#at the EARLIEST lol

[ivyandink]

update –

Also, small announcement! I’m sure like none of y’all around here care at this point, but lol.

I’m slowly working on scrubbing my old Ivy Legacy posts. 🥺

As some of y’all maybe know by now, I’m working on writing actual books off of this world I’ve created. I’m about 1/4 of the way done with draft 1 of book 1 (Elliot & Clementine’s story), and while the story is literally unrecognizable at this point, I still don’t want the ‘old story’ lingering around. I’m not fully deleting it (I could never– this blog’s had a chokehold on me for too long lol) but I am archiving it, so I’m the only one who could view the old posts.

It is seriously the end of an era, y’all. The Ivy’s were my thing. Once I ended them, I was never as consistent on here again (that coincides with a lot of other things, but I digress). The Ivy Legacy was how I grew this silly blog in the first place. It’s how I connected with so many cool people on here 🥺

But while it is the end of that era, it’s also the beginning of a new one! I’m SO excited to bring these characters and stories to life in a way that does them justice. I have been writing like a madwoman over the past 2 years. I’ve replotted probably over a dozen times. Rewritten tens of thousands of words. I’ve devoured SO MANY BOOKS just to learn more about what makes a book good. I’ve grown exponentially not just as writer, but as a storyteller.

And of course, I wouldn’t be here, writing these things, if it weren’t for this place. And for this weird, broken game. Which is nuts to think about lol.

When the time comes, I will be MORE than happy to offer some of y’all ARC (free, advanced copies of the book, in exchange for honest review on public platforms) copies of the book as a way of saying thanks to those of you who’ve stuck around and remember how I got my start. Maybe I’ll even do a paperback giveaway on here or something 🥰  just something to say thank you to this place, and those of you here who’ve supported me. 

I honestly can’t wait for ya’ll to see the Ivys all grown up and improved 🥺 (for those of yall who are the slightest bit interested LOL there’s gotta be at least like.. what? 2 of you??? 😂😂)

[abovetherainandroses]

Pete & Patrick + Grand Theft Autumn/Where Is Your Boy, through the years

2007 / 2008 / 2009 / 2013 / 2014 / 2015 / 2016 / 2017 / 2018 / 2019 / 2021 / 2022 / 2023

bonus: so much for (tour) dust staging ver. (2023)

(1) my video / (2) x

[daegeseage-art]

A crushing realisation.

None of Bell's Hell's are remotely close to okay, but I do feel like Orym might be having a particularly rought time with the whole Keyleth-as-bait thing and the repercussions of that...

[svtskneecaps]

i'm still stuck on the purgatories so here's a list of purgatory 2 moments simply off the top of my head that deserve to be remembered:

aimsey ducking all of axolotl team alone in a cave with literally half a heart

goose gang fucking descending on the raccoon base and absolutely wrecking shop

ethan crankgameplays clutching up for team panda during the capture the flag game by being the only one hanging out in the center and periodically checking the chests, earning them a shitton of flags and clutching multiple rounds

crow team's egg taking 0 damage

pac doxxing goose gang's egg in the last second

shelby shubble as the last member of her team online writing a letter to aimsey and sharing the world's most devastating ten minutes before her team was eliminated with one of the eye creatures (coco? i forgot lol)

badboyhalo absolutely fucking DEMOLISHING the battleship event on like 2 hours of sleep and a dream

wuant(?) stealing a tv from the battleship event and then playing portuguese ice age on it for the crows lmfao

tubbo djing for his team while waiting for the time for a goose gambit

theguill CRASHING THROUGH THE FUCKING CEILING of the raccoon team's hidey hole like the fucking kool aid man in a last effort to save his team and 4v1 or 5v1 ing team raccoon; he lost but that was such an epic fucking moment

theguill and etoiles pvping and each hyping the other's skills the entire time

seapeekay escaping cellbit and baghera and then stealing their boats and rocketing past to tease them about it; that shit was iconic

kenny going mad with power collecting sand on literally day 1

the english speaking squirrels taking actual physical notes on portuguese phrases (i think)

lgbtiba

i may add more this is an off the top of my head list but like got DAMN i like these events :D i like them a lot

[arcanegifs]

"If I can figure who made this, it could lead me directly to whoever's behind it all. The answer is here, staring me in the face. I can feel it."

[phoenixcatch7]

Man, I want shapeshifter cap SO BAD.

I want to see a Billy that really leans into the wonder of the world, the million paths a child could take in their life.

I want to see a Billy that wants to try everything, at least once.

A Billy that looks at all the people who spit at him, deride him, pity him, dismiss him, ignore him, because he has no future, no prospects, a child in the gutter and say no. I'm going to grow up to be whoever I want to be.

And a captain marvel that says you're going to be amazing.

Billy taking the premise of captain marvels form - his ideal self, a blank slate for Billy to paint his bright colours, the person he wants to be deep inside - and dialling that freedom up to eleven.

A dancer, a dinosaur, a train conductor, a tiger, an ice cream maker, a butterfly, an astronaut, a shark, a college student, a Tamaranean, a mouse, a scuba diver, an elephant, a doctor, a moose, a race car driver, a dog.

A child wanting to see the world.

If you want to find captain marvel, well first you've got to try his comm, probably a couple times.

Then you've got to go to fawcett, hope he's there and not saving the yetis from a salamander invasion in a different dimension.

You've got to ask around, because it often goes by word of mouth here, no matter what technology you bring. Don't worry, it'll spread very quickly, but if you're in a hurry you can find his commemorative statue and leave an offering. No one knows if it really works, but it's a good way to pass the time and feel productive.

Soon, a face will peel out of the crowd. It's always familiar, but it's never the same one.

Wait for the flash of lightning in a cloudless sky.

And then you will find captain marvel.

[catzgam3rz]

BACK ON MY QSMP CATCH UP GRIND

PLEASE Take the best boy Chayanne! I love him so much.

(Hes based of a magpie which was inspired from @cloudster-the-clown 's design which is FANTASTIC)

[mftm1987]

in praise of martin gore's gretsch double anniversary ‘green knight’ semi-hollow body electric guitar » 1987–present

[gin-juice-tonic]

since im awake and talking about ocd again - something not a lot of people know is compulsions can be completely mental, it doesnt always manifest in a way another person could notice from the outside

you’ll have an intrusive thought; you’ll try to analyze it and logic it away, mentally reassuring yourself. “I would never do [x thing]”, “[y thing] would not happen”, “[other person] wouldnt do [thing]” or even just “don’t think about that”. things like that.

but no matter how much logic or reason you use, it doesnt go away, ‘cause thats not how it works. So you keep repeating whats now become like, a frenzied mantra of re-assurance unable to think about anything else. 

and this can go on for hours. or on and off for days (or even longer, unfortunately)

here’s more examples of mental compulsions for the curious: 

[eirianerisdar]

Simon: [Lewis] has had a 17-year career in F1 now.

Nico Rosberg: Can you believe the skill?! Such a long career and he's only been off six times!

[albino-parakeet]

Skytober Day 9 Moth (Eoraptor)

My other Skytober drawings

[uncanny-tranny]

The whole "humans are inherently awful and bad!" spiel is so tiring to me as a survivor of abuse because it comes off as abuse apologia. If humans are inherently awful, then why should it matter if you're abused - that's what humans do best! Like, genuinely, I think this mindset can harm abuse victims/survivors because they're being inundated with this idea that, well, how bad can their abuser be? All humans are horrific, why complain, why escape, and why try to resist it?

I really wish people would critically analyze where these ideas come from and where these lines of thinking can lead. Maybe it's a matter that I'm looking too deep into, but this very bleak ideology is not going to help in the long run, I think, and some of the first people who are going to be crushed by it are the people who are vulnerable or who are put in vulnerable positions in society.

[saffron-gold-stardust]

It’s possible there’s still someone in there…

…but he’s buried very deep.

Those chains will be hard to break, if he even wants them broken in the first place.

Swapdream original concept by Song_A, og Cross by Jakei95

[jeccoart]

scott pilgrie stuff from the vaults

[magentameows]

losing your balance floating space or something.. I just wanted to draw a simple thing of the girlies in their cute space suits

I was wondering, would people be interested in this as a sticker?

[ghostpajamas]