#no matter what aspect

[sayheykid]

i genuinely don't think a story's worldbuilding and lore has ever drawn me in the way that check please did. it's been years and i still think about it every day. the characters and plot were always superb but i think what has stuck with me the most is the depth of the settings and how everything feels so lived in and tangible. everyone wants to make a fake world and town and university but no one else has EVER done it that well

[dreamsy990]

TELEMACHUS AND ANTINOUS. FINALLY

[luckyartdrawer]

100 FOLLOWERS MILESTONE!!! MER AU!!!

Y'all chose the MER AU to celebrate, and so say hello to some fishy boys! They are all quite happy to see you, though some seem to show it more than others!

Cookie cutter shark Sun can't wait to take a bite- I mean- erm- rather a hug out of you! Either way he's quite excited!

Threadfin Eclipse would rather all eyes be on him, but he would settle for just yours! His colors shifts in every way, he's hoping your eyes won't stray!

Jellyfish Moon doesn't mean to be so imposing -- towards you anyways. He just wants to see you and everyone happens to be in the way!

This is technically a PT 1 to the celebration, as we have a Royal AU to roll out the red carpet for as well due to a tie in the poll!

PT 2 is made!

vvv Sketch/line art and yapping below!!! vvv

Sketch/Line art

Hehehe I just had to share. I am so proud of how the lines came out. Sketch cleaned up as lineart method my beloved.

Uagh I keep looking back and seeing so many things I could do. I might update the images secretly one day, but for now I think I need to let it be free in the world before I just never finish lol

Welcome to my yap sesh! Thank you all for being here, I hope the wait was worth it! <3 I am very proud of this and spent soooo so long rendering it. (What was i thinking doing 3 characters end my suffering /J)

Here's some random factoids about these sillies!

Sun: Born in the depths. He is a dime of dozen of cookie cutter sharks, all of them insistent of taking chunks out of anything and anyone they can find. Sun at least has some restraint when it comes to mers he likes, but he always wants just one nibble! Sun tends to warm up fast to mers that give him a speck of attention and care. Cookie cutter shark mers are known to link up with mates as soon as possible, but Sun insists that he hasn't found the perfect fit yet. No one is tasty enough for it! Everyone needs to compliment the other! Sun is the fastest of the 3, relying solely on his speed and jumping out of hiding spots to catch prey. His sharp claws pierces easily and the long webbing between his fingers makes it really easy to ensnare prey in his grasp!

Moon: Born in the depths. Jellyfish mers are rather uncommon, being known as a mostly solitary species. Unlike their animal counterparts, Jellyfish mer go alone after maturing, not even inclined to search for a mate, though they can if they so desire. They live the longest of any mer species. Their transparent bodies keep their form hidden from prey as their bioluminescence lures them in. Moon is the slowest of the 3, but it does not matter to him. To hunt, he floats in a comfortable spot, amping up his bioluminescence and fanning out his ribbons to attract prey. If a victim gets within his vicinity, his ribbons will quickly wrap and tangle around them, sending painful stings and intense damage to the prey. While effective, there are times the mer will sit in one spot for days having not attracted any food. He can hunt directly like other mers, but he'd have to rely on his transparency over speed in order to get close enough to catch them, his melded fingers make it even harder to grasp prey directly.

Eclipse: Isn't actually born a deep sea mer but spent most of his life in the depths after finding out how delicious specific creatures are and how much attention his looks get him. His skin and scales are iridescent and he loves to flaunt them when he can. Eclipse tends to be very carefree, though also the most gentle when interacting with other mers. He is inclined to view anyone as a potential friend or more due to being omnivorous, though no many has caught his full, dedicated attention. He's not territorial, not competitive, and doesn't care where he goes as he can eat just about anything. Hunting wise he is the most tactical, using his colors and thick ribbons to lure and confuse prey. He isn't the fastest nor the slowest, but his long hands increase his likelihood of catching prey he otherwise would have been a little too slow to grasp.

Yeah i.... I ended up having a lot of fun coming up with these guys

Especially moon, those of you who know KNOW, but man... my moon bias is so strong.

I even have this cute expression idea where he can control how his cap looks and uses it for his own protection. When sometimes when sleeping or defensive, he will tuck in his tail, arms, and sometimes his ribbons within the cap and then, like a string bag, it closes off his entire body from the world. He's in his own cap bubble!!! When embarrassed or trying to physically interact with someone without fear of hurting them, he'll tuck in his ribbons and scrunch his cap around his head. He'll look a bit silly, and you can't touch his face, but you can hug him safely and play with the soft round cap that now encases his head. (His tail/neck ribbons have no stinging abilities, they're just glowy for lure purposes!) his coloration is mostly inspired by the Man-O-War but his species is more fantasy then based off only that like the other two are with their respective fish, so that's why I just call him simply a Jellyfish for now :3

Sorry about that... I still love all 3 of these goobas and have ideas for them though! Maybe one day I'll get a fic going for them, not saying anytime soon because I have TOO MANY to work on rn, but just know they are swimming in my head.

So many ideas, so little time......

Once again THANK YOU ALL!!! It is so lovely to see y'all here despite my whacky upload schedules. I always tell myself I should make more simple things sometimes just so I can get the ideas out faster, but then my hands always do something else smh. Hope you all find this art and my future works quite delectable! <333

[ovenproofowl]

I loved the conversation ms cobel had with mark s this episode. call it scientific fascination, infatuation or obsession, but by placing herself directly into both marks' lives, she was the only impartial party shy of the audience itself. she doesn't try to win mark over by selling him fantasies about how he can still have a life afterwards, she's the one who told mark's outie about his innie's relationship with helly, she knows that won't work. instead, she tells him the cold hard facts. that his entire purpose at lumon was to create the very consciousnesses that are keeping gemma trapped in her own perpetual hell. his job has been the direct cause of her suffering, and whether he likes it or not, once his job is over, so is his life. there is no out for him. she isn't appealing to him through his outie's love for his wife, she's appealing to him as a person. a person who is being used, just like she was. a person who will be discarded, just like she would've been if she'd gone with helena that night. she's not waving a secret third option in front of his nose, but making him swallow a cold reality that she's only barely sipped on herself. ulterior motive or no, in that moment she became desperate to save him from making the same decision that kept her trapped beneath lumon's thumb for all those years. she knows what he is, her mind made his. but just like her, he wasn't ready to hear the truth. just like her, he turned his head and ran straight back into lumon's arms.

[fascinationstreetmp3]

there are sooo many problems in armand and daniel's relationship, but this exchange highlights a big one imo: no matter what daniel says, thinks, or tells him, armand rarely believes daniel is telling the truth. armand spent years assuming daniel thought he was lying when he confessed he's never made another vampire, when daniel has believed him the whole time.

armand is told and shown one thing by daniel, but believes another.

he thinks daniel resents him for turning him into a killer, when daniel gets a rush from killing. even if he has trouble disposing of bodies afterwards, he enjoys the act of taking human life, and he wants to stay with armand and keep doing it forever.

armand thinks daniel has never understood or wanted to understand what being a vampire really means, when that's all daniel has ever wanted; he falls in love with the monstrous part of armand, it gives him a thrill to imagine what he does to sate his hunger, he loves knowing that he's killed someone recently, and he asks armand if he can watch him hunt— which armand refuses.

it's why i think when armand says sybelle is the first mortal to ever tell him "i love you", it might not entirely be true...

... or at least, even if he's never said it aloud, daniel must've thought "i love you" over and over during their years together. except armand never believed daniel really loved him, he only loved his blood and his power and wanted it for himself. maybe he believed daniel simply thought he loved him, because he had nothing else. maybe daniel only ever really told him he loved him when he was given the blood, and that confirmed what armand believed. whatever it was, any love that daniel felt was not real in armand's eyes, especially as it began to be eclipsed by a form of hatred, which was partly borne from daniel's frustration at being treated like nothing but a toy and doubting that he meant anything to armand at all.

armand felt he was never truly honest with daniel and his love was possessive and complicated, so he couldn't understand that daniel's obsession with immortality had long ago evolved into wanting immortality specifically by armand's side.

daniel wanted to live forever with armand because he really truly did love him, to the point that it ruined him. but armand could never believe it. and riddled with guilt after turning him, he believed there was no chance daniel would ever really love him now.

[cheriecoke]

x reader haters are so silly like. maybe YOU can’t write a good story with a good plot and good characterization in second person pov, but i can <3

[thefastestclockintheuniverse]

This might be the angriest we've seen Karkat yet and that's fucking saying something. Karkat is up there with Tavros in being one of the least inherently violent of the trolls and he's this close to threatening to kill Gamzee.

[eviebofficial]

Wayhaven post. Sorry but I'm still obsessed with the seating arrangements when everyone gets in the car. A in the driver's seat swinging the vehicle around like a maniac on the way to a mission. Detective in the passenger seat with their life flashing before their eyes. M and F squashed together in the back shoving each other like squabbling children. N right next to them slightly motion sick but trying to enjoy the quality time

[bottombaron]

you think that if Guillermo said "vampire" to the human or vampire question, Nandor would have been like 😃 ok. *kills Derek and pounces on Guillermo to turn him properly*

because honestly, i think that was the plan if he did.

[cherrydoodle]

Kokichi Ouma, Ultimate Gamer

It's easy to pretend this is all a meaningless game. He's the Ultimate Gamer, after all! Negative emotions are just status effects. Conversations are just dialogue trees. Motives are just quests. Yes, it's all just game mechanics he can master. He doesn't have to get attached. All he has to do is beat the game, just like he's done countless times before.

(That's what he tells himself, anyway. It's what he has to believe, to save them all. He can be the final boss for them, if that's what it takes. He has his own objectives—and he'll beat the true final boss, even if it means GAME OVER.)

[cent-scratchnsniff]

i wish to be your shadow , forever behind you , even if i am not good enough

plus some extra. they are quite literally metal boxes. i wonder how large they are in actually. im assuming human size? i also never realized just how complicated hokma's was.. i think its all the gears

[lambmotifz]

if sam and dean canonically had sex in s4 dean would’ve tried to “fix” sam by nonconning him because s4 sam became more uncontrollable (which is metaphorically painted as a result of his addiction) and dean doesn’t like it. he wants his baby brother, the version of him he craves and misses so desperately, and he will literally do anything to bring him back even if it means hurting sam

[taraxippos]

I get that most written porn is supposed to be stupid fantasies where the sex is always Awesome but like the way vaginismus or dryness (both of which can be a thing WHILE extremely turned on) never seems to crop up is astounding to me. Like it's relatively common but barely ever discussed (this is just me being in trans circles but I honestly Only see dryness being mentioned in the context of vaginal atrophy from HRT and like. It is a thing that people with vaginas can experience chronically with or without hormonal changes).

And like yeah wrt prev post it really weirds me out that a lot of people even in like trans + feminist circles still have a disproportionate focus on vaginas as a site for penetration and don't even seem to Really entertain the notion that a lot of people are physically incapable of it, are capable but require lubricant (instead of being the perfect Perma-Wet Hole fantasy), or don't want it in general. Also goes 100% hand in hand with treating a penis as An Instrument For Penetration Only (often with connotations of domination or violence projected on this act as well) and similarly not entertaining that people might not be capable, might have difficulties, or just Do Not Want To.

Like fantasies or not I don't think you're going to have a healthy relationship with sex if the main thing driving you is imagining the human body as universally ready for and desiring of penetrative sex (whether it's you as a receiver or your partner). Not even going into how these attitudes are used in bigoted capacities lol.

[chebyshevptera]

silly little hc that one of the drawbacks of shatterspin is that although it makes the user’s elemental abilities stronger, the first time using it fucks up the immune system . it’s kinda (?) like doing a workout for the first time and having severe aches for a bit . continuing to do the routine helps you adjust , but if u don’t , ur just achey …

so when jay rejoins the ninja , he is sick every other week . constantly suffering from allergies . he stays out in the rain for barely five minutes and wakes up with a fever of 38 c . he didn’t used to have a great immune system to begin with but now it’s horrible , and what’s worse is he doesn’t even tell anyone when he’s sick . so they only find out when he collapses in the courtyard or sneezes in someone’s face

his immune system was supposed to improve with continued use and adjustment to shatterspin , but alas … he left the wolf cult . and now he gets sniffles and hazy fevers that make him act embarrassingly clingy with his friends

on the bright side , zane is eager to make him soup and he gets control over the tv .

[carlyraejepsans]

Do you enjoy underfell? I thought you disliked aus /genq

i don't dislike the concept of AUs itself, I'm just not a fan of like... the subculture that spawned around them in the UT fandom specifically and how it eventually took over almost all canon content (especially when it limits itself to the bros)

i like aus visually! i am an artist at heart after all. it's just that, if I'm going to care about them as stories and not just fun design ideas, my bar is uhh almost impossibly high the further you move from canon lolol.

[uncanny-tranny]

Weight gain as a form of recovery, I LOVE YOUUUU ✨️💐🙇‍♂️