FOR @junebalaya!!! AAAAH THIS WAS SO FUN TO WRITE! AND THANK YOU @killingthecringe and @shadowsfascination FOR LOOKING IT OVER!

WELL THIS TOOK A LONG TIME!

Heads up- we talk about Shadow's apparent death in SA2.

(I feel comfortable putting this out now. Wanted to wait for SonicxShadow Generations to come out in order to make sure this was still game canon compliant XD)

Thank you to @killingthecringe and @lambpaca for beta reading this. I appreciate it more than you know <3

"i love it. but i also love touching hot glue, so-" - Lambpaca, 2024

Amy still dreams of the ARK.

It’s so vivid. Sometimes, she can still taste the dust in the air, the tang of chrome and steel. There is a hushed silence to these dreams that she can only liken to that of consecrated ground. At the time when she was there, she can’t remember feeling it, but maybe that’s part of what dreams are for: to remember what has been forgotten.

And she sees him standing there. ------- I'm moving some of the things I published on Deviantart over to A03 so I figured I might as well update the links here, too. This was for ShadAmy Week in 2021. The themes were Dreams and Cosmic, and I chose to combine them.

I hope you enjoy <3

No Butterflies for Me - Love Triangle - ShadAmy Week 2024

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AAAAA!

Massive thanks to @shadowsfascination , @shadamyheadcanons , and @lambpaca for looking this over! This is the ONE prompt from this week I'll be getting in on time, and it's frankly the one I've had the idea for long before the prompts were even decided.

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 Thank you again, @lambpaca - so much for doing this. Every time I look at it I burst out laughing all over again.

(Cover art by the amazingly tallented @redsunlight) *screaming*

Thank you @killingthecringe @shadowsfascination and @lambpaca - I appreciate your patience, expertise, and honesty more than words can say.

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Shadow couldn’t breathe. 

Every muscle in his body convulsed, electrons firing, blood pumping. Everything was dark and his head was full of screaming. She was in his arms. She was right here. He just needed to- 

“Chaos, you’re gonna crush me!” 

He let go. 

Amy shook her head, rolling her shoulders as she did so. Yet still, she laughed as she brought the chao plush to her chest and squeezed tightly. 

She was too bright against the backdrop, too solid in front of all the shifting shapes and blurring edges. Shadow’s eyes kept slipping off of her, unable to hold her in focus. He clenched and unclenched his hands, wanting to grab, wanting to hold on, wanting to- he needed to- 

Amy’s smile fell. “Shadow? Are you okay?” 

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Shadows on a Cave Wall

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“I wanna story.”

Shadow looked up from the mango they were cutting to see Charmy’s face peering up next to him. The boy’s fingers squirmed against the counter, tiny things anxious with hunger. Shadow paused, cocking an brow before turning back to the task at hand.

“I said, ‘I want a story.’ Charmy huffed. ‘And you’re supposed to ask, ‘what kind?’”

“Am I?”

“Yes.”

“I see.”

The kid buttoned their lip, shoes squeaking as they bounced in place; their best interpretation of patience. The corner of Shadow's mouth twitched as they silently counted, curious as to how long it could last this time.

XD No, not really. @lambpaca and I were inspired by fancy parakeets!

They come in all sorts of colours, but we ended up really liking the green ones.

Tekno does feature in Gigi's story, however! Amy had called on Tekno to help her figure out how to work with Gigi's feathers, as she didn't want to damage them. Somehow, however, Wave also found out about the adoption. Next thing everyone knew, she was storming into the house demanding to see the kid and saying she knew better than anyone else how to care for and style feathers.

Needless to say, Amy now knows how to work with feathers, and Gigi gained two aunties.

@sonic-fankid-showdown

GIGI THE PARAKEET CHARACTER PROFILE

Eeeeehehehehe- figured since @lambpaca and I have entered our Gigi into the @sonic-fankid-showdown, we needed to actually type out some details about who she is. We'll post a timeline for her at a later date, but for now, click the read more to find out more details about Gigi!

@glasscrane made this amazing animation for @lambpaca and I featuring our Gigi the Parakeet. She's the adopted kid of Shadow and Amy! Gigi is also participating in the @sonic-fankid-showdown

Don't let her sweet side fool you- she's a biter.

More to come tomorrow!

Hanging On to Tomorrow Ch 12

Oh wow... it's done.

Thank you so much to @lambpaca, @shadowsfascination, and @killingthecringe so much for their patience and help beating this.

So… I wrote Ch 11 in August of 2021. I haven't technically updated since then. I've been chewing away at this 12th chapter for… ages. Really happy to update. A lot has happened since then. A lot is happening now. Despite everything, it's really nice to still be around <3 To those of you who have been following the story since the beginning, thanks for your patience.

(So for context, if you don't want to go back and re-read, Amy realized her tarot reading at Little Planet might have involved Shadow and not Sonic. She's trying to convince herself otherwise and has decided that the best way to do so is to put Shadow in a position where he'll make an ass of himself.)

I want to go back and, like, tinker with some things and such to make this read nicer, but I also knew I needed to get ch 12 out NOW or I never would XD It's been haunting me. Worse still, it spilled over into ch 13, so be on the lookout for that, because if I have any say in the matter, it'll be out soon!

Cheers!

<3 @lambpaca and I are back on our bullshit.

You might know Gigi from our previous works. If you are unfamiliar, they're the adopted child of Shadow and Amy! AND NOW THEY HAVE A NEW FRIEND!

Meet Angel! Angel is Knuckles and Rouge's kid, and while she looks a lot like her dad, shes a mama's girl. Very shy around new people, rather reserved, but incredibly sweet and creative. She can be incredibly stubborn, and shes a bit of a germaphobe. She loves to make art, and she loves all kinds of it. She likely grows up to pursue art/artifact restoration and maintenance.

Becoming

*screaming*

ANYWAY HI I'VE BEEN REALLY EXCITED TO SHARE THIS! This is the piece I wrote and submitted for the @shadamyzine! In fact, @deadrabbithq on tumblr did illustrations for it! They turned out awesome! alskjdflsj I DIDN'T KNOW THEY WERE GONNA DO THAT AND I'M SO HAPPY!!! THEY TURNED OUT GREAT <3 <3

Okay so this piece is weird. You know that Jacket Shadow has in that calendar piece? The one where ShadAmy fans, accustomed to crumbs, lost their shit because Shadow and Amy were next to one another on the calendar and had matching cherry blossom motifs and Shadow had That Fucking Cherry Blossom Jacket??? THAT JACKET??? It has a GRIP on my SOUL can you tell can you fucking TELL?????

BECAUSE THIS WHOLE PIECE- IT'S AN ABSTRACT PERSONIFICATION PIECE IN PURPLE PROSE... FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE JACKET.

(I can't find the actual official art but in lieu of that PLEASE go check out @kuroiyuki96-art amazing piece here and maybe you'll understand how I went Fucking Feral over it.)

Anyway XD

Hats of and huge thanks to @shadowsfascination and @killingthecringe! They are the ones who beta-read this!

YOU CAN READ IT ON ARCHIVE HERE! (but I REALLY recommend reading it on the Zine which you can find HERE!)

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It comes about in a slow series of moments, the act of Becoming. 

Like the rain that drums its lazy fingers atop the roof of the warehouse, then the attic window, then the storage shed. It is a measured tattoo across the decades of time just as much as the footsteps of the mice, the fluttering of the moths, the creeping of the yellow across pristine white leather and gentle fading of brilliant reds. 

It is moved from box to box. A game piece in the shuffling and settling of affairs. Something to be bartered and sold. It’s neat and tidy for a while. Then, a business closes. An estate liquifies. The box is suddenly adrift on tides of time and paperwork. 

This Prenatal Dark seems to stretch forever, but then, it always does. That is the way of things. The Becoming cannot happen yet. The Wait must occur. It is the silence Beforehand, the Eternity predating the Infinity, and the Infinity is the Rest of Existence in Becoming. 

Because eventually, there is light. Eventually, there’s a young woman who peels back the cardboard and runs her hands down unyielding buttons and a stiff wool front, and the smile she gives outshines the sun. 

That’s where it starts. 

Maria, Who Smiles as She Pulls the Lever

This has been a labor of mine for months.

Listen I’m a bit of a masochist and I may have been obsessed with rereading the ‘unedited’ version of Ann Frank’s diary and subsequently been up late listening to the isolated vocals for ‘Cancer’ by MCR a few too many nights in a row but even then, this has been boiling over in my brain for... ages.

So here we are.

This publication would not have been possible without some tremendous characters to whom I wish to give thanks.

@biolizardboils

@shadowsfascination

@killingthecringe

@bimboamyrose

@lambpaca

@mellow-elbow

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Maria is from Earth. Sometimes she has to remind herself of this, so that the sterile steel of the ARK doesn’t become too comfortable.

“Dziadzio Gerald will fix you and keep you safe.” “He worked so hard to get this contract.” “You need to be brave.”

This is what she remembers more than the faces.

This is what all the letters keep saying until they stop coming.

Okay wait no I gotta ask. I've been in this fandom for over a decade- I gotta ask.

(For additional data points- please add in the tags or replies WHY you have this preference and, if you ship them with anyone, WHO.)