Thank you all so much for participating this Azris Week - we added over 50 fics to the Azris tag in just the past seven days! Some of you delivered with a work on each day, and some of you posted TWO, you beasts.
Stay tuned for the winner of the Hype Bat Challenge...
Victor Frankenstein after achieving the impossible and building a fucking person from scraps of the dead: Oh god, ew, ew it's ugly! Yucky! Yucky! Gross! Ew! Ew! Yucky! Yucky! Gross! Ew!
30 is the new 20? idk, 30 might be the new 75. my mornings are spent birdwatching, my texts are on do not disturb, I think phones are ruining the world, and all I want is my peace and quiet. "oh my" is my instinct of surprise. 8:30 pm comes around, and I'm ready for bed with a piping hot mug of chamomile. everything feels abundantly new and fast and flashy and I just want to finish my cross-stitch.
It is with great excitement that I announce to everyone my first Acotar fanfic: In your rhythm !
Pairing: Azriel x Eris Vanserra
Status: Oneshot (?) 2739 words
Summary: Eris Vanserra only agreed to spend the evening at Rita's to offer moral support to his hopelessly lovestruck younger brother. He planned to leave as quickly as possibleā until a chance encounter with a man with a deep voice and an intense gaze made him reconsider his plans.
He can only hope this won't end the way it always does.
Ao3 Link š
P.S: I posted this story on Ao3 a while back, but since English is not my first language I decided to revise it some more before announcing it on Tumblr.
mom can you come get me things are getting bad again and i feel every insult like a sharp tooth and i feel my dreams rotting under my fingernails and i feel too much all the time or else i feel nothing at all and it doesnāt seem to matter if i drink and dance and party or if i stay at home curled up to study
mom are you sure when i was born i was a person and not just a vortex. always hungry. always swallowing. no matter how much goes in me i always end up empty.
please wear sunscreen!!! I've seen "fuck the beauty industrial complex" posts about complicated skincare regimens and am 100% with them except sometimes they mention sunscreen and no. no. absolutely not. sunscreen is a wonderful supportive friend who wants to keep you safe, and you should let her do it. throw out all your other cosmetics and skincare products if you want, but keep your sunscreen. and if you're not wearing sunscreen, start wearing it!!!! this is not about terror of aging, this is not about every tiny imperfection our fucked-up culture has made you feel insecure about, this is about protecting yourself from skin cancer. wear the damn sunscreen.
i was training a young person at work, and she referred to sexual assault as "SA" out loud, and i immediately was like, "no, it's sexual assault, call it what it is," bc idgaf if the algorithm overlords have taught y'all that you should fear direct language, how tf do any of you expect to ever address real issues with any amount of seriousness if you can't even say the words? imagine an advocate looking a sexual assault survivor in the eyes and asking "did he grape you?" it's absolutely fucking absurd, but these young interns and new hires are coming into an environment where we deal with survivors of all different kinds of abuse, and they're coming with the mindset that the words are as bad as the actions, and that makes them shitty at the job and look juvenile af
i HATE self-censorship for a lot of reasons, but being in crisis work makes it even more frustrating. who are you censoring for? like i am being so fr, WHO are you censoring for? have you even thought it through? people who have been raped know that they have been raped. if someone attempts suicide or is grieving someone who did, saying "sewer slide" isn't going to protect them from any of the feelings. a murder victim's family isn't going to feel better bc you said "unalived" instead of murdered. if anything, it's just extremely invalidating and othering. it's saying "what happened to you is so bad that i won't even say the word," which is NOT trauma-informed care. you are not protecting survivors/victims when you self-censor. the ONLY things you protect when you self-censor are the puritanical ideologies that are being encouraged by rich fascists who want your money and obedience
say the fucking words, guys. just say the goddamn words before i go insane!!!
i finally finished this drawing!!! it was supposed to be for @elucienweekofficial but life got in the way, and so here we areā¦
please enjoy an elucien moodboard drawing thingy!
closeups and notes under the cut!
notes:
i apologize for the not-so-great quality of both the photo and the drawing itself; my fave eraser has gone AWOL so thatās why the background is a lil iffyā¦and i am most definitely NOT a professional photographer so sorry about that as well
i originally had an idea for the pearl earrings to be sort of greenish pearls, kinda looking like they came from the Middle (i think it would be SO CUTE if lucien actually went and got the pearls from the Middle or the Weaver or some such scary magical entity), but as you can see it did not work out as well as iād hoped. they ended up looking really murky and not like pearls at all, so i had to give them more of a blue color palette instead
the flower is a cosmos, which is the flower i most associate with elain (that and sunflowers!). i based the design off of one of my cosmos plants šø
i had SO MUCH FUN with the gradient on the sun and on lucienās eye!!! i love doing gradients, so this was honestly one of my fave parts of this whole piece!
iāve been sitting on the picture of elainās eye for AGESā¦no really i think itās been in my sketchbook for almost three monthsā¦i just never did anything with it š but i am really glad i finally used it; itās so fun and symbolic and ARTSYYYYY
some of the quotes are probably not word-accurate to the books because i didnāt have them in front of me so i was forced to rely in the internet (mostly the goodreads quotes lists for both elain and lucien) but never fear, i did NOT use the google ai chatbot (nor will i ever)
i know the layout is a little lopsided and squished in placesā¦this js because i wasnāt expecting to have so many lil arts on the page, so i didnāt plan it out with that in mind. yes i am stupid. yes (no) i have (not) learned my lesson.
HERE IS A LINK TO THE WIP I POSTED FOR ELUCIEN WEEK!!!
i think thatās pretty much it for this pieceā¦likes, comments, and reblogs are ALWAYS appreciated!!!
if you wanna be on my acotar/general art taglist, please comment or otherwise lmk and i will add you to the tag trainšš¶š
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