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zeawesomebirdie · 9 months ago

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This is probably just me not knowing how to utilise google correctly but WHY is it so hard to find Western novels about gay men that aren't romance novels

#vent post #not actually a vent lmao but thats the tag #like look #what i WANT to read is basically just;#gunsmoke. except the marshal is gay. nothing else is different #the rest of the story is normal #the focus is not the romance #and WHY is this SO HARD to find!!!!#like COME ON #yes this is user error i dont understand how to google things since they changed the algorithm to be all ads and whatever #but trying to add queer or mlm or whatever to the keyword searchs just brings up romance #and i will not object at all to romances that are a part of the plot #i just #i dont want to read straight romance #i would like to read about cowboys and gunmen and whatever Wild West things bc that is why i am here #and itd be nice if the romance was gay instead of het #ugh #anyway im gonna have to bother the librarians next time i go to the library bc if i have to write this myself i am going to #throw my laptop into the pond #if anyone has any queer and/or mlm western novels to rec lmk pls i need to read things or i will perish

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splinterclan · 2 months ago

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Moon 17.2: Decisions, decisions...

#clangen #story #cedarheart #pansybloom #whorlstar #i'm still doing every other day updates but wanted to drop this so #i can finally be back to normal moon updates for a while! yippeee #myrtle and the rest are watching the kits

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suntails · 3 months ago

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WIPs

#so i finished all the pieces. all 21. and then i thought 'oh wouldnt it be nice if the artbook was like the storybook in the movie'#so now im. making a few storybook pages. yknow. on a whim. dw its only 5 its only 5 more pages #if ppl say im normal they are LYING. im CRAYZEE. ouggghghgh this is so FUN its so funky to work w the story palette it pops so hard #gotta do text tweaking prob in ID rather than PS so i have access to kerning adj but this works for placeholding rn #but yea. heaert haert heyart emojee. i gotta talk to my friend so i can brush up on how to open a shop but this is happening #i hope other chars have creators who are this obnoxiously crazy for them bc i truly feel like silver is my fuel. he keeps me going #my inspirtation the light of my life the object of all my creativity he is eternal #twst #twisted wonderland #twst silver #lilia vanrouge #suntails #the sleeping beauty vibes will never get better than this <3 love that movie #the rest of diasomnia is on pg 4 im excited. All of them. the guys

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fatal-blow · 6 months ago

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one thing i havent seen anyone talk about yet in dungeon meshi is how sometimes the party just fucking. forgets important info. and usually it bites them in the ass but it feels so natural and human. like yeah my ass would probably forget what namari said about senshi's pot too. and then whatever plans the party makes are always built on half-remembered info, autism sauce, luck, and a solid chunk of actual dungeoneering expertise at its core

it's actually what really makes me wonder sometimes if dunmeshi was based on an actual dnd campaign, because the goofy fuck ups just SCREAM "pack of dipshits playing dnd together and NO ONE is taking down notes"

and then ryoko ties it all together into a unique sequence of events that never perfectly resembles A) whatever the reader thinks they might do or B) whatever the party had planned in the first place and turns it and its just augh. its so good!! i wanna see what these freaks think of next!!! what fucked up shit are you guys gonna do to get out of this one!!

#its been a hot second since a piece of media has made me this insane #dunmeshi has me by the fucking throat #dungeon meshi #it all makes me relax about my own story telling too #i worry constantly about keeping all the details straight and Correct #but they often arent because we're all just human #its okay and normal for characters to build a half-baked plan on poorly remembered information #its never contrived when ryoko does it either it just flows into the rest of whats going on #the way ryoko kui tells stories makes me feel like a dog shaking the absolute shit out of its favourite toy

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un-pearable · 2 months ago

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only ninja funding options i’ll accept

odd jobs and miscellaneous shenanigans that result in them ingratiating themselves with a handful of salesfolk around ninjago. e.g. the people of jamanakai having a fondness for lloyd after experiencing both Shitty Little Kid attacking them in s1 and The Green Ninja™ saving them in s4

actual real life jobs between seasons (s2 and 4 ily)

pixal’s investments

residuals from licensing (the ninja video game from s1 and s4 <3. and the movies and the actual merch made by dareth from s6 lmao)

residuals from jay’s TV-Show-Which-Will-Not-Be-Named (now on streaming. it’s real-kid-now-unagami’s favorite show)

ideally all at once. but also? they do not need traditional funding. this is an urban fantasy. they are not paying rent (when living on the bounty/monastery). they can and do grow a significant amount of their own food when they do have a place to live. they have multiple times explicitly started businesses?? after they already were publicly known for saving people? when would the government have started funding them if not then. the ideal ninja state is not worrying about money unless it’s funny, and then they’re spider-man.

#THEY ARE NOT FUNDED BY THE GOVERNMENT. THATS NOT CANON. WHAT ARE YOU DOING #literally nothing has ever implied that why do people keep parroting it #that’s not even a superhero trope the vast majority of superheroes are normal guys struggling like the rest of us #text✨#not ninjago tagging i don’t want to fight about this bc the person talking about it is someone im mutuals with. sorry but #i vehemently disagree #there’s so much more fun to have with wondering how the ninjago economy works than #saying for no reason that they’re taxpayer funded. even fandom makes the superhero thing in s11 more of a thing than canon does #if you need them to make money for story bring back the odd jobs i think zane found his calling as a teppanyaki chef

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puppyeared · 5 days ago

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I can teach you how to be just like me

crying all night, sleeping till three

#did I mention that she’s really sad when she isnt trying to forget the unbearable boredom of being immortal #I heard this song to an animatic and I thought it really suited her so I added it to her playlist lol #I normally draw her in fun bright colors but a lot of the sadder parts of her story get pushed to the side #even if none of my oc stories are really fleshed out I know she has an insatiable nature. her star motif is loosely tied to this I think?#ungrounded and instead of ambitious she can just never find contentness with what she likes or what shes doing #she can definitely be happy though!!! but it always feels fleeting that shes scared the rest of her life is gonna be spent chasing highs #which is way less exciting when u think abt how long you’re gonna be around before everything loses its excitement #what tuck everlasting does to a mf #I think this also kinda bleeds into her relationships and tries to keep her distance so she doesnt get tired of someone she actually likes #it can be confusing since she can be really cuddly utterly in love one second and then kind of distant the next. but she still loves you #her brother I think is on the other end of the spectrum where he tries to live in the moment to avoid thinking abt the future #the avoidance siblings #my oc #oc #Augusta #doodles #my art #myart

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kagoutiss · 1 year ago

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oot zelda doodle i liked :’-)))

#tloz #ocarina of time #oot #zelda #my handwriting is very very bad so i actually added alt text/image description #which i should already be doing with everything anyway. i wanna go thru and update some old stuff with that too #but yeah anyway. all the stuff this series presents about being Fated To Be Something or Fated To End Up Somewhere #even if that thing or place is ultimately Horrible and the consequences primarily occur off camera or post-canon after the Happy Ending #characters who end the story with pretty much nothing and also you find out later they inadvertently cause a far worse disaster #than even the one they gave up everything to prevent #oot zelda’s infinite number of issues and almost guaranteed lack of happiness or normality for the rest of her life #even after ‘fixing everything’ in literally the best possible way she could figure out how. given everything she knew #and then blaming herself for accidentally allowing everything to go wrong in the first place. by trying to fix it #and she was literally just a kid going insane from prophetic visions while simultaneously being disbelieved by everyone around her #except impa but she’s a whole other situation entirely. with a whole other set of baggage on the other end of the spectrum #i just rambled sos so much oops. anyway yea oot zelda #its fine. i throw up when i think about her. its fine

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starry-bi-sky · 1 year ago

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okay so i was thinking of a joke earlier about how in DPDC Amity Park's slogan "a great place to live" is not only city propaganda but also the city lording it over the rest of America for being normal. But then I remembered that, despite how many DCU Cities with heroes in it there are, the amount of cities in America without heroes still far outnumber the amount of cities in America WITH heroes.

So I did a little digging so the joke would still land. Something most heroes have in common is that they operate in major cities. What makes a major city? I found that the general consensus is that the population is roughly over or around a million. THEN I looked up the populations of cities in the DCU that I thought of off the top of my head. So Gotham, Metropolis, Starling City, Central City, Jump City. All of them ranked up to millions in population (most of them were in the tens of millions).

Amity Park's wikipedia describes it as being similar to specifically Philadelphia, Chicago, and San Francisco.

Philadelphia's Population: 1.576 million as of 2021 Chicago's Population: 2.697 million as of 2021 San Francisco: 815,201 as of 2021

Whiiich means that Amity Park if we take that from canon, is probably a major city. There are approximately 19,000 cities in America with probably less than a hundred that are major cities. Adding the DCU major cities wouldn't skew the data too much.

Which MEANS that I can make the joke that Amity Park's "great place to live" is not only just typical city propaganda, but also its Amity Park lording it over the other major cities for being one of the only major cities that doesn't have problems bad enough to warrant a superhero or a vigilante. Cue stage left the Fentons and Phantom :)

Amity Parkers were probably SO proud that they didn't need a superhero. They didn't have to worry about things like 'world ending threats' and 'super-powered individuals' and 'staggering property damage'. And then enter Fentons.

It also could be used as an excuse for why nobody took notice to Amity Park getting ghosts if folks like me aren't huge fans of the notion of a media blackout via Tucker, Technus, or the US Government. Or if you want to keep Amity Park as its urban city self. Amity Park's news on ghosts gets drowned out in a week because there's news on more popular, well-known cities going on every other day. The shit going on in Amity Park is every other major city's regular Tuesday and it gets filtered as such.

#dp x dc #dp x dc crossover #dpxdc #dpdc #plus amity suddenly going 'we have ghosts' could be seen as a case of city-wide FOMO finally hitting so nobody believes them #and thats if the belief of ghosts not being real is as strong as it is in dp canon #the media blackout could also be /city-induced/ too #where amity parkers are so proud of being 'normal' and 'not having superheros' that many of them try and deny the existence of Phantom #and the mayor and news sources themselves just. stubbornly refuse to let news of ghosts get out to the other cities #do you know how much shit they'll get?? they'll be a laughingstock!#gothamites would never leave them alone. neither would central city or the metropolitans or starling city or--#the other big cities will make fun of them :(#my new favorite hc that stemmed from this is that every major city in the dcu is rivaling with each other #there's a lot you can experiment with this idea imo lmao #this whole post sums up my writing and thinking process pr well tbh #this stemmed because im making a childhood friends au short story doc and wanted to avoid the typical tropes about how AP went undetected #from the rest of the US. bc. im not a fan of the media blackout idea via tucker/technus/gov and i wanted to keep AP an urban city #so i had to come up with something else #hence me looking into DCU cities and how many there are and realizing that there is a decent amount of other cities other than the main #popular ones and being DELIGHTED because then i could use that as an excuse for why amity went overlooked. bc there are many cities with #heroes in it. so its not surprising if another city gets a hero TOO. plus the news also focusing on more popular heroes and cities so again #the news of amity getting a hero gets drowned out by whatever new thing the JL or someone from the JL did that week

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heir-of-the-chair · 6 months ago

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See I love Pete and Steph and they work so well together because they are the only normal people in all of Hatchetfield

#they are the only normal people in the entire town #don’t try to say Paul is normal bc Paul is so aggressively normal it wraps back around to being weird again #the dm of a dnd podcast I like said that his way of making likeable npc’s is just making them normal people in fantasy land #when everyone is so heightened and part of the story of the world if you put just a Normal Person there the audience will latch onto them #I think it’s especially shown in abstinence camp like the audience goes Yeah that would be me if I were there #it’s less obvious in npmd but the rest of the characters in it are still very heightened and parodies of their archetypes #but Pete and Steph are just actually normal grounded people #like those are the people who could out of everyone in hatchetfield actually exist as real people irl #and I love them #bc they are the only normal people in this entire town #hatchetfield #nerdy prudes must die #npmd #abstinence camp #peter spankoffski #stephanie lauter #her <3333 #lautski #them <333333 #the heir speaks

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evilcokito · 1 year ago

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Lieutenant of Squad 6 " That lieutenant just shows up in the most unexpected places. "

🦇 Lilia Vanrouge 🦇

Requested by: @the27th Thank you for the request! It is a pleasure!! In the end I got out of control with that drawing... couldn't forgive myself if I didn't use the old adult Lilia Headcanon... because Toshiro... is perfect-

[ Going to make all of these as posts so they have a correlation with the ones already made, but I'm going to tag who sends it! ]

🦇 Curiosities:

Lilia appears suddenly if someone says his name or call him. Wherever whenever.

Squad 6 has a special punishment method that involves Lieutenant Lilia cooking.

He is very appreciated in the squad. Takes care of all his subordinates. That makes them want to take great care of their lieutenant too.

Always carries the latest Shinigami fashion.

He doesn't want to interfere with humans.

Also doesn't believe that Shinigamis should focus or be interested too much on the Human World. According to him, things have a place for a reason. Lilia understands the reason for the Shinigami's interest, but believes that all should be done the old way.

Lilia says that he read the above in a Soul Society document.

That document was never found.

No one ever saw him fight... or get nervous. Lilia's Zampakuto?...

Has great ability to sense the presence of others, Shinigami or not. Also has incredible reflexes.

To the olders Shinigamis he seems strangely familiar... reminds them of someone.

It seems that Lilia's clan is related to Malleus's in some way.

Lilia and General Captain Crowley avoid each other.

First Officers Epel Felmier and Jack Howl say they saw Lilia's older brother fight.

#twst #TWST Bleach Au #lilia vanrouge #twst lilia #Bleach Lilia #This Lilia thing is going to get better when the original story progresses. It's going to hit hard.#It's going to take a while but I'll continue putting the rest together. THE CONFLICT IN THIS AU WILL BE PRESENTED IN EVERY PROFILE.#Totally normal with this Au #Im tired but can't fall now... need to draw everyone... in Ending 9... “Baby Its Yuu”(?) help #THANKS AGAIN

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andrevasims · 1 month ago

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Doc Wither, Ash Soot, Rascal Roach, Clumsy Skins

#I only have a handful of post apoc stuff and the rest is normal/modern #so when I was trying to reconcile that with a 'story' for these Fallout raider types I thought well maybe they're just LARPing #ts2 #sims2 #the sims 2 #ts2 pictures #sims 2 pictures #sims 2 #Sirani Sands #Artemisia Isles subhood #sim portraits

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loverboy-havocboy · 1 year ago

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inktober day 7 - drip & 1010 day commander fox

don't worry, thorn is alive!!

this is a mentioned scene in cartography by @cacodaemonia on ao3 (can't recommend it enough)

and a different pov of this piece, also by @cacodaemonia

#text lines 5&6 are from the story #and they are so beautiful #if the rest is dumb that's because it's mine lmao #i love them a normal amount #commander fox #commander thorn #corrie guard #cartography #rcau #reconstruction corps au #clone art #havocboydraws #inktober

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thewallshaveeyes · 6 months ago

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How the HELL did I not share this earlier?? Anyways

#cult of the lamb #shitpost #i am so normal #cotl kallamar #cult of the lamb kallamar #cult of the lamb fanart #meme redraw #yes I gave hym trident-shaped top surgery scars that was on purpose #also I'm thinking abt adding an entirely meaningless and self-indulgent plotline to my fic just cos #but I'm terrified of it taking away from the rest of the story

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intotheelliwoods · 8 months ago

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I have one more thing I want to work on before I get back into updating 2AL regularly, but until then......

#I was going to do a poptart mindscape introduction comic next but like #idk how necessary that is???#I am assuming by this point we all know how the mindscape works right?#> can share memories #> can manipulate what you look like #> and can manipulate surroundings/summon whatever you want at will #I am assuming we know these things????? yeah?#2 arms left #and like! ah #gosh that animation project is scary #the last 2 options are build up comics for it that I am *probably* going to have to make at some point anyways #another part of me entirely is debating scrapping the animation project and just doing that update in comic form instead of animated form #YKNOW LIKE A NORMAL PERSON #idk #rambling #I am at a really weird part of the storyline for 2al where I know what happens next #but its going to be hard to visualize it? if that makes sense?#what do you MEAN these story points cant just get #beamed out of my head and into everyone elses heads #anyways hello thanks for reading this far into the tags #augh ive been very busy!#to whatever wins this poll I may not get to it till the end of the month #or after since the rest of this month is going to be pretty stressful #this is also assuming the animation option doesnt win #I dont know how long thats going to take me......#assuming I even have the guts to finish it

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crownedwille · 4 months ago

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#some thoughts incoming idk if i should share but i need to put them somewhere #it's hard being in the yr fandom since the finale when you don't share the same vision and opinion as the rest #and people make future wilmon posts or write post s3 fics (which many exist now) they just don't align with your idea at all #and they're not exciting to me at all and the whole concept just makes me upset #i don't wanna imagine Wille as a 'normal' person (not that that's ever possible anyway which the show loves to ignore)#like I'm sorry but i didn't come to the show to watch an ordinary love story and have them lead an ordinary life #the idea of Wille being a future king and them navigating that royal life together is so much more interesting #i hate that that isn't canon anymore and when ppl make posts about them it's not about that or that would only be seen as a negative thing #i don't wanna imagine a life where they are 'normal' that isn't appealing to me at all and it sucks seeing everyone embrace it #and it's like you're not allowed to want something else or think differently bc that makes you the bad person and you're just wrong #i can't be excited about their future (also bc i don't really see them going strong in the future with how they messed them up in s3)#(i also didn't want to know what could possibly happen in the future i wanted that to stay open and just be in the present)#and seeing everyone else excited and happy about it makes you feel horrible and very alone and disconnected in the fandom #i don't wanna take it away from them but i also would love to see other takes but that's basically impossible now #am i the only person who feels this way or are there any other who can relate? pls let me know #i already feel like ppl are gonna attack me for this but it's been hard especially now with Simon's month and seeing so many interpretation #navigating ao3 has also become difficult now #it's hard finding fics to read where wille stays crown prince and you don't have to be scared for that to change #i just can't read any canon compliant fics anymore and i hate it bc i hate to disagree with canon #i normally don't do that bc canon is important to me and i don't want to reject it and create my own fantasy #and that's what's upsetting #anyway sorry i had to write this #personal

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sincerely-sofie · 1 year ago

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Cave-in: A comic starring Darkrai, Dusknoir, and an unconscious Twig on an expedition gone wrong.

(Note that this takes place after the ending of the fanfic, and people have settled into having Darkrai in their lives... for the most part. Dusknoir still hates his guts and doesn't trust him whatsoever.)