Hello Sandpumpkin! I have seen that your ask is still open for horrors, may I request Killer for Phone? Thank you very much!
Hallo!! I went for a modern day AU and I had big horror movie vibes for it! I hope you enjoy it! It was fun to write! (≧◡≦) ♡
Sun, Sea, Scares
Killer - Phone - treat
Killer had a rare day off. He stood in the kitchen of the large house he and his friends rented. Just as he started to carve up a pumpkin the phone rang. Wiping his hands on the apron he found the cordless house phone answered the call and held it to his ear “hello-”
“I can see you-”
Killer frowned and looked around quickly “Kid is that you?” he hissed down the phone. The voice didn’t sound like his foolish best friend. Killer listened carefully and jolted when he heard what sounded rapping at a window. “I swear-” Killer marched out of the kitchen and into the living room and peered out of the window. There was nobody there.
“I can still see you.” the voice said again. “Very cold now.” the voice teased menacingly. Killer growled and looked around the room. He was convinced it was Kid, so he headed up to Kid’s room and opened the door without knocking. Kid had failed to open his curtains that morning but in the dim light creeping in from the gap in the curtains, Killer spotted what looked like boots peeking out from under one of the long curtains and something bulky hidden behind. Killer reached out to pull the curtain back and cursed loudly as a mannequin donning one of Kid’s coats fell on him. Throwing the mannequin to the floor in anger, Killer held the phone back to his ear and heard an eerie laugh. “Still so far away.” it mocked, “time is ticking.”
“To what-”
“Until I find you-” the voice paused, “and kill you.” with that the front door slammed loudly sending Killer into a mad panic down the stairs skidding to halt in the hallway. The front door was shut and his keys were still in the skull-shaped dish they kept on the end table. Killer checked the door and it was still locked. Killer exhaled sharply and headed back into the kitchen.
“Listen you-”
The voice interrupted him and laughed again “Tick tock. You’re not going to get through it like this.” The phone went dead and Killer set the phone down on the kitchen counter and grabbed the large carving knife. Killer gripped the knife tightly and listened for any strange movements in the empty house. His ears picked up the squeak of hinges and someone clumsily getting out of their hiding place. Killer made his way over to the kitchen door waiting for his moment to strike.
A shadow appeared on the floor and with that Killer lunged forward and slammed the knife right into the doorframe with a thunk. The perpetrator screamed and stumbled backwards, slumping to the floor in a heap.
Killer looked down at his best friend who was suddenly paler than normal “What the hell man!?” he shouted loudly trying to pick himself up off the floor.
Killer reached to pull the knife out of the doorframe “Why would you jump someone like that?!” Killer snapped.
“Why did you pick up a knife?!” Kid questioned angrily in retaliation.
“I was in the kitchen and it was the nearest thing I had to defend myself-” Killer looked over his shoulder “or- I bludgeon you to death with a pumpkin.”
“It was only a joke-” Kid pursed his lips together in sudden silence as Killer brandished the knife at him.
“Don’t threaten to come into someone’s house and kill them. That aint funny.” Killer scolded “you do that again and you’ll know about it.” he warned.
i'm so happy to see you're back!! i'm so sorry you've been through so much, please take your time and don't overdo yourself with arts & commissions 🥺
aww anon you’re so sweet!! ( °̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥◡͐°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥) I will take it easy, dw! drawing self indulgent things are way easier!
I’m excited to be back, been missing all this serotonin!!! And I’m so happy to see familiar urls in my notes agan, got silly and little emotional at the sight,,, ;o;
got so much to catch up on, geez... haven’t even read since somewhere before the big fight with kaido began for the 3rd or so time. about 240 chapters ago.
ohohoho,,, I’ll have so many more kid pirate references now! :’B
Got permission to post my parts for the OP Pinup zine! Thought I already reblogged here, but after sales are open for a few more days! [link]
They all look so good in print, got my physical copy a while ago!! and there’s lots of little cool fan merch!! ✧٩(•́⌄•́๑)
[spicy full image under the cut]
No female presenting nips or anything in here worse than a swimsuit, but I am still pretty uncertain how the algorithm flags things so,,, uh, readmore cut! I did one more piece with Drake but that’ll be in the zine! :7
I’ve gotten quite a few worried anon asks, but I wanted to give a propper response once I got over myself and got my life back together enough to be able to reinvest myself in op to return to this blog with less guilt! :U
TDLR version; life has been rough as shit and I’ve been clutching desperately to any work I’ve been able to get while trying to stay afloat with both my living expenses and medical bills... which left little to no time for fun... And now i really want to get back, catch up and reignite some joy in my life again. might take a hot minute to get fully back into the swing of trying to write again for reasons i’ll state under cut, but I’ll def get back with drawing fanservice and lots of simp talk!
The full story is probably more personal stuff than I’ve dumped online anywhere else in a long while and the only full-ish version of events across my platforms 9o9 but I feel like I owe it to friends, followers and mutuals whom I’ve dropped off the surface of the earth for these past 2 years. It gets maybe a bit into oversharing with offline drama and medicine talk but I’m including some tws.(And don’t worry, I am significantly better now!!)
oh, and also please don’t reblog this! ╭( ･ㅂ･)و ̑̑
[tw’s] mental & physical health talk, light hint of self harm/suicide attempt, school drama, relationship drama, sorta illegal self medication
so, long version;
So this is the 2022 story about Retsuko Kotten;
wanted to get into the op writing community real bad in the first place so i could learn how to write outside of comics, and I’ve always adored fanfiction writers from the sidelines
WRITING IS HARD and it feels harder than it should be. Despite my ability for long text rants it’s like pulling teeth to try and write something serious and it’s been that way since school to the point i flunked most classes by never turning in written assignments. (Working with my hands in art and ‘writing’ comics however was so much easier since I didn’t get stuck processing texts, and the core work was keping my hands busy. Good stimuli.) Been brining it up with doctors since forever, but since my parents was ashamed that I’d get a paper trail of permanent medical labels and it’d cost a whole bunch, they sent me to a priest against my will instead of a doctor when growing up. Getting a diagnosis for anything as an adult has been beyond difficult, especially as an afab “well behaved” quiet person. Took 6+ years to even start up an attempt to diagnose me for anything. (One doctor even brought up that it was liklier that I had a brian tumor causing it than ADHD, because of accompanying auditory hallucinations. Which, like,,,, thanks for the death anxiety?)
As late as march this year I finally went though the bare minimum procedure and tests to get it on paper that I have pretty severe ADD and can’t function without some sort of daily meds to make my brain juicy enough to focus and not burn out & crash trying to do basic work tasks. Relieved I can finally apply for mediciation to hold an actual regular job again, they book me up for the beginning of that evaluation... 6 months later. That’s scandinavian free healtcare for you.
But, a year before that, I went back to comic school to study, make connections in european publishing companies and learn how to write up foreign work contracts with copyright etc etc. Put down every inch of energy I had to keep up and developed more health complications, but nothing I thought I couldn’t handle for the end goal y’know? And I did for a good while. But the isolation of online classes and my classmates being, well... 80% condesending art snobs that excluded me from all social events because I wanted to draw ‘less serious’ media for teenage girls, broke me after a year. The final staw was when I misplaced my trust and vented on someone who saved and leaked our entire conversations to the teachers and class... Which... the techers forwarded against my will and the whole things was... I think semi-illegal? Nothing bad enough for me to actually do anything about it.
It was bad times™ after that, and I think I lasted a week with all of our teacher-free group assignments boiling down to needling and passive agressive jabs. While already pushing myself to my limit with stress from studies, I had pretty bad breakdown about it that got me landed in the ER again. Kinda did try to do a bad thing.*[tw tag 2]
Got out, quit school a month before graduation and been working my ass off trying to pay off the student loans since.
Applied what I had gathered from the technical lessons, lectures and contacts during that time and gave serious self publishing on a tight schedule a try. Did an isekai about underage grooming in the manga, game and anime sphere, it was pretty well-recieved after just two months of weekly chapter releases.
Got picked up by a korean comic publisher. (Not webtoon, but one of it’s close competitors.) which was like?? the childhood dream?? Realistically as close as I could ever get to publish in japan and the pay was quarterly, but so outlandishly good?? The editor was wonderfully kind, explained how their company was newer on the market but wanted to push for more queer and feminist stories for the shoujo scene!
The only real setback was that I had to double my weekly workload and check in my progress on a tighter schedule. I was supposed to get assistants to make the workload managable, and I had a handful of options from other comic school garduates I knew since previous years. Unfortunately I was living on yogurth and bread at the time and couldn’t afford to hire someone to work full-time on I.O.U’s alone. Told myself I could power through it until the first huge payment and follow that classic leaked mangaka schedule of 3 hours sleep per night. I did so for uuuh 2 months.
It was beyond intense, and at the same time as I was bound to a workdesk 20 hours a day I got that ADD diagnosis I talked about in the beginning. which was a huge relief that the monster workload I had taken on would be bearable once I had access to the medication I had been needing all my life.... Then I was hit with the info about the 6 month long waiting period... 9___9
Tried to keep my dream job tooth and claw. My kind and sweet editor did her best to support me, find alternative work scheduling programs to help me keep the deadlines and offered to forward some sections of the finishing work to company people. I secretly pulled all-nighters every weekday and went into an exhausted coma durign the weekends she insisted I keept free of any comic work. which I tried to draw through as well on occasion...
So I turned to aquiring a stronger kind of ADHD medication secondhand... not entirely by the book.... :’v shh
(I did make sure to reference the id numbers in online medicine databases to make sure it really was what I got. Don’t self medicate like I did here!! it can definetly go really wrong if I did get complications, and I was desperate.) I did already technically qualify for this type of stuff, and I was really only skipping the physical evaluation. My heart hasn’t exploded since and having access to even just a handful of them in emergencies did a world of a difference ;; honestly, knowing that was how easily most people had always been able to just sit down and do things made me both incredibly angry and relieved??? somthing exists that *does help* but it could have been like this from the start, if only my parents took me to an actual goddamn doctor...
I only lasted as long as I did because of that and a diet of only energy drinks. my body felt horrible though. my wrist was so overworked that I couldn’t move my fingers by the end of some days and after the few hours of sleep I did get i’d wake with cramped up legs from stress.
I can’t discuss the contract details since it was under NDA, even if it has since been broken. But, that huge salary and failure to keep weekly, fully colored chapter deadlines isn’t a great combo. Legal complications from my own physical and health shortcommings would have been a nightmare and a half to handle through another country’s court system. So I chose to break the contract and quit just in time before that became a reality. It was an incredibly hard decision to make and I feel like I wasted a once in a lifetime chance so many small creators dream of.
broke off a long term and loving lesbain relationship thought that mess too, so had to juggle every rappidly incoming new crisis alone, like a sad gay clown beign thrown too many pies in her face. Attempted to reconnect and try again throughout this year. Went to shit.
SO ANYWAY I NEED A HAPPY OUTLET AGAIN AND OP IS RIGHT HERE. dipped my toes in other fandoms on my main for a bit but my ex wife took those in the divorce recently. No time for that nonsense now, got a lot of manga to catch up to!!!
Also Hawkins is back, my dear discord friends kept me informed on his whereabouts though all that chaos. Thanks friends for supplying me with additional slutty fanart links while I was clutching my tablet in a deathgrip
Am still swamped in commision work and unmedicated, so only returning with art to start out with! Might open up for some hcs later when I’ve gotten back into the habit of writing! would love to actually finally deliver on that game when I’m stable on meds, but I’ll probably restructure it to something more realistic to manage alone.
Because life sucks, I decided to re-open commissions. I'll gladly write fan texts about certain pirates for you! Even though reader insert is my main genre, I am willing to write shipping fiction, character x OC, selfshipping and gen (no romantic interaction) fiction.
I'm okay with most of genres, smut included (providing client is an adult), am queer & polyamory friendly (poly bi and genderfluid gremlin here!) and love exploring various AUs!
I'll be grateful for signal boosting ❤ All details below:
Price
500-1k words: $15 (example: Flufftember),
1k-2k: $25 (example),
2k-3k: $35 (example),
3k-4k: $50 (example),
texts over 4k words: negotiable, since it heavily depends on idea you have, $60 at minimum; I won't accept more than one in a batch and your idea needs to have plot suitable for this length (in other words: "Some fluff with Sanji" won't be enough),
Additional fee
If I need to do extra research for your idea or if your idea is especially hard to write, I’ll ask you to pay a $10 fee added to the final price for the following:
research for: medical and science topics, historical AUs, heavy cultural background of a culture I’m not familiar with, and the like,
PWP (aka sheer smut, no plot) texts longer than 1k words,
texts with more than 2 OCs,
polyamory in selfshipping and relationship with OC,
polyamory in reader inserts with more than 2 characters involved.
DON’Ts
crossovers, anime or movie only characters, underage characters in romantic situations, ABO, noncon, yandere and other extremely abusive relationships;
selfshipping or canon x OC with Law or Zoro.
following ships: kidlaw, zorobin, lawbin, zoro/hiyori, zotash, doflalaw, coralaw.
I have a right to decline your commission even if your idea is within the sphere of my comfort. Sometimes the idea just doesn't click or is too difficult for me to write. I don't want to butcher text I'm paid for.
Payment and other details
I accept payments through paypal and ko-fi*.
Contact me through mail ([email protected]) or discord (Basilisa#2647). Please, don't take a slot, if you know you won't come up with an idea within 2-3 days.
After we will estimate all details, I'll confirm the final price and won't start working until you accept it. For texts worth $25 and more, I'll ask you for an advance of ~1/3 of the final price.
Depending on the amount of work, I'll need from 7 to 28 days to write your commission. If you need it finished by a certain date, please inform me immediately.
When I'm finished with your commission, I'll ask you to pay the whole price. As soon as I see the money, I will send you your commission in .docx and .pdf format (or any format you wish, if you tell me) on the email address I’ll ask you for.
I'll publish your commission on tumblr and ao3 - if you wish your commission to remain private, please inform me beforehand.
It's absolutely forbidden to use works commissioned from me for any commercial purpose.
*I don't have ko-fi commissions set since I'm still learning how to do it; ko-fi allows to pay in the multiples of $3 only, so if you want to pay me this way, we will need to discuss individual payment conditions.
Any form of commissioning or financially supporting me is completely voluntary. Access to my works and requesting will ALWAYS be free and always will be the majority of content I am publishing.
I really hate doing this, but after paying for meds and getting rid of debts I had to make (mostly cause of medical appointments) I am left with 40pln until the next payment. Which will be in December.
And I still have some debts. Would open commissions but I have A LOT of work to do, so I doubt I will do it this month 😞
Please, don't feel obligated to help either way (and especially when it comes to financial help, if you are struggling yourself), but if you can, I'll be very grateful for any reblog and/or ko-fi 💕
link to my ko-fi
Overall, thank you all for your support and all the love you are showing me, both recently and previously. You are an amazing audience and mutuals 💕
Because of growing medical costs as soon as I'm ended with a current batch, I'll open commissions once again. Decided to start an interest check before any official announcements - if you make the form out, I'll contact you as soon as I'm ended with all outstanding obligations.
All details regarding my commission system etc. you can find in the form description. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask :)
Fill the form here.
Thank you for stopping by! Will be very grateful, if you reblog this post :)
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-rolls in- Pumpkin here! With Summer Factions almost at an end. To celebrate 500/600 milestones since I missed one. I am opening the box now. You heard me: Now. It will be open until 1st August midnight. So you have 13 whole days to get thoses asks in (✿◠‿◠)
BUT! Before you head towards the ask box please read the rules and such!
It is NOT Reader Insert. Like the first horror box, it is one OP character in a horror situation!
SO how is this working? Well! under cut because long post. As a heads up. depending on how many I get, I might pick and choose which ones I write. And as always be polite when requesting :)
Thank you all for your support even with my terrible upload schedule.
First! Please pick One prompt from the list below:
Box B Opening: May 15th @ 10:00 AM US Central Time (tentative)
RULES
❀ You may pick ONE prompt from both the fluff and nsfw sections, but please separate your asks and specify which one you are requesting for! Any requests without clarifications will automatically be deleted.
❀ With your prompt, please list top three characters you wish for me to write about.
❀ Please specify gender of reader, otherwise I will resort to a female reader since that is what I am most comfortable with.
❀ Please specify who does/receives the prompt action. Include any other details you wish, but please do NOT be overly detailed since these are smaller writings!
Heyo! I’ve hit problems with finishing it on my own with both work, school and my health, so I’ve turned to some other writers for help on that! It’s not scapped, but progress is slow as it’s had to take a backseat!
snowghoul
turnnoffyourmind
jbbartram-illu
germansingergirl
