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i'm gonna go home and draw

ⓘ Misinformation check: He's not going to draw when he gets home. This user is known for often lying about this.

hey man what the fuck. untrue

ⓘ Misinformation check: This user has not drawn in weeks.

dude come on

ⓘ Misinformation check: He doesn't remember how to.

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I wana hold himn... Gently...

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don't ask jin to follow any rule

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Wee

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Season 5 inspo art

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Francis Forever

He was the best—Kung Lao knew that.

Yet it didn’t matter, he realized, now that Raiden was gone. Not that he was dead, but as far as Kung Lao was concerned, Raiden was gone. He was Earthrealm’s champion and it was his new job to go and do…whatever was needed of him. Fight. Negotiate. Stand there and look pretty (which he was quite good at).

Kung Lao had worked hard to climb to the top, to earn every bit of praise Lord Liu Kang had given him.

Yet he saw no point in it if Raiden wasn’t there to hear it or to see it.

Of course Kung Lao wanted Raiden there so he could see that, yes, Kung Lao truly was the best!

Yet there was another reason, one he tried to deny and not think about because thinking about it was unpleasant. And Kung Lao knew he was too good for that kind of sad, pathetic dwelling.

But he sat there, in the setting sun, wishing Raiden was there to hear the praise with him. To see how much he had improved, and maybe he would finally be worthy of Earthrealm’s champion.

Written to "Francis Forever" by Mitski

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One day these flowers will cover the entire Earth Realm

And Lao will be happy

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“How’s your WIP going?”

"Have you made any progress?”

“How close are you to being done?”

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me: I think this art block is behind me now, I feel like drawing again

hormonal imbalance and self-deprecating thoughts: no you don't

aaaanyway, railao sketchbook doodles! ⚡🌸

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Heartbeats

He wasn’t sure how or when it began, but he was happy that it did.

Raiden laid with his head on Kung Lao’s chest, relaxed by the beat of his heart. They were in Kung Lao’s room of the Wu Shi Academy. Both knew there was no point in being sneaky about it at this point, yet there was still a mischievous desire to at least act like it. To pretend there was something forbidden to what they were up to.

He was beginning to drift off. He closed his eyes and breathed deep. Lao always smelled of green tea and cherry blossoms. Raiden didn’t know how he did it and Lao was quite happy keeping that little mystery alive. Always the sly smile on his face when Raiden asked.

Raiden could feel his own breathing even out as he fell deeper into relaxation. It was a pleasant, summer night.

Written to the Jose Gonzalez version of "Heartbeat"

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EHY I'VE BEEN READING A LOT OF FANFICTIONS LATELY

I know, who would have guess?? Anyway I wanted to send some appreciation all around to some of the fanfics I've read, because writers need some more appreciation in general.

so, in no particular order:

✨Here's a list of fanfics I've read/I'm reading that I think they're pretty good✨

Solid Stone Turns To Clay by @randyzorra - MK fic

A solid Johnshi fic set in a pirate au, I'm absolutely obsessed with it. It's a beautiful slow burn, where Johnny is a disgraced bounty hunter who's trying to regain his fame by stealing The Shadow, legendary cursed ship. Ship that so happens to have a certain someone as her captain. Honestly not only I love the romance, but also the friendship between Johnny and Kung Lao and Johnny and Baraka.

Beware that this fic is tagged as explicit, so check the tags carefully

Back There by houndhead - MK fic

Ehy, have you ever thought that Raiden wasn't there when the others went to Outworld to find Shang Tsung? Yeah what if they never told him what happened back there because of good ol' classic trauma? I'm in love with this concept and houndhead explores it in a very interesting way, showing us how each character would act after experiencing what happened at the lab. I also really love how the characters interact with each other, in the last chapter Tanya and Tomas are just perfect.

Raise The Blade (Make The Change) by cherrycola94 - MK fic

A very fun Johnshi fic that's written a little bit like a script, it has some added scene set before the game, some exploration of the canon through a Johnshi lense, ad finally it continues as a post canon, with a very fun story. While I was reading it I could see in my head the scene perfectly, like it was actually a movie. The second chapter has an AMAZING SCENE, like I was so in love that I have a wip of that scene. I should come back and finish it honestly. The new chapter had exactly the kind of scene I was craving for recently, I'm so happy they wrote it!

But I lowered my sword when you held me and swore (you'd stay, stay, stay) by @necromanticzz - MK fic

It's a johnshi fic with a Kenshi pov, where Kenshi has so many walls up doesn't want any help but Johnny just seems to be able to go through them without any problems. Honestly I also advice the other fic necromanticzz wrote about them, the way Kenshi gets chracterized in both of them is just *chef's kiss* perfect, beautiful, amazing. The two fics are just my favourite in the way Kenshi is written, applause all around, love it.

Koffee Shop Kombat by @loujitsushotsoup - MK fic

Because a classic coffee shop au is always needed. We have multiple ships, different writing styles between chaptes, changing with which character's pov we are following, and I love the creativity that was put in it. You maybe saw this post where I drew one of the scenes in this fic, so YOU KNOW that I mean it when i say that I love this fic. And I'm a big sucker for coffee shops as a setting, really love them in real life as well.

Cole's Chilli Recipe by @before-time-had-a-name - Ninjago fic

Another fic where I drew one of the scenes and it's because it deserves it. It's a lostshipping fic, very sweet, very cozy, honestly Cole and Geo make me incredibly emotional everytime and this fic also straight up picked me up and squashed me. I saw in some of the reblogs on my post that people went to check out the fic and I'm so happy about it because they deserve his work to be checked out. And honestly if I can give her more spotlight I will take the chance. Go check out this fic, it's very cool.

Here Comes Casey Jones by Invader_Sam - TMNT MM fic

Very sweet rasey fic that takes place post movie, with the turtles going to highschool and Raph meeting for the first time Casey Jones. What can I say? I just really love Rasey, and I love they're both clearly crushing on each other but they're not really saying it. And the fact that there's no unecessary teenage angst, they just really like each other, and I love that for them ❤

Think Of It As War Paint by less_depresso_more_espresso - TMNT 2012 fic

Another Rasey one, short and sweet, where both of them honestly are giving so much gender in my humble opinion. It's hard to explaning it without just saying all the fic, so we could say it's about them just chilling on a roof.

A Garden Across Our Collarbone by PittedPeaches - LMK fic

I think everyone and their mom already know this fic, and if you don't it would be my honor to talk to you about it. This for me is THE spicynoodle fic, it was one year of my life and honestly at the end of it I cried. This is a soulmate au, where demons sometimes have soulmates, and when that happen it's like they share skin, so they can write stuff on their body and it will appeared on the skin of their soulmate. It mostly starts like a rewriting of seson 1-2-3 by Red son's pov with this new dynamic, and then it becomes a new original timeline. The way this fic is everything to me, every chapter was an incredible experience, I fell in love with this fic at every chapter. So many beautiful scenes, written so beautifully, as I said this fic was 1 YEAR of my life. It was also a very difficult year, and I'm honestly so happy that this fic was there for that time of my life.

Desde el Principio by ShippingMyWorld - Nicktoons United fic

Okay idk If you saw me reblogging a bunch of Nicktoons fanart like two days ago, but just so you know I'm totally going into the rabbit hole of this fandom and I will be lost for a while. Now, this is a Danny Fenton/Manny Rivera fic, the tag has only two fics and both of them are from this writer.

I wish I had this commitment in my life, to just being THE ONLY one creating a specific content for something and still having the motivation of doing it

I read this fic last night, I finished it at 5 a.m. and I do not regret it at all, this was amazing

I actually recommend reading both fics because they are very good, I'm giving a shout out to this one because I think it's the one that made the biggest impact to me personally. ShippingMyWorld you did it, you converted me, I ship this now.

And that's the list, thank you so much to every fanfic writers that give us such amazing art everyday, you're the backbone of fandom!

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Relationships: Kung Lao/Raiden

Word Count: 878

Summary:

Kung Lao meets with his lord before the start of their dimensional invasion. He is missing pieces of the puzzle. He is aching for another life.

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AKA, some RaiLao reanimation/AU angst that hit me like a truck after seeing some really gorgeous season of the storm renders

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Heart

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He opened his eyes, staring up into the perfectly cut circle, the void in the sky that told Raiden he was dead.

Again. He had lost track of how many times he had looked up into that hole-punch of a star or sun or whatever it was. It just told him that once again, he had tried and he had failed.

Raiden stared at his hands. They were clean to the untrained eye. But to Raiden they were once again stained with the blood of failure.

“You cannot save him,” said the ever gentle voice of Time’s Keeper.

Raiden clenched his hands into fists. “Yes I can,” he said, his heart as defiant as it was gentle.

The pity. Raiden had grown tired of it.

“I will try again,” Raiden said as he always did, getting to his feet.

The sigh. “Very well.”

Raiden blinked. He felt pain in his chest—a hilt stuck out from his chest. He looked up, once again seeing Kung Laos’ horrified face. “Kung Lao—” Raiden choked, blood pouring from his mouth.

“Raiden,” Kung Lao ran t catch him.

Raiden blinked. There was Kung Lao. Then two of him. Then four. Then eight…

An infinite number of them, all rushing to Raiden, to catch him as he was killed, all of them suffering.

"Heart" by Oberhofer

ah fuck I actually like this idea too much pray for it to not rot in WIP status

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time loop where i keep dying to save you but clearly the loop just wants me to accept your death. im not going to but i can tell that's what it wants

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