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. Lament [ work in progress ]

...some initial rough pencil lines revisiting an old idea for a new personal illustration

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❓ any WIP snippet you want!

Another snippet from the Voyager daemon AU - back to work on the Caretaker fic, because if I don't do that nothing else is gonna get done!

It happens as they’re both taking a step back. Kathryn isn’t looking directly at the daemons, but what she sees out of the corner of her eye (and Kyr confirms it later) is that the daemons’ muzzles brush.   It doesn’t matter, really, precisely how it happens. What matters is that her daemon touches Chakotay’s and the contact reverberates through her like an electric shock, stealing her breath and sending her pulse racing.  She has to grab the handrail and from the way Chakotay reels back she thinks he’s as off-balance as she is, he just had a steadier footing to begin with. When she looks up again, sees the anger in his eyes replaced by utter shock, she knows he’s as off-balance as she is. She can’t remember anything like this ever happening to her before, she thinks wildly. It feels good, when your daemon makes contact with the daemon of someone you’re close to, and sometimes even on a first meeting there’s a warmth to it, but this is… this is…   She has no idea what this is.   The next moment they’ve both backed off, Kyr is leaning against her leg and Chakotay’s daemon is back at his side. There’s a moment of dead silence on the Bridge, because everyone saw that, and no one seems to know what to make of it. Letting her fingers brush lightly over Kyr’s head, Kathryn takes one deep, grounding breath, and then gets back to work.

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Made some memes for Lost At Sea because I still have brain worms about the last chapter I posted

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Trystane Truefyre 💙

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WHEN THE WAR IS OVER AND I AM LYING QUIETLY AMONGST ANGELS, WAITING FOR YOU TO FIND ME & other stories by perennials/@corpsentry

The anthology contains the following stories:

WHEN THE WAR IS OVER AND I AM LYING QUIETLY AMONGST ANGELS, WAITING FOR YOU TO FIND ME

WITH A MOUTH FULL OF NAILS, I SING TO YOU

I STOP TO SMELL THE BLOOD IN THE TREES AND FOR A MOMENT THE WORLD IS SO BEAUTIFUL IT BRINGS ME TO TEARS 

STONE COLD SALVATION

at the end of the long sad story about heaven

I am completely obsessed with the writing style of perennials. Every paragraph contains a line that made me cackle followed by a line that that left me bleeding out from a gut wound.

I normally try to summarise the story here and explain why I loved it but it is much harder to do succinctly with an anthology. The first (main/longest) story looks at whether AoC was cannon or a daydream Zelda had whilst she was hanging out in Hyrule castle with Gannon. The second is about the emotionally charged AoC hangout of Sideon and Mipha. The third is Link having a five week long extensional crisis about having emotions. The fourth is about Zelda, and all of the inconsequential things she wants, if she can't avert the apocalypse. The fifth is the Christmas episode, and I will not be elaborating any further.

Every story here is just so good and I cannot recommend them all highly enough.  If you haven't read them then please go forth and do so! These five stories have lived rent free in my brain since I read them.

Massive thanks to @corpsentry for giving me permission to bind these stories, and to edit my copy to be an edition that uses UK spelling! The cover art is by @corpsentry and is stunning. I love the dreamy vibes of Zelda and the clouds and the tower and I really felt it fit the theme of the lead story really well. Thank you for letting me use the art! The endpapers are also by @corpsentry and they are so gorgeous, I have had to include them before the cut:

This is my first attempt at art in the endpapers and I think it worked really well in the end.

More pictures (I had so much fun typesetting this one - I got to play with different fonts which is always a great time!) and a video below the cut.

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Yasha Nydoorin | Critical Role fan art for my ongoing PC project. Thank you Brooke Eyler for letting me use your cosplay as a reference!

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Its butch appreciation day appreciate ur local butch <3

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would you do her nonlethal route be honest 🥺

(also finally, FINALLY nailed the look of the concept art. yeah baby!)

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Also to be clear if you put the new Harry Potter show on my dashboard I will be unfollowing and probably blocking you. JK Rowling is responsible for the death and pain of too many trans people to count in my country and I cannot tolerate her new way of trying to gain cultural and financial power in any way shape or form.

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🫵 YOU. STOP WHERE YOU ARE

say something nice about prev!!! find something cool about them!! give their blog a skim!!

compliments are FREE TO GIVE so GIVE THEM OUT. pls. thamnk. (⁠◍⁠•⁠ᴗ⁠•⁠◍⁠)

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I reference this meme so often and nobody ever gets the reference. It's so distressing

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Thank you for everyone who tagged me in the parent/child meme! Have been enjoying seeing them but I do not have any children actually developed for that LOL But I appreciate all your tags <3

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If you see someone with a really bad fandom take, I’m begging you to open your emails and write a strongly worded missive to your local government official about something bad happening in your community or country.

If you’re in Canada you could email a rep about concerns about Elon musk interfering in our next federal election.

If you’re in the US the list is endless.

If you’re in the UK you could email about trans health care.

If you’re in Australia, what about dental care in Medicare?

If you’re in Europe, look into some EU initiatives of particular concern. Perhaps something to do with nature and biodiversity? Idk

Just today I emailed my local mla about coal mining in the Rocky Mountains and tomorrow I’m going to pick something else and do it again

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"Eos" by Emile Corsi, 1860

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I need this website to start treating chiropractors with the same level of skepticism it’s starting to show to astrology.