#she is having a Time

[a-dauntless-daffodil]

deep breaths frostpaw, deeeep breaths

[privilegedjester]

friend update!! so she failed to follow some of my instructions which was immensely entertaining, was amazed that the odile coin flip outcome changes, is already panicking despite being in act 2, and may perhaps be lost

[larissa-the-scribe]

For the wip ask game, how about Lyn wants to go home?

Thanks for the ask!

Info:

This was half me being angsty and processing via Lyn (she got a lot of that, poor girl), and half me trying to think through her character. I'm not really sure where it is in the story timeline, but somehow she ends up by herself, and after a bad day has the thought of "I want to go home"--but then she realizes she doesn't know what that means. So it's part her being angsty because she doesn't know what to do with that but part sweet because as she processes she realizes that "home" means her new "family" (the Rifters).

Snippet:

"Home" wasn’t her university. That much was certain. Despite the comfortable quiet of her dorm room, it wasn’t hers, and it wasn’t an escape, and had felt like a different kind of purgatory all its own. She hadn’t had any places besides that. And with the rifts, well, there wasn’t anywhere they stayed consistently. What could be considered home out here? Lyn sat and hugged her knees to her chest. She still wanted to go home.

and from later in the document:

Sometimes, sitting by the fire had felt like home. Those days of enforced rest, hanging out in the quiet of the woods—it had carried its fair share of horrors and discomforts and stresses, but there had been breaths and snatches of something nice, chilling and talking with Zo and keeping her mind off the pain.

(for reference, ask game >>here)

[swordbisexual]

She has been on a Journey.

[wanderersofeorzea]

White has experienced a character development and she doesn't like it.

[obsidian-art04]

Have a silly twst oc in this trying time <3

- Eden/Ray 🍇

[happyk44]

Writing this story is apparently just me going "how autistic can I make this character" over and over again.

[six-of-ravens]

aunt just told me a work story that makes me wonder how many #girlboss #bossbitches are low-level admin workers who constantly cross boundaries and override their more knowledgeable coworkers bc they're desperate to feel powerful and needed

[givemeallyourpenny]

Woah

The crest of the beast

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Expertise can't help you here.

[liquidstar]

If my mom sees a significant amount of blood she gets lightheaded, and has fainted on some occasions. Once it happened when we were kids, I wasn't there to witness it but I heard the story from my dad. Basically my brothers, around 7 or 8 at the time, were playing outside while my mom was making their lunch, and she accidentally cut her finger. It wasn't anything serious, but it drew a fair bit of blood and she passed out. My dad saw this and rushed over, but he didn't really know what to do so he just sort of started slapping her to wake her up (not recommended, but he had no idea and panicked)

At that exact moment my brothers both came in from playing, and all they saw was our mom unconscious on the floor and our dad slapping her. So, like, without even saying a word to each other they both just INSTANTLY start whaling on him, like, full blown attack mode to defend our mom. Which obviously didn't help the situation, but she did wake up and everything was fine.

Now our dad says that he's actually really glad they attacked him over what they thought was going on, because it means he raised good boys. And I still think that's true, they're very good boys.

[inkskinned]

i got rickrolled today but it didn't work because i have adblocker installed, so youtube just told me i violated the terms of service. yesterday i was trying to edit a picture as a joke for my girlfriend, and google made me check a box to prove i'm human because i wasn't "searching normally".

it isn't just that capitalism is killing fun and whimsy, it is that any element of entertainment or joy is being fed upon by this mosquito body, one that will suck you dry at any vulnerability.

do you want to meet new friends in your city? download this app, visit our website, sign up for our email list. pay for this class on making a terrarium, on candlemaking, on cooking. it will be 90 dollars a session. you can go to group fitness, but only under our specific gym membership. solve the puzzle, sign up for our puzzle-of-the-month-club. what is a club if not just a paid opportunity - you are all paying for the same thing, which makes you a community.

but you're like me, i know it - you're careful, you try the library meetings and the stuff at the local school and all of that. the problem is that you kind of want really specific opportunities that used to exist. you are so grateful for libraries and the publicly-funded things: they are, however, an exception - and everything they have, they've fought tooth-and-nail to protect. you read a headline about how in many other states, libraries have virtually nothing left.

do you want to meet up with your friends afterwards? gift your friends the discord app. you can choose to go to a cafe (buy a coffee, at least), a bar (money, alcohol) or you can all stay in and catch a movie (streaming) or you can all stay in bed (rent. don't get me started) and scream (noise complaint. ticket at least).

you want to read a new book, but the book has to have 124 buzzwords from tiktok readers that are, like, weirdly horny. you can purchase this audiobook on audible! your podcast isn't on spotify, it's on its own server, pay for a different site. fuck, at least you're supporting artists you like. the art museum just raised their ticket price. once, they had a temporary exhibit that acknowledged that ~85% of their permanent art galleries were from cis white men, and that they had thousands of works by women (even famous women, like frida! georgia o'keefe!) just rotting in their basement. that exhibit lasted for 3 months and then they put everything away again.

walmart proudly supports this strip of land by the street! here are some flowers with wilting leaves. its employees have to pay out-of-pocket for their uniforms. my friend once got fined by the city because she organized a community pick-up of the riverfront, which was technically private property.

no, you cannot afford to take that dance class, neither can i. by the way - i'm a teacher. i'm absolutely not saying "educators shouldn't be paid fairly." i'm saying that when i taught classes, renting a studio went from 20 bucks an hour to 180 in the span of 6 months. no significant changes to the studio were made, except they now list the place as updated and friendly. the heat still doesn't work in the building. i have literally never seen the landlord who ignores my emails. recently they've been renting it out at night as an "unusual nightclub; a once-in-a-lifetime close-knit party." they spent some of those 180 dollars on LEDs and called it renovating. the high heels they invite in have been ruining the marley.

do you want to experience the old internet? do you want to play flash games or get back the temporary joy of club penguin? you can, you just need to pay for it. i have a weird, neurodivergent obsession with occasionally checking in to watch the downfall and NFT-ification of neopets. if i'm honest with you all - i never got into webkins, my family didn't have the money to buy me a pointless elephant. people forget that "being poor" can mean literally "if i buy you that toy, i can't afford rent."

you and i don't have time to make good food, and we don't have the budget for it. we are not gonna be able to host dinner parties, we're not made of money, kid. do you want some kind of 3rd space? a space that isn't home or work or school? you could try being online, but - what places actually exist for you? tiktok counts as social media because you see other people on it, not because they actually talk to you.

there was a local winter tradition of sledding down the hill at my school. kids would use pizza boxes and jackets and whatever worked, howling and laughing. back in september, they made a big announcement that this time, rules were changing, and everyone must pay 10 dollars to participate. when im not scared shitless, i kind of appreciate the environmental irony - it hasn't gone below 40. so much for snow & joyriding.

i saw a bulletin for a local dogwalking group and, nervous about making a good first impression, showed up early. the first guy there grimaced at me. "sorry," he said. "there's a 30-dollar buy-in fee." i thought he was joking. wait. for what? the group doesn't offer anything except friendship and people with whom to walk around the city.

he didn't know the answer. just shrugged at me. "you know," he said. "these days, everything costs money."

[d4ggerfish]

dnd character design :] !!!

[clearcutcasualty]

“Do you think seahorses write fpreg” and the many other riveting things my friend texts me right before I go to work

[fineapple20]

Portraits

Retouched this set from last year, because it was haunting me laying there 80% finished

[hinamie]

10 years later