#patrick o'brian

[lovesick-joey]

my stupid snake colleague

[fabular-mr-fox]

Invited to a baby shower, and it had a “decorate a onesie” activity so…

[megafaunatic]

I want a face that's fair this time I want a spirit that is calm

[s-u-w-i]

"A dark form drifted from the sombre cliff-face on the starboard beam—an enormous pointed wingspan: as ominous as fate. Stephen gave a swinish grunt, snatched the telescope from under Jack's arm, elbowed him out of the way and squatted at the rail, resting the glass on it and focusing with great intensity. 'A bearded vulture! It is a bearded vulture!' he cried. 'A young bearded vulture.' 'Well,' said Jack instantly—not a second's hesitation 'I dare say he forgot to shave this morning.' His red face crinkled up, his eyes diminished to a bright blue slit and he slapped his thigh, bending in such a paroxysm of silent mirth, enjoyment and relish that for all the Sophie's strict discipline the man at the wheel could not withstand the infection and burst out in a strangled 'Hoo, hoo, hoo,' instantly suppressed by the quartermaster at the con."

Decided to spend my last vacation day (before starting to work on a new book) coloring these. Well-spent day. Jack finding his poor jokes so very funny is so sweet.

[timeburger]

break week

[soundoftheirwings]

Extremely tickled by Aubrey measuring snake length by FATHOM.

The Montpellier snake in fact does not usually exceed 1 fathom long (1.8m).

[lastivenka]

Expressing my love for the book by drawing a cover

[aethirios]

Ok don't ask me how I got here but I just learned that Venom can also transform into regular clothing.

I think it'd be pretty funny if like, Venom and Plastic Man beefed on who could make better clothing and with poor peter just stuck in-between the two.

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Peter made one mistake.

One.

The Justice League needed someone undercover at a gala, Peter was broke as hell, running on three hours of sleep, so when Venom puffed up proudly with a booming

WE CAN DO FORMAL.

Peter had said, “...Sure.”

Big mistake.

Because Venom immediately flowed over him into an insanely sharp black suit. Tailored fit. And Honestly? It was nice

Unfortunately tho, Plastic Man was standing right there

He looked Peter up and down, narrowed his eyes, and went, “Oh, so that’s what we’re doing.”

Then shifted into the most offensively chic white suit Peter had ever seen.

And thus began the world’s pettiest fashion war between two shapeshifters with the emotional maturity of middle schoolers.

This continued well beyond the mission.

Every gala. Every briefing. Every patrol.

They kept trying to outdo each other at every possible opportunity.

And Peter? Peter was just the unwilling mannequin caught in the middle.

Which is how Peter eventually found himself in the middle of an active alien invasion, standing on a battlefield while Venom kept changing Peter’s suit to one-up Plastic Man, who was aggressively color-swapping his own, turning the whole thing into some deeply cursed version of the Aurora dress scene from sleeping beauty

And Peter Parker, getting forcibly put into his seventh outfit change in ten minutes, genuinely started cursing the radioactive spider that apparently doomed him to whatever the fuck this was.