#day 3! yay! i'm getting there

[rebornofstars]

Hi @devil-acid! Your artwork is just incredibly colourful and gorgeous and has inspired me to continue creating for this fandom. I admire you a lot, so I wrote this short piece for you as part of the Fan Joy July challenge based on your artwork. I hope that’s okay!

“Ssh,” says Hyrule, as Wind draws in a breath. “Don’t say anything.” Wind’s mouth closes with a soft clop. He hunches over the little patch of blossoms that are tipped towards the sun in the corner of the woods. The soft pink petals seem to glisten as they reflect the shine from Hyrule’s wings— Because somehow, the traveller has wings. “You’re sitting in a flower,” Wind says, choking up. He cups the plant in his hands. Hyrule beams up at him. He’s so small. “Yeah,” he says. “It’s a secret to everybody. Do you promise not to tell?” “I promise.” Wind can’t hide the wonder in his voice when he says, “you’re a fairy.” The wings flutter at that, quick and bright, sending kaleidoscopes of light spinning across the flower. Wind’s eyes are so round they hurt. Hyrule looks unbothered. Are the extra appendages so intrinsically a part of him that it was an unconscious movement? Can he not see the way that he shines?  “Sort of,” the traveller responds. “Not technically? Or, maybe technically but not biologically? I don’t know how to explain. It’s just a spell.” “You’re a fairy,” Wind repeats, still awestruck. Hyrule laughs. It's the same laugh that Wind’s heard from across the campfire for months now, but now there’s a sound like a bell laid on top of it, chiming clear and high, and his wings thrum. The air ripples, just a little, in ways that are difficult to notice but hard to forget. “Do you think you can carry me back to camp?” Hyrule asks. His face is the size of Wind’s thumbnail. A little tentative. A little hopeful. “Sure,” says Wind. “Why? Don’t feel like walking?” He holds out his hands and Hyrule flits over, reaching for his fingers for balance. It’s bewildering, watching their traveller curl both arms around his pinky. The touch is light and almost unnoticeable, but the glow of his wings becomes even more apparent lighting up the cradle of Wind’s palm. He’s like a tiny star. He’s even warm. “Something like that,” Hyrule says. “It’s a bit too far to fly.” Wind watches the way he’s holding his right leg, stiff and white-knuckled, and quietly vows to shove a red potion at him as soon as they get back to camp. He lifts Hyrule away from the sun-kissed patch of flowers as gently as he can.

Fan Joy July Masterpost

trying new stuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuff

ft lu hyrule

[icewindandboringhorror]

I made a few new wax seal stamps out of clay (like the ones I did for my worldbuilding stuff forever ago), this time just of random symbols that I thought might look good done in the style of painting over the raised part of the wax or etc. :0c Some of them aren't carved deep enough to really show up that well, but overall they worked okay for being clay lol

[msue0027]

Can i be picky, pricky, mean and bitch a little? Pretty please?

So, I've watched x-men apocalypse (wow, I'm soo early to this party). It was nice, and look, there's my country (so of course I'm gonna have opinions). And well. I've been reading fanfics, and as i skim thru the tags i see Nina Gurzsky, and then again, and hm again, and who tf is Nin... Oh, NINA, as in Erik's daughter. Wait, Gurzsky?

What kind of surname is that? Because it's not Polish. (but we can fix that.)

I know in comics Magda is of Romani ancestry but i don't remember it being mentioned in the movie? So i guess she's polish-polish. And "Gurzsky" looks like she's 4th or 5th generation of emmigrants to america, has let everyone pronounce the name anyhow which led to diff spelling, and doesn't speak polish anymore.

(Really, who came up with that name, I'd like a word. What was your reasoning, your reasearch, the background you came up for Magda? Maybe it makes sense and is justified to be like that? Maybe I'm wrong, don't have all the info, misunderstood something? Then I'm really sorry.)

Nonetheless, let us begin. Gurzsky

So i guess anglophones just skip this surname all together, but let's try to read it. It would be something like goo-zh-ski or goor-zz-ski. Both are bad and hard to pronounce. Why is the "z" there? Why complicate it unnecessarily? Let's drop it (some ppl would do it anyway, even if it being there was justified, it's called simplification and it happens when there's many hard consonats next to each other, or something, i'm half asleep). My brain did it intuitively upon reading this name. It shouldn't be there. There's no reason i could see. So it's Gursky now.

Ehh. How many times? "-ski" is traditional ending of a polish surname, and used to indicate nobility. "-sky" is traditional transliteration from cyrylic alphabet, it's for the russian surnames. (And the ending "-sky" came there from Poland.) (I'm very passionate about that, sorry not sorry. But don't get me started at another polish surname "-cki" bc americans always pronounce it wrong. That “c” is separate letter and not just “k”, and i don't think i can find corresponding sound in english language (so you might be forgiven) and i don't want to bombard you with IPA (never mind, next day me kinda wants, so, it’s like “ts”, or german “z”), especially that it's not main topic of that post. But really, you could put some effort. We know the language is very different from your own, with weird sounds, but please, try. We're gonna love you for that. For one word. Anything really. Well, you already know “kurwa”, so maybe one more. Sorry, i digress.) So, it's "-ski", but not really. This type of surname changes based on gender. "-ski" is masculine, and "-ska" is feminine. Yes, not always, there are women with “-ski” and men with “-ska”, but then it does not flex at all (same form for both genders). You just have to ask. But that's minority. So now it's Gurska.

And surnames don't have to follow general rules of orthography and flexion, they can have their own unique spelling and way of decletion, you need to ask the bearer of the name. But. They still usually do. So looking at that name? It begs to be the deriving from mountains: góry. So it should be Górska. Pronounced: goor-skah. Now it is a Polish name. A good one.

So. I'm gonna use this name for that little family. It's canon for me now. Magda Górska and Nina Górska, and Erik was going under Henryk Górski. (Kinda cute if you ask me.)

Oof, I'm done. That was long. Thanks for coming to my little ted-talk, hope you enjoyed :))

(ps. i have rewatched scenes set in Poland, and Erik actually intrudeces himself as Henryk Górski, which means i was right but also why have a made this long-ass analysis? It was fun tho, and too much of my half asleep brain power went into this not to post it.)

[jils-things]

hanging w my honeypie n my inlaws yaaaay <3 <3 <3

[luckyyyduckyyy]

Feel free to ignore this, yapping into the void makes me feel better

Bros... The day I had went from good, to eh, to wtf

Even my own body tried to kill me today what /hj

[realboutfatalfury]

legends don't die, they get better!

[dayurno]

the amazing showstopping life-changing beautiful lovely and talented @alcego tagged me in the writing game where you post all your first sentences from already posted fics (and also the just as amazing showstopping life changing beautiful lovely AND talented roisin, thank you!) but i don't really care much for those lately so here's the first lines of several WIPs at the moment as a compromise :)

Kevin knows he’s being watched. (with @knickknacksandallthat <3)

“Riko? Are you awake?”

In the morning when Jean is supposed to be sent to his death, he takes five minutes out of his schedule to braid Kevin’s hair. (with @jaywalkers :)<3)

Not for the first time, they are in the infirmary. 

“Coach says you don’t talk anymore,” Aaron mumbles, looking out the window awkwardly. 

Christmas dinner with the Gordons is perfect.

Some people ride the crazy train. Jeremy drives it. 

Neil knows the gray does something to people.

what this tells me is that i am bad at writing first lines HAHA :3 i am tagging um everyone who wants to do this. thank you!

[sysig]

Having fun, more and more! (Patreon)

[anothermonikan]

it's kinda awful how validating Gabriel Ultrakill is in my head. I took my binder off yesterday and heard the 'Unbind now, King' audio in my head. so right Gabriel Ultrakill. I felt like a solid 2x better about it.

[violetsareblue-selfships]

good morning!! <3

[adore-gregor]

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[a-dash-in-the-middle]

to all the bitches who doubted BME in my county, the experts are in and fundeeedddd

[bsaka7]

i neeeeeed to get registered for this 17mi trail endurance run i have my heart set on it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bumblingbabooshka]

The Doctor turning into women and having romantic dalliances with men is every kind of queer...to me.

[wheucto]

finally decided to start watching s2e17 of ii

[koka-mi]

vent under the cut you don't need to read if you don't want to!!!!!!!

I honestly hateee opening up or oversharing with ppl. it's kind of like eating for me where it feels okay in the moment but then afterwards I just feel awful. it feels like I'm attention seeking or saying someone else's experience isn't valid for some reason and it sucks. I don't do it at all with ppl I just met but with friends I tend to get carried away with it sometimes,,,

It hurts even more because I've been distancing myself from ppl bcz I'm scared of this exact thing happening. People have messaged me before, saying I seem cool and they want to be friends. And I get happy in the moment, but then I get really anxious about accidentally getting too comfortable and blurting out personal things, because then their opinion of me will wane and they'll think I'm annoying or ungrateful. So I subconsciously begin to distance myself and take a while when responding to messages, because I'm scared of getting too comfortable with them. But now I'm anxious that they think I'm cold or distant and that I secretly don't like them. It's just a lose lose situation mannn </3

I have so many DMs I've put off responding to, and I've stopped talking in servers as much bcz I'm scared of getting close with ppl in them. I really feel bad for it, though. I've drifted from friends bcz of that and it sucks because I genuinely love them a lot. I love everyone I talk to a lot and they always make my day better--I just wish I could be the same for them. I feel like it's a chore to talk to me. I honestly don't know what to do. It's even worse when I get close to someone bcz they like what I make/post because again, now that they've seen how I really am and I've opened up, they more than likely see me as annoying or a bad person. Like it hurts enough whenever we become friends naturally talking, but if it's with someone who's seen me at my "best" and has seen things I work on or stories I've created, they ofc associate me with those things, and their expectations of me are through the roof. So when I disappoint them it hurts a lot more. I hate getting attached to people it hurts so much