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Camp Xavier’s caters to each campers individual, unique… skill. Like fishing! Or… ax wielding. And not telekinesis. Or anything.
A ‘Captive Prince x A Song of Ice and Fire’ AU
He is skilled, he is hot-blooded, he collects his bastards like stray kittens - and he is the Prince of Dorne. But even somebody like Damianos Martell can manage to step into a nest of vipers. He did exactly that when he accidentally crippled the eldest Tyrell son, Auguste, in a tournament, pissing off the whole lot of Highgarden. Auguste Tyrell is not only their heir, but one of the last Blackfyres through his maternal line. And some people want to believe it wasn’t an accident at all…
Despite the rumours and his family bearing a deep grudge against the Martells, Auguste and Damianos quickly became friends after the accident. Even his little brother, Laurent, eventually warmed up after endless months of vicious stares. Tyrell’s little rose turns out to be brilliantly witty, more thorns than petals. Yet, he blushes prettily whenever Auguste teases him with an embarrassing childhood story, in which Laurent thought for the longest time (because of the old Targaryen/Blackfyre traditions) he is to marry his own brother as a grown up, telling every adult complimenting him that he is already promised. The Dornish prince cannot help but to grow fond of the brothers.
Years later, Damianos emerges victoriously in another tournament and is to crown his Queen of Love and Beauty. There’s a flood of shocked gasps going through the crowd when he places the winter roses on Laurent Tyrell’s head, the flowers as blue as his eyes. “Why,” Damianos proclaimes, “it’s all the grace and courtesy he deserves.”
Since then, Damianos has had quite the reputation for letting tournaments turn out scandalously!
HOW DO YOU EVEN POST A 20 PANELS COMIC ON TUMBLR, SERIOUSLY. My answer is probably: don’t make one in the first place. I’m sorry if it makes your dashboard explode.
This is my @captiveprince–ss gift for Allie @thecaptiveroyals. It was supposed to be for the prompts ‘emotional healing’ and ‘ghosts’, but it ended up lacking in the ghosts department. I hope you like it anyway.
Thanks a lot to kuroosthighz for all the help!
Harry Potter the Second. You were named after the bravest man I knew. It was me. I’m awesome. I fucking killed voldemort.
Trustfund Vineyard Vines Viktor captures Skating Scholarship Yuri’s heart with a clever text (it helps when your parents donated the rink your future fiancé skates on)
Thanks @ilovevitya for the idea!
More Preppy College AU: 1, 2
Thanks to x , I found this on YouTube x , which is the source of that famous “fassy-in-the-back-seat” photo in the middle.
It was January 19th, 2011, they were doing some pick-up shooting for X-Men First Class in Los Angeles. After that, they had dinner at Koi, a Japanese restaurant.
Part four of my quotes collection is dedicated to the artists! This one is a little bit longer, but this is because there were so many good artists and quotes I couldn’t pick a select few. As always, I hope you enjoy these quotes!
Leonardo da Vinci
“You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.”
“Learning never exhausts the mind.”
“Time abides long enough for those who make use of it.”
“It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.”
“I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.”
Vincent van Gogh
“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”
“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.”
“The way to know life is to love many things.”
“Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.”
“One must work and dare if one really wants to live.”
“It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.”
“The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.”
“Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.”
“Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.”
“As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.”
Florence Scovel Shinn
“Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.”
“You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which ‘clicks.‘”
Camille Pissarro
“It is absurd to look for perfection.”
“Everything is beautiful, all that matters is to be able to interpret.”
“Don’t be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.”
“When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart.”
Pablo Picasso
“Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.”
“Action is the foundational key to all success.”
“Everything you can imagine is real.”
“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”
“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
“He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.”
“Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.”
Andy Warhol
“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”
“People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.”
Salvador Dali
“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”
“Have no fear of perfection - you’ll never reach it.”
“Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.”
Georgia O’Keeffe
“I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.”
“You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.”
Artemisia Gentileschi
“As long as I live I will have control over my being.”
Henri Matisse
“Creativity takes courage.”
“You study, you learn, but you guard the original naïveté. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.”
“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”
“He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.”
“Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.”
Corita Kent
“Flowers grow out of dark moments.”
“Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.”
“Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.”
Michaelangelo
“Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.”
“A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.”
“There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.”
“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.”
“Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.”
Thanks to x , I found this on YouTube x , which is the source of that famous “fassy-in-the-back-seat” photo in the middle.
It was January 19th, 2011, they were doing some pick-up shooting for X-Men First Class in Los Angeles. After that, they had dinner at Koi, a Japanese restaurant.
A Sketch of Teddy and Billy .
I wanted to draw these characters from the Avengers Academy game to see how they look in my style. I don’t play this game but is fun to read the screenshots that people post in Tumblr.
I hope you like it! ♥♥
HAPPY BIRTHDAY @ikeracity!! <33333
——— “You look ridiculous,” Emma says as she sinks down beside him, arranging her robes with an absent flick of her wrist. There’s plenty of room on Charles’ bench on the account of their fellow housemates pointedly refusing to sit near him even if it makes them cramped. “You’re turning yourself into a social pariah.”
“The game started half an hour ago,” Charles says without looking up. His Transfiguration textbook is propped open in his lap, incongruous with the rest of the screaming crowd holding banners and waving snake-shaped windsocks.
“I had to do my hair,” Emma says unconcernedly. “Really, Charles, you don’t even like Quidditch.”
Charles has to wait to respond on the account of Slytherin scoring another goal: around them, their housemates go wild, screaming and cheering as the Chasers do a quick victory loop overhead. “It’s not so bad. Just because my family doesn’t own a team—”
“Two teams, actually,” Emma says with a smirk, “Father bought the Harpies just before last season, remember?”
“Hey Charles!” A blur of crimson heralds Erik’s arrival, and the Slytherin section boos loudly as he comes to a stop hovering overhead. “Oh shut it, you cowardly pit of—”
“Don’t harass the fans, darling,” Charles calls up to him. “You don’t want to get kicked out of the game.”
Erik grins. It’s all teeth. “Anyway, watch this!”
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I read a lot of writing in my line of work and while that’s amazing, I see the same flaws again and again. Below is a list of 7 common writing mistakes in fiction and how you can fix them. This list is by no means complete. In fact there’s a great list over at The Editor’s Blog that covers even more mistakes.
1. Bad dialogue
Sometimes writers can forget that they’re writing a conversation and thus not write a conversation. The dialogue can be boring, stilted and unnatural, and I’d rather listen to the territorial call of an Australian Raven than read one more word of it.
There are many things that contribute to bad dialogue, but here are the three that really get on my nerves:
Not using contractions–I’ve seen work that is modern and still doesn’t use contractions. Consider this: “You are going to be late.” Unless the speaker is trying to sound like an irritated mother and is leaving an emphatic silence between each word to sound threatening, use contractions. It sounds really drawn out and like the speaker is pointing their nose in the air. We generally don’t speak like this in real life, so neither should your characters.
Using complete sentences–Not only is it natural for your characters to chop their sentences, this can also contribute to their voice. Does your character say “I don’t know.” or “Dunno.” Would he/she say “I missed the train and had to find a lift home.” or “Missed the train. Had to find a ride.” In casual speech, we often only use the words necessary to convey our message, even if it doesn’t form a complete sentence. You shouldn’t apply this to every line of dialogue, but consider it if your dialogue sounds stale.
Using characters as a conduit for research and plot information–Sometimes writers like to show off their research (looking at you Jurassic Park), backstory, world building and plot by having their characters talk way too much. If your character says “Once this valley was home to an ancient race of elves, who looked after the land and treated it with respect. One day, the secret magic spring dried up and then the goblins came. Without their magic spring, the elves couldn’t fight back, and they were killed by the goblins. The goblins didn’t respect the land and now it’s uninhabitable.” he should probably shut up. It sounds less like a person talking than it does an audio tour. The information he’s shared could be given in a much more interesting way.
How you can fix it:
Listen to and watch the way real people talk to each other. Do they speak in full sentences with full words? Do they speak with grammatical correctness? Do they speak differently in different situations? How do hand gestures, body language and facial expressions help them communicate?
Read your dialogue out loud as if you’re practising lines for a movie. Does it sound natural? Does it flow?
Test every piece of information your characters give out. Does it all need to be said? Would your character say all of it at once? Do they need to say it all in so many words?
2. Passages of uninterrupted speech or thought
Sometimes you might want to avoid telling the reader about something and have a character tell another character instead. Sometimes you might want to avoid telling the reader how a character feels about something by having them think about it excessively instead. If this goes on for longer than a couple of paragraphs (or less), you risk allowing your reader to drift out of the scene.
The only thing anchoring your reader in the scene is your characters and what they’re doing. If the characters are talking or thinking for a long time without interacting with anyone or anything else, they might as well be floating in space, which can make the reader feel like they’re floating in space. That’s not to say that they’ve forgotten where the scene is taking place or who else is involved, just that it can feel that way if this is how the character acts.
How you can fix it:
If your characters have a lot to say, try to include the other characters as well. Have them ask questions or make comments so it feels like a scene and not a soliloquy.
If your character is around others when he/she is deep in thought, try to include the other characters in some way. If the POV character is thinking about something that the other characters can see, why not give voice to one of the other characters in between thought paragraphs?
If the character is alone when he/she is deep in thought, is there a way they can interact with their environment? Unless they’re standing in front of a wall, they should be able to see, smell, feel or hear something.
If your character is absolutely, completely lost in thought, is there a way you can bring some sort of image into it? For example, on page 216 of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, Katniss is thinking about how to treat a burn she receives. Almost the entire page is a paragraph describing a memory; however, there is still action in this memory and, therefore, there is something for the reader to imagine.
3. Not knowing when to/not to use said
Some people will tell you to use descriptive speech tags and others will tell you there’s nothing wrong with said. Both are true, but when do you follow the former and when do you follow the latter? And when do you use no speech tags at all?
Using anything but said and using nothing but said both get exhausting and boring very fast.
How you can fix it:
Below is a rough guide to what kind of speech tag to use. Please bear in mind that it is only a guide and will not and should not apply to every situation.
Said is unobtrusive–a way of letting the reader know who’s talking without making a song and dance about it. Specific verbs (e.g. whispered, shouted, mumbled) give the reader information about how the words are being said. Adverbial tags can also give extra information about how something is being said, but more often than not they can be replaced with a stronger verb (e.g. she said loudly can be replaced with she shouted). Writers can also fall into the trap of telling where it’s better to show when using adverbial tags, which can make the writing bland. Sometimes telling is better, but with speech tags, it’s usually better to absorb the reader in the conversation. If you’ve used an adverbial tag, go back and have a look at it. Is there a better way you could get the message across?
What you need to pay attention to when determining what speech tags to use is the context of the speech. If the reader is already aware of the manner in which a character is talking, it won’t be necessary to remind them every time the character speaks. If there are only two characters in the conversation, it won’t be necessary to finish each quote with he said/she said. Going back to #2, you can also do away with speech tags entirely and use action to demonstrate how a character is feeling, while also grounding the reader in the scene.
The key to avoiding repetition and blandness is to find a balance between using the unobtrusive said, using something more specific, and mixing it up with a bit of action, which means you might not even need a tag at all.
4. Too much description/overwriting
Sometimes it’s better to tell and not show. Some details just aren’t important enough to warrant a lengthy description. If you want your reader to know that it’s raining, you can write something better than “It was raining”, but there’s no need to go overboard and write a poem about how the puddles on the asphalt looked like a great abyss.
Think of description like camera focus. The more you describe something, the more focus you put on it. If you put enough focus on something, you eliminate everything else. What’s this? A close-up. What does a close-up in a movie tell you? That object of the close-up is significant.
Be wary: when you write thirty words describing the way the moonlight is reflecting off the inky black lake, you might not be just setting the scene. You might also be giving the lake undue emphasis, and it’s probably going to irritate your reader when they realise there’s nothing significant about the lake at all, you were just showing off your imagery skills.
How you can fix it:
Keep it real. What would the character notice, what would they think about it and is it worth the attention? And try not to focus on sight. Your characters have more than one way to perceive their environment, and incorporating their other senses can help build a 3D setting for your reader rather than just painting them a picture. Give the reader enough to imagine the scene, and no more.
5. Not knowing when to/not to use adverbs
There’s a lot of writing advice out there that will tell you to cut all adverbs. The result is that many writers now think adverbs exist only to eat their children and wouldn’t dare to ever use one.
There is truth to the advice, but to say “The road to hell is paved with adverbs”? Really, Stephen King? And his dandelion analogy assumes there’s no editing process.
Adverbs aren’t evil, but there is such a thing as using them ineffectively. Which of the below are more descriptive?
She ran quickly or She sprinted
“It’s a long way down,” he said nervously or “It’s a long way down,” he said
He was shamefully prone to anxiety or He was prone to anxiety
She sprinted not only gets to the point faster, it also creates a more powerful image for the reader. “It’s a long way down,” he said gives no indication of how the speaker is speaking or feeling; however, “It’s a long way down,” he said nervously is telling, not showing. Rather than using an adverb here, the writer could describe the speaker’s body language. He was shamefully prone to anxiety tells you how the character feels about being prone to anxiety and there is no stronger word to replace “shamefully prone”.
How you can fix it:
Ask yourself:
How would the meaning of the sentence change if the adverb was removed?
Can the adverb and verb be replaced by a single verb?
Does the action really need clarification?
Does the adverb add something to the sentence that can’t be described in another way?
6. No conflict in the beginning
The first few chapters of a lot of stories I’ve read involve the main character plodding along in their daily life. This is a good thing as the reader needs to get a feel for your character before the big plot things happen, but that doesn’t mean the first few chapters should be without conflict. I don’t want to read about a character waking up, looking at themselves in the mirror, getting dressed, getting coffee, going to work, getting home, going on a date etc. for three chapters. It’s boring and I don’t care about any of it.
The confusion might be caused by common story structure theories that say the main conflict enters the story at the first plot point, or 25% into the story. But this doesn’t mean there should be zero conflict at the beginning! At the beginning of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone Harry was told ‘no funny business’ or he’d be grounded. Not long after that, there was some vanishing glass and an escaped boa constrictor. After this happened there was a mysterious letter addressed to Harry, and he spent an entire chapter trying to get hold of it as the weirdness escalated. There’s conflict and a goal right off the bat, and the story hasn’t even really started yet. In The Hunger Games Katniss faces the Reaping. In The Hobbit Bilbo finds himself hosting a dinner party for dwarfs and being asked to go and fight a dragon.
How you can fix it:
Take a look at all the books you’ve read. Most of them (if not all) start with some sort of problem or goal. Study up on this to help you realise what makes a good beginning.
Don’t fill your first few chapters with characterisation and nothing else. Build your character in the context of a problem or goal.
Keep in mind that you find your characters more interesting than your reader does. What you like about your character might not be enough to keep the reader’s interest.
What’s going on in your character’s life? How is this going to influence what happens when the conflict or story goal takes the stage?
What would happen if you cut your beginning out of the story? Would the plot still make sense? Maybe it’s better to start the story at a later point.
7. Lack of story structure
When you write a first draft, whether you’ve planned it or not, there are going to be structural flaws. Maybe halfway through you thought of a way to solidify a character’s motivation. Maybe at the climax you thought of a way to strengthen your conflict. Maybe somewhere in the middle you had no idea where you were going with this and slugged your way through some boring scenes. It’s all good; this is how stories come together.
What should happen next is that you revise your draft with story structure in mind. There’ll be a lot of “I should add a scene here about this” and “what was I thinking when I wrote that?” and after a few goes, you’ll have a story.
Writers don’t always do this though (which, by the way, makes my job take longer and cost more). They’ll go through and fix all of the obvious problems, but what remains is a manuscript that still lacks a solid structure. It’s messy to read, it’s confusing, it’s clearly not thought out, and it feels like the writer is giving me the finger. I’ll regret paying for the book, stop reading it and leave a negative review on Goodreads. Is that worth not giving your book a good edit?
How you can fix it:
Read a lot. Make sure you have a decent grasp on different story structures. Make sure you understand the way stories progress, the way they’re paced and what keeps the reader engaged.
Re-outline. Or if you pantsed your way through the first draft, make an outline. Write a checklist for what each scene should accomplish and what each chapter should accomplish. Make a timeline of how the events progress and how the tension increases. Don’t base this on what you’ve written, base it on what you’ve figured out about your plot.
Edit ruthlessly. If a scene doesn’t measure up to your new plan, cut it. If it’s in the wrong place, move it.
After rereading “Dancing in the rain”, it hit me that I haven’t posted this sketch on tumblr omg, the sketch that started it all. Rereading this fic after experiencing annoying stuff and stressing out too many time gives me such happy feeling ahhh~ *pets pan and casey*<3333
Indulging self time with one of my favorite creature!Erik AU: Dragon Erik 8′FFF. *rides him with Charles into the sunset*. A prompt popped up in my head a few days ago, so ofc the need to draw that out is a must laff… warning for sappy prompt ayyy:
Charles had always wanted to become a Royal Dragon Rider since he was a boy, but an accident happened that took the chance away from him. Even though it didn’t paralyze him entirely, he could still walk, but his legs sometimes got so painful to even stand. Then there was an outcast of the dragon kind: Erik, who was born from magic, with metal like scales all over his body unlike other known dragons. Erik was chased away and never really had a place among his own kind, hunted by the dark warlock who created him (Shaw!! hisses). When Charles and Erik stumbled upon each other, one’s dream was fulfilled, and one’s loneliness was no more, of course, there was love to grow and bloom.
EFF YES! my cherik Yuri on ice/figure skating AU is aliveeeee!! thinking about this I suddenly realize that Erik is both Victor and Yurio… in term of being Charles’ coach and even though seems jealous on the outside but actually a fanboy on the inside lmaooo, keep crushing harder, Erik B))) and here comes the long as eff prompt!
While Charles is lovingly nicknamed The Ice Prince, Erik is called The Ice King for rarely showing his emotions outside of the rink. For as long as Erik remembers, Charles has always been known as the prodigy, coached by both of his parents, who were also a famous pair of figure skating athletes. But when a tragedy happened that killed Brian Xavier, Charles is left being trained by his mother, his performance keeps going worse and finally disappears from the ice rink. Erik can’t help going longer without seeing Charles skate again, he decides to retire early and help Charles regaining his confidence in both life and love.
I did an American football AU ages ago, now I’m revisiting it again!! Because the sight of cherik in tight pants gives me lifeeee *//qqqq///* <333. And I wanted to draw Charles scoring for his team like a BAMF he is haha mrrrrr. And as I had said in the first art post of this AU: god bless tight pants! Bless!!! 8′FFFFF
More steel sheep AU!!! 8FFFFF
pangeasplits and I talked about how this would take place at the Summer Festival, before these dumb boys get together haha, with Erik showing off his skills with steel wool fireworks, and then secretly steals a kiss from Charles (Erik u sly thing u~), a perfect chance for my love for drawing shiny things to go full force lmao 8′))))).
If u don't mind me asking (/again/ *sweats nervously*), how did young Yuuri and Young Victor meet? (I'm really into his AU , ITS PURE GOLD)
I like the idea that a 15 year old Victor came to Japan and got lost. Maybe it’s for vacation with his family or business with Yakov because he was already an amazing skater at a young age.
He wanders around a bit and one way or another, he finds himself at the Ice Castle.
Now, jumping to 11 year old Yuuri and the gang. They should be walking back from school and heading to Ice Castle for their daily freelance skating. Just kids having fun, y’know. Then surprise, surprise, they witness Victor skating, being as elegant as he always is even as a teenager. (I’m not drawing all that because I’m not ready to die just yet.)
The three of them would stare at Victor’s mini performance, not even knowing that he was being watched. (Well, Takeshi’s too busy looking at his crush, but he would have enjoyed the performance anyway–)
By the end of it, Victor will notice them and skate towards them like “Did you enjoy the show?” with that sly smirk of his.
That’s basically how they meet!
Yuuri forms a new crush, and Victor thinks he’s cute `v`
Okay but imagine Yuuri retires from professional figure skating at 27, and he decides to go back to college to become a teacher.
So this boy walks into class sporting the just-rolled-out-of-bed look with the sex hair and the big comfy sweater and the starbucks cup in one hand.
And you know, he’s enjoying his life, he makes friends in his program and on the weekends he helps his husband teach cute little kids how to skate and they have this cozy little house together in a nice neighbourhood. He probably has girls and guys falling for him left and right.
And then one day, Yuuri’s out with his friends, and they’re at a cafe or something.
And a group of girls comes up to them, and they’re all blushing and nudging each other saying “You talk first!”.
So Yuuri just turns this absolutely blinding smile on them and asks, “Autographs?”
The girls squeak, and nod furiously.
“Sure!” he says, reaching out for the notebooks they’re holding out for him to sign.
And about ten minutes later, after several selfies and autographs and a lot of gushing and squealing and “Please let Viktor know we’re looking forward to Yuratchka’s upcoming season,” the girls leave.
So Yuuri turns back to his friends, and they’re all just staring at him with wide eyes and gaping mouths.
Yuuri kinda wonders if there’s something on his face.
The first thing that comes out of anyone’s mouths is, “…who’s Viktor?”
And Yuuri’s kinda confused as he replies, “….my husband?”
“YOU’RE MARRIED!?!?!?!?” his friends all shriek.
Yuuri looks down at his hand to make sure his ring is still there. “Yeah?” he says, holding his hand up.
“I thought that was just a fashion statement!” one of the girls exclaims.
“Why did they want your autograph though?” asks another of his friends, and Yuuri just looks away sheepishly.
“I’m…uh….a retired pro figure skater?” he asks, his voice going higher with embarrassment. “And I…uh…got 2 golds in the Grand Prix…and 2 golds in Worlds….and maybe a silver in Pyeongchang?”
His voice gets progressively quieter as his face gets even redder.
His friends are staring at him in horror and shocked disbelief now.
And he thinks he might as well get it all out now.
“And…my husband might be the most decorated athlete in figure skating history?”
A Sketch of Teddy and Billy .
I wanted to draw these characters from the Avengers Academy game to see how they look in my style. I don’t play this game but is fun to read the screenshots that people post in Tumblr.
I hope you like it! ♥♥