#a new classic and a fav

[lurkingshan]

King the Land resisted the urge to do typical kdrama couple angst at every turn. Every week they set up some conflict based in classic tropes but then subverted it by having Won and Sa Rang sail right through it via the power of mutual respect and mature communication. Once they get together they are a rock solid couple weathering everything thrown at them with ease and it’s such a rare treat to see that in a drama.

[welcometogrouchland]

Been gone for a hot second helping out over at the DCtwt gatcha for gaza event (first three pieces! Extremely proud of that aquaman) so haven't had much time to do art outside that but here's some crumbs!

[ghostsmp3]

American singer and musician Bruce Springsteen wearing double denim, USA, circa 1990. (Photos by Vinnie Zuffante/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

[sorcerous-caress]

she's trying her best...on the wrong account

[theletterwsartflap]

I was playing Animal Crossing New Leaf and a snowman said something rather Gemini Man like.

[skyreiko]

I read Dracula in high school for an assignment, then at 18 because i loved it. It became my favourite book. Now at 22, days before the new year, i started reading it again, after reading hamlet and macbeth and god i didnt remember Jonathan being SO funny. I think its pretty how the perception of a book can change while growing older and knowledgeable.

[that-bl-bitch]

Its always the rich bitches in BLs who are like

Rich bitch: hmm I like this guy how do I get him to notice me? Hmmmm...

Friend: well you could just talk to-

Rich bitch: be mean to him until he likes me

Friend: .......no

Rich bitch: blackmail him until he likes me?

Its always the richies who are like how do I get him to be around me more? Blackmail? threaten him? pay him? Bitch just ask him to hang out you're doing a whole round about thing that makes everything unnecessarily complicated

[jooyeone]

xdinary heroes truly are the most criminally underrated group right now huh.

[tvmilfs]

Pls say sike

[awaylaughing]

Venetia Blue, my MC from @barbwritesstuff very wonderful werewolf action-adventure-romance, Blood Moon. It has amazing characters who are dynamic, flawed and deeply lovable with a variety of personalities and beliefs; it has paranormal politics of several flavours; it has magic and amazing side characters that are impossible not to love; and it has a terrific end-game showdown that is very satisfying. I've been kicking my feet and giggling, gasping in outrage, and generally enjoying the variation within the story for a few days now, and Venetia's been the winner of "most canonical run". A slightly babbly profile under the cut

Name: Venetia Jaqueline Blue

Pronouns: She/Her

Height: 155.5cm/5'1"

Age: 26

Appearance: a short, curvy woman with fair, freckled skin and green eyes. Her hair is a natural light blonde, slightly wavy, falling to about her collar bones. She usually wears in a single braid or if she takes the time, vintage waves.

Venetia prefers fairly practical dress, with a lot of purple, brown, and denim. She can be easy to spot on cooler days though, thanks to a strange and distinctly quirky patchwork jacket she likes to wear (she made it herself).

As a wolf, Venetia somewhat curiously most resembles a Husdon Bay Wolf, with a smaller build and light yellow-and-white colouring. The first time she shifted in front of the pack Marco declared her "barely toasted marshmallow" coloured.

Biography

Born on Oct. 31st, 1993 to a small but relatively wealthy clan Venetia's childhood was very pleasant. Owning a private fig farm, the pack managed to keep well funded without interacting much with the outside world, bar farmer's market's and deliver drivers come the advent of internet selling.

Venetia herself grew up relatively alone, a quirk of the pack's generations meaning she was born a decade behind the older children and a decade before the youngest. She spent much of her time with the pack elders, who were happy to encourage a voracious learner. They encouraged her so much in fact Venetia was the first in the pack to attend post-secondary school. She left school after only two years however, as the pack's official educator passed somewhat unexpectedly leaving behind several young students.

Venetia served as the pack educator herself for three years, a job that was a good fit as she's always liked children. It all came crashing down however one day when she returned from an early-morning hunt-slash-run. When she got back, armed with a couple of pheasants, she found only the smell of death and rotting flowers, an unusual heavy frost, and a damning silence.

Venetia spent the next three years as a stray, haunted by a formless loss. She preoccupied herself initially with dead-end investigations, which eventually gave way to her disappearing into a national park. She came back to herself after three months in her wolf form, when she found herself following not a deer or rabbit, but an unwitting camping family. Horrified, that was the moment that lead to her core conviction:

She's a person, not a monster and she will not the wolf of the moon win.

Not that Venetia is a self-hating werewolf, no she quite likes her wolf, so long as it's her and not the moon driving her. It's a balance she didn't really find until Alek and the pack accepted her in however, for the preceding two and a half years in fact Venetia resisted shifting except for moons for the most part.

During those years, she coped with her loneliness the only way she knew how: hobbies. Sewing, car repair, fixing radios, carving, learning French, etc. Venetia jumped from item to item, stubbornly conquering skills and projects before moving on to the newest thing. This does make her a very handy packmate: it's likely that even if Venetia doesn't have an exact skill needed for an odd job, she something transferable (and she's great at finding resources to help her learn).

In the city, Venetia saw it as a sort of job to really help out as her time as a stray often meant coming into bigger cities to avoid wandering into another pack's territory. Her decision to try for Alpha--and the reason she got it, was similar. Smart and patient, Venetia's only priority was keeping the pack together and thriving, even when she only had a handful of moons with the pack under her belt.

Fun Facts

her native language is Welsh, she didn't learn English until she was around 12 years old

her mother named for a novel she once read, despite hating the novel itself

grew up on the coast so has a taste for fish and shellfish

worked at over 32 different places during her stray-days, but the bulk of these (more than half) were "work for board" style planting/harvesting operations

her longest stray-days job was as a yoga instructor at a Wiccan run spa-retreat, they were very sympathetic to her need to take full moons off

is allergic to bug bites, to her IMMENSE frustration

[princekirijo]

Well that happened. That was a DLC.

[kulturegroupie]

New Robert and Jimmy interviews ✨

Robert Plant and Jimmy Page were recently interviewed for the upcoming Hipgnosis documentary “Squaring The Circle (The Story Of Hipgnosis)” and they can be seen in the trailer:

The movie will be released in US cinemas on June 20 <3

[jadedvibes]

Idk if David Harbour intended to make his version of Santa Claus a sexy AF beefcake but the fact remains, he did.

[just-rogi]

I told my friend I thought song of Achilles was not a great book (not bad just 3 stars and overhyped) because the treatment of the female characters to prop up the white male gay protags was not the best and that Circe was WAY better in terms of developing compelling characters with motivations beyond bottoming for a blond twunk- we spent an hour arguing in depth she ripped me apart and said I was incredibly biased and that it’s insufferable to talk about media with me. Turns out she never even read it she just wanted to argue with me to get me engaged and worked up about something bc I’ve been a shell for weeks and had another doctors appointment today where I got news I wasn’t hoping for. This is the happiest I’ve been since I got sick, she even drove me to the library to pick out more books together after my appointment just so she could see me be a person again.

[daz4i]

bsd mutuals. if you like

symbolism

classic lit

watching characters face interesting dilemmas that may affect the fate of the world

orphans characters with sad yet interesting and touching backstories

homoerotic rivalries

which ofc you do. at least some of these. otherwise you wouldn't be into bsd right?

in that case, if you have the free time and can afford it, you should play persona 5 royal

and persona mutuals: if this applies to you as well. which ofc it does otherwise you wouldn't be into persona. you should read bungou stray dogs