#they're sooo good

[morgan-the-lonely-brick]

Poppy seeds <33 taste so good in everything but GOD it's impossible to get them out of your teeth

[zentriii]

i would give anything to read my fave nart long fics all over again for the first time

[tracedinairlwa]

addendum to the previous post: yes, I love bronya/seele. obviously. my brand is so ironclad that it’s almost impossible to imagine me playing that game and NOT loving bronseele but yes for the record they’re amazing and I was so genuinely invested in their story and their connection and Seele's whole swearing on her life to protect her thing like just, yea 10/10 everything I like

[earl-grey-love]

Ugh, what a great morning 😭 Seeing both Levi and Barbs in the event, which was super cute and fun, while snuggling in bed with my cat and sipping iced coffee. Paradise.

[babysdrivers]

had a garbage morning but then i had a chicken, cheese, onion, and chili sauce baguette from greggs and now everything is ok again

[xiuhunsoo]

ever since getting into maneskin through esc i've been obsessed with one song at every single point but it's always a different one every other month 😅😅 if this continues i'm gonna be obsessed with their entire discography in that way at some point

[inkskinned]

at some point it's just like. do they even fucking like the thing they're asking AI to make? "oh we'll just use AI for all the scripts" "we'll just use AI for art" "no worries AI can write this book" "oh, AI could easily design this"

like... it's so clear they've never stood in the middle of an art museum and felt like crying, looking at a piece that somehow cuts into your marrow even though the artist and you are separated by space and time. they've never looked at a poem - once, twice, three times - just because the words feel like a fired gun, something too-close, clanging behind your eyes. they've never gotten to the end of the movie and had to arrive, blinking, back into their body, laughing a little because they were holding their breath without realizing.

"oh AI can mimic style" "AI can mimic emotion" "AI can mimic you and your job is almost gone, kid."

... how do i explain to you - you can make AI that does a perfect job of imitating me. you could disseminate it through the entire world and make so much money, using my works and my ideas and my everything.

and i'd still keep writing.

i don't know there's a word for it. in high school, we become aware that the way we feel about our artform is a cliche - it's like breathing. over and over, artists all feel the same thing. "i write because i need to" and "my music is how i speak" and "i make art because it's either that or i stop existing." it is such a common experience, the violence and immediacy we mean behind it is like breathing to me - comes out like a useless understatement. it's a cliche because we all feel it, not because the experience isn't actually persistent. so many of us have this ... fluttering urgency behind our ribs.

i'm not doing it for the money. for a star on the ground in some city i've never visited. i am doing it because when i was seven i started taking notebooks with me on walks. i am doing it because in second grade i wrote a poem and stood up in front of my whole class to read it out while i shook with nerves. i am doing it because i spent high school scribbling all my feelings down. i am doing it for the 16 year old me and the 18 year old me and the today-me, how we can never put the pen down. you can take me down to a subatomic layer, eviscerate me - and never find the source of it; it is of me. when i was 19 i named this blog inkskinned because i was dramatic and lonely and it felt like the only thing that was actually permanently-true about me was that this is what is inside of me, that the words come up over everything, coat everything, bloom their little twilight arias into every nook and corner and alley

"we're gonna replace you". that is okay. you think that i am writing to fill a space. that someone said JOB OPENING: Writer Needed, and i wrote to answer. you think one raindrop replaces another, and i think they're both just falling. you think art has a place, that is simply arrives on walls when it is needed, that is only ever on demand, perfect, easily requested. you see "audience spending" and "marketability" and "multi-line merch opportunity"

and i see a kid drowning. i am writing to make her a boat. i am writing because what used to be a river raft has long become a fully-rigged ship. i am writing because you can fucking rip this out of my cold dead clammy hands and i will still come back as a ghost and i will still be penning poems about it.

it isn't even love. the word we use the most i think is "passion". devotion, obsession, necessity. my favorite little fact about the magic of artists - "abracadabra" means i create as i speak. we make because it sluices out of us. because we look down and our hands are somehow already busy. because it was the first thing we knew and it is our backbone and heartbreak and everything. because we have given up well-paying jobs and a "real life" and the approval of our parents. we create because - the cliche again. it's like breathing. we create because we must.

you create because you're greedy.

[x-letsbreaksomerules-x]

yuri is so fucking real you guys

[strangegirlswag]

founding the green grape fan club

[arcanejude]

girlfailure mae & greaserat qimir you will be missed by me

THE ACOLYTE 1.02 "Revenge/Justice" & 1.04 "Day"

[bishicat]

Alright I’m hesitant here cause like, I feel that asking this is incredibly self indulgent

But, mayhaps, literally anything Anders related?

Or ah, haha, mayhaps, adoribull? Sleepy cuddles?

Or

Ahaha

Haha

Samson? Sad Samson being sad?

…

Ok so the request that is me not being self indulgent and just thinking it’s something you’d have fun with : your Lavellan and Solas sleepy cuddles

How about sleepy Anders cuddling with a reunited Ser Pounce-a-lot?

[rayandgay]

💞🌃

[wasyago]

i imagine it's quite chilly in the black sea (for the lack of sun and color), so they're wearing slightly warmer clothes now uwu

+ thoughts

[commsroom]

eiffel drawn for me by @kalidels!!

[kakateru]

before my heart gets broken even more in the next update another panel redraw!!