#thanks for writing

[calder]

you said somehting about goblin dogs in fallout. may i inquire?

ohh its an old silly post... at the time i had recently written something purely speculative about dogs starting to use tools and shit. i'm sure i couldn't find it now

[thatbanditqueen]

Ch. 3 pls!!!! 😭😭

Dear Anon,

Thank you for writing, your message made my day! It's coming I promise... I'm wrapping up another wip chapter and then its back to ch 3! I expect to have it out before the end of the month. If you want me to tag you, send me a message or comment on any post and I''ll add you to the taglist for ch 2 for i can copy and paste it for the next one.

xoxoxo

norah

[ursulaklegay]

its so scary to put yourself out there but a SINGLE message saying "hi i loved what you made it touched me in some way" makes it all worth it 10000%

[kilgarraara]

"I guess I never really faced my fears before"

[wishfulsketching]

I have finally finished season 2 of Arcane and can now enjoy your art without fear!!! They should be happy together 🥺

I take it "they" means zaundads because that is what I've been drawing the most BUT, lets be honest, applies to like 98% of the characters in the show.

They should've been a big happy familyyyy

[beepboopappreciation]

Is this anything

[c-rowlesdraws]

Hey tumblr.

I want to share a post from The Guardian that was published today.

“Inside the building, staffers said that Doge cultivated a culture of fear.

“It’s an extreme version of ‘who do you trust, when and how?’” said Kristina Drye, a speechwriter at the agency, who watched dozens of senior colleagues escorted out of the building by security. “It felt like the Soviet stories that one day someone is beside you and the next day they’re not.”

People started meeting for coffee blocks away because “they didn’t feel safe in the coffee shops here to even talk about what’s going on”, she added.

“I was in the elevator one morning and there was an older lady standing beside me and she had glasses on and I could see tears coming down under her glasses and before she got off her elevator she took her glasses off, wiped her eyes, and walked out,” she said. “Because if they see you crying, they know where you stand.””

Everyone should read this article about “DOGE” tearing apart USAID (and then read more reporting about how they are being allowed to do the same to other US federal entities). Elon Musk and his minions are violating our highest laws and destroying lives and livelihoods in the US and abroad. USAID is less than 1% of the federal budget— this isn’t about cost-cutting or “investigating fraud”. It’s about cruelty and seeing how much unlawful devastation and psychological warfare they can get away with, with the intention to repeat this process at one federal agency after another. They already have access to IT systems at the Treasury, NOAA, and other agencies, and have taken over OPM (essentially HR for the federal government), using the latter to send demeaning and threatening e-mail blasts to civil servants.

I’m urging everyone who reads this to recognize what’s happening here and how abhorrent and frightening it is. I wager that even most people who wanted Trump back didn’t want a centibillionaire technocrat making unilateral decisions on which parts of the federal government to “feed into the wood chipper” (as he has described his team’s actions at USAID in a recent post on X, The Everything App).

Please call your elected representatives and urge them to act against Musk now— before his actions make our legislative branch totally irrelevant.

I’ve been seeing posts about Musk’s coup-in-progress going around on here, but I feel like a lot of people still aren’t aware of the extent of it, and I really want to help get the word out. I’m heartsick for all the civil servants at USAID and beyond. Some of them, their unions, and some Democratic congresspeople and others are speaking out, but these workers need us everyday Americans to speak out for them, too.

Thank you for reading. And anyone who isn’t American, please keep us in your thoughts.

[ginnyw-potter-archive]

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[chiptrillino-art]

something stranger and more wonderful

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my art for @faux-fires (ao3 Link) fic "something stranger and more wonderful"

beta red by @ranilla-bean (ao3 Link) for this years @zukkabigbang2024 event. its truly a beautiful fic. Keeping you on your toes while reading. making you worry about sokka exposed to the whims of nature and zuko, all alone.

big thank you to reikah and rana for all the handholding during this project! And stoping me form overthinking details.

[gh0sdae]

On how they still think curly tried to commit with the crash:

[calder]

Hey Calder! Have you figured out any good fixes for fallout 76 sunlight shafts becoming just solid white light of blindness? I keep trying to find something but google doesn't seem to understand the problem :[

I think that's something to do with SAO, or some other weird threshhold floats. Try deleting(/removing) your falloutcustom.ini and recompiling it with fewer stipulations on lighting.

If deleting falloutcustom.ini and launching the game didn't get rid of the harsh white sunlight then something is wrong with one of the other ini files. back them up and start over. use quick config to manage your ini settings if you aren't already

that should do the trick. you can also configure reshade to discern the forms in the light. sometimes i experiment with that for screenshots

[thatbanditqueen]

All the fun Ruth Lisa Becky and Elvis will have at Graceland. The four of them on a golf cart together 🥺 I feel like the four of them are gonna give each other a genuine sense of what a family is (a mom, dad, siblings all under one roof)

I definitely see Elvis becoming slowly enamored by the warmth of Becky and her family, and the way she clicks with Lisa Marie. I actually am beginning some of that in Chapter 3 when Elvis shows up at her house unexpectedly and meets her family. When he was first touring he would stay at the house of some of the girls he was dating and get to know their family, and I get the sense he really enjoyed being at a home with people who he got familiar with, always looking for a big, warm normal family (that he perhaps never had). And though he was dating several girls at the same time, in addition to road gals, he would go back and sort of rotate through the same set - i think he liked the comfort and familiarity of these families. So Chapter 3 is going to be almost all fluff (and some smut) of Elvis getting the first sense of how Becky offers him that genuine sense of what a family could be... whether he gets that or fully turns himself over to the desire for normality, well... that will be his challenge in the hero's quest that is my fan fic.... (spoiler the prize in this hero's journey is becky's vagina)

xoxoxo

norah

[paperclipninja]

I swear trying to write smut feels like:

His hands were hands and then the fingers were in the hand and the hand was with the fingers and the fingers had the hand in the other hand then the fingers dragged to the hand with the fingers and it was hot

[bluegiragi]

left on read.

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last year i finally read "all that's said in the low light" by headlocket which i feel like has developed its own reputation by now, but just in case you don't know - it's kind of known in the fandom as a massive tearjerker. As promised, I cried buckets over it and it left an enormous impact on me.

I drew this comic (after getting permission from headlocket) as a what if on a situation in chapter 12, where Simon goes through a period of radio silence from Johnny after essentially giving him his blessing to date other people, the utter clown. We only see it from Johnny's side, who is really going through it, but the mental image of Simon staring at a slew of his own unread messages really stuck with me...did he think this was it? That that shitshow of a conversation he had with Johnny might've been the last they ever had? What if Johnny just never responded to him again? Did he regret giving him permission?

bonus - simon's forlorn and temporarily one-sided conversation:

[ash-and-starlight]

oh my god no way..,the lion,,,, is homosexual ,, 🫢

happy lunar new year! did you know that despite what wikipedia says the lion dance is a relatively recent practice, and was in fact invented in @ranilla-bean’s fic Pride of Place? click the link for more fun facts!