#this break has not been nice to me

[oleander-nin]

hi, Ollie! I notice you haven't been posting or reblogging anything recently and you're probably just busy, but I'm a little worried. you're a really kind person with a great sense of literature. all your followers and mutuals love you and are here for you if you need anything!! I hope that wherever you are, you're doing well! 🩵 I miss the silly reblogs you've done, they make me laugh :) I saw a post of yours recently about not receiving a lot of feedback on your writing. I too have not done a good job at responding.. and I'm sorry. I think your writing is always so enticing and suspenseful. I enjoy reading it and I hope you enjoy writing it as well. I hope to see more posts from you about just anything in the future. I hope your summer is giving you lots of fun! (if it's summer for you..) anyways, I miss you and am wishing you the best!!

Aww, thank you so much! This was super sweet to receive, and I appreciate it more than I can express. This also came in great timing, because I'm coming out of my hiatus lol. I'm trying to get three fics done and queued tonight so I can ease back into a normal-ish schedule.

Thank you so much for your support and kind words, it means a lot to me. Also, don't worry about the feedback thing, I was just really mopey for a while lol. I don't expect anything from you guys, just knowing y'all are here is enough. Thank you so much for your encouragement!

also if you care about stuff I reblog, I actually just have a seperate blog for it. I hate filling up this one for personal preference, so I made a sideblog for reblogging everything. The only thing I tend to reblog here is friends works or reblog games. I have like, 15 in my drafts but It feel wrong to post them when I've been gone for like 5 months.

[crabsnpersimmons]

i'd love to celebrate my birthday with y'all! no pressure to say or do anything, just wanted to share and "invite" you all 🥰

[daily-odile]

AUGH I’d love to see more time looping odile if possible,,,,, how do you think she’d like; “devolve” over each of the acts as compared to Siffrin over time :O

ok im gonna be honest i did like portrait edits months ago and just never finished them. so here you go

act 3:

act 5:

[utilitycaster]

The thing about Ashton saying "WHAT DO YOU WANT" is that I really do understand that they are coming from a place of great pain and a genuinely awful life (and the Arch Heart doesn't really give a good answer either, which is similarly frustrating) but we keep getting this answer throughout the campaign, if not for the Arch Heart at least for other deities, and it's that most simple and also frustrating of answers: consistent effort.

Why did FCG catch the eye of the Changebringer? consistent, repeated prayer, even if it wasn't perfect and could get kind of silly or even annoying to others. Orym is not a worshiper of the Wildmother, but he still repeatedly has reached out and tried to talk to her in good faith (pun unintended). And looking back at others from past campaigns, we learn of their ongoing service - in the cases of those who are introduced as already faithful, often from a young age (Pike, Caduceus, Jester though her deity is not one of the Prime/Betrayer pantheons). Both Vax and Fjord made considerable sacrifices of their own without promises from the gods first, in addition to smaller, regular moments of worship in the course of their stories.

I've never loved the line about there being no atheists in foxholes, because frankly I think it's unfair to atheists and paints them as selfish, fickle, and spineless when many atheists are none of those things. But I do think that a lot of the anti-god arguments fit into that sort of philosophy, that the gods are only to be paid attention to in the moment of great and desperate need and neglected otherwise, and we've seen the attendants of temples repeatedly say that isn't how it works; it takes time. The gods don't necessarily answer a single yell off the cliffs of Zephrah or a single visit, but they do see the repetition and respond to that.

I think everyone in the fandom, regardless of how they feel about the gods, understands there's not going to be a quick easy painless fix to this mess once Ludinus set it in motion, but I do think a lot of people expect there to be a lot of quick fixes to other things (in the story, in fandom, and in real life). And yeah, it does suck that Ashton, having a terrible time, might have had more luck had they prayed or gone to the same temple regularly for a while without necessarily seeing results...but it's also very real. You do have to take your stupid mental health walks regularly for a while (let alone your meds) before there's a payoff. you do still need to do the dishes while you're depressed or sick lest they pile up and make things worse. consistent effort that doesn't always have immediate satisfying results is extremely unglamorous and also it's how you have to do basically everything in life. Even in a time of crisis you need to avert the crisis and then get back to the slow and consistent work of fixing it and improving things in the aftermath.

[skelenova]

idk they're kinda cute 2gether...

timothy belongs to @pinetreevillain

[madootles]

it’s always october 3rd somewhere

[cerealmonster15]

i want jamiazu + idikei to go on a double date so badly i think the vibes would be So Very Turbulent

[kkoct-ik]

scarian for morale

[wispforever]

original quote under the cut

[ask-lu-wild]

[cat-of-starlight]

I say this in the most lighthearted way possible, but it HAS been bugging me so take the memeee-

NOTE: Free for personal use, please do not repost my edits without crediting me

[autisticaradiamegido]

day 192

a break from artfight for some good news! i have finally scheduled a surgical consult to have my enemy (read: uterus) removed. this is a bit of a scarier prospect than my breast reduction was, but i think it will be an equally impactful quality of life improvement when all is said and done!!

anyway those of yall who have been here since the beginning may remember me posting through that whole process so i figure why stop now.

[dot-moth]

another double day to catch up since i had to make a presentation yesterday evening! so here's day 8 and 9

[hammill-goes-fogwalking]

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[love-3-crimes]

[astrobei]

a body in motion - chapter 4

“I’m saying–” Mike tries again, “I’m going to do something so stupid– so, so stupid– and I need you to tell me not to.”