Happy Belated Valentine's day, tumblr! Have some chaotic valentines, inspired by the wonderfully chaotic queer pirates in Running Close to the Wind by Alexandra Rowland, which comes out this June! Check out a sneak peek here.
HUGE shoutout to @starful02 for the wondeful fanart of Avra, Tev, and Julian, as well as for a few of the puns. And shoutout to Danielle, Hobbit, and Sawfish for their help with puns and ideas for the cards, and everyone else who was hyping me up in the Chants and the Wide World Discord. (You can join us here if you're curious about the book!)
Ivy: Alright, I have a math problem for you. There are seven baby birds in a tree when their mother and father come back. How many birds are in the tree now?
Sophitia: *starts crying*
Ivy: Why are you crying?
Sophitia: I’m sorry, I can’t focus on math right now! I’m just so happy the bird family was reunited!
A redraw of Ivy and Sophitia from Soul Calibur, Ivy is looking at the viewer, with a somewhat devious expression. Sophitia's eyes are closed. A sword is brandished vaguely over her shoulder. The image has been redrawn in the style of a PC98 game. My signature is in the top right corner, stating Byrd in all caps.
"Threesome" changes to "trio", which is frankly a better match even besides. But this poses that recurring question of when a word accrues the connotation and meaning in such overwhelming fashion as to see it is to have it stick out enough to change it. Here, it is sometime after 1998.
Deciding not to get cute on "show biz" and decide "madhouse" is one word.
The sky above the coast lights up, but suddenly clouds have drifted in
The rain falls heavily, just like the tears inside me
I don't need things like memories
They only make my heart hurt
No more September Rain
No more September Rain
Alexandra Cabot is the unluckiest girl ever and right now she's stuck in a giant pile of gum. All her so-called friends and her no-good brother are off having fun without her, because they're the worst. Well, not all of them, apparently, because Melody shows up at the window, ready to help.
Created for the Lyrical Titles Album Challenge (2024)