#just some night time thoughts

[arvandus]

Thinking about how different the presentation of fanfiction is compared to published works such as books. We include summaries, content warnings, genre tags, word counts... a series of clues to allow readers to decide if they want to interact with our content.

Books are so different. No word count to be seen (at least not on hard copies), no warnings (typically, except for potentially online book reviews). Just a title, a picture, a small summary to introduce the plot.

I understand why we arrange our fics the way we do; but sometimes I can't help but think how interesting it'd be to give less information, to let readers feel curious about the unknown. Still include trigger warnings of course, and specify gender/sex/sexual orientation to allow everyone to find what suits them... but maybe DON'T give word counts. Don't give too much detail in the AO3/Tumblr tags in the hopes of hooking people.

Allow our stories to have an element of surprise to them instead of predictability.

#arvandus rambles #just some night time thoughts #I often over explain things #so I'm guilty of this stuff a lot myself #I think I might change my approach a little #while keeping it safe of course #of course the tags are there for people to search through #so sometimes they're necessary #but yeah #all about balance

[pokimoko]

haunting the narrative -> haunted by the narrative -> haunting the narrative -> haunted by

#adventure time #fionna and cake #simon petrikov #betty grof #petrigrof #fan art #fanart #art #digital art #my art #just a lil something something i did for fun #adventure time has always been the show that makes me want to draw (i have SO many AT drawings from 2015 it's ridiculous) #but now I'm coming back to that ye olde passion with new digital art skills and many more evil tragic thoughts (thank you fionna and cake🙏) #i couldn't get the thought about them haunting and be haunted by the narrative out of my head so I had to make some art for it #the caption for this was almost: so who wears the haunted by the narrative in the relationship? #they take turns of course because damn these guys really do be having that tragic romance huh. hot potato cursed existence #never quite on the same wavelength. always out of reach. their love the very thing that dooms them to be apart. a love defined by absences #like two ships in the night passing each other by. except they keep trying to seek the other out. and so end up going in circles #the tragic dance of madness and sadness. lead on and i shall follow. ....so anyway...these two amiright? #/might/ have to write something at some point...maybe... #because like... ghosts are my thing. and these two...well. even when they aren't haunting the narrative they are still ghosts #never let themselves live in the present and okay I'm going to stop now. enjoy the art byeeeee #...AND they'll never be at peace because they'll always be reaching for a version of each other that no longer exists and— #(i am dragged kicking and screaming from the room before i can devolve into a full blown meta)

[ricky-mortis]

We’ve heard of werewolf Curt- but what about vampire Owen?

#(ft. werewolf curt) #I had the thought the other night and needed to draw it so bad #and I’ve been told that someone has written this already? #so pumped to read that #might draw vampire Owen and werewolf curt some more bc I’m a sucker for that kind of stuff #I love vampires tho #I think there’s hella potential with this perchance #but that might just be me #I fuckin love doing doodle pages like this #they are my favorite #been trying to draw Owen more too because I’m kinda lacking in that department #anyways I’ve said it before and I will say it again: #Saf AUs my beloved #alright fun fact time #fun fact: the upper front top part of a shoe is called a “vamp #I thought that was a good one bc uhhh… vamp heheh #spies are forever #tin can bros #spies are forever au #owen carvour #Joey richter #agent curt mega #Curt mega #my art

[starry-bi-sky]

realizing i have. a lot of untapped trauma potential for clone^2 danny because i just Fully Processed Four Months Late the fact that his parents were capturing and torturing ghosts in the basement before he became Phantom. and the fact that he was on house rest for 2 weeks. during that time period. and he wasn't really leaving the house. he could hear their screaming through the floorboards

*points at clone danny* i can give you suuuuuuch a bad time babe ahaha. i've got two untouched years before you meet damian what fucks you up before then

#dpxdc #dp x dc #danny fenton is not the ghost king #dp x dc crossover #dpxdc crossover #dpdc #clone^2 #danny fenton is a clone #like i dont even need to traumatize you worse the pure explorative options from this aLONE is enough to feed me for a week. #like. tucks hair behind ear let me shatter you into glass pieces then glue you back together babe. i can put you back together so good. #i'm missing a few shards because some parts of you broke into such small pieces i couldn't pick them back up again so you'll be missing a #few chunks of yourself that you'll never get back but that's okay. you'll still be a resemblance of your old self :] #don't let anakin (me) listen to late night sad songs he makes angst. #hhh imagine being stuck in a house for two weeks where you can hear your parents torturing ghosts in the basement and not only that but #you're the only person who can undERSTAND the ghosts. how many times did he see his parents drag in a ghost with whatever capturing device #they made recently? iirc the thermos was like. brand new in episode one right? but gOD the trauma this alone would cause #nobody touch me im cooking rn i need to think about how this would impact danny. like obvs it would fuel into a developing obsession to #keep his parents away from ghosts and to help the dead but what *else.* i need to refine my becoming phantom ficlet i wrote back in winter #raaa #and like even after two weeks they were *still capturing ghosts* danny just wasn't in the house 24/7 at the time. #*but those two fucking weeks man* #i need to sleep on this first before i make any major moves bc i know im tired but i am having thOUGHTs

[cherrygummybears]

hope compilation

sources:

in a big country - big country // various storms and saints - florence + the machine // things can only get better - howard jones // free - florence + the machine // youtube comment from breaking down by florence + the machine // youtube comment from shake it out by florence + the machine // stop crying your heart out - oasis // instagram comment + replies from reel by __we_love_you_ // youtube comment + replies from hunger by florence + the machine // you get what you give - new radicals // youtube comment + replies from dog days are over by florence + the machine // instagram comment + replies from reels by morecorecore (2x) // instagram comments from reels by morecorecore (3x) // light of love - florence + the machine // discord message written by @corrode-in-repose // discord message written by @blue-dreamers-eyes // discord messages written by me // Night Walk from East Boston, 1996 - Franz Wright // instagram reel by __we_love_you_

#had this idea suddenly occur to me last night and i stayed up until like 4:30am working on it #also to friends whose discord messages i used pls let me know if u want those taken down for any reason #hopecore #corecore #web weaving #on life #on humanity #on hope #writingblr #hopepunk #hopeposting #love #compilations #gentle reminders #pen & paper #love <3 #florence + the machine #spilled ink #spilled words #spilled thoughts #florence welch #same as it ever was #life #human #humanity #positivity #positivity posting #<- ok sorry for using a bajillion tags it’s just that i spent a lot of time on this #some of them are for my own tagging system i promise

[bloodydeanwinchester]

can someone please tell me what happened between this scene where it is clearly the middle of the night and dean asks cas where he wants him to take him:

and this scene where it is clearly the next morning and dean is dropping him off at work:

where did they spend the night??? what did they do??? i NEED to know these things...

#i think they spent the night parked somewhere in the impala #and like nothing really happened...cas spread out in the back seat #dean in the front and they just like talked #and eventually they both fell asleep but still the entire thing felt very intimate because #it is the first time they've really spent any time alone together since cas became human #and maybe for once dean felt like castiel wasn't this larger than life unobtainable angel...he's just a human like him now #and castiel is feeling things as a human for the first time and so suddenly his feelings for dean are just so intense #and he's not sure what to do with them #but STILL neither of them has ANY idea that the other is thinking these things #just some rambling thoughts here cause that whole jump from it being night to dean dropping him off in the morning made me so curious! #destiel #jenna.gif #jenna.post

[okaydays]

Colin was out with friends for the evening, so Penelope reheated some leftovers for dinner, and then assembled all the things she needed for a quiet night in - lit candles, soft music echoing from their new bluetooth speakers, a cup of tea that was still hot on the coffee table, a comfortable blanket. 

She’s sitting on the couch with said blanket and her carefully chosen book (Love in the Time of Cholera), and she should be having a great time. Back when Penelope was at her mother’s house, with all the commotion and whining, this was the kind of evening she’d dreamt about. Just her, quiet and cosy. No one to bother her.

But she lives with Colin, now. And while he is, occasionally, a bother, it’s never really unwelcome. Not when he could bat those blue eyes, shoot her a winsome grin and spin her around to the music like they’re ballroom dancing.

A quiet evening to herself seems boring in comparison. 

What Penelope wants, in truth, is exactly what she has now - a little comfortable moment, but with Colin’s arms around her instead of a blanket. Leaning against him, maybe with his own book, instead of just the sofa arm.

She misses him, really. And it’s only been an hour or so. 

Oh well. Penelope nestles back further into the couch. He won’t be back for a while, so the book will have to keep her company for now.

“Tell him yes,” She reads. “Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.”

Around fifteen minutes later, the front door opens. Penelope almost knocks over her mug of tea with how violently she jumps. And then - oh, it’s just Colin. And then - oh, it’s Colin!

‘Colin!’ she exclaims, interrupting her internal monologue by just stating it out loud. ‘What are you doing back so early?’ 

He’s leaning against the doorframe, flashing her that grin she adores. ‘Got all cosy, did you?’ he asks, looking around at the lit candles and bluetooth speaker and the blanket they got from his mother as a housewarming present. ‘Mind if I join in?’ 

Penelope moves along the sofa and lifts up the corner of the blanket in invitation. Colin slides right in, and they adjust - he’s now sitting where she’s just vacated, arm slung around her shoulders, and she’s leaning into him with one leg over his and one on the coffee table. 

It’s even better than she imagined.

‘Missed you,’ Colin says after a minute. She’d gone back to her book and he was on his phone, reading an article, but she looks up at that. 

‘They were talking about sports or something, and I thought, ‘I’d rather be home with my girl,’ so now I’m here,’ he says, looking right back at her. 

Something warm unfurls in Penelope’s chest at that. At the pet name, at the fact that he’d preferred her boring evening to a fun night out, at the fact that he was now here and that it was exactly where he’d wanted to be. 

Colin kisses her once, gently, and when she leans in again, he moves over to kiss her forehead instead. 

‘We can do that later. You were prepared for a quiet night, right? Don’t let me get in the way of that,’ he says, equally as gently, and Penelope shakes her head.

‘You don’t get in the way. You make it better,’ she admits, and he smiles. Pulls her in closer. 

‘Glad we moved in together,’ he says, and puts his phone on his thigh so he can reach over and carefully open her book back up, from where she’d been keeping track of her page with her thumb.

So Penelope goes back to her book, and Colin goes back to the article, and the track switches to a new piano piece. And then when her tea gets cold, he goes and makes her a new one, just the way she likes it. 

Tell him yes, the book said. She’s so glad she did.

(Also on ao3)

#here have some late night writing #big fan of couples just parallel playing together #also disclaimer I have not read love in the time of cholera I just thought the quote fit #this is them in modern day #Woop #I’m so tired but so inspired #polin #Bridgerton #Penelope featherington #colin Bridgerton #polin fics #Bridgerton fics #my writing

[humanmorph]

Roll The Dice

I just miss Gur. I want to see Gur

bonus:

i drew this shortly after 'cold company' got introduced and we all thought "make all rolls with disadvantage until you succeed on a move with a 10+" would be more of a problem. haven't really had an opportunity to use it...! it's still cute though so i colored it in a bit. gur_bonk.png

#you know. my friend? #(deadpan) wow figure sure has been rolling well. thats great #gur sevraq #figure in bismuth #rosa art #fatt #friends at the table #palisade #palisade spoilers #i edited something in this drawing but you will not see it because. for some reason this file is stupidly huge #i didnt notice my canvas that that big (!?!!) but basically ive had to resize it to post this. & im not doing that again its not happening #...i might edit some other stuff i just had an idea. but i already spent too much time on this OTL #anyways.gur #/i'm/ about to become distracting and difficult if he doesnt show up again soon #late night gur thoughts for the 3rd night in a row.its becoming untenable. well mostly my sleep schedule just sucks so bad lately

[midnightclover]

Summon Night: Swordcraft Story (ATLUS, 2003)

#my actual posts lol #haha what if i made a daily diary post thing like nico #..i was just thinking #today was a good day #and i thought of this song #ive been playing summon night swordcraft story a lot as of late.. though none today actually #its still on my mind though #i considered using dweller empty path's song flying through a stary sky instead.. but this is what i thought of first #i think it fits best to use it #i actually had to jump through some hoops to upload music! #cus my tumblr app is kinda old.. i cant properly upload music. i could only put a link #which isnt exactly ideal #so i tried in my web browser.. but maybe its cus i havent updated it in a while or maybe just cus its tor.. it didnt work #so i downloaded firefox and did it on there lol #now im editing it in my drafts back on the app #dont ask why im not just doing it on my computer... shes having some technical difficulties. we're working on it #but not today #... #today was pretty eventful.. even if not very productive. but ive never been a very productive person #we went and saw some light festival thing! it was rly nice.. a little simple at times but it was fun #we went and got some yummy snacks earlier too! tho ive already eaten them all hehe #and i started up animal crossing new leaf. i hadnt played it in ages! its startling how much better it is than new horizions.. imo at least #only problem is i couldnt make it the same as my island.. and i didnt remember why i named my last town #we searched for a while for some reference or somfin to name it after.. but we ended up just going with ''faraway'' #cus i liked the idea of being asked where im going.. and just saying far far away #and as beth said it has a kinda fairytail vibe! #...only after i named it did i realize i accidentally named it after the town in omori. oops! #...im about to hit the tag limit. so whoevers still listening i just want u to know.. #i love you. ok? #goodnight

[sacchiri]

Hellsing 2002 calendar illustration.

Ein wunderliche und erschröckliche Hystori von einem großen Wüttrich genant Dracole wayda Der do so ganz unkristenliche marrter hat angelegt die mensche, als mit spissen als auch die leut zu Tod geslyffen

A wondrous and frightening story about a great berserk called Dracula the voivode who inflicted such unchristian tortures such as with stakes and also dragged people to death

#hellsing #alucard #kouta hirano #translation was found in a comment by u/lazyfoxheart on r/Kurrent #fun fact this is the highest quality version of this image that exists online #i know because i've been looking forever for a version that's clear enough to actually read what hirano wrote under '1443' #but there weren't any so i had to take matters into my own hands #the real image on the back of the guidebook is only 2 inches tall so i had to take this with my smartphone and will my hands not to shake #anyway i'm pretty sure it's supposed to say Eğrigöz (the location vlad was imprisoned) so yeah. thank you hirano very cool #if i might rant for a sec it took me an embarrassingly long time to figure that out because i didn't have the guidebook at first #and in the images i could find online that part was just a blur that looked suspiciously like a person's signature and i was like. who tf #i was thinking matthias corvinus since he issued some political propaganda against vlad iirc but it didn't match his signature on wikipedia #then i thought it might be vlad II dracul's since he probably had to sign an agreement to send his sons over as hostages at some point #but that didnt seem right either so i kept skimming vlad's wiki page #and then i was like goddammit...hirano.....you just misspelled Eğrigöz didn't you.. .... #i maybe should've made a separate post dedicated to this instead of writing a novel in the tags but eh #the hellsing brainrot runs deep #also- i put it in the source link at the bottom of the post but the german inscription is copied off a real woodcut of vlad from 1491 #except instead of depicting him as an adult hirano drew him as a child which gives the inscription a very different feel imo #the one final thing that interests me about this is the fact that hirano published this calendar in 2002 #which is REALLY early in the series. like this was before volume 5 came out?? #i have no idea why he decided to do a massive spoiler drop in a random piece of japan-only merch #sandwiched between a drawing of alucard as john travolta from saturday night fever and integra as a fish no less #it makes me really curious to know what the fan response to this was back then. like did people even know who this was #maybe im just an idiot and everyone back then was like 'ah yes its alucard as a 12 year old. how very informative'

[girlboyburger]

wish i had a consistent character to show for this, but since i don't i just used icons :0]

blank template for those that want it under the cut

#different urls at the time of posting each of these too. from uglyramen to vhsanimal to girlboyburger #slowly my lines get thinner and thinner... #this was rlly cool to put together actually. i ended up digging up like #2016 and before art too #like 2015 is when i became a furry #its rlly evident that i used to just mimic the art styles of furry artists with styles i like #like straight up i found pieces tht i traced (didnt post) from like. okamiwolven and ashketchumsays (i think they go by luxebites now?) #waves my hand #its neat. idk. ive stumbled across pieces in the wild of young slash newer artists clearly referencing or tracing my art #i never thought id be the artist that ppl would learn through like that #im not encouraging creditless tracing btw. but. idk. its hard to articulate the kinds of feelings i get from seeing the cycle #of imitating/tracing to developing your own style but w my stuff #i think it makes me feel nice #its cool that some ppl find my art inspiration or aspirational in that way #this isnt like a weird humblebrag or anything btw its just cool #its also RLLY neat to see the things i was clearly trying to do come through stronger over the years #the lines on the coat of otto in the first icon was my attempt at including crosshatching esque texture #and now i do that For Real with cow's hair and more recently with shadowing #shrugs #ive rambled for too long now. hello tag reader. i hope u have a good night #my art #art style timeline

[waterfallofspace]

Anyone else ever fantasize about a partner muffling sneezes against you, but not into you?

Like, not being a mess person, having no interest (or even revulsion) when it comes to actually having spray/mess touch you (even if near you is alright)

But you still crave that intimacy of someone hitching, feeling their chest rise and fall, watching their nose twitch, building up to that release, as they pull you close and muffle it against you~

Catching it in a tissue as they duck into your chest, Pulling you so close that they can aim over you, Stifling completely against your shoulder,

Just that dazzling intimacy of having them indulge against you, without the aspect of ~fluids~

#waterfalltalks #idk guys i had a dream where (for the second night in a row) snz occured #and this time some guy snzed OVER me- but not against me just over top of me- half stifling #and it.... yeah i never thought id wanna indulge that much irl bc the ~mess~ of it all kinda freaks me out #but like.... now these thoughts are rotting me inside out #snzkink #snz

[iintervallum]

sketch of beau because I miss her

#art #fanart #critical role fanart #my art #critical role #critrole #c2 #beauregard lionett #sketch #digital art #never not thinking about her honestly #have so many headcanons for her man #i've thought of creating this dumb idea of a pre campaign comic of teen!beau #where she pitches an idea of diversifying the winery after months of planning in between studies and working #only to get dismissed entirely by her father because shes “distracted” and needs to concentrate on what shes “good at” #aka just keeping silent and sticking to book keeping #so she finally realizes that she cannot live up to her fathers expectations and begins lashing out by being a criminal #meeting tori and tony and experiencing being a rebel for some time until she gets found out through getting arrested #instead of her father getting mad at her he instead just silently grounds her to her room #where shes there for some time before in the middle of the night being dragged out by force #and tada the rest is what we know #alas i don't have the skills to plan that out properly but #i will one day do it(no promises)

[harmshake]

Think I need one of those "Hell Froze Over" shirts cuz never in my life did I think the day would come where I'm rooting for George Washington to rip that belt off Roman and kick him off TV for a while. 😭

#cuz baaaaby. last night was another reminder that Roman needs to stfu sometimes. #it's not even his first time saying some ol bullshit on TV but it needs to be the last like sir go home. 😭 #and y'all know i love Roman DOWN but y'all also know i will never let him slide just cuz I'mma fan. #gon on and pack it up chief lmao. thomas jefferson got this. #roman reigns #cody rhodes #wwe smackdown #spilled thoughts

[dovewingkinnie]

we have michael vs springtrap but can we get william vs springtrap springtrap is gonna be the most difficult thing for william to beat in the UCN au, cassidy wont even be there because springtrap scares her, so it’s just william versus his own undead self this’ll be william at his lowest, he’s being repeatedly killed with almost no breaks in between, no escape, no company, and for a good while doesn’t even realize who springtrap is because he doesn’t remember becoming him

#springtrap #william afton #purple guy #ultimate custom night #springtrap is not this big #just thought it looked cool #art #fnaf au #theres a reason why fnaf 3 is more scary instead of being colorful #but i'll get into it some other time

[emissary-of-the-moon]

I have a midwestern country Twilight agenda to push so heres my list of things Twi does/experienced from a certified midwesterner

- goes and stands on the deck as soon as there's talk of severe weather rolling in

- "ya know it wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the wind chill (winter) / humidity (summer)"

- very large bonfires (like we're talkin doesn't fully go out for days)

- long ass goodbyes (bonus points if it ends with Twi slapping his knee and say "welp 'spose i better get going")

- "ope", "don't cha know", "smells like rain" (not for the wolf reasons)

- any variation of talking about the weather

- way too many miscellaneous story about the hometown (like "oh those trees are in front of the school cause some kids died")

- complaining about the cities™ (bonus points if one city is the 'cake-eater' city)

- complaining about construction season

- complaining about people not knowing how to drive "we get snow every year how do you forget how to drive in it"

- bring your tractor to school day

- everything is a 20-30 minute drive away

- "jeet" (did ya eat), "jever" (did ya ever)

- nosy as hell

- really fast walker

-calls mosquitoes 'skeeters'

#linked universe #lu headcanons #lu twilight #slight modern au for some of my points #idk if the bonfire one is just a midwest thing but theyre integral to my childhood #im so serious he does the knee slap i can feel it in my bones #i swear to god we spend more time trying to leave than being somewhere #ive been told talking about the weather is not this common #PLEASE TELL ME IVE BEEN LIED TO HOW ELSE DO YOU SMALL TALK #real story btw idk if its true or not but thats the story that went around my school #'its hot dish not casserole' and 'its duck duck gray duck not duck duck goose' #i am heavily biased #late night shitpost #moon emissary thoughts