#not to toot my own horn lol

[herobrilne]

samcathy eepersss

another cduddle one as a pair to the chrisdanny cuddle i drew last year (that i kinda wanna redraw now that im looking at it LOL)

[duchess-doodles]

You were my new dream / and you were mine

(Click for better quality)

[gale-force-storm]

Actually, was thinking about that ficlet I posted and I wanna talk more about Gale as Icarus. Because the Icarus myth isn't just about hubris, it's about moderation. Yes, flying too close to the sun melts his wings. But he's also warned against flying too low, lest his wings get wet with the sea spray and weigh him down. He cannot fly too high nor too low, be too complacent nor too ambitious, but rather must take the middle route.

Yes, Gale is ambitious and in reaching to be closer to the gods - to Mystra - he found himself burned. And if he keeps reaching he may actually achieve godhood, may reach that shining sun, but he loses his humanity and those close to him in the process.

And yet there's the other side. The fear, the guilt, the lack of self-worth, the reluctance to challenge what he's always believed in, weighing him down into the sea of hopelessness, pushing him towards self-sacrifice. Like Icarus, people may talk more of the dangers of him reaching too high, but the lows, too, are equally perilous.

Gale's arc is not simply one of tempering his hubris and ambition, of not flying too close to the sun, but also of not flying so low that he loses himself to despair. It's about holding onto hope, without believing that the only way to escape the darkness threatening to swallow him is to fly so high that he loses himself anyway. It's the middle path that eventually leads him to freedom.

My sweet Icarus, indeed

[spatort]

Who does it like us

[skullfragments]

I had the absolute pleasure of illustrating a scene from @heretic1103's GO/Jurassic Park fusion fic Love, Uh, Finds a Way as requested though the @ourownsidefund charity commissions!! (which are still open btw)

as a Jurassic Park enthusiast i LOVED reading heretic's spin on the story and the inclusion of some of the most iconic (and my personal favorite) scenes!!! this, of course, includes the Jeff Goldblum Pose, which is modeled by none other than Dr. Anthony Crowley, chaotician😏

definitely go check out the fic if you haven't already!! especially so you can experience this scene through Aziraphale's perspective🤭this work is featured in chapter 8! :D

[dapper-lil-arts]

Some peeps asked what were my designs for Anthros of MLP, so i decided to sketch some stuff for the mane 6! and also sunset shimmer because i like sunset shimmer. ✌️ (i've been sketching a lotta stuff like this inbetween arts lmao. all on patreon!)

Bonus unrelated sketch comic about AJ and Rarity getting together for the first time lmao

[musicalmoritz]

I was skimming through my old Soukoku fics and LMAO Chuuya chill out

[sailermoon]

how I feel looking at my playlist song choices

[fortuneforsaken-if]

had an idea for a downtime scene where you get to introduce a particular old god to modern foods and it's been a great dive into some of the other ros that aren't as popular as mal, yet.

based on this, here's summaries just because i find them fun.

rami is the only one who actually enjoys cooking so it'd be a feast of recipes he's tried to piece together from the archeological finds, from the age you come from.

rory would boil noodles and that's already giving too much credit. she almost burned the dorm down one time, boiling water.

taz, while a good cook, is a menace and would offer a stale slice of pizza and call it a day, just to mess with the esteemed dinner guests.

[spittyfishy]

Question for remnant Miu, who would you rather save?

Junko

Or

The Monokubs

She’s conflicted, but don’t tell the others

[armin051]

“I’m okay,” he promises, words pressed with love into her skin. “Just a goblin who got a lucky shot. Long gone.”

Tauriel clutches at him as they fall naturally into a fabr’nâblami’el, their breathes matching. “It could have been so much worse.”

“It could have,” he agrees, admiring the way the light reflects in her eyes. “But it wasn’t. We’re here.”

“We’re here,” she repeats, softly.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/57183241 - Call Me A Casualty by Armin_05

[heartsoji]

MY FAV THINGS I'VE WRITTEN

meeting and falling in love with sugawara koshi

falling in love with kozume kenma

"truth or dare?" (kozume kenma)

iwaizumi hajime, oikawa tooru, tsukishima kei, and bokuto kotaro with an s/o who's really scared of horror movies (separate)

cold temperatures with akaashi keiji

suna rintaro, bokuto kotaro, and sakusa kiyoomi comforting you after you get a bit insecure about your relationship

clingy suna rintaro making a post about you on twitter

falling asleep on suna rintaro's lap

watching horror movies with suna rintaro

falling in love with your roommate, suna rintaro

miya osamu with an affectionate s/o who loves physical touch but's shy when talking about it

"misinterpret" (akaashi keiji)

[infelious]

Im glad so many people like my last sora pic so have mashiro too

[soviet-siscon]

Thank you for being so open about the reality of what it's like for ppl like us. Beyond the fucking fauxcest rp hornyposts and jokes and memes. Seriously from another tgirl with. Well. Kinda pretty similar identical real life feelings and issues and shit as you, it means a lot.

🩷🩷🩷🩷 thank you

genuinely i would put up with a thousand years of this shit and a thousand more of annoying hornyposts if it meant that even one person felt seen and understood finally.

I don't mind that most people aren't like me, but every time i meet someone who is it feels like the world is a tiny bit bigger. hell I'm even glad that more ppl can express their kinks and stuff! but it's funny being in this tiny little pocket of a relatively little pocket and being able to talk about real life and feelings and everything.

I'm glad i can very occasionally help people, even if it's just by yapping about my life all the time

[what-the-fic-khr]

happy birthday to me today 🎉🎉

[athenasdragon]

I really like reading Naomi Novik and I always feel like I can get perfectly in the flow of her writing. Not just because my own writing brain was heavily influenced by reading her, but because I feel like we've both been steeping in the Fandom Tea in a way that informs how you think about character and setting and narrative. I feel like I can see "behind the scenes" with her writing in a way that makes it feel more artful, not less.

Anyway, a couple reflections from Buried Deep and Other Stories so far:

I know NN is familiar with Dragon Age so I started thinking about the Scholomance setting in terms of the mage circles and several things clicked into place in my brain in a way that made that series much more compelling to me

The way I YELLED when fern flower was the macguffin for one of the short stories when one of my most popular Uprooted fics centers around the fern flower. Delightful. Many, many, MANY hours of research into slavic folklore immediately validated.