#she's in her early 80s

[violant-apologia]

fiiiiine i guess i can orlapost on main if you really wantttt

ORLA FOLKOR

gnome

researcher with the order of the cobalt soul

bard on her character sheet, wizard in personality and cleric in combat role

they call her 007: 0 ability to stay on topic. 0 tact. 7 hundred questions per conversation

BREAKING NEWS local tenth level bard took commune off magical secrets, now has casual-bordering-on-sacrilegious relationship with knowing mistress

she also took find greater steed and now has a divine peryton after writing exandria's first ever book on perytons and bringing knowledge of them into ioun's fold

the peryton's name is card (short for cardiovore) and they're best friends

first session events:

i genuinely got to start a conversation with a tiefling character with "oooh i love your horns, what's your infernal heritage?" orla just has NO sense of time or place

due to high charisma for bard spellcasting, and jack of all trades, she's also the de facto party intimidator, despite this being wildly out of character. she achieves this by asking rapid-fire personal questions on stuff like home security practices and the tensile strength of human bones given different dietary habits. (these are all just things she's genuinely interested in)

whenever we learn something new about a party member's backstory, orla just starts scribbling the details in her little bigger-on-the-inside notebook. it makes everyone very uncomfortable

had the first session of a new dnd campaign today and it was GREAT. thank you @limulusamebocytelysate best dm wonderful friend

it's completely off-topic but i might post about my character for the campaign... i really love her (and doing rp as her). so if you like this post i'll take that as permission and encouragement thank you!

[dazzelmethat]

Here are three Inuyashas that I drew mainly for lineart and posing practice. I colored them in the early manga's pink pallet. I think a pink Inu makes him look somewhat ghostly.

[isagrimorie]

Criminal Minds Evolution 17x05 - Kingdom of the Blind

Prentiss and Rossi conspire to assassinate Voit.

[aurorangen]

Vincent and Isaac make quite the team! They work well together and win many cases in court. However, they don't know much about each other outside of work. On the way to meet their new client, Isaac questioned Vincent to try to get to know him better. He did not share much, only giving vague answers. Then they saw their client. "Isaac, meet Mr. Felix Reichmann!" Vincent exclaimed. "Reichmann." Isaac muttered under his breath, troubled by the surname.

[devilsrains]

yasuko aoike's plus ultra

crossover illustrations including characters from alcazar and from eroica with love

[red-moon-at-night]

Thinking about the people going in and out of Helen's life, and who she could reasonably have a bond/connection with that 1) is not romantic in nature, and 2) has been by her side both before the trojan war in Sparta and during it in Troy, and there IS someone.

It's Aethra. Aethra, daughter of King Pittheus, mother of Theseus.

Aethra who first met Helen when she was a child (at oldest, not of marriageable age, and at youngest, 7) after Theseus drops her off on his mother's doorstep to look after until she's old enough (ick). Aethra who ends up being taken back to Sparta as a hostage once Helen's brothers raze the city (either Aphidna or Athens). Aethra who becomes Helen's slave at some point after this (whether immediately or once she's an adult). Aethra who goes with Helen and Paris on the ship to Troy. Aethra who is still by her side after 10 years of war, still alive, who is found by her grandsons Demophon and Acamas. Aethra who is released from the possession of Helen after she gives her consent and accepts the arrangement. Aethra who leaves Troy with her grandsons and finally gets to go home.

Giving it a very rough estimate, they end up being stuck in each other's lives for somewhere between 25 - 40 years... which is quite a long time. Accounting for the fact that Aethra is still very much a) the mother of Helen's kidnapper, and b) Helen's slave, she's still most likely the closest thing Helen has had to a long-term maternal figure in her life.

And she lets her go. After everything, after such a destructive and devastating war and the aftermath of it, Aethra may very well be the only person to whom Helen can grant some happiness in the ashes of Troy.

(I'm not even going to begin to pretend that I have the pre-requisite knowledge to unpack Aethra's position as royalty-to-hostage-to-slave or how she would've been treated. Also the considerations of historical knowledge of slavery in ancient Greece vs. Aethra being a mythological character from thousands of years ago. If anyone does please be my guest and inform me!)

[un-pearable]

no offense but i think when critiquing jay’s (and let’s be real all of the OG four ninja’s) behavior in the pilots and early seasons, a lot of people ignore that the cultural context and attitude about misogyny and especially misogyny in children’s media is VERY different today than it was in the late 2000s/early 2010s

[fatehbaz]

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[blackbackedjackal]

I'm sorry if this is an inappropriate question but does June have bottom surgery? I'm down HORRIBLE for her 👀 and wanted to know what sexy time would be like with her. If you're not comfortable answering this I totally understand. My ape brain for her is outta control.

She's only had top surgery.

Also, if ape brain wants more sexy time details, feel free to ask @sapphicfangs

[martyrbat]

what’s your favorite book you’ve read this year??? i gotta pick up something new!!

what a lovely question to receive! im so sorry for the delayed response and that i dont know your taste in books (please feel free to dm me anytime and talk about them!) but i really enjoyed The Gilda Stories to the point i've read it three times within the same month!

its a 1991 novel forcing on a Black lesbian that escapes enslavement and eventually becomes a vampire by two lesbians. each chapter being about a different time period in her life [1850, 1890, 1921, 1971, 1981, 2020, 2050]!

i dont want to give too much away if you havent read it yet but the writing is so enchanting and Jewelle Gomez's style is one of my favorites. its simultaneously melancholic and comforting, holding onto the message of how important hope for tomorrow is despite the current state of today and that community is needed not only for survival but for actual living—that those connections is what makes life truly fulfilling. i've underlined so many little lines in almost every passage (when not underlining the entire passage itself!) because i just love gilda herself as well as how her motivations, desires, and resilience is written and explored. plus i find the way vampires and how they function to be such a beautiful idea and so creative :) i really hope you read it and enjoy it as much as i have!! <33

from the afterword:

“Jewelle Gomez says that she modeled her first book of poems The Lipstick Papers after Lorde’s early publications, and was inspired by that vampire who appears on the very last page of From a Land Where Other People Live. Lorde asks whether the black community is ready for a black woman who defies limitations, and Gomez responds with Gilda, a black woman who moves across time and space, navigating different eras in black creative community. Gomez provides depth and flesh to the nightmares of narrow-minded people who police the definition of blackness, and steals back the power and threat of black feminine difference. In other words, if the definitions of blackness, femininity, and queerness are death in the eyes of the dominant culture, Gomez offers another way of being black, queer, and feminine by creating the undead.

Policy makers are afraid of the black woman who keeps her family alive without access to food, but here is Gilda, living on wine and dreams in the dark. Black nationalists are afraid of the black woman who can be a man when she needs to be, but here she is wearing britches and sprinting through the Midwest. The white feminist movement is afraid of a black woman in control of her sexuality, but here is a black woman who can run a brothel and kill a rapist with the same skills. Black women are afraid that expressing their power will leave them isolated and alone, but here is a black woman who wrestles for generations with the need for space and intimacy, interdependence and agency. Black artists are ready to produce a poetics that is more than a reaction to the oppressive narratives of the man, and here is Jewelle Gomez, a poet, relevant for generations.”

[lokiinmediasideblog]

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[colorisbyshe]

i literally cannot have a normal conversation with my mother.

i was complaining about having to come up with a costume for my hip hop class which recommended a red accessory and she said she had a red bandana

"no i don't want to do that, for a variety of reasons"

"well, it can be a gay thing."

"... mother, that was a gay SEX thing, i'm not wearing a bandana like that"

"gay sex thing?"

"yeah, the different colors mean... things i'm not talking to you about, figure it out on your own"

"is that why my gay roommate kept stealing all of my bandanas"

"i guess so??"

"well he's dead now. a lot of my friends died of AIDS"

"oh"

"yeah"

"..."

"gay sex though, really?"

"i'm not doing this"

[dozydawn]

so happy i identified this model. because she did mostly small time catalogs, i never had any hope

[vulpinesaint]

i just think that their actual relationship where they care about each other and want each other to be safe and their conflict is based on the moral conflicts that arise from venom's definition of "justice" is so much more interesting than the "wow i hate my ex" relationship that some people seem to want them to have. people hate to see two people have an amicable divorce and still care about the person they used to be with. and still see the person they used to be with even beyond the way they've both changed. anyway

[creepyscritches]

My mom is going on a cruise w her bestie to a lot of European countries she's not seen yet (hasn't been to/lived in Europe or Africa since shortly before I was born). She asked me what gift I'd like and tbh I just really loooooove spices and flavors I dont have the opportunity to discover/try here, but like 🤔 not sure if customs would bar her from bringing spices home. Maybe a cool rock or smth instead as I seem to be collecting small stone animals when I travel lately

[eddie-rifff]

good news: i get to see/ride/take a million pictures of covergirl tomorrow

bad news: i have to get up at 8 am (on a saturday) and uber 45 mins to get there