#with different constraints

[elumish]

My true genuine wish for the very shortly upcoming new year (hello from Still 2024) is that everyone who thinks that fanfiction is better than all professional/published fiction reads more published fiction.

Not because I think fanfiction is bad, or even because I think that it's inherently worse than published fiction, but because there are amazing, innovative, clever things happening in published fiction that I have not seen in fanfiction (just as there are amazing, innovative, clever things in fanfiction that I don't see in published fiction), and you are genuinely missing out by only reading fanfiction.

Read N. K. Jemisin. Read Arkady Martine. Read Tamsyn Muir. Read Jane Austen. Read Brandon Sanderson. Read Nora Roberts. Read Tracy Deonn. Read Tamora Pierce. Read John Chu. Read Ursula K. Le Guin.

Find genres that you like, find authors that you like, and read published fiction. You will be better for it.

[sevastiel]

A Thousand Lifetimes

Drifter appreciation piece :3

[the-awful-falafel]

for Fake Peppino Friday I will share this fun reference doodle showing how I go about drawing his facial expressions

[gracemarkss]

this exchange goes crazy...dana "i worship the sea he sailed on" "i did it because i knew if he found out he would kill me" "part of me likes it, needs it, wants the approval" " along the way there are other fathers" "i thought you'd be pleased" "he was my instructor at the academy" "he must have been a wonderful teacher...yes, he's remarkable man" "your fear of failing him?" scully would know a thing or two about THAT...

[blooberri-rabbiteye]

Inevitable…

Enjoy a silly little animatic I made for @jennicatzies’ Untitled Timeloop AU! Specifically based on this ask’s little “what-if” scenario because what in the wack-a-doodle-do, dude? Might as well stab me while you’re at it.

Credits for programs under the cut:

Drawing program: Medibang

Editing Program: i-movie

[tiptoeing-the-fractures]

"these thin lines of light across space tether you to me"

[ssunspotted]

He really very badly wanted to catch that thing! One of the little cuttings I had taken from Henri. So much energy!

[autistickaitovocaloid]

Kaito kid pix experiment.

[whentherewerebicycles]

god I love my little baby so much. he’s just started singing back to me when I sing to him, ie cooing really energetically in (sort of) harmony with me with SO much joy in his expression. if you stop singing he will try to get you to start again by coo-singing to you and then watching you intently to see if you’re picking up what he’s putting down. he has also learned how to hold his favorite rattle toy in both hands and also how to confidently bring it to his mouth to taste the plastic and then how to throw it away from himself when he’s had quite enough, thank you. he just continues to be the sweetest, most even-tempered little boy. he loves to hang but is also totally content to kick around out on the deck treegazing and talking to himself. I was pretty sure I’d love having a baby but I kind of thought there would be more caveats slash things where I was like “obviously I love him so much, but…” but there’s just no but. he rocks and it rocks to know him. he’s my little guy. I’m having so much fun.

[jesncin]

Do fish-like/mermaid atlanteans exist in JL remix? (I'm asking because I'm a Lori Lemaris Liker, it's interating that she has 'passed' as human before and she and Clark are cute as a 'dated a little in college, are now pals' thing and I think It'd be neat in the 'remixverse)

Yes! I've personally long ago reimagined Atlanteans as looking more monstrously-fish like for my designs of Mera and her twin Hila (though I've made Hila way more butch'ed out now):

I like the idea of Arthur looking visibly mixed as someone more human-passing in Atlantean culture (though now that I'm free from the constraints of a school assignment, I'd make Atlanteans more fishy). I don't know how controversial it is to imagine Lori as a type of Atlantean, but I think that makes sense for now.

[somecunttookmyurl]

forgive my absolute ignorance and maybe stupidity, but does swimming and other pool related activities help hypermobility? Whenever I told anyone related to medicine I'm having joint pain, they told me to take many a bath and frequent a pool

yes. water-related actitivites help with joint pain a) by in the case of exercise like aerobics and swimming building muscle and b) doing so whilst relieving pressure on the joints because the water is holding you up

hot baths will relieve pressure on the joints (unlike standing or even sitting to take a shower) and the heat will relax the muscles whilst the water supports you

[markantonys]

the 2024 fandom plot twist i wasn't expecting was bridgerton bookcloaks being so unhinged that they make wheel of time bookcloaks seem normal in comparison

[ceramicbeetle]

out of nowhere thought but i do really feel like i'm coming close to eschewing every label i've ever used entirely; my thesis on unstable sense of self is shifting too much to find any worth in holding onto them

[redrobemerle]

the duality of artist, btw.

if you care.

[lavellun]

veilguard/solavellan spoilers under the cut 🪞

"but you do not have to go alone. we make this journey together, always."

"it won't be terrible if you're with me."

WHAT IF I CRIED GIRLS????????????

[frogs-in3-hills]

anyways it’s funny that i say i prefer stories that work with themes on a bigger scale meanwhile my favorite piece of fiction in the entire world is nana by ai yazawa, which is so deeply embedded in its characters perspectives that it almost becomes apolitical. like i don’t know if ai yazawa fully realizes that nana k is a csa victim or that ren manipulates nana o with sex or that shin & reira’s relationship is unhealthy. she might or she might not.. it doesn’t matter what she thinks because she’s just fully uninterested in passing judgement on these things, instead focusing on portraying them and the characters’ experiences extremely authentically & leaving the viewer to interpret what it is and what it means. which counterintuitively makes them more compelling to me (the themes enjoyer…) only because she’s so fucking good at doing that. truly i have seen some very well-written characters but i have never seen anything like the characters in nana……..