#I didn't really knew what to answer

[egophiliac]

I loved your drawing(and I love your style in general) with Leia in your recent post! If/when you have time can we see more of her in your style? I get so happy whenever I actually see people mention/talk about her and she’s not just forgotten because we didn’t get to see much of her. 😭

thank you! 💙💙💙 Leia/Leah/Lea/whatever is fascinating to me. she is the ultimate unknown. what was she like? how involved (or even aware of any details of the invasion) was she? Silver's basically a physical carbon copy of his biodad, so what did he get from her? like, I understand why the two of them kind of have to stay as these super vague and mysterious figures -- the whole point of them is that their story ended 400+ years ago and they're not really relevant anymore (and. well. the more that gets explained about them, the less that can just kinda be handwaved as "oh the politics were Very Messy") (we can sit here and theorize all day but let us acknowledge that, ultimately, canon gave us almost nothing about them post-Meleanor and we'd just be making things up). I do still wonder about her though! RIP Lea, we never knew you and we probably never will.

actually you know what, as long as we're here, I think I WILL go ahead and just make some stuff up about what Silver might've inherited from her instead.

[frostgnawdraws]

failure and futility

for day 2 of campfire fest! prompt: third eye (and i guess could also count for explosion, or a lack thereof lol) @outerwilds-events

[eky11]

(I catch it with my face of course)

Am I faaaaalling uuuuuup

The tower, the moon, the sun and the world (I'm resisting the urge to ask for The Lovers 🌞)

Greetings, Eky!

I just saw the questions, and *sighs melodramatically* I guess I have brought this upon myself. Gotta be honest this time heh. Here we go!

The world has been answered here already.

The tower: favorite colors to wear?

Blacks and greys. I'm very basic in that regard, as I've never been a person who cares much about fashion. But green and turquoise tones look good on me, apparently, and I'd like to own more violet clothes bc I adore all shades of it. In fact, I'm trying to get myself a violet suit right now. Other than that, my comfort wear-at-home clothes are red.

The moon: have you ever written a love letter?

I'm not sure you can really classify it as that, but I have done something similar. Unfortunately...

The sun: do you believe in magic?

I mean! I know for a fact that a lot of freaky things happen on planet earth, and it's to each their own what they decide to call it. I don't know if magic would be my exact word of choice, but I definitely don't think everything could or should be rationalized away (quite ironic because I like explanations, but even I have to live with the fact that for some things, there are just none)

About the last one...

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You know, that's interesting 'cause... HAH, CATCH! *throws a sakka ball at your face (you catch it of course) and scrambles away as Will Wood starts playing*

The ask game in question

[mokeonn]

Before I go to sleep I leave you all with this piece of advice: sometimes you don't actually have to answer big political questions, sometimes you can just say "I am not smart enough to know that, I just know the small things I do to help." Like you can often times completely avoid making a fool of yourself if you just say you don't know.

[wasabikitcat]

community college is so funny because half of the teachers are like "For this class you need to use lockdown browser for all quizzes and tests. You need to buy this 70 dollar textbook, and all papers turned in must be in APA format with a title page even if they're only 500 words long. I will not accept late assignments. Also you have a minimum of 4 assignments a week." and the other half are like "you don't need proctoring for the final exam I trust you. here's a download link to a pirated copy of the textbook. as long as your writing is coherent and demonstrates an understanding of the material I literally could not care less what format you use. I can't figure out how canvas works so I'm not giving you due dates, just make sure it's turned in before the grading period ends. your only weekly assignment is a forum post with a minimum of 100 words."

[thelaurenshippen]

Hello, The Lauren Shippen! I'm a long time fan, first time caller...

I've been listening to The Bright Sessions for the past 11 days, for the first time in 7 years. (I've also listened to the first two episodes of New Year's Day!)

Back in my early days of discovering my love and obsession toward audio dramas, (a decade ago?! 🫨), I was so delighted to have The Bright Sessions recommended to me by a now-estranged ex-best-friend's ex-boyfriend.

He also recommended I watch the show Shameless, and accompanied me to my first show seeing my favorite band, The Mountain Goats. He once came over to my place and built a Christmas tree out of my books with me. I maintain to this day, more than any other friend I'd had in my early 20s, he had fantastic taste in great stories full of complex and desperately human characters. I'm grateful to him, in any case. I think I would have found you anyway, as immersed as I've been in brilliant fiction podcasts, but he certainly sped along that process.

I have since also listened to all of Bridgewater twice. I know I'll eventually make my way to Breaker Whiskey and the sundry other projects you've made and been a part of.

But this message is particularly about episode 50 of The Bright Sessions, Rose, which I listened to tonight as I went through the process of making my dinner.

Thank you, so much, for your characters and their various flaws. All of these gorgeous songs broke my heart all over again on the relisten - and honestly, it was probably even harder this time around. I've lived in 5 different places and traveled through what has felt like a life's worth of personal growth and relationships changing. I even have a more special relationship to episode 49's feature presentation, Singing In The Rain. I wish Rose could help me spin my dreams into anything quite so cathartic or self-revealing, especially if she could make my voice sound as nice as all of your actors, yourself quite included. I wish I couldn't say that I understand and empathize with Mark now better than ever.

I took my mother-in-law to a local bookstore for the first time 3 days ago and just happened to find The Infinite Noise there, so of course I bought it. And Frank's character arc and storyline became relevant and poignant at the same time I was reading my second-ever comic series, and discussing it with a friend.

It seems like that happens to me, repeated synchronicities, as if the Universe is trying to instill me with themes. As your friend and fellow storymaker Gabriel Urbina asks over and over in his podcast Unseen, my experiences with fantastic audio dramas always seem to echo "Are you paying attention?"

Thank you, for helping me pay attention. Thank you for every intersection I've ever gotten to have both with, and because of, your stories. Thank you for helping me cry so much listening to this episode after days of desperately needing to. ❤️ Thank you for all the ways your words have helped me see myself more clearly.

Whether or not you publish this, or even read this, I hope you often hear, and really believe, how appreciated and necessary you and your stories are.

wow. thank you so so so much for this message. it is so beautiful and moving and you have me tearing up on a tuesday morning! where do I even start?

I'm really glad you've found TBS again after so long (and that you've listened to NYD and Bridgewater!!). it continues to knock me over that it's been a decade of audio drama for me, and knowing that I made something that people revisit means the world to me. every now and then I'll go deep into a fandom I was active in years and years ago and there's something particularly special about doing that.

I also so relate to the ex-best-friend's ex-boyfriend thing because I've had so many people come in and out of my life and leave big impressions or introduce me to something that ends up being crucially important. it's really strange when those pieces of art linger when the person doesn't, but I also think one of the neatest parts of life is that you don't need to know someone for a long time or in a particularly deep way to have them make an impact on you.

thank you for all your incredibly kind words about the musical episode!!! it's still one of things I'm proudest of making - it's SO rare that you have an idea, a big idea no less, and then actually execute it the way you want. there's always a gap between what you want to make and what you're capable of making, but that episode is the smallest that gap has ever been for me. so it means a lot when other people love it too.

I love all this synchronicity in your life, that's always such a special, cool feeling. and thank you for buying TIN! I don't know that anyone has ever thanked me in this particular way before (and gosh, I love a good Urbina reference) and I'm really grateful to you for it. and thank you for helping me pay attention - I think sometimes, when I'm not actively putting something out, I get discouraged and detached from the fact that my art is out there and people can interact with it. you've helped me feel more connected, and I can't thank you enough for that.

I hope the universe continues to surprise you in the best ways <3

[sergle]

I still think the rooster wood chipper thing is comedy gold! Its so genuinely hilarious

I will always always always fondly remember the ten separate times people got very mad at me for sincerely and literally definitely putting a rooster in a woodchipper, despite me making up progressively more and more looney tunes ways to execute a bird, and even directly saying that I wasn't serious. It's one of my favorite bird memories

[mad-hunts]

roleplay idea: barton's trying to say this BS that he's 'good at processing grief' when your muse was a witness to the absolute rage-filled and deranged rampage that barton went on after julien was killed by the joker in which he brutally hurt all but one of his henchmen (he killed the last one because he told him he was 'crazy' and that he 'better kill him, or he was going to tell his boss that barton had been there' and he literally just snapped, went 'you know what, i think i will kill you AND also let the joker know i killed you so he knows to never come near my family again' then killed him. like HUHHH?) at the time with your muse being like this

[astralleywright]

really though like it was the same thing with ashton last month (and imogen several times before) where people's interpretations of their actions would be at best in deeply bad faith and at worst just blatantly incorrect. and when they got called out for villainizing a character while failing to understand even the basic facets of them they would be like "ugh stop coddling them you're allowed to admit when your favorite character has flaws"

[stonyponyofficial]

prabably a therian but i unfortunately have a job that requires me being human so i don't have time for that rn

[phoenixiancrystallist]

Month 7, day 30

Two new materials today! First up is a camouflage patterned fabric, and the second is a nice thrown clay :D

[itspileofgoodthings]

this is news to none of you but i'm a die-hard romantic and as long as there is genuine affection and sincere romantic interest present there's almost no situation where I don't want an ongoing relationship to become good and beautiful even when the involved parties are damaged or deeply flawed. I love love!!! I love redemption stories!!!!!!! I wanna see both!!!!! I wanna see people change and fall in love and change bECAUSE they fall in love and fall in love so hard THAT they change. There is nothing I ever want more than that. All the time!!!!!!!!!! I want my realistic projections to be proven wrong and I want true love to win the day!!!!! And I stop shipping things when it's clear that that possibility has been rejected utterly and completely but not before lol!!!!!!!

[melverie]

Hi , for some reason I can't visit your 'today-in-devildom' blog. Was it taken down?

- @orikuu

It wasn't taken down or anything of the sort, I privated it for the time being. You can technically still access it anytime over this link, you just need the password for it

The thing is, I need a break from the blog for multiple different reasons, one of them being that I let the blog take presidence over my life. I'm not sure if you remember/followed the blog back then but there was one day where I ended up having to be brought to the ER and the ONLY thought on my mind was how I wouldn't be able to write and post the entry for that day on time. Like, it definitely should NEVER have gotten this out of hand. Plus there were also a bunch of other stuff going on on the side, all of which kept pushing me to the point where I honestly just,, lost the joy in writing.

At some point I got more frustrated than anything with the blog & then eventually decided that enough was enough and that I needed some distance from the entire thing, hence it being privated

All that being said, I'll un-private it again soon. I've been talking with some of my mutuals (hiiii Ivy, Ali, starr 💚💚💚) about the blog again recently & and I realized just how much I've missed it. I will break my 'no editing once posted' rule and go through each post again before doing so tho, so it's still going to take a bit

Plus, I have actually also started to write new posts again a while ago, so there's also that. Here's a little sneak peak lol:

[froggomcdoo]

you ever read a work of fiction so good that you immediately need to find more and consume it but it doesn't have any more and there will likely be no more so you just suffer and think what if.

[gentlethorns]

sigh grief and loss is everywhere. doors close that can't be reopened and yet i still scratch at them like a lost dog. why

[tippenfunkaport]

for the fic ask thing: you are seriously the best at describing emotions. like you make it feel like I'm really feeling the same thing at the characters and not a lot of writers can do that <3

aaaaaahhhh, thank you so much!!

Honestly, this makes me so happy because the reason I started writing fanfic in the first place was I wanted to practice Deep 3rd POV (which is the style all my fics are written in) and the fact that people say this so often makes my inner writing nerd like, yes, nailed it! 😂