#haven't picked a name yet

[stickpop]

#tk's art #oc #orca #monster girl #whale #dolphin #pool toy #haven't picked a name yet

[raiiny-bay]

summer '93

#ts4 #simblr #ts4 edit #ts4 render #sims 4 #myedits #AUverse #kelly #dhestyn #something came over me when i made these man #i don't know #AUverse is the new tag for all of my miniAUs btw. so it encompasses multiple AUs #this one is what i'm currently calling the 90sAU (ideally it will have a real name eventually. it just. doesn't yet) #uh i have a confession which is that i haven't actually written anything for this particular AU yet #like. not even bullet points or anything #but i am completely obsessed with it #something about the boys traveling around in their lil van is just so fun to me #i love the idea of kel just being some punk ass kid who ran away from home #& dhes sees him on the side of the road one day & is like. oh. yea. that one's cute. sure. i'll pick him up. #& they literally just travel the states together #like originally dhes was only gonna drive him to this one concert in a nearby city but #since they had a few days to spare dhes convinced kel to let him take him on a small detour & go sight seeing #& they ended up having a lot of fun!!! #i haven't decided for sure yet but i think they're like... 19 or 20 in this AU #i'll figure out the details once i actually start writing it though

[lilbitosunny]

There are other ways of persuasion..There are other modes of control..

(So much power, but there's no puppet here..)

___

((Lyrics from "There Are Other Ways" from Epic The Musical))

#digital art #art stuff #fan art #fanart #cult of the lamb #narilamb #cotl #witness au #tbn au #haven't picked a name for my version of a witness au yet BUT rest assured i am cooking #while i cook tho take this piece i did in like 5 hours #i haven't eaten lmao #gonna get food in a sec but if you have questions about the au send them my way! #cult of the lamb narilamb #cult of the lamb fanart #cult of the lamb witness au #cotl witness au #fic coming soon-ish #bishop au #cotl bishop au #cult of the lamb bishop au

[beesmuth]

I made a minecraft OC, he's a friendly little wither skeleton farmer :)

#minecraft #wither skeleton #oc #minecraft oc #original character #fanart #2023 #i never did end up picking a name #was going for plant/nature based but they're all cute so i haven't decided yet

[vynnyal]

Ever since I learned that you had to actually teach your kids how to do stuff, it's been so much fun having them around. It's very cute to watch them play with something they've never seen before, or only do something after they see me do it first. Idk how much is code and how much is coincidence, but they're undoubtedly better at living now. And their personalities are so unique!

#rain world #art #slugpups #I love my kids sm. I play survivor just to be with them #Love is stored in the slugcat bruh #I really want to know how slugpups work. I haven't seen a dissection of their code anywhere yet #So far all I can tell is that they must be roaming freely before they pick up on anything. It doesn't seem to work if they're on your back #Anyways I installed the colorful slugpups mod which is why the names are weird #Caramel was very pale and algae was more green #Now caramel looks like a banana lmao #Here's a fun thing that happened: while exploring subterranean (after quickly escaping outer expanse aka Worm Grass Hell) #Ironically subterranean is safer than what's supposed to be utopia... but I digress #I was exploring blindly for the first time in forever (usually I look at a map) and we found a stowaway #THOSE THINGS ARE SO COOL I was so excited to mess with it #Turns out theyre scarier than they look. And they look pretty scary #So here's the situation: I pissed it off using the body of a lizard #And it reacted and grabbed the lizard #And also me #And also algae #They have three arms and each arm grabs things independently by STABBING THEM djvdjshfkifj #Anyways algae somehow grabs a spear and frees himself #Caramel throws a rock and frees me #Lizard body... Not so lucky #Later on I stupidly got myself eaten by it #And when you die the slugpups mourn you by laying down as close to your body or point of death was #Which was. Under the stowaway #But get this. As algae is being taken away- keep in mind you're basically stabbed by these tentacles-- he somehow manages to nail the thing #And save caramel from being eaten too #Auuughghgh #I have more interesting stories that aren't contrived via my irresponsible curiosity but I've run out of tags. Till next time lol!

[absolutemimery]

and if I said I was cringe

#spooky month #bob velseb #oc x canon #self ship #self insert x canon #they have a fucking chokehold on me at the worst times ever #I haven't even named these gays yet 😭😭😭 #ah well I'll just ask y'all later in a different post #spooky month fanart #I feel like bob would pick them up sometimes just to mess with them heehee #then they'd be super dizzy and confused if he does it out of nowhere #but sometimes they ask to be picked up cuz it's fun being held up at his height #I hc him to be like #6'5 at the least #bro is pretty freakin tall and they're like 5'5 BAHAHA #short ass partner and super big and tall bf #i love rambling 🥰

[after-witch]

"It's a circus. What's the worst that could happen?"

--Bright Lights, my upcoming Small Spaces Quartet sequel fic

#small spaces #katherine arden #fanfic moodboard #does it count as a moodboard with 4 pics idk and idc #I was gonna have a longer preview but um #I haven't picked a name for Ollie's daughter yet lmao so the fic keeps changing names #have a lil quote instead #I'm anticipating chapter 1-2 to be out by the end of july!

[uptownhags]

Tomorrow is my birthday, and the first one in 5 years* where I'm not sick (the bar is low for this when you start your life sick), facing some kind of disaster, or both. Got to see my friends, my mom and bro are coming this weekend, and my coworkers are taking me to lunch tomorrow. I reallyyyyy hope it's gonna be a good year?!?

#*kind of in a weird place emotionally #where a timehop from 2019 w [pick a name] #at a dinner that i prob made a dumb post about #came up and i almost cried in my office #like ???? no ???? #but it was less about him specifically and more like #i'm pissed that i haven't found the v v good parts #in anyone else yet #on a related note my coworkers are trying to set me up #w someone but i simply cannot do a third j #whatever whatever i truly am rly happy #with my life and with pistachio ice cream!!!!! #tbd tbd tbd

[uptonil]

just spotted kittens down in the yard. babies i know you're 2 weeks old, but get to work on the rat infestation.

#i haven't thought of names yet... the names i picked last year were so iconic that i don't know if i can top that

[irregularbillcipher]

having a normal one about brad and birdie again

#no spoilers for definitive edition here because i haven't played definitive joyful yet and haven't gotten any new birdie content in painful #lisa rpg #i know that half the things i say about birdie are looking Too Far Into It #but also they give us another bearded b-named addiction riddled wreck ruining his life because he's haunted by the deaths of young family #members he feels he should have protected (one of whom even committed suicide) and you expect me NOT to go 'wait that sounds familiar' #honestly the 'like/love' parallel really gets to me because it's so throwaway and i don't know why it's THERE #terry and buzzo say that (and ofc lisa originates it) but that makes SENSE #they're both categorized as someone deeply devoted to someone in the armstrong family. ofc that parallel is made #but why BIRDIE #brad's shirt pattern when he's young is the same pattern as birdie's poncho too #god it's not even just brad #dustin's least favorite thing being 'letting people down' and birdie's being 'being a failure' ESP. with the context of his children like #and (prefacing this by saying i do NOT think birdie was at all the type of father marty was) there's even similarities to marty #like you're telling me the companion who visually looks most like marty is *checks notes* the alcoholic single dad whose kid killed themsel #like there are so many weird things that are canon traits of the armstrong family that you can also see in birdie it's WILD #i'm not even saying i think any of this is THAT intentional or deliberate. like i think having fathers that failed their children on brad's #team is an obvious and deliberate choice but i don't think all this minutia w/birdie was intentional. i acknowledge i'm a lil insane #(birdie has rosy cheeks like marty because they're both drunk. fly also has the same shirt pattern so it's recusing assets. i get it) #there's just a weird amount to pick at if you want to

[trashartgalleries]

... ... okay, so maybe I've been playing Stardew Valley wrong since I first found out about it

Before I fell asleep, last night, I watched an animation on YouTube called "Stardew Valley Animated" (which is really funny and cute, by the way) and I'm assuming that the animator was animating his experiences with his farmer in the game

Watching it made me think about how I played (and currently playing after watching it lolz) might completely wrong lolz:

I don't buy SHIT unless it's seeds that I can't get from cutting grass, not even food

I skip over the majority of the festivals year 1

I barely interact with the villagers year 1

i spent most of my time in the mines and the adventure's guild after i unlocked it

On my very first playthrough of this game, i didn't get married to Sebastian until damn near year 4 going on 5 and, on current data i'm playing on, my farmer's single as fuck and has like... no friends yet and it's winter XD

Anyway, this is just me sharing my thoughts and poop... good morning everyone who sees this :D

#stardew valley #stardew rant #sdv #stardew valley rant #just talking #talking #sharing my thoughts #my farmer's be antisocial as fuck #and they're not even goth or emo #my current farmer's french lolz #his name is leopold #i have no clue who i'm going to marry lolz #i might pick sebastian again #or sam for the first time #or alex again since i deleted some of my old save files #or shane... haven't gone for him yet either

[ryssbelle]

Fractured timelines 'Legend', a knight in Hyrules army, couldn't decide on a red cape or blue cape (theres a certain someone who doesn't think the blue tunic is superior when it is-) so I have two for you guys to decide if you want to help lol

he is not technically Legend as most people know him, tho I did steal the Lu hair from dtbs from myself, he took the name after mysteriously gaining the memories of the past hero and finding a connection with him.

#my art #fractured timelines #legend of zelda au #loz au #legend #ft legend #he actually has a second name but I haven't thought of it yet #but i know what it will represent lol #also he is wearing a blue tunic cuz its the best tunic teehee #you can fight me on this #the red tunic is absolutely redundant in albw unless you're a speedrunner #because the red tunics power doesn't stack with the completely leveled up sword #which i have #so of course id pick defense #so i have halfed damage taken and an op sword #its a win win #anyway the speedrunner comment was said because in a speedrun #depending on the one you're doing you may not want to take the extra time to upgrade the sword (unless it was a 100% run) #when you could just have the tunic #and that is the only time i would say that tunic is useful #i did the same thing in ALA #cuz there i fully upgraded the sword too #idk about other games but at least for ALA and ALBW #blue tunic is superior

[mizimugrove]

#; proper parliamentary procedure (mzingo) #added him like yesterday I just haven't done his icons yet #namely because I still need to finish Reirei's whoops #honestly why did I never pick up Mzingo earlier he's a character so perfectly created for me

[factorialsotherfandoms]

In which Emi takes after her mother in more ways than one.

(For @rabbit-harpist , but also anyone else who wants to read it)

(Also on ao3)

There are university brochures scattered all over the dining room table, a sea of bright colours and photographs of smiling young adults. Most are Mexican establishments - they do live there, after all - but there's a couple from Lucie's old home of Switzerland, Diego's Brazil, Jeffry's America... A scattering of places under one roof, just like their family.

Emi is leafing through one, while Lucie looks at another, a spreadsheet with the local crime rates and housing costs also up on her laptop.

"What about here?" Lucie asks, passing the booklet over to her daughter. "It looks pretty, no? And it is very good for programming."

"It's too far away," Emi barely looks at it, same as most of the rest. "I want to stay close."

"You're good enough," Lucie knows Emi's been fine traveling before - surely the problem is the grades? "I know you can do it."

"It's not that," Emi looks down, and to the side, fingers flexing uncomfortably against the paper. "I want to stay with you. To help."

"I have your fathers," Lucie promises. "And if I need lady help, Abuelita is here."

"Not like that," a bit of a snap. "With your investigations! I know I need to learn to program better, but I speak French, and Portuguese, and English, and Spanish, and I can run, and I can hide, and I'm a very fast reader! I know I'm not old enough yet, but once I turn eighteen..."

"Non."

Lucie's response is immediate, instinctual, soaked in blood and in fear and in all the things that have happened.

"No?"

"It's too dangerous," Lucie says, and all she can see are the corpses of friends she has made. "You can keep helping with the planning, but you are not coming."

"Why not? You do it all the time!"

"It's not safe! Do you think we want this for you? To see you loose limbs and eyes and your life! You could be something, Emi! Why would you throw it away to end up in some monster's stomach?!"

"Because I want to help! You're out there - you're all out there all the time - and I'm sick of being helpless! I'm eighteen in six months! I've been training, practicing! I can do it if you let me!"

"Emília Sophia da Silva," there's fear in Lucie's spine, fear she hasn't felt since the eighth time one of them nearly died, fear she didn't think she knew how to feel anymore, not when the tenth passed and she had not recovered - fear that comes out as a snap and a shout. "You are /not/ getting more involved than you already are! You never should have been involved in the first place!"

"Well I am involved now! And you can't stop me! If you won't let me join your team, I'll just find someone else's!"

"Why can't you just be a normal child and stay safe?!"

"I stopped being a normal child the day I watched my father die!"

"And maybe we just want to give you a normal life! Just wait a bit longer! Until you graduate, until you find yourself at least!"

"I thought you of all people would understand!" Emi screams back, voice finally cracking. "And I know who I am! I've always known who the fuck I am!"

"You're seventeen! No seventeen year old knows who they are!"

"I'm /your/ daughter, aren't I?!"

Lucie freezes.

Emi watches her for a moment, before turning and fleeing. She leaves the door to the dining room open, but cracks the handle into the wall as she throws it to the side.

One, two, three...

A door upstairs slams shut.

Lucie burrows her head in her hands, and she screams in frustration.

She screams, and it becomes sobs, and Benito answers. He whistles, leaning on the doorframe, watching her cry.

Lucie takes a deep breath, wipes her tears, turns to him, "you heard that, then?"

"Well, yeah, I think the neighbors did too. You too really don't know how to be quiet, do you?"

"Not now, Benito," Lucie keeps herself in check better than she expected she could. "Not right now."

He comes over, sits down, picks up the brochure Emi had been favour and starts flicking through. It might have taken them all a few years, but he has learnt how to be quiet.

Lucie takes her time, hisses her frustrations through her teeth. Stupid child, foolish child, why can't she want things a normal child wants? Why can't she just want to go out to the club, get drunk, fall asleep on someone's couch and have to get to lectures in the morning?

"Why can't she be /safe/?" is the frustration she verbalises, the one at the root of it all.

Benito grabs another booklet, starts flicking through that instead, "she's your daughter."

"She's your daughter too," Lucie doesn't even have a pencil to hand, so she threatens him with a finger. "Fuck this. I'm getting wine."

She goes to move and fetch some, only for Benito to reveal he's been carrying some the whole time. She snatches the bottle, takes a couple of mouthfuls, and hands it back.

Benito uses a glass.

Faker.

"You know what I mean, though," Benito swishes his glass - and, ah, he just wanted to be dramatic. "She's grown up surrounded by this. Just like Luis isn't escaping the mob, she isn't escaping the Order."

"I just want her to be safe," Lucie gestures to her legs, to the scar peeking out from Benito's sunglasses, to the photo on the mantle where Jeffrey has a broken leg. "What sort of parents are we, that we can't keep her safe?"

"We were never going to," and Benito has shifted, taking on that quieter, reflective voice that Lucie hates because it means he has finally decided to talk sense. "The moment her father walked her into Pancea's office? She was never going to be safe again."

"She's going to die," Lucie whispers. "I'm letting my baby die, if I let her do this."

"And you're killing her yourself if you don't," Benito finally drinks some of the wine, almost two thirds of his glass in one go. "Pancea killed her father, the Order saved her mother, and gives her the chance for revenge."

Lucie is fairly sure it isn't about revenge for Emi, it's about the fact her parents keep going back into danger, and she's at home and helpless and...

And Lucie understands.

She does understand, she understands so well; she could have stayed away, Benito, Jeffrey, Diego and Luis could all have stayed away, but they didn't. They didn't, because still hunted they weren't safe. They didn't because the others were going, or because they couldn't live with not knowing, or because hunting the monsters makes those under the bed less threatening, or...

Lucie likes to think they joined the Order to save people, but she knows it's a lie.

They did it to save themselves, to save each other, and because when the world had decided they were nothing they /refused/ to accept it and they demanded to leave their mark.

"When did you start making sense?" Lucie asks, but she knows, she knows, and she knows why too.

"About when Abuelita kicked it into me," he laughs.

It wasn't.

It was with blood on his hands and screaming for help, it was in nights huddled under a closet praying nothing would hurt him, it was when the other cell in the city were wiped out overnight, and it was Benito who had to autopsy the corpses.

Lucie leans over as much as she can; Benito shuffles over, lets her rest her head on his shoulder.

"Sounds about right," she says, and she breathes, and continues. "Maybe it would be nice to have Emi close? Abuelita would like her to be able to come for family dinners."

"Exactly!" Benito's grin picks back up, and he gestures with his glass. "And nobody says no to Abuelita, not even in her old age."

"Oui," Lucie shuts her eyes, and sighs, and adds. "... I should go apologise."

"Finish the bottle first," Benito passes it to her. "Let Pizza Boy calm her down and Diego talk it through with her first."

He isn't a pizza boy, not any more - but its comforting, perhaps, how the nickname sticks.

She takes a glass this time. Benito half-fills it, and she takes the time to sip it.

Cheap shit, of course, because it's still fucking Benito.

#opq fanfic #opq emi #opq lucie #opq benito #alternate universe #lucie lives au #they'll sort it out I promise it'll just take a few hours for tempers to die first #Emi probably will be allowed to do stuff with them but only in the holidays and only 'easier' tasks #I haven't hashed that out yet but it'll be a lot of negotiating for everyone #because there's literally no solution where nobody's unhappy #I needed to full name emi so I looked up common girls names and surnames in brazil #and then just tried to make it sound nice #using her father's name as I think she'd rather keep it than need to pick between the player party's surnames #that'd imply favouritism towards one of her parents

[someonesomewheredown]

I've been playing Disco Elysium a bit lately and I have to say I can already see why people love this game so much. I don't know how to describe it but it just feels good to play and interact with the world. Kim is also such a delight to talk to!!! Everyone feels real and alive and it's blowing my mind. I'm so excited to keep going and see where things go!!!!

#also i 100% get all of the hype around kim. i haven't even finished the firs day yet and i already have a lesbian crush on him #i need to impress him sooooo bad. and also simultaneously pick the stupidest dialogue options. surely this will work well #well. i guess playing shot-put with a ball for another game and crying to get a possible witness to stay is good stupid #vs like. siding with that one racist fuck what's his name #maybe that's mean to say since people can play however they want without it necessarily meaning anything about their character #but i just can't be mean like that. not during my first run #i can be a walking nightmare later but for now i want to do the best i can #disco elysium

[sysig]

My printer hates me :) (with many thanks and credit to @niennanir as before)

Gosh aren’t they gorgeous tho ♥ Especially the latest and largest, though I have to give all the credit to the paper on that one haha, it’s stunning IRL, I could almost stare at the gold lattice forever rather than read, but I’m so happy with how it turned out between the pages as well!

Quick showcase of the new additions! :D

My Drinking Game as another test run, I got the spacing how I wanted it! Yay! It’s so much handsomer and less cramped! Also I gotta say, if it wasn’t such a large usage of paper, this would be my ideal way of checking for typos - I found a couple after setting it down to ink lol, they’ve been fixed now at least ♪ Paired here with the emerge, transformed three-parter, one of my all-time-favourites <3 I reread it the night I finished it and cried again, a little bit of tender mercy always wrecks me hhhh ♥ There are so many beautiful evocative lines! I’m so happy to hold it ♪ And as you can see above, that was the one that got the cute little ghost dust jacket :D

Another test run of what I’m calling volume 1 of my Vargas Drabbles lol, so not including Have you lost your mind? since that one’s currently unfinished. I do fully intend to print it once it’s done tho :3c Hopefully that one will cause me fewer problems! I hate measuring, so I may have flubbed two covers before finally getting this one into good enough shape XP And my red yarn is still in storage so >.> Did I go purchase another ball of red yarn? I’ll never tell. You can’t tell me it doesn’t look great as a bookmark tho <3

And my current happiest! Ah!! It turned out fantastic on all counts! The cover paper obviously, as I couldn’t Not lead with that, but also the size of the spine and the way the pages settled against each other while glueing - I used a different type of paper for this one and I think I’m completely converted over, it feels amazing to work with. Whatever I was using before had to have been like 15lbs lol, I’m literally just using normal 20lb printer paper but it feels and looks and behaves so much nicer <3 The size of Helix also allowed for a slightly larger bookmark, which was perfect because we had this soft gold ribbon that was all of a couple millimeters wider than the other ribbons/yarn I’d been using, and it looks so so so pretty with the gold detailing!! I’ve put it between Ch. 1 and 2 and getting to see the actual physical size differences of the chapters is so fun ♥

#Hhhhhh crafting is so funnnnn <3 <3 <3 #Fully intending to make more - I have the next set picked out and the accompanying dust jacket to go with it haha #I've decided to stick to dust jackets for the plain non-textured covers for the most part #It does hide my detailing on the covers but it also hides if I haven't done anything to the fronts as well! Haha ♪ #I added a Captain/ZEX caption to Drinking Game like I did with ZEX/DAX but the latter is still the prettiest by far <3 #Their names were made to go together you could say hehe ♪♫ #You can kinda see I tried my hand at making a custom cover for the Vargas drabbles as well - it kiiiinda turned out? Lol #As stated I hate measuring and the lines turned out wonky :P But it's done and I've reread it for typos lol #I was worried I'd find rereading my own work cringy since most of those are older than either of my SCII fics but no it was nice actually :) #I did actually go supply shopping yet again for these since I'm having so much fun with it hehe <3 <3 #The yarn and the cover paper I used for Helix were both good finds :) I got a whole booklet of space-themed cardstock! :D #That one was one of the lesser space ones hehe ♪ I had a couple other considerations - like a yellow-on-white constellation one ♫ #But I think I'm the happiest with this one! It's beautiful and I feel like it reflects the Idle Rich themes a little bit hehe <3 #Hhhhhhh it's so nice to read them like I would a book ♥ I enjoy reading them on my iPod but there's something about The Experience hehe #Being able to hold it and place a physical bookmark and not having the glare of a screen or if the scroll goes funny lol #Just exactly what it is! And I can pull any of them at any point! #I actually had a moment where I wanted to read one of them but didn't want to move from my spot to physically go get it #Only to realize later I was holding my iPod at the time and could've read it that way as it's still very much available online lol #SCII #LAC #Vargas