#my favourite of the lads

[cosmosully]

soloooooo

[sysig]

Those wacky skeletons ♥ (Patreon)

[dovalore]

themberchaud

[izupie]

I think it's the ALMOST canon ships that get the best, most intricately woven, beautifully told fanfiction.

those nearly-kind-of-almost-maybe-could-be canon couples

the ones that make it almost painful to live with the knowledge that if just one or two things had happened differently, just one or two things: if one of them had said something differently here, done something differently there, or if certain events had shifted a little, just a fraction, they'd have been together - undoubtedly.

you can see it. everyone can see it. but it's not enough - they're still an almost-but-not-quite, maybe-but-it-was-never-confirmed, kind-of-but-annoyingly-ambiguous

fanfiction writers take their potential and they hold it close and they lovingly craft something amazing and beautiful with it - finally giving them the chance to be together like everyone knows they would be in-canon if the story wasn't against them

they spring out entire novels from canon-divergence in the places where just a little step in another direction could have led to them being together

they build whole intricate Alternate Universes where the characters are able to meet in an entirely different way and still fall for each other

what I'm saying is that the insanity of a ship where it was almost-canon drives writers to a specific kind of creative madness that produces the best fanfiction....

so if you check out my graph here you can see the line for the more almost it gets vs the more unhinged and motivated it makes the writers both rising in a wonderfully clear diagonal line and today I will be discussing the

[camelliagwerm]

I AIM TO PETRIFY

[luxhesperus]

and because i'm sort of obsessed with floriography:

rafayel's flower is the flame lily or glory lily or gloriosa (known for their dramatic colour and structure heh). they symbolize beauty, passion, boldness, hope, glory, and honour

xavier's flower is forget-me-nots or myosotis. they symbolize remembrance, fidelity, true love, and devotion

i can't figure out zayne's flower i'm so sorry 😭 but the reverse image search says they're polianthes tuberosa. (please feel free to correct me, i'd like to know what flowers they are!) they symbolize (according to the victorian language of flowers) intense, dangerous passions.

erratum: zayne's flower is the jasmine! (they're also sometimes called queen of the night!) they symbolize amiability and sweet love. many thanks to @hirayaea for pointing it out!

[cherrydrop-rambles]

I swear, Dr. Starline is the coolest Sonic character EVER!!!

Like look at him and his expressions!!

Amy Rose comes close to second of course :3

(Would it be crazy to say that this platypus fella got me into STH properly in the first place?)

He will always be one of my favourites.

[somegrumpynerd]

I refuse to believe these two could live together without pulling stupid pranks on each other constantly (sometimes at the same time)

(^A few hours and forgotten mugs later)

[melit0n]

My Roman Empire is all the characters who are never in any of the adaptations of The Phantom Of The Opera (I love you The Persian, Comte Philipe de chagny, Sorelli and little Jammes)

[sysig]

Ooo requestober eh? Something I've been curious to see a bit more of maybe is Jake interracting with Scriabin. Edgar wondering about what the two of them talk about together alone got me curious too 👀

(Resending to the main for you :3)

Day 3 - Definitely not kissing! If that's what you think!

Meanwhile, Jake:

[wizardlyghost]

i love this fuckin guy

[dickensianenglishbulldog]

Pros: I can now sing (badly) every word of a total of twenty two Gilbert and Sullivan songs.

Cons: no one cares.

[kodzuken-chan]

Uhmm Hello!!?

https://youtu.be/WNHNFehgnmQ?si=OEoiw3aP9r65SskS

Xavier girlies why you're always so lucky!?🥹🥹🥹🩵

[khaotunq]

You say that as if I'm happy now. ⇢ Aou Thanaboon as Max (Be My Favourite, 2023)

[everyonesidolgoro]

[sturgeonsalad]

warm up sketches with a very strapping young lad