#the kicks are fire though

[callmeethaniguess]

I can’t stop looking at this little shit he looks like a poorly decorated cookie

[r-aindr0p]

Mini-rollo invasion : Scarabia

Anypov :

Heartslabyul - Savanaclaw - Octavinelle - Pomefiore - Ignihyde - Diasomnia

[artifeast]

HUGS!!!!!

[energeticpoltergeist]

FE Secret Santa (Bonus)

Ashe for @silversongmsp

an extra submission as not everybody got drawings during @feshippingpolls secret santa last year

[frogaroundandfindout]

Bruce you make me so ill (Batman #416)

[clownsnake]

okay nonbinary character in Orv alert. slay

[merioux]

doing a fifth round of "is this actually gonna get posted anywhere or is it gonna rot in my trinket folder after working my ass for a flipaclip video". this is the thang of the day, cropped close up bcuz i think this part is cute n i dont wanna show too much at the same time

[papermint-airplane]

I have adulted harder today than I have ever adulted before. I have so many adult decisions to think about and my brain is at the point of super saturation.

I am planning on taking the weekend off from adulting. Like, it's not my weekend to work and I still have a job for 2-3 months at least, so taking two days off to recover from all the drama is ok, right?

Someone please tell me it's ok. 😢

[discordiansamba]

also thinking about Keith's relationship with Heath's crew at the firehouse in the runaway paladin AU, because they have to know him. They're all fond of Heath's weird delinquent son.

He doesn't trust babysitters, so he'd often bring Keith with him when he had to stay over on shift at the firehouse... at least, when they'd gotten to the point where Keith could control his shapeshifting. Keith as a toddler just running around the firehouse, because this kid went from crawling to running with no stops in between for walking. Everyone had to pitch in to keep an eye on him, because he seemed to have a talent for getting himself into trouble.

(they would laugh and say he still has one to this day.)

They kind of miss him when he gets older, and can stay home by himself. They'll still see Keith from time to time though, when he's out and about. They offer up one of the walls of the fire station for Keith to do whatever he wants with. He spraypaints a mural of a blue lion curled protectively around the Earth that no one really gets, but everyone agrees looks really cool.

They all know the kid is a little weird. They've seen him lift shit he absolutely should not be able to. They know nothing about his mother. But he's a good kid (despite his multiple arrests).

The half-alien thing throws them all for a loop though. And to think, they could have been poking fun at his dad for being an alienfucker this whole time.

[sesamenom]

apologies for the lack of art lately, i just got new glasses and am still adjusting :(

in the meantime, anyone have thoughts about lomion and tyelpe's relationship in the reverse gondolin au?

[incorrectquotesideas-deactivated]

Person A: Do you want a beer? I’m paying.

Person B, going through the restaurant’s menu: No. Ugh, where’s the good stuff?

Person A, half jokingly: I thought you were an alcoholic.

Person B: Exactly. I’d need at least, like, four beers — without food — to get slightly buzzed, and my stomach can’t fit over 2 beers in it. I’m small. I’ll have a rum, neat.

[dyrewrites]

"He never snuggles with me. I get no snuggles."

"Well, maybe if you weren't so mean to him. You're so mean to him."

"He's a little asshole."

"Yeah, because you're mean to him. Maybe stop perpetuating the cycle. You're being mean, he's just a dumb cat."

Our senior kitty loves my husband more.

We used to both get bedtime snuggles, as he'd sleep between us as a kitten. Since our schedules changed and we don't sleep at the same time anymore, Mr. Nefarious snuggles my husband only. Real cute too, like a teddy bear he is with him.

We have a very big bed, that feels bigger when you're in it alone, and yet this little fucker has decided to make it worse. Does Neffers (what we call him) take pity on me and give me kitty snuggles?

No.

When I get in bed I get kicked and yelled at and shoved as much as his tiny body can shove (it is not tiny, he's a big cat). If none of this works, he bites me. If I try to snuggle him, thinking maybe he just wants attention, he bites me. He purrs the entire time. He loves to bite me.

So that up there was my husband blaming me for this, because I will shove Neffers' furry little ass right out the bed, right out the room and shut the fucking door. Granted, he laughed as he said it, because he knows damn well that has nothing to do with it. He also locks him out sometimes (because he wakes him up for pets, doesn't wake me up for pets).

There's no preventing this behavior.

As a kitten, he was a downright menace. This is actually better. Doesn't make it any fun when you're trying to sleep.

[compacflt]

do you have any book recs in general? i love your writing style and would love to know what inspires you! <3

four books that i can say really genuinely inspired me and my writing in terms of most to least favorite (of course these are all favorites but they can still be ranked)

Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer — for masterful use of symbolism, epistles, the fact that every time i read it (over a dozen times at this point) i discover something new, and the fact that JSF was twenty when he wrote it—lends some belief that i might be able to do the same or similar. read this book when i was 15 and it is no joke the reason i am at the school I am at right now. long story but… this book makes up a sizable share of my soul

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque — for plot, character, and power of emotion. If you get a good translation, this book feels like a modern piece of war fiction akin to Kevin Powers’ The Yellow Birds or the first half of Full Metal Jacket. There’s a reason this book was one of the first to be burned by the NDSAP in the early 1930s. Absolutely superb & reading this book at 14 right after i had experienced my own sense of unparalleled loss and tragedy genuinely changed my life. A solid part of why i am interested in milhistory

American Pastoral by Philip Roth — for character, specificity of detail, and engagement with politics. I love every Roth piece I get my hands on. He’s gritty and gross and ahead of his time. This book was genuinely devastating to read. It’s so specific it HURTS. Proved to me that details are how you sell a story. There’s like a three-page monologue about how to make women’s gloves, and because of the context every word is more gripping than the last. One of the best ever American authors at the peak of his game imo. Which is not an unpopular opinion, this book is heavily lauded for a reason

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov — for plot, inventiveness of language, and character most especially. Lolita actually isn’t an all time fav for me because I didn’t particularly like the ending (i didn’t understand the role of quilty in the story) but I can definitely say it’s had a clear impact on the way i write and especially the way i narrate. Humbert humbert squeezes out the truth and is so ashamed of the truth that his shame and all his little lies bleed out through every word. He’s utterly absurd but he’s entirely believable. He’s just… I don’t know. He’s just human. In a way that all fictional characters have an imperative to be human, because fiction is a reflection of our own sick and shameful real lives… and that comes out in Nabokov’s diction and syntax. It’s less specificity of detail, like Roth—actually it’s barely specific with details at all because the details are so explicit and shameful—it’s more specificity of LANGUAGE. Beautiful writing for writing’s sake.

But pretty obviously what has affected my writing most is that i moooostly read only straight white men writing about straight white men problems. See above. So my reading list might not be applicable/enjoyable for everyone. i would like to think i write like a straight white man. that’s my goal. my strategy is not to follow in their footsteps or to break glass ceilings but to eventually beat them at their own game. we’ll see how that goes.

[creativesplat]

ok but the monarchs of fe engage are awesome and they needed to be done in this format.