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cevansbrat0007 · 2 years ago

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I'm not done with Growing Pains. Just because it seems like I wrote the last chapter doesn't mean I'm finished with the book.

Love,

Britt

#cevansbrat0007growing pains series #britt's notes #love stories are meant to be told

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stil-lindigo · 1 year ago

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the fox god.

a comic about a trickster.

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#cw: emotional abuse #cw: gaslighting #cw: animal death #charity - a god whose name was only ever meant to be ironic #i love playing with the concept of religion like this #im not religious at all but i did go to a christian school for twelve years #and i remember learning about the story of abraham. who long story short gets told by god to kill his son to prove his love for god.#and at the veeeery last minute god goes sike! this was a test to see if you'd do it! here's a lamb to slaughter instead #but the whole concept of that exchange in and of itself is so #anyway #one thing i meant to include in the creative notes but i ran out of room for is that charity never calls cunning by his name.#it's just “fox”. which was a small touch to indicate that he never acknowledged cunning's identity outside of being something exploitable.#but for all charity's hidden disdain for cunning #he still stole all his strengths and coveted them. he became known as the fox god.#so maybe some part of cunning survived. despite everything.#“give me your heart.”#“my god. it had always been yours.”#comic art #hearteaters #stillindigo art #stillindigo comics #one more comic to go until im finished with this collection!!

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konohamaru-sensei · 4 months ago

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ah. it hurts

#kimi ni todoke #i knew this episode would wreck me personally but..... idk this.. this here just.. oh it killed me #grief is so.. its so... it eats you whole #and you really do think you arent allowed to move on or smile or eat #because you should be sad #my mom told me the story that about 2 or so weeks after my dad died #when she went back to work #her colleagues made a joke at the lucnh table and she laughed #and one of them said oh look she can already laugh again #and he meant it nicely but my mom felt SO GUILTY #can i even be allowed to move on with my life if someone died that i love #am i allowed to smile tto have wishes to be annoyed about things to be angry about things to complain #ah. man ah man. i love kimi ni todoke so much i can barely put it in words

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clegfly · 2 months ago

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Hey guys would it be cool if I killed myself right fucking now

#FUCK MAN #FUCKKKKKK #AUGH. AUGH.#this is why I LIKE that the manga changes things. this is why I appreciate this form of the story #does it make mistakes? a ton #but I think the point of the manga existing is so that this story and ways to tell it can be experimented with #is the game better? yes #of course!!#but it existing and being well received allows this manga to experiment with this sorry and these characters #this was well executed and worked well in game #but what if we expressed it this way?#what if we expressed this or portrayed this like this?#that is the beauty of it to me and this chapter encapsulates that perfectly to me #this whole scene would probably not work as well in the game #that’s why similar scenes were taken out and unused l #but this adaptation doesn’t have the pressure of being ‘good’ anymore #the game exists and it’s perfect. now the manga can do as it likes and tests what would work well and what wouldn’t #how else could this story be told?#and i think that while it misses the mark a lot it’s beautiful in that way #omori the game will always be better. but the manga is new and fun and experimental and I love that it is #a 1:1 recreation of the game with new art would likely suck a bit more than this fun #sometimes awful sometimes beautiful retelling #which is why I defend it so often Hejejejdjjd… it’s MEANT to have flaws it’s meant to experiment and god when it hits it HITS #like here. everything they’ve done with stranger and the barnyard and mari and something is heartbreaking #omori #omori mari #omori basil #omori manga #omori stranger #omori omori

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super-paper · 8 months ago

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afotaro is the elephant's foot of toxic old man yaoi but that's not gonna stop me from memeing on it, y'know, as a coping mechanism.

#my hero academia #mha spoilers #afotaro #all for one #dank mha meems #tw: child abuse #what do you mean afo manipulated kotaro into fucking his wife. hori???? 😭😭😭#give nao to me you utter loser i wouldn't need some ancient eldritch comic book shill to convince me to make love to my beautiful wife--#more seriously tho #I've said it before that AFO and Tenko's dynamic is meant to be viewed as a story of abuse told through a lens of fantasy #and these chapters cemented that impression in the best (worst?) possible way bc so many abusers get close to the parents--#--so they can have unrestricted access to their children + be trusted to be left alone with their children #Hori has really hit the nail on the head so it's disappointing that so many people still downplay Tenko's victimhood #and view this chapter as him ''falling off as a villain'' (wtf)#also the idea of AFO appearing to the Shimura fam wearing different faces/fulfilling different ''roles'' is so fairy tale coded I love it

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kindahoping4forever · 11 months ago

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Ash IG Story

#if i told u i love him would u be surprised... new year new me #5sos #5 seconds of summer #ashton irwin #ashton #ai ig #instagram #video #kh4f post #i just #💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋#yk?#cackling bc after the first story i messaged jess that he was back and said 'clean shaven but adorable'#and then like 30 seconds later he has a mustache filter on 😭😭😭😭😭#not what i meant sir but thanks #anyways #🥰👄🥰

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beloved-child-of-the-house · 5 months ago

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i stand with you in the face of a defensive misunderstanding of what critique is.

i think understanding what a critique actually is is a skill that increasingly is not taught. i remember going through freshman art courses feeling the frustration that all negative, nasty, unhelpful, and missed-the-point-entirely feedback is so commonly conflated with critique, and then critique gets a bad name because everyone remembers the time someone said their painting looked like an asshole (true story, altho now i think i would take it as a compliment) instead of the time a teacher or friend or classmate helped them uncover a hurtful bias or think of new ways to explore the same idea or how to connect it to related ideas or how to look up and understand other people's ideas on the same topic.

anyway i think you're great.

ahhh you're so kind to me!! i appreciate your support, and i think you are great also.

i have experience with giving and receiving critique as a student myself, and i think it was the best part of my degree! i majored in creative writing in college, and critique was just a generally accepted part of learning to become a writer. i don't even remember people being especially worried about receiving critique on their work. we had guidance on what kind of feedback was useful, but we were still at liberty to give it as we saw fit as like messy 19 year olds. the standard was that we gave it both written on printed copies of the work AND aloud in front of the whole class, and the writer receiving it was not permitted to speak during the critique. understanding how people are perceiving your work is important!

i don't have any particularly negative recollections of the critique process, although once in a high school writing class, the boys in the class told me that my male characters touched each other too gently and real boys are more rough with each other. in particular, they took issue with me writing that one boy nudged another. nudging is too soft. nudging is for girls. that was more than 20 years ago, and i still think about it sometimes because it was such an interesting perspective! i did not take their advice, though.

i should dig up that piece and see if it reads queer in any other ways. i think that's what they were getting at. (actually i once had a non-fiction class tell me i was in love with my roommate after reading an essay i wrote about her)(i did not listen to that advice either, but having 12 acquaintances tell you that you're gay in 2006 before you realize it yourself is Truly Something!)

i think people have conflated criticism and critique and think that being more openly analytical is the same thing as being negative. but analysis is so fun to me! analysis is why i joined fandom in the first place, and it's why i write fic! can we trust each other to be respectful and to speak in good faith even when we're not singing each other's praises? for me fandom would be better if we could.

oh i also want to clarify that i don't think it's impossible to demonstrate that you've thought deeply about a piece of fanwork while remaining completely positive. people do it all the time and do it very well!

i know i sometimes have tunnel vision wrt my own perspective. in a lot of situations, i wish it were more acceptable to be more direct, and i know people sometimes find the way i express myself to be kind of shocking. i know a lot of people like to be spoken to more indirectly than comes natural to me, and i don't mean to imply that my perspective is the only correct one or that there's no good reason to err on the side of gentleness/politeness in our responses to amateur art and writing. i just think that at a certain level of circumspection, it feels like we're all holding each other at arm's length.

i think for people who can't bear to feel exposed, making and sharing art is always going to be painful and difficult, and maybe too painful and difficult to enjoy the process unless they're sure of a soft landing. but like. the rewards of being loved only come after the mortifying ordeal of being known, right?

#ten years ago i had a comment section diagnose me with autism and they were RIGHT. and they loved me!!!!#my portfolio advisor told me that my main character was having a mental breakdown and it made all the people around her seem Villainous #for how selfishly they treated her #and i didn't realize that things seemed so dire for her but i needed to know that in order to make the story make sense!#it wasn't a mean thing to say it was just pointing out something i couldn't see! ik it was different because it was a draft tho #'looks like an asshole' makes me desperately want to see that painting #i didn't know that you're also a visual artist and i'm longing to see your work #there's this movie called igby goes down #where someone tells the main character that they're an artist and he says so do you paint?#and the character responds an artist creates art regardless of what form it takes #and i think the audience is meant to consider that character unbearably pretentious but i totally agree #it has also just occurred to me that some people are nervous about commenting on other people's work #to the extent that they're afraid they'll commit some kind of unintentional faux pas or just leave a disappointing comment #and i get that because you're also kind of sharing yourself by leaving feedback #and you don't want to offend or hurt someone who's created something that resonated with you #idk i guess stepping on people's toes is just a normal part of interacting with them #and almost never fatal

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anonybaby · 5 months ago

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This is living poetry.

~when I’ve described Cody as Randy’s angel, his ethereal second-self, his better half.. this is what comes to mind.

Cody flanked at Randy’s side; like an angel perched on his shoulder. His beautiful eyes ever observing him and even when he realizes the world is watching them; his face is almost mirthful because he is holding a precious secret. He doesn’t hide but he bows his head gracefully.. and Randy’s impenetrable demeanor is on full display; he turns his body at the exact same moment and protects him without needing to be told to.

If this four second clip doesn’t embody the story, the relationship, the beautiful duality between them.. well I don’t know what will. 🤍

#i’m in my feels #i think #randy orton #cody rhodes #candy #the greatest love story ever told #the greatest love story never told #this is candy #for the candy girlies #for the candy besties #right in the candy feels #they’re in love your honor #it was meant to be #i love them your honor #Spotify

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lanternlightss · 6 months ago

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in a yearning competition and my opponent is venti the bard, the anemo archon, barbatos themself (i am losing immediately, he has 2,600+ years of it)

#like #… venven how many poems have you dedicated to the bard #how many arts ?#those hc’s where there’s a painting of the bard somewhere in mond (as well as the other old mond crew members) ohhh you Know #he stops by it often #not to mention they probably yearn sm for the company of their other friends too #this bard is just constantly loving and yearning #you look into their eyes and it’s so Soft and sad. bittersweetly beautiful #he has things to say !! he has things people have told him that he keeps close to his chest and will die with #(<- also fully believe even if ven talked to us abt bard we wont ever fully know the story.)#(bard told him to keep it a secret and thousands of years don’t meant shit to a promise. he WILL be keeping it no matter what.)#(his friend asked him to.)#lantern says stuff

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angy-grrr · 2 months ago

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I try to not be hater, but then I see the stupid takes and get madddddd

This is just what I feel every single time I see those shitty opinions

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#WELL ACTUALLY YOU'RE WRONG BC IF OCHAKO SAID SHE FELL IN LOVE WITH DEKU WE NEED TO FOCUS ON THAT WHICH MEANS SHE'LL CONFESS TO HIM #THIS IS FORESHADOWING FOR THEIR RELATIONSHIP U R JUST GASLIGHTING YOURSELF BC HER ARC WAS PARTIALLY ABOUT LEARNING TO LET HERSELF LOVE HIM #tf you mean ppl are still making this fight about deku???#“she said she fell in love with him we win!” tf? it wasn't a reveal #much like the story with her parents we already knew that- this was about opening up to himiko so she could understand her better #and the way it was portrayed confirms this; we pointed out in the manga ochako's face being covered by her hair bc it means we shouldn't fo #focus on that rather than her next statement -she's there as herself not as a hero #this is her being selfish and open in order to reach out to himiko's sadness #and yet ppl are trying so hard to focus on the thing we weren't meant to focus on #and even taking away the deku memory they still made it about him #“ochako is jealous oh toga expressing her love which means she wants to confess to izuku too!!”#SHE LITERALLY SAID SHE ENVIES HOW HONEST SHE IS WITH HER FEELINGS AND SHOULDNT HIDE HER LOVE NOR FACE LIKE HER PARENTS TOLD HER #SHE SAYS SHE WANTED TO AT LEAST TELL HIMIKO HOW LOVELY HER SMILE IS #TO THE POINT OF WANTING TO BE LIKE HER IN THIS WAY #THIS ISNT HER BEING JEALOUS OF HER TELLING DEKU SHIT OR YEARNING TO CONFESS #THE EPILOGUE CONFIRMS THE FEELINGS SHE WAS HIDING WERE ABOUT GRIEF AND FAILURE AS A HERO #YOU DONT HAVE TO BE A TOGACHAKO IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND THIS #CANT WE FUCKING ENJOY F/F CANON CONTENT FOR ONCE WITHOUT SOMEONE SAYING #GRRRRGRGRGRGRGGRGRGRGR #WE FINISHED HER ARC AND IT WAS ABOUT HER LETTING HERSELF GET HELP WITHOUT FEELING LIKE SHE MUST BE LESS OF A HERO #ABOUT HER GRIEVING AND WANTING TO DO MORE TO HELP SOMEONE ABOUT HER NOT WANTING TO HURT OTHERS WITH HER FEELINGS #DONT YOU UNDERSTAND HEROISM IS THE LEAST ROMANTIC THING FOR A FUCKING HERO NERD #DONT YOU UNDERSTAND???? SHE DOESNT ACCEPT ANY OF HER FEELINGS LIKE HIMIKO DID #AND WHILE THEY TALK ABOUT THE BOYS THEY LIKED ITS NOT ABOUT THEM ITS ABOUT THE GIRLS FINDING SUPPORT IN EACH OTHER #PICTURE ONE OF THOSE FEMALE RAGE COMPILATION VIDEOS #I think they can easily get terfy and im not even a woman but the screaming is the vibe of this post #grrr being a hater #Youtube

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cevansbrat0007 · 2 years ago

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Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoyed the very beginning of Andy and Reader's love story. Makes me so happy!

Merry-Go-Round Magic

Summary: You and Andy finally have your first date. But what happens when things don’t go as planned? Andy Barber x Black!Reader

*Warnings: Fluff, Slightly Insecure Andy Barber, Andy Barber Cuddles, Annoyed Reader, Confident Reader, Second Chances, First Date Floof, Cursing, Pet Names, Minors DNI

A/N: Please give me your feedback on this one! This is part of my ongoing Growing Pains Series. As always, please let me know what you think. Semi-proofread. Not beta’d. All mistakes are my own.

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goldpilot22 · 2 months ago

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Your tags on the sacrificial virgin post make me want to know everything about your OCs, especially this Ivy Rose! What's Ivy Rose like? What story holds them?

ok so! Ivy Rose Lohaun is from my story Red Eyes Take Warning, which is..... a lot. it's actually an in-universe comic series in my Eldritchverse setting, and it starts out as a parody of those generic isekai mangas, before gettting Weird as the author is unknowingly long-term exposed to eldritch horrors a little bit.

I don't have any proper art of Ivy Rose but here's what I do have... most of the RETW characters were inspired by ai gen images (*BACK WHEN AI WAS A WEIRD EXPERIMENTAL TYPEA THING) so this is his

and also this is an Arknights au version of him (he is not normally snakeboy)

and I am still sort of figuring out his lore but what I've currently got is that he inherited some sorta really rare special powers (according to my notes he is a witch, something different from mages. but I think I'm going to make it specialer than just that) and there is some sort of curse or prophecy on his family, that anyone born with those powers will die in some circumstances, and trying to evade this always results in things going really bad (possibly involving said powers?) but the curse/prophecy/whatever is vague enough that when he transes his gender, it manages to fulfill the prophecy / neutralize the curse / whatever.

anyway most of that is kind of just background lore, his actual role in the story is that. he starts out as a 'girl' in disguise as a guy (he is closeted/eggmode at this point) and under the name Lohaun he joins Gavin's party (Gavin is the classic isekai hero guy. he's also just a massive jerk) to go adventuring and stuff and also to get away from the gilded cage of richgirl life. then he gets 'found out' as a girl (this is a trope that happens sometimes where the 'crossdressing' character gets found out and then goes back to their 'real' gender like they're fine with it. I don't like this trope very much so he's like a deconstruction or subversion or smth of it.) and briefly tries just going back to girlhood, before deciding that, actually, he'd rather be a guy. so he tries out a couple different combinations of gender terms + presentations, before eventually settling on using he/they, presenting femininely, and using his firstnames and his surname interchangeably. Gavin, being the asshole he is, at first is disappointed by Lohaun deciding to identify as a boy (because the rest* of the party is sort of harem-adjacent, as tends to happen in these isekais)but then they're like "well I'm still pretty and here so does my gender really matter that much" (they don't want him to ditch them) and so he's like "alright I guess I'm 'straight with an exception' now"

*that is, the rest of the party except for 1. Emery (too beefy for Gavin's tastes, as well as too aroace and autistic to fawn over some asshole guy) and 2. Enzo/Elodie (it is 10 years old.)

#psii.txt #asks #my ocs #RETW #Ivy Rose #Ivy Rose Lohaun #tundra-tiger #tysm for the ask!! haven't got to infodump like this abt my guys in a while #haven't yet decided where exactly ivyrose goes after the party splits up post gavins death #maybe he finds some sorta mentor figure? idk yet #also if you wanna know more abt any of these other guys feel free to send an ask! I always love talking about my silly lil guys #(yes i tend to forger when i get oc asks. but i do my best)#also. just for the record. cannot emphasize enough how much that gavin is a MASSIVE JERK #he thinks he's hot shit but he is the kind of guy who would badly beat up a ten year old if he was told they were a demon #sorry did i say would...if? I meant does...when #and unlike SOME main characters of SOME isekai mangas (cough cough the abandoned reincarnated sage. im STILL mad abt that one)#the narrative does not forgive him #not for beating up enzel not for the shit he pulls on emery and not for wanting lohaun to recloset himself #he is not the real protagonist of the story. he only thinks he is

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claudiajcregg · 5 months ago

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Happy one-year anniversary to this! I can't believe there's still a month to go, but I am so excited to see bestie @wavesoutbeingtossed again after 11.5 (?!!!) years.

#how is it that we've known each other for twelve years wavesss 😭#I remember practicing ~tricks~ to see if I got into a good queue spot with other random UK nights (edinburgh comes to mind)#mistakes were made like. I originally meant to get N2 in June but kept trying to get better seats and got kicked out #(would've been so jealous about the shenanigans on n3 lbr. plus June was A Month so it was for the best)#and waves told me about a stockholm code post but I didn't get it wasn't really tied to your account then so I passed (this was before)#iirc waves and I practically had 2-3 convos going at the same time in different mediums lol #I love the insta story was hopeful about getting codes for my hometown… lol. yeah. nah. but I got to go! I'm nothing if not stubborn #anyway. I need to get my plane tix. So excited.#personal #tbd #tag novels are so old school tumblr of me I'm sorry

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aparticularbandit · 7 months ago

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Someone said there wasn't a lot of Frieren fanfic and I looked and there's barely 250 total on AO3 and now I'm like.

I have a Frieren plot bunny.

I could write a Frieren fic.

(Bandit. Finish. The rough. Of OAFC.)