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April reads are in green! I’ve read 34 books so far this year 💪

A slow nonfiction month:

The Great Plague by Evelyn Lord

Trail of the Lost by Andrea Lankford

I’m combining literature and poetry this month:

A Really Good Brown Girl by Marilyn Dumont (poetry)

Foster by Claire Keegan

Solaris by Stanisław Lem

It was a busy month for smut! Which means I read slightly more than I had the previous months:

Enter the Multi-Vers by C Rochelle (sexy superheroes and fated mates)

Colin by Grae Bryan (final in a vampire mates series!)

Impromptu Match by Lily Mayne (first in a series, an absolute fucking riot, I laughed so much)

#reading goal 2024 #all reading is valid #reading #books

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to you, it’s a shitty sentence. to some random bitch 500 miles away, it’s a fire line that’ll haunt them for the next 17 years.

you don’t know how impactful your writing is because it’s been in your brain for far too long now. you’ve stared at it for hours and repeated “this sucks” over and over again to the point that you killed your capacity to feel anything about your work.

but trust me, once you get your shit out there, someone’s gonna go over that paragraph you hate and go “jesus fucking christ” and put the book down to have an existential crisis.

#me with some of the most random lines #soft and gentle this hand #none of it hurts and it even feels…earned #there are plenty more but I don’t always remember to write them down

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Praise be to ConcernedApe for 1.6. Like goddamn, what an amazing update. Mods are great and wonderful, but he’s the real hero for staying indie this whole time and creating this wonderful new content.

#stardew valley #obviously I would pay for an update like this #but huzzah for nearly unheard of free new content

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There’s always a dark corner in the locker rooms

#nichoji #nicholas and seiji #seiji katayama #nicholas cox #fence fanart #what am I doing here #what’s funny is this pose is based off one of my engagement photos to my future wife #babe I genderswapped us with two gay boys

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Geez there's truly a LOT of ppl..... took me nearly a week to finish this, ;)

#stardew valley #the whole gang

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Girl squad!!! Girl squad!!!

#these are some beautiful chickens!! I love your style OP #stardew valley #chickens

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more stardew valley baseball cap sketches, this time sebastian and alex

sam and elliott versions 🧢

#oh shit #stardew valley

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very quick sketches uhhhhhhh i just wanted to see some of my stardew valley men in baseball caps

#oh shit #stardew valley

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Say what you will about me (or don’t, did you ever think of that) but this is genuinely one of my favorite pieces I did for Fence. I stared at The Kiss for ages as I drew this, imitating what I could. It was very early on in my art skills (which have moderately increased) and I hadn’t yet begun to play around with truly adapting original works, choosing instead to remain closely aligned with the inspiration. Still, I like the way it looks. Maybe I’ll do a new version someday.

Now that I’ve finished all my actual school work (peer review left but bah) I have time to draw again and I finally finished this.

The Kiss by Klimt is such a cool, fun painting. A while back I saw an adaptation and immediately wanted to do it with Seiji and Nick, so here they are 💜

#fence fanart #what am i doing

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did I just post a fic for the first time in months? yes, yes I did. was it for a fandom I thought I was done with, fic-wise? yes, yes it was.

#fanfic

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FIVE MONTHS TILL I’M A WIFE WITH A WIFE

#personal

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#birds #weird birds #I thought it was a little man in a costume at first

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I haven’t written anything since, like, October of last year. I don’t know what happened, but I just. Haven’t been able to. I’ve still been getting ideas, mostly for Wangxian, but I haven’t had the inspiration for anything long form (ie anything more than writing in my notes app). I miss writing, I think. Drawing is nice as well, but it’s not the same.

#writing #fanfic #alas #one of these days perhaps

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Preface: THIS IS CLEARLY A TRACE, not an original work. I am not claiming it. ART CRED to Johanna the Mad.

I just wanted my boys on their own

#fence #fence comic #fence challengers #nichoji #nicholas cox #seiji katayama #art tracing #johanna the mad #fence fanart #fence art EDIT

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I genuinely CANNOT handle this like holy fuck

#like seriously #I’m fucking losing it over here #look at them #LOOK AT THESE BOYS #god fucking dammit #Nicholas and Seiji #NICHOJI #THE YEARNING #THE DESPERATION #I am internally chanting KISS KISS KISS #and nothing will make me stop #it is still so wild how nuts I get over this comic #dig my teeth in and shake my head like a raccoon #bury it in my heart and then just keep cradling it #FUCK #you don’t even know #I can’t adequately explain it #I can’t #fence comic

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Not a lad, still on tour.

It’s Bronwyn Michaels, aka @jjaharwood from @podsontour

#lads on tour fanart #lads on tour podcast #lads on tour #pods on tour

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A kind of average boy, but a very cute spider monkey (from @podsontour)

[ID: Digital drawing of a spider monkey wearing a black suit and a top hat, with a red bow tie. Above the monkey is text that reads “A kind of average boy, but a very cute spider monkey.”]

#lads on tour fanart #lads on tour