[sylairaa-commsopen]

They make me sick

[doodlesofwhimsy]

Spinning them around in my head

[cariykon]

hi. made a comic for this polytrix fic (so we were liars) by @arendellesfirstwinter

(go read it it's FANTASTIC and also COMPLETE. dw rumi gets better)

[lizrrdbreath]

Gosh this is one of Cary's best works. She spent months studying manga layouts and flow to work on this piece and in my opinion the effort shows. The motions, angles, and facial expressions all pack so much into so few pages. We are really given an opportunity to see the desperation and sadness of the moment. The full magnitude of Mira's hit with her gok-do is just absolute brutality in the way its captured, giving such a massive weight to the rage she was expressing in the moment.

All this is an amazing homage to a great fic.

Funny aside, Cary denied herself Ch8 until after it was completed! She spent all that time dangling the carrot of a happy ending in front of herself until finally she finished this massive work. I cannot imagine torturing myself like that, I read the fic in one day lol.

[lgbtqiatext]

[dreampaladin]

this post will not be a new recommendation to anyone that is in the polytrix fandom, but i do have to mention the amazing, the phenomenal, the seminal so we were liars by @arendellesfirstwinter.

it has been said before, by many people, but i will say it again. aren and so we were liars deserves every piece of praise, every kudos, every hit, every comment, literally everything. it is truly a masterpiece of a work, and i want to dive into it a little bit. spoilers for so we were liars below the cut!

this fic could legitimately be its own movie. i’m not joking, it’s that serious. every single moment of these characters is precisely how they would act in the movie. it is not a character study, but damn should you study this fic if you wanna learn how rumi, mira, and zoey behave. it’s genuinely such an impressive piece of fiction. aren doesn’t let a single ball drop the entire time. every thread is tied up, every beat followed to its logical conclusion. the climax is seeded much earlier in the fic and i think about that a lot. i was in a directing class once, where we were told you need to plant the seeds for your climax in your exposition. and aren does this incredibly.

aren is also really intentional with every detail in SWWL, like how rumi’s patterns spread differently than in the movie because of the different things she’s ashamed of. just. go look for yourself it’s incredible.

and oh my god. the smut. the SMUT???? hello???? like i recently had a conversation with @lillowing that not all of it is really smut, which i agree with, because the takedown strapdown is genuinely hard to read. but the first couple chapters, and especially chapter 8, are so. fucking. hot. like jesus christ. every time aren claims she can’t write smut i just hold up chapter 8. she has yet to listen to me but it’s there.

i also adore the epilogue of this piece. it’s not part of the main story, but it is treated with such care and love and genuine joy that i find myself coming back to it over and over and over again.

and of course i can’t touch on SWWL without talking about the recovery chapters, how angry and hurt they are by each other, and the pain that it takes to actually recover from something so traumatic. and in the same breath, i have to mention backslide / breakthrough by @seasinkarnadine. because they are such integral parts of the SWWL epilogue for me. the healing that we don’t see in the fic, but are so necessary. seasink just understands the assignment. like it feels like part of SWWL. go check those fics out too!

just wanted to give a little shoutout to this fic that has meant so much to so many. and that has meant so much to me and my own writing. also! all of aren’s other works are phenomenal. i recently went through her whole catalogue and every piece was amazing. go check her out!

[heyitszenix]

😛

[yaketysmax]

Have you read this amazing fic by @counterpunches?? https://archiveofourown.org/works/73634466 Read it! so beautiful and bittersweet! ദ്ദി ༎ຶ‿༎ຶ ) and because i can't resist an EYECRIME here is a tasteful reaction image

very useful for the many delightful angst fics we are all happily sobbing through! Thank you authors for kicking us in the feels repeatedly. U know we love it. ദ്ദി╥ ᴗ ╥)

[counterpunches]

I am?????? SUPER COOL AND CHILL AND NORMAL ABOUT THIS????????

YAKETY???????????

YAKETY YOU CAN'T JUST.... DROP THIS WITH NO WARNING??????

THE ARTWORK??????? RUMI IN THE HONMOON I CANNOT JHAKSLFKJSAHJDKLAS THE COLORS, THE EYECRIMES. EVEN BOBBY IS THERE?????

[youli147]

逛街

[ramblingarachnid]

🎉 HAPPY TAY DAY!! 🎉

please pretend i know how to post on tumblr thanks

it’s tay day, the day we celebrate @somethingshrimpy and her gorgeous art and how friendly and sweet and funny and silly she is!!

i got some beautiful fanart from her and got her permission to share it since she wasn’t going to herself 🥹

it’s from watercolors (stuck inside my head) and this is the cropped version for tumblr!! the full is NSFW but you can find it HERE in the dropdown in the endnotes and you should go look and also compliment tay !! very hard !! because it’s tay day and she deserves it

[finndamerons-archive]

castle // halsey

[assortedbowloffruit]

in honor of yannie day i've drawn a regular normal rumi having a great day gripping your shoulder. this is your sign to read a york([Y]annie + w[ORK]) today. possibly multiple if you feel so inclined. yannie day.

(also please don't talk about ch5 of lonely lavender bones on this post. i haven't read it yet, so if you do i will have to obliterate you with my psychic hammer. and not in a fun and whimsy way.)

[seasinkarnadine]

Your Mouth, the Blade

KPDH

hockey au but there's no hockey

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Rumi freaks out in her room for a while longer. She tries to calm herself but it's useless. 

When someone knocks on the door Rumi's worked herself into such a frustration she doesn't even check it before she swings it open.

Oh absolutely not.

“What are you doing here?” She snarls.

“Not even a ‘hello’?” Kang quips, that infuriating smug smirk on her lips. 

“How did you get my room number?” 

Before Rumi can protest, Kang pushes her way into the room.

“Nice digs,” she quips, looking around. “Of course, the one they gave me has a balcony.” 

“Whatever this is, I'm not in the mood,” Rumi practically hisses. 

“So you don't want your notebook back?” Kang withdraws the aforementioned object from a pocket in her jacket, pinching it between her long pointer and middle fingers.

Rumi's blood runs cold.

“Where did you get that.”

“Changing room.”

“That's not--I don't--I've never seen that–”

“Then why's your name written in it?”

“You--you read it?”

Kang arches a brow.

“No, no, no,” Rumi turns her back because she can't bear it. She can't see Kang's face for one more second. This is it. Her career is over. What was she thinking, using her stupid playbook to journal in? Her therapist said--no, screw what her therapist said, this is all Rumi's fault. Her own failing. And now Kang's going to--Kang's going to–

“You can't tell anyone,” Rumi gasps, frantic. “You can't--nobody knows. Nobody can know.”

Kang just keeps staring at her.

“Please. Please.”

Kang looks at the notebook, and then back to Rumi.

“I promise I won't tell anyone.” She holds the book out and Rumi lunges for it but it's nothing but a ruse.

“On one condition.”

Of course she wouldn't have mercy on Rumi. Kang isn't capable of mercy. 

“What do you want,” she asks. Her voice sounds desperate even to her own ears. Kang smirks. She's got Rumi pinned like a bug to a wall and she knows it.

The next words out of Kang’s mouth hit Rumi like a bus.

“Kiss me.”

[glowstickhaloboy]

thinking of jesus at the gay bar again………

[heart-sprout]

Do tell

[glowstickhaloboy]

[screamingbingusthecromulentone]

[ID:

a poem by Jay Hulme, titled Jesus at the Gay Bar

He's here in the midst of it - right at the centre of the dance floor, robes hitched up to His knees to make it easy to spin.

At some point in the evening a boy will touch the hem of His robe and beg to be healed, beg to be anything other than this;

and He will reach His arms out, sweat-damp, and weary from dance. He'll cup this boy's face in His hand and say,

my beautiful child there is nothing in this heart of yours that ever needs to be healed.

/end ID]

[shatou-reblogs]

prev tags go hard

[quentims]

anatomy practice (@ kerosine_cereal on twitter)

[thememedaddy]

[honeyfaer]

"theyll hate you for this" "but theyll be alive" is THE juiciest thing to me

[honeyfaer]

i will ensure you stay alive above all else. even if what i do to make it happen is horrendous. even if it violates all your wishes or moral principles. even if you can never look at me the same way again, even if you hate me for it. because at least if you hate me it means youre alive

[seasinkarnadine]

If you write 3 sentences on one of your works in progress, I'll write 3 sentences on mine.

okay okay I did it.

I rewrote the opening paragraph of Bladed.

"The first time that Rumi sees Mira Kang, she isn’t thinking about hockey at all. A local news crew is parked off to the side of the arena where the teams are congregating, shooting B footage of shuttles coming and going. Rumi wonders if they'll film the games. She wonders if they'll interview her. She wonders if they'll treat her the same way they treated her mother."