Center - Jade/Rose
Mag is a sweetnose and keeps drawing stuff for every silly AU I think up in skype chat, so this is for her as a token of my affection.* In which Jade and Rose take a hot, steamy bath together in a hardcore CWP (Cuddles Without Plot).
“It’s very hot,” she mumbles.
“I think it’s better to just go in all at once.” You nudge her leg, smiling up at her. “Come on, I want to cuddle already!”
Slowly, she sinks herself down, hissing through her teeth when her hips disappear into the foam. You splash encouragingly and she splashes back with precision, aiming for your ears. Her movements are tense for a while, but soon she relaxes. That’s when you call it quits. A truce is negotiated. You sculpt a foamy wizard hat on top of Rose’s head as a peace offer, and it is graciously accepted as well as completed with a beard of her own making.
2,618 words, no warnings
*May also have been fueled by my extreme excitement over being on team Jade<3Rose for HSO. It’s possible.
Reasons to read this: Seductamasters Sextraordinaire. Gigglebarking. Rose folds her socks. Extensive description of Rose’s butt. Foam wizard hat.
Reasons not to read this: If you hate cool, cute, awesome things and are a loser.
asdfasodif Ingrid! This is so lovely! I want to live this fanfic it’s so lovely. Thank you ilu you sweetie you!
Oooohhhhh my gosh, this is utterly lovely???? Everyone, please, if you haven’t read this already, do yourself a favour and click that link. This is so vivid and wonderful and sweet and aaaaaaa. <3
Also, addressing old replies:
iamingrid said: i am SO GLAD you are on the team <3
Teammate! <3 I’m really glad you’re on the Jade/Rose HSO team as well, because your work is absolutely fantastic, oh my gosh. ;v; ♥
(Source: borta)
A prompt for Rose and Jade jamming on their instruments? How could I NOT take it?? Really. XD
So I went searching for music as inspiration and found this little gem (which I forgot to link in the fic/pic) and it basically inspired everything from there.
I only did the drawing though. That was the only thing I was going to do, really, and then in showing it to and talking about it with Shinji she liked the idea so much that she wrote that little ficlet scene for me, which I betad for her (I’d originally put in credit, but took it off for the whole anonymous thing, and I will put that back in soon! Because she deserves the credit for her great work!) It was a fun, relaxing process after A Convenient Defense and I am quite happy with the whole thing. (Favorite thing: Rose’s “I wanna do you” eyes. 8D)
Once again, thanks to everyone’s comments, kudos, bookmarks and reccs. This is just such a lovely fandom. Would Ladystuck again.
Everything Mag does is amazing, more news at 11! B) Seriously, I cannot even begin to get over their hair or their clothes or their faces and aughhhh. <33333 This is lovely, and I can’t wait to read the ficlet that goes with it!
Since we are now allowed to tip our hands, I might as well surprise nobody and say that I indeed wrote and illustrated with the door wide open, no one can leave in this year’s Homestuck Ladyfest! (Note: If you’re reading it for the first time, please pay attention to the additional tags, I’d put a general trigger warning on this fic for depression as well as other things.)
I’m not sure I have much to say—this is hardly a reveal (if my tumblr chatter didn’t give me away, my drawings sure did), but I want to thank everyone who put it on their rec lists, I have never been so incredibly flattered. This is my first major independent fanfic work in this fandom, so it was great to receive so much support! I’d also like to thank everyone who listened to me whine about writing it (you know who you are) and my wonderful betas, thoroughlymad and urbananchorite, you both not only encouraged me ceaselessly during writing, but also gave me wonderful advice all throughout. And last but not least I’d like to thank phrenotobe for the wonderful prompt that made this story possible! I hope you enjoyed it.
Aha, I totally called this being by Liz! Obviously I am a super sleuth gutsy gumshoe and this was the hardest mystery ever. :B
I still haven’t read this because I am terrible but ohhhh, look at this art, isn’t it just gorgeous? This fic is totally on the top of my reading pile and I can’t wait to get to it, because Liz is a major talent and it’s surely nothing short of glorious. :) <3
Late to the party but this is my reveal (I did two and I’ll make a second post for that one.
A Convenient Defense (Shown here: my six favorite images from the 27 I drew for this. Which is about as many as I did for Harleycles. XD)
This was my big project for Ladystuck and it was as much a labor of dedication and love as it was a “the deadline is close just get it all done now doesn’t matter what it looks like!!” type of effort. Out of all the prompts I got (which were all great!) this one stood out to me the most with its interesting take on motherhood and the Condesce.
The writing is really simple and came easy enough. What little has been revealed about this story in canon was just enough that I could roll with it and just fill in the blanks in my own way. After I had the writing down and settled on my list of images I went about drawing and assembling the animations, which was incredibly fun and also stressful, and I constantly questioned if I could get them all down (the original plan called for 31 images, which I “whittled” down to 28, and then 27 when I “borrowed” one from HS proper as it got down to the wire. XD) In all honesty, I’m not proud of every image, but I am content with all of them and then quite happy with a few. Overall, I still feel my original idea and intent remained intact.
I think had I given myself more time, I might’ve done something a bit more expansive, but I am still quite glad with what I do have here. And those last two panels are two of the best things I’ve done this year, I feel.
Special thanks to Zoi and Shinji for their moral support and general cheerleading, and thanks to my two nieces who let me creepily observe them as I struggled to draw children. And thanks to everyone who has commented, kudoed, bookmarked and recced!! :D
I actually hadn’t seen this before because I am terribly behind on everything, but oh my god Mag oh my god?????? This is so good?????????
Not only is Mag’s art amazing, but the story here is bone-chillingly beautiful, I definitely recommend this to everyone everyday for all of time.
The panel with the lightning!!! Baby Jane and Jake!!! Those last two images!!!!! I can’t with anything at all, aaaaaa!!!!!! ;A; <3333
Hehehehe
Remember when I said that I couldn’t think of any SFW Rose/Jade that tumblr user angerliz had done while I was rec’ing earlier? Well, I was just lining up some Ladystuck stuff to read tomorrow, and I came across this (Jade/Rose/Kanaya, trigger warning for depictions of depression, PTSD, eating disorders). Not to get ahead of myself but those sure are some lovely and distinctive noses and jaw structures that those amazing ladies are sporting! >:] > :] >:] This definitely goes on the top of my reading pile for the morning. ^^ <3
My bedtime has long (long, long) since passed, though, so off to sleep I go! I’ll continue with my spam tomorrow; as usual, I’ll tag my posts with “#Mye plays catch-up” for anyone who doesn’t want to see them. c: Until then, have a good night, everyone!
THE BLANKET THAT CAN NEVER BE DRY: tartingshop: elementalsight: vulturer: So. How rad is LADYSTUCK. No...
So. How rad is LADYSTUCK. No no, it’s okay! You don’t need to get up or anything, I hear ya I hear ya, I’m with you there, it is SO. TOTALLY. RADICAL.
I have a lot of thoughts about this challenge, most of them being along the lines of “Oooh what a cool idea and look at all of the neat things that came out of it! All these stories that I longed for… FINALLY COME TRUE!!!!!” If you have the time, definitely absolutely please check out the rest of the collection because it is just a big ‘ol pile of quality and I just cherrypicked a bunch of my personal favorites to get started.
So, Ladies and Ladies and Ladies and Gentlemen, without further ado…
While we’re talking about good fics!! I actually haven’t had much of a chance to look at Ladystuck, but if I know one thing, it’s that you can always trust Vulturer’s Fic Rec Fridays to give you the good stuff, so when I do get a chance, this is definitely where I’m starting. :D
I kind of regret that I didn’t take a look at the Ladystuck entries before the authors were revealed (considering I’m probably not going to get to read these until at least tomorrow), but I guess I can’t have my cake and be blindfolded while I eat it… too…? Okay that metaphor fell down a bit at the end there but the point is. The POINT is. Ladystuck. Ladystuck is a really good thing. Okay.
UAUGASKDLFJDSHGAKK BABIES
I told you I wasn’t kidding. Literally every character.
Though, in my defence, I didn’t really ship this one* until I read that fic that the OP linked there! Which I definitely recommend to one and all and everyone and your grandma and your potted plant. It’s kind of the best fic and I want to roll around in it forever. Seriously, the word choice is rainbows and the imagery is infinite mirror dimensions of music and the characterization makes me want to cry and to hang my head in shame and never write fic again but also to sing and write all the fic ever and fly a meteor into the sun like a boss?? It’s a complicated emotion. Basically you should read it.
Also this art is the sweetest thing, gosh. ;u;
(*Now it’s probably my second favourite Rose ship after Rose/Jade, R.I.P. me. c’: )
Land of Breakbeats and Gerunds: I like this one too
Kanaya presses gauze to his face to stop the bleeding, an inch long laceration over his cheekbone from an upperclassman’s jagged class ring and raging superiority complex. She’s sporting a mean black eye and split knuckles from kicking said upperclassman’s ass after he’d shoved Karkat face-first into a locker crammed with books and down jackets and never never enough space to breathe. You didn’t have to do that, he says, but she just fixes him with that soul-crushing guilt-ray glare that always makes him feel like he’s six and the dumbest kid in the world. She presses a kiss to his forehead and tells him she’s fine, and for a week afterward she shows the entire school how good she can make a black eye look. No one messes with Kanaya Maryam’s friends and gets away with it.
Oh look, here is another thing that I definitely, definitely need on my blog. OuO
He says: we’re sitting quackbeasts, tz. You say: I know! I know, I know. You do.
Veil to Green Sun is fathomless miles, a hungry distance. So you say: that’s a long way, Captor, maybe we should all get out and push! and he makes a snaggletoothed sound all pshhh, dismissive slush. Please. (Pleash.) Who do you think I am?
Well, you think he is Sollux Captor who smells like bones and mustard, Sollux swaying on his feet with more sweat than blood. You breathe in bright raspberries and let them settle at the back of your tongue, see them haloed round the mushy socket of each eye: the lingering scent of salt and Feferi. He smells so tired you want to burst with yawns. He smells so tired that from every pore rises the yeast-sleep stink of exhaustion.
We need to get the whole way there, Mr. Plumberry Icing, you say, it’s not worth it if —
You’ll get there, he interrupts. He is very calm! That is the worst part. There is not one spark of fear or pain, not one whiff of resistance. He is not afraid. It would be easier if he was afraid. Sit back, amateurs.
by urbanAnchorite, illustrated by me!
Oh god, I can’t believe that I haven’t reblogged this already?? I actually have to tell a story to go with it.
The first thing that I should probably say is that I am REALLY invested in Sollux and Terezi’s friendship. A lot. To the point where I pretty much ship Sollux♦Terezi.
The second thing that I should say is that for some inexplicable reason, the song Possibility by Lykke Li reads as a moirallegiance song to me. (Okay the explanation is that I was listening to it during the Shoosh-Pap updates and it made me have feelings about how Karkat♦Kanaya had been sunk. Also it was apparently used on the soundtrack for a Twilight movie, which… Karkat♦Kanaya… okay, I’m getting off track. XP)
The point is that because I am incapable of making good decisions, I was listening to “Possibility” when reading this fic.
And…
> Tell me when you hear my heart stop / you’re the only one that knows.
… oh my god?!? ;_____;
Ahjasdgasg, I just have a lot of feelings about Sollux Captor, and Terezi Pyrope, and their friendship, and urbanAnchorite gets all three PERFECTLY here. Also, the illustrations are top-notch and the whole thing is very moving and basically made me cry a bunch. So, if you care at all about Sollux Captor, or how Terezi Pyrope sees Sollux Captor, or even if you don’t, I definitely recommend you read this fic. It is poetic, it is perfect, it made me sob uncontrollably. It is the post-EOA5 Sollux fic.
And I don’t know why every goodfic in the fandom that places importance on Sollux and Terezi’s relationship seems determined to leave me inconsolable (looking at you, Strider’s Edge >:’( ), but since this seems to be the case, I’ll just have to swallow my tears and be grateful that such perfect, heartbreaking things as stories like this exist. <33
Legend of Harleycles now on AO3
I know I already posted a link to this story way back when, but I just got my AO3 account and I decided to post it there. It also has the slightly extended version of Rose and Dave’s first conversation.
And that’s also where I’ll be putting up the sequel once I finish each chapter.
AO3 is actually quite fun once you get the hang of it. :3
Okay, I actually need this on my blog, too! Legend of Harleycles is incredible and Mag is incredible and basically ajkhagsgahs? Also, oh my gosh, I simply cannot wait for the sequel. ♥__♥
