#lets hope for a better 2024

[firefly-party]

Probably the last picture this year since I can't show the other art yet bc it's for the drummer!Steve AU 😊 i wish i had more time to draw sth properly but everything is just so damn stressful rn 🥲

Lots of love to all the amazing friends i made this year!! Sandy, Lex, i can't wait to get fully started with our project!! Ali, my dearest BB partner, i'm looking forward to future collabs with you!!!!!!! Panda, my wifi, ilysm! And all you other beautiful souls, friends and moots, happy holidays and a better 2024! And thanks to everyone for all the support 💙

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

My rendition of @tempo-takoyaki's DTIYS!

Congrats on the milestones! And to everyone else, please go check out their 'Drawing TGCF (except I haven't read the books)' series!

[alexalblondo]

„I guess an honour“

„Donald is someone that you gotta have a lot of respect for in many ways“

„You ought to be thankful for that“

[miss-cigarettes]

HAPPY NEW YEAR MY DEAR FRIENDS!!! ₊⋆｡‧˚ʚ♡ɞ˚‧｡⋆ฅ(Wω눈ฅ)

[pink-sparkly-witch]

HAPPY NEW YEAR MY LOVES!!

Well I, for one, am glad to see the back of 2023. It has been a difficult one and I’m glad it’s over and I hope 2024 is better and happier and healthier and everything 2023 wasn’t.

As I slowly and cautiously emerge from a mental health hiatus, I’m trying to make plans to return to writing. I’ll be spending my first few days of the new year planning my time and scheduling focus time specifically for writing in amongst all this real life malarkey. Honestly, who’d be a grownup with a job and a mortgage and bills 🙄

Unfortunately, my joy for writing didn’t find me during my hiatus, and neither did the free time needed to dedicate to it, or even attempting to. However, there have been a couple of promising signs that’s changing and I’m going to keep working on that.

Usually, I respond to every comment people are kind enough to leave on my work but with the time that has passed, it seems redundant to do that. And I don’t want to spam you (or anyone else!) with a millions reblog a of my stories!

Still, I can’t let them go unnoticed so: thank you for the kind and encouraging comments. I have read every single one of them and they’ve made me smile and encouraged me to keep working on myself and get back to writing new content for you as soon as I can 🥰

I’m tagging everyone who was kind enough to leave a few words so you know that I have seen them.

Much love,

Tina 💖😘

@nelachu2423 @deans-spinster-witch @roseblue373 @leigh70 @jbbarnesgirl @hoboal87 @sandlee44 @synmorite @jackles010378 @spnwoman @k-slla @foxyjwls007 @twinkleinadiamondsky @winchestergirl2 @suckitands33 @lacilou @octoberclidan @deanwinchesterswitch @daughterofcain-67 @deanwanddamons @kazsrm67 @akshi8278 @winchestergirl1720 @deans-baby-momma @spnfamily-j2 @negangirlxx @sofreddie @jensengirl83 @kimberkingrivers @constancelynn @stoneyggirl2 @janineb86 @michecolegate @ambergoddess444 @fullbelieverheart @mrsjenniferwinchester @jessjad @demonangelsworld

[gunsatthaphan]

was just casually peeking into the #gmmtv2024 twitter tag because why not and suddenly got slapped in the face with the fact that the event is coming in 8 weeks, GemFourth, PondPhuwin and JoongDunk series are confirmed, there will be another GL and that Home School is getting a second season,,,,,

[greppelheks]

I don't know how you've all experienced the year 2024, but I barely witnessed it, and I've been fighting for my life

[izayoichan]

The simple things in life. 🎶

(poses by @simmireen and lot again by @anaria-ithil)

[rufinator]

Jurassic Park 3 Raptor Study on Procreate from my Flight to Milan!! I WAS PAINTING THIS DURING TURBULENCE 💀

[buttery-chaos]

happy new years everybody!! 🎉🎉🎉

[age-of-moonknight]

“Under the Same Moon,” Vengeance of the Moon Knight (Vol. 2/2024), #6.

Writer: Jed MacKay; Penciler and Inker: Devmalya Pramanik; Colorist: Rachelle Rosenberg; Letterer: Cory Petit

[runefells]

waves a little

i know its been a fairly inactive year for me and i apologize..! This past fall i was completing my undergrad but now I am officially graduated o/. I hope to post more and get back into the swing of things in 2024(maybe open commissions? once im back in the saddle that is)

thank you all for sticking around anyway :)

[cruilty-ink]

ehehe

Since I live in Australia, I get my new years early

HAPPY NEW YEARS TO MOST!! and to others, happy new years eve!!

[amrv-5]

survived Badly (argh) but going to work on fic for as long as I continue to enjoy doing so then switch over -- see if I can find somewhere to watch The 400 Blows and probably cry forever and dehydrate and feel soooo sad and then feel better after. Thank you French New Wave

[bobendsneyder64]

Racesport.nl: Keeping the Dutch spirit high in the 2024 championship! #2024startsnow

[ardent-fox]

New Year's Ask Game for Fic Writers ✍✨

I decided to complete this game to help me reflect and possibly get back into writing regularly again, I was not tagged but here's a bit of self-indulgence nonetheless 😊💙

To close out 2023…

1) What fic did you have the most fun writing this year and why? Or, if you can’t decide, what was most fun about writing this year for you?

I've only completed and posted one fic this year/ever and about a dozen Galladrabbles, and had the most fun writing humorous dialog whenever it was sprinkled into them.

2) What’s a scene/story that you finished and felt “wow, I really accomplished that, that actually went so well”?

The mechanics of Mickey getting fucked and jerked off at the same time in Everything, followed by describing his and Ian's orgasms. I've never written erotica from a male perspective before fanfiction and had no idea how I was going to do it, but am pretty satisfied with the results.

3) What helped provide the most inspiration for stories, if anything? Was it poetry? A song on repeat? A gorgeous gifset? A walk outside? A book you read that made you want to change everything? Whatever it was! Tell all.

Music, I make playlists for most of my WIPs. Everything had only a couple of songs, the most prominent ones being Colorblind by Counting Crows for Mickey's and I'll Be Your Lover, Too by Van Morrison for Ian's perspective. Also the poem "My God, Why Are You Crying?" by Molly Peacock, which I discovered while going through a Reddit thread about people crying during sex, doing research is sometimes inspiring in itself.

4) What is something you want to share about what you’ve written this year? A particular line, a comment that made you feel really good, a scene that was difficult to write — you get to choose! What do you wish someone would ask you about when it comes to what you’ve written?

This little tidbit in Everything that I managed to write after coming back to what I thought was an abandoned fic five months later, capturing Mickey's conflicting feelings about making noise:

The beginning of a sob emerges and he gulps it down, flinching when he feels Ian nod encouragingly against him. Rather, he dips his head, cheek resting on the back of Ian's hand as fresh tears quietly leak from him, a rogue one snagging on Ian's wrist before sliding down. "Hey," Ian gentles, hand stirring beneath him. "Don't have to hold anything back. Can be as loud as usual." He wants to, he truly does. Pleasure builds deep within him, its sounds catching in his throat, begging to be freed. Other noises tether themselves, too, ones he'd rather not bring to fruition, and he draws in his bottom lip to keep them at bay, the stubborn desire to hand-pick them denying him the deliverance of any. Restraint coils around him and he clings to it in turn, actually praying Ian doesn't stand for it and finds a way to cut it down, his authority easier for Mickey to give in to than his own permission to be vocal.

Also, all the beautiful comments I got for the fic and all the reblog tags I got for my Galladrabbles, I always screenshot those so I can easily find and reread them whenever I need a pick-me-up 💕

And to start off 2024…

1) Do you have any writing/creation goals for the year? What are they?

Just to write more without any expectations and see where it takes me, whether it's fanfic or personal stuff. Make it fun, write with abandon and focus more on the process than the final result, more on the emotions I wish the story to evoke than on the construct of things. Try to finish up most of the Gallavich WIPs I've had going on since summer of 2022, but not be afraid to drift away if something else inspires me in the moment and just write, write, write.

2) Is there a fic or idea that you’re really excited to be able to continue to work on in the new year (shout out to my fellow fic writing folks who take forever to finish wips, sometimes it’s nice to be able to continue working on something even if you wish you’d gotten it done! Now you get even MORE time with it!)

There's one domestic/fluff/angst communication-centered Gallavich fic I got the idea for and outlined not long after I joined the fandom, but thought I needed more practice before writing it that I feel ready enough to jump back into now, so that's very exciting. I also have a 13K WIP one-shot of gratuitous smut that I wrote for Kinktober 2022 that I was 90% done with, but scrapped because I used my then limited resources to complete Everything instead, and I'd love to give it a rewrite and complete it. There are ideas brewing for a Blackbonnet fic as well, but I'd rather wait and see whether we get a season 3 before delving into it, since I prefer to write post-canon. Also continue Galladrabbles, my dear 100-word morsels that are super fun to write and allow me to experiment with different themes and styles which I can later apply to other projects if I see fit.

3) What’s something new in your writing you want to try/are going to try? A different writing style? Different fandom? Darker works? Fluffier? Longer or shorter?

I'd like to work on being less rigid in my sentence structure, play around with length/pacing in order to convey the mood better. Stop focusing on counting how many times I've used a certain word and switching it out even though it fits perfectly, not allow editing to suck the joy out of things in a way. I'd love to write more at a faster pace, too, but since severe brain fog prohibits me from writing a single coherent sentence on particularly bad days and that a 7K one-shot took me 6 months to write + 2 months to edit, I'm just content with keeping my motivation strong and spirits high while writing at whatever pace I can manage. I'd also like to experiment more with angst and see how I navigate difficult, dark, traumatic topics as well as possibly try writing in the past tense, as I'm not sure a present one is the way to go for every fic.

4) What’s something you love about your own writing that you will continue to appreciate in the new year?

My ability to dive into a character's psyche in order to describe their feelings and reasonings in complicated situations, all the while making sure I sprinkle at least a tiny bit of humor along the way. I'd love to continue playing with themes such as healing through communication and sex and working out their kinks as a couple, both in and outside the bedroom, all in favor of emotional breakthroughs that strengthen the bond between them. If the level at which I'm able to portray a character's vulnerability matches the enthusiasm I have for exploring it, I reckon I'll stay on the right track this year.

Tagging @lupeloto, @crossmydna, @metalheadmickey, @gallawitchxx, @whatthebodygraspsnot, @ian-galagher, @squidyyy23, @bawlbrayker, @secret-gallavich, @juliakayyy, @look-i-love-u, @thisdivorce, @mmmichyyy, @howlinchickhowl, @callivich, @lingy910y, @arrowflier and @sam-loves-seb in case you haven't done this and would like to, otherwise just ignore the double tag and accept this cookie as a token of my adoration 🍪🥰