#the dynamic is SO DIFFERENT NOWWWWW

[snapdragonling]

Both 12’s for Middy and Ozy!

ooh thank you! i'll do this for middy/eniko and ozy/kallux! | shipping headcanons

12. Can they stand silence? Who talks the most? Who talks the least?

middy/enikö — middy is pretty talkative and definitely the more chatty one in this dynamic, but she's fine with silence too, especially knowing that nikö sometimes really needs it. she loves sharing a space with him while they each do their own thing (though she's always offering asides to keep him in the loop or ask his opinion). couples who crossword together stay together, or something.

ozy/kallux — you can't be so close to someone for 50 years and not be comfortable sitting with them in silence. these two are very good at sharing a space without needing to talk, especially if there's a pack of cigarettes involved. ozy talks more and says less. kallux is very direct with his words, and needs fewer of them to get his point across.

12. How are their afterglows?

middy/enikö — middy needs some kind of contact, she simply can't survive without affection afterwards. she really enjoys the slight lowering of nikö's walls in the bedroom and takes full advantage of any increased sweetness or lethargy on his part. i feel like one of them always plays idly with the other's hair while they talk a bit, until somebody (middy) drifts off.

ozy/kallux — ough. well. previously there was minimal contact and zero tenderness. ozy was always quick to pick himself up afterwards, or at most drift in and out of a trance for a bit while talking idly about the day's work. the vibe is very different now. they might still chat, but ozy gets quiet and introspective and a little clingy. kallux is fine with that (he thinks it's cute, and also insane, considering the ozy he knew for so long. kallux spent decades keeping himself at arm’s length due to the nature of their relationship. now ozy doesn’t want to let go of him)

[kaiju-krew]

So I know this is like, a month late (forgot to ask when you posted the pic lol), but what's up with Labra? He got like a backstory, lore, or something like that? I'm curious and wanna know more abt him.

drew him again :3c

UHMMM yes i am lore building for him........ i haven't decided everything yet but i know i want him to be a distant cousin species of goji's. everyone's fangoji lore is different but i def imagine him as a part of my personal monsterverse au rather than existing in his own world with no friends haha loser

putting a cut here so i dont spam people's feeds lmao

likeeee for comparison it's probably similar to Crocodylia encompassing crocodiles, alligators, and gharials?? labra is in a similar niche to zilla for me. goji is the largest/apex species of the gojiran order, whereas zilla & labra are smaller and occupy a different niche. Big bruiser lion vs. carcal or lynx type thing.

my hc is that the vast majority of labra's species (pre-mutation art is what they looked like) was wiped out when ghido got into hollow earth. which is also the same time he wiped out most of the divine moths and a couple other species :''(

it ended with ghido iced but it fucked up the hollow earth ecosystem for a while and led to a lot more radiation leakage since he tore the place up real bad. labra was Almost Dead and ended up hibernating to recover by a radiation vent, but he'd laid down in feldspar vein that kinda grew to cover him and turned to labradorite and idk magic radiation nonsense it fused with him and caused him to grow/mutate.

the ghido massacre also caused battra to hibernate/mutate too so it's a Big Event in my silly au world. most of the kaiju that are clearly a result of mutation fuckery (biollante, kessho too) may be related to it as well but i haven't fully fleshed it out yet. it would mostly be based around goji's hyper-regeneration doing the thing where like.. if a big enough chunk of him gets lobbed off and has access to energy it mutates and tries to regenerate and causes a fucked up clone siblings thing idk omg ok i'm in tangent city good god sorry i was supposed to be talking about my gay son

ANYWAYSSSSSS for more general hc/character stuff: >labra is genuinely terrified of ghido and even gets freaked out when he hears wing beats without warning. (mosu beats rodan's ass bcuz he divebombs labra for fun sometimes) >he lives on monster island and ventures down to hollow earth sometimes, but he won't return to his old home because it just reminds him everyone else of his species is gone. (he isn't even his own species anymore bcuz of the mutation. so they're basically extinct.) >he loves swimming and sometimes just lays in the shallows to absorb sunlight. stretches out like a lazy ass cat. cat boy behaviour >he's loyal to goji and doesn't start shit with humans unless they attack first. even then he does his best to steer clear. >mothra likes his dorsal plates and talks with him sometimes (Moth Therapy) they can bond over ghido hating it's a good time >he has a mutually bitch-bother dynamic with rodan where rodan bothers the shit outta him until he manages to grab that turkey and idk sits on him or something. but if rodan really pisses him off he doesn't mind actually throwing hands because he knows goji won't care if he puts the bird in it's place. >he also likes angy, zilla, and bio a lot too.

there's more but i'll stop there for nowwwww

tldr: big gay lizard is traumatized but doing ok ig

[mikodrawnnarratives]

I rediscovered trinket duo drabbles i dont think i ever posted so

here ya go

Lotsa this i like still, tho its pretty obvious to me where i still had hcs that i dont hold anymore lol

Some of this doesnt reallyyy hold up to how I think of max anymore, given since then ive gotten a refresh on his character, and I think he'd figure out pretty quickly maggie's a criminal. Like... he'd be ON TOP of news still imo hes a smart kid

also ignore any typos

and one last one that I'll give a quick TW menstruation warning for since not everyone is comfortable with that

about this, while i think it would be funny, I do not think Max NOR Adrian would be unsure how to help out, even if they are boys.

At least Max would be smart enough and be educated enough on menstruation to have a general idea on how to help, without getting Nova or Adrian's assistance. And Adrian has like- 3 friends not including Nova that are girls, I think he'd know XD

Also, when i wrote these I had a much different idea of what the children's home would be like for Maggie than i do now. At the time i imagined an environment that was actively DANGEROUS to maggie

nowwwww? uh.

It certainly wasn't GREAT, and would have been much better if she had a family, but it wasn't really abusive aside from some neglect. It messed maggie up from the fact she wasn't valued, she was part of a whole, a dumping ground of prodigies that she'd be the lowest concern out of

another thing

I'd also have Maggie initially be surprised at max buying her stuff, but would then lean into like hell yeah free stuff

but anyway it was fun to rediscover this in my docs, still some things that I still 100% want for their dynamic, like maggie coming in when she wants and making herself home hehe

[lucabyte]

Okaaaaaay so this thing. Happy weekend everybody it's time for some Director's Commentary™!!!

right. so this thing was originally part of a far larger Thing. Sadly, I realised I was absolutely in the wrong medium for what I was trying to communicate with it. After about 5-6 different takes on how I was going to format it I realised I wasn't just out of my depth but just like, not making something condusive to a comic. Still though, I liked what I was trying to communicate and I don't want to just scrap it without giving it to everyone in some form.

So...! In an ask way back I mentioned what i like to call The Isabeau Torment Nexus vis a vis: loop hanging out with the party in postcanon.

Namely the idea of isiloops *almost* happening before loop's identity is made clear. now i vaguely made fun of myself for this in the tags but yeah, no, even if what i draw is all the conflict, like 90% of the time i bash the dolls together in my head its like 😊💖🌺yaaaay yippiee what if they healed and it was niceys even through the rough patches yaaay✨✨✨😊💖🌺 which is kinda necessary for this rugpull, logistically.

So. I point to the link up there. All that still stands. The idea of a like. "siffrin has two hands" ship dynamic forming as Loop slowly re-integrates into the party as a new person and even if it's weird and a little bitter, it's still nice. And if you ascribe to my readings of certain party members (bonnie. it's bonnie*) maybe they even end up becoming closer to them As Loop than they did as siffrin due to knowing their boundaries already and not having Fucked Up Real Bad In Act 5. So they just become another party member with their own unique relationships even if they are a little prickly and unpredictable with triggers, seemingly.

Nowwwww a bit of analysis on Siffrin and Isabeau.

So. Isabeau is a far less well adjusted individual than most initially read him as, and even if he manages to get over the posessive streak he super has, he then has to contend with something else: accusations of cowardice.

While I think pre-game isafrin would be a fucking . catastrophy . i don't know that either of those two would be able to recognise that. and I think that it's likely that Isabeau doesn't really enjoy the knowledge that he chickened out of the confession that consistently. And that, potentially because of this, Sif felt themselves unlovable.

So! Proactivity! Change! Be more forward from now on! Maybe that will help! (and usually it would!)

then, I feel, while we never see how Siffrin truly acts around Loop in a "knowing who they are for certain" state, it would't be an unfair assumption that they may, both, on occasion err on the side of "i probably know what the other wants, since we have the same brain". Which is like, pretty logical, and is at the very least utilised and acknowledged by Loop outright joking about exactly what Siffrin is thinking in-game.

Ergo... Siffrin and Isabeau coming to the conclusion together that maybe they could just close the open side on the polycule triangle, and it'd be cool and nice and solve a bunch of loose ends? If we assume that Loop has cooled off enough to at least be cordial (maybe even friendly!) with Isabeau after however long its been, and that Isa has been charmed by them (almost as if they . kinda like when weird short freaks are mean to him), if Isa approaches Sif with a "hey would this be a good idea?", Siffrin, knowing who Loop is, and seeing that they aren't completely antagonistic of Isa... Well? Wouldn't it make sense? He knows they still love him, right? So..?

and thus. gestures. what if 2/3rds of the polycule had a pretty reasonable idea that seems like it'd go well, and then. it very much. does not.

^^^ AS YOU CAN SEE. TOO MUCH TO REALLY COMMUNICATE EFFECTIVELY IN ANYTHING OUTSIDE OF A REASONABLY LONG-TERM FANFIC which is a thing i will not be doing.

and not only that. god this is way too far off into the future speculative for my comfort. i know i obviously dip into more of a fanfiction-space than a pure-analytical space when drawing anyway, but this is just a little too far off for me.

but yeah. that's this. that's free ball for everyone to play with now, now that it's out in the wild.

buuut. but. i didn't realise i was going way too long with this until after the thumbnail pile started getting a touch insurmountable.

so. since waste not want not, here's my thumbnails. sad i wont be finishing a couple of these since i like their flow and framing but c'est la vie.

these are all from june, including the original version of the one i decided was strong enough to finish on its own. as you can see i tossed the dialogue and changed the last panel due to the more wordless nature. But i do still like a lot of the faces here n such. also its funny to show off how messy it all starts out. Sorry that the speech isn't formatted at all but hopefully it's followable if you try matching it up.

but yeah. god. be free my post. this thing has been a sword of damocles above me for a while since i wanted to articulate. all this. but i think it's fine to just lay it all out like this for everyone to take if they want it.

i suppose the one final note here is: oh yeah btw i think framing this as The Thing that finally makes Loop break and have to come clean about their identity is the fucking good shit. Like they vanish until nearly daybreak that night after this, Sif can't find their dagger, etc, and when they finally come back loop is very blunt about how they have to talk. now. or else. sorry this is fanfiction again. free to take though if you want it im not gonna be writing it 💖

*(bonnieeeeeee..... hijacking this isiloops post to talk about like. god. have you ever thought about how loop could score a slam dunk so easily with bonnie if they remember to treat them with a level of maturity and no-bullshit explanations of harder topics? loop basically gets a fresh no-baggage start with them if they play their cards right, which could lead to a very fruitful relationship? but also uagh. what do you do if you (siffrin) find out your alt-self has become a more trusted figure in the kid's life than you in like no time flat. god. i think about it.)

Olive Branch

Wrong Move

[feysandfeels]

Following up on the what has you most excited for ACOSF, I wanted to ask what do you want to see in the coming books and novellas??

Hiii! Well after what, like three years since we got some new ACOTAR content I have had a lot a lot of time to think about what I want to see in the coming books. As per usual, it’s going to be a long-ish list, because we all know me by now. I am not including things I think we will see in ACOSF so ... yeah...

Mor and Azriel. Needless to say this has been a shit show since ACOWAR, but I have always trusted Sarah’s capabilities to craft a good thoughtful story and do the necessary research to give a good LGTBQ+ representation. I want Mor to get to a place where she does not feel like she can’t tell her friends and I would not mind if we explore why she decided to keep it for herself. I want Az to be on a self healing path where he allows himself to feel all the love the IC has for him. To understand that if there is a threshold of “deserving of love” (which I don’t think there is) that he passed it centuries ago. I want to have Moriel back and have it come in the shape of a deep friendship an understanding and philia. 

For Elain to find her place in the fae realms. I want her to get over that SCUMBAG of an ex and to take sometime for herself to understand these changes that were forced upon her. I yearn to see the delicate strength she has and for her to grow out of the “lady” persona. Not to see that she can’t be that, but I don’t want her to be restricted by it. 

For Feyre and Lucien to make up. I loved the friendship the developed in the second and third act of ACOTAR; and although I do not blame him for how bad it got with Tamlin for Feyre, it is clear that it left some holes in their relationship. Holes that were deepened by Feyre’s actions in the Spring Court in ACOWAR and that were made even more visible when she made those comments on the Band of Exiles ( I love you Feyre boo, but that was a cheap shot). 

For Lucien to find and have a home where he feels he belongs. I would not mind at all if he got way more comfortable with the IC because I feel he could add some nice balance to the group dynamics. But I do want him to have his own group of friends. I mean you are allowed to have more than one found family. I want him to find friendship kinda of love, familial love, romantic love: I want him to know that he is seen and appreciated. I for him to feel chosen. 

Elucien. Listen I get all the hype between Elriel (that’s their ship name right?), I see their nice parallels and how they resemble one another; but I feel that Elucien offers more potential of growth for both characters. I said it years ago and i’ll say it again: you cannot complete a puzzle with two identical pieces (Elriel) you need pieces that complement one another (Elucien). I love the fawn and the fox narrative more than the shadows and the fawn one. 

Nowwwww in terms of like narrative things I would like to see. 

If we got a perspective on the IC getting Rhys’ message when he was being trapped UtM boy I would looooooooove that.

I want to see different courts. Specially Helion’s

Listen I know their story is done, but like... Rhys’ perspective while falling in love with Feyre and ACOMAF would just make me like the happiest okay?? like just a short story... that’s all I ask.. all I need. One novella that covers a bit of everything from his perspective.

The trial the batboys have to go through the Illyrian one. That would be an amazing novella

and yeah... I think this is it. 

Happy release week!!!

[danakin-skywalker]

ho ho ho !!!🎄

merry december 7th my dear! santa is back!

im glad your morning started off better AND i hope that the rest of the day went just as well <3 also thank you so much for wishing me a happy (jacob thomas) tuesday, you in fact were the first person to wish that for me today !!

following up from yesterday... honestly im starting to believe we may be the same person👀. i feel like a physical book can be so daunting and hard to find the time to read as you get older and life just gets in the way. AND i too have an older brother who shows affection through antagonization ����, so i completely understand where you are coming from. i also want to go ahead and say - i love hearing about peoples passions and what they really have to say. and i look forward to sending these messages and getting to read your response each day, so thank YOU!!

with tropes... absolutely yes. that anticipation you feel while waiting for the admission of feelings or for the knight to save the damsel is such a hook to keep reading and it gets me every time. youve already described it all perfectly and i completely agree with you! i also agree that lost boys is a fantastic marriage and an absolute masterpiece!! (also even the most fierce feminists deserve to feel vulnerable and want to be rescued sometimes... no one can rely on themselves 100% of the time <3 OR sometimes the damsels gotta use the knights willingness to save them in the ultimate girl-boss move to save time and effort)

NOWWWWW on todays slightly different questions....

1. surprise! you have just won an all inclusive, week long trip with your significant other danny - how exciting!! but wait... whats this? you have to plan it! where will you go for a week and what will you and danny do?!

2. what hobbies, or other joys, do you also like outside of writing(for pleasure)?

BONUS: what gift would you NOT want to receive from santa this christmas eve? what are your favorite gifts?

remember to gaslight, gate keep, & girl boss hard this christmas... and that santa loves u

🎅🏼

#26

ps. the north pole is a little hectic this week and santa is very very very sorry for later messages ❣️

Santa hiiiiii no worries at all about the late messages it’s a super busy time of year (especially if you might be a student in finals time in which case lord help u I don’t miss that lol). I’ve been kinda liking waking up and running to my ask box and looking at your questions- it’s just a nice thing to wake up to. Regardless, happy ✨Wagner Wednesday✨ time to answer your very appropriately timed question.

Okay so I feel like this answer is a little biased by the fact that we’ve reached the point in the year where I am just foaming at the mouth trying to get my skis on some snow, but I think if Danny knew how to ski/snowboard (which is entirely possible as a Michigan boy) we would be taking a trip to like Aspen or Colorado or Vermont or some nice ski resort where we could ski to and from our little cabins but also go down to the little ski lodge and drink at the little bar but also just go out skiing all day. Maybe there’s a hot tub too. Like even if he can’t ski I feel like I could get him down a hill after a few days. I think I would literally burst with affection if somebody took me on a ski trip. Especially as a romantic getaway. I just love the wintertime like I don’t know if I could justify balling out like that (or spending my winnings in this case) on like an exotic tropical resort or something. I don’t know why, I always saw those commercials and felt like “that would get so boring after like a day.”

So outside of writing, I really enjoy cooking and baking. This has been an important element in my family dynamic for as long as I can remember. My mom was always encouraging us to come in and help or at least watch in the kitchen when we were really little. She would always very proudly say that when I was little and asked for an easy-bake oven, she told me, “We have a real oven right there, what do you wanna make?” Honestly I don’t remember that and I feel like she just likes saying that, but around middle school my brother went through a massive Food Network phase. And I was young and impressionable enough to where whatever phase my brother was going through, I was as well. So we’d just sit in front of the TV watching Good Eats and Diners Drive-Ins and Dives and Barefoot Contessa and all those classics. We would come home from school and he’d be like “ok im making a lemon meringue pie today” and I’d be like ???????? It’s just a Tuesday??? But anyway, long story short, I’m a pretty good chef, my brother is an amazing chef, and whenever either of us are at my mom’s she doesn’t lift a finger in the kitchen because we are preparing any and all meals. It’s the least we can do- we’re sitting at home while she goes to work. But it really is something we both enjoy doing and now that we live really far apart and I only see him a few times a year, we still connect by sending eachother Snapchats of almost every finished recipe we cook.

Okay the bonus question is throwing me off. There are a million answers here. Honestly I’m just excited by the fact that it’s sounding like we’re gonna be great friends even after this, so really don’t worry to hard about the present. I’m literally the easiest person to please ever no matter what you do I will thank you graciously. There’s truly nothing you could give me that would be a disappointment. Whatever form of content creation you’re comfortable with I would be more than happy to receive.

Love u Santa I will continue to gaslight gatekeep girlboss today and I’ll do it with u in mind 🥰