#Waywards to Wilds

[milekael]

IS E5 TIME THE VENTURE IS BACK ⚡⚡⚡

[waywardstation]

something Ingo hates: a certain type of food ruined by a prank Emmet and Elesa once pulled on him when they were younger and Akari finds one such food item and she is shocked to see him react this annoyed and at the idea of sharing it or eating it with her.

(I imagine there were often two against one pranks going on with either twin joining with Elesa or the twins coming up with something to annoy Elesa)

it can definitely happen that something becomes inedible after a prank was pulled.

FOOD PRANKS. They can be so funny but devistating lol.

My dad has a story of how years ago, there was a person in his office who would steal his lunch out of the break room and eat them all the time. Didn’t matter if my dad put his name on it either. This mystery worker would take it and it would always be gone by the time my dad went to get it for lunch. Every day!!!

Well he got sick of this happening, obviously. My dad would always make a sandwich, so when he had enough, he made the sandwich with dogfood instead of his usual fixings. He said when he went to get his lunch out of the fridge that day, there was his sandwich, with two bites out of it.

My dad says the funniest part to him was that the person needed a second bite to realize it was dogfood. He never had a problem with his lunch being stolen again though!!

I think the trick of just swapping out one part of the food/meal for something else would be enough to kill the entirety of it for Ingo.

Imagine Akari brings Ingo a big box of filled donuts — surely he’d like these! But Ingo sees the pack, and he sees her offering them to him. The ONLY memories that resurfaces are the times where Emmet and Elesa replaced the fillings with mayonnaise/mustard/BBQ sauce etc. and offered them to him (I imagine they’d do this repeatedly). That is his ONLY frame of reference for how those things taste, and out of reflex he rejects them and calls them awful.

Akari wouldn’t know about any of this and she’d ask him if he’s sure. Because how could he not like donuts? Ingo would say yes, he remembers having them multiple times, and every time, they were absolutely disgusting. Akari’s like oh no, he’s broken :(

[thelivingartgod]

The Skeleton Prince to-be

*drops the skeleton fucker and runs*/j

Christopher! I think this mans got big brown dow eyes nobody can see cuz he’s too tall, he’s got a bump in his nose, a dimple on one side but not the other and a little harness necklace thing for his flute. He :)

The base elements of this (and the entire necklace thing) comes from @calebs-hangout-corner who I loveee

Drew Cora Drew Kade and Sumi

[theinquisitxor]

January 2024 Reading Wrap

First wrap up of the new year! I read 8 books this month, and I'd say it was a strong reading month overall. I read some new releases, caught up or finished series, and read some good stuff! I read 6 fantasy books, 1 nonfiction, and 1 regular fiction. 6 books I read physical copies, and 2 audiobooks.

1.A Winter's Promise (Mirror Visitor Quartet 1) by Christelle Dabos. 3/5 stars. This is a book I've been wanting to read since before it was translated into English. This book didn't quite live up to the expectations I had of it, but I still overall enjoyed it. I plan to continue the series, possibly quarterly. Young adult fantasy.

2. A Fragile Enchantment by Allison Saft. 4.5/5 stars. Another great Allison Saft book, and this one is possibly my favorite so far. This is exactly my type of fantasy romance and I was very invested in reading this. It's about a young magical seamstress who is commissioned to make the royal wedding clothes for the kingdom's prince. Young adult fantasy.

3.Realm Breaker by Victoria Aveyard. 3/5 stars. This was a fun read, but not the most exciting or great as it had the potential to be. The story has a fun cast of characters, and enjoyable world, but not a whole lot happened in this book. I can def see Aveyard's LOTR inspirations in this. I plan on continuing this series soon.

4.The Atlas Complex by Olivie Blake. 2/5 stars. This was a disappointing end to a series and was very lackluster and fell apart at the end. Disappointing because of how much I loved book 2. There were some redeeming moments, but much of this book felt unnecessary or frustrating. Adult fantasy.

5.Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. 5/5 stars. This is a collection of essays by the author about the world around us, life, nature, and the way we interact with the world. Absolutely my new favorite thing and much of Kimmerer's teachings in the book resonate with me very deeply. Read on audio- which I highly recommend. Nature/essays.

6.Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde 2) by Heather Fawcett. 5/5 stars. This was just as good as book 1, and I loved the new adventure and learning more about fairies. Emily and Wendall are my favorite, and I can't wait to see how this series concludes.

7.Beartown (Beartown 1) by Fredrik Backman 4.5/5 stars. I read this book in less than 24 hours and it emotionally abused me throughout. I'm late to the game in regards to this book (no pun intended) but I'm glad I finally read it. Backman never disappoints, and I plan to continue the series soon. Fiction.

8. Mislaid in Parts Half-Known (Wayward Children 9) by Seanan McGuire. 4/5 stars. This felt like the continuation of Antsy's story from book 8, but with some of our main cast of characters on a new quest. Very enjoyable and another solid installment in the series. Is the last time we see the "main cast?". Read on audio. Fantasy.

That's it for January! I am currently reading my TBR Pick of the Month, The Throne of the Five Winds, but I am only still in the first half of the book, so I will have to finish it up for Feb. I also started a new nonfiction audiobook, but am still in the first half of that as well.

February TBR:

finish The Throne of the Five Winds by SC Emmett

Crescent City 3

Nonfiction Audiobook (finish)

Blade Breaker by Victoria Aveyard

The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden

What Feasts at Night by T Kingfisher

TBR Pick of the month

Us Against You by Fredrik Backman (?)

[snffbeebee]

Alright Y'all, one of my good friends/Supernatural lover has brought this song to my attention, so I HAD to bring it to yours!!!! If you haven't listened to it.....DO IT NOW AND SHARE THE SHIT OUTTA THIS POST!!!!!

My main reason for this post is to get Mr.Winchester himself Jensen Ackles to HEAR THIS!! This lady has given one of our favorite Characters a theme song, and I think She and IT deserves all the recognition!!

Oh, and it may have got my brain going again for the next chapters of Blood Red and Second Glance! So if you haven't caught up on them, ya might wanna start now!!!! And to end this beautiful post, some random Jensen/Dean gifs and photos.

YOU'RE WELCOME. ❤️

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[corvidares]

okay, so i just finished re-reading Any Way the Wind Blows and this feels so blatant as to be smacking me in the face: simon is disabled.

now, the reason why that makes itself even clearer in this book than in wayward son (where he, of course, also has the wings + tail) is because simon is once again in the world of mages - despite doing his best to leave it behind. compared to wayward son, where hes basically and literally in the wild west. where theres magical beings everywhere, where simon practically fits in because he is one.

but ill get back to that.

ive seen a lot of really interesting points about what simon's wings represent and mean, and i'm not disagreeing with those. but in a very literal sense, they are a disability.

think about it like this: the world of mages (and Normals) is not built for humanoids who have giant webbed wings and a tail. simon constantly struggles with controlling these limbs, and their size makes it ten times harder. spaces are too small, furniture and objects are broken when he spreads them, and many a shirt or jacket are ruined.

he struggles to find a good way to deal with this - spell them away? wear them out by cutting holes in things? fold them extremely painfully into his shirt? even though this last one is treated like a solution for a little while, its far from ideal. who is simon doing this for? himself, or everyone around him? yes, of course Normals cant see them. and yeah, hes expressed discomfort about baz and penny spelling them hidden. but thats not the point. even with this botch job of a way to "wear" his wings, which succeeds at hiding them from Normals, simon still states a couple times that he knows people stare at him and his seeming hunchback. i mean, thats blatant.

(he eventually, with shepard's help, realizes a good way to work around this - zippers or buckles on shirtbacks - which very much feels like an aha! disability aid moment)

im not saying disability is based in how people look at you, or it only being a societal thing. (as in, when he wasnt in the world of mages, he wasnt suddenly 'not disabled at all') disability is a huge spectrum. but those things absolutely can be a part of the disabled experience.

but all of that doesnt even get to my main point: simon has no magic anymore. and in the world of mages, thats a huge deal. magic is like living and breathing, especially for baz and penny. its not something they question or have to worry about not being able to call upon. hell, even before simon lost his magic he was disabled, just to a different extent.

before awtwb, we dont hear much about mages whose magic is weak. but they come to the forefront now - which just solidifies that solid magical ability = able bodiedness.

smith is promising a miracle cure. a cure. think of it like bullshit orgs such as aut!sm spe@ks, wanting to "cure" autism - he wants to cure people. (and hes just as full of shit) why? because weak magic is seen as a disease, a problem, even subhuman.

take daphne, baz's stepmom. her quality of life is fine, great. her weaker magic doesnt seem to put her at a disadvantage. she manages her disability well. but in comparison to the norm, to what is expected of the average mage, shes got nothing. less than nothing. she feels shame over what she cant do.

smith's case becomes even more blatant when we see, at the end of awtwb, that he wants to essentially cull weak magicians. that they're holding back society. that theyre better off as powerless as Normals - who are blatantly seen as subhuman - than as weak mages. much like how ableist rhetoric puts forward that disability is a fate worse than death.

which brings us back to simon. he insists hes a Normal, now or always has been. baz insists hes the most powerful magician to exist. both of them are wrong.

and right. and right and wrong.

simon is some third thing - not a mage, not a Normal. akin to how disability is its own minority aside from race or ethnicity he has a foot in each world, and he always has. but now he cant achieve blending into either.

this is why the increasing presence and humanization of other magical beings beside mages is so important (thank you shephard!) how mages tend to seem magical beings is very ableist. theyre subhuman, theyre not to be trusted, theyre freaks, theyre dirty, etc. except oops, how can you keep thinking that penny, when this very nice one works at a cafe and helped you translate shephard's engagement terms?

even baz and the events of wayward son play into this - yeah, some vampires are horrible people. but plenty, like baz, are just people. with a range of experiences and morals and ways of living life. (take nicodemus) (i could make a point about how simon's stalwart acceptance of baz's vampirism helps baz comes to terms with it and how this is also super disability coded, but thats another essay)

in the beginning of awtwb, he decides to go to the extreme opposite of his chosen one powered life - to live as a Normal, and the second step (after cutting himself off from baz and penny) is getting his wings removed.

except he cant do it. and even having his wings touched is horribly uncomfortable. now, this partly has to do with how much theyre sensual parts of his body - same as his tail. but its also, separately, very intimate. theyre treated very clinically, like a fascinating specimen to pore over. im not trying to give niamh shit here, just saying what i saw.

but theyre part of him. people with disabilities often deal with being stared at and poked and prodded by the medical field (if theyre not ignored or waved off. maybe both.). even every day folks feel the right to touch disabled folks, or their mobility aids.

for a lot of people, mobility aids are a part of them - its like a stranger touching your face and thinking theyre doing you a favor. when instead theyre being weird as fuck.

simon's status as previous chosen one even plays into this sort of thing - people see him more as a figurehead, for what he can and cant do (including his wings!) than a person. hes a tragedy, hes a hero. hes inspirational, hes to be pitied. sound familiar?

the end of awtwb doesnt spell out whether simon ends up deciding to keep his wings (frustratingly). but they spell out that he would absolutely would, in my opinion.

simon increasingly treats them as a natural extension of his body. think of the scene where he flies about the watford goats. how he expresses his feelings with his wings and tail. and of course, how he learns to let baz loves each and every part of him: including his dragon limbs.

baz loves him, and loves them, not in a fetishistic way, but because its simon, and he loves everything simon is. not just what he represents or can or cant do.

[twistedclaws]

Haven’t done a lot of warrior cat art, but have been drawing Google Doc banners for the rp I help run - Wayward to Wilds (it’s not open/will not open again because it has a set-ending so please don’t ask LOL). It’s cat related so I guess I’ll post them here?

[the-ophelia-gallery]

Something I’ve found really funny on re-reads of tafwvg is how Stockill is introduced as this cold, aloof, calculating character. He's almost presented as the more rational of the doctors, even with the whole create-a-plague-and-become-god thing. Only for the basement scenes to happen and that image gets completely shattered with the realisation of ‘oh, he’s pretty fuckin' unhinged actually…’

[waywardsou2]

Slight TW for mentions of blood

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I had a dream about Dabi last night (surprise surprise to no one -_-) and I remembered it whilst I was getting ready this morning and it honestly hurt my heart. Don't ask me what the context is coz even I don't know but I had fallen down this elevator shaft and woke up in the basement of a warehouse. (At least that's kinda what it looked like) and there were a few other people with me but I saw Dabi huddled over on the floor. He looked like he was in a state of shock or something. He was curled in on himself and slightly rocking back and forth. A lot of his seams were bleeding, specifically under his eyes and his hands. I obviously went over to him and sitting beside him was a really badly crumpled, inky and bloody piece of paper.

"Was I good enough"

"Dad?"

"Why wasn't I enough"

That's what was written on it. And he was crying and muttering those phrases to himself. I just wrapped my arms around him and held him

Then I woke up... :/

That was honestly so gut wrenching when I remembered it. I almost cried on the spot

[lichchat]

I love how colorpoint kittens look like they need more time in the oven

[seastawright]

birthday gift for a dear friend of mine <3 it's quileo again

[milekael]

Venture tells a bunch of kids the tales of a shooting star

A bit of a comic I decided to do both as an activity for WTWs and something for my portfolio. Hopefully one day I do the other bit I had planned!

[youabandonedthem]

[thelivingartgod]

Daughter of the Sea

Coraaaa! I’m re-listening to Where Drowned Girls Go and I love her so much. Drawing her body was fun. I’m gonna try and work my way through all the main characters. I’ve already done Kade and Sumi, so now her!

[waywardstation]

It's possible for Ingo and Akari to both be Phione! When you battle Manaphy in the game, it has two Phione companions!

That is true (it actually has three!)! But I did imagine it a little differently for the AU; when manaphy does the heart swap again, it's when the Miss Fortune Sisters intercept them on the shore (having just left Seaside Hollow), and try to take manaphy from them before it can swap Akari and Phione back.

And that's when manaphy starts swapping everyone around as self defense. Being on the shore at that point, the phione wouldn't be nearby, but other pokemon would be, such at floatzel.

Ingo has no idea how to use any moves, but as a floatzel, he still has a body big and solid enough to do a decent job helping in that state without them, and in such an uneven fight where it's just them against the Miss Fortune Sisters and their Gengar, he needs to be in a position to help Akari get Manaphy back. He couldn't really do that as a phione!

[anchoredshoress]

first couple art fight attacks!!! still busy working away on at least 7 more, but here's these two :]

for Gengeninen on twitter and @akapanuka !!! [Gen and Greyham wtw 🫶]