#gloomybirdie

[cbk1000]

tell me about the cave fic 🙏👀

So, I was reading a version of the Tristan and Isolde legend, and in it was the Cave of Lovers where people would meet up to have their trysts, and there's a sexy bed, and an inscription on the cave that I can't recall off the top of my head, but I think is just some sort of blessing. Anyway, naturally my mind went, "What if Merlin and Arthur were lost in the woods and needed to seek shelter for the night and they sought it in this cave and the inscription is a spell and the only way to break the spell and leave the cave is to have sex?" Cue lots of arguing over how far they have to go, Merlin trying everything possible to break the spell on his own, Arthur pretending he has never in his life considered having sex with Merlin, Arthur giving Merlin the most awkward, unsexy grandma peck in the hopes that will do it, Arthur blustering over Merlin accusing him of being a crap kisser for the unsexy grandma peck, and finally some frantic boning like rabbits because it turns out Arthur has maybe, possibly, a time or two, thought about Merlin In That Way and now they're having so much sex they forget to actually check to see whether they broke the spell and can leave the cave.

I posted a snippet of it a few months ago, actually: You firefly from down below! - Trick or Treat 🎃 (tumblr.com)

#gloomybirdie #fic #merthur

[rotisseries]

I ran out of time for the outfits oops 💀 here tho <3

THANK YOU GLOOMY BELOVED I HAVE NEVER SAID A BAD WORD ABOUT YOU EVER

#EVERYBODY LOOK IT'S MIKE AS THE GODDESS'S CHOSEN HERO #LOVE YOU LOVE YOU LOVE YOU #I love having artist mutuals this is the best ever #ask #gloomybirdie #hi gloomy! #stranger things #fanart #stranger things fanart #byler #mike wheeler #<- giving this main tags. I feel like everyone ever should see this #favorite #loz byler

[ssreeder]

Hiiiiii it's 2am im obsessing over ria bakoda and making it a tragic comedy goodniiighhttt

This captures exactly what I was going for….

Thank you!

:D

#HAHAHA YESSSSSS #Hakoda sees them kiss* #must be an odd fire nation thing #*Hakoda sees them holding hands* #kids hands must be cold #*Hakoda hears them say I love uou* #well…. I love a lot of my men too. kind of #WHAT WILL IT TAKE HAKODA?!?! #Bato could see it from the second Sokka raised a knife at him #But will Bato bring THAT kind of attention to himself #to out the boys? #will the ENTIRE CAMP know before Hakoda? #I bet Reho doesn’t see it either lol #oh gosh will JET SEE IT FIRST?! #bato bato bato… #I love how you did this #gloomybirdie #this almost makes up for you wanting to help me send the boys back to prison #which is still an AMAZING idea #this is amazing #the greats adventures of bato and Hakoda #finding the gay! #their expressions make me smile #this is great #love it #liab #ria #Hakoda doesn’t see the gay yet hahaha

[milf-harrington]

omg so I'm not exactly making a battle jacket specifically BUT I have a jean jacket my mom passed down to me that she wore as a kid, and I got to wear it as a kid, and today I got to add some patches to it and it's now this mix of my mom's flower patches and my dinosaurs <3 maybe someday I'll transform it further I think that'd be fun

FUCK YEAH theres always something so cool about jackets passed down from family members, and the fact that its got that mix of you both now makes it even better

#i've almost finished updating my vest i'll have to post progress photos on sat #thank you for sharing this w me <33 love hearing about whats going on in ppls lives #asks #gloomybirdie

[bisexuallsokka]

Omg I don't even have twitter but from me occasionally touching the link to the poll THERE IS SO MUCH AGGRESSION MGMSKDMS being outside of my Tumblr bubble is so scary. "Misogynistic zukka fans" my mutuals in arms are the only zukka fans out there as far as I'm aware bestie idk what theyre going on about

the way that they’re like “if you voted for zukka instead of this wlw ship you are misogynistic and lesbophobic” and the wlw ship in question is between two characters who have spoken once and/or have very unhealthy dynamics like 💀💀

#gloomybirdie #ask me stuff #also haley and i were talking and like. zukka nation has done more for wlw than any wlw ship i guarantee #twitter poll

[lovelyelbowleech]

AANDNFKWMEMWKEMWMW GETTING A KAZUMA AND AZULA TEAMUP WOULD BE SO COOL BUT ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS IF YOU THINK OF THE PARALLELS. Shen has Zuko, Kazuma has Azula, they can't have eachother but now are burdened by the emotional turmoil the royal siblings put them through. Azula just don't kill him please KDMWM

God the buildup this chapter has created makes me so excited I hope it doesn't morph into paranoia don't hurt my heart too viciously 🙏 esp since MAI is ABSOLUTELY going to suffer the most here and is getting maybe zuko-level horrors shoved on her 😭 ok maybe I am in fact scared now oh god NDMWKSK

Haha! Yeah, they might both end up with a disaster fire sibling 😂 Although not sure who gets the worst deal, as there would be a lot of differences in those relationships! (But equally fun to write)

Mai certainly looks to have a rough road in front of her :(

I am glad you are enjoying in spite of the anxiety and angst! Thank you for the ask!

#gloomybirdie #ficasks #allsfair #wargames

[enevera]

9 for the artist wrapped game!

9.What's your favorite set of tags/comments you received this year?

ouhhhh. oh shit hm. god theres so many and my memory is sooooo bad lmao uhh.

habibi said it liked my chibi blob style and said that it liked my getou uzumaki a lot piece too!! and kai said she liked the way i painted the clothing folds on the mai painting um. kirpy said i paint hair that looks like shiny like noodles?? which i think is hilarious and i do think "ah yes the noodles now" every time i got to paint hair, esp getou's lmao. less of a tag but nisi always rbs my art to her meme-y tumblr with the nicest tagss <33 basically um i love all the tags my mutuals leave!! and the followers too i like when there is a lot of all caps yelling ppl were very nice on the shokita blob especially fbjdhs

there are many more because people have been so insanely nice about my art and something ive really enjoyed about the jjk fandom is everyone is just so so nice and silly in the tags sdfhb it makes me very happy and im really thankful for it <33

ask game!!

#askask #gloomybirdie #thank youuuu for the ask <33

[eldest-sibling-tournament]

franziska von karma has whipped several members in court trials, including the judge and defendant and lawyer and phoenix wright enough times he blacked out. everyone is addressed by her as "fool" and she finger waggles at you (which is a trait her father's sprite does, and what a younger version of her (tech older) brother did. Ace attorney loves to parallel sprite movement like that). Also she got shot and FULLY planned on continuing to her court trial happening in less than a minute from then, only thing stopping her was her brother DRAGGING her to the hospital. She's so <3

insane....

#asks #gloomybirdie #franziska von krarma

[aristotles-denial]

YOU NOTICED THE ZUKO STRETCH MARKS NFJKSKSMAKAKMA <3 <3 <3 ur the first to say anything you've made my day lol I hope your day is great too ✨️

oh my goodness this is so sweet!!! i absolutely love your art and especially your designs of zuko and sokka like !! you’re a genius!!! not to mention how your depiction of zuko’s scar is almost exactly how i imagine it in my fic like ugh your mind 🥰 i hope you have a wonderful day ❤️❤️❤️

edit: i am just now noticing the fans on sokka’s pants. AND THE SMALL SCAR ON ZUKO’S LIP!! i’m assuming that’s from when his ship got blown up and oh my god this is so ridiculously good like the details are making me go insane

(to anyone else who sees this: the amazing art in question)

#🥺 #❤️❤️❤️ #gloomybirdie #asks #atla #zuko #sokka #cd #tfeb

[cbk1000]

HIII my god I am a huge fan of all your fics, I have gone through just about every one of them besides the book of merthur (still trudging through that one I fear.........) and the way you encapsulate arthur's horrible mommy issues is the best I have seen of it. Sometimes I try my best to find some merthur fics and I don't recall seeing that part of Arthur EVER explored (to be a little more fair the show was shit at doing that too..... but come on if you truly love arthur you're obligated to fuck his life over some more ☝️.) Making Hunith essentially adopt him is so endearing to me as well I really just love what you're doing.

This is just out of curiosity because I've seen with most of your fics you've kept balinor out of the picture, and I'd really love to know your thoughts about him (bad thoughts and/or good thoughts I am all for toxicity and hate 🙏). I think I like the concept of him more than the shows portrayal of him, I have in the past found deleted scenes and concepts that kept more references to him???? And that was for Arthur too with his mother???? That is quite up there for me for some of the worst things the show has done to me. Anyway. Again I like the idea of him, haven't personally found fics that portray him that caught my eye (how do you make the title 'dragonlord' so lame. it has DRAGONS to it. I should've immediately been all for him) I'd love to have your thoughts :)))

'(to be a little more fair the show was shit at doing that too..... but come on if you truly love arthur you're obligated to fuck his life over some more ☝️.)' The show was shit at most things characterisation, to be fair. lmao But, yeah, I agree, I think Arthur's parental issues are central to who he is. He has a mother he never got to meet and therefore idolizes because a dead mother is a perfect mother; and then his only remaining parental figure has never been a source of warmth or comfort to him.

Balinor I don't think is as huge a presence in Merlin's life. Merlin always had a parent who loved him; his dad was just somebody who was gone before he ever knew him, and I don't think that's haunted him to the same degree as Arthur because Hunith was a loving, stable constant in Merlin's life. He also has a father figure in Gaius. The show really just brought Balinor into the picture as a deus ex machina to enable Merlin to control dragons; the emotional impact of his appearance falls short because we never really see Merlin wondering who his dad was or lamenting the fact that he grew up without one.

I'm actually more interested in Balinor from Hunith's perspective. Was this some tragic romance? Was he the love of her life who had to flee unexpectedly when Uther sent people after him? He's still talking about Hunith decades later. Does he just sit around in his cave sadly thinking about her and she's in Ealdor like, "Balinor who? Oh, yeah, that guy who knocked me up." Or is that why when we see her, she's single and seems to have raised Merlin by herself and never took (a? another? I can't remember if the show says for sure, but I had the impression she and Balinor were never married) husband?

In the OG medieval versions of the legend, Merlin was fathered by an incubus, making him half-demon. I think exploring that would have been more interesting than a cranky hermit who shows up for half a second just to be killed off for some cheap angst. It also would explain why Merlin's father is never really talked about; if I were Hunith, and I had been impregnated by some sexy male demon that showed up at night while I was half-asleep, I wouldn't tell my kid about it either. And that would be a pretty huge revelation for Merlin, who in the very first episode asks Gaius if he's some kind of monster. It would explain why he's so powerful and create a huge source of turmoil for him because the answer to whether or not he's a monster is actually, "Well, yeah, kind of. Half, anyway." I have actually toyed with the idea of doing something with this, so I might read up some more on those origin stories and do a one-shot at some point exploring this concept. Balinor as a dragonlord, tbh, doesn't really do it for me; Balinor as an incubus, on the other hand. *chef's kiss*

Balinor, for me, is really just one more in a long line of 'Well I wish they had done THAT differently.' The show is riffing on a body of myths that has many different versions of many different stories; there is no concrete canon, like with any folklore. So I don't take issue with them putting their own spin on so many of the stories that are central to Arthuriana: I just think the specific spin they put on many of the main aspects of the legends were lazily executed, and not worth changing if they weren't even going to bother laying the groundwork for their own individual take on a story that has been told and retold and tweaked for centuries. Balinor is just one more victim to the BBC's propensity for prioritising fart jokes and bad bald caps over silly things like consistent characterisation and narrative coherency. Not that I'm bitter, says woman 662,372 words into her second show rewrite.

#gloomybirdie #fic #writing #bbc merlin

[rotisseries]

trademark game. garfield. lesbian flag. the last of us. discussing milk in ice. joenicky. all those polls you keep losing. zelda. homeschool. dog motif. suicide threats to anons. narines. all for the game. our divorce. getting back together. stealing all my mutuals. being in on the bit. florida. hating terfs. incest fan. hitting post limit. drako tbos.

that one shouldn't be there. you know which one. why is that there gloomy

what is my trademark

#gloomy is making up for the fact that like nobody participated in this game by naming everything #anyway. that one thing. QUIT SPREADING LIES ABOUT ME #ask #ask game #gloomybirdie #hi gloomy!

[ssreeder]

Jee is to Iroh like Bato is to Hakoda but STRICTLY PROFESSIONAL I am AGAINST gayroh I hope the discord knows im HOMOPHOBIC. I do not want the gays to be happy, gayroh specifically. also bato.

HOMOPHOBIC GLOOMY EVERYONE!!!!

You heard it here first

Get ‘em discord.

#nah but seriously I think we have had enough jee povs to know he isn’t pining after iroh #THANK GOODNESS…. #I think iroh can love whoever he wants #as long as it isn’t jee…. #there are much better options for him #👀👀👀👀 #I hope you get shit for this gloom #because it’s funny lol #gloomybirdie #liab #ITF #ask #ps - I wonder WHAT Jees actual position is ;) #*runs*

[milf-harrington]

I adore you

#this is how you make friends online you just bully your mutual friend and everything falls together #asks #gloomybirdie

[bisexuallsokka]

I'm being bullied in an argument rn about how zukka is pronounced NDJWJMSWM pls is it "zoo-kah" or "zuh-kuh" I think I've been pronouncing it wrong in my head all this time and it's messing with my mind

HAHAHA this is percabeth/perkabeth all over again

all im going to say is zuko’s name is pronounced zoo-ko so i say it zoo-kah ldjdldjdk

#gloomybirdie #ask me stuff

[macrosdesfleur]

@gloomybirdie ‘s art for @ash-and-starlight​ ‘s pirate AU inspired me real good

 so i contribute this little guy 

#atla #avatar the last airbender #zuko #pirate zuko #prince zuko #do not tell me the sword is in a wrong hand i will combust #i made zuko wear a traditional buryat shirt and i will not elaborate #he just wibes like that #yep that's an eagle glove #my art

[a-todd-illustration]

@gloomybirdie and anyone else who started the Pirate Yue AU

Love the two spirit-chosen being bffs

#myart #fanart #princess #princess yue #yue #pirate yue #pirate zuko #zuko #avatar the last airbender #atla #avatar #avatar au