#documenting light

[transbookoftheday]

Documenting Light by E.E. Ottoman

If you look for yourself in the past and see nothing, how do you know who you are? How do you know that you are supposed to be here?

When Wyatt brings an unidentified photograph to the local historical society, he hopes staff historian Grayson will tell him more about the people in the picture. The subjects in the mysterious photograph sit side by side, their hands close but not touching. One is dark, the other fair. Both wear men’s suits.

Were they friends? Lovers? Business partners? Curiosity drives Grayson and Wyatt to dig deep for information, and the more they learn, the more they begin to wonder — about the photograph, and about themselves.

Grayson has lost his way. He misses the family and friends who anchored him before his transition and the confidence that drove him as a high-achieving graduate student. Wyatt lives in a similar limbo, caring for an ill mother, worrying about money, unsure how and when he might be able to express his nonbinary gender publicly. The growing attraction between Wyatt and Grayson is terrifying — and incredibly exciting.

As Grayson and Wyatt discover the power of love to provide them with safety and comfort in the present, they find new ways to write the unwritten history of their own lives and the lives of people like them. With sympathy and cutting insight, Ottoman offers a tour de force exploration of contemporary trans identity.

[lgbtqreads]

Fave Five: Fiction with Trans M/NB Pairings

A Hundred Vicious Turns by Lee Paige O’Brien (YA Fantasy) The Feeling of Falling in Love by Mason Deaver (YA Romance) Meet Cute Diary by Emery Lee (YA Romance) Long Macchiatos and Monsters by Alison Evans (Contemporary Romance) Documenting Light by EE Ottoman (Contemporary Romance)

[rambrandt-the-painter]

jolene gets a two page ref sheet fuck it

[madamadamiu]

The Humans of the Lost Light Cat Shelter AU

Rung: Cat behavior specialist who takes in cats that nobody else would. He does his best to rehabilitate the cats for normal homes, but things don’t often go his way. Owner of the Lost Light Cat Shelter.

Ravage: A college student who needs volunteer hours to graduate. They like to be broody and edgy, but unfortunately that attitude doesnt last very long at the shelter. Emo.

Thunderclash: The shelter’s number one benefactor and Rodimus’s number one enemy. General kindhearted guy.

Prowl: head of Iacon Animal Control. Doesn’t like outdoor and feral cats and dedicates himself to making sure the biodiversity is maintained. Seems like a hardass but is just a really intense nature buff.

Orion Pax: works for animal control and manages placement of animals into homes and shelters. Holds onto hope for animals that others want to put down.

Pharma: Ratchet’s old owner who was a highly respected surgeon. Died of old age, causing Ratchet to be surrendered to the shelter.

(More to be added thru edits)

[cowboylikeyouu]

writing fanfiction on paper is so fucking therapeutic

[pirateprincessjess]

Last year I got ahold of the arcade PCB for a game called Biohazard: Gun survivor 2 Code Veronica. I’ve always wanted to play this game, so I decided to build the rest of the arcade cabinet.

It’s been a while, but I have an update!

The game runs!!! I still have to build out all the controls for the game, and a physical cabinet to house the game, but it runs!!!!!

[aster-daydream404]

I CAN’T STAND THEM!!!

[meowkunas]

Sukuna likes to make you cry.

He's got you pinned underneath him with one hand clasping both of your wrists together. But you barely feel that. All you can really feel is him, filling you relentlessly.

"You're drooling." He sneers. "This is the only way to shut you up, huh?"

You think you whine something about how mean he's being in response, but it gets lost amidst other things. What started out as gentle affection from you has turned into this. It's not that you were being overly clingy today either, and you open your mouth to tell him so.

One of his hands slides down from your bare waist to your clit, brushing against it. It's the soft touch standing out against everything else that sends you spiralling through your first orgasm of the night. You're shaking, unable to catch you breath. And he's still going. It feels like he's touching you everywhere that's sensitive all at once, and sometimes he squeezes and sometimes he caresses your skin and—

"Wait—" You pant out.

"You're not overstimulated already, are you?"

He's asking a question that he already knows the answer to. Tears prickle at the corner of your eyes as you try to decide whether it's too much or whether it's still not enough. All that talk earlier about wanting to satisfy Sukuna when it's always been you that's the insatiable one in this equation. He cups your cheek so you open your eyes to look at him. You can feel his finger wiping away a tear with his thumb, grinning down at you.

You don't even feel that he's flipped you over so that you're on top at first, too busy grinding your hips down to chase that feeling of pleasure again.

"There you are." He mumbles, gripping onto your thighs so hard that you know you'll still feel all of this tomorrow. "Come on, try harder."

[lattedusks-mochadawns]

It’s been ages since I’ve drawn them digitally. Also first time using lasso fill technique on IbisPaint, very good for WK artstyle.

I used those new adult characters from the Activate Kid Power Special

Sketch + Traditional + Original versions under cut

[alien-gatsby]

Dasia ub Nexil!!

[Daisy and Nick!]

[babybison]

tongrak's outfits I ep. 10

[ink-the-artist]

I love your artwork so much! Your colors are so vibrant and none of the white speckles in the paper ever shows, its so impressive and I really dig it! I was wondering if you use any sort of blending medium? Like baby oil or anything? Either way, I really enjoy looking at your artwork and I'm always excited to see whatever you'll make next

I use a colorless blender (prismacolor, which is wax-based so baby oil probably wouldnt work) but my scanner is also rly bad about picking up white specks in a way photographing the art with my phone isnt, so I usually have to do some digital editing to get rid of them as well.

I do this by duplicating the layer, setting the one on top to "darken," and using the mixer brush to blend out the white spots + just use the eyedropper tool to select the color of that area (needs to be a slightly lighter shade of it) and color over the white spots with the brush tool

i edited a small bit of the original scan to show what i mean

original:

with the edited layer:

heres how it looks set to normal instead of darken, I used both the mixing brush and regular brush just to demo it

[angronius]

my puter blew up as soon as I went to save my doodle of Leandros in a 'god's special little princess' shirt. this is what we call a sign y'all

[rileys-battlecats]

girl help I started writing down oc thoughts and have started contemplating the logistics of how a city carved into the walls of a ravine would have access to fresh water

[maximura]

[chronurgy]

Tbh I think it's in everyone's best interests to maintain strong walls between fandoms and creators. I don't think anything good comes of those worlds mixing beyond the minimum, and I also think both sides of that arrangement need to put in the work to keep those spheres separate. Fans need to not send shit to creators, not go running to creators with every question and headcanon, and in return creators need to stay the fuck out of fandom spaces. Period. I also think we should consider it massive asshole behavior for a creator to screenshot or re-tweet posts from fans to complain about them. That sort of behavior puts the fan at a high risk of dogpiling and harassment due to the large and dedicated followings creators tend to accrue and it's absolutely not acceptable