#cottage ramblings

[cottageimp]

I had a dream a little bit ago that I hung out with John on his porch which was, for some reason, underneath a highway. We talked for a while and he would get up from his rocking chair and pace from one end of the porch to the other while rambling about all his goings on! But then at some point, he got really excited about something in particular! In his excitement, he forgot about personal space and grabbed each arm rest of my rocking chair and jump scared me very suddenly!!

[bixels]

What's K.O. CRISIS?

Hey all. Over the past couple months, I've gotten a lot of followers who probably don't know about my OCs and portfolio projects that I'm also working on, so I'm making a quick master-post for it!

K.O. CRISIS is a series of artwork––character designs, illustrations, sketches, and animations––inspired by late-90s/early-2000s anime and Y2K culture.

Set in an alternate-history Los Angeles in the year 2001, the story follows disabled Taiwanese-American Ashley Tang as she fights her way to the top of the bracket in the national augmented boxing championship.

As the youngest female fighter in the championship, she'll have to fight tooth-and-nail to defend her place amongst the heavy-weights. While her rare dual arm prosthetics help even the playing fields, it'll take more than brute strength to prove her worth.

But this isn't a story about an underdog triumphing against all odds. Throughout the story, Ashley will push herself to the limit for the sake of validating her existence under the grinding heel of the sports media machine, in a world that values disabled bodies more than their lives. As the championship rages on, one question seems to linger through the roar: Is Ash strong enough to win, or is she brave enough to quit?

Through the project, I'm hoping to explore representations of prosthetic-users in pop culture as "enhanced superheroes," as well as discussions of trans-humanism under medical capitalism, the fetishization of new technology, and the commodification of disabled people as entertainment.

Accompanying her journey include characters like Noora Balakrishnan, a local transfem prosthetics engineer who doubles as Ashley's ringside mechanical cutwoman.

The project is still in its early stages, especially since I sorta rebooted it earlier this year (meaning I'm no longer using past, outdated art for the project). If you enjoy it, you can find more artwork for the project under the #ko crisis tag!

[flowersforfrancis]

[infamous-if]

never thought id be writing seven lawless in an Apron but here we are

[crazycatsiren]

At least, there are mushrooms, and frogs, and bees, and wildflowers, and rivers, and moss, and... and...

[cafeblossomss]

Reasons to Live:

cats i haven’t gotten to pet yet

books i haven’t read that will be my new favorite

flowers blooming in the spring and summer

when i make the perfect cup of coffee

new seasons of my favorite tv shows

plants on my wishlist that i haven’t bought yet

the color of the leaves in the fall

getting to thrift some wishlist items

seeing the people i love succeed

eating bowls of mac and cheese and soft pretzels

the way the sunlight filters into our home

finding a new favorite candle scent

trying out new restaurants

[redglassbird]

Reasons that you, esteemed Tumblr user, should be my mutual <3 (the heart is a part of the title)

-Do you wear round glasses? So do I! That obviously means we're the same person and should interact (if your vision is good ignore this for a sec [hello fellow poor sighted soul let's take over the world >:) as mutuals!]).

-Are you needlessly obsessed with the color lavender? This is a safe space. Is the color red in my URL? Yes. Irrelevant tho. Unless you like red. This is also a safe space for red lovers.

-now that I'm thinking about it if you like green and brown literally I'm blowing you a kiss rn

-Are you perpetually haunted by the fear that you won't be able to live a cottagecore lifestyle one day??? Are you afraid that the thatched roof and mushroom decor will never be there to comfort you? Same. We may need to pool our money together to make this happen.

[rtlstuff]

JKR Writing Fleur Delacour: So this french bird is super sexy but she's also incredibly shallow and vain and snooty, y'know how the French are. She's high fem which is a bad thing, tomboys are the best. She's also just incredibly annoying and full of herself. Constantly making herself the centre of attention even though nobody likes her and they call her phlegm behind her back. Hilarious, right?

90% of Fanfics when Writing Fleur Delacour: At first she comes off as entitled & full of herself, but as time goes on it's clear she's actually incredibly kind, compassionate and loyal. She also has a keen sense of matters of the heart. For the younger characters she takes on the role of a wise older sister. She's loyal and nurturing and and will always be there if you need someone to talk to. She is from a noble matriarchal race of fierce warriors and will fight tooth and nail to defend what is hers.

[catsinmugs]

summer daysss ☀️

[cottageimp]

Art vs artist!!

Pretty sure this is the first year of I've done this... I'm happy it's so colorful! I draw so much it's hard to fit a lot of this years art in here so I missed a few really recent drawings but oh well!

[justamidnightfantasy]

a week after the release of good omens S2 and i'm still going through it. i can't stop overthinking so i might as well put it into a post.

Aziraphale's initial rejection

so when aziraphale was recounting his conversation with the metatron, we saw him flat out reject the Supreme Archangel position at first. he explicitly states that doesn't want to go back to heaven. aziraphale has never been known to want power. we know that he loves his life on earth and everything that comes with it. that was so very clear in S1 since they literally stopped Armageddon because they didn't want earth to be destroyed.

but then the metatron brings out the big guns that supposedly made him reconsider— making crowley an angel again. OK so maybe this would've been a major PRO in aziraphale's internal pros and cons list and we're led to believe that it was actually what made him change his mind and accept the offer.

to put it simply, i imagine aziraphale's mind going like:

Supreme Archangel job = no thanks. Supreme Archangel job with angel!crowley = hmm interesting.

what i get from this is that he didn't want the job itself. he wanted it because it would've meant "restoring" crowley's angelic status.

(don't even get me started on the topic on whether i believe that he actually thought crowley would want to be restored in the first place)

but then crowley refused. not just refused but was offended by it.

so effectively, there are no more pros if we think about it. why would aziraphale still accept the job without crowley when we were led to the conclusion that aziraphale only considered the offer because he would get to take crowley too? there's something more. there's something we're missing here. there was definitely more to that conversation than what we were shown.

aziraphale's eerie smile at the end makes me almost sure there's something more at play here because they probably made michael sheen smile like a satisfied villain for a reason. i would be more willing to believe he came willingly if he had a blank expression in the elevator. why would he smile like that especially when he just had the biggest confrontation with crowley in their entire existence mere minutes ago?!?!

i don't buy into one particular theory but there's something going on for sure.

as for what that is, i guess we'll just have to wait and see.

[neverchecking]

Hi!! I just wanted to say that I love your work and I find your rendition of Sage/Totk Link absolutely AMAZING!!

And this isn’t specifically a request or anything I just wanted to comment

(and idk if this would count as a spoiler for TOTK but just in case I’ll say it: just talking about Link’s home in botw and Totk)

But as much as I love Link’s new home near Tarrey Town…

I MISS MY COTTAGECORE ONE IN HATENO!!!

And this just might be me projecting but I feel like Sage would miss it at times too.

Especially since a certain princess took it over and made it her own home.

And just passing through Hateno and hearing all about how “how this is Princess Zelda’s home” and how there’s literally villagers who will go in and clean the place while Zelda’s gone like?!?!?

Where was this hospitality for Link?!

Honestly I somewhat headcannon that Sage would begin to start avoiding Hateno simply because of how prominent of a figure Zelda became there for the citizens and how all the citizens seem to forget that HE used to own that house, that HE worked hard to but said house and completely fix it up when it was going to be demolished.

I ALSO MISS MY HATENO HOME I LOVED IT SO MUCH THEN I HAD TO USE MY IMAGINATION AND CREATE MY OWN HOME??? wHICH, BTW, COST SO MUCH MORE?!?!?!?

I think that's where a lot of Sage's resentment towards Zelda would come from, if not where it started. Imagine, you wake up with no memories whatsoever, suddenly have an entire kingdom on your shoulders, find out your friends are all dead, forced to rescue this kingdom and save someone who treated like absolute shit, but still manage to find a life for yourself only for her to then take it over.

Idk about yall, but I would be LIVID.

And yk what? Sage is. He is fucking boiling alive with his anger. When he first moved in, to a house that was fucking falling apart mind you, the villagers of Hateno all avoided him. None of them, save for Bolson and his company, offered their help. Bolson's help came at a price too, so he barely even counted that.

But here's this brat with the palm in her hand, getting all the credit for something he did. He fought Ganon. He saved her pathetic life. He did it all. When he finds out that the Mayor's wife is personally seeing to it that his home is being kept clean for her?! He has to leave the village and find a monster camp to cool down.

He probably only goes to Hateno for Cece. Bc we love Cece here. She did as all a favor with that Hylian hood (Iykyk). Or milk up at the farm as the farmer's family also love Link. They probably don't care too much for Zelda as she's all about modern this and technology that, while Link is much more comfortable with the slow life.

The only good thing is that now, he can let Reader design their dream home! A place with no memories of Zelda, or the Champions (The bitch took his picture too), just him and Reader, and the family they'll build there. :)

[mojo-chojo]

finally watched the boy and the heron and oh boy i've never felt more at home

its not that it changed my brain forever its more like... it brought back whatever was sleeping in the corner of my brain, unlocked the door, made me remember something i didnt know i have long forgotten

i need to pick up gouache again

[brahms4thrackett]

So I know everyone has their opinion on this, but I’m one of those who’d love to see some physical stuff between Crowley and Aziraphale in S3. I’m pretty sure we’ll get a better/happier/loving kiss, but part of me is hoping for consummation dammit. End the UST.

But, I also think going that far will probably not happen because I think Neil will let the fandom take what they will so everyone can relate even though there was already a giant ass kiss and the camera was supposed to be spinning around them as if they were the center of the universe, do y’all remember that??

Anyway, if we don’t get to see the true blue physical manifestation of their love (the fic writer in me wants another wall slam—wouldn’t that be a nice bookend to S1?—or an arm-sweep clearing of a desk and somebody getting lifted off the floor, a knocking headboard, something) Where was I? Oh yeah, if nothing like that, can we please at least have a montage of some of the intimacy between them before a fade to black? No, not the clinking of glasses in a public restaurant, even if the loving gaze was heart-melting. But they’re not here anymore:

Because they did this: aakhghhhgfggh…

Anyway, I’m just jotting down my wishlist on a public forum because why not? I want to see the cottage. Show me the one bedroom and the one bed. Show me casual touches between them. Show me Crowley waking up in the early morning (disheveled hair is a must) and reaching across the bed to the empty side. Show him wandering in to the kitchen and hugging the angel from behind as he’s there with his tea, staring out the window. Show me Crowley digging in the garden while Aziraphale reads, but also peeks over the top of his book to watch Crowley stand up and wipe his brow. Can we see them snuggling together, talking quietly, or maybe every fanartist’s dream—Crowley napping curled up next to Aziraphale while the angel reads.

Anyone have a hc of their sweet, domestic life to add?

[nocturnal-phantoms-fandoms]

☕️ wolfstar vs prongsfoot!! thoughts 🎤

omg thank you so much :D what a tasty topic to talk about!

(it got so long im putting it under the cut 😅)

[important note: this is how i feel about those ships, not a meta which ship is better/more canon]

i need to preface with saying that im a wolfstar shipper, first and foremost. I wasnt shipping prongsfoot from the beginning (I wasnt shipping any non-canonical couples while reading / right after finishing the books tbh. shortly after entering the fandom I encountered wolfstar and that might be a major reason why I still ship them). but I do see the appeal of prongsfoot, and I am a proud wolfstarbucks enjoyer. (also note that I imagine them by default in their 20s, so before Azkaban, but after Sirius runs away, but i will talk about book canon too). But enough personal lore. 

prongsfoot is an amazing ship and in a different universe it would be The Ship of The Marauders / MWPP fandom - have some things happened differently (if we got more actual James content earlier than the 5th book). They are joined at the hip, they invented the two-way mirrors to talk during detentions, Sirius runs away and the Potters take him in, Sirius is bored and James tries to lighten him up by bullying Snape, James trusts Sirius with his literal life. They are each other's favorite person, they would fight for each other, stand up for each other, give their life for the other. They are soulmates, two sides of the same coin, and they do love each other, there is no denying that. Also they are both attractive, capable and competent, so I 100% get the appeal of this ship. However most of the time (not always, just, usually) i see their love as unrequired, romantically speaking. (they love each other and sirius is in love with james - that is true, for me, in every universe - i.e. in canon and in wolfstar concepts/scenarios. however james being in love with sirius romantically is true in prongsfoot-aligned universes) 

Narratively (canonically) speaking, both ships are extremely tragic (and thats what makes both of them interesting*). James dies at 21 and Sirius blames himself for it for the rest of his life, gets locked up in torture prison, and cannot even make up for it by fulfilling his role as a godfather. // Sirius and Remus lose trust in each other during the war, believe the other is the traitor, and even after they miraculously reunite their time together is cut short with Sirius being on a run and then dying. 

But there's one thing that makes wolfstar so compelling to me - they get each other, on some level that nobody else gets access to. 

[note: we are entering headcanon and projection territory, from the pov of a r/s shipper]

I'm not saying James doesn't understand or support Sirius - of course he does. James would be on Sirius’s side no matter what - even if everyone else thinks Sirius is wrong, even if he knows he is wrong. They are ride or die. They also understand each other on a, lets say, intellectual level - they are both exceptionally intelligent, they always agree with each other and they do everything together (bullied Snape, made the map (yeah, remus and peter helped), became animagi (peter was there too i guess), joined the order at the same time etc). 

But there is some part of Sirius that I think James never truly grasps and Sirius never feels truly understood even though he knows james loves and supports him. And thats what makes wolfstar so special to me, bc I think that Remus does get Sirius. 

Wolfstar get each other in a way that they recognize some part - ugly, twisted, buried deeply and hidden from everyone - in the other. They are both deeply misunderstood, traumatized by their childhoods and oppressed by society - just in different ways - and there is no one else who truly gets them on this level. 

While Remus had a relatively happy childhood and caring parents, he was turned when he was five and then later learned it was partially his father’s fault, and was virtually isolated from his peers until he went to Hogwarts; he has a much lower social status than J & S, he is poor and can't find a job (especially after POA) and is generally having a bad time because of his lycanthropy. 

Sirius was emotionally and psychologically abused by his parents that expected him to be the perfect pureblood heir and then, after making his life so miserable he run away, cut him off; also if I remember correctly artemisia-black wrote a meta about Sirius being a victim of the society he was born to “rule”. At the same time, while he is a pureblood, when he runs away he loses the heir status and for a bit (a year? i think?) he has no money to his name. And obviously he is tortured during Azkaban, and then later he is an ex-con on a run with a bounty on his head. 

I also think they both carry some self-loathing in their hearts (just, again, different kinds). Sirius hates himself in a “I was born wrong and deep down I’m evil (and I have to work my whole life to make up for this” way (partially bc he was born in a bigoted abusive family. partially bc he is a scorpio i guess). Remus hates himself in a “I am unworthy of love and I don't deserve nice things” way. 

They are so different - probably couldn't be more different - their personalities and worldviews and even values don't match - and yet there is no one else now who understands the other better.

And then, after POA, turns out they are the only ones left – moreover, they did not only go through the same war, they went through the exact same loss. 

And I do think its evident in canon, to some extent. They reunite after Azkaban and immediately forgive each other – to me it speaks volumes about their relationship pre-Azkaban. How they almost seem like they are reading each others minds in the shack scene, the way they are so ready to murder Peter, and to do it together, how they fall back into a familiar rhythm. They forgive each other 12 years of heartbreak and loneliness and in Sirius’s case torture and knowing the other thought they were a traitor in one short conversation. Would Sirius ask for forgiveness for believing Remus was the traitor if he didnt care about him? Would he accept Remus’s own apology? 

Anyways. 

It turned into a meta about wolfstar. Im. so sorry. 

I'm not saying wolfstar is more “canon” - bc it isn't, especially from the doylist perspective (jkr didnt intend for them to be read as a couple). But I did read the metas proving that wolfstar is canon written while the books where coming out and my heart breaks for those people who still had hope back then. It also doesnt really matter which is more canon (its prongsfoot) (but again, not from the doylist perspective). 

In conclusion, I like prongsfoot and I do think its a very good ship I ship them in a more passive way - i reblog metas and fanarts, I have one fic idea that technically starts with prongsfoot and sometimes I read fics, but i dont think about them enough to call myself a prongsfoot shipper per se. But I do think Sirius is in love with James, even while shipping him with Remus. I know I sound like a broken record, but Im once again bringing up wolfstarbucks - I do ship prongsfoot in the wolfstarbucks context, but not so much on their own, if that makes sense - and not bc I dont get the appeal, bc I do. But Im also delusional and Ive been shipping wolfstar for way too long to abandon this ship now, even if shipping them is very impractical (for various reasons). 

*also i think it interesting that i mostly engage with domestic fluff, hurt/Comfort, angst-with-a-happy-ending, fix-it type of fics. its not bc i wish things happened differently in canon (maybe besides sirius dying but thats a separate, not shipping, issue). wolfstar is tragic, in a way, but i very rarely engage in canon-compliant type of content. however I wouldnt be interested in wolfstar if it wasnt tragic. i know many people have different approaches to shipping, and it might be weird to see someone talk about how tragic wolfstar is and the turn around and talk about how happy they are in a seaside cottage or whatever. tragedy of wolfstar makes it interesting for me and a seaside cottage makes me happy bc i get sad when i think about canon. also did i mention im a delusional person.