#kinda went on a lil tangent there lol but

[kowaindar0u]

💓 + Yams and Kashuu bestie cuddly sweet 🥺 (and for some odd reason NagaTaikyuu in some odd platonic meowmeow kind ueeeee) ((@zantedeschia-praesul))

[ Ship With Me? ]

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YES WWAAAAAAA all the okitagumi cuddles i love them :sob: they're like 2 kitties that snuggle up to each other (bakuten 2020 has just furthered the kitty cat agenda for them i die every time i think about it)

and yes !!! LMAO i feel like any time he's asked about it taikyuu would say like something with the general idea being "oh, nagasone? that guy suuuuuucks" but at the same time he'd probably kick anyone else who said anything hurtful about him...

ah man now i'm thinking about about him and how he feels with the shinsengumi swords. one one hand he feels a kind of kinship with them but on the other hand he sorta feels like he doesn't really fit in since harada wound up leaving the group, and of course there's that harada and kondo didn't leave on the best of terms...

hmmm

[reds-writings]

sunday kind of love

(pairing: rust cohle x fem!reader)

a/n: finally a bit of pure fun and fluff! this kinda applies to the jealousy, jealousy universe but it can totally be read as a standalone! requests are open so hit my inbox if you so choose! enjoy!

word count: 1.3k ish (a lil treat)

warnings: light cursing but not much else! the ending felt kinda weak so i apologize for that lol (minors begone!)

“Y’know…today is supposed to be one of rest…given that it’s a Sunday n’ all. Just in case you might’ve forgotten.” You remarked in your half-drowsy state, your porch swing swaying idly as you lay draped across it like some lazy house cat. 

The day had you hotter than a sinner in church. The sun sat high and bright in the sky, certainly having no mercy on all the melting folk of Louisiana. Even the breeze that had the old wind chimes you’d hung up ages ago tinkling idly in its gusts was relentless in temperature, offering no aid to your sickeningly sticky skin. With the way you’d been running the AC and numerous plugged-in fans in your house over the past few days, you were sure to rack up one nasty-looking electric bill in due time. Even with all that operating nearly 24/7 it hadn’t made much of a difference in the old rickety house. You’d give just about anything right now if it meant not being so grossly miserable and sweaty in all the worst places. 

The only reason you weren’t inside the slightly cooler haven that was your home was because of a certain pigheaded man who decided today would be the day he busied himself with fixing up your lawn. How ridiculous. One offhand mention of the front yard being a little unruly and your flowers looking a bit lackluster had Rust up and working as if you were Pavlov and he the infamous dog. There was no fighting him when he set his mind on something so you assigned yourself the role of making sure he didn’t drop dead from heat exhaustion like a fool. 

“I’m serious, Rustin. We should head on inside. Ain’t no need to get all of this done today.” You called out again, tipping your head to the side and looking over your sunglasses to see that he had now moved on from getting all the lawn clippings into a trash bag to planting some new flowers he claimed would thrive during the season. The way the muscles under the tan skin of his arms moved and the look of utter focus painted on his handsome features had you smiling something horrendously lovesick. Despite his bullish nature, you knew this was just one of his many underlying ways of showing that he cared for you. Loved you even. You could say that now after certain admissions had been made some nights ago and you found yourself no less giddy after the fact as you thought on it what had to be a million times over at this point. 

Some Linda Rondstat tune played from the old radio that sat propped up on the porch’s railing, causing your bare feet to tap in tandem with the country star’s divine voice. Rust continued to work in silence as you started humming, sitting up to then swing your legs off the bench’s edge. 

You flipped your sunglasses to lay stationary at the top of your head, “I’m feelin’ awfully neglected right now, darlin’.”

That had him finally snorting, “I’m sure you’ll live.” 

“You don’t know that. If I were to keel over right this minute cause a certain cowboy won’t give me the time of day, I bet you there’d be some sorta scientific explanation behind it and it’d have you feelin’ just awful. Gutted even, I’m tellin’ you.” You wagged a finger at him as you went on your theatrical tangent. You saw him shaking his head, continuing to work as if that could hide his growing smile from you. 

“You find this funny but I’m bein’ dead serious. I’ve got one of the most handsomest men in Louisiana on my lawn and he’s too busy diggin’ holes in my garden. Those flowers are gettin’ more felt up than your poor girl over here and that don’t sit quite right with me-”

“Quit it, woman.” He cut in with feigned exasperation though you knew such outward declarations of flirting made by you had him more than a bit flustered. You could live out this whole scene forever if you could. It might’ve been hotter than hell but the landscape was lush and beautiful. The weeping willow taking up a good amount of space on the front of your property danced in the light afternoon wind. The sunlight was hitting everything just right and it had you grateful to call this all yours. The man opposing you only added to the fuzzy feeling dancing in your veins. Snapping out of your sappy thoughts of admiration you saw Rust finally get up from his position and make way towards the garden hose.

You huffed out a dramatic sigh as you forced yourself up and made your way down the weathered porch steps. He stood over the new thatch of colorful flora, thumb half over the hose’s nozzle to spray down his hard work of the day. 

“If I quit it then just how else am I supposed to bug you with my affections?”

“I couldn’t tell ya. Shame that is.” He drawled, seemingly amused with feeding into your impatient antics.

Eyes squinting at him, you tried to fight the quirking of your lips as you ambled on over closer to him. 

“You must got some hidden thing for the works of sadism, mister. Leavin’ me hangin’ for hours on end with no-” You nearly shrieked at the sudden cold of the hose’s stream being flicked at you. The offendant stood opposite of you, too smug for your liking as he took in your half-soaked form. The old tank top and denim cutoffs you had on already left little to the imagination prior to his attack, you could only imagine the form of indecency you found yourself in now. 

“Oh, that’s it. C’mere you little- HEY!” You screeched as the cold spray hit you again. The momentum with which you charged at him had water flying between you both when he got you again. You wrestled each other for the hose, causing more than enough of a mess in the process. The joy in your laughter had Rust’s chest squeezing almost painfully. The stretch of his grin felt foreign to him but he couldn’t manage to control himself. 

As you made numerous attempts to jump up and snatch the tubing from his grip you overestimated your step and slipped on the newly muddied grass, causing you both to topple over. Your belly ached from how hard you found yourself laughing. You almost felt like a child again, drenched beyond belief with streaks of mud and grass finding a new home on your body. A few deep rumbles sounded from the depths of Rust’s broad chest as he pushed some of the sopping-wet hair from your face, looking at you as if you were the only thing in the world that made sense to him. As if you were all the answers to his universe wrapped up into one person. The intensity had you knocking his chin with your knuckles softly and wiping some water from his face. 

“You’re an ass, y’know that?”

“And you’re one sore loser.” 

“Loser?! I’ll have you know I managed to take your lanky ass down in one fell swoop-” 

You were silenced by the sudden press of his kiss. It was hard to reciprocate as you felt yourself smiling harder but he persisted despite the clumsiness of it all. Moments like these were something you’d never take for granted. Any chance to see the man in front of you free of all of his persistent burdens, even if just for a moment, were times you could hold on to forever. You felt nothing short of lucky that he let you in. That you were able to cross paths and choose each other in this life. 

You had a feeling there were probably other lifetimes in which you danced this similar dance as different people or different beings. Destined to always find your way back to each other come hell or high water.  Damn. Rust's daily cosmic ramblings and otherworldy mumbo jumbo were starting to really get to you.

Though you couldn't help but wonder if he happened to feel it too.

a/n: late night post but we love silliness and laughter! as always feedback is greatly appreciated! hopefully, this wasn't too ooc!

[fushitoru]

ik bridgerton gojo eats it like a starved man

- zaynesbathrobe anon

he DOESSSS. but when he's taking reader's virginity, he's going to try to be a lil gentle. reader's never really masturbated (while it's not true no one in the era ever masturbated, you'd kinda have to be exposed to the idea of "using ur nethers for smth other than peeing.")

also, reader's read up on the biological background of reproduction, since she reads scientific and political articles. however, she hasn't put two and two together of what the diagrams mean on HER, lol. like yea you can be taught sex ed in middle school but it's not until you SEE it that you realize "oh!!! this is where semen goes and how it's produced!!!"

anyways, reader isn't fully aware of "the marital act" but when gojo is kissing her, dragging his hands up her skirt, she's going to realize she's feeling a very funny feeling! btw satoru is a REALLYY good kisser, so when he's kissing up her legs with his bare lips, reader's gonna be kind of overwhelmed and wondering why she gets dissapointed whenever he just stops at her inner thighs and continues to make out w her.

they have a convo about it, gojo actually answers her questions from chapter 5, teaches her abt consent basically. when he’s eating her out for the first time, it’s slow languid licks that he talks her through until reader asks him to stop. and innocently asks if this is how they conceive heirs. he loses his shit LOL (I think he has a corruption kink bcuz of reader)

oops i went on a tangent

[helluvapurf]

Oop, almost forgot to post this here as well the other day glkjk Buuut guess who finally got to finishing another Reimagined AU design?~ This time of everyone's favorite icy brother-in-law, Andrealphus 💙❄️as a nice lil follow-up to the previous set of redesigns I did for Stolas & his family.

Now, keep in mind I by no means "hate" Andre's canon design as-is (*mainly thanks to all the pretty fanart I've seen from other fans*)... buuut at the same time, it just kinda stumps me how its meant to work as a sibling concept for Stella? .w.; From the heart-shaped face shape & pupiless eyes, I legit thought he was meant to be Stolas' brother before I read his initial intro description lol. Not to say siblings have to look 100% alike, mind you... buuut just a lil more visual clarity could've went a long way to distinguish them as 'family' imo. That along with the... weird "Evil Elsa"-inspired hair, robe & a whole crown (when he's not even a royal himself...?) on top of everything else... ehhhhh .w.;; the vibe together didn't really do it for me, I'm afraid 🤷‍♀️

-Soooo yeah, tangent aside here's my own personal take on Andre's look in my AU~. Made him physically a mix between a Snowy Owl & a Peacock (*I HC him and Stella as half-siblings btw, as she had a Swan mother herself*), gave him more of a "fancy mathmetician" vibes with the pointer stick & glasses ('cause his OG demon lore had him involved with alot of math, apparently? :o), styled up his face markings & hair to resemble more to his sister, aaaand just for fun I decided to give him some green accents to contrast from the rest of his icy/blue colors... 'cause yknow, "Green with Envy"~ lol ;p

[sammyluvr]

sam is like so hopelessly in love with you to the point he’d listen to jeff buckley on repeat and just think abt you, literally everything about you; making out, kissing your skin (and your shoulder, lil reference there teehee) and he definitely hugs his pillow at night.

he also listens to hopelessly devoted to you from the grease soundtrack and dean teases him constantly and calls him gay (which tbf i can actually see twink sam being a thing) but dean is so annoying with matchmaking and his methods surrounding it, pushing you two into each other, ushering u or him into each other’s rooms n locking the doors. etc. u get the picture.

then sam eventually works up the courage to tell you how he feels (js keep in mind this courage is built up way way after dean starts his matchmaking) and i feel like it’d be a very angsty confession, like one day he’s acting distant and you’re like “what’s going on” and he’s like “nothing” all while trying to avoid you but ur having none of it so it turns into a big argument and he ends up shouting how he feels with tears in his eyes and then you comfort him and he lays in your lap while you give him head scratches.

also feel like he’d love back scratches, like he’d just randomly ask for back scratches while you guys r cuddling and when you say yeah he takes his shirt off and lays on his front, u internally go feral bc who wouldn’t for shirtless sam, and then you just give him back scratches while he’s like “harder, softer, right there, no there” and he gets rlly sassy abt it like ok princess sassy pants

anyways kinda went on a tangent with abt 50 hcs there but yolo

-💽

WAHH SO CUTE !! love sick sam, i'm giving him the biggest heart eyes right now. like he's truly always just thinking about you, thinking about holding you, loving on you, kissing you, all of it <33 he misses you forever even if you're only apart for a day sighhh <3 him hugging his pillow because he misses having you in his arms makes me so emo :((

(i will forever forever always love any variation of queer sam sighhh <3333) but yes dean ever the teaser ever the microagressiony homophobic silly goose and LOL yeah he's such a menace with his match making i love him he's so silly.

MM YES i love writing angsty confession with sam <33 post angsty confession cuddles my beloved <333

sighhh omg i loveee thinking about really any sort of thing that calms/comforts sam, and i agree that he'd totally love back scratches or any sort of back massage or whatever it is <33 he loves it so much aghhh. it makes him so sleepy and soft but i'm super giggling at the idea of him getting sassy and picky about it heheh <33 "like ok princess sassy pants" LMAO HEHE <33 love it love it love it!!! (screaming crying about shirtless sam i need him sooo so very badly)

[wifiwuxians]

sorry for the late reply! im the songxue anon! just saw your responses a few minutes ago and my gosh, you're really very sweet ;; im sorry to have caused so much of a fuss but thank you for being so compassionate and kind ;; (also i adore that crying xue yang omigosh what are you talking abt how can you think thats not amazing its perfect i love it). also the tags? on your first reply??? people are mean to song lan????? WHO IS MEAN TO SONG LAN??? WHY??? HOW????! i'll be honest, i tend to avoid getting involved with fandom discourse At All Costs bc i dont need that kind of stress in my life, so mainly i just look at fanart and fics i like and stay in my lane so i had no idea there were people who hate on song lan???? like??????????? how????????????????? okay, i love xue yang, he's my baby, but i TOTALLY understand people hating him. he has no rights and he deserved everything bad that happened to him and so much more. i just happen to adore him and wanna spoil my stupid lil meowmeow. like it makes SENSE to be mad at xue yang but like.................................. how can anyone hate song lan?!?! HE DID NOTHING WRONG?????? LITERALLY HE JUST GOT HURT, OVER AND OVER, FOR NO REASON????? im sorry for going on such a tangent over a very short tag you added but im a lil flabbergasted that anyone could hate on Best Boy. also while im going on tangents about tags, your 500 aus are part of what i adore about your art oki. like you have such a wonderful and vivid imagination and the way that you give life to the ideas with your art is breath-taking. even if its a concept i dont think i would enjoy just hearing the idea, when i see your execution i am 100% on board because my gosh you have such a beautiful way of bringing life to things.

and you don't need to apologize for anything btw! it's totally oki to assert boundaries and i really dont speak for anyone other than myself. i just saw a few "dont tag as ship" things and i was like "ahh... oki they prolly wouldnt like me" cuz im an anxious bean and i also dont wanna reveal myself as a gross loser who likes weird ships to one of my fav artists, ya know? so you were 100% just doing the good selfcare thing (which much approval, we stan) and i just got the wrong idea cuz im a nervous weirdo. as for revealing myself i feel a bit embarrassed to do so now after being such a weirdo at you oaeurhgiauehrg but one way or another, your are IS getting reblogged, especially now that i have permission to look at some pieces disrespectfully oiaerhjgohre (not SUPER disrespectfully, just maybe a lil bit of 'they're in love your honor' oki) (a silly random thing but im a bit happy to know you dont hate songxue oijghiouehrg its silly but knowing my favorite 'songxue artist' (not-really-songxue-but-i-totally-see-it) doesnt hate my otp is kinda nice 😊 i thought the irony of it was a bit funny before but i also felt guilty for seeing stuff that your didnt really intend with your art and yeah eoirjgioejrg basically my initial asks were all that struggle so its just kinda nice. its not a very popular ship so its cool when its not disliked, even if its not actively enjoyed. idk if im making sense LOL sorry) ohergiuearhg sorry i feel like i went on a bunch of tangents instead of responding to you properly and i think maybe i have a problem of Talking Too Much so i swear i will really try to keep this one short. i love your art, youre completely valid and wonderful, im doing okay and im really happy you responded to me so kindly despite my strangeness, i think you're neat and you deserve a ton of people showering you with praise cuz damn, you make things great. and i'd like to take a moment to express how you can really influence people with your art: i never even considered wen chao x xue yang before your art and now i think they're a really funny couple, and thats completely bc of how lovely your creations are. please believe in your ability to make people love the things that you love through your beautiful art. be proud of how incredible you are. you make everything a lil brighter just by existing but the fact that you exist and choose to share your beautiful art (and fics, ive read some of them and i Love your writing, its incredible) you make the world a whole lot brighter cuz damn, now i get to look at this stuff and just smile and feel warm inside. so thank you for making my life a lil happier and please be confident in yourself!

okay sorry to put em all together but also i felt it was best so let's begin,

^me

1- you've caused no fuss at all so don't worry about that!! i just wanted to make sure it wasn't a ships in the night situation LOL i wanted to make sure you got my response! :) (I'M GLAD YOU ENJOY THE MEME LOL) as for song lan meanness, that's what i'm saying THAT'S WHAT I'M SAYING and YET! this is why i stay out of the tags all the time. there's just too much shit out there in the world and sometimes i fail at just gritting my teeth and letting people say their thang, and it gets me in trouble... but maaaaaaan i really need to say it's a shame you wanna stay anonymous because i think we'd get on like a house on fire! you've summed up exactly how i feel about both of them + how i wish others reacted to them haha (but no pressure to reveal yourself! just know i think we'd get along)

and as for 500 AUs... i'm so glad 😭 i am an AU machine, i have so many i can't keep track and they bring me so much joy, but i admittedly feel sort of alone in making them haha SO THIS MEANS A LOT!! especially you complimenting my execution like i think i may just melt into a puddle and pass away jfghsjh thank you,, so much

2- but seriously, don't worry about the tag thing, it is 100% a boundary thing and the only time i think i'd dislike someone for it is if they saw i said not to tag it as something in the body of the post and did it anyway! 'cause that's just rude (and then i feel despair bc what else can i do to get people NOT to tag LMAO) it's for my own comfort, i'm not trying to dictate what people can or can't ship or feel, it's just i'd rather not hear about it :p especially when it's not what i drew! but also i'm a favorite artist? 😳

you haven't been a weirdo at all! no pressure to go mask off but please don't let anything be because you think i think you're a weirdo or a loser, ok? it's not true! hooray reblogs my NUTRIENCE.. THANK YOU! (but haha this isn't a 'theyre in love' type of piece but the one i personally look at most disrespectfully is when i drew sl straight up eating xy's flesh off his ribs... i know cannibalism isn't for everyone though and neither is gory imagery! just... sharing... oversharing...)

for the aside: no problem! i will say for transparency purposes that my relationship with it IS complicated and that i personally would need it to fit a very uncommon mold (that i do not often see) for me to be like 👍 which is why i tend to stick to my own stuff + what a chosen few friends make when it comes to them in general, but my god you're a rare breed! i've never met anyone who had it as their otp!! you're braver than any US marine because it's such a rarepair it didn't make it into the like top 11 mdzs ships on ao3 or whatever...

3- i love talking though! i really appreciate your messages and i hope this response wasn't a complete jumbled mess ahhh...

thank you so so much for all the lovely praise and encouragement, getting these messages actually helped me break out of my funk a little and do some chores, so know your words do have an impact too! 💕 i need to remember more often that as long as even one person smiles at my work, it will have been worth it. i promise i'm trying ;; sometimes i get caught up in the numbers still and i'm very ashamed of that, but damn, you took time out of your day to let me know that you love and appreciate what i do, and that's honestly made me tear up a little, so THANK YOU AGAIN !! i'm sorry i'm failing at expressing myself and my gratitude properly kgjdklhjkgh (also, thank you for the xuechao support, like THAT's what i call a RAREPAIR! (canned laughter) i really try to spread the joy with those two)

i'm really floundering on how to say thank you well enough so... maybe i can show you some birthday art i made for a friend who also loves xy and sl and xy/chao (which of course now im being nitpicky about but the friend loved it so idc LOL)

[halcyandaze]

question that came to me out of the blue but were there previous versions/scrapped ideas for bonomo and nova [or oc in general]?

oH BOY so I've had bonomo for over 7 years now so uhhh I do indeed got plenty of old material of those two and how they kinda evolved and changed over all that time

so lucky for you guys, for once I'm gonna *pukes in mouth a lil* ugh, share my old art from when I was 15, oof uhhh you're welcome in advance (yes I realize some of my old followers here could have been following since I was 15 but still) also since I've had these characters for so long and tie into my own life at times I may accidentally go off on some tangents but whatever

strap in folks, this is gonna be a long post

bonomo

2015: aight so I first made this lil dude in september 2015 in a sketchbook after school. didn't think much of him at the time, just a cool character design that kinda stuck around. an ex friend of mine gave him the name bonomo (I suck at naming things) but yes humble beginnings here, literally just a little guy

early 2016: ok so at this point I got attached to the design and wanted to flesh him out more. at first he was just a lil creature with a monitor head, but I wanted to run with that retro computer kind of theme and fully embraced it by making him into a robot

mid/late 2016: alright so here is when the design really started to take shape and tighten up as you can see, from this point not much changes with bonomo as far as the design goes except for just minor art style changes from here. this is where I start building more personality, being rather positive, naive, goofy

2017: here is where I really start knowing the character well and finally get all the kinks out of the design. ended up making him very expressive, taller, softer, rounder, everything past this point is peak bonomo

2018/2019/2020/2021/2022: not much to report at this point his design is pretty much solid from here

nova

early 2016: so here I first wanted to make a simple persona/self insert kinda thing and made this rough unnamed loose design of a lil alien creature, as you can see I cannot decide on a color palette to save my life

mid/late 2016: got a name for them and started calling them nova, and I finally picked a goddamn color palette and basic outfit design about damn time. at this point they went from being just a nameless self insert persona concept to be their own character instead

2017: same with bonomo, this is where I feel like I got a good solid design for them, and all of their major design has stayed the same from here on out. I also brought back/revived some elements from their very first designs in 2016 as a design for their younger self for backstory purposes, but this is still a bit rough and I put it on the back burner to shape up their current design and story before tackling their backstory

2018: not much change here except I feel my art has gotten much better at this point lol

2019/2020: at this point I have bonomo and nova's personality, design, dynamic, and story rough ideas down pretty solid so I work more on nova's past and backstory more and have nailed down the design for their younger past self

2021/2022: both versions of nova have remained pretty much unchanged from here

early 2016: both bonomo and (at the time unnamed) nova were more of just designs than the characters we know em as today. I started drawing them together around march 2016 just because I thought "oh haha a robot and alien, sci-fi cross over time" without thinking much of it

mid/late 2016: here I find myself drawing the two together more and it's at this point I realize to myself 'oh shit I can do something with this' and started to really flesh out who they are and where they came from and wanted to turn them into full characters instead of just little doodles. here I started experimenting with lore and story ideas, many of which have changed a lot or have been scrapped completely by now. at first I imagined both of them being from space, but ended up scrapping that and having bonomo be native to earth. I also didn't have a full motive for nova to come to earth yet either, but I knew they'd both be on earth at this point just causing trouble. I also was debating making their story much more depressing and even toxic at points for the two of them, even debating having bonomo leaving nova for good at some point, but that just made me sad over time so that quickly was changed

2017: here is both when their main design elements and personality start to take proper shape. I base their personalities off of exaggerated aspects of my own, bonomo being my goofy silly naive geeky half and nova being my feral stubborn paranoid half. I have also started forming the very rough idea of nova's backstory to how they arrived on earth, why they're on earth, how bonomo and nova meet, and their basic every day lives

2018: ok so now that I have their designs, personalities, and daily lives and motivations down, I start working on their actual story and have gotten it pretty solid now (but these are all spoilers so hmm ask for more info later if y'all really want uhhhhhhh)

2019/2020: at this point my art has gone from much more simple and flat color generally to much more rendered and symbolic and distorted and psychedelic, cuz this was after I dropped out of college and was battling some nasty drug addictions at the time which quite literally changed how I see the world to a much more confusing and broken and distorted place, and my art changed to reflect that. it was at this point that I started working more on nova's backstory seriously since it ties into where their story finishes

2021/2022: my art at this point was a lot of self reflection cuz I had a lot of emotions and a lot of personal growth and a lot of change in my life at this point and phew these two were really going through it in my artwork while I figured my shit out. but here we are now!

so yeah uh that's bonomo the prototype robot and nova the ex-space criminal they live in the middle of nowhere new mexico and get up to silly shenanigans and tomfoolery :]

[kkolg]

In this setting, where angels and demons come from and how do they get in the setting the story is happening?

Angels and demons in this au can be born, created, or summoned (usually depending on if they’re a toon or not). The only way an angel or demon can be born is if both of the parents are an angel or if it’s a demon a demon- sorry if that’s a lil confusing couldn’t find a better way to word that-

Sub-breeds of that category are fallen angels or risen demons, it’s just what the name suggests- These can only be born or created, not summoned. If they are born, usually the species of the father classifies the child, example: if the mother is a demon and the father is an angel then the child is most likely a fallen angel. They can also be created if an angel is willing/not wanting to be an angel or “good” anymore they usually lose their wings and gain horns- this usually happens subconsciously, so most of the time the angel might not know what’s going on. Same goes for a demon except the opposite.

sry for making that long lol, kinda went on a lil tangent-

[transmandrake]

Concept that will never ever happen but man, 3d renders for a petsite with dress-up ala neopets or flight rising would be a great like, time-saving strategy. Like it is mindboggling the amount of effort that goes into a single item in FR... but 3d would make the possibility of fully dress-upable pet sites way more viable (i mean. Im sure theres more but I can only think of those two. And thats fair! Flight rising is petsites georg in terms of, whatd you call it, production level)

Like, instead of redrawing a hat 30 times, model it once, and then slap it on with minor adjustments for them all, and theoretically once you have a system of what fits what, adding on another beastie wont keep exponentially increasing the work of adding new clothes.

Then, render the creature and the clothes as spearate images, and have the site layer them as appropriate and compress into a final single image. That would mean no shadows and stuff, but thats already something you cant really do in 2d, but it would be a lot more noticeable.

Also wayyyy wayyy easier to do multiple poses.

That's also making me imagine the possibility of animated petsites... prerendered probably but man, imagine like, pokemon amie but on your computer or phone with your lil dressupable creatures. As much as I hold petsites dear to my heart, I do think they're on their last limb simply because most people don't go on their computer to goof around. Like technically you can play FR on your phone but its just not the same. (Side note but um. Anybody want a nature/water sprite? I feel a lil bad theyre rotting on my account considering they must be pretty rare at this point)

The idea of a petsite as an app causes me some form of revulsion, but I'm not sure why. If anything thats what I always wanted as a kid, but most games like that are... well. Shit. But I'm also not 12 anymore so maybe 'mobile games where you have some dudes to take care of' has expanded as a genre.

But in theory it would be cool. In general I think petsites came up with a lot of fun ways to interact digitally that arent anywhere else, that would make some unique videogames.

Went on tangent below lol

Also same with those dragon breeding mobile games that you really shouldnt play but are a guilty pleasure of mine... I'd love to make a whole game based around completing a compendium of dragons by collecting different ones and combining them.

As much as I hate to say it though they fundamentally revolve around waiting a lot of time between attempts, that I cant think of a way to keep the excitement of getting something different without being the shitty mobile game style ohhh you can wait 4 hours... orrr pay usss... like, just removing the paying would just make the game annoying.

they are genuinely fun if you have no money and are resistant to addiction... which is sad, I wish I could translate the gameplay loop in an equally fun but non-exploitative way.

But i guess animal crossing does real time stuff and people love it, but it also doesnt seem the sort of idea to make a good chill out game... the only way i can think of is to just make it so on average by the time you come back from playing the 'find more dargons' part of the game, that your combinings should be ready. But making that into a factory sort of advancement would be... kinda fucked up lmao.

You obviously want to make the dragons feel like pets or companions and not breeding stock. But also the angle of 'you are a dragon conservationist and you must convince as many dragons as possible to Fuck' sounds kinda funny... like how in FR obliterating dragons for money is well-rationaled as sending them off to serve their deity, but in reverse.

[krenenbaker]

I think Monster High would be a show he found as a child. I kinda feel it would be his comfort show since it's like- mainly about being proud of who you are despite your flaws or oddities y'know. With the way some things are implied with his character I feel like he needs that. (Correct me if I'm wrong)

Also Lilia looks like Draculara kinda so I wouldn't feel too much like I'm reaching to hc hat's what drew Cater to him originally lol

Also the fashion is really slays in most of them which is feel he'd really like.

I also just feel like he'd really vibe with the music:

https://youtu.be/Vc48xIRhsV8?si=mJFqnLThCQFOra4Q

I would like this played at at a Halloween party ngl

(Oops went on a lil tangent here)

I can totally see that!! I'm really liking this headcanon!

AND THE LILIA COMPARISON OMGG I can see that happening, haha!!

this is another Cater being on the opposite side of the same coin as Idia situation, I think - Cater definitely got into some show really heavily in the past, and found a lot of comfort in it. Monster High seems to be one that would definitely fit that role!

[nogoodmox]

nikki cross validates tauruses all over the world

[tosye]

For the artist ask game: #15

Also my own little question, what program and brush do you use to create?

I love you and your art tremendously. You're so incredibly talented💜💕

(PART 2) Edit on my last ask, I just realised you do use procreate too, lol sorry. But what brush do you use for colouring? Your shading and light effects are so soft I'm obsessed

hiii hun!! tysm for the ask ❤️

15. Biggest artist pet peeve?

some people might get mad at me for this but it’s tracing 💀💀 don’t get me wrong - i love tracing FOR PRACTICE AND PERSONAL USE ONLY, I also do that when trying to figure out faces which you can see below!! what i do is i trace to kinda get the feel of the features (on the left) and then draw it from scratch (on the right)

like it’s totally cool and dandy if you’re trying to improve on anatomy or kinda figure out another artists style BUT i really REALLY don’t like it when peeps do tracing and post stuff it just gives me the ick sorry besties

about the brushes - a lil display below

the nadiaxel ones i use for both sketching/line and rendering with differing opacity, round and damp brush and trifection are for rendering too, the jingsketch and fine tip I’ve only just started using so im kinda trying to figure them out!! the last one from sinix I use for the occasional smudge!! I think that the softness is just an illusion since i very much leave the brush strokes visible but the difference in color and hue is just so subtle that it looks smooth lmao but it also depends on what technique im doing - ie more painterly (my recent cobb) or more highly-rendered-american-comic-cover style (pancakes, the dincobb with the pink spotlight etc). also a lot of the softness you’re talking about might be the use of layers - i often do a flat color and then a multiply layer of a warmer grayish color and the work on the lighter and darker parts on that kinda like below (1. flats, 2. what the multiply layer looks like in normal, 3. actual multiply mode, 4. w/ the light)

for stronger light sources like these below i tend to use either add or screen blend modes with additional light sources airbrushed over the bg in the same blend mode most of the time

sorry i went off on quite the tangent lmao but I’m absolutely loving these asks keep them coming guys!! don’t have to be from the ask game im happy to talk abt whatever!!

Artist Asks

[steponmepinkjun]

Can i ask for a Cuddle Day of the main6 after a hard work week? 🥺 cuddles, They favorites things, whatever. Please, AND thanks

I like kinda went off on a tangent with this one lol. As inspiration strikes, I’ll add a part two later with the secondary LI’s, but for now, my lil weasel brain gives you my vision of a comforting and romantic weekend with the main three 😌I hope this makes you feel as warm and fuzzy as it made me feel boo thang 💓

A long-awaited weekend with Asra, Julian, and Nadia X GN!MC after a hard work week uwu 🥰✨ 

WARNING: Brief mentions of spice.

Asra ~ 

He’s been looking forward to the weekend just as much as you, so he makes sure your calendar is cleared and the shop is closed, no exceptions. Everything’s an adventure with Asra, even your trip to the market friday evening to get all the supplies for a weekend in: tons of snacks, extra candles, probably a new set of matching pajamas because Asra is definitely That Partner, and some stuff for laid-back hobby time like yarn for Faust’s sweaters or a new sketchbook for you.

He decks the bed out in all of your softest linens and pillows, surrounds the canopy with fairy lights and floating lanterns, and busts out the breakfast trays so you can lay in bed eating and cuddling to your heart’s content.

He’s like… definitely not letting you get out of bed unless it’s an emergency. He’s gonna insist on bringing all your food to you, rubbing your tired feet, brushing your hair and massaging your shoulders. 

If you absolutely insist on bathing over your two day staycation, you better believe he’s sliding into the tub with you.

He also covertly makes sure the bedside drawer that houses your um. Shared devices and um. Apparatuses. Has a few full vials of oil and maybe some aphrodisiac incense or a new toy for the two of you to test out. (If he can’t keep you in bed by tempting you with treats and creature comforts, he’ll simply ensure your legs are too wobbly to walk.)

Julian ~

He’s taking you out on the boat. Get ready for a weekend of seaside sunsets, fresh seafood, and the unique kind of privacy that comes with being out on the ocean ;)

He’ll want to fish together if you’re up for it, and then cook your catch together, preferably over a nice bottle of wine (or three) and followed with a silly love-struck serenade accompanied by his vielle. Having you all to himself, he won’t be able to resist peppering every conversation with cheesy but completely sincere comments (“The most alluring siren in all the seas is right here at my side, what a lucky pirate I am” “You leave me more awe-struck than all the sunsets this salty sea dog has ever seen, my dear” “When I cast my gaze upon the streets of Vesuvia, I never imagined a catch like this”) always followed with a wink

He can and will suggest you eat your dessert directly off his sun-reddened chest, whether he’s sober or otherwise. If you grin and accept… The Trademark Flustered Horny Julian Face(™)

He’ll take you up to the crows nest and point out all the stars and constellations--a few are clearly made up pirate wishwash, surely there’s no constellation called the Buxom Beauty or the Seven-Sworded Sea Scalliwag

You’re on a boat, all alone, surrounded by rigging and the soothing sounds of the waves… please for the love of all that is holy, tie this man down like he’s in danger of being washed away, put on a Captain’s hat, and drown him in your own storm.

Nadia ~

Nadia knows exactly how to spoil you at the palace spa, or a no expenses spared trip to the Heart district, but this weekend she senses you both need something… different.

It might be a little risky, should anyone find out, but she’s more than capable on her own--she shirks the royal guards, wraps you both in common plainclothes, and you whirl away into the anonymous night. Your shipride to Prakra is filled with hushed giggles and wrapped in colorful scarves to conceal your identities, and she lulls you to sleep in your cramped bunk with her long, elegant fingers massaging your scalp and her lips whispering promises of the days to come, how she will show you the secret Prakra that only she knows, explored in her youth on stolen nights in secret from her royal upbringing.

The streets of the Prakran commons are crowded with street vendors and caravans selling every kind of ware, and if your eye lingers too long on any one food fair or trinket she’ll discreetly exchange a handful of coins with the merchant, and by midday your shoulder bag of loot is almost full, as is your stomach. She’s a fierce bargainer from behind her cunning veil and cleverly catches the hands of two pickpockets before they can abscond with their haul--seeing your dignified and noble Nadia holding her own in an urban sprawl is not surprising, but certainly exciting.

She’ll take you to all the tiny hidden cafes and bookshops she would sneak out to as a teenager (when she could allude her handlers), and as the sun nears its setting point you travers a seemingly infinite and senseless maze of tall, skinny apartments and old crumbling shops to emerge at a hidden corner-balcony overlooking a steep redrock cliff above the sea. She’ll brush her hands over your cheeks and grip your hand tightly, taking her veil down only long enough to steal a deep and tender kiss from her partner in crime. That night she pulls you tightly against her and hardly lets go all through the warm Prakran night, even though the air feels like hot, wet velvet around you both.

A few times over the weekend, a passerby or street vendor will eye Nadia curiously, you can see their minds working to unravel the mystery of this strange, compelling person in front of them, and when you return to Vesuvia under the cover of night the couriers have delivered a short and incredulous note from the Satrinava family--”There are rumors swirling that you’ve been seen in Prakra--this cannot be true, no? Surely our dearest Didi would visit her family first and foremost”--but neither of you pay it much mind. Let the Countess have her privacy.

[banterpodcast]

hi shark can you talk At me (about anything)

yes yes yes of course i can in fact you can get the Shark Special (in which i ramble about a whole collection of things i love

firstly ive been really happy lately because my favourite band is back! they're called fredo disco and basically they have this big long history i love (also i've been kinda half officially recognised by fredo himself as the biggest fredo disco fan in my city which means the world to me)

basically ok so initially it was fredo and his two mates in a band called disco inc and they did a fun lil album called the boredom keeps me up at night and then fredo was like 'idk man i wanna do my own stuff' so started a soundcloud under the name fredo disco and then he was like nah fuck it i want to bring my friends on this journey and they released a bunch of music and then they made Another spotify called i.am.orange and they released all of their demos on their so for each song theres like 3 different versions of it in different stages of development and i love that i love seeing the changes in lyrics.

anyway during 2020 they were like 'heres a new album' that fucking FLOPPED because it was shitty soundcloud rap and then they were like 'yeah sorry no more fredo disco' and then TOOK ALL OF THEIR MUSIC OFF OF SPOTIFY and i was fucking heartbroken and then they put it back up and were like 'yeah lol new era with this other band called cacktain crunch' and they're finally releasing final versions of songs that never made it past the demo stage which makes me :D cause theyre one of the only bands i own merch for and yeah i just hold them So Dearly In My Heart :)))

OK SO NEXT TANGENT my dnd campaign is starting up again soon and im so excited my characters a half elf warlock but instead of having a contract with a god she has a contract with the cruel government that has left these adventurers stranded on this island. and so she went in like 'yes i am doing a job and monitoring these guys i dont care about' but now shes developed a soft spot for all of them and shes struggling to maintain her Girlboss image and its so fun to play with. i love my party cause we're basically all ex-theatre kids and we just have these really brilliant acting moments and all that. man. now im thinking about theatre and how much i miss it!!! i stopped acting because of anxiety but i stayed doing stage crew and tech stuff for a couple years and its my favourite i loved watching and supporting my friends while also working to make a show run smoothly.

also ok so the squirrels post got me thinking more and more about new zealand fauna that no one else gets to see :( cause basically new zealand split off from the super continent before we got any mammals (apart from like 2 species of bat) so all our species developed without needing. to develop defenses against mammals which is why we have so many flightless birds!

also this. it is so bonkers to me no one else has these!!!! these are tuatara and they're the last living direct descendant of the dinosaurs. like this is the closest thing we have to them and that is so insanely cool to me !!!!!

[genshinconfessions]

yeah the messy-ish handywriting that isn't quite actual cursive is very relatable- mine used to be like that (and basically unreadable, oops), but I've been carefully fixing it, so yeah!

the pic is kinda bad (thank my shitty camera) and I'm a little out of practice, but I just made this one for the occasion :)

I use a slightly broader than usual tib on my fountain pen, and I just practice in my sketchbook since the paper works well enough for my lil scribbles.

I'm also mildly obsessed with fountain pens- right now I have 9, 8 of which are specifically for calligraphy with different nibs and stuff (one even has ones that you can switch and is a dip pen!) and 1 that is a pretty standard one (though metal, which is somewhat heavier which I love so much) that I use for school!

Anyways yeah I'm not that good at this yet but it's fun so here I am

Rant over now oops

-Seelie :)

omg!!! that's so pretty aghadhfgjs i wish to write like this too pls

ohh yeah no i have like, idk, four pens? most of which were my parents' LOL because there used to be a time period in china where students could ONLY write with fountain pens, so they kept the habit even when working (obviously, no one uses them in america now lol).

i honestly don't like writing in pen that much unless it's for personal things (like writing) because otherwise i make so many mistakes. i also don't like mechanical pencils because idk they don't feel real? i like the feel of a good old wooden pencil hehe even if i do have to keep sharpening it.

and yes i too just went on another weird tangent LOL

- katheryne from liyue

[2lim3rz]

Lord of the Night, Why I Love It And Why I Connect To It [Super Long]

To Preface This: Spoilers. So much spoilers. Also rambling tangents.

Aka oops, 1441 words lol

You’re first started off with the image if a primal man. A feral man. Zso Sahaal is hardly human in the first chapter as he goes buckass wild on the thieves that stole the Corona Nox. Already, I was sucked into a new world. A world about a man who just wants his inheritance. Who lives in the past even when he knows he’s in the future. The world of Zso Sahaal, brutal, cunning, and merciless in his killings. All you know is that someone close to him was dead and that xenos took the Corona Nox from him.

And then you get to Mita Ashlyn, a psyker meditating in her cell where she foresees [well, really sees the past 2 hours] of some vague vision. You learn she’s pretty stalwart in her ways from the get-go and had a very accomplished, daresay even comfortable for an interrogator, with her previous master before she was and Mita was picked up by Inquisitor Kaustus. An Ordo Xenos Inquisitor with a very good reputation who seems to had odd mood swings. Chillingly cold one moment and smiling the next. His soul, to Mita’s pov, is a locked off and cold lantern

She assumes it’s just because of tricks the Ordo has taught him, despite the odd flashes of thought and emotion she gains sometimes. Of course, Mita doesn’t get along with Kaustus too well. She’s mocked by him even and her only closest companion is an Abhuman named Cog. Cog reminds me a lot of Lonnie from Of Mice and Men, simple and just wanting to live his best life. I love Cog. And though Mita treats him almost like a dog, she cares about him.

Of course, the story goes on and I’ma talk about Zso Sahaal first. Zso Sahaal meets Pahvulti [Love the lil shit] and eventually meets a sort of clan of VERY devout to the Emperor people called the Shadowkin after he destroys the Glacier Rats’ hideaway. They’re sneaky and not very well liked in the Underhive, but they don’t quite care. Of course, they see Zso as the Emperor’s angel and, after unwittingly killing their leader, Zso meets a woman named Chianni who’s their newfound leader

Following Zso was a confusing aspect. Well, not really, but it was surprising to see his reasoning. His methods were brutal, but.. well he does know of other ways, but in a way, it’s all he knows. It’s all he remembers from Konrad Curze. The scant moments he lets himself slip to memory even. And then he’s grappling with, unwittingly, his own fall into Chaos. At least, until he’s reawoken in a sense. Having broken free of it.

With a much clearly mind, Zso starts achieving his plans, unwittingly playing into his enemies’s hands. Unwittingly, his closest companion of his ‘empire’ is one of his betrayers. He even grows attatched to his ‘empire’ before realizing he has to cut himself off of it.

It all comes to one big culmination when he’s finally rams into the Governor’s like.. collection area to get the Corona Nox when it’s revealed that Kaustus is controlled by Eldar, Eldar shows up, but I think the most profound thing happens when Mita and him are in Zso’s.. mind..?

“I hate a being so sick, so certain of his own brilliance, so twisted by the call of glory, that he repays the greatest sacrifice of all with betrayal!” and ”He sacrificed his humanity, child.” And suddenly his voice was so melancholic, so deep and so calm, so bloated by sadness” juST Zso Sahaal hurts, he hurts and he finally releases it all to Mita. The truth of himself, in a way, even. And then when he sees what has truly happened to the Legion he once.. I wanna say loved. The battle-brothers he once knew and cared for, and the ones he scorned like Krieg, he’s hurt. I can’t remember if he even cries but either way, Zso grieves, even as his arm is torn off and Krieg tells him how Konrad fell to chaos before his focus

His focus, the only thing Zso had faith in. Focus. Discipline. Controlling himself. And that’s maybe why I relate to him so much. Because, and I know this is stupid to say, but its all too easy to find yourself slipping to emotion. Being happy and excitable is fun until your all too scatter brained to even drive straight. Focus. Something that’s easy to tell yourself but hard to execute. Focus. A thing that even Zso Sahaal struggled with, even though it’s his biggest strength. Even when all has fallen from his hands and he has.. honestly, not much to live for, he rescues the only one that has been true to him, even if she was his enemy. Mita Ashlyn.

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Which leads me to my next topic, Mita! You’re introduced to her and, honestly, I thought she was bullied throughout the book. Kaustrus is downright rude to her most times and so is his retinue, in fact, everyone’s kinda putting her down just because she’s a psyker. Maybe not the strongest, but certainly of some note. In my opinion, Mita is explosive. She has a temper, and quick to anger. She’s dead set on eliminating Zso Sahaal, wisely, because of the threat he brings to them all.

She’s focused and determined on her goals and willing to see them through even if it kills her. Going so far as to go renegade against the Inquisition for this threat. And then she realizes something throughout the book.

She’s looking in a mirror.

Power, ambition, the fortitude to survive and thrive, the anger and sadness.

She and Zso Sahaal are one in the same. Even down to their goals, opposite as they are.

They want the best for the Imperium. They want the best for humankind.

And I just, just absolutely LOVE how Mita’s crisis of Faith went. Her one thing tying her to the Imperium this entire time was the hope, just the barest thread of hope that maybe just maybe the Emperor loves her. That someone in the entire galaxy cares about her [though this is mainly prevalent after Cog’s death, someone who did genuinely care about her even if it was mostly a literal feral brain going !! pretty woman! Wonderful mom of possible children!] that would actually give a single damn if she died fulfilling her duty

Until Zso reveals the truth. That the Emperor doesn’t care. That he only cared about the whole of the Imperium and not one single fuck is given to the little people. The only ones he cared about was if they were doing their job right. Zso tells it to her brutally straight.

And Mita realizes he’s right. And that brings me to my final statement;

Both of them let go and free themselves. Both of them only save each other through each other. 

Both Zso and Mita had something quite literally holding them back. For Zso Sahaal, it was the warp’s touch and then it was his cracking hope that maybe his Legion is alright; when he lets go of that when he finally gets the truth that his Legion is as damned as the rest, instead of joining he fights to the end for his beliefs. For Mita Ashlyn, it was that the thought that someone loved her, even if it was their God. Her faight was her chains shackling her power.

“The Emperor does not give me my power. My tutors lied! It is my own!”

And that is how I relate to Mita. Instead of religious faith pulling her down, for me it was my own belief that my own happiness only stemmed from others. If someone else was happy, then I was! It was not until recent that I realized no. I can bring my own happiness. I can let go and be free to be happy.

Lord of the Night taught me that sometimes, you need to let go of the thing you hold onto most. The thing that anchors you so tightly to something you didn’t even know.

And THAT is what I love the most. That even though Zso Sahaal curses and seethes at the thought of Mita Ashlyn [as she does likewise], they both are such a wonderful mirror of each other in different ways. Two sides of the same coin. That, even though they were mortal enemies, they found [in a way] solace and freedom with each other.

And that is why I recommend Lord of the Night by Simon Spurrier. A wonderful book!

Ave Dominus Nox and Ave Imperator!