#way too many characters to tag lol

[t1oui]

Make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! And then tag as many people as you have WIPs

sigh. let’s see if i remember them all lol

a place called home

troublemakers

the hhc

cursed children au

sister

jeweled champion (ilvermorny au)

the fountain in the atrium

party in the usa

pride fic

demigod au

rosekiller raising luna au

all too well

no voldemort au (and its very cool unfinished draft)

something something mad-eye moody sucks

never not regulus

ti amo fino alle stelle

the brightest star

the market on 34th street

alright that's... a lot but yeah please feel free to send me asks abt them!! np tags: @crimson-blossom @my-castles-crumbling @lana-maeve-occasionally-reads @starslovechasers @lionmythflower @sunny-prongs @marauding-almond and anyone else who wants to!

[sophsprites]

i've spent the past month or so working on that colour wheel challenge that's been going around on twitter, and i've finally finished it! did multiple characters on each section so list of characters under the cut

red - joshua, monica, anna (both awakening and heroes), ewan, tethys

orange - leonie, gaius, annette, lethe, larum, etie

yellow - ophelia, owain, lissa, constance, nanna, sharena, jeorge, ingrid

green - laegjarn, nino, thorr, elincia, linhardt, merric, lyn, l'arachel, dieck

cyan/light blue - chloe, marianne, lucia, eirika, ephraim, azura

dark blue - catria, tana, oboro, chrom, lucina, marth

purple - camilla, bernadetta, shez (both), lute, yuri, katarina

pink - sakura, lapis, est, hilda, serra, gunnthra, mae

[daeyumi]

i love it when ppl put kirby into desserts

[brainrotisseriechicken]

pirate au design dump,,,some r more fleshed out than others

(she/her for abel in this au) the biblings.....very happy with abel but cain is. ehhhhh,,you can tell with how indecisive i was with him.

i mostly just tried to translate my messy ass concept doodles from last time into something readable,, technically a final but not like Final final i might do a turnaround if im feeling ambitious

developing last years allison concepts a bit more ermmmm yeah. im still conflicted between these three but the middle one is what people prefer from what ive seen. mapping the colors for that one first. but im feeling democratic so im open to other peoples thoughts

stupid little clef scribble. ft. unreadable sleepy handwriting

[dipndops]

Happy Valentine's Day!!!

Hi @potahun, I'm your gifter for the Heishin Valentine Exchange and I picked your Ghibli movie prompt and went with Howl's Moving Castle c:

@heishinvalentineexchange2025 Thank you for hosting the event! It has been super fun!!

Close ups and explanations below~

It took me a bit of time to figure out which character I wanted to be who, but I settled with Shinichi as Howl and Heiji as Sophie! I think the idea of Shinichi being an other worldly character like Howl isn't too far off from how he is depicted in canon. From an outsider's perspective, Shinichi seemingly has all the answers to the many cases he comes across. Especially with the way Heiji reveres Shinichi, it's not hard to see him as someone larger than life. (Also Shinichi transforming into a bird creature whenever he intervenes in the war kind of fits with how he transforms into Conan in canon as he investigates the Black Organization)

As for Heiji as Sophie, I feel that putting Heiji in a position where he becomes old can parallel his struggle with his family's (particularly his father) distrust in him being a teen detective. But in this case, Heiji initially fears that growing old hinders his ability to remain a detective. Throughout the course of the film, his fears would be assuaged as Heiji helps end the ongoing war in spite of his age.

Now for the art itself, originally I wanted to pick one scene to focus on so that I could combine this prompt with your Heishin whump prompt. But then I figured it would be neat to take inspiration from the movie's song Merry Go Round of Life. The large ring was intended to mimic the roof and rim of a merry-go-round. Like imagine the roof and then you squish it down (if that makes lol)! The rims on merry-go-rounds often feature a circular frame with images of landscapes within. For that, I recreated backgrounds from the movie.

Given the name of the song, I felt that I should recreate different scenes from the movie to show the progression of Heiji and Shinichi's lives (I would've drawn Heiji much older but I was just struggling on how to execute that properly TT-TT). From right to left the scenes are; Shinichi intervenes in the war; Heiji views the meadow Shinichi shared with him; baby Shinichi cronches on a star; Heiji watches the parade celebrating the war effort; and Shinichi stares fondly at Heiji within the castle.

Anyways, have some bonus doodles I made while working on this piece to keep me sane c:

(^ this is my celebratory doodle that I drew right after I submitted the artwork. I'm going to hibernate now thanks LMAO)

[nabaath-areng]

I have way too many alts that I keep to myself (which is why I generally refrain from posting them), but I'm going to ignore that habit for a moment just because I'm feeling particularly insane about this guy.

[waterberry-strawmelon]

It truly is Marcille’s world—we’re all just living in it

[beastieballin]

do we still fuck with relationship charts on this earth

template under cut

[asgardian--angels]

....

[marrfixated]

(More thoughts and drafting! Some weird formatting I know but it was all one block in my notes)

Emma is doing just fine. Average. It’s really not so bad.

She’s just been dealing with a lot of change. And with too many things not changing.

Which is… an odd thing to struggle with.

Because she likes change. Daunting challenges. The unpredictable. Doing new things every day and never being scared of them. And she likes independence.

She had thought so, at least.

After the show, she had been hit in the face with just how… isolated she was. She had only had two friends before the first season, but she had left them behind. Her mother wasn’t doing the best, and she didn’t have any nearby family.

She found herself laying in her bed in the middle of the day most of the time, scrolling through her contacts and old conversations.

Or scrolling through her comments on TikTok.

A few weeks ago, she had tried some stunt involving a motorcycle and an inflatable pool. She probably wouldn’t have messed it up if her hands weren’t trembling.

(She had forgot to check the breaks, and wasn’t sure if they were working.)

(They were.)

The blood dripping down her face and the gash in her lip didn’t sting as much as it did watching the video.

She looked ridiculous, and she probably always did. It was better when she had someone else to do it with. Maybe she was losing her touch.

She didn’t post the video.

She turned back to dancing instead, which did feel less embarassing, despite the constant mocking feedback. Sure, the jokes were “funny”, but she didn’t care about any of it. She didn’t feel the rush, she wasn’t planning every day, and she wasn’t known or loved for anything.

Except for what she lost.

And, the show, to an extent.

-Ugh, she misses the show. She shouldn’t, but as stupid as it sounds, she really did. She missed doing crazy things and talking to people. Having a chance of winning. Beating everyone. Being cheered on. It wasn’t always great, but at least it was something. She misses doing something.

And she really misses Bowie. She missed Bowie, but she knows better than anyone that she can’t go back to that. They just- have better things to do now. He probably does.

He’s got Raj- which is great! And she’s happy for him! She’s happy for everyone. For Wayne, however he’s doing, for Julia, despite everything.

And Caleb. For having Priya.

Emma is jealous that Bowie gets to have someone.

Emma is jealous that everyone else gets to have someone.

Emma is jealous that, unlike everyone else, winning the show probably wouldn’t have made her any happier.

She isn’t sure what would.

[raiiny-bay]

finished dhes & kel's character pages so here are the lil edits i made for both of em :-)

[cola-losers]

Some sketches of my sona and some ew characters. She's either messing with you or being messed with

[thefloatingwriter]

who are your top 5 thgverse characters, dayne?

my own list for this post

so. i’ve been thinking about this for a second and while i do think i can do an overall thg top five, i am also going to do a tbosas one simply because there are no tbosas characters on my overall ranking.

thg overall:

beetee. this should be surprising to absolutely no one.

wiress. again.

marvel. i have mentioned before that marvel is one of my favorite thg characters but i am also surprised how high up he is. so.

annie. used to be my favorite, and she will always hold a special place in my heart simply because she’s, well, annie cresta. how could she not??

madge. i don’t know what it is about her i just can’t help but love her. like yeah. that’s my favorite D12 girl. nothing but love and should not have died like that was just mean in the part of collins.

honorable mentions: glimmer, finnick, and brutus.

tbosas:

treech. he Intrigues me i don’t know what else to say.

teslee. i know i separated our favorite D7 couple but cmon. it’s teslee.

lamina. i like making backstory for random side characters. it’s like my thing.

vipsania. i have no idea how she got this high but somehow she became my favorite mentor.

circ. you didn’t really think i was about to not add both D3 tributes right??? this is me we’re talking about.

honorable mentions: livia, persephone and hilarius simply because of this fic by @ylvisruinedmylife (go read it NOW this is a threat)

[daisyachain]

Restorative or Transformative?: Homoerotic Subtext, The Closet, and Ciphers in Pop Culture. The nature of commercial art is that it’s sometimes bad and inconsistent. Notably it’s also misogynistic. One way in which audiences try to reconcile massive plot holes or gaps in character motivation is by reading secrets or hidden information into a plot.

Commonly, male characters are interpreted as closeted gay or bisexual to reconcile the absence of women from commercial narratives with the generally stunted and poorly-written male characters that form the focus on said texts. This reading has become especially common among a non-heterosexual milieu. Rather than transforming the original text into some radically different new form, this closeted interpretation seeks to make the original text stand on its own as a story rather than a Swiss cheese of dumb writing decisions.

This interpretation only works for a specific type of pop, usually genre fiction. Any story in which tortured male leads eschew women in favour of male-male bonds (because female characters are constantly killed off, written sparsely, or written out, because the production team keeps casting their male buddies, because actors demand to keep having scenes with their bros, whatever) can become a sounder structure if you put one of them in a closet.

The gay interpretation is the natural consequence of shoddy misogynistic writing from ventures like Supernatural, Naruto, all the biggest hits. It’s also the natural consequence of more benignly misogynistic writing like The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes or The Lord of the Rings, where women aren’t necessarily rejected but are simply absent from the worlds of the protagonists. When the emotional crux of the story falls on male-male interactions, this reads as romantic because society at large priorities (definitively heterosexual) romance as the pinnacle of human connection. Two forces are in conflict, the primacy of heterosexuality (read as: romance) and the primacy of men.

Anyway. All that is to say that the typical gay or bisexual reading of male characters in pop fiction comes from a very real place. But, in some places, that’s the default interpretation. Angst, insecurity, secrets, double lives, fatigue, disappointment, restrained passion, stunted personal growth, anyone living in the closet can tell you that it impacts and defines your whole life to know that you live in a way fundamentally incompatible with The Proper Way that life is structured around down to tax law and superstore prices (which assume a heterosexual nuclear family unit). Characters in fiction also tend to have personal problems because that makes them interesting and tasty.

If you’ve grown up on stories with the specific type of misogyny that can be papered over with a closeted interpretation of the male leads, carrying this interpretation over to any male character will make sense more often than not. Even a bit of angst or insecurity? Well of course that makes sense if a character is closeted.

Except that’s hurt a normal part of fiction, and sometimes the closeted interpretation takes away from the point of a character. If a male character is on another axis of marginalization, the closeted interpretation imposed by the slash reading community downplays or trivializes the effects of that marginalization in the plot by overwriting it with another type of marginalization. Alternately, sometimes a character’s heterosexuality is a part of the story. There are some sorts of critiques or investigations of misogyny or masculinity that don’t work if the character has an ‘opt out’ of the cisheteropatriarchal perspective. Not that gay/bisexual men aren’t except from misogyny, but misogyny masculinity and heterosexuality are so tightly linked that it sort of defeats the point if you interpret that character outside of heterosexuality.

All that is to say—the closet interpretation is a quick and easy spice to apply to the weaker parts of action-adventure genre fiction to make it taste better. It draws from a large enough sample of art that it’s pretty widely applicable. Because of that, it’s part of some people’s [my] default interpretation package just because the semi-dull macho show at least gets less dull if you imagine there’s a reason for there to be no girls besides simple hatred. That then forms its own problem where the interpretation that works with your average genre work gets then blanket-applied to all genre works and obscures the places where the closet interpretation doesn’t fix the work, and actually makes it less interesting.

[ferncloud]

hmm i wonder if tumblr user ferncloud likes ferncloud...

/.\ MAYBE...