#envigorating

[malakkc-poetry]

Quiet

What do you listen to while you work? When I’m in the zone working, I enjoy quiet solitude in order to promote concentration and better writing. When too much background noise is around me, I tend to feel overwhelmed by it, creating a faster heartbeat that can be exhausting. So, a quiet environment is ideal, but I can be hyperfocused enough to tune out ‘white noise’ in order to achieve my…

[gaylittlebillionaires]

had an extremely vivid dream where cornelius hickey cut off all but two of my fingers with a dull knife while we were wrestling on the floor. i think i was somehow francis crozier. it was kind of erotic.

[totally-a-sheep]

that doesn't affect the passage of time!

LUC! it's going to be a controlled fire right??? -@mason-the-bee-dude

Of course! I once held Aziraphale hostage in a perfectly contained ring/wall of Hellfire for an entire week. Which us what we're celebrating today, in fact!

[shoechoe]

Damn it this is like the 5th night in a row I promised myself I would go to bed earlier then didn't anyway because my brain is forcing me to work on this minecraft tree building

[mediasploshion]

whelp twitter is burning to the ground again, and I swear I need to learn to just stick to here. I thrive, I don't care as bad for numbers here, I don't need to be stupid careful about what I say or have some dumb algorithm toss me into the void or have bots assault me.

I don't want to care about numbers, I'm through with it. I just want to post what my heart yearns for and hope others enjoy with me!

I want to be free!

[dewgongs]

i cannot believe i have hit the queue limit... holy shit.. i just eemember being in such a depressed ass stoop that i felt like i could never even be active or keep up or have fun on these websites ive always adored ... i literly remembwr thinking that id never return to them again. god i was such a warped version of myself ... scares me

[ocqueen]

On the contrary, I think this guy (possibly, allegedly) being a normal person with grievances instead of a profession hit man will only serve to further boost the growing class consciousness and inter political solidarity we are seeing among the working class about the CEO assassination.

Because if he did it, and he's one of us... it could've been anyone.

[theheartlandsblog]

How did you come up with Adrik? He seems very interesting and stoic

hullo, anon! =)

this is gonna sound SO nerdy, i'm 100% aware of how nerdy it sounds, y'all can go ahead and mention how nerdy it is, i get it. but honestly? adrik started as literally just me wanting to learn to read and speak russian. ('T᷄⌑T᷅) from there, i wanted sincerely to create an outlet for that learning desire, in a way that A. was historically plausible, and B. was as nuanced and NOT stereotypical as possible!

more detail on all that below the cut, if you're interested, and willing to read a lot! thank you for asking about my darling boy! <3

i think i have always enjoyed just learning on my own terms, anyway. i had atrocious grades in high school and was abysmal in my japanese classes, but as soon as i got out of formal schooling, i started getting VORACIOUS about learning. yes. yep. i know it's nerdy. i'd always wanted to speak another language besides english, and i still do, which is why i study both russian and spanish, just cause i want to. so that's where it started - wanting to learn the language.

as all good writing projects begin, it started getting serious one day in the shower, i think it was shortly after or shortly before i had published my first complete RDR fanfic (the name is DUST, it's a little out there, but i am dearly fond of it), i was thinking about writing in general while i was in there, and thought to myself well, wouldn't it be interesting to write in a different language?

then i started reading the works of cormac mccarthy, an american author whose works are thoroughly bilingual in spanish/english, and it FASCINATED me. i'd published 2 RDR fics at that point, i think? and i started committing to language learning. i started with spanish in my fic called SAND (also pretty out there, again, just a warning) but i quickly remembered how i wanted to learn russian too. so i started researching on if russian immigrants came to the united states in the 1800s, to see if i could theoretically include the language into an RDR fic in a realistic manner/presence; to my utmost joy i absolutely could, and the thought-project took off. ;)

he stuck around as a stored-away project until i got the idea for HOMEWARD, i think that was late 2022, and THAT idea came to me while i was replaying the mission where you fetch john from the mountains in the beginning of RDR2. i'd never made an OC so detailed before and i wanted to ensure that whatever home of thought and writing he'd be born into would be properly big enough to house him when he got older. i didn't want to just throw an OC in willy-nilly! in the meantime (fair warning, i'm about to get a little preachy) i'd been inspired character-development-wise by creating someone who was an antithesis to the usual stereotype over in the united states about a russian person, or just kinda russia in general. you know, kind of a drunkard, loud, unintelligent, cruel. i wanted someone who felt like a real person, who was a victim of circumstance, who had an unlikely friend and a vast soul, someone who, like you said, was interesting! i'd decided on creating a russian character before the whole terrible war escalation broke out, but when it did, i think it made me even more determined. i mentioned it in my last ask but i'm ukrainian from my dad's side, so it's a matter close to home.

so, anon, that's his IRL backstory! it's how him and i met. <3 as for him, as a character, his story? i actually have a chapter in HOMEWARD planned for just that! now, though? the time has not yet come... (｡•̀ᴗ-)✧ but i can tell you a little. <3 he's forty-two years old in 1899/during the current events of HOMEWARD, and he was born on january 6th, in 1857. i call him "old" all the time only because with the life expectancy of the way he's lived, he's ancient. he's five-feet-eleven-inches tall, and he met annushka in the old country. he's stoic now, like you said, and standoffish as a general rule, but there is so, soooo much more personality in him that i pinky-promise will come out as my story progresses and as he settles in. he's had a brush with scurvy, a run-in with the law, and once upon a time lived upon the longest river in russia. him and i are very eager to tell stories. Вот он! Спасибо <3

[cyeayt]

Looking at art and going: I could do that, but it’s in an aspirational sense like wow this is so cool I need to do more art

[arcane-ish]

You know, I'm a big believer in death of the author and that it doesn't matter whether the creators support your ship. You make up your own meaning and have your own preferences, etc

....

But it would be a lie to claim that it didn't feel super vindicating to read the artbook and walk away with the impression that the most talented people in the room, the artists/animators had Zaundads and Timebomb as their favorite ships (just on account of there being so much extra/customer stuff. Same for the Medarda family stuff)

The beauty of fandom to me has always been the utter joy of finding people and realize that they see the world in a similar way, that you are on the same wavelength (I think that's why I ship Vander x Silco, because I imagine them having the same dopamine rush "I found a likeminded person who sees what I see" about the revolution and why the Ekko and AUJinx sciencing together montage is so peak). And the idea that you might be sharing this "the same wavelength, other persons love what I love" with the artists is just pretty damn envigorating.

Regarless of who sees who how exactly, looking at the artbook you just walk a way with the fuzzy feeling that they were loved. These characters were loved.

[hellenism-overcast]

Devotional Jewelry

I wear a lot of devotional jewelry and I feel that people don't talk about it enough. I devote myself to Zeus through his devotional bracelet, necklace, and earrings. Though wearing earrings and necklaces used to give me a great amount of dysphoria, it feels so different as a devotional act. It's as if I can physically feel the kharis envigorating my spirit and it feels absolutely amazing. I feel so connected and so close to him.

Having a physical reminder of your patron deity should be more normalized in the hellenic space as it is in larger spaces like Christianity. You see people a large amount of Christiants wearing crosses for Jesus Christ, but not so many hellenic pagans wearing jewelry for their deities. It just feels so different to have an almost physical connection to a deity through what you wear. I've never veiled, but I imagine it's a similar feeling--that feeling of almost having a deity's protection or connection through something so physical.

I personally have devotional bracelets that are marketed as such from Etsy and then a labradorite pointed pendant and a matching pair of labradorite earrings for Zeus, as their gray swirls and shines remind me of the overcast sky and his domain, but if you're looking for devotional jewelry and don't know where to start, you can find dedicated devotional jewelry on places like Etsy, or even search for specific crystals or gems that others associate with a deity you worship or are devoted to, or do what I did and choose what you feel drawn to or something that reminds you of them.

If you cannot buy dedicated jewelry then you can always try to make a bracelet or necklace or something else by purchasing materials from some kind of crafts store--hell you could even dedicate the act of making it to your chosen deity/deities.

I simply find that devotional jewelry should be more appreciated as a form of an almost votive offering to your deity, as I personally find it to especially strengthen my relationship with my deities. Though I may be rather biased.

[janewilsonrva]

Creeping Charlie

Henrico County, Virginia (USA)

Based on a photo from May 17, 2025.

Here is Creeping Charlie, a non-native member of the Mint family, creeping up onto a low boardwalk that crosses a local stream. It's a common sight in shady, moist woods, and was no doubt feeling envigorated after last week's drenching rains.

[bababonzer]

Golgotha (Elden Ring oc) sketches

Made a moodboard for her too

Lore dump below cut

Golgotha grew of age ages from the present day of the lands between. Beneath the earth she trained, prayed, and strove to become a night maiden. Her mother, ever sharp, urged her on her path. In her studies, she came across debris from the surface. Every interesting scrap she whisked away. Her studies began to falter. Her mother, ever cruel, encouraged her with punishments a plenty. Still, she could not release her dream of a glimmering surface. She hid her treasures away, further and further into the shadows. One night, she fell, and became lost. After a grueling journey, she found her way back home, but not before encountering far more evidence of life above ground. She could not help herself, and pocketed many trinkets. On her return, her mother, ever observant, discovered her hoard. What could Golgotha do? Or say? Like coming home with blood on her hands, she was sequestered from Nox society. The abuse grew, and Golgotha’s heart remained ever heavy in her chest. Her mother sank into madness. Punishments no longer stood as encouragement. Nothing Golgotha could do would please her.

Golgotha could not have known this, but something festered untreated within her mother. She became violent, hateful one moment and sweet the next. For as much pain as her mother had given her, Golgotha still loved her as a child would. One night, her mother set upon her. In a rage she maimed Golgotha. Golgotha, injured and weakened, protected herself. In this defense, her mother perished.

Once discovered, thin and bleeding, sobbing over the body of her progenitor, she was taken away. Found guilty for matricide, she was striped of her studies, her white mantle, and locked away. Whether through kindness or cruelty, they allowed her to keep her life, even if it was in a dark dank cell. There she rotted. She found the madness, given to her from her mother, deep within her. She succumbed to that dark and that madness, filled with rage and hate for her mother, her society, her subterranean life. And through it all, even to her final breath, she begged to be reborn as the smallest bug, the most cowardly beast of prey, the most vile living creature, if only it was topside, where the walls did not crush her.

When grace found her, her city was nothing but rubble. Her thin mangled body suddenly envigored with the life she had before the madness took her mother. While the hate burned deep in her gut, she pulled herself from the ashes, a prisoner to a kingdom long fallen, a mage of her own right, a child without her mother.

Renewed, she tumbled through the lands between. In awe, in fear, in passion, she wandered through eons of history learning of the plight of the topsiders. And when her journey took her back beneath the earth, to another city just like the one she came from, she wrested the pale mantle from one she fought. Never again would her triumph be taken from her.

And further on… she came to know the madness. Deep beneath Leyendel, she came to know the three fingers. She found that rage belonged to something older, something more grand than she could ever imagine. Scared by her meeting, shunned by Melina, faced with horrible revelations; she came face to face with her own rage, and with a needle stolen- quelled it.

This patchwork of times long past and powers far too grand- of the sweetness and sorrow of becoming.

In service to her lord of night, Lady Ranni.

I’m trying to imagine what they’d even do together- and it’s a lot of reading in the same room. Spirited conversations about magic. Golgotha would be very keen to learn about topsider culture, and I imagine Lady Ranni would be very curious about the eternal cities. Ranni would help her learn the language of the lands between. Golgotha would do magic experiments, combining elements of spells. Between the two of them there is no sanctity. Blasphemy abounds.

I imagine them to be happy with one another!

Thanks for reading 🫰

[ms-m-astrologer]

Transiting Sun enters Gemini

Tuesday, May 20 - Saturday, June 21, 2025

Gemini the Twins - the Sign of the Communicator

Air image - a butterfly

"I think"

Keyphrase: my need to communicate with and learn from others

Air (social and mental - communicative, detached, abstract, changeable)

Yang (levity - outgoing, expressive, logical, left-brained)

Mutable (adapting to learning - distributing, connecting, flexible, scattered)

Personal (subjective - focused on personal wants and needs)

Ruler - Mercury; exalted - the Lady Asteroids

Color - bright sunshine yellow, like dandelions busting up the dreary monotony of all those boring green lawns

*Gleaned almost completely from the book Astrology for Yourself by Bloch and George; the rulerships and color tend to be my own theory/belief.

Happy Gemini season! This one is going to go almost like a children’s story: an envigorating start, difficulties in the middle, and a potentially good ending.

*+=+*+=+*+=+*

The problem with all the Air signs (Libra, Aquarius, Gemini) is that they tend to have everything all worked out to their own satisfaction inside their own heads. Whether or not their plans are in any way feasible here in meat space, is another matter. Circumstances can and do change; sometimes other people even have their own ideas which don’t jibe with ours, and they want to be heard, too!

We all know what it’s like to walk into a room that hasn’t been open for a while: the air is stale and stuffy. And that is what happens to our brains when they don’t allow for others’ points of view.

An adage I have inflicted on my own children, as well as my former students, and IIRC you guys too, is: “We have two ears and one mouth; that means we should listen twice as much as we speak!” So let in those fresh Gemini breezes - we’re going to need them.

Allow a couple of days before and after these dates.

Thursday, May 22 - Saturday, May 24:

Sun/Gemini sextile Neptune/Aries, 1°40’

Sun/Gemini sextile Ceres/Aries, 1°55’

Sun/Gemini trine Pluto Rx/Aquarius, 3°44’

This is a great start - we can really tune in to where The Cosmos is going, and find ways to “think globally, act locally” as well.

Monday, May 26 - Tuesday, May 27:

New Moon, 6°06’ Gemini

Sun/Gemini inconjunct Vesta Rx/Scorpio, 6°41’.

The first jarring notes? It’s a pretty good New Moon, with a lot of opportunities - and maybe that’s the problem, too many possibilities that we don’t know what to do with. We may be hyperfixated on something that isn’t really important.

Friday, May 30 - Saturday, May 31:

Sun/Gemini conjunct Mercury/Gemini, 9°01’

Sun/Gemini (10°30’) semi-square Eris/Aries (25°30’)

Sun/Gemini (10°41’) semi-square Chiron/Aries (25°41’)

More issues trying to translate our thoughts into action. “Nothing I do don’t seem to work,” as the Stones sang. Our mental patience may be severely tested, especially if our little plots/schemes come to naught.

Sunday, June 8 - Friday, June 13:

Sun/Gemini (18°32’) sesquiquad Pluto Rx/Aquarius (3°32’)

Sun/Gemini inconjunct Juno Rx/Scorpio, 18°55’

Sun/Gemini (20°25’) sesquiquad Vesta Rx/Scorpio (5°25’)

Full Moon, 20°39’ Sagittarius

Sun/Gemini square North Node/Pisces and South Node/Virgo, 22°50’

More of the same, really - fixated on the wrong things, thinking in the same old tired ways that don’t work any more. The Full Moon nags us into wanting to do something - if only we could determine exactly what! Patience….

Sunday, June 15 - Tuesday, June 17:

Sun/Gemini trine Pallas Rx/Aquarius, 25°06’

Sun/Gemini sextile Eris/Aries, 25°37’

Sun/Gemini sextile Chiron/Aries, 26°22’

Sun/Gemini (26°40’) semi-square Venus/Taurus (11°40’)

During these days, we can see clearly again - if we choose to. When we’re unselfish and brave, we have more opportunities. Favorable more for taking individual action rather than for acting in pairs or on teams.

Thursday, June 19 - Sun/Gemini semi-sextile Uranus/Taurus, 29°10’. The 29th degree is always intense. Uranus here is less than three weeks away from its initial ingress into Gemini. Wait’ll you guys get a load of Gemini Season 2026! We aren’t there yet, though. Since this is only a semi-sextile, we’ll probably have only a nagging sense of impending change.

[tomodailii]

day 59 of tomodachi posting every day until living the dream releases

BARBECUE!!!!!! grilled meat galore with a side of corn on the cob how envigorating

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[fallenclan]

so!! starting off to say Moon 263 [part 2] might be one of my favorite fallenclan updates ever. here are some more specific thoughts because i have A Lot

the first panel with the "not actually chosen" ones chatting is so nice. the colors for this update are so tasty and really have a mystical vibe, but i especially like this first panel with the mushrooms. also, the textboxes look so neat overlapping. i like how wolfbite is quieter and not saying much while feathersight is speaking the most. it can be inferred that he's explaining about how starclan/the glowcave usually works with darkstone and honeysong occasionally adding on, and at the end wolfbite is just like "all right guys, i get it."

the way the starclan cats are drawn is so cool... the "fading" effect that makes them look all watery, as if bits and pieces of them are drifting away?? incredible. i love it! i also really like how the stc textboxes are a different shade. it's just a neat detail. the star effects surrounding them is so pretty also. i just love how you draw the starclan cats in general, they look so magical. i like how away from the glowcave, their colors bleed past the lines, but at the glowcave they appear more solid, as if they're stronger there. i just,, i love it

the cameos! omg. i literally never thought i would see nick again but here we are. i'm a big fan of all the appearances!!

silverbelly is adorable. i love how excited feathersight is to see her. also, when she first appears, i like the detail of darkstone sweating. despite being a medicine cat, he's literally never seen a fully formed starclan cat before. he's nervous!! wolfbite looks shocked but i feel like this is more about the idea of her being "special" rather than seeing silverbelly tbh. she's like "damn i guess i actually am plot relevant."

salmonskip... i was so happy to see her... she's such a goober. nick's "we all had our own cats we hoped would come" was such a fun line as well for its thought provoking effect. i feel like it's a nod to how there were so many different "fourth cat" theories in the discord server but i could be wrong. we all had our ideas! now i'm super curious as to who nick was rooting for... and also who each of the previous leaders wanted (should i send another ask with my theories on who specific starclan cats wanted to be the fourth cat?)

big fan of the "you weren't actually chosen, you chose yourself" yada yada. wonderful! i love choosing your own destiny narratives. i'm sure nothing bad will happen to our little feline heroes

sleepycloud :(

"you sound different than i thought you would" - honeysong, had me in shambles. honeysong is older than lionsong was when he died... he looks so young here

poppyfeather made me laugh. i love the "not that this isn't heartwarming..." that i read in a 100% sarcastic tone. she is not in the mood for happy reunions!! she has a dictator to depose, guys. time to see her vengeful trait come into effect...

the ending! darkstone and honeysong look so envigorated whereas feathersight looks exhausted and wolfbite... looks ready to "do what has to be done." i love how happy she was to see sandsnap, and then how her happiness is buried once the poppyfeather and cherrystar step in with their plan, as if seeing sandsnap only strengthened her desire for revenge.

i had a dream after this post where the squad was about to confront ravenstar and he was all like "you thought i didn't know about your little schemes? cute." and his little gang rolled up (sleepydawn, flamefall, levi, patchback, etc.). i don't remember much else of what happened but i woke up like " oh no . . . the little guys are in danger . . . " anyway this segues into my prediction that there will be at least one death as a direct consequence of their attempt to depose ravenstar.

-🐉 (giggling and swinging my feet)

as always dragon... you literally never miss

i'm so glad you picked up on the textbox thing, you basically got it in one!!! feathersight and honeysong explaining helpfully, darkstone chiming in with his little snips and jokes, wolfbite talking less because she's got somewhat of a listening role there etc

IT WAS SO FUN TO DRAW THEM LIKE THAT... the white lines made it kind of difficult to see the white cats (looking at you sleepycloud) but otherwise. so fun. your assumption is correct, they're more solid there than they are as ghosts, and then in Starclan they arent wispy at all, just faintly glowing with those white lines (though they're so fun to draw like this i might have to just draw the ghosts like this always. idk)

cameos!! Nick was a special request from my sibling that I agreed with wholeheartedly. he was so silly

"damn I guess I actually am plot relevant" LMAO

yup it was a nod to all the guesses!! if i had infinite time and energy i would have put in more starclan cats as nods to specific guesses (Canarywish aka the greatest red herring I ever fished comes to mind), but alas. and you KNOW id love to hear all your thoughts fuck yes!!! (I didn't have anyone in particular in mind for Nick, but if I had to choose I'd say he was hoping for Snailpetal as well, she's his only surviving descendant)

i'm sure nothing will happen ! nothing bad at all!

sleepycloud :( indeed. i will let slip that i've got some plans as far as the sleepydawn situation but that's all i'll say about that for now

SHES ALMOST TWICE THE AGE HE WAS WHEN HE DIED... i always forget how young Lionsong was. not even 30 moons :(

i love Poppyfeather she is ALL business. "listen you guys can come back to the glow cave literally any time after we kill ravenstar's bitch ass can we get on with it pls"

YES EXACTLY!! Honeysong and Darkstone are the Young Optimistic ones, Feathersight is very cautiously optimistic but has seen a lot of shit and is more realistic about the odds they're facing, Wolfbite is in Get Shit Done mode. she's locked in. her thirst for blood has died down a bit upon seeing her dad and now it is HER job to save her clan. weight of the world on this poor girl's shoulders

i'm sure there will be no consequences. dont worry