#Signal pen

[lejoursobre]

Tiny doodles are back! 💖🤏💖

[maxphilippa]

EVERYONE IS GAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

HOORAY!!!!

magma bucket tag: @andeisafag

spoon tag: @si74c

cobalt blue tag: @ebbpup

[graementality]

More sketches of @sunnydayaoe 's High Voltage au of HMS :D (mainly Mind/Circuit bcus I LOVE his design)

☀️☀️☀️

[filmbyjy]

they don’t know I’m filmbyjy🤫🤫

[vulpixelates]

happy pride month, friends!

as is the yearly tradition, my wife and i are once again recruiting fellow sapphics to our supportive, 18+ community of creative folks from all mediums, including poetry, nonfiction, fiction, art, crafts, and music. our small but active discord community also includes (but is not limited to) the following:

workshop spaces to share your work, and to give and receive constructive critique

spaces to discuss all things creative, including media and the creative projects that you're working on

co-working sessions in voice chat

space to share experiences with supportive folks who understand queerness

a zero tolerance policy for transphobia, lesbophobia, butchphobia, misogyny, racism, ableism, etc.

if you're interested in more information or an invite, please send me a message 💖 we would be delighted to welcome you!

[rabbit-rays]

trying to remember to draw. you must occasionally draw your most miserable ocs smiling for your own health

[ebthestarryknight]

I'm still trying to figure him out

[polinweek]

We're at the halfway point of Polin Week, Dearest Readers!

Your Day Four prompts are:

pen pals

modern AU

[radicheart-a]

(( Sudden mental image of Cal mindlessly chewing on an alternate's antlers... ))

[lejoursobre]

More dumb doodles ✨ I made them from all the random sheet of paper I doodled on this past month that's why there are so many 😅

[wipbigbang]

The final round of art claims is open at @wipbigbang! We have all sorts of great stories left in multiple fandoms, and we'd love any type of fanart for them: traditional art, digital art, fanmixes, moodboards, fic covers/chapter headers...any kind of art you can imagine!

The synopses are located at https://wipbigbang.dreamwidth.org/173272.html

The form is located at https://forms.gle/yyxkCxyXJopMTyUs8.

World of the Five Gods (Bujold)

#185

Title: Penric's Last Ride

Pairing/Characters: Penric kin Jurald & Desdemona

Rating Teen | T

Warnings/Tags: Major Character Death

Reiterating the fact that Pen and Des do both die, though it's not intended to be a tragedy (ends of long and happy lives). A fair bit of discussion of a saint "eating" Desdemona for being an ascended demon, which could have triggering parallels to real-life issues such as capital punishment, self-sacrifice, or abortion. Unintentional mind control (the aforementioned unintentional ascension).

Summary: Pen and Des have had a long and happy partnership together as demon and rider, but Des is well aware that humans don’t live forever, and one last mission to deal with an invading army proves to be Pen’s last. Now Des is stuck as an unwillingly ascended demon with an unresponsive rider. Des may be struggling after outliving yet another rider, but being eaten by a saint and dissolved back into chaos isn’t her preferred outcome either. But maybe, just maybe, the Lord Bastard has more grace for his demons than any of them ever realized.

[graementality]

@sunnydayaoe 's High Voltage au HMS !!

These guys have taken hold of me and I can't escape they're so cool, I love this au!!!

I've done a couple more sketches of the guys which I'll post in a minute too!

[specialshinytrinkets]

time passage, huh...

I used to come here quite a few times. Because on every school holidays, minus summer one, I'd go with my grandma to the sanatorium. Plus me and my grandparents would go skiing here. I struggled climbing back up — and still do. I'm afraid of sliding from large slopes, too.

Eventually though, around the time I was a pre-teen, we both stopped. Now I'm not sure whether or not we'd go back there again. I mean, it's not like we can't. It's that it isn't as necessary, possibly? Or not as effective? My grandma's health is getting more and more frail — I see it myself. I'm afraid of... her heart stopping to beat. Some ordeals done in a sanatorium wouldn't be as good for her as before, probably. Considering it's not just the asthma that is there to treat.

Or it is from me... just being selfish?

Now I'm 16. I came here by myself. I have never been here completely alone. And it's just as beautiful as it has always been... But it feels different.

I have never been a social kid. I've always had a handful of friends, and even then most of the time I spent at home watching YouTube, be it by myself or with mom in the next room. I wouldn't chat with many people, as I found it hard to find the topics — they didn't know what was inside my head. They seemed... normal. They didn't draw demonic versions of beloved cartoon characters, inspired by a let's play on a fairly crappy .exe game. I have always been the best listener to myself. Me and my sketchbooks.

And the few people that I thought were the same either weren't trustworthy from the beginning, or weren't of my taste. Yes, I'm going to say it — it's normal to dislike someone, even if they have the same interest as you.

But in either case, I was alone. Too many times, too often. I had barely anyone to share my art with. But then I was encouraged to make an instagram account to share my art.

Did it help? Not really. Since I was followed by my mom and grandparents, I knew I couldn't post everything. Plus, I was less aware of what social media was back in 2019. So ultimately, it stayed the same, except I showed my drawings to the public that wasn't the target audience I had aimed for. And at some point I saw others making accounts sharing WIPs. So I made one, and in combination it was occassionally a vent account. Problem was that my mom followed my there, so I had to put on a filter of what I could and couldn't post again, plus use only English to not be caught in captions. And then I lost access to it after getting a new phone, so it stays as a small archive of me losing motivation in drawing at one point and denying I'm bi and a furry.

And now... I'm here. I'm 16 years old. I have existed for not much time at all, compared to other artists and especially the universe. But it's not as if my life is worthless. It went through phases. Many phases. It had joys and sorrows. It had self-hatred and self-doubt. It had projects picked up and dropped. Creations made and remade over and over, in hopes to unleash full creative freedom. And through all this time...

It left a mark.

It left a mark on this world, in some way. There have been people before me, who have done the same. Who screamed into the void, hoping it would respond back. Who left symbols that say "Hey! I used to be here!" And only now do I see what these words mean. I may never meet people who have left these graffitis, and they may never meet me, but I'll know they existed. That they came here, into this sanatorium, found an abandoned structure built for god-knows-what, and left their mark. Which may not last until the end, but it's still here!

The evidence of us being alive!

... Keep living. You are not worthless. Your pictures and songs may not be passed down in museums, but they will exist as a reminder of what being human is about. You may stumble and fall, but ultimately that's what life is, right?

It's a path you make yourself.

- 29.12.2022

[awkwardnerdylesbian]

petunia the show piggy

[hayakawalove]

HAI REM!! Happy friday my sweet sweet angel! Sorry for the late ask school and work has been hectic! But I gots a brief moment to hop in bed w you and sugu before work today <3 I should pick up a dab pen before work huh?

Regarding my cute manager hes a cute nerdy guy around my age …he’s nice to admire but im not gonna pursue anything. I meant to mention how when it was just us on our shift he talked about how he got out of a situation over a year ago where ‘his gf was a bum and he was 30k in debt’ ….like to paint your ex (who he mentioned unprovoked, HUGE turn off for me) as the bad one in this when thats serious baggage to casually drop to someone is interesting.

And it’s not that I expect my partner to have a Ph.D or sumn but I can tell when he’s appeasing me like seeing me do my homework at work saying maybe he’ll go back for his associates…like that’s great but only bc YOU want to for ur own reasons not to impress me mr man 🗿.

Ive been drug through the deepest parts of hell of the most pathetic, meek mfs to not let my standards suguboo set be messed with no moar!

Giving u lots of kisses and cuddles where sugu isn’t already HEHE lov u sm!! cant wait to show u my halloween and rave fits HEHE sugu might not let me leave the house without my string thong dripping with cu- *lost signal*

-🗿

ITS OKAY I’ve also been busy. How is it going for you?

AND YEAH I DO SEE HOW THAT COULD BE A TURN OFF….talking about exs unprompted is sort of weird as well as just. The whole school thing. It’s nice to see someone want to do something for themselves.

KEEP YOUR STANDARDS HIGH i promise it will be worth the pay off. You need someone who makes you feel special and loved.

IM EXCITED TO SEE THE OUTFITS PLEASE BE SAFE FOR HALLOWEEN THOUGH AND RAVES

[booasaur]

Something really amazing happened in France, and I think it'd help us in the US to learn about it. Forgive the long read, but I think this is genuinely great both because of what happened and how.

So as some of you might have seen, in a decision historians will debate for years (mostly to figure out just WTF he was thinking, even though he is alive right now and can be asked), the French president, Emmanuel Macron, currently in power and THREE YEARS before the scheduled election, seeing the far right rise in popularity decided to dissolve the assembly and hold snap elections.

577 seats were up for grabs. Remember that number. Since half of that is 288.5, 289 seats are needed for a majority.

The first round happened last week and boy, was it bad. The far right made HUGE gains. It won or was in first place in so many races. And Macron's party ended up third!

Overall, this is how things ended up after the first round:

Far right bloc: 33%

Left bloc: 28%

Macron's centrist party: 20%

Conservatives: 7%

The way the French system works is that if a candidate gets over 50% of the vote, they win outright, and some of the far right did manage that. But, many races went to a runoff.

Immediate projections after were that the far right bloc might win anywhere from 240 to 310 seats, a catastrophe.

A shameful swing to the far right leading to the first time they'll be in power since the 1940s? Yes, but maybe not??

This is where things get interesting.

Unusually, a lot of these runoffs are 3-way, instead of a simpler 2-way choice. And in pretty much every case, that helps the far right.

So on June 30th, the night of the first round, this is how things went down:

Immediately, the left parties put out the call: anywhere they were third, they withdrew and their voters would go over to whoever was running against the far right candidate. Their goal: form a "republican front" to block the far right. The far right cannot get 289 seats.

Macron's bloc was not so...motivated. Different people put out different instructions: in some places, if they were third, they should drop out, but only to help the center left, not far left, in other places, see how far you are, only then drop out, that kind of thing.

The conservative party simply said they won't drop out and won't give their voters instruction either way in races they're not involved in.

Late night developments:

More people in Macron's party are now beginning to realize the situation and starting to coalesce around whichever candidate can beat the far right one. Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, from Macron's party, says clearly the priority is to block the far right. BUT, some Macron spokespeople on TV say they'll form a coalition only with the center left and conservatives, splitting the left bloc if needed. Some individual Macronists still saying they won't drop out, even if there's no hope of winning.

Lol.

So, now July 1st:

Only half so far. In one race, where the sister of Marine Le Pen (the far right leader and the face of their movement) was leading, the third place Macronist refused to bow out.

Excellent quote from another Macronist:

Perhaps realizing the same thing, that Macronist in the race against the Le Pen sister now drops out.

In some places, third place Macronists are dropping out DESPITE Macron bewilderingly telling them NOT to?

Halfway through the day:

Of the 311 3-way or 4-way runoffs, the number is down to 135 because of these candidates dropping out: 121 Left, 56 Macronists, 1 conservative.

Oh, there was this, in case people had any doubts about how terrible the far right are:

And to show the selflessness of the left:

July 2:

The deadline to decide if they want to stay in a runoff is today.

A dozen new third place Macronists who said they'd stay in have now dropped out. One got a call from both the PM Attal AND Macron to drop out, signalling the dawning understanding of the importance of this moment.

Even some conservative party members are now backing the left candidate who faces the far right.

A Macronist who had 30.55% of the vote in the first round and came in third to the far right's 33.11% and left's 32.73% and who would have been tempted to stay has dropped out.

The deadline to stay in or not has now passed.

Look at these far right shenanigans!

Macron still being a freaking loser:

July 3rd:

In the end, of the 311 3- or 4-way run offs, only 91 left. Some polls come out that have the far right getting between 190 to 220 seats.

July 4th:

New polls say the balance of the voting itself isn't transferring between the left and center and predictions have risen for the far right, now predicted to get between 210 and 250 seats.

July 5th:

New polls again, left voters now predicted to do better transferring vote to the centrists, decreasing the far right projections again.

However, scandalous reporting emerges: while Attal was trying to fend off the far right, Macron was not only NOT taking the far right seriously, he was undermining efforts to defeat them. His team shrugged off the first round results and celebrated a BIRTHDAY as the results were still coming in?

July 6th:

A few runoffs happened yesterday, nothing much unexpected, some left and center wins.

July 7th:

The day of reckoning. At this point, the expectations are that the far right won't come close to that 289 number but could still easily have the most seats.

GUYS.

It's over and the left are in the lead!

A LOT of cases where a leftist or centrist was 2nd in the first round and now won.

Amazing:

SO many lessons to take from this.

First, you have to vote! You have to. You can't do anything without voting. The freaking French, who'll protest for anything, are showing up to vote. If you're trying to achieve any kind of result and it's not going to happen by January 2025, you have to vote now.

But just as importantly, the left and center (and even conservative) parties made very key decisions. They were all lucky that Attal, who Macron chose, saw the big picture, bigger than indeed Macron could. A stupid selfish centrist leader could have still ruined everything if it were up to him.

TL;DR: After a disastrous first round in the national French elections where the far right was on the cusp of taking power, the left and center formed a strong coalition and through the power of voting and unity, overcame the far right AND their selfish centrist president to win.