#oops its 3am

[adeleine-everyday]

day 15

i knoww lunar new year was like a week ago but my family celebrated today so :]] happy new year!!

[jackshiccup]

thorston & thorston

[hisui-dreamer]

jamil, who loves showing affection by cooking food for his loved ones, making sure the curry is seasoned to perfection and your favourite dessert to go along with the meal.

and you, with zero spice tolerance but so incredibly overwhelmed with gratitude and affection for how hard jamil's worked. and with your favourite dessert right there enticing you, you're determined to finish every drop of curry on your plate.

...

it doesn't go too well.

indeed, you have finished every drop of curry. but you've also downed around 12 cups of water, and the burning in your mouth is still unrelenting. jamil visibly looks concerned with how much water you're drinking and it's unavoidable you address your non-existent spice tolerance.

jamil sighs, and his eyes show a hint of exasperation you often see when he's following kailm's whims. you avert your gaze to the floor, upset at yourself that you've disappointed him and maybe he hates you now how could you not like his fo-

flick!

ouch! your hands reach up to shield your forehead, and your eyes meet his. not exasperated, maybe slightly, but amused and... loving??

"dummy, don't go forcing yourself to eat what you don't like," he sighs

you timidly explain you could never do that with how much time and effort he puts into his cooking

his smile widens slightly.

"for now, i guess i'll be making more desserts for you then,"

he chuckles at the way your eyes light up.

"here," he feeds you a spoonful of the chilled dessert. "is your mouth still burning?"

oh. you don't think it is anymore.

but your heart sure is.

[nonbinary-arsonists]

joining the dragon beej club 👍

[moeblob]

I'm literally both at the exact same time and I don't know how I've survived this long.

[ghostorbz]

2am doodles paired with random photos on my phone

[emeraldotter]

dropping more furry TMA on your doorstep like an unduly proud house cat

[icebrooding]

scribble before sleepytime

[bumblingdragon]

Whumptober - day 12 - Insomnia

If she pushes herself to exhaustion, the nightmares stay away. If she can't do that, she simply doesn't sleep...

[smallbigworld]

This story is inspired by a song by Nxdia. You are welcome to go listen to it, but I'll write down some of the lyrics anyway.

"At 14

Katy talked about teenage dreams On the bus and

She's looking at me

Talkin about life and her dog

And the boys that she likes

I ask "have you got someone in mind?"

He's at the all boys school

She says something about liking his height. Suddenly worried about mine"

So yeah, that was enough for me to write a cute little g/t romance.

I still plan on writing other longer stories but just suddenly felt inspired to write this.

(This story takes place in the Norman-verse. You can check out my earlier posts or the master post, I will create later to learn more about this universe, but essentially, Normen are giants with a different culture and bodies than humans.)

She likes a boy.

Part 1

Katy Kiragan is the cutest girl at school. She's also the smartest and the funniest and the nicest, and she's also my best friend in the entire world.

In a world full of rocks, Katy is a gem, the one that is the hardest to find but shines the brightest. I've never met anyone like her in my life, and even if I lived a million lifetimes, I still wouldn't find anyone like her. Katy is the only person in the world for me, but for Katy, she has the entire world. She can choose what she wants, and she would probably choose a boy, a boy who isn't the size of her finger. I just had to be a girl that measures at the same height as her pinky.

I know that I don't stand a chance, but that never stopped the daydreaming. Oh yeah, I'm daydreaming again, I should probably pay attention to what the teacher is saying. But Katy is right there, I can see her from where I'm sitting. She's concentrating, of course, because, like I said, she's smart!

She always fidgets with her hair when she's really thinking about something, like right now. I wonder what's going on in her head. I face the teacher and try to listen to his consistent ramblings about mathematics. God, I hate math. Even if I try to pay attention now, I still won't understand what is being said. It all sounds like gibberish. I stare at my empty paper on my desk.

For once, I'm glad the teacher is a giant who won't notice my blank paper easily. There's a test next week, so I'm probably going to have to figure out by myself what Mr Srell has been trying to teach me for the past half an hour. Or, I could ask Katy to help me, she probably would too. Because like I said she's nice!

I'm an anxious person, I always have been. I'm always in my head, either daydreaming or overthinking. When I was ten, my parents moved me to a Norman-human integrated school. And of course I'm scared of Normen, it would be weird for any human not to be scared.

When I met Katy, I was terrified of her. It was in a library, I always hid in the history section because I loved reading the books. But it also because no other kids were ever there. I had the place all to myself. Until the day I didn't.

That was the day Katy moved to the school too. Turns out she's also a history nerd like me. She found me hiding behind one of the books. All I wanted to do was run away. That's when she made a joke, and I laughed because I said she's funny!

From day we were inseparable. Our parents met each other, we had sleepovers. We talked every day, and when I'm talking to her, I don't care about the other terrifying giants or scary humans, it's just us. And I feel safe.

I was about thirteen years old when I realized that I felt warm when she smiled at me. She makes me feel special in a way no one else does. Of course, I kept denying it because Katy is a girl, and she's also a girl that's a hundred times my size, but none of that matters to me. I still fell deeply, deeply in love with her. But so did everyone else at school. Because I like I said she's cute!

Math is over now, and Katy is making her way to my desk. After each period, she carries me in her hand to the next period or to the bus to go home. Like now, school is over, and I get to sit in her hand, and she tells me about her day.

She's happy today, she's practically glowing. We're talking about our dreams but I just had to ask why she was so bashful. She met a boy, he's very tall, he goes to an all boys school. As I'm listening to her, I feel smaller than ever. My heart breaks a little because she's so happy and who am I to deny her that. So I put on an act and give myself a smile. I say that I'm so happy for her. Because like I said she's also my best friend.

[wheeboo]

u ever just read something that resonates n relates with u a bit too deeply u literally FEEL it in ur body

[yuemoon-art]

ALSO THE CHANGE! FROM THE LETTER THAT JONATHON THROWS OUT OF THE WINDOW TO THE LETTER ON DRACULA'S HAND! PERFECT TRANSITION A+++++++

Don't mind me I've just been staring at these for a few days 😭 ahhhh I'm so honoured thank you!! Please don't be sorry for such lovely comments— now I have to rewatch the animatic while looking out for the timestamps ;) ahahahaaa :,)))) I can only say thanks again!!!! Im gonna put my response under the cut cause there ended up being so much:

0:53 Yesss glad you caught that!!!! its a reference to my DD2022 art; I decided to put it in the animatic because I think its one of my best works. HAVE to immortalise that

0:58 Heehee :3 I had so much fun making that move!! Originally it was supposed to be still but I had the thought of "hey now that ive learned keyframes I wonder what else i can do" so that was the result :)

1:25 :,) thats such a high praise, I had fun plotting out these transitions too!!!

1:31 Also another reference to one of my DD2022 arts! Had fun translating that to a more "cinematic" composition

1:33 Had no idea that was called a crybaby mole Im stealing that now on. Very happy someone noticed his beauty mark!!!

2:35 hehehehe

2:43 another case of "hm Ive learned keyframes what can I do with them" :) Im glad it looks cool!!

2:48 Yep!! plus also like a role reversal; previously it was Lucy who was entranced and helpless under Dracula's gaze. Now, it is his turn.

2:58 thanks!! I had so much fun designing them, especially the blue eyed one! Initially I forgot Stoker described her as "fair" but hm I guess you can close 2 eyes and it could be interpreted by the "beauty" meaning of "fair", rather than skin... I also genuinely forgot black people don't usually have blue eyes blonde hair but hey! Theyre vampires. No point quibbling about ""realism"" or whatever

3:03 hehehehheh. Thanks! I had so much fun drawing Dracula's defeat

3:17 HAD to draw that sunset its such a cinematic moment in the book. Stoker did good.

Also hehe yep the Art/Seward was purposeful. I love this song because it brings me so much nostalgia as the opening theme for a local tv drama. Very glad to have made it part of this animatic. Thank you for the enthusiastic dissection of this passion project aaa Ill treasure this response.

[apileofmoss]

Esmeray wanted to be an astronaut growing up and she studied the stars throughout her child hood and could point out a constellation so very quickly and she would tell people the stars guided her to be where she is now

she has such a complicated relationship with her mom and with religion she's so angry at herself for not knowing how to deal with either. she loves her mom, i mean the woman raised her on her own, and they moved from Turkey to America together when Esmeray was a late teen. But her mom was hesitant to keep supporting her when Esmeray confided in her about queerness. Aylin did not know what to do, and moved back to Turkey alone in what Esmeray thought was to escape her. She threw herself into more books and studies than ever imaginable and began to hesitate before putting her hijab on. as a kid and teen, she bulldozed through hate and what people told her but it began to come back and it began to hurt after all that time and she hated herself for a while. She got so emersed in her self loathing and confusion that she forgot the names of the constellations she used to hold so dear.

Her story is about accepting herself and healing and mending relationships she broke and reaching out to her mom AND GAAHHHH her story is about love

[ghostorbz]

hate u 4ever ♡

[pitynostars]

.... helena bonham carter!master hints ???? 👀

[torchiccakes]

Would anyone be interested in beta reading for a Satogou story I've been working on for a while?

It switches POV between Ash and Goh, and is about them traveling on their own and figuring themselves out, while meeting friends along the way.

The goal is to have an appearance from every companion and give them each some focus, so feedback about characterization would be especially helpful because I really want to do them all justice.

(There's also going to be some CrimsonVelvetshipping.)

So far the first two chapters, focused only on Ash and Goh, are ready and they're at 2500 - 3000 words each. I'm not sure when the other chapters will be ready, or what the total word count will end up being (right now I have a total of 17,000 words for everything), but I think there's going to be at least 15 chapters by the end.

If you're interested I can give more details!