I'm so glad I was able to draw as much and as often as I did this year <33 Every artwork was just a positive experience looking back, a really good source of comfort during a really heavy year for me :')
2025 noticeably ended up being the Year of Kraena and Lorna sdfgsdgw <33 After YEARS figuring out how to create them lore-wise and design-wise they're finally here, and I'm hoping to write new fics of them in their own AU very soon—I already have tons of ideas to compile a whole series of so the wait won't be too long :> and I'm just very, very thankful and happy for all the love and excitement these two got from my Hilda mutuals when I started sharing them, ranging from all the Lorna gift art to just people gushing, thanks so much everyone <33 :D
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
So, just to make this very clear, we're blaming @shootingstarpilot for the absolute monster this story has turned into.
Please enjoy the first chapter of It Takes a Village, a story of found family, court drama, and a few guys being both really bad and really good at romance:
If you had asked any one of the Fett brothers if they expected to find themselves embroiled in a fierce court battle involving child abuse and murder because Helix Fett was soft under all the grump and snarling, they would have laughed in your face.
Except Cody. He wouldn't have said he saw it coming per se, but he's not surprised. After all, Stitch was Needle's best friend and he needed help. He knows his brother; they were involved as soon as Helix laid eyes on the kid.
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They say it takes a village to raise a child; Cody can only begin to imagine what it takes to put a child's abusive parents in jail and then adopt said child.
Due to a series of quite fortunate meetings, the combined power (and villages) of Cody Fett, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Mace Windu are aiming right for the Su-Burtonis--and their mysterious benefactor--and they have no idea what's coming for them.
pairing: eddie kaspbrak/richie tozier [reddie] & stanley uris/patty uris [stanpat] (others as progresses)
rating: teen audiences and up
preview word count: 848 and unedited
summary: 10 years after graduating high school, the losers are taking on adulthood. richie attempts to juggle time with his daughter, finding his big break and resurfacing feelings for an old flame. stan and patty try are trying to start a family as mike has to question if he’s found his true path. eddie struggles to express himself verbally, ben and beverly find that sometimes love isn’t enough and bill figures out his ending.
perma taglist: @jwilliambyers, @kaspzier @s-s-georgie, @transrich @eddiefuckinkaspbrak, @richietoaster @edstozler, @emgays, @anellope, @thorn-harvester-ven, @wheezyeds, @vipertooth, @tozierking, @billdenbrough, @trashmouthtozierr, @perseusjaxon, @loserslibrary (let me know if you want added!)
sneak peak under the cut:
“We should find the time to get the gang back together.” Richie Tozier said, barely looking up from the tea party he was currently hosting with Sam. Her black curls that revivaled her fathers were ducked under a backwards neon yellow baseball cap that in no way matched her strawberry print sundress. “A good old Losers reunion.”
“You don’t need to plan some elaborate reunion as an excuse to see Eddie, you know?” Stan Uris said dryly from behind the puzzle he was putting together on their living room table. “He lives in the city, you have his number. Just ask him to get coffee.”
Richie scoffed and shot Stan a dirty look. “I said Losers Reunion, not Richie and Eddie reunion. It has nothing to do with seeing Eddie, I don’t even know who that is.”
Patty snickered from where she was curled up with a book on the loveseat, and Sam mimicked the sound. Richie couldn’t help but smile, it wasn’t very often that they were all home. Patty worked at River East Elementary School teaching kindergarten, and was therefore gone all week and home only on weekends. Stan had similar hours at the bank, but Richie’s schedule was all over the place and completely unpredictable. This was the first weekend he’d had off since he’d started at DreamWorks TV nearly a year earlier. He was hoping that he’d start getting more weekends off- he worried he was missing out on too much of Sam’s life.
Samantha Tozier had never been part of the plan, but Richie wouldn’t trade her for anything. Richie and her mother, Sandy Gill, had only been seeing each other casually when she’d found out she was pregnant. They’d tried throughout the pregnancy to make it work, but they couldn’t pretend to be in love with each other. They barely knew each other, really, and only a couple of months after Sam had been born, Sandy had tearfully told Richie that this wasn’t the life she wanted. She wanted to travel and be free, she didn’t want to be a mom and that she was sorry. Richie had understood- it wasn’t the life he’d expected either, but he adapted to it quickly and loved it more than he’d thought he would. Last he’d heard from Sandy had been 8 months earlier, and she was living somewhere in South Africa. He sometimes worried about what Sam was missing out on with her mother gone, but he felt it was the better option than having Sandy resent being forced to stay around. Plus, she had Stan and Patty in her life, which was better than any parents. Richie knew that for a fact.
Stan and Patty were trying to get pregnant, Patty had told him a couple weeks earlier. They were having problems, but Richie and Stan hadn’t talked about it. Richie thought that maybe he was embarrassed. Two of his closest friends had found themselves with surprise children out of the blue, and he couldn’t get his own wife with child after months of trying. It was nothing to be ashamed of, Richie knew, but he also knew that Stan likely wouldn’t see it that way.
“Besides, Eddie has a boyfriend.” Richie said with a long sigh. “Haven’t you heard? They’re the It couple of the business world these days.”
Eddie Kaspbrak was the one who got away. Throughout puberty, Richie had been absolutely in love with him. He’d been the awakening to Richie’s deeply, deeply repressed homosexual feelings. Eddie had made the summer before high school a hell of emotion overload, and it hadn’t really gotten any better in years. The five months they’d been together in Richie’s junior year had been one of the happiest times of Richie’s life. But Richie’s junior year had been Eddie’s senior year, and Richie knew that their relationship was going to hold Eddie back from getting out of Derry (and away from his crazy ass insane mother) and Richie couldn’t let that happen. He wasn’t proud of everything he did as their relationship fell apart, and he didn’t blame Eddie for not keeping in touch after he left. He’d been friendly enough at Stan’s wedding, but they weren’t exactly texting buddies even now. Though Richie couldn’t deny that some lingering feelings had made themselves apparent after seeing Eddie at the wedding.
Not just little feelings, either, no. Full blown Oh it’s you. I’ve always been waiting for type bullshit. Richie liked to downplay it as much as possible, but he figured that Stan and Patty had figured it out. They were just giving him space, they were both extremely good at knowing when to push Richie and when to back off. Richie had fucked things up with Eddie- good reasons be damned- and Eddie was better off. He was rich and successful and verified on fucking Twitter. He didn’t need some loser high school ex boyfriend whose job was to fetch coffee for people who were verified on Twitter with a pre-school aged daughter dragging him down. Best if Richie just moved on.
Drew characters from one of my series' It Takes A Village, about a girl's life under the warmth and care of different grown ups and families across her county. Frankie is the girl with glasses at the center and the protagonist girl, while everyone else from left to right is Maddie, Zachariah, and Carole whom Frankie loves very much and whom they love back :> Would absolutely be happy if you're interested reading the only 2 stories out so far since ITAV is one of my more sentimental and special stories I've worked on <33
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
Stitch’s no good, very bad day at the hospital.
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“Did Needle ever tell you about the time he and Rex tried to build a treehouse without telling anyone?”
Stitch shakes his head, and Helix can’t help but grin as he moves to Stitch’s elbow, even as he notes the discoloration that seems to decorate the entirety of the young boy’s limb. It’s hard to keep the expression in place when his eyes flick to Stitch’s wrist, though. The bruises look like hand prints.
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It’s a couple days later than I had wanted to post (fucking editing) but chapter two is officially posted.
Thank you to everyone who’s already interacted with the work, I appreciate you all so much and hope you enjoy the second installment of It Takes a Village.
