#and then baz finds it...

[thecooler]

I run GSA at the middle school I work at and this is really cool because sometimes I hear children calling my name and giggling, and I turn around and four gay thirteen year olds show me their sketchbooks full of art of various Hazbin Hotel characters and also Adam from the Bible, all of whom are pregnant

[pedro-pascal]

ROMEO + JULIET (1996) dir. Baz Luhrmann

[cheebuss]

yep

collab w/ my boy @morskisir who drew Sniper + coloured my background lineart

[artsyunderstudy]

I'll probably stay awhile.

[rimeswithpurple]

Carry On Countdown Day 27 - Gift

[squeeze-the-lemon]

my new headcannon is that Baz carries around a few packets of butter for Simon that he's spelled to not melt after an incident at a cafe where they only had low fat vegetable spread and Simon never got over it

[cattocavo]

So I’ve been tagged in six sentence sunday!

I’ve never done these before and I’m not very active on here so i wouldnt know who to tag in response (although if any of you are fine with being tagged, please write to me! Id love to hear what everyone’s doing, and make some new friends!!

Since I last posted on tumblr I’ve finished all the inktober drawings I planned to draw. They’re all posted on my instagram, but I’m severely behind on posting here😅 tumblr is great but I cannot for the life of me shake off the awkwardness that comes with posting on another media that isn’t my preferred one. But if anyone who doesnt have instagram wants to see the rest just lmk and I’ll post them!

Other than inktober I haven’t really done anything.. i wanted to draw something for valentines, and got an idea a day before which is obviously WAY too little time to finish anything. And well, then valentines day passed and I no longer had a deadline.. so I didn’t finish it. I cannot for the life of me finish anything without a deadline. (Literally realized like 4 days ago that ive basically never finished a high-effort illustration without a deadline or someone relying on me😵‍💫 which kinda sucks ngl)

But since six sentence sundays are for wips, I guess I can show it to y’all what i drew for valentines!

So heres the concept (which is almost better than the finished result will be. I didn’t manage sultry Simon’s facial expression very well in the actual drawing😭 he just looks annoyed instead of ‘sexy’)

Aaannnd this is a wip of the actual drawing:

I really might end up redoing sultry Simon’s face, cuz it just isn’t working. I wanted the “expectation” side to like be the baz vision equivalent of some sexy male models slicked in oil and faces all squinty and lip-bitey. I didn’t want there to be a trace of an actual person, only the vision of “hot” so an annoyed simon with a bow will not do :/

Sidenote about simons shirt: eat the rich more like swallow the rich amirite?

I have this dumbass obsession with putting simon in ugly T shirts where theres printed the most ridiculous quotes on. I have a whole pinterest board on it. I tastefully called it “simons questionable taste in fashion”

(It’s all dumbass crop tops and tiny shirts with big chunky shoes. Idk I just love that on him)

But uhh I think that’s all for now! Thank you for tagging me @thewholelemon and @j-nipper-95 for tagging me a lot of previous times where i didn’t do anything bc i was shy😅

See you all next time!

Also idk if people put tags on SSS but I’m just gonna do that bc its what I’m used to

[demadogs]

i always say i dont want a book to have a screen adaptation out of fear of them doing it dirty and then i think of the most perfect casting ever for the main character and im like FUCK now i wont sleep until i see this happen

[gettheplant]

Moulin Rouge! (2001)

[monbons]

WIP Wednesday

Thank you to @emeryhall and @thewholelemon for the tags. Special thanks to EVERYONE who shared advice or encouraging words on my last post. I am actively putting all of your words into practice and just taking a break to fill my cup, which looks like reading fics, baking treats, and exercising.

This upcoming chapter is on the shorter side and contains one of the bigger reveals of the fic (two if you are a super close reader like @cutestkilla), so I can't post too much.

Instead, I'll pull the curtain back on the writing process as @bookish-bogwitch did and share a picture of a note I made on the outline for a future chapter that I find amusing.

In the spirit of bait and switch, here are two lines where someone will gasp in chapter 4 and it will not be for sexy reasons...

Baz closes his eyes, gasps softly, and nods. “Basil!” she gasps. “What happened in the woods?”

Hellos and high-fives! @roomwithanopenfire, @raenestee, @best--dress, @beastmonstertitan, @valeffelees

@hushed-chorus, @iamamythologicalcreature, @drowninginships, @you-remind-me-of-the-babe, @arthurkko

@brilla-brilla-estrellita, @noblecorgi, @aristocratic-otter, @comesitintheclover, @ivelovedhimthroughworse

[sailorblossoms]

In a way, Baz has experience Simon doesn’t, because he has a better grasp of love and how to give it (even if Baz does struggle with fully accepting unconditional love – before Simon, he feels like he’s loved despite parts of who he is). Baz knows what he wants, and he has known for a long time. He has experience desiring and with desire (even if he can struggle with being desired, with even accepting it even though Simon desires him so intensely).

In certain way, Simon’s experience with dating and everything that came with it didn’t do much for him besides showing him what he doesn’t want (and likely creating new issues) even if he’s not processing it like that (because he doesn’t want to think about it) (it always stand out to me that Simon thinks like he’s just figuring out love and sex and relationships with Baz on page, like he has not ever done any of it before… and he hasn’t. Not like that. Not when he really wanted it)

Simon has wanted Baz for just as long, but hasn’t known it for long. He has no experience identifying his wants and then acting on it. He has no experience identifying his desire and just feeling it, he has no experience expressing it. Simon is just barreling through when he gets lost, without knowing what he’s supposed to take, where it leads. We can tell, in hindsight, that Simon’s experience are with pushing himself to do things he didn’t really want or wasn’t interested in, things he wasn’t ready to do yet (if you can’t even think the word sex…) (that candle in wind says a lot about Simon’s desinterest and familiarity with pressure and expectations)… things where he likely pushed himself to just barrel through before “he lost his nerve.”

Baz has experience with connecting pleasure with his desire for Simon, he has experience seeing romantic and sexual feelings connected and directed toward someone and doing something about it (even if it’s angrily, hidden, and by himself, there’s processing and discovery there). Which is part of why it makes sense that Baz takes the lead, and Simon follows his cues. Baz grounds Simon. We get somewhere when “Baz drives” (getting back here in a second).  

Simon is discovering himself, and it’s a process. Even when he’s telling us he has never been in love with anyone who isn’t Baz, that he has never wanted (to have sex) with anyone but him, Baz is the one saying the word in his memory. It’s not Simon who says it. But then, when Simon is in the moment, when he gets lost in his desire, he tells us he “wants to cum on Baz.” There’s something feral and explicit (maybe even possessiveness) about it that shows a hidden desire he would not have dared say before. He wants to mark Baz with “the physical manifestation” of his desire for him. 

We see Simon discovering what he’s into in bed with Baz in real time. It doesn’t mean he has experience with it. He has no experience being bitten – him finding it hot is likely because he thinks Baz’s fangs are hot, and it’s exciting to see him drink, and so he’s putting these things together. With the way his crazy magic worked, he couldn’t get worked up at all. (Blowing off steam would have likely been in other physical activities like sword training). Baz says Simon is “going off” in bed, when Simon’s desires and emotions can get out of control. Wanting to “cum on Baz” is something he could have discovered he wanted to do in the moment, while in bed with Baz –before this, the release of his magic was likely the only release Simon knew, the only he has experience with… and it was huge and destructive. (I have a post somewhere where their first time could be seen as Simon experiencing an orgasm for the first time, while for Baz is the first time he feels allowed to enjoy his desire for Simon)

Simon struggles because he has no experience managing this. Comparing eating sandwiches Baz made him in bed, just the way he likes it, with make-up sex implies he has no experience connecting sex with pleasure – he’s connecting it with food and Baz and bed (as if food were his only reference for feeling pleasure, Baz the only one who has ever awoken desire) (also food=love and connection in the series).

It really makes the most sense that Baz would drive, for multiple reasons. Simon has pushed himself in the past – not wanting it didn’t stop him, and he’s worst off for it (it has made him, however, more astute with consent, how complicated things can be, how it get go out of hand: “did anything happen that you didn’t want to happen?”) Baz’s experiences make him more suited to ground Simon, because he’s a natural caretaker, because he’s not going to push or allow things to continue if they’re not 100% into it, because he knows what he wants. But Baz doesn’t “do all the work” in terms of guidance either — he has no experience with taking what he wants, with feeling allowed to even ask for it. That’s where Simon gets him out of his head. He encourages him to ask for anything. (They ground each other)

[onepintobean]

COC day 7 | midnight just be sure you leave the ball before the clock strikes midnight

[cheebuss]

Steam 20th anniversary rewired my brain chemistry

[austinbutlermischief]

[paper-beats-writers-block]

the Anathema enchantment on the Watford rooms is such a funny concept to me because when Simon and Baz fight and it results in one of them shouting “Anathema!” I never think of it as like. A growled reminder that they’re stuck with each other. I imagine one of them gets very worked up and the other squeaks “anathema!” while scampering out of the way so the punch or spell hits the wall instead of the person

[henreyettah]

Drawtober day 4: playful!