#putting this in the queue so I forget about it

[bonefall]

it is healing to come onto this blog and see basic respect for diasbility after being in other corners of the fandom and reading the words “snowkit could never be a warrior because he wouldnt know what anything is. he wouldnt even know what a clan is because nobody could explain it to him” said in full seriousness

Im..... That statement is so ableist I cannot even imagine the worldview you'd need to have in order to come up with that.

They really think the only way anyone learns anything is through verbal-speaking-words-noises? No one has ever observed something before? Not even once?

This is beyond touching grass, this person just fell out of the fucking Jurassic Period when all they had was ferns and stegosaurs.

I just...

OH YES. I remember my first day of Society Lessons as a hearing person, where the everything was explained to me. Via Audiobook. FIRST they spoke and said, "you are standing on the ground." It was a life changing revelation, and the world began to spin.

But it did not stop.

THEN they said, "there are fingers on your hands." The sensation of flesh and bone crackling into existence is indescribable, but I did not yet know pain, until they told me, "that hurts." I began screaming immediately.

And yet... it continued.

They explained so much. Chairs. Tables. Walls. The sky. Frogs. Ionizing radiation. Breathing. I was told all of it, in one sitting, and only then did I understand. Only when my ears were bursting with normal hearing knowledges, did they begin... my final test.

A strange wall-chair-finger emerged from the sky-of-the-wall, stood on the ground several times, until it was in front of me. A second one came behind it, this one slimmer. The audiobook gave these things names;

Human. Father. Mother. Door. Walking. It was completely impossible to know what these things were until that very moment.

I watch a human dip a hook into water and produce a fish, and I recall my Society Lessons where they called that "fishing." I am decked in the face by a nefarious hooligan, and I have only the audiobook to thank when I know I have been "punched" by a "bad guy." It was only the magic of verbal-speaking-words-noise that made me understand that there are "other people" and that they "do stuff."

Sometimes, even, in "groups."

Before the Society Lessons Audiobook, I knew nothing. I was pure, innocent, uncorrupted by concepts such as "parents" and "door." I am grateful every day that there is no such concept as "being shown things" or "simple logical reasoning" or "looking."

Blessed be those amongst us who escape the horrors of the Society Lessons Audiobook. I pray that you never learn what anything is. Be free! Free as a bird, which also knows nothing and famously cannot learn. 🤗

DEAF/HOH FOLLOWERS I'm losing my mind do you want me to bump a 'Hearing Disabilities Herb Guide' to the top of my priorities? Something you can use to bludgeon whackadoodles like that. This is ridiculous

Obviously not a MEDICINE guide but like; common causes of hearing disability in clan cats. Accommodations for hearing loss vs congenital deafness. Actual difficulties of not having that sense Clan-by-Clan. Debunking of misconceptions like... not being able to learn APPARENTLY.

[creativesplat]

I would also like to see some miphlink, if that's okay!

I was really struggling with what to draw, and then I remembered your ask from ages ago (dang ADHD brain...) anyway, sorry its such a late answer, but Miphlink inspired by Dicksee's La Belle Dame

[serendipitous-mage]

gota go fast, cloud

here ya go @thiccodemus lmao

[falderaletcetera]

because I'm partway through a reread and queueing up a bunch of reblogs about it, and it seems only fair to recommend it first:

Jack Farris doesn’t want to save the world, just every person he knows, encounters, or hears of. It’s a bit of an issue. S. Grey doesn’t want to save anyone but himself. He wants to know everything and majoring in sagework at the Academy is the best way to do that. Laney Jones left her home to avoid the constraints there, only to find different barriers holding her back at the Academy. Eager to learn, to excel, to escape, she has far from given up. Rupert Willington Jons Hammerfeld the Seventh would just like everything to be orderly, thank you very much, but it seems the only way to make monsters and myths (and malicious but mundane men) stop rampaging through his world is to go out and do some hero-ing himself. They are put together as an unwilling study group, but they become something more.

this is Beanstalk. It's first in a trilogy, all self-published, all free on the author's website, and the series is one of my favourites. It has:

– found family, with platonic relationships front and centre

– an adventurer's academy with a complicated legacy, where "hero" means a coloured armband and a diploma

– worldbuilding (appreciative), featuring an interesting magic system and monsters of all kinds, many of them people

– a red-headed boy named Jack, seventh son of a seventh son, who left the forest and grew like a beanstalk. You may recognise parts of his story. You may recognise others down the line.

– there's a whole cast I don't want to spoil except to say I'm currently rereading the first book and really looking forward to reaching the rest.

– there's definitely casual queer rep though. what do you take me for.

– honestly the writer (hi @ink-splotch!) writes all these characters with a complexity and love that I really admire. Some of the chapters that affected me most aren't even about the main cast.

— you may know the writer from her fics, the interactive games Stay? and More a Haunting than a History, or the podcast Second Star to the Left which she co-created with Aysha Farah. I can highly recommend most of the above and will get around to MaHtaH eventually.

If anyone's interested, I'd advise you don't go looking for spoilers. There most definitely is angst, but less so in the first book - hit me up if you want content warnings!

[cherubytes]

should i get a heart shaped locket necklace and just. put pictures of v1 and gabriel in there

[tracle0]

Next - here Previous - here

[magpie-trinkets]

Hey everyone, a heads up (about me): I've been having trouble with sleep these past days for reasons that are outside my control, and I don't foresee the situation changing soon. The lack of sleep is worsening my mood: I have less energy and I'm a tad more irritable (and I don't like that). All of this is to say I won't be that online for a while here. Y'all are awesome. Take care.

^ random ass gif to finish the post with

[tssm-screencaps]

I may have forgotten to post......again

[stardust-3saders]

Snow

Note: Just a silly little something I wrote, I said I would try to start posting little drabbles as to keep this place alive and encourage myself to share my works. Hope is good enough (⁠´⁠-⁠﹏⁠-⁠`⁠；⁠)

Extra note: Not beta read, so excuse any mistakes! Also, no warnings (?) Just pure fluff since is what I mostly write akkdksk

"Aren't you cold?"

"I'm not, I'm kind of used to it by now, Japan gets quite cold in winter"

•••

Back in Egypt when he had said that to her, Lia had thought he was joking, because there was no way it was colder than the nights in the desert.

Hell! It was so cold that even the chill temperature in San Francisco was nothing compared to how she felt.

But now, when the multiple blankets and the heater in the room weren't enough to keep the cold at bay, she started to finally believe him.

Snuggling closer to Noriaki, she sighed in content as she felt him hold her closer, feeling the warmth of his body.

Yet, the sunlight peeking through the bins was enough to rip away any form of comfort she had, stopping her from being able to go back to sleep.

Groaning in annoyment, she moved away from Noriaki, lazily sitting up and dragging herself outside their bedroom, towards the kitchen.

However, as she heated up some water for her and Noriaki, the cold made itself present again, reminding her of how her pajamas were nowhere enough to cover herself even inside their home.

Cursing at herself from not grabbing any extra clothes, she walked back to the bedroom, just to stop midway as her gaze landed on the crystal doors of the balcony, the sight outside making her approach the doors without a second thought.

•••

Feeling a sudden coldness beside him, the redhead opened his eyes, finding Lia's spot in the bed empty. He sat up, looking around for her, just to hear the kettle whistling.

He walked out the room, the noise becoming louder as he walked into the living room, prompting him to use hierophant green to turn off the stove as soon as possible.

He called out for Lia as his stand didn't sense her in the kitchen, receiving no answer, making his worries start to raise.

A cold gust of wind caught his attention, making him walk further into the living room, towards the balcony.

Much to his surprise, one of the doors was open, letting inside the cold morning wind. However, what alarmed him the most was Lia, standing in the balcony in nothing but her pajamas, her breath creating a faint fog due to the temperature outside.

He quickly rushed to her, pulling her inside and closing the doors, feeling her start to shiver.

Noriaki held her close as his stand fetched a blanket from their room, quickly putting it over her shoulders.

Sitting her down on the couch, he hurriedly prepared her some tea, thankfully that she had warmed up water before.

Feeling somehow more relaxed, he sat beside her, watching the way her cheeks and nose had turned red from the cold.

"What were you doing out there?"

She looked up to him as her hands held her cup, her gaze filled with a child-like wonder as she smiled at him.

"There's snow outside"

He then remembered… Lia had never seen snow before.

So that's why she had gone outside without thinking about the cold.

He couldn't help but huff in amusement, shaking his head.

"I understand your enthusiasm but-" He held her face, feeling the cold skin "don't you think it would've been better to wait for when we went out instead of risking getting sick?"

Her eyes went wide and he felt her cheeks warming up in embarrassment.

"I'm sorry! I didn't realize I was doing it, it just h-happened"

He sighed, squeezing her face softly, making Lia’s cheeks form a pout.

“Just be more mindful next time, please?”

“...I can’t promise anything”

[arklay]

WIP TITLE MEME.

tagged by @prometheas @denerims @faarkas & @aartyom to do this – thank you all so so much ily guys! ♡

tagging: @aelyosos @brujah @cultistbase @florbelles @girlbosselrond @indorilnerevarine @jendoe @lightwardens @liurnia @malefiicarum @morvaris @nocticulas @nuclearstorms @risingsh0t @shellibisshe @solasan @swordcoasts @steelport @voerman & anyone else who is writing right now, i'm sorry i don't really know at the moment! also as always, no pressure to do this! ♡

rules: post the names of all the files in your wip folder regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it

so, i'm going to expose myself right now and show you guys my wips checklist doc. these are all the ewskers, obviously. i'm not really 100% on my writing rn, so i won't share snippets, but i will do summaries and tell you about all of these (and maybe bits from my little plan outlines). y'all get a variety and a half lmao

i may share snippets of last one, but no promises because it's spicy and i might get a bit uncomfy sharing. and with the first one, i showed what i had a bit ago before deleting the posts, and there's only been a bit of progress since, but the whole two fics aren't off limits for little moments or insight

[deus-ex-mona]

here’s to hoping for a ✨better✨ next week… _(:3 」∠)_

[thanksfortheflaglove]

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[quick-drawn-a]

i'm sorry for everyone else in my dm's — walden's just got me like:

[arthur-r]

death is living here beside me!! today i saw the devil, he was praying!!!! my lamb, he said, repent, do not fear, i’m here!! salvation is no life for dogs like you and me, we’re the gods of being godless, you know sometimes i wish i believed in jesus but forget it!! where is he? forget it, forget it, forget it, forget it, forget it!

[the-corvus-bandit]

Ah yes, the classic game of 'Am I attracted to them, or are they just wearing my favorite color and totally rocking it'