fandom & art sideblog

here is the first of the show's major Smallvillisms:

okay so in Smallville the fact that Clark Kent has superpowers is a secret. I cannot speak for Smallville in particular but Clark Kent keeping his powers a secret generally works for audiences bcos 1) it is a core element of the Superman narrative. if he was just publicly Superman that would feel weird and jarring. 2) Clark Kent is a nice and good boy and we understand that he is keeping his secret with the best of intentions

the secret superpowers angle is completely foreign to the Arthurian mythos however; in fact it's kind of the opposite of the usual deal with Merlin as a character? but they wanted to do Young Merlin with a Clark Kent thing going on. OK. now they need a reason why his magic is a secret.

uhh it's bcos they made magic illegal. who made magic illegal? the king. not Arthur obviously. different king. we want to keep the whole Camelot/royal court aspect tho so instead of doing the usual King Arthur backstory he's just uhh normal prince. and magic is illegal bcos it killed his mother. okay now we're cooking with gas. but obviously we want the villains to mostly be other magic users for Merlin to fight. why are these other magic users trying to Get Arthur? well they are mad that his father banned magic. and Merlin has to protect Arthur bcos he's going to be King Arthur one day and save the land. so Merlin's gotta explode all the other magic users. he gotta!!

Hey guys, just wanted to give you a quick update that we are aware the table of contents is inaccurate.

Unfortunately, this is an error that was made when moving things around after creating the table of contents and was simply overlooked. Currently, Mod Dez (the head mod) is not able to fix this due to technology restrictions. I will discuss with my other mods whether it can be fixed, but it's possible that it just won't be.

I know this can be really disappointing to have the final product be messed up in such a major way. I sincerely apologize. We've worked really hard on this, and I personally have had several major life events since the event began, and several of the mods are in school, and the world is kind of on fire, and we did our best but ultimately we're not getting paid for this and it's just meant to be fun.

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A relatively messy study/fanart for project hail mary, the last month has really awakened my inner space loving child again

Coming soon to a flower shop AU near you (aka, I drew hype art for my next fic!)

Retromortem was the clinical term for it; a name that reflected the gruesome way it spread. Vampire venom only altered the metabolisms of hosts without a pulse, meaning any new vampire had, at some point, been clinically dead. “Mumbo, have you ever met a vampire? Or any kind of undead?”

Close ups below the cut :))

so they spend a solid hour skating and joking around but mostly just enjoying the rush of doing good exercise together until grian calls it off (his hips are sore in a way they usually only get after a particularly... active night together). when they're sitting on the bench taking their skates off together, gem can't help but stare at where the sweat is running down grian's neck and she's sure she's just as sweaty. but grian is all flushed and smily and chatty and her favorite kind of grian. the car ride back is mostly silent, gem focused on the road and grian pointing out the wonderful sunset. (briefly, gem considers pulling over so they can watch it together, but she's exhausted and just wants to be home, so she doesn't.)