#this one is ROUGH I am so sorry

[andromeda-galaxy2877]

New chapter for Ashes Ashes, Dust to Dust just posted!!

Please, please genuinely heed the warnings at the start. I uhhh...I was very brutal with this chapter. Veeeery emotional one. Prepare yourselves beforehand!

#rottmnt #rottmnt apocalypse #rottmnt ashes ashes dust to dust #future leo #future raph #well I don't get to use that tag anymore after this- #future donnie #future mikey #this one is ROUGH I am so sorry #it'll be sad for a bit #sister krang is SUCH a sadistic bitch I love to hate her

[yesmissnyx]

An Unsexy Post About Censorship

Sooo...gumroad is shutting down NSFW content sales because of Stripe and Paypal. This is also why Wishtender has been down as well, if you weren't aware. And why Patreon is also cracking down on anything remotely kinky.

(If you're wondering why your favorite FICTIONAL sexual content isn't allowed on most platforms, it's payment processors.)

Please be extra kind to anyone who works with NSFW content right now, whether it be art, writing, audio, photos or video. Whether it be tasteful erotica, or the kinkiest BDSM porn you can think of, we're all in the crosshairs right now.

And, judging by trends from these past few years, this is only going to get worse.

Support NSFW creators where you can, whether by tipping or buying our content (where you still can) or just helping boost content on sites where algorithms want to drown us out.

Call representatives where you can and complain about payment processors acting as arbiters of what YOU are and aren't allowed to pay for and enjoy.

This may be about porn right now, but censorship of this caliber doesn't just stop with porn. Any transgressive (read: non-conservative) media is fair game.

Fight against it where you can. Support creators where you can.

Art is important. Reflections of our sexuality are important. We don't want a world where people aren't free to make or see the things they love and enjoy.

#nyxrambles #Warning: I'm going to get kind of grim in the tags so peace out of you have to. #This bums me out so fucking hard! #I have artist friends who are struggling because their content suddenly goes against these stupid fucking guidelines! #I'm going to have to take my stuff off of Gumroad even though it was previously allowed! #It's hard to not feel like everything is just spiraling toward fascism sometimes yanno? #I am usually opposed to slippery slope arguments but the goal of moral conservativism is to destroy everything that isn't in line with it. #They will not stop until the world reflects their narrow ideals. Like...that's the whole point of it! #Sorry guys I'm just having a rough one. #Between this and being sick for months I'm getting pretty fucking Done. #I'll be okay but I'm not going to pretend it isn't hard and scary.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Redraw of my first post on this blog. Oh how far we've come B'*)

#better drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #lan wangji #Credit where it's due: the first one is from November 2022. So its been a bit longer than the post date implies. #It was always part of the plan to re-draw my first wangxian art at the end of each season #but wow I really didn't give enough credit to the power of drawing every day for the last half a year #I've really loved doing this B*) I have found so much confidence in accepting the fact I'm not a 'non-artist' drawing mdzs comics #I'm a REAL artist drawing mdzs #and this is just the start!!!! I will keep drawing and improving and learning! and I will have a big smile like this every time -> B*) #I'm stunned that so many people found this blog so early on. Despite the roughness of my art...yall saw what I struggled to see #which was someone who was worth it #That and how art really is what you decide it is. I thought It had to be perfect. It doesn't need to be perfect. I see that now #I love you all so much! I am so much happier than I have been in years! #Sorry for being sappy twice in a row I promise tomorrow I'll be your little jester again

[saffron-gold-stardust]

It’s possible there’s still someone in there…

…but he’s buried very deep.

Those chains will be hard to break, if he even wants them broken in the first place.

Swapdream original concept by Song_A, og Cross by Jakei95

#utmv #undertale #cross sans #swapdream #dream sans #undertale au #corvus!cross #sgs!swapverse #cross #sketches #saff art #sorry these are so rough #really just kinda formulating ideas #the two drawings featuring SD/helios are one of my earliest and one of my most recent doodles respectively #so you can kinda see how it’s progressed haha #hence the inconsistent scar lol #cross x dream #sourcream ship #i am cringe but i am free #i am fREEE #I literally have no idea how to introduce any of this stuff lmao #just??? have it? here?? #helios!sd #cw eye contact #a lil swan/swap!nm narration

[biillys]

BILLY WEEK → DAY ONE

i'm flesh and bone i'm a rolling fucking stone and the experts say i'm delirious

give me therapy i'm a walking travesty

all time low; therapy

#i dont understand COLOUR or PALETTES or PROMPTS so please. i am sorry #i am so fucking sorry #idk what this is but like. i guess if u squint its Palette Inspired.....maybe #again. i am SORRY #anyway. efforts were made! emotions were had! i'm emo! #i know this songs been done before a few times but ive always wanted to take a crack at it so. here we ARE #billy and max would be atl girlies u know this we know this #billy and max in the crowd of an atl concert listening to the nightly therapy speech....... #also the glitter and crimson speech........ gonna stop myself before i fucking lose it #anyway i hope this is okay and i hope at least one person doesn't think it's Rough jkahdbjkwa #ALSO the way mr horsegirl gaskarth himself talks about this song and how his feelings have changed over the years re: therapy #like........... Billy......................... #god....... #billyhargroveedit #harringroveweek #billyweek23 #m #gifs

[royalarchivist]

My favorite part of running Royal Archivist is definitely reading the tags people put in their reblogs. I really love seeing people react to goofy bits or wild lore, it's just fun seeing people crack jokes or roast their streamer or have the same reaction I did while watching stream.

This blog (and the VOD Timestamp Archive) take up a lot of time and energy I don't really have, but seeing everyone's tags and seeing the kind messages I get every once in a while thanking me for my work make me so :'))))) I know MCYT fandoms tend to have a bad rap, but everyone who interacts with Royal Archivist has genuinely so kind and funny (with one or two exceptions) and it's really nice to see. I love seeing the love people have for QSMP.

#mod talk #Your friendly neighborhood Archivist is having a rough one but I just got a very sweet message and it made me smile #I'm very bad at responding to messages I'm so sorry OTL #Tumblr doesn't notify me half the time and the other half my ADHD nerfs me and I forget that I haven't responded to someone #But anyways #I really do work hard to do good edits and good clips but sometimes I'm working on an edit at 2am like #''Why am I doing this. QSMP should hire me. I feel like an unpaid intern all over again.'' #''I could do so much more work if this was my actual job I was getting paid for'' #lmao #Ah well it's good video editing practice at the very least

[homura]

my little dewdrop laundress won first place aisha again AND THIRD OVERALL?!??!? ;-;

#neopets #my art #gif #and it was a theme week so the competition was RIDICULOUS lol #last week was normal and there were only 200 entries and 3000 votes cast #this week had over 300 and over 6000 votes cast @_@ it was Rough #i’m so proud of myself i always wanted to place overall as a kid and i just fucking did!!! #and i only missed 1st overall by 9 votes… it’s doable… <- not understanding how tired i am of advertising rn #and there were FIFTEEN aishas this week in an already brutal category like sorry but i’m gonna brag about this one #AND. AND. some extremely kind soul GIFTED me the an item worth $24 irl dollars to make her eyes glow on site ;-; #like wtf that was so nice!!! everyone on neopets is so nice now!!!!

[melhekhelmurkun]

The pain of watching Attack of the Clones in order to see Obi-Wan with long hair, but also having to deal with Whiny Angsty Kinda Creepy Teenager Anakin

#out of every version of Anakin that’s the one I would punch 100% of the time #phantom menace ani is just cute if a bit annoying and I’d totally chill with him and ask questions about mechanics #revenge of the Sith Anakin is a dumbass and could use a punch too but mainly I feel sorry for him and want to get him court mandated therapy #clone wars tv show Anakin is my all time favorite I love how sassy he is and I very rarely want to throttle him (added bonus of Ahsoka) #hell even Vader was tolerable if only because he was cool as fuck and scary #but attack of the clones Anakin? it’s on SIGHT motherfucker #I can will and SHOULD deck him so hard he’s astral projected back to phantom menace #‘I hate sand its course it’s rough it’s irritating and it gets everywhere’ will literally pay you to stfu #I can’t even excuse him for his age honestly because that was only half the issue #MORE than half the issue #what an irritating and vaguely creepy little fucker #but for longhaired!daddy-wan I will tolerate him #(in actuality I am fast forwarding past any scene that doesn’t have Obi-Wan) I will tolerate him #star wars #attack of the clones #obi wan kenobi #hold up you’re actively telling me daddy-wan Kenobi ISNT a tag??? #on the single thirstiest website in existence????? #what have we become

[otaku553]

hi, just wanted to let you know that i discovered you through your fic "homuncular nature" (which has amazing writing by the way!!) and to find out you were a BOMB artist made me shocked (perfect combo of fic writer + artist, i'm super jelly HEBHEJENENEIE). like your art is so good, i'm melting?? it's so soft and if i could touch it, it would feel like cotton candy on my hands. your art reminded me of some of my friend's art and it kind of hit me in the nostalgia train haha^^ looking forward to commissioning you when i have the chance!! <333

LMAO when I write on ao3 notes that I’m primarily an artist I mean it! I never expected Homunuclar Nature to get as far as it did haha and I’m really glad you enjoyed it!!!!

#sorry there hasn’t been an update in a year again #will get around to writing more probably after I’m done with summer work because that’s been kind of rough #love having work days that end at 9 pm :’) #or yknow. when hoyoverse decides to stop starving us of Albedo content #one thing. I am Terrible at receiving compliments actually even if I seem all composed on my drawings #I am writing again on the bright side! on the less bright side I have run out of fan fiction to read #so it is time to make my own food :)

[upsidedowngrass]

hi i am u_u resigning myself to the fact that it is unlikely that i will be able to get this piece done ANYTIME soon so here is the concept sketch for my one 3 yrs anniversary piece :) happy late birthday one hopefulyl ONE day i will be able to do smth w this ...

(sketch for the Whole piece under the cut bc its . WAY rougher . but it prob contextualizes Why i dont think ill be finishing this soon)

#hfjone #my art #didnt wanna ONLY put out a sketch for it bc one is Important to me but also #the rough sketch ALONE took soooo long and i am already low energy #but i wanna put SMTH out there for it yknow!!! #so! here is this :) #also it was mainly inteded as Fun Image . i wanted the whole cast to be here even if it makes no sense :) #these types of pieces are always so amusing and it wasnt my normal style of Anything but i REALLY wanted to #i almost put the entirety of s1 in here but then i was like. then id have to include ALL teh dead characters #and it made me sad thinking about including stella so i decided to jsut include characters who appear in the events of the series Directly #also this was no ones house in particulaar. i just was amused so much by the idea of airy holding an anniversary party #sorry this is so rough i rly DID wanna make smth polished but realistically its not gonna happen anytime soon :( #esp w 20+ characters and 3 point perspective . which i had to relearn how to do correctly

[tinycurlyfry]

Inktober Day 15: Thread

“Please! I’m begging you! Kill me, Straw Hat!”

#A very messy/rough sketch this time unfortunately. I had to keep it pretty loose if I wanna catch up on the days #Also I feel like the quality reflects how familiar I am with drawing a character ;>> Sorry Bellamy. I do not know how to draw you gjklfgfd #bellamy one piece #bellamy the hyena #Dressrosa #One Piece #OP fanart #myart #Inktober #Inktober2022 #All the scenes of Doflamingo controlling people were so fucked up and Bellamy begging Luffy to just kill him was especially so

[front-facing-pokemon]

#manectric #i woke up at like noon today y'all i'm queuing this after work. i forgot about it all day and i was about to hop on totk #but i got the reminder to do it. so here i am. with manectric #el woowoo‚ if you will #a lot happened. yesterday. it was not a very good day. which is why i woke up so late. it was a little bit rough. but i guess it's a new day #so. it'll get better. planning on Not Doing Shit today or tomorrow to compensate for all the Bullshit that happened yesterday #hoping you all are doing well. one week from today (friday june sixteenth) i'll be hopping on a flight for the first time in 10 years #looks like according to the queue this will actually go up the day before we leave. so‚ to you guys‚ i'll be heading out tomorrow #which is scary a little bit. last time i flew i had no idea i was autistic‚ but now that i've come up with a lot of better accommodations #for myself and i understand myself a lot better and my needs‚ i'm realizing a lot of my accommodations just aren't gonna make it through TSA #plus it's a lot of unfamilarity with unfamiliar people and an unfamiliar environment which i feel like is gonna lend itself to sensory #overload like Immediately and i'm probably gonna get a headache bc that's how it manifests for me #so when we get there i'm probably gonna have to run to the nearest pharmacy. and grab some shit. which is annoying! so. i'm a little #worried. about the trip. NONE OF HTIS IS ABOUT MANECTRIC SORRY #this is a pokémon i have a hard time caring about outside of its involvement as the leader of the electrike in amp plains #that's about it #any tips from frequent flyers who are autistic would be greatly appreciated. not even just about flying but about like. going to unfamiliar #places on the other end of the country and stuff. i feel like that's what i'm most worried about even though i'm worried abt all of it #also hi i'm writing these tags from day-of. like the actual day this is going to post. me from a week ago sure did know what she was talking #about! anyway. i'm. gonna like. take my meds now goodBye see you all when this Posts in a few hours

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Aw! XL cooking reminded me of when I was working with children and they'd get nightmares/scared of monsters, so was go to the garden and make Monster Soup! Anything that looked good would go into the nearest source of water (often a bird bath) so that the monsters would know we are kind people and stay outside and not come inside. Also the monsters would think of us as friends and protect us instead of scaring us. Now I'm hoping that I have turned any of these kids into bad cooks bc I was like that flower looks good! Toss it in! 😅😄😄😄

Thank you for reminding me of this memory!

I'm-In-Love-With-The-Monster Soup.

#tgcf #xie lian #hua cheng #ask #This story was extremely sweet thank you so much for sharing B'*) #I also used to work with kids and I really miss it!! This brought back lovely memories for me as well. #I am sure you helped a lot of kids through rough feelings by taking them seriously and letting them grow by confronting their fears. #Monster soup is something I am going to be thinking about for a long time.... #If anything; experimenting in the kitchen and feeling the permission of freedom to cook helps encourage kids to learn! #even if its a pretend kitchen. A birdbath is just as valid as a soup pot! #Comic-commentary time: I am so sorry to people who didn't know or forgot that this is how I draw the TGCF pair. #Xie Lian actually tried to make a sandwich but it got to wet so he had to put it in a bowl. #no one knows where the green colour came from. #One more comic on this coming tomorrow (what have WWX and HC been up to?)

[non-un-topo]

Little Light - tog ficlet

Something I felt like writing but didn’t know what to do with. A little scene inspired by an old fic of mine, Dahlia. A bonus scene, if you will.

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Somewhere outside these old wood walls, an owl calls the morning forth. A gentle if not calming sound to Andromache, but to tiny brand new ears it is unknown and frightening.

The babe emits a discontented little squeal, and as Andromache leans away from the wall to see into the makeshift bassinet — an armoire drawer, placed on the floor between a bedroll and Andromache’s watchful place at the wall — the tiny thing grunts and attempts to kick her swaddled legs. A little lip pouts, trembles, then her gummy mouth opens with grumpy staccato cries.

There’s a shift in the darkness on the bedroll just beside the drawer. There is enough pre-dawn light pouring in from a half-boarded window for Andromache to see Yusuf poke his head up from behind Nicolò’s shoulder, then quickly lift himself on an elbow as he comes out of sleep to register the baby’s distress.

Andromache’s hand is on the swaddled baby’s stomach, just rubbing very gently as Yusuf carefully crawls over Nicolò and comes forward. The child’s newborn cries sound almost like little angry coughs, increasing in volume as Andromache’s attempts to calm her do virtually nothing. She’s so small, so new. In her mind, Andromache is going through the list of remedies to calm her down: Is she hungry? Is she cold? Does she need a change? Was she simply startled by the owl? There are no easy answers, just a crying baby wiggling in tattered fabrics, all they have for her.

Yusuf is on it, though. Has been since that first horrific day that brought the tiny thing to them. He squats in front of the drawer, and Andromache removes her hand as Yusuf very carefully slides a hand behind the baby’s head and neck and begins to free her from her swaddle.

The moment her arms are free, they shoot up next to her head — some reflex Andromache has noticed, and Yusuf coos at the sight of it. Andromache watches the soft look in his eyes with unease, but she’s then drawn to the shift of Nicolò as the baby’s cries wake him too.

Yusuf shushes the babe, and there’s a moment of uncertainty on his face like he’s having similar thoughts to Andromache, similar anxieties, before he gets both hands below her tiny arms, fingers stretched out behind her neck and head to support her, and lifts her from the drawer. As he does so she scrunches up into a little ball, hand-stitched nappy crumpling up as her knees bend, and her pink fists bracket her face as she grunts.

Andromache watches in silence as Yusuf settles the baby against his shoulder, fingers feather-light and safe on the back of her head where her wispy hair gathers at the base of her skull. She adjusts a little, rubbing her nose into Yusuf’s shirt, as Yusuf pulls open the back of her nappy to check her.

Nicolò is there next to them then, more alert and awake than Yusuf whose eyelids are drooping. Andromache can see all the thoughts in Nicolò’s head play out just by the slight crease in his brow as he watches the baby’s face. He raises a hand, sets is back to the floor, and although Andromache had warned them both about the dangers of becoming attached to the child, she does not want the poor thing to suffer while three capable adults can comfort her. She blinks permissively at Nicolò but he doesn’t need the permission from her, only from himself.

Yusuf is bouncing the baby slightly against his shoulder as he shushes her little noises. He turns his head to see the longing on Nicolò’s face and nods sleepily at him. As Nicolò reaches out to stroke a thin curl on the top of the baby’s head, she begins to squeal again and soon unravels into hiccuping little cries. With mild alarm, Yusuf adjusts her so her face is not pressed into his clothes.

“Let me?” whispers Nicolò, hands out and ready. Yusuf nods, stifling a yawn, and very carefully passes the little grumpy ball over to Nicolò, who lays her over his forearm, cupping her bottom and scrunched up feet in his large hand. Yusuf releases her head last in the crook of Nicolò’s elbow, and her fists fly up again as she settles back with another round of staccato cries. With that done, Yusuf immediately stands to rifle through their packs, likely in search of some goat’s milk they’ve saved.

Finding sustenance for the child has been exhausting and certainly a battle, but Andromache has seen too many children starve to let this one go hungry. She will be fed every chance they get, and she will be warm, and when they are able they will pass her into loving hands who will be able to house her and love her and help her grow tall and strong.

But for now, Andromache only sits and watches as Nicolò rubs the pad of his thumb up the space between the child’s peach-fuzz brows, a little trick she’d taught him that may calm her down and put her to sleep but does not seem to be working at the moment. The baby’s mouth is still wide open and trembling as she cries and so, supporting her with both arms, Nicolò stands with an exaggerated groan and begins to bob her just slightly.

“Alright, piccola,” he says, turning away as he begins to pace around a little, humming some low made-up tune on the spot.

Yusuf stands at his side then, with the jar of milk and the cloth they use to soak it in so the baby can suckle, and Andromache lets herself relax, lets her back touch the wall again as she just watches them together, the pink-faced baby emitting little punched-out cries between them. She’s quieting down, though, as Nicolò bobs her like the sea. Yusuf stands by with the cloth, peering curiously at her little face.

Nicolò makes a brave move then. With one shared look with Yusuf, he blinks down at the child and leans down to ever-so-gently press his lips to her head. He stays there even after the little kiss, and Andromache can hear him hushing her softly as he continues to bounce her.

She’s stopped crying. As Nicolò draws back, Andromache can see that her eyes are wide open, gazing up at Yusuf and Nicolò in wonder. They smile down at her, and something lodges itself in Andromache’s throat. Almost subconsciously, her hand closes around the pendant against her chest.

Yusuf senses her unease, of course he does, because he looks over at her and beckons her over with a jerk of his head and an outstretched hand. She goes willingly, if a little stiffly, and although she swears in her mind that they will not be keeping this child it is nice to see the men smiling in victory and adoration at her little face.

“Looks like she just wanted to be held,” Yusuf whispers.

Andromache might think something about the fact that the first hands to ever touch this baby were Nicolò’s. She might think about the fact that Yusuf’s soft voice had been the one to calm her cries on that first night. She might remember the way her tiny body felt so warm in her arms the morning the child’s mother left this earth, when the ground still trembled with aftershocks and somewhere in the distance the ocean watched Andromache’s back.

She says none of this. Instead, she joins them in the middle of the room as it slowly fills with early morning light. The broken three of them, and the fragile brand new fourth.

They have not named her yet. Andromache does not dare. But she will be called Dahlia, after the flowers her mother sold in a little shop north of the hills of Campania, where the winds smell of oleander and the olive trees face the sunrise.

#i'm shy about this so i'm barely gonna tag. i just wanted to put this somewhere #tog #sage writes #i'm sorry in advance!!!!! dahlia is alive and well in this ficlet!!!! #i think this is about as much as i can write of her though. like literally idk why i must always write sad things sdfghfds #just thinking about her actually devastates me #but this was supposed to be cute damn it!!! #to people who have not read/heard of dahlia please heed my warning lol. it is a very rough one. and old! my writing was different. #but if you like intense angst uhhhh. enjoy! this ficlet can just exist in a soft and sweet moment in time. #i am working on a fic that has kids in it that ends happily. as an apology.

[gottagobuycheese]

The duo reached the Gwanghwamun Station, and the very first one to arrive there, Jung Heewon, greeted them. She stood under the undamaged statues of King Sejong and Lee Sun-Shin, and waved her hand.

"Yoo Sangah-ssi!"

Out of the happiness at this reunion, they energetically hugged each other.

Hugtober Day 7/? - A Bit More Energetic Than Was Probably Implied but Readers’ Rights Amirite

[ID: A grey-toned piece of digital fanart depicting Yoo Sangah and Jung Heewon from Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint. Jung Heewon grins widely as she catches Yoo Sangah in a hug, wrapping her arms around Yoo Sangah’s waist as she lifts her off the ground from the momentum of the hug. She is wearing a pale full-sleeved shirt and darker pants and shoes, as shown in her first appearance in the webtoon. Yoo Sangah beams down at Jung Heewon, clasping her arms around Jung Heewon’s neck as her feet dangle above the ground. She is dressed in the pale suit she wears at the beginning. /end ID.]

#orv #omniscient reader's viewpoint #yoo sangah #jung heewon #sanghee #EDIT: absolutely thinking of the wrong two characters with the first abbreviation lol sorry about that! hsy's loitering energy is too strong #these all just sound like real names there's got to be a better way to go about this skjdfsjkhsk #omniscient reader #orv fanart #kim dokja is standing somewhere off to the side with the spinning beach ball of death floating behind his eyes #my attempts at art #can't think of any snappy titles so you get the draft caption instead XD #weirdly enough this was among the easier ones to draw once I finally found a decent reference #just three layers from rough sketch to line/color #just don't look too closely at anything and it's fine sdkjhskhf #I love every leg of the hsy ysa jhw triangle #especially the entire triangle #and each of its corners individually as well #EDIT: COMPLETELY FORGOT THE IMAGE ID I AM SO SORRY #I K N E W I FORGOT SOMETHING I NEVER MANAGE TO POST ANYTHING THAT FAST #I was like huh it's weird that I'm not fixated on the clothes of whatever drawing I just threw out there #and then I realized #it's because I DIDN'T THINK ABOUT THEM

[charlotterenaissance]

having an almost comically bad couple days so i'm microdosing on all my fixations by alternating episodes of kids in the hall, night court, h2o just add water, and conan o'brien remotes. just having a normal one

#the fun part of being the child of my alcoholic dad and junkie mother is that my form of vice is old tv shows #as i try to zone out while stone-cold sober #i had a bad day at work which was the capstone to a rough couple weeks #which is why haven't really been on here #and i'm pretty sure i can't trust my own vision or whatever because i look at things and get told i'm wrong #and then i found richard moll died so i'm not doing so great #i am so sad #i'm just so so sad and scared #all the time and i hate this so much and i hate being a burden to the person i love #and i just feel so alone and not good at anything and not good enough for anything or anyone i'm just not worth anything #it's my fault for only being able to conceptualize relationships via the familial bond #so i take my boss who is normally sweet and patient with my stupid worthless self #yelling at me as rough as you can possibly imagine #she didn't even yell at me specifically but every time she came by i flinched and any time i said something she got mad and yelled at me #i don't know i'm sorry #i just want to disappear #i'm also on my period one more cosmic corkscrew of pain