#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)

[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

[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.

[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

[what-the-fic-khr]

happy birthday to me today 🎉🎉

[sinful-karateka]

sometimes i'd do the Very Normal Thing of recalling and cross-referencing certain events that happened in Boys of Stupidly Optimistic Grandeur, and each time i attempt to be normal about the story, i fail so badly every time. hitched breath and cold sweats type beat.

with the way canon events have framed Demetri to be the one who pursues MIT and Eli floating someplace (hopefully) near Boston, it seems like the logical approach to let them keep in touch. like that should be it, right? (at this point in writing, Part 3 hasn't been released; i don't know what the writers' plans are.) a few ways before that though, MIT already made sense for the both of them, but having to separate two best friends who've gone so much physical and emotional turmoil had always been the sands i vehemently wanted to sculpt and play with, in any piece of media that depicted tight friendship-relationship. it's firing the clay pot in the kiln. the trench talk before battlefields get busy and one books in the middle of it before they disappear, and you're not too sure if both of you come out alive after that. separation and longing for the next time, should there even be one. and nobody's dying -- it's just the burying of old memories, allegiances, and investments down the six-foot hole. it's why i love BoSOG and by extension its sequel, even if i have virtually no idea if it's most of the fandom's cup of tea.

to everyone who's read and is reading it so far though, thank you very much from the bottom of my corn heart. 🥺

[subqmale]

has anyone in the forcemasc community coined the term "hypbro" as like an ftm version of sissy hypno? cause if not i'd like to coin it myself

[torra-and-the-toons]

Hm, it would seem there's some new faces in my banner/pinned post image... 🤔

[exhabigou]

lol people who keep saying that sims 3 sims are ugly ok come on show me how big your cc folder is

[mercuryislove]

if I could draw people even a little bit better my ass would be putting ciaran in this stupid outfit in soooo many Situations

[evantualmao]

damon (repackaged, four times!!!!)

[five-and-dimes]

fic ask #27, any extra lore for Mountain Sound?

I will share two things that I'm planning on drawing eventually lol.

Hob has A Type. Eleanore was a very Morticia Adams type vampire figure, and then he meets Dream and is like "...ah. I'm learning about myself."

Hob can also do the vampire thing of turning into a swarm of bats, but he only ever does it to (lovingly) torment Dream. He basically uses his bat swarm as a tickle attack :3

✍️ even more fic writer asks!