redesign of horse women where theyre actually humans and arent in high school bc theyre canonically adults in the show
twilights a librarian obv, sunset is a college dropout from a welloff family, fluttershy works at an animal rehabilitation center, rd is a wannabe pro athlete but works at a weather station, rarity still owns a boutique, pinkie still works for the cakes, and aj still works on her farm. they all go to gay brunch together
ID: digital colored portraits of Thara Celehar and Iäna Pel-Thenhior from The Witness for the Dead. Thara is a thin, pale elven man. He has sunken cheeks, a square jaw, a curved nose, thin lips, and bright blue eyes. He has deep purple lines under his eyes and frown lines around his mouth. His hair is curly and white and pulled back into a queue. He is wearing a black high collared robe fastened with a crescent moon shape, and simple silver earrings. His expression is weary. The background is a light blue gradient. Iäna is a slim goblin-elven man with light gray skin and rich golden eyes. He has high cheekbones, a long nose, full lips, thick arched eyebrows, a strong chin, dimples, and crows feet around his eyes. He has thick dark hair pulled back in braids that fall down past his shoulders. He is wearing a scarlet coat, a light orange cravat, a gold hoop earring, and two gold cuffs with a small chain dangling between them. He has kohl around his eyes and is smiling confidently. The background is a golden gradient. End ID.
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Getting pumped for Grief of Stones!! I will definitely be re-reading Witness
I swear something isn’t awakening within me with people having stomach mouths or having mouths on their chest… Maybe-
I adore the flow of their hair, the glow of their nails and hoofs are *mwah. Not to mention, the mystical, hauntingly ‘divine’ aura and look to Saturn is so pretty-
Thanks for sharing your amazing work, I love Saturn’s Abyssal fom asdfghjkl//
A Musical Chairs update? On my dashboard? It’s more likely than you’d think.
Anyway, a very kind follower requested an update to Musical Chairs but from Lan Xichen’s POV. Did I ever intend to include Lan Xichen’s POV in this fic? Nope! Am I absolutely willing to sell out my artistic vision in this time of crisis? Oh, yeah, for sure.
Enjoy! This does directly follow this, and I am aware it has been a hot minute, so if y'all need to remind yourselves wtf’s going on, the masterpost is here.
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“I’m making breakfast,” Lan Xichen says gently for what must be the fourth time.
Jin Guangyao’s expression flickers into something anxious and slightly hunted for the barest second, though frankly the fact that Lan Xichen even saw that is worrying. It transforms into a smile in the next moment, quick enough that the fear might have seemed imaginary if Lan Xichen weren’t so very used to people who can’t seem to ever tell him how they actually feel. He sometimes thinks, ruefully, that a lifetime with his brother prepared him in a way nothing else could have for falling in love with the best actor in Hollywood.
“Xichen-ge,” Jin Guangyao says, looking patient and kind and emotionally stable, which would be far more convincing if he hadn’t been trembling when he’d collapsed into Lan Xichen’s arms earlier. “I can’t ask you to—”
“You didn’t,” Lan Xichen reminds him. “I decided to.” He thinks about saying I find cooking relaxing, because Jin Guangyao will almost certainly let him do this if it sounds like he’s doing Lan Xichen a favor, but—usually Jin Guangyao protests twice when Lan Xichen tries to take care of him and then stops, looking pleased. The last time Jin Guangyao had tried this hard to not let Lan Xichen do anything for him, it had been right after that first big fight with Nie Mingjue.
It had taken Lan Xichen years of friendship to realize that Jin Guangyao doesn’t actually like doing things for other people, that his habit of solving his friends’ problems isn’t born out of any kind of enjoyment, but out of some transaction-based affection system that makes sense only to him. A system that Jin Guangyao always has to be winning.
i’ve done it, i finally told my husband i wrote 60k of ted lasso fic and they read some and loved it but informed me that they will probably get my fic confused with the show a la bob’s burgers the equestranauts episode
It’s Zerbinetta and Komponist (the Composer) in Strauss’s opera Ariadne auf Naxos. He’s written a serious opera, she heads up a commedia dell’arte troupe, and they unexpectedly have to perform their acts at the same time. He’s young, passionate, self-important– and absolutely livid. She’s game, she’s an improviser by trade, but he won’t agree with it and she knows she has to do something.
Here’s where the dynamic can go one of two ways. She can manipulate him by seducing him and becoming exactly the kind of woman he’d want. Or she finds herself drawn to him, and in a few short minutes is honestly telling him that underneath all of her coquetry and good humor, she’s really lonely. She wants a real connection.
The latter interpretation is always the more interesting one. And this performance, with Natalie Dessay as Zerbinetta and Susanne Mentzer as Komponist, is very clearly making the choice that there’s something real between them.
And yes, Komponist is a trouser role. But of all the trouser roles I can think of, this is one where you can change the character’s gender and have the story be essentially the same (but obviously with different nuances and complexities). There are already productions that are full on presenting Komponist as a woman.
Anyway, whatever gender you like, I love them so much.
