#way to queue

[activelyweird]

really couldn't have gotten 2000 more experience, huh anyway never going to emotional recover for this experience

[wishfulsketching]

Some not so serious doodles about the idea where Silco survived and Warwrick!Vander found him. I did these as fanservice for ME! Especially the clothes thing

(have fun trying to figure out the reading order of the third sketch dump)

[activelyweird]

you posted it here too?? omg how did i not see it before

This year I participated to the Yakuza Secret Santa on Twitter and here's my gift for @/activelyweird on site! They asked for Kiryu and Nishiki, and since they like slice of life moments I decided to draw them eating ramen together! 🍜🎄

[nonebinary-leftbeef]

DEVASTATING the lyric you've been mishearing is better than the real one

[artsymeeshee]

And then they had hot chocolate, with extra sprinkles.

Finally got around to finishing the Ford and Mabel mini comic! I’ve wanted to do something centered around them both worrying over the future, albeit with different reasons. Plus, I think they both have a special way to make each other feel better. From one alpha twin to another.

[katebeckets]

how to say "I love you" in x-files [118/?] ⤷ 1.17 — “E.B.E.”

[whatpetewants]

the concert lamb

this is THE piece ever

[ariadne-mouse]

I feel fandom would get along a lot better if there was mutual understanding that liking a character, agreeing with a character, and thinking the character is well constructed/executed are all separate (if often overlapping) positions, each with their separate tastes and subjectivities. Also: character portrayals are intended to make the audience feel things; this is separate from (if often overlapping with) analyzing/appreciating their actions and role in the story.

[quiescentdestiny]

so many people out here saying Neil lied about going to California, but low-key I assumed it was more of a "didn't ask" type situation.

Even Kevin says "we knew who he was meeting, so we assumed he was going to Baltimore."

Neil is the king of "ask me no questions, I'll tell you no lies".

Andrew wasn't angry because he didn't care that Neil had lied. Because he technically didn't, and Andrew lives on black and white and technicalities.

[elodieunderglass]

And one amang, an Iyrysch man,

Uppone his hoby swyftly ran…

WAIT HANG ON - slamming the brakes on drawing this stupid picture - do you nerds even KNOW the etymology of the word “hobby”? The thing you do for pleasure? The thing you have too many of? The thing you spend too much money on and share with your friends? The thing tumblr probably is to you? Those hobbies?

It comes from a now-kind-of-extinct breed of Irish pony-horse. It was called the Irish Hobby. Supposedly the hobby got its name from the Gaelic word obann, or swift. They definitely were. They’d obann your pants clean off.

Fast tough little bastards, built for rough terrain and renowned for their speed and stamina, hobby horses belonged to the Celts, and their highly annoying style of mounted warfare. but their conquerors liked hobby horses a lot, kept them, used them for themselves, and found them useful enough, despite the fact that they also had famously useful things like mounted knights or horse archers. A lightweight Irish warrior, mounted on a hobby horse, was called a hobelar.

Reportedly and in depictions, hobelars rode without stirrups. Or saddles. Or bridles. Or - well - this is all sounding very improbable, because the hobelars COULDNT have just been charging around basically bare-assed on naked ponies, screaming, and somehow in the process undoing the composure of actual mounted armoured knights. Knights who, I remind you, had stirrups. Stirrups are useful! It’s quite likely the hobelars had some gear. And clothes. and weapons. And the ponies probably had some tack - I am picturing a bellyband that you could at least hang a saddlebag on, and a neck rope for catching the bloody thing, even if not a saddle. But the overall impression, somehow created by people on darling little ponies, was apparently quite striking and fearful.

I mean. God Forbid People Have Hobbies.

Anyway after a while, whatever people became the British had eventually conquered all of the rough terrain that hobbies were best at, and horse archers just got sexier, and mounted knights became aristos, and all the bog and forest people had been subdued, so it was time to sunset the hobelars. but WAIT! Hobby horses are still tremendously fun and appealing! They’re so fast! and you can ride them without a saddle! Sure, they’re not up to the weight of a mounted knight, or indeed a lot of guys… but surely we can still find a use for a hobby or two? In the back garden? Somewhere?

At which point an English king decided to keep hobby horses just for fun. No military application. No further development of the technology. Not for fun. Just as expensive, pleasurable, pets. Just for the joy of the thing.

And that is how hobby (activity done purely for pleasure) comes from hobby horse (small horse) possibly from obann (swift.) they’re very interesting and you should look all this up for yourself! because it sure sounds like Elodie doing a bit, doesn’t it?

Today, Irish Hobbies are functionally nonexistent. References for drawing include the Kerry Bog Pony, the Connemara, and (I personally think) Dartmoors and Exmoors. They’re said to have lent their speed to the Irish Hunter/Sport Horse and from there to the Thoroughbred, but every damn horse in the world claims relation to the Thoroughbred, and they can’t be THAT thoroughly bred.

At any rate - you can never have enough hobbies. Just be glad that yours aren’t expensive beasts with minds of their own, eating their heads off in the pasture! …Unless they are. In which case, you’re part of a proud tradition.

[myfagicalromance]

Dude your undead wife fucking bit me

[activelyweird]

tagged by @aaafonya, ty for tagging me... 2 weeks ago but still

writing tag game

1. how many works do you have on ao3? 75

2. what's your total ao3 word count? ~253k

3. what fandoms do you write for? A Lot. main ones are final fantasy xv, various k-pop groups, kinnporsche, and lost in translation (webtoon). and ofc the obligatory men's hockey rpf fics

4. what are your top 5 fics by kudos?

just save yourself (leave it all behind) - 2nd kinnporsche fic, my most popular fic by a huge margin. i really just wrote the sickfic i wanted to read lol

i'm running to 0 - my only monsta x fic, love a good hurt/comfort moment. it has slowly but steadily grown in popularity

my hand reaching out to you is my chosen fate - big fandom foray with my hero academia, but honestly not proud of this fic anymore. not really read much anymore, had a huge covid popularity surge

kickstart my heat (hope it never stops) - 1st kinnporsche fic, i honestly just love this one. it was really fun to write even if it's 85% exposition. wrote all 15k listening to the the motley crue song

falling (feels like flying) - for the tv show wednesday, i wanted hurt/comfort fic. became popular bc i wrote it right after the show aired.

5. do you respond to comments? sometimes. i honestly tend to write when i am in an negative headspace, so don't usually reply, but i love and appreciate any comments/kudos.

6. what is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? honestly half my fics are tagged "ambiguous/open ending" or "bittersweet"... also love a good implied mcd moment ngl. maybe anesthetize the sadness, partly inspired by am 4:44 by bang yongguk

7. what’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? this kun/ten wayv fic, i will confess what has been on the tip of my tongue tomorrow - a cute, lighthearted coffee shop au. zero angst

8. do you get hate on fics? no

9. do you write smut? not really. couple of moments referenced here and there at most

10. do you write crossovers? what's the craziest one you've written? kind of. most are the nct crossovers (with superm, exo, etc). the favorite crossover was fall apart slowly, a 97 line fic with minghao and winwin lol. my craziest one was a day6 spiderman au with like, 25+ english speaking idols, bc why not.

11. have you ever had a fic stolen? hope not

12. have you ever had a fic translated? no

13. have you ever co-written a fic before? no

14. what’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? a dcau fic with hal jordan and batman - it's something i wanted to write because i loved hal jordan and batman's banter, but don't actually have anything i want to see, plot-wise

15. what are your writing strengths? i love just adding tiny details and imagery to scenes. like, if anyone notices the specific word choice or scene detail i make, i am ecstatic

16. what are your writing weaknesses?

dialogue. i hate writing conversations. also honestly writing romance, it always feels so unnatural. also, i sometimes just want a fic to be finished, so i just give it an ending without properly reaching that point so it feels lackluster

17. thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic? depends. one-off in a fic? totally fine, esp. if the point is that it's not understandable to the other party. but if it's throughout a fic, just use italics imo -> probably some scenario i am forgetting but overall thoughts

18. first fandom you wrote for? sonic the hedgehog. no longer have the original document though. first on ao3 was final fantasy xv.

19. favorite fic you’ve written? it was me (who was discovered) - a fun pre-canon final fantasy xv looking at ignis and ravus, it's not necessarily my best work but pretty dif. for me and was cool to explore their dynamic however heavy it may seem - a super junior fic, but always have been proud of the frame story format i used. also so many little details lights turned off can be turned on - yoongi-centric bts fic, i honestly really liked how i wrote depression in this fic... hope that doesn't sound odd -- if you read any of this, thank you! would love to hear what people have to say on their own writing, if you see this, absolutely feel free to do it (and tag me!!). i don't really know any writers on here haha

[florisbaratheons]

"You hear that, boy? Your mama wants you dead."

Oh my fucking God, they really did that. They gave Aegon the Maelor storyline.

[asknillamilkfam]

First of all, congratulations!! Love this family lol. Now for my question, did Shadow Milk ever tell the beasts about his children or does he plan to?

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[artsymeeshee]

random doodles of the best boys of the sea 🌊

(Do NOT tag as ship please :T)

[katebeckets]

how to say "I love you" in x-files [122/?] ⤷ 1.17 — “E.B.E.”