#oh shiny

[headhold]

currently on a noble quest for knowledge to determine if 9/11 happened in any of our fictives' sources. will update with results

[rachelillustrates]

Time for another "Tock the Gnome" world building post, dear readers!!

🧜‍♀️ AND HAPPY MERMAY!! 🧜‍♂️

This week*, in celebration of the Merfolk, we're looking at a specific kind of empathic magic-user in the realm's ocean civilization.

Full notes here 🐚

*(In fact, though I won't be able to post daily for the event, all of my usual posts this month shall be Merfolk-related. Happy and blessed ocean-fae celebration, everyone!)

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Image description: A pencil drawing with wax pigment embellishments of two Merfolk - one plus size and of indeterminate gender, one thin and feminine-presenting - floating together as the ocean currents flow around them. The thin person's arms are raised, hands on either side of her companion's face, while both of their eyes glow a faint blue, pupil-less. Her expression seems slightly surprised, while theirs looks slightly concerned, their arms bent with hands fidgeting at their middle. The same blue color highlights a band of the ocean current behind them, framing the flowing pose of their bodies.

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Bonus art and stories ~ Prints, comics and more!

[lightthewaybackhome]

Sitting beside me is my currently reading pile. I have two non-fiction WW2 books, a book on mold, on decorating, on herbs, on micro-gardening, and on Einkorn flour. Plus, I have a set of YouTube videos on compost and gardening I want to watch through.

I think my research-side has a bit of ADHD.

[soracities]

absolutely enraptured rn

[lumenniveus]

Babe, wake up we're going on a trip to underwater Lalaland

When i tell you this Bioshock Art Deco Set is massive-

[rari0516]

Pearlypop! 🌙

[egophiliac]

finally got some time to finish these guys up! which is sort of ironic considering I started these because I wanted to draw Malleus with a Dragapult, and then I just didn't for a million years!

Malleus has the aforementioned Dragapult, except it's a super special non-canon color Dragapult (like an anime-only form that you could get in-game exclusively through some limited-time event where you have to show up in-person at a specific location in Japan) (it has some wacky overpowered exclusive move/form and the OT is listed as Malleus) (so like that kind of ridiculous specialness) (Leona is extremely salty about this). also hoards and hoards of Dreepy. Dreepy LOVE Malleus. they take naps on his horns inbetween begging him to throw them across the island at mach speeds.

Lilia has a Drampa and a bunch of Woobat that he hasn't actually caught, they just follow him around in swarms because they sense a kinship with him. (also breaking my own rule again to say that he had a Mawile in the past, because...I just really wanted to give him a Mawile...)

Sebek has Sandile for obvious reasons, and also a Pikachu that bullies him relentlessly. :(

Silver has a shiny Corvisquire; I really went back-and-forth on also giving him an Aegislash, but...hm. those pokedex entries though. he can stick with just one for now.

(I hadn't planned on the shiny for him, but after I'd decided on the Corvisquire line and was looking it up for reference, I realized that shiny Rookidee is gold and then turns silver when it evolves and I lost my entire goddamn mind)

[zelkams-art]

you need not suffer anymore

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

i vote that next year instead of reading Dracula we do a Jeeves & Wooster Book Club. those two never got the rabid tumblr shipping fandom they deserved (disqualified for the sheer technicality of being published a century too soon). we must correct this injustice

[bardspeak]

Here's the comic I made for War Never Changes, a Fallout charity zine that's still available to puchase digitally here: link.

The captions are lyrics from Autopsy Garland by the Mountain Goats. I've been dreaming of making this for literal Years, and the mods for the zine let me do it for them! I'm still pretty proud of it, and only regret that I completely forgot to replace Col. Hsu with General Lee Oliver in the final. Sorry man.

[unreal]

what if my Duel Monsters AU was actually a dating sim 🤔

[headhold]

speaking of new people. got into pressure recently and wouldnt you know it theres been a fish hanging around for the past couple days

[atompalace-official]

Shiny Sylveon in the TCGP style 🌈🩵✨

[turtleblogatlast]

One of my favorite headcanons is that Leo grew up watching telenovelas with Splinter.

It just works so well - his bits of Spanish that he spouts randomly, his showy way of apologizing, and, of course, his love for dramatic betrayals all point to this being a very real possibility.

Plus, it’s very cute to imagine a tiny Leo at his father’s side as they both gasp in shock when the show’s eighth plot twist in just as many episodes happens.

[soracities]

—Maria Michela Sassi, "Can we hope to understand how the Greeks saw their world?" (pub. Aeon) [ID in ALT]

[yesloulou]

Charles' Monaco '24 Vlog ❤️🤍