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Your fat body is not a placeholder for a "better" you. It IS you. And you deserve love and respect NOW.

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if you’ve been following me long enough you know I love a mimic. From my false faced mermaids that I’ve been painting for years to butterfly dragons, I’m a big fan of illusion in the bestiary world.

I bring you the Ginkgo Draco, another member of the Botanical Drakes. 

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Kyrahlise for @kris-mage-fics !

(non-transparent + w/o banner versions under the cut:)

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the right hairstyle for your face is the one that makes you smile when you see yourself in the mirror btw.

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One of the many weird things about depression is that it retcons your life. Not only are you lying in bed feeling like a piece of shit and that everything is awful, but you start projecting those feelings back along your own time stream - you start low-key believing you’ve always felt this way, that nothing good has ever happened, or if it has it happened a long time ago.

On January 1st of last year I decided to start keeping a tally of good days and bad days, because I stopped trusting my brain to report on that accurately. I expected to come and look at the tally when I was depressed and go “oh, I had a good day only a few days ago. this hasn’t always been like this.”

What I didn’t expect was that the process of asking myself whether a day had been good or bad would radically shift my perspective on what a bad day was and what a good day was. On the very first day, when I’d achieved nothing and had felt sad and slow all day, I went to put a notch in the Bad Day column before stopping myself:

wait, i thought. has today actually been bad? not bad enough to write it off. i played rummikub online with my partner. i drank some water. i had a long bath. no, today wasn’t a bad day.

And so I put a notch in the Good Day column and went to bed. The next day I did the same thing, and the next day, and the next day. Just the process of going over my day every day meant that I found at least one good thing that happened every day. I had a good meal. I went to the pub and was around people, albeit quietly. I went for a walk. I saw a duck. There were days where truly awful, terrible things happened, but even on those days there was always something - even if the something was a simple as We Were There For Each Other or We Reminisced.

On December 31st I put the final tally down. Not a single day had been so bad that I could justify writing it off as a bad day. The bad day column was completely empty.

I’m still depressed, occasionally deeply, but I think I have more perspective. Depression is a physical feeling, and an emotional feeling, but even without trying *something* comes along every day that makes me glad I’m here despite that feeling.

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shoutout to the people who for the longest time didn’t see a future and thought their lives would be over by now. you made it. you’re still going. i know it’s hard building a future you weren’t prepared for, but i believe in you. you’re a survivor.

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Sometimes I’m looking for something online - often “how to” articles - and I want to filter for - like - a website that was clearly built in 2010 at the latest, which may or may not have been updated since then, but contains a vast wealth of information on one topic, painstakingly organized by an unknown legend in the field with decades’ worth of experience. I don’t want a listicle with a nice stolen picture in a slideshow format written by a content aggregator that God forgot. I want hand-drawn diagrams by some genius professor who doesn’t understand SEO at all, but understands making stir-fries or raising stick insects better than anyone else on this earth. I don’t know what search settings to put into Google to get this.

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all of my plans to watch that goat burn are fucked bc no one is burning that goat

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This a a reminder to not fall victim to the sunk-cost fallacy. Just because you invested time and energy into something, does not mean you should indefinitely waste more time and energy on it, if you decide it’s not what you want anymore. This goes for anything, from books, to relationships, to jobs, to hobbies, etc.

If it’s not serving you anymore, move on.

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Truly, there is little better to me than emotionally horny pining in fic where the characters are still like "But… of course they would never think of me like that 😭" while they have been fucking nasty twice a day for weeks and refusing to talk about their feelings honestly. Love that shit.

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submitted by @edwardian-girl-next-door 🤍🩵

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Sometimes. I see non-ace people talk about ace characters in a way that makes me wanna just. Take the characters and put them in a little box and go “Okay enough of these for now :)” and I won’t do that because it’s a dickish thing to do but SOMETIMES

I don’t even mean just erasing their asexuality I mean things like using the label “asexual” completely synonymously with “sex-repulsed” making an asexual character just not understanding the concept of sex or worse, straight up infantilizing the character and making them “pure” and “innocent” for being asexual

Every single asexual I’ve ever met has a very unique relationship with their asexuality. I’ve met sex-repulsed aces that passionately spread awareness about safe sex, both in terms of protection and also just making sure your BEING PHYSICALLY SAFE while having sex. A HUGE part of the kink community is asexual. I’ve met sex-favorable aces that never have sex not because they would hate it it’s just tiring and they don’t feel like it. I don’t know HOW many times we have to tell you that “asexual” is NOT an umbrella term for “person who doesn’t have sex” but apparently a few more times because it keeps not sticking

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I cry every time my MC uses a word of power to make a new Landsmeet. It's just a beautiful thing to be able to do and I love it so much 😭😭😭😭

Ah I'm so glad, to my surprise that seems to be a favorite part for a lot of people in the game! I wasn't expecting it, but I absolutely love that moment, too. It's the validating, fulfilling, catharic side of the power that MC has suffered a lot for and challenges the belief that it makes them inherently destructive and dangerous! 💖

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because that one post went around: i will never ever judge you if you take a what you think 'too long' time to answer. i will always be happy to get a text from you, so please, please, don't beat yourself up if you left me on read for some time. i dont care if you answer me one day, one week or one month later. i would however miss you if you stopped answering completely, but really genuinely no pressure to answer fast.

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Chung Thanh Phong 'I Dreamed a Dream' spring 2025 collection

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Some concept art sketches of @kris-mage-fics Shepherds of Haven OC Kyrahlise

Thanks for letting me draw her!

Flapper art used as a reference under cut

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