#also consider: libraries

[thesweetnessofspring]

Sunrise on the Reaping Preorder

Just wanted to encourage THG fans to preorder/buy Sunrise on the Reaping from a local bookstore of yours instead of Amazon. Amazon is having a massively negative effect on publishing, so supporting local bookstores would be a fantastic way of breaking down Amazon's monopoly!

Check out indiebound.org to find a local bookstore, or order from any indie bookstore and get it shipped. You can also use bookshop.org as another way of purchasing from local bookstores.

[shiroikabocha]

not sure if meticulously copying an ASCII image onto paper in a half-assed calligraphic style counts as “art” but, if it does, here is an Art

Our Lady of Perpetual Disagreement, patron saint of the Death of the Author: Milton Library Assistant

and here’s a color-flipped version (red text preserved) that my good friend made for me, since I can't for the life of me get my scanner working:

[bonetrousledbones]

very rushed and very messy but here is frisk at college for the 9th anniversary :> they probably wouldn't be able to go home for every celebration, but video calls can substitute well enough in the meantime

[genericpuff]

What is the “Wayback Machine” that you mentioned bey ??

The Wayback Machine is an archiving crawler tool designed and hosted by The Internet Archive to document sites throughout their lifetime. It's not 100% reliable as how often a site gets crawled typically comes down to how frequently it updates and / or how much it's visited (and it doesn't store images / videos as well as just general text), but it's often what I use for my own research and investigating when I need to access information that may no longer be available on live sites (like old blogs, galleries, news articles, etc.) It's definitely my go-to when I need to go on my rabbithole dives, for better and for worse LOL

[mulberriesandtea]

Before I forget. I Made More. (Warning: last meme in this post is somewhat nsfw, I'll warn again when you get there)

nsfw v

[ivie-online]

not a surprise but google is continuously getting worse. searches related to items that can be bought will return endless shopping options, then a few vaguely sourced blogs (made by or for businesses that link to even more shopping options). google scholar is fine for subjects that are broadly represented in western academia, but good luck getting past the abstract without an institution to sign in with, hundreds of loose dollars, or a 3rd party site that works roughly 20% of the time. an entire civilization that has compiled near endless amounts of information, but no unified way to quickly and accurately access it. shouldn’t be of any concern though. i’m sure

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

thank you WH update for confirming that Wally breathes. i really thought he didnt <3

[tblsomedoodles]

Some Venus ideas

seriously debating on adding Venus to FW so here's some early designs. (like i'm not sure i'll keep the eyebrow marks, they look kinda funky at times). Mostly b/c them having another sister would be adorable. And it would piss Draxum off, which would be hilarious (for reasons i'll explain.)

some more about her under the cut. But it's mostly just random brainstorming i did at 3am

18 yo (3 years older than Raph)

Mutated Ornate Wood Turtle (using some of Lou's DNA.) (so no spider traits.)

Technically their Half sister since Big Mama's not her mother. (not that that will stop Mama from mothering her. She'd get her own room in the hotel and everything : ) )

Was mutated 'first' to test the mutagen.

She was 5 when the boys were mutated.

Venus got misplaced during resulting explosion. eventually found and taken in by the Library Bats. Which is exactly what pisses off Draxum b/c he knows exactly where she is but the bats refuse to give her back to him lol. And no one messes with the bats. (he's got thrown into the kiddy room several times for trying lol)

she's very quiet, shy, and very anxious about and unsure how to socialize with people in general. (✨social anxiety✨)

I don't think she's much of a fighter. like at all. Pretty sure the only way she would fight would be mystics (ie standing in the back taking magic missile esc pot shots wizard style.) she might actually be more of a pacifist than anything. I'm getting the feeling that she wants little to do with fighting or violence personally. Like she wouldn't judge her siblings on it, but she doesn't want to participate. (the only exception being that if someone/thing is hurting said siblings. b/c once she's emotionally attached to those kids, anything seriously trying to hurt her siblings do not get the luxury of her just standing by.)

that's about it.

and a meme about how thoroughly this au is going off track.

[muntadhir]

somebody probably already posted about this like 84 years ago but I've been doing a series on DW about "Interesting Things I Find in 2023's Hit Lies of P," so

what the GUI says the plaque says:

Great fortune to all visitors Rest for all travelers Blessings to all friends

what the plaque actually says (a quote from Pinocchio, spoken by the Fairy):

Let me tell you that every man, whether he is born rich or poor, is obliged to do something in this world—to occupy himself, to work. Woe to those who lead slothful lives. Sloth is a dreadful illness and must be cured at once, in childhood. If not, when we are old it can never be cured.’ Pinocchio

[sachermorte]

swear I'm getting sicker and not better

[lynxfrost13]

Maybe I’ll finally Wanze post soon

[r0b0t1me]

rough concept art for the hidden city post invasion.. a barren wasteland picked clean..

[straydogged]

oh god. the KT tape we used to stabilize my elbows yesterday + today is like. superglued to my arm hairs and won't budge... the plan is to take it off in the shower, since doing it dry fucked up my shoulder skin the other day, but. aaaaah........

[sebek-zigbolt]

[smokewars]

yknow what i'll put this in the main tags one of my main worries with this (other than the safety of the cg illustrator that was fired and employees at project moon obviously) is that it feels like everytime theres a controversy, project moon just lie down and take it. theyre like doormats. appeasing them isnt going to make them stop, if anything it makes them more likely to do something like this again because they know its going to work and because it HAS before (im looking at ruina)

[carcarrot]

you'll be pleased to know that on my first day back at my job after my two week vacation i am already in one of my semi-regular Job Crises where i feel like if i dont find a new, better job soon im going to explode into 5 billion pieces