Hello! I'm Marley. This is my blog. I post my art and writing and neuroses. It's very disorganized but it's mine. Here's a little about me, as well as a general directory:
He/him, adult born in the 90s, married to @superman-elimination-machine :)
Artist and writer; I'm largely self-taught and supposedly do these things for "fun" but I have #perfectionism and need to be #the best
My completed fics (AO3)
My art tag: #i need an art tag
I post WIPs a lot and the occasional scratch-paper doodle, I don't have a specific tag for these unfortunately. #WIP is your best bet.
Speaking of WIPs, I'm currently working on an Absolute!Lara Lor-Van fic! Ask me about it? 👀
About me and "best of" fics under the cut :)
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Sashays through my bead curtain. Welcome to my Home
I draw and write a lot despite being employed full-time because it is my divine mandate or something idfk. My current subject of choice is Superman, especially Absolute Superman. I also really like spacesuits, they're a special interest of mine so you will see them in pretty much everything I make. I used to hate myself for it because it's such an odd interest of mine, but I've decided I'm too old and too tired to keep doing this to myself long-term. So now everything is spacesuits. Healing my inner child or whatever
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And now for a... not necessarily "best of" fic list, but rather "fics I put extra time and care and thought into, and by that definition would be most proud of":
The Spaceship and His Boy. Absolute Superman, Teen and up rating, 8.7k words, Major Character Death. An alternate universe where Kal and Sol escape Krypton but never make it to Earth. It is unbelievably fluffy and self-indulgent despite the bleak premise. I even wrote a song for it!
Lightweight. Absolute Superman, Teen and up rating, 3k words. I think this one might be my best fic tbh and it's kind of a love letter to the place I'm from lol. AU where Kal gets that beer after all. And then a soda because he doesn't like the beer, and then on some guy's nerves because he doesn't like the soda. He cracks jokes and is awkward and it's fun.
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And now for something COMPLETELY DIFFERENT (aka disgusting fics, but they meet the aforementioned criteria so they get a mention down here):
Symmetry. Superbat, Explicit rating, 3k words. I don't have a good explanation for this one other than that I was like "what if I made porn that thought it was high art?" Bruce milks Clark and it's symbolic, or something.
Let's Go to Space. Absolute Superman, Explicit rating, 6k words. No good explanation for this one either other than that the tags are an affront to god and I moved this to Anon because I didn't want it to be the first thing people saw on my AO3 🥴 Kal and Sol fuck, and it's, well. It is what it is. This one also wants to be high art.
^ I'm actually a huge softie and have a weakness for hurt/comfort lovey-dovey platonic bullshit but I really am drawn to writing shit that's like. Idk. Not that.
^ I don't take requests, or commissions, but I accept prompts and might even do something with them if they interest me and I have time/energy >:)))))
I'll be surprised if anyone has read this far bc I wouldn't even read this far. But if you did, I'm baking you chocolate chip cookies. It's the least I can do 👍I love you
we need to bring back old school tumblr communication and im so serious. sending an ask to a mutual just to say hello. seeing three different asks in your inbox all asking how your dentist appointment went. seeing a post you think one of your mutuals would enjoy and tagging them/sending it to them in the dms. nowadays its just silently liking a post or (if youre feeling extreme) replying under posts. WHAT HAPPENED TO US!! we used to be a proper community!!!! #LetsBringWhimsyBack
"Tattoos are becoming unpopular", "piercings are unpopular again", "keep your hair natural never dye it again, it's the trend now" literally fuck off I know what y'all are doing
I hate you Ozempic craze I hate you 'heroin chic' I hate you weight loss ads on public radio I hate Burn Fat Fast ads every thirty seconds I hate you I hate you I hate you
I grew up before the term 'thigh gap' was invented I grew up before 'hip dip' was invented I was born before 'muffin top' was a thing before 'clean girl look' was a thing before 'glass skin' was a thing before razoring off peach fuzz was a thing and I'm so so so fucking tired of us inventing new concepts purely for the purpose of convincing people to hate their own bodies enough to buy products
How many words in a book. How to write a book. How to write a book that is fanfiction, but it's original fanfiction, so it is essentially a book. Maybe it's a bad book. In that case. How to write well. How to be a good writer. How to get an audience. How to get an audience that doesn't want to kill you. Will anyone read this original fanfiction that I intend to be the breadth of a short novel. Should I just make it a completely original story instead if I'm putting this much work into a thing that virtually no one will read on account of being original. Is your late 20s too early to start wanting to write a book. Will anyone read this. Will anyone read this and understand what I'm saying. How to regain interest and motivation in my current career and not succumb to delusions of becoming an actual professional fiction writer. Will people think I'm going crazy. Will I actually go crazy. Am I already crazy. Will anyone read what I write. Is anyone reading this post.
