#who she wants to help her on a project

[whenthegoldrays]

does it ever take you by surprise what a small world it is

[kawaiichibiart]

Hello, yes, I need more cards where the characters interact with their younger selves.

I want more of this please:

[mephoj]

taco and mephone have fascinating parallels more people could explore if taco haters weren't biased cowards

[seyaryminamoto]

Fic-to-Art #44: Zuko and Katara meet Hotaru

This time around, my Patrons chose these two scenes from the prompt I offered them... and that prompt was "Hotaru", our tiny firefly herself <3 drawing her continues to be a challenge pertaining how to ever make babies look cute, but I hope she looks alright this time!

These two moments take place not too far from the other, but it's worth noting that Katara and Zuko don't get to see Hotaru at the exact same time. Thus, I figured I'd take advantage of the opportunity... and draw Sokka and Azula introducing their little one to their respective siblings. This will be an emotional chapter (lots of those coming up), but I do hope that these moments of happiness will be a good way to soothe the pains caused by our very intense angst from the current chapters... to be specific, this is chapter 378, so we're not that far away!! Just gotta wait a bit longer!

A part of me took joy in this specific prompt... the fandom has an abundance of "uncle Sokka" and "aunt Azula" content, be it with them together or not, while Zuko and Katara (also while together or not) happen to be the ones who become parents first. This often relegates their siblings to a secondary role, and too often there's either implications or outright accusations that these two just aren't fit for parenting. I don't really remember seeing much, if any, content where Zuko and Katara are the uncle and aunt instead... thus, I figured this would be a fun switch-up that, ultimately, doesn't mean any of these four aren't fit for parenting (Zuko's already a dad, Katara will be a mother someday in the future!)! It just means that Zuko and Katara get to bond with little Hotaru and be supportive siblings! And everyone's happy and wholesome in the process!

At any rate! I hope you guys like it, and as ever, if you'd like to be part of the creative process behind these pieces, a $1 pledge makes you eligible for suggesting art prompts and voting for the winner, as well as reading Gladiator snippets 6 days before the next chapter releases!

[moe-broey]

Back to what I do best (bare minimum Putting My Guys In Situations shitposts) 😌

Inspo under cut!!!

[moonpaw]

thinking about nami's backstory and how she begged for help twice, and both times ended up with Gen getting beat up and sliced to ribbons, as well as the rest of the villagers getting attacked as nami watched in horror, and this was after watching her mother get shot in the head

then later on in arlong park, she watched as several marine ships came to try to help and watched as arlong and the fishman pirates sank each and every one of them before the navy stopped sending help altogether and in just a few hours nami realized that she can no longer ask for help, it won't successfully come without lose of life of either random people or those she cares about

so at that moment she decided that she can't rely on anyone, can't ask for help lest they get attacked, and that she is completely and utterly on her own

and then comes in luffy and the straw hats, determined to help, but i think it's important here to know that luffy waits until nami asks for it, something she was avoiding until arlong backed her into a corner and everyone she loves was about to be killed despite all her effort and struggles

asking for help meant death to whoever would, but not asking for help would lead to the deaths of those she was trying to protect

so she asked

[anonbinaryweirdo]

if this account is still active by college expect updates about my situationship (my rivals/enemies to lovers girlfriend i made up in my head weeks ago)

[schizowitchic]

also like i partially found out i might be intersex because i was looking at trans stuff and there was like "(however many) months on t and finally seeing some bottom growth" and like pictures of t-dicks and i was like.... um.... that's kind of just what my clit looks like anyways. so i was like "hey google give me a quick rundown on this" and learned what clitoromegaly was and then i was like. hm. intersex resources. and it's like a sign? symptom? side-effect? of certain intersex conditions

[cuteniaarts]

2 hour rough drawing of Ehuang, my precious Green Opal child who I don’t draw nearly enough <3

[tanicus-caesareth]

guarana drama, damage control

[springsteens]

I don't know what it is about me that people always assume they can treat me like shit

[gilfrespecter]

Listening to coinstar by the growlers and thinking about mel so hard I get nauseous

Ridiculous stream of conscious in the tags apologies but not really

[muirneach]

moms love to turn a funny story into a lecture. oh my god girl take a joke

[skrunksthatwunk]

really fun letting all of my favorite shows take turns being the "i can't think about it i can't think about it i can't think about it!!" bingewatch during finals season/associated crunch times. they're being inducted into a society

[cultivating-wildflowers]

Your knitting circle sounds like a hoot! What knitting project are you working on?

Getting into this knitting/crochet group has been such a treat and I love it and the ladies I've met. It's such a fun mix of personalities and it's almost never dull.

This week was a bit unusual because I was the first one there and the second person was a newcomer who seemed just as nervous as I'd been my first time. I'm not great at conversation with people I don't know--I learned most of my conversation skills from Shannon Hale and, when lost, revert to my grandmother's habit of reacting to everything with an exaggerated, "Tch. Well, isn't that just [adjective]!" (Often her adjective of choice was "Cute!" This applied to everything from my aggressive dog to my second car, a rusty black crossover SUV.) The third arrival was the college student, who is also shy, so things were exceedingly awkward until Ruth with her German sensibility completed the group.

The rest of the cast are three old ladies who remind me of my aunts in various ways, except at least two of them are Catholic (one sincere and one who seems to approach it grudgingly as a matter of course). There's a foundational member I've never met who apparently winters down south with her brother. She was expected back by the beginning of June and hasn't turned up yet and no one knows what happened to her. Over time the group has seen other folks as well, including a mythical "young man who was really good at knitting" who up and disappeared one day. Unfortunate, that loss.

My current project is a sweater! It's given me a great deal of grief but the end is in sight. (And it's actually crochet, not knitting, because I haven't reconciled with knitting yet.)

Unfortunately my house has really bad lighting and it's cloudy outside have a picture of it on my kitchen floor (yes, that is carpet). The lighting never does the color justice; it's a soft green-blue color:

@parlaypeach Here's the direct link to the free version of the pattern, but it is a doozy. These are my notes on my printed copy (some of it is row counting and I restarted a few times before I was happy with the size):

I chose to decrease the arms as I worked them down to the cuff and then gathered the cuff. Somehow this gave me almost the same stitch count as what I think the pattern called for without that decrease. But I'm not sure, because we get two stitch counts in the entire pattern and they're for the first two rows. So riddle me that.

I'm also adding proper ribbing to the hem and putting in ribbing and button holes along the front edges, whereas the original pattern just has you work a basic narrow row along the edges to give a somewhat finished look.

Oh, and where the stitch type switches partway down I opted for a simple stitch instead of the reverse stitch in the pattern because I prefer how it looks.

Warning: You WILL need to size down. My yarn is listed as worsted but feels lighter (knitting ladies agree), I sized down my hook, and I adjusted my stitch count, and this thing is still big. But oversized is fine. (I also am not at all matching gauge so there's that. My rows tend to be short but my stitches tend to be wide?)

Also, this is the first sweater I crocheted, and the pattern. This first one was more straight-forward and, y'know, written correctly (I have MANY of this artist's patterns bookmarked), but the one I'm working on currently has that nifty way to shape the shoulders and I didn't have to join the arms as separate pieces, so I do like that about it.

[bumblingbabooshka]

Voyager Episode where Chakotay and Tuvok are making a fish tank together as a B Plot. It appears in the mess hall after this episode.