#i hope i'm not burying myself

[zhongrin]

dick owners who are bodily able and living in an enviromentally capable conditions to flush toilets in a shared bathroom but don't,

fuck you 🖕🏻

[moonchild-in-blue]

I haven't really done much art for tumblr (at all) lately, cus life, but! Here's a lil something I've been working on (it's a Xmas gift) 💙

(also peep that lil January calendar painting ��� i did mini squares for each month for myself, because I need to have a physical one always, and they each have their own colour 🥺)

[yoinkschief]

One Week

It's arrived

[imeriayapping]

I'm so happy that at least in motogp i can breathe without seeing russians because they are always lased in f1 history, they still try to push that fucking shwartzman there too and into indy, they are in wec. THEY ARE EVERYWHERE

And I can't even express my fury because I'm not gonna be called racist/nazi/xenophobic but when people do same thing to Israeli it's ok. I can't be angry at nation that killed my granddad my uncle and probably many more in my family tree. I can't be anything other than thankful for support even if it's never fucking enough because my timeline looks like necrolog.

All i see when I'm online is either other Ukrainians trying to crowdfund ammunition for our soldiers without much success because everyone and our economy is exhausted or news about how new forces join russians to kill us. It's their only goal.

And you can't just fucking cherry pick those russians you like to say that they aren't guilty. They need to embrace consequences of what their politicians are doing. You can't be innocent and russian at the same time, one of very few truly good russians died recently fighting on the side of Ukraine. Our outlook on life becoming so individualistic we don't realise that power is hold by masses, that if they wanted for war to stop those "simple russians" could just stop going to war. Their system is extremely corrupt, it's easy to escape being drafted. Only times they protest is when they get denied another app. There millions of them and somehow just dozens of those caught by police for protest. They just don't fucking care and you continue to defend them online

[ronearoundblindly]

ah yes, the free evening i planned on writing would be the first significant cramps i've had in five years. excellent.

[ohpassenger]

i fucking love frenchie

i fucking LOVE KIMIKO

[byanyan]

ougghhh hungover and feeling v out of it... i get what i deserve ig lmao

[mitamicah]

I guess I’ve felt a bit off from the rest of the kääryleet the last few days and I am not liking it very much.

I want to be in agreement with you guys and get excited like you do ... it has just been a bit harder this weekend which sucks since there’s a new song and cool new MV theories and I am here like: slow down would you for the old man? (me)

this doesn’t make any sense possibly but I guess I’ll just say sorry for not being up to speed and for being a bit moody/unamused.

[lesamis]

Have you read any good books recently my dear?

hi love, this question actually motivated me to finish a book over the weekend just so that i'd have something to say! i've been quite an unambitious reader these past two months (read: spent all my downtime burning through [redacted] fanfiction to escape the agonies of thesis-writing), but there are two books i've loved a lot this march.

the unbalancing by r.b. lemberg, which an anon & @candlewinds were both kind enough to recommend, and which i finally read through this sunday. it's a special book, and that also makes it difficult to sum up what it's actually about: plot-wise, a romance storyline entangles with a much vaster and more difficult story about a dying world and those who try to save it. thematically, it dives into questions of identity and feeling; permission and responsibility; the possibility of kindness in the face of disaster. it is, i think, more invested in telling than showing in its character work, but also one of the most atmospheric and enchanting novels i've read in a long time. the worldbuilding in this, its idea of culture and community, is stunning and transporting.

teaching a stone to talk, an essay collection by annie dillard, which the very lovely @starkey sent me & which i've nearly finished! i recommend this book very highly and want to push it on everyone. the essays represent quite a range: some are long and challenging (polar exploration/catholicism essay you have brought me to my knees); some, like 'on a hill far away', are rich and quick and delightful, like a fancy dessert. most of the essays investigate aspects of natural observation and environmental witnessing, but it can be easy to forget that, because dillard is kind of a magician in her writing style. something unexpected, a phrase or an association, is always lurking there, ready to wake you up. it's an incredibly rewarding experience to be dazzled by her.

[cjgladback]

[ID: First GIF is a turnaround of a stylized scorpion walking quickly with a potted cactus character sitting on its back, the camera orbiting around to show all sides of the cactus' wooden chair and luggage including a large corked terracotta jar, a leather-wrapped metal canteen, a small but stuffed cloth sack, and a green blanket folded and fastened with a belt around a cane's shaft leaving the cane's handle visible.

Second GIF is the same walk cycle shown from the characters' forward right, while everything jiggles the most dramatic movement other than the scorpion's legs are the cords with dangling gems that swing from the spokes of a wood and cloth umbrella tied to the scorpion's stinger.

The third GIF is the same as the second but with the wireframes of the 3D objects overlaid in dark purple. End ID]

I'm calling these characters done! All items in the character and prop sections of my to-do list are crossed off. Except technically one line saying to err on the side of pink for the flower if/when I change the lighting, and if I have good reason to view the umbrella too long I'll add some handwavy stitching to explain how that fabric's fastened to the spokes--but no! They're done. I'm pretty happy with the balance I struck between a one-to-one recreation of Nicholas Kole's lovely designs and a more tactile and riggable setup that one might call my style.

So now there's the environment. I've made one layer of what I hope to be a three-layered ground material (cracked clay melding into sand based on proximity to things that can't just be sitting on cracked clay but won't have to be run over). And in stream yesterday I made the leaves and modified the geonodes from the flower to be the shapes of aloe, agave, and yucca. Still to be determined whether the agave will get flowers--it's so many unnecessary vertices and I'll have to see if they'd even be visible in the storyboard or always out of frame, but stalks' flower clusters would be such a cool echo of both the umbrella-on-stinger shape and the cloud cluster shapes I intend if we are going to see the sky.

[giantkillerjack]

Queers be like "Ooo!! Elder queer characters on TV! Hooray!" And then you look up the episode plot, and the old gay couple die of a terminal illness and suicide in the very same episode they first appear!

Gods, The Last of Us is a right misery slog, eh?

[dominicusrpg]

i hope this isn’t too weird of a q, but given the series is so popular with lesbians (hi!!!), are there any characters you’re envisioning as lesbians/wlw over others? i’ve struggled with writing wlw chars in tumblr groups in the past because they get ignored a lot of the time, so i figured i would ask. either way i’m so excited for this group, i’m a major fan of tlt and screamed when i saw your ad for it. 🫶

Definitely not a weird question! It’s actually probably my favourite question I’ve ever been asked. I started reading TLT because it was advertised to me as space lesbians and getting to read a piece of work by a lesbian who was so unabashedly proud of her sexuality in an age when online fandoms don’t prioritize or even care for sapphic characters was so refreshing (and then to have the fandom reflect that as well!). I digress— there’s a few. Both of the Third House (who both got written to Ptolemaea by Ethel Cain on repeat) and Seventh House are the biggest standouts. The bond especially between the Seventh is one of my favourites (and I am so excited to see them published tomorrow) and I did write them as butch-femme (if I close my eyes, this is them). In my heart of hearts, the Fourth Cavalier is just because it means that the BOE is mostly recruiting lesbians to their cause. And naturally the Ninth House I had to write as an lesbians. The Nonagesimus line is not producing hetrosexuals. While I don’t want to deter anyone applying for these characters from applying as any other gender (or from applying as a lesbian to a different character— these would all make very good lesbians!!!), these are to me, my silly little wlws.

[postmanlinksbootyshorts]

i need to find my sports bra that flattens my chest 😭 idk wtf i've done with it

[teethcore]

thinking about how "it would be completely okay with me if we literally never had sex btw!! like that's fine :)" is something that is said to me on the regular by the person who turns literally any physical affection or nudity into a sex thing & constantly pressures me & has coerced me in the past

[shivered-bones]

i thought that for once i would be normal about two middle aged men solving crimes in dubious ways, but the last episode. omg.

[lacunasbalustrade]

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