#crownleys

[nat-seal-well]

So I check my artwork in black and white to make sure everything reads well when it comes to the contrast in my pieces and I cannot emphasize enough how much A shines like a fucking beacon whenever I do

PLEASE this is the funniest thing to me hahahahaha. When I saw your tags on that one post I cackled and then it immediately made me think of that twilight meme. She can't help it that she has no color and is as white as a hallmark movie. 😔

(For real though I love the way you draw Ava, your version of her is my favorite. <3333)

#sealy answers #crownleys #the wayhaven chronicles #a du mortain #ava du mortain

[l-a-l-o-u]

For the artist ask meme, 7 and 10?

ty for asking!!

7. show us a WIP: here's a lineup of Vox Machina i havent colored yet

10. how many different sketches do you usually have until your piece is finished: usually i just keep reworking one sketch until it turns into the final thing, but sometimes i have to start over a couple times when i can't get it to work right away

#♥ #ask #crownleys #ask meme

[shalebridgecradle]

👀?

From a short fic I started writing, based on a discussion @whirly-wind and I had a while back about how Abraham Van Helsing is almost certainly a Fable:

“Ah!” He clapped his hands once as he said it, an exclamation in and of itself. “The new deputy, yes! I have heard much gossip about you, dear lady.”

Molly suppressed a groan and the sudden urge to bolt back out into the twilight, anonymous streets. “And here I thought nobody knew anybody else in New York.”

“New York?” Abraham mused, fingers steepling. “Perhaps. But Fabletown? On the contrary. Fabletown does not much change. The city grows around us and we remain the same, minus a death or a birth or two, from time to time.” He looked up at her, his dark eyes twinkling in the yellow light. “You are change, my dear lady. Something different. We will talk of nothing else, for a while.” Great. “Can we talk about my shopping list instead?”

#meme nonsense #crownleys #axe me a question #meanwhile in the Fables AU #yes this is entirely dracula daily's fault #and no I am not sorry #fic snippets

[delucadarlingwriting]

WIP Wednesday

I got tagged by my dearest @crownleys <3

I'm still in a heck of a writing slump, but I'm chipping away at it with my shorthand practice. My writing is much choppier and stiff, because I'm spending most of my effort in just remembering how to write at the moment. So while this is written out, I plan to mostly use it as an outline, because I do love playing in this AU.

The premise of this AU is Barbie is a...not-quite-Trapper contractor who works on the outskirts of Agency law. She gets captured by Unit Bravo during a mission gone sour, and the scene below is a snapshot of the interrogation. This Barbie is a bit more shrewd, and fully intends to turn her arrest into a job.

I'll tag @eldritchnonsense @agentnatesewell @steamysthings and @swordsandspectacles if any of you feel like it!

#wip #twc #wayhaven #barbara 'barbie' robertson #twc rebecca #as I've gone through this I've found a lot of circular writing #but considering this is mostly for practice with shorthand I'm being a bit forgiving to myself #Thanks again crownleys!!

[agentnatesewell]

I absolutely cannot picture Nate, Nat, Mason or Morgan without body hair. M especially is HAIRY and no one can tell me otherwise

Shout it from the rooftops!! Aerodynamics be damned!

#thank you for the ask! #and haha YES THEY DO #hello nate and mason are described with facial hair #crownleys had tags i agree with on nat-seal’s post! #i can see nate and nat experimenting with body hair and what’s on and off trend #but m is definitely hairy #twc #twc m #n sewell

[notforconsumption]

runners three, four, five ready for business 

(nature of business may vary)

thank you @lime-pigeon for letting me pinch your five!!

#hehe borrowed crownleys jody bc she's my favourite #and lime's five bc they're v cool #runner 3 #runner 4 #runner 5 #zombies run #the early season 3/4/5 dynamic gives me pleasant nostalgia #pixels

[the-cooler-sidestep]

forza horizon 5 is p fun

#text #crownleys got it for me <3 <3 <3

[wubbelwubbwubb]

I was talking to @crownleys about Simon and Five and she made some really great and interesting points how they are set up as foils – Five’s bravery (in the face of death) on the one hand, and Simon being dominated by fear (of death). I thought it was interesting how they as characters get closer not when everything’s fine, when they are both running for Abel, but when Five is at their lowest – then, Simon is able to reach them when nobody else can and extend a (gruesome) helping hand.

#zr #zombies run #runner five #simon lauchlan #runner 3 #runner 5 #abel township #crownleys five

[wayhavensecretsanta]

Hi lovely people!

We are getting closer to end of the year; the perfect time for a Secret Santa Gift Exchange!

The idea of this exchange is that you will get assigned to another participant, your “giftee”. You will then write a fic or create art featuring that person’s Wayhaven OC, and someone else will create a gift for you. Both fanfic and fanart are allowed as gifts.

Because it’s a Secret Santa, the gifter will only reveal themselves when giving their gift.

More info below the cut.

When?

Deadline for signing up: Saturday, 2 December

Deadline for filling in your sign-up sheet: Sunday, 3 December

All participants will receive a message with the information of their giftee on 3 December.

Gifting: 25 December - 7 January

If you want to sign up, send me a DM! You will get a link to a sign-up sheet on which you can give some info about your OC(s) and their worldstate, to give your gifter an idea of who they are.

For more information, see the pinned post.

Many thanks to @/crownleys for the festive banner art!

#wayhavensecretsanta #the wayhaven chronicles #twc

[nat-seal-well]

So I'm dying to ask nosy questions about Villain!Nat... Do you think she'd still be part of Unit Bravo and just biding her time til she can act out her plans? Or would she have been a rogue element the whole time? Would she and Ava have any kind of personal rivalry (sexy or otherwise) or just be obstacles in each other's paths? 👀

I’m sorry it took me so long to reply to this, haha, but I spent the entire last half of my shift thinking about it and realized it was gonna be too long just to write it all in a post, so I had to make a document and then copy/paste it over lol.

I don’t think she’d be part of UB (but can you imagine how much fun it would be if she was? Just waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and keeping up the façade…)

Villain!Nat would work better as more of a rogue, I think. I can see her being mostly on her own ever since her turning. Imagine: never being found by the Agency after the massacre on The Queen’s Sabre, never really being guided or taught by anyone other than the vampire who turned her, and then being set loose. 

It would all come down to that whole “nature vs. nurture” thing. A lot of who you are is shaped by the environment around you.

She’d never have had the support she received in the canon. There’d still be a lot of her personality that’s the same; she’d have a love for reading and collecting old books, she’d still be a little old-fashioned as time went on, etc. She’d just be more like the vampires in the traditional books, reclusive in some grand, old home out in the middle of nowhere. 

She’d also still be capable of love and affection and her usual overprotectiveness… she just wouldn’t be aware of it for a very, very long time. And in the moments where it’s staring her down, she’d hide it away and lock it up. 

Ava and Nat would have a rivalry (sexy, of course, because there isn’t much that’s hotter than the intimacy of being sworn enemies. The combat scenes would be gorgeous. Also, it would hurt to watch… which means it would be even more fun, haha :) )

Naturally, Ava would make it more difficult for Nat to ignore her emotions, lol. And she wouldn’t understand them a lot. She’d end up deciding that “hate” is the way she feels, because there isn’t any way it could be love. That’s impossible. Natalie Sewell doesn’t love people. Right? So loathing has to be what it is. 

I’m a sucker for anything poly so consider: throwing the Detective into the mix. It would be like a much, much darker take of the LT route, haha.

Maybe she hears some rumors about the vampire who’s going around killing humans who have a very special blood mutation, and she gets curious. She’s a collector, after all, and a human with blood like that would be priceless and a very good addition to her collection. We already know there’s someone leaking Agency info, so maybe she finds out that way? Probably not until after the events of book one.

So she follows after UB. Naturally, Ava has a suspicion they’re being watched, because she and Nat know each other better than they know themselves. Of course she catches on very, very quickly, but does her best to keep it under wraps. Easier to keep an eye on her that way. 

We also all know how good Nat is at lying and wearing masks. It’d be easy to convince the Detective she’s someone they can trust, especially after they've been thrown headfirst into the supernatural world without any real say in the matter. Nat would be drawing them in under the guise of stealing them away, only to discover–to her horror–that they intrigue her far more than they should. Only… this confuses her. Because the Detective makes her feel the same way Ava does, and there’s no way she can hate them. 

Que an emotional journey full of inner turmoil as Nat tries to come to terms with the fact that she’s capable of softer feelings, after all. And that she might not be so cold-hearted as she thinks. I imagine it would be very long and very painful, because she has three centuries of habits and beliefs (lies that someone hammered into her brain) to unlearn. She’d be fighting it every single step of the way, all while trying to keep it hidden. 

Villain!Nat would be more obsessive, just because I think it’d be a nice touch. Especially as she’s forced to face the truth: that she’s falling in love with her adversary of three hundred years, and a human, of all things. How terrifying. 

As much as I love angst and hurt, it would come to a happy ending. Eventually. Everyone loves a redemption arc, right? I don’t know how it would all come to a head. Maybe in the middle of a battle, maybe while facing down other rogues, and she realizes she might very well lose the two people who mean the most to her. 

Y’know how in ATLA, the gang kind of adopts Zuko? Imagine that, but with UB, haha.

Sorry, lol. This is probably way longer and way more detailed than you wanted, but I’m a sucker for any and all kinds of AUs and this was so much fun. Thank you, friend! You made the last four hours of my shift way more enjoyable, haha <3

#sealy answers #crownleys

[hattersarts]

commissions for @crownleys , @miricleo , @ DangoCrow on twitter, @ newrulesnewlife on twitter, @ nobodynpart on twitter and @obsessivedino

#commissioners please feel free to repost your work with an @ at me! #commissions

[shalebridgecradle]

1, 3, 5 for the music asks?

Wow, apparently tumblr mobile just doesn't notify me of asks anymore. Very rude, tumblr. ANYWAY!

1: A song you like with a color in the title:

TIL that most of my favorite songs don't have colors in the title. But "Under a Violet Moon" by Blackmore's Night has been a favorite of mine since I was a teenager.

3: A song that reminds you of summertime:

Any song that used to be a staple on my old ZR playlist, tbh, but I'll give a special shout-out to X Ambassadors' "Renegades."

5: A song that needs to be played LOUD:

I've been addicted to "Square Hammer" by Ghost...basically all year - it was at the top of Tidal's equivalent of my Spotify Wrapped - and it's one of my favorite tracks that demands to be played at eardrum-thrashing levels. I love it.

music asks!

#meme nonsense #awesome music #ty! <3 #crownleys

[nsewell]

wip whenever ♡ tagged by @aztarion thank you jez for blessing us on this M bday. here's some more screenplay, i feel like i have to flourish a wineglass when i say that 🍷these snippets don't follow each other directly but i like holding them up side by side and kicking my feet. ideally i want this to feel like you're watching bound 1996. tagging @fauville, @nat-seal-well, @kirnet, @crownleys, @serial-chillr

bonus morgan well it is her birthday

#my writing #i've found a way to preserve the script formatting and font when i upload it to ao3. exciting stuff

[agentnatesewell]

Think I’m going to treat myself with the LT route of Holiday Magic 😌 🎄

#thank you crownleys for telling me about it! #i have done nate and mason #now need to do lt! ha! then adam and felix #twc #twc holiday magic

[the-cooler-sidestep]

i keep screaming but god wont answer

THIS IS ALL @crownleys FAULT HOLD HER RESPONSIBLE

#fallen hero #fallen hero: rebirth #fh:r #sidestep #herald #my art #hadley prosper #this is not jonah i repeat this is not jonah #lore: i couldnt decide on a color for his suit accents and then i decided it changes like a gaming mouse #and then emma had THIS idea #cw flashing

[serenpedac]

WIP Wednesday

Thank you so much @aztarion and @nat-seal-well for the tag! It was wonderful to get to read your writings <3

I don't have much to share, but formula 1 pre-season testing started today, so have a snippet from my Ava-F1 fic

Unblinkingly, Ava stares after the car until it disappears behind a bend in the road. The sound dies away with it, but another one is following it. No, not one car, but multiple. “It appears to be some kind of race,” Nat offers from beside her. One car overtakes the other at a breakneck pace, fast even to a vampire’s eye. The bold numbers painted on both of them support Nat’s theory. “Foolishness,” Ava mutters. Humans are vulnerable enough as it is, these ridiculous speeds can only end in disaster. Surely even they themselves must see that.  She follows both cars before whipping her head back to where they had come from, but no new vehicles appear while the sound of the last two dies away. It brings back memories of horse races. The rhythm of hooves pounding the earth, the ground flying by below at breathtaking speeds. Adrenaline coursing through her, followed by the heady joy of victory. Laughter as she turned to—

Tagging @evilbunnyking (you mentioned working the last Ember Days chapter? If you want to share, that is), @agentnatesewell (I loved the snippets you shared last week for the OC question!), @nsewell, @crownleys, @serial-chillr, @deepinifhell and anyone reading this who has something to share <3

#serenwrites #the rest of this fic so far are descriptions of the spa-francorchamps region #it's a very pretty area okay xD #the most fun part of this fic has been the research though #looking up photos from old races to get an impression what it was like back then #seeing people sitting in the fields right next to the tracks #with *maybe* some hay bales as a barrier but that's a big maybe