#and then I go home! to my real life!

[manwithoutaspleen]

This job has been uniquely challenging and made me really have to accept my neurodivergence cause like. In college I just found other neurodivergent gay people. In grad school like everyone there was weird they were in grad school for writing lmao but like we all at least had something in common and it was people like. Slightly older than me mostly. And most of my work has been with. Kids as a their teacher and mostly elderly people? At least middle aged like I have NOT spent time w a lot of people who were exactly my age or a little younger and not at least been able to self select for like. People who Get It in some way. So I’m really struggling out there and largely have just accepted that like the way I am is weird to a lot of people. But the nice people are gonna be nice about it and we can be friendly and maybe friends if I ever get social energy again and the mean people are gonna be mean! Like people are starting to feel comfortable making snide comments in front of me when I “can’t hear” and you know what! Good! I’m glad to know you suck? And whether it’s the neurodivergent thing or the trans thing or what it still just is shitty for them to do, but doesn’t mean I need to change. Change to please people who are mean? That I don’t like??? And like the majority of people ARE nice even if we have challenges communicating sometimes, which happens between people all the time anyway. God I have been through the absolute wringer this year of personal growth I thought it was almost over but. It continues.

[dreamdripdistance]

i know there's lots of different nuances to you and to me

[alfheimr]

i drew this way over a year ago but i think i just forgot to post it here. ingo adventure dx

[vaguely-concerned]

just had the thought 'in the end the most important thing varric taught rook was how to make a home for, with, and in other people' and then I had to go lie down on the floor and clutch at my head in unceasing agony for a few hours, as you may well imagine. hawke and the kirkwall crew........ in the end you kind of saved the world a bit in the most characteristically indirect and chaotic of ways. not by anything in particular that you did or achieved or accomplished (lmao imagine!), but just by -- having existed, and by the love that was always there, despite it all, in all its imperfections, even when no one was saved by it in the end. you're not here right now and you're not quite haunting the narrative but I hear your voices bickering and arguing and laughing from the other room. (and so, I think, does varric. all the time.)

'did you think you mattered, hawke? did you think anything you ever did mattered?' yeah actually, varric says with da2 and keeps saying through the series. you were here. and I loved you. and as it turns out that mattered more than almost anything in the world, no matter how long it lasted or how fucked up it was at the time or what else happens, because varric manages to pass that feeling, that intangible... home, that echo of you all as you were together, that love, hopefully the best parts of it, on to someone else for them to bring with them on their journey, with their family. and maybe the world will be kinder this time. you never know. merrill's line of 'Everything affects everything. We were born, a bunch of things happened, and now we're in a mess with our friends.' varric's greatest fear of becoming his parents. even through the wreck and the ruin of the world, ghosts upon ghosts upon ghosts of love -- malcolm hawke, who we never even see, but his life touched hawke's and hawke's touched varric's and varric's touched rook's and rook is passing it on to the family they're creating. the unbroken legacy of love shines through in ways that are stronger and stranger than any magic. help

[tehcherrya]

It is 100% possible for them to create a movie out of the Scouring of the Shire.

I know most of the Hobbit actors are now too old to reprise their roles accurately, but you know a solution to that? Flashbacks! Have the pitch being the older Pippin, Merry and Sam telling the stories of the Scouring of the Shire to their children and or other companions-- Having younger, similar looking actors play them in the flashback sequence. Which makes sense, as it's just the form of a memory--

And this within itself brings up a myriad of different elements at play too. Different perspectives. Different hobbit family members being introduced. Fatty Bolger lovers! He'd be included too! His sister Estella too (she later became Merry's wife after all!)

What truly happens when lands so fair and peaceful, never having to see war in ages, are suddenly ravaged by brutal violence? How do Hobbits, who once lived very simple lives, then force themselves to become warriors and heroes? How do they then recover to semi-normalcy? And in present day... have they ever truly come to said normalcy?

All the fun-loving hobbit content combined with the very real level of a Hobbit who has seen war, describing its reality, and recovery, to his children. While yes, the actual "scouring" would have ended with the Battle of Bywater, that's not where the actual story ends, as the title has a double meaning. The physical Scouring of the Shire... as well as the scars left behind not only on our heros, but on the land. How does one, after seeing death, manage to make home feel like home again?

We need a Scouring of the Shire movie-- And it wouldn't be too impossible.

[schrodingerseurydice]

odysseus the moment when, for the first time in 20 years, nobody is trying to kill him: whelp, guess it's time to kms

[kissthebridee]

if i ever stop talking abt this movie just know im either dead or have been hacked because oh my god. genuinely the most gorgeous movie ive ever seen.

[mirensiart]

Hey that's me again ! I swear I got your notif all day long! Are you sometime sleeping ? And HOW are you doing so much art and answer questions so quickly EVERY DAY ! Just don't overwork yourself OK?

(But I've got another question for u 👀)

I've been thinking (sometime I'm thinking yeah) have Ravio and Legend any communication trick ? Are they using their pain cursed to communicate sometime. Like they pinch themselve? I mean to ask if the other's okay, one on them pinch himself on his arm the other respond by pinching his other arm to say yes or no (and if there is no answer, well that is obviously very bad).

Have a nice day and thank you for all your work !!

I work from home and sometimes work gets veeeeery boring and people like sending me asks lol so I just check my phone regularly (i can't open tumblr in my company pc lol) 🙈 that and I also draw fast! So sometimes I just draw stuff while on company time cause like, not my fault they're on the 1827392th zoom meeting of the day and I have ADHD lol

But thank you! I'm sorry for the constant spamming, especially last night, the booping saga was... a lot lol (and it CONTINUES)

Anyway, to answer your ask! That is such a cute mental image oh my god I can def see legend coming up with it 🥹💖 but the pain sharing curse would probably screw that up

I can absolutely see the others pinching themselves in revenge when legend does it the first time (they don't know why he's doing it lol) and now ravio is sitting in legend's living room feeling like 7 pinches in succession and being all ??????????

[louferrignojrofficial]

don’t forget about me when i’m gone 🥺

[knowlesian]

not to project like a motherfucker on natalie berzatto but ohhhh boy the impact of a narrative that says “hey, is your desire to make sure everybody around you is okay also about you? and could that perhaps be partially a maladaptive trauma response you should look into and maybe mitigate? because if it’s a genuine question that’s fine, but if the only answer you will respond well to hearing is yes that’s a You Issue Too, Babe”

[xxri]

maría for the ad astra zine! lc u will be missed T_T

[crispyliza]

[deoidesign]

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[thornswoggled]

@ivimidnite173 you have put worms in my brain. are you happy? is that what you wanted? i have not been able to stop thinking about this and ive decided to make it everyones problem

for your consideration:

i dont earnestly believe this will go anywhere especially given that lindsay st george says in ch 96 that chise could "disrupt the order of the college," like i dont think it would be necessarily beneficial to the st georges at all, but i think its sooo interesting to think about. the prospect of chise being paired with someone else could also force elias to figure out the real reason he wanted chise to be his bride, because there is still no way he actually knows

i think they could have a loveless genderfuck lavender marriage. i should be allowed this, as a treat

[tokyoteddywolf]

Took a trip to Leavenworth, the mountains are pretty :D

But I think I prefer home best.