#i know i have a WIP that people are waiting on

[five-and-dimes]

"you're lucky you're pretty" for the wip game 👀

lol this one is funny to me because it was born out of multiple people commenting on one of my fics that Dream was "lucky he's pretty" and I thought "hey you could make angst outta that 👀"

Dream has never been more thankful for how heavily Hob sleeps than he is now as his alarm goes off from beneath his pillow. He switches it off quickly, holding his breath as he waits to make sure that Hob is still asleep. For several minutes, he watches the gentle rise and fall of Hob’s chest, listens to his soft snores, smiles to himself at the drool collecting on the pillow beneath Hob’s open mouth. He’s perfect. Dream wants so badly to be good enough for him. With that in mind, he carefully rises from bed, tiptoeing to the bathroom and closing the door behind him quietly. When he turns the light on, he winces, but blinks rapidly to adjust to the light. He winces again when he sees his reflection.  Something in his chest tightens. Gratitude, or relief, or horror. He’s so glad Hob won’t have to see him like this. Pulling out his supplies from under the sink, he gets to work. He carefully cleans off smeared eyeliner, reapplies concealer where it’s rubbed off, fixes his hair where it’d been pressed flat against his pillow. Methodically, meticulously, he does his best to cover every and any flaw.  When he crawls back into bed, he positions himself carefully, not wanting to undo his hard work. He keeps himself tense and rigid, eyes glancing over to where Hob is still sleeping soundly. Turning his eyes towards the ceiling, he keeps himself perfectly still until Hob awakens two hours later. “Man, it’s not smudged or anything!” Hob comments, leaning in to look at Dream’s eyeliner in surprise after kissing him good morning. Dream laughs and hopes Hob doesn’t hear how nervous he is, pushing at his chest lightly to try to lessen his scrutiny, “High quality makeup usually lasts several days.” That sounded believable, right? Hob frowned, “Really?” “Of course,” Dream smiled, trying his hardest to seem nonchalant, “I simply use good products, that’s all.” “Huh,” Hob shrugged, smiling as he gave Dream another kiss before rising, “I really don’t know anything about that stuff,” he laughed.

#the sandman #dreamling #my writing #wip game

[crabsnpersimmons]

CRAB IS YOUR MOON OKAY WITH HUGS?

PLEASE THIS GUYS NEED SOME AFFECTION

LET ME JUST-

GHHHHHH-/pos

#fnaf moon #Moon New Do Same You AU #fnaf dca #dca fandom #mutual shenanigans #other people's art #crab art #traditional art #Moon likes hugs #but he's very particular about them #he prefers hugs around his shoulders or his waist #he does not like being hugged from behind #he does not like being hugged by surprise #he's a bit skittish #like a cat #you have to learn his habits #and sometimes just wait for him to come to you #you know i am up to No GoodTM when i draw extreme close ups of Moon and his back #i also don't know what possessed me to do this in watercolours #but... i'm okay with the final look #i'm just very rusty #and i remembered why the last time i painted in watercolour i went into an artblock #it really do be a “trust the process” kinda deal #also for people who saw the wip #haHA you thought this was about moon ass but it was actually MOON ANGST #MOON ANGST FRIDAY #i always post my moon angst on friday it seems

[birlwrites]

hey y'all! this isn't really a formal ~announcement~ so much as it is something i just wanted to express so i would stop feeling like i was somehow keeping it a secret

i've been having trouble with motivation re: ttdl, and i have been for a while now. i don't know when that'll change. it's not a matter of not knowing what comes next - it's the process of actually putting it down on the page that's been difficult for me. so i'm not sure when i'll be able to update it again.

i don't intend to abandon it, but i also need to give myself the freedom to work on what comes to me in the moment, instead of turning ttdl-being-unfinished into a weapon that i use to beat myself up whenever i have another idea i want to write. that would be a surefire way to make me never want to work on it again

so, instead, i'm going to think of it as letting ttdl rest. it's been a long journey to get here, and it's time to pause and recuperate. thank you so much to everyone who's been a part of this process so far - i appreciate you more than i can say!

as always, thanks for reading!!

-love, birl<3

#dark lord wip #i've been weighing saying something for a while #i care a lot about this story #and expressing that i'm feeling this way seemed like it would make it Real #so i waited in the hopes that it would just pass and everything would be 'normal' #but!! i am neither a superhuman nor a robot #i've met a lot of cool people and had a lot of fun conversations because of ttdl #which is one of the reasons i didn't want to admit that i've been having trouble working on it #but i also don't want to be disingenuous #even though i feel like ttdl is what a lot of people know me for #and why a lot of people follow me etc #that's not a reason for me to like. make my life revolve around ttdl #anyway

[littlehatmouse]

wips from valentines day art that i did not plan well and am not finishing tonight

#this is going to be shenjinlan but right now yun jin is BEATING MY ASS WHY IS SHE SO HARD TO DRAW #i think i need to completely chang ethe way i draw noses #dunmeshi has changed the way i draw noses from 3/4 view and i think i should change the way i draw front view too bc everything looks WEIRD #anywayyyyyy i have no idea when im going to finish this #but Hopefully soon!!!! #i can complete projects!!!! just you wait!!!!!!! #also i promise yelan isnt wearing lingerie it will hopefully look better when i color it #wip #i draw shenhe so different every time i draw her but its bc shes buff and i actually dont rlly know how muscles work #so im kind of bullshitting it every time #i should probably. get on learning anatomy and stuff #but idk how to go about that #and idk how to tell my art teacher Can i please learn how to draw muscular women #so i need to do that on my own #which is hard bc idk if ur supposed to study like anatomical muscle charts or muscular people #bc ik knowing every single muscle and bone and stuff is kind of unnecessary #but alsooo its good to know what muscles do what things #bc then i can make certain muscles stronger that would be used more #bc right now shes muscular kind of just. for looks lmfao #but i want to make it Make sense for what she does #like .. what muscles do you need to use a polearm and to lift things #i also Dont work out which would be useful for that information #anyway. shenhe would be buff af in canon if hyv wasnt a pussy #wdym she can lift rocks the size of houses IWHTOUT ANY TYPE OF ADEPTUS ENERGY #like shes just that strong.... #heart eyes emoji #shes wearing a skirt btw hejhfejfhjhr #you cant rlly tell because i Refuse to draw legs unless absolutely necessary #but i would like you to know that that Is a skirt #she could do anything to me

[kalloway]

tumblr’s feeling pretty dead for me (in terms of engagement) anymore so i don’t feel so shy about sharing this dumb Bloodborne art i did back in november im never gonna actually finish lmao

it’s for a fic i haven’t finished (or even posted) yet... there is a trend here 🙈

anyway Micolash is the slug man, change my mind

#art #artists on tumblr #fanart #bloodborne #bloodborne fanart #bloodborne oc #myart #despite the fic not centering on the augur of ebrietas in this picture... it really ought to be lmao #was very inspired by a fic i read where a choir member fed their augur some crumbs or smth from a table and i was like !!!!!! #LET THE FUNKY LITTLE GUYS BE THEIR OWN ENTITIES #also slugs are cute anyway so this is perfect #anyway i stg my one friend almost disowned me when i admitted i have read manymanymany fics with Micolash in it and like #i dont simp for him i just think ppl have some interesting ideas/headcanons for him thats all #he’s the resident weirdo and honestly im more 👀 for Valtr anyway if im being honest LMAO so this is fine #I wanna go full brainrot for Bloodborne again so the fic can like exist lmao but... im so close to finishing Sekiro #and finishing Sekiro means I can FINALLY play Elden Ring lmao so like... i have to be STRONG 😤 #fics will wait even if I’d posted part of it already ya know? #anyway maybe tumblr will just turn into my wip/sketch blog #the lack of notes on anything when I *do* post just kinda draw further attention to some doubts ive been having lately #namely like... my value? like people only value fanart and it took me so long to get *out* of that mindset #but now im like staring into the void again like ‘damn maybe i should give up the oc shit and go back to fanart only’ 😔 #so maybe i need to sit down and reassess my relationship with art again... i feel kinda stagnated atm anyway #but in my defense i have been busy so i haven’t drawn as much as I’ve wanted to #but blehhh NOT ME TACKING THIS STUFF ONTO A FUN POST #i should try to do this dumb idea i had based on the fact I had like 50+ pearl slugs in my inventory when i beat Bloodborne last time #tfw ur pockets are just filled to the brim with slugs

[cyberllfe]

Hey! Found your work through Last Call and I'm mesmerized by how well you write character interactions. I don't know if you are still accepting writing prompt ideas but I've got a bunch of these dirty ones to offload so uhm anyone reading this feel free to use:

Teasing Rk900 at a conference meeting gone wrong! (Angry closet/ bathroom sex)

improvised bdsm toys with a belt and tie

Installing an upgrade to an RK unit....testing it out.

Moody car sex

Getting chased down in an alley and fucked for fun

Enjoying nature

Getting caught snooping online to see if RK units have dicks, Getting caught by smug bastard

anon. ANON. do you have ANY idea what you’ve done?

first of all. thank you, I’m yelling so much because of your lovely words. SECONDLY:

I am not technically open for fic prompts. TECHNICALLY. I added a note to last call about prompts to just… see if anyone was interested before I started over here. I’m not a particularly speedy writer but I love a challenge and I know you horny monsters have the BEST ideas.

THAT SAID. I’m writing every damn thing on your list. your list itself is in my WIP journal with hearts and dicks and sparkles doodled around it. you have no idea how excited I am. I’m clawing at the WALLS HERE

and with that: I’m officially open to receive fic prompts now. ask for anything.

#I’m looking at Challenges too for fic work that could be paired with prompts… so feel free to end those too #I’ll post something about it later to Explain when I’m not so giddy and brain dead #if you were waiting for fic prompts to open thank anon they have FLOODED ME WITH DOPAMINE #and writing motivation #I’m….. gonna go write #more unbruised #I HAVE SUCH A LONG WIP LIST NOW #just. imagine me grinning ear to ear and laughing maniacally #no no MORE #@ anon I am gently touching your cheeks and kissing your forehead #you are a blessing #thank you SO MUCH I work so hard on character dynamics #I love them so much #it’s so nice to know other people love the work I put in #💕✨ #asks #fic stuff: prompts #anon asks

[killerandhealerqueen]

You know, with ao3 down (for who knows how long) this is probably a great time for me to get my ass back to working on the Killer and Healer rewrite. Because again, I haven’t touched it for a fucking MONTH. A MONTH. And right now, I got all the time in the fucking world. I need to get my shit together and work on that

#sass talks #Killer and Healer rewrite #i know people are gonna be like #take your time we can wait but like #i was so much more on top of it in grad school than i am now #(also have like four other wips that i’m working on but we don’t talk about that)

[bmpmp3]

listen to my tuning attempts boy (svp by ryu)

#vocal synth wip #synthv #asterian #i always struggle with volume mixing but i think this is the best ive got for now orz #hopefully i will get better with practice #and lemme tell you this lite version is incredibily generous like i have played with some WACK sounding lite voicebanks in my time #but he already sounds fantastic for the lite limitations #and man you know i think asterian is far more versatile than people give him credit for. #i know everyone knows his range goes down to e2 but people seem scared to figure out how to use him it seems? #not enough covers out there with him i think. but if anything i found him easier to work with than other lite voicebanks LOL #and really the whole eclipsed sounds roster. the celestial polycule. are all absolutely absurdly versatile voicebanks #like everyone knows solaria and we all love asterian BUT the new one saros #they also sound fantastic through the demos weve heard which is exciting #i cant wait to see even more covers. i hope someone who has all three will make the celestial polycule all sing together #i want to hear that duet. three-et? trio.....

[sweetearthandnorthernsky]

yk, i imagine gondor to be a bit strict abt their drinking age, (as opposed to bree where I feel like it's just: eh whatever) mostly just because ✨vibes✨ but also because it's incredibly funny.

#like #sae: *going to buy 30 drinks for all the people radanir invited to this thing* #bartender: .... id? #sae: .... i literally have fought nazgul killed ghosts and stopped lhaereth from doing great plague 2: electric boogaloo #sae: BUT ERU FORBID I BUY DRINKS FOR MY FRIENDS #in my head this is much funnier but i'm really tired so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #esp around people who Know the gondorian drinking age and are wait WHAT (it's more the fact that she's under it than anything else) #(i imagine sae doesnt tell v many ppl she meets during her travels her exact age for that very same reason lmao) #wip out of context tag #og post #sticky note tag #cw alcohol #tw alchohol mention #kinda??? idk it's better safe than sorry

[ilkkawhat]

Chapter 1/2 Rating: T+ Summary: A young Nick Stokes talks to a stranger and walks into danger as Judge Bill Stokes is faced with the worst nights of his life when the brother of a locked up criminal kidnaps his son for ransom; a kidnapping that wouldn't be Nick's last. Notes:  I still have a ways to go on this fic but nickjack01 on AO3 gave me this wonderful prompt a few months ago and I wanted to share what I have so far, since it seems like my writing output isn't what it used to be these days. (not that word count matters or anything, I just feel bad that I have all these prompts that I haven't written/shared)

read on ao3

#csi fic #nick stokes #bill stokes #jillian stokes #mk.op #mk.fic #fic: sleepsong #i know it probably doesn't help that i keep making all these multi-chap WIPs either but #i just don't want to keep people waiting *too* long for a prompted fic #(and I'm full aware I still have anon prompts from my deleted blog to do still) #I went to sleep with an energy last night that I would finish this today but I don't think that's happening #sorry i like to see you suffer nick

[daisywords]

realized I do something I'm going to call backwards plotting...would not recommend tbh

#second chance wip #I just mean like choosing the effects first and then customizing the causes based on those #ok but like. I can't write the prophecy stuff until I know how things actually do play out #which then is a problem because I don't have wording that they can discuss or interpret/misinterpret #I'm just making them misinterpret things based on vibes and then someday I'll have the impossible task of wording something #in just the right way so that it will make sense with what they thought was going to happen (and what the people that disagreed #with them thought) #—they were both wrong btw— #and makes sense with what actually does happen #another example of this is multiple occurrences where the characters take vows #and I haven't written the exact vows I'm waiting until I know exactly what the stipulations should be for optimal drama #and then someday I'll go back and put in the exact wording #or you know maybe not #I mean all of this is a fragmented narrative based on the memories they slowly get back #so maybe they'll never remember the exact wording of the vows #or of the prophecy for that matter

[boyfrillish]

I slept maybe 5 hours last night and because I’m still thinking about the kinds of scenes I wish the game had in the last couple of encounters with Hop, I may have to drabble something to get that bug out of my brain 😅😹 I don’t have the current confidence levels for anything like meta/analysis/etc, I don’t know if I can draw it because I’m so rusty, but silly fluff (soft angst resp. hurt/comfort flavour)? That’s failure-safe, brainfog/ability for words permitting...

No idea if or where or how I’d share but writing for me first still counts

#crystext #oh spirit of fluff please possess me again when I write HopVic at any point in time like you did on my bday for HughNate playground fluff #even if I'll have to wait for my bday this year I'll take that 😹 november is so far away tho... #I still have two unshared HughNate fics because of edit block and another WIP and more I'd wanted to write. here we are w the new otp #there's a lot of old pkmn fics I never shared bc intimidated/anxiety/stuff and maybe we're back to that 😅 #*never posted bc I do love sharing if I have someone to share with but posting is the big duality of wanting to but anxiety addfgdg #anyway like before I have a ton other thoughts but like. i have to go about them in whatever capactiy brain permits #the woes of being (very) late to a media with whichever issues and you're experiencing it very intensely for the first time– #–and don't know where to go with yourself or how to filter all the many reactions you have 😅 #ok that's enough tagwhisperrambling idk if that's even still what people do over here i had so many absences...

[milkovski]

MICKEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY 😭😭😭😭🤕🤕🤕🤕💗💗💗💗😭😭😭💕💕💕💕

#another intelligent thoughtful insightful post from Me #i did in fact just write like 600 words of sad mickey so im thinking about him and wailing and throwing myself against the walls about him #and whatnot #this 'write without thinking and not caring that each sentence is a masterpiece' shit straight up works #we have hit 10k 👍 #i think this is actually the longest thing ive ever written now #for school i never had to write a .. thesis (???) idk what that is and i know people (?) have to write one to get their degree ...? #i didnt have to do that ...? #i also have never written a research paper despite doing research lol #for work i have to write documents but i doubt that any one of them is over 10k by itself #wait jk i just checked my ff dot net account and i have a wip from 2010 thats 19k #wow 2010 me how the fuck #this is a feat im no longer capable of #10 chapters #just looked at the first chapter and am kind of shocked that i didnt understand commas #its quite terrible #2010 me you little idiot (fond) #me clicking post with my overly bejeweled manicured hand a la that g/wen s/tefani (...?) gif #edit i searched it up its c/hristina a/guilera

[sw1mmingfoolz]

it's the way I've been waiting for this very important call for over 3 months and when it finally came my phone blocked it due to it being a private number and the voicemail left is super broken up so all you can hear is "......hospital........clinic......"

#man i didn't sleep cuz i was waiting for it for so long which is ironic cuz it's narcolepsy related lol #worst start to my day #he hasn't called me back either like #what do you want me to do 😭 #I'm livid it was blocked I didn't know it was a setting I had enabled aaaaa #maybe i'll never have answers #but hey it's my first day off in which im doing nothing in a while so imma just write my frustrations away #idk what to write tho u ever have so many wips ur too overwhelmed to choose one #i wish Tumblr had polls like Twitter so I could ask people to pick #a/n #tag rambles #personal #/neg

[bataranqs]

.

#i know that i literally just posted the regicide heartstopper au and that i have a bunch of other wips that people are waiting on but #LMAO #but what if i wrote a naruto au set during orphanage iruka and anbu kakashi era... #delete later #I KNOW I KNOW #but i just started thinking about it and i was like 'gosh what if' #SO WHAT IF

[jasontoddiefor]

Yeah sure we’ve all binged a long fic, but have you ever read a WIP and followed someone’s life?

Tidbits of information - (“I graduated today!”) - and small joys (“It’s my birthday!”) and you get to be there to say “This chapter made me cry, happy birthday, thank you for gifting us this”.

I remember reading this fic of someone at the end of high school, older than me then. They seemed infinitely wise, spoke of their future career and getting into the college they wanted. I remember them posting on days they felt like nothing could bring them down - and on days the whole world did and it’s the aftermath of a hospital visit. Cancer, I think it was, their father. I got to the end of the story, I know their father was fine, but also they got to finish their WIP. I graduated three years later than them, still dutifully wrote thank you notes in every comment. I wonder if they remember me, or just the collective of people reading the story as it updates.

Four years ago I was into my first year of university, my first year of figuring out being out in public spaces. I made excuses as to why my name didn’t match my paperwork and read a fic on the train, the same five chapters over and over again for the next years as I thought the story abandoned. It updated this week after such a long hiatus, I left another thank you comment.

There’s an author I love, they update their stories like a clockwork. When they don’t, I check their blog, just to see if their doing alright, not because I feel like they owe me, just to ensure whether I better get out my laptop to write that really detailed university level essay chapter analysis to get them smiling when their day sucked.

And then, once, when I was 17, I read a fic that hadn’t updated in over a decade. I wasn’t even in primary school when it started posting. On the last chapter, I left a comment that, in retrospect, was horribly rambly and most likely full of grammar mistakes. The author replied and though I couldn’t see their face, I thought of them crying. They were married now, had children, and hadn’t thought about this fic in years. They went through their files again, found another half written chapter and an outline. I got two new chapters to read that year.

And then, recently, someone told me they got back into writing original fiction because of my comments. I get to read nearly weekly chapters.

I love binge reading a finished fic, but nothing is ever going to top the feeling of anticipation of waiting for a chapter, the pure joy when someone tells you I was done with this, but you made me think of it again, so this is for you.

Anyway, I think we should romanticize reading WIPs more, growing up alongside the authors writing the stories we love.

#writing #fandom #fanfiction #ao3 #archive of our own