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Find an old treasure and renew its shine ✨
Let me tell you a short story about how it's never too late to comment on an "old" fic.
When I had one of my babies, a bunch of people brought me food that first week. It was wonderful!
Then, like 3 months later, someone brought me dinner out of the blue. They said they liked to do that because parents need support when their babies are 3 months old just as much as they need it when they're 3 days old. This was so special and appreciated!
This person didn't say to themselves, "It's too late to bring dinner now, it's been 3 months, it would be weird now." Because they knew it is never too late nor weird to be kind.
Let me say that again.
It is never too late nor weird to be kind.
My oldest kid is almost 16 years old now. If someone randomly brought me dinner now so I didn't have to cook tonight, I would worship them just as much as those people who brought me dinner 15 years ago.
Fanfic authors need your support when their fic is 15 years old just as much as they need it when it's 3 months old and just as they need it when it's 3 days old. There is literally never a time when it is too late to comment. Every nice comment is a gift and brings us joy.
So please go comment on someone's old fic today. Or bring someone dinner who's had a baby in the last 20 years. I guarantee neither of these recipients will think you're weird for supporting them.
That little ♥️ means so much to creators! It takes a lot of effort to create something and share it with you. We are real people, not AI. When you read a fic or enjoy an artwork, please take a moment to tap that little kudos/like button and you might just impact someone in a positive way more than you could imagine. Spread the love!
Is leaving kudos on fanfics not common courtesy anymore?
Something I've noticed on AO3 in the last two years is the lack of kudos and comments left on fanfics.
Fanfics have an increasing number of hits, but their kudos and comments remain minimal.
I understand that leaving comments is daunting, but kudos is the easiest thing you can do to show support and appreciation for an author.
Part of me wants to blame BookTok and the commercialized consumption of books.
Readers are more demanding and impatient for content, but they're quick to move on once a book is published. It's a constant demand for 'More, more, more' without appreciating and/or supporting authors. And these readers are now getting into fanfic.
I don't want to complain because it's not productive. But if you're new and getting into fanfic: Support writers.
Support means leaving kudos on AO3, and if you're able, leaving a comment. It's simple courtesy.
Genderbent dandy world toons part 4
So part 4 this is the finish line… maybe
I’m not sure if I’m gonna do the Easter toons and draw them as they were released yesterday, it isn’t a no I’m just not used to there style and need a bit to adjust.
So during the last few the last 2 was ment to be coal and pebble because I didn’t know how to tackle the dogs because they both was in the middle so it was hard to do them. But as I was up to pebble Yatta was relsied and I didn’t plan to do her but in the end I did.
I made Yatta have a mowhark as it felt fitting with her horns and change the pink to a red to give a more masculine feel to the genderbent of yatta. One of her poses are related to shadows back shot poses from the official game, art, Media, ect
Pebble has 3 styles which one was suggest from @idiotsmart-cozy-cottage / @idiotsmart1 which was the white one while @qibsichan and most other sever memebers preferred the tan one.
Yatta was still new to me so it was hard to get her design down
Agsin here’s a link to part 3 which has a link to part 2 which has a link to part 1
Special thanks to smartest and dumbest person@idiotsmart1 / @idiotsmart-cozy-cottage, my best mate @qibsichan, the most chaotic person I know @bazyboo13, and others who attend the live event on the sever
To be continued?
Genderbent dandy world toons part 3
Part 3 has the Christmas toons with the first one being rudie and the last is coal and coal fits so well with a charater called tim Lockwood (you will under when you see it)
Also here is a link to part 2 that has a link to part 1
Genderbent dandy world toons part 2
So this part two where I made a genderbent flutter than looks like her brother flyte so take it as you will
Also @idiotsmart1 / @idiotsmart-cozy-cottage joked that boxten and poppy fits the Sk8er boi song
Also here’s a link to another post, I did finished the first chapter and fix it, I need a friend to fix a area the. I can post the first chapter
Also here’s the first part of the genderbenting of the toons https://www.tumblr.com/calebtsm/781307970669690880/genderbent-toons-part-1
Genderbent Dandy world toons part 1
So I made all the toons genderbent back in march 3rd and finished all of them on the 23rd of march (20 days) but didn’t post them until now because we had a server event when I show them on the 12th of April which I didn’t want any of them to spoil the surprise
I have made of total of 34 toons drawings (some have extra styles or poses) with one of them being a fix by @qibsichan and one a suggestion by @idiotsmart1 / @idiotsmart-cozy-cottage
There is gonna be 4 post of this
I just made my 3rd poppy playtime story on A03 with my good friend Qibsichan AU smaller bodies
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/56227324/chapters/142841473
This is made while I had Covid so this isn’t my best work I suggest you check my others being either smiling Olympics or let’s paint
(Let’s paint): https://archiveofourown.org/works/54900325
Smiling Olympics: https://archiveofourown.org/works/55245436/chapters/140132872
Okay but like,
Why am I lowkey starting to head cannon Angel's voice claim as Roxie Hart (Renée Zellweger) from Chicago (2002), like
I know in the movie Roxie doesn't have a Boston accent, but I think it just sounds like her, idk. And I can imagine Angel singing her own little cover of the song 'Roxie' somewhere down the line of her music career. But make it... 'Angel'.
As always, have a fantabulous day/night!
Lackadogs: Maeve
A sketch of our dear Mae-mae as a Lacka-dog, or more specifically, a Saluki.
As always, have a Splendacious day/night!
Lacka-oc's part 4!
Hannah Kesser belongs to @airenrts
Rosemary Cabrero belongs to @blood-n-gold
Alexandra "Riff Raff" Delucci belongs to @cats0naut
And, Halina Dabrowski belongs to @wpk12art
As always, have a pulchritudinous day/night!
Angelique : Expressions
(got bored, made this to compensate for my boredom)
Took awhile, but the last of the trio is finally finished! I present to you:
Transcription (due to the trend endlessly blurry images):
Born: 14th of February, 1901
Boston, Massachusetts
Born to Marie and Philip Caradine. Angelique, or ‘Angel’ as she calls herself nowadays, had had a fairly normal upbringing in the early years leading up to 1912. Well... If you discounted the gang her family were associated with.
Being the youngest of the Caradine siblings, she was coddled and babied by her older siblings and parents. Often told by her relatives that she had a wonderful voice. Though, not all was happy in the Caradine household. As a week after her eleventh birthday, her brothers and father would be massacred in an unseen ambush by a rival gang over a turf of land. Forcing her remaining family into a miserable ten years of poverty.
From that point on, Angelique would use the only thing she was ever good at to help her family from falling to famine. That being her voice. Singing for small crowds in the streets, and when she got older, on the stage in dance halls, or really any place that would have her. Whilst her two remaining siblings, Remy and Dotty, would take turns collecting the payments and performing alongside her. That was most likely how she got scouted. Eventually it became a career for her as she reached her early twenties, and at the age of twenty-one, she would leave behind the house she and her family had bought in Tennessee. Travelling around the southern half of America for a few years or so, before moving to St. Louis, Missouri, due to her newfound employment at the ‘Hotel Maribel’. Sure, she lives in a dingy little hotel room on the outskirts of St. Louis. But as long as she kept on moving, things would surely come her way eventually... Right?
Aside from singing her heart out on stage, Angel has shown to be quite proficient in dance. Commonly incorporating a slice of choreography into her performances whenever the moment arises. She has also shown to be quite skilled in the art of gossip, making it all the more chaotic due to her rather sociable nature. And the fact that when you get her to start, you can’t get her to stop. In addition to being the queen of smack-talk, it is relatively unknown to most cats that she speaks a small bit of French. Mostly due to her mother’s French ancestry. Oh, and if you were wondering, yes she does have an accent. She just likes to suppress it.
As always, have a magnifique day/night! 😘
Second Lacka-oc finished!
(Transcription for any who find the image too blurry):
Born: November 27th, 1903
Salem, Massachusetts
Maeve Midwinter, the proprietor (and solitary worker) of a cosy little bookstore in downtown St. Louis. The epitome of a pristine and upstanding citizen, she carries herself with utmost pride. Serving her community like the very legal citizen she is.
Well... Aside from her random bursts of uncontrollable rage. But she will assure you it was just the amount of caffeine she had in her coffee that morning, "It's nothing, I assure you!". But besides that, Maeve has devoted her life to her books, the few things in life she finds worth her time. That, and the fact that she chooses to associate with what her mother would call the scum of the earth, supplying speakeasies with a portion of illegally made wine. Though perhaps being a supplier certainly has its... Perks. For example, getting to know the charming Australian bootlegger working for the infamous Marigold gang. Who she seems to have taken quite the liking to.
Among the pleasantness of her small bookshop on the corner, this gentlewoman enjoys listening to the ambience of her many records on her gramaphone. Coupled with the oh so calming turn of a book page when nobody is around. Loving all fashion with ruffles and jewels to them, she collects anything even remotely shiny she can get her little mitts on. As well as being an avid lover of dark humour, and strawberry flavoured macarons.
Very happy to have Maeve's character card done, I find her to be the more ostentatious of the three given her... wealthier upbringing.
As always, have a dazzling rest of your day/night! 😘
Calliope: Recollection
(a poorly drawn mini-comic inspired by a recent convo between yours truly and @ahhhh-118, enjoy!)
Translation:
Cairns family homestead, 1917...
Adeline: Calliope?... Where are you going with that shovel?
Calliope: just gonna go withdraw some money, mum.
Calliope (in mind): just a little money...
A few years earlier...
Robert: Oi, Calli! Where yah goin'?
Calliope: Goin' down to feed the sheep, why?
Callum: *narrows eyes in suspicion*
Robert: You've only got a few more bucks in your allowance, so.yah betta make it count.
Calliope: Yessir!
Calliope (in present mind): *sigh*
Calliope (still in present mind): It's just to keep us fed... I promise I'll pay you back... Someday
For context, this follows an eighteen year old Calliope (aka, when she still had long hair) whose mother approaches her about where she's going. Calliope responds that she's going to withdraw money, but doesn't tell her that she's withdrawing money from the secret stash of money Calli and her brothers had stolen from banks and buried out on their families property (they come from a family of cattle farmers). Calli reminisces to herself about only taking a little, before we're thrown back to a fifteen year old Calli with her two older brothers Robert and Callum. Robert asks Calli where she's going and she responds with lie, of which her brothers catch onto. Robert replying with what he knows she's actually going to do, and says to use the rest of what she has in her 'allowance' wisely. As to make it even they had divided up their loot. Calli salutes him with her shovel before we cut to eighteen year old Calli thinking to herself, this time about how she would pay back her brothers the money she took from them to be able to feed her and her mother while they were away fighting in the great war. If they ever did come home, that is...
Woo, that was a doozy! Sorry for making the post so long 😅, there was just too much info I wanted to stuff in. Thank you so very much to the people that read this far!
With that in mind, have a splendiferous day/night!
AHAHAHAGUSJFZTUXBH- *cough cough* pardon me. Just finished Calli's little character poster after... Multiple hours, and here it is!
Transcription (so sorry for the blurriness 😭):
Born: December 6th, 1899
Murray bridge, South Australia
Born and raised on the murky expanse of the Murray river, Calliope was always one for life on her family's cattle farm. And, undenounced to her parents, the life of a small-time bank robber in the latter half of her teenage years. Considered more wayward and rebellious the older she got, it came as a shock to her when her elder brothers, and father, were enlisted in the armed forces to fight in the great war. Leaving only her and her mother to take care of the farm for the years they were away. And by circumstances of a tragic heartbreak, Calliope left her homeland and became a stowaway on a cargo ship heading for the distant lands of the Americas. In the hopes of finding an opportunity to build a new life for herself.
Though as they always say, old habits die hard. With the young Australian lass getting recruited for little pay in the esteemed Marigold gang. Now both a well-known patron, and a long-time bootlegger. Nothing, and she means nothing, is getting in the way of her current life. Or... That's what she thinks at least.
Living a congenial life on the wooden panels and planks of the Marigold room's backstage area, and being mostly forgotten about by a certain Marigold night manager. Calliope enjoys a plethora of... Interesting activities. Those including: Precarious automobile operating, wrangling with almost any cattle you put in front of her, mending household appliances, and dutifully using a shotgun. Her weapon of choice.
Woo! Thank you for reading all that (if you did), Maeve and Angel are going to be here (hopefully) soon. Feel free to ask any questions!
As always, have a magnificent day/night! 😘
Just out of curiosity, would y'all like to see a Murder on the Orient express inspired fic... But make it a Lackadaisy au??? With a possible x reader plotline???!
As always, have a spectacular day/night! 😘
Third batch of Lack-ocs done!
Åse/Ace Olaug Årud belongs to @acesandocs
Marjorie Ford belongs to @gentlelass
Elizabeth Scott belongs to @akosisab
And last but not least, Aisling 'Ash' Mayfield belongs to @annlytical
Bonus art of Marjorie and my oc Angelique conversing over drinks (most likely in the Savoy's suite).
As always, have an excellent day/night! ✨
AHAHRBUXJXSN, FINALLY DONE 😭
Introducing the final member of the trio, Miss Angelique "Angel" Caradine.
Born: 14th of February, 1901
Boston, Massachusetts
Born to Marie and Philip Caradine. Angelique, or "Angel" as she calls herself nowadays, had had a fairly normal upbringing. Well... If you discount the fact her father and older brothers were in a gang. Being the youngest of the Caradine siblings, she had always been told she had a lovely voice. And having been babied from a young age, it came as a shocker when her previously mentioned father and older brothers were murdered during a turf war by an opposing gang. Thrusting her mother and siblings into poverty, and forcing them to become nomadic.
From that point on, Angelique would use the one thing she was told she was good at to try and help her remaining family. That being her voice. She would sing for small crowds in parks whilst her brother played instruments, and her sister danced. Eventually it became a career for her as she reached her early twenties. And at the age of 21, she would leave behind the house her family had managed to secure in Tennessee. Travelling north to find herself settling in St Louis, Missouri. Sure her apartment wasn't... The best. But as long as she kept on moving, things would surely come her way... Right?
Aside from singing, Angel has shown to be quite proficient in dance. Commonly incorporating at least a bit of choreography into her performances whenever the moment arises. She has also shown to be skilled in the art of gossip, making it all the more chaotic due to her rather sociable personality, and the fact that once you get her to start, you can't get her to stop. And, unknown to most people, she does speak the slightest bit of French.
(Colour ref)
As always, have a good day/night! 😘
(a/n: yes, I do ship her with everybody's favourite boy Nico. I was planning to have Calli shipped with a cannon character, but decided that her and Maeve have... Other plans 😈)
Been in a bit of an art block as of recently, but got inspired to try and make a Lacka-oc trio of sorts. I've (almost) fully created the character, though I'm stuck between where I want her to grow up/what kind of accent I want her to have. 🤔
Background information: This character is a small-time singer and dancer, and will perform at any place that will have her. Her family is (or at least was) affiliated with a gang though due to circumstances were forced to flee. She is 26 (born on the 14th of Feb, 1901), and is loosely inspired by Clara Bow. She has a chatty and amiable personality compared to her two companions *cough* Calli & Maeve *cough*, and is into the more modern fashion of the current period (aka 1920s). Though she also has a bit of a gossipy side to her, and will not hesitate to talk about someone behind their back if she feels so inclined.
As always, have a good day/night! 😘
Got bored so decided to make some Calli and Maeve playlists.
Enjoy 👍
Heyy, I have been looking through your art and I LOVE your art style!! I TOTALLY understand if you can't take this request but could you draw Wick? Thanks, stay hydrated!! ❤️
Sure thing!
Tysm for taking the time out of your day to look over my work, I really appreciate it 💖
(note: So sorry for the late response 😭, been really busy the past few days. Anyway, I hope you like the Wick drawing!)
Got bored and decided to do more Calliope sketches
Uuuuuhhhh...
Have a good day/night!
Questions for Maeve: What kind of books are her favorite? and what inspired you to make her?
G'day, thank you for the questions!
For the first question: Maeve has a certain passion for any sort of romance oriented novel, though she will also dabble in the more mystery-esk titles (specifically Agatha Christie, whom I imagine she idolizes somewhat).
And for the second: I don't exactly have a definitive answer for this one! My inspiration for her was a jumble of things, a lot of which being my love for books, and the many fantasies I had (and still have) about living in a bookshop. And the other side being, and this may sound a bit silly, just wanting a character to dress up in snazzy attire.
Hope this answered you're questions, and as always, have a good day/night!
(Oh, and don't forget your complimentary Maeve illustration before you go 😘)
A quick drawing of Calliope and Maeve to celebrate Mermay!
Calliope is (loosely) based off of a Goldfish and Maeve is based off of a Betafish
As always, have a good day/night!
(note: I also changed up Calliope's hairstyle cause the old style just wasn't doing it for me 😭, you'll see it more in later art of her!)
Thought I'd share a bit of art of one of my other oc's, Maeve Midwinter❄️.
Born: 27th of November, 1903 Salem, Massachusetts
Moving to Missouri when she was just 19, Maeve Midwinter is the owner (and only staff) of a small bookshop in downtown St. Louis. Sporting an ever present demure smile for who knows what reason, and a politeness staggering to those she is forced to associate with, *cough* gangsters *cough*. This mim damsel is quite content leading a (fairly) untroubled life with her books and gramophone.
Living in the attic of her bookshop, Maeve has an affinity for… Shall We say… dark humour, An obsession with all things shiny, nature walks, botany, macarons, and romance novels.
Feel free to ask me any questions about her, have a good day/night!
G'day mates
Finally done with the second batch of Lack-oc/Sona headshots!
Really hope I did everyone justice 🥲
Lola Deluca belong to @blogplutopools
Nikolaus Ostrovsky belongs to @themissingrainfallkingdom
Dina Delancy belongs to @lumineary-arts
And finally, Flynn Mulligan belongs to @realbouru
Go check out their work if you haven't already, and as always: have a good day/night!
G'day mates!
Haven't posted in a while but thought I might as well showcase some practice sketches of other's Lacka-oc's/ Lackasona's!
Maura Venza belongs to @rudnitskaia
Marianne Villanueva belongs to @ahhhh-118
Lacrimosa Ambrose belongs to @samantha-and-her-chaotic-desires
And finally, Calliope Cairns belongs to yours truly
Planning on drawing more Lacka-oc headshots in the near future (hopefully)
Have a wonderful day/night!
Was watching some of the Lackadaisy streams last night, which inspired me to draw Rocky as Hatsune Miku (from the gone feral stream). And uh...
I have no words other than *clears throat*
SEKAAAAAAAAAAAI DEEEEEEE!
Oh, Mordecai is also here. Yeah... Let's just say he ain't too pleased.
Have a good day/night!
(Note: characters belong to Tracy Butler! Go check out her work, it's stunning✨! In fact, just go watch Lackadaisy)
"There's nothing more that I'd like to do, than take the floor and dance with you~" -Peaches & Herb (Shake your groove thing)
Felt like drawing my oc Calliope on a 1970s fit (and changed her hair a bit), dunno how historically accurate it is but I'm tired, and I got inspired by a 70s playlist.
But now I'm curious... What would your oc's look like in 70s attire? Some food for thought (It's not that I'd totally like to see them-)
Have a good day/night!