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This really does happen! So many times a throw away gets questioned or a part/character in canon I wasn’t even thinking about will be mentioned and I’ll realize they actually fit perfectly- or someone will gush about a certain aspect of the concept that was going to be background or minor but now I want to explore in text more! Or things I was going to leave in the background because I thought about it a lot but assumed nobody would be interested in that end being actually integrated because someone noticed and commented on something related to it!

do fic readers know that their comments actually influence the course of the story sometimes? i don't mean in a "you need to write it this way because i say so 😡" type of comment, i mean when people are asking questions or really engaging with the plot and the themes in the comments they sometimes bring up things that i didn't even think of, or dig into parts of the story that i've overlooked, or get really interested/fixated on something i was going to just kind of glance over--and it has me going 'oh wait that's actually really interesting, that's a good point' and fully adding or tweaking or changing things about the story going forward. i'm literally adding an entire additional chapter to something right now because someone's comment had me like "oh i didn't dig into that as much as i could have." you have impact!

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My first fic for this fandom and it’s a short angsty oneshot based on this stupid image I made but we still winning!!!!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/66327754

Summary:

The Beheaded has finally been sent home but finally is far from the right word. The empty space at his side aches fiercely.

With a view of the stars and his pet nuzzling for “his” hand, he can’t help but get reflective. He remembers a warm and soft moment he had had with Drifter. He <em>grieves</em>.

How, he wonders, does this hand feel compared to his old one when he pets the leghugger?

<strike> but he already knows how soft those pads are, how sharp but careful these claws can be. He knows.</strike>

Aka- I turned my own screenshot from pre-driftcells brain worms hitting the mental towers into a stupid meme. Now I am turning that stupid meme into fucking angst. I hope it kills my writer's block and tears out hearts :)

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Just realized pride month is a great time to post my little “gay people” page of my sketchbook.

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Sharing my sketches of human SheoSmith I did before my iPad started to die. I love them so much and gnaw on my skull whenever I remember how little fanart and fic there is of them.

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Hunter and Huntlow/Winter my beloveds!!!!

I love practicing markers with my feathery son from my “palismen give you hybrid features” au <3 thank you to the two commenters who put the au back in my head enough for this art- sorry it wasn’t enough for me to update it yet.

The au if anyone is interested and willing to be patient with updates:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/57360535

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Hey Owl House Community! I finally just uploaded the first chapter of my Hunter-centric Au where Palismans give their weilders hybrid features and Hunter has to keep his hidden. I would super appreciate it if anyone who sees this would give it a shot :D

Also feel free to ask me questions about the Au, its one of the most planned out fics Ive ever made and idk that I'll get to everything in the fic itself.

Thanks for your time!

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Still getting used to my new markers but guess what game I’ve been playing challenge impossible. I adore these fucking things and the first run I had them on I got a rare one that gave me two and a third one so they are my beasts!!!

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I’ve been cooking an au that I doubt I’ll write but I certainly have been drawing.

I’ve been working on it for weeks now but finally have thought of how I want to start sharing it. For now, I can show the end results of hours and hours of messing with speculative biology and deciding the roles and plot.

The basic idea as far as this post will show is the iterators are bio mechanical creatures combining iterators and orca whales created by an aquatic race of ancients. Local groups act as pods but Suns was separated from his and joined Moon’s. I had tons of versions (mouth placement and where to start or end the whales and how iterator to make them verses how human or how whale) but I think I like where the concept ended up.

A deeper explanation is bellow but know that, beyond the speculative biology I had a lot of fun with, it does involve discussion of real world and in-universe animal cruelty. Specifically Orcas in captivity and how they have been shown to suffer- not for long or in much detail but certainly could be upsetting.

In one of my discussion based environmental science classes, the professor was having us discuss Orcas in captivity because she recently published a paper on it and, as is typical for me, I cope from how completly tragic and upsetting a topic is by relating them to my hyperfixation of the time.

Orcas in captivity are some of the only other animals known to self harm. They also notoriously harm eachother and their trainers. One of the main reasons they suffer so much is because they are so A)smart and B)social. The lack of stimulation and enrichment combined with being locked in a too small space, removed from their natural environments and purpose.

That connected to how I’ve always felt like that reasoning is part of why Pebbles does as mentally horrible as he does. He is a smart supercomputer trapped in a single place, the main consciousness stuck in a single room because the rest of the building is his body so he can’t simply leave it behind. He once had so many processes and tasks, taking care of the ancients and seeking the great solution- created late enough to have certainly been effected by his creators’ impatience. He’s also a rare case of not being fully in charge of himself and is limited on resources due to his location. His existence was also controversial. When the ancients left he was left with too much time and processing power and not enough to do with it. His self isolating habits certainly would not help. Even though they are stationary nobody can convince me iterators don’t couldn’t as social species when they were made to collaborate with each-other and their citizens.

He hurts others (especially moon) and himself because he feels frustrated and trapped. Orcas hurt themselves and others in captivity for similar reasons. Orca health deteriorates horribly in captivity, Pebbles is not physically or mentally healthy for any of the time we see him in canon. Pebbles is practically in captivity, he would do horrible in it. The dehumanization would also hit hard, he would have being treated like a simple animal- and Orcas being treated like simple animals when they are so smart and social is horrible. It just- it just clicked in my brain and now this au is clawing its way out of my head!

Thinking of those parallels lead to wanting to make an Au where Pebbles is an orca in captivity. I went back and forth on if the other iterators would take the place of humans or if they would be Orcas as well (and if they would also be in captivity) and the roles of the slugcat characters a lot. But I decided to have a modern/anthro au for Slugcats and scavengers on the surface and the iterators all remaining in the ocean until Pebbles is captured.

In future art I will go more into detail on the plot and other characters but that’s it for this one. Tho, feel free to send me asks about the AU! Since it’s not planned to be a fic I don’t have to be coy with plot points and don’t have a real way to share details outside of Tumblr :p

Just call it “the rotting in captivity au”, “orca au” or “captivity au”

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I will never never never forgive myself.

SO Critter clearly thought too much about the iterators (shocking) (never happened before) (unbelievable) (insane).

. Suns is such an interesting character to me. Almost every action we have confirmed to have been done by them was them trying to help but making things so much worse.

And I think that everyone else could/did take those intentions into consideration, eventually forgiving them for the role they played in the tragedy of the doomed siblings. I do not think they will ever be able to do the same. The proposed Spearmaster without realizing how intelligent its species is, accidentally dooming it to a similar existence as the benefactors knowingly doomed iterators to have. They did so to send a pearl that would doom two iterators, including their close friend. Then they tried to reach out and made Pebbles retreat even further, complicating anyone’s attempts to reach him or Moon. If their structure stayed standing long enough, or even just if they kept access to an overseer after enough time (which I believe they would be standing still, if still dying and possibly isolated) they would have watched that close friend eventually disappear from the skyline.

I don’t thunk they could ever truly forgive themselves for all of that, even in a universe where iterators leave their cans or time travel or some other fix-it is involved- and especially not in the canon universe where there is no closure or happy ending.

Bit yeah didn’t mean to ramble here but thinking about that is what spawned this drawing :)

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/64406743/chapters/166083769#workskin

Third actual chapter of my Pebbles time-travel fix it is here :)

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Woah posting Ocs for once

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Sometimes thinking about The character is like being video-games poisoned with something that gives you psychic damage every twenty seconds.

The poison is only appeased by consuming or creating content about The Character but watch out

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Five pebble :)

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questions for fic writers

a collection of questions i, as a writer, would love to be asked !!!

1. What fic of yours would you recommend to someone who had never read any of your work? (In other words, what do you think is the best introduction to your fics?)

2. Go to your AO3 “Works” page, to the sidebar with all the filters, and click the drop-down arrow for “Additional Tags.” What are your top 3-5 most used tags? Do you think they accurately represent your writing habits?

3. What are some tropes or details that you think are very characteristic of your fics?

4. What detail in [insert fic] are you really proud of?

5. What do you wish someone would ask you about [insert fic]? Answer it now!

6. What’s one fact about the universe of [insert fic] that you didn’t get a chance to mention in the fic itself?

7. Any worldbuilding you’re particularly proud of?

8. What song would make a great fic (to either write or read)?

9. How do you find new fic to read?

10. How do you decide what to write?

11. Are you partial to a certain character/pairing or are you more equal-opportunity? If you are partial to any character/pairing, why do you think that is?

12. Are there any tropes you used to dislike but have grown on you?

13. Are there any tropes you used to like but don’t anymore?

14. Are there any tropes you would only read if written by a trusted friend or writer?

15. What’s your favorite AU that you’ve written?

16. What’s an AU you would love to read (or have read and loved)?

17. What highly specific AU do you want to read or write even though you might be the only person to appreciate it?

18. If you wrote a sequel to [insert fic], what would it involve?

19. If you wrote a spin-off of [insert fic], what would it involve?

20. If you wrote a prequel to [insert fic], what would it involve?

21. If you wrote a “missing scene” in [insert fic], what would it be?

22. Who is your favorite character in [insert fic] and why?

23. What’s a trope, AU, or concept you’ve never written, but would like to?

24. Are there any easter eggs in [insert fic], and if so, what are they?

25. What other websites or resources do you use most often when you write?

26. Would you rather write a fic that had no dialogue or one that was only dialogue?

27. How long did it take to write [insert fic]? Describe the process.

28. Does anyone read your fics before you post them? If so, who?

29. What songs would be (or are) on a playlist for [insert fic]? Explain your choices if you want!

30. Have you ever written something that was out of your comfort zone? If so, what was it, and how did it affect your approach to writing fic thereafter?

31. What’s your ideal fic length to write?

32. What’s your ideal fic length to read?

33. If you write chaptered fics, what’s your ideal chapter length to write? Is it different from your ideal chapter length to read?

34. What aspects of your writing are inspired by/taken from your real life?

35. What aspects of your writing are completely unlike your real life?

36. Do you visualize what you read/write?

37. Promote one of your own “deep cut” fics (an underrated one, or one that never got as much traction as you think it deserves!). What do you like about it?

38. Did any of your fics get surprisingly popular (whatever that means to you)? Which ones? Why do you think they were so successful?

39. Is any aspect of your writing process inspired by other writers or people? If so, who?

40. Do you tend to reread fics or are you a one-and-done kind of person?

41. Link a fic that made you think, “Wow, I want to write like that.”

42. Have you ever received a comment that particularly stood out to you for whatever reason?

43. If you take/write prompts: what’s your favorite prompt fic that you’ve written?

44. If you take/write prompts: do you prefer dialogue or scenario/narrative prompts?

45. What’s something you’ve improved on since you started writing fic?

46. Do you prefer writing on your phone or on a computer (or something else)? Do you think where you write affects the way you write?

47. If [insert fic] was a pair of shoes, what kind would it be? Describe the shoes.

48. What’s the last fic you read? Do you recommend it?

49. What are you currently working on? Share a few lines if you’re up for it!

50. Answer any question of your choice, or talk about anything you want to talk about!

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Wasn’t sure what to draw so I randomized a color pallet and found an old sketch but I really like how it turned out. Blood over braids Narinder, my beloved

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/62254389

Five Pebbles spent an incomprehensible amount of cycles alone with the rot inside of his body. The feeling of being eaten alive was his company for a long long time and even when he was granted the ability to free himself from his Can and reunite with those he cared about, the journey was full of its own pains.

His body, or at least what's left of it, has finally been allowed to heal. He should be relieved-

Instead, he feels untethered and broken in its absence. He isn't able to think or stop himself until he is discovered with ichor-stained clothing.

aka- A one-chapter fic (that could be expanded if ppl want to see it) that I wrote on a plane ride almost a year ago after thinking too much about how much it would fuck someone up to be in constant and horrible pain for the centuries Pebbles might have been that I reread, realized I still liked, and am now forcing my brain to let me post.

TW/CW for Self-harm, suicidal ideation, pain and body horror- Pebbles is NOT in a remotely healthy place physically or mentally for like this whole thing

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Art month 2025 successfully complete :D