#I've never done fanart for real people... so this is is new for me ^^;

[theatomicmagicalgirl]

Mentally, I'm still existing in Wild Life Episode 7.

Absolutely adored GeminiTay's power of astral projection. I wanted to visualize that ability while also designing appropriately superhero-esc looks to fit her!

[vulchak]

Yes, I find fun in well crafted movies full of heart, passion and timeless loveable characters. HTTYD 2025 has none of those. It's nothing but a soulless, poor imitation of the original, only made to acquire the studio more money. There's not a single thing about this film that is good, or even so bad it's good.

People are allowed to enjoy it. I don't agree with expressing said enjoyment through going to see it in a theater, because you're contributing to a very VERY bad trend in the movie industry of rehashing old stories and relying on nostalgia only for quick and easy profit. But you're still allowed to enjoy them. Same as everyone else is allowed to criticize them, is allowed to hate them.

I've seen several comments like this, several posts. And I think they all stem from one place: desperation. Let me explain: people want more new content of a series that ended in 2019, (2018 with Race to the edge if I have anything to say about it) and seeing more content of said series is enough for them. Desperation has left them with lowered standards and a lot of coping.

"It's just like the original, it's perfect!" You know it's not. You love the original, I'm willing to bet you've seen it 20 times, have it on DVD or otherwise readily available. You know the remake isn't the same. And yet, consciously or subconsciously, you ignore it, because you're desperate for more content.

But I ask, is it really worth it? To sacrifice your own standards and cheer on the plummeting of your favorite series quality, just for something, anything new?

I don't think so. I only watched this train wreck so I could properly talk about it instead of relying on reviews and random clips. And now that that's done. I'll never watch it again. I won't even remember it as anything more than a bad example.

But the original will stay a movie I come back to regularly, and can appreciate every single time I do. Every story beat, every character arc, every moment, every high in the score, hits just as hard as it did when I was only a 10 year old boy. Because it's timeless.

But the remake? Is nothing but an instantly dated, desperate attempt at relevancy, enjoyed by those desperate for anything new, those who haven't learned to enjoy and make the most of what they already have.

I'd much rather look at or make fanart, read a fanfic, theorize and analyze with other fans, rewatch and notice new details I'd missed in the movies and shows, than ever give this insult of a remake the time of day again, and I think you should too.

Hooo boy that got REAL for a sec there, but I needed to get it off my chest, HTTYD means so much to me, and to see its own fans happily praise its butchering has been nothing short of saddening and infuriating.

Don't watch this thing in a theater, please. I'd say unless your curiosity is really strong, don't watch it at all. Time is priceless and shouldn't be wasted on trash.

[ephemerasnape]

I never thought it would come to this, but I feel the need to say something because the fandom is so small.

Some months ago, a new Victor Rookwood enjoyer came to my attention (by way of reaching out to me on X and asking to use a certain picture). She was purportedly a big fan of my works and I eagerly welcomed her into my discord servers and my life.

She was extremely active and supportive, creating and commissioning a lot of art and swag, some of which she gifted me.

She developed quite the attachment to Oswald as well, which was very welcome, and was ultimately a wonderful addition to our quiet little corner of the fandom.

Then, nearly a month ago, she read Devoutly - my most significant story - and absolutely lost the plot.

You read that correctly. My massive library of much more crass and repulsive works was fine, but Devoutly was a problem.

For those unfamiliar, Devoutly is my first attempt at a real story that is not centered around smut, and it is also of great personal significance.

First she accused it of depicting pedophilia (it doesn't, and definitely no more than any of my other works). Later she accused it of being "too serious," then said she dislikes that it involved Anne, a character she hates. It was somehow "worse" that I made Rookwood nuanced. It's hard to know the true reason, since it has changed so many times.

Lots of people won't read Devoutly because of the ship. No one is obligated to read it, not even my friends, and certainly no one is obligated to like it.

And it's okay to be irrationally triggered by a story. It happens. What's not okay is what happened next.

Referencing only "the author," she tore it apart - publicly, first in my own server, and then on X, lobbing accusations of it being "cheap" and that I'd "reduced [Victor Rookwood] to his dick." She didn't just dislike my depiction of Victor Rookwood - she framed it essentially as me being a shitty writer/person.

She even published fanart against my story, which has gained a disappointing amount of traction (unbeknownst to those who have liked and shared it, because they don't understand the context).

It's not to say I've never been upset by a story, but it's one thing to dislike a story, even strongly, but this reaction has been on another level, and has destroyed her friendship with me and probably everyone else in our server.

All this over a story that had existed long before she'd even heard of Victor Rookwood.

She put it perfectly herself:

"It’s like I walked into someone else’s house and flipped the table in a meltdown. That’s rude, and I know it."

And if it had stopped there, in those first few days, things could have been salvaged. I have done my best to try to preserve or repair our relationship, hoping that given a few days she would calm down and be able to resume her regular participation in our server.

All this time, the door has been open to her, should she only decide to behave reasonably.

That obviously has not happened.

This is not a teenage girl we're talking about - this is a 30-something married career woman with children, going on unhinged, passive-aggressive tirades about a fanfiction, at this point for nearly an entire month.

Just today she posted an unhinged conversation with ChatGPT extolling her virtues as a true Victor Rookwood fan, and condemning my "filthy" depictions of him.

When I asked her to get professional help rather than refer to ChatGPT, she blocked me on X, and I've discovered that she has also blocked me on Tumblr within the past few days.

The strangest part is, she continues to obsess over Oswald, who is my OC. While he does exist visually in the game, I named him, gave him a personality and a backstory, and have worked with him for more than a year and a half.

I love when people love Oswald, draw him, et cetera.. But it's not okay when that person seems to hate me and has been repeatedly attacked me.

I have asked this person to cease publishing things involving Oswald until she can treat his creator with respect, but I am not holding my breath that my request will be heeded.

She will probably continue to post about him here and on X, as well as more drawings based heavily on photos I've taken. I just need everyone to know that these actions are no longer sanctioned by me.

I'm too good at writing things very matter-of-factly, but I am actually very upset about this.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

[applbottmjeens]

A VERY IMPORTANT MESSAGE.

Now, I have never been one to sneak diss. I've never been one for internet drama. I hate conflict. I hate bullshit. And I hate the fact this is all coming from a bum ass video game fandom where we all fuck around and write and draw fanart and fanfics. This shit is for FUN. This isn't real life. But the people you're dissing and going after are REAL FUCKING PEOPLE.

I had no beef with none of y'all. I was always telling you all about how I can still be friends. And you come after them for what?

Because you're upset? You want vindication?

You're not ostracized because these people are in some cabal actively working against you. Everyone's minding their goddamn business and trying so hard to enjoy themselves. You're ostracized because of your own patterns and behaviors you refuse to fix in yourself but constantly point out in others. I offered you my friendships and kindness and I know now I'm just the fool who dared to give ANY OF YOU the benefit of the doubt.

I can't believe this. It's fucking fanart. Of ocs. On the internet. It's for fun. PERIOD. Doing this for clout is doing this for the wrong reasons.- we're too grown for any of this shit and you know it.

I can't keep making fucking excuses for you or how you treat others and how you treat me. I've had enough defending you. And I've had enough being kind when my kindness means I get talked down to.

Things like this was part of why making art and shit became so difficult. Because sometimes people forget THIS IS A FANDOM ABOUT A MILSIM VIDEO GAME FRANCHISE AND NOTHING WE FUCKING DO IS THAT DEEP TO WARRANT ANY OF THIS.

me of all people, saying this...but grow the fuck up. Internet clout won't fill the void. If you failed at networking in your space, you find a new fucking space and move on.

None of the people you've hurt deserve the hate given. And I'm disappointed to see how all of this has devolved.

Get help. Both of you. I'm done playing your naive advocate.

[bedoballoons]

Genshin Men react to Their Thirsty fanart?😊

Ooooooo oh my gosh I love this!!! I hope you liked the characters I picked! If you'd like to see others just let me know! <3

─⊰⁠⊹ฺ✿𝔾𝕖𝕟𝕤𝕙𝕚𝕟 ℍ𝕖𝕒𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕟𝕠𝕟𝕤⊰⁠⊹ฺ✿─

{༻~Reacting to their thirsty fanarts~༺}

A/n: Slightly suggestive! A lot of characters this time because I went alittle crazy! (None of the artwork in this is mine! If you look in the reblogs the artists names are there! All credit goes to them and thank you again to that person who sourced them for me!)

(Includes: Diluc, Lyney, Albedo, Wanderer, Kazuha, Childe and Neuvillette!)

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𑁍༄Diluc:

Diluc would clear his throat, inspecting the picture while his cheeks became tinted with a light pink colour, his hand running through his firey red hair as he tried to think of what to say, settling with a safer answer. "Well...this is certainly a very amazing piece of artwork. It does however seem a bit...suggestive...flattering yes, but not very true to life. I've personally never held my claymore in that way or sat in that particular.. position. Still, I thank you respectfully for taking your time to draw me...even if it might have given others a bit to much...inspiration."

𑁍༄Lyney:

Lyney would take one look at the picture, a smirk playing on his lips as his violet eyes clouded over with mischief and flattery, possibly even a tad bit of lust, "Seems I've caught the attention of some incredible artists, their work is truly magnifique! Hmm..., because they've drawn me so beautifully and one of the main things a magician is supposed to do is please his watchers, I'll do a little comparison between the art and myself...so you can all see it for real~" He'd tip his hat before starting to recreate the pose, arching his back slightly and winking in your direction, his finger up against his mouth as he shushed you, his other hand holding the ace of hearts just right so you could see it. Seems he enjoys the attention the fanarts give him, even to the point of hoping everyone will creat more~

𑁍༄Albedo:

(...is he wearing bottoms in this picture? Cause like I'm not gonna lie...I'm not really sure...)

"Goodness..." Albedo would stare at the artwork of himself for a moment, trying to collect his words as even his pale skin turned cherry red. His voice would be shaky because of his flustered state and he'd mess up words whenever he glanced at the picture, but eventually he'd manage to say this,"I don't really know where t-to begin, I mean the art itself is impeccable, v-very stylised...and ehem...the artist clearly...k-knows their anatomy. I-...thank you for drawing me." He'd look away, his heart racing in his chest and his mind plagued with new thoughts like...would he actually look good in that situation...would people want to see it...should he...try it?

𑁍༄Wanderer:

Wanderer would look at the picture, his eyebrows furrowing and his mouth hanging open for a second, "W-what the hell is this?!? Why am I w-wet in it??? Perverts!" He'd clench his hands into fists, putting on quite the show as he tossed the drawing behind him and stomped away like he's just been highly offended...even though deep down, he found it slightly...appealing. To think someone actually had the nerve to draw him so scandalously...perhaps he'd have to find the artists who had done so, just to show them how wrong of a choice they'd made~

𑁍༄Kazuha:

"Oh my..." Kazuha would say, a blush spreading across his face and his calm personality faltering for just a second, before he quickly recomposed himself, scratching the back of his neck nervously as he chose the best words to say, "The art is very beautiful, I must say they've flattered me alot though...I don't truthfully look like that...not nearly as handsome. As for the marks...on the n-neck, I don't currently have any..." He'd probably mean that last sentence as a means to say he wasn't currently in a relationship, but to anyone who had heard it...they took it as a invitation to give him some~

𑁍༄Childe:

Childe would smile happily, leaning back against the wall with his arms crossed and his chest slightly puffed up with pride, "Comrades please, you all make me blush, the art is wonderful and in no small part because I'm in it...,but I assure you the real thing is better. I win, even in regards to myself.." He'd wink at you, leaving you captivated by his charm even though what he had said sounded silly.

𑁍༄Neuvillette:

Neuvillette would look at the art for awhile, his purple hued eyes widening as he scanned it into his memory and rested his chin in his hand, his long white hair drapping over his shoulders as he wondered if someone had caught him changing, since how could they make something so accurate otherwise... "Apologies, but where did you get this again? The drawing itself is indeed very beautiful and well crafted, I believe the artist who made this should be very proud...I'm just curious how they know what I look like shirtless...and who else might know as well."

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ଘ(੭*ˊᵕˋ)੭* ੈ♡‧₊˚I hope you enjoyed*⁠.⁠✧

(Open!) Taglist: @kiokiee

[madam-of-lithuania]

Thank you so much for speaking up about unhonestlymirror! I originaly blocked her because she keeps taging war related things as hetalia but her being a raging zionist and harassing artists was the cherry on top. While I've never had direct interactions with her (besides getting blocked back for defending an artist) this person is quite disturbed and has nothing better to do other than accuse people and call them every name under the sun. And for what? Over drawings! She's clearly unwell and needs help but dragging people she knows nothing about into her misery is not the solution. Anyway ig this was my rant here. You are absolutely free not to post this. I just think it's important people know about this individual to avoid any future harassment.

You're Welcome and especially the more I started to notice and realize her real true colours and what truly horrible person she really is and I just couldn't ignored it and stopped being mutuals and blocked her and her other blogs for safety reasons since is proven that she does attack and harass anonymously too!

Yeah I noticed that too back then when we once were mutuals! and I agree with you about it especially the more I learn about her and what she really truly is and noticing how much harm she has done in our hetalia fandom! And we all know she hates Hetalia and I wonder why is she still in our fandom? it she really hates it that much?

I'm Lithuanian and I do not like Russia for obvious reasons and because of my country's sad and bloody history with those bloody Russians, but I do not attack and I do not accuse everyone being a Russian supporter without any proof, I just don't engage in Hws Russia and Nyo Russia fanarts, edits and fanarts and is just better not to engage with it unlike attack and accuse falsely without any proof!

And is important that everyone especially the new hetalians like me, should know what she really truly is!

[blossomajesty-archive]

What to do what to do

Tldr; before I become consumed by the Monhun brainworms again come Wilds I want to move operations to a proper sideblog because:

1) tumblr never implemented account switching and it’s mad annoying to log in and out

2) I'm not allowed to make my real account an admin of this blog and operate that way bc this is a “main” blog. Lame.

Otherwise, just tossing up the question of if I should delete this blog (bc I dislike having an unused account) or keep it up as some sort of archive, since I know people hate when somewhat popular blogs go deactivated. Original post got long so under the cut it goes;

It's been awhile as you can see, but tbh I haven't been "present" much on social media in general. I closed out my last semester of college (yay) so it's been rough for the better part of the past year as I went through the torture gauntlet that is exams and graduation, and another internship. Anyhow this blog is 5 years old woagh, but I haven't actually posted anything related to the story or characters introduced here in like, 3 years.

For this blog in particular, a decently-sized conundrum is that it's not a true sideblog but a separate account, and since Tunglr never made it easy to switch between accounts, its really annoying to log in and out so much (the rest of my blogs are attached to my main account now). Aside that, i've had enough of Wilds' marketing (i'm already sold and don't need to see more tbh) so I haven't been engaging a ton with monhun news and posts recently. In the meantime I was thinking of just making a MH sideblog of the same name for its original purpose of a place to spill my dumb thoughts/screenshots/ocs/whatever (one that's not so out of reach).

The question is what to do with this one; I tend to keep as few accounts as possible so I have no issue deleting it, but i'm also not normal when it comes to art and sure some would be opposed to this blog vanishing. I could compromise and make this one one of those "-archive" blogs for now if that's the case? (For more clarity I never abandon my fanfic stories/ocs if you're thinking you'll never see Surah and the like again. I tend to rotate between a couple casts of characters as my vidyagame interest shifts, bc making fanart and stories for the same series forever is a fast track to boredom and burnout. That also means No, you still can’t repost the art here or use the characters, those are still mine).

One last thing I guess is that the old "ask-a-monster" blog community/phenomenon actually went extinct a long time ago, this blog was set up the way it is for nostalgia mostly. I was planning on making note of all my unanswered asks here for prompts/inspo, but I don't see myself leaning as heavily into in-character asks ever again (with MH characters and anyone else).. It's been fun for character-writing purposes but as the fate of all the ask-blogs tells, building around it is a lot of work and always tends to fall off after a couple years. Heck, it wasn't even supposed to have so many ask posts in the first place (but don't get me wrong, it was still fun and I learned quite a bit). I’ll probably get around to posting the actual writing I’ve done that fills in some of the story gaps, but elsewhere (or in whatever new side location) as I’d rather put the blog to rest as-is than try to revive/reboot it when I'm not too keen on jumping back and forth.

No idea how many people are actually gonna read all this so I'll add this old Surah wip as compensation

[kyurilin]

2: Do you plan each chapter ahead or write as you go?

26: Which of your fics would you call your wildest ride?

2. Do you plan each chapter ahead or write as you go?

There is a severe lack of planning in my fanfic writing with the exception of the Shabby AU ideas and mostly since I don't write in chapters UNLESS I decide to post it early to gain interest (ie Stray and Love Is Just Like That, Sometimes) I really don't even know where chapters are gonna end. Mic's BS Life is FAMOUS for not having been planned at all with exception for the ending, while Crumbled Rooftops actually has an outline. Stray is MOSTLY unplanned and was a Follow The Vibes type thing with some talking it over with Shabby to nail down plot points I wanted to get down. Ironically the lack of planning is why stray chapter 3 has hardly gone anywhere as of yet but I also like not planning so that I can follow the vibes and figure out if something works naturally or not as opposed to stressing over how something SHOULD be going (crumbled rooftops chapter 5 suffered from this strongly since I knew what I wanted to do but several iterations didn't feel right).

26. Which of your fics would you call your wildest ride?

I gotta say Present Mic's Totally Bullshit Life in EVERY sense of the word wild. It started from Aizawa's POV but I wasn't used to writing him yet and switched it to Mic's. Then that vibed so well that almost 4 years ago TO THE DAY I knocked out every bit of the beginning up until Mic and Aizawa meet up again for the first time in years in the span of a few hours. By January/February of 2021 I had until the AWARDS CEREMONY done (and that's about 48k into the story!). This story was not intended to be posted- I was solely writing it for myself as a fun little thing because I'd fallen really hard into MHA and wanted to write it. Stray and a villain au for an OC from Mic's BS Life were started between the time I started this and when I hit the 48k mark. I wasn't interacting with the fandom at all at this point beyond obsessively reading erasermic fic, so my first real foray into interacting with anyone was to join an erasermic discord. Met @purekesseltrash, told them I loved their Rooftop Necromancy fics, formed a friendship, revealed my still in progress story and Bellsa convinced me I HAD to finish it and post it.

It took me till May to finish it (had to cut a smut scene because I wasn't comfortable posting it as is), figured out how to end it, then knocked out the HAPPIEST ending the week my great aunt iris passed because I needed something to distract me (Aunt iris was one of the most iconic people in my life and I looked up to her very much so writing my silly fanfic was a very welcome distraction). Almost posted the story from a McDonald's drive thru.

Even more wild is that this fic STILL gets comments and kudos. I literally just got a new comment yesterday. So many comments have told me that they stayed up all night reading it. @shabby-blog was commisioned by Bellsa to do fanart for it and now me and shabby are buddies because of that. I've been writing since I was 13 but not until I posted this story did I have a story that was a real 'hit'. And LITERALLY all because after consuming all of Vigilantes and as much erasermic fanfic as I could read and the entire anime and manga at the time in 2021 I looked at Mic and Aizawa's friendship and went "okay but what about the two of them healing from the loss of Oboro together and actually showing how it affected them and their friendship".

I owe it nearly entirely to the single panel in vigilantes where Mic tells midnight to call him Mic instead of his name, and now here I am 4 years later (3 and a half since posting) still hearing from people that they love how I wrote the characters growing over the course of the story and that it means a lot to them. Which is something I never expected to see in a comment on a fic I wrote.

[theonevoice]

Hi!!! I'm not sure if I ever asked before, but have you ever done or been interested in something like an exchange? Like a fic for art? I'd be more than happy to write something for you, if you'd like. Just wondering. Your art is absolutely amazing.

Hello!!!

I've never done an exchange! As weird as it is, given how much I enjoy reading, I don't have much of an imagination for potential narrative scenarios - I busk passively in the sun of GO writers creativity!

To this day, I think I only experienced two forms of fanfic-fanart interaction: either an author was inspired by something I drew and wrote a little scene or story or a poem about it (that's what happened with my demon Aziraphale), or someone was already writing something and asked if any artist was interested in illustrating it, so I jumped in (and that's how we got the "dark ballerina" Shax, for example).

In one case (also born from the demon Aziraphale fanart) the original inspiration evolved into a full real-time collaboration, with me and the author working together so that new writing brings about new art and vice versa.

I'm always excited to collab with other people in the fandom, it's super fun, so if you have ideas you can throw them at me all day long! The only catch is that I have a full-time job and I'm horrible at scheduling my free time (or my life, really), and sometimes it takes me months to complete a fanart, so if you have any sort of deadline I may not be able to make it in time (and I don't want to put on hold the people I'm already collaborating with).

But a part from that, I'd say I love turning stories into pictures more than pitching new stories myself, I'd never know what to ask! That's why I love when fanfic writers approach me - they're like wizards to me! XD

Have a great day!! ❤️

[jademickian]

oh man, haven't done tag games in a while, sorry friends 🥹 i've been passive the last few weeks because uni is really taking most of my time and energy, but i appreciate the tags and i love love reading your answers<3

ok enough blabbering, thank u @callivich, @lingy910y, and @mickeysgaymom for the totally optional, fun gallavich questions tag!

What’s a fic you’ve read more than once?

Stuck at Three for Days - delicious banter, laughed my ass off

another kiss is all it takes - so fuckin sweet, dude

Like Real People Do - just finished my reread last month:)) i needed the comfort

Cooperative Gameplay - currently rereading! i miss the feels

Sometimes I reread bits and pieces from ORFNSP and since we're alone because they changed my brain chemistry. I will eventually get around to actually rereading them.

2. What’s a gifset you always have to reblog?

You know the one... this legendary world heritage gifset

3. What’s a headcanon you can’t stop thinking about?

not sure if this is counted but i always like to think that once, ian got struck with grief about monica's death on her death anniversary. mickey asks him what's wrong and he opens up about it. ian will say it's stupid but mickey will truly handle it with grace and say nah man it's not. because yahknow, he gets it. and ian melts at it, because no one has acknowledged his grief like this before. mickey teases him about it a bit, sure, but deep down he held ian's mourning warmly, like petals on his palm. and they went together to the cemetery that day, simply sat in front of her grave and talked. the good things, the bad. and that despite it all "hey, tleast she popped out an alien lookin mfer i ended up marryin." they get pizza after.

4. What’s a fanart you love looking at?

Van kiss by @lingy910y

Prince Mononoke by @darthvaders-wife

Prison Boyfriends by @gallavichonly

Part of Our World by @steorie

It's Okay by WhatsaMattavich

This Kiss by @deathclassic

SO MANY others actually if i could fit them all here

5. What’s an idea you’d love to create if you had the time/inspiration?

i actually have a LIST lmao. one of those has something to do with art because i cannot take my mind away from human mickey and manananggal ian (manananggal is a Philippine myth creature with wings and can separate the upper half of its body from its lower half).

6. What’s something you’ve discovered since entering this fandom? A new trope you love? A different analysis of the show? Something else?

oh man. believe it or not, i was never into fics. i was in fandoms before, but i just couldn't get into fics within those fandoms (i tried). this is the only time i truly liked and LOVED reading fics. it really speaks volumes about the talent and dedication, and i'm glad i got to experience it.

it's also fun reading metas on the show and getting different perspectives, especially on characters. one of my favorites (just because i was so distressed about it the first time i watched it) are analyses on the city hall scene and ian's hesitation on marriage. after reading up others' thoughts on it explaining the why's, i totally felt some relief and was able to get some sleep. lol

7. What’s an underrated trope or concept you’d like to see more of?

apocalypse aus 👍

8. What’s your favourite season? And has this changed after multiple rewatches of the show?

The first five seasons are gems to me. but i truly love season 2 because it's so chill (at least compared to some of the heavier seasons after) and the gallaghers move as a unit. special mention for season 4 because it holds Emily and Lazarus.

9. What’s a plot hole you wish had been answered or resolved?

same qualms with @mickeysgaymom about mickey's mom. brain rotting over it.

10. What scene or moment do you feel isn’t discussed enough?

not gallavich related, and i'm sure people have already mentioned it, but sometimes it hits me how smart debbie is. like, i know she's smart, but people easily forget from all the chaos. at the heart of it, she's a fast learner and also would and have excelled academically.

11. What line/dialogue/description from something else (a poem, a book, a tv show, a movie, or something else) do you feel describes Ian and Mickey’s relationship?

aaaa @lingy910y beat me to it! it's totally "I'll take care of you. / It's rotten work. / Not to me. Not if it's you." but if i could pick another, maybe "I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world."

12. What do you think is next for Ian and Mickey post-finale?

they'll grow old together and be just as in love, no matter what happens in between.

tagging @mybrainismelted, @scurvgirl, and @lupeloto if u wanna join!! raahh

[nymphrasis]

Ok so my art to-do list from, starting from what I will prioritize to work on from top to bottom: - Private large commission - Work on 10 custom art as part of a trade - ^^^ If no full info on what is needed, I will work on the Galarian Ponyta fusion adopts ( I'll just finish up what I have. Will not be a large batch ) - Work on Kuruna's blog art responses - Do a small handful of chibi Eevee fusions - Draw Tedaterra in a Kirby onesie - ^^^ If no drive for that yet, I will work on a few headshots ( Or pixel art ) of the characters for the Tale of the Kingdoms blog. - Do an art piece of Kuruna and my persona together ( Base on the anon ask that has been sitting in my box for a good while now ). - Work on more chibi Eevees - Do a lil fanart of tricks-n-illusions character ( Base on aro-pokeverse ask. I do apologize for me being late on this ) - More Kuruna blog art - Chibi Eevees again - Made in Abyss x Pokemon SV ( More specifically Area Zero ) crossover piece - ^^^ If I don't feel the drive to work on that yet, it would just be me making lil fun art of Kuruna instead. - Work on gift art for a small handful of friends ( It was supposed to be a Christmas gift but, well... Plans have made things get pushed back ^^" ) - Kuruna art for the blog - Work on art responses on ask-the-abomination - Try something I've always wanted to do was to make a very big art piece that includes a lot of my characters ( As it has been a decade since I last included multiple characters in the art piece. Aka, before I dabble my hand on digital art [ I started digital art on 2016 ] ). Have yet to decide on who and what scene it would be. - More chibi Eevee fusions, if I haven't finished yet - Fanart of actual POC characters ( Because I am tired of seeing people pushing aside existing POC characters when doing a fan piece [ Coughs at edits ]. So I want to try. I have yet to decide if it will be a headshot or halfbody. I don't feel up to doing a fullbody art ) - Yet more Kuruna blog stuff - Anatomy practice for larger size beings. More specifically the back ( Not in a sexual way. I really am still not too confident on drawing backs of larger size characters. I am more use to doing those for less heavy sizes and creatures ) - [ Input Sketch colored art raffle. Note that it is clean sketch like this . Have yet to decide if there will be shading involved ] - Kuruna blog art yippee There is a few I have in mind that I don't know where to put in the list. That few being: - Finish up this Kuruna art piece:

Work on random Pokefusion adopts ( This one is a random spur, as ideas do pop here and there. Not frequent )

Work on personal character art ( Of Pokemon ocs )

Random Kuruna art ( When I feel bored, need motivation, or had a random idea that I've wanted to draw out real quick )

Work on Arcy reworked blog ( Newer characters, with the exception of Arcy ).

Work on some art examples for my commissions ( As some lack more examples than others )

Do a new YCH that is something simplier and cute, price shouldnt be that high really.

Fanart of games I have been playing, like Eastward, Palworld, FFXIV, or even Digimon ( Speaking of which, I still havent done that Alphamon x Lunala fusion. This idea is a few years old and I just never dabble into it TwT" )

Dabble on doing clean sketch color comms. Price has yet to still be decided.

Work on fanart / gift art of the following blogs: ask-eden, omniandco, ask-the-royal-absol, askcomet, ask-a-silvy, ask-valiant-victory, sphaeramjourney, the-feral-one, ask-aeos-company, and lightofunova. More in the future ofc because I love the ask blog community!

Scenery practices of things I don't often do ( I need to practice more with places like cities and those that are more complex-decorated ).

Fix and finish this art piece of Namithia:

Finish this art piece of Eevrutty

Finish this art piece of a random lil creature ( Probs will sell it? Undecided yet because I do very much like them )

Finish this piece of Nerissa ( A character I have yet to decide whether or not I will remain keeping. I did removed her kingdom to revamp it to be the final sea kingdom to be falled [ Since there are two. One from the North and other from the South ] )

Create a few Pokefusions to be a part of a giveaway

Draw an art piece of my grandmother and have it be printed as a carry on bag design.

I think that is all I had in mind of what I've wanted to get done ;w; It is, uhhh.. A lot to say the least xD

[erstwhilesparrow]

I just saw that post you reblogged about archiving MCYT stuff - is there a particular reason stuff disappears so often? (That's very cool people are putting in so much effort to preserve it, though; big respect to that tbh)

reyni! :D okay i should be clear upfront that some of my information may be incomplete here because (1) i don't have twitter and (2) i'm not directly involved in any mcyt archival efforts. also putting this under a cut because it's long and i do need to reference recent events involving abuse and sexual assault:

despite mcyt = minecraft youtube(r), a lot of stuff relevant to mcyt happens like. exclusively on stream? really, really ~plot-critical or deeply characterizing stuff happens on stream sometimes and never makes it into a youtube video! and on twitch at least, unless you explicitly set it to save your vods, twitch will just delete them after a certain number of days. i don't know exactly how this works if you stream on youtube but also my impression is that a significant majority of people are not streaming on youtube anyway. since fairly early in my time in mcyt fandoms, there's been concern about creators not saving their own vods, and on top of that, sometimes you save a vod and it gets taken down anyway for copyright infringement (playing copyrighted music, the creator themself asked for it to be removed, etc). so like. as baseline, there's a sense of inherent ephemerality to the medium. that post i reblogged is explicitly pushing back against the description of mcyt vods as "a constantly burning library of alexandria," and in light of the evidence that follows i agree (and also am a little weepy about the efforts people make to save these things), but that sense doesn't come from nowhere, you know?

speaking of that post though, i suspect this archival stuff is coming up More now because it's been a rough couple of weeks in mcyt fandom. several really influential creators in the space were recently outed as being abusive or predatory in a way that's caught a lot of attention, and many people in response have been (understandably!) deleting their fanworks or otherwise distancing or removing themselves from mcyt fandom. i want to be clear, i know stuff gets deleted all the time in fanspaces -- the internet is kind of just Like That in terms of how easy it is to lose things -- and it's incredibly fair to go "no, even if there was a strong distinction between character and creator this leaves a sour taste in my mouth and i'm not doing this anymore." i don't want to pretend that no one has ever deleted a fanwork outside of mcyt spaces, and i don't want to insinuate that it's bad to vocally revoke your support of those creators -- those people have done awful things and generally failed to meaningfully apologize or take accountability, and it is worth remembering and saying so. but to give you a sense of numbers: antimony-medusa does monthly stats on mcyt fic on ao3, and dsmp, which even after it's kind of died off has seen monthly increases in the range of hundreds of new fic per month, saw a decrease of roughly 800 fics. other fandoms have similarly seen decreases, and video blogging rpf, which ao3 treats as an umbrella for basically all mcyt stuff, saw an increase of 51, as compared to last month's increase of (approximately) 3500. and that's just fic -- there's also a rich trove of animatics, fanvids, fanart, etc that i don't have any numbers for, but i've seen people talking about deleting those, too, you know? you see how people might be worried about what we are losing.

at this point i think your question is answered, but if you'll forgive some baseless speculation here, i wonder to what extent mcyt is also. complicated by how closely character and creator can sit? i don't know how other people feel, but there is a difference to me between "i've written fic about This Person Specifically (or, arguably, their streamer persona which may be somewhat divorced from the Real Life Human Being Behind The Screen)" and "i've written fic about a character this person plays." i dunno, there's a sense to me of the flimsiness of the line between creator and character and then also of the line between creator and fandom that i think makes it harder to be like "okay, i am doing my own thing, separate from the creator, so i'm going to keep my stuff public even if i don't stand by it 100% anymore." i remember when i first joined mcyt fandom, there was a period of time people were really worried that the creators were actively on ao3, or that fans would try to send their fanfic directly to the creators. i thought to myself, "well, if anyone Tries Shit with my work, i will simply delete all my relevant accounts and disappear." that's... not really a back-up plan that i feel good about these days, but. you know. it's been a thing, if not always for the same reasons, and i do understand the impulse.

[hinamie]

3 & 8 for the fanartist ask? hope youre well <3

WAH HIII thank uuuu i am doing well ty fr asking <3 <3 <3

3. what sort of compliments do you love hearing?

gJHSG i'm not picky at all tbh any compliments r enough to make my day :'> i read tags like the morning news n if i see something particularly sweet i screenshot it n put it in a lil folder on my desktop to look at when i need a pick-me-up.

I wld be lying if i didn't have favourites tho :'>>> don't get me wrong keysmashes n short and sweet compliments r never unwelcome but whenever people leave extended tags rly explaining what they like about a piece or how they interpret certain details i included,, or if they have a bit of art knowledge themselves and are able to comment on specific technical elements i use...thts the good stuff . i eat tht shit up it is like crack to me

I also get a special kind of thrill when i get ppl crying/telling me they're in my walls/yelling at me threateningly (pos) in the tags of an angsty drawing sdghjfgj ik those r not exactly compliments but it means i have done my job well so it counts :3

8. what inspires your art style?

I mean i'm a fanartist so i think it goes without saying that the themes and look of the media itself will inform how I approach making art for it hjdsfk . like, in my fruits basket era my style definitely leaned cutesier than it did/has for tg/banana fish/jjk. in the same vein, the work of other artists also in those fandoms has always been something that inspires me almost as much as the source material. everyone is so fucking talented sdhjhgfdsj no matter how happy i might be with my own progress at any given moment i'm always looking at other artists and styles I admire and trying to kirby them into my own stuff :)

but as far as parts of my actual /style/ tht transcend whatever fandom i'm working in, I think above all else I'm inspired by things I see in real life and find beauty in

in the past I have spent a lot of time doing more. static (?) fanart where the main focus was often the character's clothes moreso than where they were or what they were doing. ik part of that was definitely because I wasn't comfortable enough in my technical skills to push myself to draw more elaborate scenes, but it was also due to the fact that at that time in my life, I was mainly inspired by fashion and people I found beautiful. lately i've been much more focused on emotions, intimacy, and little pockets of time--i want to draw moments that make you want to hold them between your fingers before they slip away. lately i find myself thinking about what it's like to be loved or left and overall just the nature of time passing, and i think those themes have definitely made themselves known in my work. the light the colours the themes i use,,. it's all hopeful and sad and fleeting and beautiful to me, or at least i try for it to come across that way.

fanartist ask game

[leyyvi]

Are you ready for the ending? I want to know how you feel about this. Personally, I am not okay.

(dw i saw your other ask fkdjghdfgjk)

I'm so torn lol. Part of me is hyped purely to just have some content even if it's just for a bit. The other part of me remembers the shit that happened when the manga ended and I wonder if it'll repeat especially with the dudebro aot fans, hate them actually LOL (then again I no longer look at r*ddit) and I've already seen another influx of terrible aot takes specifically on the clock app but I'm trying to distance myself from that app anyway, now feels like the perfect time.

I guess another thing I think about is how annoyed I've been with how the final parts of AOT have been handled. I'm sure it's going to look gorgeous, but to me it feels like AOT has been a complete afterthought in favor of boosting JJK. Which I get it, JJK is MAPPA's real baby and money-maker, so of course they're going throw all their funding into that. It just sucks that it's ending with these extra long episodes instead of a regular season. Mostly because I wanted to live out the hype over weeks at a time instead of everyone exploding over it for a week and then it's just... done. I don't like this new trend of seeing everything all at once just to enjoy it for shorter periods of time. It doesn't feel satisfying to me at all. (Which reminds me of how Haikyuu ending is gonna be handled and UGH. HORRIBLE)

I'm also just sad because, in a way, aot ending almost feels like I'm saying goodbye to an entire decade of my teenage years/20s, it's really weird. I know the fandom will always be around, even when it's been slow to have new content provided for fans I've never had a problem finding a community here/on AO3/at conventions. But it does make me a little teary-eyed knowing we most likely won't get much new stuff (aside from the upcoming side story that was announced). To be honest, I loved the characters of AOT WAY MORE than the story itself and for me, I'm happy writing them into other universes, making new fanart of them, even if it's for a smaller and smaller community.

Anddddd the show ending more reminds me of a lot of people I knew who were into aot just...either not being around or moving onto other things. which is totally fine! it's bound to happen with all things, just a bit of a sad moment, you know?

but yeah gfjkfgjdh I don't really know my entire point but this has been what I've thought about recently with it all ending!

[blackbird-brewster]

Friday Fic Rec

A bit of a mix-bag this week, because I've still been caught up in my feelings about Doctor Who -- so there's some DW recs at the bottom. But in terms of CM, as per usual, just been reading smut ;)

What I've Read:

Criminal Minds, Fiona/Emily, WC: 1395

Rated: Explicit || Author: unitchiefprentiss

Why I Love It: As soon as Fiona was introduced in canon, I shipped her with Emily. There's no world in which those two aren't ex's. This was such a nice slice of smut where they're sort of friends with benefits. Emily deserves some phone sex after a long day!

Criminal Minds, JJ/Emily/Derek, WC: 6741

Rated: Explicit || Author: mournful_shapes

Why I Love It: Holy fucking shit. This was SO sexy. I don't usually partake in anything outside of femslash, but in terms of a threesome -- Jemily + Derek???? DELICIOUS. This had me horny beyond comprehension, I had to take a break while reading it so I didn't spontaneously combust. Absolutely masturbatory worthy!

Criminal Minds, JJ/Tara, WC: 2877

Rated: Explicit

Why I Love It: So I've talked about this one on multiple occasions, but I wanted to hype it up this week because apparently I've read it over 50 times now (look -- this was a gift for me and I take FULL advantage of the fact it was tailor written for me). JJ and Tara have phone sex, that's it, that's the fic. And it never ceases to blow my mind with the sexiness.

What I'm Writing:

Criminal Minds, JJ/Tara/Emily, WC: 75,700+ (WIP)

Rated: Explicit

Update: This week's chapter was posted this morning and is the longest in the fic so far -- a whopping 8500 words. The entire chapter is full of queer, drunken, shenanigans and it serves as a major turning point in the plot. So proud of this one, looking forward to hearing what readers think.

ICYMI New Fics:

Criminal Minds, JJ/Tara, WC: 6245

Rated: Teen

Criminal Minds, JJ/Emily, WC: 23,000+ (WIP)

Rated: Mature || Fortnightly Updates on Mondays

Other Recommendations:

Past Friday Fic Recs:  [Friday Fic Recs - Tumblr] || [CM Fic Recs - AO3 Collection]

Rec Lists: [JJ/Emily] || [Tara/Emily] || [CM Femslash]

My Fics: [Jemily] || [Temily] || [Jara] || [Smut] ||  [All]

Multi-Fandom Recs Under the Cut:

Doctor Who, Thirteenth Doctor/Yaz, WC: 3616

Rated: Explicit || Author: TechnicolorRevel

Why I Love It: Absolutely loved this. It felt so real, the little quips, the descriptions of sweaty bodies, the communication -- it was perfect. Sexy as hell, while still being SO true to character. I think the mark of really great smut is an author being able to do exactly that. I could just see this so clearly.

Doctor Who, Thirteenth Doctor/Yaz, Fanart

Rated: Teen || Author: sergioprentiss (@ssaalexblake)

Why I Love It: An incredible collection of Thirteen/Yaz fanart. My shipper dream come true. Literally all of sergioprentiss' art is SOOOO good. If you're a Doctor Who fan, I highly recommend having a look at all of their works on AO3.

Doctor Who, Thirteenth Doctor/Yaz, WC: 3238

Rated: Explicit || Author: Eriadu

Why I Love It: I adore people who can write telepathic smut. This was SO well done. The way the author manages to keep both of them so deeply in character throughout is beyond amazing. Loved everything about this one.

[eros-thanatos89]

Hellooo

I decided to create this side blog (main blog is @seashellsandteacups) for fandom brainrot.

Blorbos are currently taking up too much of my mental real estate, so I needed another place to put them.

Thinking about my favorite fictional people/stories (AKA escaping reality) is my #1 maladaptive coping mechanism, so this will be my new place to come indulge in escapism.

I rarely write, but I'll try to post my updates and new works on A03 here. I'm eros_thanatos89 on A03. Who knows, maybe it'll motivate me to write more or help me get through writer's block. Maybe I'll write some meta or headcanon type stuff, which I've never really done before.

Feel free to come ramble about favorite blorbos with me! <3

Since I don't write all that frequently, I'll likely be reblogging fanart and such here, as well.

My current faves are Better Call Saul/Breaking Bad, Hannibal, and Interview with the Vampire, but I might occasionally post stuff for other fandoms too. And art/things that make me think of my blorbos.