2023 ArtFight Dump

Check out this amazing art of Bert (the bird)! Thanks so much for the wonderful attack

Dos dibujos más para el Artfight.

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Two more drawing for the Artfight.

Another year, another collaboration for the @hqbb , this time with NerdTree @sportanime-maniac — I had an absolute blast with their OiSuga SciFi AU so please check out the fic 'Diamonds & Rust' (on Ao3—link will follow soon) 💪🏼✨

© Art made by me, concept by NerdTree

& Bonus Character designs, since we had so much fun with this but the actual art only shows them from the back ~

New Chapter of ‘An Anthem to Time’ is out - sorry for the long wait, I hope you enjoy.

Chapter 6 - A little bit of both

Summary: The pace picks up and the puzzle of the past begins to unfold.

-> Read from the beginning:  Prologue - Life is a rollercoaster -> Check out the AATT Lore Post for further info about the story

Have a taste, click this.

Hanamaki rarely thinks about what he does, it has always been like that. He is simply an instinct kind of guy.

What he says, what he does, it all follows the impulse his guts give him. Even in court, he never starts a trial with a plan. He likes to see how the mood swings and then just go with the flow, steer his boat into the current that will get him closest to his goals.

That is how he has managed to earn an outstanding reputation as a lawyer, how he never disappoints and never gets disappointed. If you don’t have a fix goal, you can’t miss it!

Especially in his youth, people have criticized him for lacking both spine and motivation and to be totally honest: They were right.

Takahiro isn’t ambitious, he isn’t high-flying and he certainly isn’t pretentious. But that doesn’t mean he can’t be sharp, intelligent or determined.

In fact, he is very determined right now!

“Come on”, he grunts out, putting all his bodyweight into the push.

“This tickles”, Iwaizumi smirks, that arrogant ashole.

“Fu.. fuck you, Hajime”

“Are you even trying?”

Hanamaki chooses not to spit into his face and rather concentrate on breathing.

“This is ridiculous”, he can’t help but whine all but a minute later.

“God, I am getting so horny”, Oikawa has the nerve to bite down on his knuckles. Suga gracefully decides to put his hand over their friends eyes.

“Then think of something gross”, he informs him.

“Like what?”

“Dead animals? How your bleach rails smell in the morning?”, Issei offers and gives his pan an expert swing. The onions fizzle and Hanamaki has to gag.

“Please just shut up”, he whimpers, the muscles in his biceps about to burst. He is going to leave one hell of a gorry splatter on Issei’s couch.

“Then hurry and get this over with, Wok is almost done”, his partner calls over.

“With tuna?”, Iwaizumi turns his head towards the kitchen.

“Yes”

“Fuck yeah”, and with his face brightening up like a six year old’s, who has just been given permission to have unlimited candy for an entire week, Iwaizumi slams his hand into the table, like Hanamaki, putting all his effort into fending him off, isn’t even there and declares: “I’m starving!”

Takahiro groans and collapses over his weak and sore arm.

Yes, he follows his instinct but that by no means equals being calm and structured, like some people assume. No, most of the times it gets him into stupid, messy and fucking glorious situations. Like not being able to beat his friend at armwrestling in over 16 years and still not being able to give it up.

-> Read whole chapter here

Possible alternate form/redesign of my secondary sona leviathan!? 

Idk, just me toying with making her a bit more feral/lion-like. Apologies for the sloppy quality, I drew this to calm down after my first round of exams and my brain is nothing but mush! Click here for more (and better quality) design-scheenigans.

Character & Art by me! Check out CharlyLee on DeviantArt for better quality or just... click the image I guess ^-^'’

WIP meme

Was tagged by @by-nina (Thanks so much for the tag ^-^ Go check out Nina's amazing works, everyone!)

Rules: Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous, and then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

Then send me an ask with the title that most intrigues you and i’ll post a little snippet of it or tell you something about it!

My WIPs (in absolutely no order at all) - Seijoh PD* - Health to the Company - Original Pirate Story that I can't come up with a good title for - An Anthem to Time - How not to be an immortal 101 with Oikawa Tooru - Of sprites, spite and the kingfisher - All the King's Blades - Blind Leading the Blind* - Searching for the weird cat (...again) - Summersun & Moondrops* - Visit from the other side (of town)* - Connections - Oldfashioned* - Silence is an answer also* - Tsukishima family, matchmakers since 1761* (* Italics are stories/concepts that I started on a whimp but don't know if they will actually go anywhere—feel free to ask about them still, though ^-^)

Because I am a disaster and have waaaaay too many ideas in progress, I'll only count the serious ones for now, so 8 tags. @redroseinsanity @king--gary @nikfehu @undercookeddaichi @moon-jellie @emigmatic @lumosflies @fanfic4u (if you don't want to be tagged in memes/games, let me know and I won't tag you again!)

Us (DaiSuga Week 2020)

Welcome to my brain running in gleefull circles, celebrating one of the three Haikyuu ships I actually care about!

Here are my contributions for the @daisugaweek2020

-> Read on Ao3

WARNING: Two snippets are rated mature (one for sexy stuff, one for possibly triggering topics) and one is NSFW - please enjoy with care and use the chapter titles and info under the cut as indication for the rating of each day’s work.

Day 1 - Strangers & Roommates (Gen) Sawamura Daichi likes his own four walls - that is until the day his apartment has only three walls left.

Day 2 - Aquarium (Teen and Up) Daichi makes a mental note to schedule their future dates in a way that Suga has something to eat first, especially if the subject of their romantic activity is in any way edible!

Day 3 - Crime & Mythology (Mature - Senisble Topics such as Injuries, Crime/Gangs, Human Trafficking) Sergeant Sawamura Daichi has seen a lot. Then again, in a world where mythical creatures have never gone extinct, are owned as pets and transportation or live as normal citizens, everyone has. And with a bit of practice, attaching a ticket to a hydra is not so much more difficult than putting it under a wiper. Unfortunately, petty inconveniences like parking violations are not the only things he has to deal with. 

Day 4 - Salty, Sweet & Spicy (Mature - Kinky Stuff & Foreplay, though no explicit sex) The decision to spice up the sex was unanimous - Suga's interpretation of litterally using spices was not!

Day 5 - Sunny (Gen) Suga doesn’t always like the way he looks - all pale and fragile, especially next to his very tan boyfriend. It really is unfair how Daichi gets brown and Suga only gets red.

Day 6 - 3pm (Explicit - NSFW) Daichi sometimes wonders where the line between laziness and well-earned relaxation is. Then again, he has Suga wrapped in his arms, they are not wearing any clothes and a hand is doing very nice things to his groin, so this really isn’t the time for philosophical endeavours.

Day 7 - Free Day -> Soulmate Colours AU (Gen) Everything is black, white and grey until you meet your soulmate and you start seeing the colours of their hair, skin and eyes. Daichi meets his soulmate when he is just 5 years old, but it takes him another 14 years to realize.

Never Change A Running System

Fandom: Haikyuu (My contribution to the @ngczine) Type: Short-Story (5.1k words) / Canon-Compliant Focus: Next Generation Seijoh Ships: no explicit mentions (but feel free to imagine the classics) Rating: General/Teen Up (for occasional swearing)

Summary:  Watari is starting to think something went wrong when all the new first years are coming to him instead of Yahaba - but maybe, considering that his best friend is busy taming a certain Mad Dog, the underclassmen’s fear is justified.

Or: A story about how Yahaba, and with him all of Seijoh, struggles to fill out some big footprints 

Read on Ao3 -> Never Change A Running System

Download the zine for free -> Devoted

Preview:

Weiterlesen

Raffle Prize for Techno-Universal on DeviantArt (character belongs to them).

-> Find me on DA as CharlyLee 

My 1st Preview for the MatsuHana 2023 calendar, featuring some soft morning moments ~

Please also give lots of love to Atlas (@sleepskie), who was my amazing artist partner for the January work (look at that smiling Matsun ahhhhhhhh 💕).

🛍 SHOP ALL ITEMS AND BUNDLES ON BIGCARTEL

Okay so basically I have two ways to approach this.

On that is just me being a petty sucker for love and the other a little more… scientific.

So what if we had them going all the way to ‚properly‘ - which I just assume is kissing and/or sex.

For one Kaz shows that he is starting to work on his trauma by holding hands with Inej at the end of CK.

And Inej with her backstory at the menagerie it‘s like: Bruh, don‘t get me started on how she must feel about sex!

So they both just start to tackle their individual problems slowly, which is absolutely fine (and possibly leaves room for a third book).

But they are just so darn hecking cute together I want them too smooch for pete's sake!

(As I said I just am sucker for love in a well developed story)

And so, the let us say ‚scientific‘ reason I think they are ‚only‘ holding hands at the end of CK (appart from a possible third book) isn‘t Kaz character but Inej.

Kaz is shown in his flashback scenes that he actually tried before to live without the gloves (with that other girl, sorry I forgot her name, that he was collecting fight bets with). He just choose not to, because working through his trauma was getting in the way of business and that was simply more important to him and his big revenge scheme. So I think if Leigh had just started to ‚rehabilitate‘ Kaz just a little earlier in the books she could have comfortably made him confident enough to go out ‚properly‘ with Inej by the end.

And that is why I think It‘s actually about her and her past as prostitute.

Idk how to explain this but at least to me, Inej might be trying to work through her history but even close to the end she is still terrified by the menagerie.

She is not like Kaz, who sort of choose to just go along with his trauma, she is still somewhat in it‘s thrall.

So that will just take a lot more time to unravel and she is only just beginning with it.

Sure she stuck her middle finger into Tante Heleens face but isn‘t that the exact reason why she wants to be a pirate and fight? To work her way through the trauma?

To become stronger? Strong enough she can leave the nightmares of the menagerie behind once and for all?

So in conclusion

*Clears throat after typing a lot of probably unnecessary explanation that got kinda of topic at the end*

Leaving aside my petty desires and also I my imminent need a Wesper/Kanej double date because fu** you, that is my jam!

*nervous sweating*

I don‘t think it would have been realistic for Inej to make that step, even at the end of CK.

Which is just a too long explanation of: I want it, even though it definitely doesn‘t fit into the novel!!

So I am glad Leigh didn‘t actually let them get together ‚properly‘ - and here come my big big hope - yet.

(Even though it would have been just so cute *silent sobbing*)

Also @arin-saintsforsakencity - no problemo ;)

Oh man so a couple days ago I met a high school teacher who had read Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom and she had the coldest fucking take I’ve ever heard despite being otherwise a very smart, sensitive person. I knew she had read them and I was so excited to talk about my close readings of metaphor and subversion/reinforcement of racial tropes and all the other stuff I’ve never quite managed to type up. So I asked her what she thought. And she said.

She said that she wished Kaz and Inej had been able to “properly” get together at the end of CK and I almost choked on my fucking orange soda. I’ve never been so let down by a literary opinion in my entire life.

I managed to argue with her a little but her heart wasn’t as in it as mine was. I’m so disappointed. So yeah if you hold this same bad opinion, this is an open invitation to hash it out with me.