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It's monthly fic recommendation time again! Here are the latest the guild has to offer. Some are ongoing wips, some completed longfics, and some oneshots. As always be sure to check the tags on AO3, reader discretion is advised! If you check out any of the works listed here please be sure to leave a kudos and a comment to show your support 🫶 Fics listed with the 🔒 will need an AO3 account to read.

Wait Until Golden Hour by @hullygeee | T | Gen (1/1)

Blowing Off Steam by @sunwornink | E | Sam/Sebastian/F Player (1/1)

The Valley by @half-unread | E | Shane/F Player (30/30)

‎ ── ꫂ᭪ would you ever come down by @burekforsatoru | E | Sebastian/F Player (1/1)

Would You Still Love Me If I Were a Jingle Bell? by @annetastic1981a | G | Sam/Sebastian (1/1)

so gorgeous by @just-jellyfishing | E | Elliott/Emily (1/1)

Safe harbor by @eemamminy-art | E | Alex/M Player (1/1)

Here For You by @orangemochafrapp | M | Gen (Sebastian-centric) (30/?)

Here in the Hereafter by @adequateatbest | M | Harvey/F Player (13/?)

Little Black Book: #37 by @spooky-tia | E | Harvey/F Player (3/?)

Holding Back, Holding On by @kellycataclysm | E | Harvey/F Player (1/2)

How the Turns Have Tabled by @f0xofspades | E | Shane/F Player (1/1)

A Rainy Night In by @someacedude | G | Harvey/Maru/NB Player (1/1)

be our muse by @futureamphibian | E | Elliott/Haley/Leah (1/1)

Don't Make a Sound (Sam Stardew Valley) by @mercurymk | E | Sam/F Player (1/1)

It's a love story, baby just say yes by @mintypegasus | E | Sam/Sebastian (7/7)

Changes: Transitions by @caelwynn | E | Sterling/F Player (3/63)

A Surprising Reunion by @greatdistractions | T | Sam/Sebastian (2/2)

When You Wish Upon a Witch by @sophieknight | T | Gen (2/?) **Crossover with Coral Island

Fragments of a Song by @halixius | T | Sam/Sebastian (7/7)

Sun Moon Magic by @pinkiepixels | E | Elliott/Wizard (3/3)

Welcome all OC enthusiasts! This entire August 2026 will be all about your OCs, or more specifically, the dynamics between them. Post your writing, art, or whichever medium you choose on Tumblr with the hashtag #ocdynamicsmonth26 and make sure to show some love to other participants as well! Your posts will be reblogged to this blog.

My asks are open for any questions & comments you might have! Please read the rules and prompt guide first!♡

Rules:

Original characters only! Fandom OCs are fine, but the characters within the dynamic must be OCs.

Make something (writing, visual art, some other creation) with a given prompt, then post it on Tumblr during OC Dynamics Month and use the hashtag #ocdynamicsmonth26. Interpret the prompts freely and include as many OCs within the dynamic as you wish!

You can post your work late, for example you can post your creation for Day 1 on Day 15 if you want! All I ask is that you don't post them early.

There are no strict rules for what content is allowed. However, I may choose not to reblog something if I feel that it goes against the spirit of the event (AI generated content, hateful content etc). Including content warnings for heavy topics is encouraged!

Event is over but you still want to do the prompts? No worries, keep working on the daily prompts or fill the bonus prompts if you wish! I'll keep reblogging posts for a while after the event is over.

Bonus rule: interact with at least one other creation for each piece you make yourself! Like, reblog, leave a reply, or even send the creator a message if you want - let’s spread the love! ♡

Prompt guide

Each main prompt contains a type of relationship and an adjective. You can fill a day's prompt in one of 3 ways (using the first prompt as an example): 1. use only the type of relationship → make a piece about ex-friends, 2. use only the adjective → make a piece about ocs with a powerful dynamic OR 3. use both → make a piece about ex-friends who have a powerful dynamic. 

This year, the bonus prompts are dialogue prompts. You can combine or swap them with main prompts or just do them in addition to the main prompts! You can use the exact wording, tweak it to fit your piece, or simply use the dialogue to inspire your work without using it directly.

Prompts

[ID: A red digital sketch page of Evanna Mays. There are a total of 6 sketches. From top to bottom: a sketch from the chest up taking up the top left corner, a semi-chibi bust in the top right, a headshot of Evanna looking down, a chibi headshot in the center, a rough fullbody sketch of Evanna sitting on some boxes with a leg propped up, and a rough fullbody sketch of Evanna laying down with her wings extended. /End ID.]

I really love how swoopy Evanna's hair is, like. Idk. Drawing her helps get me out of art block bc I can just turn my brain off

Commissions!

As the graphic says, I recently rescued a kitten and I figured a good way to help take care of him would be if I directed all commissions toward his needs.

As of 6/21/26, I also have about a week left of my current job and am still looking for a new one. My final paycheck will be enough to cover my usual bills for July, and I know I can get a job (or some money in general) by August but because of this sudden layoff, I figure these can ensure Binkly is cared for.

Some Additional Info

All prices are in USD!

Will Draw

Humanoid Characters

OCs

Fanart

Ship Art

Dragons

Furries

Can Attempt to Draw

Furries

Animals

Mech

Mild Gore

Mild NSFW (some clothes on/more suggestive)

Will NOT Draw (yet)

Explicit NSFW

Heavy Gore

Realism

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If you buy through Ko-Fi you can now apply a discount code as well to get 30% off ^^ Either click the link below or put BinklyBlinks in at checkout!

ID: A digital drawing of Aloysius from Hilda. His name and the show's title are in the top right in yellow, with his color palette in the bottom right. Aloysius is an elf with brown skin, white receding hair and black eyes and arms. He's wearing a blue, red, and yellow pointed hat, blue robes with gold hemming and a red sash over his shoulder. Aloysius also has a black staff with a white ball at the top. /End ID.

Fan Reference Project

All the elves from Hilda are genuinely so fun to draw - I'm glad later on they introduced more designs than just the white near-stick figures.

it was a funny meme at first but I'm once again being reminded of how many people, including other lgbt people, don't actually see nonbinary characters as who they are, and don't hestitate to stick them in a box or under a label for a joke or fetishization

"There, in a river far from itssource: Sjur Eido lives."

[ID: Two sketch pages of Stardew Valley farmer OCs and various other characters.

Image 1: A blue sketch page of Arapaima and Alex Mullner. Most of the page is a sketch of the two kissing, with 5 smaller sketches in the rest of the page. From top to bottom: Arapaima holding Alex up in a sideview; a chibi headshot of Arapaima; a chibi headshot of Alex; a simple sketch of Alex and Arapaima at a river with Arapaima inside it and Alex sitting on the bank with a gridball; and Arapaima asleep leaning on Alex's shoulder.

Image 2: A purple sketch page of Sour Patch. A bust sketch of it takes up most of the page, with 4 smaller sketches filling the rest of the space. From top to bottom: Mr. Qi holding Sour Patch's face; Sour Patch looking over Maru's shoulder and talking; a simple sketch of Sour Patch on the floor sewing fabric; and a chibi headshot of Sour Patch. /End ID.]

My two farmers have been rotating in my brain a great deal lately. Especially Arapaima and his relationship with Alex. So! Did some really loose sketch pages to get some of those thoughts out (plus the brain was not putting words to paper and when that happens, drawing breaks are very necessary ^^)

And then Sour Patch's relationships - I really need to write one focusing on it and Mr. Qi's relationship, cause I imagine it as something extremely toxic but that Sour Patch doesn't really realize, because Qi's just intense and SP is usually the intense one in any dynamic

ID: A digital drawing of Allura from Voltron: Legendary Defenders. Her name is in the top right with the show's title underneath, all caps in pink font. Her color palette is in the bottom right. Allura has brown skin, blue eyes, and pale blue hair. Her hair is down over her shoulders, she has long pointed ears, and pink Altean marks under her eyes. She's wearing a long-sleeved floor-length dress in various shades of blue, getting lighter at the bottom, with gold accents. She also has a cape that is blue and gold on the outside, but pink on the inside. /End ID.

Fan Reference Project

Bringing back this project!! This and the next one were drawn in December 2024, but after that will be all new references ^^

I, knowing that this was a once in a lifetime opportunity, waited carefully for the lab director to be deep in conversation with someone else on the other side of the laboratory. And then I took my chance.

Test tubes, as it turns out, are really bad as shot glasses. Their shape turns any liquid inside into a stream, so you really can't knock it back quickly - it takes a couple seconds. Additionally, the best way I can describe the taste of virus concentrate was "sterile rot". A very unique kind of bad! Made worse by the test tube's inefficiency as a shot glass.

(by the way we were studying bacteriophages, not animal viruses. these viruses are too specialized on attacking prokaryotes to even recognize our cells as targets at all, according to studies.)

(but also like. if the viruses managed to successfully switch hosts and killed me with a violent infection, itd still be worth it.)