#would love to hear ‘em

[highabovethecloudssomewhere]

My novel is in the beta stage now and on one hand I would love to lease it out to a couple people online to get more eyes and opinions on it but I’m also pretty freaked by all the AI stuff not to mention the amount of times my fanfics have been illegally listed on Amazon. I guess I’m a noob with all this beta stuff. I do have a couple people irl who’ve been willing to give me honest feedback but I’d like to broaden the pool if I can. I don’t know if there are sites out there that are safe for a thing like this or how one goes about it. I don’t have many published authors in my day-to-day life.

[robinfollies]

KEEP THE DANGER OUT // KEEP THE DANGER IN

[sergle]

idk if this is a question for you or for Maya Kern or if it's even a polite thing to ask (I'm sorry if it's not!!) but like. have you ever considered/would it be possible to do skirts with the pattern covering the entire thing, rather than just around the base of the skirt? I love love love your pattern art and I was just thinking that the tomato pattern in particular would be sooooo extra cute as a seamless pattern covering all the fabric 💕

firstly: totally an okay thing to ask!! I don't mind skirt questions at all, I think this kind of thing is probably okay to throw at either of us, but her inbox is frequently blowing up! I've made mostly hem designs so far, but I absolutely do wanna make some skirts w allover patterns!!!! adapting the tomatoes (and maybe other designs?) into pattern grids is something that I think could be so fun. the tomatoes in particular, I thought this was such a good idea so I did a mockup for it:

so that's not a greenlight for putting it on clothes-- but it's a fun good idea that i want to keep in mind for later, because I *do* like the loop :3 aside from that, i already do have some skirts in my mind that are all-over designs, though they aren't traditional pattern loops! these were some skirt drafts from my last batch of pitches, and maya helped me pick a couple of the landscape designs that i'm workshopping!! so there's also that!

[snowpuff79]

Simon the wishmaster au : baking

I liked that one fever dream Marcy has in Stakes with em ... so let them bake !!! *yes in the silly aprons what do you take me for?!!*

If Prismo can make pickles then the god of chaos can bake a sweet red velvet with her husband .

Gotta teleport the goodies to their buddies back in Ooo ^-^!!! Kinda wish we saw em a bit more in f&c.

@whatawonderart .

[sluckythewizard]

YOU JUST HƎARD IT FROM [HIS MOUTH] FOR SURƎ!!!

[deconstructthesoup]

Okay, everything about this finale made me ricochet through a thousand different emotions (and seeing the Cathilda art was just the icing on the cake), but what it did give me, first and foremost, is a concept for a season with the High 5 Heros.

It really is just the five of them now, and they're still processing Kipperlilly's betrayal and the lasting effects of the shatterstars. In an attempt to fully reconnect as friends and prove themselves as adventurers, they retake their spring break quest... and things spiral out from there.

Ruben (played by Raphael Chestang) doesn't remember anything from when he was shatterstared, but he still has all those fans who want to hear more of the emo music he wrote... and even though having attention is good for a bard, he's very upset about the fact that nobody wants to hear his real music. Ruben's starting to get a lot of self-confidence issues based on the fact that the guy that he doesn't even know but who he briefly was was so popular, and he's trying to be himself, but, well... it's hard.

Ivy (played by Mariah Rose Faith Callias) is... well, actually, the fact that she wasn't shown as often in the season means that her player can make up an arc from scratch for her, and I like that. Let's leave that up in the air. Maybe she's trying to reconcile her stint as a mean girl with her true self, or maybe her mean-girl self is closer to her true nature than we think.

Mary Ann (played by Katie Marovich) is still, at her core, Mary Ann, and I like the idea of her arc being less of an arc and more of a reassurance thing---this is who she is, she's not apologizing for it, and that doesn't mean that she doesn't deserve the same amount of respect. That'd be pretty cool to see.

Oisin (played by Joey Richter) is dealing with... a lot. Seeing as his actions led to getting his great-great-great-great-whatever grandmother killed, his family has not outright disowned him, but there's a lot of snide comments and clear disrespect being thrown his way. He's trying his hardest to prove that he's better than that, but, uh... yeah, I think it would end in a "fuck my rich asshole family" thing, much like Adaine's arc.

And lastly, Lucy (played by Ashley Johnson) is, of course, very shaken by the fact that she legit died, and spent a good chunk of her death in a hellish state. Her connection to her goddess has wavered after her experience, and she's very much in a space of doubt---maybe a space that's big enough for her to connect to Cassandra, and maybe share in Kristen's four-deity pantheon. Not to mention, it's still very hard to interact with her friends when she still remembers the night of her death, even though they were possessed.

So, uh... yeah!

[rauberrauber]

omg my little horsies....

[naturepointstheway]

Vienna 1989/90 giving me that tasty Tuggoffelees juice at the end of Mistoffelees' number. Love how Misto just spins Tugger away. It also actually reminds me a lot of a very similar duo spin dance at the end of this number that happens in Zurich with Lindsay Chambers' Misto, but instead it's with Munkustrap rather than Tugger.

And in Zurich's case, well, let's say that this Misto has a very different experience to Valentin's (who reminds me a lot of Tim Scott's Misto, especially with the makeup), and Munk is more showing he has accepted him fully.

@absolutehumandisaster - hope you don't mind me tagging you as I feel you'd be interested in my "little" tag ramble/thoughts on Valentin's vs Chambers' Mistos and how Valentin's is Chambers' Misto once he is fully accepted and has grown exponentially in confidence by the next Jellicle Ball.

[p1x1x]

[coolattas]

a man and his handshake (s1ep1 !!!) lineup for kiddads SOON. constructive crit welcome + wip + id in alt text + etc etc. if you're mean to me you'll go to hell forever and ever.

[starryskiesstuff]

So I am Aromantic Asexual, and I’ve been thinking about hmm maybe it’s worth pursuing a qpr in the future. The only problem is that while I could see myself in a qpr with a person vaguely, I couldn’t see myself in a qpr with a man or woman. I’ve finally figured it out! Along with my gender identity!

I do not want kids, nor am I romantically attracted to anyone. Since a lot of gender roles revolve around parentage to me, and I’m also not interested in the social/societal roles of either gender, I didn’t feel like I have a gender. In a way that IS true, I act how I act, more like my identity as myself supersedes any call for gender to play a role in my behavior.

I wouldn’t consider myself non-binary since while I know otherwise, the term is used like there is a cohesive gender identity behind it. Genderqueer is probably closer to what’s in my head. I don’t really like using micro labels for myself, I’m sure if I wanted to be specific I could find like 10 but I’m not that interested.

But I digress. Ok so I don’t consider myself a man or woman great, what does that have to do with qprs?

WELL, since I consider myself an identity that exists outside gender and I couldn’t see myself in a qpr with a man or woman because a close relationship with a man or woman feels inherently romantic, even if it isn’t, because of my understanding of gender performance of one that wants those who perform it fit into societal roles. One of said societal roles is close ROMANTIC partnerships and by getting into a qpr with a man or woman I feel like I would be performing a gender role, which bothers me because I don’t consider myself with gender. I am Starry and that is it.

I dunno if that makes sense but we’ll roll with it.

In this whole essay I keep saying man or woman why is that? That is because while I would be uncomfortable partnering because gender, if the other person ALSO considered themselves out of the binary with a separate role, then I wouldn’t feel like I was performing gender.

So in the future any companions I have will be genderqueer probably. I dunno how I’d label this specific kind of attraction, since a label would feel like the beginnings of a gender role but also not everyone has a 5D level of understanding of gender and romance like I do. Eh its probably easier to leave people guessing.

TLDR: I consider myself separated from gender because of aroaceness and with that separation and my understanding of performing gender I couldn’t get into a qpr with a gendered person because it’d feel as if I were gendered by proxy but I could get in a qpr with a non-gendered person because I wouldn’t feel gendered by proxy

[abby-ob]

Am I the only a few potc fan to realise this song talks about Davy Jones in potc and not the folklore version? Anyway, this shit slaps

[daily-ethoslab]

[394] my day will be so awful.. then boom etho upload

[slinkiezz]

My ideal Fantasy High Senior Year

they meet an npc named ana. shes had a curse put on her to only talk gibberish. she clearly knows enough to break the entire mystery open, but no one knows what she’s saying

then its revealed

her last name

gram

[starberry-skies]

boss gets a dollar i get a dime so i look at tboy furries on company time

[chocoloom]

Might be an unpopular opinion, but I need more crossover fanfictions in my life man there like. My favorite kinda of fic.

I like seeing characters getting thrust into wildly different situations and conflicts than what they’re used to. I like seeing characters react and compare differences between the world they’re from and the world they’re in. I like seeing characters with similar struggles getting to interact when they wouldn’t otherwise because they’re from two different worlds. I like seeing characters from different media clash with each other because they have differing perspectives on something, or seeing characters from different media learn from each other by interacting. I just feel like we need more of those, for funsies y’know?

For example, what if Edward Elric ended up in Dungeon Meshi. How would he react upon witnessing or discovering Falin’s resurrection and finding out that it worked. Other than absolute anger (which is a given with Ed’s temper), would he be jealous, just a bit, because Marceille succeeded in bringing back the one she loved? Why did she succeed while he and his brother failed and said failure has horrifically impacted their lives? How would learning about a SUCCESSFUL resurrection impact the actions he takes in the future? Would he relate to Laios, as both of them are dedicated older siblings who feel responsible for their younger siblings? Especially considering both of them feel directly responsible for their siblings becoming horrifically altered due to their actions. How does he interact with Senshi? Do they bond over similar views on seeing humans as small, but vital parts of the world’s ecosystem? I bet Senshi would love Ed’s appetite, what with him having a bottomless pit of a stomach (due to human transmutation shenanigans).

I dunno, I feel like there’s a lot of untapped potential in crossovers, both in terms of angst and in terms of just, general chaos and comedy. Like, imagine Sailor Moon in one of the Souls games like Elden Ring. Or putting Kirby in Disco Elysium? Can you imagine the insanity?! Cuz I can, it’s hilarious.