#ngl i thought past year

[gxtzeizm]

the fact that me, as a fan of both lando and oscar without any bias (maybe a bit on lando but not that much), is going to witness both "oscar fans, lando antis" and "lando fans, oscar antis" posts all in my one dash 🥲🥲

also the fact that atp i couldn't even bother enough with this same situation on both lewis and george. now it happens on lando and oscar as well which got me like....

[skitskatdacat63]

Happy One Year Anniversary to Boy King AU!!!! 🎉

Okay wait before I start talking, look at these close ups and the process!! Aren't they so beautiful aaaahhhh

Wow, can you believe it’s really been a whole entire year since my very first post about this AU? Well technically I first started talking about the statuette a day earlier, but the very first sketch was exactly a year ago!! Let us not forget the incredibly prophetic tag on that post: “also in the sense of this au i think the only ship that would work(historically accurate wise) is Vettonso.” Who knew that after that my entire life would devolve into vettonso, this specific period of history, and the lovely combo which is Boy King AU. Also wow this means it’s taken me almost a whole entire year to actually draw a joint portrait of them hahaha. I drew this sketch around the beginning of the AU, but never finished it. It’s fine though because this one is a lot better, and I’m in love with it. Took me a year to draw a couple portrait, and took me almost a whole entire month to finish said piece. 

Okay let me explain this piece, which I am very obsessed with!!! I dragged the process out more than I usually would, but I’m glad, because it was so enjoyable. But also look at that fucking crown, no wonder this took almost a month. Usually I’d write like 50 paragraphs detailing the characterization. HOWEVER! I’ve spent over a month writing little bits of characterization, mostly for fun, but also in preparation for this very post. A lot of the earlier ones, I had this drawing in mind, thinking on how I could expand on the ideas I was drawing. Though there’s definitely some things I could still write about. I’ll probably continue to write more Lore a Days, but yeah, they basically amounted to this drawing where you can actually see the characterization I was talking about displayed. Anyways, here are the explanations of bits in the drawing:

First of all, this is some part of the long process of their wedding. Look at the married couple!! Look at their rings!!!

Okay, but why are there two, almost identical looking pieces?? Because look at their hands!! I talked a lot about how Fernando is the one to give out affection more easily, especially in public, where he knows he can easily fluster Seb. He’s acting all grumpy and out of it, I mean to be fair, it’s probably been such a long ceremony across weeks. But he notices Seb is out of it too, just better at keeping his smile (let’s be honest, even if he’s distracted, he’s super smug.) So Fernando catches him off guard by squeezing his hand. Before that, as you can see, Fernando is just resting his hand on Seb’s outstretched palm, like that one scene from Succession. Very: yes I’m getting married, but I’m not happy about it. The combination of Fernando refusing to even touch him more than lightly beforehand but now going full force, them being in public, and Seb already being distracted catches Seb so off guard he has to try to cover his blush with his fan. He thought Fernando was being super impolite, but now he’s the impolite one!! Getting all blushy and giggly over a simple display of affection, perhaps even ha-

So. Their crowns. Seb’s wearing the crown of Austria, because he is in fact only a king still! Also, because I really wanted to try drawing it after I wimped out of it before in this drawing. Fernando’s a king as well by the point, but the fact he’s wearing only a tiara-like hairpiece is to represent how much of an outsider he still is. At this moment, he’s just Seb’s wi- ,I mean husband, to all these guests. Of course this bitch wears a black veil instead of a white one, to signal that he’s mourning the loss of his autonomy and personhood. Don’t worry too much about his mental state though, considering he’s not depressed enough to be able to resist teasing Seb. 

The fan, oh my god. Back in this era, people would gift/make fans for basically any occasion. To symbolize an event, to celebrate something, to show a story, etc etc. I wish I could have drawn something more narrative, but I think the bull vs. horse is good enough. Also you can see those same symbols on the pendants they’re wearing!! I’m so happy when I can fit irl, modern stuff like that into these drawings, it feels so clever!!

It’s so funny, I wrote a lore a day from a prompt about what they’d be like when doing a joint portrait, while I was already almost through painting a dual portrait of my own! So I got to explain some stuff like their clothing colors and poses before I even posted this. I feel very coy about that still honestly. 

Hmmm what else? It feels so weird to not expand on the characterization, considering I already did it for myself weeks in advance. I can’t imagine what it’s like opening this read more, and seeing more than 10 in-text citations. Happy reading!!!

 Happy anniversary to  this wonderful, crazy AU that makes me download 500pg German papers about 18th century etiquette. I drew a couple pieces of fanart before this AU, but I definitely think it jumpstarted my insanity about drawing/making AUs, and literally is what made me insane about Vettonso in the first place. Remember, if I hadn’t learned about Joseph I/Charles VI, most of my blog probably wouldn’t exist in it's current form. Thank you if you’ve stuck around since the beginning, or if you’re even just learning about it now!! It’s so incredibly niche but I’ve had so much fun researching and building this world and these characterizations, and I hope you’ve enjoyed what I’ve made in the process. I hope I can draw/write many more things in the future. I think next, I’m gonna maybe open up requests. I’d like to try to either write ficlets or draw chibi comics about specific Lore a Day posts on request. I think that’d be a lot of fun, but also will probably kill me. We’ll see!! Anyways. PPlease enjoy this absolute labor of love, which is a result of a year’s worth of work.

[pinkyjulien]

Valentin Da Silva | 177/??

[sea-jello]

movie morro au where morro is literally a fucking criminal in juvie. it’s bad enough that lloyds the son of garmadon, his cousin is considered a mastermind escape artist who might be a high ranking gang member and has never gotten caught for a solid 3 years. no one knows how he does it. it’s like the air itself assists him in escaping

update guys ive got more check #jellos movie morro au in the tags 👇

[mspaint-flower]

btw my google dino game record on my brother's school laptop

[billythephoneguy]

I like how rude you are funny man

[satsuha]

u know im back on my bullshit

[wonho-ssi]

[dragonpigeons]

It's my burfday today! :D I have another pic in the works that I was gonna post but I won't manage to finish it today so I'm posting this one instead. It's actually for my Riida RP acc on twt. The bonsai tree in the middle is another RP acc I have (it is Saka's bonsai tree lmao yes I RP as a tree) and the pigeon on the right is Riida's PA (cos Riida is disorganised af & needs nudging to do her work often).

Anyway I just wanted to share it here & celebrate my bday with you guys ^^ Thank you for being here with me!

[the-innefable-idiot]

HOW ARE WE FEELING TONIGHT???

[apathyfairy]

me at 13: by the time im 30 i will probably be married and maybe have a kid but for sure i will be living in my dream city and have my dream job. and also a lot of money

me at almost 30: i think i will treat myself to a corn dog this weekend

[ofcowardiceandkings]

the sinus headaches are already not great but Extra Shit has been added to the pile and im just sat on that right now trying to figure out what the fuck to do

[essektheylyss]

Hello! Just wanted to tell you how much “what luminous worlds await” lives in my head absolutely rent free. I’m not caught up on the sequel because I really haven’t had time to read fanfic lately, but I think about luminous worlds constantly. best time travel story I have ever read, one of my favorite stories of all time. It genuinely reframed the way I conceptualize the universe, the idea that it’s singing to us all the time and is filled with love and care for us will live in my heart forever (the way the luxon loves leylas!!!!! Ahhh!!). Also the worldbuilding you did around the magic tech is astounding! I think about the ruidus life support system allll the time. I wish I could go back in time and reread it blind for the first time and experience the magic of watching the story unfold all over again. You’re an incredible writer and I can’t thank you enough for sharing such a clever and moving story.

Hello!!! THANK YOU!!! I have failed to respond to this for two days and it's cuz I kept needing to scream into the carpet anytime I thought about it. I am ALSO not caught up on my own sequel and it is haunting me at the moment, I'm not gonna lie. I have like... a third of the next chapter written and that's where I've been for months. It's fine it's cool writer's block has not been giving me an existential crisis, nope, none of that here!

ANYWAY I am very 🥺 to know that it had that effect; it was definitely partially a product of me working through some stuff wrt belief and how I interact with the world and knowing it had a small amount of the same impact for people reading it is... wild, honestly, but I'm very pleased that came through!!!

Also I did want you to know that I listen to your playlist for it SO often—I ended up putting a bunch of songs I found from it on a playlist for an original project with actually fairly similar vibes, which I'm hoping will turn out like... marginally as well as I felt like luminous worlds turned out, though that project is currently highly unwieldy (and it always has been lol) so we'll see if that happens.

In any case, thank you for the note; I'm so so fond of this fic and I'm really glad it stayed with you this long! 💜

[roylustang]

The other reason I like living in a car is meeting new people. Yesterday I went quartz crystal hunting with a retired marine corps vet and then he also taught me how to pan for gold. Then he gave me a small bottle of garnets and/or rubies and some topaz he found in Wyoming and Utah respectively. Then we built a bonfire and he let me have some of the meatballs he cooked. We’re besties now lol

[exactlysizzlingdonut]

Ok guys but cmon…. Reality shifting.

[eyesoftxmorrow]