#one less wip yay

[inastarlesssky]

One more chapter to go and then this fic is done! So exciting.

It's for a fest, so I can't post it until they're revealed but oh I'm so happy to share it soon. I'm so very happy with it and I had a wonderful beta to help me make sense of it.

Though I'm laughing a bit because one of the discord servers I'm in, someone was asking for a fic with basically the exact premise I'm writing. Only...bc it's a secret, I couldn't tell them "Hey I'm writing that!"

[yesloulou]

monaco 21

[thegeekyartist]

I wrote so much today (!!)

[userbuddie]

sentences sunday!

no one's tagged me yet so i'm gonna start it and tag some friends!! @saryasy @hotshotsxyz @henswilsons @roy-kents @thatbuddie @team-118

from cupid wip! it's at almost 10k yay going so well!!

He’s desperate for things to change. For a life that’s real and good. Honest. One where he isn’t hiding, where he doesn’t have to leave every five years. 

Once, he tried to stay. 

People tortured him. Figured out who he was, what he could do. Tried to steal his arrows, his darts, his magic. The energy that thrums through him, courses through his veins, makes his arrows and darts do what they do. 

Buck doesn’t stick around anymore. 

It’s painful. Adds to that sinking pit that grows and carves deep, deep, deep into him. He hates leaving. Buck’s a clinger. Buck was meant to stick around in LA forever. Work at the 118 until he’s too old and they have to tear him away from a fire red engine. 

That’s not possible, though. He’s got three more years here, maybe four if he can swing it before he has to leave. 

And he’s never wanted to leave less. 

There have been cities that were easy to leave behind. Some were harder, some had people he grew to love. 

Still, none of them — none of them — were Los Angeles. 

None of them had Eddie.

mind you buck thinks he's incapable of falling in love meanwhile he's already halfway in love with eddie lol i'm having so much fun with this wip u guys have no idea

[magpiefngrl]

halfway through 2024 book review

June isn't over yet but I'm looking at a couple of very busy weeks so it's unlikely I'll read a gazillion new books or something by end of month. So we do this now!

books I enjoyed so far

Aliette de Bodard's Dominion of the Fallen series, set in a post-apocalyptic Paris with fallen angels and magic and dragons in the Seine. I didn't quite love the three main novels, but I enjoyed how unique the world-building was. However, I REALLY loved the last two novellas about Asmodeus and his husband Thuan, who are a delicious pairing. The novellas are: Of Charms, Ghosts and Grievances and Of Dragons, Feasts and Murders.

Pacat's Dark Heir, which I enjoyed so much that I went back to reread Dark Rise and then again, Dark Heir. I liked the second novel a lot more than the first (and I actually ended up appreciating the first novel more on my reread). Needless to say, I am very, very impatient about the end of the series.

A Nobleman's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel. KJC has done it again. The sequel to her Doomsday Books series is fantastic, with a vivid cast, an excellent main pairing, and superb pacing. Couldn't put it down. A great historical m/m romance.

The Warrior's Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold. I'd heard a lot about Miles and it was fun seeing him bullshit his way across the galaxy.

The Mountains of Mourning by Lois McMaster Bujold. A novella in the Vorkosigan saga. Very touching and emotional and a great character study of Miles. Really loved this.

Newcomer by Keigo Higashino. This dude is seriously amazing at crafting unusual murder mysteries. This one is structured as vignettes of shop-owners in a Tokyo neighbourhood and, as the stories progress, more light is shed on the mystery of a strangled woman.

Faithful Place and The Secret Place by Tana French. Fantastic prose, absorbing murder mysteries that are more like deep character studies as well as an incisive portrait of contemporary Ireland.

The Lady of the Lake by Andrzej Sapkowski. This is pretty grim at times, ngl, but it has a daring structure with lots of POVs, switching between numerous timelines, a frame device, lots of found materials (essays and chapters from fictional books). All that worked for me very well. I love some experimentation with craft. I wouldn't say it was my fave read, but I'm happy that I finally reached the end; completing a series always gives me a dopamine rush so yay

progress on my reading goals

A reminder that my two goals for the year are:

to read (some or all of) the Vorkosigan saga

to read less or no US authors

I'm doing pretty well on those two scores. Read a few installments of the Vorkosigan saga, and (besides Bujold and a poetry anthology by Maggie Smith) have read no other US-based authors. My intention was to diversify my reading and, indeed, so far, I've read French, Japanese, Polish, UK, Australian, Irish, and currently reading a Ukrainian author.

fics I loved

I've not read as many books as I normally do so far, esp in the last couple of months, but I read a lot more fic than recent years. I've read some fab stuff in a variety of fandoms. The fics I'm going to rec below are the longer ones that I read on my ereader:

Tarnished Gold by Prim_the_Amazing (bingqiu/svsss, M, 118k) Inventive premise. Couldn't put it down.

Memory (T, 23k) and Out of the Dead Land (M, 62k), both stucky, both orphaned by one of my top authors ever. The second one gave me the worst fic hangover I had in ages. I had to go and rewatch Captain America.

contrapasso by damagecontrol (jegulus, E, 41k) Very horny. I like that.

Fire Burn and Caldron Bubble by pastapug (jegulus, E, 40k) Lush language, fascinating setting.

Beholden by Faith Wood (faithwood) (drarry, E, 123k) Gave me all the drarry feels.

Shout out to @hoko-onchi-writes's WIP: To Hold You in the Earth's Unholy Din, which I am loving <3

That's all, folks. Here's hoping for more wonderful reads till December!

[pimento-playing-hopscotch]

WIP Wednesday

Thank you for the tag, @honeybee-taskforce @tellmegoodbye 💝

This is from the next chapter of my TK and Sophie fic- less angst than the previous chapters have been...

2011 -

"TK, they want every one of you to be seniors in the fall," his dad said. "What have I been telling you for the past couple weeks?”

TK had an idea of what his dad was fishing for, but another answer came to him. “That ‘Life During Wartime’ is too wordy to be a good karaoke song?”

“No”. His dad replied. “I mean, yes. It is. Talking Heads have better karaoke songs in their oeuvre. ‘And She Was’ is a good one, ‘Burning Down the House’, ‘Once in a Lifetime’—”

“Dad, you can’t pull off ‘Once in a Lifetime’”. TK interjected.

“Excuse you, I could so,” Owen chuckled. “No, what I trying to get at was, what we’ve been talking about since it happened. Or almost happened. You are an incredible kid, TK. You can do this. And I’ll be excited to pick you up on Wednesday and hear about it”. TK turned when his sister poked his side. “Please be in a good mood on Wednesday when he picks you up,” she whispered. “Remember what he said about dinner Wednesday night?” "What's your sister saying?" Owen asked.

“What you said last week,” TK relayed. “That we could have waffles for dinner Wednesday night maybe”.

“Do not kill my dream, TK,” Sophie said. “Soph, there’s no way he’s letting us do that,” TK told her.

“Still right here, bud,” Owen reminded him. “There will be other healthy stuff too, but I don’t see why you can’t”.

“Yay!” Sophie said. “Thank you, Daddy,” she said into the phone as Gwyn came back into the living room.

No pressure tagging - I tag @nancys-braids @anewkindofme @carlos-in-glasses @heartstringsduet

@thisbuildinghasfeelings @chaotictarlos @lemonlyman-dotcom

@chicgeekgirl89 @cold-blooded-jelly-doughnut @literateowl

@welcometololaland @carlos-tk @captain-gillian @bonheur-cafe

@liminalmemories21 @paperstorm @reyestrandd @firstprince-history-huh

@actualalligator @meditating-honey-badger @littlemissscatterbrained

@goodways @terramous @snowviolettwhite @fallout-mars

@thebumblecee @vineofroses @theghostofashton @alrightbuckaroo

@eclectic-sassycoweyes @herefortarlos @kiankiwi @lightningboltreader

@ladytessa74 @freneticfloetry @jesuisici33 @doublel27

@basilsunrise @mikibwrites @rmd-writes @safeaswrites

@celeritas2997 @birdclowns @sugdenlovesdingle @mooshkat and anyone else who wants to do it - open tag 🫶

[wildwren]

wip wednesday

yay to @brynnmclean for keeping WIP WEDNESDAY going!!!! im very happy to report i have been continuing work on my saurondriel wip - here's one of my favorite scenelets, anyway these two are going to kiiiiiiillll me <3

“You are less of a man than you pretend to be,” Galadriel says.  “You mean I am a monster.”  What else could you be? Galadriel bites her own cheek to keep back the words, but perhaps he can hear them, anyway.  They are rooted near opposite ends of the ship, several yards apart. Neither makes a move to broach the distance.  “I won’t let you leave,” he calls, with an attempt at ease.  “So I’m your prisoner?”  He laughs. “Which one of us is sentenced to live in a cell?”  Emotion is bubbling up into Galadriel’s throat. “And what have you taken from me?” she cries. “What loss will I be forced to bear when I return – years of my life, sacrificed to your desire?”  “I saved your life!” he says, and the sound rattles the very boards of the ship. “Maybe you’ve stolen the years out of me.”  “Maybe I have!” she screams, too proud to deny it.  The heavy gray clouds that gather above the ship are starting to disperse, half-pierced by lances of golden sunlight. Galadriel watches a wave crest and dissipate, white peaks spiraling into nothingness. The water looks somehow lighter – more blue, less gray.  The emotion in her throat finally releases, all that unspent desire, all that hopeless longing exorcising itself like a putrid wound. It comes out in a burst of laughter, high-pitched and manic. Laughter at the farce of this place, this ship – this man who is a monster who is her lover. Her dearest ally. Her oldest foe. 

@mirdaniaa i demand a brimby scene on my desk stat (jk jk i mean,,,,, only if you want) also @aadmelioraa EÄRIEN SNIPPET WHEN??

[lavenderarts]

Revamp: Monthly Subs and Reward Art!

Hi everyone! After a long hiatus on this due to inconsistent health, I'm back and feeling better than ever, and I'd like to re-institute my monthly subscription service for art rewards. These will be active on my Ko-fi starting on August 1st! Read on to hear about the changes from my old system and details of what you'll get for subscribing, but if you don't care about any of that and just want to see the rewards page, here it is:

Please share this and consider tossing a couple bucks a month my way to help me support myself and my dog! Details below the cut!

So last time I was offering art rewards, it gradually became unsustainable for a number of reasons, chief among them the fact that I was basically offering severely discounted full commissions of all styles, and it was exhausting to fulfill in addition to regular commission work. I just couldn't keep up and got overwhelmed. So to help prevent that this time around, here are the changes I'm implementing:

I'll have a single reward type: single character busts! These are easy to crank out in an hour or less, so I can keep up with demand better. I'll reserve the right to decide between lined/lineless flats and papercrafts as I see fit to keep them interesting and fun for me, but if it's your birthday month or your yearly sub anniversary, you can choose the style and get a little something extra! For examples of what a bust looks like, please check out my recent ArtFight submissions :)

I'm going to do my level best to institute a hard 3-week turnaround rate for all regular commissions, and save the final week of each month for giving these rewards full priority along with onboarding new batches of clients for the following month's commissions.

I'm moving my subscription service over to Ko-fi, where anyone can give between $2-9 a month as a very generous tip and get access to my Discord server, or give $10+ for monthly bust rewards, early access to adoptables, and more! You can choose to give more than $10, but no other rewards exist for higher tier subs, it's up to whatever you feel is appropriate! Ko-fi has both Stripe and PayPal integration, which should be easier on the subscriber end, and it allows me to use PostyBirb to post across multiple sites at once, which makes it much easier to post early-access WIPs and finished work than it was on my old subscription service. It also automatically handles Discord onboarding and role assignment, yay!

I'm on the hunt for a simple Discord bot that can post a single repeating message on the first of every month with a link to a Google form for everyone to submit their requests, so that I don't have to ask for them manually. (If anyone knows of such a bot or is capable of making one, please get in touch!)

Previously I offered a whole suite of other rewards in addition to the monthly art -- things like subscriber-only request streams, early claims on adoptables, and even physical merch, which were not sustainable for me. Going forward, early adoptable claims for a discount will still be available as a reward, and I may occasionally do request streams, but on a less formally-scheduled basis and only as I have the free time to do so. I am not able to offer physical prints/stickers at this time; I might revisit the option in the future, but I need to know more before I try it again! I'll also be continuing to offer a subscriber discount on all commissions that will stack with other sales and discounts, along with the ability to skip the waitlist and jump directly into the work queue.

So to recap, if you subscribe to me, here's everything you get:

For $2-$9 USD: Discord server access with a special role, and my thanks for your generous support!

For $10+ USD: Discord server access with a special role, 24 hour early adoptable access with the ability to claim for a discounted price, a bust of a single character each month, first looks at finished artwork and WIPs/timelapses, commission discounts, and potentially more down the line.

My Discord is open to anyone, and all members can freely chat, post art, attend/host art streams, and answer polls regarding prompts for adoptable designs and more. You just get some nice bonuses for subscribing! While these subscription tiers are available, one-time tips and donations of any amount are still an option for commission clients or anyone else who just wants to show some love.

I hope this all makes sense and sounds enticing; I really love seeing people's OCs and getting to bring them to life and put my own little touch on them, and I'm very excited to start giving something back to all of you out there whose support means so very much to me, and without whom I could never do what I do. Thank you so much for checking out the Ko-fi! As a reminder, reward eligibility begins on August 1st! The tiers are active on Ko-fi now, but if you subscribe before August you won't be rewarded for the month of July, so keep that in mind.

[cerridwen007]

Candy Cane.

Pairing: Frankie Morales x f!reader (afab)

Word count: 1.6 k (18+ MINORS DNI!)

Summary: Frankie can’t help but stare as you suck on that candy cane, very reminiscent of some of your other favourite things to suck on.

Notes/warnings: SMUT, fluff, Frankie being an adorable cheeky menace, oral (f and m receiving), fingering, inappropriate use of a candy cane, swearing, no y/n, probs bad spanish. ( Let me know anything else if I missed it)

A/N: Yall, it's been way too long since I last posted, and for that, I'm very sorry. Work has been exhausting me, and I've just lacked motivation to do much writing. So take this early, smutty Christmas fic as my apology. Honestly, I don't know how good it is/how well editied it is as I wrote it in less than 24 hours as the idea just came to me as I was sitting down eating a candy cane, much like reader. Wink wink. Also, this is my first Frankie fic I've posted, so yay for that. I've got a few wips in progress for this cutie, so be ready for that. Likes, comments, and reposts are always appreciated. I'll post this to my A03 soon, which is linked in my bio, if you prefer reading on that platform. Hope yall enjoy.❤️🫶

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Frankie couldn't help but let his jaw drop in awe of you unconsciously sucking on a candy cane very reminiscent of how you sucked his dick merely a few days ago. How you always sucked his dick so good, leaving him a pathetic whining mess. His dick was throbbing as he watched your delicate fingers hold the curved end, twisting it up and into your mouth while your mouth bobbed up and down.  An unbothered look on your face as you read your book, completely unaware of the effect you were having on your boyfriend sitting on the couch on the other side of the room from you.

Frankie can't help but groan a little,  just loud for you to hear as it escapes the back of his throat. You look over to the other side of the room, where he sits on the couch palming his hard length through his jeans; sports playing on the tv long forgotten, as he stares at you with glazed over, dark eyes. Your smile grows wide when you realise just how you had been affecting him with such a mindless innocent action. Your hand holding the candy cane drops, leaving only your teeth to uphold the fruity, striped stick. 

“You alright, sweetheart? You seem a little…distracted there.” You tease him as your eyelids droop to a flirtatious look.

He coughs a little before he answers, stumbling over his words. “Y-yeah, I'm doing real good, baby.”

You hum around the sweet confectionary, very reminiscent of a moan of pleasure, making sure to hollow your cheeks as the tart flavor hits your tongue.

“Wanna taste, baby? You're looking awfully desperate to have something sweet.” You say, holding the confectionary out to him, with your eyebrow raised.

He groans, squeezing his crotch, not managing to get out any words or approval other than an enthusiastic nod. You chuckle to yourself as you slowly get out of your seat and walk over to stand in front of Frankie. You lean down and place your hands on his knees, batting your eyelashes at him. One of your hands reaches up and twists the candy cane so the whole straight part disappears down your throat before it pulls it out again and you hold it out for Frankie to lick. He surprises you as he wraps his big hands around your back and hips and grabs you quickly to straddle his lap. 

“Frankie!” You giggle, taken off guard, leaving your smooth, sexy facade down for a second.

“Sorry, mi vida. Needed to have my sugar fix as close as possible.”

He kisses you with such fervour it takes you a moment to kiss him back, caught off guard as you both moan into the kiss.

You pull back with a smirk and hold out the candy cane again for him to suck. He grins as he takes the sweet treat into his mouth and groans, still tasting you in his mouth from the kiss and on the candy cane.

“Mmmh delicious sweetheart, but nothing will ever taste nearly as good or as sweet as you, mi amor.”

He twists his body again and throws you back onto the couch, causing you to fall into a fit of giggles.

He grins against your skin as kisses down your jaw, creating a path down your neck and collar, down between your breasts through your shirt. He shuffles down the couch, continuing to trace his lips down your body, slowly removing every bit of clothing that gets in the way of his lips tasting your skin. You can feel his hard cock throbbing against you as he slides his way down, matching the throbbing pulse of your clit. 

“Frankie…” you whine as he reaches your hips, pulling down your sweats slowly off your legs, tossing them somewhere on the floor. A devilish grin orderned on his beautiful face as he lowers his head, breathing in the scent of your arousal through your panties before biting the lacy fabric and moving them off you with his teeth. His hands are holding up your legs for better access as follows the curves of your calf. He tosses your panties to the ground and begins to plant soft kisses and bite down your raised legs all the way back down to your dripping heat.

Your face hurts from smiling as you watch Frankie show you his playful love and affection, he grins back at you and cups your face gently with one hand, to which you nuzzle into. He lowers his face back between your thighs and finally takes a firm lick up your folds, making you both moan. He has to reach down and palm himself through his uncomfortably tight jeans yet again  as he sucks your clit and licks into your oozing hole, muttering to himself about how good you taste. He reaches up to grab at your wrist and pin it into the couch before trying to grasp at what you're still holding; the candy cane. He looks up at you with dark eyes when his finger plucks it from your grasp and holds it to your mouth. 

You immediately suck it deep into your mouth before he can even ask. He growls before removing it from your red lips and dragging it down your body. He sucks it back into his mouth before running it back and forth through your folds, catching it deliciously on your clit every time, he watches in awe as your body shakes and squirms, telling of your impending orgasm as it reaches its peak.

“Come for me sweet girl.”

You become a babbling mess of incoherent swears as Frankie works you through your high. He fucks the candy cane into your cunt, following everwhere he traces it with his tongue, moaning at the sweet, delicious taste of you and the candy cane. He brings you to another high quickly after, enjoying another round of your sweet release hitting his tongue. Only stopping when you push his head away, pussy worn and oversensitive.

He kisses your inner thighs and works his way back up your body, licking up the sticky trail the candy cane left earlier, you grab both sides of his face and kiss him deeply, moaning at the taste of yourself on his tongue. You pull away after a few minutes to catch your breath and bite your lip. Pupils blown wide staring at the man that you love so deep with all of your being. You knew you just had to return the favour, especially because the thought of you sucking his cock started this whole thing in the first place. 

After littering his swollen lips and red face with soft kisses, you begin to sit up to change your position, pushing your hands firmly against Frankie's chest to push him back against the back of the couch before sliding down to your knees in front of him. His cock is aching, he whines a little as he watches you undo his belt and zipper, pulling his pants off in one go.

You palm him through his black boxers, the front covered in a pre-cum stain. You look up at his disheveled state through your eyelashes, your eyes blown wide with lust. He swallows harshly as you reach under the band of his underwear and pull out his hefty length. He watches you licking your lips from the last of the sweet residue coating them, your mouth watering from the salty flavor soon to be gracing your tongue.

You lean your head forward and let a big glob of spit drop onto the tip, quickly lubing him up with your hand and small slow strokes. Your lips envelope his furiously swollen tip, tongue twisting around the curves. His hand falls to your jaw, holding it softly, a plea to keep going, don't stop. His head falls, eyes squeezing shut before he forces himself to not miss anymore of the gorgeous sight of you before him on your knees.

Your other hand reaches out, playing with and lightly squeezing his balls. Your other hand tightens its grip around his girth, strokes growing faster. You pull your mouth off him, raising his cock up, so you can dip your head and lick up from the bottom of his length all the way back up to his head and through his slit. You mouth quickly attaches back onto him, sensing he is close by his mumbled praises, and his desperate “fuck”s that has you clenching your thighs together as the throbbing returns.

You turn your head to the side a bit so the tip of him is sticking out prominently through your reddened checks as you bob up and down on the tip. The sight combined with your sinful, moans causes Frankie to suddenly shoot his load into your mouth giving you little warning other than a loudly groaned “Fuck” as the salty cum fills your mouth. You make a show of swallowing till every drop is gone, licking your lips and then opening your mouth wide to show Frankie that you had indeed swallowed all it.

Through his post orgasim bliss, sweaty and heaving, he manages to reach down and give you a messy, sloppy kiss. The taste of both of your pleasures being exchanged between the both of you. You pull away and sigh deeply, letting some much needed air into your lungs, as you rest your head on his naked thigh, looking up at him lovingly. He caresses your check, affectionately. You both open your mouths at the same time to say that “you'll have to buy some more candy canes soon.” Making you both fall into a fit of laughs. It really was going to be a sweet holiday season.

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[trickstarbrave]

WIP whenever

i got tagged by @caliblorn!!! and i actually have wips i can post. YAY

i can't post the full image. female presenting nipples rule and all that. extremely sad ngl. but here u guys can see this rn. a lil sneak peak ive been working on this picture so long but i forgot how to art help

also here is a snippet from the next chapter of moon and star. of nerevar and voryn having an argument. dw everything will be fine in the end but voryn is Pissed.

i taggggggg @thescrolls-haveforetold @wellthebardsdead and. anyone else who wants to do it. idk who else to tag 🧍

“Voryn?” Nerevar looked up from his papers seeing Voryn approaching, before his brows creased seeing how enraged he was. “Is something wrong--”

“You were the one who went into Ebonheart for that fucking hunk of wood?” Nerevar winced slightly, before glancing away, his index finger tapping twice subconsciously. 

“What? Don’t be ridi--” A lie. A damn lie. Nerevar had kept this hidden from him and was now lying about it. That damn tell with his finger tapping though was truthful as ever, as Voryn grabbed Nerevar by the hand. 

“Vivec already told me.” Voryn hissed through clenched teeth. “You said it was because you were half nord that it would be better. You intended on using your acting skills alone. You didn’t even take a fucking recall amulet--”

“I made it out fine, didn’t I?” Nerevar tried to tug his hand free, but Voryn kept his grip firm. 

“And what if you hadn’t?!” Voryn knew if he was less controlled he might have started crying he was so worried and infuriated. “What if they had caught you both and slit your throat? What if they had thrown you into prison and I didn’t even know where you were?”

“But it didn’t happen--” Nerevar tried insisting again, clearly not seeing what the problem was. But Voryn wasn’t having it. He let go of Nerevar’s hand, practicing growling his words in his rage. 

“You’re a damn hypocrite, running off doing something like that and keeping it from me knowing I’d try to stop you, and then telling me I can’t go into this fucking camp--”

“Those are two different things!” Nerevar snapped in return, fully angry himself. 

“You’re right, they are different.” Voryn replied. “This is one camp of nords and I am trained in stealth and magic. I can recall back at any point if it’s dangerous.” Nerevar’s nostrils flared, but Voryn wasn’t backing down. “It is safer for me to do this damn mission and save us all the time and effort, but no!”

[cbsorgeartworks]

The Dragon Mage's Study, 2023 72.5 hours // Photoshop My latest painting!! Commissions Open 🐊Follow me on Instagram! If you are interested in a print, email me cbsorge @ gmail and I'll let you know when I get that figured out. I am planning on selling prints. Thoughts, info, and WIP process shots below:

I started this last summer and only just now finished it!.

I kept careful track of time and logged 72.5 active work hours (not counting breaks etc) over 43 days. So I could have gotten this done much faster if I hadn't taken months long breaks from working on this. Unfortunately I love details and complexity. File time stamp beginning and end:

While I have been working professionally for a long time, for various reasons I do not have a lot of up-to-date work to show for it. I am working on changing that with a new batch of art where I show off the skills I've built up over the years, going as hard as I can. I am hopefully going to be able to finish these faster from here on out. I have lots of plans - merch to sell, projects and series of work to make - so stay tuned!! I enjoy exploring a busy scene when the details all have thought put into them. With this piece I wanted to reward the viewer for looking closely, with details making sense in context. I also wanted to present a lot of "imagination fodder" for the audience to chew on. Unlike my Willy Wonka and the Candyman piece, which was sketched out roughly and only on one or two layers, this one was done meticulously and with dozens of separate layers for a cleaner finish, necessitating several clean drawing passes. I think it worked out well, I did much less re-painting. Process steps: 1) original sketch, 2) first pass drawing, 3)final pass drawing, 4) flats, 5) shading, 6) flats+shading combined for rough painting, 7) final painting. 75% of the work was just the final step, from rough to finished painting.

Also for this piece I experimented with a color gamut mask. I wanted to exclude all warm colors (yellows, orange, red). They only show up on the mage's skin, a focal point. I think I ended up pushing some of the yellow-er greens into there too.

Now on to the next one because I miss having painting to do every day. Yay art!!

[bugwolfsstuff]

okay heres a wip of the demigod social media fic

i am probs gonna put the rest on ao3 so i dont accidentally tag people while writing it.

Also this is probably going to help me in the long run lmao. Chat fics dont need to be grammatically correct which might help with insecurity and perfectionism for me and its a crackfic so I don't need to worry about making sense.

@thel1ghtningthief @smileyalater

The usernames used here are:

Demi-tokOFFICAL— controlled collectively by Cabin nine

JerryTheMuse — Jerry from the Apollo Cabin

Nico-Di-Angelo — doesnt need explaining. don't worry he'll get his own special user once he gets better with tech

⚡BADBOYSUPREME❤️— Leo

🍇Jacob_Macob⚒️ — Jake Mason from the Hephaestus cabin

@ Demi-tokOFFICAL (written through voice to text) 

Hi counsellors and others. Nyssa B from the Hephaestus cabin here, if you're reading this then you like most —if not all of us demigods have been given one of our— Cabin nine—the best cabin’s latest inventions!  Demigod phones!  Yay!  First off, all demigod platforms are completely safe and monster proof, so you can take and use it anywhere including outside of Camp! They also come preinstalled with all the basics and our new demigod only social medias!  Second off, Chiron and Mr. D do NOT know about this project. We — Cabin 9, prefer to keep it that way so if you want to continue using our platforms in a free, unmonitored by—  —stinky adults!  Thank you, Harley—If you want to keep our phones unmonitored by stinky adults you WILL try your hardest to keep it that way and try to hide the phones somewhere safe or use them discreetly.  If the phone detects Chiron noticing it, it will explode to prevent him from finding out.  That was my idea!  It was, so, remember! HAVE FUN AND DONT TELL THE ADULTS!  Signing off, Nyssa Barrera and Harley. 

#Demi-tok #Hephaestus-cabin-is-best-cabin #you-know-it's-true #suck-it-Ares-cabin 

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Comments 

@ JerryTheMuse 

Can’t believe we got Demigod phones before GTA6 

5 Likes. 4:32 PM 

@ Nico-Di-Angelo 

How do we use these things? 

2 Likes. 7:45PM 

@ Demi-tokOFFICAL replying to @ Nico-Di-Angelo 

For our less technologically able friends like you, @ 🍇Jacob_Macob⚒️ ️ is offering classes —Shane (Nyssa had to leave) 

5 Likes. 7:49PM 

@⚡BADBOYSUPREME❤️replying to @ Nico-Di-Angelo 

Did @ Demi-tokOFFICAL just call Nico old??? 

3 Likes. 7:52PM

[rauchendesgnu]

Gnu writes!

To start things off, I thought I'd share all the wips/ideas I have in bad summaries (yay!)

These are the wips that are partially published: a. At Thy Will - D/s AU, inspired by medieval marriage laws in the area that would later become Germany. I've talked a bit about it here before, it includes abusive relationships and fantasy sexism and also religious trauma b. The Tower Must Fall - unfortunately a bit neglected (but I plan on picking it back up, I promise), including assassin!Martin and witch!Jon slowburn enemies to lovers (Gerry is there, too!) c. A Treatise In Balance - basically just Jon getting snatched and turned into an avatar by each of the Fears. Includes art d. The Crackling Sound Of Magic - these are small fics where Jon is a mage in training under his cruel father Elias Bouchard and Martin is a kitchen hand in their household. also technically slowburn and lots of hurt/comfort because Jon keeps getting hurt

wips in my wip folder a. faerie!Jon - he's a faerie, Martin is human, he gets lost in the Otherworld's fog, Jon saves him. Oh, and soulmate AU, too :) b. Nothing But The City - inspired by UDAD, where Jonah (while wearing Elias like a suit) performs a series of cyborg-like surgeries on Jon to use him to take control over the City that once had a name that is now long lost to time c. another fantasy au with magic, inspired by occudo's art (that I still want to eat. so pretty). including apprentice!Jon, reluctant bodyguard!Martin, and exasperated and probably evil (but hot) long haired Elias d. Archive AU - Jon is a fully developed Eye monster, way beyond human. Nobody but Elias knows. Martin joins the Archive crew, accidentally makes friends with the monster via tea, and falls in love e. teacher!Jon in Scotland - you've read it before, you love it as much as I do: Scotland Safehouse Period forever, nothing bad happens and Jon gets adopted by a bunch of nosy teenagers f. nurse!Martin AU - Martin is a nurse who deals with Jon's worm wounds (gets section 31-ed) and keeps meeting him while Jon is injured. Features the good ol' anonymous online kinky relationship (and so much research because i don't even know how German hospitals work let alone British ones) g. Magnus Academy - more teacher!Jon, but in dark, with magic, murder, abuse, blackmail, discrimination, etc. h. The Fourteen Hauntings of Jonathan Sims, Librarian - more AUs! this time it's medium!Jon time (and medium!Martin). There's ghosts, and the town is called Nevermore :) i. Vampire Stuff - loosely based on The Fearless Vampire Killers (but the German musical, not necessarily the film), featuring vampire!Jon, vampire!Elias, human Martin, Tim, Sasha (yes, Jon is Herbert) j. Martin Knife Blackwood - established jonmartin, Jon wants to propose, Martin used to be in organised crime and the mob boss Peter Lukas comes for him, drama, blood, guns, etc. k. magical bookshop - more magic. including season 4 levels of sad Jon, a traumatised mute teenage kid who is accidentally adopted by said sad Jon. Jon has a bookshop that shows up at random. like the tardis but with less control even than the Doctor has l. toxic JonElias with endgame JonMartin - this one's not fleshed out at all, but basically Jon gets to make friends and escape Elias' clutches (no Fears AU)

I have more plot bunnies, but they're just that, so I won't list them here or I'd be here for hours. Feel free to ask questions about the wips above if you like, I'd be more than happy to elaborate (it will contain spoilers tho)

[olderthannetfic]

https://www.tumblr.com/olderthannetfic/734928866412560384/i-dont-know-if-this-is-a-bad-take-so-im-going?source=share

I've been following a WIP that has a very small readership, I think there are like a dozen kudos and barely any hits.

I prefer lurking and I don't really want to start a conversation, but I do want the author to know that someone is reading and enjoying their fic, so I leave simple one word comments like this whenever there's a new chapter. I think some have been the "extra kudos!" ones and others have been simple "contentless" comments like "so hot!" or "yay!". I hadn't thought of emoji comments, maybe I'll do that for the next update :)

Until AO3 allows kudos on individual chapters, people are going to use the comments to give a more-or-less silent thumbs up.

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I also routinely see comments that are also like "reread kudos" or something.

[ladykailitha]

Yay! WIP Wednesday!!! May I request one of each? 🥺🙏If not, definitely Boy with a Bat! 🫶🥰

If you send in asks for the other two, I'd be happy to do them. It's easier to reply to a request per ask!

WIP Wednesday! Make me write!

Other asks here, here.

I know, I know the poll is still ongoing until tomorrow but there is no way that it's going be anything other than Steve coming out to Robin in the bathroom that he's dating Eddie. Not with the lead it has and less than 24 hours to go.

Snippet

The arguing was starting to mess with Steve’s head. In that he meant it was going to give him a migraine and then he was going to murder them. Particularly since he didn’t have his medication with him.

“Shut up!” he huffed. “I don’t care about Tina or Uncle Jack’s party, mmk?” He cocked his head forward for emphasis. “Look if we don’t find a way out of here, there wouldn’t be any parties or shit, because we’d all be dead. No one is looking for us, because they don’t know where we are.”

Erica popped her hip and placed her hand on it. “Maybe no one is looking for you. But my parents are absolutely looking for me.”

Steve covered his face with his hands. “Not what I meant! I mean no one is going to look for a secret Russian base under the mall because that’s fucking insane!”

[pirrusstuff]

How about a college AU?

Oooh i like this oneeee a lot, i don't know too much about how it's college in the US but i know some things.

Buck is biology student who NEEDS a place where to live since he decided to stop living with his parents, he recently broke up with Taylor a journalism student.

Eddie, a veterinary student and single father who has a free room in his house (waiting to be rented) that also needs someone to take care of his kid when he's busy ( he can't afford a babysitter, he barely reaches to pay the bills and Christophers PT)

Buck finds Eddie's vacant room ad and thinks it's perfect, nice house near the campus and he doesn't mind that he's also going to live with a kid, so he shows up and immediately befriends Christopher and Eddie didn't even bother to look for other candidates.

Buck quickly says that he can help Eddie with Chris, the kid gives Buck happiness, he's always smiling no matter what, he learns how to take care of him, how to do his stretches, his diet, he even memorized the child's schedule. It's not like Buck is never busy but he is much less busy than Eddie with his part-time job after school, Buck stills reviving money form his parents every month (at least they're present in that way 🙄)

Eddie helps Buck studing since he has some problems giving his attention only into one thing, he also shares some advices of how to pay attention to class and starts leaving little motivational notes in Buck's stuff (gay) wich he founds really cute.

Buck introduces Eddie to Carla, a really nice lady that imparts some courses at the University who also can help Eddie (yay everyone is happy c:)

Everything is good, Eddie is less bussy, Buck sees him more (and he REALLY like that), the movie nights became something usual for them, the three of them playing at the park, Buck and Eddie helping Chris with school ( 2 dads), Buck starts getting better notes and having a better time studying, life is good.

Buck notice that Eddie has never been at a party, sooo he fixes some stuff to take Eddie out (he wants to show off his boyfriend), they drink a little, they laugh and they dance, even if they're having a good time at a fraternity house (that is FULL of people) they need a little bit of fresh air, so they go to the back yard, Eddie talks about Shannon and the fact that she was his best friend but he never loved her in a romantic way, even if he tried ( he likes boys), Buck talks about his shity parents that never made feel comfortable in his own house, but he had his sister, the only person that made him loved, but he didn't felt like that since she left, until a couple fo months when he started leaving with Eddie and Chris and... BAM KISSS

Au game!

Keep sending au's i love to write them!( Instead of actually write my wips lol)