#technically the question is very specifically

[wolfsocks61]

cinderella colt

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BUDDY:

- He's a batpony which isn't TECHNICALLY a vampire. Chase verdict: doesn't count.

- All the keys are breezies in their humanoid (equinoid?) form. However, he was originally a Pegasus.

- Hides flank; has no cutie mark. He did not earn his cutie mark when he was a regular Pegasus, so he doesn't have it at all yet.

- Though his batpony wings are strong and dexterous, as a breezy his wings are very delicate. He takes the opportunity in books to use his stronger wings and often flutters around instead of trotting. Also note that breezy magic is activated by a breeze, so without it, they can’t fly!

- Chase just assumes he hides his cutie mark to hide his identity.

CHASE:

- He is a Pegasus, but his wings are smaller than average. He CANNOT fly, only hover/flutter off and onto the ground.

- Chase got his cutie mark at a younger than average age. Though with having it so long, he sometimes questions what it means to him.

- Although he can’t fly, he uses his wings all the time - he uses them to express or stress a point, basically talking with his hands except it’s with wings.

- Gets mad at Deacon because his horn is cheating with height (he is still just taller without it anyhow…)

DEACON:

- A Unicorn with a talent in magic - however, he is part KIRIN/NIRIK. When he experiences intense emotions, specifically rage, he transforms into a NIRIK. He is still learning to control this form for fear of causing destruction with it - though perhaps what he really needs is to just let it out.

- He has a kirin like tail, more feather than his other relatives, and cloven hooves (though they aren't fully separate toes).

- His family, and sometimes Deacon himself, wilfully misunderstand his cutie mark as representing a studious nature. In truth is it representative of "writing one's own story".

- His magic is blue (same as his eyes, maybe a bit lighter). It can be purple/red when he is stressed as a precursor to his Nirik form.

PRUNELLA:

- A Blankflank, yet to get her cutie mark. She is an Earth pony, as well as her mother, but is rather agile despite that.

I’ll probably draw more of these guys so keep an eye out.

OTHER: I guess Deacon has an obsession with humans instead of horses. It's a mysteryyyy, anthropologyyyyy…..

[bimoonphases]

@wolfstarmicrofic July 12 - prompt 12: Adopt [word count 980]

Remus looked around the office they had been shown in, white walls with some plants and a display of what he presumed were medical degrees in frames. He nervously tapped his cane against his knee and felt Sirius's hand take his in a reassuring grip.

"Calm down mon amour," his husband smiled. "It's just a formality."

Remus did his best to smile, but he wasn't convinced. They were there, at St Mungo's, in that specific office, to be put on the wizarding world's list to adopt abandoned children. Of course Sirius was quite relaxed, now that the second war was over and his name had been rehabilitated he was the owner of one of the biggest fortunes in the country, a war hero and godfather to the boy who lived twice. Who would refuse him a child to bring up as his own in all the comfort money could buy? As for Remus, well, it was different. It was true he was married to Sirius, or that some people had for whatever reason hailed him too as the survivor of two wars, which he technically was but just by chance, but he had still barely gotten out of those twelve years cut from the world and stuck at the bottom of a bottle until Sirius had reappeared. And if that and the fact he had basically nothing to his name weren't enough to make him an unfit father, there was the small detail of his lycanthropy. Who would give a baby to someone who turned into a beast once a month?

Remus swallowed as a doctor came in, walking up to them with a bright smile.

"Sorry to keep you waiting, Misters Lupin," she said, shaking both their hands. "A small emergency in the neonatal ward but all's fine now. And I am so glad to get to meet you in person."

Of course she was, Remus mused as the doctor sat down behind the desk. Who wouldn't be excited to meet Sirius formerly Black face to face, the only man able to escape Azkaban and a wrong conviction?

"But now let's get to business," the doctor said, opening the folder. "You're here to be put on our adoption list and I have some questions before I can validate your candidacy," she flipped through a page filled with numbers, then smiled up at Sirius. "Of course the financial aspect is more than satisfactory, Mr Lupin, so we won't go further with that."

"One thing the cursed Black name would have done well," Sirius nodded.

"You wrote on your application you live in a cottage in the countryside?"

"That's correct," Remus nodded. "It's actually in a small town, there are facilities for children there and a Muggle primary school while we wait for them to be of Hogwarts age. The cottage is quite big, there are four bedrooms and a big garden."

"That's very good," the doctor nodded, marking something down. "So you would send your children to Hogwarts once they turn eleven, then?"

"Probably the only tradition we'll uphold with them," Remus said.

"Besides, their future aunt is headmistress there now, so we couldn't do otherwise," Sirius added.

"Minerva McGonagall will make an amazing aunt," the doctor smiled. "Speaking of, what about extended family? I know of your losses during the two wars of course and I'm so sorry you both had to go through such experiences, but is there someone who can help you with a baby should you need it?"

Remus swallowed, the question, as delicate as it had been, just a sharp reminder that whenever that baby came his parents would never get to hold them, and neither would Lily and James.

"Well, Minnie of course," Sirius said. "Then we'll have Mary who's so over the moon at the idea of us two having a baby I'm sure she will try to move in with us whenever that day comes."

"Mary MacDonald, right?" the doctor looked at another file. "She's one of our best neonatal nurses here, you'd be in very good hands."

"And my godson of course," Sirius went on. "He's traveling the world with his girlfriend at the moment, but he has made it abundantly clear he wants to be involved."

"That's amazing," the doctor smiled and reached for a seal across her desk. "I think I have everything we need, so I'll just stamp and sign this and forward it to our adoption office. They'll be the ones to let you know as soon as there's a child available."

"Wait, that's it?" Remus heard himself say.

"It's mostly a formality to be honest," the doctor shrugged, signing with a flourish one of the papers. "When you first apply for adoption we have one of our legal and child protection department officers do a thorough background check so that we're sure we don't give abandoned children to unfit parents."

"But..."

Remus's head was hurting, a part of him wanting to keep asking, another urging him to shut up, not to blow his only chance at having a family with Sirius. But there would be an innocent child involved, and he couldn't have them on his conscience.

"What about the fact I'm a werewolf?!" he blurted out.

"Mr Lupin," the doctor looked at him. "Since the invention of the Wolfsbane Potion, that according to our file you take regularly, we don't consider people affected with lycanthropy a threat anymore. Besides, the new post war laws against discrimination would stop us from forbidding you to adopt, as is right," she smiled kindly. "So don't worry, you're as fit a father in my books as your husband."

And finally, finally, Remus managed to smile too. Sirius squeezed his hand as the thought settled in his head, with no more worries besides the unknown of having a child of his own. They would become dads. The both of them.

[dadbastiandisaster]

It is a strange day that I have to seriously consider whether sperm whale would or indeed could eat Sebastian.

[aroaceleovaldez]

Hiii! I hope this ask doesn’t come off as rude or pushy but I just have some questions about your opinion on Rick Riordan since I’m new the space of author critiquing.

I guess I’ll add I’m pretty young and a bit sensitive when it comes to things I like, so I automatically assumed since you post so much PJO content you liked his writing. But based on some of your posts, was I wrong? Again, I don’t want to sound pushy, I’m just new to being critical and honest when it comes to authors I like and would like to know your opinion on Rick Riordan specifically. Is he a bad writer? I just got wrath of the triple goddess and I’m not sure if I want to read it based on some of your posts.

Entirely focusing on writing itself and not the content within: I like Rick's old writing. His style when writing first series is dramatically different from his newer material, which I feel has significantly dropped in quality. A lot of the newer stuff feels very unpolished and gratuitous (towards the audience for marketing purposes, not his own interests) and he has a serious bathos problem that stunts the majority of the humor and sincerity that once existed in the franchise - and often severely gets in the way of a lot of attempts at inclusion and representation, to its detriment. Not to mention how condescending it feels towards the reader/presumed audience. It's also very clear he's trying to riff off of his previous success, including directly lifting previous sections and minorly rewriting them to try and achieve the same effect (not in a call-back manner, but just copying his own work).

I won't say his old writing is like, my 100% favorite or the end-all-be-all of literature. I have plenty of authors whose writing is more something that I think is structurally admirable. But Rick's original series writing is good! It became a pop culture staple for a reason! But the quality has dipped so severely as the series progress that it's hard to ignore and it's becoming increasingly difficult to enjoy the books for me because of this. Particularly very recent books like TSATS to me are so excessively full of simple structural errors and similar that it's baffling to me how it even got published or how we got here.

I think out of his post-first series writing, his works I've enjoyed the most are MCGA and Demigods of Olympus - particularly leaning towards the latter. It's simple but very enjoyable to me. TKC to me is mostly fine and enjoyable, and HoO is Just Okay. TOA is tolerable. TSATS and the marketing trilogy though are kind of unbearable for me.

I do love the franchise as a whole and it means a lot to me, which is exactly why I feel so strongly about the drop-off in quality recently. It feels like an insult to something I love and know can be better and has been better in the past - not from a personal perspective, but from as much of an unbiased perspective I can give as someone who has studied writing. So if he's a "bad writer" in general is kind of up to discretion i suppose.

[soranker]

Hiiii not sure if anyone's asked this yet but any advice on how to improve on art & anatomy? I use to draw a lot wayyyy back in high school but then stopped because of life getting in the way but now I really wanted to get back into art but realized my art isn't as good as it use to be & I never really cared too much about studying anatomy so all my anatomy/proportions are really wack & I'd like to get better at it. Hope you're having a good day!!! 💞💞💞

HI!!! i dont have any formal training in anatomy nor have i really done any studies, so unfortunately i think i can only offer general advice, but hopefully you can still find it helpful! here's what i'd recommend based on my own experience...

focus on proportions BEFORE anatomy! nailing down the size/length of each body part in relation to each other will give you a good foundation before getting into the specifics of anatomy, since you can practice this with simple shapes (circles, boxes, tubes, etc.). then practice anatomy/build on top of that, rather than trying to figure them out in parallel

practice from real life observation/references (ex. figure drawing)! even if you want to draw stylized, it'll be much more helpful in the long run if you study from real life. you'll be a lot more informed in how body parts actually connect to each other or how they move. observe observe observe! take pics of yourself/watch how your body moves--you can be your own most accessible resource, and a mirror and camera can be your best friends

find a way to keep yourself motivated to practice anatomy! everyone says that you only get better with practice and time... and it's true! but i can understand that sometimes it's hard to motivate yourself. if you ask me, draw your favorite characters :) it's literally all i do HAHA. my mentality is that... if i'm drawing something that i like then the practice feels less of a chore lol

[ryukiethebored]

thinking about making another edit but as to what this time is the real issue. gi-hun? in-ho? sang-woo? a combination? 457? sangihun again? my last was of those two, but i was pretty fresh to them. when the possibilities are numerous, how does one decide???

[nach0]

You are the Realmleaper. You are an anchor without a ship to pull you back up. You are stuck watching retellings of the same play over and over. This time you are...

>The Party's companion >The Rouge's guide >The Kid's protector >The King's informant >The Script's rewriter >The Original's hope >The Researcher's project >The...

Hmm. You don't know yet.

Time to find out!

[jam-packed]

thank god im not a journalist cus the amount of eye contact would kill me

[marinecorvid]

blorbos from my brain

[st4rstudent]

So. I have a BURNING question.

Are Mac and Winn your ocs? I know theyre in the Canon Lore, but did you make them and put them there?? Is this a dumb question? You're like, the Mac and Winn Authority. It just always made sense to me that they'd be YOUR toons, but now that I think about it, I've never seen anything implicitly stating that you made them...

So, did you?? Make them?

(No matter if you made them or not, i LOVE the comics you make about these guys. Youve really endeared them to me.)

very sorry to disappoint, but they're not! I didn't have anything to do with their creation or writing, they're canonical ttcc toons! I'm just a big fan of them, although I have captured them in a giant net like this

net-capturing aside, im very happy to hear I've endeared you more towards them! I like them a lot . looks at you with giant sparkly eyes

[crimeronan]

i have a couple more asks about how eda responds to princess AU luz reaching out to her & i'm not sure when i'll finish the fic so i will give u guys these spoilers in advance. obviously if u dont want fic spoilers dont read the rest of this post.

eda won't even See luz until raine pleads her case, which i mentioned like months and months ago but am still thinking about. lilith is like "sister PLEASE" and eda is like "you can all go pound sand. lmfao" & then raine is like "look i know we're estranged but-" and eda's like "I DOOOON'T LIKE THAT YOU'RE SIMPING FOR THE EMPIRE" followed by "oh wait. this isn't about the empire this is actually for real about the kid. lol omg. dude. rainestorm. have you adopted literally the worst child you could Possibly care about-"

2. eda won't let hunter or lilith in the house, at least at this point in time. both of them are extremely irritated about this and might even bond over it. besties <333 i guess <333

3. eda doesn't trust luz's bright spirit or good intentions or friendly nature At All. she is very much like early amity in this regard. eda is like you're not going to charm me kiddo >:( i'm curmudgeonly >:( you can talk a big game about accepting wild witches but i won't believe it until i see it!! >:( i know what people look like when they're just playing politics!!

and luz is like. no no no i can prove it. wait hang on i can prove it i Promise. i SWEAR i'm not lying to you

and pulls out her glyphs.

and does what she does.

and eda is like.

Fucking.

WHAT????

[nabaath-areng]

"Make sure everything is in order before completing!" oh god i thought it was right but now because you asked im immediately doubting myself

[jichanxo]

in the light [from apr/2022] based on this video around 7:59

[winepresswrath]

one thing i'm going to take from fellow travellers is "they're pals! what's the harm?" i can see clearly now that specific line delivery is going to live in infamy in my heart and mind.

[pyrosomatic-metamorphosis]

everyone should give me twnety million dollar. i will learn so much about blood

[orphiicheartd]

While receiving confessions out and about as a celebrity, Vil has his script to decline them. In Night Raven, and especially among fellow Pomefiore students, his sole condition to make him accept the confession is a contest: they must brew an antidote to his poison then trust in their own skill to drink and save themself from it. If they are able to do so without his intervention, then he will accept their feelings.