#sorry that this was almost late LOL

[varietysunsets]

Characters: Inari & Dessie & Witchie, Inari & Komari

Rating: General Audiences

Tags: Coming Out, Trans Love and Acceptance, Fluff and (light) Angst, Mentions of Dysphoria, Misgendering and Deadnaming (for the first half; not meanspirited), Using Your Magic Abilities To Help Local Teen Realize They're Transgender

Word Count: 6k

Description:

Inari’s ears drooped. They gnawed on the sleeve of their robes. “The human also asked me for knowledge—they want to understand why they feel the way they do. I cannot even begin to fathom an answer…”

“Oh! Oh! I’ve got it, I’ve figured it out!” Dessie clapped her hands together. “The human is trains gender!”

Witchie blinked. Inari’s ears twitched.

“They’re what now.”

“You know.” Dessie made a vague hand motion. “Trains gender. It’s when a human is born a boy or a girl but they’re not that they’re something else. Although that being said, I’m not sure how the train part comes in. Maybe they need to take a train to figure it out…?”

“Err,” Inari mumbled. “The nearest train station is so far outside Tsuyukusa and way past my domain, I do not think I could influence the human to go that far…”

Witchie pursed her lips. “You dolt, don’t you mean transgender?”

(A young Komari comes to Inari asking for answers, and Inari takes it upon themself to help her discover her truth—possibly to their own detriment.)

For @draconic-distress as part of the summer @bokumonoexchange !!!

[spear-gsun]

Happy 20 years to the Imperishable Night

[revenantghost]

Greetings for new creative year! Orange officially began 2025 production. As well as Trigun Stampede’s 2nd year anniversary, we’d like to celebrate with a greeting. This year we have Trigun Stampede Exhibition in Japan and continue tour efforts in production of Stargaze.

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[sebbianas]

regulus black reads and writes fanfiction

[sunkly]

[emioliravioli]

To Blaze:

What abt Amy do u like so much? Is it her personality, her style-?? :D

"Or... how she always puts others above herself, or how she's always so passionate about everything, or how she looks radiant in every moment, or-"

she then proceeds to talk about amy for the next three hours like the lesbian she is :]

(@sonic-au-collision)

[badnewswhatsleft]

also i found something crazy which looks like the tracks for patrick's live solo performance of sugar shown at the end of the "artist lesson" episode he recorded for garageband ??

apparently he did a lesson for sugar

and a lesson for i don't care

after some digging i found some blessed screen recordings of both (sugar, idc - if u want u can also dl them here!) (they are kinda slightly laggy/unsynced in some places, especially idc, idk if that's a quality of the original lesson or the recording lol)

im curious if those who have garageband.... can view/get these still ?? apparently they were ?? made free eventually for users ?

as a vehicle for tuition the format of the lessons seem a bit shite if im being honest BUT as a trove of really fucking cute patrick+music content it is overflowing with riches and delights and i cant believe it isn't all anyone ever talks about forever and ever /j

[accirax]

the costume design was a highlight

[princeson]

come and getcho gays~ 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

we have: teru being teru and yoshioka he/himple. :)

happy pride month and #26th dimple friday!

(fun fact: this dimple friday marks the halfway point for the year! woohoo! here's to another 26 dimple fridays~ ✨️💚)

[buwheal]

I wanna give him a blanket. Can it maybe just materialize outta nowhere?

(I know fabric wrinkles suck to draw. You don't gotta 😵)

[rolandkaros]

[CHANGEOVERS.]

[purgaytorysupremacy]

oh nuts. a life experience has given me a new layer of perspective on Cas's homosexual declaration of love to Dean.

recently I had occasion to tell a person I had feelings for them knowing full well they didn't feel even a twinge of the same thing for me. while the whole thing was a decidedly unpleasant experience, I kept laughing at myself internally bc I didn't want to say "the happiness is just in saying it" like fucking Castiel over here. (we don't need to talk about it, it's fine.) (I am happier having said it and it's kind of bullshit, but I digress.)

because the thing is, the happiness isn't in just saying it, right? the happiness is in the having. I made a whole TikTok "proving" that the Empty didn't come for Cas when he confessed his love, but rather when he realized Dean loved him back. even for Cas, the happiness was in the having, not in the saying, however brief it was.

and I've always been one of those people who rolled their eyes at the whole concept. why would the happiness be in just being, in just saying it, if it's right there in front of you to have. and then it hit me like a tonne of bricks (as I was washing my kitchen counters).

Cas really didn't think he could have Dean.

at all. in any capacity. he really, truly, and honestly felt to the depths of himself that Dean did not have any twinge of similar feelings, that this really was a Hail Mary shot-in-the-dark. and I think me, personally, really didn't understand that about Cas. that his belief in his love being unrequited was that unshakable.

something else I've been pondering is how audiences have so much more empathy for fictional characters who share traits that IRL they find objectionable and unappealing. but the thing is about fictional characters is that we follow them around in their most private, vulnerable moments. we see Dean mourning Cas when he dies, literally killing himself because he can't live without him, but it's so easy to forget that we're the omniscient ones here.

Cas never knew.

Dean's whole thing was pushing him away, keeping him at arm's length, making it seem like whatever heroic thing he does for Cas he'd do for anyone. he downplays how important it is for Dean to share the Deancave with him, to show him his favourite movies, share his favourite songs. he acts like the things Cas does for him don't mean that much to hide how much they do mean. he uses "we" whenever he even gets in the vicinity of expressing a feeling. "We were worried." "We're glad you're back." "We needed a win." "You're our brother." The audience knew the difference. We saw how he'd clench his jaw or swallow hard or make a face that said "God, I'm being such an idiot". Because we saw him in those little moments. We got to see the cracks in the mask.

but Cas never knew.

the self-hating angel of Thursday was never going to think it was all a way for Dean to protect himself. obviously, that's the delicious tragedy of it all, but what I think I realized at the end of all that is Cas confessing his love to a Dean who didn't love him back wouldn't have worked. Because the happiness really is in the having. If happiness was just in saying it, then The Empty would have come before Cas even finished getting the words out of his mouth.

so Cas's plan wouldn't have worked if Dean didn't love him back.

this is just me yapping on about my own nonsense, but I do think it's really interesting. there's contentment in "just saying it". there's freedom and relief and an unburdening. I think one can argue that it makes being happy in the being easier. there is certainly some joy in telling a person you think that highly of them. but true happiness?

nah.

true happiness is always going to only be in the having. Cas didn't understand the difference until he experienced it, and by then, it was too late.

[thebirdandhersong]

Lol

[lightsonparkave]

Things slow to a standstill as the weather gets colder, burrowing underneath a blanket of frost to prepare for a deep slumber.

The theme for Lights on Park Ave Round 56 is hibernation.

Here are the prompts:

"For Now I am Winter" (Nils Frahm Rework) - Ólafur Arnalds

A painting of a faceless girl by Aleksandra Waliszewska with lyrics from "Class of 2013" by Mitski superimposed on it

Photos of a frozen forest

"Frosti" - Björk

A quote about snow covering and silencing everything from Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson

"Deer Tracks" - Richard Brautigan

Photographs of grand abandoned homes and forgotten architectural beauty by Roman Robroek

Fury tells Steve that he's been asleep for almost 70 years in Captain America: The First Avenger

Photos of abandoned apartments in Vorkuta, Russia covered in snow and ice by Arseniy Kotov

A quote from the Reno Evening Gazette December 23, 1929 issue about wanting to go back to bed on cold winter mornings

Undercover - Line Hoven

"Now i lay(with everywhere around)" - E. E. Cummings

A photo of a snowy field warmed by the winter sun

Photos of Dean Village in Edinburgh surrounded by fog on a quiet, eerie winter morning

"Lamps" - Mary Oliver

Photoset of empty, silent streets cloaked in snow

Photoset of snowy streets at night illuminated by street lamps

Round 56 will end on December 31, 11:59 PM ET (what time is that for me?).

As always, you’re free to jump in whenever you’d like during the round, a wide variety of work types is accepted, and there are no minimum work requirements. Unfinished works and works for other fandom events are allowed. You can find more information about Lights on Park Ave and the participation guidelines here.

[solongshrimp]

Does anybody have pages 5-8 or 19-21 of pancaketiffy's Nautical Disaster anywhere? And does anyone know if the comic was ever continued past page 23? I wanna see if I can archive it somehow.

UPDATE: Did some more digging and found pages 19-21 (though two pages are labeled as page 21, which seems like an accident but they are two different pages, I'll have them listed in order,) as well as a 24th page. My guess is that that was the last page that was publicly released, but again, if anyone knows about pages past this point let me know.

So now all I need to find are pages 5-8, and any possible pages after 24.

UPDATE 2: Found page 7, so that leaves pages 5 and 8.

Pages I currently have:

Page 1 -- Page 2 -- Page 3 -- Page 4 -- Page 7 -- Page 9 -- Page 10 -- Page 11 -- Page 12 -- Page 13 -- Page 14 -- Page 15 -- Page 16 -- Page 17 -- Page 18 -- Page 19 -- Page 20 -- Page 21 -- Page 21 (b) -- Page 22 -- Page 23 -- Page 24

Concept Art -- Sketches -- Cover Sketch -- Cover WIP

[californiaquail]

anyone else feeling fundamentally incapable of adjusting to society. also just discovered there's a 30 tag limit which i can't believe i've never hit before