#what I'm working on

[zorilleerrant]

so I know a lot of people are very against Constantine adopting Billy, but the thing is that I miss Constantine before the edgelords got their hands on him and decided he loves doing terrible things for no explicable reason. like I want the emotionally conflicted Constantine, the one who believes against reason he can save the world if he just tries hard enough. the one who fucks up and fucks up and keeps trying, not because there’s no one else to do it, but because he still thinks he can help if he just helps.

the one who hates being around children not because he thinks they’re annoying or they? incite his bloodlust or something??? but because they’re too vulnerable and it scares him, because he’s reminded over and over again of his failures and his shortcomings, because he doesn’t want another child in danger if there’s any way of stopping it, and the only way he knows to stop it is to remove himself from the equation by any means necessary.

the Constantine who’s desperate for family, who’s unwilling to impose on his sister because he’s not sure she wants him around, who never figured out how to live with his dad. the one who jumps from romance to romance, looking for the one who will finally stick around, looking for the ready-made family that he can fit into like he never did. the one who’s desperate to be a better father than his own, but thinks the only way to do that is to not be a father at all.

Constantine is, at his core, an optimist who can’t catch a break, just like Billy, and what better family for him than a child who’s protected by forces much greater than either of them? a child who literally can’t come to harm at his hands, no matter how badly Constantine fucks it up, because any harm that befalls Billy was well outside either of their control. a friend who’s putting Constantine in danger for once. what better child for the father cursed to break everything he touches than one who’s invulnerable and resistant to curses to boot? what better father for the child who must carry the world on his shoulders than one who doesn’t fucking know better and thinks that’s probably normal he doesn’t know who to ask?

people can’t hurt Billy to get to Constantine, because he has his own magic, and that magic always protects his family.

#anyway I'm writing a Constantine and Billy story #or at least I have an outline for one and like four funny lines for Batman to say #What I'm Working On

[writerlyhabits]

Main Masterlist | library & notifications ↦ @writerlyhabits-library

Requests: closed 💛

Sept 21, 2023 Small life update + hiatus status

Dec 28, 2023 Edited the ending of Neighbors Chapter 16: Backwards

Bucky Barnes:

Neighbors Ch. 17: Date Night

Blue is for Ben Ch. 3: Casual Friday

Din Djarin:

The Bounty Hunter’s Wife series (show rewrite; working title)

#kam speaks #directory #blog directory #masterlist #works in progress #to do list #what i'm working on #bucky barnes #bucky barnes x reader #din djarin #din djarin x reader #the mandalorian #the mandalorian x reader #current wip

[unreliablesnake]

Price seeing red after finding out his sugar baby was sexually assaulted...

Update: oh, no, don't like this. apparently price should either be totally okay with this happening or i'm a bitch for thinking he would be a supportive friend. or both. let's not offend anyone, okay?

#what i'm working on #john price x reader #john price #call of duty #modern warfare ii #modern warfare #I won't write this

[seapixxel]

I need the October vibes

Soo I actually really wanna paint a big painting of this dude. Like in this pose. It's just zoro's pose but I think it would look really cool as a scarecrow :))

I really wanna make it irl but for now I'm gonna make it digital:)

Well that really it regarding this sketch and my plans for it but I also need to finish this thing. I don't have any plans for the background, usually it just works out.

Object heads are so fun to draw some times.

#art #digital art #original art #oc artist #original character #furry artist #I know this isn't a furry drawing but I'm still a furry artist #object head oc #object head #object oc #what i'm working on #october #halloween #scarecrow #spooky #pumpkin #pumpkin head #jack o lantern #spooky art

[do-not-fearr]

What I'm working on RN

Off hiatus? Technically? I'm not going anywhere fast, but I've slowly picked up writing again, so here we go again :D

Top one is the one I worked on last:

Minotaur x Reader: 1272 words

Lich x Reader: 1110 words

Eevrid x reader 2 (fluff only… probably): 690 words

Possessed marionette x reader (rewriting): 421 words

Updated: 23/04/2024

#information #what i'm working on #wips

[vewyscawywriting]

What I'm Working on RN

Off hiatus but not very fast.

Top one is the one I worked on last:

Lelouch x (gn?)reader: 572 words

Kisame x f!reader: 715 words

Jhin x F!Summoner!Reader: 935 words

Updated: 22/04/2024

#information #what i'm working on

[arieslost]

what i’m working on

a list of my wips!

rules & regulations | op81 : working in formula one is a dream come true, but what happens when you begin to dream of something (or someone) else? (4.9k)

be my baby | cs55 : you’re not excited about summer vacation with your family, until you meet carlos. (1.0k)

footloose | ls2 : city boy, small town. what could go wrong?

REQUESTS: 0 (currently closed)

UP NEXT (not in order): love me again (amnesia fic), on the track (biker!lando), i’ve got my eye on you (cl16) +++

i will upload a post for tags prior to every fic upload!

#what i'm working on

[ardri-na-bpiteog]

Also increasingly aware that a LOT of people "manage" getting through the 40+ hour work week by sleeping less than is healthy and relying on stimulants like coffee and energy drinks to keep them going.

For people who are unwilling or unable to do this...work really does just dominate your life. Like we really should not have to rely on unhealthy practices just to have a social life or keep on top of housework or whatever.

I know I post about this a lot but I'm so TIRED all the time and it's just so depressing that this is how we're expected to spend the one life we have.

#i have to get at least 8 hours of sleep a night to even barely function #with sleep #getting ready for work #commute #cooking #and errands #I typically have maybe 2-3 hours to actually do what i want in a day #and I'm usually too tired to actually do the things i want to do #and that's with a very short commute #if i actually had a long commute I'd basically do nothing but work #i see my friends like once every few weeks or months #because we're all so fucking busy with work and have such little time for socialising #and none of us even have kids or anything!!

[jakeperalta]

I'm curious. what job would you do if money was no object (you just automatically had an income you could live comfortably on)? including work like volunteering, studying etc. please share in the tags :)

#under this premise part time work is valid too! #personally i think i'd probably study. maybe do another masters maybe part time across two years this time #if i were to do a job job i think i'd try out working in a library (ideally an academic library). which would technically be more studying #since i'd need to get a library qualification first #i'm just very curious what people would choose if it was purely a choice of what appeals to you over the practicality/necessity #talking

[zorilleerrant]

the 85 pages of notes about The Jason Fic?

feel free to ask about any of that. I'll be back once I've organized all the notes and scenes on my computer too

#look i said something #I'll show you spoilers but I'm not going to show you the very end of the story until I actually publish it #what I'm working on #zorille's jason swap

[fox-mulder-gets-pegged]

I just wanna say bc I KNOW you're somewhere on tumblr, to the teenage girl who attended Take Your Kid To Work Day at an office building in Ontario, Canada circa 2013 and had a conversation with a middle aged woman in which you showed her your Black Veil Brides fanart and fanfics and ship content and told her about different fanfic tropes including a/b/o verse bc she happened to know who Panic! at The Disco and Fallout Boy were and thus you felt the need to show her your bandblr ship art, that was my fucking mother and I had to clarify all that to her including looking my mother in the eye and trying to explain a/b/o verse without sounding like a lunatic.

It's been 10 years and I still regularly sent evil energies in your direction. Since you'd be probably two years younger than me and thus legally an adult now, please know if this post reaches you it's on sight.

#she cornered me in the car and asked what shipping was and i almost had a fucking heart attack #imagine being like 16 years old and habing to explain knotting to your mother #random emo music girl I'm glad you had fun talking about your Band Guys to my mother #bc i also attended take your kid to work day at that office and i know how boring it was #but christ alive why did you have to fuck me like that? #anyways i hope this post reaches you so at the very least you know i think about you at least once a week #this has been weighing on me for ten years #im almost tempted to blaze this post

[artkaninchenbau]

A h-heartfelt reunion..?

Bonus

#Sir Crocodile #Monkey D Dragon #Emporio Ivankov #Dragodile #Crocodad #My art #One Piece #We're not gonna talk about the work I should be doing rn I have Severe Procrastinitis and I'm doing my best okay #Alternative version where it was both Crocodile and Garp beating Dragon's ass before Iva-chan joined in but that was too much effort lmao #I'm a believer in Dragon being a Wind Logia so don't worry guys he is 100% taking this beating intentionally #He knows what he did and he's dealing with the concequences of his actions. With grace. #You know I realize Iva-chan should be two whole meters taller than Crocodile but we're just gonna ignore that #Look Iva-chan taking Crocodile's side and being like ''Crocoboy is right you fucked up bad Dragon'' brings me joy #And for real I've been wanting to draw this for months. But never did because I had other shit to do. Which I still do #But. You know. Sometimes you need to draw a shitpost. It's ✨ self-care ✨ #And appearently One Piece shitpost comics have become the thing I draw for myself on occassion

[lindseyabendschein]

Another character based on a two minute gesture and prompt. The original concept was someone on the more petite side, with tight, curly hair, and a missing tooth, who was interested in finding and training a dragon, while also being afraid of spiders. I thought it would be fun that if this character lost all logic and reason whenever a spider did appear, and resorted to using any means necessary to eliminate the threat. I liked the idea of having a little dragon side-kick looking on while being a bit conflicted with the whole scenario, not entirely sure whether to avert their eyes or look on in fascinated horror.

Even though the world this character inhabits also includes dragons, I went for more modern, non-fantasy attire, imagining this universe is very similar to our own, it simply has dragons as another species.

This gesture series is definitely something I've been needing to pursue. With all the focus on developing these skills, seeing some fun, original characters coming out of these gestures is really satisfying. Looking forward to seeing how the next character develops!

#gesture drawing #gesture sketches #art of the day #sketchbook #art #my art #myart #myartwork #sketching #rough sketch #Creative #illustration #sketch #characterdesign #character prompt #arachnophobia #dragon trainer #dragons #art challenge #What I'm working on #practice #artlife #funart #makearteveryday #digitalart #emergingartist

[inkskinned]

at some point it's just like. do they even fucking like the thing they're asking AI to make? "oh we'll just use AI for all the scripts" "we'll just use AI for art" "no worries AI can write this book" "oh, AI could easily design this"

like... it's so clear they've never stood in the middle of an art museum and felt like crying, looking at a piece that somehow cuts into your marrow even though the artist and you are separated by space and time. they've never looked at a poem - once, twice, three times - just because the words feel like a fired gun, something too-close, clanging behind your eyes. they've never gotten to the end of the movie and had to arrive, blinking, back into their body, laughing a little because they were holding their breath without realizing.

"oh AI can mimic style" "AI can mimic emotion" "AI can mimic you and your job is almost gone, kid."

... how do i explain to you - you can make AI that does a perfect job of imitating me. you could disseminate it through the entire world and make so much money, using my works and my ideas and my everything.

and i'd still keep writing.

i don't know there's a word for it. in high school, we become aware that the way we feel about our artform is a cliche - it's like breathing. over and over, artists all feel the same thing. "i write because i need to" and "my music is how i speak" and "i make art because it's either that or i stop existing." it is such a common experience, the violence and immediacy we mean behind it is like breathing to me - comes out like a useless understatement. it's a cliche because we all feel it, not because the experience isn't actually persistent. so many of us have this ... fluttering urgency behind our ribs.

i'm not doing it for the money. for a star on the ground in some city i've never visited. i am doing it because when i was seven i started taking notebooks with me on walks. i am doing it because in second grade i wrote a poem and stood up in front of my whole class to read it out while i shook with nerves. i am doing it because i spent high school scribbling all my feelings down. i am doing it for the 16 year old me and the 18 year old me and the today-me, how we can never put the pen down. you can take me down to a subatomic layer, eviscerate me - and never find the source of it; it is of me. when i was 19 i named this blog inkskinned because i was dramatic and lonely and it felt like the only thing that was actually permanently-true about me was that this is what is inside of me, that the words come up over everything, coat everything, bloom their little twilight arias into every nook and corner and alley

"we're gonna replace you". that is okay. you think that i am writing to fill a space. that someone said JOB OPENING: Writer Needed, and i wrote to answer. you think one raindrop replaces another, and i think they're both just falling. you think art has a place, that is simply arrives on walls when it is needed, that is only ever on demand, perfect, easily requested. you see "audience spending" and "marketability" and "multi-line merch opportunity"

and i see a kid drowning. i am writing to make her a boat. i am writing because what used to be a river raft has long become a fully-rigged ship. i am writing because you can fucking rip this out of my cold dead clammy hands and i will still come back as a ghost and i will still be penning poems about it.

it isn't even love. the word we use the most i think is "passion". devotion, obsession, necessity. my favorite little fact about the magic of artists - "abracadabra" means i create as i speak. we make because it sluices out of us. because we look down and our hands are somehow already busy. because it was the first thing we knew and it is our backbone and heartbreak and everything. because we have given up well-paying jobs and a "real life" and the approval of our parents. we create because - the cliche again. it's like breathing. we create because we must.

you create because you're greedy.

#every time someones like ''AI will replace u" im like. u will have to fucking KILL ME #there is no replacement here bc i am not filling a position. i am just writing #and the writing is what i need to be doing #writeblr #this probably doesn't make sense bc its sooo frustrating i rarely speak it the way i want to #edited for the typo wrote it and then was late to a meeting lol #i love u people who mention my typos genuinely bc i don't always catch them!!!! :) it is doing me a genuine favor!!! #my friend says i should tell you ''thank you beta editors'' but i don't know what that means #i made her promise it isn't a wolf fanfiction thing. so if it IS a wolf thing she is DEAD to me (just kidding i love her) #hey PS PS PS ??? if ur reading this thinking what it's saying is ''i am financially capable of losing this'' ur reading it wrong #i write for free. i always have. i have worked 5-7 jobs at once to make ends meet. #i did not grow up with access or money. i did not grow up with connections or like some kind of excuse #i grew up and worked my fucking ASS OFF. and i STILL!!! wrote!!! on the side!!! because i didn't know how not to!!! #i do not write for money!!!! i write because i fuckken NEED TO #i could be in the fucking desert i could be in the fuckken tundra i could be in total darkness #and i would still be writing pretentious angsty poetry about it #im not in any way saying it's a good thing. i'm not in any way implying that they're NOT tryna kill us #i'm saying. you could take away our jobs and we could go hungry and we could suffer #and from that suffering (if i know us) we'd still fuckin make art. #i would LOVE to be able to make money doing this! i never have been able to. but i don't NEED to. i will find a way to make my life work #even if it means being miserable #but i will not give up this thing. for the whole world.

[sunglassesmish]

and he always did...

#idk if the line works on this but yk what i'm sticking with it #my gifs #destiel #spn #spnedit #spn 15x18

[fonulyn]

since I've seen it talked about in several places recently:

if you are going to do a whump- or kink- or ANY-tober or other similar challenges please please please don't post them as one fic with 31 chapters unless it actually is one coherent fic. if they're 31 completely separate fics or ficlets then please just make a collection for them or just post them as separate fics. it doesn't matter if they're only 100 words or if you think they're too small or insignificant to post alone, they're not.

and why this?

because if you post all 31 of them in one fic the tagging is absolutely useless. if I look for things to read on ao3 I'm gonna look at the tags, and if the tags include something that's a dealbreaker for me, i won't even click on the fic. I might not even SEE the fic because I've filtered out the nope-tag! so I'm gonna lose out on reading 30 perfectly nice fics because of one fic that my nope-tag applied to.

ao3 is about archiving. it's about clear tagging and being informative. there is nothing informative about it if the tags in the fic apply to random chapters while others have nothing to do with it. it makes so much more sense to have each work as an individual fic with its own individual tags and warnings, so readers can make informed choices.

of course, you do you. I can't police what other people decide to do. but personally, I find it incredibly frustrating to weed through 31 chapters to find the ones I actually want to read. so I don't. I automatically scroll past all works posted like that. and I know some others do, too.

there is absolutely no shame in posting short things on ao3. there is no minimum word count. no one is going to look at you funny if you post a small ficlet on its own, I promise. it's just going to make some readers very happy when they can actually find the things they want to read.

so, please. at least consider the upsides of posting each work as their own fic.

signed, one very frustrated fandom grandma.

#ao3 #fanfic #fandom #I'm not trying to dictate what others do #so if you still wanna keep posting #completely unrelated works as chapters of one thing #then go for it #i'm not your mom #but please at least consider the alternative #and how much easier it'll be for people to #both find it and to make informed choices #of what they want to read