#thank you a lot!💛

[mel-loly]

Heeyy buddy~!!! Happy birthday!! 🥳🎉🎉🎂🎂🍾🍾💕💕✨✨ Sorry for the late greetings (I just got back from school) and for not getting you anything! I promise the moment this exams are over I'll see what I can do •́⁠ ⁠ ⁠‿⁠ ⁠,⁠•̀ (I still need to repay you for that art you gave me (⁠◕⁠ᴗ⁠◕⁠✿⁠)) but yeah! again, happy birthday!!! Hope you enjoy this special day to the fullest!! And don't forget to spend it with the people you love and loves you back!!! ✧⁠◝⁠(⁠⁰⁠▿⁠⁰⁠)⁠◜⁠✧✨✨

Also that birthday art of yours looks incredibly beautiful!! The stunning lightning and the dress!! Not to mention the overall veiw are absolutely breathtaking!! Like you~!! (⁠｡⁠･⁠ω⁠･⁠｡⁠)⁠ﾉ💕💕💖💖💝💝‼️‼️✨✨

Hey mate/p!! Hru? How's your day going??

Thank you a lot!!! Also- don't worry about the present or the time, I really don't care! Receiving such affection is already the most unique, beautiful and important gift for me. That I just have to thank you, a very thank you for everything, for being that wonderful person that you are and for being so kind to me! I really appreciate our friendship, and also your presence! You so sweet, buddy, thank you a lot for being my friend, I love you so much!!!

Oh! Thank you so much, buddy!!! I'm really glad you liked it! I also think that it got really beautiful tbh and it has a very special meaning for me besides the birthday, I used a reference song to do it, a song of overcoming and that helped me a lot in the time when I had a strong depression.. But anyways-- thank you a lot for everything, you literally so amazing, Potato!! I love you really and really much, you so special!!! Have such a wonderful day/night :DDD💖

[retquits]

What is Monroe's hairstyle? Is it a shaggy wolf cut or a mullet? I'm curious!

it may have been a wolf cut at some point, but as he grew older and stopped taking care of himself, it kinda became ... something else 😅

[lifemod17]

About that night the bugs and the dirt

🎥: @raspbrrytea

Kia Forum, night 2 || 09/18/2024

[mel-loly]

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LOOKS SO INCREDIBLE AWESOME!!!! I LOVE IT, IT'S WONDERFUL!!!!!!💖

Don't worry about the time, I don't mind too much about it and you sure can send me whatever time you can! Also- awww, I feel very happy to know this! You are also a great person and you have always been very kind to me, and I really appreciate that, Tsutsuji.. Really, thank you so much for everything, for being the beautiful and wonderful person that you are! I hope to return that care and love to you someday. Love you a lot and hope you have such a wonderful day/night :]💞

A birthday gift for @mel-loly

Without edit

Sorry if I didn’t make it accurate I had a long day.

but I hope you like it and happy birthday 🎉

and this also for appreciation for being nice and kind to me since the first day I met you I just want to say thanks🐝❤️.

[mostly-natm]

Brothers. 🙄💛✨

Since my last post, I have been thinking about the dynamic that Dadi should have with Data and Geordi’s families! And I have decided that a character who is a combination of Data and Geordi would be quite responsible by nature, so he would definitely accept everyone in their families as his own!

That brings us to the art. I interpret Data as being quite patient with Lore, while staying suspicious and keeping his wits about him, because he values having a brother at all. I think adding Geordi’s feelings to the mix would add tension to their relationship, and result in Dadi having much less patience for Lore than Data does. He would take more of a self-preservation approach to the relationship than Data would, and would therefore be even more estranged from Lore. Ultimately, he views Lore as his very, very flawed brother who needs to get his shit together before they can spend more than a few minutes in the same room together! Similar things can be said about his relationship with Dr. Soong.

You can read more about Dadi here!

[art--harridan]

[Image description: A digital drawing of Billy Whitney from the film Society. He is the focus of the piece, shown from the shoulders-up. He is looking to the side with a paranoid and scared expression on his face. Sweat is streaming off of him, plastering his hair to his forehead. It is highlighted with an uncannily bright white. This same white is used to colour the kitchen knife he is clutching in his hands, pulling it close to his chest. Above him, there's a close-up drawing of an sickly green apple with a bite taken out of it. The hole left behind is teeming with worms and maggots, dark red in colour. Below the apple, the phrase "all my fears are real" is written. To his other side, there's three panels which show different scenes of fleshy uncertainty. They share the same colours, deep reds and unappealing greens and browns. The only truly clear panel is the first one, which seems to show a face twisted in agony. The lineart is scratchy and unpolished, and a deep brown. There's a lot of stark shadows. The background is a gradient, with a light pink at the bottom and white at the top.]

Inktober - Day 2 (Discover)

Film - Society (Brian Yuzna, 1989)

[egophiliac]

Hello! I've seen you draw a lot of Kamen Rider and got curious about it and wanted to ask what it's about and what it is!

BTW: I love your art it's so cool and pretty✨️😭😭

thank you! 💛💜💛 Rider's been near and dear to my heart for well over a decade now, and I'm always happy to suck more people into the void. >:)

Kamen Rider is a Japanese live-action superhero franchise; they come out with a new standalone show every year with brand new characters/story/etc. (so you typically don't need to have seen any of the others to understand it). because every show is often totally different, there's a big variety in tone and quality, but I have some personal recs in this post! and you can also take a look at the wikipedia list (under 'main series') and just see which ones might sound good to you. :D (there's also Ride Kamens, the Twstification-style game that I've really been enjoying, though it is only in Japanese right now.)

at its heart it's basically just a bunch of guys in superhero suits having emotions while swinging foam swords and questionable CGI at rubber monsters, and it's excellent.

[mel-loly]

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MUCHAS GRACIAS, ANA!!!!!!! SE QUEDÓ MUY HERMOSO, PERFECTO, MARAVILLOSO, ENCANTADOR Y- TODOS LOS CUMPLIDOS QUE PUEDES IMAGINAR!!!

Muchas gracias por todo el cariño, te quiero mucho, de corazón, nuestra amistad es muy importante para mí y estoy feliz de compartir un poco de mi vida con usted! De verdad, muchas gracias, y- espero que tengas un excelente día, hermosa!💖

¡¡¡¡FELIZ CUMPLEAÑOS MEL!!!!

(Una semana y cumplo yo >:) )

@mel-loly

[sunflawyer]

I know we don’t interact much (mostly because I’m shy) but I just wanted to let you know that whenever I see you show up on my dash, you just radiate so much warmth and positivity through your posts that it’s actually very comforting to see how kind you always are to folks and how inspiring you are! And I’m sorry you been dealing with negativity lately, but I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day/night! (@candyheartedchy)

Oh my goodness Chy!! Hi Chy!!! 💓!!!

This is just so, so, comforting to me 🥹 I'm so happy that I can bring some positivity and kindness for you and everyone! 🧡 I'm still trying to achieve it, and there are lots of obstacles along the way, but I hope I can continue to spread the love around and make the community as welcoming as possible!

I can't believe this! 🥹💗 This means a lot to me thank you so, so much Chy 😭😭💛 I'm so happy you think of me that way, its like the biggest compliment ever...!! You're my biggest inspiration and your encouragement motivates me to stay and keep doing what I love. Thank you, truly! 🥹

i hope you dont mind me drawing coral and abby as a thank you for this message! 🥹💜

[vanessagillings]

Thank you so much to @staff for featuring my work on the radar not once but twice recently, and to the second follower who blazed my post this week.  I’m blown away by your support everyone, you’re all so sweet!  Thank you for liking and sharing my art 💛

[mel-loly]

Happy birthday

Hello Mimi! Hru? How's your day going??

Thank you a lot! Hope you have such a wonderful day/night :]💖

[mel-loly]

Hello there, Ana! Hru? How's your day going??

Thank you a lot for the sweet post!! It clearly made my day and filled me with love! Thank you very much, hope your day also be very wonderful/blessed and that you enjoy it too! Thank you a lot, I love you very much and I wish you all the best :]💖

(Dw about the gift! Your few words are already a big and special gift for me <333)

Happy birthday @mel-loly 💖💖💖

May you be very blessed on this day of so much joy 🧚🏻‍♀️

(I don't know what to give you as a gift)

[retquits]

hewwo i love your fanart BUT i dont know much about ur ocs !!!! is there an oc(s) of yours you'd like to ramble about?? xx

thank you so much for asking?! 😭😭😭 AHH

actually, i'm really obsessed with my fields of mistria oc, monroe!!

💙 i have a full page dedicated to him here 💙 (including his bio and a lot of unpublished art that i'll post here eventually - i'm addicted to drawing him)

he's a very weary ex-adventurer with a pretty unpleasant past who moved to mistria in hopes of just quietly disappearing/fading away. he's malnourished, has terrible posture, doesn't know how old he is, has big feral cat energy, and doesn't know how to handle people being kind to him. i love him and his silly blue farm so much

[dont-offend-the-bees]

I would love for Ponyo AU to hear more about a) the seaside town where Edwin lives or b) how the Night Nurse and Kashi met (something which is never addressed in the Ponyo film actually, I think) - apologies if this constitutes a spoiler for future chapters!

Thank you, my friend! Apologies for the delay in answering, life sure keeps life-ing all over me 😑

I did think about choosing an actual British seaside town to set the story in -- we do have plenty of them to choose from -- but ultimately I decided that in the name of the sort of, dreamy imprecise magical whimsy of the piece, that having an exact town you can point to on a map wasn't really what was needed or wanted.

Edwin lives in a Pushing Daisies-esque small beach town named something whimsical like Bottleby-Upon-Tweed or West Wombling or some such achingly British nonsense, and it's all brightness and noise and candy striped colours in the summer and a desaturated frame of salt-roughened old celluloid in the winter. Those two mirroring states are sort of reflective of our POV characters. The POV of the overall fic is a little muddled, there may be parts where it leans more heavily into Edwin or Charles (the growing up sequence ended up almost entirely Edwin, which I regret a bit now!) but there will often be asides to both in the same section because in my mind they're sort of learning to see the world not just through their own eyes but through each other's; Edwin, who's tired of this grey old place and these grey, miserable people, and Charles, who sees the world on the shore as this big exciting adventure. It's an odd balance and one I defo didn't nail in chapter one because I was still sort of percolating ideas, but there's a tribute to both of their viewpoints in the way I'm trying to build this fictional town around them out of drab and dour things like cold cliffs and beach litter and panopticon-esque family homes that watch you with their beady window-eyes, and out of larger-than-life adventure set pieces like killer seagulls and travelling circuses (woops chapter 2 spoiler!) and the same house again but as a castle on the hill, a stronghold. Essentially, the town is a Frankensteined scrapbook of your quintessential English beachside town, cobbled together by two children with very different memories of how the summer holiday went!

And as for Night Nurse and Kashi, well, I won't go into what the later chapters hold for them, but I have no idea how much of their backstory will make it into the fic, so. In the interest of anyone who wants to keep that part of the fic a complete surprise I'll pop it under a cut!

N.N. and Kashi aren't the focus of the fic, so I wouldn't say I've thought through every aspect of their relationship/backstory, however as soon as their role in this fic revealed itself to me I did get way more invested in them than I planned! In this fic, N.N tends to be referred to as either the sea witch, or the witch of the waves (slight Howl's Moving Castle nod, there!), but she has another name, and a relatively well-known role in ancient Greek mythology. What her history is exactly has been somewhat lost to time, oral histories and retellings being what they are, but she was once a powerful sorceress with a gift for transforming people who crossed her into animals. She's had various romantic entanglements and a number of children, all lost to her now.

She'd always lived by the sea and done a number of dealings with some famous -- or infamous -- sea-dwellers, so it was a happy coincidence that one day she happened across a strange and friendly man on the docks. He was an odd man, seemingly totally unbothered by the pain and strife in the world; and she, being a woman who'd lived through a great deal of tiresome human loss and pettiness (of literally mythic proportions), found herself drawn to him. He turned out to be a minor god of the sea and a self-described inveterate wonderer, always swimming from ocean to ocean, never having had enough of all the world can show him, but his kindness and his refreshingly direct manner of speaking seduced her, and she gave up on the world of men for good to live on the bottom of the sea -- and grew to adore it so much that she's now quite sure that the world could do perfectly well without the land or the humans in the picture, actually. They love each other very dearly, in their strange way, they're honest with each other; and she's never begrudged him his lifestyle, or his adventures, or his infrequent and unpredictable visits.

...She does take SLIGHT issue when that ridiculous overgrown seahorse of a man blows back into her neck of the woods with a winsome smile and a fresh batch of magical immortal fish-children smuggled under his arm like souvenirs from abroad, but. Fortunately for him she's been a mother before and even finds herself missing it on occasion; although the sort of broods this man produces are FAR larger than any she's had to deal with in her human years. No wonder she's just a tad stressed.

[lineffability]

sappy little end of year post to celebrate my own personal lovingly curated corner of fandom that I've been enjoying immensely this year, full of correct opinions, good takes and little drama 😌😌✨

three special shout-outs to very lovely people:

@crowleyholmes chii you're such a ray of sunshine and your lovely tags and enthusiasm were just too fucking contagious, even before I was following you I kept thinking 'how can someone be THIS nice' but then you started talking to me and you ARE, aren't you 💛😌 glad to know you, you're a delight and, dare I say it, a friend

@chernozemm what can I say - I adore you, zemmie, ever since we started talking it feels we've barely stopped, I love bouncing ideas and headcanons and fics and just anything, really, off you, and you definitely know things, and me <3 just genuinely enjoy your vibe a lot, you gorgeous person

@queerfables you were the first person I started talking to in 2023 GO fandom I think, and we've exchanged auch lovely opinions and GO book memories, I love your fandom-familiarity and metas and you-ness ✨

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also just wanted to shout out some people I've simply enjoyed seeing on my dash, following, writing, reading, arting, metaing, talking, commenting, prev-tagging etc etc, you make this fun <3

@opscuritas @plumbum-art @fellshish @foolishlovers @nice-and-accurate-ramblings @fagziraphale @wraithee @ashfae @voluptatiscausa @gaslightgallows @copperplatebeech @sabotage-on-mercury @ineffabildaddy @crawley-fell @crvwly @gingiekittycat @nightingalecottage @azfellandco @goodoldfashionednightingale @wearecrowley @halemerry @books-and-omens @ineffableteeth @luminousslime @lonicera-caprifolium @mrghostrat @grntaire @snek-eyes @fremulon @focusfixated @aduckwithears

[the-most-cubical-of-shapes]

What is your favorite scene w Data, Geordi, Lore (or any combination of the three), and why is it your favorite scene? I ask because I love to hear people talk abt what they love ❤️

For Lore it's the scene's in "Brother" after getting reactivated. Because we got to see Lore being an evil little gremlin 🖤 before.

But when confronted with his father he suddenly turns into a bratty teen. All the hurt suddenly resurfaces. There is such a desperation in him to be fixed, to be praised. I'm feral for character depth that feeds fandom. And to me this is the moment that really set the spark to write about him

Data and Geordi have a million wonderful scenes (think Holmes & Watson "Geordi? GEORDI?! GEEOORDI!" gay poetry Romulan adventures or Hugh, and any episode of Data adopting a kid AJUFHAJK)

But! the first one that came to mind was one from "the next phase".

The way Data is lost, standing socially awkward, almost on standby as Geordi gets welcomed back. And Geordi picking up Data exactly where he is, pulling him out of the group situation into a safe 1 on 1 and the way Data's voice turns all soft? 🫠🫠🫠🫠