#this one was long!

[tavina-writes]

For the ask game : 3, 11, 13, 16, 28

3. What are some tropes or details that you think are very characteristic of your fics?

oh man, I love writing about food. Character's favorite/least favorite foods, tense mealtimes, food as a way of establishing setting, cooking as a love language, those sorts of things. I think I also really love to write about like, sad insane little polymaths grieving the most important people in their lives and like, the sense of loss we feel sometimes when life changes? Idk! I think some parts of my writing tends towards the melancholic rather than the fluffy.

11. Are you partial to a certain character/pairing or are you more equal-opportunity? If you are partial to any character/pairing, why do you think that is?

I'm a multishipper! I definitely have characters I love more than others (looking at you my list of blorbos!) and character archetypes I love more than others (pathetic sad men and hypercompetent yet also very damaged and sad women) but overall I think I'm partial to characters for their acts of devotion. I love an unhinged or hinged and devoted character, that's how Youqin from Starry Love or NHS from MDZS or HYS from LOCH really speak to me. Get me in the acts of devotional service.

13. Are there any tropes you used to like but don���t anymore?

hmmm I'm not sure on this one. I tend to eternally like stuff but I find myself having less tolerance for romcoms recently. Misunderstandings as plot devices to keep the couple apart or make people feel bad about their friends was never a huge thing that I enjoyed and I think I enjoy it even less recently.

16. What’s an AU you would love to read (or have read and loved)?

oh man, arranged marriage! marriage fics in general! I love a good starting this relationship backwards with commitment first and feelings later.

28. Does anyone read your fics before you post them? If so, who?

Haha I think pretty much all of my discord friends hear about a fic when I'm writing it just bc I LOVE to scream about my writing. I would say that @autumnslantern sees a lot of my fics before I post them? Many discord friends may see snippets or pieces esp if I think a particular pairing/fandom/trope would really speak to them. I'm not super private about stuff that I'm writing about though I find posting snippets to tumblr a bit more "oh ANYONE can see this that's slightly terrifying."

Thanks for the ask! :D

[lrndvs]

compliments from girls go hard

[bookwyrminspiration]

god I would be UNSTOPPABLE if I was capable of consistently initiating tasks. just you wait. you'll be waiting a while but just you wait

[kochei0]

I turn to Ares.

Thanks to Tyler Miles Lockett who allowed me to draw inspiration from his ARES piece for page 2! Look at his etsy page it's SICK

⚔️ If you want to read some queer retelling of arturian legends have a look at my webtoon

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Expertise can't help you here.

[smokiedokie]

I opened my copy of The Tale of the Body Thief & immediately had to close it again because of this silly little annotation

[vicholas]

the funniest part of the jason x sex scene post is actually watching jason x and finding out that the sex scene was plot relevant because jason revives at the very same time they were having sex in the room next door and it's implied that jason could sense them having sex while he was cryogenically frozen and it pissed him so much (because he hates sex) that it revived him. if you removed it you would make the movie less funny.

[thunderon]

“long hair on guys doesn’t make them less masculine. think keanu reeves, jason momoa, danny trejo, or the guy at your local dive bar who rides a motorcycle”

*the crowd nods*

“so long hair doesn’t necessarily determine masculinity”

*the crowd, more hesitant, still nodding*

“butches can have long hair—“

*GUNSHOT*

[kedreeva]

Following the author of The Last Unicorn on Facebook is the only thing that makes being on that site worthwhile.

(source)

[demaparbat-hp]

Arsonist's Lullaby

[great-and-small]

When I was in vet school I went to this one lecture that I will never forget. Various clubs would have different guest lecturers come in to talk about relevant topics and since I was in the Wildlife Disease Association club I naturally attended all the wildlife and conservation discussions. Well on this particular occasion, the speakers started off telling us they had been working on a project involving the conservation of lemurs in Madagascar. Lemurs exist only in Madagascar, and they are in real trouble; they’re considered the most endangered group of mammals on Earth. This team of veterinarians was initially assembled to address threats to lemur health and work on conservation solutions to try and save as many lemur species from extinction as possible. As they explored the most present dangers to lemurs they found that although habitat loss was the primary problem for these vulnerable animals, predation by humans was a significant cause of losses as well. The vets realized it was crucial for the hunting of lemurs by native people to stop, but of course this is not so simple a problem.

The local Malagasy people are dealing with extreme poverty and food insecurity, with nearly half of children under five years old suffering from chronic malnutrition. The local people have always subsisted on hunting wildlife for food, and as Madagascar’s wildlife population declines, the people who rely on so-called bushmeat to survive are struggling more and more. People are literally starving.

Our conservation team thought about this a lot. They had initially intended to focus efforts on education but came to understand that this is not an issue arising from a lack of knowledge. For these people it is a question of survival. It doesn’t matter how many times a foreigner tells you not to eat an animal you’ve hunted your entire life, if your child is starving you are going to do everything in your power to keep your family alive.

So the vets changed course. Rather than focus efforts on simply teaching people about lemurs, they decided to try and use veterinary medicine to reduce the underlying issue of food insecurity. They supposed that if a reliable protein source could be introduced for the people who needed it, the dependence on meat from wildlife would greatly decrease. So they got to work establishing new flocks of chickens in the most at-risk communities, and also initiated an aggressive vaccination program for Newcastle disease (an infectious illness of poultry that is of particular concern in this area). They worked with over 600 households to ensure appropriate husbandry and vaccination for every flock, and soon found these communities were being transformed by the introduction of a steady protein source. Families with a healthy flock of chickens were far less likely to hunt wild animals like lemurs, and fewer kids went hungry. Thats what we call a win-win situation.

This chicken vaccine program became just one small part of an amazing conservation outreach initiative in Madagascar that puts local people at the center of everything they do. Helping these vulnerable communities of people helps similarly vulnerable wildlife, always. If we go into a country guns-blazing with that fire for conservation in our hearts and a plan to save native animals, we simply cannot ignore the humans who live around them. Doing so is counterintuitive to creating an effective plan because whether we recognize it or not, humans and animals are inextricably linked in many ways. A true conservation success story is one that doesn’t leave needy humans in its wake, and that is why I think this particular story has stuck with me for so long.

(Source 1)

(Source 2- cool video exploring this initiative from some folks involved)

(Source 3)

[mangozic]

my dead goth son and his friendly neighborhood personified concept of insanity

[kensatou]

those!!! are!!! his!!!! tits!!! be gentle 👉👈

[wellfine]

Au fucking revoir Mister Prince

[wasabi-gumdrop]

local ladies man’s signature move totally useless against autistic monster enthusiast. more on Kabru’s fumble era at 6