#near and dear and beloved of my heart

[flickeringflame216]

Of Summer I'll Sing

Of summer I’ll sing, and joyous is the song That mingles in the dusk with smoke and sparks Or stretches up to greet the skirting sunrise This quiet hour bleeds with fervent praise.

Warm work-filled days and chilly nights, Humble adventures come knocking at my door. No job’s a chore when no job is beneath you And so the song is lifted up while washing cars Or stacking wood, or patching up a scrape.

Of summer I’ll sing, and singing  Twines with cicadas in the evening air. I’ll sing of warmth, of crowded afternoons peopled with delight Of deep water, and the coolness of memory.

Knees sometimes bruised and bug bites bandaged over, Calloused fingers skipping over pages,  Braiding hair and making fires, The song humming from throats made sore by laughter.

I sing of forests still and yet alive The song twines round the trees  And swoops through daisy meadows  And leaps again up, up To fields where stars add harmony

The song goes on, it tells the tale Bright and lithe, winding on for ever “In every masterpiece is proof of hope, In all our joys the mark of He who made them.” 

And so I add my stumbling melody Unto the tune that turns and turns forever, My eyes behold each day of beauty fresh And cannot help but wonder at the glory.

So sing will I of summer, As long as song and summer still live on, And hope and laughter mingle with the dusk, And stars emerge to add their harmony. 

[skeetskrrt]

Yes man appreciation post because I love him dearly

(Random video at the bottom but it’s a joke I swear)

[leapdayowo]

Mirror WIP

One day I will finish this. I have it storyboarded, and I might decide to just use paper instead of digital. I really enjoy the idea of Mirror using blunt, heavy weapons, and I wanted practice coordinating a fight sequence! I also have plans to show the bracelet off (the one that turns the wearer into a painting if that wasn’t clear)

[stoshasaurus]

haven't been making any sfw ultrakill or overwatch drawings to add to this blog, but I have been drawing some discords lately (a goofy goober from My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, for the majority of my followers that are probably unfamiliar)

(if you're a follower and know who he is you're a g i love you)

yes i am also an mlp artist and have a very complex au and ships going on. twicord ftw fuck everything else/silly

WOE! CyberCord be upon ye

normal art should resume soon hopefully, either ultrakill, overwatch, or completely unrelated and breaking into another fandom that i am not remotely equipped to deal with. been doing that lately.

[supermarine-silvally]

ice skater/ice hockey player au for portada (maybe)?

HELL YESSS I love the way your mind works, anon!

Hockey Player!Ace x Figure Skater!Yara

They both got into their sport because of their fathers. Gol D. Roger is an absolutely legendary hockey player and Mihawk is a multiple-award-winning world champion figure skater, who has won both in the men’s singles category and the ice dancing category alongside his partner Shimotsuki Akiko (Akiko herself was also a great figure skater but her career never gained the kind of international acclaim Mihawk’s did)

Ace uses his mother’s surname Portgas because he wants to make his own career without being tied to his father’s legacy. Rouge in this AU is alive and owns a nice little flower shop. Roger, now retired, helps her run it. (He gets a lot of “Hey, aren’t you--” to which he quickly cuts in “Ahaha I have no idea what you’re talking about :) I am just a humble flower merchant!”)

Ace started out on the same team as his sworn brothers Sabo and Luffy, but was drafted onto the Whitebeards, coached by Edward Newgate, a legendary player and old rival of Roger’s who had his eye on Ace ever since Ace’s rookie years coming up through the junior leagues. Marco is the current captain. 

Mihawk is now retired and is dedicated to training Yara. He and Akiko were married for a very brief period of time, but are now divorced. Despite this, they are on friendly terms and still make a good team when it comes to raising their daughter.

Yara (who still uses her birthname Dracule Yara in this AU) is quite popular, especially with people eager to see her continue her father’s legacy. She tends to receive a lot of gifts thrown onto the ice during every competition, and one of the things she always gets is a bouquet of hibiscus flowers. There is never any name attached to them but they’ve clearly been professionally-arranged and often come with a nice little typed-out note giving her really sweet compliments. They always make her heart melt a little bit every time she reads them and she really, really wants to know who is responsible (especially since hibiscus flowers are her favourite, which she vaguely recalls mentioning in an interview once at the start of her career before she gained any real fame). 

Now for the Portada. Yara and Ace train at the same rink, but rarely interact at first. Ace often watches her work through her routines before his own practice. His brothers and teammates like to tease him about the massive crush he obviously has on her and have tried to goad him into approaching her, but he chickens out every time because he just gets so flustered. He can be so smooth and cool when it comes to talking to women at a meet-and-greet or publicity event but when it comes to Yara, he totally falls apart. He’s a world-famous super rookie, but his crush turns him into an awkward teenage boy again. 

One day during training, Yara pushes herself a little too hard and over-rotates while trying to do a triple axel. She twists her ankle badly and has to go to the hospital. While there, she receives plenty of gifts and well-wishes from fans, as well as more hibiscus bouquets.

After the doctors clear her to return to the ice, Yara gets a little frustrated with herself as she is a bit out of practice and struggling to complete routines that once came to her so easily. Ace comes in early and sees her sitting in the middle of the rink, fighting back tears. All his shyness falls away as he skates over to her, offering her a hand and a shoulder to cry on as she admits that she feels like she’ll never skate like she used to again. Ace does his best to reassure her that she’ll be back to her old self in no time, and guides her through doing some basic warmups before he has to leave to attend his own practice, but not before promising her that he’ll come early every single day until she’s skating like she once did.

He makes good on his word and slowly helps her build her confidence back, skating with her and encouraging her when she starts to doubt herself. The two develop a friendship and bond over their time on the ice together, and occasionally even spend time together outside of the rink, too. (As friends do, when they want to be around each other while simultaneously fighting off their feelings for one another). When Yara wins her first competition since her injury, Ace congratulates her in person while Yara also receives another hibiscus bouquet with the most heartfelt, sweet note attached.

A month or so later, Yara decides to get Akiko some flowers for her birthday. She remembers Ace mentioning that his mom is a florist so she makes it a point to stop by Rouge’s shop. While there, she begins to notice something odd: there are hibiscus flowers everywhere, much like the ones in the anonymous bouquets she has been receiving for years now. She quickly puts two and two together and decides to confront Ace about it the next time she sees him at the rink. 

Ace confesses that he’s been in love with Yara since the first moment he ever saw her skate, but he was too nervous to talk to her, hence why he felt he could only express his feelings through anonymous bouquets (when he wasn’t available, he would get Luffy or Sabo or even Rouge to throw them onto the ice on his behalf). Yara is stunned to know that this hotshot young rookie had been admiring her from afar all this time. She always thought Ace was cute, too, but his public persona was just so flirty and silly that she had no idea he was this serious about anyone, least of all her. Sheepishly, Ace asks her out, which Yara accepts. As one date turns into two, three, four, etc. they decide to keep their relationship private. Only their close friends and family know.  

The Stanley Cup playoffs start for this year, and the Whitebeards make it all the way through to the final round. They are tied three games to three with their rival team, and the score has sat at 2-2 throughout the game when Ace scores the winning goal. He celebrates with his teammates for a second before skating over to Yara, dropping his helmet on the ice as he leans over the door to the ice and kisses her while the crowd goes wild. (Their moment of passion doesn’t end there, but continues in Ace’s hotel room all night long). 

Word quickly spreads through social media that hockey star Portgas D. Ace is dating figure skating legend Dracule Yara. Two years later, when the Whitebeads win the Stanley Cup for the third year in a row, Ace ends the game by scoring the winning goal yet again, then skates over to Yara and gets down on one knee. A very shocked, but very delighted Yara says yes.

Ten years later, Ace and Yara are both retired, and proudly watch from the stands with the rest of their kids as their son Shiro wins his very first figure skating competition.

[jewishcissiekj]

something I love doing with my OCs is giving them shipnames. get fandomed idiot

[drowningparty]

Secrets of 1979 (2021) dir. Zero Chou.

[spiralstain]

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[cornmazehater]

28? :)

ooo this ones actually evil I can barely pick :(. I love books way too much and probably read them too many times for each book I own

my favorite book atm is probably salt to the sea by ruta sepetys. idk I really like the way she writes historical fiction and this book also made me cry a bit

[falloutjuli]

Ayo it me.

Just a lil update post if anyone is wondering where the posts are… welp, life exists and hates to see a bad bitch winning so Im a little busy but no worries.

Currently Im planning to have Domestic!Chuuya pt2, 2 of the Event requests, A SSKK winter fanfic and possibly some other things posted until the 24th of December.

The second part of domestic adventures with Chuuya is almost completed, Im only missing a scene and a beta reading + some editing before that one is ready so keep your eyes out for it 👀

The event reqs are all coming along nicely, drafts are all planned now I only need to go ham on the writing process, which yeah is a little hindered but fear not, they will all be posted once ready. So far most are sitting around 1-2k words already.

Anywaysssss just wanted to let yall know in case you were wondering! 🫶🏻 Thanks for all the support in the meantime!

[variksel]

the elevator button is so great honestly and its soo Extreeemely glenn and making me miss him . i can HEAR the conversation the dads couldve had about installing it, like im absolutely sure it was a long goddamn pitch meeting. they had weekly "dad huddles" where theyd bring up ideas they had had over the week about what they wanna add to the d.a.d.d.i.e.s HQ and im soo sure those went. about as well as youd expect LMAO

i can just picture glenn going "nonono guys see, have you never seen a movie where the good guys are running from a bad guy and-" and daryl just going "absolutely not" and henry being like "cmon daryl, this is a safe space and there are no bad ideas, you remember what we said about those footballer toys you put up on the walls? lets hear him out"

[sakizm]

not sure how i'm gonna react watching the live action atla show but i can 10000% guarantee i'm gonna go feral over the zk north pole fight scene (i mean i already am from what glimpses the trailer has shown so far)

[undying-lilies]

haven't promoted this yet because uh . . . well it's kinda self-indulgent, and I've never talked about this AU on here, however it's been sitting in my docs since the TBB S2 finale and I edited it like fifty billion times so I'm pretty proud of it anyway lol. TAMverse AU my beloved

first couple lines under the cut :D

Once again, it was Market Day.

Crosshair found them rather boring. At least, they were boring. Echo and Tech had decided that the best way to get all of the supplies in a reasonable time frame was to divide and conquer, and Hunter agreed, so it worked. 

They all split up into pairs: Hunter and Omega, Echo and Wrecker, and Tech and Crosshair. Everyone got their share of the supplies and met back at the ship afterwards. Nothing exciting happened whatsoever. 

Except for the last Market Day. 

Crosshair had scored himself the role of Omega’s favorite-favorite (for two whole days, he smugly thought) and went with her instead, and somehow in his absence Tech had developed a bad crush on the pretty Twi’lek who had sold him paprika. That had made things a lot more interesting. Even moreso because things were back to normal now and Omega would be going with Hunter, while Crosshair, of course, went with Tech.

To pick up supplies. In the market. Where this Amara Avandé supposedly was.

Surely this Market Day wouldn’t be boring, either.

[kumamooko]

Got a strange craving to customized my tumblr blog with the navigation and like tags and so on

[zhongli-lover-69]

[keyslox]

your anomaly stuff was so cool oh my god. how did that idea even happen

OH THANK YOU!!! It was kinda just- I wanted to make a Jack-centric story/Au that still had SBI + others? From a Jack viewer of the dsmp it was really interesting to see that his deaths really were by those three. It felt like a fun play at how sbi usually in such high light. Taking that and breaking it down from a perspective where it wasn’t as good! It’s been a long while since I’ve infulegrd kn the Au and it honestly might be time to get back into thinking… maybe some drawings at least!

Plans for a fic never happened because I’ve never been good at writing full fics, but I love drawing and adding context to those drawings (case point Cold Limbo AU) soooo, maybe I can try something with Anomaly, too.