#minor spoilers for my wip comic?

[vampirealpaca]

Doodling my sillies to avoid editing :D

[bluebeads-art]

2024 November 2nd

(You see a vision of the fuchsia.)

Context and some BlueBead Drawing Workflow Lore™: I convert a copy of my line art to pixel art by crunching it with levels and posterization so that I can quickly paint bucket in flat colors. However, when making the flats layer, I fill it in with a "missing texture" bright fuchsia first so I know if I missed any spots or if there's orphaned pixels.

While working on my last major drawing, Isabeau and Siffrin got to rock some fuchsia hair dye and Mirabelle got to enjoy a flashy shawl for a while because I thought they looked cool. And out of that trio, I deemed Isa most likely to inflict minor psychic damage on his friends for the bit. 😆

A close-up, the WIP Fuchsia Gang, and more rambling under the cut

Gosh I love drawing disgruntled / disgusted expressions so much, you can get so scrunchy with them. I think drawing stupid facial expressions is my favorite part of being an artist, genuinely. 😂

WIP of [this drawing] from October 15th! Siffrin with partial pink hair dye unironically slaps in my opinion.

Time taken on the comic was 20 hours and 31 minutes. Been trying to speed things up, but I was having too much fun playing with new line art brushes and special effects. I'm getting better at ignoring tiny inconsequential things I'd want to endlessly tweak though!

Will I ever draw in the same art style twice in a row? Who knows. :) I've been slowly trending towards the style I draw my OCs in, but it's not fully there yet, lol.

Is this post spoilers??? I feel like it's only spoilers if you know the right context for things, but heck it, it gets spoiler tagged.

[pink-onyx-au]

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Nap time! Thank you everyone for your continued support and interaction! I adore it and it adds so much more to the AU than you could know. This is a heads up on some minor down-time for the blog while I rest up and prepare the next episode.

Notes and asks are still open and encouraged during this time! Bored and want to chat? Send me a message!

To see some WIP, storyboard previews, doodles, shitposts, and other projects I’m working on, along with a healthy amount of 3am memes, head over to my trash fire blog, Ceephor’s Shit Show. The "pink onyx au" tag will filter everything for you, along with showing you fabulous fan art made by others that I just love to pieces.

Speculation and theories are encouraged! The comic is designed as close to the show’s logic as I could muster, which means many secrets are staring right at you, provided you know what to look for! Just be kind to one another.

Comic FAQ:

What is this?

Pink Onyx AU is a Steven Universe AU focused on interactions between Steven and Jasper and is intended to be read after you have finished Steven Universe Future, as it contains many many spoilers for the series. If you have watched it already, great! Welcome! The goal is to bring you a Jasper redemption arc that we couldn’t get due to time and cooperate restraints on the Crewniverse. I hope you enjoy!

I do not own these characters or their likenesses except for the single fluffy thembo fusion I created for the story. This is just a fan comic.

Comic is PG-13 for some angsty/touchy themes, minor blood, violence, and gem-cussing. Touchy-subjects will always be in a cartoon-ish metaphorical representation you would likely find on TV and be available for multiple interpretations.

When do you post?

Typically when you see this post pinned, I’m on a bit of a break, but when Nyx wakes up (this post goes away) the comic is due to be released 1 page at a time at 7am EST most days. I try for a daily release. Sometimes I skip a day if I’m behind. Episode release dates are always announced ahead of time by a few weeks.

Is this a romantic ship AU between Jasper and Steven?

Nope, more like an aunt and her nephew trying to figure it all out. No romance between these two here.

Is your Tapas updated at the same time?

Nope, tumblr comes first, and the tumblr will always have bonus content which Tapas will not. The Tapas for this updates after the tumblr version is completed. Usually same day or within a day.

Do you have a reference for Onyx? Sure do!

How do I use the ask system for this blog?

You can leave a message, or even an object, for the characters to interact with. The asks you leave can be answered by myself, Onyx, Steven or Jasper within the realm of this AU. Your asks will have no effect on the comic story. Think of it like the actors are in their dressing rooms and you get to give them a poke while they take a break! As the comic story progresses, their replies to your answers may change! Their responses will be in-character depending on where in the story we are.

My note by the den (an ask) was never answered. How come?

Lots and lots of asks come in every day. I wish I could answer them all! Since I draw something to go with most answers, especially the character ones, they do take a bit of time. Sometimes, I get duplicates of the same ask, or an ask that may refer to something that spoils the story if I answer it. I might hang onto those asks for a later time! Or group them into categories to answer all at once. I hoard asks for 1 year in an attempt to get to them. If I missed yours, know I tried and I love them anyway! I hope it does not discourage you in the future.

Curious about the characters? Check below the cut for more a detailed FAQ about the inner workings of the story. Love you all! See you soon! 🧡💕❤️

FAQ’s about the characters generated via interactive asks:

What kind of fusion is Pink Onyx? Are they good or bad? Pink Onyx is a fusion of a protagonist and an antagonist, so their alliance is yet unknown, but they have Steven’s good heart and Jasper’s loyal nature. They also have Steven and Jasper’s flaws, so they can be volatile and emotionally explosive at times, too.

What are Pink Onyx’s pronouns? Onyx likes they/them, but also answers to he/him and she/her, especially when Steven or Jasper is dominant over one another. They also seem to take on a fluid role and prefer a she/her when in a caretaker status. They dislike it/its.

What does Pink Onyx sound like? Personally, I hear them as a youthful, masculine tone. Like Steven if a little older. But I also enjoy when people say they hear them as a gruff, Amazonian-type feminine. I enjoy and endorse both.

Do Jasper and Steven enjoy being fused to one another? For now, it is a struggle, but they enjoy what the other brings to the fusion even if they won’t say it.

Does Pink Onyx need to eat and do human things? If so, do they enjoy it? They don’t need to do them, but they do feel the discomfort without them. Things like breathing, eating, and sleeping are optional for Onyx, but they will become quite irritable if not allowed to do them. They greatly enjoy sleeping and trying new foods.

What does Jasper think about having human organs when fused? She’s pretty grossed out by the idea of organic matter going into her mouth and coming out of other places. The heart beating and lungs breathing she can feel for the first time, and it is highly strange for her to experience.

What is Pink Onyx’s favorite food? They adore anything watermelon flavored and Cookie-cat ice cream products

Does Pink Onyx have any special fusion powers? They do, and as they learn about themselves, more powers seem to come out. Each of their base component appears to be enhanced in a unique way. They have Pink Diamond at their core, so the destructive potential is also there.

Why is Steven hiding Pink Onyx from others? This AU occurs directly after the events of "I Am My Monster", so Steven is very emotionally, and mentally, raw. He fears judgement for running back to Jasper, who in the past, was part of so much trauma he already endured.

Pink Onyx seems to know nothing about human culture and gem culture despite being a fusion. What’s going on? Jasper and Steven agreed to fuse, but they have yet to open up to one another about much else. The fusion exists because they agree to do so, but Jasper won’t open up about her emotions, and Steven is so sensitive yet that he is not sharing because he knows Jasper won’t want to hear it. This causes Onyx to be unable to access both of their memories easily, but they can bring it out with enough effort.

[suzukiblu]

I have no context for liger pups. Is sacker someone we are meant to know, or is it spoilers?

. . . I apologize in advance for how long I let this explanation get, lol.

Sacker is a minor antagonist from the arc that this WIP is a canon divergence of, and he's one of the beast-men in the Wild Lands. Specifically, he is a giant old snake dude who runs a huge storehouse/trading post/fortress type thing, and he was the guy who initially enslaved and drugged Kon into his feral/depowered state when he crash-landed in the Wild Lands after Sacker also, like, literally shot him out of the sky. He does that to literally every single human who washes up on shore, because he is the only person in the Wild Lands who has ever actually met a human who was in their right mind and after that experience he immediately decided that humans should not be allowed to have their right minds anymore.

In his defense: HUMANS.

The mark Panthera is referencing Kon drawing is Sacker's slave mark, which he puts on all his humans via differently-shaped pendants. Kon's version of it looked a bit like the S-shield, so Kon was attached to it when he was feral and wouldn't originally let Sacker take it back. See: below. Therefore, Panthera doesn't realize he is actually NOT drawing Sacker's mark.

In the original arc (it's like issues 50-54 of Kon's OG solo title, I belieeeeeve it's called "Last Boy On Earth" or something like that), he agreed to sell Superboy to Prince Tuftan in exchange for a historical artifact, as long as Tuftan agreed to keep giving Superboy regular doses of his serum. At the time Tuftan did not know humans were actually, like, PEOPLE, and thought he was just agreeing to sedate a wild animal to keep it controllable. Superboy was a few days out from his last dose of serum, though, and when Tuftan forgot to bring the drugs to put into his dinner and a mercenary attacked the king while he ran back for them, Superboy got his adrenaline up enough to burn through enough of the remaining drugs to remember how to talk and also, like, break his restraints and smash said mercenary through a wall, which kiiiiinda blew the lid off the whole "totally just a wild animal" lie. This AU is one where Tuftan did not forget to bring the drugs, and Superboy has as a result been in the Wild Lands ever since.

Issue 50 of that run was actually the first Superboy comic I ever read and my first introduction to the character, so I have a serious soft spot for the arc and I just could NOT resist writing something related to it when I got enabled to, haha.

For the record, this is Sacker:

And THESE are Tuftan and Tawna:

And they totally introduced themselves to Kon as a couple by making out literally a foot away from him while Tuftan had him tied up and collared on a leash AND on his knees.

Look, if I were feral(and-definitely-repressed-bisexual-probably-also-a-furry-by-now-lbr)!Kon, I would ALSO pick being a pet to the buff and noble tiger-prince who wanted to give me to his badass scantily-clad lioness fiancee over being enslaved by the morally dubious prick who shot me, drugged me, AND stole my sick leather jacket. Like, no question!! No question whatsoever!!!!

[d011zk1ll]

Welcome to my blog ♡

My name is Atticus, Felix, Reece or Doll! I use He/They and im an unlabelled trans man!! <3

I have a Discord server! feel free to join, we don't bite <3

here's my meet the artist/author post!

My bluesky ,tik tok, spotify, and Ao3 and fic tag as well as my playlist tags where you can see all the playlist i've made for characters or ships

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My ask box is always open for art asks or random rambles :)) but please don't send gofundme links I'm a minor I cannot help

My current interest is school bus graveyard, all the content from the cool as fuck fanbase and miraculous ladybug and a lot of the AU's made by the wonderful people in the fandom!

I have the basic DNI (listed in this post because I've gotten two asks about it at this point) !! As well as W1lbur, Dre@m etc fans as I know this was once a blog where MCYT were the main focus ♡♡ (Still love cream crew!!)

My Dm's are open if you want to make friends!! Especially my moots!

I'm autistic, have ADHD, depression and anxiety so be warned I may not always be the easiest to deal with but I try ♡

School bus graveyard

SBG/school bus graveyard: tag(s) for all things sbg! Fic's, playlist, art, Brainrotting ideas

Miraculous ladybug

The ladyblog discord server: An Au where they have their powers still, but Adrienette are online friends! An on going, multi chaptered fic

The History book on the shelf is always repeating itself (And the other tag since I put it under two different ones by accident!!! Agh!!): A future Au ft Emma Dupain-Cheng as Feyline and maneki-neko and Anthea Cesaire as Adalia! Also an on going multi chaptered fic

Could you stay awhile : An Alyanette au where Marinette ended up with the black cat miraculous and Alya, the ladybug. They're a year older in this au, as it happened a year after canon and it's a collection of oneshots

I won't say (I'm in love): Marichat au with Mari hating Adrien, and Chat hating Ladybug. Still a WIP, and the first fic (either chapters on oneshot) will be out sometime soon.

MLB twitter au!: This is basically me being silly! It is CYSAW but i thought it nice to give it it's own tag! :D 90% crack tho

mini comics i've done!

Mao and Scarabella meet their future counterparts (Complete, 5 pages, just sketched no colour)

Kitty blanche (incomplete currently, expected 10 pages, coloured)

And my general miraculous ladybug tag!!

More to be added!!

Mlb x SBG

Two quarters and a heart down : A sbg, MLB crossover. Aiden has the black cat, and Ash the ladybug. Taylor has the fox, Ben has the turtle, Logan has the bee, tyler the peacock and maverick the butterfly :)

SBG X Epic the musical

SBG epic AU: A taylyn centred version of epic the musical, very SBG and Epic-ey. No spoilers yet (official account run by me and two others here)

[banana-pancake5]

What have you been up to Moo? :D Who/What's rotating around in your mind?

Anything for Letter to my Future Self you could share/ramble about? :o the story is super interesting!

HI FERNI!!

Epic the musical has been running wild in my mind as of late (You should 100% go watch it if you haven’t) along with the usual (tmnt, my aus, SWWTRH, etc.) oh and just today I started a lil mini comic that I doubt I’ll finish because… *glances at all my wips* uh yeah… hehe. I do really like the one panel I made for it so far! It would only be like 4-5 panels long so hopefully I’ll finish it ^-^

Okay okay okay OF COURSE i have things to ramble about Letter From my Future Self but what to choose and say without major spoilers is tricky…. Hmmmmmm…. Gonna put it under a cut :D

(This is a spoiler but it’s pretty minor and goofy)

I have recently been thinking about how Donnie deals with the beginning of the movie (after he is sent back in time w/ Casey) and I think one interaction that could happen is rlly funny so I’ll talk about that heheh

In the beginning of the movie, after Casey is thrown into the past, he searches and inevitably finds April O’Neil. As we all know he scares her and she immediately knocks him unconscious. In my au something similar happens, Casey and Donnie are sent back together. At the time Donnie was brought to the future he had only been in their new lair for a couple of weeks, so, with all the craziness and new information that comes with the apocalypse, …he completely forgets where the new lair is. Him and Casey use the photo (like in the movie) and track down April at her school. Donnie sees her from a distance and freezes up. He hasn’t seen HIS April in nearly three years, anything could happen (also he’s all emotional seeing the first person from his timeline in three years but shhhh don’t hurt his emotionally unavailable bad boy image). Then he blinks and Casey has already jumped down and been knocked unconscious. Donnie’s brotherly instincts kick in and without a second thought he’s standing right in front of his Sister. He would be attacking but his instincts are at a hard stand still because that is his brother who is currently unconscious and vulnerable but that’s his sister… resulting in him just immediately mixing the two instincts with the knowledge that April wouldn’t hurt either of them and Casey would be fine as long as he wasn’t left there. This results is his guard being partially relaxed (mainly due to being so flabbergasted) that the following happens:

Donnie (too overloaded to take in anything that just happened): You knocked him unconscious!?! Wha— *hits the ground, unconscious*

April (without comprehending its Donnie): *hits him over the head with her bat* STRANGER DANGER!

That’s the goofy option but I have a couple others spinning in the mind as well (Donnie stops her from knocking him out, Donnie immediately tries explains things, Donnie attacks April out of pure instinct, etc. etc.)

Thank you for asking about it!!! If you ever want to know more about literally anything I will happily answer (in a way that avoids as many spoilers a possible but an answer nonetheless!) also I’m glad you think the story is interesting it occupies so much of my brain space hfreuhfreuuncfeijnfecniucefihnvfenih

[wolfjackle-creates]

Hi! First of all I love your work! Second, for the WIP ask thing I'd love any thoughts you have knocking around your head on I'll Carry Your Heart Until I Find You Again. I've been meaning to reread it, and I love it to bits!

Okay, so I have, probably, the most thoughts surrounding this fic! This fic is based off the first prompt I ever sent to @stealingyourbones and I sent it as a prompt because it was too much for me to dive in and write it myself.

I still get a little intimidated when I think of what I want to do for it.

And honestly? I'm gonna need to get my hands on some comics to do it justice. I already realized there's some minor time line things I want to adjust for the parts I've already posted, but those shouldn't make a huge difference to the fic. Just need to adjust Jason's death date and some of the details surrounding his resurrection.

I'm gonna put the rest under a cut because, again, this isn't a snippet. It's a discussion of where I'm going to take the fic in broader terms. So ~spoilers~ 😘

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Danny is gonna spend his time thinking Jason is in a coma. And the other ghosts have no reason to suspect that's not the case. I mean, he's retreated into his core and can't be woken up. What else are they to think?

Meanwhile, Jason is running around without any of his ghostly memories because those are locked into his core and he doesn't have it.

Anyway, Danny is traveling all over the realms trying to learn ghost medicine to figure out ways to wake up Jason. But nothing he tries works. Frostbite and the Yetis are also searching to no results.

After a time, Danny gets the idea to look into magical healing rather than ghost healing. So he looks up magic users he might be able to learn from.

Which is when he learns about The House of Mysteries and it's current owner/resident John Constantine. (And this is why I'm gonna need to read a bunch of comics. I need to know more than dpxdc fanon about Constantine.) He realizes John Constantine is someone he can make a deal with and could have the knowledge he needs for Jason.

Shenanigans ensue. (But it's all super angsty because I'm me.)

[corinnetheanime]

Soooooo uhhh…

I may or may not be making a DP comic. I can’t say I’m good at it, though. Only goal is to give him the biggest existential crisis of his half-life. :)

(Both pages still heavy WIP because I’m unfortunately a perfectionist and will definitely cringe at this in the future, so for now just a minor sneak peek).

Yes I have like 4 DP-related WIPs, I just draw whatever I’m in the mood for and this is my goal now

As for the other guy, uhhh I don’t want to give him away without revealing too many spoilers, so feel free to study some Greek mythos and you’ll be on the right track

Also warning for ectoplasm :)

[softgrungeprophet]

posted first chapter of a wip i've been working on in the ol' AU timeline, setting stuff up mostly...

i'll make a real post eventually (probably when i finish it lol so who knows when that'll be, could be a few weeks, could be a few months 🤷 i have a lot of random stuff written out and a lot of the main plot... not. lol)

will update any warnings as i go but

spoilers/warning in advance:

this fic will deal with sexual harassment and assault at certain points wrt both miles warren's fixation on gwen, as well as a part of peter's childhood (drawing from Spider-Man and Power Pack #1 which i know can be a contentious comic but it has been tied into this timeline from the start and remains thematically relevant)

as well as underage drinking/alcoholism and depression with flash, but that's nothing new here.

peter will also have a minor breakdown in april (so not in chapter 1 lol, would be ch 3 probably) that kind of encompasses all of his issues around not just all the above but also his self worth and guilt complex surrounding the deaths of his parents and uncle, but, like i said that's in april in-universe so won't be up for a bit...

he's kind of a neurotic mess but what else is new lol

also will be some (canon-typical) violence esp once i get baldy over here into play but again: what else is new 😂

(note: i do not plan for anything sexually explicit in this fic, at least not in the sexual assault realm, but obviously there are only so many ways you can dance around something before you eventually have to sit down and say it. i will do my best to handle it thoughtfully though.)

[69420furby]

INTRO POST!! :)

Hi! I’m Florence, maggot or whatever you know me as. I am a aromantic transman who uses he/him and it/it’s pronouns. I am closeted for my own safety to my family whom I still live with so if this post or my bio ever disappeared that’s why! Tone tags are appreciated but if you don’t want to use them you don’t have to, I will use them on my post when I feel the need (feel free to ask for tone tags etc!).

My interests!

Vasterror - Homestuck fan-comic (very different from Homestuck itself, kindly, do not compare the two on here unless joking or genuinely curious for my own sanity /lh)

FURBY! - I currently am the proud owner of 11 furbies, my current dream Furby is the tropical Furby :)

Warrior cats - I haven’t been able to keep up with the book series so I don’t know anything about the latest arcs, I LIKE spoilers about the arcs and don’t mind people talking or analysing it :)

Wings of Fire - I have most of the books but haven’t had the time to read the latest 3 ones published, I like spoilers about the books :) so talk to your hearts content

Blue exorcist - WIP of collecting all the manga, I’ve watched the anime multiple times.

Smaller interests: SCP, TMA, HLVRAI, Nuclear waste disposal/ nuclear power, kaiju paradise (roblox game), perler beads, NGE.

Other things? I am a furry! And a minor. I don’t have a very set DNI but here’s what I got so far. Also I have a tendency to use “strong” or “vulgar” language so if this a discomfort i rec blocking me. No hard feelings :)

DNI: Pro-shippers in any capacity, racists, homo/transphobes, aro/ace exclusionists/ anti neo or xeno pronouns/ (this is subject to updates later on but for now this all I can think of)

(If u try and start any argument with me because of things in my DNI I will simply block you I don’t waste my time arguing on the internet about that shit)

Anyway! Feel free to try and talk to me, I am not good at conversations and can be a bit dry but I promise it’s just because I don’t know what to say not that I don’t enjoy talking to you. Fill my ask box with rants about any of my interests (or yours) if you’d like or DM me about it if you really want! I can’t guarantee a quick response but I will try to reply even if I don’t know a lot. I have discord currently but that’s about it.

If we are mutuals at some point! Feel free to ask for CW or TW on certain things and I will try my best to remember and accurately tag.

Tik-tok - @ macabreexude

Insta (don’t use a lot)- @ beadeater9

[pink-onyx-au]

If you are reading this, thank you!

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In order to do a somewhat-daily release of episode pages, a little bit of prep work goes into these strips. I promise this hiatus won’t be several months long! A new episode is already on the workbench. This is just a heads up while I take a brief break. Thank you again! Love you all!

Den notes/asks and such will still be answered at this time! (If anything, I have lots to catch up on!)

For the new and the returning:

Pink Onyx AU is a Steven Universe AU focused on interactions between Steven and Jasper and is intended to be read after you have finished Steven Universe Future, as it contains many many spoilers for the series. If you have watched it already, great! Welcome! The goal is to bring you a Jasper redemption arc that we couldn’t get due to time and cooperate restraints on the Crewniverse. I hope you enjoy!

I do not own these characters or their likenesses except for the single fluffy thembo fusion I created for the story. This is just a fan comic.

Comic is PG-13 for some angsty themes, minor blood, violence, and gem-cussing.

Speculation and theories are encouraged! The comic is designed as close to the show’s logic as I could muster, which means many secrets are staring right at you, provided you know what to look for! Just be kind to one another.

To see some WIP, storyboard previews, doodles, shitposts, and other projects I’m working on, along with a healthy amount of 3am memes, head over to my trash fire blog, Ceephor’s Shit Show. The "pink onyx au" tag will filter everything for you, along with showing you fabulous fan art made by others that I just love to pieces.

[lady-grace-pens]

Wip Excerpt: HTKAG

In light of this wip hitting another 10k word goal recently (currently sitting pretty at a whopping 120k/150k 😅), another excerpt is due! This babe I wrote today, buut I actually loved it so much I knew I had to share it with y'all right away. That all being said, let's stop wasting time and get straight into it!

Our scene begins with Allister entering a restaurant to have dinner with Mikko, Fingal, and Perci, but Perci is late.

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Upon telling the hostess Fingal’s name, she leads me away to the right half of the room. Off in a booth stowed away in the corner sit Mikko and Fingal jabbering away mid-conversation. Once they notice me, they stop and smile.

“Hey! There’s the man of the hour,” Mikko exclaims, throwing his hands in the air.

“Not late, am I?” I grin, taking a seat beside him.

“Nope. Right on time to get some drinks,” Mikko starts smouldering at our hostess.

“With what money?” Fingal retorts with a glare.

Mikko blinks, struggling to come up with a defense. It seems he mustn't have anticipated Fingal to interrupt his attempt at flirting…

“Wha - With our money, of course,” he laughs, trying his best to make a smooth recovery.

“Aye. Which is why we’re not using my money to buy alcohol while a minor is here.”

Mikko doesn’t reply. Then again I suppose he doesn't need to, his confusion is written all over his face.

“Don’t tell me you forgot about Perci. He’ll be here any minute.”

“Oh! Fuck, that’s right. Him. Well obviously he won’t be getting any. And come on! You know how fast I can down a beer Fin! It’ll just be a few. Just a few rounds! Don’t be an ass.”

“Watch yourself Mikko, it's not polite to use such language in the presence of a lady.” I chime in, giving the hostess a polite smile.

“Oh I’ll show you what’s not polite-” Mikko says before slapping my head.

I try to hit him back, but he catches my hand before I can. Before we know it, we’re caught in a ridiculous slapping fight, both laughing our asses off.

“Not in a restaurant, not in a restaurant!” I speak through gasps, trying to end things.

Mikko obliges, tossing his hands back in his lap.

“A waiter will be right with you,” the hostess makes a case to look at each one of us except for Mikko before finishing her sentence, “... gentleman.”

Much to my surprise, Mikko doesn’t seem to be affected by that backhanded insult. Instead he kicks his knees up against the table and rests his head back, totally listless.

“Mikko, I would’ve thought you’d be more offended by that.”

“Huh? Why would I be offended at something when it’s true?”

“I’ll say. You and Al couldn’t be any more opposite. If there’s anything larger than the truth, the fact that you’re not a gentleman is way beyond it.”

“Exactly. And Mikko, you are aware of the fact that she was just a hostess, right? It isn’t even her job to serve us drinks.”

“I... “ Mikko laughs before leaning over the table again. “Listen. You two just don’t get it, do you? No. You don’t. Allow me to be the one who graces your palettes here, eh? Let me tell you what I’m gonna do. Okay? I’m gonna give you a tip. A piece of advice that will change your lives forever. All for free! You don’t even have to pay me. All you gotta do is listen. Got it? You both ready?”

Fingal and I share a look. I can tell we’re thinking along a similar vein of confused intrigue. We should most likely stop Mikko here, as whatever will come out his mouth won’t be anything good. However, we’re both too stunned to stop him, so…

Mikko beckons us to lean closer to him. Fin and I oblige. We’re almost touching heads when at last our dear mentor speaks once again, in a hushed voice. “It’s not about what you say. It’s about how you say it.”

…

There are no words. For about a minute straight Fingal and I are just staring at each other wearing the same expression that exudes two questions. ‘What the fuck? You’ve heard that too, haven’t you?’

Soon after that’s established and our shock subsides, we burst back to life. Fingal starts us off with, “Dammit Mikko. What the fuck? Where did you learn that? Who taught you that?”

“Some guys from the bar! Why, what’s wrong with it?”

“Which guys from the bar?”

“I don’t see how it-”

“Mikko. Which guys from the bar taught you this?” Fingal insists, a flash of anger showing in his eyes.

Mikko seems to notice this, and complies straight away. “Leo, John, Peter and Paul!”

Fingal buries his head in his hands. This sparks my curiosity. I haven’t heard these names before, but Fin clearly has.

“I can’t say I’m familiar with them, who might they be?”

“Bar friends-” Mikko starts, only for Fingal to finish for him.

“Jokesters. Jerks. Cheapskates always looking for a laugh. Assholes. Can’t wait to give them a piece of my mind.”

Mikko shrinks away from Fin. His head is turned away from me, but I don’t need to see it in order to know how stunned he is. It’s expressed flawlessly through the abnormal quietness of his voice. “Fin? What’s up, why’d you-”

“Because those dicks have been filling your head with shit like this every damn time I turned my back, Mikko! Dammit, this - this is why you always get rejected! Universe, I just wish you would’ve checked with me first about things like this. Not some strangers you barely even know, yet idolize them anyway.

You wanna know how you get a girl Mikko? Huh? You be nice. You be nice to them, you talk with them, and you listen. Compliments and flirting, all that helps, of course, but not forever! And you sure as hell can’t build a relationship strictly off of it. Okay? Standards and expectations vary from girl to girl, but with each and every single one there are a few things that you just have to do. Be nice, have respect, help them just for the sake of helping them! Don’t expect anything in return. Overall just - just be a decent fucking human being. That is how you get a girl.”

Mikko sits there, staring at his brother. I can’t help but do the same. In every respect, Fingal is right. Of course he is. It’s just… rare that we see him so worked up. I can hardly believe my eyes. I can hardly believe my ears, I… I can’t imagine how Mikko must be feeling.

Oh so gradually his head sinks down into his lap. He slumps over, and I swear I can see fractions of tears reflect the golden light radiating above us.

“Can’t believe I’m actually telling you this when you’re eighteen. Fucking eighteen,” Fingal scoffs, crossing his arms.

“I’m sorry-”

“Don’t be. I’m not mad at you. This is my own fault, I blame myself.”

“Aw, come on man! That’s even worse,” pouts Mikko.

Fingal then turns to me with an abruptness that makes me jump. “Al, what’s up? You’ve been quiet for a while. You can back me up on this, can’t you?”

“I…” I force a chuckle to try and lighten the air some. “I don’t think that I’m currently in a position to give advice like this, to be honest with you.”

Fingal leans his elbows on the table, holding his head with one hand. “Why? Something happen with Maddie?”

“Oh, did it ever,” I shake my head.

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Aand that's all you guys get for spoiler reasons! Lmao

(also because that's all I've written today but shhhh don't tell anyone)

Buut yeah. Legit I swear I didn't mean to go so hard on feminist Fingal 😂 I mean don't get me wrong here, he's absolutely right and I'm keeping it in. But still, the words just kept on coming and coming and we ended up with this

so

y'know

yeah

writing is super fun sometimes

Plus tbh, writing the part where Mikko is stroking his ego and whispers his ‘top secret trick to get women’, I was literally laughing out loud 😂 like he's just so wrong, and I love how horribly Mikko fails in life. It's just super funny to me, I enjoy it a lot.

Fingal, however, clearly does not enjoy it, lmao. Legit I had no clue he could be so protective until today! Especially over Mikko. I mean I always knew their dynamics, but today… it really hit home for me.

Go back and look at the line of dialogue Fingal says right after Mikko apologizes (a rare occurrence, actually).

It’s just one little piece of dialogue, barely a few sentences! Yet I feel like it hits you. You know? It reveals so much about his and Mikko’s vibes, their situation. A pair of brothers poor and orphaned by their birth parents and raised by their grandmother, who is only growing older and weaker each year. Fingal, the eldest, having to take responsibility often. He feels pressured to raise his little bro, and feels like he's failed when Mikko turns out to be the way he is. Ya know? It's just one little thing of dialogue but I feel like it makes you feel the pressure Fin has to bear in a situation like theirs. Even if it’s only for a moment.

And Mikko! While he does incite a lot of the comic relief in HTKAG, I wouldn’t call him a strict comic relief character because that's never what I had in mind while writing him. He and Fin actually play a vital role in the plot of the story! Much more than what I can currently reveal to y'all.

Buut anyways, I'll stop rambling now. I really hope you guys enjoyed this little excerpt just as much as I adored writing it :)

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[doorsclosingslowly]

👀 😈 🌈(hell is just a beat away)

wips i won't post: if WIP means stuff that's got a file on my pc that i write at least notes in, all of them i would post. i don't bother writing it down otherwise. i have a ton of story ideas i play around with at any given moment to keep my brain happy, and some of them are way darker (or monsterfuck-y) than anything i've posted but even they migjt get transmuted into a new wip or incorporated into an existing thing. i want to get better writing disturbing stuff or horror after all, and i'm less embarrassed by dark shit than worried i'm not yet able to portray it how i want

although--there is some stuff i won't post that might count. way back when i was a teen and it was just me and a notebook and no confidence i could ever post stuff, i worked out some hp fics in great detail. i wouldn't write hp now, and even then i knew these ideas needed incredible care and political consciousness. because the protagonists were racist terrorists who were both in pain and vile violent people, to their victims and each other, and pain begets empathy but that mustn't lead to sympathising or prioritising them over the victims

one was about minor deatheaters avery and mulciber (famous user of the imperius curse). so they were friends and mulciber used to practice the imperius on avery with permission, and then when they were doing racist terrorism mulciber realized that avery wasn't cut out for doing the brutality they believed in but couldn't leave either mulciber used he imperius to convince voldemort avery wasnt a liability, and then during the trial avery uses that history of being imperiusd to get out of azkaban and gets a cushy new life. and then bam. voldemorts back, and the azkaban breakout

another: rabastan lestrange's captured and dumped on depressed sirius in the black home. sirius promptly 'forgets' to give him water but. back when bellatrix and rabastan's bro got married & rabastan was bi-incestuoudly heartbroken he made out with teenage sirius. and now they share the fucked up experience of azkaban. and rabastan's still a piece of trash but all of this forces sirius to work through painful shit

stuff i like doing that readers hate: plotting i guess 😅 by which i mean, i like making up stories and i'm so much faster at it than i am at writing, resulting in me having a ludicrous number of active wips, and for me it's a balm working on stuff simultaneously and switching when i get badly stuck but it makes for inconsistent updating

idea for Hell is just a beat away: so i read about the comic on tumblr, and what i knew was: sidious sends maul to slave auction. and i didn't read the actual comic until about a year later, which was ample time to come up with my own version. i was already into maul 'n savage bros for life at that point, so that swap just made sense, and for the plot my idea was everything's driven by accidental consequences of actions. because it's funny. maul got drunk and locked out, so he puts on sunglasses for his headache and a dude's massive clothes and no-one recognizes him as zabrak. savage tackles maul so eldra runs off so maul does too with the bomb remote so savage loses his leg (so eldra shows savage how to locate the other bombs with the force so [massive spoiler])

thank you 😁

[gregorygerwitz]

I'm interested in the young gods AU you're doing!! What's that about? Is it inspired by the song?

The young gods AU is my shameless nonsense AU inspired entirely by the fact that I shipped Tibbet and Chase in Overlord and both Iain de Caestecker and John Magaro have played “villains” with “professional” monikers in comic book shows - or, in John’s case, it’s heavily implied that his character in Umbrella Academy was based on The Conductor from the comics.

YGAU is the first DoctorConductor AU I plan on writing, and it will be sad and it will be chaotic and full of my two favorite broken boys with daddy issues. I have joked about this AU for coming up on 2 years now, I have hardly written a thing, and there’s a good chance that won’t change any time soon because *gestures toward life*

It’s called Young Gods because the Halsey song was the first thing that went on my ship playlist for Leopold and Leonard, and it’s going to eventually play with the lore from the TUA show verse. I have actually created an aesthetic for this AU, which has some minor spoilers for Leonard’s backstory in canon, but the basic summary is this:

Instead of going to prison in his teens, Harold Jenkins is recruited by the Commission, where he changes his name and trains to be an assassin. For a few years, he’s a solo agent using the codename The Conductor, being sent through time to complete his missions. Leopold is recruited from a timeline where Alistair was a part of his life, basically following Framework backstory, with the promise of being allowed to “retire” in any time or place he wants - in exchange for 10 years of service to the Commission. He’s allowed to use his title as the Doctor for his codename, and is paired up with the Conductor for the duration of his employment. At first, they’re reluctant to work together, and then they become friends, and maybe more. the third wheel on most of their missions is the sexual tension

[ ask me about my WIPs ]

[dragonriboosart]

I’m mostly copy pasting my info on this from Deviant art so it isn’t taken out of context

Commission DA Link

Patreon ll Ko-Fi Please read over all this information before contacting me, when you note me, please fill out the commission form to completion and be direct about what you want. I only take on commissions that have references at the ready for me, such as photographs or pictures, you can also use google images to help me better complete the piece you would like. I will not be doing character reference sheets Don'ts NSFW, discriminatory work, provocative work with a minor, If you are unsure of what I will and will not do, please inquire! Commission form for your convenience Contact: (Enter your contact information so we can keep in touch, I prefer Discord) Commission type: (Full body, Pokemon, etc.) References: (Picture(s) of the character(s) you would like me to draw! I will not work on strictly written descriptions. Please provide visuals. Details of commission: (If left blank, I'll use my artistic liberties) Form of payment: (I will only accept Paypal at this time) Questions: (Optional of course, if you don't have any, simply leave it blank) And now the copy paste portion without the explanations XD Contact: Commission type: References: Details of Commission: Form of payment: Questions: Disclaimer: So I wanted to be pretty transparent about what is going on in my life right now. My dad, at the time of writing, has stage 4 colon cancer and is now entering hospice care. Because I would like financial stress to be the least of our worries? I will be opening commissions for a time. Just know that while I'll work my hardest to get your piece done, that I have other obligations and things going on in my life that sometimes will take priority over your piece, however, I will do my best to send you WIPs to keep you up to date. Because of this, my free time is a bit more limited than it used to be (though I am currently on a leave from work because of current circumstances) so I will be unable to have lengthy communication with potential clients, please fill out the form and be ready with your references before you contact me. I know this all sounds pretty impersonal, and I'm not happy about that, but I have to spend time I might otherwise have discussing ideas on your piece with helping my family, Patreon, and other commissions. If you rather just donate to me or support me and my comic, I have a Ko-fi and Patreon respectively Patreon ll Ko-Fi That being said, here's what to expect -I ask for payment up front, the sooner you pay the sooner you secure your spot in my queue -Wips at the sketching stage, the inking stage, the flatting stage and the shading -At the time I ask for only two minor tweaks during the sketching stage if you want anything changed, and only 1 major tweak, once I'm at the inking stage, I will not be accepting any revisions at the time being Once you have received your completed product, no refunds will be issued. 1 minor revision is allowed at the point of completion (color correction, adding in a gradient background) If a refund is requested and the commission is already in progress, you will receive what work has been completed thus far along with a partial refund. *BG What to expect I will only do natural BGS, no buildings or cityscapes please -Basic, something like a grassy patch for the character to stand on and a gradient sky bg -Simple, something like ground, a few large rocks and trees -Complex, a more dense bg is allowed here, such as vines, flowers and more detail going on to look at, characters will be more interactive with BG elements here **Emojis Will be done in 128x128 format, characters only please, more complex characters will be simplified I will post all commissions on Deviant art. (Special note for Nuzlockers since I'm in that community, I won't post your commission if you're doing a Team Commish if they're all spoilers)

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[happymaskseller]

Ladies and gents and all those otherwise, this is Sio! My OC protagonist for a WIP fan comic in the works, The Songbird of Termina. Feel absolutely free to ask anything you like about her and the story by dropping into my askbox! I’ll only not be able to give straight answers if it involves full-on spoilers, otherwise what I think to be minor spoilers might be mentioned carefully.