#I actually just redrew that second one just now

[chainandfeather]

A couple of vaguely whump-ish poses I never did anything with for y’all’s enjoyment~

Feel free to use as inspiration, I’d like to see what you do tho!

#I actually just redrew that second one just now #Don’t mind the stick figure version lmao #my stuff #my art #? I guess #whump things #whump ideas #whump prompt #sort of not really #whump art #whump stuff #whumpblr #whump #whump scenario #?? #ok back to the abyss of inactivity with me <3

[sttoru]

toji making suggestive comments towards reader infront of newborn megumi, then reader getting mad at him telling him to never do it again 😭😭

⟣ tags. dad!toji x female reader. fluff + suggestive themes. reader gets called ‘mama’.

“don’t start.”

you knew it — just by taking one glance at your husband from your seat at the couch — you knew toji was up to no good. his hands in the pockets of his shorts, eyes half lidded whilst checking you out and the corner of his lip curled up into a menacing grin; he was seconds away from making inappropriate comments about you, to you.

“ain’t said nothin’ yet.” toji shrugs, smirk still in place. he sits down next to you on the couch and looks down at the baby who was curled up on your chest.

it was an adorable picture; to see the mother of his child being so nurturing and caring, so loving and content. it was an every day sight, yet those mundane moments intensified the urge to take you to the bedroom and shower you with his. . . affection.

megumi babbles something in the meantime, his saliva creating a wet spot on your shirt — which you don’t mind since you’ve gotten used to it, “what is it, ‘gumi? hmm? cutie.”

you giggle and tickle your little son gently. your focus was entirely on him instead of toji, who had already snuck an arm around your waist by the time you realised the proximity. his breath tickled your ear;

“you look so fuckin’ sexy right now, mama.”

you gasp in response. not at the seductive and flirtatious words your husband had whispered, but rather at the fact that he cussed in front of megumi. you made it a household rule — to try and swear less in front of your child. and yet there toji goes, breaking that rule a week after its made.

“toji. what’d i say about cussing in front of your child?” you warn with a glare, but that does nothing more than turn toji on more. he loved it when you bossed him around or had an attitude.

megumi’s babbles and coos had died down eventually. he was more engrossed by the way his parents were interacting in front of him. you didn’t seem as ‘happy’ with toji’s words, however, and that made the emergency alarms in the little baby’s head go off;

“bwah! bwah!” megumi’s smacks toji’s thigh with his tiny hand. the impact wasn’t rough, but the sound of the slap on toji’s bare skin sure made it seem like it was.

you grin as megumi comes to your ‘rescue’. the small slaps didn’t seem to stop until toji gave up and defeatedly redrew from you—scooting just a few inches away from his son and wife.

“got what you deserved.” you lightheartedly comment to your husband. megumi didn’t seem to stop there; the kid sticks his tongue out towards his father’s direction for a split second—rubbing salt into the wound.

“watch it, megumi. i’ll fight ya if it means i get y’r mommy’s attention.” the dark-haired man jokes with a smirk tugging at his lips, his fist gently and carefully making contact with megumi’s chubby cheek. the little boy huffs and instantly tries to nibble onto toji’s knuckles, which was incredibly adorable.

“oh-ho? seems like i finally have an opponent worth fighting. .” toji comments before lifting his hands up in the air, fingers bent at the knuckles, teeth bared — re-enacting a scary monster creature of some kind,

you watch the two with amusement; megumi wasn’t backing down at all and was flailing his arms in the air as toji slowly approaches him again, making tiny noises in protest. your husband was also making some noises, though less. . . cute. his were more growling like—it showed the dedication to his role, at least.

“got’cha! c’mere,” toji grins as he suddenly grabs and lifts megumi up in the air; putting him in air-jail as he likes to call it. the baby kicks and squeals, trying its best to get out, “now—are ya gonna let me show mama some affection or should we do this the hard way?”

megumi protests once more like he actually knows what was said to him and kicks his legs frantically, causing both toji and you to laugh at your baby’s antics.

you sat back and watch the two go back and forth like that for a good while, enjoying the moment. you felt all giddy seeing them interact and wanted nothing more than to kiss and cuddle with both.

and of course, you wished that precious moments like these would never come to an end any tjme soon.

#ෆ : parenting 101. #jjk x reader #toji x reader #toji fushiguro x reader #jjk fanfic #jjk fic #toji x you #jjk x you #jjk fluff #toji fluff

[factual-fantasy]

23 ASKS! THANK YOU! :DD 🐟

@timestorm04

1: Captain Barnacles! :DD

2: One of the reasons why I redrew them suddenly was because I was thinking of re-writing my Octonauts Sea dwellers AU :0 But I'm going back on that now tbh.. :///

They didn't figure it out and they did end up booking it. I mean,, can you really blame them?

We know Papyrus, and all of us would absolutely give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he was innocent. But Seam and Jevil don't know the Papyrus we know.

All Seam sees is an absolute mountain of bodies and an state of utter decay all around him.. with suspiciously the last man standing being a very clearly mentally unstable skeleton.. would you assume he was innocent?

Add onto that all the stress Seam was under, how unstable he was as well. Seam couldn't see the situation any other way and he was not taking any chances.

AAA THANK YOU!! IM SO GLAD TO HEAR THAT YOU LIKE THEM!! :DDDD

@foxythefox711

I don't watch Adventure time currently and I don't know all the nitty gritty of the shows lore.. but my favorite characters from what I've seen is Simon! With Jake as a close second. :} Also Prismo is 3rd I think-

f...fank youu!!

(Also the protons joke got a laugh outa me XDD )

:DD Thank you so much! I'm glad you like how I draw them!! :}}

@couchwow

oh ok

Wait are the characters from the game actually baked in an oven to be "born"?? I didn't know that--

@taizarack

:DD I'm glad you like them! And although I don't have either game, I hope to learn a little more about the games lore :0

@chickenheadguy (Link in question)

Oh! Thank you! Lemme just take a look an--

170 VIDEOS??

GORL THEY WEREN'T LYING THOSE COOKIES GOT LORE-

(Also thank you for the compliments and the link! :DD )

@luna-purple454

NO HE DOESN'T GET KILLED-- Seam and Jevil just jump to another AU as soon as Jevil had the strength to. Leaving Papyrus behind in the process..

(Also thank you!! :DD )

@torriderrelic44

I don't have any plans to draw any art like that, no.. sorry! <:/

YES. YES IT DOES. But its not the people who go "ohmygosh I LOVE this (AU/thing) you made! Its wonderful! Do you have any plans to continue it someday.? If not that's ok! Just wondering!" Those guys are fine and I take it as a compliment actually!

Its the people who say things like "When are you gonna finish this" "Why did you stop drawing this" "How long until you draw this again" "I don't like what you're drawing, now go back to this it was better" comments like THOSE, suck. And its always about the same comics/subjects that I stopped drawing months ago. Looking at you Octonauts crab comic

As for my AUs, its not too hard for me to remember all of them. I never have more than 5-6 per fandom. I can usually list them off by memory! :0

Tbh the animatronics would probably just register that as a mess/hazard and would notify an employee about the issue. In which the employee would dispatch a mop bot to go clean it up. I imagine it unfortunately happens often enough that the bots aren't really fazed. Kids amirite-

I have drawn her at least twice from recent memory! Once in this horror post, and she makes an appearance in part 1 of my FNAF AU recap/repair! :00

The reason why I rarely draw her is becuase of the plans I have for her in my AU. She is meant to be very mysterious and I want the changes I made to her in my re-write to be a surprise-

Also thank you! I'm glad you like my cookie run creatures! :}}}

WAAAA THAK YOU SO MUCH!!!😭😭💖😭

I'm not sure actually.. idk if the characters from the games are aware that they are "cookies" in the sense that they are meant to be eaten- So I'm not sure how my characters would react either-

Its related to the names of the drivers, I cant share anything else! :x

@mumble-jumble-gallery (Post in question)

Magic candy..? Huh- well I'm glad it isn't world shattering at least-- <XDD

@ravenslog

THANK YIU!! :DDD

:DD Thank you so much! I'll be sure to draw them again sometime XD

@beryl-shade

Sorry for the late reply! This ask got buried-

If you look to this post for reference, I was thinking that Fredbear would be as tall as Bonnie. Maybe a little taller.? And Spring Bonnie would be about as tall as Foxy :00

#my response #fnaf security breach #octonauts #undertale #deltarune #seam deltarune #cookie run #cookie run kingdom #cookie run ocs #my ocs

[my-plastic-life]

I did a thing... actually, I did several things. :D My ani-ME (anime doll version) needed manga in her house, so of course I had to make mini Inuyasha manga! I've done this before, but this time it's different... I didn't do miniature versions of the Viz BIG volumes. Nope, I did all 56 original Japanese volumes. Because ani-ME is in Japan, so she must have the original volumes!!! :D What a task this was - because the volumes are so old, it's hard to find high resolution pictures of them online. And even if you do, many times it's just the front, not the back and definitely not the spine. I found some, but then the front and back cover colors were completely different, some had text and graphics cut off from what was most likely a scanned image, the colors were inconsistent between various websites, some colors were clashing badly due to low quality resolution, etc.

So I literally made a template in Photoshop of the real size of the original manga (obtained via Amazon) and rebuilt EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. from scratch. I was able to find a site with all the original cover photos, and then I found the most high resolution cover I could find to duplicate the pattern that's on all books (colors vary), recreated the logo for each book (the character symbols and the gradients are all different for each volume), redrew the SS Comics logo that's on all books, and I even replicated each individual barcode. Because I'm nothing if not a consistent perfectionist. :D

For the backs, I used the images I found and just copied and pasted the characters and Japanese text, and for the teeny tiny characters I used the brush tool to trace over them. Even though I knew you probably wouldn't be able to see them in such a small scale, no way was I leaving them out! Consistency, darn it! :D

For the spines, I found complete sets on eBay and used a photo of the spines from those auctions as a template. I redid everything on the spine except the character head at the top of each, which is copied and pasted from the eBay files. They're definitely pretty low resolution, but hopefully it's not noticeable at such a small scale.

And the volume numbers? Try as I might, I could NOT find a font that matched them. So I got the most high resolution volumes I could find and made number templates... so each time I needed one of the volume numbers, I'd just use a color overlay on it and plop it where it needed to go on the front and spine.

Then the fun part - resizing them all to 1/6 scale. They're a little over an inch tall right now. And because they're not very thick in the spine, wrapping the covers around foam board to mimic pages wasn't working. So I had to make pages... for 56 volumes LOL. I just took my cover template, sized it down, and made it a blank white with a black stroke so I could see where to cut. I could fit 11 mini pages in one row across a regular sized sheet of printer paper (I used cardstock for extra thickness and stability), and I could fit like six rows on a sheet. I was able to fit 11 pages in one volume to allow the spine room, so 56 volumes x 11 mini pages each = 616 total pages I wound up cutting, then stacking and gluing together. But, of course, that wasn't a perfect fit, as the pages, despite being sanded down to be completely straight and smooth, poked out of the covers. So I had to wrap the covers around the pages, mark where they hit, and use an X-acto knife to trim the pages down before gluing them inside the covers.

But finally, I was done! It was time-consuming, but I love how these little books turned out. They don't open, but that's totally okay. That would be way too much work, and every time I make a book that opens, it never closes again. I did, however, manage to find some pages from the original first volume (in Japanese), so I printed a second volume 1 cover and glued those pages inside. So now ani-ME has an open book she can read too!

So there you have it! My mini, 1/6 scale Japanese volumes of Inuyasha - all 56 of them! I made that bookshelf just for them, but I intentionally left more room in case I want to add more manga later. But of course we had to have Inuyasha manga on the shelf - it's the most important! :D And the poster on the wall is totally a tag from one of my shirts LOL.

Showing off her new bookshelf stocked full of all 56 volumes of the Inuyasha manga:

Relaxing in bed, reading from the beginning:

Why yes, she is reading the Inuyasha manga on an Inuyasha pillow :D

All 56 volumes on the bookshelf:

What do you do with an Inuyasha shirt tag? Make an instant doll poster, of course!

Front covers:

Back covers:

Volume 1 pages (glued in order, right to left):

Size reference (shown with American penny):

#my plastic life #doll photography #one sixth scale #azone international #azone pure neemo #azonejp #Kiku Ningyo #Inuyasha #manga #anime #anime doll #tenderwolf #myfroggystufffanpics

[chibishortdeath]

I redrew something from 2022 :3! Yippie, now you guys get to see the old one and the new one next to each other heck yeah.

I’m gonna rant like absolutely bonkers length about Simon’s Quest and the endings and story under a cut for anyone interested:

The original version (the last image) had this like long rant about how I see the endings of the game, but it wasn’t as comprehensive cause I was still kinda new to things and well instagram character limit lol.

The endings of the game are a really really cool topic to me because of how ominous and vague they all are. They’re all left pretty open! But I’ve always gotten some sinking dread even when getting the fastest “red sky” ending. The game really sets up the ending with a lot of empty areas and suspense beforehand, especially with the still present but now more pressing clock still ticking ya know, and the final battle is kinda just there, but it ends off all this tense build up with

A eulogy. One definitely written for Simon too. In every ending.

The first ending (grey sky) is really vague, just a general statement that “Simon you will always be remembered for your bravery and courage” and that “Peace and serenity have been restored to Transylvania and the people are free of Dracula’s curse”. Which is really odd for what would be assumed to be a “bad ending”. This generally sounds like a pretty good outcome and it’s primarily the same in the Japanese version just slightly worded differently. Heck, it’s not even stated in the text outright if he died. But the visuals, oh man. Dreary greyscale and Simon doesn’t even appear on screen in front of Dracula’s grave. Did Dracula even get reburried? It’s some really bleak imagery compared to the otherwise pretty unsuspecting text.

And second ending (blue sky) is very interesting. Simon appears on screen with some nice bright generally cheery colors, but the text deliberately mentions his death in both versions. The English version however says something the Japanese version doesn’t: it says the curse wasn’t broken. The original text says “until a young man to fight against evils like him comes again to this world, Transylvanians will keep praying forever.” Which I guess you could assume means that something went wrong and the curse still exists, but it could also be taken as a general “there’s no cool badass vampire hunter guy to kill any other general threats, so we hope another one comes along”. So, again, it’s so extremely vague.

So far the first and the second don’t really have all that much different as far as implications go: Simon beat Dracula but he died.

So what about the third ending (red sky)? Would it shock you if I said there’s not much difference from the text of the first ending? It’s essentially just another eulogy text with nice things to say about him. It says “Simmon Belmont put an eternal period to the legend of Dracula” (yes the Japanese version says Simmon lol it happens), which is something we know isn’t true because well more games got made later. Also because Dracula’s hand pops out of the ground afterwards! Which is hard to say the meaning of, is it just a teaser like “to be continued” or is it actually meaning that Dracula wasn’t put down properly and will be back really soon? Because that still is in line with things since yeah Drac did kinda sorta come back early in Harmony of Dissonance. Anyway— But it’s just another way of saying “he killed Dracula” and probably “he ended the curse”. The last section is just “his blood and sweat have penetrated into the ground of Transylvania and will bring us full-blown flowers with happiness in next spring”. Which is, again, just a really pretty, poetic way of saying “we’re never gonna forget this guy”. And again, this ending never outright says if he lives or dies!

Which is so!!!!! Weird!!!!!!!!!!! Why have multiple endings in a game if they’re all so vague that they’re almost completely interchangeable and can all be argued to be the ending of the game? You could genuinely make an argument for each of the endings being the canon ending and it would affect essentially nothing. They’re so vague to the point that a lot of people assume that they were mixed up at some point in development, which I find unlikely coming from the dev team of the guy said to want his games to be a cinematic experience. But it’s so strange! Why!?!?!

But I think that this vagueness and sense of idk how to put it— um ya know when something builds something up to get you all excited and convinced it’ll go one way and then it pulls the rug out from under you? Like when it’s set up to where it feels like the protagonist is finally going to get something and then it just doesn’t happen completely unceremoniously? Like a hope crushing twist?

Idk what I mean is, to me, it feels completely intentional. It feels to me like the game is just ramping up the tension and the suspense and the dread just to cut it off with vague, bittersweet endings that just seem to imply sad things and don’t sit right. It’s like as if the game wants you to get the first ending, see that it’s really gloomy, try to figure out the game more and get the second ending, see that that one outright says he’s dead, then try to get something better only to run into another awkward seemingly negative ending and a realization that you can’t do anything about it.

And I was thinking about this again a bit ago and realized that it really fits with the rest of Simon’s story. Simon kinda has this general “hero goes to save the day” plot in the first one with some slight mention of Christopher before him and the fact that this is a clan and a repeating 100 year Dracula cycle right? But things go wrong and he gets cursed and presumably either struggles to figure out what to do or just puts it off for like 6 ish years. Add the general vibes of “will I ever be as good as my ancestors?” and repeating themes of being alone and then compare that with Dracula’s Curse that comes out not long later and this game is suddenly the most “power of friendship” “seeing the good in people” “together we can overcome this” kind of story in the whole series and it hit me: Simon feels like a subversion of the lone hero trope. Like this super uplifting, unlikely band of heroes story coming out right after the solitude if it were personified as a 1600s vampire hunter story feels so so so so important to me. And then The Adventure and Belmont’s Revenge come out and what are they about? Christopher goes into the castle alone and something goes wrong! And I’ve noticed how other Belmonts and protagonists in later games get companions or friends or helpers or somebody else, and oh boy does that make how alone Simon is that much more noticeable.

It just all comes together in a messed up way. I really feel like Simon dies in all of these endings. And I didn’t even get into weird symbolism discussion lol—

And maybe this is just me looking too hard into an old game from a modern used to stories in games being detailed perspective, but idk man, I love the Simon’s Quest because it never fails to baffle me. Honestly so much of Simon’s Quest genuinely haunts me (affectionate), like I’ll just be sitting around and think of another possible answer to something and it’ll end up just as vague and full of holes as any other speculation, it’s wild. This game will have you sitting around looking for answers only to consistently run into dead ends with sad or nonexistent implications. I hope any of this makes sense, this game drives me insane I love it debating replaying and overthinking it again hmmmmmmm—

#castlevania #castlevania games #Castlevania Simon’s quest #simon’s quest #castlevania ii #castlevania ii: simon's quest #akumajou dracula #simon belmont #castlevania fanart #art post #my art #art #fanart #redraw #ahfkshakfjsga i love u Simon’s Quest never change #Simon’s story is such a tragedy man somebody get this guy a friend #shout out to that midnight energy that suddenly compelled me to write multiple pages about an NES game again 💀💀💀💀💀💀 #also hehehehe flower symbolism in this one >:3c #have fun piecing the meanings of things together hehe it was fun researching for it #the flowers included are roses marigolds anemones and some teeny tiny forgetmenots hidden in there #also the symbolism surrounding Simon I’ve noticed seems to generally lead back to martyrdom and sacrifice which is hmmmm interesting #the thorns and colors Ayami uses for him in her art of him #the hanging skeletons in the hanged man positions being a reference to him #there’s more I’m just getting sleepy and can’t think of them rn #I made a post about it a loooong time ago tho #anyway that’s just adding on to the other ominous implications of what might have happened to him aaaaa #anyway Simon is one of the characters ever #hopefully this gives somber but ethereal vibes beautiful but tragic ya know #bro puts the slay in vampire slayer like it’s giving dead but he killed it anyway— #incoherent rambling

[amaiguri]

I redesigned my Main Antagonist

Kivihk, the God of Blood and Beginnings, has slowly risen from "antagonist of one story arc" to "main antagonist" and thus, he needs a new design and personality to match.

What was I working with? He had this arrogant, abrasive, "I'm waaay better than you" sort of attitude before. Imagine like... stereotypical misogynist college bad boy who drinks and parties too much and stuff. And he wanted to take over the world because he was an entitled baby.

So. He was evil and boring.

And also, he wasn't wearing enough clothes and this made him LESS hot, imo. I mean, look at this mess...

So then, I fixed him.

Initially, I fixed his second-in-command, Vanya, and gave her an actual tragic arc and stuff. And she went from "boring, evil goon" to "realistic depiction of a trad wife being gaslit into thinking giving birth was her only value, only to be put down for doing the one thing they told her she should do." So, she's this EMOTIONAL MESS and she hates him but she loves him cuz she doesn't think she has options...

Except the Demonic/Eldritch horror version. So her body will eventually be consumed and taken over by him. And she has to just be happy about this... SEE? That's FUN! (And by "Fun", I mean, it's horrific.)

So, next, I thought "Maybe, I'll remove Kivihk from the story except as a force-of-nature villain, with Vanya as his face!" Especially since "God of Blood and Beginnings" sounds a lot like "birth" to me -- so making him more of a feminine villain just made sense. I even started doing some sketches for this potential change -- Below: Vanya as she is now and Vanya as she could be as the avatar of a dead God.

But then I thought about how much editing that would require and died inside...

So I went and fleshed out the last 2000 years of backstory. And lo and behold, my usual trick of "just imagine going through their backstory" gave me a lot more empathy for the kind of people these two would be... And for one: Kivihk would not ACT like an entitled little baby all the time. He would, in fact, be pretty gentle, patient, and nice. He's a God, after all. He's a God who is superior to all other mortals and he has forever to achieve his goals. As I described it to my Discord:

He doesn't hate humans... he just doesn't see them as people. Do you gloat at cows? No. You aren't insane. You DO still get mad at them if they break your fence or refuse to eat the food you give them, though...

So, with this in mind, I went and redrew him to give him that "JRPG Final Boss First Form" vibe. In his human disguise atm, he's got darker skin because the majority of humans in that area have dark skin. But most of my Demons have ashy-silver skin, so that's kinda what I'm going for with his "Godling" form.

To be clear, in his TRUE true form, he'd probably have like 5 more of those black "burned" arms, 6 more eyes, and like 3 flaming halos or something. I also think his God form would be more fishlike, since fish lay a lot of legs, and take a lot of influence from sea angels (since they're clear/white but have a red core and I think that's a great aesthetic for a God of Blood).

So yeah! That's a list of all the changes atm. I'm not even sure if this is the final destination of my changes so if you have questions or suggestions, I am open to them. Thanks for going on this journey with me! Now I just have to do a proper illustration to update this banner already... Hee hee!

#blood god #fantasy gods #character design #character sketch #original character #amaiguri #yssaia

[parker-fyraga]

Lost Ascension Art Showcase!

Part 1

Today was the the second stream for the Sequence Break Lost Ascension One Shot:

Qobold Kwest

And to celebrate, I thought I’d share all the art I made that were showcased on these streams! Now the thing is, I must be careful, or a certain boss man will destroy me, so only stuff that was shown and stuff given consent from said boss man will be shown.

Spoilers for both streams and the Lost Ascension Campaign

First off are the two player characters I was given the privilege, “Minion” played by Mikey and “Noks” played by Amy. All Mikey told me about Minion was to make him magical, so I did just that, along with the requested orb and scale color. Then Noks was requested by Amy to have a very Bloodborne style of dress and a crossbow, and while he has black scales I’ve chosen to give him a purple tint so the scale color doesn’t clash with his line art.

Then there’s this “recolor” of minion. Now that’s in quotes because the actual canvas file for Minion got corrupted and was unsalvageable, so I just found the same picture and redrew it from scratch at a higher scale. This was a bitch do to.

After that, are these two monsters. The prompts for each were a corrupted frog and a corrupted sheep. Both have black bodies with the white veins to symbolize what I interpret the corruption to look like in game. The orange on the corrupted sheet is to give a design flare for the fiery powers it has, and the frog is just all around adorable!

The Kobolds! These little bastards were fun to draw, especially my children: Gehro, Zett, and Mog. The first three at the top right were meant to be the “Metallic” Kobolds, which were discriminated against due to their scale color, which I utilized in their roughed up demeanor. The chromatic I drew weren’t important characters, and were more generic npc designs, which is why they are recolors for the most part.

Now these Kobolds are more filler characters, but for specified enemy types, those being casters and brutes. I chose the colors they have based on the scale color lore to see what fit what scale type. The brutes have a bit of permanent corruption on them to give them some uniqueness as well.

These three were some generic designs made for the campaign as civilians. The human male was done for recolors so there were differences between the characters Richard assigned them. The cat girl was a design made with the intent of crossing a halfling with a tabaxi, and it works even better with a corrupted tail.

#dnd #ttrpg art #dnd commission #dnd art #sequence break #dnd 5e art #kobold #dnd campaign #dnd 5e campaign #dnd 5e oc #dnd 5e

[fullmetalgirl98]

30 days Hypnosis Mic challenge

DAY 10: a thing that's not canon but you think it is

🎤 Doppo smokes.

For the avoidance of any misunderstanding. The image above is not an original idea of mine but is a repurposing of a wonderful fanart I found on pinterest and whose artist I unfortunately could not identify with certainty. After a quick research, I may have been able to figure out that the artist is this person (twitter) but since the profile is protected, I could not get confirmation and consequently ask permission to use the art. For that reason, being me myself deeply opposed to reposting and editing other people's art, I entirely redrew it by my own hand and colored my own lineart. So please don't alert the state police, don't alarm the original artist (in case you know them...in fact, please do tell me who they actually are, if you know and have figured out which art I'm referring to), don't scream plagiarism, and do not repost (mainly because this art should not exist at all). Thanks for your cooperation.

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I've been thinking a lot about what to talk about today, because I was planning to talk about what I believe (and I think we all believe) to be the trauma suffered by Hifumi thanks to Honobono…but I would have risked this post being blacked out on tumblr and I would also have to be particularly careful about how to talk about such sensitive topics without hurting anyone's sensibilities, so I preferred to avoid...but I won't detach myself that much, because of course all the knots then come to a head anyway.

C'mon. You can't tell me that you don't also think that Doppo is the type to have a cigarette once in a while. I can see him smoking so well! It's something that fits him perfectly! Also, let's be honest guys. Doppo is cool in his own right (even if he doesn't realize it), but with a cigarette in his hand??? the level of sexyness increases tenfold. Let's talk about it seriously for a second. Doppo, in fact, has never been shown smoking a cigarette, but I firmly believe that he feels the need to do so from time to time. And by that I absolutely don't mean that he does it in a Samatoki-mode way (who feels the need to smoke even when in fact he doesn't feel the need at all (???) just because his body is completely ADDICTED) or in the way that a nervous person smokes a tactical cigarette during a break from work because it has a calming effect on the nerves. No, not in that sense.

Doppo is not a smoker who walks around with a pack of cigarettes in his pants pocket. Let's say that he doesn't have the habit, that's it. But I truly believe that there's a pack in the desk's drawer of his office and one in the drawer of his bedroom. A pack that sits there almost completely intact, because a cigarette is pulled out just once in a while, a pack that will probably last a couple of years lol. That's a pack of cigarettes which however can provide some relief in some particularly stressful moments. And I don't mean the usual moments when Doppo freaks out, no. I'm talking about the serious moments, the emotionally important ones. The ones in which Doppo deeply reflects on his life and wonders how to behave to make Hifumi feel safe, what to do to actually make him feel protected.

Doppo is a lone smoker. I've always pictured him that way. He doesn't smoke in company, because, as I said, he doesn't have a smoking habit. But he smokes when the sun sets or at night, when the moonlight enters between the curtains of the window, when he can't sleep because his head is full of thoughts that torment him (am I covertly-not-covertly promoting again the hifudo fic that @justanotherniky is writing? Nooooo, absolutely not).

And then yes, why not…. who said he can't have a cigarette every now and then during a moment of stress caused by work? Lol But only when he works from home. Because being seen like this by Hifumi is fine.

#hypnosis mic #hypmic #30 days challenge #30 day challenge #day 10 #doppo kannonzaka #kannonzaka doppo #hifumi izanami #izanami hifumi #hifudo #matenrou #japanese rap

[moonsidesong]

Have you played PuyoPuyo 7? If so, what do you think about it?

good timing anon, i actually replayed it pretty recently with a friend of mine (wanted to play the recent re-translation, very much recommend it, its much better than Nexus's halfhearted mess) so my opinions on it are fresh!!

the short answer is. Its so jank. and probably objectively not a very good game, and there are definitely things i would change about it if i could. But i still really like it for what it is. It's got a unique identity in the series and I love that about it!

im gonna talk a lot now so under the readmore this goes ^_^

i love that transformation mode is just if fever rules were an insane mess. why does it go up to 99 seconds. why does mega mode send SO much damage. god bless it<3 they should bring it back. wanna see what hellfire comet festivals shibakazu would cook up in it.

and like the story is.... not. well paced. but ive learned to laugh about it at least. and like suuuuuure ecolo shows up at the end and then hypes up how unstoppably powerful they are and how ringo could NEVER BEAT THEM and then gets defeated in 10 seconds because the final boss is a joke. its fine<3 at least its actually fun to play and doesnt take a million years to trudge through so the bad pacing doesnt feel nearly as awful. (puyo chronicle i am giving you a little glare)

ive grown to love the jank art style but i will say, i wish they redrew everyone. ringo standing next to characters clearly just with sprites edited from 15th anniversary or fever 2 make her stick out quite a bit. it makes me wonder if the game's art was really rushed or something? it just feels a bit off.

another thing, i dont think this game is a Bad introduction to ecolo at all (i Love their design in this game and i think it perfectly introduces how intensely powerful and unhinged they can be), BUT!!! their chain animations are really... disappointing. idk. i Like that they shapeshift into other characters i think thats fun (i actually think its kind of a shame its a trait of theirs rarely brought up anymore) but the fact its mostly just the others' animations recolored black with some extra particle effects is really lame. minor differences like a more ecolo-like facial expression (get silly!! get mischievous!!!) couldve gone a long way to giving them more personality in their chains.

also relating to the past two notes, its really no secret that transformation mode is... Missing. Quite a bit of assets it really should have. considering a decent handful of characters only go through very minor changes (darkle is literally just a clothing color swap) and honestly Ecolo (since all of their chains are borrowed) still only changing to feli for mini and klug for mega is SUCKS i think and it makes me the most upset out of the cast.. ecolo's already transforming when they're not in fever!!!!! lets do something else!!!!!

this is just a reaaally quick mockup scribble of an idea i had that id been discussing with my friend, but i think it'd be really fun if instead of doing a simple character shapeshift, they got real small and silly looking for their mini form and HUGE AND OVERBEARING AND INTIMIDATING for mega. the core would stay the same size, for scale! pp7 is the game that leans the hardest into ecolo being someone who can switch from silly little thang to terrifying cosmic being of sheer force on a dime, and i think itd be fun if their transformations reflected that.

like idk ecolo is the Debut final boss and (imo) one of the coolest characters in the series so i think it sucks that they got the short end of the stick in the battle animations area in this game.

like ive been saying I've grown to love many of Puyo 7's problems but this is one thing i would definitely change if i could.

#i love puyopuyo can you tell by the way i talk about things id change when i talk about it half the time #bri talks #also tasty tunes i did not mention that in the ramble its good music thank you hideki abe as always #transformation theme is one of my favs ever i think #i haventtttt gotten a chance to get my hands on the pp7 ost cd yet BUT SOMEDAY... SOMEDAY........

[azrielfiend]

a bunch of sketches/concept art/wips of hs!slugcats because i thought it was interesting to share! (+ my commentary because i love to ramble)

((looong post))

first appearance of survivor and hunter, i did them in an aggie with my kismesis... although i drew on half of the canvas,, survivor looks very disasterous here because i was struggling to give them the most "neutral" clothes (the lines on their skirt is the the survivor karma/symbol) (ill get to it in the next image

concept ideas for all of the symbols for the scugs, originally was going to also include the karma theyre associated with, but i quickly dropped that realizing how "complex" it would be on their designs, especially rivulets. you can actually still see this in monks design! their necklace still has the monk karma on it x)

more survivor outfit failures... i think this would look too weird for me + unconventional in an environment where they have to run around the world (thats why i gave most of them shorts/clothes that make them move better. except for saint of course.) also, survivor with this outfit looks like toriel LOL

i reeeeaaaaally disliked spearmasters older design. it looks uncomfortable. there was another one where they wore long black gloves and thigh highs (again, i did not like it so i deleted it and kept redrawing it.) sm also appears more spiky here, but the texture was too rough for me if that makes sense. i did not like the scarf either...

oh, yeah. i kept the artificer pose from this because it was too cool to let go !!! amazing considering i drew it with my finger on ibis paint haha

this is the sketch for the second bundle of the designs, again i borrowed the artificers pose from the previous one x)) nothing to say much other than this is where i redrew the spearmaster (i still did not keep their long cape still, you can still see it in this sketch though)

heres the third bundle... i changed the rivulets pose because they looked like they were holding in a pee........... saint looked too dramatic so i changed it too

speaking of saint, this is their older design, i didnt keep the long hair because i thought it looked a bit too silly. i still prefer the one with short hair! also rivulet has way more frills in this than their current design

and hey! speaking of rivulet, coming back to this. i kept changing their colors because something was bothering me and i couldnt figure it out! was satisified enough with the current one though

going back to saint again, i was going to make them have a pink robe but it blended in with the tongue too much so i made it orange instead! strawberry saint would be... very interesting though!

now to the other stuff that doesnt have art/purely just text

heres vibes i wanted to have for each of the scugs and their shape language

monk = friendly, energetic, joyful, some sort of childish shape

survivor = neutral, unsure, wary, a mix of shapes intented to not make you feel anything

hunter = hostile, cool, alert, sharp shape

downpour ones!!

gourmand = "cool uncle" energy (i dont know how to explain it), silly, round shapes

artificer = dangerous, rough, unhinged, spiky shape

spearmaster = mysterious, elegant but still dangerous, agile, sharp shapes

rivulet = the "athletic dude" (gender neutral), bubbly (get it?), very long shape (i also made them the tallest scug due to how tall swimmers are the fastest)

saint = smirky, calm, quiet, cozy shape

id also like to mention this- the reason why hunters clothes are purple is because they are associated with nsh! not a detail that many people notice. also another thing that i put thd detail in, since monk and survivor are siblings i made their clothing styles similar to each other!!! the brainrot goes so hard!!!! i think thats enough rambling,, as i have many things to do..

if you genuinely read all of that, thank you for much??? not many people sit through my rambles and read them so aaa,, thsnk you again,, i better get going now!!

#post #hs!slugcats #concept art #long post

[o0akio-the-dummy0o]

unfinished halloween drawing

i wanted to make something cool for halloween but i gave up on it so ill just explain the characters cus they are ocs first guy is Kidney, i believe i have already posted him so i wont bother talking about him second girl, melting ghost lady is called Yuki Saminara and is actually a really old oc i wanted to bring back so i redrew her! im not really proud of how it turned out though thats mainly why i gave up on this and it was to late to redo her. (BTW she comes from a picrew! every time i mention an oc is from a picrew you may ask for the link to the one i used) shes now a bit of a brat but mostly just a pure child, thats about it. last girl the spider is Webbsi (Web-s-e) and is a The Amazing Digital Circus oc! i just made her yesterday and i love how she looks! i really wish i did better on this drawing cus of how much i like how she turned out but i can draw her again, shes a master at juggling and being a mom to anyone that needs one.

srry about the info dump but i might as well do it as im not finishing this time to have more TADC brainrot

#art #digital art #oc #oc art #ghost oc #the amazing digital circus oc #tadc oc #halloween drawing #spooky art #unfinished art

[brodingles]

Year in Review, 2022

I actually made a couple of these, because it was hard deciding what really encompassed my year. The version above is the one with my Aesthetic version, which has the pieces I think were the prettiest or most aesthetically pleasing ones I did for that month.

This post has my thoughts on the pieces and some overall thoughts on my progression through the year! I’ll post one with just the image afterwards.

January

I spent most of January coming off the end of IR and DMP, and as such I had a lot of. Juniper, Dorkus, and Angie on the brain. I actually made a few of these little comics. >:0 Dorkus is one of my favourite expressions I’ve done in a long time, and it lives in my army of Discord emotes haha.

This kind of WAS my meme for the month, my favourite thing overall.

February

This piece is actually part of a set that I did on stream! It’s part of a set. Keep this artstyle in mind, it will come back later!

Was still drawing Triad Shenanigans this month. I just wanted to share Discount Chocolate Dorkus.

Despite what it may seem like, I actually spent this month planning Tiny Gents! I made headshots for every important NPC for the first oneshot I ran ever in my life. Very shaky knees, but everything went well!!

March

I have no idea what came over me for this one I just went as feral as Barbeau haha. This HAD to be when we were talking about doing a certain DnD game, but the DM and players have been so busy all year we never played. Maybe 2023 is the year Barbeau comes into fruition??

Not the full comic and no Dorkus because I’ve already shared plenty of Dorkus and Juniper needs to be in here SOMEWHERE, but apparently I was still going strong with these in March?? Wild!

We ran the second(?) Tiny Gents session this month. I am including Tiny Gents because it was such a big part of the year in total haha. April

I actually don’t like this piece very much, if I’m honest, but I made it and that should be worth something!! I had the song Eyes Don’t Lie going on loop for this, and I put it on my Rememdium playlist, which is probably my most played playlist of the year (If not, it’s TG). This song is going to come up again, but it definitely put me in A Rememdium brainspace.

I actually spent the month drawing more Tiny Gents stuff. Pictured above is one of the “Feral Group” PCs (featuring Charming reading a book). I did some more character design stuff this month, mostly sketching traditionally.

May

This piece is actually from a LIST of pieces that I did in a row for the Song Meme. This one just looks the nicest when cropped to me haha.

I also redrew a classic comic with the newer designs for the TG RA’s. I...got so much done this month haha.

June

Pride! Emilio and (then) Geon! This was actually NOT the highlight of the month, because this month I created Aine!!

She just POPPED into existence while I was listening to Eyes Don’t Lie and then she took over my brain for a while. 

I also did more Tiny Gents art because I had brainrot all year.

July

ANTHONY TOKEN

So Anthony, my boy, came into existence a little before this month, but I didn’t draw him much or think about him much until AFTER I drew his token. Now I’m obsessed with the goober. I plan on redrawing this, I’m not as happy with it now.

I actually posted this one here recently, but I did this as a send off with the Feral Group for TG. They haven’t played since and I miss them ;v;

August

I did a lot of doodles? This month? It was a little slow. I created Hisscisca (the half orc) and Jamie (the pink goth). I actually did frames for an animatic done by @anatthema-art 

Also created another character with the help of @churrobird

Got back into Triad shenanigans and made Dorkus a gf. I also did a set of outfits for Juniper! I’ll try to post these separately, this post is getting long.

BUSY MONTH.

September

More Tiny Gents. I did so much Tiny Gents. Not so much art but just doing Tiny Gents.

BUT I ALSO WENT INTO ANTHONY BRAINROT

I HAVE SO MUCH ANTHONY. I DID AN ANIMATIC FOR ANTHONY I WEEP. I SOB. I CRY.

October

I drew this one in a haste and for love of the game to do MOTI’s Songtober! It was a really fun piece to do, and I’m surprised I have not done more fanart for this game ohoho. Omori made a big impact on my art.

I also tried really hard to do a TG comic this month, and I did 3 pages. Hooray! I can’t find it in my files, but it sure is a thing I did.

I also did like...3 birthday pieces because I have so many OCs with October birthdays.

I actually also spent this month working on an even bigger project...

 So Monkey’s Paw is not mentioned ANYWHERE in this summary, and that’s because I forgot I had to do a ton of art for it despite it consuming my being for several months. It is a surprise I got anything else done, really. I don’t even remember when I drew these-- technically they should be earlier. I’m glad the song and video are out haha. Also yes I put an Omori reference in the video.

November

This piece kind of changed how I approach my pieces in general? There was a lot of reference gathering and editing that went into it, even though it didn’t take long to actually draw. I just wanted to try something cool, and it seems to have succeeded.  Really this month I did a bunch of cool art with Anthony, I’m also quite fond of the sword piece.

I have so many feelings about this image you don’t understand.

December

I actually don’t know if the person I did this for has a Tumblr, but it was a Secret Santa gift! I did other smaller pieces this month, a lot of them, actually, but I mostly just chilled out. December was very reflective for me personally, and I became so grateful for things that happened this year. This summary is very visual heavy and I apologize for that, but there’s so much art to share this time around and I wanted to do that! Conclusion

I spent this year working mostly on my own projects, which was very surreal. I’m very grateful for being able to do that, and would like to continue working on projects throughout 2023 as well!

#summary of art #summaryofart2022 #summary of art 2022 #art #long post #dingaling crossing

[cloudsoffire]

Why Sonic the Hedgehog is an Incredible Character

 essay below the cut (using capital letters in this for the sake of semi-professionalism):

Sonic the Hedgehog is frequently misunderstood by non-fans as a corporate view of what was cool in the 90s. To that, I say yeah. that’s absolutely what he started off as. The guy was engineered to be a counter to Mario. But you know what? Those corporate guys were right. But you also can’t say in good faith that that’s what he still is. Compare classic western Sonic to the Sonic we see today and while he’s still recognizable, he’s way different. Between cartoons like TAoStH, and the early comics, cultural perception of the character in the west was that of a spunky kid with a mohawk who said things like “Way past cool!” They even redrew the Japanese art to maintain this image.

But come Sonic Adventure, the cultures of Sonic merged. He was still a cool guy, but now he had an actual in-game character to go with it. At least an obvious one (we can talk about that in a second). This transition to 3d also marks the beginning of his modern character. Throughout the years, this character has been added to, flattened, and just been undersold, but his core traits are almost always there. Let’s go over a couple of games to get a better understanding of them.

Sonic 1:

Sonic doesn’t have much of an in-game personality in the original game. We know he’s impatient, and fights evil.

Outside of the game, there are the manuals. The US manual describes Sonic as “one tough dude,” and “the real cool hedgehog with the spiked haircut and power sneakers that give him super speed.” Right from the get-go, we can see the “hey fellow kids”ness of it, but it must’ve been what the kids liked, because Sonic absolutely took off in the US.

I can’t find a translation of the full JP manual, but I have found an English version of the story inside. We actually learn a lot more from this than we do from the US manual. Firstly, we learn that this isn’t the first time Sonic and Eggman have fought, and Sonic has a strong sense of justice. He cares for others, and is horrified when he learns that the mad scientist has turned the inhabitants of South Island into robots. He’s still a cool guy, but he isn’t just a cool guy.

Sonic 2:

Again, Sonic doesn’t have much of a personality. This game does introduce his friendship with Tails, and that they trust each other. Super Sonic is also there, but that doesn’t really say anything about Sonic’s personality yet. In Sonic Adventure it’s stated that he draws from the positive energy of the emeralds, allowing him to go super even after Chaos drained them of their negative energy.

Interesting enough, the US manual makes Sonic seem like a bit of a jerk. He’s again referred to as “One tough dude with spiky hair,” but that’s not all. The manual makes a point that “Mostly, Sonic lets [Tails] trail along,” but he’ll often run off and leave his friend in the dust. Not really something you’d see from him nowadays. But then again, that’s the US manual, filtered through our lens of “cool” at the time. What was sonic actually like during this game?

In the JP manual, Sonic is indifferent to Tails. They become friends when the fox starts following him out of nowhere, and Sonic doesn’t stop him. He’s not mentioned to show off in front of him, and even allows Tails to modify his “Favorite machine, the Tornado.“ It’s also suggested that he’s praised Tails for his second tail, which he was bullied for. He’s explicitly mentioned to be cool, but it’s not in your face at all. This Sonic is much more laid-back than his US counterpart. Again, he has a strong sense of justice and cares for others.

Sonic 3&K:

This game is probably the most realized classic game. I could talk about it for a while, but this is explicitly about Sonic. This game shows that Sonic is quick to forgive, but very much not a pushover.

The US manual shows nothing.

The JP manual shows nothing.

Sonic CD:

Again, not much is learned through gameplay that we don’t know already. The animated cutscenes are cool though.

The US manual starts off by shoehorning in Princess Sally, a character from the Archie comics that does not appear in the game. The story at the beginning portrays Sonic as a thrill-seeker, and someone who does things just because he thinks it’ll be fun. This is definitely something that sticks around into the modern age. Outside of this, he doesn’t really display any character traits outside of concern for Sally.

In the JP manual, he’s once again shows few traits, but it does establish his confidence, stating that he can do anything if he has courage. His character profile also says he’s cool and popular with everyone everywhere. It also gives full diagnostics for Metal Sonic which I will be saving for future use.

Since we’re only talking about mainline games, we’re now moving up to Sonic Adventure. The first game with actual dialog. The game where the divide between the US and JP Sonic was, for the most part, removed. This is who Sonic really is. Could I have started here? Yes, but I think the other stuff is still interesting. Did you know Sally was in the US manual for CD? I didn’t.

Sonic Adventure solidified Sonic in a lot of ways, and made him a lot more three-dimensional (pardon the pun) than his previous iterations. Let’s go over his character profile first.

“He’s the world’s fastest, hypersonic hedgehog! With a strong love of freedom, the only thing Sonic hates is oppression. Despite his short temper, deep down he’s a really nice guy who is 100% committed to helping those in trouble whenever and wherever he can.” Perfect! That summarizes his character up to this point pretty well, and adds some other points. And for the most part, that’s how he behaves ingame, then and now. This is Sonic.

But we can go deeper than that. So we will.

Sonic’s main theme throughout both Adventure games is called “It Doesn’t Matter.” Seems a bit odd for a supposed hero, right? Until you take the time to really listen to it. It isn’t a nihilistic song at all, but it still isn’t something you’d give to a paragon hero. This theme is about not giving up, about always following your heart. Sonic doesn’t care about whether what he’s doing is “right” or “wrong” in the eyes of everyone else, so long as he’s following his own way. And sure, that way involves helping others and stopping Eggman, but that outlook on life also means that he isn’t afraid to be the bad guy. Hell, Sonic Adventure 2 starts off with him running away from G.U.N. instead of just waiting for Shadow to act while he was still in prison, thereby clearing his name. He’s impatient, spontaneous, and he doesn’t give a damn what anyone else thinks.

In Sonic and the Black Knight, Sonic has the following exchange with Merlina.

Merlina: “If you remove that sword and defeat King Arthur with it, you shall forever be the worst of knights, slayer of kings.”

Sonic: “Guess I can’t be the hero every time.”

In Frontiers, he doesn’t question the sky voice at all because he thinks following its directions will save his friends. When this is brought up, he brushes it off, claiming that if they’re evil, he can just defeat them, too. Sonic completely waives morality if it gets in the way of what he perceives as justice. And sometimes that justice is completely misguided, showcased in how willing to forgive he is.

Surge is someone who’s been hurt in the past, and Sonic recognizes this. He isn’t necessarily wrong to want to give her a second chance, but he just as easily extends this courtesy to Eggman and Starline, the people that have caused them and everyone else untold suffering. Surge has a point when she calls him naive. He is. But if he wasn’t, he wouldn’t be Sonic. Sonic wouldn’t kill his enemies, because he believes in them. Would it be better for everyone if nobody had to worry about Eggman again? Absolutely. Has Sonic had the opportunity to kill Eggman but instead elected to let him escape? Of course. Sonic sees the good in everyone, and sometimes it works out for him, and sometimes it just hurts him and others. But he sticks to his guns, in a very non-literal sense. He actually expresses his distaste for using firearms in Shadow the Hedgehog.

Sonic isn’t just some corporate 90s kid that was made as a counter to Mario. He’s an extremely fleshed out character with incredible potential. He’s kind, compassionate, strong willed, quick-witted, and above all someone who lives for his own sake.

Some Sonic quotes to leave you with:

“How can [sealing Chaos (who is currently destroying a city) in the Master Emerald] help? It won’t change how he feels inside, will it? His heart will still remain in turmoil, and his anger just won’t vanish! He’ll just be trapped forever!”

“Nothing starts until you take action. If you have time to worry, then run!”

“Shahra... Will you grant me one more wish? I wish for a mountain of handkerchiefs. Now. Just let yourself cry. As much as you need to.”

“Every world has its end, and I know that’s kinda sad, but that’s why we’ve gotta live life to the fullest in the time we have.”

Sage: “And the voice that commands you. What if it is leading you to disaster?”

Sonic: “If they want to start trouble, I’ll stop them, too.”

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this technically didn’t follow any essay format, but whatever.

if i missed anything, feel free to scream it at me.

#sonic the hedgehog #essay #character analysis #fire.txt

[starlitangels]

We Match

Okay! @thegoldenlittlerose​ redrew my profile picture just for the fun of it and to say thank you, I wrote a one-shot of her choosing! I always make vampires the antagonists of things like this so I tried to shake things up 3.7k words CW: fantasy violence, blood, emotional and physical distress, mentions of killing

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“Baaabe! How was work? Is everything okay?” Asher asked.

“Everything’s fine, baby,” I replied, trying not to sound nervous. “But I had to work late again and since I got in a little late, the parking lot of my building was full. So I had to park a building’s lot over. And it’s dark. I’m just a little apprehensive so I figured I’d call you before walking to my car. To keep me company and all that.”

“Awww. Want me to come get you?”

“No, Ash. It’s literally, like, two hundred yards farther than I usually park. It’s not a big deal. The dark is just making me anxious. The parking lots are pretty well-lit. I just don’t want to have to walk through the dark grass between the two lots alone.”

“I’ll come get you.”

“Asher, don’t waste gas,” I chided. “I’ll be fine.”

“Baaabe,” Asher chided in almost the same tone I’d used. “You’re my mate—and I love you. It’s not a waste if it keeps you safe.”

“Ash, I’m already halfway across the first lot and I’m not going back inside to wait for you in the twenty minutes it’ll take you to get here. Just keep talking to me and I’ll be fine. I have my pepper spray and all that. I’ll be okay, I promise.”

Ash chuckled. “Maybe I, uh, should teach you how to put your keys between your fingers and fight like a wolf with claws,” he said as he playfully snorted.

“Careful, puppy, I might actually take you up on that offer,” I replied. That earned me a real laugh. A deep, hearty one. I loved hearing Asher’s laugh.

For a moment, it drowned out another noise that filled my other, open ear as I crossed into the dark stretch of grass between the two parking lots.

A much more sinister, twisted laugh.

“Well, well. Look what we have here, boys,” a voice said. I squined through the darkness to see four figures circling me like—

Like a pack of wolves.

“Ash,” I said softly into my phone. “Trouble. Four of them.”

I heard my boyfriend swear—none too softly. “I’ll be right there,” he said. I heard the rustling of clothing on the other end of the line.

“A little, weak, unempowered human—but one with magic lingering on their skin,” the same voice as the one before continued nonchalantly. A face looked from the darkness—bright white teeth catching the faint light from one of the street lamps. “What’re you doing out here, all alone, in the middle of the night?”

“Going home,” I retorted firmly, shoving past the first one and picking up my pace. “Ash, they’re empowered. I think they might be shifters.”

All I heard on the other end of the call was a very familiar, animalistic growl. He’d shifted.

“Where ya runnin’ off to, sweetheart?” a second figure crooned, stepping into my path. The other that I’d pushed past was lurking directly behind me.

“I assure you, I’m no sweetheart,” I snapped. My mind jumped, briefly, to Milo’s mate. Their powerful magic—the ability to just disappear whenever they wanted. It would certainly come in handy right about now, that was for sure. But I was just me. Unempowered. “Leave me alone.” I pushed past the second figure, shouldering him hard.

He growled. Definitely a shifter’s growl.

I broke into a run, not bothering to be polite, digging my keys out of the pocket of my jacket. The warm Dahlia summer night air rushed over my skin. “Ash!”

I heard the familiar sound of shifting magic—God knew I’d lived with Asher long enough to recognize it immediately—and turned my run into a spring. How the hell was I supposed to outrun four wolves?

I heard the deep bark of a shifter wolf behind me and shrieked as something slammed into me.

I hit the dirt hard. My phone and keys flew out of my hands. “Asher, they’re shifters!” I screamed, hoping beyond hope that he’d hear it.

The wolf that had tackled me to the ground dug his paw beneath me and rolled me over onto my back. Long, sharp, white teeth snarled inches from my nose. I scrambled, trying to get away, scrabbling at his forelegs with my fingernails. Not that it was effective. I’d snuggled Asher’s wolf form plenty enough to know that the fur on a shifter was so thick it was practically armor.

I squirmed as the wolf snapped his jaws at me.

Three more wolves entered my field of vision. There was no way I’d be able to dodge them all.

Pain started flooding in from—everywhere. My limbs. My sides. My chin where I’d hit the ground. My vision swam and my thoughts started to go fuzzy.

Asher... baby where are you...

The thought trickled out of my head like the last drops of water poured from the bottom dregs of a glass.

More pain. I was being dragged across the ground. I was vaguely aware of twigs and leaves prickling at my skin. I groaned in pain, eyelids fluttering. But I refused to close them. If I closed them, I’d be giving up. And I never gave up.

I felt my eyelids touch and forced them open. I was bleeding. I knew that much. I could feel the warmth of it on my skin. Smell that metallic sting of iron in my nostrils.

My throat hurt. It felt raw. It occurred to me that I’d probably been screaming. Was probably still screaming. Pain had a funny way of making me lose the awareness of my senses beyond said pain.

I heard a howl. Distant. Familiar?

Hehe, I thought idly. Wolf puppy...

Another howl answered it from farther off.

And another.

And another.

My eyelids fluttered again.

One of the wolves attacking me sunk his teeth into my shoulder. This time, I was well aware of my screaming.

The edges of my vision were beyond fuzzy and had started going black. My consciousness swayed dangerously.

—

Asher snarled and leapt on the nearest wolf, crashing down onto them with his entire weight. The rogue wolf whined. Milo! Help me get that bastard’s teeth off my mate! he said.

On it, Milo replied, already weaving between two other wolves—who missed their attacked on the smaller, quicker, rust-colored wolf. Ash slammed his paws into the wolf he’d landed on, hearing the blissfully satisfying crunch of bones breaking under his strength. He huffed out his nose in satisfaction and leapt off to bound after Milo.

Tank, David’s voice said, much calmer than Asher. Let’s have some fun. Show these idiots not to mess with our family.

With. Pleasure, Tank replied, relish in their voice and a dark chuckle following.

Real wolves in the wild fought—hunted—better in packs. Technically, shifter wolves did too. But the Shaw pack had always taught its pups how to handle themselves on their own when the pack wasn’t there to help out.

Tank, in particular, had always been skilled at fighting multiple opponents alone. They still couldn’t beat David—but watching them hurl themselves at this little group of shifters and take on two at once made Asher believe that if he fought them again for the first time in years, he might break his streak of only losing to David.

Milo had taunted who Ash assumed was the lead wolf into letting go of Asher’s mate. So by the time Ash caught up after breaking the shoulder of the other wolf, he could just tear into the leader. It wouldn’t have been hard for the Shaw pack mental link to breach into the link of these others—the magical wall between was flimsy—but Asher didn’t want to speak to them. Didn’t want to hear their human voices plead for mercy.

He wanted to hear them whine like whelps for daring to hurt his mate. He wanted to teach them a lesson about messing with unempowered people. Especially those with powerful shifters standing right behind them.

In truth, he’d been heading down to his car the second his mate called him. Then they’d said “Trouble” and he’d known a car wouldn’t be fast enough to get to them. It was a dangerous notion to shift and run through the city. Less so this late at night when there were fewer people out and about, but Ash had left his collar on with its personalized name tag. So hopefully he’d just looked like a rather large house dog running through the city. He’d shared his location with Milo, David, and Tank with an “SOS, emergency—wolves. Now!” text and within seconds of shifting felt their minds light up the mental link. At which point he’d explained what was happening.

He’d chosen Tank and Milo on top of David because he trusted them, they were damn good fighters, and when his mate said there were four of them, he knew he’d need more than just David. Could he and David handle four wolves just the two of them? Yes. But not with Ash trying to protect his mate at the same time.

He snapped his jaws hard around the back of the leader’s neck, snarling and livid.

Ash— David’s warning went entirely ignored. His mate was bleeding heavily and still screaming. That would not stand. The wolf in Asher—that was no longer simply lurking in his chest, but had consumed his body—seethed with fury and undeterrable desire to protect, protect, protect.

That’s my mate, the wolf whispered, the words filling Asher’s brain completely as he attacked. Keep your filthy paws off them.

Ash, Milo tried to put in, slamming his smaller form into one of the other wolves. The one David had tackled. Tank was still holding their own just fine against the other two. Especially given Asher had crunched one’s shoulder. Asher ignored Milo’s warning, and everything else.

David, Milo, to me, Tank said.

Milo left the tag team and went and intercepted one of the other wolves. David knocked out the one he’d been fighting with a smashing headbutt before joining.

Trust me. Tank’s words were completely ignored by Ash. He wasn’t listening to the link at all.

He started paying more attention when Tank’s grey-and-tan wolf form slammed into him. Stand down, Asher! they shouted in his mind.

That’s my mate this bastard was biting!

I know! And every single one of us here knows the feeling of wanting to protect your mate at all costs. Even me.

He’s not worth your sympathy, Tanker, Ash snapped back.

He’s not—you are! they retorted. You’re my brother, Asher. You don’t deserve to have killing another shifter on your conscience forever.

That gave Asher pause. Tanker would have torn the throats out of all four wolves within moments if Sam was the one being threatened—though Sam’s being a vampire meant he probably wouldn’t have ended up in this specific situation in the first place—yet they were telling him to stand down. Because he wasn’t a killer.

Hypocritical, yes, but also... Tank knew him better than he’d realized. If Tank tore out the throats of these shifters for threatening Sam, it would weigh them down for the rest of their life. But if Asher did? Tank knew it would tear him apart. Forever.

He stood down. Still snarling, tail and ears high. Never submitting. But he stood down.

Tanker smacked their head into the leader’s skull, knocking him out.

The two wolves who’d been knocked out reverted to human form.

David and Milo quickly took out the other two.

Ash shifted back, ignoring the discomfort as the collar struck his collarbones hard, scrambling over to his mate. “Babe. Babe!” he pleaded, trying desperately to staunch the blood. “Milo!”

Milo rushed over, turning back into a human mid-stride. He knelt beside Asher. A string of swears tumbled out of his mouth with a thicker East Coast accent than usual. Distress. He took a deep breath. Asher barely heard him whisper, “Okay, Milo. Ya got this. No big deal,” under his breath. He brushed a lock of hair off his face and closed his eyes, putting a hand over the bite marks in Asher’s mate’s shoulder.

Asher felt the pulse of magic as Milo let out a grunt.

The wounds started to seal up. Barely.

Asher let out a choked sob. Tank awkwardly patted his shoulder. Normally, Milo would have done that sort of thing, but his hands were busy and covered in blood.

Tank pulled their phone out of the back pocket of the shorts they had on. Asher had doubled over his mate’s half-conscious body, hands clenching into fists in their shirt, sobbing, silently begging them to be okay.

Milo grunted again. Another small bit of progress on the wounds. His breathing got heavier. He cleared his throat.

“Hey,” Tank said softly. “Just help me put pressure on this one.” They knelt opposite Milo and rested their hands firmly over a large claw gash.

“I... I can’t heal that,” Milo said hesitantly. “I dunno how.”

“You don’t have to,” Tank replied.

Milo blinked slowly. Like a cat. “Whyyy?” he drawled, confused.

Tank just smiled.

Zip! “Darlin’, what’s—good Lord.”

The familiar Southern drawl of Sam met Asher’s ears. He looked up just enough to see the vampire kneeling down beside Tank. Sam looked between David, Milo, and Tank. “Heal them with me,” he said. “This is extensive. I don’t think I can do it all by myself.”

“I don’t know how,” Tank protested quietly.

“All ya gotta do is let your magic follow mine with the intent to help,” Sam explained. Gentle. Never condescending.

Asher sat up. “I’ll do it,” he said, voice thick with tears. He rubbed the scars on his chest from the Inversion. He’d been unconscious when David had helped Sam save his life. The least he could do was try to save his mate’s life now.

Sam looked like he was going to protest, but Tank shook their head. “Alright. Just... let your magic flow free, then.”

Asher nodded, sniffing and wiping tears off his face. David rested a hand on Asher’s shoulder reassuringly. “I’ll help,” he offered.

Ash shook his head. “I can do it. You three still need your magic to shift to get home.”

“And you don’t?”

“My mate’s car is right over there.” He pointed vaguely. Tank jumped to their feet and disappeared into the darkness.

Asher nodded once at Sam in determination.

“Alright. Just let it flow free,” Sam repeated.

Ash closed his eyes. He wasn’t used to letting his magic flow free. He’d never really bothered learning how to externalize it. Most shifters didn’t. Milo and his mom were really the only shifters in the pack who knew more magic than just shifting.

But for his mate, the love of his life, he would figure it out.

He peeked an eye open as the grass rustled to see Tank  plopping back down, his mate’s keys and phone—screen cracked—in their hand. They’d hunted them down, apparently.

He closed his eyes again, feeling Sam’s magic begin to flood out of the vampire. Asher remembered Tank and David—separately—mentioning that Sam was a Freelancer who’d worked as a healer before being turned into a vampire. Made sense why he knew how to make healing magic so easy to externalize.

Okay Ash, you got this, he thought. He started untying his magic from where it was woven through his body.

—

I woke up in blistering pain—hearing Asher swear. I peeled my eyes open to see him sitting in the driver’s seat of my car. I was in the passenger seat, reclined all the way back. “I hate these potholes,” he muttered under his breath.

“Ash,” I said quietly.

“Baaabe!” he exclaimed—keeping his voice down. “Sorry, I tried to avoid a pothole but didn’t have the room so I hit it. I didn’t mean to wake you.”

I wanted to shrug, but my entire body was sore. “It’s fine,” I mumbled. “It’s not your fault, baby.” I groaned. “I feel like death reheated in a microwave.”

That made him laugh. It was half0hearted, but it was there. His lips quirked, but didn’t make it all the way to a smile. “So strong,” he whispered. He reached across the center console of my car with his right hand and brushed his fingertips clumsily down my face while trying to keep his eyes on the road. “You’ve always ben so strong, babe.”

“I try.”

His hand trailed down my face, falling to my shoulder, then down the length of my arm to hold my hand. “Go back to sleep, babe. You’ll feel better when you wake up.”

“M’kay.”

—

The next time I woke up, I was home. In bed. Ash curled around me. That familiar warmth—the scent of his clothes and shower gel—surrounding me. I could hear him breathing gently. His arms around me were shaking a little. “Ash.”

“Babe!” His voice was barely more than a whisper, and it cracked a little.

“You okay?’

“Yeah. Tired. Headache,” he replied.

“Headache?”

“Mmhmm.”

“Why do you have a headache?”

“This isn’t about me, right now, babe. You got attacked by four shifters and survived. This is about you.”

“Asher,” I warned, trying to sound stern but instead coming across as exhausted.

“I used a lot of magic and I was crying. Both of those things give me a headache. I’m fine. I promise.”

“Why did you use a lot of magic? How long did the fight last?”

“Like, two minutes, tops.”

“How did you use so much magic, then? You held wolf form on-and-off for hours during—” I cut myself off. During the Inversion. Ash got the implication.

“I know. This was... different.”

“How?”

“I helped Sam heal you.”

I rolled over in bed, ignoring the way my body ached in protest. “You did?”

“Mmhmm.”

“Awww. Thank you, baby.”

He reached out and touched a scar on my exposed shoulder. “You were hanging on by a thread. I couldn’t—” Tears welled up in his eyes, one falling to the pillow. “I couldn’t lose you.” He palmed the side of my head with his hand and let out a quiet sob. I let him bury my face into his chest, crushing me into a hug. He smelled good. Like home.

“You can’t get rid of me that easily, Ash,” I said quietly. “Promise.”

He chuckled slightly. “I know.”

“Hey,” I said, pulling out of the hug just enough to meet those beautiful amber eyes of his. “Guess what?”

“I love you?”

“That too.”

“But what? What were you actually thinking?”

I pointed to the scars on my shoulder from the wolf bite. “We almost match now.” With the hand that had pointed, I set a fingertip on the scars on his chest from the Inversion. He shuddered a little. I hoped it was just from the tickle rather than bad memories resurfacing.

He started crying harder, holding me tight. “I’m so sorry, babe.”

“Ash. None of this was your fault. It was those shifters’ fault. You got to me as soon as you could and I love you for it.”

He kept crying. “Why are you the one trying to console me? I should be consoling you.”

“Because I love you, Asher. And I’d rather see your smile.

He squeezed me tighter. “We’re okay. We’re both okay.” He sounded more like he was trying to reassure himself than me.

“You didn’t take any hits, did you?”

“Nothing I couldn’t handle.”

“Asher.”

“No, babe. A couple scrapes and a few bruises. I’m fine. I’ll heal like normal in a couple days. I doubt that my scrapes will even scar. I’m fine. I’m just so damn grateful that you’re alive and okay.” He buried his nose in my hair. “I love you, babe.”

“Love you too, puppy.”

“Are you feeling okay?”

“I’m sore as hell and can barely keep my eyes open, but otherwise I think I’m okay.”

He nodded into the top of my head. “Is there anything I can do for you? Whatever you need.”

“Just... keep holding me.”

“I can do that.”

“What happened to those other shifters?”

“Taken into custody by the Department. After I texted Tank, Milo, and David that I needed a hand, Milo told his mate what was up and they weren’t far behind. We knocked the wolves out and Milo’s mate took them in.”

“I’m guessing Tank called Sam, then?”

“Texted, but yeah. Mi... Milo tried to heal you, but he was struggling. So Tank reached out to Sam.”

“Is Milo okay?”

“He’s fine.”

“You said you helped Sam heal me. How did you do that?”

“Let my magic follow his. Pushed out as much of it as I could. Sam used to be a healer, before he was turned. He knows more healing magic than anyone else in the pack. Even Milo’s mom. I mean, he was formally trained, so I’m not surprised.”

“And you helped him?”

“Yeah.”

“Proud of you, baby.”

Ash shrugged. “David did the same thing for me at the stadium. I had to try to save you.”

Sam had told me about that while we were on that month-long vacation up north on the lake. On the night we’d had our dressy dinner, Tank and Sam had ended up sitting next to me and Ash. Ash had been too busy wisecracking to Milo about something to hear Sam softly tell me about David helping him heal Ash. Told me that David’s magic knew Asher’s.

The fact that I didn’t have magic for Asher’s to know and react to made me all the prouder of him. For even being brace and determined enough to just try.

“Thank you, baby.” I nuzzled into his chest, inhaling his scent. I didn’t need to be a shifter with acute senses to know the way he smelled. To smell him and not think of anything but home. “I love you, Asher. And I’m grateful every day that you’re in my life.”

“I love you too, babe.”

“Tired?”

“Exhausted.”

“Me too.” I put one arm around him and squeezed. “Let’s sleep, puppy.”

He held me tighter. “Yeah. Everything else can wait until tomorrow.”

“Mmhmm. Can’t wait to hear how badass you were taking on four shifters all at once.”

“It was four-on-four. It was a fair fight.”

“Ssshhh. It’s more fun this way.”

Asher chuckled. “Whatever you say, babe.”

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Artwork and Explanation below!

This is something I had done between the years of 2017 to 2019. I honestly could not tell you where or when. I wasn’t really good at keeping track of or dating my artworks/sketchbooks, so I’m basing this off of the ages of the characters and the quality of art.

This is when I had been neck deep in the Warrior Cats fandom for the very first time, and had my main totally rad not-a-Mary-Sue totally original character: HiddenPelt. Big, muscled, lightning-striped mama who apparently liked to eat snakes in particular. I’d used her NON STOP back then (being kind of a really weird, really rude kid, not gonna lie. Couple of regrets from back then.), but she isn’t actually depicted in this piece! These are two of her kittens that had been conceived in an old roleplay I was in. I couldn’t be normal, so these were two of SIX babies she had that I tried to play as all at once lmfao. That’s actually one of the more fond memories I have, especially for everyone tolerating me.

CricketPaw and ???Paw are at a training clearing, and Cricket gets some revenge. This is one of the FIRST fully colored, “large” scenes I had done that was not forced upon me. This piece singlehandedly kickstarted the little colored warriors comics I’d continue to do (most were never posted).

In 2021, I got a wild hair and decided it was fine time to redraw that old mess to see how I’d improved. This time with my new medium of choice, alcohol markers, and equipped with far more drawing experience, I redrew the two!

I can definitely say I’d done something right it making them look like they’d been fighting. I was highly focused on the characters over the background: making them the right size, giving them funky fur colors and more natural patterns, more dynamic poses, showing full bodies, actually shading, showing the mouthes, giving actual expression! But, the background was very lacking. Foreground leaves come out of nowhere, strange shading, the tree leaves are in the wrong spot, gaping hole in the right tree instead of a knot, the bushes just hide endless liminal field space, and there’s even a cheeky little circle+rays sun haha.

Finally, TODAY! I chose to do it with watercolors on a square sheet of paper, because each time I’ve done this I’ve chosen my preferred/most comfortable finished-art medium at the time.

This time, I was going FULL background focus. Setting up the trees properly, making the grass form around things, putting leaves where they’re actually supposed to be, having at least a few more bushes in the background, adding interest to the sky, etc.

After that was done, I set the characters inside. No, i did not thumbnail or plan like I probably should have. I didn’t do it with the prior two, so it wasn’t happening for this one either. This is just for fun and planning makes me bored. I do miss the second one’s pose for ???Paw, but CricketPaw, my beloved son, is looking as sassy as ever and I’m living for it. He meant to claw his rat faced sister, and he will do it again. Additionally, I made the choice to place a third character watching over their training so it isn’t just two apprentices who wandered off. Probably their brother, so it’s actually three apprentices who wandered off, but I promise this one is responsible actually.

I’d like to say I’ve improved, yeah? :)

Weird to think I came from drawing jelly beans with noodle limbs to what I do now. And hopefully in the next two years I’ll be able to upgrade upon myself once again!

Also, I’m thinking about doing some Clan Gen stuff in my scene style! I’ve been playing around with it a bit on the browser version, and I ended up having JUST ONE couple produce, like, 11 kittens in total, and then each of those kittens producing kittens or just bringing home kittypets and loners so the clan was HILARIOUSLY LARGE.

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My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

You can usually tell a lot about a person by the type of music they listen to. put your favorite playlist on shuffle and list the first ten songs then tag others. No skipping!

thanks for tagging me @roundaboutnow !!

i'm gonna use my invisobang playlist that i can't share the title of yet. it's my fav right now.

1. same direction - hoobastank (honestly hoobastank fucks)

2. getting away with murder - papa roach (a classic)

3. be my escape - relient k (my beloved)

4. make it stop (september's end) - rise against (this song makes me cry)

5. until the day i die - story of the year (a perfect ghost light song, ive had it on all my songs)

6. for you, and your denial - yellowcard (oh this song fucks too. the violin man. the violin.)

7. last night on earth - green day

8. saying sorry - hawthorne heights

9. devil in the mirror - black veil brides (this song is so good for this fic...)

10. give it all - rise against

@redead-red @jadenoryuu @omnicrafts (share those crossover playlists babe!!) @floralflowerpower @bibliophilea and anyone else that wants to join in!

31 notes - Posted June 10, 2022

#4

with every sin, i still wanna be holy

Dan wants to be better. But that means dealing with his past (future?) actions and starting to make amends and acknowledging how he's hurt these people in his life. It's hard than he'd like to admit. Part of the the world is having more fun than me (tonight) series.

Lancer,

I dunno why I’m writing this. It’s stupid. I’m not even gonna send it. You don’t even know who I am! Clockwork did his meddling with time bullshit so you don’t remember me.

No one remembers me

You were my favorite teacher, yknow. You were the only one who actually gave even a little fuck about me. All my other teachers wrote me off as just another dumb lazy kid. No one knew of course.

Oh I guess I should tell you. I’m… Danny Phantom. Sort of. It’s a big mess of things, but Fenton is Phantom. That little punk Weston kid was right. That's why I missed so many assignments and always fell asleep in class. I promise I wasn’t a bad kid, Mr Lancer.

I guess I just needed to tell you who I was. So you would be understanding or some shit. Maybe so I wouldn’t feel like I failed every adult in my life.

Whatever. It’s not like I’m sending this anyway.

Dan

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40 notes - Posted October 6, 2022

#3

hey look at that! another redraw!

i wanted to work on style and some other things, so i redrew my avatar (again). the first one is literally just the screenshot, and then the second one is Pissed Off Ghost King™ Danny. that one was more to fuck around with ectoblasts and some other stuff. also i designed a crown!

some more stuff below the cut!

here's a version without the blasts bc im vvv proud of how these hands turned out, considering the weird ass proportions of the cartoon. big thanks to @friendly-neighborhood-imbecille for those hand ref sheets 👉🏼👉🏼 u the realest

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44 notes - Posted January 18, 2022

#2

GUYS

GUYS LOOK

my friend @i-think-in-metaphors did this amazing commission for me!!! i redid the phantom planet statue for my au, and wrote a scene for one of my upcoming works where mateo gets to see it in person. i finally got tired of imagining it and wanted to see it.

and the product. is. GORGEOUS. it's so perfect. i'm in love. i'm gonna cry about this for the next 30 years. LOOK AT HIM.

(click for quality.)

check out her commissions!!

the scene it's based on is below the cut!

Excerpt from quit telling everyone i'm (permanently) dead! (wip)

The black zirconium statue was larger than life. It towered above them on two separate, stepped obsidian pedestals, each about five-feet high. As Mateo moved closer, he could see something glittering in the bases. Danny mumbled something about ectoplasmic ice mixed into it, stronger than diamonds, but Mateo thought they looked like stars. He figured that was the intention. It was gorgeous.

He tilted his head back to take in the actual sculpture. That Danny was twice as large as the one standing next to Mateo. He felt his heart lurch a little at how serious Danny looked, the tight furrow over his brow, the determined set to his jaw. It all made him look so much older than even now, even though Mateo knew he was only sixteen when the statue was made.

The statue’s zirconium white accents were blinding in the late afternoon sunlight, and Mateo found himself shading his eyes as he looked up even higher. The hair on the statue was shorter than Mateo had seen Danny wear his, probably closer to the length it had been when he was in high school. It was swept back heroically, as if moved by an unseen wind, and the sun glinted off its sharp edges. It made the whole statue look as if it were glowing.

Crystalized ectoplasm made Phantom’s eerie green eyes, and they glowed too, though Mateo figured they probably glowed under their own power rather than a trick of the light. The statue’s eyes were trained on the thin, steel-wire Earth he cupped protectively close to his chest; it was a promise as well as a remembrance. The world remembered what Phantom did for them, and he promised them he would do it all over again if necessary.

65 notes - Posted May 5, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

this is the road to ruin (and we started at the end)

IT'S FINALLY HERE!!!!

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Sam did this amazing cover for me and I literally can't stop staring at it. I'm making it my phone background like immediately. Here's their post, go give it a reblog!

prologue: without you, there's no reason for my story and chapter one: fading in the afterglow are live right now!

i'll be posting every SATURDAY starting this saturday 9/3! we got seven more chapters to go, lads, so buckle up!

71 notes - Posted August 29, 2022

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