#guiding tree

[usstrekart]

"Mortal Coil" (S04E12, Stardate 51449.2) sets up a declaration that there is no life after death, that the Borg can revive the dead after nearly a full day without serious brain damage and rushes Neelix's emotional recovery. Only Phillips, Ryan and Beltran's performances keep this from being a failure.

In my episode poster I chose to feature Neelix's Guiding Tree. I like the symbolism it represents, and what it could have brought to the episode if it had gone through another round of rewrites.

[mamangasick]

Yakuza Reincarnation

Takeshi Natsuhara Hiroki Miyashita

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ribbonwood

[allura-raine]

𝕷𝖔𝖛𝖊 𝖎𝖓 𝖎𝖙'𝖘 𝖒𝖔𝖘𝖙 𝖕𝖚𝖗𝖊𝖘𝖙 𝖋𝖔𝖗𝖒

[icebrooding]

tutorial level

[empiireans]

i love them a very normal amount

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ignore the fact that this is my fourth attempt at posting this stupid doodle

[shy-sapphic-ace]

List of queer books I read, loved & recommend!

(There isn't any particular order, I wrote these as I remembered them)

Master Of One - Jaida Jones & Dani Bennett (mlm, fantasy, very cool worldbuilding and magic system, funny, cool characters)

Legends & Lattes - Travis Baldree (wlw, fantasy, very soft & chill vibes)

The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon (wlw, high fantasy, cool worldbuilding, kinda reminds me of LOTR but with more dragons and feminism and lesbians)

Even Though I Knew The End - C.L. Polk (wlw, supernatural noir, cool 1930s detective story with angels & demons, I loved this one!)

The Love Interest - Cale Dietrich (mlm, science fiction, very cool concept)

The Darkest Part Of The Forest - Holly Black (side mlm, fantasy, cool fae lore)

The Weight Of The Stars - K. Ancrum (wlw, not quite science fiction but space stuff is involved, lovely and complex characters)

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe - Benjamin Alire Sáenz (mlm, fiction, very nice in general, there is also a sequel)

The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue - Mackenzi Lee (mlm, historical and vaguely fantasy, nice story but I preferred the sequel honestly)

The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy - Mackenzi Lee (wlw, the sequel to the one before, more fantasy elements than the first, asexual main character!!)

Gallant - V.E. Schwab (no romance, but in the background one of the characters(?) uses they/them pronouns, very cool dark fantasy vibe)

Stranger Than Fanfiction - Chris Colfer (gay main character, trans main character, coming-of-age, nice book)

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (yes it's the Love, Simon book, mlm, fiction, pretty nice)

They Both Die At The End - Adam Silvera (mlm, sci-fi ish but mostly fiction, cool ideas, but the ending is sad! Very amazing book though, I haven't read the prequel yet)

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid (wlw, bi main character, historical fiction, cool story, just a neat book in general)

This Is How You Lose The Time War - Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone (wlw, sci-fi, very cool time travel stuff!! and very beautiful, it felt like reading poetry most of the time)

One Last Stop - Casey McQuinston (wlw, background trans & pan & queer characters, sci-fi or fantasy idk, but time travel, I loooved this book, great)

The House In The Cerulean Sea - TJ Klune (mlm, fantasy, THIS BOOK oh my gosh you should read it!!, just cute and lovely and good)

Under The Whispering Door - TJ Klune (mlm, fantasy, this book is also sooo amazing, great character development and awesome relationships and stuff, it's been a while since I read it but it was so good)

And They Lived... - Steven Salvatore (nblm, fiction, about gender identity and learning to love yourself, read it a while ago but it was very nice)

I Wish You All The Best - Mason Deaver (nblm, fiction, about finding your identity and people who care about you, very cute and sweet)

The Song Of Achilles - Madeleine Miller (mlm, historical, very good in general)

Carry On - Rainbow Rowell (mlm, background wlw in the third book, fantasy, it's a trilogy, basically Harry Potter if it was gay and also better)

Silver In The Wood - Emily Tesh (mlm, fantasy, very pretty, lots of fae stuff and lovely descriptions, it has a really good sequel too)

Pretty much anything by Alice Oseman (all cute and lovely and great, though I've only read Radio Silence so far I hear only good things, Solitaire is on my to-read list)

I Kissed Shara Wheeler - Casey McQuinston (wlw, fiction, it's been a while but I liked this book)

The Falling In Love Montage - Ciara Smyth (wlw, fiction, this book was so cute and funny and deeply emotional it made me Feel way too many things, I'd definitely recommend it)

What Big Teeth - Rose Szabo (a bit of queerness all around, fantasy, werewolves and monsters, this one was pretty cool!, lots of original ideas for the world/character building)

[vintagewildlife]

White's tree frog (Ranoidea caerulea) By: Chris Mattison From: A Practical Guide to Exotic Pets 1994

[witchthewriter]

@crazylurkercatlady.

[happyk44]

Nico grabbing an enemy by the wrist before they can strike down on him and it would be easy to steal the life from the pulse beneath his fingertips, turn the air in their lungs into his own, but there's a myriad of fighters around him and one life isn't going to power him enough to blast away them all when he's already so tired as it is. He wishes he was bigger, stronger.

He squeezes his hand tight around the wrist he holds back. It shatters. Their sword clatters to the ground. It's not a human noise they make - well, it is, they're human.

Until they aren't. Until boney spikes rip through their clothes, emerging sharp and dangerous from their spine. He squeezes harder. The skin around their skull ripples, like bugs crawling underneath. Then bursts blood and spit and flesh as their jaw unhooks. Teeth pitter-patter onto the ground as larger, sharper, whiter fangs emerge violently in their place.

Their face splits just above the nose as another jaw grows around their eyes, as their esophagus snaps and elongates upwards, as blood and flesh and viscera pour like an unholy flood, arms tearing, legs cracking, flesh hanging off bloody bone, nothing but a monster left behind.

Nothing but a nightmare.

It croons at him. The soul beneath is twisted, ugly, beautiful, spread thin across their new body, new bones, like the veins of their now still and battered heart. It pulses like the lungs torn by their feet once did.

The world has silenced itself in the emergence of Nico's new pet. He squeezes the new wrist, the bone firm and clean beneath his touch.

"Defend me," he whispers.

It croons again, shuffling back on four feet. The world quakes as it turns. The world shivers as it regards them, predator to prey, standing larger than them all, and far more dangerous as they ever recalled it to once be.

And the world screams when it lunges.

[potato-lord-but-not]

new mta !! got my books and my tea and my big ol jacket

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[modmad]

Mod you're seriously making me want to go back to Sky, but I know I will just lose all my feather thingies again and rage quit because I don't know how to get them back and everyone talks in japanese and I'm confused and alone and and-

ye :c

oh darling don't rage quit! I promise persisting is worth it, and in fact losing the winged lights is uh. well it's a whole part of the game. if you get to the 'ending' you will understand... also there are plenty of guides on youtube for how to navigate the more difficult realms if you need help, and if you are a moth (new player) people will often help you and lead you through hard parts of the game! one of my hobbies is hanging around in Eden to help people get to the top :D

there is actually an in game translation tool- if you are using chat, press that funky 'A' symbol next to whatever someone has said, it will be translated into your language. It is imperfect, naturally, but it certainly helps a lot!

when Sky comes out on PC I intend to get it, so if it would be of interest I could do a playthrough/stream of it to help newcomers? I'll see if it's possible! :D

[anicehomicidaltree]

Some very rough style guides I made for myself

And a little very early preview based on the new power hour

Holy shit Whole reveal⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️

[fate-defiant]

NOW HOLD ON A SECOND HOLD ON A FUCKING SECOND EVERYONEso if Drosselmeyer can, ad the show implies, write entire worlds into existence, write people imto existence- i mean yeag we al allready agree he is basically a God right.

So like. Author right? Number one Drosselmeyer fanboy , knows all the lore , reconstructed Drosselmeyers fucking study out of sheer devotion, brings fakir in there, pours water on him to 'purify' him, makes him fast and meditate to initiate him, etc.

He's not just being a nerd y'all. Hes not just obsessed. He is WORSHIPPING.

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The whole collection!