#I'm behind the schedule!!

[lucky-fy]

For the Laicion nation (aka, me and three other people)

I had this illustration commissioned (a big thank you to @lunehowls) for my werewolf AU Laicion fic (still a WIP).

The general pitch is as follows :

AU in which Laios never got to meet his sister again, putting his life on a whole other path, a more desperate one. A military deserter with barely a coin to his name, Laios hitches a ride on a boat to one of the elven continents, where he learns about magical tattoos that binds one’s soul to a wolf’s, effectively making them artificial werewolves. Illegal magic be damned, this feels like the answer to… everything.

In the process, he learns about the existence of an illegal fighting ring in one of the elven cities, where beastmen gladiators gather. Freshly tattooed and without anywhere else to go to, Laios decides to head there, where he meets Lycion, an elf and artificial werewolf gladiator. If they first bond over a simple shared meal, by spending time together (sharing the same room in the barracks, maybe the same bed? gasp) they find that they have a lot in common, notably a shared distaste for the body they were born in, a dysphoria partially remedied by becoming a werewolf.

They bond :)

#dungeon meshi #laios touden #lycion #laicion #I'm heads deep in research regarding Ancient Rome gladiators... and loving it. Really fascinating stuff. #I bemoan the fact that most papers are locked behind a paywall (though I found one that gives a free pdf access) #(and no. Sci-hub is not an option. It's blocked in my country) #I'm also re-reading DunMeshi and taking notes to get a better grasp of Laios and Lycion as characters. Character studies if you will #and I still need to fully outline the fic #I know where I'm starting (struggling to choose a POV for that first chapter LOL) and where I'm ending so there's that #and a bunch of disconnected scenes (as we all do ahaha) #anyway. Doing all of this while studying for veterinary school. It's hard. I feel guilty whenever I'm not studying... #let's just say I don't expect the prep work for the fic to be ready before this summer (+ I need to finish the Kuro cosplay for Japan Expo) #hopefully; once it's done; I'll be able to set a schedule and write smoothly #werewolf #werewolf laios #rarepair

[starflungwaddledee]

Hear me out…Meta Knight and Starstruck

✧˖°.✧ gravity ✧˖°.✧ ɡravɪti (noun) 1. the force that attracts a body towards the centre of the earth or towards any other physical body having mass 2. the degree of intensity of gravity, measured by acceleration 3. extreme importance; seriousness 4. solemnity of manner

#🎀💖 #🎀🔍 #meta knight #starstruck dee #my art #“might be funny” i agree!! and yet!! somehow i took it deadly serious!! uhhh..... sorry #wrapping up the month with the most popular prompt. they were tied then meta knight overtook sailor dee right at the end #(i guess coz i did sailor's earlier?) i'll still be doing others but i'm obviously a bit behind schedule sorry! #uhm.... haha. #bit of a ribbonemoji workout on this one. #i'm too attached to the pretentiousness of my caption (🔍🔍🔍) to add this to the main post & i'll come back to this later... #but in my worldbuilding Celestials have a behaviour called Sky Dancing. looks a lot like this. bird understanders pspspsps. iykyk #and as always: “is this one canon?” HHHHMMRR. i'm not sure yet. can i say that? i'm still deciding. this one is imo most feasible #at least as something with any actual Romantic Coding. has the kind of rivals > friends > lovers plotline as well which is always fun. #but i think they have to be stupid for a long time before they'd get *here*.... #and i'm just not sure they'd have the chance before ███████ ██████ █████ ██ ████ ███.

[dagordagorath]

@lotr20 | Day 3 → fear | courage

#lotrweek #okay i'm so behind schedule i'm sorry #samwise gamgee #frodo baggins #sam #frodo #byaster #lotr #lotredit #tolkienedit #ch:frodo #ch:sam #movie:the return of the king #movie:the fellowship of the ring #the return of the king #the fellowship of the ring #the lord of the rings

[greenscreen-dress]

i missed mcc did joehills win

#listen i just. this is one step closer to the hermits and friends non-canon charity event MCC crossover i have wanted for YEARS #and now that etho's made it into an event we need a new guy to rally behind #i assure you the fact that i chose my guy specifically is pure coincidence. yeagh #anyway HELL YEA ETHO IN MCC i'm scheduling this mere minutes after the announcement #& setting it to post at the end of the event #hermitcraft #hermitblr #mcytblr #mcchampionship #mcc #mc championship #mcc33 #mcc 33 #joehills #joe hills #eMerambles

[nell0-0]

Emmetober day 22: Signal

Follow the rules. Check safety.

#submas #subway bosses #Subway Boss Emmet #pokemon emmet #emmet #emmetober #rosa pokemon #pokemon wb #still a day behind schedule but I'm trying lmao #my art

[sunshinebingo]

@elorcanweekofficial Day 2 - Opposites Attract

Hellas help him.

Anneith save her.

This woman would be the death of him.

This giant demi-fae was her whole life.

Never in his long long long life had anyone tested him as much as this tiny little human woman had.

Never during her days locked in her tower, then in Morath, had she imagined that one day she would be out, let alone find someone she would love and who would love her back.

He thought that she was naive. But it turned out that behind those beautiful brown eyes, she was hiding the fact that she was cunning and smart.

She thought that he was a brute whose only intent was to kill her. But it turned out that he was a brute who protected and took care of her.

He thought that she was fragile and broken. But she was so strong that she had even managed to snatch his cold heart.

She thought that he was an immortal savage who would only be interested in her until he would attain his goals. But his goals turned out to be spending his days with her.

He thought that she was quiet and innocent. But it turned out that she was as innocent as a vixen.

Sweet Elide. Cunning Elide. His Elide.

Cold Lorcan. Loving Lorcan. Her Lorcan.

#Listen... #I'm behind schedule on plenty of things #So that's the only thing I could manage today #It's Elorcan so I had to #elorcan week 2023 #elorcan week #elide lochan #lorcan salvaterre #lord lorcan lochan #Day 2: opposites attract #💜💜

[layla-carstairs]

it just hit me how much information we are currently waiting to learn from CC, information that could be dropped any day now. like we're going to get what was supposed to be the second February newsletter, her release schedule for the foreseeable future specifically tlkof's release date, the first kickstarter shipment with sobh, the cover for better in black + more information about it in general, new flower cards, more teasers for twp probably all soon!! like in the next few months all this will likely be revealed that's so crazy

#I'm developing a habit of constantly checking my email 😭 #like Cassandra where is it. where is the newsletter #I think she got covid & that probably screwed up her schedule so she might be prioritising writing/other things behind the scenes rn #which is understandable I'm just so impatient I just wanna know #bella talks #tsc #the shadowhunter chronicles #the wicked powers #twp #the last king of faerie #tlkof

[fudgecake-charlie]

#i haven't been able to go through tumblr recently #i have a bunch of stuff ive needed to do and i haven't done any of it!! #i'm behind on secret life too :[ i saw pearl's episode last week but i haven't been able to watch any other POVs #or anything from session 2 which is sad #i don't wanna mute the tags so i'm just staying off the dash #but hopefully HOPEFULLY soon i get to have time where it's just me and i can just Draw #this weekend was nice but i am still doing a bunch of stuff #some good stuff too! my friends are lovely! but still stuff. and coursework. #gonna have to live like a hermit for the next while in order to have fun online and make fanart /silly #time to last minute work on my second group presentation project in two weeks! #delete later #the words of a fudgecake #[scheduled] #edit: after this was posted i broke up with my ex of almost a year lmao (its a good thing dw)

[probably-not-a-rutabaga]

i've been using shows to keep track of how long i've been working on tmnt aberration short

so far i've watched the entirety of wander over yonder and am starting mao mao: heroes of pureheart,,,,,,, so we're at a total of 1 day and about,,, 17 hours???

will happily take suggestions on other things i should watch once i finish mao mao !!! i'm thinking abt rewatching teen titans,,,,,,,,

#this is my subtle way of saying that i'm gonna be struggling to work on anything other than this project for a while #it's !!! more time consuming than i thought <3 #and i'm behind schedule working on these keyframes <3 #i feel like i should mention that i've watched all of these shows within the past 1-2 years #i'm just very unwell about them #THEY'RE SILLY !!!! I CAN'T HELP THAT #rutabaga nonsense

[not-poignant]

finished the next chapter of palmarosa today though it still needs a real good edit dslfja

#palmarosa #progressssss #just worked out the march schedule for writing and crying because i'm more behind than i wanna be #at this point sdalkfjdas

[hanatatami]

Siegfried with the widdershins color palette would be really cool!

I remember someone telling me like half a year after I started playing, almost two years ago, lol everyone has Siegfried you can get him from the tutorial even!!! I got him like three months ago ?_? Where was he hiding

This was one of the requests I did for this palette challenge! Thank you everyone who sent me their request!

#a bit sad since I drew the pauldrons with all my passion then I had to cover them with hair and sword lol #siegfried fgo #fate siegfried #fate series #fgo #fate grand order #palette art #fanart #digital art #i'm so behind my own schedule it's ridiculous #siegfried

[primarchstory]

@athenafire

"You have come."

He states the obvious, but Rogal Dorn own attention was to the dozen of screens of information around him. A primarch own attention span is superior in that he can compile this information in seconds without pause. It seems he's been very busy, being the praetor of terra.

"... There is tea, if you like on the table."

#ic #dorn vc: i need to do more work i'm so behind schedule by 0.1 second

[llondonfog]

twst (horror) tober — day 7 (shock)

➤ Day 7: Shock | “You look like a deer caught in the headlights.”

"What have you done?" Lilia-shi all but croaks, and Idia automatically cringes away from his side, hands smoothing uselessly down the front of the Styx uniform. The fabric ripples beneath his fingers, long and cool and dark— like a burial shroud, and he might have laughed at the irony if he did not fear for his life in the next instant.

The fae remains torn in a limbo of horror and a wretched, burning kind of yearning that Idia knows all too intimately, hovering in front of the glass separating the observation deck from the room just beyond with a wild expression upon his face as if he can't quite decide whether to tear through the dividing panel with his bare claws or turn them onto Idia himself.

A near hysteric part of his mind dares to be indignant at the whole situation— he'd rather not be sheared limb from limb after months of labor followed by the agonizing ordeal of discovering Lilia-shi's new whereabouts, an imposing task that had meant engaging with the imposing might of the Draconia family. Luckily, he had Ortho handle that particular bit— his brother seemed to carry such an odd affection for the brash straight-forwardness of the freshman guard.

So really, this reaction is not what he had entirely envisioned in his mind upon the grand reveal, and it takes several attempts to weakly clear his throat, nearly cowering in place as those broken crimson eyes pin him down with a madness verging on the edge of a precipice.

Had it only been a semester ago when those eyes were bright with laughter, sparkling with wicked mischief?

He understands, and he wishes Lilia-shi would pause and remember that before he does anything rash— he understands the cost of death and the price to remain among the living.

"He— he was your s-son," Idia stutters, and hadn't that been a shock, just one more blow to a reeling school as they had watched Lilia-shi clutch at that still body, so small and fragile looking as it lay crumpled in his arms, and scream.

He wishes Lilia-shi would remember that he can taste that scream on the back of his tongue too.

"You . . . you l-loved him." His fingers clench together, and instead of fabric, he can feel grooved metal slide between them. "And—"

And Lilia-shi had been, quite frankly, his only friend. Not that they had known it for most of their time gaming together, but he had come to care for the faceless "Muscle Red" in a way he hadn't since Ortho. It was senseless, foolish, illogical— and this was the result of caving to such emotions.

The fae lets out a low, inhuman sound that could have been easily mistaken for the monstrous creatures caged in the levels below, and Idia's knees tremble as he watches Lilia-shi's eyes slide away from him and stare with a devastated intensity through the glass where a boy lies as if asleep on a simple cot on the other side. A boy with silver hair made from the finest synthetic fibers that shimmer beneath the cold lighting, smooth silicone features free of imperfections and nearly pillowy to touch, sculpted limbs and digits accurate to the smallest degree of precision. A boy, one of the finest of Idia's technomantic creations, waiting for his father to wake him up and take him home.

"Lilia-shi, w-where are you going— Lilia-shi!"

#lettie writes #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland silver #twst silver #lilia vanrouge #twst lilia #twst idia #idia shroud #diasomnia #more like the SHOCK that im posting again adslfkj; #sorry for the WEEK BEHIND SCHEDULE (sobs) #had a nasty cold that took me out and i'm finally feeling like myself again #i've had this idea for a while now!! enjoy this wretched thought

[rogueddie]

good morning... I've somehow managed to fuck myself with all the fics I should be writing... but I don't wanna take another break to crack down and write... uh... how are y'all? lol

#I have that stargyle spring fling idea down and outlined but that's it and that's due april and I'm behind on the big bang and then theres #the three ao3 wips I have and I'm crying afghgfdsasdfg I'm only just getting back into the swing of it goddamn #had such a nasty case of writers block and now theres too much I'm gonna cry #anyway schedules getting fucked for a week or two ✌️

[pochapal]

big things happening on the umineko writeup front (trying to figure out who beatrice is as a character) (this is distinct from all the other times i have tried to figure out beatrice as a character because this is maybe a different beatrice)

#umineko liveblog #been slow going but i'm hoping to maybe have something to share by the end of next week! #realized october 4/5 is coming up and i Love to post on Narratively Significant Dates so i'm definitely adhering to this deadline #this is the secret behind pickle route's upd8 schedule. the four important homestuck dates plus the anniversary date are hard deadlines #if umineko had more Important Dates you just know i would be forcing myself to do insane liveblog stuff for each of them

[quill-of-thoth]

Letters from Watson backlog special: Holmes' birthday

So Sherlock Holmes' birthday is often interpreted as January 6th, but why? Well, there have been a BUNCH of different scholars considering every aspect of the Sherlock Holmes stories over the years, and the common motivation among them is being considered a "Holmes Scholar" instead of a mere fan.

The evidence, as it has been presented over the years, has only one source that uh, has any connection to the actual text: The works of William Stuart Baring-Gould, best known for his only partially definitive Sherlock Holmes chronology. (AKA: The dead guy I have ongoing beef with and whose work in dating the Holmes stories I have been reviewing sporadically for the past year.) However, Baring-Gould is not automatically wrong, so let's follow his chain of logic, such as it is.

The final Holmes novel, Valley of Fear (1914-1915) starts on January 7th with Holmes being a bit tetchy

No boring Doylist explanation for Holmes' bad moods need apply.

No Watsonian explanation that Holmes is not always a good-natured roommate or considerate friend need apply either. No, Holmes, known for having no sleep schedule, no tolerance for his own failure, and no moderation in terms of taking mood altering substances more unusual than alcohol, must be hungover

Why would Holmes be hungover? He must have been up late celebrating.

What could he have been celebrating by drinking alone? His birthday! Therefore yesterday (January 6th) is his birthday! Case closed!

This conclusion is, kindly, a stretch, but in this fandom we love having answers almost as much as we love being the one to provide the answer. We must have rituals to keep a fandom alive over a hundred years, and celebrating Holmes' birthday on Jan 6 is as good as any other. I merely want to point out alternatives to the dates and timelines established by Baring-Gould like any good peer reviewer. Alternative speculation under the cut.

So... why, on his birthday, would Holmes have been celebrating by drinking alone, instead of drinking with Watson? Or going to the opera (alone or with Watson?) There is no indication at the beginning of Valley of Fear that it takes place when Holmes and Watson are living separately. They're having breakfast together. Or rather, Watson has long since finished breakfast, and Holmes has yet to start, which lends better support to the hangover theory than his momentary brusqueness, but not by a lot since the man is known to forget to eat. Reading it over without Baring Gould's conclusions in mind, I think very few fans would find this scene out of the ordinary for 221 Baker street, but since I'm willing to play along with Gould: what if the event that Holmes is celebrating privately isn't one that Watson would wholeheartedly accompany him for? What events occur on Jan 6th that Watson, the average victorian man, would not be a part of? Epiphany. No, that's literally the name of the holiday, part of the christmas season. It's cited as the date of the Wise Men's arrival to bring Jesus presents (er. presents but also you know, expensive dire omens regarding his eventual death, if you've never been forced to sing all the verses of "We Three Kings of Orient Are," which becomes grimmer as you go on.) It's the last of the 12 days of christmas and the "Twelfth Night" referenced in that one shakespeare comedy. It's not commonly celebrated in the modern (united states) conception of christianity, whether devoutly practicing or cultural. It was a great reason for the Victorians to party, however. ... which doesn't exclude Watson. Unless we imagine Watson as having been invited to an epiphany party and Holmes, either uninvited or uninterested in a party atmosphere, staying home, which is possible.

But this doesn't result in a revelation about Holmes' identity, so in the spirt of going out on a supported but not definiitive limb, I propose that Holmes is Catholic. (Not, most likely, practicing in any major way at this point in his life. There's belief and practice, and then there's culture, and if your only idea of growing up Catholic is John Mulaney skits about god not hearing you if you don't sing loud enough... well, it's far more complicated than that if you're a Victorian.) - Catholic celebration of the Epiphany has historically taken on a more somber tone than Protestant or Anglican celebration. (See: we've all had fun here during Advent and Christmas but you're obligated to remember that Jesus is gonna die. By mid spring. By the way, Ash Wednesday and Lent are coming up so if you got candy, eat it, you'll be giving it up in a month.) - Holmes' general slight out-of-step-ness with the general Victorian shared expectations and culture could be partially explained by being raised in a different iteration of Christianity. - And his reticence regarding his family history could be explained by growing up experiencing social rejection due to the anti-catholic sentiments that were absolutely all over England in the 1850's to 90's (and well the hell into more modern times too) - Anti-catholocism isn't something he could dodge by simply not actually practicing the religion he was raised in either. - Holmes' references to a french side of the family could indicate that he has, at the very least, catholic close-ish relatives, as that was the most common religion in france. - Enough scholarship has been written on "is Holmes secretly Irish?" given his surname and Doyle's background as an Irishman that I think we should spend at least a minute considering that these points could also be taken to mean that Holmes is Catholic.

People (Anglican descended Puritans, for example) were complaining about the secularized parts of christmas by the 1700's, (Meaning: any celebration that was not prayer inside the church) and the Victorian celebration of Christmas is the direct ancestor of the US and England's current Culturally Christian but not necessarily religious practice related celebrations, so I don't see Holmes having any difficulty fitting in with buying a goose, having a nice dinner, or listening to carols. But there's a chance that if he wanted to celebrate Epiphany with any family traditions, regardless of how far they were removed from actual religious practice, he might not invite Watson.

And if Watson knows, he has, loyally, not written a word.

#when I was a kid epiphany was just when you took the christmas tree down #and / or the decorations #then again despide my great aunt's best efforts I was never the best catholic #Sherlock Holmes #still doing the reread on the Letters from Watson schedule but I'm 9 months behind at this point #and only trying to put out bimonthly analysis #Happy Birthday Holmes