#and then I’ll keep trying some more

[swiggity-swexual-i-am-asexual]

As per usual, it’s DP crossover with (probably) DC, although you could probably adjust it for other fandoms

ANYWAYS

A little kid and his mother are trick or treating in another city, perhaps at some kind of event rather than knocking on doors, and the kid is dressed as Phantom. It’s very adorable, with his little ghost-shaped bucket and clearly homemade and already stained costume—listen, white only works if you can just fly over street grime or phase it out of your clothes—and his slightly I’ll fitting wig. The kid is SO happy to be out and about dressed as his favorite, and maybe even showed it off to Phantom back in Amity Park before his family left.

The hero, insert whoever you wish here, is probably in civvies and just enjoying the event. The kid, meanwhile, is so glad when people ask who he is so he can explain, and so- the hero gets to hear ALL ABOUT the local town hero who is probably pretty small time despite the kid’s clearly exaggerated stories. The hero certainly never heard of him, but the kid’s mom confirms that Phantom really was the town hero, despite some mixed reviews of the poor guy.

“Did you manage to show him your costume?” the hero asks.

“Yeah! We went down to the cemetery to leave flowers and I got to show him my costume.”

Wait. Cemetery? Maybe it was part of theme, because Phantom had to be named that for a reason, but… it sounded like…

The kid ignores the suddenly VERY still hero and instead turns to his mom. “Momma, do you think we should bring him candy? He doesn’t get to trick or treat like we do, and I can work super hard to get him a bunch!”

The kid’s mom just smiles. “We could, but maybe we should bring him something homemade. I bet he’d like something more filling, teen boys like him have a hollow leg.”

The kid wrinkles his nose. “Like Vernie with the pizza bagels?”

“Like your cousin, yes. We can make some cinnamon rolls and take them to his memorial, maybe bring some of the apples from your grandpa’s garden…”

The hero is pretty much forgotten as the two-part family wanders off, not quite intentionally forgetting the hero is there so much as the hero somewhat accidentally ended the conversation when they just froze and didn’t ask anything further.

Not that the hero didn’t want to. But they’d learn something very serious.

One—there was a small town hero they’d never heard of. Two—that hero was apparently a teen. Third—most pressingly, the teen hero was both beloved enough to have kids dressing up as him and dead enough to have a grave.

This… might require some phone calls.

[babymorte]

i gave up on trying to play cod im so annoyed cuz i cant sleep and apparently spotify just wants to keep me depressed 🥲

[potato-lord-but-not]

hi Lord as an enjoyer of your pillowfort posting I have to ask…will kayne dennis and/or parker ever get to make an appearance in one???

Hm yknow the chances aren’t zero, ESPECIALLY for Parker. Someone else also sent an ask once asking about some sexy butcher,, so perhaps I can entertain you folks with that one.

Kayne tho is a whole other story. You really gotta be in a certain type of headspace to draw… that.

[fishyartist]

Ui idea tests, thrown together bc im eepy. Was planning on doing more but I spent all my days energy on the second one oops

[oldfashionedmorphine]

mondays have become my new wednesdays (for wips) since i work on wednesday instead of monday now lol…so with that said, here’s a wip for my byler + henderhop 10 things i hate about you au :)

it’s much longer than i would usually share but i worked a lot on these scenes the past two days and i wish i could start posting this story already, but unfortunately i keep writing everything out of order and there’s a lot that still needs work for the first chapter 🥲 but for now, please enjoy my two favorite schemers; dustin and lucas <3

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“Dude, you’ll never guess what happened!”

“What?”

Dustin looks around at the bustling hallway. “On second thought—not here, too many ears,” he says, then he leads Lucas into the nearest bathroom. And Lucas sighs at him when he checks under the stalls to make sure the coast is clear first. “Okay, so get this—she didn’t say no!”

“Huh?”

“I asked Jane out and she didn’t say no.”

“Wait—she actually said yes?”

“Well, no—she still isn’t allowed to date, just like you said—but stay with me a moment, ‘cause here’s the kicker—her dad just changed the rules! She told me she can date once her brother does. Can you believe it?! All we have to do is find someone for him and then it’s a done deal!”

“Uh…we?”

“Yeah, well, I thought since I don’t exactly know enough people around here that maybe you’d have a better idea of who’d be up for such a challenge. ‘Cause Jane said Will’s kind of a—”

“Dick?”

“Yup,” he says, nodding. “So?”

“So, what?”

“Do you know someone who might be interested in dating a difficult guy?”

“Uh…yeah, so here’s the thing…Will’s—”

“Gay? Yeah, I know—Jane told me that already.”

“Right, but that’s the problem—I don’t know of any other gay guys in school. He’s kinda the only one.”

“Oh—shit. That sucks."

“Sorry.”

“No, no—it’s fine. Like every other problem there’s always a solution. We just have to think outside the box.”

“Uh-huh.” Lucas checks his watch. “Well, we only got five more minutes until class starts, so maybe we should—”

“Hold on, I just need a sec—it’ll come to me…” Dustin taps a finger on his bottom lip as he starts to pace back and forth while Lucas folds his arms and leans against the wall. Think, dammit—if no one else in this school is gay, and finding someone outside of town would be too much of a logistical nightmare to try and arrange, then how could we get this to work? It’s not like we can force someone to be gay…but maybe—maybe someone could just pretend—yes! That’s it! He snaps his fingers. “I got it! What if—what if we find a guy and we convince him to pretend he’s interested in Will?”

Lucas furrows his brow. “What?”

“Think about it—we don’t need them to actually be gay, they just need to pretend they are.”

“And how would you convince someone to do that?”

“Easy—with money. Everyone has a price, right?”

“I don’t know about that—would you fake being gay for money?”

“I’m not a potential suitor, so my own personal answer to that question is completely irrelevant to the point I’m making.”

“In other words; no?”

“What?! I never said that! All I’m trying to say is that there’s gotta be one guy in this school willing to date Will for a couple bucks!”

“Well,” Lucas shrugs, “I guess…potentially there is at least one guy I can think of who’d maybe be up for it if the money’s good enough—I mean, I don’t know him that well, I’ve just heard some stuff, so no guarantees—but I definitely don’t have enough money to convince anyone of anything.”

“Me either…” Dustin hums, then he snaps his fingers again. “Which means we’re also gonna need someone to help finance the operation—someone rich, but also stupid enough to believe it's all their idea. Know anyone like that?”

“Actually…yeah.” Lucas grins. “You remember Troy, right?”

“Yeah.”

“Well, the other day after practice, I overheard him in the locker room talking with some of the guys…about Jane.”

“Oh yeah? What’d he say?”

“They were kinda ragging on him a little about how he’s never had a girlfriend and he mentioned that she was the only girl in school he was interested in and how much it sucked she can’t date anyone. So…it’ll probably be pretty easy to convince him to try and pay a guy to date Will if he truly thinks it’ll give him a chance with her.”

“Okay—yeah. We can work with that,” Dustin says. “Think you can get him on board?”

“I’ll talk to him during lunch, but we gotta get to class before—” the bell rings, “—and we’re late.”

“Shit. Sorry.”

“Man, you owe me a soda.”

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Halfway through lunchtime, they get the ball rolling on their ploy with Troy.

Lucas hangs back for a couple minutes while Dustin gets into place. He slides into a seat at a table adjacent to Troy and his friends as nonchalantly as possible—Lucas told him the plan would work best if he didn’t hover, so the compromise was for him to sit within earshot while pretending to study his chemistry textbook. So far they hadn’t noticed him. He gives Lucas a thumbs up from across the cafeteria, then he watches as Lucas signals back before he moves to approache Troy’s table.

“Aye yo, Troy,” Lucas says with a casual upward nod.

Troy looks up at Lucas, seeming mildly annoyed at the intrusion. “Sinclair,” he replies.

“Got a sec?”

“For now. What’s up?”

Lucas takes a seat in one of the empty chairs. “So, uh…couldn’t help but overhear you talking the other day,” he says, then lowers his voice to a whisper and Dustin can barely hear him, “about Jane Hopper.”

He huffs. “Yeah, what about her?”

“I just…I had a thought—figured it couldn’t hurt to run it by you, you know, just to see if it’s something you’d be interested in.”

Troy shares a quick look with one of his friends—James something, from what Dustin can remember—then he looks back at Lucas, shrugging a shoulder. “Shoot.”

“Okay, so, basically, the situation seems to be that you wanna get with Jane, but her dad won’t let her date anyone until her brother starts dating, yet the odds of that ever happening are practically zero, since you’ve got two major factors working against you when it comes to Will Byers; obviously, everyone knows he’s gay, so the—”

“Are you planning on telling me something I don’t already know anytime soon, Sinclair?”

“Dude, let me finish.”

“Then spit it out already.”

“Hire someone. Pay a guy to take him out—ideally someone not afraid of a little challenge since he’s a bit of a headcase.”

Troy frowns, and when it seems as if a cat had got his tongue, his friend James speaks up, “Got anyone in mind?”

Lucas scans the cafeteria, then he points to the guy he told him about earlier—Mike Wheeler. “Him.”

“Frogface?” James says, laughing as he nudges Troy in the arm.

“Yup. He’s the one you want.”

“Okay, but why him?” Troy asks, brow still furrowed.

“Well, I don’t know what you’ve heard, but the word is that his parents cut him off after he got sent to juvie during sophomore year, so he’s always strapped for cash now—my friend Greg said he was even bragging to some guys in his English class about how he sold part of his liver on the black market to buy a new bass guitar last summer. So I highly doubt he’d say no if you make it worth his while. Plus, he’s clearly done way worse shit than having to date someone like Will Byers—just seems like a solid investment to me.”

“Right,” Troy says—he doesn’t seem convinced or all that interested. “If you say so.”

“Hey—all I’m saying is it can’t hurt to see if he’s willing. You’ve really got nothing to lose if he says no, but everything to gain if he says yes. He gets paid, you get laid—just sayin’.”

Troy’s face turns the slightest shade of pink. He glances around the table at his friends, then looks back at Lucas, nodding. “I’ll consider it…but why the hell are you even telling me this anyway? What’s in it for you?”

“Simple. You get Coach to let me start for finals. I’m tired of being kept on the bench until the last five minutes of the game in the hopes I’ll score him a Hail Mary. Because it’s complete bullshit. You know full well we wouldn’t even need a Hail Mary if he gave me more time on the court, but for some strange reason Coach doesn’t see it that way, and we all know you’re the only one who can change his mind—seeing as he’s your dad and all.”

“Fine. But I swear, Sinclair, you better not choke if—”

Lucas snorts, then he gets up from the table. “Trust me, I won’t…anyway, I’ll catch you ladies later at practice.” He starts to walk away and nods at Dustin, signaling him to follow him, and then they both head toward the cafeteria exit.

“Are we sure we can trust him though?” Dustin asks once they’re in the hallway.

“Man, I wouldn’t trust Troy any farther than you could throw him…but if he can’t convince Mike to take out Will, then it won’t even matter anyway. Right?”

“True…”

tagging some of my fans: @boahey @total-serene560 @magentamee @greenfiend @foodiewithdahoodie @smalltownwheeler @stranger-things-yapper

[i-like-forcefem]

Hi! I just wanted to know if you'd ever heard of a really fun forcefem game called Crossdressing in Camelot? It's a really well-made one that definitely put some work into cracking my own egg. You play as a "man" who discovers that they have a talent for magic, but oops! the best way to grow stronger magically is to be more feminine! It has some really well-written characters, some fun dialogue and plot, and is free on itch.io!

Never heard of it before and gave it a shot!

It’s quite fun! Though sadly moved a bit too slowly for me personally, I can definitely see the appeal!

It was fun to give it a shot! Please tell me if anyone has more forcefem recommendations!

[ifithasafandomimapartofit]

hello my beloved mutuals from my notes.

@smallest-turtle @kittykatcreatster @tinycutefauna @spitefulpumpkin @cassadeir @dataalfa109 @hijacking-hearts @blakenightshade @chubby-chestnaught @bastardbeewoman @ekabw97

I really like that tumblr put a little “mutuals” icon in the notes cuz. I had no idea I had so many mutuals. I’m about to tag every mutual I have cuz. 👉👈😔 I wanna talk to y’all…..

[peipakao]

various sonic and flash related tweets i made that i think are at least mildly amusing

[1doesnotsimplyhavejust1fandam]

The thing that gets me is, if nothing changes, if Tim just stays on as showrunner, we will literally never be free of the worry that one of our mains is going to die in a random episode with no real warning in-universe. If the live stream hadn’t happened, we wouldn’t have even thought it was a possibility while the 118 was trying to get the antivirus and escape the lab. It had been nearly eight seasons of ridiculously unrealistic NDEs for all of the main characters, there was no precedent for Bobby’s death. If I hadn’t seen the live stream or anything on social media leading up to the episode, I wouldn’t have imagined a world in which they would kill off Bobby (except as a fake out). I would’ve understood that his oxygen tank was compromised, but would’ve assumed that Athena or Buck or the military or somebody would come up with a solution to the single antivirus problem. Because that is what every previous 9-1-1 episode had assured me would happen. There is no answer that is beyond this team and this family when it comes to keeping each other alive. “There is not a locked room anywhere that the right tools and enough time can’t break open.” It’s engraved into the heart of the show.

But now that there is precedent for a main’s death, we’ll never be able to breathe easy when it comes to the team being in danger, especially in the big emergency episodes or heavily promoted weeks. Because if Bobby can die in arguably one of the most disrespectful and idiotic ways for a main character and lead on a show to die after eight years, then literally nobody is safe. If Tim sticks around, he will always have the ability to “play God” again, and destroy the firefam with another death.

This is nothing new for many shows, including some of my favorites! But after watching this show for five years, and being reassured in and out of universe that they would never kill off a main, and the show keeping that promise, it had become an expectation and a joy of mine that nobody ever dies. I love angst and silliness and found family, and that is what I watch this show for. And call me egotistical, call me parasocial, but I do not appreciate being lied to by a show runner who kills a main character on a whim. That’s not good writing, it’s somebody who lost the plot a long time ago.

[alaskan-wallflower]

soda with heterochromia is canon in my heart <3

i don’t wanna spoil too much but i’m proud of how this ended up and felt like sharing lol

[velvetwyrme]

Hi!! Wow!!! There are a lot of you! (or it feels that way to me at least!) Thank you all for sticking around while I totter about doing my silly little things. It means a lot to me!!

I don’t like talking about/revealing my follower count so… I won’t! But I feel like Numbers require Celebration? What do people do for follower milestones?? Is there anything you guys want me to do? IDK I HAVEN'T DONE THIS BEFORE.

[kingofanemptyworld]

Togame’s Team:

Carracosta (Partner Pokemon)

Lairon

Lycanroc (Dusk)

Carkol

Cranidos

Alright, here’s my reasoning for Togame being a rock-type trainer: stamina. During the Noroshi arc, that’s the comment he gets from his opponent — he’s terrifying precisely because he just doesn’t stop. And you see it in his fight with Sakura, too; Togame could’ve kept going if he hadn’t had his epiphany mid-fight. Point being, it was a toss up between rock, ground, and steel for me, and rock won purely because it meant I could give him a turtle pokemon as a partner. Again, I had Rampardos in mind originally (the way it charges reminds me of Togame, lowered head and everything lmao), but Carracosta has it all. Rock type, revitalized fossil, and turtle. Truly a triple threat.

To elaborate a little more on the rest of his team… Lycanroc is there because anyone who’s guard dog-coded in the series (Endo, Togame, Nirei - that makes sense I promise - Hiiragi, etc.) gets a dog-like pokemon. And it’s the dusk form because I liked the mixture of light/dark imagery considering Togame’s character arc. Carkol is his one concession to the fact that the eighth gym is meant to be fire-themed (when Choji’s actually there and not wandering around like the free spirit he is), plus it’s like. Togame being the inexhaustible fuel to Choji’s fire, y’know?

Lairon’s there because I like that evolutionary line. And it fits well with the whole steadfast second in command vibe Togame’s got going on. Plus I’m pretty sure its speed is abysmal in-game.

Were Togame not a gym leader (stand in) and just a normal trainer Sakura encounters, he’d probably have this team instead: Carracosta, Torterra, Torkoal, Blastoise, Shuckle. Because turtle.

[shrips]

isabella, lucia, antonia, ysabel

even though lucia is sort of the central character and she doesn’t interact that often w characters like isabella or ysabel, each of them has a pretty important dynamic with andrea that shapes the narrative around her. so a bit on each of those relationships

ISABELLA

isabella is betrothed to andrea when she is eight years old. the five year age gap between them makes it easy for him to treat her as uneducated and annoying. though he does mellow out somewhat as he grows older, andrea never quite lets go of this dismissiveness towards her (and all women. lol). isabella is at an age when she is beginning to entertain ideas about love and romance for herself, and recognizing that she will never win over andrea, seeks out attention from others.

lucia’s penchant for gossip is what eventually spells disaster for isabella. she parrots a rumor that she’s taken one of her peers as a lover, which andrea is predictably slighted by. he and a friend pursue and brutally assault isabella’s companion (still a teenager), killing him. he says nothing of this to isabella or lucia, though both have their suspicions.

isabella is devastated at the loss of her companion. when andrea seems to show little sympathy for her loss, she dares to suggest that he was involved in the death, which he refuses to engage with. grieving and distraught at the idea of spending the rest of her life at andrea’s side, she kills herself at the age of sixteen.

LUCIA

lucia unwittingly catches andrea’s attention when he is teetering on the edge of puberty, but it isn’t until several years later when he’s sixteen that he finds the conviction and an opportune time to proposition her. she’s four years his senior, but his status is significantly elevated over her own.

it is pretty cut and dry that he rapes her but neither of them recognize that. at most, lucia is aware she’s being coerced, but she plays the game, says what he wants to hear, and hopes that he’ll leave her alone afterwards. he does not, and continues to pursue her, but in a manner she thinks of as sort of gentlemanly (despite that fact that he assaulted her). against her better judgement she does not raise the issue to her mistress. she finds him at times inconvenient, not particularly attractive, and temperamental, but overall tolerable and sometimes even charming. most importantly, he seems to be sincere in his affections for lucia. her standards are low.

she entertains him for around a year before she is absent for a five year gap following antonia’s marriage.

his etiquette is polished during lucia’s time away, and when she returns and he seeks to engage her again in a relationship, she is more easily won over by his adult behavior. following isabella’s death and antonia’s grief, she chooses to leave the household and join andrea in hopes of escaping the constant gloom. while initially thrilled with her status, ysabel’s arrival irritates her immensely. she works tirelessly to keep andrea’s attentions on her and away from his wife, whom she finds beautiful and docile and is extremely threatened by. she succeeds, but with increased attention comes scrutiny, and andrea becomes more and more critical of her with time as he is made aware of her “flaws.”

whatever modicum of independence she had serving antonia she loses in andrea’s household, though it takes time for her to realize this. as his grip tightens with time, she goes from flattered by his obsession and entertaining the idea of loving him to downright restless and fearful of him.

ANTONIA

antonia is a year older than andrea, and though their interactions are infrequent, she dislikes him from the jump. she finds his callousness towards her sister infuriating and resents him for the relationship he eventually begins to develop with her father. andrea, always quick to pick up on a slight, recognizes this and their relationship becomes one of subtle jabs and backhanded comments to set the other off.

neither of them have the self-awareness to recognize how remarkably similar their personalities are. even lucia interprets their behavior differently due to their respective sexes.

after isabella’s suicide, antonia retreats into her apartments and lives like a recluse, allowing little company besides that of her maids. she is miserable and volatile, and lucia finds herself walking on eggshells around her. the comparative levity of andrea’s household prompts lucia to disappear overnight, to antonia’s distress.

YSABEL

ysabel is betrothed to andrea following isabella’s death. with her father a part of the newly established spanish rule, she is a shy girl in a foreign country with few companions and a weak grasp on the local language. she’s seventeen at the time; andrea, twenty-three. compared to the long betrothal period of andrea and isabella, he and ysabel are wed briskly within the year.

despite her reserved personality, ysabel is optimistic about the marriage. andrea is brief but polite, educated, and (she thinks) handsome. he gives her respectful distance after their wedding, which she thinks is to allow her to acclimate to his household. eventually, being a horny and repressed teenager, she begins trying to subtly indicate to her husband that she’d like his attention, but her signals go unnoticed or ignored until she begins to suspect that he’s not interested in women at all.

at this point, andrea has already taken lucia as his mistress, and he conceals her from ysabel as long as he can manage. the eventual revelation is devastating to ysabel, but seemingly explains his disinterest in her. she grows to loathe lucia and blame her for andrea’s lack of affection, whilst lucia similarly resents ysabel for having been given the privileged status of “wife.” when ysabel eventually becomes pregnant, she hopes that it will inspire some loyalty in her husband; she is carrying his family legacy. alas, it is not the case. while he is generally gentler towards her during her pregnancy, he still leaves her wanting for attention and intimacy. she has andrea’s first child, a daughter, a little over a year into their marriage, followed by two sons in the two years following.

unlike lucia, ysabel grows emboldened with time. though her disobedience is subtle, she begins slowly and quietly trying to wrest a degree of freedom from andrea’s hands

[javierduffy]

stuff

[artsy-apricot]

More experiments with Black Mountain clay!

I love the cool glaze effects I’ve gotten with this — the way the marbling shows through the clear glaze that only turned white over the black clay, and the cool speckles that emerged in the blue glaze. Next I’m going to try marbling the clay with a red glaze over it to see what happens!

Progress pics below the cut

[owlfacenightkit]

Trying to figure out how I want to draw this guy…