#quirkquartz

[desmondkane-of-ao3-fame]

HOWDY! IF YOU’RE NEW HERE, PLEASE READ:

I’m Desmond Kane. And, as you can guess by the username, an AO3 author! My speciality is The Owl House, mainly focusing on Skarlow (Skara X Willow). Here, I answer questions, throw out headcannons, promote my fics, and generally try to help preach the good word of Skarlow. And here I show commissions I’ve received based on Skarlow, and occasionally even Skarlow art I didn’t commission!

And you’re interested in the ship, may I suggest a few fics?

Guitar Strings and Flower Petals:

“Skara and Willow always knew where they stood. For years their relationship was simple; Skara stuck with Boscha, bullying the young Witch alongside her friend, and Willow tried to ignore them. It was simple. But one day, things change. Willow finds Skara at her weakest moment - It would have been easy to walk past her and pretend not to notice. But Willow doesn't.”

Me and my friend QuirkQuartz’s long running Skarlow fic! Currently up to 16 chapters and climbing!

Some One-Shots

Willow’s Lullaby:

“Hey, Skary.” The Bard felt herself melt at her girlfriend’s nickname for her. Any sense of apathy or even mild irritation immediately left her, like a ghost being excised from her body. (Skara would know. She had to have an exorcism herself. Twice.) She couldn’t tell which was sweeter; the naturally gentle, soothing sounds of Willow’s voice, the additional tinge of sleeplessness that acted as a cuteness amplifier, or the nickname itself, changing one letter to turn Skara’s dull name into a wonderful silly melody. Or maybe it was just Willow’s... everything.”

Skara wants to help her girlfriend at an untitan hour in the morning.

The fluffiest thing I think I could ever write honestly.

Dangerous Plants are Less Terrifying Then Apologizing:

Skara goes to the Plant Homeroom after school in an effort to apologize to Willow.

An attempt at writing a cannon-fitting scene where Skara apologizes to Willow, with some Skarlow implications because I like it, dang it! Takes place between 'Coven Day Parade' and 'Any Sport'.

Change of Pace:

“I wish we’d been friends years ago…”

“We’re friends?”

On a walk back from Flyer Derby practice, Skara and Willow grow closer.

A cute, more platonic but still lovely one-shot, written alongside my “Guitar Strings” co-writer QuirkQuartz.

[skarlowart]

IF YOU’RE NEW HERE, PLEASE READ!

Heyo! Hi, I’m Desmond Kane, the #1 Skarlow Superfan. I commissioned a bunch of art of it to share here, and also share any other pieces I find.

I also write Skarlow fanfiction alongside my good friend QuirkQuartz. Our Skarlow Opus as it were, ‘Guitar Strings and Flower Petals,’ is currently the longest running Skarlow fic on AO3, and if you love Skarlow, you should check it out here. And if you want to read some Skarlow one-shots and other TOH stories, check out my AO3 here.

“Guitar Strings and Flower Petals.”

Art by my great friend majetics_art on Instagram!

[darkfire1220]

ffnet link: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13529920/8/IzuMina-Week-2020

This is just shameless fluff with implications of lemons. Nothing too spicy, but just a little steamy. Enjoy the conclusion to IzuMina Week 2020!

Mina finally has a day off with her husband. No plans, no work, just them. Leaving bed sounds like too much effort, but...it's not like there's nothing for them to do~

[heavenly-dio]

Honk Honk

@quirkquartz

[minadeku]

How would Deku react if both them and there friends were playing an online game and Mina just up and shouts LEEEROOOYY JEEEENNNKINSS! before charging in and messing up everything? Old memes are still funny.

See, this amuses me, because it’s implied MHA takes place a few centuries in the future, so this implies Mina is aware of at least 200 year old memes

Frankly I don’t think Izuku would have even the first clue what Mina is doing or what that even means. I imagine he’d just ask her, and then Mina would have to try and explain the meme to him and he has utterly no idea about any of it

-QQ

[poison332]

Welcome to Izumina Week 2019, brought to you by @quirkquartz and @magpiedomino! This first story was rushed like all hell! Enjoy! or not...it’s cool.

[itsuyuicanon]

tokage/kendou for the ask meme?

Also asked by @quirkquartz !

who’s the cuddler: Setsuna!! She absolutely loves grabbing onto Itsuka and never letting her go. She is a very grabby person even platonically, so once they would start a romantic relationship this would only escalate.

who makes the bed: Itsuka makes the bed usually out of habit, although Setsuna does it from time to time as well if Itsuka forgets.

who wakes up first: Itsuka.

who has the weird taste in music: Setsuna has a really weird taste in music, although Itsuka finds it kind of charming? Her girlfriend likes blues and jazz, but like, really old blues (as BNHA is set in the future, that ‘old’ music is much more modern for us, haha)

who is more protective: They’re both fairly protective of one another, neither wanting to see the other get into harm’s way, and being willing to risk their own lives to make sure the other is safe. It’s why they sort of don’t do hero work together - it’d just get messy.

who sings in the shower: They both sing in the shower, but Setsuna has a better singing voice than Itsuka. Setsuna, though, likes listening to Itsuka anyways, simply because she loves her voice.

who cries during movies: Setsuna, although she doesn’t do it much.

who spends the most while out shopping: Setsuna! She grew up in a fairly rich household, so her idea of prices is a bit out of wack compared with Itsuka’s - so she lets her girlfriend do all the normal shopping. When they’re going out for clothes, though, she goes all out.

who kisses more roughly: Setsuna. One time, she accidentally made Itsuka’s tongue bleed with her spikey teeth, and she can never forgive herself for it.

who is more dominate: I’d say it’s a rough 50/50.

my rating of the ship from 1-10: 8.5/10! A solid ship.

[thekingofwinterblog]

I remember I bad a buddy named Quirkquartz(Since deleted everything on his tumblr), and one day we were shitting the breeze about something i don't remember, and the topic of Eugenics came up in context of ideas he meant we should revisit in order to build a "Better" future.

Now the guy was a hardcore communist, and i knew some of his ideas could be... Pretty extreme, but mostly it was in relation to how he hated capitalism.

And then he began lamenting that bad people had ruined the "potential" of Eugenics to create a better future for our species. And I'm left just looking at the screen with my mouth open, hoping that its really just some really, really bad joke, and i basically write: please tell me you're joking around?

And he just digs himself deeper, doubling down by pointing out that it sure would be better for the human race if certain inborn, genetic conditions that are passed down was removed from the breeding pool of future generations, by way of not letting them breed.

Needless to say, I broke off our friendship.

It was a harsh lesson for me, in that not only does the current internet culture bring out the WORST in people, but because there isn't any immediate and direct consequences of saying the WORST shit imaginable, some people will just... Say shit like this to people. And then act surprised, and defensive when you actually respond like a modern, sane person.

It's insane that he felt like he could trust ME with this opinion. ME, a guy he exclusively knew over the internet, and he'd never actually vocally talked to, or even seen a picture of. But I was apparently someone who he thought would be okay with it, but also we were close enough he felt he could share it with me.

The internet has just... Obliterated peoples ability to judge boundaries, and the capacity to judge what kind of people we're actually talking to. As a species, we're designed to communicate by talking and emoting to each other, and we're built with the understanding that if we say certain things, we are likely to get punched in the face, so we should take care what we say to who.

The internet removed that completely, and now generations are raised to just... Not consider anything they fucking say to anyone, because it won't hurt them, or you.

Its insane.

sorry to sound like a 56 year old but online internet culture has completely eroded the concept of personal boundaries and it's evil evil evil

[mari-lair]

Your pallet challenge tempts me, and the temptation of more of your art is too hard to resist. Izumina and / or Itsumomo in Bitter Bubblegum - whichever you're up to drawing

There you go pal! Itsumomo may be adorable but they cannot break my Izumina addiction~

[desmondkane-of-ao3-fame]

Me and Q updated ‘Guitar Strings and Flower Petals’ with chapter 16: “Of Falsities and Friendships, Part 2”! If you’re interested in Skarlow, school angst, and friendshipy fluff, check it out!

ALSO PLEASE READ THE AUTHORS NOTES! WE HAVE SOME BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS THERE!!!

[poison332]

Just so I don’t forget the prompts and dates.

Izumina Week 2019!!!

Okay, so by the apparent unanimous vote of about four guys, I think we’re more or less deciding on hosting Izumina Week during March. We’re moving it exactly one month, so everyone has more time to come up with their ideas and to make their stuff

18th March - 24th March

As for the prompts, we had a number of draws for various places, so we’re splitting the options between those ties - so you can pick either of the options, or both if you like (Preferably both, haha) and do whatever you like with them, just so long as they fit in the theme of the prompt 

First Kiss/ Roommates

Proposal/ Beach

Couple cosplay/ quirk swap

Space AU/ Gender Swap

Personality Swap

Movie Night

Camping

You can do absolutely anything you like with these prompts as well - A drawing, a fanfic, a comic, order a commission, a simple sketch, headcannons, or whatever - Just about anything goes. Be as creative as you like, and as abstract with the concept as you want! 

To get your work reblogged on here, tag your posts as Izumina, Minadeku, and/or Izuminaweek2019, and tag or message either @quirkquartz or @magpiedomino - Hopefully this will let us see your work and reblog it

I’ll make another post that’s hopefully more attractive than this one in the next couple days - Until then, I hope you’ll all share this around and spread the word - Let’s try and make this week even bigger than last years!

[darkfire1220]

ffnet link: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13529920/2/IzuMina-Week-2020

Here’s Day 2 for IzuMina Week 2020, featuring the prompt Nighttime Stroll!

Izuku is walking Mina home after a day out with the rest of their class! Mina probably has too much fun teasing him, but what happens when Izuku gives her a run for her money?

[heavenly-dio]

A conversation that recently occurred in a discord call

@quirkquartz - "There's nothing you can say that is gonna make me excited for anything JoJo related."

Me- "In Part 6 Annasui crushes Mickey Mouse behind a wooden crate."

QuirkQuartz- "... Okay, now I'm actually excited, what?!"

[minadeku]

How do Mina and Deku handle certain awkward situations. Such as their parents walking on them being romantic. (Nothing intimate mind you, just something like kissing and cuddling, although adding how they handle their parents walking in on them during said intimates moments would be funny.)

Well in both scenarios, I imagine both of them would be pretty awkward and very embarrassed about it - Even Mina, and she takes those sorts of situations normally in stride. 

It’d probably depend more on who walked in on them. If they were at Izuku’s house and Inko walked in, I imagine she’d just sort of awkwardly back out and leave the two of them and it would just create an incredibly awkward feel, whereas I imagine Mina’s family would just take the piss and joke about it, and while it’d still be embarrassing, it wouldn’t be as awkward

If they were being intimate and got walked in on though, pretty much all bets are off and the pair of them are too awkward to even leave the room until they know for a fact that the house is empty. And considering i like to imagine they are a very intimate couple, I assume this would happen a lot, so people would walk in on them, back out, and then immediately leave the house for a while so the pair of them can actually bring themselves to leave the room they’re in

-QQ

[poison332]

I should have done better. These swaps got me in a jumble. Enjoy!

[crazyman185]

4 years ago today the fic Awkward Energy, written by @quirkquartz , began. Not only did it begin my decent into the IzuMina ship, but also inspired me to write for the fandom too. Note that this scene is depicted in chapter 40 of the fic.

Another round of applause to @erijaime for accepting my commission request!