#I'm glad you're back!

[acertainmoshke]

Moshke, I've been gone for like ever! Thank you for the wonderful tags while I've been away and Happy [checks calendar]… Day! So, tell me a bit more about what Esther actually does work wise for the TTA? Is she like an Indiana Jones where she's tasked with finding lost/rare artifacts? Is she supposed to be documenting what she observes? What exactly does that first assignment of her's entail?

HD!! I missed you!! I'm sorry this took so long, you happened to send it when my family was in town. In retrospect, I would rather have been answering your asks.

Yeah, so she's trained in real modern archaeology but that's been expanded to include time travel, which makes it a weird mix of archaeology (which is usually artifact-based) and culturally anthropology (which is usually based around living with/interviewing/observing people of another culture). Yeah, so I have an (admittedly unused) degree in this that if nothing else is going to make my time travel thriller books accurate.

Their current main assignment is to write an ethnography, which is like a long report on how people of a certain culture in a certain community live. There are several sections of this, including food, family, craftsmanship, clothing, etc that they split up and do hands-on and interview research into. They are expected to bring back samples of writing, clothing, pottery, decorations, and whatever else they can, but there is a careful vetting process to be sure it's not an already-discovered artifact that would cause problems if removed from its time. They show up with cover stories, usually of traveling foreigners to cover for any linguistic or cultural discrepancies, and then they just get to know people and explore an area and watch how things really worked. It's especially fun when they get to disprove current archaeological theories.

I hope that doesn't sound too vague. Honestly part of the reason my first attempt fell apart and I need to restart is that I'm still figuring out how this would all work on a practical level.

[ferronickel]

A bunch of webcomic Ralseis! I've been wanting to do fanart for all of these comics for a while and I've got an upcoming page of my comic that requires a mix of styles/shading, so I thought this would be good practice!

Eldritchrune by @lynxgriffin

Looking Glasses by @ferronickel

The Chara Timeline by @lilybug-02

Reconnecting by @purplebehittindifferent

Twin Runes by @akanemnon

Flat colors under the cut because I think you can see some of the stylistic differences better without shading.

[navree]

genuinely would love for some of the "both parties are the same" people to name me a single election in the entirety of the twenty first century where the outcome for the country wouldn't have been better if a democrat had won

[seungcheorry]

thinking about seungcheol. i don't know, just...

just seungcheol biting his lips and playing with his fingers, so lost in thoughts because he's scared as shit to go back to work. hundreds of what if's playing in his mind.

just seungcheol getting so clingy to you, silently asking to be comforted, to be reassured.

just seungcheol sighing, after a whole day of anxiety kicking his ass, when he finally feels your hand patting his head, caressing his head. you ask him if he had dinner already and half of his worries are forgotten.

just choi seungcheol, leader of 12, who will always fight and work so hard for what's best for his members, also needing some take care of.

[mattodore]

birthday boy 🎂

[mister-sol]

more jayvik sketches. in this one viktor has cat ears because I said so

[violetscanfly]

Once again I offer you art that I didn't post when it was made✌🏻 One thing I have learned is to never throw away your art because even if you don't immediately like it you might some day

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts 3 - Arendelle

[humming-fly]

Inktober Day 25 - Alpha Gaming

Today I thought I'd go ahead and hunt down that new hedgehog game everyone’s so excited about, since I had a target giftcard and it's been a hot sec since I played one of these - was fully planning to hop on that cool winged shadow trend for the inktober to commemorate my success, but that changed 15 seconds into the first stage when I remembered I actually suck shit at sonic games 👍

[mulders-too-large-shirt]

thinking about how mulder loves to get scully a gift, usually terribly heartfelt, even if disguised as something flippant:

the superbowl vhs tape he brings her when she wakes up from her coma in one breath (and her deadpan "i knew there was a reason to live")

tickets for a football game to watch together in irresistible

bringing her flowers to the hospital in memento mori (he lies, saying he stole them from a guy with broken legs to make her laugh)

the birthday keychain in tempus fugit (and when she finds a meaning to it, he claims "i just thought it was a pretty cool keychain")

that is a man who is always thinking about her.

[friesian]

i'm not going to say much about it, mostly on account that i do not consider myself a part of the gw2 community anymore, but you guys have a serious problem with poc speaking up for themselves and telling you when you've done something wrong and inheriently a bit racist. your first reaction should be to sit down and shut up, genuinely. a lot of you would do some good to examine who and what you're sympathizing with and why your first instinct is to exend a loving hand to your white community members, while swatting away and 'critically examining' the poc ones. have some goddamn introspection.

[marihem]

You doing okay?

Hey good to see you again. Thanks for coming in and checking on me úvù

Aaaa it's been a while, isn't it? I just pretty much disappeared with little to no activity for like, what? 2-3 months? Yeaaa I got busy is all.

So I'm now in an entirely different continent?? And restarting college after 4 years??? At least I'm safe from the mandatory conscription law haha. Yeah I've been too occupied physically and mentally but I'm slowly getting back to my groove and becoming more productive... that means I've also been occupied by other fandoms at the moment so the Frans brainrot train is taking a break haha

But yeah I've been adjusting to new place, environment, lifestyle and people. I'm also opening commissions so I can pay for my living expenses at least. Ya know, to help my family out too.

Once again, thanks for checking up. I may trip and fall down, lying flat family guy death pose style sometimes and I have heaved myself up like always. I will try to be more active here again! Meanwhile, have this lil doodle from months ago:

Again, I appreciate your care so much <:) Have a great day/night ^^

[shima-draws]

Me: BRO. Can you imagine if Luffy activated Gear 5 2 years earlier at Marineford

AO3: Hey boo I gotchu

Me: AY-YO????

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

You're allowed to call it "grief."

If I can get personal on y'all for a second... A therapist once told me that you're allowed to grieve for a place. (We moved a lot when I was a kid. It wasn't great.)

Tumblr is a place, and place is important. It's friends. It's shelter. It's comfort and routine, continuity between who you were and will be. And to leave a place is to suffer a loss, not like losing a person but still painful. Not the end of the world, but the end of a world that helped shape who you are.

You'll make new friends. Your new room will be better. That can be true, while not changing that you will lose touch with many of the people you love right now, you will lose the shelter you spent so long crafting.

Tumblr's terminal diagnosis has been a long time coming. And I give it solidly 50-50 odds on still being around a year from now. The Five Stages model may not replicate, but here's something that does: anticipatory grief. The grief of knowing that a loss is coming, a sad and strange gift that gives you time to get things in order and say all that you want to say with your goodbye.

So: thank you, everyone, for the last decade of silliness and righteousness, wisdom and stupidity. I'm hoping for another 10 years on this hellsite, but I'm also letting myself grieve.

[danwhobrowses]

What's this? My skin, cleared? My crops, watered!? My heart, soaring!!??

Callowmoore softness, comfort and sleeping beside each other my FUCKING BELOVED!

[storybookhawke]

In honor of @hollyand-writes returning to fandom after her surgery! A radiant Merrill who is with child.