#the chaperon is a pain to draw tho

[minne-cerbinna]

I found this redraw I did back in January and thought it was funny so here it is

When you've finally captured your fated enemy but he looks a little too pleased to be tied up in front of you

It's a redraw of this screencap from The Untamed, to be specific. The background on the drawing is, if I remember correctly, a zoomed-in screenshot of the office that Roche occupies in Flotsam in Chapter 1 of TW2?? Cannot remember why, though.

[choccy-milky]

Their kids are so cute omg i'm gonna dir of adorableness

lewis: then die LMFAOO NO BUT FRR THANK UU IM GLAD U THINK SO🥹🥹💖💖💖all the love for them (esp lewis) gave me the idea to draw him deflecting all the attention so ty for giving me the excuse to post it....we luv our aloof distant boi🥰

its funny bc i was JUST talking about this recently, but i dont like pet names at all BAHAH, hence why seb and clora dont call each other anything, not even nicknames.... seb calls her the light/princess/a bird sometimes as playful and teasing jokes, but doesnt actually address her like that. and clora always calls sebastian by his full name as well, bc i was basing her dialogue/my writing off the game dialogue...bc for as close as anne and ominis are to seb, both of THEM call him sebastian in full, so maybe it was a victorian thing that nicknames werent really common? plus clora's so proper that it just feels like its in her personality to always call seb "sebastian"... i feel like if she ever DID call him "seb" he'd do a double take and be like ...HUH? who are you???......are you polyjuiced? LMAO. i do imagine seb calling clora "love" when they get older tho (not in hogwarts) bc i like how simple it is, and imagining him saying stuff like 'careful, love' makes me🫠🫠🫠🫠

aw TYY💖💖 honestly i didnt give the victorian setting TOO much thought, other than making clora more modest/not used to wearing trousers etc. like the actual victorian courting process was that youd ALWAYS be chaperoned by at least 1 other person and you wouldnt be able to kiss or anything, so the fact that our mcs are in a co-ed school with free reign already ruins that, so i wouldnt worry too much about it. a lot of it you can just wave off with the excuse that wizard society is more advanced than muggle society, which is true anyway LOL. i just kept the parts that i thought were fun/made it feel victorian ENOUGH but got rid of the stuff that was too annoying (one big example being the amount of clothing they wear....i said it in the notes for one of my chapters, but i wasnt about to make seb go through like 5 different layers just to touch cloras titty LMFAO) and no i didnt have 1 specific website i used, id just google "blank in victorian times" and look through all the articles and resources i could on that subject, and take little bits of it. SO YEA i wouldnt worry about it too much, just take what you want if you think it could enrich your story, and leave stuff out if its annoying to deal with BHAHA. and GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR WRITING!!💖💖

BAHAHA yeah sebs bark was defs bigger than his bite when it came to actually having kids/getting clora pregnant LOL. he defs loves the pregnancy part, but i feel like seeing her go through the actual labour was super hard on him/made him feel guilty bc he hates to see her in pain, let alone bc of HIM. not to mention that i imagine he would still work even once they have kids, so to leave clora with like 6 kids by herself isnt something he would have wanted to do LOL. once both lewis and celeste are in hogwarts tho i actually imagine seb and clora still doing curse breaking as well (albeit less dangerous jobs/not as far away) BUT YES having a third kid that looks like seb and is sassy like anne would be SO CUTEEE...a happy accident is a good idea too, tho i kinda like the idea of it being cloras idea.....like, she gets baby fever again now that the kids are kinda growing up and sebs like no i dont wanna put u through that again... but obvs seb wouldnt be able to resist if clora was begging seb to put a baby in her LMFAOOO its already as good as done at that point😇😇 AND THANK YOU, and im glad you liked it!!!🥹💖💖💖

@the-kcm-muggleborn AWWW ur right thats so pretty.....ty for showing me!!🥹and im glad it make you think of clora...SHE WOULD APPROVE OF THESE STUDIES👌⭐🌙

[blackjack-15]

oh carmy, your view of jobs -- i'm not one to praise any job i've had, really, but some people do find fun from it

i am continually amazed by the lack of chemistry between carmy and claire. like there's no reason to chemistry test them since, well, it's not like she's a staple of the show, but...i don't think they could have gotten less chemistry if they tried. she's like a weird chaperone taking him to the post office.

the little flourish mailing the license, tho. performer masquerading as a technician, i keep saying it

"at least he's hanging out with claire. that seems moderately healthy" PENNY IN THE AIR

"...who's claire?" PENNY DROPS

and the cut to black after that. the bear is a romcom

"we've hung out so much but we've never actually talked" there might just be a reason for that, madam plot device

mention of drawing for carmy. art fits with his personality, and designing shorts with his love of vintage denim. and he got to meet the guy who made the shorts!

"i wish i knew that then" i said, out loud, "oh for heaven's sake alive". you could have asked, claire.

"you always had so many friends? and i dunno, i really wanted that" ladies and gentlemen, sublimation! also claire's serving her narrative purpose here -- we get to explore carmy's past and the things he regrets/feels he didn't have without a series of painful high school flashbacks

"speaking of dead brothers, do you want to go to a party?" was...was that supposed to be charming? i'm going to say right now it was not, but i really hope it wasn't supposed to be.

claire's like a manic pixie dream girl but she's actually just an average girl with pretty much no social filter and an inability to understand the word no. it's not a compelling character.

is she serious a party

taking carmy to a party is like...i feel like he's like a greyhound in a large group of dogs. his performer instincts might make him okay, but there's prolly gonna be an issue halfway through

this is gonna be painful i can feel it. who throws a rager as an adult when you get broken up with? is this just an excuse to have a high school style party to further explore carmy's adolescence and missed opportunities?

of course it is. it's just gonna be a painful excuse.

he is already panicking.

"we'll stay fifteen minutes, tops" yeah they're gonna be there all night. i know my high school party tropes, thank you very much

[happilylovingchaos]

Thank you for having me @lonestar-s5countdown! Also tagging @decafdino @littlemissmarianna @alrightbuckaroo

1) I have a few Found Family moments I like from each season. Some of them are already mentioned, but I think there are a few not mentioned that I liked:

Season 1: Near-hijabgate (1x03), Mateo’s firefighter exam study montage (1x06), Paul’s “good ol’ boys” argument to Judd (1x07) and TK’s moment of clarity/ group hug (1x10)

Season 2: Cancer remission party (2x02– we get only a second of Tim back-patting but fuck hindsight I HAVE FEELS), the commemoration ambulance for Tim (2x07), the ice cream party (2x10), Catan game (2x11), and the station cleanup (2x14, Billy Tyson and all).

Season 3: The plane landing montage with everyone watching and worrying for Owen and TK (3x08, including the transitions btwn 2017 and 2022), Paul’s CPAT (3x10), and the Nanteo intervention (3x17).

Season 4: Seeing off Marjan (4x05), Paul’s basketball game (4x07), Marjan’s date chaperoning (4x12), the short firefighter vs paramedic row (4x16), and the Reyes-Strand debate (4x18, even tho it’s bts).

2) TK and Mateo, Owen and Judd, Nancy with literally either Paul or Marjan. Considering all the storyline developments and the Grace-shaped hole in the story, I would like Owen and Judd to lean on each other for moral support. This time, let TK in on some of these talks, though?

3) It’d be a draw between Paul, Nancy, Judd and Mateo. But for the most part, I’d probably be a bit too reserved or shy-seeming to approach anyone.

4) I am by nature an introversion-leaning ambivert— honestly, I would alternate between the Tarloft and the Ryder house for the game nights and stay for the camaraderie. The board games/ trivias/ video games? Icing, confetti, gravy, apertifs. ☺️

5) It’d be interesting to see if Wyatt got arrested again in some AU where he stayed in college but still became discontent enough to accompany a bad crowd for (slightly) longer than in canon. Maybe even long enough to be strong-armed into becoming a getaway driver, or he takes over as designated driver at a bar hop gone nuts. I could def see Carlos experiencing deja vu if he ran into and processed Wyatt (he’d probably have had the least to drink— I’d hc him as either having such a low alcohol tolerance that he only had less than half of an alcoholic drink or none, and his breathalyzer count was lower than the rest of the gang), and Judd/ Grace couldn’t pick him up in time. So maybe not bail so much as a supremely awkward first meeting. And Wyatt facing painful disappointment from all three of his found family members (TK can relate hard). And Carlos would never let himself live down the fact that he’s had to arrest four people in his entire social circle (Wyatt is kind of an outlier to him but still. Ouch).

For the first of our weekly countdown tag games, we have some Found Family-themed questions!

(1) What is your favorite 911 Lone Star Found Family moment?

(2) Which platonic pairing/friendship dynamic are you most looking forward to seeing again in season 5?

(3) If you could pick one Lone Star character to be friends with, who would you choose?

(4) Which would you rather attend: Catan night at the loft or game night at the Ryder house?

(5) A character of your choice ends up in jail. Who would they call to bail them out (assuming their romantic partner, parent, and/or child didn't pick up)?

Answer the questions and tag some more people to play! Make sure to tag @lonestar-s5countdown so we don't miss your answers!

Open tag, but also tagging:

@lemonlyman-dotcom @strandnreyes @she-walked-away @ladytessa74 @herefortarlos

@thisbuildinghasfeelings @paperstorm @heartstringsduet @alrightbuckaroo @happilylovingchaos

@fifthrideroftheapocalypse @literateowl @birdclowns @nancys-braids @emsprovisions

@tellmegoodbye @reasonandfaithinharmony @ironheartwriter @bonheur-cafe @tkslittlesway

@goldenskykaysani @toomanycupsoftea @carlos-in-glasses @guardian-angle22 @reyesstrand

@welcometololaland @rmd-writes @lightningboltreader @tinyluminaryzombie @sugdenlovesdingle

[redxblueihateloveyou]

Is it wrong to have high hopes for season 3 episode 12 after season 1 ep 12 and season 2 ep 12 being literally nothing but RinHaru? I kind of just want a repeat of the Australia episode hah, I can dream!!!!

I myself can’t quite place how I feel, like I guess I didn’t lose all the hope, because on the back of my mind it’s still “but they wouldn’t put ‘romantic, right?’ and Rin being his light in credits just because, right?”, but on the front of my mind it’s “they put small rinharus angst there and it hasn’t been addressed” so yeah.

It’s just…. doesn’t everything that’s going on give you like a very weird feeling? I mean, to me except for 3x01 swimming scene and Rin/Natsuya sequence nothing gave me any romantic Rinharu vibes I usually feel when I watch them. I’m basically trying really hard to come up with everything that would make a great explanation, but it all seems very stupid when I look at it, because I know that canonically they’re way past this emotional range of a spoon. It’s Rin and Haru who love to rudely tease each other like “what happened to you? you used to smile like an idiot all the time”, who came up with absurd romantic gestures like kidnapping Rin and putting Iwatobichans head on him or coming unannounced to Haru’s apartment to take him to another country, who fire each other up to the point of undressing in front of the dry pool, who both think that the other one is incredibly beautiful and making each other’s pupils dilate.

I’m like glad we got at least some casual scenes with them last episode, it soothed me a little bit after the “reunion”, but man, compared to even same scenes from previous seasons everything is so fucking dull, I just.. I can’t explain it, everything seems so very like “that’s it?”

Do you like feel the usual excitement for the upcoming tournament? Because I still really find it hard to believe that next episode will decide their future lives! I mean, that’s like huge and I’m feeling like its some casual swimming contest. I’m still like on my theory that Haru just can’t allow himself to relax right now, so he’s holding his feelings back. I still have hopes for him to melt after All-Japan, he seriously hasn’t enjoyed no swimming, no Rin, no mackerel much this season. Draw him a bath seriously. Rin gives me weird vibes, because I know he’s very competitive and he’s always very excited about those things and I’m very confident in his skills too, but isn’t he even a bit nervous, why it all seems like his future doesn’t depend on it or he’s already made it to the team. I’m just not feeling the All-Japan vibes. Idiots that ruined first half of the season legit disappeared, now they’re probably just gonna spring them on us out of nowhere again?

In ideal world they would put the flashbacks of Haru swimming for the first time and how he found his passion, then go to the present when he forgot how to be really happy in the water because of all the events, them losing their first races, them finding the meaning and inspiration into each other again, like Haru learning to do both: compete and not losing the feeling of freedom during this (the way he feels when he swims with Rin), them making it to the team, Haru being finally happy, both smiling and crying like when he found his dream standing on the edge of the pool with Rin in Australia, Rin also crying of course, the hug, THE HUG, then OVA of all the gang celebrating the fuck out of it, and losing Rinharu in the middle of the party.

But sadly this season proved me that they can’t write FEELS feels. I’m just very very scared about them not putting any effort in the Rinharu racing scene, because swimming scenes don’t exist this season. My only hope is that there’s a theory that since the unit director (is that what they’re called) finally came back from the dead (idk maybe he didn’t chaperone the much this season), we might get something, he did episode 1 that contains the only good swimming scene this season which was ironically rinharu. So I kinda don’t really have hopes for any romantic things because why hurt myself like this again, but I do hope they at least make their dream coming to reality a justice, otherwise it’s gonna be just absolute fail.

I don’t think it’s wrong to hope xD, it’s just I wouldn’t fly too high as Australia, because it’s gonna be real painful to fall after that. Even if there is a continuation we won’t see it for a while so better safe than sorry, best scenario they’re gonna surprise you (I have serious doubts tho), worst case scenario you’re gonna be like “oh well, I was ready for this”.