#i refuse to tag all of the books

[anris-resurrection]

Lmao is Bill actively possessing me? I have never felt such a need to draw lol

[causeimanartist]

The sillies

[mbat]

i literally read the book of bill days ago but its only now kinda hitting me how fucked ford and bills whole thing was though cause ford literally talks about being so unable to sleep (to try to keep bill away), and when sleep inevitably caught up to him, he would wake up to his body abused and things messed with and he just couldnt seem to find an escape (and he literally didnt get to truly escape until 30 years later)

(also keeping people awake for unhealthily long periods of time is another tactic used to mess with and control people because of how it impairs brain function)

listing off the things we see in those few pages in the book of bill:

i mean, punching and scratching at a steel door for hours would be so damaging to your hands and probably hurt like hell for at least 2 days after. then bill says he was hitting fords head against a wall, though its said in a post-it as if its a joke, but he also isnt exactly above doing that, and honestly he says most things like its a joke.

i also dont need to say 'bill really doesnt know how to take no for an answer' because he makes that very clear in literally any interaction we see with him.

bill literally puts a venomous snake near ford while fords asleep, which could have killed him if he wasnt lucky+skilled enough to deal with it.

he nearly gives ford hypothermia, and in the same action actively threatens ford with the idea of making him jump off of a high spot, and like ford says, doesnt do it just so he can send a message to ford about how hes the one in control.

he gets ford in trouble with not only the law, but also with other people that are probably not very happy with him after. he mutilates fords body in several ways, and i dont think i need to go into detail on them because theyre... so ew. and he even exposes part of fords body to the world. like, its just taking his shirt off, but thats still showing off his body in a way that he didnt agree to or want

and then he attempts to (or purposefully fails to) call stan, using fords voice to threaten suicide and tell stan that ford never loved him.

and he punctuates it with a final power move, in a hallucination that he creates, hes messing with stans memories and making him feel like his body was basically about to implode

and like. okay, we all joke about toxic old man yaoi, and its a good joke and toxic old man yaoi is great and its an interesting ship, but holy fuck.

like. to say the absolute least, that had to be so, so deeply violating. its no wonder that when we see ford in the past, when he finally contacts stan, he looks like hes on the verge of shattering into a million pieces. he just went through, and still wasnt yet out of, some deeply abusive shit.

like... everything coming out lately both in this book and what ive heard is on the website, mixed with what we already knew from the show itself... the stans are both so, so fucking tragic dude. their whole lives were thrown away over things that really didnt even need to be the way they were, and then they both get into situations that are pretty damn screwed, and those situations follow them for the rest of their lives. its basically a miracle that things worked out in the end for them.

i dont really have a point, i just had to talk about all that. i read almost all of the book of bill in one sitting, and while i was really enjoying it, i was also getting kind of tired of sitting in one spot only doing this one thing for several hours straight. i still felt a lot of the emotional bits of it of course, but man this part specifically just really didnt hit me until now.

i mean, to say the absolute least, i know what its like to feel violated in a similar way, though not anywhere near to the extent of what he went through at all. someone get that man some therapy got damn

[cozymochi]

I started following you recently, I think Tia is very pretty and your drawings are beautiful, is she in a romantic relationship with some character?

(💕💕💕💕)

Well, no but technically yes. But also yes, but technically no 🫣 I’ll explain as best as I can because Tia and romance is complicated.

Tia isn’t actually in any romantic relationship at all. So, my first gut answer is just “no, she isn’t.” (Which is the most concrete definitive answer, I suppose.)

She was kind of built from the start to just be her own character to put in a version of the twst story I’d wanna see (As any usual MC does.) 😩 So, romance just wasn’t really on the table. Though, mind, Tia is also just … the way she is. She’s a “princess tiana” type. It’s not a priority for her, so naturally it’s rarely- if ever- brought up.

THAT SAID!! I’m just really casual about shipping Tia in general, so she’s just sort of shipped with almost everybody without any real commitment on my end. I just like dynamics being explored should they go in that direction. So, it’s not completely out of the question.

I do have some pairings I ended up leaning more towards than others, to the point even I was surprised by them (y’know how when characters may take on a life of their own in a way? It’s like that), but otherwise I try to stay “hands off” with this stuff. I don’t think I’ll ever truly have her “canonically” be in any romantic relationship. If only to stay open ended. But, others are free to think what they want. I wouldn’t want to stifle anybody.

BUT - listen - I do enjoy a good romance 😩 and i like the thought of setting her up like I’m a stuffy aristocratic mom showing off her daughter to the many bachelors at a debutante ball kgjfjdulgjfh I like the hypotheticals. If a twst menu voiceline or innocuous piece of dialog in a story sends me into brainrot, then of course im going internally crazy jfhdgfhdh

Besides, Tia isn’t gonna get ANY romance if he has anything to say about it——

(she deserves love)

[qcomicsy]

Lately I've only been wishing to grab a comic about my favorite character and just have a genuinely good time reading it.

[discjude]

Yeah this is about right (as always my thoughts are in the tags so there's actually kei content there lmao)

[moe-broey]

HELP maybe this is influenced by how I'm writing this, or maybe it was supposed to be gleaned from canon and I just. Haven't fully thought about it til now. Haven't Deeply analyzed it beyond the blaring alarm bells that go off when reading this. But. Alfonse's,

Straight into.

This isn't him doubling down. This is him BACKTRACKING. This is him going, "oh fuck I think maybe I came on a little too strong maybe I was a bit too vulnerable and that's really scary. How do I fix this" and he's running through all the dialogue options in his head like Okay. Play it Cool. Keep it Casual. Proclaim your undying loyalty and devotion to your Trusted Partner (person he just told in the beginning of this conversation that he didn't intend to become friends with) by making yourself a blade and shield for them. NAILED IT 👍

[a-mythologynerd]

Just finished The Familiar and it was very fun! Definitely captured my imagination and I adore Leigh Bardugo’s historical and modern fantasies. She does such a great job of evoking those themes of injustice and the grey morality of being locked in systems and corrupt power structures. I’ll probably talk more on this later but if you’re a fan of her work (especially the Alex Stern series) I’d give it a read.

[astro-b-o-y-d]

TBOB Spoilers

'IF THE PRETEEN LINE IS TRUE THEN FORD WAS WITH A PRETEEN?' No, it means either Bill was lying about that or they simply weren't together in a romantic sense depending on what you headcanon as true. Let's not do this please.

[quatregats]

Honestly kind of lame of CS Forester not to go in for the weird Narnia ending. Think of how fun that could have been

[saibug1022]

Super anonymous ask that definitely is not from Elliott and definitely has nothing to do with the May Monthly Challenge

Choose your 3 favorite blorbos, who would their patron Greek god be and why 👀

Well I'm definitely glad it's not Elliott, can't stand them, I wouldn't have answered /j

As expected with me I did in fact go overboard so here's all my MCs as gods

Asterin Nightbloom (BOLAS) - Atlas

August Rose (CoP) - Ares

Valentine "Damian" Stone (MaH) - Athena

Val Ebony (ILITW) - Hades

Leon Vance (ILB) - Poseidon

Castor Athantis (ILW) - Hecate

Julian Athantis (ILW) - Persephone

Callum Wyland (Hero) - Zeus

Taylor McKenzie (ES) - Cronus

Apollo Solaris (TE) - Apollo

Eros Blackwell (ID) - Eros

Mattheo Lazarin (BB) - Hestia

Magnus Bishop (LoA/ITWV) - Nemesis

Emrys (TCH) - Hera

[lux-scriptum]

Hi parchment

I'm finally sending out blorbsday asks again (I think). Please assign your blorbos to the setting of a book you like and explain briefly (or longly) how they'd fare.

See. I was debating what books to do, and I was debating between Eragon and the Ghatti series by gayle greeno, but then @incandescent-creativity answered this question with Eragon, so I was like "cool, ill do the other one!" but then SOMEONE wanted to compare notes, so

I think, best to say that most of my demon characters would be best translated as dragons, but honestly? While I went into this thinking about it being set POST canon, i actually would think Cadoc and his dad Luci would be ancient dragons before galbatorix. like, im talking decades if not centuries before he was even born they were already old. and i think they'd be wild dragons. Not bonded. But I think Aalis and Alice would be a dragon and rider together. I'm sure the elves aren't pleased Aalis picked such a fragile human, but the girls are happy. Aalis gives Alice freedom and a longer life. But i think she'd have similar issues as Oormis did in the books tbh. Very physically limited, but becomes known for her wisdom and kindness. Barry would probably be an elf. I imagine that would allow for Cadoc's disdain towards him. I think Dante would still be human, and I think he does die a normal human death, and Cadoc is devastated because he was not able to keep him alive.

and, most important, Amara is probably a werecat lol

[tevintersnakes]

a quick comparison of a comparison I'd done last month (19-Apr-24) while getting back into the knack of drawing my guy

[plantdonut]

i absolutely adore my brand new copy of the dracula daily book! (even if it dwarfs the rest of my horror books on my shelf). 🦇🖤 my little collection of my favorite stories is really coming together.

[dykecadence]

i started the nightrunner series because i wanted some older gay fantasy and its. FINE. but i desperately want some more options

[harrowscore]

salome (strauss)'s finale my absolute beloved