#this sits on my mind and makes me sad

[fisheito]

collab #2 with @xenole i was given a chibi yakumo and i.. i...... turned it into thiS

[thickenmyblood]

hi maca :) do u already know when you can post chapter 20? im so sad about hiuh ending but also so excited for some happiness :( also, will it really only be 20 chapters or will you add one or two more? in any case, thanks so much for all the time and effort you put into this! I loved every second I spent reading this fic <3

hello!!! well, i was supposed to post ch20 on feb 1st . . . but that obviously did not happen. this month is the month though!!!! I'll try to make it happen before march.

about the chapter: yes, it's the last chapter ever. there will be no more. ever. honestly, I don't think you'll want another chapter after this considering the rough draft I'm working with is 250 PAGES

[javierduffy]

ohh javieran … javieran post kieran’s death .., javier is a poor lonesome cowboy in america a long way from home with no more sweetheart to sit and talk with him ooohhh can anyone hear me ….

[theotherrichardpapen]

...because any moment may be our last. everything is more beautiful because we're doomed.

[seventh-district]

7am, eating cold leftover teriyaki stir-fry for breakfast and crying over blorbos

[sammyloomis]

thought about tara carpenter too much and now im insane

[sga-owns-my-soul]

🥺🥺🥺 my partner sent me $100 randomly with the message "treat yourself" and when i asked him what it was for he just said "you deserve it"

Y'ALL THIS MAN

[wr0ngwarp]

um. uh. hi every body. something evil and malevolent happened in my brain this month.

this is. um. a Jet Set Radio/Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Death joke AU, spawned out of a in-joke that started in a pokepasta discord. my apologies to both the pokepasta and jsr fandoms

the entire basis is the idea that Corn in Future retconned og JSR Beat as leader/founder of the GGs (is beat being leader in the og even CANON?) so Corn and Beat are the Myras. no it's not a joke funny enough to justify how many hours i sunk into drawing these. no attempt was made to change the setting, assign most of the other cast, or otherwise make this au hold up to ANY amount of scrutiny. if i tried to make this actually work somehow then i'd REALLY end up too far gone. also i keep calling myrtle!beat "Meat".

MEANWHILE, IN A BETTER UNIVERSE:,

[obiwan-kenobabe]

I just had the most fucked up and horrific nightmare and I swear my brain was trying to pull me out of it because it kept getting worse but also I woke up in like three different beds in succession in my dream before waking up in real life. Horrifying.

[sebnameyourcar]

hmmm. felt a bittersweet feeling.

[yellowocaballero]

Every time I read one of your works it takes my breath away. They're all so emotionally complex and weirdly surreal and each and every idea is unlike anything I’ve ever seen before. And somehow they’re all the perfect length for however long I have to read at the moment. Just asking: how do you do what you do? How do you create something on this scale? How do you write well enough to have someone stare into space in awe the moment they’re finished? Have you got any tips?

This is such a sweet ask thank you so much! This is so nice!! jkalsdf

Obviously, if there was something to say that was the secret to writing good stories, then art would be solved and we could all go home. And I'm not even going to pretend to tell you it, because I'm not selling an online class for $19.99 a month. I wish I knew that secret. I sincerely don't.

I guess if I could possibly say anything about how to write stories that affect people...I dunno, I write about what's on my mind. Sometimes there's ideas that I've been thinking a lot about, or I've had a small personal journey on a topic. A lot of my work is just an unceasing dialogue with myself, and often I see my characters saying things that I'm trying to help myself believe. I just usually have something to say and something I want to express.

I think it helps that I try hard to be honest. Not even particularly about how I feel or what's going on in my brain, but I try hard to portray life honestly. Not realistically, but honestly. There is always that element of fictionalized exaggeration, but oftentimes it's only through fictionalizing something that you can actually express what it means. I always want to talk about the ways people fuck up and how they hurt themselves, and the weird connections we can form and the sideways love that follows. I think people are always looking for fiction that resonates, that they can see themselves in, and that can't really be achieved by isolating out the easier parts or by saying something comforting. Fiction resonates if you begin from honesty.

Sometimes there's things that are hard to talk about straightforwardly, so you have to package them through a lot of filters and metaphor and fictionalization. But people tend to understand what it is that you're afraid to say outright. It's stuff that any person has difficulty saying. Maybe it's just nice to have it said, even if it has to be said through such a convoluted and messy way. At least I can make it funny?

[chrollogy]

i want to rant

[pureconancommentary]

Let him call, because again, Agasa was the one who set up this secret, he should be the one defending it. Again, the parent shows up out of the blue here, but I kinda wish they didn't. Because Shinichi's the protagonist, he has to deal with everything in the end, but I want Agasa to be confronted. Have him make up more lies. Bring in the parents slower, have them contact Kogoro to arrange for Conan to stay long term and work out payment. Ran asks about the parents and Kogoro is like 'oh it's fine, they're covering his stay', and Conan's going '...? ???????'. Agasa denies having anything to do with it on Yuusaku's orders. Conan frets about it for a while and they actually see how he'd react to potential unknown danger. And then spring the 'kidnap him' trap to fully show him what could possibly happen.

But I guess just 'kidnap him and potentially give him a heart attack to prove that death is a real possibility' without any setup or warning is fine, too, sure.

[swaggy-transfag]

Thought of making a post abt my struggles with communicating and getting my thoughts out in words. But then i was struggling too much abt how to word it so it made sense, so i gave up

[lesbianwyllravengard]

I've had people decide to hate me over the silliest, most petty misunderstandings and while I'm realising it's because their perception of themselves was so harmful they just inherently assumed the worst of me/that I intended to hurt them, it still really hurts me and I just feel like a kicked dog who got yelled at for bringing a squirrel into the house that I wanted to be a gift but it was instead seen as an insult and disrespect. I'm saying all this to again implore people to take a second before assuming someone meant to insult you, especially someone you're friends with, and communicate. Because all you do is hurt yourself more, and hurt them by assuming they have no love for you. I still have love for these people and what hurts most is that they won't ever know. They'll always just think I wanted to hurt them.

[ghost-proofbaby]

ghost. i literally just got back from my classes today and hopped on to check my dash and saw the eddie being jealous abt astarion fic and oh my god… when i tell you that might be my favorite thing you’ve ever written. genuinely. it was so soft and sweet and i LITERALLY GIGGLED OUT LOUD WHILE READING IT!!!! i’m going to cherish that so close to my heart im literally obsessed with it

😭😭😭

i literally adore you so much thank you oh my gosh

i just needed it. between that and my wip about eddie reacting to you getting the mind blown achievement…. they just make me giggle. like yup. i’m taking him, shoving him into my modern pocket, and he’s gonna play bg3 with me because i said so <3

(btw eddie talks big game for someone who definitely fell for astarion’s charms his first playthrough. he vowed up and down he’d romance shadowheart or karlach but then- oh shit, oh no, that pretty vampire wants to spend the night with him? he can’t possibly say no. and oh shit oh no, he’s suddenly meeting him in the forest? baby boy definitely had to reevaluate his priorities and save scummed to be back on the shadowheart romance path)