#i need to post to tumblr more often...

[u-and-m3]

white board drawings am i right /sil

theres like 100 damn tags btw

[mischa-makowka]

[viviiyon]

“But cats can’t eat chocolate either!”

Commission from twt!

[motelrdd]

little outer wilds dump

first gabbro:) this was an art trade i did with @/shiningsapph1re (who made me an absolutely WONDERFUL hornfels, ough how i adore them soso dearly) not much else to say other than that, little bit of a style experiment iunno

here's a fraction of the ham (heem n nam's official ship name thank you) stuff ive made recently (plus an elusive cadet sighting)

hematite's @/robotgutzz's creature, love that thing to death 💔

[aegisofworms]

New PFP! Ended up drawing more of my sona because the zine I'm apart of wanted something for the artist credits. I love my crunchy colors.

[skitscratched]

Tumblr I'm curious and need you to help me out. Please reblog so I can get a larger sample size.

[juleteon]

fallen

[thesmophorus]

here’s my hot take of the night:

the e-temples that have been cropping up lately are cool, and im glad to see people making specific spaces to come together to worship. that’s awesome! i’m very here for that as a concept. i love nothing more than to see the theoi get the praise they deserve.

that being said, i am very wary about the amount of people i have seen calling themselves priests/priestesses lately. not even just in the e-temples! ive seen multiple people in the tags who have in their bio “priest(ess) of [deity].” i realize most people probably don’t mean harm by it, but it gets under my skin. to call yourself clergy implies a specific level of knowledge and experience with a religion (which isn’t my business to get involved in your praxis like that, that’s personal unless you wanna share it), but more importantly, official recognition by an established institution. there are not that many of these (that i am aware of) for hellenic polytheism. calling yourself clergy is simply that — calling yourself that. there’s no backing for it, and it genuinely concerns me.

we as the polytheist community talk a lot about harmful practices in spirituality, things like spiritual psychosis or cultural appropriation, which are important topics to discuss. it’s been said before and i’ll say again — people claiming to be spiritual authorities of some kind without any kind of proof can be very dangerous. i don’t assume anyone has bad intentions. i give people the benefit of the doubt and assume that everyone is just trying to help other people worship. but it doesn’t change the fact that calling yourself a priest(ess) will make impressionable or unsure people look up to you, and that is a hell of a lot of responsibility. i am concerned that there are minors running these kinds of blogs. that’s a lot of pressure on someone’s shoulders, especially to put on someone who is still growing up and developing their research and critical thinking skills. i don’t want to gatekeep or anything like that. im very glad to see minors having really good experiences with their faith, that they’re excited to share it with others. but it just concerns me.

im certainly not as experienced as other practitioners on this site, having had about two years of experience at this point, but i am very wary of anyone who claims to be any kind of authority on anything unless you can back it up. regardless of if your blog says that you’re not an authority, calling yourself clergy of any kind implies that. people will take it that way. it inherently implies a level of authority, knowledge, and experience on a particular subject, which is usually backed up by having an official institution that recognizes you.

perhaps this is a little callous of me, but in the same way that when someone makes a claim about the theoi academically, i expect them to have sources to prove it, i expect clergy to have some kind of proof of their authority. otherwise, what are you doing that’s different than any other tumblr blog?

to be clear, i don’t have an issue with these devotional spaces. i simply take an issue with people referring to themselves as clergy when that is a particular term with a particular context and a particular implication. words have power. i earnestly think if people just called themselves something like ‘stewards’ of a particular temple, i wouldn’t be so bothered by it. or just call yourself a devotee of a particular god. ultimately, at the end of the day, the words we use have power and implications, and that has to be acknowledged and respected. send tweet

[lebones]

Late happy birthday to @clarissasbakery Im a little late but happy birthday!! kdhdjdbd I love all your designs sm i just had to draw someone!!

[s0lairee]

i never learned to be normal about vincent solaire but i DID learn that sometimes you gotta be the change you wanna see in the world. so!! i wrote a vincent/lovely proposal fic :D word count: 3.2k

synopsis: 3+1 vincent/lovely fic; three times he almost proposes, and one time he does.

other related tags: gender neutral lovely, barely any physical descriptions, fluff, third person lovely-centric pov, vincent being an ass for like half the fic.

(personal favorite) snippet: They would have teased him about it, but he had just dropped the bomb that he was planning on proposing - soon - and they were a little taken aback. So just to regain their bearings, they decided to be a little shit, because that little façade always worked. They sidled up against him, their hands skirting down his back.

Except something jagged edged and suspiciously box shaped stuck out from the pocket of his pajamas, pressing against their thigh. And it took them a second, but it took Vincent less than that. His teasing turned into a wide-eyed, sheepish look, and it was quiet for a moment.

Still. They were trying to be… cool. Suave. So they forced out a chuckle that was a little too high. 

“Is that a ring in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?” full version here, on ao3.

[artshokad2]

The unthinkable happened right when i was going to join in wip Wednesday unprompted @twodiamondhoes tagged me in it

I was going to do something a little more recent but the day snuck up on me so have a really old snippet from a fic i may or may not finish that i wrote in a haze of finals stress while listening to “Sleeping in the Kitchen” by Madilyn Mei on loop

Jimmy Solidarity my beloved

Its a little out of my usual style because music possesses me in a way thats a little concerning sometimes but i had fun with it!

Tagging @gladumfdoodles who i know always has a snippet locked and loaded, @raffi-cat who should share their writing more in my humble opinion, @sincerely-nines because my favorite moot you should write fanfic… if you want…

and my friend ani whose tumblr @ is not working rn so im just going to send this to them but they should share their writing on tumblr!!! Its so fun!!

(No pressure to anyone, tis supposed to be for fun :D)

[mcdgarroth]

Aphmau: Zane is going to try to start a war with us we need to-

Laurance with his new blue eyes:

[impossiblefeat]

Oh hey, Sonic Channel updated the character bios and this Espio render that was previously only found on some obscure trading card is finally being used.

[orgonongurlz]

BOO!! im alive!!!!!! heres some chips i havent posted on here yet <33

[cherrirui-official]

Sorry I've been gone for pretty much all month, the ancient ones awakened from their slumber and only I could defeat them. Anyways Happy Pride! Yippee!!

[witheredgardenparty]

I've been seeing a lot of posts lately in which the op will complain that people are wildly mischaracterizing their favorite characters.

I feel like it bears reminding that "as long as you can back up your arguments with evidence, there can be multiple, and even conflicting, valid interpretations of the same text" and "just because the interpretation is valid, does not mean you have to internalize it into your understanding of the text" coexist.