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[greypetrel]

WIP Wednesday

Tagged by @inquisimer today and @shivunin ages ago (hi Mo, you're tagged back!), thank you both so much! <3 I was away or submerged by work. What I have is not anything Dragon Age, but I hope you'll like it anyway...

Some Whale AU! I had the luck of having bought a wonderful book that turned out to be SO USEFUL for this story. it's "Hen Frigates - Wives of Merchant Captains Under Sail" by Joan Druett. I highly suggest it to anyone interested in the Victorian Era, or who thinks that women in the XIX century did nothing at all. Well, it allowed me, amongst genuine laughters and enthusiasm, to confirm the type of ship I need, the size of the crew I need to plan and design... And the fact that yes, women were sailing. Knew how to. A full female crew would be unconventional but not impossible, particularly in the Edwardian Age, when all captains' daughter who grew up climbing on riggings were grown. Here it's 4 members of my crew. With Priscilla who got promoted as captain, because I love her and I wanted to have her in a story I love as much.

A very Raina-coded sketchbook tour. One of my proposition for this year was to dedicate some time to studying. And I'm committing to it. This is the work of a month of sketching during breakfast. Those on the recycled paper are random doodles, and a couple of science bros science bro-ing. White paper is for study, and it's "Line and Form" by Walter Crane, a """visual design""" handbook from 1901, and a 100 faces challenge I finished today and I have mixed feelings about (I needed to exercise with east-asian faces! but I would have liked... just one old lady. One. Not all models or little girls, you know). Just to show that there's no magic talent behind art, there's just commitment and hard work.

Tagging! @salsedinepicta @ndostairlyrium @diesvitae @zaahvi @broodsys @dungeons-and-dragon-age @theheartmold @brother-genitivi @star--nymph @dreadfutures @rosieofcorona @saltyowlets @pinayelf @schwarznummer1 and YOU READING! <3

[nando161mando]

[keymintt]

projection

[injuries-in-dust]

Spin this wheel to choose your race

Spin this wheel to choose your class

[mangozic]

my dead goth son and his friendly neighborhood personified concept of insanity

[aphel1on]

AuDHD is so funny sometimes like what do you mean my hyperfixations/special interests will last for years on end or possibly forever but they will cycle out every month or two with absolutely no transitional period or warning. like i will think about the same topic every day obsessively for 46 days in a row and on the 47th day with no visible cause adhd brain goes "ok! bored of that now" and autism brain goes "dw i got something queued up for ya" and i blast into full blown obsession on some other topic whose mental file folders haven't opened in 9 months. brain's out here treating hyperfixations like a crop rotation. once the dopamine runs out it cycles in another one but once something's in the rotation it never ever leaves. last summer we brought in one from when i was 11. it's so funny to me but frustrating too bc like. i cannot stress enough my inability to predict or control this. or how completely abrupt and random it can be

EDIT: seems this is more common among ND people than i thought, and probably not limited to AuDHD specifically :] i was just describing my own experiences and didn't expect this post to blow up, so don't take me for an authority, but i'm glad it resonated with so many of y'all!

[aniseandspearmint]

just having some fun with interesting fantasy imagery! Give it a reblog, if you play, please? And tell me WHY you picked what you picked if you want?

[zorangezest]

rafael the 12 year old of all time. he should’ve been on hypixel bedwars

soundwave was not in fact hacking

[forgettable-au]

But that's dessert!

I FINALLY FINISHED THIS THING LET'S GOOO

I hope u all like it

[raphaerolo]

What if a Jedi's eyes glowed to match their lightsaber tho

[ink-the-artist]

Found some sculptures from a few years ago that I forgot to sell! A couple snails and a creature named Kefir. I'll be listing these for auction on ebay soon :)

[liimonadas]

so i've been playing a game

[geek-22]

I cannot for the life of me find the OG post, if anyone knows what these accounts are called now I will cry (positive)

[tide-locked]

i feel like people forget that sometimes characters in fic are written like that because it's a reflection of real life.

people have sex without setting boundaries. people have unprotected sex without talking about their sexual histories or producing recent sti tests. people play with kink without discussing it ahead of time or establishing a safeword. they have anal without 'enough' prep or lube—they may even prefer it like that.

and none of this is really a fantasy. it's all pretty normal. you can feel that it's inappropriately normalised, and you'd probably be right! but it is normalised: one study found that 58% of female undergraduate students on the campus studied had been choked during sex. 20% of those students said that they'd never been asked if it was ok; another 30% said they'd only sometimes been asked if they consented. fully half! (non-paywalled journal article on choking during sex here, including these numbers.) despite a rise in stis of all sorts, condom use is declining. (pdf link to the full text of this study about declining condom use in the us; aidsmap article about an australian study with similar results.)

even when people do talk about things—sex or anything else—they communicate imperfectly. 'yeah, but don't go too far' is consenting and setting a boundary, and also relying that the person you're talking to has the same metric for 'too far' that you do. for some people, 'the trash needs to go out' is a neutral, factual observation; for others, it's a request that the person they're speaking to take out the trash.

even when people understand each other perfectly, people react unpredictably to things sometimes! we behave irrationally! people laugh uncontrollably at funerals, or get angry at the straw that broke their back rather than the enormous load they were already carrying. they get scared and lash out at people trying to help them. when hurt, most people do not instinctively reach for therapy-approved grounding exercises and 'i feel' statements.

pretty much any bad choice that characters could conceivably make is a choice that people make in real life, on purpose, all the time. people do things that can have catastrophic, life-changing effects because it felt like a good idea at the time, or they're leaning into the vibe, or they just didn't think about it all that much, or an infinite number of other reasons.

fiction isn't intended as a guide on the best, safest, and most responsible ways to live your life, and fanfic isn't any different. it's not a narrative flaw to let characters do things that are messy or harmful or downright stupid—it's a reflection of what people are actually like, and not something that authors should feel they have to apologise for.

[ciearcab]

ghandharva