#thank you for asking :D

[deluxewhump]

was carlo ever punished for breaking those plates?

referencing this chapter

@doumidas-whumps the rice sorting in your recent piece made me rethink what au max would actually do or want!

Max Holstrom AU (the one where he is Erik's nephew and Carlo was a gift to him)

CW: pet/slave whump, casual talk of ownership, affectionate touching (that is enjoyed),gentle but firm carewhumper master.

In the days following the holiday break, Carlo gathered his courage and approached Max in the front living room.

“I just wanted to ask you when you thought you might…” he trailed off, face growing warm, hoping the youngest Holstrom wasn’t going to make him finish his sentence. 

Max waited expectantly. Unable, it seemed, to read his pet’s mind like his uncle Erik was uncannily good at. 

“At Christmas,” Carlo tried instead, hoping context might help. “When the plates got broken..." Erik’s calm, dangerous voice played like a tape in his head. Take responsibility, Carlo, one would think you’re afraid of the words I and me. "When I broke those plates," he corrected.

Still, Max was patiently waiting for the rest of the sentence. He wondered if it was just to torture him, but immediately doubted it. Max was many things, he was discovering, but he was almost never insincere. 

“You said you would work something out for it later. For me."

Recognition finally crossed Max’s eyes, grey like his mothers. He set down his phone, giving Carlo his full attention. “Right. I did.”

“That was three days ago,” Carlo all but whispered.

“Have you been waiting?” asked Max. 

He didn’t know the right answer to that. And what was worse, he suspected there wasn’t one. He shrugged his right shoulder so quickly it was as noncommittal as if he hadn’t done it at all. 

“I didn’t mean to leave you in suspense,” Max grinned, leaning forward with his head tilted low to try and gain Carlo's eye contact. When he wasn’t granted it, he sat back up straighter. “I really wasn’t trying to leave you hanging,” he said, with much less teasing in his voice this time. “I forgot all about the dishes.”

Carlo was learning that Max’s teasing was apparently harmless, and just beneath it was a vein of warm affection. Still, he was wary with a tone like that. He was more used to it concealing vast coldness, like a thin layer of ice on a black lake.

He gave Max the eye contact he’d denied him moments before. “I bet your mother didn’t forget about them.”

“And she never will, but that’s not your problem. You’re not hers any more than you’re my uncle’s, now. That’s the thing about inheriting something from family, they will forever act like it’s not entirely yours. If that china meant so much to her, she should’ve taken it with her ten years ago when she moved out and gave me the house. And my uncle should not have hit you.”

Carlo’s gaze had wandered but shot back up to his master’s. Max had not addressed the slap in the face Erik had given him that day. He wasn't even sure he was aware of it until now.

“But that’s not your problem either,” said Max. “That one’s mine. I’ll talk to him.”

He was lightheaded at the mere idea of anyone talking to Erik Holstrom in such a manner. And Max still hadn’t answered his question.

He lowered himself to the Persian carpet, kneeling next to Max and letting his chin rest on the chair next to his knee. Max answered the entreating gesture with a hand in his hair, petting softly. “What is it?”

“So...what will my punishment be?”

“I’d forget altogether if you didn’t keep reminding me,” he laughed softly. “I have to take into consideration that it was an accident, that it was partially a dog’s fault, and that you’ve reminded me twice to punish you for it.” He slid his fingers into the hair at the back of Carlo’s head and gave a gentle squeeze. Carlo exhaled in pleasure and thought he felt his blood pressure drop, his eyes immediately growing heavy.

Max was by far the most physically affectionate as well as the most forgiving of the Holstrom men. But for a pet that had been given affectionate touch only ever as a reward, he did not mind. In fact, he craved it constantly from this younger, better natured master, and only realized how much he’d been hoping for it once he’d gotten it.

“I want you to help me with something for my work. It’s tedious, and I don’t really have time for it.”

Carlo pulled back from the heavenly touch, taken aback. He looked up at Max from his knee, imagining unfamiliar computer software and dreadfully important figures on a screen. “I don’t… I don’t know how to do any of that." 

“It’s not hard. I’ll have to teach you what I want you to do, but after that you just need to be patient and careful so you don’t miss anything. I'm not kidding when I say it's tedious work. Can you be patient and careful?” he asked, gliding his thumb over Carlo’s throat ever so slightly, like he was enjoying the softness of the skin.

“Yes,” he said, about to argue. “But…”

“Hey,” Max stopped him, more serious than he’d been before. “This is what I want you to do. It would actually help me. Starving you or beating you with a switch or whatever is really no use to me, and I don't care about it. The plates were my great grandmother’s, yes. But it happens. It doesn't upset me. What will piss me off is if you give me any more pushback on the way I’m choosing to do things with you.”

He swallowed, feeling the light outline of Max’s hand lying so nonchalant on his neck. It was alarming to be chastised by him. He didn't like it half as well as his approval, though it made him tingle in a unique shame that was different from outright fear. “Yes, sir.”

“You mean it?”

He did.

Max, still too gentle to do anything as suggestive as squeezing his neck, lifted two fingers to his ear and pinched the skin of his earlobe so he flinched in surprise but not pain. “Good.”

[cloudabserk]

Do you have a specific watercolor brush pack that you use? I really love your textures

i use the lasso tool on the Sketches app on an ipad! specifically the 5th watercolor pattern:

and since others have asked, i’ll mention that for lineart ive usually used the 1st ink brush or the lasso tool’s 4th paint pattern:

but lately i’ve been using a custom brush i made on procreate, and i’ll export the procreate lineart to the sketches app and color it there with the watercolor lasso.

here’s some examples: the watercolor layers on their own without the lineart, the basic ink brush with watercolor coloring, the paint pattern lasso as lineart with watercolor coloring, and the paint pattern of the lasso tool only:

[kokoasci]

could we have a sneak peek into your colour pallet? your color and art in whole is so captivating and ethereal and I lowkey wanna color like you 🤭

hello !! like the palette i use to color pick from?

i'm not sure if this helps at all but this is a general palette of what i use when coloring (although i mostly just guess on colors, these are just the ones i use most often or like what i put down when im shading)

the blue accents i like rarely use, that's mostly when i try using blue hard light for accents (like in the killua drawing)

[moo-ney]

Stranger for the ask thingy? :]

Send a Charather and I Would List Them

-> favorite thing about them

JSJNDSLDLLSJN I DONT KNOW WHERE TO START

The entire build up before meeting them

This scene probably my favourite scene from their chapter. The implications??? The way it ties to other chapters is just *chef kiss*

-> least favorite thing about them

I don't have one really.

-> favorite line

"What happened to us? What are we? There are parts of us that dead, and the others... They just don't fit. We can feel them moving around in spaces that they don't belong. It's all so uncomfortable. Did you do this? Did we do this? Can... can you pull us back apart? Can you fix us? Please?"

I'm cheating with more than one line but bear with me. These lines hit hard, it is so similiar feeling. You are stuck in your body with others, They are you, but all of you different. You can't move, they can't move. Was it your fault? What happened to you? Can you ba "fixed"? Did you past the point of no return?

My first thought of seeing this scene was "It's so similiar to my experiences..."

"I don't think you're supposed to be fixed."

-> brOTP

Nightmare and Stranger.

"You are like me..."

-> OTP

I don't ship Stranger with someone, they need some time to think about theirself.

-> nOTP

I don't have one.

-> random headcanon

I'll ramble about my Fear and Hunger x Slay the Princess au for a second. Every unidentified people turns into Stranger. Their tales named "Jane Doe." Stranger is part of Living Tales. To the tale, you can a young women cry at night. Don't talk to her, don't look at her. Otherwise you'll be faceless.

They are called "Jane Doe." No one knows their real name, face or anything. They're strangers you would see daily life.

Stranger takes the places of forgotten people. The photgraphs change too. A meeting with them would ruin someone's immersion.

-> unpopular opinion

I think leaving with them isn't better than other Heart Princess' endings.

-> song i associate with them

Eighth Wonder by Lemon Demon

-> favorite picture of them

the reality breaks

[kitkatt0430]

if you don't mind 51 for coldflash, harrisco and hartmon?

51.) What’s a non verbal way they say I love you?

ColdFlash:

Barry is feeling down and suddenly oh no. Captain Cold is stealing from a jewelry store/museum/whatever. The Scarlet Speedster must surely stop him... sure there's a lot of verbal flirting involved, witty repartee and puns flying around. But it's the gesture itself. Barry knows Len's doing this to cheer him up and if that doesn't say I love you then no crime possibly could.

Meanwhile Barry has absolutely also stolen things to cheer Len up. It started with stealing Len's stuff and being rewarded like a cute puppy but it has evolved into them occasionally stealing stuff together. And Team Flash just goes 'I pretend I cannot see and it is not happening'.

Harrisco:

Harry really likes to brush Cisco's hair and then braid it for him. Especially once he let's it go past shoulder length. There's something really comforting about the whole experience for both of them and it's kind of a big deal in that it's Harry asking for something he wants and then being very gentle about it. And then Cisco trusting Harry with his hair which is... not something he really allows to someone he isn't in love with.

Hartmon:

Cisco likes to dress Hartley up in his t-shirts, something Hartley has accepted as gracefully as he can. It helps that the t-shirts are actually really comfy and soft and worn in and smell like Cisco. It eventually becomes Hartley outright stealing Cisco's clothes to wear when he wants to feel comforted/closer to Cisco which, of course, absolutely delights Cisco to no end.

Cisco eventually started stealing Hartley's clothes too. They might be more formal/less whimsical but they were warmer for winter and also soft and worn in and smell like Hartley, which was a bit like getting to have a hug from Hartley all day.

They both know it's something they do because they love each other and so when one of them is committing clothes theft the other feels loved just seeing this. But also knows that the other perhaps needs more feelings of love and support today too.

[croissantlover24]

So I know that Evil Computer wants to murder the celestials but I am very curious on what his dynamic would be with my Mental Casualty Sun.

Because like he wants to make the rest of the celestials suffer and EC (evil computer) wants to kill them

I think they’d get along. The evil computer doesn’t mind making them suffer for what they put him through, either. Death was just the easiest choice for him. They would be like an evil duo haha.

[seven-oh-four]

@water-mellie-seeds OKAY SO !!!!!!!!!!

Marina (the 🐙) is like, very overtly in love with pearl. pearl shows less signs of being in love with marina but it's still pretty clear that she loves her back and they are dating. but MARINA. her computer background is pearl, she uses heart emojis whenever she's talking about her, and her workspace at the Grand Festival is full of Pearl merch.

and also she says stuff like this.

as for pearl! well, one time in a rap battle where she was supposed to be dissing her opponent she spent a whole... stanza? idk what they're called, bragging about her awesome girlfriend (whom her opponent then refers to as a groupie)

and also this got said

and they are holding hands in the Grand Festival artwork and it is the central point of the composition and their fingers are interlocked in the trailer where this artwork is used they are animated to do that little hand squeeze people do when holding hands

also their part of Three Wishes

(also i had to listen to this part of three wishes again to get those screenshots and even just this small amount of exposure to the song is having Effects on me again!!!!!!!!!)

so anyways yeah pearl and marina are gay together :3

[tetsuskei]

risu!! please tell us more about hybrid kujax omg!! do you both have little actions that you do to each other that are endearing? or anything else you'd like to share <33

hiii cora, i ruminated upon this as i was just writing some thoughts in my notes.

grooming:

i think that the way i take care of myself and my appearance is something childe admires. he appreciates the effort i put into my outfits, and adores how i style my hair. he watches me brush my tail sometimes and asks me if i can do the same for him. he’s even more flustered when i will fuss with something he is wearing or if i tell him in passing abt something that would look good on him.

sleeping:

i sleep…a lot. LMAO but he gets cuteness aggression from seeing how peaceful i am asleep. even more ecstatic if i feel asleep on his lap or wearing something of his. i think he also gets a little horny from ideas of wanting to corrupt me while i’m sleeping >_> but he holds back.

fighting:

i won’t openly admit it but watching him fight or train really does make my head spin. scent kink i feel like kicks in from being able to smell his sweat paired with his aftershave. i ask him to show me self defense sometimes and when he does teach me he looks very attractive >_> sometimes i get easily distracted by what he’s saying or doing because, well, look how fit he is! it’s not my fault he’s attractive, idk.

cooking/cleaning:

he is the better cook out of the two of us. it is something he loves doing and i help where i can to learn things and also to spend time with him. he gets really focused on what he’s doing, sometimes lost in his own world which is really cute 😔. cleaning is something i think we both enjoy doing as it’s therapeutic. we both feel very warm inside watching either other do domestic things. often sometimes handsy with each other.

[mythicalmagical-monkeyman]

Can I ask about the LMK Fanon Macaque design? And the Spider Queen x Wukong fake dating au??? I am intrigued :3

oooooh

lol ok, there is not much to these two rn, fair warning Basically I saw people coming up their version of LMK character designs and then I really wanted to come up with one for Macaque, but since I can't draw at a level that does the design justice, I just decided to write a story where Macaque has that design. As for the premise; basically MK and Bai He take Macaque to a Journey To The West themed Chuckie Cheese type place and Macaque gets into a fight with the pilgrim animatronics that entertain kids there.

As for the fake dating thing: basically I really wanted to write something where Wukong and Spider Queen are best friends (because I love them as friend) but then I added ✨drama ✨ by having them fake date because SQ is a closeted lesbian and doesn't want her parents to question why she's still single and Wukong's just a really solid bestie. And then something something endgame ships are shadowpeach and Spider Queen x Scorpion Queen because those are my two brainrot ships :P

[evan-on-the-internet]

for the nosy anons my asks are 7-10, 39,19,43 and 44!

( btw 43 can be a joke or an actual answer, I'd prefer joke tho)

( btw we recently turned moots, if that gives u a hint to who I am 😉)

ur the best! <333

I don't have any tattoos yet, but I'm hoping to get some when I'm older :D!!! I don't have any piercings, and I don't think I'll be getting any :3

I love mint chocolate chip :3!!! It's been my favorite since, like, forever I think :]

Hmm. uhmm. I'm pretty loud a lot of the time :3? (I dunno :3)

L’Manbur–💥💥💥‼️ ← silly enough I think :33

uhmm, this is a random fact about WW1 I know :3!! In the battle of somme, 60,000 british soldiers were killed within the first day, I think :]

I'm assuming you're.. uhh.. @lmanburgseulogy?? 🤔🤔.

[choccy-zefirka]

Hi love your writing its amazing and gives me happy brain chemicals 💜

Is there a specific tag to use to find them all or are they collected elsewhere?

Again love your writing so much 💜💜

Hoooo boy, my blog is very disorganized and Tumblr's lack of search function does not help matters. I had all my tags up in my pinned at some point, but then they just... decided to stop working??? So I gave up on having a streamlined tagging system. Gods know I tried.

I do tend to tag my art and fic as original things, maybe that might help! And I recently introduced an age gap ship tag for Emmrook and magister Alexius (and some other stuff), for the sake of my friend who does not enjoy such things so that they can filter them out; but if you are drawn to such things instead, it might also be a good place to look!

[jaggededges123]

Niecest Weekend 2024! Gimme the spoilers

hi!! i'm here!! i'm sorry it took so long! i will pitch to you my day two, a canonverse age swap in which nmj goes to a gloryhole to suck strangers off because he wants to service his da-ge sooooooooo bad he doesn't know what to do!

a little snip below the cut:

Nie Mingjue wasn’t very good at waiting. On Night Hunts, he was always the first to confront the guai or whatever else. During conferences, he got jittery if the long-winded sect leaders puffed themselves up for more than half an incense time instead of talking about the relevant topics which were to be discussed. When he did meditate, he found himself bored and wishing he could do saber forms with Baxia instead very shortly.

His wait wasn’t very long, fortunately. Just long enough to get Nie Mingjue squirmy, to make him flex his jaw repeatedly in anticipation for what was to come. He came with enough regularity that there were others who gravitated toward the back rooms during the time he was there.

That, too, was a source of shame, that he was indecent with such predictability. If his da-ge could see him, Nie Mingjue was sure that he would earn one of those supremely unimpressed looks that he sometimes doled out. Worse, Nie Mingjue would have disappointed his da-ge on a level that he can only scarcely imagine. Nie Huaisang kept his dalliances private and within their sphere—to go and whore himself out like this made Nie Mingjue infinitely worse, in his own mind.

[galactose-galaxy]

✏️ & 🌈? :)

"Both. Kinda" I use both forms for different reasons and inevitable outcomes. Typically traditional in the form of ink, watercolour, or pastel are reserved for the truly emotional pieces of work I do. The material and the inability to truly erase mistakes brings out a raw and often deeply introspective. The creation process with traditional is far more cathartic in my opinion due to the hands-on-ness, and often I go this route if I truly need to destress and relax. However, digital art is the medium I am most experienced in. So, if I am not looking for the process of creation, and simply wish for the outcome, I will go towards digital. Nothin' beats a sparklecat for the soul sometimes.

"Warm, I think. I try to experiment with colours usually." I genuinely tend to leave things colourless (when not experimenting) or a direct rep of how I want the thing perceived. Such as an exact colour of the character I am drawing just shifted to fit a cold toned environment. Though, it seems I tend to lean towards warmer tones?

[barbwalken]

For Cyrus Pokemon 👀

1. Why do you like or dislike this character?

8. What's something the fandom does when it comes to this character that you despise?

24. What other character from another fandom of yours that reminds you of them?

And I need to ask you this about Ganondorf:

25. What was your first impression of this character? How about now?

1. Why do you like or dislike this character?

I don't know haha. Cyrus is very different from the type of characters that I like (Giovanni is more like my archetype of fave XD) but with Cyrus a big part of why I like him so much as a character has to do with Pokespe and his interactions with Diamond and how he developed in the story (that part where he throws fists with the fucking champion and then the gym leaders is awesome). Also, because in games there is not a lot of info about him (only enough to understand his context) there are many ways to interpret him and I think other games (USUMO and pokemas) did a great job with his character. I love him, he is my boy 💙

8. What's something the fandom does when it comes to this character that you despise?

Hmmm I don't like it when he is represented as a victim 🤔. Like yeah it sucks his parents neglect him, but it also sucks to have the emotions of people erased because the dude can't deal with his emotions. I could also say I don't like how sometimes people underestimate how far he is willing to go just to do what he wants, he is not a good person. But that also depends on which version of Cyrus we are talking about

24. What other character from another fandom of yours that reminds you of them?

I was going to say I don't know, but then I remembered Hajime Saito from Rurouni Kenshin, they are so similar in the way they act so cold and indifferent towards their enemies-made friends by certain circumstances, and they say they won't help them, but help them anyway (at least pokemas cyrus). He also reminds me of Piccolo in that way too

And I need to ask you this about Ganondorf:

25. What was your first impression of this character? How about now?

Oh I was like 11 or 12 yo when I first played OoT, and that was my first Zelda game. I remember the scene where he is riding the black horse through the fucking flames and I was like "Wow how extra. Who's that guy". He is been my favorite Zelda character since then. Also, the scene were he get out from all the castle hubris and transforms into ganon is so damn cool. Also, his voice in oot was so cool too, is my fave ganondorf voice, even if he doesn't have lines haha.

[chewbokachoi]

24 18 35 46 ❤️

From this ask game

18 - what hair products do you use?

Right now--only shampoo. And it is the kind my hair tolerates, but I bought it while moving so I'm gonna finish it gdi. I mean it isn't terrible for my hair, but it doesn't work as well as the shampoo bar I typically use.

24 - if we were together on a rooftop, what would we be doing?

I'd insist we talk about characters and writing and the stuff we like while sharing a box of cookies. ... I mean we could talk about other things but I'm bringing cookies to share.

35 - what’s your timezone?

UTC - 7 / PDT (Pacific Daylight Time)

46 - favorite holiday film?

I don't celebrate Christmas but I love love The Muppet Christmas Carol

[kitkatt0430]

Iris and Caitlin for the character opinion bingo?

Iris

I had to use purple lightning for her bingo markers. Hehehe

So Iris is a character I have sooooo many strong opinions about because of how the narrative treats her. I think she deserves so much better than she gets, especially given how canon doesn't really seem to know what it's doing with her sometimes. And unfortunately there's a swath of fandom that hates her for being the black love interest of a white man, whether they want to admit that's their reason for hating her or not.

I wish she got more focus not just on her personal life but on her work. Iris' job as an investigative journalist was a deep well of interesting plot lines but even when the show did attempt to dip into that well... they wound up sidelining Iris in the mirror world or making her writing the sort of after-event round up. The Central City Citizen's shift from being a small start up to a big name with big offices happened off screen between seasons.

Anyway, I would have the biggest squish on her if she were a real person I knew. I wanna give her so many hugs when bad things happen to her. (Especially after Eddie died and later when Barry gets temporarily imprisoned in the speed force.) Of course I also like putting her in the Situations with the Bad Things. So. I can at least make others give her the hugs.

Now for...

Caitlin

The closest MS Paint was coming to blue snowflakes for her bingo markers.

If canon didn't know what to do with Iris then it really didn't know what to do with Caitlin. To the point that she's basically written out of two seasons so that two different alters can front her body in her place. And their inability to write her a love interest post Ronnie without screwing it up somehow (evil, no chemistry, thank god Danielle put her foot down, no chemistry again... and finally evil fake Ronnie) was just... I mean I guess it was good for me as it played into my arospec and acespec headcanons for her but how badly do you have to fail to understand your own character to put her on a shelf for a season twice???

Honestly while I enjoy Frost as a separate character from Caitlin, I still lament the fourth season retcon that made them split personalities and not just how Caitlin was with her powers activated. Caitlin ended S3 with so much promise for her next character arc as somewhere between anti-hero and anti-villain and... the retcon robbed us - robbed her.

And of course Caitlin has her fandom haters. But I think what's worse are her 'fans' who prop her up by tearing Iris down. And... if you can only raise up your fav by tearing some other character down then do you actually like that 'fav' or do you just like tearing the other character down?