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“You’re an animal, Sibling Dex. You are not separate or other. You’re an animal. And animals have no purpose. Nothing has a purpose. The world simply is. If you want to do things that are meaningful to others, fine! Good! So do I! But if I wanted to crawl into a cave and watch stalagmites with Frostfrog for the remainder of my days, that would also be both fine and good. You keep asking why your work is not enough, and I don’t know how to answer that, because it is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it. You don’t need to justify that, or earn it. You are allowed to just live” --Excerpt From: Becky Chambers' “A Psalm for the Wild-Built.”

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“You keep asking why your work is not enough, and I don’t know how to answer that, because it is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it. You don’t need to justify that, or earn it. You are allowed to just live.”

― Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built

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🌿🌾 Dex and Mosscap - from A Psalm for the Wild Built

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"Why are you so ready to risk your life for me?" "Beacuse—" Because she loved him. The realization came to her like light in a shadowed room, the shape of it revealing itself line by line, starlit and undeniable. Perhaps it had appeared a moment ago. Or perhaps it had been before her for some time, and her eyes had only just adjusted. Somehow, somewhere along the way, the strings between them had sunk into her skin, and she'd gotten attached.

If I Have To Be Haunted by Miranda Sun

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Characters Aesthetic: Romance & Royals

Nicholas Claus

Hex Hallow

Kristofer Claus

Iris Lentora

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Please please please tell me people have read The Nightmare Before Kissmas pleasepleasepleaseplease

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the trick for enjoying a new video game is avoiding the internet’s opinion on it 

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knight/lord ships are like. what if i would die for you. what if i wanted you to live for me. what if i wanted to touch you but could only be satisfied with being near you. what if i could touch you but only through the safety of our gloves. what if i couldn’t stop thinking about you right next to me. what if i bloodied my hands for you and never looked back at the wreckage. what then

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Pride and Prejudice is such a funny book because imagine hating on someone you’ve never met right in front of them and then like a day later being like oops actually I like your eyes.

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Fem-focused sci-fi fantasy shows canceled after 1 season:

Cursed (2020)

Willow (2022)

My Lady Jane (2024)

The Acolyte (2024)

Would be great if these streaming services could all fuck off into the sun. RIP to all these awesome shows.

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I was winded, unable to speak from the vacuum that had just been created in my chest. It wasn’t just a lack of breath; it was an inadequacy of words. I had a feeling that I understood precisely, but had no words for.

Pip Williams, The Dictionary of Lost Words

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“Words are our tools of resurrection.”

— The Dictionary of lost words -  Pip Williams

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Pip Williams, The Dictionary of Lost Words

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rusalki are not mermaids. stop translating the word "rusalka" as "mermaid" and stop calling rusalki "slavic mermaids". it's confusing, it's misleading, and it's simply isn't true. the association of rusalka with a western mermaid and undine began in 19th century, when russian empire poets wanted to adapt a popular western motif of a sorrowful water maid that is unrequitedly in love with a mortal man. this literature character of rusalka has nothing to do with actual rusalki folklore and cult.

rusalki are natural undead spirits that are connected to slavic ancestral worship. they don't have tails. they are not in any way connected to the sea: only lakes, ponds, and rivers. often, they're not even connected to water at all: there are forest rusalki, field rusalki, meadow rusalki, etc. they are in close relationships with their human kin: during the spring and summer, they are used in agricultural rites and are believed to help with farming and raising crops. rusalki were sacred to slavic people. the "week of the rusalki" festival, when rusalki are believed to walk on earth and visit their relatives, is celebrated to this day. to call them "slavic mermaids" is very diminutive of their actual role in slavic cultures.

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books I’ve read in 2024 📖 no. 065

When Among Crows by Veronica Roth

“That kind of sacrifice creates a debt, and there’s nothing magic likes better than the great hollow of a debt.”

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Baba Jaga, Ala, and Niko that I painted for the lovely Veronica Roth - all characters from her new novella 'When Among Crows' (that I also did the cover illustration of!) ✨