#ok tagging time UGH

[delatoid]

Villager practice

[chasiufan]

sooo… what are we??🥺

[jetkast]

Sometimes I think about how Jin Ling goes by that instead of Jin Rulan and I just vividly picture his young mistress persona going like "yeah my not uncle was an unaware pining cut sleeve and my mom kind of just enabled it so... juijui and I just try to pretend it didn't happen -- it's cringe af" and I die a little in both grief and hilarity

[randomminty]

This post goes out to the ilima and mina switched types theory believers

[comrade-slugcat]

yes scourge puts the nail polish on his hooves too

Edit wait i forgot to mention designs are by @chrometheraptor

[spinostarz]

THE WELL AND THE LIGHTHOUSE PMV/ANIMATIC

very very jean valjean centric because i love him and he deserves the world <3 im not sure if pmv or animatic would apply better to this, but either way, i hope you enjoy it!

[1driedpersimmon]

Som //Suggestive Sid/Sesame heheee :3c

[unriding]

hi evie !! how have you been ? :33 i hope you dont mind me borrowing you and moze for something ehehe <3

[wrylu]

FUCK!!! it's finally done. after a whole day

COD CHARACTERS, but they're B U G S

cw insects!! if you get hibbie jibbies from buggo art or just bugs in general, u can scroll💗

and for those who wanna see the art, it looks better if you click on it and zoom in on it or something :)

the worms in my brain bothered me last night to draw cod characters but they're bugs and this morning i started IMMEDIATELY

at the cost of my fingers, wrists, and hands 🕊

the amount of tags on this one.

[forgetful-river]

Volleyball!!! Summer!!

[gobstoppr]

hey guys am i allowed to say on main that i dont like metadad . am i gonna get beaten up for saying this.

guys i think we all took the term found family too literally and now everythings flattened into a boring nuclear family. guys can we stop. hello . is anybody there

[reapkusho]

if they dont show us what happened to sae in spain i will actually explode

[leonsfavgun]

[tacroyy]

i am still and will forever be in absolute pieces about the difference between the first line in the first* manuscript draft of charmed life and the first line in the published editions. LOOK at this:

first line of charmed life, from the first manuscript draft:

Cat ^Chant did not like his sister Gwendolen particularly.

first line of charmed life in all published editions:

Cat Chant admired his elder sister Gwendolen.

i mean!!! its so simple and so obvious but so essential. in the published book, cat never states outright that he dislikes gwendolen, and that is SUCH a clue for the reader, because gwendolen is the worst, and so you are sitting there going: am i missing something?? why does cat not absolutely loathe his awful sister?? but if you are writing this story from scratch, you have to get the obvious out there from the get go: cat doesnt like his sister, and why? because nobody likes his sister. nobody likes gwendolen. because she's the worst.

now, you can't keep that line in revisions, obviously. you have to say something else, because the whole point is that cat doesn't know how awful gwendolen is. but it's a really good concept for an opening line, because you have to set up their dynamic first thing. so what can you say that cat feels about gwendolen? well, he... he doesn't like her. but she is all that he has, and in his eyes, she's competent and, well, admirable. plus you want to add their birth order, so you add elder. and you remove those little hedge words, "did not like," "particularly": those are such weak words to use in the first line. but, that hedging weakness is very accurate to gwendolen-influenced cat, so she's got that element of his character down immediately. and cat wouldn't say "hate" or "dislike" after all, and would add "particularly" to soften the blow. so while it's accurate characterization, it's just not a very good first line. so to be clear, that first draft line isn't a failure at all. it still serves to frame cat's character, even if it states the unstated, and it gets the novel's most important dynamic front and center.

*: first available. there were no earlier ms drafts in the archive, this is the only handwritten draft, and it seemed like a first draft literarily. if there's been research stating otherwise since 2015, which is when i last did a formal check-in on dwj chrestomanci scholarship, lmk.

^: a ^ in my notes always referred to text added later. so, dwj added "Chant" in after she wrote out the sentence. i might have a picture of this? i need to check my manuscript copies. anyway, it's so true that cat chant sounds better in a first line than just cat. plus, if you have "Cat" as a name as the very first word of a sentence, that C is definitely going to be capitalized, so adding his last name makes it clear that this is a person's name. plus plus, chant is, of course, a surname of all time, and thus perfect to introduce Immediately.

[beyondplusultra]

me: *sees cool art* oh cool let me reblog th—

the art's caption: ooough sorry my art is so shitty

me:

BE PROUD OF YOUR WORK BE PROUD OF YOUR WORK BE PROUD OF

[goblin-enjoyer]

Brain I know you want to integrate homestuck lingo/terms/quotes etc into my vocabulary and I will eventually come to terms with the fact that trying to stop this is like trying to stop a fish from swimming, but if you are going to be doing this can you at least remember other stuff Terezi has said instead of just going “H3Y COOL K1D!” in a Terezi voice and just stopping from there? Like it’s awkward for both me not knowing where to go from here and for anyone around me not knowing where the bits going. Please just learn more dialogue so we’re not stuck saying the same thing over and over.