#sideways pike

[layaart]

scapegracers character art part 1: sideways! (and mr scratch)

I started these over a year ago, I think i can finally call them finished!

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Characters, book, and author names under the cut

Sideways Pike/Jing Gao - The Scapegracers by HA Clarke

Humaira Khan/Ishita Dey - Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar

Addie LaRue/Luc - The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab

Xie Lian/Hua Cheng - Tian Guan Ci Fu / Heaven Official's Blessing by by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

[padchai]

Some Scapegracers piccrews I made a while ago :) credits to nuggts! I made 3 for Sideways’ changing hairstyles

[lottiesoka]

The Scapegracers; Sideways, Jing, Daisy, and Yates.

[kaidinspace]

i don’t think i’ve ever used this account before but i need to rave about the feast makers. i never expected to love a book series quite this much but the scapegracers trilogy has helped me through a lot. the feast makers is exactly what i wanted from the third book. the characters, the romance, the writing its all just as perfect as it has been since the first book. clarke has crafted a world so rich in detail and angst that i feel like ive lived and grown with these people. as someone who is a struggling senior in high school, its just been so nice to have this series. i never expected to love a series about gay witches as much as i do. i have a bunch of minor gripes with the book but the story of sideways pike and her scapegracers will go down as one of the most touching and beautiful journeys i’ve ever experienced. time to go reread the trilogy

[rosefinchie]

i keep forgetting to post here so here is some more old art, sideways pike from the NEBULA FINALIST book the scratch daughters aka butch witch series

[libraryleopard]

workin’ on a sideways pike playlist

[effable-as-f]

Idk if the intent was for me to come out of the Scratch Daughters shipping Sideways and Shiloh but like… Sideways commenting on how Shiloh looks handsome in their new clothes… the intimacy of Shiloh bandaging their hand… the emphasis on how the sigil is protection for lovers as Sideways is tattooing it into their skin… Sideways at the end worrying about them being stuck with their parents and thinking about how they need them…. ahh

[itachi86]

"I was about to have an honest to god temper tantrum. I was about to become a werewolf. I was going to eat my family and jump out a window and run into the woods and never be seen again."

-The Feastmakers

[asexualbookbird]

i DO have a Type actually and its Angry Messy Lesbians Who Are Mean but People Love Them Anyway and sometomes those lesbians are men (eliot spencer) and sometimes they're not human (Shesheshen) but always ALWAYS they find love in all forms and so kill me i fall for them every single time

[the-blind-assassin-12]

The things that are going on in this hotel suite between Marcus & Scully are quite literally the ONLY fireworks I care about today. Or ever, honestly. Talk about a BANG. 🎇🥵💀

I know that this part was one of the shorter ones in this series, but that didn’t stop it from being jam packed with amazing moments. And it won’t stop me from going on at length about those moments, either. So here goes:

Drug or no drug - it was the truth. Everything they do and say is honest because they literally cannot hide anymore, just like they can’t keep their eyes and hands and mouths off of each other. They are living their verbal and physical truth and they both know it and my honesty kink is so damn satisfied it’s incredible. I know at this point Reader is still not sure how it’s going to be once the drug wears off, and that makes me a little sad, but once the truth is OUT there’s no putting it back in the bottle. But even though neither of them can help what their saying, I get the feeling that they wouldn’t even if they could. I get the feeling that even without the drug, this level of honesty was right around the corner for these two. But I’m glad that they didn’t have to wait to find out.

Want this. Want you. Want us. Excuse me but this is quite possibly the sexiest fucking thing he could have said in that moment. It’s a confession and a proclamation and pretty damn near a promise and it flings reader right off the edge AS IT SHOULD. Her response of “I knew it” just cements the whole thing: this is what’s meant to happen for them. This is what they’ve been missing and what they’ve wanted. And this is what they could have all the time if they let themselves. Because even though the drug increases sex drive, I have a sneaking suspicion that everything would/will be and feel just as perfect without it.

Good because I’m nowhere near done with you. CAN YOU HEAR ME SCREAMING INTO MY PILLOW?! He means for that night, sure. But does he also mean like… in general? I think so. I think he does. I think he means that he’s got a lot of catching up to do to show her how much he’s wanted this for so long. This whole situation is seriously the BEST instance of delayed gratification I have ever seen.

Also? I just have to put this out there. I’ve told you that I’ve not really been a fan of sex pollen stories on the past. They just haven’t done it for me. But THIS ONE has me rethinking my entire life, and I think I know why now (other than the fact that it’s written so beautifully and with so much care and creativity): it’s because underneath the substance that’s making them fuck nasty like animals, there’s history and emotion and feeling. These aren’t just two strangers who sneezed into the wrong bush and are now using the fuck out of each others bodies with no regard for survival. These are two people who have been repressing these desires because they DON’T want to use each other, they want MORE than that but haven’t had the opportunity to act on it (and this one’s on you, Pike) and now that they’re knee deep in Special Circumstances, they get their chance and realize it’s not just the circumstances. They’re not going to just go their separate ways after this. There’s so much more at stake. And that is what has got me by the throat here. So THANK YOU for choosing to go that route with this. Me and my hopeless heart love a smut filled with feelings.

Seriously folks, if you haven’t given this story a read you are missing out.

The Truth Is Out There: Soft Light

Pairing: Marcus Pike x Female Art Conservator/Restoration Specialist FBI Agent

Word Count: 2,785

Chapter Rating: NSFW - Explicit! (lots of sexual content. language. continued accidental drug use/effects, Marcus in this state is his own damn warning)

Series Warnings: Sex Pollen (with a twist), no use of Y/N, female reader insert, Reader works for the FBI in art restoration/conservation and has a nickname that is used often by Marcus. In this house we cannot stand Teresa and Jane and that is reflected in this story.

Summary: You and Marcus continue to experience the effects of the Lapis … and neither of you will complain about what it’s making possible. 

Author’s Note: Another short one - but this is packed with good stuff. Enjoy. 

Inbox is open, as always. Come talk about Marcus with me!

Masterlist / Unrequited / One Breath / The Truth / This Is Not Happening / Three Words

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Character, book, and author names under the cut

Evander (Andy) Mills- Lavender House by Lev Ac Rosen

Catherine St. Day- The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics by Olivia Waite

Sideways Pike- The Spacegracers by HA Clarke

Malini- The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri

[punksocks]

Astrology Observations No.23

*just based on my experiences only take what resonates

Quite a few people with Chiron in Gemini are singers, talented ones too

We always talk about intuition of Pisces and Scorpio but Cancer placements are also crazy intuitive. I feel like you really can’t fool someone about how you’re feeling with Cancer in the big 6.

Air moons tend to catch feelings when someone is unavailable; earth moons tend to catch feelings when someone is more stable/ambitious than them; fire moons tend to catch feelings when someone is passionate and courageous; water moons tend to catch feelings when someone has sort of dreamy/otherworldly energy to them (that unspoken spark really gets to water moons)

If you wanna seduce Venus in 9th, travel with them or teach them something new

if you want to win over someone with Venus in 2nd/Taurus you should get them gifts (can apply to earth moons too imo- as long as the gift is useful or high end for them)

Quietly I think Capricorn in the big 6 can make you just as domestic as cancer in the big 6, but a Capricorn is usually going to talk about/pay attention their public image more

Someone said the only thing they can’t deal with is someone throwing it back in your face when you try to help them/give them advice (like the other person saying you don’t care or that you’re just in it for yourself) and yeah that’s Virgo mars

Moon square/opposition to the ascendant could have people assume you’re putting on a personality/faking something

Saturn in Pisces is another placement to make sure you watch your mental health, all of Saturn’s consequences come at your subconscious

Do water risings seem to have a theme of like not trying to let their perspectives be colored by some sort of sadness ? (Cancer Asc - nostalgia /which isn’t always sad but if you hear cancer placements talk about it then they often filter their own nostalgia through a certain sadness; Scorpio Asc - traumatic experiences that shaped their perspective; Pisces Asc - a feeling of like ennui, a certain kind of listlessness)

Neptune in the houses can show frequent locations if your dreams (3rd house- school, childhood neighborhoods; 4th house- childhood home, places you’d visit a lot with your family; 6th house the workplace; 9th house places you’ve traveled to or want to go to, etc)

Something we don’t talk about with Chiron in 1st is that it’s an energy amplifier imo. So when you’re healed you give off healing energy, but when you’re unhealed or even toxic you subconsciously spread that energy around (or maybe consciously, a lot of people I’ve known that belittle and nitpick others from a place of insecurity have Chiron in 1st)

If mars aspects your 4th house you may have grown up fighting and arguing a lot, especially with your family but in your childhood environment in general

Taurus placements will have their whole day impacted by a disappointing meal (especially moons- also mars imo)

Aries placements have trouble maturing sometimes bc their sign is then youngest of the zodiac (Pisces is the old man but this can make them unclear and disconnected too)

Aquarius in the big 3 (especially Aquarius moon) tend to be really good at playing detached and calculating (in real life too lol but I’m thinking of Rosamund Pike and how well she sold her cool girl speech from gone girl - she’s a double Aquarius) (also in real life people aren’t always so predictable/controllable so this calculating behavior can go sideways sometimes)

I love how the Pluto in Scorpio generation is making all of this mainstream art about transformation and healing generational trauma (everything everywhere all at once is what I was watching when I thought of this)

Also I’m still working on how to utilize degree theory best but Daniel kwan (one of the everything everywhere all at once directors) has Scorpio moon at a cancer degree (19) and his most acclaimed movie so far is about depression, trauma, and generational curses (I love everything everywhere all at once pls watch it, I cried 3 times when I watched it and I’m a Capricorn moon so you know that means a lot lol)

[lottiesoka]

The Scapegracers

[kaidinspace]

lego version of the coven