#random ask tag

[erebus0dora]

toilet water aside, I'd love for you to paint some DM with the blood amulet Armand gives Daniel. or just generally them with some blood. as for the medium, perhaps gouache or oil paints?

oh bless, best ask of the day xD

i'm gonna throw the idea in and roll for the medium, it looks like it might be fun!

[skywalking-through-life]

Tis me again (Hermes)! Last one I promise. which do you prefer, hot drinks coffee or cold drinks coffee? And a bonus: Gimme a pic or a little description. If you want >.<

...and now for something a lot shorter and lighter, lololol.

Thank you for remembering I can't drink coffee. 😌

Honestly, this one is pretty boring - because my stomach hates me beyond all rationality, I can't drink basically anything fun, so I sort of subsist on water and lactaid milk. Both of which are a lot better cold. 🫠

[the-lustful-duke]

I'm actually so curious ab AnKana siblings bcs like?? are they Found Family or Bio siblings? How'd their parents work? (I'm usually AnMafu siblings but I like these sillies too I wanna see it)

They're found family and considered family since Kanade's dad is still alive! Ken, Yuka, Kanade and Kanade's mom used to be best friends making Kanades and An childhoodfrends though so they consider each other's child as their child too

[sloanslone]

My FINAL Artemis x Aeolus fa...(My EPIC designs-Y'all really made me do this...)

(you'll see Artemis's antlers if you get pumba off her head ig 😭, I just didn't wanna draw a dead dog or fox on her....)

[glistens-talkshow]

@detective-rodger @teagendarling @cleanfreaktisha

[astronnova]

proposition: danny's hair turns white in random patches when he's used too much power, he just dyes it back to all black when he gets home

[unlimited-nobu-works]

my group chats on private MMO servers

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

In the world of heavy metals, love is denser than hate!

[dreamaboutwhathappens]

here's to all of us having at least one serious moment in the past year where we thought rep tv was coming. and to 2025!

[corruptimles]

nooo venture dont investigate the enigma of amigara fault nooooo

original version:

[therealcallmekd]

Now THAT'S Thinkin' In 3D!

HHEHEHEE HAH FLATLAND FANART BE UPON YE

[erebus0dora]

hii. for the art idea thing but mostly to maybe make you smile. armand as all those memes about cats that first nuzzle at you and lick your fingers and then bite you bite you bite you bite y-. while being cute and purring >:3c

aw. awwwwww. i can work with that, adding it to the list!

[skywalking-through-life]

Hey friend!! I thought I'd give you a challenging one, hehehe: you get a free pass to kill anyone, who is it? - Hermes

Oh my friend, you love giving me asks that make me think, and then subsequently make me word vomit, lol.

(Obviously a MAJOR CW here for death, dying, and the idea of killing vs. assisted natural death.)

I've actually been thinking about this for a few days, because I feel like my basic answer might seem, upon a first read, I don't know...trite? Overly moralistic? Abstract? Naive? But it's what I believe, so I'll try to explain a bit, operating under the assumption that there is a *reason* for killing, and that it isn't just random.

I don't want to kill anyone. I never have, and I hope I will never feel that desire.

Does that mean I don't understand how righteous anger, fear, desperation, and/or desire for justice might lead a person to experience those feelings? Of course not - there are a thousand wrongs in this world that I wish I could make right, and if I thought that killing one person might do that, of course I'd be tempted! But I don't believe - practically, materially - that any one person's death makes the world safer or better to the degree that I would compromise my moral stance on murder. I belong to a faith that values non-violence above many other values, and so killing of any kind is something my people grieve, and take very seriously.

There are many reasons for that, but here are a few key ones, summarized as I understand them:

1) Who am I to decide who deserves to live, and who deserves to die? What knowledge, insight, power, or moral clarity do I possess to be able to make such a choice? Can I be sure - 100% sure - that it is worth making? Anyone who claims to have that sort of undisputable wisdom is a person I find difficult to trust - death, and the things that lead up to it, are rarely as straightforward as anyone tries to make them out to be.

2) We do not - and cannot - know what may result from a person's death. Take out one tyrant, and another rises up to take his place - perhaps committing even worse atrocities than the first. Out of revenge, kill a person who committed a crime of desperation, and you only add to the desperation - you don't fix the problem that led to the crime in the first place, and perhaps you create a whole new generation afflicted by it.

3) Relatedly, killing creates a vicious cycle of violence. If we repay a wrong with a wrong, all that happens is that there is more wrong - which oftens spirals out of control, bleeding out into places where innocents are harmed. And once we reach that place, it becomes difficult to parse the innocent from the guilty - which leads us back to the question of: how do we know? How do we decide? Can we make that decision without knowing for sure? True justice is rehabilitative at its core, not just punative. If we give into our urge to punish people for real or imagined crimes, we eventually become the perpetrators of crimes ourselves.

Now, all that being said: there are times when I think a person might very reasonably desire death for *themselves,* and need help and advocacy to have the sort of death that is meaningful to them. In my line of work, I spend hours every week with people who are dying, sometimes in terrible, painful, undignified ways. For many of them, the idea of death is scary, but for many more, it's a relief - an end to a disease process that is 100% going to kill them eventually (and probably soon), we just don't know exactly when or exactly how. Some of these folks want to be able to take charge of their looming death, and want to meet it on their terms. I support their right to do that in whatever ways are meaningful, consistent with their values, and legal - but that is a choice *they* are making, and must make themselves, not a choice I could or would ever make for them.

There is an important distinction here between 'killing' and 'allowing natural death' that is always relevant to my field, but one that I thought was relevant to this answer too - I include it as a caveat, to explain that I do not necessarily view death as evil. It will come to us all in time, and I do think it matters how we prepare to face it.

[dipndotz]

idk sketch dump i simply cannot explain to u

[getyinyusedtoit]

thinking about xie lian getting asked to stop dropping random facts, quotes, recipes, etc into the communication array by the heavenly officials because they find him annoying, meanwhile hua cheng is not only enraptured by everything xie lian has to say but he has his own 800+ years of random knowledge and trivia stored up and prepared to randomly share back.

[saint0066]

i miss summer, wym i can’t wear tank tops everyday :/