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[racingpit]

San Francisco Dining Room Breakfast Nook

Breakfast nook - mid-sized contemporary porcelain tile and gray floor breakfast nook idea with beige walls

[lottieshauna]

MARI WEEKEND DAY 1: Mari: a summary (insp)

[toyastales]

I adore the bohemian flair in this hallway.

Great use of color and pattern.

[runner5ive]

DTIYS Entrants - Part One!

The premise of my DTIYS was simple: I wanted to see YOUR Five and YOUR Sam, because I love seeing the differences people have for those characters. And let me tell you, I was not disappointed! Every piece sent my way was wonderful in its own right, and the amount of time, effort and details people put into what I'd thought would be a simple challenge was amazing!

After getting more entries than expected, I decided it might be nice to do everything as a master post so fans of zr could use it to appreciate and discover the artists in our fandom!

Part two can be found here! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

@runningforabel - Link to post

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@vfdcatlady - Link to post

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@pixeldinostorytelling - Link to Post

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@stellar-collective - Link to post

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@drowsystarlight - Link to post

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@rose-bush-dice from instagram

[rookinthecrownest]

Wait, dont tell me - the winner of Eurovision 2025 will be a North western country with a shitty generic pop song (sung in English, probably) no matter how much better any of the other smaller, less influential countries are, or how much more true they are to the spirit of Eurovision by singing in their native languages and incorporating more traditional beats into their songs

[glowelle]

This is my submission for @runner5ive DTIYS competition

(Don't automatically discredit me just because we're divorced)

[eggs-can-draw]

If More has no defenders I am dead and buried

[oleskellybones]

working order entry will have you doing this exactly 90 minutes into every day

[driftingballoons]

Pokémon Question 28? :3

That’s a tough one! There are so many great pokedex entries tbh, although Magcargo’s Sapphire entry where it’s quoted to be about 18,000 degrees F is pretty good. “Here’s a lava snail you can befriend. Isn’t he cute? His body is hotter than the surface of the sun :)” (which is apparently 10,000 degrees F. It really reminds you that some of the entries were written by 10 year olds XD 

[olessan]

This is my second entry for ESO's current housing contest, a custom guesthouse built on Fogbreak Lighthouse (an island house).

It has upper and lower living areas, a kitchen and bathroom, four private quarters/bedrooms, and a verandah and garden/sitting area. It's right at the top of the island next to the lighthouse (the placing is kind of awkward but whatever lol).

Currently staying here are Bastian, Mirri, and Fennorian, with Alchemy and Baron Jangles (the raven) dropping in. The guesthouse is """owned""" by the two daedric? bunnies occupying the fourth room.

Also it's not part of the entry, but the first thing I built here was a long-ass bridge pier out to the edge of the allowed area lol, this is looking back from the deck at the end:

I actually built this in 2023 after getting the house, but hit the furnishing slot limit and couldn't finish it without subscribing to ESO+, which I only do when I have multiple reasons for it, so I didn't finish it until this past month for the contest.

Ember was supposed to be in the fourth room but I had to start picking between special furnishings (houseguests and pets and stuff), so ended up just half-decorating the last one. I might still add her later but I have about 200 slots left open so I can finish decorating the rest of the island later.

The inside of the lighthouse itself is almost empty currently because I started working on this right after I started considering how to decorate that. The druidic caves as well, but those'll be finished eventually.

I also have the Fair Winds, the giant sailing ship house, so I like to think that it's one of the ships that sail past in the background ambience uwu

[inventors-fair]

On the Horizon: Off-Type Runners Up!

Our runners-up this week are @curiooftheheart, @melancholia-ennui, and @nine-effing-hells!

@curiooftheheart — Reluctant Neophyte

This week, I was a little worried about how many people were delving into color pie bends/breaks with the cards that they were submitting—but then I actually read some of the Worldwake cards that I had used as examples and I realized that maybe duals aren't that big a worry and it's more along the lines of what can flavorfully matter. Besides, where are you gonna get duals in limited? Two colors means that your white attacker here now wants to be blocked a whole lot less when you're swinging in. BW aggro is an awesome archetype and I'm down for it. White vampires and the flavor text here feel really Innistradian, and lord knows that I go back to that well more than a few times. But it's so worth it for the drama of it all.

I've said it before with some of these submissions, but I do thoroughly enjoy when people lean into the cards that tell a story with implications beyond the surface. We don't need art direction to feel some of the genuine longing in the speaker's voice. We know who they're talking to, and we know that bad things are about to go down. And maybe it's not like the land itself is corrupting them, but every time they lunge, they feel the power of black mana making them more aggressive. I think I read the flavor text as pseudo-sarcastic, or at least... There's a word I'm looking for that I can't bring to mind, but it's like, we know that the speaker's about to turn and their sincerity is perhaps not as sincere as it might seem on the surface. That dramatic twist, that grand old trope. Yes, yes, bears attacking are great in limited, but it's a feeling thing for this, y'know? Anyway, gold star.

@melancholia-ennui — Coastal Expedition

I...love how this card feels. I can't fully explain it. But I love how it feels. This is what really messes me up, right? I'm gonna ramble here and it's gonna make no sense but dammit, it's a feeling. Green and blue are a lot closer than I think people give them credit for, at least from an elemental standpoint. Yeah, there's wizardry vs. nature, and perfectionism vs. letting things be, but we're talking about pure, unbound elements. Water IS nature. The ocean and the land, lakes and forests—they vibe with each other. You know? Jace and company can talk about intellect and illusion and whatever all they want. I contend that, as this card represents, the ease of water and the paths of nature are one and the same. With the context of an expedition, the human heart can allow itself to journey with that same ease. I stand by that.

Anyway. Card's deec, too. There's the smallish issue of kicker and "choosing" as an additional cost, and maybe that's possible, but I think you might have overlooked a simpler solution. You know the Dragon-revealing stuff that happened throughout DTK? Silumgar's Scorn and that cycle. The idea of optional additional costs doesn't have to be kicker. Draconic Roar and those kinds of cards. Looking at these cards, I can see how choosing works (Dragon's Fire, funnily enough), but I feel this card could've been cleaner without it. Just like, "you may reveal an Island card from your hand" and then you can play an additional land if you did OR if you control an Island as you cast it. But that's just the polish on a card that's 98% of the way there already, so please take my first paragraph's praise as the main commentary here. 

@nine-effing-hells — Drown

In a lot of cases, Defile will be better than Disfigure, given the right circumstances. A card like this (one-mana black instant removal starting with "D", as is custom) is still pretty darn great and only sometimes better than the other cards in its family! I really wanna know what you envisioned for art direction this week, but we'll get to that in a second. Powerful one-mana removal kinda speaks for itself here. The efficiency is limited to the colors that you're running but it's almost always going to be good enough to run as it is. Disfigure was a relevant card even in BRO, which was a grindfest of a time if you weren't running RB aggro-sacrifice. The flexibility of this card allows you to kinda...ignore the part of it that's relevant to this contest. -2/-2 with upside is a strict upgrade to Disfigure in the UB decks that would've run it regardless, yeah? But that's only Pauper relevance, and as an uncommon... I'm thinking lots of thoughts, none of them fully relevant, so do excuse me.

Flavor text! This is definitely one of the best ones in a vacuum this year, and that's what I'm always happy to see. Context can make flavor text relevant, but when you've got this plane-specific image here... I just wanna say, for this card I'm getting the sense that this card could be reprinted anywhere and it would just manifest here as an evil river. Which is cool! Flexibility is important and you're centering this version on Innistrad. The average person will take a second to think about river mouths, chuckle at the pun, and then slam this card down to kill someone's human. But like, come on, what're you thinking for AD? The water grips a bystander on the bank, maybe, or they're already underwater getting dragged towards a grotto, or spirits beneath the current are surrounding a screaming face... Very flexible, very fun. Not for the subject, but.

It was really hard to pick the podium this week, and you'll hear more about it later in the commentary! There were a lot more entries than expected, but we'll get to them in time. @abelzumi

[bokieya]

lovely runner

if i could time travel, id run to you

there’s something about watching someone fight for love across time, across pain that weighed in my heart like a promise i kept, even after we let go

the way she runs through time just to hold him once more just to change one moment one silence one goodbye

and i thought about all the moments i wish i could run back to that one night we laid on your bed, and i said nothing the time i hesitated when you asked me to stay the softness in your voice before the weight of everything ruined us

you were never a drama but you were everything the dramas get right the slow build the stolen glances the kind of love that doesn’t scream, just stays quiet and steady even when it hurts

if i had a watch that turned back time i wouldn’t change you i’d just hold you better understand you sooner love you more clearly

i wouldn’t run away from us i’d run to you every time in every version of this life

but we don’t get time machines we get memories and the soft echo of love that still lives in me

so here i am watching someone else fight fate for the one they love and thinking if this were a drama i’d be the girl who never stopped waiting

and you you’d be the boy i’d always run back to

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hj.

[vio-starclad]

Was gonna watch Blade Runner last night but I guess I don't have the Ideal Version? But I still need 2049 and found a double pack online with both so guess I'll get that.

[tournamentdirectory]

They're dumb, but at least they come in pairs. @dumbass-duo-showdown finds the most dumb of ass two around- sometimes three if they're silly enough.

Run by @druvjelly.

[runner5ive]

DTIYS Entrants - Part Two!

The premise of my DTIYS was simple: I wanted to see YOUR Five and YOUR Sam, because I love seeing the differences people have for those characters. And let me tell you, I was not disappointed! Every piece sent my way was wonderful in its own way, and the amount of time, effort and details people put into what I'd thought would be a simple challenge was amazing!

After getting more entries than expected, I decided it might be nice to do everything as a master post so fans of zr could use it to appreciate and discover the artists in our fandom!

Part one can be found here!

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@sunnlion

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[newtedison]

maze women 2023: belonging

1st person pov, brenda journals about teresa (sfw, 1k) @themazewomen

God, this is stupid. I haven’t written in a journal since I was…what, 11?

A few months ago I found one that had fallen behind my desk drawer. I was so angsty back then, it was ridiculous. I really didn’t have anything to be upset about. I didn’t know how good I had it.

I never kept my old journals long enough to look back on. Any time I tried, I would feel so ashamed and embarrassed of my older self that I would immediately shred it into as many pieces as possible, and then burn it. The cycle went on for years until I eventually stopped journaling altogether. 

I guess I ended up pivoting to songwriting, but that’s never felt quite the same. I still have to focus on getting the words to rhyme, get them to match with the music in the right way.

I always hoped I would be able to write a song about her to tell her everything I feel. But I’ve never managed.

So here I am, journaling again in my 20’s. To what end, I don’t know. I guess I thought that the feelings I had been shoving down into the pits of my stomach started to burn in the acidity and go rotten. I’ve been spitting the poison back up at people, and they’re starting to notice. Her, most of all.

She thinks I hate her. Or that I’m mad at her. She hasn’t said it, but I know she does. I can see it in the way she looks at me. Like I’m a fucking equation she hasn’t quite figured out yet. 

It would help if she had all of the variables. It would help if she knew I’m so in love with her it’s making my whole body come undone.

I shake, sometimes, if I’m around her too much. Isn’t that crazy? Shaking like a fucking chihuahua. Like the 20 year old one my abuela is holding onto for dear life. At least that thing has a reason, it’s ancient and built like a mistake. 

I’m just hanging out with a pretty girl. What’s my excuse?

I don’t know if it’s the adrenaline from liking something too much that I get excited being around it, or if I’m so busy closeting my emotions that they’re batting on the walls of my ribs trying to get out. It’s an energy I can’t shake. I’m constantly tapping my feet or shaking out my hands.

She notices, too, of course she does. She’ll take my hands and hold them tight in hers until I stop. “Too much coffee,” she tells me. “You’re getting the jitters.”

She’s not one to talk. I’ve been with her when she’s working in the lab, I know how much coffee she can go through. Still, if she thinks that’s what’s causing me to lose all the composure I’ve spent my life building, then I’ll take it.

I want to tell her but I don’t. I want to tell her in a way that matters. I want to tell her in a way that feels like it’s not wasting her time.

She’s too smart for me. She’s the smartest person I’ve ever met. Half of the things she says go right over my head but god damn, does she look pretty when she says them. I have to nod like I’m following along just so she doesn’t realize she should be doing basically anything else than talking to me. 

I don’t know why she spends so much time with me. That’s coming from someone who, until recently, was a fairly confident person. And she hasn’t done anything to lower it, and she compliments me more often than necessary. But I feel so unbalanced around her, sometimes. Like we’re not playing the same game.

Does that really matter? It sounds kind of stupid when I write it down like this. She’s a smart person. She values her time. She wouldn’t hang out with me if it didn’t benefit her in some way. 

I hope it benefits her. Lord knows it benefits me. I’ve mentioned the shaking, right? 

I haven’t liked something this much in a long time. I’ve never loved someone like this before. Other times, I’ve had to ask myself: Do I really love this person? Or do I just want to?

It would be easier for me not to love her. It would maybe make more sense. But I’ve never felt more at home with someone before. When she takes my hands to stop me from trembling, it’s like I’m breathing for the first time. She’s made me act in ways I’ve never allowed myself to with anyone else. I think in the past I always stopped myself from loving anyone in a way that mattered. I never let it get past the surface level.

With her, I feel like I’m scraping through the bottom of my chest just to make sure she gets every ounce of me I have left to give. I had been holding out for her without even knowing it. 

I don’t know what to call this. Belonging? I’ve never quite understood that word. We don’t own each other, especially with her not knowing how I feel. I don’t think I would ever want her to belong to me, she’s too amazing to be contained. 

God. She’s so beautiful, I might even let her contain me. That’s how you know it’s bad.

Maybe I do belong with her. Maybe that’s why I’ve felt like a defunct person for all of these years, loving people the way I thought I was supposed to. 

I think that she would let me love her whatever way I wanted to. I don’t know why I know this, but it feels right. 

See, this is why I can’t write her a song. I can’t condense all of this down into three minutes of verses and choruses. My incoherent, late-night journal ramblings probably haven’t conveyed it, either.

If I come up with the solution, I’ll write here again.

I tried to talk to her and my mouth went dry. I forgot every word I’d ever learned. It was a little pathetic. I ended up kissing her instead.

It felt like it worked. It felt like I had said everything right there. She ran her hands through my hair and it felt like a song. She whispered my name, and it belonged to her.