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Working on my Inner Growth 😉 This one took way longer than it should 😞 I wanted to try out a new style in Procreate but the brushes didn't want to cooperate so I ended up with my old style, except it looks kinda off. I will have to repaint this on properly in Paint Tool SAI one day.

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The third piece has me by the eyeballs

always there, never here

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Shieldmaiden of Rohan

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Reading Guy Gavriel Kay for the first time, and boy is Tigana so freaking good. Best book I've read in years, by far. Beautiful prose, detailed characters, a good plot...genuinely difficult to put this book down.

The sex scene caught me off guard though. It's like, what if Tolkien wrote sex scenes? What if the sex scene is written graphically, but with gorgeous prose? Am I more turned on by the text itself, or what it conveys? ¿Por qué no los dos?

And WOW was it hot. I don't read a lot of books with sex scenes, so it was probably pretty tame all things considered, but DAMN.

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A girl has secrets

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Game where the ancient hero is awakened from the deathless sleep of centuries in the hour of their people's greatest need, only to find that civilisation is thriving and there are no obvious threats on the horizon; the game then becomes a fish-out-of-water detective sim as they try to figure out what woke them up, and also solve other, smaller mysteries along the way.

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Oh and I want to fight all the Gen Z kids who are like ‘teehee, we’ll just do lavender marriages instead!’ Some of us are adults who want equal rights and protections under the law of our land.

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On the subject about parents needing to control their child's reading and invade their privacy in order to "protect" them from "inappropriate material:

Until I was in....college? At least? The vast, vast majority of the books I read were either a) assigned by my school or b) (the vast majority of my reading) provided to me by my mother.

My mom is a librarian. She filled our rooms with books, picked especially for us. She pointed out books on the shelves in our home library (separate from our bedroom shelves) that she thought we would like. She bought us books for birthdays, Christmas, and just stacks of recommendations. She once paid me $10 to read one of the Cirque Du Freak books because she said I needed "to be exposed to bad literature."

She respected my privacy in room, didn't go through my belongings. She explicitly pointed out to us that she wouldn't know if we took a particular book of the shelf, as long as we returned it, if we didn't want her to know we were reading it. She purposely brought us books that she didn't care for herself, because she thought we might find them valuable or enjoyable.

And if we wanted to read something she thought might upset or disturb us, she would explain why. She wouldn't stop us from reading it - just ask us to check in with her, to talk through it.

And so when I read something that upset or disturbed me, I would go to her. She would listen and talk through it with me.

If she said she didn't think I would like something, or that a book might disturb me, or that she thought I should wait until I was older, I listened to her.

She didn't need restrictions or control to protect me. Because she proved I could trust her.

Controlling kids is never about "protecting" them. It's just about control.

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Requiem of the Golden Witch basically

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marrow

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i love the original frankenstein novel a normal amount

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You ever think about how much of a powerful metaphor it is to tell a loved one you'll "keeping the home fires burning" when you both come from a place of perpetual cold as far from the sun as it could possibly be, barely seeing the light of day, down in cold dank shafts (heh) where heat is life and they're all starved for it? I'm not well everyone

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girl with loophole fetish facing criminal charges gets off on a technicality

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harrow x gideon x ianthe is one of the only love triangles i can think of where 1. it’s an actual triangle (all possible combinations have some sort of vibe, it’s not just one person choosing between two potential partners) and 2. i do NOT believe a threesome would solve the problem. in fact i think it would make it worse

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tbh i think if society ever intends to progress beyond this dark and deeply anti-intellectualist period in history, creatives have got to stop making art for stupid people. i know that sounds harsh but. dialogue in which the characters explain everything that happened in the last few pages. tv shows made for "easy/distracted watching." books that have no meaning beyond making people fee Good and Cozy. what are we doing. there's a reason people stagnate and then suffer when there is no growth. we have got to stop catering to the few who have no desire to use their brains and instead choose instead to create for those who intend to be challenged, and if you don't "get" the work that's presented to you well then, maybe it's not for you 😭

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Zoomed into shikine-jima on wplace and saw this lmaooooo