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[omegalerc]

okay, question: would u say max and charles are mates? cuz if max and charles are mated, how does the omega auction even go? wouldn’t max have first priority or something? especially if charles is pregnant??

anon this is such a loaded question but i thank u for asking. the answer is quite complicated; a lot of my lestappenanel situations are curated but what emotion i am specifically feeling at the time. sometimes charles and max are mates with twins on the way, sometimes they are fuckbuddies by contractual and heat/rut partnerships, and sometimes charles is just. Getting sold tf out of at the omega auction. you see omegaverse lestappen can exist in so many different lifeforms it’s quite beautiful really.

[starflungwaddledee]

Oooo starstruck dee has little stars at the bottom of her feet! Are they just aesthetic or would they make imprints into the ground? (like pawprints)

exactly like that! though she's not the only one...

edit: might need to add some additional dialogue to this to make it more clear, but a clarification in the interim; he knows about his own footprints. he's just surprised to see something similar already there when he knows he's only just landed. he lifts his own shoe to confirm that they're not identical (and also to reveal this to the viewer). seems his stoicism beat off the clarity in this one, sorry 😭

[herbgerblin]

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[possuminnit]

hi im not rly into dsmp/mcyt much anymore. what the fuck is going on

Hi nonnie ,well yesterday dream tweeted out this (link to a Tumblr post) and it for very Obvious reasons was not received well, if you look through my discourse tag you can see some cc responses. But TODAY dream is currently live right now talking about it all and just some past drama ? For some reason? I'm not watching but apparently he is literally acting like cdream right now with how he's talking about tommyinnit and it's fucking crazy. He's also just bringing up random ass people???? Unsure why. Logan Paul was mentioned, ? Anyway basically dream once again shows that someone should burn his router

[liuisi]

Is ir okay to not feel it as a christian if youre still doing it? If i read the word and do what it says, but i never feel. the feelings. Is it normal? I feel so lost. Ive prayed so much.

hi!! i'm going to assume this question is coming from this post of mine. if its not sorry but i hope my answer still stands!

my point in that post is that it's not all about feeling the feelings. honestly, i would say that usually, Feeling Strong Emotion/being overtaken by emotion over it is something that is not necessarily common. of course, it depends on the person. some people are just Strong Feelers but that's not everyone! (i am not one of these people, for example).

if you don't Always Feel The Supernatural Presence Of God and you don't feel emotional every time you think about the Lord, or whatever standard you want to set, that's not an indicator of your faith. (or if you're truly saved.)

what's important is knowing. and believing. do you truly Know And Believe that the Lord Jesus, the Son of God, died on the cross for your sins? do you Know and Believe that the God of the Bible is real? that He created the world and everything in it? that He sent His only begotten Son to die out of love for us?

"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Hebrews 11:1

that's what's important!!!! not if you cry during worship or if a sermon touches you. not Feeling A Supernatural Presence. if you know God is with you always, then you don't need to feel it for proof. you know it. you have faith.

modern-day christian culture has turned christianity into solely something you Feel. big displays of emotions during worship, people talking about visions and speaking in tongues and being filled by the Holy Spirit, etc. (this attitude has also led to the culture of "if i don't feel that the Lord is telling me that this is wrong, or if i feel that the Lord is telling me that this is okay, then it is.) but you can't rely on your feelings.

"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" Jeremiah 17:9

you want to hear God speak? you open your Bible. it's Literally God's word. everything you need to Know about God and how you should live your life is in there.

basically: anon, lack of Strong Emotion over living the faith does not mean that you're doing something wrong. however! i want to cover all my bases, just to be sure. you mention "reading the word and doing what it says". you might already know this, but being a christian isn't just about acts or works. the entire point of the gospel is that we cannot be saved through what we do, only through faith. it goes back to what i was saying about faith earlier on. if you find yourself treating this life like a checklist, like a "i'll do this, and this, and this, and then God will help me/love me", then that might be something to meditate about.

"For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast." Ephesians 2:8-9

[cconfusedkat]

SQUEEZES SHAMURA IN A HUG THEIR SO CUTE - ray again its just fun to do anon

Theyre cute until they slice and dice you for ever squeezing them in a hug again youd be the next lunch of that jumping spider /j LAMDOALFJSKFWK

[trans-axolotl]

I'm a psych survivor & want to find community in general or join conversations on here but it seems like no one really cares what I have to say & a lot of the conversations on here about mad liberation etc. are so academic that I feel alienated & shut out by them, and afraid of being talked down to & made fun of, even though I was (barely) able to master's degree and thought I was fairly intelligent. it seems like the academics mainly want to talk amongst themselves. idk. it's like the more I try to connect the worse I feel. I guess you probably don't have an answer to this but I appreciate your blog & how accessible your writing is

💜💜💜anon i think you have SUCH an important point. for me, the most meaningful mad community that i've found has always been when I've been institutionalized and just talking with other mad people, where most of them don't have any experience with mad liberation politics or antipsychiatry or any of that vocabulary. But like--time and time again those are the people who just get it the most, and are some of the most insightful people I've met. And I know that if some of my psych survivor friends came on tumblr, I think they would be judged for not having the "right" language or not communicating clearly enough or whatever. Which makes me so fucking mad, especially considering how many of us are disabled in ways that impact our communication, processing, and language. and how to me, it feels like such an important value of mad liberation to celebrate different styles of communication and all the different ways we're going to show up and exist as mad people! I'm sorry that you haven't been able to find a lot of welcoming community on tumblr--I know how exhausting and isolating it feels to not be able to connect with the people that are Supposed to actually understand and support you.

and it's not that I hate academic stuff about madness--I'm currently at university studying disability studies and really appreciate disability scholars. I think it's super fucking important + there's a lot of really talented people doing cool work. But I think that especially in disability studies, there needs to be a LOT more of an effort put in to actually make research + writing accessible. If half our community can't access any of the writing about our community, that's fucked up, you know? I'm always getting into arguments at university lmao when I talk about how we should do more to translate academic work into plain language. especially since i think it's a form of injustice when we are kept away from resources and knowledge that would let us build a political understanding of our experiences. it just feels super important to me to think about accessibility and what that means in mad spaces and psych survivor spaces, and who feels welcome to participate in our spaces and who feels left out of them.

and i also don't really have answers or solutions for How to Make That Happen on Tumblr--if you or any followers have any suggestions i would def love to hear them. i know that a lot of people are going to come on tumblr to do a lot of different things and that some people see this mostly as an academic space for them, where some people just come on here to talk or create art or a million different things.

For me, I use tumblr as a space where I want to talk and connect with a lot of people about all kinds of topics and hear psych survivors opinions on a ton of stuff. a lot of my posts are pretty casual, but when i make longer educational and political posts i spend a lot of time thinking about the best ways to translate really academic concepts to a wider audience. when i sit down to write out a long post i try to incorporate as many accessibility features as possible like using bullet points, putting in summaries/ Tl;DR sections at ends of posts, adding in real life examples when I'm defining complicated technical concepts, adding content notes, and more. Before I post, I read through my posts and highlight every time I use a more academic or technical term. Then, I think through whether that vocab is necessary for people to understand the post, or if there's better language I could replace it with. A lot of times I do end up keeping in some technical terms in my posts because it is honestly the most direct way to explain some of the stuff I want to talk about, but it's been super valuable for me to go through and really think about it, even when some terms stay in my writing. that's just my process and what works for me and I really don't think that other people need to write the same way I do lmao, but if anyone ever wants to talk about writing in plain language & easy read PLEASE come into my inbox bc i love talking about this and want to chat about it with more people.

other things i'll say is that i've found that virtual/in person psych survivor/antipsych support groups are often times a lot more welcoming and accessible and are just like, people talking about things and hanging out together. I've heard really good things about Wildflower Alliance's support groups, and also recommend the Hearing Voices Network. Project LETS has been running an exceptional psychiatric survivor support group for almost a year that is more casual and is a really great community, I'm hoping that they're going to open up availability again in the spring so that might also be worth checking out in the next couple months. Campaign for Psych Abolition in the UK runs a mad art space that seems super fun. i wish there were a lot more existing groups cause it sucks how few things there are tbh.

anyway, know that you + anyone else are always welcome to chat in my inbox or on any of my posts and you will not face any judgement from me. i genuinely love talking to other psych survivors so much and want to hear what people have to say. the only people i get annoyed at on my posts are psych students and other mental health professionals who leave really bullshit stuff on there lmfao.

sending you all the solidarity, anon <3

[pardonmydelays]

Helloooo!!

I didn't end up going to the AC/DC concert, but that night still ended up being a fun night anyway because my friend invited me over to her place to celebrate my birthday 😊 I'm definitely going to see Katy Perry and now Dua Lipa in September! This is so irrelevant, but hopefully I will have a better, high salary paying job come time September! (I s2fg if I do not...) On the topic of music, I have not listened to the 'Warriors' album, but I'll give it a listen and let you know! "if the song’s not deep, i get bored very easily. i just hate things that are made just for entertainment. if it doesn’t have any potential to change my life, i don’t want it." That's understandable! I love deep songs as well, especially the ones that really make you think about life and why we're here or the kind that are just straight up inspirational. I have a playlist called "Inspirational" on my Apple Music because every now and then I genuinely feel like not existing anymore. However, every now and then, I love energetic songs that don't necessarily change my life, but they definitely set my mood for the day lol.

Whoa, that's amazing!! I'm glad you decided to take April off. Honestly, we're all so busy working our asses off that I feel sometimes people just forget to relax and take time for themselves through self-care. Taking a month off is not a bad idea, especially if you can afford it. Good for you, Poppy!!

I think I'm just going to go to New York alone... I'm looking at June. My friend and I were planning on going next month, but I don't know if she's going to be able to make it, and I want to see Redwood before August 17. If June works for her then awesome, but I, personally, don't want to keep pushing the trip back, so I just need to pick a date and buy the stuff.

Lol, I'll ready the essay soon. I'm so happy you got to go!

(I keep thinking 2025 will be my year, but here we are coming to the end of April and I'm having serious doubts about that 🥲...)

hiiii, i am finally answering these!!!

i'm sorry you didn't go to acdc concert, but i'm still glad you had fun! also, happy belated birthday from me!!! hope the little party was fun. i also hope to hear all about your upcoming concerts, don't hesitate to drop the essays in my inbox, as usual, i love to read those ❤️

can't wait to hear your opinion about warriors. it's been a while since our last conversation about lin-man, and ngl, i miss this a lot sometimes but i also feel like there's not much to talk about... (yes, i still follow him and try to keep up with everything he does but it doesn't feel the same anymore. 2023 was something else).

"every now and then i genuinely feel like not existing anymore", you are so real for this. and good idea with the playlist. i always talk about all those little things that make you want to stay alive and this is what music does for me, definitely. but damn, i feel like we do need those reminders all the time. sad but true. existing is hard sometimes. finding those little reasons to stay alive is and always will be the most important.

thank you! i already started my new job a few days ago and i have a feeling that it's gonna be alright. now we have a long weekend here in poland and may will be super intense for me, but i feel happy and calm somehow. good things are coming my way and hopefully, yours too! ✨

(i am not responding to the last part about redwood, cause i saw you already sent me another message about it so i'm just gonna leave it for later.)

(and don't worry about my essay, like i said, it's insanely long and you don't really have to read it lmao.)

[free-luigi-mangione]

how wonderful whoever ratted out tumblr just deleted their acc and left unscathed

[buboplague]

Your art is incredible!! Did you take classes/where’d you take your classes?

Thank you so much! I've never really taken proper classes, I learn by studying on my own -- drawing what I see around me, studying other artwork, studying photos, and mostly just a lot of experimenting and figuring out what I enjoy. I think it's evident I lack a solid foundation and am not a very technically skilled artist but that's ok, I'm always trying to learn and am still trying to figure out what direction to take my art in

[not-poignant]

On a very rare occasion, a patron leaves Patreon because they 'thought chapters would be there earlier than they'd be released' and currently there are like... ten chapters there not currently released all under the early access tag and even if they hadn't found them by scrolling, they...could have just messaged me...and I could have linked them to every one.

Like, some things are really solvable folks! I would love to help match you up with the early access chapters for Underline the Blue, Underline the Red, Underline the Gold, and The Nascent Diplomat, (and Constellations if you happen to be in that tier too). You can DM me, you can email me, you can leave a comment, you can scroll three posts down, you can look at a Round-Up post and see all the links to the Patreon content released that month, you can scroll the tag, I try and give people like... 5+ ways to find what they need to find.

Thankfully this happens like once or twice a year at most, but I post links to the early access chapters even here, for people who can't be bothered going to Patreon and scrolling. I update those links every chapter update for a fair bit of my original writing.

It would make my day to solve problems like this if folks would just talk to me, because I love coming up with literally 8 ways of getting folks to what they need to get to, lol. So a person being like 'thought there'd be early chapters' missing the fact that there's more early chapters on Patreon right now than literally ever before, is like...

You really just can't make everyone happy, but give me a chance, because if it was just a navigation thing, I love helping people connect with the thing they want to connect to :D

[inkthemandrake]

Hey uh—what does “a borrower AU” mean?

A borrower au is a alternative universe based on the borrowers book franchise by Mary Norton. Studio Ghibli has a film based on this franchise called "the secret life of arrietty".

Borrowers are smaller humanoids (normally depicted as just small humans) who live in secret, normally living in the walls or floorboards of a home.

They "borrow" things to survive normally like food or small trinkets they can use as tools (for example Y/N uses a sewing needle as a makeshift weapon)

[nightmdic]

could you not write so much star wars? do you even know enough about it to have a verse?

...you want me to tell you how many bolts were used to make the millennium falcon?

[cirrusea]

Do you have any OCs?

If so do you wanna share with the class? :3

I love hearing about people's ocs haha

Yes!! I haven't posted a lot about them yet but they're all tagged "my ocs" if you wanna see them. I really should post more of them soon, thanks for reminding me :3

[the-wandering-storyteller]

Welcome to my little stretch of the woods! Pollux and I are just passing through, but feel free to come by and chat, we'd love the company. Folks like you, I'm sure you have interesting stories. Shall we trade? A tale for a tale.

Either way, I hope you enjoy our company while our paths cross for this little while.

OOC HOUSEKEEPING UNDER CUT:

Heyo! My name is Copper, or @nach0 (he/they) and i'm the one running this blog and doing all the art! I don't have many rules, just keep it polite and pg! Swearing is fine (though for continuity try and keep it in-universe, i'm not particularly fussed about this though), just no sexual stuff

I would love to interact with other blogs, rp or otherwise, I'm just a little shy so please reach out if you wanna do anything big! otherwise asks always open and i will do my absolute best to respond to all of them <3

No overarching plot in mind atm but I do have a lot of character stuff planned for Castor that she might not reveal straight away... maybe if you get to know him ;)

Magic anons are: ON! but only answered at my digression, this is mostly just for fun so i'm not too bothered by silly things like the space time continuum

And that's it! I'll update this if anything new needs adding but otherwise go wild!

[ask-olivine]

*the young man arrived to the temple at sunset. He was wearing a soft sweater with a button up underneath and his hair was curled and in a messy bun. He looked nervous as he walked in to see if Olivine was done with duty for tonight for their date*

-🪼

As you enter the temple, Olivine is right at the center, kneeling at an altar with his hands clasped together in prayer. The sound of new footsteps on the tile breaks him out of his quiet prayer, a flushed smile on his face as soon as he sees you.

Oh, good evening!

Olivine gets up from his knees, dusting off his preist garb with the back of his hand.

My, you look handsome in that. I apologize that I didn't have time to change, but I've been excited all day for this. I haven't been on a date in quite a while!