#Guideposts

[cantsayidont]

Cat With No Name, Robert McGinnis (U.S., 1926– ), originally painted 1998 for Guideposts.

[songs-and-storms]

@squeakquil 's art blog. Call me Olivia! (she/her)

This blog mostly focuses around The Lands, an ongoing worldbuilding project I've been carrying with me for years, with the premise being "what if the world were nothing but islands in the sky?"

There may or may not be some other stuff too! (Splatoon and ttrpgs like lancer or dnd mostly)

Ongoing projects:

Song in the Storm: Tales of an arctic courier who seeks to discover her origin.

Lands One: A yet unnamed project centering a relic of the ancient history of the Lands.

The Infinite Stares Back: An ongoing TTRPG game I'm running with some friends.

Tags under the cut!

#the lands - Art centering the Lands. Other stuff will be tagged accordingly!

#song in the storm

#chessa iceborough #qwian aymara

#tisb / #the infinite stares back

#akira valysia #zhou haoyu #sam mcgregor #elias macdowell #thrask #hedgie #zender anlong - The main party!

#lyndottir / #lyn #aido #mag #monroe - Significant supporting NPCs!

#vice enticiun #vice haliycon #vice ardenter #vice invaya #vice aceda #vice justice #vice lenheim hybris #vice vania hybris #gloria hybris - The bad guys!

#lands one - Tentative name, subject to change.

#orange #chloe malga-caster #don hollowpoint

#not the lands - self explanatory!

[wisdomfish]

Any follower, any believer in Jesus, has not merely a chart, but a Guide, an infallible Leader. He will never lead the way into darkness, but will scatter the darkness in the way of His followers. And He gives such light to the souls of men through faith in Him, that it will serve as a lodestar for them to the everlasting mansions of life above. ~ Paul Kretzmann

[zegalba]

top - Jimmy Kuehnle: Stuffed Full (2008) bottom - Yayoi Kusama: Guidepost to the Eternal Space (2015)

[welcometohighwater]

it’s gonna take me two full years to get through breath of the wild

[izloveshorses]

I know it's been forever since you last did the fic-directors cut thing, but I'm just so curious what inspired you to write the dimya rough kinky stuff thing seeing as that's pretty far from how you usually seem to write them? If you're comfortable sharing, of course.

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fantastic question anon. i was so so so nervous before publishing tbh, and it took a week for me to even share it on here. this fic really does seem like it came out of left field didn't it 💀 but like. here's the thing. one thing i've discovered since i started writing is the more i say 'ugh he would not fucking say that' the more my brain will feed me with '.... okay but in what situation WOULD he say that 👀' like. lately every time i say i will never write something my mind will immediately go but if i DID... theoretically... this is how i'd do it. and then i start having visions of scenarios. and i have absolutely no control over what happens once the visions start. you know how it is.

so for this one specifically it sprouted from 'ugh dmitry would never be a possessive lover, he wouldn't let jealousy control him, etc.' and like clockwork i was like.... okay but what would drive him to do that?? what would push him to that edge? so i started playing with the experiment as more of a character study, and was trying not to be intimidated by how Dark the possessive sex™ label could be, when it hit me. turns out the key to all of this is our dear old friend, roleplay!! ding ding ding!!! yay!!!!

the thing is. anya initiates it, every step of the way. if nobody had intervened dmitry would've just been moody and bitter for a while but would have left it alone, bc we as the audience know he's never processed an emotion in his life. but she sniffs out what's bothering him. she figures out he's a little jealous. so she pokes and prods at him to sort of confirm if her feelings for him are requited or not without spelling it out. and he takes the bait. once i had anya goad him into acting on these feelings, the rest of the fic just tumbled down the page.

so they're playing pretend. they're roleplaying. we could have an academic discussion on if dmitry is a proper dom or not (they switch lbr, but i invite y'all to pls join my gentle mdom dmitry coalition), but in this anya is basically asking dmitry to Perform dominance. bc that's all kink is, right? a performance? and he senses this and gives her exactly what she's asking for, talking dirty and pushing her against the wall and teasing her and pinning her arms above her head for no real reason and they even play with the idea of choking. and they're literally matching each other's freaks about it. dimya is the most 'yes, and?' pairing i know. but like... most of the 'roughness' of it is more verbal. dmitry can talk big game but anya is really in charge here, he's doing everything she asks of him even when he threatens he won't lol. and that includes manhandling her a little harder. she doesn't want to be treated like a delicate little flower, she wants to get fucked okay 😤 and he's matching her every step of the way! she's like kiss me harder, get mad, i want you to want me in a really ugly way bc that's how i feel about you.

and the possessive part of it is less about him claiming ownership™ over her or whatever, it's more like... a rare declaration of confidence that he's all she'll need. bc it's inevitable that she'll have other ppl fall in love with her, but in this fic we gave dmitry a chance to put his hat in the ring, so to speak, and be like hey no i love you the Most, actually. yeah. i live on i love you island etc. and he's also always very protective of her and wouldn't want her risking her safety in a strange city with strange men, and normally he would bottle that up but in this he gets to let these feelings manifest into... some good rough sex. but he's also taking care of her, making sure she's safe and into it, and is really sweet with the aftercare. idk. i'm straying from the point but. you get it. it's roleplay.

i know on paper it was more rough, but i feel like we needed to explore this side of their characters a little more, no? bc i can't say 'yeah dimya are freaky for each other 😤' and only write what i feel like is the same vanilla-ish smut every time. and this is the scenario i came up with that would put them in the mood for some more kinky sexy time. and at this setting in the show, where they're sort of friendly and flirty now but they haven't confirmed if she's Actually anastasia yet, is such a delicious stage of their story to me, there's so much room for playing. so many emotions to dive into and psychoanalyze. i won't get too deep into the two following chapters, but once this door was unlocked the rest of it just came pouring out of me. (they do get progressively softer tho each time? which wasn't on purpose lol but that's how it turned out. and like we end the fic with dmitry literally crying during sex ahsldjf which is more in line with the usual pathetic subby dmitry i like to write)

it's really hard for me to write smut for smut's sake, or just plain gratuitous sex. there always has to be an emotional layer going on underneath the surface. i hope in this one it reads that at the end of the day, they just trust each other That Much and they're on the same wavelength and, by the end of the fic, they really just can't stand the thought of losing each other. i invite y'all to come to the table to discuss this some more, i'm sitting on some academic essays on this topic aslhkjdf so pls. lmk what you thought. in character? ooc?

and also like. from a writing standpoint. we needed to test some boundaries, u know? push myself and problem solve etc etc etc. and now ever since i published this i feel invincible with what i can get away with 😌

[terezbian]

i always thought esperantists in particular were kind of lame largely because i thought that conlangs are kind of lame but what really cinched it for me was conlangcritic's observation that the Only language that had all of the phonemes & combinations that are advertised as "easy" in esperanto was polish which was the NATIVE LANGUAGE OF THE GUY WHO MADE ESPERANTO !!

[bandoripng]

A Guidepost to Our Shared Future

[faabsn]

© faabsn

[latefrequencies]

I feel like this is going to be the year I finally do that reread of the entire H2G2 series but in a specially-dedicated copy where I highlight different sections depending on how they relate to worldbuilding, characterization, themes, etc. and use that as reference for my fic-writing.

[t0ast-ghost]

Y’all should not be afraid to get silly with it. The sillier you allow yourself to become the more you’ll try different things and the artsier you’ll be. I’m not kidding, get silly with it.

[zegalba]

Yayoi Kusama: Guidepost to the New World (2005)

[doyoueverwonderwhy]

2024 Goals

Money stuff:

Find a new job!

Once that happens, work on rebuilding my emergency savings account

Pay off my car loan (on track to be done in April)

Body stuff:

Complete Yoga With Adriene's January Flow series

Run 500k, including 4 races

Do 1 yoga session and 1 strength training session each week

Social stuff:

Quarterly girls' night - we have a night planned in a few weeks to make cookies and watch romcoms and I'd like to do stuff like that regularly and really nurture those relationships

Quarterly date night - really intentional, get dressed up type dates

Home stuff:

Establish and use a chore schedule

Plant a garden - this might be a few big pots on the patio this year, but I finally have proper outdoor space again and want to use it

Paint 3 rooms

Find a chair for my craft space - it's a big room that doubles as our guest room, and I want to find an oversized chair perfect for curling up to read or craft

Hobby stuff:

Use my loom at least once - I bought it last January, assembled it, and haven't touched it since

Sew myself a Barbie dress - we're having a Barbie party in February, so that one has a deadline

Read/listen to 12 books

Learn to use curling iron - I got one for Christmas and want to actually learn to use it effectively

[renee-writer]

[thebeccagramchronicles]

Three ways the past is prologue to the future.

Past experiences and the future In the journey of life, past experiences often serve as a prologue to the future. The lessons we learn shape us. The trials we face define us. The triumphs we enjoy Inspire us. Therefore, reflecting on the past can provide valuable insights and guidance for the road ahead. Here are three ways in which the past serves as a prologue to the future. “What’s past…