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sappho-favourite-pupil · 1 month

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MDNI

Like fr this time.

Just don't.

#lesbian #dykeposting #lesbian yearning #sappho would be proud of me #wlw nsft #wlw ns/fw #my old bathrobe #this is my last try #mdni #fr this time it's not that hard #minors dni

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skinnivanili · 4 months

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this year will either make or brake me.

#this is my last try

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ecoamerica · 1 month

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nyctanthes-arbor-tristis · 2 years

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Second Gen

I wrote a short Argyle fic, inspired by that amazing Surfer Boy headcanon.

It’s on Ao3. And also below because I can’t get the Ao3 announcement to show up in the tag.

Rating: General

Type: Gen

Word count: 900

Is Jonathan mentioned? Yes!

Summary: His dad has a saying. The first generation creates the business; the second generation grows the business; the third generation drives it into the ground.

By business he means pizza. He also means money.

“Prove me wrong. Don't lose it,” his dad rumbles, in between big mouthfuls of hot sauce covered scrambled eggs and energetic slurps of black coffee. “God willing I’ll be dead by the time you're in charge, but I'll still be watching.”

In between careful bites of his own eggs, sunny side up on buttered toast, yolk drips here, there and everywhere but so worth it, a contemplative sip of orange juice, he thinks about what his dad said.

“But I'm the second generation,” he points out.

With a clatter of knife and fork, his dad stands up and leans over the table. He sniffs him, dubious. He sniffs, too, reflexively.

Relax, he reminds himself. It's ok. It's only 7 a.m.

His dad thumps back into his seat and frowns.

"Your brothers…They’re the second generation. Dependable. Hard-working. Sober.”

“Sober,” he agrees, trying not to sound depressed on their behalf. They’re so tense.

His brothers are fifteen and sixteen years older than him. They are, he has to admit, awfully responsible. All that working, and working and working. He doesn’t see much of them, though they all live in the family compound. When he does see them they ask about his grades, which could be, he's man enough to admit, better. Or they tell him to clean his room, it stinks. To turn down his music, it's bad. That he should go for a run; if he exercised he'd feel better about himself. He'd be capable of focus. He'd get better grades, clean his room, possibly develop better taste in music. He nods and smiles, promises his brothers he'll get on it right away. He buys a new pair of sneakers, a headband and wristbands. He visualizes himself running, running like a mustang, mane and tail streaming behind him. Then he gets tired and has to take a nap.

It’s not that he purposely forgets, has some kind of agenda to thwart his brothers. He loves them. He agrees with them: he has room to improve. He hasn’t yet peaked. It's just that he's got a lot of other things on his mind.

Burning Spear is in town next week, he has a mile high blondie recipe he's dying to try out, and there’s a new guy at school who seems like he needs a friend. He is so sad; it’s almost funny. Like, what can possibly make someone that sad?

Come to think of it, living with all of them is a bit like having three dads. Maybe he is the third generation and no one is telling him?

“Your brothers will grow this company. Expand it well beyond California. What will you contribute beyond ‘awesome' pizza names? Tomato Toile. Madrastic Margherita. Pepperoni Plaidness.” With each name his dad’s voice gets more basso, more indignant. Tidbits of green speckled egg shoot out of his mouth; they land on his plate but that’s not a problem. Circle of life.

“Pepperoni Plaidness," he marvels. "That’s amazing. How can I beat that?” He can picture it. Strips of pepperoni, slices of green and yellow peppers and red onions arranged in grids on a background of white cheese.

His dad is glaring at him. He recalibrates; hunches his shoulders and looks at him through his curtain of hair, soulful, sad puppy style. Please don't kick me. Like that little guy in shop class.

"That's hella harsh, duuu,” his dad is still glaring at him, "aaaaaddd."

So he gets a job at Surfer Boy. "Wherever you think I'll fit," he says, magnanimous. A veritable Buddha. "I'm second generation, here to help. I want to learn the ropes. I want to grow me as well as the company - personally, professionally, whatever!”

He fits at the bottom.

It's cool. He likes pizza. Eating it, driving it places, making it (though he's not allowed to do that yet; in fact, the staff tell him to stay well out of the kitchen until he's learned to braid his hair). Then there's talking to people about pizza - helping them make good pie choices. There are so many factors to consider: temperature and wind speed and cloud cover; breakfast, lunch, second lunch, snack, early or on time or late dinner or bedtime snack. Will it be eaten cold or hot? With beer or milk? The next day or the next week? He likes to help customers get out of their comfort zones; once or twice he's found someone who agrees they need to.

When he drives the van (it’s no Beemer or Benz, but it’s roomy and rides better than he expected: untapped potential) he likes to think of new pizza combinations. One especially productive afternoon he came up with Potitzza: Velveeta smothered french fries on a base of tomato sauce, thick crust probably needed. Guacizza: a mash of avocado, onion, jalapeno, lime juice, cilantro and chopped fresh tomatoes on a thin n' crispy, cheese-free shell. And the pièce de résistance: Salizza. Sun dried tomatoes, black olives and mozzarella with lettuce on top. How California is that?

Very.

Competition has emerged. California Pizza Kitchen. Sure, it's only in Beverly Hills, but he's heard the rumors: BBQ Chicken Pizza.

It's important to keep up.

#argyle #st4 #sorry for the rbs #this is my last try #then i give up #my fic #jargyle #not really but...

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mstrchu · 3 months

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girl help my friends keep trying to do things that will definitely make them insane

#why don't you both try ASCENDING to some THERAPY #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #astarion #gale dekarios #did not realise gale had a last name until just now when that tag popped up #is his last name not 'of waterdeep'???#...#art tag #also perceive my little guy.. his name is tau......

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bellwethers · 2 months

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Boo hoo did someone use spirit magic to blow up your factory?

#ahh I’m trying out a sketchier/chibi style #I kinda hate refining my drawings too much but then also don’t like them when they’re too messy so I can’t win #anyways I love them both #enablers #fanart #atla #atla fanart #avatar #avatar the last airbender #the last airbender #atla katara #katara #atla aang #aang #avatar aang

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mumblesplash · 5 months

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i say if you’re gonna have the mysterious entities speak in rhyme you might as well commit (EDIT: part 2!)

(posting an unprecedented Part 1 of At Least 3 bc i actually have the entire script and most of the storyboarding for this done already)

#yknow. got an idea. had a breakdown. bon appetit #this was the creative impulse i was referring to on sunday #my art #secret life #secret life spoilers #slsmp #grian #geminitay #briefly #trafficblr #also #mostly bc i am proud of it and partly bc i want people to know it’s on purpose:#grian is not trying to rhyme at all in this part. he is being deliberately unhelpful #he lowkey tries to fuck it up on purpose in that second to last panel but the secret keepers just switch rhyme schemes #the one time he completes an end rhyme is because he lost his temper #anyway yeah this was motivated mostly by me wanting to see if i could do it

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ecoamerica · 1 month

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ssalballoon · 4 months

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Mystra showed him the secrets beneath the veils. The gossamer veils first, draped across the Weave. The delicate veils next, draped across her body. 'Chosen One' she whispered, as she slipped them off completely.

poor gale :'(

- the dialogue is from ea gale's explanation about his folly

- i kinda like that she ended up looking like a mother-of-pearl inlay lacquerware!

- oh this was a subconscious choice, but Gale is sitting in seiza which is a posture for showing respect especially to elders. it's also known to be a painful position to sit in for extended periods of time, which is why it was sometimes used as a method of (morally dubious) punishment. however, experienced people can maintain this posture for much longer. food for thought :-)

- (edit: deleted this point bcs it didn't really make sense + detracted from the art a little;;)

#also had other companion drawings w gale and mystra planned for this but none of them are complete... perhaps another day #mystra #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #bg3 fanart #gale of waterdeep #gale dekarios #my art #hm i dont have many opportunities to share my mystra thoughts so!#mystra is incredibly difficult to redesign and draw! I want to give her a fantastical element to her while retaining her austere aloofness #(her unassuming design is actually surprisingly effective in making her seem so effortlessly powerful)#I love spiderweb imagery and braids(weave) for her but braids make her seem so... kind? very soft? i'll try again another day...#is this seriously my last post of 2023. goddamn

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cliopadra · 5 months

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WE’RE GETTING A SEASON THREE!!!???!!!

#sorry that I’m freaking out several hours late #the news dropped while I was in the middle of teaching so I just spent the last few hours silently screaming while trying to act like a #teacher #my art #good omens #good omens season 3 #aziraphale #crowley #ineffable husbands #good omens fanart #cliopadra blabbers on

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seancefemme · 1 year

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ellie & joel

#the last of us #tlou #the last of us fanart #joel miller #ellie Williams #pedro pascal #been feeling so blaghhh about my art lately I needed to do something experimental and messy #my old botw piece was getting a ton of notes lately so I wanted to do another scenic piece #also I saw on tiktok someone saying that pedro pascal has the easiest face to draw so I just had to try it out #and then i had to torture myself by adding the horse don’t look at it #my art #mine

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pineapple-frenzy · 1 month

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Book 2 au: sparring sessions and short hair katara

They like to have sparring sessions in order to keep their bending skills sharp. They allow themselves to go all out and not hold back at all cause they know if anyone got hurt, Katara could just heal them

But anyways, wouldn't it be kinda funny if Zuko accidentally burned Katara's hair tho? Aofkqldkkajfjd

The "I think we can save the hairloops" line is from @linnoya-writes thank you for that!! :>>

#zutara #zuko #katara #atla #book 2 au #my art #i mentioned in my last book 2 au post that i wanted to include short hair katara into it and y'all were so supportive of it!! 😭😭😭#so this is how i think it would go #it would happen as katara is trying to evade one of zuko's fire balls #she manages to avoid it but since her hair is long it still caught on fire #she'd be pissed so she water whips the hell out of zuko #and then promptly forgets about it akfhkakdkakdj #even after the sparring session she still hasn't remembered cause 'oh no zuko's in pain i have to help him!'#it isn't until zuko even mentions it that she remembers #zuko thinks she's more calm than i thought she would be after burning her hair so he mentions it to her #little did he know katara just forgor aldjlakdkaljd #n e ways zuko does feel bad so she offers to help fix it up for her #i think after the haircut katara would find herself looking in mirrors when there are any around cause 'zuko thinks i'm beautiful?? really?#zuko doesn't know this tho and he thinks katara is till sad about the unwanted haircut so he keeps telling her that she looks beautiful #and katara just keeps losing it aldjlakdlald #in conclusion they are idiots your honor

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egophiliac · 29 days

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IT WAS ERIC AFTER ALL!!!! I'm so glad we got to meet him (before Vil snaps him away with those Infinity Gauntlets) (can't wait to see what happens when we get the matching Infinity Tiara to go with them, there will be no survivors)

(sorry to be so slow/rough lately, just got a lot of stuff on the ol' brain at the moment! alas, if only I could spend all my time drawing incredibly stupid characters I mean I do but)

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #tapis rouge #i know these are not my best but by god i needed to draw ~daddo venue~#he is a treat! can't wait for him to yell at us for screwing up a shoot or whatever the last-minute disaster will be #i am SO HAPPY it turned out to be about movies after all! ...i mean sort of anyway #i'll take what i can get (and i do enjoy twst trying to be all cute about snow whAHEM i mean beautiful queen) (i see you there twst)#(also to be fair it actually wasn't poisoned in historial-revisionism-twstland so i think we can trust this apple. a+ acting eric)#anyway we are still. very solidly in the 'stand around and talk about the wallpaper for three hours' part of the event.#but HEY we got to meet eric! i was not really expecting it to be him so i am VERY pleased #also god help me i did think the shopping montage as portrayed by a rhythmic where they literally SKIP down the street was hilarious #there's a lot of Choices that were made in this event and that was a good one

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wombywoo · 3 months

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aftercare ❤️‍🩹

#call of duty #cod #john soap mactavish #simon ghost riley #soapghost #my art #see the boy's fine he just had a gnar wipeout trying to stick a kickflip #fail king 😌#meanhwile Simon's doing that mr darcy thing with his hands #can't get the feeling of your phantom grip out of my palm #your blood's still under my fingernails because it might've been the last thing I had left of you...#etc...

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mydairpercabeth · 3 months

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One of the many things that had me sobbing in the show is how they made Zuko’s fleet the 41st division. Meaning the division he spoke up for, the division that earned him his scar, is the division he was assigned for his goose chase. Imagine how heartbreaking it is. AND THE TEAM DIDNT EVEN KNOW HE DID THAT FOR THEM. MY BOY WAS ALWAYS GOOD!!!

#ZUKO MY SWEET BABY #HES JUST A BABY #he was trying #:(#prince zuko #fire lord zuko #iroh #blue spirit #netflix avatar #avatar aang #avatar the last airbender #uncle iroh #masks #zuko #dallas liu

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petricorah · 2 months

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*azula's lightning going off in the background*

redrew this boiling rock scene taken by @sokkalore and @ultfreakme and then got distracted trying out new brushes

screencap under cut, ids in alt

#zukka #zukka fanart #avatar the last airbender #avatar the last airbender fanart #mydoodles #i wanted this to be more dramatic in my normal style but this was fun #sometimes im tempted to try to do a redraw in the show style to make a fake screencap but this angle was too hard lmao #zuko #sokka #the boiling rock #screencap redraw

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mugentakeda · 3 months

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couldnt stop thinking about this idea i had of lu tens spirit being tethered to his medal that zuko gave iroh at his funeral so hes now cursed to have a front row seat to all their life-threatening shenanigans without actually being able to do anything about it so hes the most stressed guardian spirit of all time

#not even being able to finally chill in the afterlife after dying brutally would definitely happen to an eldest sibling i feel like #i always find ways to insert my beautiful lovely oc lu ten (joke) into everything. but this time i dont really have to try hard thank god #ALSO I THINK IM GETTING THE HAND OF DRAWING NATLA IROH... AMEN #iroh #zuko #lu ten #netflix avatar #natla #avatar the last airbender #atla #alicias art

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mumblesplash · 5 months

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in honor of last season’s poem being called “”end poem”” (all quotes mandatory) this season i made one out of pieces of the actual end poem

#letting me just download the minecraft font? for free? a mistake #if you or a loved one have been suffering from RED TEXT you may be entitled to compensation #my art #god at this point i really do need a writing tag don’t i #<- will continue not addressing this #secret life #goodtimeswithscar #grian #secret life spoilers #sorry tumblr user livvi3love for not making one with all the deaths again #if you (or anyone) did want to illustrate this one as well you’re more than welcome to but i am not expecting anything #i can do an explainer thing again like i did last time but that is for tomorrow #right now i am just. very tired #but for now i will confirm yes the colors Matter #i literally made this on accident against my will #i was trying to DRAW

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