#month: january 2024

[rabidsnaps]

Nakanoshima, Arashiyama Kamikawaracho, Kyoto, Japan - January 2024 📷 Samsung Galaxy S23

[liaytolisia]

Sleep offers little respite against the pains of the waking world. You drift off, and always you feel as though you are being scrutinized, but when you drift back into consciousness, the feeling fades, not unlike the coming and going of the tide.

One restless night, you are at last approached by The Watcher.

"You have a decision to make."

A feast materializes before you. You can smell it, can nearly taste it, you can feel the warmth and care put into every bite.

You already know, whatever the decision ahead, you can only choose one.

O inquisitive creature…

There is something you can't do without.

Will you starve, or will you give up each of your words, one by one?

She was hungry. She'd tried to hold out for the group. She never complained, she accepted the choices made by the group. She did her best to keep the peace in the group. But... it didn't matter in the end, did it? Brizo, Chiron, Nephele and Euphorie had all died. She was too weak to hold her sword properly. Forde had been snatched because of her own stupid idea to hunt down the shadow, and she had been snatched herself. Useless.

This wasn't Aytolis. She wasn't fighting a massive dragon that threatened to destroy everything she loved. Yet this was somehow worse. Starvation made desperate beasts out of all of them, she wasn't even certain if the feast before her or the Watcher were real, maybe she was hallucinating and this was the end. In the end she was useless. Rowan wasn't at her side, and everything she had learned she could rely on, everything she tried to accomplish out here, failed.

"What use are words anymore?" Lianna asked tiredly. She dropped to her knees before this cruel being, before the feast it offered, all her hopeful optimism shattered on the ground around her. "What good are words anymore?"

Tears broke free from her eyes... as she accepted the feast.

[foxfirekit]

January Activity Check - Passed

Total Skill Points: 9 -> 10 Allocations: ActCheck Pass +1 Reason B (8)

Claiming: Ragnarok (Reason B) Mage & Dark Mage (Reason C)

[flowerytale]

[deerspherestudios]

Hi! Question, so at the end of day 2 mycheal says he can’t let mc leave because he hasn’t tried to find their cat but he knows that the cat is dead I hope this isn’t to spoiler-y but does he have a plan what to do or was it just an impulse thing to keep them longer with him?

Impulse, for sure 💔 He probably already regrets his decision on the way back to his home but what's done was done. Now all he can do is wait for you to wake up and see where it goes from there.

[why-the-heck-not]

making a new yearly bullet journal spread is serious business (I drew 72 mini calendar grids and my hand cramped)

[givethispromptatry]

It is not love that makes humans dangerous.

Love is predictable. Love has rules of engagement.

Spite, however, makes the illogical logical to humans. It creates options in the human brain that should never have been considered.

[myreitha]

I think everyone's gotten theirs by now, so please enjoy the linocut I designed, carved, printed on cards and sent out for February's International Correspondence Writing Month :)

[Image Description 1: A black linocut print featuring a moth with sparkling star eye patterns on its six wings and surrounded by a starburst of lines and small stars. End description.]

Some process and more details under the cut - including the other stamps I carved to go on the envelopes and inside the cards!

Please enjoy my chaotic printing station and my beautiful stack of shelves, baskets, and my baking racks being used as a place for all the prints to dry (well, most of them)

I also carved individual stamps of the starry eyeballs based off the eye shapes in the moth's wings. I love love love love how they came out, and also had a lot of fun with the variety of little star stamps I made to embellish things with.

[Image ID 2: A photo of my kitchen table overtaken by a precarious stack of wire shelves and racks that are covered in drying prints. In front of the drying prints is my printing surface where the ink, roller, and the linocut are visible. Image ID 3-4: Photos of the envelopes used to send the cards, they've got stars stamped on the front and a large starry eye stamped on the flap. The eyes are two different variations of a similar design and match the eye pattern on the moth's wings. End Description.]

For funsies, please also enjoy how gorgeous this design came out on brown paper

[Image Description 5: Another image of the same print, this time on brown paper intead of white]

[arielluva]

the sunlit garden

[khaoray]

2024 WATCHLIST

For you, I'll restart as many times as it takes. Jack Frost, japan (2023)

[liaytolisia]

January Activity Check - Passed

Total Skill Points: 6 -> 9 Allocations: ActCheck passed +1 Authority E->E+ (1) What Makes Us Strong +1 Sword (thread dropped) (778 words) Knowledge gem +1 Authority E+->D (2) (Pending claim)

Claiming: Regular -> Accuracy Ring (Authority D) Event Pending claim-> Gospel of Pi Repelling Blade Throwing Sickle Great Lord (claimed earlier in month)

[foxfirekit]

December Activity Check - Passed

Total Skill Points: 7 -> 9 Allocations: Check passed: +1 to Reason (C 1/2 -> C+) We're Going on a Bear Ghost Hunt (muse drop) +1 Reason (C+ -> C+ 1/2)

Claiming: Nil

October+November Activity Checks - Hiatus

[liaytolisia]

Divine Dragon, protect her sanity... Lianna's smile became slightly strained. She certainly didn't appreciate her attempt at stopping the fire being compared to flinging mud like an animal.

"It's pronounced 'thank-you'," she hummed lightly, though a little bit pointed. "I might be royalty, but I can get my hands dirty when I need to."

The wink goes entirely over her head. The suggestion to finishing cheese later and bringing the journal to Keranes' attention now was put out there but Lianna was given no time to agree or disagree as Sain ran off with the journal- he still hadn't taken the basket either -and ran off, calling for the leader of their merry band. Sighing heavily, Lianna picked up the basket and followed after the man, just as Keranes appeared.

Lianna snatched the book from Sain again and passed it over to the woman.

"We found this over near a hive of bees," she said, gesturing to the garden they had just left. Ignoring the hive he was still holding.

"Thank-you for returning this... but what was it doing over there?" she asked. "What were you doing over there?"

She seemed a smidgen bit concerned about Sain, but that had been fading the more the man opened his mouth to speak. The look she gave Lianna was nothing short of pitying and thankful at the same time.

"We were trying to make cheese from the goat's milk," Lianna replied. "I was gathering lemons for it and Sain was supposed to be getting the milk. I don't think the goats appreciated him much..."

Keranes looked at Sain, then at Lianna, then back at Sain. Then she tucked her journal away with a sigh.

"Allow me to help you," she said. "You still need salt, let's get that and then we can go get the milk."

Lianna nodded eagerly.

Roll 1d10+2 -> 8 -> +1 food (plant, Lianna grabbed some more lemons before chasing Sain)

✢⁎. lvl 99 farming

Roll 1d10 for every post after your starter. Starting with your third post (including your starter), with every other post, add +1 to your d10 +1 counter resets after +5 1-8: +1 food (your choice of plant, insect, fish, or otherwise) 9-10+: ping key

[henrywinteris]

F E B R U A R Y

[lolli-popples]

HEY EMPIRES SMP FANS!!!

...

It's been a year.

That's how long since it ended.

Are we doing alright?

[givethispromptatry]

He'd always been a strange child. Too quiet. Too smart. Too wise.

His parents had accepted him, cherished him as a precious child, and so the others had to do the same. Even if they really weren't that keen on the idea.