#old wip whoops

[finaldiscwar]

is this anything to anybody or what

vampire tboy patrick x human tgirl pete… good morning america

[taxikatze]

random george related things (paul too) ⬇️

[pizzazz-party]

WIP.

in the confines of your own shadow.

[bubba-draws]

damn these new followers be causing a ruckus

Some cotl doodles :> was experimenting with a couple of brushes and just decided to goof around, the second one is inspired by this song

[u3pxx]

it's 2/9 here already ... happy made-up klapolly day

(i was originally gonna just post this one then i remembered i had an old wip i could use instead lol)

[inpolariis]

What if Crocodile and Mihawk decide that their Emperor needs a little makeover? 🤡🦅🐊

[buttercupart]

@astrallaina oh my god i forgot about gay people

[so-long-soldier-writes]

hello friends,

i have been completely absent. for like, months. it wasn't something i intended to do, and tbh, i'm not sure how it even happened, but i realized the other day i've rarely posted this year, and that immediately bothered me. this year's been weird, i guess you could call it. i've spent the last six months trying to get in charge of my mental health, and in doing so, i had to fix my physical health, too. i wasn't taking care of myself in 2024 bc my stress levels were so high, and i was just totally snowballing up until about two months ago. my living situation's still unstable, and the family drama's only getting more complicated, so i'm still a bit rocky. i'd get up and move across the country if i could, i stg. i just want all this to be over so i can find some semblance of a happy life, which i know will include continuing to write.

that being said, i'm still writing. i never stopped writing, i just haven't been posting. part of it's lack of motivation to actually title, tag, and post things, but a large part of it is guilt for jumping into another fandom. i will still write for tvd, and i'm aware i have a lot of requests to fill and i'll eventually write them, but i'm just dual-writing, i guess. but i know most of my readers are here for tvd, so i'm trying to get back in the balance of writing for both. (nobody remind me of the 2 yr old unfinished glee fic plz, i don't need three.) to reiterate: i am still writing and hope to get back to regular posting in the near future. (even if i were to stop, tho, i'd never take down this blog nor my ao3.)

lastly, i hope my absence didn't ruin any friendships i have on here. one of my worst traits is shutting myself off when i'm struggling, when that's when i should be reaching out the most. i hope no one thought i was ignoring them or didn't want to be friends anymore, bc i can promise it's more the opposite, and i've missed everyone i used to message frequently. i hope you all are doing well, and i love you, and i'm very, very, sorry for my disappearance. i hope to be back soon. ♥♥♥

[middle-earth-marauder]

Wip time again lol

Working on character references and sketches for my Set in Stone AU, the angsty knuxadow AU I was babbling about in the last post lol

Anyway here have some WIP Mighty! (I have mentioned I’m a Sonighty shipper, right…? Lol)

[gotta-bail-my-quails]

wip

[dizguzting]

Making a psyrap EVENTUALLY.

Psychoraptors belong to @psyrapmafia

[unnonexistence]

fic writer asks number 14!! tell me your inspiration

[fic writer ask meme]

14. where do you get your inspiration?

music!!! music is the biggest & most obvious source. I owe a lot of my newmann headcanons & interpretations to, like, 10-30 pacific rim playlists that i listened to over and over again on 8tracks when I was in uni. they gave me something nice to think about while I was doing the dishes, & I will forever be grateful lol.

I make my own playlists as well, both for longer fic projects & specific characters/specific parts of the movie/et cetera. often i'll have a song that captures the vibe i want for something PERFECTLY, and I like to look at the song and go "okay, how exactly is it doing that?" and use that as a starting point (i.e. steal their storytelling techniques haha).

for The Big WIP, one of the songs I took a lot of inspiration from is Home To Me by Madeline. it has this repeated idea of, like, something romantic happens & the narrator is like "this is lovely, but I know it's not really about me," & I definitely used that. it also inspired a specific detail that's going to be obvious when I eventually post the relevant chapters lol.

another song I took much more abstract inspo from is A Small Fruit Song by Al Stewart. it's got this whole long & complicated instrumental that leads up to two verses expressing a feeling in as straightforward a way as I think it can be expressed, and like... yeah. that is a shape I'm trying to write too. sometimes you have to dance around something for a while before you can say it concretely.

playlists also help me stay on track with the story, because my first drafts often don't quite hit the emotional beats I intended them to. like there's one scene I've been messing with for ages because it's just not quite right, and I realized after listening to an old playlist again that I had the wrong reasoning behind Newt's feelings, & it was throwing everything off. still gotta fix that but I know what the problem is now!

aside from music, reading genres I don't write (mostly mystery & various types of nonfiction) really replenishes the writing well for me. they're hard to pick out as direct influences, but it all goes into the blender & a smoothie comes out, you know? gotta have a variety of ingredients in there.

thanks for asking!!

[jhzhuxx]

"You're special, Ikuya," he murmurs, gently, absentmindedly rubbing my fingertips in his, my heart in my throat. "You're taking on the world alongside Haru and them."

He pauses, seemingly conflicted about how he should continue; whether he should continue.

Slowly, as if waiting to see if I would pull away, retreat, he lifts both of our hands to touch his lips to my fingers, eyes fluttering shut.

My breath stutters, and stops; air becomes unimportant as I stare at where our skin meets, uncomprehending.

"Sometimes," he continues, voice somehow even softer than before, "sometimes, I can't help but wonder if I can do anything for you. If I should even be by your side."

He lets out a quiet laugh; resigned, defeated. (I hated it - he wasn't supposed to sound like that.)

"Because, well – I'm normal, y'know?"

[yomipurge]

two ver differy sora moods

[venusinverted]

I have a long weekend and can actually do art! the brainworms are setting in.

[cosplayamaradolce]

A throwback of sorts and a friendly reminder to always check weather warnings before leaving cosplay projects out on the floor and going to bed. A few years back, I lost my pattern pieces, fabric, and boots for my Danse BOS uniform cosplay to a flash flood that occurred, thus making it a moldy mess by the time my basement was cleaned out. Kinda killed my motivation... The only reminders I have of this lovely endeavor are some straps, unprinted 3D files, and some make-up & wig test pictures that I saved in black and white for some reason, making me look like I was trying to be a smug knock-off of that Giga Chad meme...