#this is pretty long oops

[imabillyami]

WIP Wednesday

(It's technically Thursday 8am where I am, so this is more of a WIP Thursday, but then again I never cared much for the rules.)

Tagged by the wonderful @jeysbvck 💜 Thank you, dear friend!

This is something I've been working on for a while, another one of my Samijey snippets. Hope you enjoy.

Warning: We're teetering the edge of 18+ territory (M) for a while, but nothing of the sort actually happens. The word "stop" is used and honored. Because consent is sexy. (Also a bit of angst.)

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When they finally made it to Sami’s hotel room, the Honorary Uce grabbed his waist and pulled him into a bruising kiss as soon as the door had fallen shut behind them. 

Stunned for a moment, he didn’t kiss back until Sami let out a frustrated grunt and put his hands into Jey’s hair, tugging at the strands, dragging him even closer, his mouth turning even more demanding. And okay if that’s how it was - if that’s how Sami wanted to play, Jey would give back as good as he got. 

His own hands wandered down to Sami’s ass, grabbing it roughly to hoist the man up, their arousals brushing together as Sami’s legs came around him, making both of them moan into each other’s mouths. 

With Sami’s weight completely relying on him, he stumbled for a moment, but thankfully caught himself quickly, before they could fall flat on their asses. 

He carefully carried his man across the room, never breaking their contact, their tongues and mouths and teeth still licking and biting and punishing each other mercilessly, and unceremoniously dropped them onto the bed, trying his best to not crush Sami when he landed on top of him. 

Sami’s legs quickly untangled from around him and their hands made quick work of each other’s clothing - shirts, pants, socks, boxers flying all over the place. He was pretty sure he heard one of his shoes knock over a lamp or a vase or something but it wasn’t like he cared - not with Sami all hot and bothered and angry and naked beneath him. 

Yes, Sami was undoubtedly still angry at him, he could feel it in every fiber of his body, every touch, every sharp nip of his teeth, every pull of his hand in Jey’s hair. 

He wasn’t opposed to the roughness of it, hell he welcomed it. It was what was familiar to him.

The anger, the aggression, the disappointment, the fighting. It was way less scary being like this than being vulnerable with each other. So he was almost ecstatic to be finally doing something he was actually familiar with and good at. 

Anger he could do. 

Aggression he could handle. 

Especially if he deserved it. 

And deserve it he did. 

When he ripped his mouth away to bite his way down Sami’s neck, the other man suddenly grew very still under him.

“Stop!” 

One word and Jey immediately drew back, moving off of Sami’s body and retreating all the way to the foot of the bed, until they were no longer touching. Putting distance between their undressed bodies. 

Sami was still where he left him, chest rising and falling rapidly, trying to get his breathing under control. 

When he finally spoke he did so softly.

“We shouldn’t be doing this. Not like this.” 

He searched Jey’s eyes with his own and Jey saw the many conflicting emotions in them - lingering anger, love, care, annoyance, lust, compassion, frustration.

“Alright” he replied, staying rooted to his spot at the bottom of the bed, waiting for Sami’s next move. When nothing but silence followed, he decided to take over. 

“You wanna talk?” he inquired carefully. He didn’t wanna set Sami off in any way. 

He understood why the other man had stopped things before they could get too out of hand - he knew they would probably have ended up hurting each other in some way or shape or form, and he didn’t want that. Not with Sami. 

It was what he was used to, yes. But they were better than that. They were more than that. 

He never ever wanted to hurt Sami. Never again. He knew that was a promise that’d be impossible to keep, but he was glad that Sami put an end to things for now. 

“I’d rather not. I’m too angry with you right now. And I don’t wanna hurt you. And I’m not saying I don’t wanna talk at all. I just need some time to calm myself and collect my thoughts y’know? I don’t wanna say something I don’t mean.”

“Okay. But we’ll be fine?” Sami’s gaze softened at the vulnerability in his voice. 

“Of course Jey. We’ll be fine. I promise.” He reached out a hand and Jey immediately scooted closer to wrap his own around it, holding on tightly as relief flooded through him. 

“Alright. You want me to leave?” Leaving was the last thing he wanted to do right now, but if Sami needed space to himself, he’d respect that. 

“No. No. It’s- I want you here. Just…” 

“No talking for now?”

“Yes.” Sami breathed a sigh of relief.

“Aight, I can do that.” 

Jey let go of Sami’s hand and got up from the bed to collect their strewn clothes from the floor, placing Sami’s at the foot of the bed, before starting to put on his own boxers and joggers. He wanted to feel comfortable still, despite the tense situation between them, so he didn’t bother with the shirt. 

He retreated to the bathroom, mostly to give them both a breather, but also to throw some cold water in his face and cool down what little of his arousal was still left. 

When he looked at himself in the bathroom mirror he berated himself. 

Sami was so good and loved him so deeply and openly, and he just kept fucking things up time and time again. 

And all because he was scared. Scared of his own damn feelings. Scared to share the burden he felt was his to carry. Scared to stand up to his own damn family.

*****

No pressure tags (no idea who did it already and who didn't): @shanie-the-komania-toyaddict @jeyuwuso @harmshake @afterdarkprincess @crxssjae and anyone else who loves writing and wants to participate!

[hinamie]

i don't normally participate in these redraw challenges but it's megumi so i'll make an exception

[remxedmoon]

y’know what? fuck you. *UNGRAYSCALES YOUR ISATS*

no wait come back there’s greyscale versions under the cut :(

[toanw]

my "main" fanseries (i.e. the oldest and most developed) PikaPika Tropica Precure! finally got to polishing their designs ✨

[flamebloom]

pretty patties yknow

[kayomin]

fanart of the fic Washed Up by @slicedmayonnaise

[moeblob]

I'm literally both at the exact same time and I don't know how I've survived this long.

[jellydragons]

tetra is having a Day

[selfportrait27]

HD version of a classic Ween photo (probably AI upscaled). 1992-ish.

[peceraynadamas]

Back to it.

I originally sat down to draw oc stuff and play with grainy brushes but the brainrot got me and I drew the girls instead. And then I drew Rosie and Odette because.. yeah. They are on my mind so often they might as well pay rent.

But at the very least I did get to doodle Cove being cute and terrible as ever. Evil fictional women who feel no remorse my beloved <3

[honeysteaa]

Some cute selfies to help you through your day 😊🩷

[mossymandibles]

Blacked out and finally made a short comic scene of Kraw and Sylvaine’s first ‘meeting’.

After Kraw escapes the Black Loch, he unwittingly ends up in Sylvaine’s care for quite some time. He’s in a sort of fugue state at first, unable to speak and behaving completely feral. After destroying some property upon his entry, he finally drags himself into the nearest dark corner to die. Before doing so, he is found by Ari and Sylvaine, who is determined to nurse him back to health by her own means. It seemed impossible to her that he was even still alive in the first place and she was instantly intrigued by his arrival.

I’d say this is about 15 or so years before he finds Gen and everything.

[kathairoette]

Spirit, Duelist, and King.

[spheciform]

Sad she only got one album out before everything went to shit, but what's a girl to do?

This is a fake album cover for my dnd character, Helvia, and her fake band THREAT DISPLAY!!! Context for this piece and Helvia as a whole under the cut because once I start I can't stop talking about her <3

SO the campaign hasn't started yet, but Helvia is my character for a science fiction campaign. She's robot!!! Well I guess that's obvious now. BUT the basic gist: Helvia was manufactured as an industry-controlled and maintained electronic "punk" singer. When the project ended up making no money, everything related to it (including her), was abandoned. Three years later, she wakes up out of stasis with no clue what happened, an insane debt, and a failing memory. You will look at her !! Her full name is Helvia Cardinalis. This is just a genus of mantis it doesn't have any special meaning I just like bugs <3

-she has generated "background" memories of an entire life, but there's no telling which of those are real. I don't actually know which of them are real. My dm does!!! We'll be finding out together!!

-sometimes she uh. Doesn't know basic information. Whenever something she should reasonably know gets brought up I get to roll a flat d20 to do a "memory check", the checks getting harder the older the memory is. When she fails, she gets to lie or change the topic etc because she would rather DIE than admit anything is wrong with her.

-the album cover is kind of an intentionally really poor introduction of her character. She's more silly than anything? The entire project was meticulously micromanaged by the company that made her. The "novelty" and aesthetic of having a construct as their lead took forefront in its advertisement. There were two other members of THREAT DISPLAY!!! But she has no memory of them because they were considered comparatively SO unimportant to advertising and to her that they have gone... forgotten.

-Helvia herself is. A real character alright!!! Based entirely in what a corporation thinks a "cool alternative girl" is, she's impulsive, selfish, and just. So fucking stupid. She's firmly a "might makes right" type of person who was designed to appear counterculture but still ultimately serve and be fine with the status quo as long as it benefits her. She's going to do anything that grants her immediate satisfaction, and is obsessed with maintaining her image as "cool and above it all", even as her body is actively breaking down. She easily falls for flattery.

Notes about the piece: yeah I downloaded and used splatoon fonts for the nonsense text. I think I typed gay sex like twice I'll be real none of it translates to relevant information. I think there's something in there about how I hope it came across as an adequate parody of machine girl album covers (my main inspiration). The composition of the piece itself is meant to feel kind of skeevy and exploitative because well. It is!! It's drawing the fine line between 'wow this is so cool and counterculture of us wow!!!' and fetishistic? Etc etc missing the chestpiece as an analog for putting a woman topless on the cover. There's actually a separate sketch I did as a canonical "mock up" for the design that originally included the other members, treating them like props because they're so unimportant, before they were scrapped from the final design because they were That Unimportant.

Notes on Helvia's design: I pulled from a few sources for this!! Notably I looked at so many pictures of that band Tramp Stamps. Remember Tramp Stamps? I don't. They're like the direct analog I think to her. I also pulled from vocaloid designs!! Impractical, cool, kind of "anime" feel. This comes across most in her hair I think which is just so beautifully impractical. The yellow gloves are so stupid important to me actually they're kind of ugly but it's the only way her name ended up being important: helvia cardinalis (mantis) is Bright Yellow and raises its 'arms' in its threat display, which I wanted to pull from for potential posing of her!! So. Bright stupid yellow gloves <3 they're an easy way to tell her character apart too & mean I don't have to worry about drawing all the nonsense on her arms. The translucent skirt also comes from the mantis, sort of pulled from its wings!! Original concepts for her included synthetic skin rotting away but her design was already more complicated than I normally go for and we ultimately ended up realizing her being openly and visibly a construct was important for her image in her music career so it worked out well! She is at least missing an eyeball :] doesn't affect vision since the mechanics are still in place but I guess she just gets that fun sans glow socket <3 her outfit is meant to look simultaneously cool, vaguely expensive, but also super super cheap?? Overall I'm happy with the fact that she looks both cool and really stupidly impractical in that classic 2000s deviantart oc way <3 it's important to me! Ultimately:

[mockingjaybirds]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/60354706

(1972 words)

MockingJaylad

Chapters: 1/3

Fandom: Batman - All Media Types

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Relationships: Tim Drake & Dick Grayson, Tim Drake & Jason Todd, Tim Drake & Alfred Pennyworth

Characters: Tim Drake (DCU), Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Alfred Pennyworth, Bruce Wayne, Stephanie Brown

Additional Tags: Tim Drake-centric (DCU), Young Tim Drake, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - Wiings

3 Times a bird breaks its wings

Little preview:

I mean, in his defense, when you leave a child alone in an impersonal museum of a home like that one for long enough they will run out of ways to entertain themselves pretty quickly and they will find more things to do no matter what. Even if it’s dangerous. Even if it involves climbing up a very tall tree. Even if it’s an impromptu solo flying lesson that is doomed to fail.

[the-first-spinjitzu-master]

It’s the first time I’ve used watercolor in years!! I thought I’d practice on my favorite character of all time <3