This Old Love Has Me Bound
Pairing: Evan Buckley/Eddie Diaz, Evan Buckley/Tommy Kinard
Rating: Teen and up
Word Count: 3516
Summary:
“Okay so, a high school crush,” Tommy starts, ticking the examples off on his fingers. “A maybe set up from your sister and one guy who thought you were flirting like, three years ago. Is that it?”
Buck frowns, trying to think, because he knows there has to be more. Unbidden, a memory flashes in his head and he huffs a laugh.
“There was one time this, uh, Christmas elf? Thought Eddie and I were married. Like we took Christopher to see Santa and she told me we had a beautiful family.”
Something inscrutable passes across Tommy’s face but it’s gone in an instant. “Yeah? What’d you say?”
“I-“
“Here we are!” the perky waiter interrupts Buck’s answer, looking expectantly between the two of them. “Who ordered the steak?”
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In an attempt to better understand his newfound bisexuality, Buck tries to figure out if he ever missed any signs with guys before. The universe keeps interrupting every time he's about to think about Eddie.
Read here on ao3
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It's way past my bedtime ans my cat is sleeping-purring next to me but I thought I'd post the process of the @ailani-reillata Ailaniversary art I made today just to talk a bit more about it
Disclaimer: doing traditional art is cool until you need to scan it or post a picture of it 😂 also kinda long post below so ofc no obligation at all to read it!
Phase one: Sketching the Idea
My inspiration for the posture was a Yara Flor comic strip I found on Pinterest. Yara looks over her shoulder and her hair falls on the side of her face, and I loved the way it framed her face and thought it would look great with Ailani's hair.
I drew a little doodle on the page to help me visualize how the hair would be divided, and focused on 3 main parts (the lines, the bubbles, the empty space) which would - supposedly- help me during the lineart stage. Below are images of the final sketch.
I was hesitant on adding details to her arms, such as the folds of a dress, but I was so anxious about ruining the drawing I abandonzd that idea. I was considering adding her tattoos and was still not decided at this stage of the drawing.
Phase 2: Line-ing the Art
Is that even a real word? Idk, I'm too tired to English properly so we will say it is. Following the sketching phase was naturalle the lineart phase, which is one of my favorite stage when drawing. I bought new inking pens too so I was able to test them out, and it went quite well!
As you can see, the ribbons, outline of the skin and facial features have been done with my new pens, and i was quite happy with the result! It gives a more natural look to the whole drawing in my opinion.
At this stage I decided not to add her arm tattoos and consider this version of Ailani as the one you would find in the early chapters of Begged and Borrowed Time, so before she would get her tattoos.
Phase 2.5: Line-ing the Hair
This stage has it's own part because it was really fun to do! The inspiration for the way I draw hair comes from @/ssavaart (aka Scott Christian Sava on Youtube). I've been following him for a while now and I'm trying to push my art beyond my comfort zone and try new stuff thanks to him, and having fun with drawing hair is one of these things!
Look how beautiful these curls are. I'm not trying to toot my own horn or anything, but I'm really proud of the drawing at this stage 😂 it's the perfect moment where the inking went well and I have not yet ridked myself with the watercolours - so I always take a long sight (and tons of pictures) to celebrate reaching this stage without incidents.
Phase 3: Watercolours
Here comes the difficult part. It always makes me nervous because I always fear ruining my drawing and all the efforts I put into it by doing the watercolours. But I love the medium too much and if I want to get better I need to practice. So, testing the waters, I finally dive head first into this crucial stage.
The watercolouring goes well, I'm overall satisfied enough to take some pictures and even try to scan it, with the hope that the scanned rendering will be better than the usual "photographing and editing" I do with my phone.
Spoiler alert: the scan was NOT better than the pictures, and no amount of editing could change that. (Or maybe I am just very bad at editing.) So, back to my "photographing and editing" habits, I somehow managed to get a good enough result:
I still feel unsatisfied as I find these digital versions do not properly render the visuals I have on paper, IRL. With the digital versionsw the hair is either so dark we don't see the details, or too bright, the colours are too warm and light... And while Ailani looks light-skinned, the paper version has these visible brown tones that I struggled to find on the digital version, even when editing the pictures. The closest I got is the tone you see on the first picture, but the image is not lighted enough so the overall quality of the picture is a bit lessened by that.
Still, I won't complain too much, because overall it was a very fun drawing to do, I enjoyed every stage of it and I would love to do another piece like this! But for now I will go to sleep because it is Way Past My Bedtime 😂
If you've made it this far, thank you for your attention, feel free to let me know which stage is your favorite and what you liked most (or disliked most) about this drawing!
I for one really had fun doing Ailani's lips, as well as filling her hair, and colouring her eyes! 😊
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to go with the sunshine & sunshine protector vibes:
mork's debt collectors come to collect at day's house when mork isn't there 👀
CASSI WHY ARE YOU GOING STRAIGHT FOR MY JUGULAR LIKE THIS I SWEAR EVERY SINGLE THEORY ABOUT MORK'S DEBT COLLECTORS COMING FOR DAY IS GONNA PUT ME INTO A PSYCH WARD BEFORE THE SHOW EVEN GETS THE CHANCE TO AIR
THIS ONE IN PARTICULAR IS JUST SOOOO. like imagine the debt collectors looking for mork at the garage like they usually do but they can't find him there anymore so they start following him and discover that he goes to this huge expensive house every day. maybe they think mork is cheating them out of money and decide to remind him how things work, so one day, after mork leaves, they go knock at the front door. in the house there are only day and night and thinking that mork must have forgotten something and came back for it, they open the door without even looking who is it. and like.. no one gets hurt, those debt collectors just went there to throw around some threats as a warning to mork (and i want day to be amazing through it all, standing proud in the middle of the room and talking back to those assholes without fear), but it's a big scare for night and no matter how much day begs him to not tell their mom what happened, he still does it, and things escalate from there
cue day's mom wanting mork out of her son's life, mork feeling incredibly guilty and scared because day could have gotten hurt which prompts him to leave thinking that's for the best, and day being forced back into isolation. BUT ALSO!!!!!! mork marching up to those debt collectors and punching them in the face because he's never been a violent man, never dared to fight back, but no one - NO ONE - thinks about hurting day and gets away with it. and that's when he knows he has to leave: that's the first time he has someone to protect, someone he loves and wants and needs so completely, and he can't stand the thought of losing day or day coming to hate him
thankfully day is gonna have none of that and get him back AND NOW IF YOU'LL EXCUSE ME IM GONNA GO SCREAM INTO MY PILLOW FOR THE REST OF THE NIGHT
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oh haha just some fic book covers
at least one person wanted to see so that's good enough for me (kisses to @zozo-01)! i've done a few of these now. i started with fics which had book-ish titles and enough words that they seemed like they might be worth the effort to potentially bind them for my own personal enjoyment sometime, but i think i just like making these. anyway im putting the covers, along with fic links and such, below the cut bc, yknow... long posts.
First, we have three fics by @romirola:
Bound Together
(It Was The First Time) Things Felt Normal Again)
Secrets Between Friends
Then, we have two fics by @dominimoonbeam:
Scars That Remind
Long Time No See
And last but certainly not least, two (series) by @sealriously-sealrious:
Nature’s Better When You Share It With Your Favorite Person
The Darlin' Babysitting AU
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