#pathways to work

[chriswhodrawsstuff]

Save the Chris! (and others)

I am currently being bullied by my own government… As are around a million other disabled people. In a completely pointless exercise that will only serve to tip many with severe disabilities into extreme poverty and as, under the tories, many will die. Labour are planning to change how disabilities are scored so that many conditions that massively limit peoples lives no longer count… Their…

[archiepelago]

alternate surface au inspired by a few ive seen around on tumblr :3

[serpentface]

Etadinii priest (cult of Inyamache) standing near the serpent stone, a megalithic structure predating any historical record. Contrary to first impressions and occasional jesting, this is almost definitely not a giant penis (though Some level of symbolic phallic intent is possible), and was probably shaped to cast a long shadow resembling the head and neck of a snake.

Its location is within the present-day province of Wardin adjacent to the city Jaesai, close to the border of Ephennos. A temple to Inyamache was built around it three centuries ago and greatly expanded within the past century, though the stone and the majority of the associated site remains intact.

It is most likely at least couple thousand years old, long predating the written record and having only hazy and conflicting accounts in different oral histories. Most of its original features have been worn away by erosion, but petrogylphs of a snake and rows of scimitar deer (locally extinct or possibly never extant in this area), gazelle, and aurochs remain visible (and may have been re-carved at various points in history), and there are traces of concentric rings at the 'head'. 21st century level analysis would also find traces of ochre within the lines of the petroglyphs, which were painted and repainted red for at least a couple centuries after its creation.

This is the largest single prehistoric megalithic structure located within present day Imperial Wardin (unless burial cairns constructed over slab tombs are counted) and its existence is very technically impressive, especially given the nearest possible quarry is about 50 miles away. The builders of the site were almost certainly a fairly small society of nomadic pastoralists, so the diversion of time and manpower to the quarrying and movement of this stone (and others on the site) would have been absolutely exceptional. Most similar structures from the era are significantly smaller (about human height) and found closer to quarry sources.

The stone is part of a larger site that was mostly or entirely constructed in the same period. It stands adjacent to a shallow, rounded manmade pit buffered from erosion with brick walls, encircled by smaller horizontal slabs. A single circular slab is placed in the center, which is currently referred to as the sun stone. A nearby arroyo also shows signs of modification from the same period (beyond typical redirections for irrigation), diverting any potential floodwaters away from the site to prevent inundation of the pit.

The primary purpose of this stone and the site itself is recording the winter solstice. During the solstice sunset, the snake's cast shadow approaches and perfectly engulfs the circular slab at the center, appearing to devour it. The notion that the sun is eaten by a snake (either on the winter solstice, during total eclipses, or both) appears to have been a common thread in religious belief in the region. This notion is no longer held in the Wardi sphere (the night of the solstice is the sun's yearly death and total eclipses are a concerning premature and unnatural death) but still has linguistic traces, particularly in the word for total solar eclipses being a compound form of the phrase 'swallowed sun'.

Ownership of the site has changed hands numerous times over its history, but it has been in near-continuous use by all its owners as a place to observe the winter solstice and perform related rites. Virtually all proto-Wardi monotheist animist worldviews cast the sun (or sun + sky) as God and/or the source from which all beings emanate, and most considered the winter solstice to be an exceptionally significant (and potentially dangerous) moment in the year, as the time of the sun's dying and subsequent rebirth.

Within the faith of the 7-faced god, veneration of God has shifted to focus more upon the earth (with the sun as an Extension of the earth, all parts of God's body) but the winter solstice still retains extreme religious significance- it's used in part to determine the date of the new year (which occurs on the first new Nyaram moon on or after the solstice), and is still recognized as the moment of the sun's death.

The state cult of Inyamache currently maintains this site as part of the temple grounds and uses it to measure the winter solstice in the same capacity it has for millennia, using the total engulfment of the sun stone as the signal to begin their most important rites of the year. It is understood that it's at least Possible that the sun could fail to rise the next morning if proper action is not taken to ensure its rebirth.

The serpent stone stands in contrast to the brightly plastered and painted temple (and the other prehistoric slabs on-site that have received this treatment) in remaining unaltered in the modern era. The state cult holds that the serpent stone and its associated site was created by the first men, and considers the location and the serpent stone itself to be sacred and regulated by taboo. The only people permitted to enter the site and touch the stone are Etadinii priests (who cleanse it with water once per solar month). Solar eclipses (and subsequent misfortunes attributed to them) are occasionally blamed on trespassers.

[spotsupstuff]

char. design stuff and map update

The greek alphabet name system is for more technical classification, while names like ,,Children of Eos" [group Epsilon] and ,,Wish for Tomorrow" [group Tau] are used more by public and for grandioser introductions in political meetings.

[sammygender]

thinking about dean growing up and putting everything before himself. hunting and his brother and his dad and his dad’s revenge quest for their mom. he doesn’t matter. he is entirely irrelevant. thinking about dean internalising this as just what you do, just how people behave and how they should behave. him viewing selfish as the worst thing you can possibly be.

then thinking about sam growing up and fighting. brave enough to challenge their father and rebel against him and voice something different, brave enough to focus on what he wants. dean seeing this and it stings - he could never do that. how is sam acting like that? he can’t believe that’s the right way to behave. so sam must be selfish, just in believing he has any right to his own life.

dean sublimates himself for the family and expects sam to do the fame, and his resentment and jealousy that sam doesn’t turns into anger and making sam out to be the mean one, the one in the wrong. and this never goes away. this is always what dean levels at sam - that he’s selfish, that in wanting to make his own choices he’s rejecting their family, rejecting dean……. awful. toxic. evil evil message to send to sam. entirely in character. dean wants to prioritise sam, would save him over the world. but he doesn’t care what sam wants.

selflessness isn’t always a charming character trait. it’s not the same thing as a generosity of spirit and it’s definitely not the same thing as being caring. sometimes selflessness just means you’re incapable of prioritising your life and incapable of understanding how anyone else could or should prioritise theirs. sometimes it means you still act selfishly, you just convince yourself you were objectively in the right, because doing something actually for yourself is unthinkable. sometimes it means you think the very act of having wants and boundaries is selfish, no matter whether they’re yours or anyone else’s.

anyway… thoughts on dean’s specific brand of awfulness regarding sam. what does it matter to him what sam actually wants? since when did it ever matter in the winchester household what anyone wanted? dean had to deal with things he didn’t want for the mission (for john). sam has to deal with things he doesn’t want for the mission (for dean). augh. the cycles

[aroace-polyshow]

anyway this isn’t what i was thinking about but a whileeee ago i was thinking about how wxs would be in my chef class would anyone care to hear

[luna-the-cretar]

So I got a couple comments on chapter 2 of my most recent Frostbek series addition, and idk if they’re actually annoyed or not, but like. One guy was saying how they’d think The Other would actually react *this way* instead of the way I wrote him in the chapter, and another person under their comment agreed and like.

Dude, I’m sorry that my interpretation of The Others relationship with Frost in my fic in my series is different than your interpretation. But I’m not writing him this way to be like “oh he didn’t intend to hurt Frost and will be upset that he did :(“.

Like, the reason why The Other initially apologized to Frost when he realized he had accidentally hurt him was because Torbek was partially in control still (and fully gained control shortly after). The reason why The Other is hurting Frost now—intentionally or otherwise—is because he no longer has Torbek reining him in like before. He sees Frost as his, an object more than a person, a thing that he can do with whatever he pleases. It’ll probably never be mentioned in the remaining 2-3 fics, since idk how I’d even bring it up naturally, but Frost does in fact have a couple of deeper cuts underneath his robes that will never quite heal right, and more or less become scars (saying this as someone who had relatively minor injuries that became scars bc they didn’t quite heal right for some reason).

The Other enjoys the fact that he can mark Frost however he wants, thinking that Frost wouldn’t ever tell Gricko out of fear.

Of course, if you still don’t like this interpretation, then you can just. Idk. Not read it? The back arrow is right there. It’s free. Nobody is forcing you to read a fic if you feel a character is ooc.

[nighttimeclassics]

Hob Gadling must have the most wrinkly brain

[flowery-laser-blasts]

Peace, Love, Flower power and all that jazz, am I rite?

[idontknowreallywhy]

ADHD lunch

It has been a bad morning Executive Function wise. I am stressed about this which does not improve matters, strangely enough.

Food Prep / Additional-Food-Related-Decision-Making wasn’t categorically NOT going to happen especially as I was already in hangry place

So, for my own interest, this is what I had for lunch (consumed in roughly this order while either pacing the kitchen between various cupboards and the fridge or couched in corner against the flat spot of cupboard door between the cutlery drawers and the big door handle because chair is on other side of room):

The last mince pie left over from Christmas

Packet of wotsits

A tomato

A handful of from bag of rocket

Small piece of an old homemade scone (realised was mouldy and discontinued)

The rest of the rocket (there was hardly any left in the bag so… tidying)

A carrot baton that had got into the bag of rocket somehow

Handful of cherries

Another tomato

Bag of walkers cheese and onion

Banana

Cereal bar

Coffee

Now… ignoring the fact there are two bags of salty snacks involved here (accidental, I legit forgot I had the first until I returned to the part of the kitchen where I had left the empty bag)… that’s kind of balanced, right?

[popponn]

there is something about how when anime official art gets yoichi right fashion wise it's always a comfy bf look like look at him

very fluffy. very huggable. i want to poke and pinch his cheeks. also he often has those lil blushies when he eats and for some reason it's cute. the gap moe between on field and off field is still something else to see each time i remember it. i love it ofc 💚 but it's still something else

[asgardianhammer]

of pathways & connections

[ ϟ ]—– New York, the City, had a charm of its very own, the sort of bustling and lively atmosphere that either enticed you, or caused great annoyance.

New York the State however, was a different breed of beautiful scenery, incomparable to the city he had grown to appreciate, and far more calmer.

Within Letchworth State Park the markings on the ground had seemingly etched itself in the stone, the runes so oft touching down upon the soil they were impossible to remove no longer, and the god could not help but smile at the large pattern, boot scraping over the nearest line almost tenderly.

Midgard held a grand portion of his heart, this could not be denied, but home, home was always calling, beckoning the majority of that thudding organ in his being with each jolt of his pulse.

The man that approached was almost impossible to hear, only the faintest of rustles audible, and it made the Asgardian wonder if it was skill or sheer lack of weight on the archer's bones.

' Barton.'

A faint incline of golden head is offered as additional greeting, thunderer's smile a semi-crooked curl.

' So I see you have not changed your mind about this endeavor?'

( @eyesofthehawk )

[ssstarlighttt]

most people in the jd fandom want to strangle the traveler for bringing leda into the game and messing up the universe i want to kill him because why is his hotel so complicated for no reason. what the fuck is the anatomy of this thing

[gomzdrawfr]

What’s another night if not spiraling and existential crisis, but with friends! ✨

[dickgreyson]

!!!! i got invited to join a research team for an assistive reproductive technology study at my university !!!!!!!

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