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Mike and Texas just being bros and having fun??

I saw this and automatically thought ARM WRESTLING.

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How about Chuck riding Texas's shoulders? Either looking nervous and unsure about this, or having an excellent time - maybe they're LARPing?

Onward for glory!!

Because Dutch saw the way he fumbled with the original lance (bc the larper who made it couldn't weight weapons for shit), Dutch made Chuck a WAY lighter one— or one with a much longer handle, otherwise there's NO WAY he would be able to hold that thing up (aka did I dramatize it for sake of a cool silhouette? Yes, yes I did)

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Please may I have a bruised and somewhat beaten-up Mike looking absolutely furious? Maybe "ready to go for your throat" furious, or maybe just "burning laser-like glare," whichever is more fun

Little bit o' blood warning!

Go For the Throat

Is he looking at Kane? Kaia? The Duke? Has he finally snapped and traded those feelings of guilt for rage if/when Red finally goes to far?? You decide. Point is, someone definitely bloodied their knuckles on Mike's face, and he is not happy.

... I have never drawn Mike actually, viscerally livid before. I love our sunshine child, but wow, that's a look Q ^ Q also yes, this absolutely ended up being me just slapping textures and photos onto the page and having a ball of a time

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Ooh, can I get a Mike (Knight!Mike or any variety you please) princess-carrying a passed out or injured Chuck? OuO

The Promised King

Tbh this ended up less After Battle Princess Carry and more Angstily Hold Your Lover, but... good... I like this. The lighting tickles my happy brain

... this also inspired me to write, but I'll spare details unless I decide to publish it

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I would love a drawing of Mike and/or Dutch in Supernatural AU :)

Begone, art block!! We want a sweet wer and fae!

Thank goodness for this request, maybe my hand will decide it finally wants to work for the long run LOL (definitely click the photos to see all of Dutch's piece >:( it cut a bit on preview— that or it's a mobile problem)

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julie x mike set during the finale? :3 Consider Julie in her angry ranting accidentally confessing to Mike when she found him held captive by Kane, Mike telling Julie he loves her in the pod when she gives him his jacket back, a relieved adrenaline fueled "oh my god we did it" kiss afterwards

OH NO, A FINALE ASK! You're here to hurt my feelings, aren't you T o T (wow, I need a therapist to talk to after everything that happened in that episode, I have so many thoughts lol)

Tbh, I struggled to choose sketches for this lol You gave me so many things to think about that I just bundled them up in my beat-up My Little Pony lunchbox and ran like a criminal! lmao

Not all the sketches ended up well on the iPad, so I took what I could and just made some sweetly sad Jukebox </3

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Do you have a full detailed pic of Chuck’s in his spider🕷form, please and thank you.<3

I do not have a full reference sheet for him— the only full-body I have ever made of him was the image attached to the first chapter of the fic, but I have a few concept sketches with various angles of his tech! :) Not to mention, you'll learn a little more about his tech in chapter 2, and then in later chapters when the door is closed.

This one is helpful if you want an obscure side view lol. This was the second (very rough) sketch I ever did of him (the eyes have changed since then), plus it was the first I ever did of Mike's cozy spelunking jacket!

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texas x mike sparring.... shirtless :0c

This is one of those many instances where it started out as sparring.

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High School AU Muckles or Texas/Chuck (I forgot their ship name). Greetings from Live Fast, Live Free!

this au is so damn good, god bless this ask.

I don't listen to death metal really, but I love Alesana's album, The Emptiness, with a passion. (the storytelling!! wonderful!!!!)

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In your newest fic how did Julie betray Mike? Because when he gets his new jacket Dutch implies that she helped him in making/getting it and it feels like a reference or joke of some kind but I didn’t get it so I was hoping you could explain it, thank you. Btw the fic was fire🤟thank you very much for writing it.

Yep, she helped Dutch make it! It's entirely implied, but the whole joke is that she was the only one who actually knew Mike's birthday (hence "a little birdy told me"). She let it slip to the Burners when it was and now Mike is getting birthday gifts dropped on him lol (scarcely tho, extra info/general headcanon in the tags if you're curious)

I'm super glad you enjoy the fic!! More to come once I finish up a few more rough drafts ^v^

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I'm a sucker for your dragon!mike and mage!chuck au, so - mike watching chuck weave spells, enraptured by the pretty colors and magic floating in the air. mike finally gets to see chuck looking relaxed and happy for once and suddenly he cant help but want to kiss his smiling face

(so, the first fic in the series actually takes place when Chuck is 15, Mike is 14, so we gonna age them up really quickly—)

By Book 3, Mike is too smitten to hide his damn crush feelings anymore. There’s no way he can stay in the same room with Chuck (or any of the other Burners tbh) and not stare fondly or let his pupils round.

I mean—

Look at that beautiful boy finally enjoying himself and his sparky magic now that he understands it.

Look, he’s even making butterflies!!

Of course Mike is gonna sit and stare and grin like an idiot— (P.S. Hey Chuck, were you ever told that, while dragons like sparkly things, far dragons also enjoy the qualities of living, breathing things? Yeah, Mike wants to keep you in his fae hoard and feed you and make sure you’re cozy and safe. Would you take him up on that offer?)

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What are you working on currently?<3

While I'm going to keep this project mostly under-wraps FOR NOW— I'm very excited to be working on it though, and today's sick day has given me time to write— I can give you a very sloppy description (free of spoilers, title is a WIP)!

Currently a team of four (Mike, Julie, Dutch, and Tex), the Burners want try to find a way to tap into Kane Co. tower's private comms, pick out any incoming attacks, and keep another Vega or Genesis Pod from happening. The journey leads them to a special tunnel subsystem of the Under Depths, accessible through an old facility that helped work on the electronics inside the Depths and the dome itself. Though unspoken, Mike feels a void in his team, like their job would be even easier with one more Burner... Who might that be? He has no idea (but we sure do!!). Much to his delight, he finds that Burner-worthy prospect inhabitting the Under Depths: a really awesome guy who has the same goal as the Burners, but with a little more flare, circuitry, and eyes!

Tags will include: cyborg Chuck, body modification, mentions of unconsented surgeries, dehumanization, injuries and recovery... Yes, it's a bumpy story, and it's all a ONESHOT (which is one of the reasons why I have kept my lips sealed tight), BUT there will also be very wholesome eating pizza and playing videogames and 'three hundred mph can't be that badOH YES IT CAN' scenes, and a very sweet good ending in which Mike Chilton Is A Good Person (As Per Usual)!

While there aren't going to be any ship tags, it's Muckles-focused. (And, tbh, you can read most of my platonic fics as whatever-the-hell ship you want lol. So, you want this to be a Muckles fic or see any other underlying romantic threads?? Go ahead, my dudes, dudettes, and doodles, imagine the scene with those cute little romantic vibes!)

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When will you be able to update “Lost Boy/Chapter 3” please.<3

Life and writer's block has kicked me in the tail for Lost Boy atm!

I've been working on a really big (REALLY BIG, very important, //very excited brain noises//) oneshot to try to get my flow back, but I need to hammer down the scene in Lost Boy that's eating my fingers. I'll be back to it once I overcome that hurdle!! <3

... But, I do have a bit of drabble from "Chapter 3: Anatomy of a Shapeshifter" under the cut... as a treat, lol

“Oh,” says Chuck, breathless, and twists his head around to blink hard at the grass. His muscles feeling like they’re knotting as he tenses in on himself, huddling down further like he's one, anxious knot. Of course Mike has other friends, he’s a dragon, and Chuck just happened to be nearby and be easy to be friends with.

Swallowing down the lump in his throat, Chuck turns back to Mike and asks, “Uh, what are your other friends like…?”

It’s like the sun came out from behind the clouds, the way Mike’s face lights up. He whips around with some enthused dragon noise in his throat, grinning. Chuck freezes, eyes widening as he realizes what he just did. “Oh! I thought you’d never ask!” Mike chirps loudly, shifting to sit toward Chuck, his draconic pupils round and infinitely happy. “I bet you would like them, they’re such great people! You should meet them sometime, oh my gosh—” Chuck stares at Mike, speechless, as Mike continues in maybe two breaths: “There’s Dutch, and he’s freaking awesome at art and makes the best paintings in the fae woods, and then there’s Texas and he’s super fun to play around and wrestle with, and his dad plays harp— which is super cool— and Julie is sharp as a knife and kind of outsmarts all of us all the time, and she always knows when we’re hiding stuff, so it’s really hard to surprise her!”

The blaring enthusiasm might as well have shoved Chuck's self-pity away and doused it in dragon fire, and Chuck vaguely wonders if Mike's smile could stop armies. He reels, stumbling to collection all of this very positive information because, wow, Mike really just threw that all out there. "Holy shit, okay—”

Mike laughs, practically vibrating, "Yeah, right? You’d really like them, they’re all super nice and pretty, and they’re just great. You’re really pretty and great, too, so it’d be great!"

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Hello, are you “PRO Poly Burner’s”?<3

Personally, I love polyBurners! Other than Muckles (and whichever associated monogomous relationships included), polyBurners is my go-to! hhcyp?, The Rose Petal Collection, and a few other undisclosed fics are all poly-centric! :) I'm most certainly to be considered a multi-shipper!

(In general, I appreciate the multitude of ships in Motorcity and most other fandoms, but the fandom discourse about ships/shipping frankly confuses me and I steer way clear of as much as I can. I understand the tension in certain situations since some things are just Not Okay— aka the promotion of REAL LIFE illegal/harmful acts from within a ship, to the point where it's... not really a story anymore... :/ But two harmless ships bashing each other for existing is baffling to me)

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hold the phone-

someone actively doing motorcity stuff????? I salute you for you amazing work also I live your art!!!! it's so dynamic and the feeling of it is perfect!!!

You are so sweet, thank you so much for the kind words!! <33 You've made my day Q o Q

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You ever thought of doing an OC centric fanfic or including one of yours for Motorcity (if you have any!)

Short answer: No, unless there is an in-story reason. (The rest is explanation if you're curious)

If (and tbh, when) I ever include an OC in a fic, it would purely be for the purpose to fill a necessary role that no Motorcity character can fill. If I can, I enjoy expanding on blank-slate characters already in Motorcity (in bg or otherwise), but any OC of mine will ALWAYS be specifically for that fic and entirely a supporting character, nothing more. A Motorcity character will always be the main protagonist in my fics.

However!!! I have nothing against OC fics and I love reading them. Plus, for some terrible reason, the Motorcity fandom seems to have some of The Most Enjoyable OC-centric and/or crossover fics I have ever read. There aren't many, but they're gems, and I highly recommend poking into Ao3 if you're ever interested or lacking a good story! - v -