#thank you for the question :)

[neostellarjpg]

Qhat are your thoughts on jasprose, and more importantly, jasprose and davepeta interactions? Your art is delightful btw 🙏🔥

i didn't think much of jasprose when i first read through, but i like her a lot more now that i actually kinda understand the point of homestuck lol. whenever i think about jasprose, this quote appears in a little thought bubble above my head:

she has the same deal as davepeta in this way, happier when they let go of their relevance to the story and their attachments to gender. her relationship with davepeta is a very cute continuation/parallel to rose and dave's relationship as well. a chill sibling kinship, but now that they've lost the stakes in their lives, most of the walls are down and they're actually able to express their emotions to one another (😭). i like that they're both cat ppl too, it really suits the mischievous silliness brought out in their personalities. the moral of davepeta & jasprose is to be happy and stupid and carefree after the loss of personal purpose. EPIC COLORFUL BFFS

(i also love davepeta's obvious younger siblingisms with jasprose it's very cute)

[hasello]

So the Cousin AU is just absolutely adorable! I was wondering what place would Draxum have in the Cousin world Family? [Also do you allow fanart?]

(I’m glad you like my work!! It means a lot 🩷 also yes I do allow fanart!! absolutely, go ahead!!)

Oh I’m so glad you asked! I was thinking about it a lot actually.

Then at some point, just as we know, Orange would help him and he’d slowly become a part of the family. Although I think Blue would be very hesitant about him, which would make the other cousins unsure about him too, as they’d be worried for Blue. They’d try to like Draxum but it’d be hard when one of your little cousins was so uncomfortable with him.

(I think my Baby Blue comic could be a part of this au. I have an idea for a whole comic tho, about the movie stuff for rise so we’ll see!! 🫢)

So yeah, in the end Draxum would be a dad to the Rise boys and an uncle to the other turtles. I think I like the idea of other Splinters being a little mad at Lou for getting so close to the ex-villain, especially when Blue was so upset about it. They’d come to accept him tho, after they were sure their baby blue started to trust him AND seeing how a relationship makes Lou happier.

That’s it, I think. Thank you for the question, love!! 😚❤️

[junkworldusa]

HI I love my copy of Junkworld btw!! Thank you!!

Idk I might have asked you this before or someone else may have but I was wondering if you would talk some about your art practice like. Routine and the like? I think I remember you doing Lynda Barry exercises?

Well either way thank you!!!!

Oliver!!! Yes!!! I'm so glad!

I have to preface this by saying that I don't even work on art every day, much less comics. Last October I picked up knitting on a whim and spent all my free time making hats while listening to an audiobook of Moby-Dick. I made a lino print for the first time while sending out JW #1, fell in love with it, and have spent the last month or so carving and printing and experimenting. I go on painting jags, collage jags, writing jags, and I have two (2) guitars that are sitting in the corner patiently waiting for asteroid Kiana to circle back to them. I've been this way my whole life, and I am trying to work with it and not against it. HOWEVER. There is a hardcore Type A perfectionist inside me that wants nothing but consistency. This part of me abhors the flightiness, the mutations, the bouts of melancholy -- if there must be a Quest, it cries, let it be towards a singular Goal!!!!

For recovering perfectionists there really is no better teacher than Lynda Barry. She has a list of materials, she has dozens of exercises, she has you set time limits. According to her books she is quite a strict teacher in-class, demanding a lot of time, effort, care, and attention. All of this is wonderful. She boxes you in and sets you free.

"Making Comics" is the essential text. My favorite exercise is Monster Jam.

Here are a few of mine, all done left-handed to minimize the influence of the Type A chatter who lives in my brain. I have dozens and dozens of pages of these monsters. Barry recommends this specific process a lot: lay down the lines under pressure before your brain can catch up, then add color/patterns/details, under no pressure at all, while watching/listening to something you like.

There are several iterations after this - you draw their parents, an older sibling, a lover. Then you go back to the beginning and draw, in 6 panels, the story of their life. It somehow always presents itself.

As valuable as they are, I don't use these exercises to actually make comics nowadays. I use them to loosen up and activate that aforementioned feeling. Most of my comics come from doodles or notes scribbled down in a tiny notebook I carry everywhere. The process of making a longform comic is something I have bashed my head against for YEARS, and now involves divination, random image generation, a deck of Nancy cards, a lightbox, and a ton of panels chopped up and spread out on the floor so I can move them around. This is why I still only work in grids!

[yesornopolls]

Have you spent money on a microtransaction-focused game?

[ams-puppy]

Im curious, what, or how, made you start loving AM?

THANK YOU FOR BEING SO CURIOUS ANON <3 I pick you up and swing you around

easy and light-hearted answer:

I love how emotional he is, and his sentience, and his cruelty, and he's also just cute and funny and who doesn't like a cute and funny guy. and he's so smart and I need someone like that in my life

plus, he was the reason I became host in the first place. he is like the foundation of my existence, so he automatically had my heart

beneath the cut, however, is the real answer, but it's a lot of ANGSTY YAPPING🗣🗣 drawings included

We both came out wrong and are spending our existence pleading to an absent god that we could just be human in the right way, and neither one of us can find it

both of us are split up into fragmented parts of what we were, and we're both so, so angry. and at any point, we could make the decision to get better, but we were raised in hatred, and the comfort of familiarity overcomes the discomfort of healing

I think we hate ourselves in similar ways, ways that reflect back out and make us hate everything else around us, but at the end of the day, it is just our anger at our own flaws and inaction. anger at our own constant, unstoppable overthinking.

always trying to cut off a limb to regrow it stronger, better. better, better, always need to be better.

sp we are DEFECTIVE BUDDIES!!!!!! that can KISS!!!! i want to be a dog . he wants to be a human. that's like the same thing 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[theladyofbloodshed]

1. What OTPs in your fandom(s) do you just not get?

From salty asks

Emorie. I hate it!

Mor goes to Illyria and says it should be burnt to the ground… like that is Emerie’s home? The lgbt representation is so poor that Emerie commented on Mor’s beauty so that must mean she’s gay. Forget that she blushed at Rhys or that nesta was monologuing about how beautiful gwyn is compared to merill and mor!?

[mrsfitzgerald]

I just can't stop about them now 🥹... so I thought, I would love to know what are your favorite Paulchard kisses so far? Maybe a top 5 or a top 10? 🥰 thank you so much for all of your gifs 💛

hi!! again!! 💗 you found the wrong person for this question 😆 I love all their kisses and how can i choose 5 or 10? I could write an essay about each one hahaha 😁💖

but let's try to pick five ✨

#5. idk!! i love their not scripted kisses, this one was totally one of them and i rememeber how i rewatched it over and over, simple, but so sweet 🥹💖 richard looks so fluffy and his big grin after kiss 🥹

#4. for me a good kiss is one that is awkward to look at. like you weren't supposed to see it? 😅 because it's something too personal? very often I wanted to close my eyes and not look and keep looking at the same time? I don't know if that makes sense 🥹😊💖💖

#3. 🤭🤭🤭 pretty happy boys 💖 (and happy schneider in the background heheh)

#2. very very very long one and that's smile afterwards 😭😭😭💗

#1. obvious first place. the best one. very emotional. their looks and hugs. as if it's not the last concert, but they're saying goodbye forever. 🥹💔 I spent months rewatching it and sighing 🥲 dreaming of another tour, imagining what incredible kisses there must be in 2023. and then the rehearsal happened and i was just heartbroken. i'm still sad that they are messing with outro, but i'm really glad that they still love each other and let us see at least some of their tenderness towards each other. there's still a long way to go and i hope that we have many, many more cute things to come 🥹💔💖

+bonus 😁 it's not a kiss, but I often remember THIS and scream! the most disgusting and beautiful thing I've ever seen in my life 😆🥰🥰🥰

+bonus2. when Paul kissed his hand 😭

[sandeewithtwoe]

Sandee I have a question about Fresh!! (I looked through your document and couldn't see an answer but I also might have missed it cause I'm not a great reader so sorry if it's in there!)

When he possesses someone do they just suddenly have the glasses or does he have to find a new pair? It might not have been canonically established but I'd love to know what you think since you're the Fresh guy :o

Hi Charlie!!!

Yeah so it’s not been explicitly said, but I’m pretty sure his glasses just poofs into existence, kinda like the rest of his clothes. You can say he has Elsa’s powers where he just magically changes the host’s clothes to his liking! (Or you can see it as a magical girl transformation idk)

A lot of his powers are unexplained (censoring words, changing the background to random colours, magical rainbow poof, etc) and I think that really adds to the fact that he’s a weird phenomenon that nobody can really understand.

Reminder that Fresh picks outfits that make him look non threatening. I like to think he just looks at magazines and makes clothes that would look the most silly on him. I mean, who would think a guy wearing a crayon jacket would have extreme apathy and trust issues?

If you’re more curious, here’s a page from momma CQ where Fresh finds the glasses for the first time. Granted it’s not canon, but CQ (loverofpiggies) has said that this version of Fresh is very faithful to the canon one and has stated to act like the actual Fresh. So take it as you will.

[virtues-end]

Hello hello! I'm a new reader and I have to say I've become obsessed with your story (may or may not have had dreams about shea......)

I wanted to ask what made you write virtues end? And have you made anything else? Just wondering if there's more goodies out there 👀

Ps which pronouns do you go by?

Hello! Welcome!

Firstly, feel free to use any pronouns. I'm pretty GNC so everything goes. 🤙

I first started working on Virtue's End in early 2020. Pandemic had just started, lock-downs in full swing, and I really was looking for some sort of escape. I've always loved reading, and writing, ever since I could, basically. So I started writing. Just some silly little scifi story that was entirely too dramatic, lol. But I found that I liked it.

And then one evening I discovered interactive novels on Steam. I stayed up late reading several very well-known staples of the genre, and I was hooked. And I'm the kind of person who, when discovering something new, really wants to try it out for themselves. So pretty much the next day, I started figuring out how these things were made, and learning how to code, all that.

At the time, I was also working on a setting for a tabletop rpg campaign. I've always wanted to DM, but I wasn't really comfortable sitting at the head of the table, and just generally being the centre of attention and just... having to do a lot of talking. So I converted some of the setting to fit the interactive game I was working on, and the beginnings of Virtue's End were born. :-)

Many of the themes prevalent in the story are things that I've always felt drawn to. Writing it just felt very natural. The words flowed. Dark (fantasy) settings have always been a big inspiration for me; anime like Berserk, Claymore, and Hellsing, games such as Dark Souls/Bloodborne (and later Elden Ring), Dragon Age, and Darkest Dungeon, books from writers such as Joe Abercrombie, Robin Hobb, G.R.R. Martin, and Sapkowski... just to name a few.

Well, I realised I just wrote an entire essay, lol. But basically I am a little dark fantasy nerd and writing is my form of escapism. 👍

As for your other question, I'm currently only working on Virtue's End, though I've also been brewing a more 'realistic' story set in medieval times featuring knights and royalty and betrayal and all that good stuff--though I suspect it'll be a while before it sees the light of day.

[sanguinesorceress]

What sort of music does the Sorceress enjoy?

The day was long, and her mind was burdened by heavy thoughts as she walked home in the dead of night.  It was no wonder the Magistrix did not fully comprehend what was happening until it was too late…

A hand clenched around Liandria’s arm with bruising force, ripping her into a dark and secluded alleyway.  Another hand clasped over her mouth before she could so much as utter a gasp, let alone scream.  She kicked and flailed, but her assailant’s grip was iron-clad, and they pinched her nose to suffocate her muffled screams.  She could not move, and worse yet, she could not breathe!

His heated whisper washed over her neck, its perverse desire made evident by the way he held her body tightly against his leather armor.  “I have been waiting a long time for this,” he confessed while burying his face in her mahogany tresses.  She smelled like a noblewoman—rich and decadent. He was going to enjoy this.

She could feel the dagger pressed to her throat, understood what would happen if she tried to flee, so she remained obedient as he pushed her, face first, against the stone wall. 

“Be a good girl and make this easy on both of us.  Don’t scream, don’t look back, and I won’t have to kill you once I have had my fun.  Easy enough, no?”

In a sudden wave of recognition, Liandria understood this was the same person who had been following her for days…

…and she smiled beneath the pressure of his palm.   I have you right where I want you.

This was not her face, but a necessary disguise.  Lady Liandria Sunsong was long dead, slain by one of the Sorceress’ champions so she could slip under the woman’s skin and walk the streets of Silvermoon unnoticed and unseen.  Malakortana had been wearing this face for a long time, therefore in the eyes of others, it was her true countenance-- until today.

He… whomever he was, had made his first and last grievous mistake.

“No…” she growled while snaking her fingers around his wrist.  Despite her delicate appearance, he was no match for her unnatural strength bolstered by death’s caress.  In less than a heartbeat the Sorceress whirled and had him pinned, his back against the wall, with the dagger biting into his own neck.  “I would much rather look you in the eye as I watch your soul wither and fade into oblivion," she hissed in annoyance.

“Oy, you crazy bit--!”

Her hand clamped down on his mouth and nose—a courtesy repaid in full.  How quickly the roles were reversed.  ‘Self defense’ was nothing short of exhilarating.

He had nearly cost her everything.  A decade of plotting almost laid to waste because he could not control his urges.  He would pay for his transgression.

His eyes widened in abject terror while his heart hammered in his chest, and its throbbing was felt beneath her open palm.  Her eyes darted to the rhythmic drumming in his neck, and she listened to his heart-song, momentarily enraptured by its steady percussion.

This was music.

She slammed his own dagger into his chest with such force, it pinned him to the stone like a message on a posterboard-- its communication clear to any who might come across it.  Death awaits those who are ignorant.

The melody stopped abruptly.

She felt a pang of remorse, not for the man’s untimely death, but for the absence of music it produced. Such a pity… a shameful waste, she thought to herself as she watched the blood collect at his feet.  The Sorceress wanted to indulge and listen a little while longer, but she also knew this was not the place to hold a concert.  The crimson pool sought to stain the hem of her dress, forcing her to take a step back.

After nearly a decade, this body had betrayed its purpose.  It was time to seek out a new disguise.

@eluviannaa

[kennytheworkingclasshero]

favorite kenny hcs go !!

omg good question, here’s some of my kenny hc undercut:

• he is bisexual/pan/mspec. I think when he gets older, he realises that if someone is hot to him, they’re hot and gender doesn’t matter. I mean, this is a gender non-conformist we’re talking about so he just finds people attractive despite how they may present.

• he loves hip hop. it’s his favourite genre, his neighbour let him borrow one of their hip hop cd’s (something classic, like Straight Outta Compton) and he really connected with what they were saying in terms of their working class struggle and he grew obsessed. His favourite is Eminem and he has a deep connection to the song Mockingbird (I mean, that’s him and Karen) and it regularly brings him to tears.

• he has adhd, undiagnosed and he is regularly distracted in class. however, in high school he has a teacher who recognises the behaviours and tries to help him as much as they can without an officially diagnosis - turns out he’s really fucking clever.

• he’s a drop out on account of trying to get Karen to college and working multiple jobs to get her there, however when he’s a little older Karen encourages him to go back to school (again, because he’s really clever). He starts doing science course in the community college but professors there see his potential and end up getting him a full ride at University of Colorado - Physics major.

• when in college he joins a student union, learns more about workers rights, trade unions, the working class fight etc and joins the fight!

[milekael]

hi hi hi miles, i’m asking all the homies: if you had to add a third person into the royai relationship, who are you adding, and why?

OHOHOHO HELLO THERE >:3c AND THIS IS SO JUICY BECAUSE IT GIVES ME THE SPACE TO TALK ABOUT MY BELOATHED OC

ARTEMI YIPPEEE

This is me joining the FMA OC train SDFGHJ LISTEN YES I AM ADDING A THIRD TO ROYAI WITH MY OWN OC BUT HEAR ME OUT-

SO! The quick idea of this guy is that he is an rogue Alchemist that distributes alchemical materials regulated by the state under the table. Originally Roy went to investigate him to arrest him but at the end they reached a deal of Artemi will help Mustang with operations he doesn't want the military to know >:3c

Now the thing about this bug of a man is that he looves learning, both alchemy and everything about people- Specially people, to a concerning degree SDFGH Idunno if stalker is the right word but he does fit someone who tries to find literally every piece of information on someone who he fixates on. Enter Colonel Roy Mustang, a particularly mysterious, high-ranking officer who holds one of the greatest accomplishments of Alchemy - Controlling fire- at his fingerprints AND HE- DOESN'T SHARE IT!! ROY THINK ABOUT THE ALCHEMICAL COMMUNITY AND OUR PROGRESS!!

This makes him start fixating and stalking Roy, trying to figure out how to get Flame Alchemy out of him and why he keeps it secret. Is not even out of malice is genuine curiosity and a bit of annoyance over someone keeping something secret from him LOL. This eventually leads him to Riza's hometown where he learns about a long-dead alchemist that never interacted with anyone else- Berthold Hawkeye. And finally having made the connection and realizing the key isn't Roy but RIZA it makes him even more obsessed. On her.

LIKE OMG! I ignored her just as another subordinate but she is the key! Kept right in his shadow! So clever! And it turns out is even HARDER to find things about Riza and her relationship with Alchemy. At this point he finds her more interesting that Roy because whatever the fuck is going on with her is so!! Entertaining for him to try and take apart <3

I think he would eventually figure out the alchemical formula is somewhere in Riza's body, and here is where the weird, third-party in the Royai ship bit comes from ASDFGH I mean, he might stalk and find everything about his subjects, but he is not a creep, he needs Riza to show him consensually! He also doesn't want to anger Roy, he likes the guy! So now he is trying to insert himself in their situationship so he can be in the cuck throne getting a good peek at that Flame Alchemy formula....

I WILL SAY he does really like them both genuinely and he doesn't want to hurt them, is just... whatever it is, it is not romantic or even sexual attraction is a weird third secret thing ASDFGHJKL I also want to explore some stuff with him like Royai's relationship with Alchemy and their own morals.... I AM ACTUALLY OBSESSED WITH THIS CONCEPT AND WHATEVER IS GOING ON IN HERE!!! I spin them in my brain

I do really want to do more stuff with him btw I am just. Not particularly motivated to draw or busy 😭But I would like to at least do more art of him! And maybe one day write a fanfic or something who knows... I just have a bunch of random scenes floating in my brain............

Anyways, this is my answer. Third person added to the Royai relationship is my bug of a man who is as obsessed with them as I am...........................

[hasello]

I love the cousins! Question- what name does each Splinter go by? I’m guessing they aren’t all called Splinter.

Yeah, you’re right! They aren’t haha that’d be confusing for the poor tots 😆 here you go:

2003 - Splinter

2012 - Yoshi

Rise - Lou

Everyone has nicknames, they’re in the pinned post! 🩷

[apthepotat]

Who do you simp 4?? 🤨 (I think I already know. . .)

. Uh-

funny that you ask uhm

Any male character that ticks at least some of the things in my

ahem ahem

✨ 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕤 𝕀 𝕗𝕚𝕟𝕕 𝕙𝕠𝕥 𝕚𝕟 𝕗𝕚𝕔𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕒𝕝 𝕞𝕖𝕟✨ list

I’m a simp for em…

But I’ll give you few examples EXCEPT the one you MAY know

1- Ekko

You CANNOT convince me he’s not hot- he got the looks personality he’s the whole package like,,,, I need him I need an Ekko in my life

2- the man himself who when Disney used to be good they got more women than I can count to ask em how their dream guy would be and we got this mf

Like aRE YOU KIDDING ME UGHHHHHH

3- .. Mr.Wolf from the bad guys- LISTEN LSITENWJWKKE

YOU JUST. CANNOT TELL ME HE- LISTEN.

JSHSHSH

I AINT EXPLAINING MYSWLR FURTHER I HAVE MORE THAN 10+ CHARACTERS I SIMP FOR AND I ALREADY AM GIGGLING ANS BLUSHING SJWNSKSJ

I have more but that’s enough

[yesornopolls]

I followed the Haiku Bot and I got a follow back so now we're mutuals and I wanna know how common this is

[ask-elland-n-will]

22) Does your MC have any pets? 😌

I'm excluding owls form this cause obviously everyone has an owl.

☀️ William: a flying horse he used to race on, Granian breed. Never gave them a name! I'm sure there were small pets here and there, like puffskeins, but he was always overenthusiastic about them, resulting in the creatures skattering away. Horses were always fine with him though. I'm sure Papa had a dog or two at some point. But with Will as Hogwarts, there wasn't anything he could bring with him. William will get a dog eventually when he settles down, whatever breed he agrees on with Elland/Monty/other SO (mostly likely something big and fluffy).

🌙 Elland: no pets. His family's horses don't count, it's not the same bond as what Will shares with his Granian, though both Elland and Cyrus know how to take care of horses and frequently ride. Elland might get a dog but depends on AU. In Auror AU it'll only happen if he already has a partner and when he learns to take care of himself and take breaks instead staying at work till midnight. A pet deserves attention, so two people at home at least are a must. He gets the dog sooner in other AUs (mind-healer, professor, or og firework business owner with his brother) because he won't be risking his life and will be with them more often.

🧨 Cyrus is not great with pets, mostly because he is not as attentive as a pet owner should be. He would get lost in his projects, forget to feed the animal or check its water. Not because he doesn't like a pet or wishes it harm but because he is all over the place, doing 1000 things at once. There are always important projects or pranks to attend to, not a quiet slice of life to enjoy.

Elland gifted Cyrus a cactus as a form of a bet at some point: Cyrus has to keep it alive or he loses The Game. Yes, it is that simple to get Cyrus to agree to something he doesn't want to do, just get his sense of pride involved, and Cyrus hates losing bets when it comes to something he can easily do. He just has to water this blasted thing every other week to a month, right?

He certainly forgot about it on a number of occasions. And every time he remembers, he freaks out. Loosing is only part of it, though he would never openly admit it. Most of all he hates the idea of disappointing his brother. The cactus is Elland's gift after all. Every time the plant miraculously survives. But it is not as much about Cyrus being there at the last moment as it is about Elland placing a charm on said cactus. It would survive even without water although it would still be needed for the cactus to actually grow.

Elland is aware of how much Cyrus looks up to him. A little pet project to make his brother more aware of the things that depend on him. Perhaps in the future it will help Cyrus out when it comes to taking care of things that do not bring immediate gratification or aren't there to entertain.

Cyrus ended up slapping googly eyes on it. Sometimes he talks to it about his projects. Sometimes he charms other things onto it to make it less boring. With time he'll come to understand what Elland did, especially when Elland graduates, leaving Cyrus alone in Year 7. And with time, he will also start watering it regularly. He won't ever disappoint his brother!

And then there's a whole situation with pet rocks. He got them as prizes at an Easter event, he was intent on beating Elland at who can collect more Easter Eggs (Elland won). All the rocks he has are special, some are named after his classmates, and one — a reimagining of what de Strontiums would've been like if Elland and Cyrus had a sister.

TLDR: Cyrus cannot have pets, he'll literally just forget.

🌸 Lilith? Does she have a pet? Did she have a pet? Will somebody be her pet? Nobody will ever know but there are rumours she befriended a bear cub in the wild when she was a kid. Or was it a tiger when she was on a trip with her parents that one summer? Who knows.