#it is a constant state for me <3

[olasketches]

jjk ends in 5 chapters... wow.. :"))

[sacrificethelamb]

~pretty in pink~

[icewindandboringhorror]

Some (late) holiday photos of the boye~!

[abyssruler]

[hella1975]

ive never felt more rural than i have in the past few weeks since hanging out with a lad who has only ever lived in cities. what do you MEAN YOU'VE NEVER DONE A MORRIS DANCE

[a-sketchy]

akechi’s corpseisms are so enthralling to me

[suffercerebral]

me having gone to bed at 6 am every day for the past week and generally spiraling mentally while rotting in bed waking up this morning: a 4 mile hike in the heat is a really good idea right now, and while we're at it let's start like 3 art projects

[buttertheflame]

They say that fanfiction is all stanning. But has anyone stanned the source material to the point of getting distracted from writing fanfiction?

You know what I mean, bookworms? Just to give you a window into my oscillating thoughts: If my guy Jon Snow has returned to the Wall post-ADWD with his betrothed Daenerys Targaryen, yeah I'm gonna stan what came before and make shit up like crazy. The struggle is real! I love the romance of these ‘soulmates’ but I also love everything that makes asoiaf what it is. (Within reason.)

If I stan too much, I write slow-going passages like this:

Jon’s heart felt full as he left her side, his mind brimming with thoughts of their eventful morning so far.  My love, where do we go from here? He knew where he was going, at the least. He would find Samwell in the Flint Barracks. In the three days they’d been at Castle Black, both men had yet to break from meetings to tend to personal interactions. With the increasing days among the Watch, it became more strange to think of himself and Sam as former members of the order. He’d expected the feeling even before they’d left Winterfell, yet as he walked across the courtyard and felt the gazes of a few dozen black brothers upon his back, it shook him all the same. 

Yet another feeling warred within Jon Snow. On the right step he’d sense the men. On the left step he’d sense Daenerys. Her attention and love thrilled him, as like it had only one other time. On Dragonstone. Their home.

But if I hold back on the stanning, I write meatier passages like this:

It was hard to say if anyone took offense enough to the executioner’s blade hanging above them, for as often as the Northern lords, free folk and warriors large and small came up to the dais to present themselves, did the displays of fealty reassure her of Jon's leadership. Strikingly, the free folk never kneeled, but they did offer gifts, the most sobering of which were a pair of bearskin boots given to Queen Daenerys by a group of spearwives.  

She took them graciously and wondered if the wise men would believe the gesture had given King Jon’s uncertain frown a rosy flush. That he was charmed enough to tell her a tale of the hunter who’d fashioned them was welcomed with her whole heart. As she listened to him describe the father of two who fell to the Others at the event many had come to call the Passing Through the Ice, she wondered if the scribes of history would tell of this pair, the last he ever made. And as Jon sort of sat and looked at her for a long time, she wondered if they would believe she was hopelessly lost for him, as well.

So it's coming! If anyone has read "A Long Way Home" and is waiting for the next fic in the series, I'd like to get Chapter 1 up before House of the Dragon comes out in June. (Because of the competition, you see, from their very same Team Black forebearers.) That's the goal, anyway!

[meatriarch]

yknow im probably going to sound a bit overdramatic for a moment with this sorry but,

ive said like two lore streams ago or w/e that im not going to let myself get as heated as i did at the start with how gun's been handling ( read : forgetting she exists ) maria all this time bc at this point i consider my portrayal of her an oc, as i essentially feel across the board with my other texas muses frankly but like.

i do think, while i was obviously thrilled to no end that they announced maria & she was playable etc, i do think the execution of her in-game really sincerely disappointed and pissed me off so badly. like yes end of the day shes a bunch of pixels etc etc whatever sure but its like. genuine frustration at how absolutely sidelined she has been since day one. and i know theres plenty of valid arguments for other characters receiving similar treatment ( ie. sonny ) in a variety of ways, and i do get the angle of maria initially serving as a haunting of the narrative, haunting her friends and sister and being more of that sort of invisible presence rather than physically there in the moment like they all are - but its severely disappointing to see just how little they give a shit about her, both in lore & in gameplay etc.

model-wise? shes completely fine i adore how she looks and everything shes beautiful shes adorable shes exactly as babygirl as i hoped and imagined her to be & look. but shes otherwise both so underwhelming and so borderline useless ( being generous ) and her ability is just the most uncreative pointless thing i feel they could have thought to give her. like. theres so many pieces i can rip apart for just that alone but i dont wanna yap for an eternity lmao

i just wish they gave an ounce of a shit about her. and like sure yes they could easily alter things or add on things on for her in the future etc. sure, yeah, fine and all but its just... i dont think im going to forget how sloppily put together they made her. or how they've consistently forgotten & disrespected her all these months. and with them branching away from her & the friendgroups' story into other victims' as time passes, their already sheer-ass attention spans are only going to grow thinner across the rosters and i guess in my eyes theyre just never going to make up for any of how they treated her character. and like yes thats fine bc i & others will do her infinitely better justice than they ever will but its still just like... its still disappointing.

like so much went wrong with that release day that i think i was just trying to cling onto the excitement of her just being playable but everything else, certain other complaints etc i wont get into, made me think that disappointment in how she was executed was an exaggeration on my part bc im too attached to her lmao and so i kinda just internalized the disappointment i think but it really is just like man. i feel like ive lowkey been in mourning of her since she was released. no faith at all that they are ever going to give her an ounce of dignity outside of how her model looks.

and again. i know i and the fandom do her infinitely more justice than they ever will at this point and that fact alone does make up for this all, i just wish she was remotely fun to play as and didnt feel like such a slapped together, zero-thought, near copy-paste non-asset in-game. i play her bc i love her but she also just makes me fucking sad LMAO

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[aboutmercy]

diabetic children of gaza i am always thinking of you. ya allah make it easy for them.

[musingonward]

ML e16 spoiler

CCE!!! POPPING THE BIGGEST BOTTLE FOR RED EYE BRO DRAGGED THEM TO THE PODIUM KICKING AND SCREAMING FR!

THATS MY TEAM!

[itsadragonaesthetic]

Great! Thank you for sharing!

Here is your playlist for acceptance. May your sore heart and bruised will find the strength to endure 💝🌸⚜🌸💝

Grab a weighted blanket and the darkness of the void for this playlist of misery 🐝🌙🐝🌙🐝

Don't have a gothic castle and you're pissed about it? This playlist will help you live your fantasies 🦇🕷🦇🕷🦇

Ah yes, screaming, the most cathartic way to heal. Or, whatever it is you want to scream about 🩸🔥🩸🔥🩸

Like dragons? Me too! That's why I made a whole playlist about it! 🐉❤🐉❤🐉

We've all been there man. At least this will be a good soundtrack to your digital imprisonment 💻💾💻💾💻

Don't you just want to go apeshit? Don't you just want to go feral? Maybe go out and buy presents for your evil henchmen? This playlist can help 🦂🌋🦂🌋🦂

Are you a victim of urban sprawling? Do you hate the way society is structured and wish to be buried in the bliss of naturalism? This playlist is for you 🪱🌿🪱🌿🪱

I'm glad you're living your dreams man. I can't wait to dig you up in 5-100 million years time and vastly misinterpret your morphology 💀🦕💀🦕💀

[elecmon]

will you be participating in artfight this year?

Ughhhhh, I really wish but art fight doesn't seem like a thing I'll ever be able to fully participate in ://

(over explanation below but long story short health + work prevent me from being able to💔)

I tried it one year, and got attacked by a few good friends, and unfortunately wasn't able to attack back, that same month I tried it was the summer I both got my identity stolen + had a company try to shakd me down for 4k+ because of an incident involving said identify theft. And the year I first got the skin c*ncer cells detected in my arms :^) it's since then taken a terrible mental/physical toll on me art wise.

Art doesn't happen as often as I'd like for it to happen these days, my arms get too tired too quickly 💀💀

I'd love to! I'd really would!!!!!!! But even all of that aside, I have a lot more responsibilities and hours at work that totally kill my free time too.

Consider me team stardust in spirit 😭💔

[dea011]

twt is no fun w out tags. how am i supposed to say out in the open that im late in posting because i both missed a psychiatrist appointment and shes ghosting me???

[starkittnd93]

Saw the posts of the Hot Chocolate and now I'm sad. We need to make Hikari feel better and all I can think of is just him getting an Octopuff plush. I don't know in the modern or just in canon but plushes make things better. You can hug them and sometimes if you're feeling spicy you can make the most dramatic storyline ever with a plush penguin and a octopuff plush.

Bruh this hot chocolate thing is becoming a whole thing lmfao maybe I should make it a tag lmfao

but damn this idea is so ;-; <3 hikari deserves good things fr

Akxbjksbdkjhdkjdhjkc there was also a bit I wanted to draw where Temenos and Hikari made the penguin plushie and the octopuff plushie get married (Temenos being the officiant lmao) and right after the plushies kissed, Shadow Hikari took over and made the octopuff plushie kill the penguin plushie (aka smack it out of Temenos’s hand-) and say “HehehehHHAHAHA the throne is MINE!!!!”

Temenos goes “Oh dear…”, and there’s an awkward silence as Hikari snaps out of it.

Hikari’s like “I’m sorry, that was-” before Temenos cuts him off and says

“Nonono, this makes for an interesting plot!”

Buuut I got too tired :,D

[sorryimananti-romantic]

I re read stay the other day and this appeared on my reels and just had to share because archer yeosang lives rent free in my mind…

gahhddammnnn this yeosang with the visible birthmark flexing his archery skills is so sooo hot. i watched the limitless mv last night and i was so down bad for archer yeosang and then you pop in with this 😌 if i write another archer yeo fic i'm blaming you 🫵 for feeding my delulu