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[catastrophehuman]

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[impatentpending]

I’m not in the sander sides fandom anymore but you to this day remain my favourite fic author. It’s been years since I first read it and Bad Idea is still my favourite fic and continues to inspire my own writing along with a lot of your other works. Not just that one either, also Powerless and Bother Me A Little Bit Longer and so on.

If you turn Powerless into its own work or, hell, publish any original work I think I’d actually lose my mind lol /pos

You are so sweet, thank you!! Bad Idea is a particular favorite of mine, and I'm so glad you love it <3

I do want to publish Powerless one day (as I've never shut up about), but I truly, honestly don't know when that will happen – not the least because I'm working on a horror/sci-fi time loop novel right now ;)

[impatentpending]

okay i don't know if this is silly but

i read your fic Powerless the night that the final chapter had dropped. i had seen a post here on tumblr about people being excited for it and so i decided it would be a good idea to stay up a little later that night and binge read as much of it as i could. i ended up getting so invested that i stayed up the whole night and went to school the next day exhausted. that is the only all-nighter i have ever pulled in my life. i've moved on from the tss fandom a while now but the thought of this fic occasionally bubbles back up in my mind - namely, the fact that younger me was so frustrated with the fact that roman had dodged the blast and didn't like.. stick his arm out behind him if he Knew virgil was behind him to tug him out of the way. i haven't gone back to reread the fic to see if this thought actually logically holds up, but i think about it a lot.

Powerless is genuinely one of the most impactful and lasting fanfictions i have ever read and there's been a few times ive discussed it as an original novel because it stuck with me so much, and i strive to one day write something that sticks with someone for as long as this has stuck with me (that's what, 7 years?? wow.)

i don't really have a point in sending this other than sharing my thoughts, but i figured i could get it off my chest

i hope you have a good week :)

how incredibly kind of you! Asks like this really mean the world to me <3

[floofypan]

Cassie (Becky) from the Word Girl AU "Space Age Love Song"!

Been a while since I last drew her, wanted to give her a go with my current render skills ^^

I love her eyes....

[impatentpending]

I'm so late but oh my gosh!!! This is adorable!!!! I LOVE how soft and sweet she looks, and you captured her vibe perfectly! Her eyes are STUNNING, and it's so clever how even her scars look like stars <3

a million trillion gazillion thank you's!

[impatentpending]

doing my semi-annual (idk) WTA reread and shed a real tear at the last line of chap 10... god. azula introducing herself to herself because she's never really had an identity. good shit. ALSO: my brain associates the "Kallik. Holy fuck." with that one Phineas and Ferb comic: "MOM- HOLY FUCK"

"MOM- HOLY FUCK" is EXACTLY what I was referencing when I wrote that line. Mer and I read it to each other for upwards of ten minutes with increasingly awful Candice impersonations

So glad to hear WTA hits just as hard on the nth go around! That part is one of my favorites

[impatentpending]

one of these days i’m going to walk into a barnes and noble and see powerless on a shelf and im going to say woah it’s hit book powerless by patentpending no way

trying to get it done this year, actually!! Hopefully you'll see it sooner rather than later <3

[impatentpending]

HEY i love your sanders sides fics a lot, especially Bother Me A Little Longer. would you be okay with people typesetting/ficbinding your work, just for personal copies? i'd love to have a little book of this fic in particular on my shelf

I'm absolutely okay with it! I just ask you submit pictures; I wanna see how they look <3

[impatentpending]

i feel like you'd like the locked tomb series a lot

I do, actually! I've only read the first novel, but I found it beyond delightful.

[impatentpending]

I think you mentioned wanting to make Powerless an actual book? Is that true or was that just an idea?

it's true! I've been not-so-actively working on it for a while (especially since I've been developing a separate horror comedy novel), but I have every intention of doing so.

[impatentpending]

I've fallen out of the ts fandom but I recently started rereading fics I had loved and man to this day I still love everything about kill the lights. It got me into murder mysteries, and I just remember being so excited, and rereading every chapter frankly way too many times, I even started to make notes of every chapter and the events in my sketchbook, detailing each scene and detail that could be important (which made me realise eventually who the murderer was, which let me tell you the excitement I felt when I read the reveal chapter and I was right was great). I had never had that experience reading anything before, the want to analyse and pick apart everything, and I'm so glad I got to experience it. It's still one of my favourite fics, and let's be real just one of my favourite stories I've read, from the characters to the mystery to the romance it is so compelling.

How marvelously kind of you!! This is EXACTLY the reaction I wanted people to have to Kill the Lights, and I'm so glad it hit correctly with you <3

[impatentpending]

how’s the book coming?

excruciatingly <3

[impatentpending]

Hey, sorry if this is random, but remember all those fics you wrote for TSxSides Week a while ago? Well, I’ve been looking to reread the Thomceit one, I think the title was “Ar(t)sonist,” but I can’t find it anywhere on this blog or on AO3?

Hi! Yes, I ended up deleting that one. Honestly, I really just didn't like how I'd made Thomas a cop and ended up feeling weird about it in hindsight. If you really want to reread it though, feel free to DM me!

[yellowumbrella134]

So a few months ago I used these 2 (<3) to PLAY (hence the awkward spacing - forgive me plz) with Layer Types. Dear Azula's hair is really just Cassandra's (from the Tangled series - which if you ask me, I parallel these 2 with Rapunzel and Cassandra but that's a story for another day). Anyway Worship the Ashes by @impatentpending and @meregalaxiesandgods made me think of chopping Azula's hair. Funnily enough, I was looking for content on these 2 and it's how I stumbled upon AO3. It was a great read btw! Found a fic that I clicked with - while also being a really good read. Now I'm just waiting for the AIDAYS companion fic to be done :)

[impatentpending]

this is so lovely!! Thanks for sharing <3

[flanneldragon]

you wanna end my reign of terror so bad it makes you look stupid

[rowan-ashtree]

@impatentpending the powerless boys

[impatentpending]

so real

[sparrow-quill]

throwback time: how would y'all feel about some more worship the ashes fanart @impatentpending

[impatentpending]

@beautyisinkonpaper wildly belated but I would feel extremely positively

[floofypan]

My first sketches of Tobey

impatentpending as per your request, here are my first sketches of Toby (bonus the different levels of dilation Becky's eyes can do)

I actually first drew him because I wanted to draw their first meeting ;)

As I did this, I played around with Becky's eyes. I was figuring out which type of slitted eyes I wanted to use. I think I'll stick with the diamond eyes as I've grown to love it.

One of these days, I want to try drawing backgrounds. But as of now I haven't sat down to actually do it. One of these days I'll pull up a video and get started.

Here are the rest of the Tobey sketches. As seen here, I've looked at the drawing in here https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/391794451502333952/1054891318339444806/image0.png by impatentpending and oh god, I struggled real hard to draw the long hair on Tobey.

The upper right sketch is me closely following the source material, the one in the upper and bottom left is me attempting to incorporate that untrimmed hair of his into his design.

In the end it took too many processing power in me and so I went ahead with the regular short version of his hair that more closely resembles his canon look.

This is the final look I ended up drawing ^^

[impatentpending]

oh my gosh i love it!!! The little scene of their first interaction is EVERYTHINGGG

[floofypan]

Dancing 🎶

A fanart of @impatentpending's Space Age Love Song AU of WordGirl on ao3! https://archiveofourown.org/works/41712282/chapters/104638956

I initially wanted to draw Tobey, but didn't feel like drawing just him so I thought, "Why not draw them together doing something?" and it just kind of spiraled into this little idea of them dancing in the rollerblade rink (they noticeably don't have any rollerblades uhhhh). Let's just pretend that Tobey can carry/dip Becky or just that Becky is sneakily floating for him since I'm fairly sure he's got noodles for arms 🫢

But anyway I finally drew Tobey! It's my first time drawing the dude (technically sixth or so if I'm counting the 5 sketches I did when I was figuring out what kind of hairstyle I would want for him but shhhhh those are only sketches they don't count).

His nerd glasses were a challenge to draw but I quite like how they turned out. 👍

[impatentpending]

SCREAMINGGGGGG

oh my gosh this is so lovely!! I love how expressive and fun their poses are (they look so soft and happy aklsdjfas they're so in love), and you absolutely nailed the designs!! (extra kudos for those nerd glasses lmaooo). PLUS THE COLORS!?!?! THE SHADING!?!?!? THE BACKGROUND!?!??! THE SHADOWS!?!?!? HOW ABSOLUTELY STUNNING YOU MAKE BECKY'S HAIR EVERY TIME!?!?!??!

This is also an Extra Special Treat for me, since the scene of them in the roller rink is one of my favorites in the whole fic

I'm trying to come up with coherent complements for you but I just keep zoning out and staring at it like :D :D :D !!!!! <3 <3 <3 No thoughts, just Joy

the way you made the vibrant 80s color scheme so consistent and visually pleasing is crazy!!! And I love how the whole piece feels a little fuzzy, like an old Polaroid or something. I just keep zooming in on the details to admire them <3 <3 <3

Thank you for this gift i shall be thinking about it for the next 7-8 weeks nonstop <3 <3 <3