffs his cheeks out in mock frustration, but his smile still shines through. He has brown curly hair and gap between his front teeth. He has comically large goggles on and cute lil freckles all over his face.

"Apparently this guy's name is friggin Axelgrease. Who the fuu....heck names their kids that?! We all just call 'im Axel. He's the big brain."

Axel waves at the camera before going back to his drawings with a thoughtful look.

Continuing on, Riley approaches another, albeit slightly older looking, kid. He's quite gaunt and lanky, with a bit of a greyish tinge to his skin, wearing all black despite what must be a hot day. He's frowning intensely as he stares out at the ocean.

"Aaand this ray of sunshine is Gnash! He uh. Looks a little busy so we're gonna just move on--" Riley starts to turn but is interrupted by a loud and angry HEY. She turns suddenly to Gnash glaring at her with his hands on his hips.

"You FORGOT to introduce ALICE." He holds up a tarantula morph spinarak with a little red bow on it. It also looks angry.

"Damn! My bad lil dudes. That's Alice there in his hands!"

Gnash nods as the Spinarak trills happily. "Thank you."

Riley continues on for real this time, now arriving at a girl reading under a tree. She is completely adorned in a dark red gothic dress, complete with a face mask and bell hat. Only her red eyes and a bit of her pale face is visible. The girl notices Riley approaching and puts the book down, from her eyes creasing she appears to be smiling.

"This here is Silence! Say Hi Silence!"

The girl does not respond.

"Classic Silence! I call her Si sometimes. Silence is a lil bit of a mouthful. and a lil weird. No offense."

Silence snorts quietly and returns to her book.

Riley turns the camera back to herself.

"Bahaha! Now you guys've seen my new dudes. Um. They kinda insist on calling us a gang, 'm trying to tell them to like, not say that, but I gotta admit it feels kinda nice bein' looked up to so much. Ain't used to that.

....

Anyways, I know I can't just let them follow me forever but..."

She trails off and looks down.

"... I... I don't think they have parents, guys."

The video ends.

[yandere-daydreams]

At this point. Shiggy just gonna have an army of vengeful darlings

Just wait until you see why I’m doing with Shoto’s Darling, oh my god. I have a whole Info Sheet written up for this one bitch and I’m thriving because I like their character so much, especially with Toga as their ‘guiding hand’. There’s going to be so much stabbing I’ve never been more excited-

[iloveyoudie]

Monica & Joyce in How Long We Were Fool’d by iloveyoudie

When Morse woke up, groggy and dragging, his sister was back and looking much too chipper for the early hour. He hadn’t heard her come in but she was there now, eating something noisily from a bowl again and listening to The Breakfast Show on the radio at a low volume. She certainly didn’t look like she’d been up half the night drinking, or whatever else she’d gotten up to with Monica, though she did look much too satisfied for this early in the morning.

He wasn’t going to ask.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

5x02

buck fuckin wild how many people are still bothering to put on their business casual in the apocalypse. who do you think is maintaining Jim's haircut.

(it's Harvey we all know it's Harvey)

you have to give it to Gotham: almost every terrible decision Bruce makes can be completely justified on the grounds that he's a severely depressed teenager whose brain stops working when his girlfriend needs literally anything

oh hey Ivy's back

actually insane that Barbara's still only allowed to call her canonical sexual partner Tabitha her "best friend". just gals bein pals on Gotham

"Makenzie aren't you always talking about how sex doesn't have to be romantic and more characters should just bone their friends platonically" y e a h but not like this, this is just squeamish homophobia lite

my patience with Barbara has actually worn pretty thin at this point but screaming about how she hopes Jim gets ripped to shreds because he deserves to die is a mood

where is Donal Logue's emmy for "it's a freakin arrow, Jim! it's a freakin arrow!!!"

Ivy appears to be wearing. glitter? and not much else. alright ma'am.

it's soooo funny every time this show takes a dip into magic shit. "there's a magic seed under the oak tree" baby girl what are you talking about

alright hang on gonna go hunt down whoever decided we should watch the Riddler pee. I just want to have a few words.

out of context "the Riddler wakes up with a leather-wearing man bound and gagged who's offended when the Riddler doesn't remember his name" is. well. my version is funnier.

I actually think Ed could still date this guy they have a rapport. amnesiac meetcute of the century. they found love in a hopeless place.

where did this fucking. 16th century English peasant trying to enact a witch hunt come from. how did he find his way into 21st (???) century Gotham.

lol @ Ivy playing Bruce like a cheap fiddle. lmao even. go girlboss commit atrocities.

what the fuck is the plot of this episode. like why are we doing this. how do we have filler in a season with TWELVE EPISODES.

"some say the darker angels of our nature are unlocked and set free" who. who says that.

HARROWHARK NONAGESIMUS????

love how this show has given Selina and Ivy such a rich backstory that will absolutely never be explored

oh awesome Selina has. glowing cgi cat eyes now. rad.

alright fuck it I'm trapped in the office with two hours to kill

[sternbagel]

still thinking about the Sailor Uranus & Neptune necklaces that Hot Topic tried to pass off as “best friend” necklaces instead of, y’know, a declaration of love

[mishanax-blog]

I have art block, but here are some things I found while cleaning off my desktop

[maitaitiu]

whoa hey i wanna dance with somebody