Hi, it's me sweetgem97. This is going to be my art blog where I'll be uploading my art. Hope you all enjoy. :) NOTE: You are absolutely allowed to give me constructive criticism. It can be via reblog or a comment on my art itself. Any rude comments however such as "This looks awful, you should just quit and kill yourself. Never draw again, bitch." will not be tolerated and I will block you from both this blog and my main blog. Thank you. :)
The silence in his new apartment didn’t sit well with him. It all heavy-pressed against Alec’s eardrums until he could hear the steady, mechanical ticking of his own wrist watch. He refused to look at the watch. He knew what the time was. Precisely, twenty-three minutes past midnight. The exact hour when his thoughts always drifted back to the finality of the courtroom ink, the cold handshake of a mediator, and the sudden, staggering emptiness of a life halved by a judge’s gavel.
Alec sat at his kitchen island, a glass of amber scotch resting on the sleek quartz surface. He hadn’t touched it since. The ice had also melted long ago, so the alcohol was watered down to a pale, useless gold. Before him lay a leather-bound planner, which was the only relic of his old life that still held any meaning. For years, Alec’s world had been defined by precise numbers, predictable outcomes, and strategic control. He was always the man who solved the equations and who could balance the scales. Yet, the more he stared at the blank pages of the upcoming week, the more powerless he felt.
The divorce wasn’t just a failure of his marriage, it collapsed his whole life. He felt bitter and resentment, not just toward his ex-wife Cheryl, but towards the entire concept of the life he had built around it. He’d done everything right according to the ledger. He had provided, played the part of the respectable, stable husband; and in return, he had been handed a box of his own books, a standard custody schedule for his own son that felt more like a prison schedule for him, and an apartment that smelled too strongly of fresh paint and cheap laminate.
As he kept his eyes locked on the pages, a sharp knock broke the quiet, startling him out of the gray fog in his mind.
“Huh, who the bloody hell is here at this hour?” The divorced man asked, half annoyed and half concerned. “Hell, who even knows that I’m here?” Walking up to the heavy, wooden door, he found himself facing face-to-face with three, iconic colleagues of his.
“Finally!” Yul pushed past Alec without an invitation, smelling strongly of expensive-cologne and cheap energy drinks. Following his lead was Sam and Spencer, who felt the presence was filled with loneliness and hitting rock bottom. Yul turned to Alec to face him.
“Look at you, sitting in the dark like a gargoyle. You’re pathetic, Çelik. The ink on the papers are dry. You’re a free man! And tonight, we are celebrating that freedom whether you like it or not.”
“I’m not in the mood for a drink, Yul,” Alec exasperated, his voice filled with a bubble of pure exhaustion dropping over his features. “And I certainly don’t remember giving you three my new building code.”
“Relax, your ex-wife told us where you were living now.” Sam revealed all calm, not wanting to increase conflict.
“Besides, this is for your own good,” Spencer added, adjusting his glasses, not once feeling intimated by Alec’s cold glare. “You've been a living hell for a month now, Alec. A change of scenery might statistically improve your cortisol levels.” Alec rubbed the bridge of his nose, feeling a headache blossoming right behind his eyes. He wanted to throw them all out and sink blank into his resentful quiet. But as he looked past them into his living room, at the single cardboard box of unpacked academic journals sitting under the television, a sudden, heavy wave of defeat washed over him. Staying here meant staring at the walls and it meant counting the minutes until morning.
“Fine,” Alec reluctantly muttered, reaching for his dark overcoat by the door. His voice was laced with a deep, cynical bite. “Where are we going?” Yul grinned a flash of white teeth with no genuine warmth and evil plans hiding behind it.
“A little place downtown. High End Secretive. The kind of place where a guy like you forgets he ever had a mortgage or a shitty, ass marriage.”
Currently in progress of making an AU where Apple and Raven are the Ladybug and Cat Holders in the Ever After High universe as I'd mentioned in these past posts of mine.
Hopefully the first chapter will be made this weekend, but before I do anything else, here's a list of all the holders and the miraculouses that fit them.
🐞Apple White — Ladybug
🐈⬛ Raven Queen — Cat
🦋 The Evil Queen — Butterfly
🦚 Faybelle Thorn — Peacock
🦊 Cerise Hood — Fox
🐢 Dexter Charming — Turtle
🐝 Briar Beauty — Bee
🐉 Lizzie Hearts — Dragon
🐍 Alistair Wonderland — Snake
🐎 Daring Charming — Horse
🐒 Maddie Hatter — Monkey
🐭 Ashlynn Ella — Mouse
🐷 Rosabella Beauty — Pig
🐯 Darling Charming — Tiger
🐂 Hunter Huntsman — Ox
🐐 Cedar Wood — Goat
🐓 Hooper Croakington II — Rooster
🐕 Holly O'Hair — Dog
🐇 Bunny Blanc — Rabbit
🐲Crystal Winter — Prodigious
The only one I'm missing is the Eagle Miraculous, but I'm not sure who to give it to TBH.
If you have any suggestions or any changes you would make, tell me in the comments and/or reblogs!
Miraculous + Total Drama Girls as Taylor Swift Eras:
I'd mentioned this before that I'm gonna be doing this as an art project in the future, so now here's the list of each girl from both shows as each era:
💚Debut-Zoe/Priya (Both are the youngest of the group and the album talks about young love, first crushes, and early experiences as a teenager.)
💛Fearless-Marinette/Carrie (Both represent young girls falling in love with your best friend and want to pursue that fairytale ending with them.)
💜Speak Now-Rose/Ella (The album talks about experiencing heartbreak, but moving on from it. Although Rose got her relationship with Juleka, she still deals with pain in life, such as her illness, but still finds that happiness to keep going. Ella, on the other hand, was upset that Dave liked Sky but chose to move on to become happier.)
❤️Red-Kagami/Emma [from the 2023 Season] (This album deals with heartbreak from your first ever boyfriend and wishing you could have been more aware of him. Definitely fits both of their relationships with Adrien and Chase.)
🩵1989-Alya/Julia (The album's theme is all about self-discovery. With Alya, it can reflect her learning more about Marinette being Ladybug and being on her best friend's side no matter; with Julia, it can be more of a villainous side where she learns that her true colors made her popular.)
🖤Reputation-Lila/Courtney (Both are the villains of the shows and aren't well liked by any of the characters due to their notorious acts. Reputation's Animal Motif is the Snake, an animal known for their sneaky, yet deadly approaches; something Lila and Courtney both have. The album talks about if you fuck around, you're gonna find out.)
🩷Lover-Ondine/Dakota (Besides the pink theme fitting Dakota, it also talks about finding out your self-love and finding your true happiness.)
🩶Folklore-Juleka/Gwen (This and Evermore are both "cottagecore" albums. They talk about storytelling and escapism. Both Juleka and Gwen are lonely, introverted goth girls who go through multiple challenges from being loners to finding people they can happily call friends or even a lover. Both were also involved in a love triangle at one point.)
🤎Evermore-Mylene/Dawn (Both are the pacifist hippie girls and as Evermore is the Sister Album to Folklore, it still tackles those escapism and storytelling cottagecore themes.)
💙Midnights-Chloe/Heather (Both are the main mean girls of the series who deep down, have serious insecurity issues that make them an easy target by their peers. Hell, the song "Anti Hero" can easily discuss how one is viewed by the media. Basically, Chloe and Heather are aware that they are hated and they hate themselves for it.)
🤍The Tortured Poets Department-Sabrina/Zoey (This album explains how heartbreak and grief can affect a person. Either because Sabrina broke off ties with Chloe for good and is still coping with the pain, or Zoey has to deal with Mike falling for another girl or worried that he might not love her back.)
🧡Life of a Showgirl-Aurore/Nichelle (Both are already celebrities in their own shows, so the title alone speaks it all. They also had to deal with losing their reputation due to either faking their own stunts or being seen as a sore loser and later, an akumatized villain until they climbed back up to the top.)
Anyones you like or dislike? Agree or disagree? Anyones you would change? Let me down below~
