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Artfight attack on @aoi1dee of their delightful character Connie (in a different outfit based on a dress I like) from their upcoming visual novel "Will She?"

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Artfight attack on @rosexknight of a (despite his protestations) very fluffy Thlayli!

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Artfight attack on @bluebrush09arts of her very cool werewolf lad Vilkas, who I recently realized I hadn't drawn yet!

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Artfight attack on @asleepyy from our group's first game together! Featuring her character Ameria, and my "Gramps" Telek, off having a well-earned vacation and being tourist menaces!

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TMiF Presents: Histories of Ulei'Var - The Risen War

Welcome to TMiF's homebrew world of Ulei'Var~

On the continent of Auscives, in the northern hemisphere of Ulei'Var, the country of Greymoor has seen her king fall at the hands of her Crown Prince. Unrest and necromantic magic ripples from the capital, Iron Pinnacle Keep in Vilimond, on the eastern shore. The new King, Edmund Morvaine, has his sights set on raising sleepy Greymoor to new heights of conquest on the backs of her people.

Alive, dead, or undead.

metaisfutile - Twitch

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A couple of pieces from the aftermath of Gael's death in the Risen War.

Edwin (@bluebrush09arts), Soliana (@rosexknight), and Boffin exhausted post-battle, looking on as she's taken away, the only remaining three of the original group (as Marius is still missing at this point) Boffin, Soliana, and temporary ally Caspian (Ry) toast to their fallen 'fearless leader', and say goodbye to Caspian as he returns home to his family.

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I think I just realized that part of my anxiety with being in public is that I feel like I don't have the same right to use public spaces as other people do. Like they're the real People Who Use This Coffee Bar. And when I try to use it as someone who is not Inherently Worthy Of Using The Coffee Bar I'm just getting in their way

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Today’s aesthetic: open world RPGs where it’s extremely obvious that the writers didn’t actually intend for it to be super gay, they just straight up forgot that it’s possible for the player character to be a girl.

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having ocs is so fucked .... i miss them so bad but im the guy who has to create new content. but im sleepy

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being miserable does not give you the right to make others miserable. no one should actively make others miserable as their approach to life. lift others up, life will be better, you’ll attract those that enjoy your company. it’s worth it

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being autistic means that people will get mad at you for something you don't understand and they actively refuse to tell you why :)

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https://fb.watch/mjDHL25iin/?mibextid=Nif5oz

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sorry for being so obsessed with that little man who lives in my head. as if i have any choice

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There were many reasons why I stepped away from archaeology & academia just 16 months post-PhD but the one that still angers me most today has to be the ways in which the Institution™ categorizes folklore vs science when it comes to Indigenous people. Ancestral knowledge of the ‘Old World’ is seen as a form of early science—curiosity leading to rigorous study and eventual advancement—with their fairytales and folklore viewed as purposefully allegorical. The Indigenous people of Africa, Turtle Island, and the rest of the so-called Americas never got that same respect. Outside of a handful of tokenized and understudied societies, most Indigenous ancestral knowledge is viewed through the lens of folklore—and no grace is given to allegory or metaphor or philosophy, either. The assumption is that our people can only think in literal, concrete terms. And it’s fucking insulting. There’s this joke in academia that if archaeologists don’t know an artifact’s usage they’ll deem it as ‘ritualistic purposes’; and it’s funny or whatever but nine times out of ten those artifacts are from [insert literally any Turtle Island or Mesoamerican nation] and not from much-older Greek civilizations. But it’s not well-studied because we’re not well-respected, and therefore nobody bothered to ask our still-living people who are very much aware of what said artifact was meant for (spoiler alert: not ritualistic).

Early on in my first Master’s program I got into a huge fight with a white professor who wanted to use a widely misinterpreted SuPeRsTiTiOn from MY tribe as an example of a persistent folktale. The folktale being that: Chiricahua Apache women don’t take baths during pregnancy bc we think the water is evil. It is true that, after being moved onto the rez, birthing + postpartum women were becoming ill when they bathed. This isn’t some ancient happening stoked by mythology—this is 100 years ago to recent times; midwives saw it happening and acted by cautioning against bathing. My grandmother, an Indigenous midwife, saw it play out and is very hesitant to recommend bathing to birthing women on the rez today. This isn’t because she or any other Chiricahua thinks water is evil; it’s because water quality has been so horrific that it quite literally was infecting the womb at its most vulnerable time. Had this been a European society, this knowledge would be considered evidence-based but since we’re Indigenous, they slap some contrived faux folkways mythos onto it and call it superstitious.

This is just one example of what happens on a constant basis when it comes to communities who are being oppressed by the same systems that set the standards for what science, history, and art are.

It’s maddening and sickening to me to this day.

(Tangentially, the next time I see a non-ndn upload or reblog our artifacts and crafts and tag it as “primitive art”, I’m going to scalp you. You’ve been duly warned)

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dear usamerican high schoolers looking for a way to resist fascism: sit through the pledge of allegiance.

no getting up. no looking at the flag.

everyone will be looking at you. you'll be sweating like a fucking hippopotamus. your teacher will sternly tell you to get up. you'll feel stupid and that maybe its not worth it because you're just a kid in a classroom. but I'm here to remind you that there are no real life consequences to detention. there are however real life consequences to resisting a thoughtless performance of nationalism.

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hey man everyone loved how convenient and easily forgettable you were on earth. u were the least inconvenient person out there. my buddy told me you were super helpful and nice and didn't take up any space and just slid away from their mind as soon as they stopped looking at you. it was really impressive how little of an impression you made on anyone. sucks that it didn't save you man.