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Being ace and hot is a nightmare sometimes, I met this guy in my neighborhood, we live literally 200m away from each other, he's funny and witty and a genuine delight to talk to, and YESTERDAY he makes it clear he's flirting so now I'm trying to figure out how to turn him down and also throw my single friends at him because he really is a great catch, but I don't eat fish so he's wasted on me.

So now I have to figure out how to say 'I think, based on your tastes, I have some girlfriends you might like and they'd love to take you home, doggy walking same time next week?' in human speak.

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the rapid disintegration of rainbow capitalism pretty much encapsulates the problem with rainbow capitalism in the first place: it is and always was performative fair-weather allyship that evaporated in the face of any real political pressure

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many on here need to be learning this lesson

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Source: merletails

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never forget the universal rule of the order of things: People Will Not Read It

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A lot of people around me are having kids and every day it becomes more apparent that hitting your children to punish them is insane because literally everything can be a horrible punishment in their eyes if you frame it as such.

Like, one family makes their toddler sit on the stairs for three minutes when he hits his brother or whatever. The stairs are well lit and he can see his family the whole time, he’s just not allowed to get up and leave the stairs or the timer starts over. He fucking hates it just because it’s framed as a punishment.

Another family use a baseball cap. It’s just a plain blue cap with nothing on it. When their toddler needs discipline he gets a timeout on a chair and has to put the cap on. When they’re out and about he just has to wear the cap but it gets the same reaction. Nobody around them can tell he’s being punished because it’s in no way an embarrassing cap, but HE knows and just the threat of having to wear it is enough.

And there isn’t the same contempt afterwards I’ve seen with kids whose parents hit them. One time the kid swung a stick at my dog, his mother immediately made him sit on the stairs, he screamed but stayed put, then he came over to my dog and gently said “Sorry Ellie” and went back to playing like nothing happened, but this time without swinging sticks at the nearby animals.

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Went to the Aboriginal artifact exhibit in Chicago. And it’s interesting. How many blankets and masks and totem poles say ‘unknown source’, because every five seconds my mom would stop and point to something and say. “Pauline’s grandmother made that,” or, “That belongs to Mike’s family, I should call him” because. It’s all stolen

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big fan of characters with abandonment + attachment issues so profound that they leave claw marks in everything they touch but would sooner gnaw off their own leg than admit they just want someone to stay for once. in a totally normal well adjusted and not at all projecting way of course.

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Any tips for drawing facial hair? Particularly like that shot of Isaiah(?) In that other anon's ask -- whenever I try it always feels like just looks like scribbles instead of a light beard and I'm wondering if I'm missing a specific technique other than "hatch a bunch of lines"

I'm too lazy to give characters facial hair most of the time BUT when I do I just sorta go by vibes and treat it similarly to normal hair. So I think about where the character's facial hairline is and apply a flow of sorts from there. For stubble/very short beard the flow isn't as important but it can still inform the direction of the "scribbles"

So kinda like

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By Wealthy Loser on Instagram

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Two stunning winners ✨️

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oh ok

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I just realized I forgot to post an intro

Howdy! I go by Moth (he/him), I'm 23, and I'm hoping to find some fellow writers to be mutuals with! I started writing my first novel in 6th grade study hall (lost to time, unfortunately) and I've been writing ever since.

I write fantasy, realistic fiction, and poetry. I also dabble in sci-fi and romance

I've been worldbuilding for a novel I started in my senior year of college. I'm not sure if I'll post much about it, but I'll leave some details below just in case I do

This blog will mostly contain short stories, blurbs about characters I'm developing, and some poetry

I've got a couple of WIPs:

I'm writing a series of short stories/blurbs surrounding one specific character through the years. Each section will reveal more and more about her, but her name remains a mystery (for now). Read the first story here: The Woman at the Bar

I'm working on a longer sci-fi short story that follows the crew of a space station through a meteor shower that damages the station. I don't have anything ready quite yet, but I'm hoping to post part 1 sometime soon!

I'm frequently writing poetry, but the topics vary piece by piece. I write free-verse, for the most part, but I enjoy playing with forms like sestinas and haiku. Currently, these are the poems I have up: Haiku for the Deer on the Side of the Highway

I'm not sure if/how much I'll post about it, but here are some details about my novel:

I'm building the world from scratch. It's still in the early stages, but I've developed a few cities in which the novel is set. I've also been working on the main characters' cultures

It's somewhere-between-high-and-low fantasy (I'm not sure how else to describe it) and will follow the main characters in an attempt to save the kingdom of Lyhold from war.

One of the aforementioned main characters is Ailbhe (Al-va), a thief by trade. He's a member of a nomadic culture and is well-versed in all things plants. He's missing his ring and pinky fingers on his right hand and has a prosthetic that comes in handy in more ways than one (I'm so sorry).

The other main character is Gaheriet, a captain in the King's Guard (the official army of Lyhold). He doesn't remember anything about his childhood before the age of 11, when he joined the Guard to train as a knight.

There will be a romantic subplot (they're gay, your honor). There's a lot of lore between the two of them but if I had to describe it, it's friends to enemies to lovers (but Gaheriet doesn't know about the "friends" part).

Anyway, that's a bit about me! I'm always open to critique and I look forward to sharing more stories in the future. Feel free to send me a message or reblog if you'd like to be mutuals, and thanks for taking the time to check out my blog!