#and i looked into it (i havent read it. yet. i might)

[solcarow]

seafood trio portraits !

+ some alts. with spoilers !

#this is how they look after the 3yr jump 👍 #pretty proud that i managed to capture how i usually imagine them :0 ! been in an art slump so this was a pleasant surprise #idk if ill b able to draw them consistently tho . so these designs r for my brain only #might try to color these but i havent eaten lunch yet so thats a problem for another day #solar-drawss #my art #han sooyoung #kim dokja #yoo joonghyuk #yhk #yoohankim #orv #orv spoilers #omniscient reader's viewpoint #omnicient reader's view point #cackling at how miserable sp and 63hsy look compared to kdj in the middle #her whimsy … shes living her best life rn #……i lied i think i just gave him My face straight up jfc . get that off of u asshole #anyways if u didnt already notice ! yoohan have matching eyebrow scars 🫶 #kdj has one on his nose in that first one #the second kdj has cracks all over her which i forgot to add is inspired by hehearse’s works !! #the reason why they dont show up in the first one is bc aileen covered it up before he went to 1863 #like . hoseki no kuni style ✌️ #fun fact i ​sketched that hsy the night before her birthday skfjsjf had to give up bc it was too late tho #so now im repurposing it for this #NO WAIT I SHOULD JUST GO BACK AND GIVE HSY A CLEFT LIP …. dam lost opportunity. well whoevers reading this just kno she has one now

[evadingreallife]

I feel like i have the mob countdown going on in my brain and when it's filled i'll finally go read the dunmeshi manga.

#dungeon meshi #dunmeshi #for context: i strongly dislike reading manga #it just doesnt do anything for me personally as a medium #i can read a book i can watch an anime but if i gotta read AND watch still pictures at the same time my brain will just go on strike #idk why its always been like that #especially if its black and white #dont ask me #point is i can read webtoons just fine but manga sends me into my own kind of hell where ive been wanting to read the tokyo ghoul manga for #the last 10 years i kid you not but havent yet and probably never will cause i cant stand to read mangas #back to dunmeshi ive been seeing so many spoilers and discourse about anime vs manga that i might just try again and go look for the manga #but i wont make any promises about going through with it ive learned my lesson thank you #i just want to know what the fuck is up with falin and get more marcille in my life

[criticaaaaaaaal]

me about to read a shadowpeach fanfic only to notice that its tagged with “wukong is a bad person” or “wukong traumatized macaque” or “wukong hate club” or anything akin to that

#critical watches monkie kid #OK . OK I WILL SAY: #i totally understand evil/dark wukong aus. i get it. i like them. i appreciate them. i understand #and i can see WHY ppl write them. wukong is a character you can make mean easily #and mac is a character a lot of people relate to #and a lot of people really like him (i do too!) #i can see WHY ppl dote on him in fanfics or make him very much a victim of outside things #i see you and i appreciate you #but also i just. man. i feel like people forget that wukong is actually a good person and just want to always write him as this - #one dimensional abuser or something #and again : if you DO want to just write him as that as a fic au or SOMETHING by all means go ahead #no hate here #i think im just. :( i just wanna read a fanfic i guess where wukong isnt this one dimensional monster #if youre gonna make him evil/dark but keep it in line with the original characterizations (esp the ones in monkie kid) at least ......... #idk ......... make it like . make it more then one dimensional? gah #this post is spurred on by the fact i saw a fanfic a lot of shadowpeach ppl were chatting about #and i looked into it (i havent read it. yet. i might) #and it seems to have the same premise of macaque is trying to escape wukong who is a nasty abuser! #and like. ok. im SURE its a lot more than that (i hope) #i jusssssstrttttttt #blaarghhhh

[humanmorph]

The audio drama adaption for Chapter 24 of The Claw of the Conciliator, 'Dr. Talos' Play: Eschatology and Genesis', is live!

Here's a direct link to it on the Ranged Touch website, but I definitly recommend reading Grant's introduction to the project on Cohost (aswell as the production diary, which I found pretty interesting)!

#book of the new sun #the claw of the conciliator #shelved by genre #ranged touch #i havent seen anyone else post it here yet. but look! cool things #im halfway through reading this chapter so i might aswell finish it before listening #oh also my copy of sword&citadel arrived today but thats neither here or there im just pleased by it

[lumalalu]

man fuck it im gonna start doin wip wednesdays here

Summer is sweet and endless and she has nothing to do but look at me. She's looking at me now, through the sun's glare on her mirror. She shadows the shapes of my mouth, but doesn't put her voice to my words.

My parents are worried about Grace. They think something's wrong with her - I know what it is. Grace knows, too, looking at me, looking through the glare in the mirror. Everything about her is wrong. I could fix her, if she would let me.

Solid, measured knocks. "Gracie?"

"Yeah?" She pulls her braids back to look at her shoulders uncovered. The angle of her jaw. She is trying to see how it matches up to mine.

"Your mother and I are going to go to the mall. Do you want to come?"

I've never been a fan of the sweltering heat of a cracked-asphalt parking lot, nor the chill on my skin in a Macy's. Grace says, "Okay." But she only said that so that she can look away from me. She is a fool. I can be found in anything that can reflect. I watch her in the windows, in silver lockets, in the mirrors she models new boots in. She parades about like a wind-up toy, a ballerina in a music box. Her mother hands her new skirts for the new school year, button-up blouses, low-cut but not whorish, and modest stockings.

The dressing rooms are hidden in the corner, neatly separated by two icons of triangles - one upside and one downside. I follow her to the wrong one, the wrong stall. It's cramped and ill-fitting, somewhat like a body. Grace tries her best to avoid me still. It's a valiant effort, I'll give her that much. But at some point, in a few minutes, maybe, she'll have to turn around and face me.

Grace takes off her tanktop like the accused pushing off concrete slabs. She hisses with impatience at the clasp of her bra and its stubborn claws in her skin, throws it on the bench with more violence than is necessary. Branded into her back it remains, aching, smoking. Cramped and ill-fitting. She itches at it like the fabric is stuck in her, like it still remains subcutaneously and she could pull it away finally, permanently, if she also removed the skin. Her nails are well cared for, and so, won't do the job. I smile at the sound of her bent elbows.

Her pants go too, her keys squeezing free of the claustrophobic pockets and diving with raucous applause to the floor. Her phone is in her purse, because the back pockets are only decorative. Grace doesn't curse. Her words are never ugly. Instead, her lips bend into the shape of: "shit", and then she bends and picks up the keyring. It is unadorned. Why should it be anything else? A key only has one purpose.

For a moment we stand there together, Grace's back to me, my back not quite to hers. She is hesitating, stretching out the moment between one set of clothes and the next. The blouse is slippery and coarse in texture, sends spider legs running over her back. The skirt is of good quality, but takes up in the back, so she is afraid to bend. No pockets.

I ask her if I can see it. She stares at the off-white wall in silence, and then she turns.

"Oh, no, Gracie. That won't do at all." I tell her. "That thing isn't even fit to be a tablecloth. It's see-through, it's itchy on my ribs. It's pushing my skin too close to my bones, the points of my ribs poking at my lungs. It's like a coffin leaking air, sighing its way into the ground." 

Her breath hitches. "I don't know what's wrong with me." She's saying to herself, to the mirror, to me. I make a sound - in my mouth it is sympathetic, but in hers it is animal, pained, cornered.

#the erm #well i already have all of my future changes planned out but might as well talk about it here #the introduction to this scene needs to be a bit more involved or like. #ren calls it cinematic lol #wip wednesday #UHHH #writeblr #writeblogging #the next part that im working on today will be the reflection giving her different clothes to try on #i dont know whether to lean harder into the dysphoria in like a 'i just look like a girl in mens clothes' or into a euphoric way #i can probably figure out a way to do both? #like... if grace is like I hate this and the reflection goes But look #here is potential for something else #the more i write it the more im confident its like #clear enough so as not to be confusing #like even if u dont get the intended meaning youd probably come away with Something #i havent had many people read any of this yet tho #since im not in a creative writing group anymore i dont have a lot of people To show #maybe theres something like that that meets up at my library #or maybe i could start something? #idk how youd even like. advertise for that... #i dont actually think this is long enough to warrant a readmore but i thought it would be polite still #i guess technically this is transgender but its not like #its prose lol #oh this is a short story im intending to submit to a lit magazine when its finished #id liketo find specifically a queer one #ive been trying to make a lil personal website on neocities to host my original stuff too so ill probably put this there when its done #sniffs #🕷❣ #TRYING NOT TO BE NEGATIVE I CAN WRITE! THIS IS A SECOND PASS BUT ITS STILL GOOD AND WORTH SHARING

[kenobihater]

the last remaining threads of my sanity are slipping through my fingers rn 🚬 😑

#i'm out of cigarettes i'm incredibly ill and i'm reconsidering my relationship to a certain fandom. #look i'm NOT saying i'm gonna stop the divorce proceedings but uh. fuck. i may have been re reading some of my older works and unfinished #fics and i MAY. i repeat MAY. have some tiny shred of interest posting about st*r w*rs again #motherfucker i'm SO hesitant to speak that into existence and will be absolutley APOPLECTIC if it happens bc i don't fucking WANNA like sw! #i divorced it! i took the kids (my ocs) & filed a restraining order & crossed state lines & broke all contact and yet! and fucking yet!!!! #i find myself in tags i havent visited in over two years on the archive like some beaten dog slinking back home to a shitty master #i honestly hate like. fucking ALL of the shit i've written from then that i reread and some of it was so bad i couldnt even bring myself to #click on it after reading the summary. like. UGH! i have a half baked fic idea i wrote a little for and i think it's more compelling than #any of the literal dogshit i posted back then so i MIGHT work on polishing that up and posting something that isn't actual garbage by my #current standards. all of this is still up in the air tho bc i dont know if the hyperfixation or even the bare minimum lvl of interest has #returned or if it's just fever induced delirium. i've been having INCREDIBLY fucked up bad horrible awful vivid dreams as of late so fever #induced brain fuckery isn't out of the question. sigh. i'm so mad abt this #even if i do regain some interest in the fandom i don't think i'll have any interest in new source material after the mando s2 finale & #tbo.bf sucking ass & the obi show being mid & everything with the ST. i plan on watching ando.r but after that? zero interest in anything #new from sw. so. if anyone still reading this and is getting excited abt me POSSIBLY MAYBE being interested in sw just know i still hate it #a bit and feel like i'm being dragged kicking and screaming back into this mess unwillingly. or it's due to a fever. god i need a smoke #len speaks #that's literally the longest tag rant i've ever gone on. fuck that's a BAD sign

[cappurrccino]

what if the reading challenge for next year is "all the books I own and haven't read yet" and also "all the halo novels" and I actually start on the halo one this year, by which I mean I have already set that ball rolling

#//juri speaks #looking for outcasts and there are like 3 or 4 i know i havent read yet #plus all the ones living on my shelf #and i think a couple on my kindle? which i might grab in physical form just for the most shelf space

[plush-rabbit]

that Ohnn fic was so good. compliments to the chef, your writing is amazing!! it's so hard finding content about him, and you really nailed it!

!!! thnak you thank you thank you!!! i love him sm!! i think he's just fun and like i love how fuckin long he became, and how he probably is like nerdy and awkward and i wanna !!! thank you!!!

#anon #and to the people who like leave little comments in the reblogs #i see you and i love you #i love how in this one and in the suicide squad #we got like silly villains who are actually like really powerful #like polka dot man #something about him screams that he would be awkward in a relationship #i think it might be his voice and mannerisms #when i started writing it there was no content for him #but like after i checked there was content #but i havent read it yet because i dont wanna be like influenced #look miguel is like hot and i love fangs and claws and how big he is and how he has a soft spot for kids and wants kids and #i love him #but the spot?? #him being all inky and sketchy and menacing?? #<3

[drag0nalias0]

i just finished heaven officials blessing and audhrbekhdshshevnskx. I just finished the extra chapters. And to think i was stuck on chapter 78 until thursday. Now ive finished 252 chapters(sorry that was a lie, since i saw the animated version and read the manhua i started reading the novel around when ghost city was introduced so around chapters 30-40 maybe? Im already reading orv from the begining despite reading all availible manhwa and im still stuck on the novel of that at i think chapter 60 or 70 maybe i think ive been stuck for a while now and i was not doing the same thing with tgcf)

#Tgcf #heaven official's blessing #heaven officials blessing #tian guan ci fu #Finally finished it #Technically i finsihed it last night with only a but more to read so i read the rest in the morning along with the #Extra chapters(i think thats what happened) #On the last few chapters i was shaking with how emotional i was getting and due to what happened near the end #I was so worried that it was gonna have a sad ending #but it didnt #Edit: found a video from 16 april 2023 about tgcf on my youtube watch history. Im fairly sure i was watching the donghua #At that point so yeah. Timestamp for a when i might have started #Meant to put that edit in a while ago #The video i watched was titled xie lian is a menace by piper emerald and i think i found it when #A mdzs video appeared in youtube shorts titled existing out of spite by the same ytber and i looked at their other videos #Or its the other way round and i found the tgcf video first and looked at their other videos and just tapped on the mdzs one #(Possibly thinking it was tgcf as i havent read or watched mdzs yet)

[jacobglaser]

Thought this podcast ep might be of interest to some of you!

#i havent listened to it yet bc im waiting for all the eps of this pirate season to be out but it looks good! #i dont know much about the true story of blackbeard etc other than the broad strokes so im looking forward to it! #the first 2 eps are about captain kidd and someone earlier then next week is anne bonny & mary read #anyway thought this might be of interest to some people <3 #ofmd #our flag means death #blackbeard #stede bonnet

[teruthecreator]

apwheads start prepping the finale hype

#ignorance cloud on #apw #look. im not saying its gonna be done soon....HOWEVER #i AM halfway through writing the final chapter. and ive been making remarkable pace lately #now things may change! i might hit a slump and explode #but seeing as ive been pushing myself to get this done i'd say just...be ready!!! ill let yall know when its gonna drop dw #it will be announced WELL AHEAD OF TIME #AND IF U HAVENT READ A PICTURES WORTH YET: GET ON IT. YOU HAVE TIME IF U START NOW

[anurarana]

I really hate that im not feeling any of the batman webtoons that are out rn :(( like wfa is cute I guess but all the characters are flattened out and fanonized to the point where they are almost unrecognizable to their canon counterparts. And then I was wary of the rho from the beginning bc jason cant catch a break with good writers in the mainline continuity let alone im gonna trust this,, and my fears were kinda shown to be true. And its really annoying bc I want to like them so bad, ive said this before, they are are about the most accessible comics can be rn and I love when people love my favs, but when the webtoons make me cringe more than whats enjoyable I have to draw a line somewhere

#and that line is rehashing jay/artemis im sorry i cant i am looking at where this is going and im crying #i wanna say stuff on vixen im actually liking it the most so far out of the options (i have not read zantanas yet) #but i havent read much if anything on her before this so i cant speak on if its in character or not i just like it #WHICH AGAIN goes back to how i want new comic fans to get into wfa or what not i love when people are interested in what i like #but thats really all it is its tailored to none comic fans and fanon far removed that its painful for someone who #and this might be a shocker #actually likes these characters lmao #idk what im saying i hate normal comics too isnt is so fun to hate ur favorite media haha. #batman #ask to tag #i really dont want to spoil peoples fun but besties rho upset me a bit

[soft-spooks]

ive reached the poijt in the night where i am desperately craving Content

#aauyugughg and ive alreayd burnt out my art enrrgy for the day SMHHHHH #i might. go back and read some old fics maybe. idk. oough buddy #i fucking hate the whole. gets dark at 4pm thing. living on the time zone cusp has made it worse bc. like #the time is still the same is as im used to but the sun sets like .8 of an hour earlier #i hate it SO much #i need a HUG #i need 2 try to draw sun again i think. i drew him one (1) time when i was like half asleep post-panic attack and #he looked so cute. need 2 see if i can capture that again #i also havent eaten dinner yet AND i remembered i have work in the mornjng so. grrrghgnb . angy . want attention. etc etc etc #my brain is going like a bazillion miles a minute tho so i cant like. sit down and daydream or whatever like i usually do #everythjngs alllll buzzy. its gross #watchin some videos 2 try to calm down so like. its fineeeeeee

[glasseswearingrabbitdetective]

id like to see a character analysis or smt of Kotaro tbh... is he rly just a rly awful person...? jerk with a heart of gold????? i??????? hes mostly just imo a bully ... >>; redeeming qualities where??? i still have so many questions... Saki’s tamagotchi (see my rambling in last post/zlsr 3 tags) is just 1 thing... im ... hmmmm 

#kanna watches zls #thoughts tbh www #irt zombie land saga #irt zombieland saga #i forgot which one i used... #zombie land saga #tatsumi kotaro #i havent finished the show yet but... we'll see ig #if at all #is there another place where all the LORE is?? extra stuff that ISNT in/covered by the anime #i read as much of the manga as i could find- even purchased the japanese one - #i feel like i probs missed smt... #idk if im reading too much into this #it rly is mostly just a very light-hearted series #idk how deep the chars actually GO.... im very curious to learn! i wanna find out more about them! #id buy a character guide or smt but... hmm... even that- assuming i can read the kanji ww- might not have everything #yes the most obvious point is Kotaros relationship(??) with Sakura ... but im looking for the less obvious stuff #his feelings with Junko/Ai was explored a little in the manga #his feelings on Lily more or less surface-based... wont judge her but still pretty awful to her and the others :/ #with Yuugiri .. unsure... they seem almost in partnership(??) ... Yuugiri is a LOT more trustworthy than Kotaro tho god.... #if Yuugiri and Ai could take over it'd be great www it's been proven the girls can DEF look after themselves -3- things like their makeup- #-could be improved TT pls... i wish they can have more faith in themselves... #the fact that despite saying all that (rly vague tbh) stuff to Sakura who was his crush or smt in s1 e11 he straight up abandoned them and- #-left them completely in the dark about what the literal fuck is going on here so soon after! (months?? in canon time... 2 eps irl w) #not cool dude not cool :// he worried and angered them sm... then they forgive bc hes nice and then... straight after... hes back to bullyin #smh ... i dont like him www am i missing smt???? is it rly simple??? hm.... #Kanna rambles #look at all my tags wwwwwww

[clowningaroundmars]

this lil story i'm workin on about miles42 has gotten out of CONTROL

my first draft is already well over 15k words long now?? 😭😭

this was just supposed to be a quick lil story? bang it out, be done with it?!?!

what is wrong with me

#mine #im out here acting like i have time to do this shit #like. mars. come on now #also HELLO im not even a fic writer like that?! i dont DO overarching plots with a beginning middle and end #i usually write like. a scene. or maybe two #but nah bruh this shit's not even halfway done and its already at 15k #i havent even gotten to the climax yet #bro WHO AM I #the CLIMAX? there's a beginning middle and end to this shit? #i mean it does help that im pulling from several different sources like comics and movies and my own hc posts #to write all of this out #plus some of this is in my wheelhouse. ive been reading and writing fics years ago abt this stuff #what is it? wellllll idk that i wanna reveal anything yet #but yeah this is looking like a multi-chapter behemoth tbqh #i... really try to avoid posting on ao3 but god forgive me... im goin back to my old ways 😔 #i just might have to polish off my old ao3 account #dust it off yknow #cuz this is a lot #idek if tumblr can handle all of this. idk what the text post limit is honestly #tumblr sucks ass to edit long amounts of text on so i dont even wanna try and find out 💀

[qqweebird]

i have GOT to stop dicking around with sources and actually write this goddamn REPORT !!!!!!!

#i spent all. day. yesterday reading a bibliography from 1930 #i sat down at lunch and was like okaiii i have some of my sources ill get started on writing ! ^_^ #ah … this second one is actually a bibliography! well it might be useful ill look it over :) i do still need like 4 more papers! #She then stayed up until 1:30 am systematically highlighting key words & the authors listed under them in the index. #havent even started looking to see if theyre actually accessible anywhere online yet #first draft is due friday so im not like drowing but i already have some assignments for this semester that need to get done #birdsong