#magic word

[aesthetic--mood]

Edmund Pevensie Aesthetic

[premierweird]

[nobleboom]

I am awaiting the time when illustrations of this couple hit harder when they finally get together. Because enemies to lovers is usually not my cup of tea, but damn this one got hands. I just know the art that the artist keeps dropping is going to strike me down with an arrow to the heart.

[spookybokchoy]

“Dude let’s go to Comic Con this weekend! I got tickets”

Take photos, make friends, meet a celebrity, wander around artist alley or geek out however you like! Just make sure your wallet survives ;)

[runawaymarbles]

The midjourney stuff just reminds of when we were trying to find a new platform to host the ao3 donation form, and companies kept trying to tell me about all their "ai" features that would track donor engagement, and figure out the optimal pattern to email individual donors asking for follow up donations, and all the ways they suggest we manipulate people into staying on our websites. It was a great way to filter out who either wasn't listening to us when we described our ethics and donor base, or just didn't believe us.

Now granted ao3 is a unique case based on a) the amount of page views we get in any given time period and b) the fact that most donors absolutely do Not want to be identified as such anywhere, (the default "list of recent donors" module got nuked Immediately) but it surprised me some that the concept of "donors who value their privacy and would be furious at even the whiff of AI" is unique. Some of us really are just existing in different worlds.

[ithinkiforgottotakexanax]

I don’t get asks it’s so sad

[kp-250919]

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MAGIC WORD

[stewedlycan]

Quick and easy way to warm your gf (if you’ve previously been transmuted into a chimera) !

(little Farcille art trade for @exytapes ♡)

[iciatheguardess]

Dusk hangs her head a bit, seeming defeated.

“I hope so.”

She absentmindedly hugs Jessy.

*Icia feels a small bit of success as she looks at the two.*

.. maybe things won't go back to the way they were. But they'll eventually go to a way we can all live. We'll have our good days and we'll have our bad. But we'll be content.

We just.... *she looks at the sky and starts talking to herself.*

We can't give up. Otherwise all of this... all of this is for nothing. You can't give up, or else all of this damage isn't good damage, it's just damage..... [/ref]

*She snaps her attention back to Dusk.* We'll be okay. Not now, maybe.... but eventually. Eventually everyone will be okay, in one way or another. Things will.... go on. No matter what, everything goes on.

.... what was that thing Jessy talked about... inertia...?

[flowerytale]

Joan Didion, from The Year of Magical Thinking

[shisasan]

June, 1936 Journals of Anais Nin 1934-1939 [volume 2]

[tenth-sentence]

"If I discover the Word and whisper it to Excelsia, and then she speaks it aloud to the Alicorn—?"

"Incarnations of Immortality: Bearing an Hourglass" - Piers Anthony

[elodieunderglass]

And one amang, an Iyrysch man,

Uppone his hoby swyftly ran…

WAIT HANG ON - slamming the brakes on drawing this stupid picture - do you nerds even KNOW the etymology of the word “hobby”? The thing you do for pleasure? The thing you have too many of? The thing you spend too much money on and share with your friends? The thing tumblr probably is to you? Those hobbies?

It comes from a now-kind-of-extinct breed of Irish pony-horse. It was called the Irish Hobby. Supposedly the hobby got its name from the Gaelic word obann, or swift. They definitely were. They’d obann your pants clean off.

Fast tough little bastards, built for rough terrain and renowned for their speed and stamina, hobby horses belonged to the Celts, and their highly annoying style of mounted warfare. but their conquerors liked hobby horses a lot, kept them, used them for themselves, and found them useful enough, despite the fact that they also had famously useful things like mounted knights or horse archers. A lightweight Irish warrior, mounted on a hobby horse, was called a hobelar.

Reportedly and in depictions, hobelars rode without stirrups. Or saddles. Or bridles. Or - well - this is all sounding very improbable, because the hobelars COULDNT have just been charging around basically bare-assed on naked ponies, screaming, and somehow in the process undoing the composure of actual mounted armoured knights. Knights who, I remind you, had stirrups. Stirrups are useful! It’s quite likely the hobelars had some gear. And clothes. and weapons. And the ponies probably had some tack - I am picturing a bellyband that you could at least hang a saddlebag on, and a neck rope for catching the bloody thing, even if not a saddle. But the overall impression, somehow created by people on darling little ponies, was apparently quite striking and fearful.

I mean. God Forbid People Have Hobbies.

Anyway after a while, whatever people became the British had eventually conquered all of the rough terrain that hobbies were best at, and horse archers just got sexier, and mounted knights became aristos, and all the bog and forest people had been subdued, so it was time to sunset the hobelars. but WAIT! Hobby horses are still tremendously fun and appealing! They’re so fast! and you can ride them without a saddle! Sure, they’re not up to the weight of a mounted knight, or indeed a lot of guys… but surely we can still find a use for a hobby or two? In the back garden? Somewhere?

At which point an English king decided to keep hobby horses just for fun. No military application. No further development of the technology. Not for fun. Just as expensive, pleasurable, pets. Just for the joy of the thing.

And that is how hobby (activity done purely for pleasure) comes from hobby horse (small horse) possibly from obann (swift.) they’re very interesting and you should look all this up for yourself! because it sure sounds like Elodie doing a bit, doesn’t it?

Today, Irish Hobbies are functionally nonexistent. References for drawing include the Kerry Bog Pony, the Connemara, and (I personally think) Dartmoors and Exmoors. They’re said to have lent their speed to the Irish Hunter/Sport Horse and from there to the Thoroughbred, but every damn horse in the world claims relation to the Thoroughbred, and they can’t be THAT thoroughly bred.

At any rate - you can never have enough hobbies. Just be glad that yours aren’t expensive beasts with minds of their own, eating their heads off in the pasture! …Unless they are. In which case, you’re part of a proud tradition.

[keepfightingkeepchanging]

[k-star-holic]

Park Na-rae ends up in the emergency room while filming...Smiling boss.

Source: k-star-holic.blogspot.com

[cosmicredcadet]

"Why is all aspec representation in media AROACE rep?" and is the aroace rep in the room with us right now?