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Ventro Frill Concept | 2-22-24
Trying to update Ventro’s design! I’ve never been happy with his frill design in the past. I’m not…. entirely certain if this quite hits the mark, but it’s at least better than it was!
[Backup ID: An illustrated portrait of Ventro, who is a vaguely draconic alien with a bony frill on either side of his head and a broad jaw. The back of his neck is armored in thick plates, the frill is lined with thorny projections, and his throat is folded with loose skin. His primary color is dark brown, with pale cream highlights. End ID.]
#one of these days I need to bite the bullet and draw him at least once with a straight up triceratops frill sdflksdhg#instead of this split nonsense#alien#id in alt text#dragon#monster#creature design#original character#art#Ventro#krtart#abime spire#art: taking the long way#taking the long way#finished art#digital art
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ALRIGHT.
I kinda… fell out of the habit of writing TtLW the last two or three months. >_> But! I do wanna keep trying!
So:
[ ] Transfer handwritten stuff into the text document
[ ] Assess my current progress
[ ] Make new monthly/yearly goals
[ ] Find some new writing accountability group, or rejoin the old one, because that was a major part of my initial success at keeping on track last year
Much as I’m sad to have lost momentum, it’s also genuinely pretty wild to me how much progress I did make last year. :) If I can find the rhythm again and manage a similar amount of work this year, I think I might finish the first draft!
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11/5.2023 - i love when all the rapeseed fields are in bloom - the air smells amazing and that color almost buzzes
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Taking The Long Way
By Lingering Lilies
Santana's journey toward self-acceptance through love, loss, friends, career and family. Contains Glee history through "Original Song." Rated M for sex.
Rated: Fiction M
Genre: Romance/Drama
Pairing: Santana L., Brittany P.
Status: Complete
Chapters: 76
Words: 296,279
Published: Apr 7, 2011
Updated: Jan 5, 2012
Adaptation as original book:
Taking the Long Way
By Lily R. Mason
Mason's smash success self-published debut novel Taking the Long Way follows Natalia Torres from the moment she meets Bridget Reid as a child through the next twenty years. When Natalia realizes as a teen that her feelings for Bridget are more complicated than she thought, she is set on a course that tests her strength, relationships, and sense of self. While finally getting the girl of her dreams could be the end of the story, she learns there is much more to be negotiated: family, friends, career, and pride. A testament to queer women's resilience, this story is uplifting and ends the way all Mason's novels do: happily.
Chapters: 40
Pages: 981
Published: October 1, 2012
Through the Dark
By Lingering Lilies
Why would Brittany ever leave Santana after eight solid, happy years together?. This is a one-shot companion piece to “Taking The Long Way” from Brittany’s perspective, set between Ch.39 “Samson” and Ch.44 “Flinch”.
Rated: Fiction T
Genre: Angst/Hurt/Comfort
Characters: Brittany P.
Status: Complete
Chapters: one shot
Words: 4,645
Published: Jul 16, 2011
Me and You and Daisies
By Lingering Lilies
"Maybe 'happily ever afters' don't exist. Maybe they're fragmented and sprinkled throughout our lives to remind us to keep moving forward. Maybe, if we look from the right angle and maneuver the pieces just so, they become a masterpiece we keep adding to until the day we die." Future fic, Brittana as mothers. Sequel to "Taking the Long Way," but can stand independently.
Rated: Fiction M
Genre: Drama/Family
Pairing: Brittany P., Santana L.
Status: Complete
Chapters: 30
Words: 221,567
Published: Jan 5, 2012
Updated: Jan 5, 2013
Adaptation as original book:
Me and You and Daisies
By Lily R. Mason
Me and You and Daisies is the sequel to Taking the Long Way that chronicles Bridget and Natalia's journey through the first seven years of their marriage and parenthood. Through trials they never anticipated, both women begin to realize that maybe 'happily ever afters' don't exist. Maybe happiness is fragmented and sprinkled throughout their lives to remind them to keep moving forward. Maybe, if they look from the right angle and maneuver the pieces just so, it becomes a masterpiece they keep adding to for the rest of their lives.
Chapters: 27
Pages: 621
Published: December 1, 2012
Me and You and Daisies: The DVD Extras
By Lingering Lilies
One-shots related to the Lopez-Pierce Family as depicted in "Me and You and Daisies"
Rated: Fiction K+
Genre: Family/Friendship
Pairing: Santana L., Brittany P.
Status: complete
Chapters: 12
Words: 11,299
Reviews: 81
Published: Aug 30, 2013
Updated: Dec 31, 2013
Ruby Tuesday
By Lingering Lilies
"You gaze down at her as though your heart were growing bigger with every snuffle and jerk of her tiny body. For the first time in a long time, you start to sing." Oneshot, Me and You and Daisies 'verse.
Rated: Fiction K+
Genre: Family
Pairing: Santana L., Brittany P.
Status: complete
Chapters: one shot
Words: 1,333
Published: Mar 21, 2013
Nesting
By Lingering Lilies
Easter for the Lopez-Pierce family when Caleb is two. MaYaD 'verse.
Rated: Fiction K
Genre: Family
Pairing: Santana L., Brittany P.
Status: Complete
Chapters: one shot
Words: 2,896
Published: Mar 29, 2013
#Taking The Long Way#Taking The Long Way verse#Lingering Lilies#Through the Dark#Me and You and Daisies#Me and You and Daisies: The DVD Extras#Ruby Tuesday#Nesting#santana lopez#brittany s pierce#brittany s. pierce#brittana fanfic#brittana#fanfic#fanfiction#brittana fanfiction
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I don’t think patriotism is an emotion ive ever experienced but I imagine the way i feel when I listen to Not Ready to Make Nice is basically the same
#the chicks#not ready to make nice#the dixie chicks#Taking the Long Way#fuck toby keith#that motherfucker#is rotting in hell
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Learning that fans hated Applejack and called her "boring" is crazyyy to me because I genuinely, unironically believe AJ's the most complex character in the main six.
Backstory-wise, she was born into a family of famers/blue collar workers who helped found the town she lives in. She grew up a habitual liar until she had the bad habit traumatized outta her. She lost both her parents and was orphaned at a young age, having to step up as her baby sister's mother figure. She's the only person in the main gang who's experienced this level of loss and grief (A Royal Problem reveals that AJ dreams about memories of being held by her parents as a baby). She moved to Manhattan to live with her wealthy family members, only to realize she'll never fit in or be accepted, even amongst her own family. The earlier seasons imply she and her family had money problems too (In The Ticket Master, AJ wants to go to the gala to earn money to buy new farm equipment and afford hip surgery for her grandma).
Personality-wise, she's a total people-pleaser/steamroller (with an occasional savior complex) who places her self worth on her independence and usefulness for other people, causing her to become a complete workaholic. In Applebuck Season, AJ stops taking care of herself because of her obsessive responsibilities for others and becomes completely dysfunctional. In Apple Family Reunion, AJ has a tearful breakdown because in she thinks she dishonored her family and tarnished her reputation as a potential leader –– an expectation and anxiety that's directly tied to her deceased parents, as shown in the episode's ending scene. In The Last Roundup, AJ abandons her family and friends out of shame because believes she failed them by not earning 1st place in a rodeo competition. She completely spirals emotionally when she isn't able to fulfill her duties toward others. Her need to be the best manifests in intense pride and competitiveness when others challenge her. And when her pride's broken, she cowers and physically hides herself.
Moreover, it's strongly implied that AJ has a deep-seated anger. The comics explore her ranting outbursts more. EQG also obviously has AJ yelling at and insulting Rarity in a jealous fit just to hurt her feelings (with a line that I could write a whole dissection on). And I'm certain I read in a post somewhere that in a Gameloft event, AJ's negative traits are listed as anger.
Subtextually, a lot of these flaws and anxieties can be (retroactively) linked to her parents' death, forcing her to grow up too quickly to become the adult/caregiver of the family (especially after her big brother becomes semiverbal). Notice how throughout the series, she's constantly acting as the "mom friend" of the group (despite everything, she manages to be the most emotionally mature of the bunch). Notice how AJ'll switch to a quieter, calmer tone when her friends are panicking and use soothing prompts and questions to talk them through their emotions/problems; something she'd definitely pick up while raising a child. Same with her stoicism and reluctance at crying or releasing emotions (something Pinkie explicitly points out). She also had a childhood relationship with Rara (which, if you were to give a queer reading, could easy be interpreted as her first 'aha' crush), who eventually left her life. (Interestingly enough, AJ also has an angry outburst with Rara for the same exact reasons as with EQG Rarity; jealous, upset that someone else is using and changing her). It's not hard to imagine an AJ with separation anxiety stemming from her mother and childhood friend/crush leaving. I'm also not above reading into AJ's relationship with her little sister (Y'all ever think about how AB never got to know her parents, even though she shares her father's colors and her mother's curly hair?).
AJ's stubbornness is a symptom of growing up too quickly as well. Who else to play with your baby sister when your brother goes nonverbal (not to discount Big Mac's role in raising AB)? Who else to wake up in the middle of the night to care for your crying baby sister when your grandma needs her rest? When you need to be 100% all the time for your family, you tend to become hard-stuck with a sense of moral superiority. You know what's best because you have to be your best because if you're aren't your best, then everything'll inevitably fall apart and it'll be your fault. And if you don't know what's best –– if you've been wrong the whole time –– that means you haven't been your best, which means you've failed the people who rely on you, which means you can't fulfill your role in the family/society, which makes you worthless . We've seen time and time again how this compulsive need to be right for the sake of others becomes self-destructive (Apple Family Reunion, Sound of Silence, all competitions against RD). We've seen in The Last Roundup how, when no longer at her best, AJ would rather remove herself from her community than confront them because she no longer feels of use to them.
But I guess it is kinda weird that AJ has "masculine" traits and isn't interested in men at all. It's totally justified that an aggressively straight, misogynistic male fandom would characterize her as a "boring background character." /s
At the time of writing this, it's 4:46AM.
#mlp#yeah i wrote this last night during insomnia.#yeah i know an embarrassing amount of crap about this kids show#but whatever it's my hyperfixation i'll store as much useless information as i want!!!#i'm gay and neurodivergent i have an excuse#in case you needed more proof that aj's my favorite character#personal#delete later#unless you like this analysis stuff#i get why they didn't reveal aj's parent's death until way later and why they didn't do much with it but i wish they did#cuz narratively there could've been so much material with aj's grief. like. i feel like we gloss over the fact that she lost her#mother and father as a teenager#i tried keeping my personal hcs out of this to keep it unbiased#but i'll put some in the tags#involving rarijack –– i think aj can be (but not always) very self-conscious about her relationship with rarity#anxieties that she's not the right fit or that rarity will move away and leave her some day or that another woman will take her attention#(like in rollercoaster of friendship?? nudge nudge??). basic seperation anxiety stuff#long post#regarding applebloom whenever i think about her and her parents i think about that scene in steven universe where steven looks up at#a portrait of his mother and openly wonders what kind of sack lunches she would've made for him. that episode still fucks me up
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A fun Pyro for you
And a closeup of the profile picture cause I think it's cute
#scarletlarvesta art#my art#team fortress 2#tf2#pyro team fortress 2#pyro#pyro tf2#tf2 pyro#fanart#where are all the other gas cans you ask?#shhhhh dont worry about it#(i got lazy)#idk whos taking the picture#demo or soldier maybe#also i need to learn how to draw faster this took way too long
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I know I KNOW in my BONES that tommy is eventually going to leave after helping buck realize that eddie's the one he's in love with but god I hope we get at least a couple more episodes of buck and tommy together with tommy showing buck everything he's been missing. including more kisses. maybe even a make-out session. at the very least some implied fade out sex. show me buck getting to bask in this glow for a while longer before it gets complicated and hard to breathe again.
#the problem is i dont want buddie to be rushed i think they should take their sweet time#but i also dont think theyre gonna bring in a random guy for buck after tommy before buddie goes full swing#which means if he leaves too early i will be deprived of more mankissing for way too long#911 spoilers#evan buckley#weewoo brainrot#911 abc
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They are both intensely relieved but they don't understand why.
I just wondered how the present disaster twins would handle the recent emotional ordeal of the last update.
#cass apocalyptic series#fanart#idk just my take#by the way : to the author of this comic#thank you#I haven't been in an emotional rollercoaster for a TMNT AU in a very long time#also thank you for making it wholesome too#I had a mighty need#not my AU#tmnt#rottmnt#the confusion is real#my art
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boop !
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I’ve had some concepts settle such that a side character in TtLW has gone from ‘alright they’re here they’re filling a role’ over into ‘their presence in this story means something’ and I’ve just been wandering around vibrating with excitement ever since
Which is great, except it means I’ve been very distracted at work 😂
#specbio and character-focused and thematic brains ALL going brrr#krtart#writing flails#taking the long way flails#tikitavinan#taking the long way#krt talks
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So I sent the (current) first two scenes of Taking the Long Way to a friend to get his rough judgement of where I’m hitting in terms of “sufficient description/worldbuilding to keep from feeling lost” vs. “keeping things moving”
And having him sum those scenes up in one sentence like this has led me to realize that this story I am telling has just a SLIGHTLY weird tone 🤣
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scorched earth.
a comic about a princess who died in a fire.
(this is a sequel to bite of winter, a comic about Snow and what became of her after her death.)
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#cw: blood#cw: beheading#cw:death#cw: gore#cw: burning alive#so nice of ash to have prepared a barbequed buffet ready for snow when she arrives#if it wasn't made clear enough ash did die in that fire#she just did it while taking down as many people as she could in the process. and now shes a smoke monster#and yes. the fire powers do imply she's not quite human. but shes human enough to fall in love and die and thats enough.#im sorry this comic took me so long. i had about a week where i was very depressed and nothing got done.#thank you for your patience#and as always#thank you for reading#comic art#sapphic art#lgbt#horror#somehow not as scary as snow but ash is still fearsome in her own way#stillindigo art#stillindigo comics
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Rabbits
Some bonus art, I initially started making this in a totally different art style but changed my mind about halfway through lmao, here are the parts I finished
#edit: terfs fuck off#this is literally about people like you#flashing#pulsing light#eye strain#(only under the read more cut)#art#comic#colored pencil#Illustration#I realized like halfway through making this that this is just the leopards eating peoples faces party joke lmao#im glad i abandoned that original art style bc the way it gets compressed when converted to a gif is so bad 😩#actual reason i abandoned the original style was it was taking super long#especially if i wanted it to actually look good#but i still liked how it came out so i wanted to post it anyway lol
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It's good and cool to give your characters a single simple, straightforward, non-urgent, super-achievable goal that shouldn't really cost anything or hurt anyone, make that the driving factor for most of their decisions, and then have the Plot do everything in its power to stop them.
#writing#the two variations are:#character wants to do the thing but to do that they need this guys approval so they have to do him a favor and for the favor they have to g#(cue chain of deals)#(by the end of it youre overthrowing governments and inheriting wizard magic and marrying dragons or whatever)#(you just wanted to fix your niece's teddy bear)#and#youre trying to do this thing but on the way you ran into a person who needs help and it wont take that long#its not like your thing is urgent youll just do this one thing and move on#(this happens 87 more times)#(you also end up overthrowing the government and becoming a wizard)
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Has this been done yet?
#I spent way too long on this pls take this half-assed edit <3#id in alt#dungeon meshi#rome.rambles#2024
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