#a lot of words

[jellion0345]

"It began here. It will be end here. Have you any parting words?"

I met Morrowind a year ago and he has held a special place in my heart ever since 🌙⭐

It was supposed to be a simple sketch based on a screenshot from the game, but I got a little bit caught up in the process ahaha, I drew it last month, but now is the perfect moment to show this page!

Of course, I'm showing this screenshot from the game, then I went to visit Dagot Ur for the first time, well, then I squealed loudly in surprise because I came without Sunder and Keening, and this changes his appeal to us as we go to him 😳and then I walked into this room and saw him, I even have somewhere recorded my first reaction "why is he so tall???" 😳😳😳

Oh, it's all such a long story! But that's why I love Morrowind!

[justanechoflower]

if your Asriel or Flowey...you're the best. the goodest of bois...if you want to be terrifying then you are...but you are just ...you

[kobbers]

I continue to love Dwarf Fortress' ability to tell you a story, if you're paying attention.

My current fortress is my first time back in DF in a good 5+ years, and obviously first fort in the shiny new Steam version. I've been a little impulsively reckless because I tried out the tutorial, which autopicks your starting location and supplies. I breached the caverns, had some Fun sending squads after forgotten beasts a little above their level, and after an ettin dropped an adamantine slab on death, that winter's goblin raid spiked to ~100 strong. Most of my soldiers were wiped out stopping the wave of goblins who'd managed to climb over my half-roofed-pasture walls, but the fortress endured.

We've been bunkered in pretty safely ever since, while I try to rebuild my military. The exterior has been secured and meatier defenses have been installed, and the caverns have been walled off while grotesque procedurally-generated monsters roam around down there and tear up all the native serpent-people and troglodytes. I'm not exploiting any mechanics to train my soldiers more quickly (yet), so day-to-day fortress management has settled into a largely hands-off routine.

Except for one very unhappy dwarf, one of my tavern keepers, who began appearing in the logs having mental breakdowns (stumbling around obliviously). These finally escalated to a full tantrum, where he started fistfighting everyone in sight until he'd burned off enough anger to calm down. The disorderly conduct landed him in jail - he served his time, but lost his cool again soon after. This time, he fatally paralyzed a fellow citizen in the brawl.

Back to jail he went. Desperate to try and manage his mood before his mental health reached irreversible lows, I sent dwarves to smooth and engrave his prison cell (dwarves appreciate art!), and build him a bed (to avoid negative thoughts about sleeping on the floor). Unfortunately he threw another tantrum while this work was going on, and killed another dwarf who was just trying to draw pretty pictures on his wall. (Interestingly, this all still counts as "disorderly conduct" and not murder to the justice system, probably because his intent was only to punch people. It just so happened that he punched them in the spine, and injured the nerves that allowed their lungs to function.)

I looked at the unmet needs in his profile. What could I do to help resolve some of the things that were making him unhappy, to help pull him out of the emotional pit he was in? A too-long unfulfilled need to be with family caught my eye. Sometimes you can't do much about this, because the dwarf left their family behind to emigrate to the fortress, but when I checked his relationships I saw his two children were babies. Probably in the fortress, then! Where?

When I zoomed to the location of one of his children, it took my cursor to an empty tile in the caverns, and I had a full-on flashback, suddenly realizing who this man was.

Forgotten beast, four years ago. A giant three-eyed spider invaded the caverns. I sent our primary squad of nearly-legendary fighters to engage, but there was a problem. It was sheltering up in the mushroom trees, spitting from range, and most of our troops used melee weapons. The captain of the guard threw herself into battle regardless, climbing into the mushroom tree and braving the beast's globs of deadly spittle. During the fight, the creature ripped one of the newborn twins she was carrying away from her (dwarven mothers, istg), and threw it out of the tree to the cavern floor. Then it did the same with the other twin. It followed them down and easily stomped them to death, and the captain flew into a rage. Their duel was sadly brief, but unlike so many fights where the loser passes out from pain/exhaustion and gets coup de grâce'd, she stayed on her feet and fought to her last breath. Her squad was able to finish the kill after she perished.

This was why our troublemaker was having such a hard time. I'd built a fancy tomb for my badass captain and the babies who fell in battle back when it happened, and this tavern keeper was the husband left behind. As goblins seiged the fortress and his pining for family only intensified over time, he'd finally reached his limit and could no longer hold it together.

I went back to trying to fix him, with the understanding that it was probably a lost cause. Maybe making sure he could have booze in jail instead of water would help? I waited for his next tantrum, where he helplessly canceled tasks to fight people because he was chained firmly to the prison wall. Then once he calmed, I swooped in and made a stockpile for alcohol that he could reach. Now to wait for someone to bri-- wait, what are those combat logs? There's no new tantrum ongoing, what...?

Turned out he'd earned a beating in addition to his prison sentence this time, and a fortress guard had finally come by to deliver it. The guard was armed, but as this was just a disciplinary beating, she only used her fists. Unfortunately she was still too strong, and it was the tavern keeper's turn to get a badly bruised spinal cord. I deflated a bit as I watched him suffocate, but couldn't help but feel it was a little bittersweet. He was no longer left behind.

[richardazer]

Blame the mlp smile virus | my little worms | rainbow radiation for this

Kara (stressed)

Status: non infected, immune.

Health: 90%

Sanity: 98%

Thirst: 9%

Hunger: 0%

Inventory: axe; maps.

Gumi (paranoid, scared)

Status: non infected.

Health: 100%

Sanity: 94%

Thirst: 0%

Hunger: 0%

Inventory: med kit; personal documents of the group; multi-tool.

Pete (anxious, tired)

Status: non infected

Health: 98%

Sanity: 92%

Thirst: 10%

Hunger: 0%

Inventory: guitar case with weapons; ammo; rope; climbing equipment.

Sparklez (hungry)

Status: second stage infected, sanity intact with minor changes

Health: 80%

Sanity: 60%

Thirst: 20%

Hunger: 65%

Inventory: sleeping bag; portable stove; gas can; water; cans of food; blanket.

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Got bitten when they were escaping the gun store. Immediate medical attention to the wound stopped the rot of soft tissue, bearable weakness.

Infection reached stage 2, most people would have gave into the hunger, Cap remained sane and in control of his body though urages have affected personality. Physical activity keeps him sane, assigned to do all heavy lifting.

[tasteslikesoap]

i think about how pink pantheress said if you can listen to kpop, you can listen to anything and i think about how i agree. but i also think about how incredibly frustrating kpop can be when it comes to boy groups.

if you're in it for the music, boy group kpop sounds like a slap in the face to your intelligence and it comes from a deeply misogynistic place. young girls are an impressionable market. send hot boys with too tight pants their way and they will buy any garbage. it's loveless music.

i think about how people will defend skz to the ends of the earth calling it "noise music". i wish that were true! i wish it was weird and funky and ambient and dronal! but instead you can practically hear the complacency in the production. "fuck it, no one is actually here to listen. throw in some more air horns". surprisingly, i feel like girl groups are far more experimental.

obviously, there are bg songs that i think are fantastic. but i can count them on one hand. i just wish that boy groups had the freedom to really sink their teeth into what kpop is and can be. i think about enhypen's vampire concept and how there's so many opportunities to make something new and interesting. to infuse bauhaus or early mcr or she wants revenge into modern kpop. i DREAM of the day they're allowed to be ugly and cover a song like "i never told you what i do for a living". yet every album roll-out is just more placid shopping-in-the-mall music. it's like watching a rabbit blindly chase a carrot, but that carrot is "these boys have got to sexier"- completely forgetting that they're here to perform songs.

[thingsidrawgohere]

So I made another art book. It's not a companion piece for Second Head but it does lurk behind it.

I collected the EnGaGeMeNt for SH (up a date), removed all user names, and categorized each piece according to patterns presented or random observations or just my feelings regarding it. And then I bolted the book shut.

There is one personal copy. This is not a commercial product (that's weird) nor for profit (that's weirder). There will never be another. The master files are deleted. I make no claims to others copyright, even as this is a derivative, transformative work of artistic intent. Provided I am fortunate, I will never open this book again.

Take-aways from the categorization: We say 'cool' a shockingly high amount. People are so nice, I needed five different colors of tabs to mark all the 'nice stuff'. There were a lot more people unfamiliar with 'grew a second head' than I expected.

You know, this was going to be a drastically different project. I was coming off a bizarre couple days, after thousands of people came to call. I'm a child of sloth and habit; I don't truck with this many people. On top of being- Well, let's describe it as 'misunderstood'. I was feeling overwhelmed. Helpless. Angry, if I'm honest.

But as I went through all the comments and tags and- charts, I realized it wasn't as bad as I thought. Isn't that funny? Reading people's personal history was really quite nice. I remain impressed by some of y'all's fucking gall but most folks were just as confused as I was. The human condition, I suppose.

Should it need said, I don't enjoy explaining to strangers I'm not the thirty-first stupidest person presently on Earth. Nor do I enjoy realizing I simply have to give up that pursuit in order to not go nuts.

I researched the phrase 'grow a second head' with the intended use-case Before I spent weeks on a book about it. I cannot, Can Not believe my fellow travelers thought I'm digging through fucking Rick and Morty incest fics without doing Any diligence. I am not That type of troubled.

(Of course, that doesn't change the fact that my first known introduction to the phrase was, Yes, fanfic. Only Grace Jones can step me, stranger.)

Ultimately, I decided that the research wasn't relevant to the project as presented. 'It's the repetition' I thought. 'Folks will get it' I thought.

And thusly- Twist- I Am the thirty-first stupidest person on Earth to people who have immediately forgotten me. Now, obviously, no matter how clear I thought I was, I did not communicate appropriately, given the repeated misunderstanding. After all, I'm Still, To This Day, Even With The Updates, getting folks explaining 'it's not from fanfic'. But it is wild. The response was, in of itself, mimetic in a way. A project about repetition and propagation and yeah, imitation, in culture did- This. It's very nearly a fucking larf. Har. Har.

That's why Here is my little artist's statement. In a separate post. With my feelings of disappointment, vanity, bewildered annoyance, my personhood. And over There are the pictures. The signified and the signifier, detached. Throw the CONTENT in one way and run in the other. It's not even that people were 'mean' or 'ignorant'. They were absolutely not. I can't stress that enough. There's simply too much. We must hoard our full attention for our highest joys. We live like this now.

This is a lot of words for Tumblr (historically, a failure point) yet this whole thing is For Me. I'm having a good time. This isn't a problem. Argentina, it's cool. I'm simply working through art-school-based solutions to my feelings. Is this shitty? I don't know. But dot dot dot. If I Did go Joker Mode, I assure you it would be Cesar Romero.

Anyways, I did a bit of research and dug up the definitive origin of 'grew a second head'. It's true. It's in a book.

[fanta2y]

alright guys i don’t usually post myself on here but i need a place to infodump in peace and my friends are tired of me…sooooo :) this is anime spoilers kinda, im caught up with the anime and sorta caught up with the manga for jjk so proceed with caution!!

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what i love most about the parallel or the writing choice to express sukuna as fire and destruction and yuuji as like a snow storm and ice is because of the differences that with which they are perceived.

fire is know to be bad, it always has been bad and the people who enjoy it, more often than not, find joy in the destruction but there is no one who doesn’t believe fire DOESNT hurt like if you touch it you get burned. this matches sukunas power type and just overall personality well, you get too close he will kill you unless you have some use to him.

with yuuji he’s nice he’s sweet he’s cute he has a strong moral compass, much like a snow day you don’t think anything particularly wrong with a snow day you can enjoy it and have fun and it won’t hurt you at first. but spend too long in the snow, and then you get hypothermia. much like how mahito pushes yuuji too far and gets his ass beat. also the way hypothermia works, right before like it gets REALLY bad your brain tricks itself into thinking your warm. like the parts of your body that are experiencing hypothermia will begin to feel warm again it won’t feel as bad and most people are tricked into thinking everything is okay,

i like this because it’s similar to the way mahito drew himself into this false sense of security when it came to fighting yuuji. he knew he wouldn’t go too far or do certain things because of his morale compass, and much like how you get warm before you die of hypothermia. mahito got comfortable pushing yuji because he convinced himself he wouldn’t fight back, not in anyway that would hurt mahito permanently. until he did, until it was too late.

UGH GEGE YOUR A GENIUS .

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i’ve always had like a thought about the fact that yuuji was perceived as ice and sukunas main thing is like fire and very red colored things. so i was thinking about it and then this came to mind and honestly it’s so good like even if it’s not what gege intended when writing it i still think it’s cool !!

who knows i might be doing more i have a notes FULL of fun little things ive noticed within jjk that i just type away whenever it comes to me so … :))

[esfordays]

Uhm

[theflyingcosmos]

I wrote the second chapter(excluding the prologue) for my fanfic and it's just over 2.5k words lmfao

[mello-when-hi]

Hey, my latest fic just bumped my AO3 word count to 100K!! That’s pretty fuckin epic I think

[noratheelk]

I just think I should document this somewhere. So, I’m dyslexic. I recently bought a book: ‘Star Trek: The Vulcan Academy Murders’ it’s a tie-in novel. The book itself doesn’t really matter. I don’t usually read books with my eyes because the dyslexia makes it an incredibly slow and draining task. I usually stick to audiobooks but this book didn’t have an audiobook form, and it’s a lot harder to read a page of an audiobook when the teacher is talking than it is to look at a page in a physical book. So I read my book, it took me about a week. I was also really tired all week. And I was sleeping just as much if not more than I usually do, still, I was almost falling asleep in class and had almost no energy for anything. When I finished my book, I was back to my upbeat, energetic self. I understand that correlation is not causation and I’ll need to read a few more books to test this hypothesis but it would seem that reading a book, the way normal, non-dyslexic people do, is so cognitively draining for me that I physically cannot do it at the same rate as others. On one hand, this really validated my experience and frustration with reading. But another part of me is sad that I’ll never be able to read books with the ease and efficiency of some of my peers.

[carolina-star]

I know it's have been a while since i post anything and I'm so sorry. I wasn't feeling with enough energy and my mind was a freaking mess (is still a mess but that's not the point).

What I'm trying to said is: thank you for still reading and watching my drawings and stories, dosen't Matter if they're AU or original.

I can't promise much but i'll try to post again. And answering my Tumblr mail and my ask me something. If you have being waiting fo my answerd I'm so sorry, I'm trying.

If you want to know anything about my AUs or original story please let me know in my ask me something. Maybe it'll help me to draw and expand the AUs a little more.

I need motivation.

Thanks for reading.

[4aceclover]

There's so many herbs out there and this is only A-F

(however this is the good kind of educational I'm fine with this)

Herbs & Correspondences A-F

This is going to be a looonnnnnggg post, I have gotten all the herbs I can find/remember the correspondences of herbs in alphabetical order, so I might actually break it down into sections and link them on each post at the top.

Acorn - Good luck, personal power, protection and wisdom. Dried acorns are a natural amulet for youthfulness. Associated with Litha. Element water. 

Agrimony - Shielding and hex-breaking, aids sleep, brings luck towards you and is powerful in spell reversal.  Element Air. 

Alder - Helps you to face up to things you are avoiding, divination, teaching especially anything arty and weather magic. Element Fire. 

Alfalfa - Money, prosperity and a happy home, also anti-hunger. Generosity and luck.  Element Earth. 

Allspice - Draws money and business success.  Aids compassion, luck and healing. Element Fire.   

Angelica - Also called Archangel. It is a very powerful protection herb, healing, creates harmony and courage and helps in exorcisms.  Aids vision. Element Air. 

Apple - Garden magic, love, healing and wisdom, also vanity, marriage and beauty. Associated Mabon & Samhain. Element water. 

Ash - Spells relating to the sea, protection, and luck. Make your Yule log from ash and burn to bring prosperity. Yggdrasil was an Ash tree.  Element water. 

Basil - Also called witch's herb. Use in spells for Love, exorcism, wealth, sympathy, and protection. Associated with Imbolc. Aids astral projection. Element Fire. 

Bay Leaf - Protection, success, purification, strength, wisdom and healing, also increases psychic powers. Element Fire. 

Beech - Happiness, inspiration and divination. Represents the Green Man.  Element Air. 

Belladonna - Also Called: Deadly Nightshade. Toxic. Use for forgetting past loves. Protection, beauty and original flying ointments. Adds energy to rituals.   Element Water. 

Benzoin - Purification, prosperity, and helps to soothe tension by dispelling anger and lessening irritability, de stressing, helps depression, concentration and astral projection. Element Air.  

Bergamot - Money, prosperity and sleep.  Protects from both evil and illness. Good luck and wealth. Increases magical power.  Element Fire.  

Birch - Protection, exorcism and purification. Dispels lightning, infertility, and the evil eye. Associated with Yule. Element Water.  

Black Pepper - Banishing negativity, exorcism, and offers protection and help with inner strength.  Element Fire  

Blackthorn - Exorcisms, warding off negative spirits and general protection.  Associated with Samhain. Element Earth.  

Bladderwrack - Protection, sea and wind spells, attracts money, psychic powers, and customers to your business. Element Water. 

Blessed Thistle - or Holy Thistle. Purification, protection against negativity and evil, hex breaking and aids vitality.  Carry on you for strength and protection. Element Earth. 

Blueberry - Protection of children, keeps evil out, and strengthens the aura.  Associated with the Great Spirit. Element Water. 

Borage Flower - Self Courage, peace, calm, self-love and strength. Element Air. 

Burdock - Also called Beggar’s buttons. Used for cleansing magic and warding off negativity. Protection, healing and persistence spells.  Element Water.  

Calendula - Also called Marigold. It attracts success and justice in legal matters. Increases psychic/spiritual powers and aid prophetic dreams. Dispels negativity.  Element Fire.   

Cardamom - Lust, love, and fidelity. Sweetens the personality   Use in handfasting's. Element Water.  

Carnation - Protection, strength, healing, enhancing magical powers, and achieving balance.   Element Fire.  

Catnip - Also called Nepeta. Use when working with animals.  Draws love, luck and happiness, also used in beauty magic.  Associated with Bast. Element Water. 

Cedarwood - Luck, strength and power.  It helps increase money and protection. Also healing.    Associated with Mabon. Element Earth. 

Cedar Berries - Also Called: Juniper Berries.  Protective, cleansing and repels negativity very well. Used in healing rites.  Element Fire.  

Celandine - Cures depression, treats piles, improves circulation. Brings about Joy and happiness. Solar Magic.  Element Fire. 

Chamomile - Love, sleep, protection and purification, also reduce stress.  Use for meditation work and to attract money. Solar Magic. Element Water. 

Chervil - Helps healing, flatulence and superstition.  It is considered the herb for bringing in new life.  Element Water.  

Chickweed - Also called Witches Grass. Use in moon spells. Also good for animal magic, relationships, love and fertility. Element Water.  

Chili - Fidelity, love and passion.  Also hex breaking. Element Fire.  

Cinnamon - Also called Sweet Wood. Use for Solar magic.  Meditation and astral projection. Increases spirituality, success, healing, protection, power, luck, strength, and prosperity. Element Fire.  

Clover, Red - Also called Trefoil. used in any spells relating to marriage, love, lust and fidelity. Success is linked to money.  Element Air.  

Clove - Use to protect, banish negative forces, and divination.  It also helps with any teeth spells. Aids money and draws love.  Element Fire.  

Coltsfoot - Aids wealth.  Works with peace, tranquility, prosperity, and love. Associated with Brighid. Element Water. 

Comfrey - Also called Slippery Root.  Supports magic healing and safe travel. Use for money, endurance and stability spells. Element Water. 

Coriander - Love, lust and health.  Used as an aphrodisiac and to heal migraines. Brings peace & protection to the home. Element Fire.   

Cornflower - Used primarily as an Ink for your Book of Shadows. It is the patron herb of herbalists. Use in rituals to give honor to the mother of all nature, also connected to Rainbow and Crystal children.  Element Earth. 

Cumin - Fidelity, protection, and exorcism.  Also used in love spells and food which can also promote fidelity.  Element Earth   

Cypress - Associated with death and mourning; stimulates healing and helps overcome the pain of loss.  Other properties include self-esteem, protection, love and banishing nightmares. Element Earth. 

Damiana - Lust, sex magic and attracting love. It is thought to be an aphrodisiac. Use for astral projection and spirit quests.  Element Fire. 

Dandelion Leaf - Used to summon spirits, make wishes on, healing, purification and defeating negativity.  Element Air.  

Dandelion Root - Magical uses include divination, wishes and calling spirits. It also enhances dreams and works well in astral projection. Element Air. 

Dock Root- (Yellow). Used to release baggage no longer needed. Also, fertility, healing and money magic. Clears blockages and cuts bindings.  Solar Magic. Element Air. 

Echinacea - Adds a boost to clairvoyant and psychic abilities. Adds powerful strength to spells used in money drawing magic, fertility and abundance and provides the user with protective power. Element Earth. 

Elder Tree - Sleep, releasing enchantments, protection against negativity, banishing. 

Elderflower & Berry - Peace, protection, and healing, plus aids in exorcisms.  Element Water.  

Elm - Energizes the mind and balances the heart. Aids love spells and offer protection from lightning. Element Water. 

Evening Primrose - Ideal for moon magic. Also use in love charms and to attract fae.  Element Water.  

Eyebright - Increases mental power, psychic ability and inner vision.  Element Air.  

Fennel Seed - Helps with meditation.  Healing, purifying and protection.  Also linked with new motherhood and offers inner strength. Element Air.  

Feverfew - Aids poor health.  Protection against accidents when travelling and protection when working with spirit.  Carry on you for inner strength. Element Water. 

Flax Seed - Also called Linseed. Used for money spells and healing rituals. It helps with beautiful spells and offers protection.  Element Fire. 

Fleawort - Healing, Cleansing, strength and power. The Goddess' herbs. Element Earth. 

Frankincense Resin - Use in solar magic. Associated with Beltane, Lammas, and Yule. Use in rituals and magic associated with self-control, spirituality and protection.  Also regulates emotions and helps depression. Element Earth  

Fumitory - Associated with the underworld and used at Samhain. Linked to spells for monetary gain, consecration and protection. Element Earth.  

[tierras]

in los angeles, the historically Black community of altadena has been decimated by the ongoing eaton fire.

afropunk has created a spreadsheet of gofundmes of displaced Black individuals and families affected by the current los angeles fires. the list is constantly being updated.

please donate what you can and share widely.

[anotherpapercut]

I don't really think it's fair to dismiss the idea that that guy might have been framed for killing the CEO as like an unfounded conspiracy theory when NYPD has a proven history of planting/fabricating evidence on people. in 2011 there was a massive investigation of the NYPD and hundreds of cases against people were dismissed after a former police officer testified that they literally have a name for planting evidence on people: flaking. you cannot be out here acting like considering the possibility that cops who do this shit under normal circumstances might possibly also do it when they're under intense global pressure and scrutiny is the same as republicans thinking democrats run a secret pedophile ring in the basement of a pizza restaurant

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again