#technically i challenged myself

[fluo-skeletons]

In order: Undertale Papyrus, Gravel (from @maxladcomics's au), Sharp (gemknight fell papyrus)

[ribbononline]

Som pixels :]

[hella1975]

a post about fic updates! so the fics im currently juggling are dog teeth, tams, and of course, taob. my original plan was to start posting the second installment of the dog teeth series by sometime in april, bc it's the fic im most into atm and i already have the first chapter done, i just want to bank another one or two because once i start posting it i want to KEEP posting it with regular updates, hopefully every 2 weeks like with kaiein. HOWEVER this will put my atla fics on a back burner. april is a good writing time for me (PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE) bc i have the entire month off from uni to prep for may exam season, and i always want to write when im procrastinating my degree. which is. it's own thing im sure i'll graduate it's fine i'm fine. so if i focus on dog teeth, neither tams nor taob will get focus until like. june. which is par for the course with taob but im NOT happy about doing with tams.

SO my thought process was i can either be normal about this and just accept it's literally my final year at uni and im trying to graduate and it doesn't matter if updates are slow on ANY fics, or i can do my usual and implement an insane deadline that i somehow always make by the skin of my teeth. can you guess what i went with?

and thus i present unto the crowd my tentative plan: have the next taob chapter done by middle of april (im aware this is quite hand-wavey but it gives me a month to work with, so in my head this means anything between april 10th-20th), have the next tams chapter done by the end of april, and dog teeth can follow.

[curious-blupee]

It took 3 months but I am finally finished!

[leona-florianova]

* looking at prices of new rock boots*

"It cant be That hard to make some fancy boots yourself, right?"

*i say while fully aware of how hard it would really be*

[the---hermit]

29|08|2022

Productive things I did today:

Finished reading and annotating an historiographical article useful for my thesis

Wrote a few notes on said article

Planned and created all the imaginable to do lists for my second attempt at writing the first chapter of my thesis (having to re-write it fully gives me a lot of anxiety and doing all the possible planning on earth makes me feel much better about it, because I know all my tasks, and I am not just lost in confusion an chaos)

Started reading an historiographical book that analyzes the witches's sabbath (it's been on my tbr since forever and at this point in my research I am realizing it could be useful for my thesis)

Started putting together new playlists I have been meaning to create for a while

Self care things I did today:

Read first thing in the morning

Did breathing exercises

Journaled in the morning

Payed more attention to how much water I drink (I normally drink a lot of water but last week when I was at work I definitely didn't drink enough water, so I want to be more careful with that this week)

Didn't drink any coffee

📖: Stardust by Neil Gaiman, Goblin Market And Other Poems by Christina Rossetti, and Storia Notturna by Carlo Ginzburg

[felixravinstills]

Coriolanus with watermelon palette pls. Thank you.

Thanks for the request! I have now finally drawn all three main characters of tbosas!

color palette challenge (probably last call on this for anyone interested)

comms info

[loudlooks]

Day 30 - Charlie Brown

A/N: Tiva, follow-up of day 29. Remembered the original goal of this challenge and ended up just going with it and adding more of an ending, it is what it is.

Tag for blocking/following: 30 days of fall

Prompt: Charlie Brown

Word count: 944

At the knock on his front door, he turned, about to loudly state that the door was open, only to find Ziva nonchalantly walking in already. "Usually people wait a moment between knocking and entering."

Ziva shrugged, and walked over to where he was standing in the kitchen. "You invited me, and your door was unlocked." She tilted her head slightly. "It smells really good here, Italian?"

"I made us pizza."

Ziva raised an eyebrow.

He grinned sheepishly. "I made someone make us a pizza in exchange for money, it's practically the same thing when you think about it."

Ziva stared at him for a moment. "Tony, why did you invite me over?"

He licked his lips, and swallowed hard, this whole thing had seemed a lot easier and risk free around lunchtime. "To watch a good movie, while enjoying good food and good company." He poured two glasses of wine, managing not to spill anything under Ziva's scrutiny.

"A Snoopy cartoon?"

He locked eyes with her, realizing she had looked up the movie. "And Charlie Brown." He cleared his throat, wondering how much she knew about the story line. "It's a seasonal thing, holidays ..." He picked up both glasses and offered her one.

Ziva ignored the offer. "When are you going to tell me about your breakthrough?"

His stomach clenched, and he twisted his neck uncomfortably. Downing half a glass of wine, he regretted foolishly following his gut earlier in the day. Or had it been his heart?

He returned the glasses to the counter. "After the movie, the pizza, and at least one bottle of wine."

Ziva scoffed and rolled her eyes. "You are braver than this, Tony, just spit it out "

Tony frowned, unsure if she suspected his ulterior motive, or if she was simply tired and impatient.

Ziva looked at him in confusion. "Did I get that idiom wrong?"

He let out a half chuckle. "No, no, you got that right." He averted his eyes, looking anywhere but at her while trying to find the right words. And the courage.

He ran a hand through his hair and sighed. "It's not that easy, Ziva."

"It can be,” she said tightly.

He locked eyes with her, the hopefulness in her eyes both confused and strengthened him. "It's complicated," he said in a gravelly voice, the potential of losing his best friend weighing heavy on his heart.

Her eyes seemed to dim as she glanced downwards for a moment. With a self-conscious smile she met his gaze again. "Because I am complicated."

A jolt of confusion, closely followed by panic ran through his mind. He grabbed hold of her right hand, and caressed her cheek with his other. "No," he said hoarsely, shaking his head. "It's because I'm terrified of losing you." He dropped her hand so he could cup her face with both hands. "I have had to live without seeing you every day, Ziva, without the prospect of ever seeing you again." Letting out a scoff, he added, "And we weren't even..." He blinked slowly and swallowed hard. Lowering his forehead to hers, he quietly said, "I don't want to go through that again."

Ziva placed the palms of her hands on his chest, calming his frantic heart. "You won't."

He pulled back to meet her eyes. "You don't know that."

She bit her bottom lip, then smiled softly. "We agreed to be more open with each other."

Tony nodded.

"And we do not have to rush into anything, we can slowly get used to being around each other 24/7, take things one day at a time."

He took a deep breath, briefly focusing on her hands above his fluttering heart. "You realize you're going to have to start telling me things, right?"

Her fingers lightly grasped at his shirt as she took a deep breath. "I know."

"Even if you think they might hurt me." He raised an eyebrow. "Or endanger me."

Ziva nodded. "I am trying."

Tony sighed, and gently kissed her forehead. “I know.” He pulled her into a tight embrace, and her arms wrapped around him easily as she seemed to sink into him.

“Do we have to watch the cartoon?” she said against his chest a few moments later.

He chuckled. “No, you kind of skipped over the lead up I needed and went straight to the happy ending.”

Ziva loosened her hold on him just enough to meet his eyes. “Charlie Brown gets the girl?”

He smiled softly. “Yeah, imagine that.”

Her tongue darted out briefly, and she bit her bottom lip. “So, what do you want to do now?”

“The pizza’s getting cold.”

“It can be reheated.”

Tony raised his eyebrows. “Sounds to me like you know exactly what we should be doing.”

Ziva grinned widely and pulled his head down, kissing him slowly until he was breathless.

He resisted the need to continue exploring her with his mouth, his hand caressed her cheek and neck on its own volition. “I thought you wanted to take things slow?”

“We can make out slowly,” she said in a throaty voice, eyes sparkling.

“Can you?” He licked his lips, still tasting her on them, and nudged her nose with his. “I vividly remember you trying to eat me alive a few months after we first met.“

Ziva pulled back slightly to look at him with hooded eyes full of desire and glee. “That was not real.”

“Felt real to me,” he said huskily against her mouth, as he pulled her hips flush against his, sending a tingle down every nerve ending.

“Oh,” Ziva breathed, claiming his mouth once more. “I vividly remember that.”

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tagging @hopeless-nostalgiac, @mrsmungus, @indestinatus, @happygirl-0408

[youremyonlyhope]

why won't my brain shut up why won't my brain shut up why won't my brain shut up why won't my brain shut up

[craycraybluejay]

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[echo-onsl4ught]

my idiotic ass just searched up 'analog horror' and went straight to images because i wanted to take inspo for my character's eyes. it is 1:30 am. it has been thirty minutes since i did this. i cannot sleep. why would i do this to myself. i admit that spooky black and white image of person fills me with terror

[kyouka-supremacy]

There's something about Beast Akutagawa that is just. I don't know. He just feels so hard to connect with others and wild and untamed. Like in canon he definitely isn't an extraordinarily social person either, but he can at least handle conversion, and can manage to somehow normally talk with his Port Mafia co-workers. In Beast, on the other hand, it feels like he can't even connect with his fellow ada members, as shown in chapter 2. He's completely unable to engage in small talk– his dead-end replies to Tanizaki, although funny, are really indicative of a person who isn't able of the minimum relating and feeling sympathy towards the next person that is necessary to build a conversation. And it's not only that; he's unable to express his feelings, to reassure Tanizaki he's not angry at him; he's so unreadable past his killer aurea that when he went to help the waitress serving them everyone in the room soon assumed he would have killed her.

I think it's a meaningful difference with his canon self born from all the time Beast Akutagawa spent alone that never took place in canon. Although never being an open person, canon Akutagawa was never alone, having always either his childhood friends, Gin, or the Mafia co-workers by his side. He's used to spend time with other people, independently from whether he likes it or not. On the other hand, I believe the four and a half years Beast Akutagawa spent alone must have effected him throughtfully, making him lose the already small ability to relate and connect with other people. It never occured to Beast Akutagawa that his default expression may appear threatening or frightening, because for years he never had any chance of interaction with other human beings that wasn't conflict. After having spent such along time all on his own, when joining the ada Akutagawa has to learn to communicate all over again.

[hearts401]

woagh kitties? no wayyyy

[the-lord-of-the-things]

went ham on a stylized warmup that got a little out of hand I’ve been watching a lot of pottery vids so I got inspired to experiment on a more simplistic and illustrated style, also I just really like rabbits and daffodils

[kiwibubbles5]

Heeeyyyyyy~ I'mmmm gonna be doing as much of Cringetober as I can and want to! All the IRL insanity has mostly calmed down, so hopefully it'll stay that way at least through this month?? Anyway. Day 2, self-insert! ((Hey, maybe at least 60% of all art I do is self-insert art anyway, but we don't need to acknowledge that ok))

This is Ruby, she's my FNAF security guard self-insert~ She is an investigator of many shady things and a friend to many ghost/spirit children

[dexaroth]

artfight revenges for @moodycarcass B)