#OKAY I'M DONE

[laylakeating]

#ej caswell: relationship guru (?)

[tommykiinard]

buck and tommy talked about fake mouth static, and then tommy's mouth made buck's brain go static

[bethnaberrie]

leroy jethro gibbs was really out there in 2005 running a team of highly trained federal agents queer kids with daddy issues

[boxofoxberry]

me when my bitch wife gets herself a new scar

[uglygreenjacket]

[galamerapple]

fellas is it gay to trust your best friend to use his judgment to take your temperature when bringing you back to life,,

[leavingautumn13]

the group chat getting silly with it has fundamentally altered my brain chemistry and decimated the plot of the followup to that oneshot i posted a while back.

"i'm sorry about your years-long friendship that's exploding in spectacular fashion over accusations of your bestie's dad being a murderer. making out about it can't hurt, right?"

i should not have to say this but i'm going to anyway: may's an adult.

[recluseraven]

Tom Glynn-Carney as Liam in Salt Water Town (2021)

this short film was...bleak.

[iamamythologicalcreature]

Sentences or Sketches or Something... Sunday

Hello strangers! It's been a long time since I last did a progress post of any kind - thank you everyone who's continued to tag me so I don't get left behind! And thanks to @noblecorgi, @alexalexinii, @you-remind-me-of-the-babe, @blackberrysummerblog, @thewholelemon, @mooncello, @monbons, @prettygoododds, @shrekgogurt, and @youarenevertooold for tagging me, today. (I feel so loved! <3) I'm looking forward to seeing what everyone's up to.

It's still Sunday in my neck of the woods, though just barely. And yes, I've used my "sentences" banner, but... It's a bit more chaotic than that. Honestly, I wasn't sure about doing a post today because I'm a bit all over the place, but then I figured... eh, why not? I am all over the place LOL.

So here's your snippet from the collective efforts of Jo's creativity, lately, under the cut. (Because I ramble...)

On the Haunting of Simon Snow... I haven't forgotten about it! Nor is it abandoned. As I keep telling anyone who will listen, I have a rough draft, which basically amounts to an outline, meaning I have way too much figured out to just let the story fade away. XD I attempted to work on Chapter 2 earlier this month, and ran into some roadblocks - of the architectural variety.

So I've started to research manor houses and English estates like mad. I'm going to do the thing. I'm going to figure out Pitch Manor. Why? Because my brain won't let me gloss over paltry details such as the location of Simon in the grand scheme of the house, or how and where the roof attaches and where that tree is going to be. It's annoying, but I figure... This is a fun puzzle, too. One I hope to be able to share with the fandom at large once it's complete.

This little snippet is from an early design I've since scrapped (but you never know what might come around, again.)

"That's great, Jo, but how about some sentences?"

Okay. Ahem. Here's... some Simon sentences... that have just been scribbled out. *cough*

I sit there and listen to the man on the other side as he blathers on about extra fees associated with estate deliveries due to distance and blah blah bloody fucking blah. I wish he’d just say it. Just say 'this is the Pitch Manor tax.' No one ever does. But everyone charges it.

I HAVE WRITTEN SEE THERE'S PROOF.

Okay, moving on...

The other thing I'm working on is illustrations for @mooncello's beautiful fanfic, "Lost Boys." I just posted art from Chapter 1 here, and I'm working on art for Chapter 2, now. The story is stuffed to the gills with absolutely gorgeous imagery, so choosing what to illustrate is a challenge. Hopefully it all works out, and in the meantime, here are a couple doodles.

(I was telling Heath last night... this morning...? about how all illustrations start out as baby sketches XD These are the little babes in the creative nursery, basically. Also I have never posted baby sketches before and I'm kinda nervous about it. But. Well. >.> )

THERE YOU HAVE IT. A couple of my reasons for being so entirely absent from all other aspects of the fandom. (Also I got hit with the flu super hard, but doing better now!)

Tags for future wipsdays/hello's! @leithillustration, @artsyunderstudy (thank you for listening to me ramble about Pitch Manor), @erzbethluna, @nightimedreamersworld, @cutestkilla (thank you for also listening to me ramble about Pitch Manor sorry I'm reworking it again XD), @angelsfalling16, @fatalfangirl, @hushed-chorus (thank you for being my secret-garden-enabler XD), @rimeswithpurple, @best--dress, @whatevertheweather, @ileadacharmedlife, @scribble-tier, @imagineacoolusername, @brilla-brilla-estrellita, @alleycat0306, @ivelovedhimthroughworse, @tender-ministrations, @katmiscellanious, @anxious-m3ss, @bubble-gumhead, @ebbpettier, @facewithoutheart, @bazzybelle, @theimpossibledemon, @aristocratic-otter, @ic3-que3n, @palimpsessed, @raenestee

[bigassbowlingballhead]

when you had high hopes for knives out 3

[robrae-is-forever]

Time for my twice a decade ramble post where I SCREAM into the emptiness about how Soul Eater deserved better

Number 1 reason it deserved better: it has one of the best stories and anime adaptations period

Number 2: it has easily one of the most unique worlds ever penned, witches and weapons and all the stuff that makes Soul Eater awesome can not and could never be replicated elsewhere and we NEED MORE

Number 3: the anime should have gotten a remake because the ending strayed from the manga and turned a lot of people off the franchise (take a drink everytime you hear that)

Number 4: yeah the anime ending was lackluster but MAKA SCARES A GOD TO DEATH BY PUNCHING HIM STRAIGHT IN THE FACE i mean come on COME ON BRO that's hype as fuck that ending should have been enough

Number 5: I will actually make the death note in real life and use it on the people who thought making Soul Eater Not was a good idea, if the anime ending killed a lot of the hype then SEN killed the franchise forever and it should have never been made

Number 6: you could make a lot of content with the simple setup of the soul eater universe, they could've easily made a bunch of cool games and a sequel and spin offs and instead all we got WAS SOUL EATER NOT ARE YOU KIDDING ME

Number 7: I love Soul Eater I need more please someone give me moooooooooooooooooooooooooore :(((((((((((

[theodoravery]

so.... the kali season finale huh

[lookninjas]

The whole fucking "JUST LET KIDS BE KIDS WAAHHH THEY'RE NOT TRANS THEY'RE NOT GAY THEY'RE JUST KIDS WAAAHH" argument fucking kills me, because it's like -- At no point in my childhood was I treated like a genderless being with no expectations about who I was meant to be attracted to. I was always, always, treated as GIRL. I was always, always told to behave in ways that were socialized GIRL. I was always, always told that GIRL meant attraction to BOY with everything that goes with it. When was I allowed to be just a kid, and not a GIRL? When was I allowed to be not attracted to anything, instead of being told I had to feel attraction to BOY? There was no "Oh, you're a kid, don't worry about it." I was a GIRL. I was supposed to be attracted to BOY. Every adult around me put that shit on me. Adults at a distance put that shit on me. The entirety of our culture put that shit on me.

You don't want kids to not be thinking about their gender. You don't want kids to not be thinking about their sexuality. You don't.

YOU WANT KIDS TO NOT THINK THEY HAVE A SAY IN ANY OF IT. That's what the fuck you want.

It's been a minute since I've said it, but genuinely, if you are transphobic for any bullshit reason, whether you're a proud Christian Misogynist or someone who's really invested in pretending that your gender essentialism is feminist somehow because reasons, don't fucking talk to me. You and I have nothing to say to one another that will not end badly. And I mean that specifically it will end badly for you

[bonkquartz]

individuals i am SUSPICIOUS of....they must be hididng something.......all of these TOTALLY HUMAN dudes......

will potentially colour

[letsmakesomeonehappytoday]

Tokyo, 24/03/2023

[distant-screaming]

hold on I need a minute we're SELLING CHILDREN. WHAT THE HELL. WHAT. WH. HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN MY OMEGAVERSE BL SHOW????? APPARENTLY.