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my piece for grandfest zine! a retro future with 48

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Cupid missed

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Starmaweek Day Four : Gunshot

I've had this idea for months. RIP Cristal since 1978.

Thanks to @ratlexane who helped with the scan.

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Sucrette and Yaslina (My MCs From My Candy Love)

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I drew a comic about Iris's time living as Dahlia at Ivy U for @aawomenzine! The zine is now open for leftover sales, so definitely check it out if you're interested in some #girls. Some extra thoughts below the cut.

This is probably the single most difficult time I've had working on a zine piece, which is really something. I put dozens of hours of work into this, probably around 60, definitely at least 50. I thought I would be saving myself some time by doing a lineart style of comic instead of flat limited palette like I normally do; more work on the front end that serves to simplify the finishing significantly by making it easier to color. This was completely wrong and I ended up really floundering. Well, that's drawing for you. Sometimes you spend what amounts to a week and a half of full time work on something and it looks worse than things you've drawn with a tenth of the effort. That said I had fun playing around with all of my little paper scrap and ribbon photo pngs, and it was great to get to draw a headcanon I've had for a really long time but haven't had the chance to do anything with up until this point.

There was a bunch of additional stuff I wanted to add but couldn't figure out how to cram in here because I have a lot of thoughts on this period of the canon. The snippets interspersed throughout the last couple of pages are bits of senryu poetry, which dahlia was studying while at ivy, but my headcanon is that dahlia was some kind of undeclared humanities major just kind of coasting through general credits, and specializing in senryu is something iris has a real passion for and decided to pusure while she was impersonating dahlia. I think dahlia stuck with it mostly for the sake of not rocking the boat too much and because studying poetry is something she felt she could coast with. i don't see her as caring all that much about her academics, certainly.

i think that dahlia spent this time living it up on a beach in mexico somewhere living off the money she got from fencing the diamond she stole as part of the earlier kidnapping scheme, and once it ran out she crossed back over the border to go see where things stood for 'dahlia hawthorne' legally. i think she was 100% expecting the cops to come for her and send iris to prison in her stead, and was pretty surprised to find her just sort of chumming around with her college friends when she got back. shes gotta do EVERYTHING around here jeez!!!

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The problem with AO3 is that every online store's search function is bullshit by comparison

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Fastest Growing Fandoms on AO3 This Week (06/03/2025)

Every week I pull data on how many fics are in each fandom and compare to the previous week, then calculate the percentage increase to determine fastest growing fandoms.  Since this naturally skews towards smaller fandoms, I have included the same data filtered to Over 1k, 5k, & 10k fics.

Overall:

Over 1,000 Fics:

Over 5,000 Fics:

Over 10,000 Fics:

Source: AO3 Fandom Dashboard

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Starmaweek Day Three : Makeup

he's becoming the joker

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YOSHI MAILMAN! 📬

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Starmaweek Day Two : Tango de l'amour et de la mort

For all of you tango enjoyers.

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Beautiful transition to le Rêve, Dec 28, 2024

Really really loved the way the smoke created "clouds" in the night sky above her. That whole tiny transition was such genius at setting the scene; Stella standing on the ledge, the city behind her; the rest of the party going on in the background in slow-motion... Just beautiful.

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Mandatory self-reblog

Happy pride month from Monopolis

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Starmaweek day 5 : betrayal

I need them in a jar and studied

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Starmaweek Day One : Underground Café

Triple dose of Marie-Jeanne... working hard or hardly working.

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SPLASH LANDING! 🛸

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@starmaweek jour 2 : reverse/swap au !

J'avais eu à l'annonce des prompts une idée que j'ai évidemment oublié de noter, mais finalement j'ai réfléchi à deux persos qui seraient marrant d'échanger, et j'ai pensé à Stella en politicienne - j'ai au départ eu du mal à trouver comment changer zéro, puis l'idée de lui en pin up m'a frappé, et je me suis dit que j'avais mon plan ! Et si c'est Stella qui m'est venue d'abord, je préfère le résultat de zéro, plus percutant, mais j'avais très envie d'avoir les deux pièces qui se complètent.

(en cherchant un nom comme "pppp" pour Stella je ne suis dis "mmm je vais mettre ses initiales" puis j'ai vu ce que ça faisait et : non 💀)

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Starmaweek day 2, j'aime beaucoup celui là :]