#ARC call

[ekdarnellbooks]

Looking for ARC Readers!

“You are my charge while you are on this ship, and I will tend to all of your needs.”

Mini blurb: When two horrifying creatures emerge from the woods hell-bent on capturing her, Gaia has choices to make — all of them revolving around what will keep her alive the longest. And are those... tentacles? Perhaps there are a few more decisions than she thought there were...

Vrauma’s Menagerie is a sci fi alien romance novella with a HEA

🦑Multiple POV 🦑Alien aliens 🦑Why choose (two aliens + FMC) 🦑3+ spicy scenes

Vrauma's Menagerie is overall lighthearted, but there are some darker scenes. Content warnings here.

ARCs will be sent out on April 21 and the novella will release on May 21

If you’re interested in signing up as an ARC reader, check out more info below!

Edit: ARCs closed!!!

#writblr #bookblr #ARC reader #ARC read #ARC review #ARC call #monster lover #monster fucker #alien fucker #alien lover #tentacle smut #sci fi romance #sci fi alien romance #indie author #debut author

[defiedfate]

I have an open BLOG ARC if anyone wants to join in on it. specifically for Blitz, Octavia, and maybe Stella, but all are welcome.

#arc call #pls pls pls #i need it

[hajimedics]

I'M NOT YOUR DOLL AND I'LL THINK FOR MYSELF AND I'LL LIVE FOR MYSELF

#welcome home #welcome home puppet show #eddie dear #senjart #so #so. SO! #SO ABOUT TODAY'S UPDATE. WELL. #WELLLLLL! #eddie is happy. eddie is happy! #so excited for eddie's lobotomy arc #I have many MANY thoughts about today's update. by far the best one I should say #so much implications of the situation the puppets are in #how sally is so.... harsh towards eddie #and we got shown him having an outburst when hes left alone and doesnt know what to do #like he's so underappreciated but. delivering mails and making papercrafts are all he knows #his reison de'tre #his depersonalization on the armchair during the advertisement segment AND how frank reacted to it #he dropped the ''mr dear'' pretenses and called him ''eddie'' in such a concerned voice #AND MY GOD. RED FLAGS EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!!! #PUPPET ON THE STRING THEORY REAL? SCRIPTS THEORY REAL? OR AM I JUST TWEAKING #HMMM HMMMMMMMMM #ANYWAYS I'LL THINK OF MORE STUFF TO ADD HERE ONCE IM NO LONGER SLEEPY

[very-small-giant]

You remember L̶̢͇̩̤̳̩͖̲͚͚̳͚͕͉̗͋̓ͅư̵͓͖̥̥̦͇͍̬̪̑́͐̏̂̐̎̾̐́̑̋̽̇͆̃̾̈́͌̈́̀̉͛͑̓̌͐́̊͂͒̈́̈́͘̚͠p̸̥̳͈͚̊̈́̋̀̄͐̓͆̇͑̿͊͌̍̕̕͝͠͝͠͝, of course. How could you forget L̶̢͇̩̤̳̩͖̲͚͚̳͚͕͉̗͋̓ͅư̵͓͖̥̥̦͇͍̬̪̑́͐̏̂̐̎̾̐́̑̋̽̇͆̃̾̈́͌̈́̀̉͛͑̓̌͐́̊͂͒̈́̈́͘̚͠p̸̥̳͈͚̊̈́̋̀̄͐̓͆̇͑̿͊͌̍̕̕͝͠͝͠͝?

#the adventure zone #taz #taz balance #taz taako #taako taaco #taz lup #lup taaco #the siblings got to me..... #im destroyed #im at the stolen century arc and he called her lulu???? #are you kidding me im going to cry

[hotdogmchiggin]

I guess DARE wasn’t a thing in Goron City

#saw someone call zelda the gorons drug dealer and I couldnt get the image of her in a trenchcoat peddling marbled rock roast to children #like one of those shady guys selling wristwatches in cartoons out of my head #anyway that’s where this came from #trying to figure out comics and shit. not my strong suit so sorry if its rough. #figuring out an optimal level of detail is hard :( first I’m like oh i’ll just leave it black and white and then i’m like maybe ill add #color and then i’m like well now it needs shading and THEN it needs lighting and THEN IT NEEDS A BACKGROUND AND THEN IT NEE #anyway i should. probably stop rambling bye #loz #tears of the kingdom #totk #totk spoilers #i mean sorta. not huge spoilers. slight spoilers for goron arc I guess #zelda #myart

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Laios's three Boy Best Friends. And yes, they hate him.

#dungeon meshi #laios touden #toshiro nakamoto #chilchuck tims #kabru #BF in this context could be boyfriend or best friend. The line is so blurry. #Chilchuck less so but whatever is going on between Shuro and Laios & Kabru and Laios is giving strong: #“dude if you were a girl I'd date the hell out of you”. And from the genderswap extra's that sentiment is canon for BOTH. #This was made prior to the translation of the Laios & Kabru & Shuro restaurant date comic and honestly I am just feeling vindicated. #I don't even know what to call this dynamic other than a situationship. There is so much going on between all of them. #Even on a purely platonic reading - the miscommunication and male yearning for friendship hurt so bad. #When we got the Big Hug scene in the epilogue arc I was whooping and hollering! Pure catharsis moment! #I also don't like hugs very much so I really felt it went Shuro ('hates being touched') went in for the bear hug. #Do not get me started on the agony of 'always lying' Kabru telling the truth (I just wanted to be friends) #and 'always believes' Laios thinking it's another lie and brushing him off. #I am once again supporting dungeon meshi day by posting art. Please watch dungeon meshi. #obligatory edit because I’m tired: YES. Chilchuck cares for Laios and him admitting it was a huge part of his arc #YES he is more just fed up with him that actually hating him. #I needed a third guy to be canonically done with his ass for the THREE WEED SMOKING GIRLFRIENDS reference

[beaulesbian]

Luffy & Zoro + reunions

The world's greatest swordsman?! The Pirate King would need no less than that on his crew!

+ bonus, one slightly different reunion

#one piece #opgraphics #monkey d luffy #roronoa zoro #onepieceedit #zolu #luzo #monkey d. luffy #luffy #zoro #i know the zou arc is departure. but i needed something to fit the format and be happy ok! #i didnt want angst in this one #opedit #mine #gif:one piece #gif:op anime #gif:zolu #one piece luffy #one piece zoro #still not over the way luffy really went out to search for zoro... someone he heard being called “demon pirate hunter” #and luffy still wanted him for himself- i mean for his crew #and ever since they he's just happier when they meet again after however brief separation ;-; #wano zolu #sabaody zolu #sabaody archipelago #alabasta #east blue saga #wano spoilers #had to add there the re-animation of their first meeting from wano ep 1060 #its just so gorgeous! and luffy rlly hiding behind his hat sometimes when hes feeling so many things

[akimao]

"You almost died, again!"

#here I'm in 2023 with a zosan after too long without them😭 #c'era zosan nell'aria già da un po'..dovevo solo trovare il tempo e la concentrazione necessaria 💛💚 #akimao #my art #one piece #zosan #zoro x sanji #roronoa zoro #sanji #sanji black leg #sanji blackleg #I refuse to call him Vinsmoke #wano arc #ゾロサン #after onigashima #digital art #digital painting #illustration #art #marimo 💚 #print on redbubble

[stsghrs]

"geto-sama, who's gojo satoru anyway?"

"he was my best friend..."

"...but we fought..."

"...and it's been like that ever since."

#'was' :(((((( #if only he knew about satoru still calling him his 'one and only' #ue ue ue (sound of crying) #gojo satoru #geto suguru #satosugu #sugusato #stsg #sgst #jjk #jujutsu kaisen #jjk shibuya arc #jjk premature death #jjk hidden inventory #jjk s2

[chiliger]

Just guys having a normal conversation. (Sort of sequel to this post.)

And of course, the bonus:

Those were words… right??

#chiligerart #arc trooper fives #clone trooper jesse #clone trooper hardcase #clone trooper tup #clone trooper dogma #the clone wars #star wars #sw tcw #Dogma: should… should we call a medic? #Tup: … No… No; I think that’s just an elder generation thing

[leon-anna]

It has been a HOT minute since we last posted!!

Anna and I have been quite busy recently, and it doesn't help that I've been going through art block on top of that!

So, until we get some things sorted out, here is a simple Rex/Fives doodle of them after a routine sparring session~

#fives is most likely ranting to Rex about how dumb the Senate is #and Rex is just smiling/trying to look like they aren't borderline rebelling against their government #star wars #the clone wars #clone wars #anna talks #tcw #swtcw #clone troopers #sw #clones #clone captain rex #arc trooper fives #side note we just watched Ahsoka ep 5 and can't stop crying--igjhkdgddhrjsu Anakin... calling Ahsoka Snips? Are You Kidding me?!!? #leon talks

[comradekatara]

katara’s role as the show’s narrator is so underrated because no one really seems to understand just how deeply katara is impacted by the nature of stories, with regards to their craft, their promulgation, and their cultural significance, so they don’t truly register the sheer metatextual brilliance of having her be the resident storyteller of the narrative itself.

the first thing atla establishes about katara is that she is someone who is fueled by dreams and fantasies, and believes in a return to a world where “all four nations lived together in harmony” (which is obviously an illusory ideal, as there was always geopolitical strife even if it wasn’t as overt as the devastating imperialist project they are now subject to), described to her by kanna’s stories about the old days.

katara is someone who indulges in fantasies of adventure and heroism, projecting these ideals onto both herself and others. she is an idealist in the truest, purest sense of the word, and what is an idealist if not someone who tells themselves stories about a more beautiful world to survive?

it’s no coincidence that the episode where katara successfully scares everyone with a very compellingly narrated campfire story is the same episode that she must contend with her heritage, the ominous lacunae in her stories, the pitfalls of her own naive idealization. it’s also not a coincidence that the story she tells was first told to her by her mother.

katara grew up hearing stories passed down to her from kanna and kya, and those stories gave her hope and brought her the possibility of happiness in a bleak, cruel world where she was ultimately alone. there used to be people like her, said the stories, and they were brave, and they fought til their final breaths to hold onto their culture, their love for their people, their humanity.

well that’s who i’m going to be, says katara. someone who fights, someone who cannot be knocked down (because there is no one else left to take her place), someone who will never cease to have faith in the capacity of others for good, for truth, and for justice.

stories are her heritage, they are her culture, they are how she defines herself and how she understands the world around her. stories are how she copes, how she survives; they are all she has left to cling to. and sometimes they are reductive, and sometimes they are outright false, but that’s okay too. she grows, she adjusts her narratives, she learns to leave room for more grey in her neat tapestries of black and white. stories can define a tragic past, but they can also pave the way for a better future. she keeps telling stories.

#i could sunlit garden this girl so easy (probably what hama was thinking) #katara #analysis #kanna&katara #katara&kya #hama&katara #this is also what makes the southern raiders so brilliant as the apotheosis of her arc #but that’s for another post #(one that I’ve probably made before lbr) #everyone in atla has a sunlit garden / mythmaking event / whatever you wanna call it #but katara is the QUEEN of narrativization #and you do not get katara at ALL until you get this #fyi. #anyway i love her so much that i nearly teared up writing this. it’s whatever tho

[deimosatellite]

when nami called him traffy and he looked back like

#HES SO MAD THAT EVERYONES CALLING HIM THAT NOW IM SCREAMING #HES SOFUCKING FUNNY SAVE HIM #trafalgar law #one piece #almost done w punk hazard god im loving this arc so much

[inquisitor-apologist]

Thinking about how, at the end of the day, at the fatal moment, the sunset of the Republic, it wasn’t Yoda, or Obi-Wan, or even the Chosen One himself standing in the way of Palpatine. It was Mace Windu.

Mace Windu, the inventor of Vaapad and Master of Form VII, the Jedi's strongest duelist, the only person to ever defeat Palpatine in combat. Mace Windu, Master of the Jedi Council and the youngest Master ever appointed to it, the revered leader of the Order. Mace Windu, who forgave even those who tried to kill him, who risked his life over and over again for his troops, who, after 3 years of desperate war, tried to negotiate with battle droids. Mace Windu, who knew the clones were created by the Sith and chose to trust them, who saw every Shatterpoint in the Republic, and loved it still, and fought for it until his last breath, until he was betrayed by Anakin, who he believed in and trusted despite everything.

Mace Windu, High General and hero of the Republic, the embodiment of the Light, the last and greatest champion of the Order, the best Jedi to ever live.

#I’ve said my piece goodnight #don’t play with me Mace Antis I have receipts for every last one of these #pretty much everyone agrees that he was the best duelist there was and he obviously won the fight #Anakin's choice wouldn't make thematic sense otherwise #also vader did not defeat palpatine in combat sorry he just grabbed him while he was distracted #it literally had to be a fair fight and Anakin had to be the one to choose to create the empire that's what the prequels are about #Star Wars databank calls him ‘revered’ shatterpoint tells us he was the youngest (real) member of the council #Boba Fett (tcw) and Prosset Dibs (comics) tried to kill him and he asked for amnesty and forgave them #literally just watch the Ryloth arc he spends most of his screentime saving his men #in tcw season seven he pleads with the battle droids to surrender hoping that no one else has to die #there's the part near the end of tcw where the council realizes that the clones were created by Dooku but Mace and the rest of the council #trust the clones so much they're willing to ignore it #the scene from Mace's POV in the rots novelization talks about how much he loves the republic and how he was blindsided by Anakin's betraya #because he trusted him!! we see in aotc that he has more faith in Anakin's abilities than Obi-wan #and he defeated the most powerful sith of all time single-handedly #BEST JEDI EVER!!!!!!!!!!!! #sw prequels #star wars prequels #prequel trilogy #sw prequel trilogy #star wars prequel trilogy #sw rots #star wars rots #revenge of the sith #star wars revenge of the sith #galactic republic #pro mace windu #mace windu #pro jedi order #pro jedi

[carma-tjol]

Show me your worst. I love it all the same.

As long as it's me. As long as it's you.

#heaven official's blessing #hualian #tgcf #xie lian #hua cheng #carma art #tgcf spoilers #i think book 6 was my fav. not totally decided yet tho #severe trauma lets gooooo #xie lian’s *how can i be a person again after what happened to me* arc went CRAZY #god. #and hua cheng. #the way he draws himself ugly on the murals. his reaction to the homophobia/getting called disgusting. him expecting cruel rejection from x #KILLLLLLL MEEEEEEE #like man this guy *HATES* hates himself. #sorry for posting this literally the day after the last one but i’m obsessed

[suntails]

echo

#its the way baul called sebek a human with such disdain and sebek looked so HURT. and thats exactly what he does #it's the way this is his chance to face the music. to realize what he has accidentally carried forward in attitude towards everyone else #it's SEBEK TIME BABEYYYYYYYY it's SEBEKKY NATION!!!! the relationship and similarities between sebek and baul are SO interesting AGHHHH #cannot possibly overstate how floored and overjoyed i was that bauls design was getting put in canon. not even in an event #in the MAIN STORY. as an IMPORTANT CHAR im WHEEZING #sebek's internalized everything is so important to his char. yes we KNOW hes annoying and mean. its bc he hasnt gotten his ARC YET this is #GGRGGAHGAHHAHAHAH #twst #twisted wonderland #twst spoilers #book 7 spoilers #sebek zigvolt #baul zigvolt #oh Also shoutout to all the old man yaoi coming from this update. i appreciate it so much #lilibaul nation #suntails