Most Normal Boiling Isles Couple Be Like

A Role to Play: Finished!

Part 3 of RTP is done! This encompasses several months in the domestic life of Vee and Masha and the significant developments in their relationship. It is very spicy.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/59673937/chapters/164143651

I do have some notions for future RTP content, but otherwise, I'm calling this done and moving on to chapter 30 of Your Touch, and starting up another side project I'm calling Six Tropes Walk into a Coffeehouse — a humorous human AU, beta Lumity story! A little preview:

Amity is the heiress of the Blight family fortune. Luz is a small town girl—or maybe boy; she's not always sure what she wants to be—who's been putting up with her snooty behavior for the last two years, and if she hears "service with a smile!" from her manager just one more time after a visit from the insufferably catty young woman, she might take a bat to his head. They're as different as could be, from social class to the grades they get in school. They mix like oil and water, if the oil's on fire and the water wants to kick its ass.

So when Amity comes into the coffeehouse to ask a huge favor, Luz is determined that she's going to get her money's worth before she agrees to anything. Amity needs a date for the biggest business dinner of the next ten years. Every major competitor will be there, vying for the attention of investors like the Blights. Mergers will be discussed. Deals will be signed. Futures will be carved out between billionaires and their kids, and the kids won't necessarily have a say in matters.

Amity needs a date. It's the only way to ensure her parents won't try to sell her off at the first opportunity. The problem is that any of the people she calls friends are exactly the kinds of people she'd rather not wind up married off to, and since they're already on her parents' short list of approved company…

It's a perfect opportunity to get this unbearable, self-important snot out of Luz's life for good. One night of shaking hand and speaking in a fake rich person accent for a pile of money and never seeing that ridiculous dye job in the customer line again? She's down.

There's only one small problem, and it just ran her over in the parking lot.

"Luz, are you okay? Did Amity do this?!"

"I'm fine! … Who's Amity?"

Chapter 29

Dear stars. At long last, chapter 29 is finished, clocking in at over 18,300 words. I may have let this chapter get completely away from me. https://archiveofourown.org/works/55091485/chapters/163481692

Twenty-one sheets of paper. She'd started with just drawing the symbol—there had to be a better word for it. Rune? Glyph, maybe?—over and over, trying to recreate it without a reference this time. The first few didn't seem right, but the fourth clicked somehow. Her lines weren't perfect; the drawing lessons her father had given her so long ago were muddied by years without practice, but there was apparently some amount of leeway permitted.

A single tap and the paper crinkled upon itself and expanded into a dull glowing ball of light, and for a wonder, it didn't even hurt her eyes that much. In fact, she liked it so much that she drew it again and made another light, and then another, and then another, and before long she could draw the glyph from memory.

Twenty-one pages, twenty-one lights. If the light really had played any role in Eda's transforming back, Luz was certainly making extra sure the effect lasted as long as possible. Practical applications, practice makes perfect and all that. She wasn't just making lights for the sake of the sheer giddy joy of doing magic. Just... academic reasons.

I love these two, even if I put them through way more angst than they deserve.

Veesha my beloved 🙏🙏🙏 I love them sm, literally one of my favorite ships.

I head cannon that vee uses she/they btw!

THE BESTIESS!!! they are like the sassy makeover friend group.

Tumblr's doing a glitchy thing and notified me that I had three messages in my inbox, but wouldn't show me what they were. If you sent me an ask, I didn't get it. 🤷‍♀️

I love these so much. I'm having a powerful temptation to try writing a take on the series that revolves around the Boiling Isles having a wholly unique culture that Belos has been subverting across the centuries, gradually twisting myths and legends around death and transformation into ones of guilt and inescapable sin. "Bloody paint on the hands, feet, and mouth? When we were primordial beasts, we sustained ourselves with the red hunt, tearing our prey apart and glorifying ourselves in their slaughter. Oh, we don't do that sort of thing these days. Not often, anyway." "Abomination paint under the eyes? That symbolizes the death and decay from which we grew, and we memorialize it in tears because our lifegiver could only create us through the ultimate sacrifice. Our art pays homage to the Titan, without whose death we literally would not exist." And then along comes Belos, insisting that this is a perversion meant to absolve witches of the true horror of their existence, not as their god's children, but parasites whose sustained existence only indicts them for crimes against their maker. It would add a new dimension to the coven system, not just as a "purer" form of magic, but one allegedly intended to reconcile the unworthy wretches of the world to their creator.

grom night :))

Painting Over

The Hexside Skittle Squad!

Might as well post it here too! Thrilled to have received this art I commissioned from @gibbledygoo in honor of the Skittle Squad: Morgan Terry, Not-So-Average-Fangirl aka Elijah, and Wee Scottish Reacts aka Mosco! These lovely people helped stoke my passion for the Owl House, leading me to finally take the plunge and come out of retirement to start writing my first fanfic since 2003! As thanks, I'll be including their Hexside counterparts in a cameo in the upcoming chapter 19 of the fic in hopes of sending some new faces to their channels to repay the many hours of entertainment and inspiration I've gotten from their reactions and analyses of this series and many more! A link roundup: Gib Morgan Reacts Not-So-Average-Fangirl

Wee Lass Reacts The fic in question: https://archiveofourown.org/works/55091485/

And each of those chapters is going to be freaking HUGE these days anyway, so at least you're getting your money's worth. =-p

it may take me a month to put out a chapter but at least im not using ai to write it.

it may take me a month to put out a chapter but at least im not using ai to write it.

it may take me a month to put out a chapter but at least im not using ai to write it.

it may take me a month to put out a chapter but at least im not using ai to write it.

it may take me a month to put out a chapter but at least im not using ai to write it.

IT MAY TAKE ME A MONTH TO PUT OUT A CHAPTER BUT AT LEAST IM NOT USING AI TO WRITE IT