#I am back with my once-in-a-while-post

[paracosmic-sims]

Orchid Gorgonia: Medusan

Abyssal is a mini-series of occasional posts that I'm making as a tribute for my first playthrough of @straussz's Gorgons and Heroes challenge. Unfortunately, the save still exists, but it's taken over by bugs in live mode, rendering it unplayable.

Orchid was a very powerful first generation, managing 9 babies in total, before disappearing from the world without a trace due to unfortunate circumstances. A very alluring sim, most of her targets were very influent.

[lucabyte]

ghost

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

With the end of season two comes a second redraw!

[Nov 2022] [June 2023] [June 2024]

[oneluckydragon]

I know you,

I walked with you once upon a dream.

I know you,

That look in your eyes is so familiar a gleam.

[eff-exor]

almost summer time tum

[crunchybeards]

I'm literally so sick in the head about Sam x The Masked Shadow. Like I got a few more fic and drawing ideas between those two.

There's just so much about them that I love as a dynamic beyond the monster fucker approach between them. Like how the hell would everybody else in Sam's crew even respond to the Masked Shadow's presence? Would they be fine with it or would they try and kill it? And if they all knew that they were in some type of romantic relationship would they be accepting of it?

Hell even just between the two of them. Like why does Sam suddenly feel so safe when given the option to approach it? Every other interaction up to that point he was either anxious or scared around it but now he just wants to go in? It's obvious that the Masked Shadow is emitting something that's fucking with his head, something that's making him way more susceptible to it's influence to certain extent. But the fact that it doesn't seem to be doing this intentionally makes it so much more fascinating. Like what does it get out of even doing that to somebody? Why would it need to or want to do that to Sam of all people, the only person up to that point that extended any form of kindness to it?

There's more stuff I wanna go into about those two and everything between them as well but I might just structure a proper post or comic or something about that since I'm not very articulate at the moment. This post is just me rambling to myself more than anything, just me outwardly saying I like this ship :)

[hughmanbean]

Occasional Visits

Once upon a time, there was a man who had a pit of Lazarus and was the Head of the League of Assassins. Perhaps the Lazarus is rancid ecto, and the death emanating from all of the members around to it is really starting to pull some attention.

And perhaps, one High Queen of the Infinite Realms early on had decided that, "Man, I gotta check this out." Time, of course, decides that "That would be a good precaution. Just be careful." And gives a few time portal visits.

Now, imagine those visits keep going. For the Head of the League, it is a first meeting of suspicion followed by rivalry, before the years churn along into an amicable acquaintance. For the High Queen, it is a FrootLoop who needs to be kept under watch, before years grind down the drive to continue messing with his plans and go back to managing the Realms and allowing for others to take action.

Contemplate the idea that only five years with visits for the High Queen is decades with occasional visits for the Head of the League. Maybe it is an occasion that is now greeted with a bit of celebration, for someone who he can talk too and know from the past who isn't now against him or dead.

And maybe, just maybe, he's about to get another visit. Right in the middle of something important. Who could say?

[kinokoshoujoart]

oops all rock (springtime edition)

i’ll be able to draw digitally again soon! ;w; in the meantime i’ve been scribbling a lot on paper…

could not wait for Soon, so i resorted to coloring it using the markup tool in default iphone photos app (don’t do that ever again)

[fl0ydzie]

who up atoning hit like

[not-poignant]

June 2025 - Update Schedule

June chapter update schedule:

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Sunday 1st - Second Star to the Right 01 / (04 @ Patreon/Ream)

Tuesday 3rd - Underline the Gold 15 / (16 @ Patreon/Ream)

Thursday 5th - Underline the Black 119

Sunday 8th - A Stain that Won't Dissolve 60

Thursday 12th - Underline the Black 120

Tuesday 17th - Underline the Gold 16 / (17 @ Patreon/Ream)

Thursday 19th - Underline the Black 121

Sunday 22nd - A Stain that Won't Dissolve 61

Thursday 27th - Underline the Black 122

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Stories with updates as yet undetermined: Palmarosa (though there will definitely be at least one this month!)

Most chapters go up between 6-7pm GMT+8 (or the time that you’re already used to me putting chapters up, lol).

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[pencap]

they warned me that i cannot want you. mother told me wanting you would get me hurt. father told me wanting you would get me scarred. you told me wanting you would get me killed.

foolish heart, do you think i do not know? i have known from the moment that i laid eyes upon you and the devouring void in my chest woke up and named itself wanting and stretched and stretched and never stopped stretching that you would be the death of me.

foolish heart, i am not afraid.

it was always going to get me killed, this life of mine this life of yours this life of ours. and if you are going to be the death of me ( you are, you are, you are ) i would rather die for wanting you than die for hating you. i would rather die for the hope of having you than die for the fear of having you.

be my sun, my winds, my ocean and i will make myself icarus and i will find my joy in your blinding light and i will find my freedom in your touch and i will find my death in your waiting arms.

and you can melt me down like a candle under the flame or you can cast me about like a leaf in the skies or you can swallow me whole like a memory.

i will still be yours and wanting and wanting and wanting.

[daily-irina]

day 18 drawing irina everyday

[emilylsart]

ok um has this been done yet?

[puppetmaster13u]

My take on @phoenixcatch7 's Possessed Doll Au, specifically the designs lol. Technically a first rendition and might change (and of course it's not all of them seeing as there'd be others like Nightwing or Red Hood lol)

[yardsards]

how to explain to your parents that you can't move back in with them because every time you're near them a big part of you buries itself and you're not sure how long that part can stay buried before its hidey hole becomes its grave?

...without offending them, of course

[rosekasa]

there is something so. intensely frustrating about feeling incapable of showing up for people the way that they want you to