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The TY for 900 follows illustration is underway 😈

#not gonna tag it in the main tags cuz this is just a cropped preview #phoenix talks #boy can you see where I spent the most time on? your hint: clothes #I’m guessing the bg on alastor’s side will take 1-2 more weeks #then the illustration will be ready to be posted #I design homes irl so 😂 drawing bgs reminds me of work 🤪 this is why I don’t like drawing bgs ahhhhhhh

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Private hour.

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Question, so how are things with the A prince and his baron given what we have seen of Hazbin Hotel and Helluva boss? Are you planning to continue it, rewritting it according to what we've seen in both shows or just its gonna stay like that? No pressure to answer and of course its your story after all so you get to decide what to do with it

Hullo, anon! I’m happy to answer any questions for any of my WIPs. 💞 Regarding A Prince and His Baron and its status:

Question, so how are things with the A prince and his baron given what we have seen of Hazbin Hotel and Helluva boss?

It’s still waiting its turn! Because I’m a multi-WIP writer across several fandoms, just so it’s fair to everyone who’s been patiently waiting for whichever fic it is from me, I’m responsibly going down the masterlist of story updates (which I’d pinned on my tumblr). The schedule was intended to be rotational, so I’m trying to stick to updating 1 chapter per story going down the list before circling back to the top. So unless I get hit by a strong burst of inspiration, P&B ch5 should be updated after The Untold Tale ch6. So keep an eye out for that! A key hint, the content on my tumblr blog & twitter usually reflects which fandom I’m working on that corresponds to the WIP currently being updated. So if I start posting/tweeting a lotta Hellaverse stuff, y’know I’m working on P&B. Once it’s P&B’s turn, I’ll be posting more chapter sneak peeks. ;)

I don’t remember if I ever tweeted it or posted a sneak peek here—it might’ve been buried underneath my threadfic updates for another fandom—but after watching Hazbin Hotel S1, I felt a lil inspired and broke my rule of usually hardcore immersing & pigeonholing myself to the fandom of whichever WIP I’m working on (which is currently Truce ch3). I sneakily wrote a bit of P&B ch5 based on what I’d seen and tweeted/posted a sneak peek of what I added to the upcoming P&B chapter. But in case my memory exists in delulu land, haha, here are some screenshots from the Google Doc itself 🤫:

This is during the time when I wrote a short Chaggie threadfic (tumblr / twitter) and broke out my ol’ tablet to draw a shippy Chaggie fanart as a watcher enthusiastically celebrating the show airing, haha. P&B might not be ready yet but this was my small way to show support. And y'all can thank the 2024 Hellaverse Collab artists project for getting me in the mood to make my next 900 followers celebration illustration involving Vox and Alastor (it's a bit special to me because it's my first time illustrating Alastor and, y'all don't know this, but I'd liked Alastor from the pilot ep, which was what led into getting into Helluva Boss and later to me creating P&B in the first place as a fan's small contribution, to show my support for the creator's landmark creative endeavor).

Are you planning to continue it, rewriting it according to what we've seen in both shows or just its gonna stay like that?

It's still being continued! And it is definitely going to stay as it is, ah. No rewrites! Fortunately we only have 4 chapters so far so I didn't have to change much to be honest, of the few things I'm willing to change.

I'd answered an Ask regarding this awhile back (you'd have to comb through my Tags Masterlist) but the tl;dr is: Given what I've seen thus far, I'm going to be taking inspirations from both shows and ignoring certain canon things (like the mystery about Lilith being gone and Eve possibly having impersonated her (I already wrote that Lilith helped write the royal invitation to Blitzø in P&B so…whelp, sorry, but I’m not changing what’s already written especially because there is a huge chunk of paragraphs solely dedicated to it) as well as Blitzø’s and Stolas’ childhood friends aspect, because that contradicts the entire driving force of the fish-out-of-water meet cute in my story where they meet in the prologue as complete strangers—and we'll see them fall in love with each other as the story proceeds despite the political machinations of Hell's upper crust society and the challenges awaiting them). It's the reason why I made A Prince and His Baron into an AU to be safe; this way, once something later revealed to be canon contradicts what's written in the story, it's an AU. So it's fine. Otherwise, and I'm being honest, I get demotivated to continue a fic if I face the herculean task of...like, having to change details across 15 chapters just so it's canon accurate. I don't have the time for that. For small changes though, like the pilot surname of "Magne" changing to Amazon Prime confirmed "Morningstar" surname, that's fine. It's just a matter of pressing Crtl+F and doesn't require a HUGE rewrite. :)

The way I want y'all to think, going into P&B, it's an Alternate Universe. If there are any references to canon, like all my WIPs that are AU in concept, those are lil canon Easter Eggs I sprinkle in for funsies. And anything not canon (like Stolas being a wee more debonair/ manipulative and politically savvy in my fic (Blitz's first impression), but behind that Stolas is still a bookish, sweet and dorky royal gentleman as Blitz will come to find...so that's a wee closer to the Stolas in canon), my veering away from canon is done on purpose to tell a story. So, y'all, don't come at me if something's not canon in A Prince and His Baron, haha. I can't read Viv's and HB writers' minds! The most I can do is try to keep up to date with the kernels the Spindelhorse team mention on Twitter, and keep up with both shows to see the direction they're going in (this way I can borrow canon characters instead of creating OCs and I can get a more accurate grasp on their personalities instead of guessing due to the lack of material at the time).

I'll be excited to be back and continue P&B once we get to its turn! Boy, do I miss that world. And, boy, do I have so many exciting things I want to share with y'all.

#helluva boss #hazbin hotel #stolitz #ask #anon #phoenix talks #ty for the ask <3 #preview

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Yoshitaka Amano: ‘Amon Saga’ Artworks from Anime V Magazine (1991)

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…Y’all

#phoenix talks #a lil status update from my end on what I think about things #I already made a concession making Truce 4 chs instead of the planned 3 chs #but if I watch S4 before it’s done the fear is I’m gonna be so infuriated that I turn my ‘short’ NSFW PWP into a full blown fic #I’m not gonna tag it in the ship tag but y’all…. #voughthq you are testing me 😂 I like some of the speculation & dread the rest #the one thing I like so far is Homie’s enlarged prostate bc LMAO

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work in progress of this little kappa #brbchasingdreams

prints | tutorials

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THE BOYS (2019– )

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bingyuan sillies

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#like Zorro #help I cannot breathe

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🌺 send this to ten blogs you think are wonderful 🌺

Thank you, @kosmochlor! 🥰 And back at you! I appreciate you for being a shining light in our niche community and gifting us with your brilliant analyses. It’s a joy to read your thoughts on AO3 and catching the thought pieces you’ve written here on my tumblr tl. 🫶

#ask #kosmochlor #I saw your reply to the gun ref post and my jaw dropped to the floor in amazement

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Federal Bureau of Control

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“And here I thought you finally wanted to try one.”

Lovely art by @plague-cattle-burial-ground who drew this in record time. Thank you ❤️🚬💋

Commission them! Highly recommended.

Butcher never expected to end up tangled in the sheets with his sworn enemy. No, he was going to keep his gaze off of the man sprawled out languidly on his right, tempting as it was to drink in the sight of this dangerous Vought creation, ravished, chest still heaving, cheeks flushed, looking docile and innocent at least for the moment. Out of the corner of his eye, Butcher can see that Homelander is watching him, maybe awaiting a compliment about how good it was. It was good, better than it had any right to be, but Butcher will never admit it out loud and stroke this cunt’s ego.

He lights up instead. He always smokes after sex. Some partners wrinkled their nose, some ignored it, some asked to share. When Homelander reaches over to take the cigarette out of his lips, Butcher makes no protest, curious if he’s about to see America’s poster child take a drag.

No such luck. Homelander puts the cigarette out on his tongue, the orange light at the end snuffed out in a puff of smoke, the innocence in his expression from before gone up in smoke just as quickly.

“And here I thought you finally wanted to try one.”

“Why. They taste as terrible as they smell.”

“No one asked ya to taste that end of it.”

Butcher tries to take the cigarette back, intent on relighting, but Homelander flicks it into the corner of the room.

“A villain through and through,” Butcher grumbles, rolling back on top of the other man, squeezing his throat in his hand, letting himself pretend that it could have any effect.

Homelander just laughs, clearly basking in the attention, meeting Butcher’s mouth eagerly when they lock lips, the flavor of cigarette ash swirling in their kiss.

And because seeing the process is cool and even the draft is so pretty:

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About the AO3 "No Guest Comments for a while" warning

If you're not following any of AO3's social media accounts you might be in the dark as to what kind of "spam comments" have engendered this banner at the top of the site:

These spam comments have been posted about a great deal on the AO3 subreddit for the past couple of days. Initially they comprised a bunch of guest (logged out users) bot comments that insulted authors by suggesting they were using AI and not writing their own fics. Some examples, from the subreddit:

But it then escalated to outright graphic porn images and gifs being posted in comments, again by logged out 'Guest' accounts. Obviously, I'm not going to give examples of those, but between these two bot infestations, AO3 has clearly decided to act and has temporarily closed the ability to post comments for users who are not logged in with an AO3 account.

Unfortunately, this means that genuine readers who don't have an AO3 account won't be able to leave comments on fics that they enjoy.

If you are a genuine reader who doesn't yet have an AO3 account, I strongly suggest getting yourself on the waiting list for one. More and more AO3 authors are now locking their fics down to registered users only - either due to these bot comments or concerns about AI scraping their work - which means you're probably missing out on a lot of great stuff.

Hopefully guest commenting will be enabled again at some point soon, but I suggest not waiting until then. Get yourself on that list.

Wait times are going to be longer than usual at the moment, due to the current Wattpad purge [info on Fanlore | Wattpad subreddit thread], but if you're in line, then your invite will come through eventually.

Update: There's now a Megathread about this on the AO3 subreddit.

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New art incoming 🥰

We're all familiar with the image of Homelander as a superhero, but what would John look like if Vought had sent him into retirement?

Or if John had left on his own or was hiding from society?

As I like to imagine, he would get a bunch of cats, just collecting them on the street, watch Netflix 24/7, maybe write his biography without Vought supervision.

(In my AU version, he would be puzzled by getting a proper education and would anonymously sponsor a couple of extremely dubious organizations with his savings)

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Hope you enjoy ❤️