#what a ride!

[prolix-yuy]

My darlings, my lovelies, my babes...the end is almost here.

This will be the final week of Bangathon requests.

If you had told me a year ago that I would post smut for almost a full month uninterrupted I would have said, "With what time?!" but we are in the home stretch now and it's been a freakin' blast. Six posts to go, so we'll be wrapping up on Saturday. Then...holy hell, I'm gonna need a break, because a big project is coming out in August and I've gotta finish up some things for that. But there may still be something I've been saving up posting in between.

Thank you all for the fun, the screaming, the hilarity, and the sexy times. Maybe we'll do this again next year! To many more stories!

#prolix wips #lj's bangathon 2023 #what a ride!

[xinambercladx]

Ever read an actual novel and just think: This author totally writes fanfiction. The tropes are there. I see them. And I'm here for them.

I've been sucked into this book for two days straight. I can't put it down. It's a real damn shame there's not fanart whatsoever of this series. WHY?? And literally no one is talking about it aside from reviews on amazon. This makes me upset.

#stardoc #what a ride! #It's actually very engaging #with a hot love interest #bitemark claim trope #mate for life trope #feisty main female lead #glidecars #what a cool name for a speeder #only she can solve the mystery illness #because she's a genetically altered genius #but that's ok because intellegence is her only superpower #and being immune to diseases #super powered doctor to the rescue #if her love interest dies I quit though #he's perfection #and so positively healthy masculine <3 #I ship them so hard

[rebouks]

I figured it'd be interesting to pick apart Oscar's nightmare.. for science! Sorta like an author's note ig ⚆_⚆

Groundhog Day: Oscar feels trapped. Every time he tries to sort his shit out, something happens that forces his unhealthy coping mechanisms into overdrive. Every time he tries to fix his relationship with his family, Courtney, etc.. he's reminded how unsafe it might be to keep them close, so he pushes them away again. Every time he and Ivan feel like they're getting somewhere, it's ripped from their grasp again. He's tired, and he's worried that without self medicating, he won't be able to keep going.

The Radio: Nothing too spectacular here. The radio report about Spencer is wishful thinking. At this point, Oscar's not even been in rehab for a full week! There's no way Ivan or even Sid could have worked that fast. The various songs that played over and over are just some of his favourites, though the lyrics are quite applicable to how he feels/what he's going through.

TOOL - Parabola | Forty Six & 2

Oscar's Reflection: Finally deciding to work on himself isn't sitting easily.. Oscar hates introspection. He doesn't like 'looking' at himself, or trying to figure out why he is the way he is. Does he even like himself? Will he ever get to a point where he can stomach the man looking back at him? He doesn't know, and he reaaaally doesn't want to think about it. Little dramatic maybe, but he genuinely has to.. otherwise he might not be around for much longer. He's not lying when he says he legit doesn't understand why Courtney or anyone else loves him. He doesn't think it's a self esteem issue though ⚆_⚆

Courtney: Guilt, basically.. he loves Cookie so so much, but he genuinely feels like she'd be better off if she never met him. He knows his actions (though unintentional) have hurt her deeply, and he knows she's putting on a brave face. Like Oscar, Courtney buries her feelings - she hasn't spoken to him or anyone else about what happened. He's worried about her, but he's also worried that if she deals with those feelings properly, she'll finally realise the danger he unwillingly put her in and leave for good. He's sure it's not the case, though he does wonder if she'd have left if she wasn't pregnant.

Stuffed Animals: A representation of the past, I suppose. Oscar can barely remember being young and carefree, he was a pretty emotionally mature kid, though the way he dealt with those emotions was anything but mature. Now look at you. Oscar's disappointed in himself, and he figures everyone else is too. Courtney's bunny is a little more forgiving though, reminding him that although he might not be happy with himself right now, he can still dream.. aim to be and do better. That's what 'she' means by there's no epilogue to be found in here. This isn't the end of the road, not yet!

Wyatt's Presence/Helping Hand: He's not fond of Wyatt by any means, but he doesn't hate him as much as he says he does; nor does he want him dead. Oscar's a compassionate man who likes to think there's some good in everyone. Wyatt's not the only one who pays close attention to the actions of others.. Oscar's noticed he behaves like a man with nothing to lose, which he finds odd (and fucking scary) because if anything, the opposite is true. He doesn't trust him, he unnerves him, doesn't understand him... But surely no one's a completely rotten apple? Conscious Oscar isn't so quick to admit/believe any of this, but on a subconscious level, maybe.

Ivan's Suicide: Certainly out of character. Ivan isn't suicidal, never has been. No, this is more about Oscar's fear of losing him. He's recently come to realise just how important Ivan is to him, he doesn't feel like he's been a very good friend (hence the reason he was unable to stop Ivan from killing himself). Oscar's been so wrapped up in his own turmoil that he's offered little to no support in return, and he knows it. Ivan's unwavering support and lack of judgement has moved Oscar, kept him going when he didn't think he could. Aside from Courtney and his family, Oscar wants to better himself in part so he can return the favour. The fact that Ivan's still out there working whilst he's stuck in rehab is a scary thought, especially since he's not allowed to contact anyone. He hopes his friend is still alive and well in the waking world.

Oscar's Past Selves: Hindsight is wonderful, isn't it? It'd be too easy for us to go back and warn ourselves of the mistakes we'll make in the future. The only thing we can do is learn from the past and apply that knowledge to our future decisions. Oscar's mostly let go of his grudge where Sid/Alton are concerned, he's tired of being bitter. Sid was busy, not in touch with her maternal side or her emotions... Alton's absent-minded. He needed more attention from them, more guidance, but he never got it. He didn't ask. Perhaps it's too much to ask of a child to realise what they're lacking and request it, but Oscar knows he made his own decisions. Salton/Noah's absence should be noted here, it's fairly important that Oscar's finally looking at himself instead of blaming other people; finally trying to make amends with his history and his choices, however poor they may have been. At the end of the day, we have but ourselves for company... One thing's for damn sure, Oscar's gonna try his hardest to be there for his own kid(s), no matter what.

Extras: I have no idea what two two zero two means. Same goes for the line: that's when it ends. 😉 The threshold is not what it seems... The barriers we place upon ourselves regarding what we can/should think, do, and feel aren't always what they're cracked up to be. Somnia iacebat ruinas = your dreams lay in ruins.

As ever I had no plans before going into this little 'story', though it was fun to take a trip into Oscar's mind. Talk about horror (⊙_⊙;)

#somnium: extra #oscar #extra #twblood #twhorror #twsuicide #oooohhhweeeee #what a ride! #lmk if there's anything still making you ??

[shipmistress9]

Endlessly grateful I had a (mostly) calm day. If I hadn't been able to get through the last 35 chapter or so in one day, I would've gone insane. 😆

#the house of earth and blood #honestly #this book had no right to be this captivating #what a ride!

[julnites]

Red riding hood comic collab with the wonderful @yeehawpim (go check out their blog for loads of great comics!) 🌷 See the layouts he did here!

#james art times #artists on tumblr #comics #comics!! very excited to do this and especially with pim who is just fantastic at what they do #fairy tales #little red riding hood #pim did the layouts and I rendered these and my goodness was it a good time #he also did the image descriptions so huge shout out for that as well #go check out her comics! you will not regret it

[kruxton]

testing out the waters w the new kid in my class to see if he's accepting of trans people or not

#ive been doing this thing where i call people 'brother' regardless of gender and relatiom and my guy friends have started doing it too #but only to each other #so then this guy just said it to ME and then corrected himself like 'eh no sister i mean' and im like. dude no. stick with brother #mostly because it sounds better and we need to stick to the bit!!!! but also hearing sister just feels a bit off yk? #so i didnt say it directly but its strange enough for understand or at least question it #if he does get it then he'll be the first person i'm out to! #well technically not BUT i had told my friends that im no longer a trans boy and that it WAS really just a phase bc i truly did not connect #w it anymore but THEN #these past few months ive started questioning again #so yeah. #what a ride! #i've got a stinking suspicion that he wont be the biggest ally #BUT!!!!!! i can hope #okay #personal #random #text

[wispscribbles]

piggyback

#ghostsoap #soapghost #simon ghost riley #john soap mactavish #soap x ghost #ghoap #my art #cod fanart #doodle #this isn’t what ghost thought soap meant when he said he was gonna ride him 😔

[inkskinned]

the thing about art is that it was always supposed to be about us, about the human-ness of us, the impossible and beautiful reality that we (for centuries) have stood still, transfixed by music. that we can close our eyes and cry about the same book passage; the events of which aren't real and never happened. theatre in shakespeare's time was as real as it is now; we all laugh at the same cue (pursued by bear), separated hundreds of years apart.

three years ago my housemates were jamming outdoors, just messing around with their instruments, mostly just making noise. our neighbors - shy, cautious, a little sheepish - sat down and started playing. i don't really know how it happened; i was somehow in charge of dancing, barefoot and laughing - but i looked up, and our yard was full of people. kids stacked on the shoulders of parents. old couples holding hands. someone had brought sidewalk chalk; our front walk became a riot of color. someone ran in with a flute and played the most astounding solo i've ever heard in my life, upright and wiggling, skipping as she did so. she only paused because the violin player was kicking his heels up and she was laughing too hard to continue.

two weeks ago my friend and i met in the basement of her apartment complex so she could work out a piece of choreography. we have a language barrier - i'm not as good at ASL as i'd like to be (i'm still learning!) so we communicate mostly through the notes app and this strange secret language of dancers - we have the same movement vocabulary. the two of us cracking jokes at each other, giggling. there were kids in the basement too, who had been playing soccer until we took up the far corner of the room. one by one they made their slow way over like feral cats - they laid down, belly-flat against the floor, just watching. my friend and i were not in tutus - we were in slouchy shirts and leggings and socks. nothing fancy. but when i asked the kids would you like to dance too? they were immediately on their feet and spinning. i love when people dance with abandon, the wild and leggy fervor of childhood. i think it is gorgeous.

their adults showed up eventually, and a few of them said hey, let's not bother the nice ladies. but they weren't bothering us, they were just having fun - so. a few of the adults started dancing awkwardly along, and then most of the adults. someone brought down a better sound system. someone opened a watermelon and started handing out slices. it was 8 PM on a tuesday and nothing about that day was particularly special; we might as well party.

one time i hosted a free "paint along party" and about 20 adults worked quietly while i taught them how to paint nessie. one time i taught community dance classes and so many people showed up we had to move the whole thing outside. we used chairs and coatracks to balance. one time i showed up to a random band playing in a random location, and the whole thing got packed so quickly we had to open every door and window in the place.

i don't think i can tell you how much people want to be making art and engaging with art. they want to, desperately. so many people would be stunning artists, but they are lied to and told from a very young age that art only matters if it is planned, purposeful, beautiful. that if you have an idea, you need to be able to express it perfectly. this is not true. you don't get only 1 chance to communicate. you can spend a lifetime trying to display exactly 1 thing you can never quite language. you can just express the "!!??!!!"-ing-ness of being alive; that is something none of us really have a full grasp on creating. and even when we can't make what we want - god, it feels fucking good to try. and even just enjoying other artists - art inherently rewards the act of participating.

i wasn't raised wealthy. whenever i make a post about art, someone inevitably says something along the lines of well some of us aren't that lucky. i am not lucky; i am dedicated. i have a chronic condition, my hands are constantly in pain. i am not neurotypical, nor was i raised safe. i worked 5-7 jobs while some of these memories happened. i chose art because it mattered to me more than anything on this fucking planet - i would work 80 hours a week just so i could afford to write in 3 of them.

and i am still telling you - if you are called to make art, you are called to the part of you that is human. you do not have to be good at it. you do not have to have enormous amounts of privilege. you can just... give yourself permission. you can just say i'm going to make something now and then - go out and make it. raquel it won't be good though that is okay, i don't make good things every time either. besides. who decides what good even is?

you weren't called to make something because you wanted it to be good, you were called to make something because it is a basic instinct. you were taught to judge its worth and over-value perfection. you are doing something impossible. a god's ability: from nothing springs creation.

a few months ago i found a piece of sidewalk chalk and started drawing. within an hour i had somehow collected a small classroom of young children. their adults often brought their own chalk. i looked up and about fifteen families had joined me from around the block. we drew scrangly unicorns and messed up flowers and one girl asked me to draw charizard. i am not good at drawing. i basically drew an orb with wings. you would have thought i drew her the mona lisa. she dragged her mother over and pointed and said look! look what she drew for me and, in the moment, i admit i flinched (sorry, i don't -). but the mother just grinned at me. he's beautiful. and then she sat down and started drawing.

someone took a picture of it. it was in the local newspaper. the summary underneath said joyful and spontaneous artwork from local artists springs up in public gallery. in the picture, a little girl covered in chalk dust has her head thrown back, delighted. laughing.

#writeblr #warm up #this is longer than i wanted i really considered removing that part about myself and what i went thru #but i think it really fucking bothers me that EVERY time i talk about being an artist #ppl assume i just like. had the skill and ability to drop everything and pay for grad school. #like sir i grew up poor. my house wasn't a safe space. i gave up a FREE RIDE TO LAW SCHOOL. for THIS. bc i chose it. #was it fucking hard? was i choosing the hard thing?? yes. #but we need to stop seeing artists as lazy layabouts that can ''afford'' to just ''sit around and create'' #when MANY - if not MOST - of us are NOT like that. we have to work our fucking ASSES off. hard work. long and hard work #part of valuing artists is recognizing the amount we sacrifice to make our art. bc it doesn't just #like HAPPEN to us. also btw it rarely has anything to do with true talent. #speaking as someone with a chronic condition i hate when ppl are like u have it easy. like actively as i'm writing this my hands r #ACTIVELY hurting me. i haven't been posting bc my left hand was curled in a claw for the last week #this isn't fucking luck. after a certain point it's not even TALENT. it's dedication & sacrifice. #''u get to flounce around and do nothing with ur life'' is a narrative that is a direct result of capitalism #imagine if we said that about literally any other profession. #''oh so u give up 10 yrs of ur life to be a doctor? u sacrifice having a social life and u get SUPER in debt? #u need to work countless hours and it will often be thankless? well i wish i was that lucky'' #we should be applying that logic to landlords ONLY #''oh ur mom and dad gave u the money to buy a house? and all u did was paint it white and rent it? huh.''

[pumpkajelly]

I know low - extreme ride intensity is all pretty subjective so just answer however related to however you feel about it! 🎢

(And feel free to put your number and additional thoughts in the tags if you're curious about your mutuals' amusement park thoughts 👀)

#amusement park #roller coasters #thrill rides #I was thinking about this with fam and curious what people's preferences tend to lean toward! #I have been working at Canada's Wonderland for the halloween haunt this year and staring at coasters a lot #I know this isn't a perfectly comprehensive scale but! #feel free to clarify in the tags too if u wanna #I am at a 3 #But I would generally consider myself an amusement park coward #The drop zone is so scary #but i like being spun around in a centrifuge #🎢

[khairosclerosis]

🛶 and i'm asking, 'why, lord?'

if this is how i die, lord;

why be left with no family

and no friends?

#clementimes #ace attorney #art #fanart #miles edgeworth #phoenix wright #manfred von karma #gregory edgeworth #maya fey #lyrics: the ballad of jane doe - ride the cyclone #for the “colourful beginnings” ace attorney trilogy zine on twt :] #so sad i dont have time to draw for unnecessary feelings day this year :( i hope this makes up for it #--wait what the fark it's been nearly a year since i drew this #wild #orange queue glad i didn't say banana

[lastweekgifs]

#tomska #darksquidge #last week #tom #mine #like riding a decaying bike #spent like at least 30 minutes trying to figure out what font i used #it was Trebuchet MS bold italic

[malachitebeck]

I’m just saying that if two teenagers being crowned king and queen at a high school prom counted as a “king and queen being crowned anew in Solace” for an ancient curse on a giant dragon man, then a girl doing everything in her power to become Student Body President probably counts as a holy conquest worthy of her corrupted god.

#but what do I know! #with the mysteries in this show I am just along for the ride #also I have a friend who thinks Kipperlily is fully a red herring possibly but I dunno! #dimension 20 #ankarna #kipperlilly copperkettle #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #fhjy spoilers #d20 spoilers

[egophiliac]

I saw comments that the new butler from Ridekamens look like Sebek

He...kinda does

I wasn't gonna say it, but. that was kind of my first thought when he was revealed. :') maybe this is what Sebek's older brother is doing these days? he ran off to buttle for secret agents at a superhero cafe? actually wait that would be rad as heck, I'll accept this headcanon

#art #twisted wonderland #ride kamens #i don't know how to tag this in a way that won't annoy literally everyone so uhhhh sorry about that #'but his surname is aijo' it's his SECRET AGENT NAME gosh you wanna blow his cover or what #...okay to be fair they're not really that much alike #beyond being green manservants themed after reptiles and having sorta similar hair and...well their personalities are different anyway #then again we have yet to actually experience leon so who knows #we'll be in the middle of a tense battle of good vs evil and he just appears behind us screaming GOSHUJINSAMA YOUR DRYCLEANING!!! #actually based on his description this seems pretty likely. hm.

[pleucas]

irresponsible illegal getaway drive

#pleuart #pleucas #bsd #bungo stray dogs #illustration #dazai osamu #chuuya #chuuya nakahara #dazai #skk #soukoku #dazai can’t drive #skk being badass and scary as children #<<< #skk being badass and scary by accident when in reality #one of them cannot drive despite being a super genius (he can’t ride a bike either) #the other can level a building but has a well worn step stool to reach the top shelf #they were teenagers together despite never knowing what it meant and that is :c peak mafia skk dynamic idc

[stellarfalls]

It’s me on my editing spree again 🧞‍♀️

#Hana’s in her first trimester! #she’s been tense all day all night & Rohan has zero idea what’s going on btw #they live a plane ride away no he’s not seeing her 😞 #ts4 #simblr #sims 4 #ts4 gameplay #gen:valley #hana* #rohan*

[rainbow-taishi]

He sees you when you're sleeping

He knows when you're awake

#shitpost #jjk fanart #jjk #cioccolatodorima #my drawings #anime #drawing #manga #fanart #gege akutami #santa claus #horror #jujutsu kaisen #gojo satoru #gojojojo #what fun it is to ride and sing a SLAYING song tonight