#uh ask to tag i guess

[bacchuschucklefuck]

couldnt draw my thang for mid-autumn so treated myself to a calne redesign instead

[eveningrainstorm]

take responsibility.

[keferon]

Getting Lost

(part 1...maybe?)

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He gets lost. He dives into the ocean of color and sound that is his mind. Here there is no crowd, no little hands tapping on the windows for his attention, no loudspeakers announcing what humans called a "show" or monitors giving him orders to do somersaults to entertain the audience. Here there was only him and infinity.

Nothing was limited, in this space that belongs only to him, he is free. Then he thinks, he sees the world, thinks back to the past. He sees the water again, not the one in his pool, but the one that tastes like salt, the one that is never still, the one that like him does not stop, the one that forever holds the memory of his childhood. It is over there that his cradle is, over there that the world begins, because here it is not the world, because here is limited, here his body fits between four walls, immersed in filtered water and rocked by the sound of the pump hidden behind the concrete.

So in this small part of infinity, he opens a new door and loses himself in his own universe. He tells himself that if he thinks hard enough, if he gets lost far away, the sound of the pump will become that of the whales, that if he continues to dive, the tiles at the bottom of his prison will start to move like the algae of yesteryear... To stop being bored, to drown his sorrow and forget the heaviness of his fins, he gets lost.

In his world of noise and lights, nothing was and everything was at the same time, human languages were refined and distorted into familiar clicks and songs that made him think that maybe home wasn't so far away.....

And then he was taken out again, infinity moved away through an invisible harness that was once very real and left only the cage.

The day had just begun, and an uncomfortable feeling crept into him. The atmosphere was heavy, waiting for something, the humans seemed more excited than usual and they posted on the windows of his pool: "Jazz the orca will be absent today but will return soon with brand new tricks!".

Absent? Absent why? Did they want to make him undergo medical examinations? Make him learn new pirouettes so that the entries increase? No matter the plan of the humans, it made his mind disturbed and troubled. He could not get lost, not return to his world where time no longer counts. No, here he was waiting, he was spinning, he knew that his part of infinity would change for maybe the best, but more likely for the worst.

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(First time doing something like this hope you like it!)

"He knew that his part of infinity would change for maybe the best, but more likely for the worst."

[beefcakekinard]

pulling someone in by the waist please??? 💜💜

28. pulling someone in by the waist

Spread out on the sheets in front of him, Evan is a vision in pink.

Against the white cotton, his skin takes on a rosy tint, glowing warm and vivid with the blood pumping steadily through his veins. The scars on his leg shine pearlescent, peeking out from under a veil of dark hairs. Tommy's eyes travel up each of Evan's legs, over his bent knees, up to his inner thighs where healing hickeys bloom in carnation. Tommy smiles at the memory of leaving them there, two days ago. They beg for refreshing.

Tommy's eyes linger next on Evan's cock, the rouge that deepens and deepens at the tip where it rests against the swell of Evan's stomach. He forces his gaze higher, to Evan's dusky nipples, the bright cherry flush of arousal that starts on his chest and seeps up his throat, over his cheeks and his ears. Evan's orchid-petal lips part on an exhale and Tommy aches to touch them. He looks at Evan's mulberry-sweet birthmark and can almost taste his skin.

"See something you like?" Evan asks, his lips curling into a grin. Tommy slips his hands to cup Evan's calves and relishes his living heat.

"You're beautiful," he confesses, and he'd say it a thousand times for how it makes Evan's blush deepen.

"C'mere," Evan beckons. Tommy can't deny him.

He leans over Evan's body, holding himself up by his forearms on either side of Evan's face, scarcely allowing their skin to touch as he presses their lips together. Evan sighs into Tommy's mouth, wraps his arms around Tommy's shoulders and his long, long legs around Tommy's waist; he pulls Tommy down against him until Tommy covers him like a blanket, miles of skin on skin that Tommy could get drunk off of.

"Are you gonna fuck me or what?" Evan asks. He rolls his hips up, grinds their cocks together, and pleasure pulses deep in the pit of Tommy's stomach. Tommy kisses down Evan's neck as Evan continues to grind against his stomach; he nips at Evan's skin right where he knows he's sensitive, relishes the gasp this pulls from him, then sits back up. He immediately misses the heat of Evan's body, and Evan reaches to pull him back in.

Then he says, "Turn over," and Evan gives him a cheeky grin. He complies, settling on his hands and knees in front of Tommy.

Tommy grabs the lube and slicks himself up, slips two fingers into Evan, easy as anything, making sure he's still ready from earlier. Evan groans when he crooks his fingers and rubs gentle circles into his prostate. He waits until Evan starts rocking his hips into the motion to pull his fingers out and wipe his wet hand against the sheets.

"You're gonna kill me," Evan mumbles.

Tommy chuckles. "What a way to go, huh?" He kisses the arch of Evan's spine and leans in close to his ear, where he murmurs, "You ready, baby?"

"I've been ready, Tommy, please."

Tommy pulls back again then shuffles closer on his knees. He wraps his hands around either side of Evan's waist and settles them into the position he wants, with his dick pressed up to the soft give of Evan's hole. Tommy doesn't press in so much as he pulls Evan back to meet him. He pulls Evan onto his cock by the grip he has on his waist, until Evan's ass rests against his thighs, his legs splayed to either side of Tommy's.

Evan moans as Tommy bottoms out, whines, "God, Tommy," into his own arms, his face pressed down into them. Tommy's own breath catches at how easy the slide is, how readily Evan's body accommodates him, how eagerly Evan's already rolling his hips to grind Tommy into him deeper, deeper. Tommy uses his hold on Evan's waist to rock him forward, then back; it's barely any movement, but the hot wet press of Evan around him already has Tommy's head spinning.

"Show me how much you want it, baby," Tommy says, and helps Evan repeat the motion. He nudges his own hips forward at the last second, drawing a whine out of Evan, a shudder working its way up Evan's spine to his shoulders. Evan starts moving himself, working himself in earnest on Tommy's dick.

Evan's voice always gets higher when Tommy fucks him, desperate whining ah ah ahs escaping from the top of his throat with every thrust. He can still draw them out like this, helping Evan fuck himself onto his cock - Evan's voice breaks on one when Tommy shifts one of his legs to get better leverage and manages to sink deeper into him. Tommy takes a moment, watches where they're connected, how he disappears into the soft, wet heat of Evan's body again and again.

"Tommy," he whines. "Please, please, I need more-" He cuts himself off on a deep, gasping groan as Tommy shifts again, dragging his hands down to Evan's hips and adjusting their balance just so to give Evan a hard, brutal thrust.

The whole world narrows down to them - the way they gasp each other's names, the way Evan still begs vaguely for more; the way it feels for Tommy to bury himself in Evan, the slick-tight glide around his cock pulling him in and in and in. Tommy leans over Evan once more, reducing his thrusts to a tight grind he can tell is directly over Evan's prostate from the way Evan keens and claws at the sheets under his hands. He gets his hand around Evan's dick - leaking so hard he's drenched with it and Tommy doesn't need any lube at all to glide his fist tight around him.

"Come on, baby, come on," Tommy grunts. The pitch of Evan's moans grows higher, higher, until his whole body locks on a gasp and he shudders the air out of his lungs as he shudders through his release. Tommy grinds in deep, once, twice, and follows, choking on a moan when he reaches that peak and he loves it like this - when he knows Evan's pleasure through the tight squeeze of his body, and finds his own from it.

When he's ready to think again, he pulls out and flops onto his back beside Evan, who immediately drags himself to lay on top of him, shoulders-on-shoulders and skin-to-skin all the way down. Tommy takes his full weight gladly and smiles when Evan starts carding his fingers through his hair.

"Hey," Tommy murmurs. He wraps his arms around Evan's waist, holding him tight, even though there's no chance either of them are going anywhere anytime soon.

"Hi," Evan returns, with a big, dopey grin.

Evan's cheeks swell bright and round like ripe peaches with his smile. Tommy kisses them both, back and forth, over and over until Evan's giggling on top of him and grabbing at him to keep him still. With a hand in Tommy's hair and the other cradling his cheek, Evan kisses him soft and slow and this - well, Tommy could do this forever.

[aro-culture-is]

Closeted aro girl culture is struggling to be friends with a lot of girls in my class because all they seem to want to talk about is boys/men. Oh, this guy from tiktok? Yeah, that is a human man alright. Cool 👍

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[silverwhittlingknife]

Dick Grayson & Tim Drake: Reading Guide

Once upon a time, two kids met at a circus... and the rest is history.

table of contents:

who are these losers?

what's fun about them?

why a reading guide?

how does the reading guide work? (tl;dr: there are quick recs, a selected chronological list, and a complete chronological list)

where is the spreadsheet? (x)

who are they?

Dick Grayson and Tim Drake: the first Robin and the third Robin.

Also known as the circus boy and the earnest computer geek, the hotshot and the pretender, the slighted prince and the new apprentice, the acolyte and the hanger-on, Nightwing and Robin, Batman and Robin, Batman and Red Robin, and Marcia and Cindy (BftC 3, N 110 & 119, B 617, DC 677, Detention Comics 1, R 168, RR 14).

Or as Jason calls them, "You idiots" (TT 47).

More seriously, Dick Grayson is one of the most enduring comic characters ever - he's been around since Detective Comics 38 in 1940! He's Batman's first ward, first partner, and eldest son. When Dick's parents are murdered, Bruce identifies with him, comforts him, and takes him into his home, where Dick ultimately volunteers to join his crimefighting mission. By candlelight, the Dynamic Duo swear an oath: That we two will fight together against crime and corruption and never swerve from the path of righteousness!

Tim Drake was created in Batman 436 and formally introduced in Lonely Place of Dying. He's a lonely kid who imprints on Dick when they meet as children, and Dick hugs him and promises to do a quadruple somersault for him; he's horrified and worried about Dick in the aftermath of the Graysons' murder, which he witnesses. He watches Batman comfort Dick, deduces Robin's secret identity, and becomes a secret devotee of the Dynamic Duo. Though he admires them both, it's ultimately Dick who he idolizes and tries to emulate when Bruce is spiraling: Batman needs a Robin. No matter what he thinks he wants.

Their slow-burn strangers-to-friends-to-brothers-to-antagonists-to-brothers-again arc develops from 1989 to 2011, and it's one of the standout examples of the DC Post-Crisis era's commitment to gradual character development and careful continuity.

what's fun about them?

SO MUCH!!! But one of my favorite things is their friendship has RANGE!! They go from sweet kids to tense strangers to loyal friends to brothers over the course of real-life years and tons of comics. They fight, they tease each other, they get protective, they worry, they chase each other down, they walk away... there's just so much story here.

They meet at the circus as children, when both their parents are still alive. They meet again, years later, when Bruce is reeling from Jason's death and they team up to stop him from hurting anyone. In the early days, they're brothers-in-arms and never quite family - instead, Dick is Bruce's loyal-but-estranged eldest son, and Tim is Bruce's new loyal-but-wary apprentice, with his own family and his own semi-estranged dad. The slow process of evolving toward found-family is a delight to watch.

They work together as Nightwing and Robin over four years of in-universe time and for over twenty years of real-time, gradually forging a fierce bond of friendship and, ultimately, brotherhood.

Then Bruce dies, and they have some huge fights.

But even when they're estranged, even when they're not speaking... they never stop loving and trying to protect each other. No matter what.

why a reading guide?

Quotes from New Titans 60 and Batman 441 (1989), Nightwing 25 (1998), Nightwing 69 (2002), Red Robin 1 (2009), Red Robin 12 (2010), Gates of Gotham 3 and Detective Comics 874 (2011)

I think reading guides are cool!! And somebody asked me about one!

More generally, I think reading guides are always helpful, but especially with Dick & Tim... you know, when I first started out trying to read their comics, I got kinda overwhelmed. Because on the one hand there's SO MUCH CONTENT - they're one of the classic enduring friendships in all of post-Crisis! their relationship is a HUGE BIG DEAL! they're constantly calling each other and hanging out and supporting each other and arguing!

But at the same time, all of that content is scattered across lots of different books, in Robin and Nightwing and Detective Comics and Batman and New Titans and Titans and Young Justice and Teen Titans and Shadow of the Bat and Gotham Knights and Birds of Prey and Showcase and DC Holiday Specials and so on and so forth. There's not One Definitive Place where you can read The Dick-and-Tim Story.

So: a reading guide!

how does the reading guide work?

Dick and Tim are in over 400 comics together and over 800 comics each separately. That's a whole lot of comics! So I've made a spreadsheet with three different reading guides, depending on how interested you are in these two:

1-5 Quick Recs: If you just want to check out a couple comics, check out these quick recs for "if you like fluff," "if you like angst," etc.

200 Starter Comics: If you want to do a comprehensive, chronological Dick-and-Tim read without committing to all the comics, this list has some of their major team-ups plus some solo comics so you know what the heck is going on. Most of them have a "sneak peek" you can use to decide if you want to read it.

Big List: A complete list of all the comics Dick and Tim are in, in chronological order, with links to dc.fandom and to DC Universe Infinite. It has filter views.

This spreadsheet was a labor of love, obsession, and SO MUCH PROCRASTINATING doing other things. I update it sometimes.

where is the spreadsheet?

it's here. have fun <3

[starscreamingg]

Detroit Become Human and why does this game decide that the problem in society is individual people treating androids poorly because those androids are choking them out of the workforce and NOT the corporations and governments who deliberately designed the androids to do this

[egginfroggin]

“Likes you, Mabel?” her father said, voice rising incredulously, and he whipped around to face her. “Oh, please, dear, that’s ridiculous!” he scoffed, eyes shifting to gold between blinks. She bristled outwardly as something inside withered, conviction dimming, and he talked right over her protests. “This is why I kept you inside, dear!” Tossing his hands, eyes rolling skyward before settling back on her, full of something nauseatingly like pity – like she was just a lost little girl in a world too big and complicated for her. “This fantasy you’ve invented, it just proves how naive you are, Shooting Star!” His eyes narrowed, and he closed the distance in one long stride, all but looming over her, and she’d never felt so small before him. “He’ll eat you alive, Mabel, just like anyone else out here.”

Guess who's being mean again?

That's right!

It's me again, folks.

[surly-dragon]

not to take away from the happy, romantic, and sexy mood of the new banner but in an adaptation of orpheus and eurydice where sylus is orpheus do u think he turns around? and if mc is orpheus, do they turn around? i feel like the answer might be a little different for each of them

This is such a fascinating ask, and also one that I think is really hard to answer. The whole point of tragedy is that it is unavoidable because of the fatal flaw(s) of the characters. And these two have already made their own mistakes in their own tragic myths. I'd like to think they'd learn from the past when given another trial/chance to do it right.

But if we're just putting Sylus and MC in the original myth, without their backstories, and only going on their personalities... I think if anyone could overcome the fated tragedy that this myth represents, Sylus could. He has overcome every single obstacle in between him and bringing his beloved back from the dead. He has so much self control. He's single-mindedly focused on his goal, of saving MC, assured that it is an inevitability because he will make it so, the whims of fate or gods be damned. He will master his doubt as he's leading MC back to the world, he has the mental fortitude and patience to just keep going, regardless of his fears, any doubt that starts to creep in the longer the journey takes. He's also used to the dark. What's a little walk through the deep dark, if MC being whole and safe is the reward at the end? He's also a man who reads the fine print-I don't think he'd turn around once only he is in the sunlight. He's going to ensure that MC is out too before he turns, because that was the deal, and he's not going to take the risk, every contingency must be accounted for, this is his beloved's life; what he feels, his eagerness, his worry, all of his own concerns are superseded by what must be done to ensure that MC can live again, be free again, be by his side again.

And even if Sylus is Orpheus, but also carries the weight of his own mythic past, he's already waited so long to find MC again, what's a little longer to ensure that he can keep them? He's been here before. He's lost them before. This is nothing, compared to losing his mind, wanting to devour them. This is nothing, compared to dying on their sword. This is nothing, compared to being ripped back from the peace of his own death to live again and again because MC, like he is doing now, refused to let him stay dead. At least now, he has a chance to fix it. All he has to do it keep leading MC through the long dark, out into the sunlight. Patience. Inaction, as opposed to action. The familiar dark. No plotting necessary anymore, here at this final stage. All he has to do is keep putting one foot in front of the other, and ensure that MC's footsteps are matching his in the sun soaked world before turning and looking at their perfect face again.

Yeah, I think in either instance, Sylus succeeds, if only because I need him to succeed.

As for if MC is Orpheus. That's so difficult, because each player, each person who loves him is different, and brings their own baggage. Canon MC in game is a rule-follower, even if she's Sylus's MC in the present time of the game. She's thorough, stubborn, persistent. Even when they nerf her, she still succeeds. I think she'd tenaciously follow the rules of the deal, dutifully do everything perfectly, wait until she's absolutely sure that he's out, being blinded by the painful sun, before she turns to eagerly look at his beautiful face again. And if she's Myth!MC, she's such a lovely vicious creature, I think just spite against the gods would carry her through to success to bring back her dragon, her gentle Eurydice.

Now, MC from my fic. That's a good question. I think, like Sylus, they'd be so single-mindedly focused on saving him, that what they feel, their terror of failing, their heartbreak from having to go through losing him, the torture of every step and obstacle that they have to overcome to get him back, being so close to having him whole, alive, safe again in their arms would keep them looking forward, no matter what. They have a particular, desperate, similarly vicious temperament as dragon!mc, and a sort of selflessness in regard to Sylus that would have them ignoring their own desperation to confirm that he's behind them, that he's still there. It doesn't matter what they need, just like Sylus feels in reverse---what matters is what must be done to save their dragon, no matter what it costs them.

Welp, after writing it, it turns out that this wasn't hard to answer at all. I can't help it, I don't believe in the inevitability of tragedy. These idiots deserve a softer ending than Orpheus and Eurydice, and I think they'd manage. They've been through enough. I think their desperation, their strange selflessness in regard to each other, their willingness to sacrifice themselves for each other would be the thing that makes them succeed. I really do envision them as mirrors of each other. They're two halves of the same soul. If one could succeed, so could the other. And maybe I just have a naive belief that Sylus would succeed, despite all of his flaws in other respects. He just loves MC too much to fail.

[nombitenary]

How’s the new year treating you?

Him and me both.

[dseval]

I'm not sure if anyone wants to see this but who knows. Random Madoka art in my utmv account. Who knows. I figured you guys have never seen me drawn anything other than cartoony humans and silly skeletons.

This is me trying HiPaint (name sounds tacky asf) out for the first time. I can see a lot of mistakes that I did but I did it in one layer and this app sucks ass so I won't bother fixing that...

If you are interested in seeing me, hardcore Ibis Paint X glazer, review HiPaint (objectively)... Just come under the cut.

THIS APP SUCKS ASS!!

...kidding. Drawing apps may not suck, but my art may suck.

I am an experienced artist with over 7 years using Ibis Paint X (I was there before the liquify tool). Not to flex, obviously. But as you can see I am very at home with Ibis Paint X and I have tried other apps: Autodesk sketchbook, Medibang, Infinite Painter, android CSP...

Anyway, HiPaint. Yeah. This app doesn't fully suck. Imo, it's good and it's free— except there are banner ads!! Bane of my existence. In the bottom of the screen. Luckily you can fight this by simply turning off internet.

It has more free features than Ibis Paint X, I think. I am lost so I haven't explored this app fully yet.

However my phone is too old for this new youngster things. Boomer. The performance is choppy; spinning the artwork to a specific angle doesn't work, zooming doesn't work sometimes, pen randomly strokes because it doesn't read my finger touch.

Ideally, you may want to have a tablet and a stylus to utilize this app fully (which I don't have). Some say it's like procreate for Android.

Is it beginner friendly? ...not really. Maayyyybeeee. It doesn't give me an impression of beginner friendly. Every tool is hard to find. I've been drawing for years and I don't know what half of these tools even do. UI/UX isn't very intuitive in my opinion.

But yeah, it receives a 6/10 on the scale. -4 because the experience wasn't the best... Might try again once I have a tablet

[froggychair05]

I just started reading Sugarcoated and I LOVE the way you write the romance between Jesse and Lukas! If you don't mind me asking, is it based on any real relationships?

WAUGH THANK YOU…..their romance is one of my favorite things to write they’re just so sweet…..

Their relationship as a whole isn’t based on anything in particular, but just like the rest of the fic, bits and pieces of my own experiences are sprinkled in there.

[dorkicon]

hello...does anyone know any interesting transformers discord servers...

[goldensunset]

Ancient kalos Pokemon war - X era keyblade war parallels go!

scorched earth 😍😍😍😍😍

[orcelito]

I do love that doing any kind of monsterfucker smut will have you dabbling in speculative biology and going on deep dives into the animal kingdom to draw inspiration for your fictional dragon reproduction system.

Aka for my oviposition dragon vash au I was looking into wonderful subjects such as autogamy, parthenogenesis, and ovoviviparity. Among others.

All just for funsies !

[desceros]

My friend that introduced to the world of turtle dick to via the Donnie day job au has devoured your entire rise fic library. We often talk about your work and about Symphony together and it has really brought us closer as friends. We are thinking about watching the bay movies next so we will have context for those fics you have written. We kinda have our own little Des book club now.

and your cool so I thought I would share

*Shoots you with a good vibes beam*

the way i Cackled when i read this. des book club. scream

anyway! yeah the bay movies are... well. they're awful. they're amazing. i love them so much. i can't recommend them in good faith to anyone who isn't delirious about turtles. the acting is atrocious. they're some of my favorite characterizations of the turtles. go with an open heart knowing that it's going to be like a bag of potato chips. absolute garbage, but so so so tasty every bite of the way.