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first year participating in artfight (<- link to my profile)! very excited to make some art for other ppl !! ^_^

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thinking about child!Guz fucks me up so bad because I just want to get him out of that house. I want to give him the safety that neither of us ever got. I want to give him care and love and kindness and patience. I want to give him a chance to grow up in a safe and secure way. But since I cannot do that (and he'd probably feel the same about me fjdkdl) I will simply have to give him all the care and kindness and love and safety now as adults and hope it might ease a little of that pain.

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F/o as a cat. Meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow

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doodles from today. Guz would've been a very cute kid i think, getting into lots of scuffles bc other kids thought bugs are stupid and he wanted to defend his beloved bugs' honour

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happy National Indigenous Peoples Day here in so-called Canada! here's Wardell and Dandyfae in Métis garb dancing together ^_^ I think they're probably dancing to Maple Sugar, one of my favourite fiddle tunes!

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i have decided that i need to be annoying about my culture and my indigeneity because we are erased and ignored so often so like... I gotta make it impossible to ignore LMAO. gotta be loud and proud abt it bc we've survived an attempted genocide (and we're STILL actively being oppressed and ignored and erased lollll)

if u see me rbing that art piece like three or four times today its bc im being annoying abt it. thank u. no further questions.

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oh also "niimiyitoohk" means "dancing together" 👯

happy National Indigenous Peoples Day here in so-called Canada! here's Wardell and Dandyfae in Métis garb dancing together ^_^ I think they're probably dancing to Maple Sugar, one of my favourite fiddle tunes!

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happy National Indigenous Peoples Day here in so-called Canada! here's Wardell and Dandyfae in Métis garb dancing together ^_^ I think they're probably dancing to Maple Sugar, one of my favourite fiddle tunes!

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im a huge fan of not exactly love at first sight but thinking we’re both kinda cute at first sight and getting to know each other better and we come to a point that we’re really good friends with sickening and heart clinchingly horrible crushes on each other that we don’t know what to do with ourselves and we pine for each other so bad that it makes us want to hurl

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happy National Indigenous Peoples Day here in so-called Canada! here's Wardell and Dandyfae in Métis garb dancing together ^_^ I think they're probably dancing to Maple Sugar, one of my favourite fiddle tunes!

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hi uhm my mother is in the ICU bc of heart issues and is being flown into the city for some fancy scan or procedure to know what to do next. family is all extremely emotionally volatile right now and im seeing them act in ways I haven't rly seen before and thaaat is what is frightening me more than the actual medical emergency. I'm struggling w complicated feelings abt the medical side of things bc my mother is very abusive and the abuse has only been worsening over the years.

idk a kind word would go a long ways right now i think. my counselor just retired so i am on my own until i can get a new one (which is another complicated and bad situation but I won't go into it rn TwT) and I don't rly have any safe ppl irl to go to when I'm struggling. feeling a little lost at sea rn 🚣

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hi fun art thing I've learned recently: block out a pose with highlighter (can use different colours if u want to be fancy or if u want to draw multiple characters) and then draw over the highlighter with pen to add in lines

it's a good way to get more sketch and pose practice in without getting too caught up in getting things "right" or focusing on details ^_^ u can be as messy as you'd like and make mistakes and then just move on and draw some more! do the same post multiple times if u rly want to try to get it right!

it's very fun :]

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one thing i take as a sign of recovery is that when i have an upsetting experience (quite frequent still unfortunately. i sure do love rural conservative small towns!) i don't immediately go to "Guz would hate me and feel the exact same way as those people". and i often will instead go to "Guz would never think of me that way, he would think opposite to those people actually". i think it's about 50/50 to which route my brain takes but i am glad that it's improved a lot to what it was before :') !!!

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one of the best things about Wardell being the human that Dandyfae attaches themself to is that Wardell's culture fits Dandyfae so well. which is like ... "well, yeah. of course." bc I made Wardell's culture my culture and Dandyfae is my self-insert dhdkdl but like... Dandyfae is also an OC at the same time idk. they are like me but with a highlight on the joyful parts of me. and the joyful parts of me loooove square-dancing, and live fiddle music, and swishy skirts + sashes, and storytelling, and probably loves jigging too but I have yet to learn that (<- bad at moving their feet and legs which is a key component of jigging LOL). so Dandyfae adores all of these things and it all brings them so much joy because they never got to experience much of it in the fae realm. but now they know Wardell and when he brings them into his community, they get to take part in all of the joy that it brings and they absolutely /thrive/ in it. WAUGH 🫶

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hi im posting this here too bc im so happy w it YAYYY, look at Wardell ... so handsome w his braids and sash OUGGHHH .... I gave him a traditional M.étis sash and I gave Dandyfae a floral-print ribbon sk.irt ^_^ I'm too scared to erase the pencil lines rn (what if it's ugly without the pencil TwT) but once I do I'll add some colour !! (and also make a rebloggable version perhaps dhdksl)

also here, this is the song they're dancing to (one of my favourite fiddle tunes!):

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damn i kinda wrote smth good even though it was late last night and i was tired. unedited and yet it reads well.... okay im going to share this little opening bc . I'm impressed w myself honestly DHDHDSL

Blaring alarms and flashing lights. Shouting, hard and angry, and feet pounding against the floor as fabric whips to and fro with each rushed step.

It should've been quiet, like any other night. It was supposed to be. That had been the plan.

Dull claws skid across the linoleum floor, and then a loud thump is followed by glass shattering as a body hits a cabinet. Vials and needles and bottles all crash to the floor, creating a minefield of cutting shards. Panting as dark frightened eyes search for an escape.

A well-timed jump, twisting as rough hands grab at its body, is enough to get it to the window ledge. One desperate squeeze through the small opening later, and it's greeted with a light breeze ruffling the hair on its head. There isn't even time to notice this new sensation though, scarcely time to even breathe, before another alarm joins the orchestra of wailing warnings.

Only a small clatter of the chain-link fence and a rustle in the bushes signals the departure of the escapee. Nobody hears it over the chaos of the facility. Freedom, hard won.

(THIS /IS/ SE.LFSH.IP RELATED BTW. it's just an opening for a fic i started working on. it's gonna be self-indulgence at its finest shdhdkl)

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You know things are getting serious about your newest blorbo when you've reached the stage of:

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