#there's no reason not to bring joy to myself

[velnna]

i want to say, i ADORE the limb differences (other words for 'missing limbs' that i prefer to use) in the under garden, from the art of them that youve posted on here!! absints lower arm for example :)

i havent read yet, i havent been able to scrounge up the money to buy (hopefully soon!!) but im super excited to buy and read for many reasons, this among them!!

but just, seeing characters with limb differences who are still cool and important and often seem powerful.. it just gives me hope and makes me feel seen!! fantasy is my ansolute favorite genre, but im disabled and i havent found much fantasy stuff that includes disabled characters at All, i can count on one hand the amount of disabled characters ive seen in fantasy stuff :,)

i dont have a limb difference myself (degenerative disc disease and worsening hearing for me) but seeing ANY disabled character is just so lovely, it brings me joy :,) so thank you for including characters with disabilities!!!! it doesnt go unnoticed, and its heavily appreciated and wonderful to see!!

it also makes me curious, do you have any characters in the under garden who are disabled in other ways?? vision, hearing, mobility related conditions, etc? having just one type of disability repped is also amazing regardless of if you have others of course, im just curious :)

and if you ever need a disability-related sensitivity reader/info person based on lived experience for anything, if you ever make a post about it id definitely hit you up XD

have a lovely week, and i hope this ramble isnt too huge haha!

Thank you so much! I hope you enjoy it when you do manage to read it 🖤🖤🖤

The Under Garden has a couple of separate "storylines" with their own casts and we haven't set everything in stone for most of them, so take this with a grain of salt. Amongst primary and secondary cast, we have a couple of people with disabilities/chronic pain from injuries, medical complications, etc, some more explicitly shown than others. Technically Ashton, for instance, has a degenerative condition (loosely linked to the idea of butterflies having a very short lifespan after cocooning) and it's a big part of his role in the story overall

There's other instances of characters that could potentially have parallels to real world illnesses or disabilities but they're so intertwined with magical/fantasy mechanics that it's up to each reader to see how they feel about it.

Oh and we're toying with the idea of one of our main characters having a severe hearing impediment but it's a WIP because it might actually affect the plot

[dragonnarrative-writes]

Hi I just wanted to say reading your work has been one of the biggest motivators I’ve had to be brave enough to tell my own stories! I yap about how much you inspire me often to anyone who will listen lol.

I was a long time lurker on this blog and in the cod fandom until I read Transferrable Skills. I’m not just saying this to be dramatic but I literally gasped and teared up when I realized the reader character was black and fat.

For some reason even after 14 years in fandom spaces it never occurred to me that you can just write a character that looks like you without it being world ending. The way you write is so clean and uniquely yours, it really brings me so much joy to read your work and I hope to hone my writing voice in such a way!!

I'm so sorry this took so long to reply to. I've been sobbing over it.

I've been in fandom for just about forever, and I was with you. I couldn't imagine reader characters or even OCs that looked like me. There are too many writers for me to name who have helped me to see diverse experiences and, eventually, myself in these stories, and I'm so honored to be able to pay that forward.

(Seriously, there are so many writers, and I'm so nervous about tagging and missing people, and I'm so emotional right now. I know I'm blanking out on a million names, but Early (@/391780), @sentientcave, @mikichko, @kechiwrites, @kyletogaz, @mortuarywriting, @gemmahale, and @charliemwrites have all been so encouraging. I know there are more, and if I haven't named you, please forgive me!)

Every time people tell me they love Transferrable Skills, I feel a million feet tall. I didn't think anyone was going to care about my silly little story. But it's inspired you! My writing! You gasped!

(I'm gonna go cry again now)

[glassedplanets]

a few months ago giffy was like "haha hear me out, what if tattoo au" and then we blacked out and talked about nothing else for like three weeks

[anantaru]

do you think kaveh would like women? asking bc i keep seeing ppl say kaveh would only be interested in men and i’m a woman who rlly likes him and i’m feeling particularly sensitive today 😭 u dont have to answer (ofc!) i just felt like asking you bc i like you and your thoughts

I FORGOT TO ANSWER THIS ASK BUT KAVEH LIKES YOU FOR YOU, HE LIKES AND LOVES YOU AND CHERISHES YOU 💓 i think i already said something similar but no sexuality is confirmed (PSPSPSPSO THEY ARE NOT and it's okay to have headcanons and opinions just don't push them down someone's throat)

and people desperately trying to ruin a ship for others because they do not agree on it is just insanity to me. again, kaveh and others are pixels, they aren't real and you can headcanon them however you like and kaveh (or any other character) likes you because of you, you can write them how you want and imagine them how you want 🙇🏻‍♀️ if anybody actually gets mad at this they automatically confirm to me that they do not have other things to worry about besides fighting over a pixel in a video game that should bring joy and comfort and a way to escape from real life struggles at least for a little while 💓

[antisocialxconstruct]

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[nazorneku]

after a lot of consideration, i decided to perform a minor cleaning on my blog to help me return to writing (as i was mostly coping and nolifing in ffxiv and wuwa/pgr due to immense amount of work i have to deal with, thus i totally didnt have any mental power for writing, as my work already takes all creativity and braincells from me) that being said, i purged a significant amount of available characters on my carrd and moved interest checker to a new email (for safety reasons, the old one was deleted)... i apologize to those few individuals who filled the form, as i completely forgot it existed until a few days ago.. i made a note of everyone, who took time to fill it, and will make my best effort to provide communication required in the near future, esp considering some sent me asks and memes so i will return to my roots and will stick primary with ff, danger cube and wuwa, develop verses and dynamics within these verse and with characters within these verses— just to throw a lot of unnecessary and unpleasant pressure off my shoulders im keeping all drafts and starters i owe, but will see if i will purge my askbox of all memes and keep only personalized asks, but everything that was already drafted and half-written, will be finished... specifically:

@epokhas - JiYan, Camu and cube asks @reasoncore - cube asks @lumingloss - JiYan asks @elpisbloomed - JiYan and Ais asks @endweapon - Vincent ask @sacredflorist - Vincent ask @myriadventurers - Estinien asks @ultimateutopia - Kefka ask

thank you for your attention and have a good day/evening

[krbk-notebook]

hey @real-life-cloud @thatsgaybro @lyricalvicki @tempestaurora @sweetietenya @greyladyblue @moumjn

we‘re either mutuals on my main (@pecuirlig), on here, or you follow this blog — and it looks like we all like krbk ! :‘)

first of all, feel free to decline <3

would anyone be interested in making a little krbk discord group or something? :‘)

as a casual fun hangout spot for people of similar ages (i think we‘re all 20+, most early 20s?), for talking about krbk (& maybe other ships/characters/shows etc too), sharing or talking about fics, or art, or whatever we want :‘)

i know i‘ve wanted to have a space like that for years tbh lol, since i haven‘t had the luck to meet anyone irl who‘s also into fandom or specifically krbk, back when tumblr group chats were a thing they weren’t very lively lol, and the krbk discord groups i‘ve checked out so far haven‘t had active members my own age.

i would be super happy if any of you might be interested too ! :‘) but i will continue to suffer alone lmao if you should not <3 (/lighthearted)

(btw— i‘m super open to other people joining this too, so please do feel invited if you are 20+ and you want something like this too ! i just only @'ed these people because there‘s been Some interaction between us already. not having @'ed you doesn‘t mean you‘re not welcome :‘) !)

[totallyseiso]

It must be nice to enjoy things

[silent-scribbs]

Hypothetically…?

+ Bonus Sepia reaction

[pink-lemonadefairy]

let me roam a department store in the couple hours before it closes while i wear headphones and listen to jazz music and i’ll be happy for the rest of my life

[lieutenantselnia]

Internet archive I love you❤️❤️❤️

[kanerallels]

Platonic sebezra, circus au?

Oh-ho-ho I did NOT expect this prompt to take root the way it did. Ahem. But here's a little ficlet that doesn't even begin to touch the depths of brain rot you've given me

“You’re the new tightrope walker, right?”

Sabine didn’t look up from lacing up her shoes as she replied, “Looks like it.”

This wasn’t where she’d expected to be— a circus in the middle of nowhere, barely breaking even. Clearly, it wasn’t as popular as it used to be. Everything made that clear, from the worn out waistcoat that the ringmaster had been wearing when he hired her and the threadbare costumes hanging on a rack near her, to the fact that the tent was still nearly empty, and it was fifteen minutes until show time.

But she’d gotten stuck, and she needed the money. And luckily, she was good at more than one thing. Tightrope walking would be easy.

Rising, she turned towards the arena— and froze, coming face to face with a lion.

Her instinct was to scream, her second to run or fight. But instead, Sabine deliberately tensed her muscles, feeling the panic race through her, silently counting to five. When she reached five, she let out a long exhale, then lifted an eyebrow at the orange clad boy standing behind the lion.

“Let me guess,” she said. “Lion tamer?”

He grinned. “How’d you guess?” With a quick whistle, he called the lion back, and it settled next to him, looking like nothing so much as an over large cat. “I’m Ezra, and this is Jasmine.”

“Sabine. This how you greet all your new coworkers?”

Shrugging, Ezra said, “Only the ones who can handle it. And it looked like you could. Besides, it’s a good test of who’s going to stick around.”

Sabine had no intention of sticking around. This job would, hopefully, get her enough money to make it to her next destination, and then she would move on.

But for now, she just nodded. “Looks like I passed.”

“Looks like it,” Ezra said with a grin. “Welcome to Circus Spectres.”

[monstermp3]

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[twilightarcade]

I loooove when people respond to you being mad by being mean to you. Like yeah thanks that's really improving my mood

[thedandelionthief]

this close to just giving up on human interaction

[halfdeadwallfly]

but how am i meant to focus on my work when there are so many things and feelings happening at the same time