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[forever-and-whats-left]

More TPOTO AUs

You were all so overwhelmingly kind, and I can't thank you enough for how welcoming this community is! To think I was once afraid to post at all.

Enough of my corniness, onto the post...

Western

The town of (I can’t do fucking names) has been a ghost town for years. Strangers pass through, but never for more than a night, always moving on to somewhere better.

Then Christine arrives.

A quiet girl with only her fiddle to speak for her, she plays melodies that do more than sound beautiful—they enrapture. Like men possessed, travelers and townsfolk alike find themselves dancing to her tunes, emptying their pockets at her feet without a second thought.

Word spreads. For every passerby who hears her, another comes seeking the girl with the bewitched strings. Soon, the once-deserted town is teeming with customers, and the main benefactors—André and Firmin—are thrilled. At last, business is booming.

They offer Christine a stage, eager to capitalize on her talent. She refuses. At first, they think it’s shyness, but when pressed, her reaction is alarming—disarmingly angry, almost fearful. She plays only for those passing through. No grand performances. No lingering audiences.

But André and Firmin are greedy. Ignoring her warnings, they spread her name far and wide, ensuring the world knows of the girl with the haunting music. It is then that he comes. A rider with eyes like burning coals, smoldering beneath the brim of his hat. A demon, drawn by the name in the papers. He has come to reclaim the fiddle Christine’s father traded for his soul.

(To those who assume this is an enemy-to-lovers story, this is more of a Christine exploration. Erik serves as more of a force of nature rather than a full character. The main focus is the relationship between Christine and her father. At least for now, I have no fucking idea what I'm doing with this story)

2. Swap

Erik, as he always dreamed, lives the life of an ordinary man—or rather, an extraordinary one. From architecture to music, he dominates any field he chooses, yet perfectionism proves his fatal flaw. Nothing holds his interest for long. Not even Carlotta, the greatest diva of all, is enough for him. After one too many harsh critiques, she quits the stage for good, taking his benefactors with her. Left with a failing opera and a bruised ego, Erik wanders the streets of Paris, drowning in his misfortune.

Then, he hears it—a voice so ethereal it feels ripped from his own compositions. He follows, helpless against its pull, until he finds her: a lone woman standing before a moss-ridden grave, donning a pale mask. Her song is so haunting he barely notices his own steps as he approaches—until she startles at his presence. Erik scrambles to explain himself before she can flee, but apparently screaming at a stranger about paying them to sing isn’t the best approach. She vanishes into the night, leaving him with nothing but regret—and a missing cufflink.

Hope seems lost, until fate intervenes. Enter Philippe de Chagny, benefactor of the arts, offering salvation to the “poor” (rich) starving artist. And like magic, the masked woman returns, offering her services to Erik—under one condition. He must help her seduce her long-lost love, Raoul.

(The main inspiration for this is my fair lady. don't ask.)

[passionpeachy]

hey sorry if this is a bit random, but I was just wondering if you could tell me a bit more about your inspiration for the Slumbering Spring piece? if you don't remember it's no biggie, just curious bc it reminds me of an idea I had for a painting a long time ago.

Oh boy.

I made it during a very depressing time in my life where I was very lonely and sleeping a lot while dealing with vague undiagnosed issues that have been affecting my health for about a decade as I went online and saw other queer people living their best lives in better funded queer-friendly environments.

Part of me was/is bitter and jealous of that, since I live in a very queer-apathetic city with minimal opportunities for someone like me and felt very paranoid of being “found out” by my family and being mocked for my identity, but the other more logical part of my brain was like “it’s good if other queer people are doing better than how I’m doing. I’ll catch up to them someday”. Hence the quote “Just go on without me, I’ll come out when I’m ready” written below the art.

Luckily, I don’t feel so much like this anymore, as I have already came out to most of my family, and it’s gone a lot better than I thought it would. I also have a really sweet partner that wants to introduce me to what a real queer-friendly community looks like outside of the Texas border.

As for my more lighter inspirations, I just saw hollow tree trunks and thought “man imagine how great it’d be to sleep inside that” which turned into pretty fairytale girl-thing sleeping inside a trunk because of course it did.

I also prefer spring over winter, and constantly wish for spring to come back during the last months of winter.

[karmaajr]

not lily being so calm after being kidnapped?? girl is so unbothered I canNOT- 😭😭

[alm0sthere]

i write sins not tragedies

[mari-lair]

shout out to Adashiro Kou (from the pilot) for being the ultimate fail boy

[teddybeartoji]

For the “oh no he’s got game” every time I see deku in your tags or in your post history, I scream a lil bit, I want him so bad now 😔💚💚

DEKUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i love him so bad nonnie you just wait until i have inhaled all of the remaining seasons and i will be spamming the dash with this guy he has a very very special place inside my head he's scratching a very specific spot there...

who have i made you love

[halenhusky309]

Honestly, gonna have to block the bitches later. I need to save my energy to enjoy other things.

Can't never count on Jiang cheng stans to do the right thing. I mean even their object of "love" is almost incapable to do the right thing.

[horn-in-f-me]

In case y’all forgot how cool I looked

[beansnpeets]

Joined a FB group specifically for training labs with r+. Rules state no prongs allowed, they are cruel. But then people are posting about using head halters and that's fine?????

[youhavereachedtheendofpie]

Mahesh Jadu stop being so fine and stunning please I cannot concentrate on the scene

[bruisedboys]

i lurv u

I lurv u more baby

[arynneva]

wait do people read first person stories and think they're the ones in the story???

Saw people talking about not liking first person, which is fair, but their reasoning was like "I would not do that" and I don't understand that mindset.

First person stories are still about a character. A character making their own decisions. First person isn't about you???? At least I thought it wasn't. What am I missing? I've always seen first person as just a more in-depth look into a character's mind and stricter POV. Not as a reader stand-in.

[mochasucculent]

Dumb thing that would not leave my brain

[tawnysoup]

Finally now that the comic is fully public on comicfury, I get to share it with all of you here, too <3

If you enjoyed, please consider supporting by buying a PDF of the comic on itch.io: https://tawnysoup.itch.io/home-in-the-woods

[love-too-much-thoughts]

I mean to be honest during my dissection classes groups that dissected bodies with more fat had a definitely harder time :/// And like, the reason was super simple - if you have to find a structure, there's more "digging" to find that structure (idk what the proper term is in English sorry). Aaand we were all stressed with no skills and little time... So yeah, you can imagine why a student would prefer a thin body to dissect. And it doesn't mean anything for future surgeons (at least in my university) bcs the dissection is something everyone does, no matter their specialty (it's just to learn the anatomy of the organs... Which is the SAME no matter the size, just the process of the dissection itself is harder).

To give you an example, my body belonged to a woman who was definitely anorexic... And lemme tell you, my group had bonus points for "being clean". Were we really better than the others ? NO ! We just didn't have (almost) any fat to clean lol, so obviously everything looked better.

Idk where I'm going with this explanation, I just wanted Tumblr to know that there's a reason why students prefer a certain body type for dissections ? It's not bcs they hate people with a higher weight, it's just bcs they don't want added difficulty in something most of them will only do once in their life. I feel I didn't express it well but there ya go

Hey did you know that you can’t escape fatphobia even after death? The article talks about how these donated bodies are used for first year anatomy students to study the body, and how the 'perfect' body for that should be 170-180 pounds.

[captainjonnitkessler]

>Join a union

>Hear people constantly complaining that the current union leadership is super corrupt, it's all just the same ten guys making all the decisions in secret and nobody else in the union ever gets to know what's going on

>Go to the monthly union meetings that are completely open to all 1200 union members

>The only attendees are the same ten guys every month, giving detailed reports about everything that's going on