hello! i've written a short little machete fic, and i wanted to share it with you as thanks for all the incredible art and generous question-answering you've been doing these last few months. i hope that if you give it a look, you enjoy it. <3 keep up all your amazing work! archiveofourown [.] org / works / 50945128
Spiritual follow up to this drabble, based on this text post.
Any semi-shitpost comics like this are schrodinger's canon, meaning there are some canon-to-fic elements, and some not, though all is subject to change!
“... But uh, what were you trying to say before about choosing—”
Akko turned, opening her eyes. She quickly stopped talking.
And Sucy realized just how close she was to Akko. At some point, her arms had moved to wrap around Akko’s waist, her head leaning closer, and now, her face was probably not even inches away. Their noses were almost touching.
Sucy went still, like her whole body had become stone. She couldn’t so much as twitch. Akko didn’t either. She could feel Akko’s breath on her face. Her heartbeat, from how her chest pushed up against her.
Could Akko feel her own?
They both kept standing still. Kept waiting for…she didn’t know. Some signal for when it was okay to break, whatever this was? Sucy didn’t know. She just kept holding Akko. And Akko did the same..."
Another LWA commission requested by @the-black-mage-of-phantasm for their fic Envenomation :)
Mha fandom when you say that Izuku’s biggest fic mischaracterization isn’t making him twinky:
WHEN DID BEING A TWINK BECOME A BAD THING CAN I JUST ASK THAT
Like yes, twinkifying one male character in a ship can be annoying—it can perpetuate heterosexual roles onto same sex relationships (“who’s the woman in the relationship/who wears the pants in the relationship?”), BUT LET US BE CLEAR:
TWINKS ARE A PART OF THE QUEER COMMUNITY. THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH BEING A TWINK, MAKING A CHARACTER A TWINK, OR SEEING A CHARACTER AS A TWINK.
WHEN in the ever loving FUCK did that somehow translate into “the twink has to be the stereotypically aggressive one so it doesn’t abide by queer stereotypes”. HOW DID WE GET HERE.
My brain just really wanted to draw a comic version of one of the parts from uh my little fic here I dunno how many pages this will be but the urge is strong to draw.
Overhaul crouched down, tilting his face up with a single gloved hand.
“I could remake you, you know.” His voice was soft, silk over steel.
“Would it be a mercy, to have a body once more untouched, to be clean again? Or would it just hurt more when you got forced back into the muck where you belonged?”
Inferna Victoria (Portrait of the Archdevil and Archduchess Supreme of the Nine)
a royal portrait of Raphael and Tav in the style of a Van Dyck for my fic, The Lover's Gambit. it's now my most popular fic, thank you so much for your support! you all have exquisite taste ❤️
Raphael's outfit was inspired by a beautiful gifset by @cherriesandsulphur
details, context below
[Solo Raph painting]
Baroque is one of my fave art movements. the in-game art looked inspired by it, and I wanted to do a piece that combined my love for it and royal portraiture. this was inspired by the works of Flemish Baroque master Anthony Van Dyck.
this is one of the most ambitious and detailed pieces I've done so far: the fullsize is 22 x 32in, and it took over 50+ hrs. royal portraiture usually has extensive detail, so I wanted to make it as detailed as possible. it was challenging and time consuming, but a lot of fun!
framed version (Cassetta frame from the Met website:)
process
spoiler details (for the game + fic)
- their ship came about because I wanted to give Raph a chaotic evil counterpart to his lawful evil. basically he’s the “mansplain, manipulate, malewife” to her “gaslight, (Baldur’s)gatekeep, girlboss” lol.
- I hc this Tav’s ending is the “In my name” one. though I hc she says “In our name” instead ;)
- visually, it looks like Raphael has more power but I hc it’s actually Tav for several reasons: many elements of the composition lead to her (Raph’s sash, arms, the curtains), she’s wearing her crown and is seated, and is also foremost while Raph is in the back.
- Raph’s crown is ceremonial/for vanity only while Tav’s tiara has enough fragments of the stone to be fully functional.
- The crown’s design is based on concept art, and if you look closely it kinda looks like it has hearts on the sides. I added the red gems.
I hc that Raph is a romantic and some of his lines seem to allude to this (code phrase of “my heart’s desire”, the Amulet of Greater Health, which Tav is wearing here, in a prominent place in his house, and his words to Hope in a transcript: “…serve me with your whole heart”)
- I hc they’re married at this point. Tav’s ring has two additional gems, and her outfit in general was inspired by the canon design of the Crown of Karsus.
- there’s a lot of red because according to Hope, Raph’s favorite color is “blood”. my hc for the painting overall is that it was done by his personal painter, maybe a debtor who has to paint for him for all eternity (not a bad deal right? /s) so it reflects his and Tav’s requests.
- I picture this hanging either above Raph’s fireplace in the dining room. or bedroom - much to Haarlep’s dismay 🤣
Doodles I drew of my fanfic that'll never see the light of day, probably. I've been rotating this in my mind and spewing word vomit onto my document for too long now I had to do something to get it out.
I love Lucifer to the moon and back, but holy hell do I want to see him STRUGGLE.