Grover being all sweet innocent cinnamon roll reasurring Percy and Annabeth that he'll be okay staying behind with Ares like he isn't planning 5D chess psychological warfare on the god of war be like
among all your cotton and silk pajamas, you prefer the thinning fabric of his faded tees. there are holes in some of them, just a few more seams away from their undoing as they fit far too large on you—but that’s why you love them.
they’re comfy and worn; lived in with love from the man that you love. when katsuki is gone for days or weeks at a time, you find his warmth intertwined within the threads of his t-shirts. when the fabric presses against your back, the bed doesn’t feel nearly as empty as it is.
(though it can never replace him. nothing can, you fear.)
“hoggin’ all my shirts,” he tuts, but you know it means nothing. the roll of white fabric is neatly folded unto itself, its crisp corners unfurling once handed over.
you giggle, shaking off its folds and fitting the hem right over your head. from the corner of your eye, you see katsuki’s gaze, watching you wrangle the fabric over you as the towel wrapped around your body slowly drops to the floor.
he turns away then, a little too quickly, a little too abruptly. if you look at him now, you’re sure you’ll find flushed cheeks and crimson eyes burning in shame for wanting you so inopportunely.
Tbh, as much as I’d love for Fearne to have a pet dragon to ride into battle with Gloamgut, I feel it’s much more satisfying for her to let him go, especially after Zathuda’s whole spiel of “its in your nature as a fey to take what you want etc etc” and knowing that really the only way to bond with Gloamgut would be essentially forcing him via a blood ritual or taking the unlikely chance that he decides to stay of his own volition by letting him free.
The Zathuda method would have Fearne risk the blood ritual, and honestly an early campaign Fearne would probably jump at the chance to do just that!
But having her choose to let Gloamgut free and not expect him to stay for longer than a night really speaks to Fearne’s character growth and to how much of a self perpetuating lie born out of an environment and culture that accepts it the whole “fey take what they want, its their nature” thing is, it’s not their nature, they may have been raised to be like this but they can choose!
During late evening and early morning, I've been working on ... yet more In Stars and Time fanart. This time with lyrics from Inertia by AJR because I keep running into it around the internet and was like ... you know what? Siffrin.
Now I need to find the motivation to do stuff like this for my own characters
There’s something wrong with the male and female leads....!!!
(Redraw of my first-ever TWSB fanart from 2021 in celebration of Sookym completing the main story [920chs]!! 🥹🌷)
Coincidentally, and to my shock haha, the author decided to drop the last four chapters while I was drawing this. Sitting there after reading the lovingly crafted ending and finally re-drawing the first TWSB fanart I ever made felt very poetically well-fitting for the occasion! Thank you to Sookym, and all of the friends and fellow readers that I have followed along with on this journey for the past few years!!
I'm very excited for the side stories and the webtoon that is coming back for season 2 on the 30th (and with a new adaptation team)! I hope to continue drawing art for this beloved series for longer too!! 🙌