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the fact that we made it through the Cold War is nothing short of a miracle. I wish we talked about Mutual Assured Destruction more in schools

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take my quiz and find out who you really were in a past life!

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LORD OF THE RINGS IS A GATEWAY TO DEMONIC POSSESSION 🤣🤣

Help me

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Keeper -- a short comic about an angel meeting a robotic lighthouse keeper that doesn't know the world has already ended. Made in about 18 hours for a 24-hour 24-page* black and white comic challenge (that I arrived late to, ha.)

*the actual submission does not include the cover, which was created after the fact for this post.

This was a really great learning experience as someone who's... never really made a completed comic. I ended up really attached to the story by the end of the project (possibly due to all-nighter deliriousness lol) and ultimately am very proud of what I made.There are some things I'd still like to change, particularly text placement, but in keeping with the spirit of the challenge I've elected to leave it as is.

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the evening star

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It's kinda funny when you get a bunch of likes but no reblogs like I enjoyed your post but I'd prefer if no one else saw it

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Disturber of the Peace

Practicing with some Gandalf portraits 🤙🏻

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I love Peter Jackson's LOTR movies as much as anyone, but sometimes I resent them for perpetuating this stereotype that the Elves are always aloof and overly-serious and serene and kind of cold, and eat nothing but dainty cakes and salad and Lembas bread... when Tolkien's Elves are actually just so fiercely ALIVE, and love to sing and laugh and dance, and love telling and hearing stories and making music and feasting on good food and drinking good wine and even throwing raging parties. Like, yes, they can be ethereal and otherworldly and all that, but I feel like PJ kind of misses their fierce joy.

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Good Intentions: WIP Fest

Purpose:

We’ve all been there – we had the best idea for a piece of fanfic or fanart that we couldn’t resist starting … and then, for one reason or another, it just fizzled.  Maybe you got tired, or couldn’t figure out how to end it, or life interfered and sapped all motivation … but either way, that piece of work is just languishing in a folder somewhere, and every now and then you look back on it with regret that you couldn’t share it with the world.

Well, now is your chance!

Good Intentions is a fest for those WIPs that you wish you could bring yourself to share – maybe you’re looking for motivation to finish; maybe they’ve lain dormant for a long time and you still have a thread of hope for picking them up someday; maybe you’ve given up entirely but every now and then feel a flicker of regret that they can’t be shared with the world. This fest is a place for you to share as much or as little of them as you’d like, to celebrate your ideas and take a chance on one another.

Rules:

There are few rules for this fest – it’s meant to be more encouragement than anything else! You can post your projects on Tumblr, to be reblogged here (please “mention” the blog, using the @ function, so that I am assured to see it and reblog it) or to this AO3 collection. If posting to AO3, please use the tag “Abandoned Work – Unfinished and Discontinued” so that readers know what they’re getting themselves into.

Comments and conversation are encouraged! Readers may be more willing to take a chance on a WIP if they know the author is still around to discuss it – maybe to explain how it would have been finished, or why it’s not. Maybe authors will inspire one another, or some ideas might even be shuffled or traded!

The one main rule is: no harassment! The point of this fest is that these stories are perpetually unfinished; there is to be no bullying or begging of authors to finish an abandoned story, no matter how much you might want to read it! We are here to support one another and to share ideas, not to shame or bully one another. Authors, if you have strong feelings about what kind of conversation you’re willing to have with readers, please indicate as much in the author’s notes! I’m sure there will be readers with questions about how the story would have ended or what gave you your ideas, but if you’d rather not have those conversations, you’re welcome to let readers know – or to turn on comment moderation in the posting settings.  I’m hoping this fest can celebrate WIPs as they are, but also allow for the kind of author-reader interaction that is one of the best parts of fandom – but only in a generous, respectful way.

Similarly, no other forms of targeted harassment will be accepted. I don’t anticipate there being too much moderating to do here, but I would ask that you use good judgment in the abandoned works you post. (For instance, if you abandoned something because you started feeling uneasy about it in regards to race, gender, ability status, etc., I would ask that you continue to use that judgment in whether you post it now.)

Ultimately, I don’t want to try to moderate anyone’s content; this is a free space, but I ask that everyone be respectful and use good judgment in how we interact with one another.

Date:

The collection will be open at all times, and I will reblog things on Tumblr afterwards as I am able, but I’m naming Halloween - Tuesday, October 31st - as the day of posting. In the past, I’ve run the fest for a longer period of time, but that’s been overkill the last couple of years, so I’m trying out one day this year.

Other:

Please feel free to send me asks here or on my main blog (@roselightfairy) if I left something out!

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I'm still not over Kesha's Gag Order album. Holy fuck

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"Based on my likes"? I think the fuck not tumblr

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I can give no explanation for my actions

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Is anyone else having trouble getting the readmore function to work properly?

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Tumblr why

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Another lil sketch... forgot to include her earlier. A Luthien I did as a warm up.

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Alright It's art posting hours. By the by, to art anon - you have not been forgotten! <3 Be a little more patient with me, but I will answer you properly!