#shameless self plug

[iguanodont]

Mentioned briefly in my last post, but I do in fact have holographic worm stickers for sale now.

There’s far more to the world of Annelida than the humble nightcrawlers you find in your yard; many species are found in marine environments, where they take such varied forms as the fearsome bobbit worm or the ethereal tomopteris. Here I’ve rendered a ragworm (family Nerididae); a sort of polychaete (bristle worm) found in benthic marine (and occasionally freshwater) environments the world over.

Some cool facts to win you over:

1. The largest ragworm in the world is the king ragworm (Alitta virens), which ready achieves lengths of 4 ft/120 cm.

2. Ragworms are an important part of the live sea-bait industry. Unfortunately that also means they have been harvested so extensively in some areas that their populations are threatened.

3. Ragworms reproduce through a bizarre process called epitoky, in which the benthic worm either transforms into a free-swimming reproductive morph, or buds off several free swimming sex-clones to party in the world above. Either way, it will be the final act of the animal’s life.

4. Ragworms, like bobbit worms, have large, eversible mandibles in their pharynx that they extrude to give a nasty bite.

5. On the topic of ragworm jaws, the material they are made of is very strong and lightweight, despite lacking the calcium mineralization of most other animals with hard body structures. There is some research investigating its structure for aerospace engineering applications!

#shameless self plug #stickers #marine life #polychaete worms

[badkatdesigns]

Discount on all Homestuck items in my shop from today til midnight on the 14th! SKAIA30 in checkout on all eligible items :)

#kofi #homestuck day #413 #artist on kofi #buy me a kofi #or a font perhaps perchance?? #shameless self plug

[ljf613]

"Come on, dance with me?" Dancing? This was nothing like the rigid, practiced movements he associated with the idea of dancing. Toph's movements weren't stiff or formal or even especially graceful-- if she were anyone else, he'd say she just looked silly. This is ridiculous. For a moment, Zuko was tempted to let go of her hands and storm off. He hadn't even wanted to go out tonight, and now Toph was clearly trying to make a fool out of him. But there was a smile on her face, and the light of the lanterns revealed a shine in her eyes he couldn't remember seeing before. "Fine," he groaned, allowing himself to be pulled along into one of these… dances.

- with these things there's no telling

Commission from the wonderful @aurantia-ignis for part twenty of we all want love/we all want honor to commemorate @atlararepairmonth's Week 5: Arranged Marriage prompt.

(Commission for part three of the same series can be found here.)

#avatar the last airbender #fanart #toko #toph x zuko #atlararepair2023 #toph beifong #zuko #shameless self plug #with these things there's no telling #we all want love #we all want honor #i absolutely ADORE the shadows and lighting in this piece #dai you went above and beyond with this one #and fyi i WILL be coming back to this series sooner or later b"n #otp: that's how i show affection #my commissions

[raina-at]

My Christmas fic

In the spirit of shameless self-promotion: If you're in the mood for holiday fics, I have a few:

The Deepest Secret Nobody Knows, a Reichenbach reunion I wrote after S1, so it's super AU from S1. (also known as the fic where Sherlock and John get stuck in a lift)

All I Want for Christmas (is Proof) Sherlock and John go to a gay bar in slutty Christmas outfits. Yes, of course there's mistletoe. I'm not sorry.

And if you want to get in the mood for new year's, my post S4 parentlock fic Don't Read the Last Page takes place on New Year's Day.

#johnlock #my fic #christmas fics #that I wrote #shameless self plug #don't read the last page #all I want for christmas is proof #the deepest secret nobody knows #bbc sherlock #johnlock fic

[inkandarsenic]

A couple years ago, I made this post about the Harry Potter Twin AU I had living in my notes app.

Well guess what? I WROTE IT!

I will admit that the final product of the fic is differing in quite a few ways so far, but is the nature of fic not that it changes as you write it?

Anyhoops.

I just finished first year, and i have recently cross posted it from AO3 to Wattpad and ffn. I’ll link them all here. Please go read it and let me know what you think!

#ink writes #ao3 #archive of our own #harry potter au #twins who lived #i wrote something #please give me feedback #wattpad #fanfiction.net #shameless self plug #my fic #actually excited to write this

[lena-in-a-red-dress]

Was reading through some of my old, actual fics last night. And honestly it still kind of impresses me. I like it because the action read like action scenes, and Lena properly outsmarts Lex on her own. The only help she needs is in the execution of the plan.

Idk, I just really like it. Here's the link for some newer folks who might not have read through my archives yet:

#supercorp #shameless self plug #still wish we'd gotten something like this in canon

[ogjnogththeworldeater]

More spacesuit Catradora propaganda

Unrelated but shameless self plug:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/53227609/chapters/134691031

My Assassin’s Creed AU— I’m trying to make the lore coherent to newbies, so come for the capitalism-bashing and stupid shippiness, stay for the batshit plot!

#catradora #my shitty art #spop fanart #pen sketch #she ra 2018 #catra fanart #shameless self plug

[painsandconfusion]

what was the One Scene for showstopper???

This one! I just loved the idea of the detective having whumper cornered, then just wanting so badly to see them in action that they stop and watch instead of saving the victim 🤌🤌🤌

#sand asks #showstopper #the link to the masterpost is in that link if youd like to read it #its a bite sized mini series thats been completed #its like 10000 words #shameless self plug #i wrote that in a literal fevered frenzy while sick one time over the course of a horrible week #and i love it

[batsbratsandbarbedwire]

WIP Wedneaday anyone?

A certain little freak I know requested a priest kink.

Eddie Munson the priest makes me fucking scream, y'all. Maybe I'm the only one amused?

#steddie #steddie fic #steddie fic rec #steddie wip #eddie munson #steve harrington #stranger things #steve x eddie #priest kink #shameless self plug #where are my religious trauma babies #this little story is running me rampant but its good yall #if i do say so myself #for bestie #duh

[noneknxws]

show us the Duke harmonica comic i'm begging you

I FORGOT ASKS EXIST IM SO SORRY 😭

yes here u go

#i also posted this on my TikTok #shameless self plug #red hood #the signal #i forget if I put this here before #harmonica #Duke Thomas #Jason Todd #red hood fanart #batfam #batfam: can they #Batfamily #signal fanart #Duke Thomas fanart #Jason Todd fanart #Batfamily comic #nk draws

[scribeofthenewworld]

Hey, folks! Friendly reminder that you can access and download PDFs of all my completed works to date (short stories, novellas, poetry collections, and that one play) for FREE at the link below!

Any downloads or reblogs will help out my website traffic and be greatly appreciated!!

#writing #sad writer gang #original work #shameless self plug #please visit my website guys #I'm just trying to get views rn #poetry #short stories #novellas #that one play #or check them out from the website homepage #appreciate you so much readers

[iguanodont]

Been workshopping an assortment of critter designs over the weeks. If you’d like to see more sketches like these, as well details on their ecology, you can find them on my Patreon.

If not, never fear, I’ll still be making polished posts and answering the occasional ask. (If you want to talk to me more directly, I am far more active on my member discord, however!)

#birgworld #shameless self plug #creature design #speculative biology

[owtenen]

HERE-YE HERE-YE! Guess who just finished their main fic ?!? I'll give you three guesses :)

If you guessed yours truly, YOU WOULD BE CORRECT ! All 17 parts of the Problem of Etho are now on AO3. And you should click here to check them out!

For those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about, I basically rewrote and dissected all of Boat Boys and Impdubs reactions in Double Life and made it super angsty! Shameless self-promo, if you love angst and love completed stories, this one is the one for you.

edit: ^ this is promo for my fic lol /j

#life series #trafficblr #ethosalab #joel smallishbeans #bdoubleo #impulsesv #impdubs #boat boys #smalletho #shameless self plug #um #how else do i tag this lol #my writing #i guess #if you actually see this because you clicked on the my writing tab i am activly kissing you on the mouth /p

[ljf613]

Commissioned this one a while back from @leons-7. It's an imagining of the eventual Freed and Mirajane reunion in your closets of backlogged dreams (and how you left them all to me).

(The other commission I had made for this fic can be found here.)

#fairy tail #fanart #mirafreed #could be platonic or romantic #freed and mirajane #freed justine #mirajane strauss #shameless self plug #mirajane x freed #my commissions #all queued up

[shifuaang]

I'm just a girl, standing in front of the ATLA fandom, asking them to read my Tysuki fic

#atla #tysuki #ty lee x suki #ty lee #suki #atla fic #I just reread and I'm still proud of it #pick me choose me love me #shameless self plug

[unusual-raccoon]

Lucaerys question: who fell first and who fell harder? 👀

Thank you for the ask my dear❣️

This one is tricky because of the mutual obsession 👀.

But I’ll say, simply on the basis of being older and watching his cousin grow up - Aerys fell first, and Lucerys fell harder.

Anyone who read cut me to ribbons knows Lucerys is absolutely insane about Aerys!!

#answered asks #my mutuals #hali 💕 #lucaerys ii #shameless self plug #my fanfic: cut me to ribbons