Als

a03: @AlsJoyousWonders • 21+ Account Owner

[arishatistic]

To the boy who sought freedom….Goodbye. 

[thedustyleaves]

Horizon Zero Dawn/Forbidden West au for Jack and Hiccup!

For my version of this au, I imagined Hiccup as a former Sky Clan Tenakth who now lives with the Oseram in the Forbidden West, while Jack is a Nora outcast (I couldn't decide between white or brown hair for Jack, so you get both.).

Jack is the one who finds a Focus first and then shares that knowledge with Hiccup. I love thinking about what connects characters and why they’re drawn together, and in my mind, Hiccup already sees machines and the old world differently from everyone else, but he’s missing information to truly understand it.

He sees that Jack is actually using the Focus rather than treating it like an accessory, and Jack chooses to share it with him, offering that missing piece of the puzzle that Hiccup needs to truly understand the metal world. This turns out to be what Jack needed, because while Jack is smart, Hiccup is able to piece things together that jack wouldn’t have been able to do on his own, so they quickly end up relying on each other. I really wanted that trope of working together because: “you have something I want” until that becomes: “you are what I need.”

So, together, they explore the metal ruins and uncover the truth behind the Old World. Hiccup gets a machine companion (Toothless), and Jack gets a glider.

I’m also playing with the idea that all machines have ai like gaia did, so they’re actually capable of feeling and learning (it would probably depend on the species though, I don’t imagine a thunderjaw would be very fun to try and domesticate…), because I want Toothless and Hiccup to have the same connection as they do in the movies.

As for the designs, I mixed and matched elements from the artbook and the game itself. I have so many thoughts written down from designing them and from all the differences I noticed between the clans, but it’s literally pages long. If anyone wants me to ramble about that and share some of my thoughts, let me know!

[unchocoflan]

Hijack stuff

Also yeah I think I did lol

[princerevenant]

hope and requiem

[joshinin]

My Childhood all grownup :,)

[maniacrow]

I would love to see more trans masc Zuko art!

Another ftm Zuko request! Took me a bit longer to get to this one, but I hope you'll like it

As always, feel free to send me any art requests, asks are open!!

[ashcremated]

Winter, spring, summer and fall, four seasons, four loves

(i did this art for the zukka week of a couple of years ago but zukka still real and true 🤟🔥)

[skelesass]

quick sketch

[littlestoneinspace]

I fixed Coming out scene for you

[ohheplays]

A "new" island means I need new clothes! So naturally I made a bunch of new t-shirt designs! 👕

✏️ MA-7631-4283-2233

[nordsea-horizons]

some of the clothing codes I’ve downloaded for Oatflower island🌾 late autumn, preparing for winter vibes🍯🫖

[giologyyart]

i just love fixing things!!!!

[skysmadness]

in the hallway of some frat party

[kidovna]

my epilogue

[cloudycleric]

bylers are some of the biggest fans of the show. like, WAY more than the GA or really any other subsection of stranger things fandom. so for the duffers to call us noise is so fucking rude.

it’s very clear to me that they literally blocked off that part of the fandom because bylers were the only people who were seriously analyzing the show, coming up with creative, innovative theories, & appreciating the show for what it was trying to be about in the first place: outcasts

[narrativelogicofbyler]

i’m saying this as someone with a ba hons in film and television who is absolutely done being gaslit about what i watched: the duffers and the stranger things team queerbaited with byler, and i’m beyond furious. not annoyed. not mildly disappointed. furious. and i refuse to entertain the “it was just will having feelings for his straight best friend” excuse for one more second. that’s not analysis, that’s people refusing to engage with the actual film language on screen.

you do not accidentally craft a four season romantic arc. you do not accidentally use romantic framing, romantic blocking, romantic lighting, romantic colour theory, romantic score cues, and romantic narrative parallels and then claim it was all one sided. that’s not subtext. that’s not ambiguity. that’s intentional cinematic construction.

and the whole thing where mike literally cannot function as both el’s boyfriend and will’s best friend? that wasn’t random teenage awkwardness. that was a structural choice. that was narrative tension designed to break in one direction, byler. they built the conflict like a slow burn fuse and then refused to light the final match.

they chickened out. they used queer longing as emotional currency, squeezed every drop of resonance out of it, and then slammed the door shut when it came time to actually commit. and for anyone who understands cinematography, narrative architecture, or even basic character framing, it’s insulting. it’s cowardly. it’s a betrayal of the story they were telling.

every single filmmaking choice pointed to byler.

and they still backed down.

[kidovna]

its been a while since the finale and i think ive hit the depression stage of grief. i’m genuinely tearing up thinking about how cruel they’ve been to will byers and how the epilogue felt like a consolation prize.

they could have written his queer arc without bringing mike into the picture, but they did it anyway without any pay off and ruined their friendship in the process. mike can’t even touch him anymore. they forced will out of the closet after being manipulated by his abuser to do so. they took away his autonomy over and over again and never addressed any of the blatant allegories of CSA. they made will sacrifice his feelings and play couples counsellor for mlvn and mike couldn’t say i love you back to her even in her final moments. they gave him hope in the beginning of s5 only for it to amount to nothing. they made him get over his love for mike because they thought it was realistic. they didn’t even give him a boyfriend at the end, they just had mike wheeler headcanon him having one far away from hawkins.

oh will byers i’ve never seen a character as tragic as you that i’ve related to and i wish you got a better ending. i hope you leave and find your people and be happy.

[kidovna]

circled back here again. the sadness comes and goes in waves