#thychesters

[lyssartandstars]

“I’m thinking we keep some of the cool gadgets but reexamine the torso,” she starts, absently pawing through her still open bag for her array of colored pencils. Cass leans into her shoulder, spoon caught in her teeth. “A little extra padding around the ribs—not like, super thick or ‘I can’t put my arms down,’ though.”

“Enough that it doesn’t feel like a baseball bat is going to snap you in half?” Barbara offers. Steph leans her head back onto the couch to look at her upside down. Her next breath tugs at her sore ribs a little.

“See? You get it.”

Barbara smirks and rolls her eyes a little, and Steph goes back to her sketch. For a few minutes it’s quiet, and it’s easy to get lost in her drawing. The redesign on the previous page hadn’t exactly been up to her standards this morning, and black ink still stains the side of her palm from where she’d smeared through it earlier. Now, her head tilts a touch as she traces her way along the page, pausing just long enough to swap out one color for the next, letting them blossom across the design before an errant curl catches her in lashes until Cass brushes it out of her eye and breaks her out of her trance.

“You should draw more,” she says. “It suits you. You look peaceful.”

“Probably shouldn’t quit my day job,” Steph says, sticking the end of her pencil in her mouth as she holds up her sketchbook. She nudges Cass with her elbow in a silent thanks.

the snippet above is by the amazing @thychesters who I got to collab with in the @batgirlzine!! we’ve been friends for just over a decade and finally got to do a piece together, and her words just blew me away. working with her and everyone else on the team was a dream come true, and I’m so glad I got to participate!! 🥰

read the fic here, and go check out everyone else’s pieces if you haven’t yet!

#stephanie brown #cassandra cain #barbara gordon #batgirl #black bat #oracle #spoiler #orphan #batgirls zine #batgirl zine #legacies zine #thychesters #SO much fun y'alll #and i'm v proud of this one!! #hope y'all enjoy!! #my art #fanart #zines

[soaked-doors]

i wanted to say thank you for blessing us with all of your lovely zolu art -- it's all so gorgeous and you always tell such a story in each piece! and then i realized you're the same artist behind the outsider pov comic with shanks and mihawk about hubris that i totally lost my marbles over LMAO; hi, thank you again for sharing your art!!

oh my gosh thank you ahaha !!! this is absolutely flattering beyond words im always so glad to see people eating up my zolu stuff (guy who is totally normal about motifs and symbolism) (he is not)

tangentially this is also making me realize you’re the person that’s written some of my favorite OP fics HEHAJSHS (im also very normal about ship to wreck) so thank YOU for your phenomenal writing!!!

#ask #thychesters

[bluegarners]

waahhh thanks for the tags @thychesters and @daringyounggrayson <3333 love you guys!!!!

WIP Files Game

RULES: post the names of the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! tag as many people as you have WIPs

solar flares (name pending tbh)

discards for solar flares (counting them bc there's one scene in particular i threw away that honestly would change so much in the original wip)

chp 6 of the scars are not absolution

wip #1 (<- no idea what to call it, it's more like a one-off idk when i'll pick up)

tagging: @river-bottom-nightmare @bigskydreaming @batphobique @brutaliakhoa (no pressure, and if you'd like not to be tagged in the future, lmk <333 )

#wip files game #wip tag game #thychesters #daringyounggrayson #wips

[fxllingout]

luffy: ah yes, the three main spices: arsenic, phosphorous, and oregano

at this point i dont even think sanji would correct him no matter how hard he wants to, hed just have to excuse himself to sob in a corner

#youre tags so correct about robin tho #luffy would definitely go to her thinking shes smart and would know what to do and asks if he should drink whatevers in the bottle he has #and she would not stop him from drinking it at all #cait.ask #thychesters

[captainshakespear]

my canadian! i hope you have a fantastic birthday and get some good food and some good times. actually i hope you have the absolute best of times and enjoy every moment of it. happy birthday! 🥳

thank you!!!!!!!! I love you my buddy!!!

#thychesters #answered

[secretlystephaniebrown]

we were in the batgirls: legacies zine together! i also stayed because of the great content coming across my dash and all of the new fic to read.

<3 <3 <3

#Steph Replies #thychesters #nice things #asks meme

[alethiometry]

you know that kassandra lady from the stabby game? you’re her ceo

i'm her boss but she is also MY boss and sorry 2 say she is NOT taking any meetings, her schedule is all booked up!

#ask games #asked #thychesters #thank you kate! <3

[kartsie]

your art has added 15 years to my life span thank u it’s beautiful

The mental image of Dick being a dad added 15 years to MY life

#k talk #thychesters

[beck-a-leck]

5, 11 + 21!

Fanfic Asks for the New Year

These ones are fun, thank you!

5. Which WIP is first on your list to complete this year? Will you post a snippet?

Gauging by the amount i've already worked on it over the last 6 months, and being optimistic about my continuing momentum on it, I'm gonna aim high and say How Far Ahead The Road Has Gone. Of my multi-chapter WIPs, it's the one I feel most confident about getting to finish before the year is out, but that might happen next November for all I know lol. I don't really have any one-shots or shorter WIPs that I've been working on and are anywhere close to posting. So for the time being it is, and remains, my main project. And sure you can have a snippet! How about the opening lines of the next chapter: “Thirteen dwarves I have captured here,” King Thranduil drawled, slowly studying the party of half-poisoned, spider-web covered dwarves. He walked slowly back and forth, looking at each member of the party. “Thirteen dwarves my hunters found in the woods, and yet all the way here, you clamor for another. You cry for one left behind. Who?”

11. Would you like to try any new fanfic genres or tropes this year?

In the general sense that I'm always down to try new things if the inspiration strikes, I would like to try and explore new tropes and genres. But I don't really know off the top of my head which ones I might like to try most. I might play around with some different AUs, as AUs are always fun. But considering I've written a fair number of AUs over the years, I'm not sure they count as something New.

21. Will you try writing software, like Scrivener or those programs that won’t let you stop writing?

Hmm... probably not. My writing purposes are served pretty well just using plain old word documents. The closest I'll get to having a writing Focus like that would be setting sprint or pomodoro timers when I really want to buckle down and focus on something for a bit or if I have to meet a deadline.

#replies #ask box games #thychesters

[chromatic-lamina]

1, 10 & 27!

Here we go! Thank you for the ask.

(one) How many words have you written this year?

10. What work was the quickest to write?

27. What do you listen to while writing?

(one) How many words have you written this year? Only on Ao3, 55,125 words, but 3 of those are multi-chaptered works with the majority of the works being written in 2018-2019, so I'd say closer to -30,000 maybe, as I've mainly been writing one-shots. A separate 2,500 for my piece in the Corazine.

10. What work was the quickest to write? Probably the pieces for the Heart Pirates Week, or the MarLaw I wrote for the Rarepair month. I had written the Heart pirate week pieces ahead of time, but they are ficlets, so were intentionally short. Also, a piece about Hakugan that I wrote for a prompt on tumblr.

(Spoilers for chapter 1081; Egghead arc spoilers) Bioluminescent Hearts was written quickly but I spent a lot of time getting it up to speed once I'd published it.

27. What do you listen to while writing?

When I really need to concentrate on something, nothing, or music at a very low hum. Preferably something really lowfi (Mogwai. I know they're noisy, but they're indistinct in many ways), or Thelonius Monk or Mozart's reqium-ish, but if I'm just getting ideas on the page, I just stream my fave indie radio on quietly in the background.

Thanks again!

Questions 9, 19, 29 (I like the symmetry) answered! Also 6, 16 and 22. 1, 10 & 27 answered. 20 about to be answered. You can find the asks here!

#one piece #one piece fanfiction #one piece fanfics #trafalgar law #heart pirates #marlaw #marco the phoenix #chromafic #chromafics #ao3 wrapped meme #chromasks #chromanswers #thychesters #love that name!

[onepiecepositivityproject]

@thychesters has been chipping away at a big zolu fic for a while and I wish them all the best wishes in getting through it!!! You've done so much amazing work so far, I know you can do it :) And also,,, good luck in getting through marineford as well T O T! I'm proud of all the progress you've made :D And also this is very very late ;o _ o, but happy belated one year anniversary to ur reincarnation fic! it holds a dear place in my heart <3

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[EVIL BOOPS YOU] [EVIL BOOPS YOU] [EVIL BOOPS YOU] [EVIL BOOPS YOU] [EVIL BOOPS YOU] [EVIL BOOPS YOU]

#@thychesters

[soaked-doors]

AHHHH happy birthday frances!! i hope it's a great day for you and you have a ton of fun! may it be peaceful and restful and whatever you want it to be. cheers and have the best birthday! 🥳

EUEUE THANK U KATE 💞💞💞 having the most chill day ever I couldn’t want anything more

#ask #thychesters

[bluegarners]

tell me about the discards for solar flares then 👀

hiiiiii kate!!! thank you for asking!! <3333

woof, it's hard to even talk about the discard without giving away a significant turning point in the fic, but it more or less would have pushed dick in a certain direction much harder than how i now have it.... so the discards are kind of like what if? scenarios djhskdjfhaiuf

here's a snippet!

“I mean,” Jason continues, “when was the last time Batman did something like that? It was creepy. God, ‘Wing, he even gave me an emergency receiver. Asked me to call him if I needed anything.” At Dick’s stare, Jason barks out a harsh laugh. “Right? What the fuck?”

Dick’s mouth is dry, tasting sour and grimy. He scoots away from the edge and crosses his legs, one over the other. Jason is still muttering to himself but Dick can’t process any of it properly. All he wants to do is scratch at his arms, the itch overwhelming, but he clenches his fingers together and breathes deeply through his nose. The air is thick and polluted. He’s trying to stay away from Gotham. He thinks the air might be making him sick.

Above, the Bat Signal flicks on, barely yellow and illuminated on gray clouds. Jason stands, puts on his helmet, and glances over where Dick is still sitting. His form looks small, bent over itself like paper folded too many times. The mix of light pollution and dimness makes his face look sickly.

Jason blinks.

“You should get out of here,” he says. “You look terrible.”

wip files game

#thychesters #wip files game #wip tag game #dick grayson #jason todd

[thychesters]

my original plan was to write, but then i ended up spending half an hour fighting tooth and nail trying to edit the code in the theme for my inspo sideblog and it wouldn't save because there were old http codes in it. but at least it looks nice now! (and i finally got rid of the supernatural themed update tab in the top corner i forgot was there)

#fun fact i think both my ao3 pseuds (thychesters & novks) have spn roots #oh update tabs... #do you remember those. you put what you were watching/reading/playing #and the blogrolls!! oh my god #kate blabs

[captainshakespear]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MICHELLE!! oh canadian soulmate may today be nothing but wonderful for you. congrats on getting old 🥳❤️

MY AMERICAN SOULMATE I love you so much so glad to have your friendship always!!!! thank you!!! <3

#thychesters #answered

[fluffyartbl0g]

KATE YOU BEAUTIFUL SOUL T ^ T my zolu brethren go check out @thychesters wonderful fic about luffy getting bench pressed by zoro and just chattin havin a grand ol time (❁´▽`❁)*✲ﾟ*

HAHA and then AFTER UR DONE READING THAT ONE, if you’re craving something a bit spicier, go read @swordsmans phenomenal fic about zoro and luffy “training” together XD

#one piece #op fanart #monkey d. luffy #roronoa zoro #zolu #lozu #it just so happened that 2 of my favourite zolu authors posted zolu fics at the same time XD??? #boy was i fed well last night WAHAHAH