#and it still is

[the-unfortunate-ly]

i miss summer

[vangh17a]

As it says, thank you guys so much for 600!

We haven't even reached the main plot of the comic, y'all are nuts! <3 (It's gonna happen in the next couple updates I promise KLSDFJ)

Mushy stuff and no text alt under the cut!

I wish I could reply to all the tags and comments left on my comic but seeing everyone's theories and enjoyment gives me so much serotonin I can't focus hahaha Just know I see you guys and I absolutely adore you <3

In celebration of 600, I'm holding a AMA! I'll probably hold a DTIYS after I reach a certain point in the story~ Ask away, and I'll do my best to answer questions you might have. And hahahaha, no, I won't be spoiling anything ;)

Thank you guys again!

[danelloevee-sky]

After I finish my commission I'll have to work on redesigning some outfits and designing work uniforms for my characters so that'll be fun

[microwave-core]

very normal conversation i started last night while having an existential crisis

[lesbiten]

i forgot that plush was a donna episode :-) love her so much and such a good episode

[lohstandfound]

there are some stories in mythologies that start with two deities. everything else exists because of them. Gaia and Ouranos, Terra and Caelus, Ranginui and Papatūānuku, for example.

we start with Jake and Chloe.

instead of being the sky father and the earth mother, we have creation and destruction. light and dark. forgiveness and vengeance.

total opposite, but a dynamic pair

it was just them for a while, having fun building their world. things got messy, of course

it suddenly gets boring when you have only one person to spend eternity with

somehow, they learn to create life

jenna was the first to join them. she sees all. overwhelming. glimpses of the future, connections between people. it was like she could reach out and physically touch the string connecting jake and chloe. she discovered that whenever she messed with those lines, it affected the relationships. however, jenna was not the cause of the strained relationship between jake and chloe. she longed to discover what would happen if one were to cut that string. maybe she could have tested it when she saw new strings connecting to jake and chloe, but even then she didn't dare to interfere.

jeremy, michael, and christine. thick as theives and artists at heart. they danced around their feelings for an agonisingly long time (and they have eterninty)

rich was made from jake's mourning. he walked out of the fire from chloe's destruction and stopped in front of jake as he watched their temples fall

brooke was once a mere mortal who fell in love with chloe. she eventually gave up her friends, her family, her life, her mortality to spend eternity with chloe. and she would watch those from her old life mourn and grow and move on from afar, always making sure that her birthplace was well fed, well protected, well taken care of.

jake and chloe discover it's much better to spend eternity with their little family than by themselves

(jake and chloe never knew where they came from. never knew that someone else created them. but they know more than anyone else that anything that has been created can also be destroyed)

[itsaseamonster]

Oh no oh no somebody stop me I am on a 3 hours train ride and going through Athelnar tag again.

[darcyolsson]

we never painted by the numbers baby but we were making it count..... I've heard this song about a million times but I still love it as much as I did the first time I heard it I think

[victor-v]

Yeah obviously people under 18 shouldn't read aftg I mean 17 might be fine but idk. I read it back in like 2019 because I heard its similar to six of crows (when I was a minor) and no one gave me any warnings about the book, I think that's a big problem here.

listen it's totally understandable that a teen picks up the book because the characters and overall themes are very catchy. i've seen many fans doing lists of trigger warnings (which are literally everything) but the book doesn't warn about that, and i don't remember picking up any book that does. i think that the age of the characters is borderline young adult with new adult, but the themes and the way they are explicitly narrated definitely is for adults which makes it kinda confusing? still. the eternal conversation about how to rate books you know. i personally recommend the book to a really reduced group of people, and definitely not to people younger than 18. and this will come as an asshole, which i am, but i know a lot of teens are attracted to violence (me) so i don't think this kinda narrative helps with everything going on in their developing brain.

now buddy, who lied to you.... like who compares it to six of crows, other than the found family trope it has nothing to do with it.

[theindiscreetbookworm]

Look.

I didn't like season 2, okay? I think I've been very clear about that. I didn't like the way it didn't give anyone proper character development, I didn't like where it left Ed and Stede, and I certainly didn't like what it did to Izzy. I wasn't attached to a season 3. Let's be honest, I probably would've watched it. (Okay, I definitely would've, I'm not proud.) But I wasn't, shall we say, optimistic.

HOWEVER

I want to talk about why I'm sad anyway. Because this show changed my life. Truly. I mean it. I know I'm not nearly the first person to say that, I know it's a common experience. And that makes it all the more special.

I found OFMD in February 2023. Nearly one year ago. I'd been hearing things about it, but I hadn't sat down to watch it because I was, it turns out, horrifically depressed. I shied away from things, and tv shows especially, that I knew would make me feel things. And then, three weeks before I watched it, I finally went on meds. And then, finally, I watched season 1. I watched it in two sittings. And it lit me up like nothing had in a very long time, if ever. I thought the part of me that cared about things this way was long dead. I felt like a new person.

A lot happened all at the same time. OFMD came to me right when I was ready for it. It helped me begin to explore non-binary womanhood. It got me writing again, after a very very long time, and in ways I'd never been able to access before. It woke my mind up, and connected it back to my heart.

I'll never be able to be grateful enough for that. We can quibble over the details (and, believe me, I intend to continue to do so), but the show struck some kind of lightning. The right people were behind pens, and drawing boards, and characters. The right people made it onto that screen.

I'm still writing. It's slower now, that initial feverish pitch I felt having been significantly tempered. But I'll offer up the characters I love for you, again and again and again, long after the lights have come down.

I don't think any of us could've dreamt this queer magic, we tiny queer weirdos desperately reaching out for the smallest morsels for so, so long but, for a moment, we had it, and it showed us that it's possible. I hope to see what's coming next.

[astralarias]

bright eyes is such a snowdrop song </3

[wjbminecraft]

It just rained really hard for, like, a minute, then immediately stopped, because apparently the entire borough has been transported into Minecraft.

[deafleppard]

Paramore has simply never let me down and they never will I will be listening to nothing but this album for the foreseeable future

[neurodecadence]

Awoo. But in like deerful way

[softbutchvodkasoup]

The answer in this metaphor is to get experience cooking and learn what the ingredients are.

Source: imm autistic. Implying we can't learn or figure things out IS abelism.

If you want some idea of how much autistic people struggle to understand allistic people when they don’t say exactly what they mean, take a cooking recipe and replace all units of measure with “enough but not too much”. For example:

enough but not too much white sugar

enough but not too much butter

enough but not too many eggs

enough but not too much vanilla extract

enough but not too much flour

enough but not too much baking powder

enough but not too much milk

preheat oven to hot enough but not too hot

bake for long enough but not too long

Even someone who’s experienced with cooking would probably struggle to follow that recipe. Now imagine if they had no experience cooking and had no idea what these ingredients are.