#having a day tm at work

[a-driftamongopenstars]

[veinsfullofstars]

💜 Marxolor Week 2025 Day 6: Soul + Sharing 💙

A pair of bad endings, an unexpected reunion, a terrifying team-up...

Started 06/30/25, finished 07/06/25. | Marxolor Week ’25 Prompt List (made by @lovingly-dedicated) | BG image source

[redkehlchen]

Once again attempting to work on my comic and thought it might be good to make a short plot summary.

And well.. technically it’s a story about the importance of aromantic visibility- /hj

Nothing would have happened if Eloisa just knew about it! 😔

[sotc]

@crownedinmarigolds was doing a little "share your workspace" prompt and I wanted to take part! Soo here's mine! This just doubles as my own personal space/desk since art commissions is my income/job. I just do everything in one spot lol... but I do have my old/spare desk upstairs in my bedroom that I'm planning to be a work space for when I need quiet time (my area is in the open den of a living room) but it's not ready yet. Someday soon! I get excited at the idea of decorating two spots for myself lmao. Also, if anyone wants to share their work space feel free to tag or reblog. :)

[gasstationpopcorn]

me @ kris's latest selfie: oh who's that pretty bo- hold on hold on a minute hold on honey

this is both sinister and diabolical....

biggest concert of our career, 20k people... good grief

[stardustedstories]

     ❝ When does a muse become a dad?❞                                                                              ❝ When they're played by Mal! ❞ (c)

[charlesemersonwinchesteriii]

And the thing is. Speaking on a meta, Doylist level now. In actual Inuit shamanic practice, cutting out one's tongue (or any other body part) is not a real thing, at least not that I can find reference to anywhere. In fact, actual angakkuit have their own secret verbal language that they use to communicate with spirits (including their tuurngaq). Plus, shamans serve very important interpersonal functions within their communities, so removing their ability to speak would be worse than pointless.

So why is it a thing in The Terror? Well, the most obvious purpose is To Be Scary And Gory because Horror Genre. But fabricating a random "barbaric" practice (that doesn't even make any sense) to assign to indigenous people for shock value would be quite a choice for a show that punishes its characters for believing such lies (DON'T YOU KNOW THEY KILL CHILDREN EDWARD. CAN YOU IMAGINE. WHOMST COULD EVER DO SUCH A THING—), so I have to believe something more is going on here. What that something is, I'm not knowledgeable enough to say.

But I know it must be something. Because the following is an excerpt from an oral history series published by Nunavut Arctic College, Inuit Perspectives on the 20th Century:

In this chapter, the elders talk about shamanism and how one could become an angakkuq. In most cases, angakkuit did their own recruitment, identifying interesting potential candidates and offering to turn them into angakkuit (the person was always free to decline), [...]. The selected candidate would start to see their tuurngaq. In some rituals, the person becoming angakkuq was stabbed (they would not bleed) or shot (their tuurngaq would intercept the bullet).

Might the fact that the tuurngaq in The Terror failed to protect Silna's father in the first place (and failed to protect the Inuit family later as well, in both cases only attacking after the damage had already been done) imply something in itself? Plus the fact that Silna is very clearly not free to decline becoming an angakkuq...... plus the fact that her people banish her, yet allow Crozier to stay, another needlessly cruel and impractical act, just like the tongue-cutting...... It all feels like a deliberate statement. What that statement is would be the task of someone smarter than me to decipher.

[darckcarnival]

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[veinsfullofstars]

🎨 Kirbtober 2024 Day 4: Headcanon 🎨

(ID: Kirby series fanart of Drawcia - pre-corruption, with scratch-like scars on her torso in place of an eye - smiling proudly and using the patterned trim of her cloak to pat the head of a young Adeleine - shorter and more Ado-inspired in design - as she paints at her little easel, the ground around them smattered with daubs of paint, extra brushes, and curled tubes and clay jars of paint. All is cast in the sepia tone of an old memory. END ID.)

Based on my personal headcanons that Addie and Ado are the same person, and that Drawcia might’ve adopted and raised Addie before… well, you know.

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Started on 09/01/24, finished on 09/02/24. | Kintsugi AU Masterpost | Kirbtober 2023 Comp

[laufire]

while many times this goes unspecified, as many authors think it goes without saying, it's an inescapable truth that a non-insignificant amount of characters in the western canon come across as profoundly white, cisheterosexual and christian in their demeanor and in their values. speculating about how a character might change if you altered any of those groups invites a deeper exploration of these aspects than you're likely to encounter in most corners of fandom.

not to mention, how much more inviting these arguable blank canvases seem to be when it comes to fandom engagement, vis a vis explicitly non-white, non-cishet, non-christian characters.

[coriander-candlesticks]

Me: I'm not sure if my health can withstand a commute. Should I try to go in tomorrow?

Apollo: no

Me: should I plan to work from home?

Apollo: no

Me: ...

Apollo:

Me: migraine?

Apollo: migraine.

[sillystigmata]

Boss just texted me and told me that I’m gonna have Saturday and Sunday off, hopefully that holds and I don’t get called in!

[thefloatingwriter]

wiress has had murder fantasies about killing snow before.

[mjrdm]

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[bunnyboy-juice]

awawawawawawa

[sibyl-of-space]

call from unknown number with local area code

answer in case it's a job offer from local homeless shelter (I know they're at the stage of calling my references)

it's the CFO from the job I gave notice at 2 weeks ago asking if I can stay longer on any terms I name because my new manager just quit cold turkey

happy wednesday gamers,