#hmu folks

[horce-divorce]

my boyfriend is currently fleeing his abusive, transphobic family. he only has temporary housing while we scramble to find a new place & jobs for us both (we were about to move in together & his mom uhh. intervened)

help two (2) disabled trans guys for the price of 1! he gets money for meds, food, transportation and moving expenses; I get immense peace of mind until we can be together again (which you'd also be helping us to do btw!!)

🖤🖤 $ghoulgoon 🖤🖤

anything helps, esp a reblog! <3 peace and love on this gay little planet earth!! ✌️💖

[darkbitchithic]

hmm not seeing enough fat interpretations of tmagp characters

[adelphenium]

im so so so in awe of your art its so incredible!!! i was wondering if you'd be down to draw r63 jack and nico from the devils sometime down the line <3

hope your having a lovely day!!

i love r63 -- any reason to draw cute girls is a good one :D

ty for the req, and i hope your days have been just as lovely!!

[curtwilde]

It's so funny how sanghiblr will selectively criticize NCERT. They will harass them for sources about medieval and mughal history, but will parrot the "harappan and vedic civilisations are one and the same" bullshit in NCERT that has been proven to be false. Because that one fits their agenda and the ridiculous claim that aryans are indigenous or whatever.

[trigunbookclub]

I don't think it's okay to use nightow's artwork to make yourself some money selling stickers of it.

While funny edits and memes of official content are commonly made and sold by creators and I understand it is a topic of debate for many reasons, as I say in the post and on the page, it isn't about the money and I think I'd have to sell hundreds to even make much profit! I did a lot of calculations and the price is close to the supplies/costs/the size of the small print run/etc., and while I'm not the best at math, the cents leftover per sticker aren't adding up to much and--again, like I said in the post--will be spent getting leftovers in case of errors if it's enough. If someone chooses to leave a tip for running bookclub, I'm grateful, but a vast majority of people don't and that's fine and what I expect. The point is having fun and celebrating bookclub! The amount of people who wanted a sticker/badge of completion was enough that I really wanted to do something for you guys.

TL;DR: As I said in the original post, this was designed for fun, not money. Transparency is personally very important to me and I try to be as honest as I can whenever possible. Of course, I'm a stranger on the internet, you should take that with a grain of salt, but I do try to be clear about my intentions.

[quantumfizz]

Prefacing this by saying I'm a gentile and would be interest in hearing Jewish fans' thoughts on this

I was thinking about that moment in Spiderverse where Peter gets married and I was wondering why more adapted versions of Magneto don't reference him being Jewish in multiple ways and not SOLELY on his trauma as a Holocaust victim. It's a core part of his character but it's also the only time him being Jewish is ever referenced in these adaptations, and I'm wondering if the writers of these versions of him just don't feel like bringing up that he's Jewish in any other way aside from his internment in the Holocaust.

[glassgob]

haven't been posting nearly as much art as i used to because i'm a novice tattoo artist and that chews into all of my free-time :'D enjoy some of my recent work though, i promise i have other art soon, hopefully, maybe

[Image IDs: Nine individual photos of black and grey tattoos, described in order. A symmetrical dragonfly and fern on a client's sternum and chest. A burning candle in the shape of a hand and a small moth on a client's outer forearm. Bleeding heart flowers on a client's inner forearm. A fairy holding a knife on a client's ankle. Red spider lilies and trailing smoke on a client's bicep. A flying dragon on the back of a client's bicep. Rowan berry twig above a client's elbow. Lily of the valley on a client's inner forearm. A tiger lily in front of a full moon above a client's elbow. End ID.]

[leonardcohenofficial]

literally why must period symptoms exist. who and what is this serving. what has half of the population of the globe done to deserve the THRILLING experience of dealing with this shit for approximately three to four full months of time every single year. for multiple decades. screaming forever

[thiefcant]

hi ive been absent bc of the Horrors but im recovering by thinking of new ocs (like elden ring knight of godwyn)

[egipci]

re: your flash-fic 'tutorial' (lol), I'm curious: what was "the sentence" that sparked your last few fics? (your choice)

do they normally survive until the final draft?

hello dear friend <3 so I would say a lot of the time "the sentence" ends up being the first or last sentence of a story, but sometimes it goes somewhere in the middle, especially in a longer piece, in which case I'm kinda stuck until I find another sentence to go first. A lot of the time for a flash I need both the first and the last sentence before I even start writing, so I have a general sense of the sound of the story. And I really try to make sure it survives, but it doesn't always happen, in which case it lives somewhere in my drafts until I write a new story for it (if I actually remember, but the good ones tend to stick around!)

So like, for "Vertigo," I'd already had the first sentence playing around in my mind for a long time, and I actually lifted it from a Mary POV fic I was working on (that sentence is sort of a madlib of a first sentence I really like from a Kathryn Davis short story-- which is a great way to come up with "sentences"). And then a final sentence came to me, which according to my gdoc history is

"But then you turned your head up to the sky, so I looked up, and it was huge and black, super-infinite."

I really really wanted the last word to be "super-infinite." I was very much in a John Donne mood (cf. fleas and mysterious bitey things in this story and in "Chorus"). I played around with all variations of "the sky was black and it was super-infinite," and "it was black and super-infinite," and "it was huge and black and super-infinite," "black, super-infinite" etc. for probably way too long. There was a weird discordant thing going on where I didn't necessarily want to write this story in first person, but that last line demanded it. And then by the time I'd finished the bulk of the story that line had to go, in part because of logical/practical concerns, e.g. how are they looking at each other if they sky is black? but also because it didn't sound right. First-person can very easily veer on excessively sentimental, and a fic context is doubly perilous because we know how the characters talk (not that 1st person fic has to sound like a monologue off the show or anything, but you know). And so it was cut, but having it as scaffolding was really helpful for me to figure out that I wanted that stargazing moment and the feeling of smallness that comes with that, which (hopefully) is more subtly translated in "to feel us so small again..."

For "Chorus" the "sentence" was also the first sentence, which had been floating around in a j/d draft since like, May 2022. It was initially "we hung from the rafters" (which now that I think about it could have worked, "We hang from the rafters and we watch," but I guess I liked the rhythm of those first four sentences more: "We watch from the rafters. It’s dusk. He’s in love. We send him home."

For "Miles Ahead" the sentence was that opening fragment and the last line as a unit. "What I was trying to tell you---" came first and I played around with it for a while until I got "is I’ll take you anywhere," and then all the stuff in the middle (the interruption/flashback) came in after. Needless to say, many many hours were spent agonizing over "I'll take you anywhere" vs. "I'd take you anywhere," but I liked the tense-trickery of the first one more.

For this (older) flash, the sentence was the (incredibly baroque lol) final phrase that had been on my mind for a while -- "quiet for little Sammy sleeping, then vigil for little Sammy gone"-- and the whole story is basically written to get to it.

In "Dubuque" (which started off as a flash) the sentence was the first sentence: "In the space of three hours that no-good son of a bitch Lee Webb had Dean swaying on his feet," but the reason the story ended up going further was this bit in the middle: "fingertips over strong muscle loving him and loving the weight of him. Loving his danger. His masculinity," which felt excessive to throw in in a flash.

But like, sometimes the sentence is not a sentence and just more of a story structure I want to play with. This story from earlier this year stalled for a couple of days after I nailed the opening until I remembered Jamaica Kincaid's "Girl," so that inspired the structure there. This birthday story has no stand-out "sentence," I just liked the rhythm of "Dad said and Dean said and Sam said," etc. (Though just now I'm noticing the sentence is basically the whole story!)

[nachosncheezies]

post-series epilogues for the WIP ask game? 👀

Ooh, delighted :D Another Blindspot ask for this WIP ask game!

I'm gonna put a cut, because I don't know how to talk about after the series' ending without talking about the ending itself, and, y'know. Spoilers.

~~~~~

So, starting with the premise that Jane survived and Thanksgiving was not a hallucination, I figure it's a long road back for her. She has literally never not been a soldier of some sort since her parents died. Being banned from all government employment doesn't leave many legal career options for an adrenaline-junkie assassin, and that's not even mentioning all the Trauma she hasn't unpacked. I would strongly argue that both endings are tragedies, but the main reason I initially leaned toward the "obvious" tragedy read and got Very Sad was bc of how hard it is to imagine a civilian life where Jane could find contentment - even she said so herself in Times Square. (Spoiler alert: imo, that thanksgiving situation with the foster kids etc? That ain't it.)

So my epilogues (there are 4 so far) are short fics that try to offer glimpses into how I think she might start to claw her way back and find a quiet life that could stick. Ultimately I see Bee being the only kid they have at home, and her and Weller running a non-profit for at-risk kids. (P.S. - There's a framed pencil drawing of Taylor and Ian on their office wall.)

[vreenak]

THE TERROR ➢ FIRST APPEARANCES ; R - Y James Clark Ross: 1x1, Go for Broke Silna: 1x2, Gore Sophia Cracroft: 1x1, Go for Broke Stephen Stanley: 1x1, Go for Broke Solomon Tozer: 1x1, Go for Broke David Young: 1x1, Go for Broke

[countercharmda]

got thru a whole run of hades i feel like a god

[all-consuming-rot]

btw i am okay, it's been a drag for some time now but i'm getting through it. apologies to those i haven't reached out to for a bit gwahh

[puppygirlf4g]

there is nothing in this world more breathtakingly sexual than intense, mutual hatred. or perhaps unrequited love matched to unrequited hatred.

[noblehcart]

PSA: I think I'm putting a weekend hiatus on this blog?? Life irl has been insane and I know this weekend will be too.