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[tiptapricot]

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[melissa-titanium]

i'd rather be falling with you! :)

[leelarots]

sad today. my favourite part of the feet of clay's conclusion is vetinari clearly trying not to show how amusing he finds vimes's comments

also some bonus interactions i found funny in the same convo

[captainzigo]

[yeloenk]

May I mayhaps request paperjam or lux (or both) for the art requests? :O I absolutely adore your art style, and I would love to see you draw them!

i love these two!! thank you for the request :-D

hehe.. honestly i think i like these two together!! i've never really given this pairing any thought, because i hadn't heard of it! but it's quite cute.

you can interpret this piece as either platonic or romantic!

pj belongs to @/7goodangel

lux belongs to AlainaPrana

close up of their cute lil faces!!! <33

[ricesinspo]

ship dynamic: cat-coded x cat-coded, but one is elegant, acts like royalty, and wants to be treated like one, and the other is orange

elegant one invites you over and formally greets you to a seat in their living room and a cup of tea, "please come in. meet my roommate," cuts to their roommate shoveling jam into their mouth from a jar with their bare hands while sitting on the kitchen floor "oh hi lmao"

[pokeberry5]

something like tim convinces himself that robin has to be a Boy™ and then steph becomes robin and shatters that conviction and all his repressed gender feelings come spilling out, but actually letting go of that conviction isn’t all that easy

if there's no homoerotic tension between you and the manifestation of your alter-ego that you’ve constructed in your mind, do you really have identity issues?

closeups + refs (leyendecker) + bonus:

[s1ck-pupp3t]

I love, Ms Paint. CHEERS!

OK real art dump over. Click MORE for Real dumb stuff

something something They faces killing me why nobody gaf. Its a Transparent .PNg! You can put them any where to Not Care About.

[hellsitegenetics]

I await my return from the shadows, the sand and mud around me forming a home and kingdom of which I intend to rule this blog once more. The micro-algae living inside me have yet to become my army. What you saw was a trial, only a test run of my true power.

You have not seen the end of me. My reign is inevitable.

-The White Strawberry Cockle

for the record this blog is less than a month old and we've already got an arch nemesis

[halfshellhomo]

i wanna make a tiktok so bad

PLEASE gimme eddsworld art suggestions. prompts, ships, headcanons, anything. just throw something in the ask box and ill draw it 🙏

[luckycloverforducks]

(Swap AU)

Slutty (ex)Mafia Spider Polka Pop

[demonic-shadowlucifer]

I was gonna wait for the poll to close to share this, but I think I've gotten enough results on that one to move on. I've chosen to make this into a full-on survey because I don't wanna spam this blog with polls lmfao. I also included the poll question in case anyone who answered wrong the first time can change that. Once again, you don't have to be associated with either side (or even identify as 'neutralship') to take this. This is an open discussion.

Additionally, I encourage yall to reblog so others can answer too!/nf

Once again, please be civil in the reblogs. Also, rude/inflammatory answers on the final question will not be counted.

[funtime29nm]

Posting some old human art (expect more soon)

Meow fuck out the way

[linka-from-captain-planet]

hello manmancers, I come bearing a wholehearted plea from the small but noble sapphic womanmancer part of fandom

please stop tagging minor F/F ships in the Relationships field of your M/M and M/F works on AO3

if you could not delete everything else in the story and still have a comprehensible standalone narrative about the F/F ship, then the F/F ship does not need to be tagged because the fic is not about that ship

and we who visit the tags of F/F ships tags are looking for content that is about that ship... which is hard enough to find without having to dig through the results

as of making this post, this is the content disparity on AO3, in the Veilguard category, if you filter to the relationship category and exclude the other two main ones (e.g. below is the count of M/F ships with M/M and F/F excluded from results):

3,158 works tagged as M/F

1,347 works tagged as M/M

339 works tagged as F/F

That's 1/4 to 1/10 as much F/F-centric content as M/M and M/F!

no, over-tagging doesn't increase the amount of F/F content because it's not F/F content. it's the equivalent of Disney having 2 women holding hands in the background of a shot and calling it lesbian rep

no, you are not improving "reach" by tagging every ship (or character) that's so much as mentioned - you certainly won't gain any meaningful interaction, as fans of the mistagged ship will at best run up your hit count without leaving kudos, writing comments, or sharing

yes, over-tagging is a problem that affects all ships. everyone should follow the above guidelines. this post is specifically about the plight of F/F ship tagging on AO3, because there is so little F/F content that the dilution of over-tagging makes it especially pronounced

if you would like to let readers know what the tertiary ships are in case they care, you can put them in the other freetext tags, for example from one of my fics:

I did not use the Ashur/Tarquin relationship tag because the fic is not about Ashur/Tarquin - if I removed the part of the work that isn't about them, it would not leave them with a comprehensible standalone narrative of their own - and people who visit that tag are looking for content that is about them.

please, continue to write your fics and enjoy your ships - but just be cognizant about the fact that what's side content to you is everything to someone else

[greenieart]

If no one else is going to draw them making out then I’ll just have to do it myself

[toxinoire]

Out of boredom I'm just gonna make more Mean Girls headcanons because you people seem to really love those.

• Cady is a picky eater. She can eat dishes that are so extreme, but show her mashed potatoes and god forbid scrambled eggs mixed with bell peppers and she will go "No."

• Gretchen owns a lot of glitter pens. She fucking loves glitter pens.

• Janis is into coding. She had to learn it once because a digital website for art she uses crashed so out of spite, she learned coding.

• Regina does know how to sew and make clothes even. She just doesn't do it a lot, so by far the only person who knew was Janis. It wasn't until Christmas where Regina gave handmade everyone jackets and beanies with designs specific to them that they learned.

• Karen knows to play the fucking accordion. The way everyone learned was that they snuck into the school's music room, there was this one dusty accordion and out of boredom, Karen just picked it up and started playing Get Him Back by Olivia Rodrigo on the damn thing.

• Janis and Gretchen are a fucking detective pair. Someone in their group got made of or is sick but hiding it? They're the first ones to figure it out.

• Damian is the parent of the friend group.

• Regina and Cady have a shared thing for Greek Mythology.

• Karen can and will read their emotions and their entire being if they don't wanna admit something with the most angelic smile you've ever seen.

• Cady sleeps early, but you cannot drag her out of bed at any time before seven.

• Janis and Regina used to have a height chart but not for the "I wonder which one will be taller" reasons that most do, they had it because they were so adamant to know which one of them would be cuddle sized. They never talked about it until one day, in Janis's house, Gretchen fucking found it.

• Don't be fooled by Cady's height, she's feral as shit and will kick your ass.

• Karen is scared of frogs.

• Regina is secretly into flower language.

• Damian has RTC cosplays hidden in his closet. Yes, even Karnak.

• Everyone still wonders how Cady did not cry during while watching Titanic.

• Gretchen is into anime, but not the cutesy ones. The gorey ones. It's a coping mechanism don't judge her.

• Speaking of coping mechanisms, so far, Janis's healthiest one is dying her hair tips/streaks a different color when things go to shit.

• Regina will just hide and come back when she's good. Her friends hate that she does that.

• Karen has once the sent the group chat a gif of a walking sign and it left everyone wondering where the fuck did she find that.

• Gretchen is into romances and she always sees multiple tropes in her friends.

• Surprisingly, now that Regina has her head out of her ass, she actually is a fucking treasure trove of ideal character tropes.

• Damian and Cady carry Hello Kitty band aids around all the time.