“We are who we know ourselves to be, and we are what we love.”

happy pride to them

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Goodbye Mermay 2024! Until next year (may it not be another 3 year hiatus)

It's a Happy Pride Month for Snowbaz! (Happy Pride to everyone celebrating!)

*This post contains snowbaz art, closeups of Baz's hair and feet because why not, a t-shirt acquisition opportunity, and a bonus sketch below the cut!

(*am I ridiculously proud of Baz's feet? Yes. I am. Thank you. >.>)

AND... Would you like a T-shirt?

No, really! Thanks to SSCoNE happening this month, @technetiumai is making t-shirts! And you can get one with this illustration on it, whether you're meeting us in Omaha or not. (Please place orders by next Sunday, June 9th, though!)

Click here to order a t-shirt, available in several sizes and styles!

BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE!

Check below the cut for a sketchy look at Simon and Baz before they went over the rainbow!

what do you mean with your hc that simon was always a dragon?

okay so this is one of my deepest most self indulgent headcanons because i'm gay and i think he deserves more and sharper teeth but it's extrapolated from a bunch of different details in the series: 1. we don't know what kind of blood davy used in the ritual. lucy couldn't identify it, but it almost definitely wasn't human. killing a dragon is one of the worst things you can do in the WoM and i really think davy isn't above that, at this point. (in terms of what i think the ritual entailed, i don't think he would have killed an adult dragon, either. a son for a son.) 2. simon's false feather wings dissolved in a bloody mess, but his dragon wings did not. iirc, he also had to wish for them, and penelope pointed out that this is fundamentally Not How Magic Works 3. penny also theorized that simon was actually turning INTO a dragon at the moment he got his wings, unless i'm misremembering again? its been a while since my last reread of the series and i have a memory disorder bear with me 4. "you don't kill a dragon unless you're trying to open a portal to hell" davy what did you do. DAVY, WHAT DID YOU DO. 5. once magic stops working on simon at all/after he loses his magic, the wings don't disappear, which makes me think they weren't powered by magic in the first place; they were just a part of his body. 6. margaret almost immediately (probably falsely but still) identifies him as a Kitten. she straight up thinks he's a baby dragon. maybe he smells like one, or feels like one, but i feel like she would be the most qualified to like ... tell? simon insists he isn't, but she seems confused and even a little put off when he tries to say he isn't just a lost dragon-kit. 7. when he's going off his magic is described as very blistery and prickly and black and red, and he glows and smokes and smells like a forest fire. dragon coded as fuuuuck 8. i think it would fucking rule I've never quite decided if i want it to be dragon ancestry, or if he's some kind of changeling via the ritual*, or something else, but the reason i draw the sword of mages with a fancy hilt shaped like a dragon is because i also headcanon that it looks different for everyone who wields it. (in my Baz Is The Heir AU: he summons it as a spada da lato, light as a feather with a handguard that curls like fire in a windstorm, inset with little sapphires) and simon's just ALWAYS been that dragony. i want him to grow more teeth, and they keep growing so he either has to accept them or have them pulled. i want his nails to be hard and sturdy as iron and he just never notices because he's always used them as tools, and he thought everyone's were like that. he bites them off because they break clippers. i want the red scales around the second set of deltoids (the ones on his wings) to start slowly creeping down his back and over his shoulders over time. because i think it would fucking rule. *i subscribe to this one the most, tho. makes sense. also i feel like the mage WouldTM.

Stitch Sunday

Happy Sunday y'all! I am done with school (just a few meetings and cleaning out my classroom left...) and cannot wait to catch up on missed sleep and missed fics.

If you are all caught up on The Eternal Life of Baz Pitch, you know what is coming next chapter. I've given this a lot of thought since I finished this fic back in April, and I just don't think there is any way to preview Simon's story and do it justice. It is also the only chapter that truly requires a content warning. So, no snips this week. Sorry!

Instead, because you are going to need it come Friday, have some adorable comfort. I was inspired by @iamamythologicalcreature's recent Mer-May art and decided to make a hand-stitched MerSnowbaz this past week. I know Mer-May is over, but merSimon and merBaz are sequin-y and gay, so they must count for pride, yeah?

If I make any progress at all on my current WIP, I might post a snip on Wednesday. This new concept is good but a bit of a headache, so we'll see if it ever sees the light of day...

If not, I may abandon writing and pursue becoming a textile artist instead because it is currently bringing me far more joy.

Hellos and high-fives: @thewholelemon, @raenestee, @cutestkilla, @bookish-bogwitch, @roomwithanopenfire

@thehoneyedhufflepuff, @emeryhall, @artsyunderstudy, @larkral, @rimeswithpurple

@drowninginships, @valeffelees, @beastmonstertitan, @aristocratic-otter, @theearlgreymage

@you-remind-me-of-the-babe, @youarenevertooold, @skeedelvee, @run-for-chamo-miles, @blackberrysummerblog

@rbkzz, @shrekgogurt, @ic3-que3n, @supercutedinosaurs, @fiend-for-culture

@facewithoutheart, @arthurkko, @ivelovedhimthroughworse, @brilla-brilla-estrellita, @talentpiper11

art for ch27 of between the lines! thanks to all who suggested books for the shelves.

Happy June everyone! Whether you’re celebrating Pride or finishing up school or looking forward to the start of summer, I hope you have something to look forward to this month. June gloom is in full swing where I live but I’m holding out hope that the warm days are ahead and the seasonal depression will be on its way out. 🤞🏻At the very least, I only have two more weeks of work until I’m off for the summer. Good times ahead!

In other news, I think I’m going to start posting my time travel AU, Back and Back and Back this week. I’ve got 3 chapters written, one with the betas and another half way written. I’m hoping that’s enough padding to keep a fairly consistent posting schedule. Wish me luck!

I decided to share the prologue today, since it’s only six ten sentences anyway. I originally had this in the middle of the first chapter mostly just for vibes to get me excited to write the next bit. I thought I’d need to kill it, but then @cutestkilla and @emeryhall thought it’d work well as a prologue, so you can thank them for keeping this alive:

BAZ

The thing about being in love with someone from the future is…well, it’s crap, isn’t it?

It makes living in the present nearly unbearable. The majority of the time, I’m stuck here, alone, pining for someone who’s about as far away from me as they can get. And how does one visit their boyfriend from the future anyway? The answer is, they don’t, not unless said time travelling boyfriend visits them. And Merlin knows, if there were some rhyme or reason to when or why he visits me when he does, I would have cracked that formula long ago.

I don’t know why I insist on calling him my boyfriend. How can you date someone who doesn’t even live in the same magic forsaken time as you? You can’t. You can merely yearn for them, hope and wish and dream to see them, and wait for your luck to actually pan out.

Tags/thanks/hello

@cutestkilla @emeryhall @whatevertheweather @artsyunderstudy @facewithoutheart @thewholelemon @bookish-bogwitch @mooncello @roomwithanopenfire @blackberrysummerblog @forabeatofadrum @monbons @raenestee @aristocratic-otter @iamamythologicalcreature @larkral @rimeswithpurple @alexalexinii @letraspal @moodandmist @ileadacharmedlife @fiend-for-culture @drowninginships @shrekgogurt @that-disabled-princess @prettygoododds @run-for-chamo-miles

Six Sentence Sunday

Hi all, and thank you to @monbons , @rimeswithpurple , and @roomwithanopenfire for tagging me!

I've been writing sort of piecemeal this week, so I'll share some nonspoilery excerpts from the same SnowBaz soulmate AU I posted about last week.

Here's one bit from Baz's perspective that I'm particularly pleased with:

He flushes with blood and hazy magic both, going pink and a bit blurry as he presses himself back into the wall beside his bed. He seems to be trying to hide, but our room is woefully open-plan; there’s hardly room to hide a notebook, much less an adolescent atom bomb.

And a bit from Agatha's, whose voice I have been struggling to capture:

And he didn’t even know about soulmates! Morgana, if I hadn’t been able to literally smell his magic, I’d probably have thought he was a Normal. He’s been pestering me for details all week— we don’t share a lot of classes, but he has a remarkable knack for finding me when I’m walking between mine.  He always has a million questions, most of them about soulmates (and seriously, answering niche magickal questions is really Penny’s thing more than mine), but Simon is so earnest it’s hard to say no to him. Plus, I’m not ashamed to say that the Chosen One hanging on my every word is kind of flattering. So I answer his questions with a level of patience that should honestly net me a sainthood (or a BAFTA).

That's about it for this week! The soulmate AU proceeds apace but I'm the kind of writer who likes to finish the entire skeleton of a work before I start to post.

Thanks again to those who tagged me this week! And an additional hello to:

@larkral @raenestee @youarenevertooold @simonsnowsfreckles @prettygoododds @thewholelemon

i feel so smart when i’m reading. as if i’m not just rereading the same two book series over and over again because they are perfect to me

happy pride everyone

commission for the very best @taubenschlag94 ❤️

LOVE failed chosen ones. Chosen ones who failed and chosen ones who aren’t special and never were and chosen ones by chance and chosen ones by a choice not their own and chosen ones who succeeded at what cost

"My darling. My love. It's all right."

“The neighbors don’t even know we’re moving in. They’re at work.”

“Well, they will wonder, once they get a look at us. We’re cool and mysterious and better-looking than any couple has a right to be.”

—From Epilogue, Carry On by Rainbow Rowell.