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[zu-is-here]

A birthday gift for @egnidres (人 •͈ᴗ•͈)

a teaser to the story by egnidres

Ink by comyet

Cross from xtaleunderverse by jakei95

[lesbianshepard]

me reading a post about non-existent fictional mobsters from a movie that has never existed

[callisteios]

I have a new uquiz for you, go on a pilgrimage with me. discover who you are.

[starry-carrousel]

Posting the girls on this beautiful Flower Thursday

Read Flower if you haven’t already!

[nuclearanomaly]

Bookshop AU - The All Saint's Party Incident: Outfits

[ohno-the-sun]

Little oc I’ve been thinking about for awhile

Name’s Roulette (maybe goes by Rue for short)

Featuring doodles by @garbagechocolate and @benji-draws

Lore under the cut (tw gore)

Roulette originally came from a different Pizzaplex location where she ran the prize wheel. Children would spend tokens to spin the wheel and she would give out whatever prize they won.

These prizes were typically tokens or toys, but whether it be by errant programming or an overly sensitive cheating prevention system, her games often ended with the wheel's options slowly being replaced by worse and worse prizes. In fact they didn't seem like prizes at all, more like things she'd take from you to add to her own collection.

After the mysterious disappearance of several human body parts and various lawsuits, she was decommissioned and sent to Sun and Moon's Pizzaplex for storage.

One day she wakes up to see a terrifying looking moon animatronic ripping into her innards. Horrified she barely manages to get away, hiding until Sun finds her.

Sun feeling bad about his counterpart destroying this poor animatronic, tells her he'll help fix her up. Little does he know that this animatronic is not as innocent as she seems.

Fascinated by his kindness and ease of access to fleshy human bodies, she ends up with an intense and unhealthy obsession with Sun.

Unfortunately, she also ends up with a deep hatred for Moon and wants nothing more than for him to disappear.

She has a plan in mind now, she will make this Pizzaplex her's, creating unlimited access to as many body parts as she desires. Sun will be her sweet pet and Moon will be dead in an alley somewhere.

Highly manipulative with a concerning lack of empathy, Sun and Moon are going to have a hard time with this one.

However, what she doesn't realize is just how close Sun and Moon are.

[triona-tribblescore]

Hi! I’m new to your blog and just want to say I LOVE your art style and everything, it’s so pretty! I wanted to ask, what program do you use? Additionally, brush and font (unless you just have super neat handwriting ajsjajdjsj)

TYSM! :D <3

The program I use is Firealpaca, started drawing properly in 2019 and it was what was easy and free for me at the time, just never felt the need to swap to anything else XD

[ectogeo-rebubbles]

Happy 31st anniversary, DS9!

Because 31 is the Sloan number, I hereby challenge the fandom to collectively post at least 31 new fanworks tagged "Luther Sloan" on ao3 this year (2024) to celebrate! >:)

(The original air date of the first DS9 episode was Jan 3, 1993.)

[synthwayve]

Wishing a very happy birthday to my good friend and mutual @karnaca78 !!! Here are your guys! Your designs are a BLAST to draw and I loved trying to do something sort of mimicking art nouveau, since you expressed liking those works before!

Silly birthday wishes under the cut lol

It’s crazy to think we only started talking some months ago in 2023. Your art is incredible and your writing is masterful to a degree I can’t put in words, and I’m beyond honored and thrilled that it was your writing that got me to break out of my shell and talk to you! I appreciate your kind outlook and your passionate attitude, you’ve got this great vibe about you that reminds me why I love this fandom to bits and I’m sure I’m not the only person here who looks up to you immensely, not just as a creator, but as a person! You make this space a brighter place every day! I hope the day treats you well ( ´▽` )ﾉ🍰🎁 thank you for everything!

[nottheweirdest]

Hi! I don’t know why I’m so nervous. I usually don’t talk to people.. and english is not my first language. Anyway.. So I was reading your sonadow fanfic coming home and I just really wanted to draw something from it.. so here xD I don’t have to post it if you don’t want me to.

Omg I woke up to this and can I just say BEST MORNING EVER?!? Holy shit! Please don't be nervous, this is AMAZING and I'm so stupid flabbergasted over it I don't have words. I'm just grinning ear to ear 😁! I would love for you to post it! It's so good 😭 the hand positioning, the ties, the fountain in the background just ushajahsjahs. It's brilliant and made me so happy to see!! Thank you!!! 💖💖💖 If you decide to post, let me know and if you're cool with it, I'll link it in the fic! 💕

[otrtbs]

y’all are so weird. if you hate the way i characterized regulus in ahb! then,,, stop reading it? no one is forcing you to read it?? you can just put it down,,, you know that right???? who has the gun to your head making you click next chapter??? you can just stop reading it at any time. no really, trust me!

[tcfactory]

This is fully a personal preference thing honestly, but I've been turning it around in my brain why I don't like BingQiu specifically when I'm at worst neutral on almost literally any other ship and I think it boils down to this: it's really important to me that in a ship that's supposed to be lasting and stable at least one character can say "I see you for what you are and I accept you for all there is to you". And that's just not a thing with BingQiu.

Binghe literally can't know a huge part of Shen Qingqiu - the part that is Shen Yuan, the part that wears the scum villain as a mask that it can never even take off completely - because of the transmigration and the System. He also idolizes his Shizun and at the same time puts on mask after mask so that he can be Shen Qingqiu's lovely white lotus which also don't help.

And Shen Qingqiu's head is full of so many bees, so much denial and self-delusion that we watched him actively think himself in circles rather than admit that Binghe might be interested in him for three whole books. I don't trust him to have a reasonably realistic idea of himself, much less of someone else. Especially not Binghe. He will make up a picture in his mind about how things are supposed to be and it has to be an act of divine intervention for him to budge from it. He will deny reality if he has to, so he's incapable of seeing Binghe as anything other than the Perfect Protagonist.

I don't often see Binghe shipped with others (he's so singularly No Thoughts Head Empty Only Shizun that it's hard to put him with anyone else. Shen Jiu sometimes I guess, but he is shipped more with Bingge which feels like a distinctly separate thing to me and anyway, it's usually predicated upon the realization that they are both similar kinds of monsters, even if Bingge outdoes his scum villain by several orders of magnitude) but Shen Yuan has a few choice ships that either challenge his expectations enough that his denial and delusion breaks down eventually (Liu Qingge, Shen Jiu, etc.) or ship him with Airplane who knows him for what he is because he's also a transmigrator and he's familiar with Cucumber bro's acerbic inner self.

Other ships too. QiJiu/LiuJiu/QiJiuLiu any variations of these three tbh thrive on clearing up their misunderstanding and starting to see each other clearly again. MoShang get together once they start to properly pay attention to each other and their respective needs. Airplane in general has just an impossible understanding of whoever he's shipped with as only Author and his creations can have. Tianlang-jun's weird charm comes from it that he can't (or possibly refuses to) pretend to be anything than who and what he is beyond the most superficial disguise.

And BingQiu just doesn't have that. They are both too obsessed with an idealized version of each other to ever see things clearly and that's what makes their dynamic not very fun to me personally.

[neonbutchery]

kind of a spicy take but while i don't think that it shouldn't be obligatory to make fanwork to participate in fandom + fanwork isn't exempt from criticism (especially when it comes to bigoted shit) there are certain folks whose entire input is just whining all the time about other people's harmless headcanons and ships that it just makes me want to yell at them to fucking pick up a pencil or open a google doc if they just don't like what others put out bc it isn't tailored to their specific tastes

[unrestedjade]

Man, MB snapping at ART about doing therapy-speak at it during that "this isn't you, it's your trauma treatment certification talking" exchange sure makes me feel some type of way lol.

Murderbot Diaries is like Star Trek in that 93% of the time it stays on the correct side of the line separating optimistic sci-fi from cloying hopepunk bullshit for me, and I can live with the other 7%.

Idk what round of backlash or backlash-to-the-backlash we're collectively on regarding "characters talking/acting like they're getting an A in therapy" but letting MB express that (imo justified) annoyance built a lot of goodwill for me that carried me through the bits of this book that were too sweet for my palate.

Hearing the exact right, enlightened thing at the exact right time can be super alienating. Like the person saying those words to you is holding you at arm's length the way a professional therapist has to. Dr. Bharadwaj can fill that role for MB and often does. That's not a role for ART, as an intimate friend/partner/admin assistant/whatever, and it rings true for MB to tell it to cut that shit out and just talk normally.

[daz4i]

hate the culture of "if you have x flaw you need to unlearn it" (i'm not talking bigotry, i'm talking personality stuff, like stubbornness hypocrisy etc). like as someone who is p manipulative and very obsessive by nature and bc of a personality disorder i don't think i'll ever be able to really iron these traits out of myself. what i CAN do is not act upon them, and work hard to not give into these reflexes, bc i have no choice if i don't wanna hurt people. i think that's better than trying to *be* someone i'm not and feeling like an awful person for failing at that.

if this type of behavior works out for you and you're able to replace toxic traits with something better, that's great and i'm very happy for you. but i think for other people like me, who at least for now don't have that ability, it's important to remember that it's okay if that's part of who you are, as long as you don't hurt people.

[randomminty]

Nemonaaaaa