Six Men, One Bird, A Missing Medal And Absolutely No Braincells Anywhere In Sight!

🐲 Take to the Skies Contributor Lineup 🐲

We're thrilled to finally present to you our hatchlings, working hard on making this zine take off! Keep an eye out for individual spotlights over the next couple of weeks 🐉💙

🐉 Artists

Mel — @melhive Amber — Carrd Violetyams — Twitter | Instagram Taylor — @runningandnotslowingdown Quirkred — Twitter Fiflerovium — Twitter Arlene — Carrd Ang — @everythang-studio Fanty — @fantasmical-fantasy Macchizume — Twitter | Instagram Sam — Twitter Nel — Carrd Saragapen — Instagram Nash — Twitter Liah — Twitter | Instagram Naricurico — Carrd Elle — @endstation-sehnsucht Angelica — Instagram

🐉 Writers

Emily — Twitter | Ao3 Jay — Twitter | Ao3 Ietje Siobhán — Twitter | Ao3 Nova — @novatix FireheartAW — @fireheartaw Kay — Twitter | Ao3

🐉 Merch Creators

Chrome — Carrd Lark — @kirioxel Light — Twitter

This is the first time anyone tags me in anything so like ahfhjejdbrbf THANK YOU for thinking of me >.< <3

Akaashi makes a lax gesture and the feathers disappear.

-> 9 words, 9 tags (I just barely know this many HQ writers on tumblr and certainly nobody well enough, so if you don’t do tag games or have already been tagged, I am really really sorry!)

@nikfehu , @lumosflies , @fanfic4u , @moon-jellie , @undercookeddaichi , @mooifyourecows , @king--gary, @streetsoldierin , @imori-hikaru

╔ One new message from tangerineyn: i’m starting this on hqblr now so here’s the last line tag. rules are you put the last line you’ve written from any WIP and tag as many people as words ╝

shaking her head, Umi stood up.

6 words, 6 tags

@ohayoposts @nerdybreadcollaborative @newfriendjen @atsumuwoah @princess-semisemi @cloudswritings

🥓 Birthday, Bacon & Betrayal (✒︎ on Ao3) (Preview)

MatsuHana | Haikyuu!! | Timeskip/Canon compliant | Rated: Gen | 600 words

Matsukawa Issei is not a morning person and yet he is consistently awake well before 7 am because there is a small, smelly butt depositing itself on his face with an almost innocent, little ‘mrrrow’. A butt that belongs to a cat he most assuredly did not ask for. A cat that hates him. With a grunt and a curse, he shoves at the hell-beast attempting—and somehow succeeding—to steal both his alcove apartment and his lover.

My January piece for the MatsuHana Calendar 2023 (on Twitter) that I wrote for Makki's birthday today ~ I had so much fun working on this project and all the works are absolutely amazing, so please consider giving this a look. Special shoutout to @sleepskie who made the January art piece and worked with me on the fic — their works are nothing short of amazing 💕

My part of an ArtTrade with @squishsquishcult

(Character Ladd belongs to them - Art made by me! Only we may use this piece)

my art, slapping me mercilessly: stop pretending that a simple box of color counts as a background you stupid sonuvabitch u stupid motherfucker stop it

me, spitting out blood: w h ,,at if it had a gradient tho,,

Never Change A Running System

Fandom: Haikyuu (My contribution to the @ngczine) Type: Short-Story (5.1k words) / Canon-Compliant Focus: Next Generation Seijoh Ships: no explicit mentions (but feel free to imagine the classics) Rating: General/Teen Up (for occasional swearing)

Summary:  Watari is starting to think something went wrong when all the new first years are coming to him instead of Yahaba - but maybe, considering that his best friend is busy taming a certain Mad Dog, the underclassmen's fear is justified.

Or: A story about how Yahaba, and with him all of Seijoh, struggles to fill out some big footprints 

Read on Ao3 -> Never Change A Running System

Download the zine for free -> Devoted

Preview:

“Watari-Senpai!?”

He looks up at the five first-years, presenting him with an assortment of items. The suction cup for uncovering the holes in the gym floor that harbour the net poles. The hand-full of pins used to secure the net. A whistle. An empty drink caddy. And a clipboard with nothing clipped to it.

“Yeah?”

“Where should we put this?”

Watari opens his mouth, then he stops, furrowing his brows, and looks around the gym.

Sure, he is a third-year now and technically a senpai, but still—there are other people better suited to ask such things. The captain for example. Or the vice-captain.

In retrospect, Watari should have been able to deduce the cause of their absence by simply listening.

After all, Yahaba is yelling at near peak volume, which is not nothing, but to Watari, yelling in the Aoba Johsai volleyball gym has become just another form of white noise after spending two years under the care of Iwaizumi Hajime.

His best friend has Kyotani in a headlock, shaking him viciously. The Mad Dog looks relatively unimpressed, face turned away, arms crossed over his chest, lips pursed in a silent ‘tsk’, giving short, snappy comments in response to the dressing down, which do nothing other than sprinkle oil into the fire.

Watari sighs—oh not again!

If he were a first-year, he’d not go anywhere near that either.

🐉 Dragon of the West, Prince of Silver (✒︎on Ao3)

IwaOiDaiSuga | Haikyu!! | Medieval/Dragons/Magic AU | Rated: T | 3k words

“Wra,” the dragon drones. “Hm, but that would be rude, wouldn’t it?” The man looks at it. “Brrrafff.” “We haven’t even finished the story yet.” Oh gods, please anything but more of that weird story! Hajime wants to scream. The dragon seems to agree with him and gives the man the stink-eye. “Okay, wow, now that was hurtful.” The man returns the look with a pout and a grumble. His brown hair is cascading across his face in gentle waves that reflect the dim light like gold and the sharp line where his jaw melts into his neck is teasing Hajime from underneath the collar of a sapphire blue robe.

Don't mind this, just me back on my nonsense >.> Thank you @swimming-in-the-sea-story for beta-ing 💕

I am very happy to announce the release of my Daisuga Big Bang 2024 fic, "Danza Della Morte," in collaboration with the magnificent artist @charlythelee and my beta @mxs1nister!!!

Note the tags please, and do check out the rest of the bang fics that can be found HERE...

A while ago I had the chance to work on the Cosmic RarePair Zine (on Twitter) and write a Sachiro/Atsumu fic centered around soulmate companion animals. I also took a run at lineless art for the first time in ages and made this piece of spot art. It's no comparison to the actual artists' pieces but I'm still low-key proud of it for my standards 😌

⇢ Read: The Heniocha Dyops Effect (on Ao3) (Preview)

Art & writing © me ~

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