#page 202

[madokamanga]

[beautifulbookishdisaster]

"Hello, darling, you've reached Hermes. I don't know why you're calling me instead of texting. Pretty sure this could've been an email. If you're still here, I suppose you can leave a voicemail after the beep. No promises on ever getting back to you. Ta!"

Katee Robert, Dark Restraint (Hermes' voicemail)

[pesterloglog]

Kanaya Maryam, Rose Lalonde, Alfonz, Jade Harley

Page 198-203

KANAYA: Try Calling Her Again!

ROSE: I HAVE tried, but she's not picking up!!

KANAYA: What About Harry Anderson Or Tavros!

ROSE: Kanaya, nobody is answering!!!

KANAYA: Rose I Feel Like I Must Sink To The Level Of Stating The Obvious But This Is Terrible!

KANAYA: This Is Awful!

KANAYA: This Is!

KANAYA: Just!

KANAYA: Aaaaaaargh!

KANAYA: I Cant Think Of Any More Related Adjectives!

ROSE: It's...

ROSE: Kanaya, I don't want to resort to idle, baseless platitudes.

ROSE: So I won't.

ROSE: I don't understand what's going on any more than you do, and I'm sorry.

ROSE: I'm sorry!

KANAYA: Rose Our Daughter Is In Danger And We Are But Powerless To Help Her!

KANAYA: I Do Not Understand Why This Is Happening Or What Precise Series Of Events Led To This Predicament But I Doubt That They Are Directly Or Indirectly Your Fault!

KANAYA: I Feel Like Your Apologising Is Serving As The Very Baseless Platitude Which You Sought To Avoid!

ROSE: No, I know.

ROSE: I know, dear.

ROSE: I just wish I had answers!! My useless powers aren't being any help, and what's worse,

ROSE: I can't see ANYTHING useful on this stupid news channel!!

KANAYA: I Think It Is A Cruel Irony That We Are Forced To Depend On Crocker's Branded Coverage Of Our Own Daughters Headhunting!

KANAYA: Not To Mention That The Quality Of This Broadcast Leaves Something To Be Desired!

KANAYA: I Know That We Are Enemies But I Really Expected Better Of Such A Shrewd Businesswoman!

ALFONZ: excuse me mA'Ams

ROSE: I just don't understand what Vriska was doing there in the first place...

ROSE: Forgetting the fact that Gamzee's dead for a moment,

KANAYA: No I Cant Do That Theyve Just Started Showing The Picture Of Him Again

ROSE: Ugh, god.

KANAYA: For Once The Thought Of His Putrescent Corpse Does Nothing To Quell My Anxiety!

ALFONZ: if i could just tAke A moment of your time

ALFONZ: its A mAtter of some urgency

KANAYA: This Is All So Upsetting That I Cannot Even Find Satisfaction In His Death!

KANAYA: Not When They Have Started Using It As Justification To Call Our Daughter A Terrorist!

KANAYA: And All That Is Without Even Mentioning The Fact!

KANAYA: That Somehow!!

ALFONZ: (*deep breath*)

KANAYA: The Other Vriska Is Also Here!!!

ALFONZ: MA'AMS I HAVE AN URGENT REPORT TO DELIVER, PLEASE FORGIVE MY YELLING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ALFONZ: the reconnAissAnce teAm is bAck eArly, mA'Ams

ALFONZ: the ship docked A few moments Ago

ROSE: And the scouting party???

ALFONZ: i expect she's Zipping her wAy up here now, mA'Am

ALFONZ: should be here Any minute n

ALFONZ: oof!

ROSE: Jade!

KANAYA: Oh Thank God

ROSE: We weren't expecting you to get back so soon.

KANAYA: What Is Going On Down There

ROSE: What happened to the rest of your scouting party?

KANAYA: What Is Another VRISKA Doing Here

ROSE: Where is John?

KANAYA: Where Is Dave

ROSE: Where is our *daughter*?!

KANAYA: (Rose I Think We Must Try To Remain Calm And Give Jade A Chance To Answer Our Queries Difficult Though It May Be In This Moment Of Intolerable Anguish And Suspense)

ROSE: I... yes, of course.

KANAYA: Jade It Is Okay

JADE: its........

JADE: *sniffle*

KANAYA: Please Take Your Time

JADE: we dont HAVE any time!!!

JADE: its too late!!!!!!

JADE: janes forces were just too fast...

KANAYA: Oh No

ROSE: You don't mean...

JADE: theyve taken her

JADE: THEYVE TAKEN YIFFY!!!!!!! D:

[sharry-arry-odd]

Her ears closed upon the sound of Eleanor's voice assuring her that once again they would manage their escape together, somehow: nothing, no one, would prevent them.

The Ladies, by Doris Grumbach

[kingofthering-two]

Printed my 2024 MotoGP journal and it came in the mail today (photos featuring my home bedspread).

[twelvefifteencomic]

202 - A Foolproof Plan, I'm Sure

[kikyocaps]

[mxbrightsky]

Funny little idea for next year; new year's resolution already decided if you will;

I'm gonna keep a spare document with a copy of Every Single Thing I write in 2024 to make have a Writing Wrapped at the end of the year-

A total page count and word count, being able to search how many times you mentioned a particular character's name, etc.

Posting this here so any other writers can borrow the idea too cause it sounds fun <3

[dailymanuscript]

Folio 3 recto, MSS Burmese 202

[fullhalalalchemist]

🚨KOSA is back and being pushed heavily in congress right now

I really hate to do this, but KOSA, the bill that is a mass censorship and surveillance bill that will specifically censor all LGBT content online to "protect kids", is back.

KOSA advocates have brought in support from Elon Musk (I wish I was making this up) and are trying to get him to get Donald Trump to speak out in support of it. (And they lie and tell us it's not an anti-queer bill 🙄). The reason so is because the holdouts that are stopping this from passing are...republicans. It's GOP House leaders Steve Scalise and Mike Johnson. If they succeed and put this in an end of year spending bill, it will be near impossible to get it out and it will most likely be passed. Pro-KOSA advocates were on the hill today pushing hard to pass it. They have a lot of support behind them. There is only two weeks left in congress, so if they don't succeed, it's over.

The ONLY way this bill has stalled so much so far is because of calls driven to congress. It has worked and can still work. Please, spread this as much as you can and call House leadership and spread the word! You don't have to be from their district. You can pretend to be GOP. It doesn't matter, just call and voice your opposition. Trump and Musk clearly have a lot of sway over these people and I'm really scared they will succeed at the last minute!!

Here are their numbers: Scalise: 202-225-3015 Johnson: 202-225-2777

If you don't know what to say, use either call script! It takes less than a minute, I swear.

SOURCE: https://x.com/omaseddiq/status/1866621865793314845?t=9pJm-QRdqJg30E_rVuhINw&s=19

[magicomens]

First >> Prev

I could say that realizing every artist's dream of completing a project like this wasn't easy, and while it's true, I must thank you all once again for encouraging me with your sweet comments and messages. It's thanks to you that a one-part punchline became a full 202 pages (!!!) story.

Now that it's over and if you still aren't tired of my shenanigans, you can follow my main blog (and see my yearly Snowlin Halloween illustration soon!).

As for the Magic Omens AU, please give me a moment to catch my breath and I'll start preparing the digital release (with bonus drawings) that will be downloadable from kofi!

To the Merlin fans who are keeping the fandom alive, to the Good Omens fans (I'm sure the 90 minutes finale will be great, even if we won't get a full season! stay hopeful!!) and to the fans of both shows for constantly enabling my silly idea,

thank you! <3

[sillypinkboy]

I completely understand why we're reading lord of the flies but I SWEAR TO FUCK. If I have to spend another day talking about this stupid fucking book I'm killing someone

[beautifulbookishdisaster]

Three things are never any good - farming, fishing, and hunting - compared to other years, that is.

John Steinbeck, East of Eden

[salemlunaa]

☀︎ YOU’RE NOT BEING PRODUCTIVE, YOU’RE LAZY AND AFRAID ☀︎

And this will cost you a lot of time that could be spent with your desires…

You have all the information, why aren’t you applying. You tell me you have been in this community for 6 months, a year, 2 years+, but how many of those days you’ve spent in this community have you actually applied, how many of those nights did you actually apply and don’t just fall asleep after 5 seconds.

And i know why you’re lazy, it’s because you’re scared, you’re scared of inducing process, whether it be success or failure. You make yourself busy with scripts and subliminals, “i’ll script this really cool thing first”, “i’ll scroll a little on tumblr first” “lemme just look at the success story hashtag before i do it, it really motivates me” You try and distract your self, you delude yourself into thinking you’re being productive but really you don’t want to, if you wanted to you wouldn’t be here and I will ALWAYS stand by that. You put it off until the last minute and then when it “doesn’t work” you run back to tumblr acting like you actually did anything.

a really good analogy from @archsariel333 - “you buy the pens, the notebook, you plan for the book you’re going to write but, you never write it”

“let me just add this one thing to the plan”, “let me look at inspo for book covers and art styles for illustration”, “let me go to my book writers group on tumblr and see if they have anymore advice for me even tho i know how to write a fucking book”

I know it’s comforting and validating to be in the “waiting period”, the period of anticipation. You want to go shopping for a vacation, pack your suitcase, look at reviews on social media, plan the pics you’re going to take, but getting on the actual plane can be scary, you ask yourself “what if they deny my boarding pass”, “what if i fail to make it on time”, “what if im not eligible to fly for whatever reason”, you don’t want to leave your comforting circumstances and even the trip itself scares you just a little, so you cope by buying all the vacation outfits in the world, saving inspo pics into a pinterest board, looking at vlogs of other people going to that place. You can’t bring yourself to get on the fucking plane.

You need to apply, and properly, 2024 is almost over, the amount of weeks we have left isn’t even in the double digits anymore, I don’t want you to make it to the end of this DECADE still keeping the tumblr “foryou” page company, watching people coming and going feeling paralysed as people who came here later than you pass you by. I know the feeling sucks but whose fault is that?

I want you to scrap the amount you’ve been here. Since you’re the operant power right? I don’t care how many weeks, months, years you’ve been here, scrap it, you’re going to start afresh and you’re going to actually apply, when you have the time, you’re not going to go back to your notes app, notion or pinterest to script some more, you’re going to apply.

A lot of you have the knowledge that majority of the world doesn’t and time on your hands, do you know how powerful and extremely fortunate you are, to have time AND knowledge? i don’t think alot of you understand how much of a privilege that is you are unstoppable yet you stop yourself out of fear that you will “fail” to tap into the void and let yourself down. You are so privileged to know what you know and to have the time to apply it, so do it, your not gonna scroll on tiktok for a few more minutes or shove a million subliminals down your throat to “prep yourself” you’re just going to take a breath and do it. Induce pure consciousness, and if you fall asleep scrap that assumption and do it again.

Look at your life right now, do you honestly like it, do you like envying others for having what you can have at the snap of your fingers. Do you like the life you are living?

I want you to tell yourself that you will not be the reason for your own demise. you will NOT be the reason that it’s 2026,27,28 and so on and you don’t have what you want.

please just go and apply, i don’t even know you guys and it hurts watching you kill time when you could’ve had everything a day ago, an hour ago heck even 5 minutes ago.

apply apply apply, don’t let this feeling be the reason you “fail” 💋🍑

[heahven-2023]

july 21, 2023

today was a lowkey rest day. i went out for a walk in the morning before having lunch with mom and grandma. then for the rest of the day i just stayed home. my mom had plans, so she left me to stay home lmfaoo.

[traightor]

i think i'm developing carpal tunnel