#anyhow. peace

[voidedtea]

[ID in alt]

my pieces for @strawberrij's thespius fashion zine!! quite the endeavour and adventure that turned out pretty neat i think :]

special thanks go to @ratchetclankarecute for posing/cloth references + the bulk of the image descriptions! that first image would Not have happened without them <3

[ryllen]

Look what came through the mail today! The letters & ( •̀ω•́ )σ 3 little gremlins from letterstoear.

Just wanna say i adore the flower stickers on the letters too much, they are that much worth mentioning.

[pridoo]

This Easter I recommend supporting fellow artists and donating to good causes!

I'm backing this indie short film project and will continue donating monthly to Hivpoint which helps providing awareness and sources about HIV and AIDS. Take care of each other, love you all <3

[hooked-on-elvis]

[jonsaremembers]

MIL came to get GB for "a few hours" but said to me, "is it ok if we just keep him as long as we want?" and I was like YES.

so now I am watching mindless television on the sofa with a giant mug of tea to get my poor sinuses to unclench while Mr. Red dies in the bedroom and IT! IS! GLORIOUS!

[a-la-campanella]

New official art! Yanqing is here!

This was posted some hours ago on their other social media. Given that the Lunar New Year lasts for two weeks, we might get some more art in a similiar style soon!

[galedekarios]

What do you think of their decision to make Gale a teacher in his good ending? Earlier in the game, he says his attempted students’ ineptitudes irked him. Do you think he’s made enough of a change to make a good professor?

thank you for your message, anon! 🖤

i'm of two minds about it:

i am going to be transparent here and say that i am a teacher myself. i studied, i did my teacher training, and i have been teaching for a good bit now - and some people are meant to be teachers, and some are not. it's one of those professions that you have to be born for, imo. it requires an immense amount of patience and perseverance, a certain intuition when it comes to your students, among many other things.

i have said before that i can see gale as a professor, but less so in a teaching position and more in a sort of research role.

so looking at this, i think what larian is trying to convey is that gale has settled into this new life he leads, that he's found his place in life. that he's finally worked to salvage that life instead of reaching for the stars.

he's content now, more than he's ever been before. he has returned to the home he missed so very much. he's spending his time surrounded with the people he loves. tara, morena, the player, his friends. and he's dedicated himself to the study of magic.

that feeling of being content, happiness and security and love, as well as the journey he's been on, too, may have quelled the things that caused him to feel so irked by his students prior to his journey, perhaps it has given him a new perspective on things, the low lows and high highs he experienced.

but i also think that larian does listen to community feedback - imo too much at times - and this was a intensely popular headcanon for gale.

i have taken a look for you at the files for the epilogue and the notes in it seem to echo my thoughts overall:

His default state is that he returned to Waterdeep and became a professor of Illusory magic at his former school, Blackstaff Academy. General vibe here is that this a Gale who's found peace with himself - he's a great teacher, one his students are mostly in awe of.

[leconcombrerit]

The art block is still there but I somehow manage to sketch stuff on it when the stars are aligned. Also I really love Vick, and even if in the end we know next to nothing about Tallow, you've got to admit he excelled at his job. I wanna learn more about him. I think he's a blank page even to himself.

[sino--69]

I don't have anything...

Like okay maybe sure i do have 11k ish words written in my notepad

But explaining all the context and everything... And the fear of posting itself.

Why do i want to post?

Isn't it okay for it to stay in there.

Why do i not want to post?

Isn't it okay to not post. Isn't it okay to not show up?

Why must i prove myself.

Maybe im just tired.

And maybe that's okay. Not just "for a day" or "Until its time". Sure. The time will come. But the anticipation kills me.

Maybe it's fine to be tired.

Summer holidays are about to end. The world keeps moving. I don't make much of a change but, this isn't about nihilism. Maybe because nothing matters, i am free to choose how i do it, because—

What am i sacrificing my sanity for?

To show up? So that i can get a goodie on my to-do list? Which will anyhow reset the next day? When do i ever get to cash in the wins?

Why can't i just be?

Stare at the wall, the skies, listen to music, exist, breathe, not worry, not panic, not stress out, not achieve, not try to prove my worth to a non-existent meter of "what will finally make me happy"

What am i scared of?

The silence that comes when u stop? The thoughts that come up when you stop fucking thinking all the time? That maybe, just maybe, your legs hurt and you've been walking for too long? That maybe you may not get what you want and that it's okay?

That its okay to just pause? To just be?

That you need not prove your worth, because you're already worthy?

Am i scared of what comes next? The "if I'm worthy, then what?".

Then you live...

Exhale, a breath you never knew u were holding in.

Drop your shoulders, sit down, and maybe look back, maybe smile, maybe wonder

"Maybe it's not laziness. Maybe i just need it. Maybe i deserve it."

And finally remember. That you're

You.

Not your achievements or your failures, not your past or your future. Not even your thoughts.

You're the one that witnesses...

[rebrandedbard]

you might want to turn anon off for a while. don't feed the troll. :/

asdfghjkl I literally just said this in discord that I was feeding the troll. But as I told my friends, I love a good rant. Also, I can't talk back to the rude old people at work (one shook a ROCK in my face today), so I gotta do what I can here. Nonny's in my house now, and I'm looking for the catharsis of snapping back when people are acting rude. This is like enrichment to me; my pumpkin in the enclosure.

[nicorobinphd]

tumblr staff: very graciously & kindly & sweetly & justly (& also thank you very much) removes the restrictions from my blog.

me:

[araiz-zaria]

[balmungkriemhild]

late to foxgirl friday but oh well _(：3 」∠ )_ Hiyamei's design looked better with pants so I decided to give her pants and make a sorta coherent reference of her outfit.

(consider donating to my Ko-fi, thank you!)

[itsahotminuteinbetween]

i’m bored…

HERES SOME TIRAMISU POOKIE

>:)

hey. Hey lixxie. What if I told you you’re the best human being currently on the planet-

[flovverworks]

(person whos writing an open on gran & their dad) i should make newly-returned-akira accidentally using the great calamity term for the moon an open. when im not falling asleep writing

[toestalucia]

anyway gamers hello i was confidently gonna say im gonna try my hardest to be here rather than on akira but due to a twist of fate i might prioritise my multi a bit. THAT SAID ill try to swap between the two. in an ideal world ill get like all of my recent drafts here done? mayhaps not the more serious stuff cuz my writing is rapidly declining (irl is stressful rn). the shorter things. the foolery. maybe i get possessed to write the longer stuff we just dont know. i truly do love gran i will fight my wizard (akira) obsession for them