#in need of stuff to put on while drawing/working out again 😔

[remnantglow]

very specific question. does anyone have recommendations for youtube channels (or nonfiction podcasts) that kind of scratch that itch of speculating about/solving a mystery but AREN'T true crime?

(some examples of what i mean: the roblox oof or disney channel theme videos; unsolved internet mysteries like cicada 3301; the guy on youtube who tries to solve murder mysteries in tv shows before the reveal; lateral podcast)

[supernova41st]

Pics/gifs that remind me of them

(Fnf x reader)

Warnings: zaza, I hate this word but tsundere, insults but you guys are big girls/boys/things you can handle it

A/n: I’m gonna post shorter hcs for a bit cuz I’m working on this one req that has a lot of stuff, anyways ik this is cringey wattpad shit but who cares. Enjoy <33

Darnell

This is before you two were dating btw

All he wanted to do was doodle a bit 😔

“Oo whatcha got in there?”

“None of your goddamn business..”

grab

“Why are you hiding these they’re so c..”

This man was practically glowing mauve

It’s okay, you were blushing too

“…I won’t tell anyone if you let me keep it.”

“I fucking hate you.”

“Really? Cuz this says otherwise”

“IT SAYS NOTHING”

No but actually, you stared at them almost everyday

It got to the point where you memorized them page by page

After you guys started dating, it became an inside joke that he was always embarrassed of

“Draw me like your French girls Darnell..”

“Oh my fucking-just-don’t remind me”

Once you tried drawing him and it def wasn’t up to his level of mastery, but he still loved it

He cut it out and hung it up on his wall next to his bed

Nene

You guys swap every now and then but she likes it more when you do it

“Y/n do me first plsplspls”

“Okay okay just as long as you take out your knives, I don’t want them to cut me again”

“That was one time 🙄”

“No nene, it was two times.”

Sometimes you’ll choose themes, like ocean or just a general color

You guys would get into funny arguments about the shades

“Nene this not purple that’s pink”

“It’s a mix of both!”

“The theme was purple so just do purple! It shouldn’t be a mix of anything 😒”

No wonder she always loses in dress to impress..

She would sometimes awkwardly zone out just staring at your eyes

(And if you have brown eyes and your eye does that one thing during golden hour, she’s immediately gone)

“…nene?”

“Yea?”

“The makeup.”

“Oh fuck, sorry”

You guys love face masks too

When she gets back from Ulta or Sephora she always brings something back for you

“Y/n guess what I got you!!”

“Lemme guess, another face mask”

“No! Sol de Janeiro scent 40!!”

“ gasp MARRY ME”

“OKAYY ^^”

Pico

(Big ass picture omg)

Guys, the makeout sessions.

Pico is an okay kisser when sober, but for some reason his tongue just gets ✨✨ when puffing that za

He loves going to his house, playing “doin’ time” by sublime in the background while making out with you on his bed

You guys have been doing it since your teen years

“Mom I need to go to my friends house to study”

“Okay hun just be back before 8:30”

Best studying session of your life

Sometimes you guys don’t even kiss, just 🍃 + cartoons

Or random convos, like really random convos

He’s not a fan tho

“You think the wind is ever trying to tell us something we don’t understand yet?”

“…I want you to stop saying odd shit.”

One time, he grabbed your belt to pull you closer and did his tango with the tongue

The butterflies you felt when he did that.

“Jesus fuck Pico..”

“What? Did you not like it? I’m sorry I just-“

“Do it again or I’ll kill you”

You guys were such horny teens

And it hasn’t settled down ever since

But since consent is sexy, you two never BOOMBAYAH’D while 🍃

“P-Pico I bet can kiss every freckle on that beautiful fffucking face of yours”

“You wanna bet? Giggle I’ll put 20$ on this table right now”

“Hell yeah, bring it on Ed Sheeran head ass”

Eventually your lips got tired

“Pico my lips are so tired now”

“Nuh uh, keep going”

“Hey you can’t tell me what to do, respect women!”

“Idc I’m sexiest now”

“I think it’s sexist”

“No, it’s sextile”

“…okay”

I don’t think he was with us at that moment

Bitch was seeing stars

[renlyslittlerose]

Hey my dudes, just a little update re: fics and fandom and where we stand~

I have not been writing a lot recently, or editing much. There's a lot going on in my life atm and things like fic writing have fallen to the wayside as I navigate these choppy waters.

I wish I could say things will calm down soon, but every time I think that they will I get smacked upside the head with a wrench. My dad starts his radiation treatment tomorrow, so I'll be focusing on him for the next two weeks. I also have another funeral to attend (getting sick of putting on what has become my Funeral Outfit), which I hope will be the last for a long, long while.

Once these things are seen to, I'm hoping to get to the collabs I promised (I'm still thinking of the fic I'm gonna write to go along with your beautiful art, @human-rocket , don't worry! And we're gonna create something amazing @paracosm-draw!). I'm also doing something for @palfriendpatine66 's amazing anti-Valentines Day fest (a return to the Moonlight universe is in order, I think!), and I have a smattering of oneshots I've written but haven't posted that I need to edit and post.

And after that? Who knows. I've plans to start working on my original novel again (it's been sitting neglected since 2022 😭), and I've got a trip to Japan in April to attend SWC, which I'm hoping will be the magic potion I need to get inspired again and feel invigorated and whole once more.

To those who still read my works, thank you so much. I'm sorry I've fallen back on my usual schedule of pumping stuff out. It's just not in me at the moment 😔 and to those who don't read but still follow me and support me in other ways- thank you 💕

[varusai]

⭐️Get to know your mutuals⭐️

⭐️ Tagged by @elvenmoans

this took me forever to fill out i kept forgetting it in my drafts. oops😔

⭐️ What's the origin of your blog title?

blog title: ☆ ฅ^•⩊•^ฅ ☆

i was looking at a big ass list of japanese emoticons, don't even remember the specific one i was looking for, but came across this one ฅ^•⩊•^ฅ and???? hello??? its so cute???

i never know what to title my stupid blog so i just put that there because it makes me happy to see her.

⭐️ OTP(s)+ shipnames(s):

i’m on the oc shipping train rn but for regular non oc ships we got

moonsea tyrants (manshoon/ fzoul) - the forgotten realms

gideon/harrow/ianthe (any combo) - the locked tomb

farcille (falin/marcille) - dungeon meshi

durgetash (the dark urge/enver gortash) - bg3 (only default hot white dragonborn durge tho, i don’t care about any of that custom character shit)

scar/lex - AVP (i’m having my annual resurgence of this ancient fixation. it will pass soon)

⭐️ Favourite color:

black, but since a lot of ppl consider this a non answer/cop out, purple. i have a particular soft spot for ultraviolet purple.

⭐️ Song stuck in your head:

Thnks fr th Mmrs - Fall Out Boy

i heard it on the radio yesterday after not hearing it for a long time and now its stuck

⭐️ Weirdest habit/trait:

i think this is more of a question that one would need to direct outward, not self-assign. like i talk to myself and consider that both find and normal what the fuck do i know about what counts as a weird habit lol

⭐️ Hobbies:

mainly playing dnd right now. playing dnd and thinking about The Characters. i also write and draw sometimes. i just never finish anything. I’ve also been reading a lot more this year, which has been nice. and I do/learn math for fun, but idk if that counts as a hobby? i'm gonna count it because i do it often enough.

⭐️ If you work, what's your profession?

i got some chronic conditions during covid and was fucked up and disabled for a while in addition to being really depressed. i'm on meds now and its getting a little better but now the job market is fucked so i don't have a job job rn and i just do gig work and temp jobs when i run out of money. usually admin, tech support, tutoring, or doordash. kinda just depends on what comes up.

⭐️ If you could have any job you wish, what would it be?

tbh i kinda already had my dream job? i was a physicist doing research on planet formation. undergraduate level, but it was a paid position so technically i made it. i do hope to go back to it one day when i'm not mentally and physically fucked up, but considering the state of the world now def doesn't seem like the time. unfortunately.

⭐️ Something you're good at:

befriending cats. i’ve literally never met a cat that didn’t like me. even stray cats. i’d like to think i’m pretty good at art too.

⭐️ Something you hate:

capitalism. i also hate driving, temperatures higher than 80F, and the human head, neck, back, and nervous system. mine specifically.

⭐️ Something you collect:

pens and notebooks/office supplies. which was fine when i was in school/doing research/teaching but after??? i would have ended up in some trouble space wise if i hadn't started playing dnd lol. now i can use my stuff again for my notes/game binder :3

i also collect dnd dice sets✨

⭐️ Something you forget:

i'll forget anything that you can ask me a question about out of nowhere. my brain is never stupider than when i'm put on the spot😔

⭐️ What's your love language:

talk to me about something that i'm obsessed with. especially like fic/character/dnd/oc worldbuilding. and especially if we're working on it together. if you can get to this stage you're prob in for life.

⭐️ Favourite movie/show:

The Thing (1982) is my favorite movie ever i watch it literally all the time.

big shout out to the Alien franchise and LotR tho they're tight runners up.

my fav show fluctuates a lot more, but i gotta say just based on rewatch value How Its Made takes it easily.

⭐️ Favourite food:

panda express orange chicken and chow mein combo with crab rangoons, that exact order

⭐️ Favourite animal:

cats or seals! literally two of the cutest animals to exist.

⭐️ What were you like as a child:

undiagnosed and strange

⭐️ Favourite subject at school:

science! i literally took every science class my small town high school had and was still losing my mind

⭐️ Least favourite subject:

government & economics.

yawnnnn

⭐️ What's your best character trait?

knowledge seeking & creative.

⭐️ What's your worst character trait?

asocial & irritable

⭐️ If you could change any detail of your life right now, what would it be?

add about 3 to 4 more zeros to my bank account balance

⭐️ Tagging: @twilight-alchemist @sunnidaydreamer @voxiferous @sunsetfields @zarnitza @darkeecofreak @shadow-djinni @overcaffeinated-paranoia @roosterzebra @inadvisablyappliedmagic @bi-colored-corn @revasnaslan @a-la-orilla-del-rio @minigenos

i know a lot of y’all already but its still fun lol

[ikilledmyocs]

MONTHLY WRITING UPDATES 2025 / three months late edition

back in january i put on my wtw bingo board i wanted to start posting monthly wip updates inspired by @veneritia, but as you can tell, it is march. i'm channeling my inner sloth. especially since i haven't really written... anything.

JANUARY WORDS: 0

DAYS WRITTEN: 0

WIPS WORKED ON: NONE

FEBRUARY WORDS: 3490

DAYS WRITTEN: 3

WIPS WORKED ON: we are unsuper, sims wip

MARCH WORDS (SO FAR): 1616

DAYS WRITTEN: 1

WIPS WORKED ON: secret wip, sims wip

yea so one of my other goals was complete a word crawl and as you can see, i dropped out of the writeblr garden's event halfway in because i wasn't going to write anymore than what i did sorry gardeners 😔 i've also been going through probably the longest sims fixation i've had since i was 10 and got my first laptop, so i've started working on a little short story i'll be telling through the sims, but still writing on the side. it's inspired by probably one of the only contemporary wips i've had jingling around my head, so why not play it out in the sims ✨ it's nothing special, but i'll eventually be posting about it on my simblr @commitmentissue if that sounds interesting to you! that's literally all i've got except for this little except of callista getting her surprise makeover before unsuper's final big mission (in book one 😳)

After about thirty minutes, Kenna finishes blow-drying my hair and spins me back into the mirror, taking off the black sheet with a dramatic fling. “What do you think?”

I’m stunned into silence. She cut off much more than a trim. My hair that once fell to the middle of my back now sits just above my shoulders. My mother’s pure, straight black hair has been turned into a midnight blue with some waves added in. Kenna bites her lip, cleaning up her station quietly as I take in what she’s done.

“I may have lied a bit, but we can’t risk people recognizing you before tomorrow.”

More than a bit. I bite my tongue, choosing to instead wave at my face. “Like my scars and my eyes won’t be enough?”

“The scars aren’t a big deal, they’re basically the same as any other Plague-Keeper, and with the new contacts Xander has for you, you can pass them off as the scars of a rebel.”

She says it's as if it’s that simple to hide. And while she’s right that scares are very common around here, everyone knows what they did to Plague-Keepers to get us these scars. They’re not accidental.

A knock draws me out of my overthinking about my haircut. I haven’t cut it since getting back from the Academy and that already felt like too much. But my hair was a matted mess. That had to be done. Before that, it had been four years. It already felt like I lost one of my connections to that place, but now I've lost one to my mother. She loved me with long hair.

A blonde head peeks around the corner, holding open the sliding door with a screen key. “Are you done yet?” Xander asks, shaking the key around in his hands, making it glitch as Kenna glares at him. She slams her towel off her shoulder and onto my chair, giving me a jump.

“I told you to stop using our hallways to cut through stuff,” she says, waving me towards the door and holding it open for me as Xander gives her a warm, cheeky grin as if to say, I’m definitely doing it again. “And I suppose we are now that you’re here.”

Xander throws a stack of clothes my way as the door to the salon jiggles close. I barely catch them, Kenna saves the day by catching a nearly fallen sweater. “Did you catch her up to speed?” He asks, striding past the flustered workers in the supplies room. Someone tries to ask him a question about the mission tomorrow but he waves them away, saying everyone will be told what they need to know tonight.

“I’m going on a mission with Britta to the shipping docks,” I state, plainly. “Why do you get to skip this one?”

He turns back to me, shoving his gloved hands in the pockets of his sweatshirt. “Who said I’m skipping it? I won’t be there, yeah, but someone has to hack the security and make sure their cameras are jammed. Can’t have another mistake like yesterday happen again.”

[iheartgaykey]

HEY ELLIE :D I wanted to stop by and say how much you really mean to me and how thankful I am to have gotten to meet someone who is very arguably inspiring to me in several ways. I've been thinking about your AU so much lately it's during my weird moments I'm thinking of Ron and Lucid "What would they do in this scenario" PLEASE. I don't think you realize how much you matter to me in general even if it sounds super cliche and corny 😭 Sort of taking the opportunity to ask you now if there's ANYTHING you'd like to share with me? It can be art, oc lore, dhmis related content.. EVEN OTHER FANDOMS!! FEEL FREE TO JUST TAKE THE TIME TO RAMBLE IF YOU REALLY WANT TO... I DON'T MIND HOW MUCH YOU SHARE EITHER I love you!!!! /p Keep your chin up! I'll always be here if you need me (SORRY THIS INBOX CAME OUT OF NOWHERE SOBS)

DOLL HELLO DOLL OMGGODNJSMISFJJ HIHIHI SINCE YOURE HERE I MIGHT AS WELL GIVE YOU A BIG RAMBLE BC I DO HAVE ALOT TO SAY ACTUALLY… ESSAY INCOMING !!!!

YOUVE GOT ME THINKING ABT DHMIS AGAIN THO N I DO HAVE A BIG DEVELOPMENT THING COMING UP PRETTY SOON FOR LOCKED UP!!! Lennon is still being designed + I’ve been making tons of different versions of him w different outfits n hair n loads of fun stuff but my most recent stuffs is on whiteboard… im revisiting most of the whiteboard concepts from forever ago n basing my designs on that :D plus Aaron is getting a minor little redesign (giving him some more intricate details and going more in-depth with some of his already existing details) IM ACTUALLY TRYING TO PUT MORE SYMBOLISM INTO SOME OF THESE GUYS. AARONS NECK CLAMP THING IS GONNA COME BACK INTO PLAY FULL SWING GAHHH (speaking of Aaron’s neck clamp thing! I made a Kandi version of it. Wearing it as I type this hhhhhhhhh) I have a base for everyone (mostly everyone) doodled up on whiteboard.i just need to put it to use !! Which reminds me all of the teachers canonically have like.. Barbie doll bodies hee haw

More on Lennon though!! I’m basing him mostly on the interaction he had with Yellow in the Death episode! He’s very soft-spoken and doesn’t know what the fuck is going on most of the time, he is one of the most mindless puppets out of the teachers (is it even SURPRISING that Ron would like him.) but most of his fucked-up-ness is because he started glitching out after Red messed with the machine 😔

ALSO LUCID HAS BEEN ON THE MIND SM FOR ME? Aaron n Lucid interactions need to happen hello!!!! (They would try to kill eachother) as far as I can tell the average conversation between them would be mostly insults and annoyed scoffs!! They hate eachother and I love that for them ❤️ (their dynamic would certainly be something strange? Aaron is EXTREMELY cocky and I doubt he would give a single fuck whether Lucid is mentally OK or not? Although Lucid seems to want for nobody to gaf sooo?????) (And while I'm on the topic Lucid and Lennon would also not get along bc Len acts really fucking stupid and I kind of doubt Lucid would be able to stand him 💀)

EITHER WAY MORE LUCID IN LOCKED UP STUFF IS DEFINITELY HAPPENING SOON <3 I REALLY LIKED HOW I RENDERED MY ELLIE IN THE REAL DRAWING SO I HAVE TONS OF MOTIVATION TO DOODLE

I'm also really into Dandys world? (LIKE I HAVENT TALKED ABOUT THIS ENOUGH) and besides from my dhmis designs n such I'm also redesigning all of the toons. (Cough cough rn working on Vee) GAME-WISE IVE ALSO JUST SAVED UP ENOUGH ICHOR (Ichor is the in-game currency) TO GET ASTRO WHICH IM INSANELY HAPPY ABOUT (me and a friend play literally every night AND WE HAVE THE LONG AWAITED PEBBLE AND ASTRO COMBO...) and after I get Shelly me and them are gonna get Razzle&Dazzle mastery together <3 (r&d has a very weird play style so I keep joking about getting their mastery) IM TRYING NOT TO MAKE THIS CONFUSING SO YOU UNDERSTAND? THERES ALSO A COMICON WE R GOING TO IN LIKE A MONTH AND IM WORKING ON MAKING AN ASTRO COSPLAY!!! EXPLODES IMMEDIATELY

Ohh… also music…. There are a few PARTICULAR songs I’ve had on loop for a while (nervous sweating…) I had actually kind of based my Ellie in the real drawing on the cover art for Good Enough by Kittensneeze… but mostly on Beautiful Princess Disorder? Bpd gives me some really cool imagery (js like $oulbomb) neons in particular I feel are literally the exact vibe of that song (although for calmer music it would either be grays or muted colors I love color language) the Distortionist has also been on repeat and IT.REMINDS ME OF AARON AND LUCID GET THEM OUT OF MY HEADNDUCNJDANSJS (OFF TOPIC BUT FLOWERS BY SACRISTUFF? GO LISTEN TO IT I BEG) THEY MAKE ME SO ILLLLLLL……. I HAVE A LUCID PLAYLIST IN THE MAKING HELLO IVE BEEN ADDING MUSIC TO IT FOR MONTHS NOW I JS NEED TO MAKE A COVER. WKMDJENDIAMAKAMDNEH

[vivid-dreamscapes]

Can we get Denki with a reader who's quirk allows them to go into paintings they make or they can give drawings "life" and use them in battle? I was thinking their quirk allows them to create paint but a downside is that they start to turn into paint when overworked/under pressure. If you want a little plot to go off of maybe the reader takes him into a painting while he fried his brain to take care of him.

(Really sorry if ur requests aren't open or if you don't take them and I didn't realize 😔)

No problem, I’d love to do your request! I have writers block more often than not, so requests are super appreciated! Especially giving me plot, that’s SO helpful 🙏😖

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Another day, another long, extremely painful study session in the dorm common rooms. As far as you knew, everyone was in their own rooms or out toning right now. Not you.

The UA festival had been a few days ago, and you had spent so much time practicing for 1-A’s act, you had totally left behind your homework.

So now you were studying on the couch’s, pink eraser lightly wedged between your teeth as you stared at the paper.

“Stupid English…” You muttered, bringing your pencil down to the paper again. You loved Present Mic, but he taught the absolute WORST class.

Right around then however, you heard your boyfriend stumbling over to you on the couches. All you did was turn around, and it was obvious he was short-circuiting again. With a sigh, you put down your homework sheets and walked over.

“Hey hon.” You said lightly, taking his hands in yours, a difficult task when they were stubbornly stuck in thumbs-ups. “Let’s get you somewhere more relaxing.”

You took the blonde up the elevator, through the halls, and into your dorm room. Anyone who walked into it for the first time would think it was an art studio.

The walls were absolutely scattered with painted canvases, mostly landscapes. Some of the paintings were even of training rooms, for times you were bored, needed the training, or couldn’t sleep. Where there weren’t paintings, there were shelves lining the walls. They were filled to the brim with paint, brushes of all kinds, paint trey pallets, etc.

In one corner was a canvas half-painted, and on it was what looked like an unfinished woodland cabin, with a deer in the background.

However, you carefully walked him over to a different painting. It was a small meadow, daises and other flowers littering the grassy fields. A nice checkered picnic blanket sat next to a bubbling creek, small rocks busting out from the water. A small basket of you and Denki’s favorite foods sat on the corner of the picnic blanket.

After a little bit of readjusting you hold on the blonde, before pressing your fingers against the dried paint on the canvas. Taking a deep breath, you activated your quirk.

Soon, the paint from the actual art piece melted under your touch, slowly turning into glob of color. After a moment, the wet paint of mixed colors started to almost crawl onto you, extending itself to cover you and Denki. Once it had completely covered your body, it pulled you in to the actually painting, leaving you with a ugh tingly feeling.

You sighed and made your way over to the picnic table, coaxing the brain-fried blonde to sit on the picnic basket too. Once he did, you got to work.

Sitting behind him, you combed your fingers through his hair, going on about your day, talking about topics you geeked out about, more hero training stuff. Something you had learned early on was he found your voice relaxing, and grounding.

When he finally managed to slip back into his more conscious state, the two of you talked and laughed for hours. The food in the picnic basket was gone pretty fast, one of the butterflies from the painting landing gently on the wicker handle.

Said butterfly was shortly scared away as you and your boyfriend rolled down the grassy hill—the blonde’s idea—slowing down at the bottom and stopping in a fit of giggles.

After what felt like hours of playing, laughing, talking, and kissing, the two of you hopped out of the painting into your dark room.

Whoops. It was way past curfew. Guess Denki was sleeping in here tonight.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sorry that took me so long to write! I’ve been super busy, so I haven’t had the chance to write a lot. I hope you liked it!

[hnyibee]

TRULY you can count the active ones amongst us on your hands 😔 we were always a small village and it was dwindled since 💔 a dying breed you could say... But I really get you Tai Sui has a way of just grabbing you by the neck out of nowhere 😭 I finished it 3 years ago and STILL it is my undisputed favourite novel that thing rewired my brain I will never be the same person as I was prior to reading it...such a gem of a novel wahaha I'm thrilled to see people slowly tickling back into it!! My friend and I cannot go a week without mentioning it or borderline inducing hysteria in each other about it at least once 💀💀 a well timed reread might save me (it really won't)

And regarding your ps!! Omg hi again??!! I'm incredibly flattered wahaha, thank you for finding me in my little corner here too!! I haven't drawn TS in so long mostly because I also took a bigggg break from danmei or c-novel art in general for a while but. I've been slowly crawling back with both Liu Yao and hopefully, soon enough Tai Sui. I need to redraw some of my old pieces. BUT YES THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR FINDING ME AGAIN that's so 😭🫶💗💗💗

A dying breed 😭 I’m glad you have a friend who matches your tai sui freak 🙏 wish I could yap about the book to irls because man I have Thoughts and my mind works faster than I can type but I think it’s a little too niche and dense to recommend to them. so for me my hysteria is induced by looking at fanart and thinking of the 273858493 art ideas i have that will never get acted on and connecting all kinds of song lyrics to the cast/events. also i too am being plagued by the “to reread or not to reread” voices (this is a cry for help)

seriously though this book is so???? I don’t even know how to put how i feel about it into words because there’s sm that happens and the thoughts are all fragmented,,, I remember finishing the book while chilling at the library and being like Huh. this isn’t as sad as i thought. i’m feeling pretty ok actually. only to get crushed with the crippling weight of Literally Everything like an hour later and start tearing up while thinking about and analyzing the events of the book in my head, chest heavy n everything in public 😭 idk how priest does it. the thing is, all the situations xi ping finds himself in are so surreal, but there’s also this weird realness (for lack of better word) that accompanies it. the mundanity of grief (!!) and the cycle of living, dying, and acknowledging that despite the fact you will be forgotten one day, you still existed and were once a real tangible person who mattered, are the ones that stick out the most to me personally/occupy my mind most often. Then you add on all the class struggles and environmental issues that parallel the real world as well as the classic philosophical questions priest puts in her works and realize that maybe this world is more grounded than you initially thought. She really knows how to take gritty topics and dismantle them to their core, bridging the gap between fiction and reality in a way that satisfies me immensely

i also drifted away from danmei stuff for a while so you’re not alone on that front lol. I’m sure whatever new stuff you end up (re)drawing no matter the fandom will look amazing 🫶🏾 also dude the way our interests match up is too good to be true, like i think I remember first seeing your art through 6yao (my favourite danmei of all time) only to find out you also liked tai sui, link click, apothecary diaries, and hsr 😭 you may as well just be my doppelgänger

[ssruis]

Long list of prsk related things I’m working on that may or may not get finished idk I never finish anything and I love abandoning my works

Art:

> several meme redraws (‘I’m not a hater’ ‘I am’, ‘y’know. Nya.’, ‘ok fine I am a homosexual’, ‘we look like a couple’ ‘a couple of bestieees’, heart/thumbs up, ‘sorry *sleeps* sorry *sleeps more* sorry *sleeps more*’)

> redraw of the emunene hug thing

> actually finishing that ruikasa drawing

> niccori rap ending pose ruikasa w live nene reaction

> ruikasa w Barbie movie outfits that im only doing because that one fixer/barbie girl mashup is so inspiring. To me.

> nene looking at ruikasa: tsukasa is so dense idk how he can’t see that rui likes him if someone acted like that around me I’d definitely notice (while emu is clinging to her)

emu having flashbacks of her being even more obvious and nene not noticing: …uh huh! You’re so smart nenechan!

> emu hugging each member of wxs & grading their hugs (every1 gets an A plus)

> tsukasa & rui with the demon core

> wxs fantasy au drawing

> emu emu beam

> at some point I’d like to draw at least a bust for all the characters but. So much effort and so little skill.

> go for it kusanagi (emunene)

> there are several outfits I want to put wxs in but that requires me to study clothing because I am so bad at drawing that

Writing:

> early wxs days emunene focus nene & tsukasa fic where nene is having a category 5 wet cat moment over what to get emu for Valentine’s Day and tsukasa sees this & is like “I’ll teach you how to make chocolates :)” & they bond. because I love rotating the early nene&tsukasa dynamic in my head. actually started this forever ago & still kinda like it so it may get finished. (Shocking)

> tsukasa has glasses ruikasa fic (also started it a while ago but whether or not I’ll finish it depends on nailing down the characterization better)

> soul eater ruikasa fic w background emunene (mostly written but inside of my head which means it’s barely written)

> emu focus wxs fantasy au (partially written in my head but it’s like 30 different fics & id like to know that i can finish something before attempting to wrangle it)

> cpdb/space opera au (would be. Such a long one shot. Again partially written but I want to know I can finish things)

> HMC/several other inspirations ruikasa w background emunene fic (only has barebones framing)

> what I’m choosing to affectionately call “tsukasa & having a weird relationship to romance” fic that’s 1/4 extrapolating from canon & 3/4 projection

> emunene fic where they’re the romantic leads in a musical due to ruikasa meddling

> that one future ruikasa rui&asahi go on a date and rui is forced to confront things abt himself fic that exists in my head (framed out but i started writing the emu&tsukasa companion piece and it became 2000 words which made me realize the entire endeavor would get out of hand and idk if im that motivated to do that. Also was like the first thing i wrote both pjsk wise and fic wise and idk if i still like it that much. Sad bc there was a nene&rui scene i really enjoyed)

> emunene fic w emu & nene eating lunch with rui (started but needs. So much more work.)

> ruikasa fic where an wants to eat lunch w nene but she’s already going to go eat with rui bc tsukasa is sick and an is like i still feel some responsibility to the disciplinary committee and tsukasa being gone means rui is probably up to some truly crazy shit so she tags along and is forced to witness rui acting like tsukasa went off to war. Rui isn’t even up to anything he’s like ‘there’s no point if tsukasa isn’t here 😔’. Requires me to read more vbs stuff to get a good grasp on a though.

> emu + rui or emu + tsukasa fic that’s just deus ex emu towards their feelings. And then whoever she’s talking to forces her to talk abt her own feelings (like wrangling a cat)

> nene fic abt her feeling like she can’t properly convey how much emu means to her & then at the end emu’s like but you do in ur own way

Analysis/long ass posts

> emu + agency/being treated like a child and her relationship to her brothers

> emu and her dream being both motivation and a burden (for this and the above one it’ll probably be easier to wait for ohe on eng)

> tsukasa and his maturity/big brother complex

> emu + tsukasa adhd moments

> a good sekai can’t be made alone (WxS sekai + how emu/nene/rui have some degree of influence albeit minimal) (quotes are all pulled and transcribed im just being lazy abt writing it) (idk i also might decide to add another 2000 words of quotes if i go find the specific things im referencing wrt WLE… Might just do that for emu though because i feel like that goes more unrecognized and nene is more cut and dry/i already talked abt rui and his hang ups I don’t wanna do it again)

> nene wet cat/she’s actually so fucking weird moments

> at some point I want to talk abt the saki+tsukasa mental illness but this would require me to become a saki scholar and that would take so much time. I mean I’ll do it but I’m also lazy.

> nene + rui relationship decay lore crumbs and them not being able to really help each other/encouraging each other to stagnate (at least in the early wxs days)

> emunene momence….

> really long character voice guide for myself that will be very labor intensive. Nobody wants or asked for this I’m just neurotic.

[steeklover]

You guys sleep on their friendship too much 😔

Time-laspe (I tried to download the video and attach it to this post but I think it was too big and my computer is tired because it won't download. That is the link, you can watch it if you'd like too, I know I like to watch art time-laspes. It is around fifteen minutes though, I didn't know how to make it any faster so there's your warning)

(Okay so I'm just now realizing that the part of the video where I used actually colors got cut off 😐And I can't even fix it because I've already deleted the clip off my computer and emptied my recycle bin. I'm so upset now, I'm sorry 😭😭I'm not a tech savy person at all)

You don't have to read this if you don't want to, it's more of an artist's note to myself. If you want to know more of my thought process while doing this then you can read it though.

First, I just want to give credit to the base I used!

Second, I used Krita to draw and Canva to put the video together. I've never really used another drawing app/software thing before (I've used Procreate a few times on my sister's IPad but it's not like I'm going to draw anything South Park on there) so I don't really have anything to compare it too. It's free though so... how much better can you get. The only thing I don't like about it so far is that the fill tool kind of sucks but it's not too bad, you just have to go over the edges to get a solid color (at least from my experience). And I've been using Canva for a while now, I've put together a few videos before but not in a while so I was a little rusty. The only thing I don't like about that is that I have to pay for an upgrade if I want to download a long video.

I started trying to draw seriously in April and now it's July so it's been like two months (?). I haven't posted anything since May I think but I've still been drawing a lot, I just haven't finished anything worth posting up until today.

I started out drawing this thinking it was going to be bad. Then about halfway through I thought it might actually turn out alright. Then I finished it and I kind of hate it. I think it would be much better if I practiced shading and textures but I'm too lazy for that, at least for now.

I hardly know anything about art, whether it be digital or traditional. I don't know anatomy, color theory, perspective, none of it. You can see on the time-lapse that I basically traced the base I used, did the faces and clothes and then colored it and that took me ALL DAY! Granted I had breaks like when I made my lunch and ran over to my grandma's house but other than that, I've been working on this piece (along with Stan but I did most of Stan yesterday, I just colored him this morning).

I have mad respect for every single artist out there because this is so hard... but for some reason I want to keep doing it. I know it's going to be super satisfying to look back on my art work from two years ago and see how much I've improved (hopefully I've improved, please tell me I'll improved)

As you can probably tell, I didn't get everything in the time-laspe. Recording the process was so hard, I tried to do it with Stan yesterday but I barely knew what I was doing and I kept getting called by my mom to do stuff so I had to keep pausing and un-pausing so I gave up and tried again today. I think my computer is worn out by working all day because not only have I been drawing on it all day but I have also been editing the video all day. I really like when artists post time-laspes though because it gives me an idea of their process and it's really nice to watch.

But anyway, I ended up giving Jason eyeliner because one) he's metro, two) I headcanon him wearing eyeliner (same thing with Tweek) and three) he needed a little something MORE to him, if that makes sense. I orginally wasn't going to give him eyeliner because I was afraid he would look too much like Tweek but once the picture was done, I decided they wouldn't look too similar. I also gave Tweek and Jason both freckles because for Jason, it's canon and for Tweek, it's my headcanon for him. You probably can't tell that Tweek has freckles because I made them really faint (on purpose) and I like to think he'd only have a few on his cheeks and nose. I gave Jason a lot though because I'm pretty sure that's how it is in the show. Lastly I forgot to color Jason's shirt in so that's everything that's not on the video.

I think the hardest thing for me was the eyes and the clothes. I have a love-hate relationship drawing eyes. I love looking at how different people draw their eyes but when it comes to drawing my own eyes... yikes 😬Also I think it's the facial proportions that might make this seem off, I think I have a bad habit of making the eyes too big but that's what I've been doing ever since I was a little kid so now if I make the eyes small, it just looks off. And again, I didn't do anything shading so it probably makes the picture look flat. Plus I have no idea what I'm doing.

I also usually have a hard time drawing hair but today I had a pretty easy time doing it. I was really surprised. Also another headcanon of mine for Tweek is that he has platinum blonde hair. I love platinum blonde hair and just blonde hair in general and his hair is SO YELLOW, I feel like if he was older than he'd dye it. Also they are both teens in this picture.

Tweek looks really pasty here, I tried to give him pale skin but I didn't mean for it to be THAT pale.

I think that's all I have to say. If you read this and have any tips for me, I'd love to hear them. I'd love to redraw this in a few months or maybe in a year if I decide to keep drawing, I know there's defiently room for improvement.

Despite all the complaining I just did, I don't HATE this picture per say. I really like my art style, it's simple but cute (imo of course). I feel like if I learned more about shading and learn how to draw faces and clothes better than I'd do a lot better. I think Stan was a lot cuter but this is cute too.

Lastly, ignore the two random dots if you find them, I'm too tired to fix this.

Anyway, if you read all of this, I really appreciate you! Have a great day/night! ❤️❤️

[deus-ex-calibur]

OH MY GOD I'M SO SORRY IF I SCARED YOU genuinely i didn't like hunt you down!!! i just remembered seeing your tumblr a while ago and kind of just recently put the pieces together while skimming the CB tag! i'm so sorry if i came off weird i didn't mean to 😭😭😭

that's very fair though! for whatever it's worth there's always gonna be someone out there who enjoys your work, and if it makes you happy that's what's important -- but i also totally get realizing you're not huge on your older writing and needing to scrap it! plus aleph is obviously important to you (ofc, that's your husband) so characterizing him right to you is probably just as important haha. you didn't disappoint me at all, i'm a lil sad but i like your writing in general so whatever you're comfortable with is what i'll like seeing at the end of the day ^_^! i hope you feel better about your writing eventually though, i soo get that :[

(and sorry again if i came off weird, i probably should've opened with "i connected the dots after like 5 months of lurking between tumblr and ao3" 😭 my apologies!!!)

it’s ok you weren’t weird or anything I was just wondering lol. Also, no one has been rude to me thankfully (though I still check my ao3 inbox frequently if anyone HAS said something rude to me)

Everything I write is for my own enjoyment, either so I can flesh out the elaborate scenarios/AUs for CB I have stored in my brain and have them put out somewhere, or so Al and I can interact and be affectionate with one another (everything in the public fics is a Canon Event to our relationship and I treat it like it actually happened).

And yeah, I kinda have a lot of imposter syndrome going on regarding whether I know my own husband well or not, I get really worried over whether I write him saying or doing something that doesn’t *exactly* fit Al’s personality.

As an example, I was stressing over whether Al compounds words (eg “gonna” instead of “going to”) or uses idioms and metaphorical language. I thought it would go against his well-mannered personality. My worries were relieved when I saw pics of him saying both (“BUT WE’RE NOT GONNA MESS WITH YOUR REALITIES!” and “YOU HUMANS CREATED US, AND NOW YOU WANT TO KILL US? MAKE UP YOUR MINDS!”) I also worry about incorporating Al’s cane. I’m in love with his cane but I never write or draw him with it and I feel bad about it. I always just forget.

im really glad you like my writing though! I do worry it comes off as beige prose, or using too much adverbs, or just being too cheesy/corny, etc. which is why I haven’t felt confident about what I write or my ideas. I can’t even read my old fics anymore, nonetheless the one I tried to write around 2 weeks ago. it makes me happy if even 1 person likes my writing.

I went through something very similar with my art too but then I was proud of the 2nd anniversary piece after spending ~8 hours on it (haven’t drawn anything digital since though). I’ve been keeping all my ideas in my head and what Al and I have been doing recently because of it. I’ve also been rather stressed and busy lately and haven’t had time to do any hobby stuff. Hopefully I can cook soon with an idea though, but I’ve been really anxious about going on and posting on ao3 recently :(

Yeah I know I’m a massive overthinker, it’s a habit I can’t break out of 😔

[tryingtolearnartsob]

SIGHHHHHH today was certainly a day I guess. like it started off great…? I got sudden surge of wanting to improve and it was alright. liked the few figure stuff I did in the beginning…

—it started off STROVG!!! like look my first page of figures and the legs.,,. way better than I usually draw it. cuz I was paying special attention to them and was proud of it.,,

—I lol also did try to lmaooo do rib cage studies but gave up after a bit and the bit of the guy torso in the page was me following YouTube video. thee one I said that I found and was excited to follow in the future since it’s what I was looking for and welllll. I think I jumped the gun there. I do like the way they drew ribcage and the way their method of drawing felt like it was 3D but idk how to explain it when I followed it but like…? yeah idk how to explain but I do think I got something from it I guess.

—I also tried hands too but yeahhh my god hands r just too much. 😔 I need to practice them…….

—-and ehhhh the second page idk what happened but it felt like it wasn’t going well again but I did like the lil character interaction figures I did though so after a bit just gave up on that.

—-juv time!!!!!!!!! I wanted to draw her and so I did and that doodles of her face really and I do like how some of these turned out and I was just also seeing diff brushes and stuff…

—AND SO I WENT TO DRAW HER…. picked a ref that I thought would be perfect pose for her and that’s when things started to fall apart…. 😐

—I didn’t like it at all 😭😭😭like I just didn’t now what it was??? yeah I knew the pose was iffy but I think it had to do with her face or whatever and well as you can see I went back later to redraw it and lol I think I butchered the pose a bit again but anyways I think I got the face a little better? Since I kind of like it better but ehhhh still wasn’t satisfied also. I wasn’t sure as to what outfit to put her in either but just remembered this one cover where she wore that kind of outfit or similar from what I remember and just put her in that….

-anyways it did really bother me how i just couldn’t get her right so i did some more practices focusing on that… i was cooking something at the time and so ahaha i didn’t want to bring my iPad down and lol as you can see on the paper there’s stains of oil fjjfjfjfk. and honestly?! I don’t think im satisfied with this session at all… I mean some of them turned out great but ahhhh so annoyed I can’t reproduce it. i also tried changing her nose a bit here n there and mmmmh don’t know if I like it.

—well after that I just wanted to draw her to see if I got it and just to draw. and welllll. I certainly need to work on sittibg poses cuz wtf this was hard also ahaha I wanted to adjust the pose of ref so she’s leaning on her hand and lollll that was hard like I had a feeling of knowing what I was doing wrong but it was somehow hard to get it down?! I even in the end just took a pic of myself in the pose and tried to doodle it in but ahhhh still haven’t got the pose right but at least I think…? I got the gist of it. one big issue was I think the way her legs was that way that’s why it didn’t feel like she was leaning on her hand…. and I do kinda like how the top initial one turned out even if her pose doesn’t make sense. also man I really shouldn’t use this pencil for sketching in the lines… of pose… yeah I realised that a part of why I didn’t feel like I wasn’t getting her right is cuz I wasn’t using this brush. idk what it is but the roughness of it just seems perfect for her but problem is I can’t use it while doing poses since I have tendency to just scribble or to work over my lines and it’s a bad habit that I don’t like since it makes things harder, I feel like but also cba to go to the other brush… since I was just already using this one lol

—freaking heck…. This one…. alright man the pose the one that freaking drained me of everything ahahahah….. alright…. so I wanted to draw more and found this ref that I changed a bit… and my GOD was the hands so freaking hard to get. just look at my struggle below 💀

—honestly it’s a miracle that i managed that turned out actually good…?! im so surprised tbh that the end result wasn’t so bad… but also lololol i think i did have general idea for what the pose was meant to convey but lmao I didn’t do it in a way at all that conveyed it properly and it just doesn’t make sense now lololol. and man I do feel like not using that pencil brush here would have helped a lot more. also im proud of myself too, the way that yeah it was a struggle and annoying but it… didn’t feel so frustrating to point of quitting? more like wow after this I don’t want to do art for another 100 years. im. TIRED

—i mean yeah also I was sooo disspirited. like I thought I was lil better at this ahhhh. I feel like also I was getting lazy at drawing out structure for pelvis which is dangerous habit to fall on since it’s helps to reinforce what’s that and how the legs and whatever work… I think that’s what happened with my arms like I had general idea of what happens with arms/shoulders but because I just drew it out like whatever. yeahhhh things started to fall apart since I didn’t reinforce shit.

—and well yeah. after that I did draw in another juv but ahahah I was so exhausted by this point I just didn’t want to finish it or whatever and gave up on it lololol. exhausted!!!!

—I didn’t think that I would be doing any more art but I should know myself by now and yeah I did some general figure studies. but wow my heart wasn’t in it. also man…… the arms…… 😔😔😔

[moonlightandromache]

I get that. I was kind of like "it won't be good, bit it WILL be babs" and that was almost enough for me. I tried. I just didn't succeed.

I am an hour away from finishing the Graceling audio book and I just? Cannot get myself to listen to it. I had to renew it just for AN HOUR. That's my biggest issue with audio books. But everyone's different. I understand you liking them for long drives.

I liked seeing Dinah have a mom lmao. That was literally my favorite part I don't even remember what else happened.

That's fine I haven't continued bombshells. We're in this together 💔 I'm glad you're enjoying the others though!! I forgot actually that I was going to look into buying my brother a zatanna comic for Christmas. So thank you for accidentally reminding me.

I went to them a lot when I was little because all of my big siblings were super into them but then I stopped for a while and only wanted to go this year for art I didn't buy. They ARE fun but also yeah I spent like a solid 4 hours too overwhelmed and just not wanting to be there.

And I DID draw her. I hate it, because I'm not good at what I do. But the cosplayer did lead to me drawing a Dinah and posting her on my silly little art account.

The delay is fine dw. We're equally bad at being timely it seems.

I will just add a quick note though: I was scrolling through Amazon and saw leverage and I ALMOST watched it because of you. (until I remembered that I am a disaster and cannot sit through a single episode of anything and it was a lost cause)

i would like to apologize because it has been basically 2 weeks since i received this ask. i apologize. i have been busy and tired 😔

oh yeah i def have a harder time remembering to read audiobooks when i’m just chilling at home. it’s like. yeah i could put my headphones on and listen while i do chore stuff but that requires me to motivate myself to do said chore stuff 😭 sometimes i’ll listen to audiobooks when i’m alone at work (sometimes it’s a little hard when dogs are barking) or when i go on a walk with my dog and that’s been helping me with reading outside of just long car rides.

i think i started the annual of injustice2 before i went on my unintentional comic break (had a friends wedding and just Life happening) but i need to actually commit to continuing my read. for a little bit before my break i had started on some of the old dc/marvel amalgam comic specials because i think the concept of mashing characters together, especially from different comic universes, is really fun.

oh!! so i was away at the beach for my friends wedding (wild that i am old enough that the friends my age are getting married.) but while we were there my family went to a flea market and i found some of the old guard tales through time comics for 2$ each and i bought three of them. i haven’t cracked any of them open or even taken them out of their plastic sleeves yet but i’m proud of myself for getting them bc they are used (though in pretty good condition) i’m not a fan of the traditional tog comic art but, at least for the one joenicky one, the art is a lot more my speed. and i got the andy and nile cover ones too because. women.

i think i would like to go to a comic con eventually. at some point. a smaller con though probably.

if you ever feel like sharing i would love to see ur art/art account!!

omg i love that you associate me w leverage. i do LOVE that show and heavily recommend it to anyone seeking out a new show but i completely understand you not seeking out a show rn! (if u ever do feel like checking it out i would love to hear ur thoughts but no pressure)

hope you have been doing well in these past two weeks and i promise i will try to not unintentionally ghost you again for two weeks i really kept meaning to reply to this ask but also kept forgetting 😔

[septimus-heap]

Okay okay so I WAS gonna put this in the tags but I ran out of space bc these are all SO good and I want to talk abt all of them but tag limit is 30 😔😔 so I'm putting them in text ANYWAY

This one is so fun bc I can imagine septimus like,, trying so hard to make food and it just Does Not work,,,, I feel like marcia's way of cooking is following a recipe but it's a recipe only she knows and has never written down,, and she's been making stuff so long she doesn't rlly need to Measure but septimus Does and it's not going well for either of them andjfnfjfnjtt,,,, how can he not make unburned toast do they not have toasters 😔😔😔

EXCUSE ME WHILE I CRY THIS IS SO SWEET ABSJDNDJFBRJDN,,, they are Family your honour,,, him just giving her a handful of slightly muddy flowers is such a funny image tho like Sir,,,

Marcia being at Heap Events is a hc I have too!!! I feel like all seps siblings would take it as an excuse to mess with her abdjdbdufb,, just swapping names so she's like "...simon?" "no that's Simon, I'm Sam" (it was simon) until she's given up trying :')

THIS IS SO FUNNY OF COURSE HE DOES,, does marcia ever stop Reacting or does septimus just. Stop,, I feel like if he stops he definitely brings the fangs out every couple months or so. Just so she doesn't let her guard down

Abdjdbdufb,,

Marcia: have you had fizzfroot today?

Septimus, vibrating at the speed of light: no :)

OANDIFBDIENIDNDIFNFN

I'm fine

OANSIDNDIFNIDNFKFNF AAAAAHSHAHAHHHAAHAHA PAIN,,,, PAIN "why didn't you tell me it hurts" PAIN PAIN I'M CRIYNG ANSKSMSJDM :((

ABDJDBDJRN I've talked abt this w ppl on the sh discord and I think this is a universal hc,, this man was Too Young to be eow ngl

😔😔😔😔😔 I mean mood but 😔

Avshdbdjdbd,, poor jenna,, poor septimus,,,, but also marcia bestie there is a whole castle out there could u not have found somewhere more private i thought u were smart

THIS IS SUCH A FUNNY IMAGE I WANT TO DRAW IT SO BADLY

Alther: you were worse :) Marcia: >:O

Maybe the snakes came back to life,,,,,,, how much trouble was he in when she found out abdhdbfufnjfnf,, also marcia swearing is always gonna be hilarious to me even in canon

THEY ARE FAMILY. YOUR HONOUR

Abdidnfjfnfnfnfjt awwwww but also does marcia know how to cut hair bc I feel like this could go badly

This really is what they're like huh,, just. Arguing over their son apprentice

Hi! I am once again sobbing!!!

Let marcia push jillie djinn down the stairs 2k21 😤😤

I love this bc,, she really is like this,,, she needs reading glasses but didnʼt want aunt zelda to know she needed them,, for,,,, some reason,, this woman is so smart and yet so stupid

This is great bc I can imagine septimus coming home after doing Shenanigans that Marcia should by all rights have no idea about but the first thing she says when he walks in the door is "what did you do?" and it's freaky as hell

This is so funny,,,

Random wizard: *stubs their toe*

Random wizard: I can't believe marcia overstrand would do this

Wait no give us the long list of septimus and marcia headcanons,, your brain is so large and everything you say is so incredibly correct

Also my personal favourite marcia hc that I actually drew,, a tiny sketch of one time is that she like,,, glows when she's happy absudbrurb,, not enough to be super noticeable normally but u can see it if ur looking absudndjdnnd

okay i absolutely love that hc!! and here we go septimus + marcia headcanons part 2:

· marcia tries to teach septimus how to cook. she’s rather good at it, when she can be bothered to do it and not cheat by using magyk (it doesn’t taste as good if you use magyk). but poor septimus, he just isn’t very good, which isn’t fair because he does try. the best he can manage is burned toast, but though he lacks an ability to cook, he can make a great cup of coffee. marcia quickly relinquishes the coffee pot over to him (also, the coffee pot is terrified of her).

· septimus has no idea what mother’s day is because they didn’t have mothers or holidays in the young army. his siblings ask him what he’s doing for mum on mother’s day and he has no idea what they are talking about. but, after it’s explained to him and he’s had a good day with his mum, he decides it wouldn’t be right if he didn’t do something for marcia. she's not his mum, but she does mum things. so he pulls flowers from the palace gardens (stems, dirt, and all) and hands them to her with no context. marcia is confused for the rest of the day—until alther says, “I think that boy just gave you your first mother’s day gift.” she thinks about it for weeks.

· the heaps have weekly family dinners since all of them no longer live together. eventually they start involving marcia because septimus wants her there (she’s family too). she pretends to hate every second of it and always tries to find a reason not to go, but she’s there every week and right on time because she’s never late to anything.

· for three weeks after he got those horrible fake teeth for his fourteenth birthday, septimus scares marcia with them whenever he can. it gets her every time. she even shrieks and throws a book at him once, but he just laughs his head off.

· fizz froot is banned from the apartment because it makes septimus go crazy go stupid

· marcia is not great with heights (and even less so after the fall into dungeon number one) but its worse after she thinks septimus has fallen to his death. likewise, septimus was not scared of heights until he thought she fell to her death. neither tell the other but they have nightmares about it for weeks and marcia does not let septimus leave the apartment without the flyte charm. despite never wanting to use it herself, he still tries to convince her to take it, because that’s twice now she could have fallen to her death, and “are you absolutely certain you don’t want to hold onto it? just for today?”

· so uh what happens once can happen again, and when septimus is older (his twenties) marcia takes a bullet for him the way alther did her and nearly dies, and “alther it fucking hurts why didn’t you tell me it hurts.”

· septimus doesn’t think marcia’s job is as stressful as she says it is until she tells him that if its not stressful, he can do her job for the next twenty-four hours. three hours in septimus is begging for her to take her job back. he isn’t ready.

· marcia can handle the aftermath of nightmares and panic attacks but she absolutely cannot handle him being sick. she stays six feet away unless he absolutely needs her

· when marcia and milo first get back together septimus is like, “i support you and whatever this is but can you please not do this in my home” and a week later, jenna kicks his door down because “septimus heap did you fucking give marcia and milo permission to make out in my palace”

· he likes pranking her. it’s a normal, quiet day until marcia’s sudden shriek, and then she appears in front of him with her bathrobe tied tight around her and her hair dripping wet and bubblegum pink because he turned her shampoo into a color charm. she demands he fix it, but he’s laughing too hard to get the spell right and marcia has bubblegum pink hair for a week.

· septimus is insufferable and head over heels in love with his first girlfriend and marcia is so over it and the PDA. alther reminds her that she was the same way at his age. she scoffs because she very much was not, and he thinks about it and decides she’s right, but her triumph is short lived. “you were worse,” he says.

· septimus once hid every pair of purple python shoes she owned and she went berserk trying to find them. “maybe the snakes came back to life and slithered away,” he suggests, knowing full well that each shoe is hidden underneath his bed. “that doesn’t make any fucking sense,” marcia shrieks, hardly visible in the mess of her own making

· he misplaces everything and asks her, every time, if she knows where his things are. every time, she’ll know without having to look. “marcia have you seen—” “the stairs.” “what about—” “the table.” “and—” “your desk, the closet, the shelf.”

· septimus doesn’t let anyone touch his hair after he’s kidnapped rescued from the young army. when he comes back from the past though, his hair is several inches longer, and it was already too long. it takes weeks but finally, marcia convinces him to sit down and at least let her cut it, if he’s unwilling to let anyone else touch it. he’s skeptical at first—he trusts her more than he trusts anyone, but to trust her with scissors? –but ultimately, he lets her cut it.

· he wishes marcia and marcellus would stop arguing over him because it feels like they’re in divorce court and they’re arguing over custody. not that they’re his parents. or that he even knows what divorce court is like

· in the first few months of having marcellus in their time as a young man, when septimus is left alone with him he has horrible panic attacks thinking he’s stuck in the past. his first instinct is always to run to the wizard tower because marcia is always in it and he knows he’s in the right time if marcia is there. there is only one time when he cant find her; instead of marcia, he swings open the purple door only to reveal julius pike’s ghost (who is there in an attempt to warn marcia against marcellus) and he is inconsolable until marcia reappears

· when they shove her sofa (and jillie djinn’s ghost) into the hallway, septimus has to stop her from shoving it down the spiral staircase. “jillie deserves it.” “marcia, she’s dead.”

· marcia is ridiculously clumsy and septimus develops a sixth sense in stopping her from crashing into things or falling flat on her face. she is incredibly nearsighted and does own glasses, but does she wear them? no.

· similarly, marcia just knows when septimus is getting into trouble. she doesn’t even have to be nearby—she can be suffering through tea with sarah in the palace or suffering through paperwork in her office and suddenly her eyes will narrow because septimus is getting into something. she isn’t sure where or what, but he’s getting into something.

· the other wizards like to blame marcia for their problems even when it isn’t her fault and septimus defends her every time