#you're a blessing to the community

[joffyworld]

AW MAN ALLIGATOR YOUR ART'S SO PRETTY AMD CUTE I FORGOT IT WAS SAD TOO :((((((

I have literally so many super-long depressing bishop comics so I decided to just do a two-panel one to get back in the swing of finishing these.

In my AU comic I think I mentioned once before, shamura kinda compulsively writes down absolutely everything they do, interviews other deities and amasses this like huge collection of stories and people and events. In a literal sense, they're the god of war but they kinda asserted themself as the god of knowledge through providing accounts of everything they witnessed over the ~100,000 years they were alive. Plus when their journals got rewritten into storybooks by their scribes, it made for good material to teach the kids to read/write. So when they get their dome smashed they forget most of it, and the three remaining siblings go through their writings to retell them stories and distract them from chronic pain? Sometimes Shamura remembers they were the main character of the stories, sometimes they don't, but they always enjoy the company when they're stuck in bed. And also, the plot twist of "it was you the whole time!" doesn't get old when you forget it happens every time

(I'm resisting the urge to spam a bunch of comic panel sketches of the lightning god Ala cause she's pretty important in my au...I will do that another time)

[royalarchivist]

Wilson took over Rubius' setup today and refused to let him move the camera, going so far as to grab his arm with his tiny little paws MULTIPLE times so Rubius would keep petting him 🥹💕

Wilson is my favorite streamer.

[arthursfuckinghat]

Need one of those nervous dog harnesses for John when you play as him in the epilogue because like why are you panicking over a puddle my dear sir

[chipmunkweirdo]

Hey, Jenna! I got ten minutes to close my laptop before my Mum starts yelling, again. I've got nine hours before my test tomorrow. I will never get enough time or the vocabulary to tell you just how much of a wonderful person you are! I wanted to say this on discord - but it's not letting me log in, for some reason - and I just wanted to let you know that I am absolutely enthralled by your love for AATC.

It seems like such a simple thing to say, but so many people talk about their “love” for the show and just don't do anything with it, you know. It feels like a platitude. An empty emotion. But, your love for AATC makes me love it even more.

Thank you for writing. I'm so glad to have you as a friend. I'm so happy you got the job, because you deserve it. And you deserve every good thing in this world, because the world is a better place as it has you in it.

GOOD LUCK ON THE TEST! I HOPE YOU ACE IT!

I’m in happy tears right now. Thank you! Thank you so much! I am so blessed to have such a wonderful friend like you.

I’m thankful for this opportunity and although I’m still anxious, I’m going to take the leap and I hope that it works out in my favor.

HEARING THAT MY LOVE FOR AATC IS CONTAGIOUS AND LIKE…BLEEDS ONTO OTHER PEOPLE IS MAKING ME SMILE SO DANG HARD!

Growing up, I was always told that “you like the chipmunks too much” “isn’t there more to you than that?” “You’ll have to give them up some day and be an adult.”

But here I am. An adult. Who still likes, no LOVES AATC to the point where the characters never leave my brain. And I am mostly, mostly FUNCTIONAL!

Also your comments are my fics are the best and I love that you and I can ramble to each other for hours!

[wolves-in-the-world]

tags on krakenartificer's post about a leverage au where nate enters the priesthood but ends up running cons for people who come to him for help anyway:

#now i need a crossover episode of catholic priest nate who's still running leverage style shenanigans #with father brown [via @trivalentlinks]

thank you for making me stare at the wall in fascination and horror about this crossover

they'd be occasional allies occasional confidantes they'd go behind each other's backs once or twice and only kinda regret it. This nate hasn't gone through the same loss as in canon, but that wouldn't make him a whole lot softer, so he'd be fundamentally irritated with father brown - his tested and unshakeable belief and his optimism about the human condition - and father brown would be generally concerned about everyone on nate's end, and nate not the least of it. They'd play chess together and be fairly well-matched. They'd visit each other's confessionals to check in.

we'd get some interesting acknowledgement of father brown's "I'm nice and simple and harmless" grift (which I could also call power negativity) which is only kind of a grift because he really is that nice and harmless beneath, except that he uses it to get information from people.

flambeau would be utterly thrilled and (playfully?) insulted not to be father brown's only criminal associate.

the leverage crew would be correctly suspicious of flambeau, I think, but sophie would greet him by name - possibly with a kiss to the cheek, possibly eyeing him like he's a viper in their midst - and reference some very improbable occasion when they were after the same prize. He mentions she was using a different name then; he doesn't say what it was. Bonus points if he also had his eye on the dagger in the Rashomon Job but had the flu / was unexpectedly in prison / had to attend a grandmother's funeral at the time.

I have this certainty in my mind that the leverage crew would be largely dismissive of sid's abilities and he'd kind of snort and roll his eyes about it - he's at worst a common criminal and very lower class, so he's used to being understimated - and surprise them with his connections or lock-picking or holding his own in a brawl or fixing an elderly car in the quickest dirtiest way imaginable. (Parker would decide she likes him then; the others would be reassured after seeing how gentle he is when talking with her.) He'd also nope out of leverage's business at a sensible time, because father brown's rubbed off on him and he doesn't actually want that kind of danger - unless the con's personal.

(I'm not sure whether to set this in leverage time or drag it back to father brown's 1950s so I'm settling for mashing the two together and pretending it's not an issue. See also: geography.)

… father brown would have I think one harrowing conversation with eliot where they mention their time in the military, the marks that killing people and losing people leaves on a person - father brown already does this in canon, tells someone it's unfair that they're mired in trauma and alcoholism when he found his faith through trauma instead, it floored me - and after brushing on repentance and god here, he wouldn't bring it up with eliot again. (I think father brown varies on this in canon, frankly, but he often respects that kind of boundary, and I think he'd recognise a wound so sore it should be left to heal however it can.)

(yes I'm playing with fictional priests like barbie dolls but no I'm not comfortable with the conversion aspects, so apologies and bear with me while I skate on past that.)

(he'd describe eliot as a good person, once, or as someone working very hard at it. Eliot would be on edge about that for the entire con, finding a little too much uneasy satisfaction in getting to knock people out and play the bad guy - play at the simpler stuff he used to do. Sophie might catch father brown for a word about it; father brown wouldn't be that clumsy again.)

I think father brown and nate would both talk bunty out of getting involved in a joint kembleford-leverage operation except in the most innocent way possible. The problem is she actually would make a good getaway driver, and she's thrilled with the idea, but she's already had some run-ins with the press and the law and can't risk another; luckily she's better used as a distraction elsewhere.

and I'm sorry to do this, but I think lady felicia's husband would be a mark or potential mark at one point. It would be fraught.

(the main reason I haven't recommended father brown's heist episode (s7e10), aside from not having a background on the politics in it, is that it shows lady felicia as a victim and pulls the heist on her behalf. The show largely convinced me to ignore the messy reality of her and her husband's inherited wealth, but that episode made me kinda uncomfortable - which is a shame, because seeing these characters pull a heist was fucking great.)

mrs mccarthy would be used against her will or knowledge as a distraction while someone's pockets are picked. She isn't told until afterwards, and then only half by accident. She is, of course, horrified. Father brown was absolutely the one to suggest it in planning, but flambeau slips in mid-apology to smoothly take the blame.

I could in fact go on and this is in fact a problem.

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editing to continue:

I'm actually thinking that father brown might approach eliot from an ex-military angle and not a Religious Authority angle at all - eliot was raised protestant, after all, and it's an entirely different vibe. And I have to think eliot's guarded around father brown for the very fact that he's a priest and seems to mean it in a way that nate, I feel, wouldn't. So they may avoid the topic entirely, or as close to it as they can when brushing on, well, eliot's entire moral injury situation. Which is good news for me.

bunty would admire parker for being different and capable and getting up to exciting things, though would probably fail at any attempts at friendship until she thinks to ask what parker likes doing and ends up learning to pick pockets that evening. The second those two are around buildings tall enough to rappel down she's in danger. (The second parker can slip away at night she's giving the church a go; father brown gives her a look the night before and quietly warns her about the dodgy roof.)

mrs mccarthy decides fairly quickly that hardison is a very nice young man (his nana instincts are online and functional) even if he spends far too much time on the wretched computer. She's determined to feed him and half the time he's determined to find ways to politely refuse, though the strawberry scones are actually pretty good.

she's appalled by eliot's job, and fiercely territorial of her kitchen when he offers help, even just cleaning up, but once she's seen him get in the way of trouble she's absolutely catching his arm and half hiding behind him in any crisis real or perceived. (She still doesn't approve of him.)

lady felicia sees hardison and eliot as two very different kinds of novelties and does some talking to hardison about tech (mostly listening and marveling) and some quietly ogling both of them, and especially eliot once she's seen him fighting. (Eliot unfortunately turned on his charm when he realised she sort of expected it. She doesn't get to chat with charming southern gents all that often - it's very shallow, and she's not serious about it.)

thank goodness bunty's too young for eliot so I don't have to go there. He has to tuck her out of sight in a barn at some point when trouble's headed their way; when the mess is almost cleaned up and she's grabbed a rifle from somewhere to tell the the remaining goon to clear off, with every appearance of competence, eliot takes it from her and disarms it with a smear of blood under his nose and a slightly betrayed expression.

hardison and sid get along, aside from a little initial insecurity on the parker front, and get to bitch a bit about flambeau, who hardison mistrusts from the start.

flambeau... he admires parker, from a distance - professionally and not very effusively - but after he watches her work for a while he seems to realise who she was trained by, and tells her as much. He says he was too, for a very short time, and it's unclear if he'd gain anything from making it up. Says that he and archie had a difference of opinion - and has a way of saying it that implies there might have been fire involved.

[tirfpikachu]

i guess while you're studying the blade i shall protect dysphoric people in my humongous blanket full of secrets and treasures and awesome foreign snacks that i totally bought with real money

[dandelionjack]

single? taken? in a parasocial relationship with a deceased late 90s cult classic am radio talk show host?

[moinsbienquekaworu]

The struggle between being happy that all kinds of aspecs are talking about aspec experiences more and barely being able to stand the way people talk about aspec experiences

[aesethewitch]

Personally? I don't mind it when people say "bless you" or "blessed be" or "my god(s) is/are blessing you"! I even like when someone blesses me in earnest out of the blue. I think it's nice. But I don't have any religious trauma or anything like that (which is genuinely lucky for me), so I have exactly no baggage surrounding blessings/prayers. So long as it's not like, "I'm Praying the Gay Away For You" or some condescending shit like that, I usually at least have no issues accepting it. More often, I'll be touched! Honored, even!

But don't get pissed off at others who get annoyed about it or reject the blessings!! You may think you're doing a nice thing, but it's significantly nicer to ask, "Hey, do you mind if I give you a little blessing and/or prayer?" or "What's your stance on unsolicited blessings and/or prayers?"

They'll either say "no, thank you" or "sure" or "it's fine by me" or they may ask for specifics about the blessing and state that it depends.

Maybe someone doesn't want blessings from gods they don't worship. Maybe someone can't accept blessings from gods they don't worship. Maybe someone is uncomfortable with any kind of religion or religious activity. Maybe someone only wants a specific type of prayer or blessing. Maybe someone simply doesn't believe in blessings or prayers and doesn't want to participate in your religious moment. Maybe someone just doesn't want to be blessed.

It literally doesn't matter. By and large, people will appreciate the question. Assuming is garbage. Don't assume. Be respectful. Ask first.

[aseuki]

Hello! I'm going around the Kirby community trying to spread positivity wherever I can! I know you post more than just Kirby, but I just wanted to drop by and say that both have been a joy to follow and I'm always happy to see your work on my dash! Wishing you all the best! Please do take care, and have a wonderful day!

aaaa thank you for the kind words anon??? It means a lot that you enjoy my work, and I hope you enjoy the many more to come!!

[thelunastusco]

To all young people in the queer community, the ND community, the plural community, and especially those in fandom, I give you this blessing and this curse:

I hope you live to reach 31 years old. And I hope you keep living.

[derangedthots]

NEW BRIDGERTON AU FIC IN THE JACEMOND TAGS AND IT'S BY USER SENTIENTBEINGS I CRY OH I WEEP TRULY I WEEP IT'S SO GOOD

[muppetjackrackham]

Spotify Wrapped #39

send me a number 1-100 and i’ll tell you the song it corresponds with on my top 100 playlist

39. nightmares never end - jt music feat. andrea storm kaden

[asheanon]

Showing some appreciation with a 😳 to Branson from Angela!

(Still figuring out how these work but they look fun so I want to give it a shot! 😅)

(💕 You got this, my dude. As long as the context is there and/or readable, it's all good - and it always has been for the things you've sent in! You're doing just fine.~)

". . ."

When a pretty face lets you know that you're "pretty" and you don't have the processing power to properly react to that information as you've never felt "pretty." Not for a single day in your life.

"... Thanks."

Like a turtle retreating within its shell, it is as if he too withdraws beneath the brim of his hat. Though portraying the monotonous standard, there is a rosiness to what can still be seen of his ashen, hirsute cheeks. 🖤

[gabetheunknown]

dear twitter/reddit refugees, for the love of god reblog things you like to keep the insanity train running

[tetsunabouquet]

I'm busy with a painting inbetween the homework of my writing classes I just started. However, then I remembered that post @vespersposts shared once on the topic of AI art and disability. More specifically of how certain artists who were paralyzed started painting with their mouths. There is one in particular, Huang Guofo, who paints with the combination of BOTH his mouth and feet. Something most people, not even in real life, know about me, is that I was born with congenital claw toes, a toe deformity that resulted in all of my smaller toes growing in a curled way. Only my big toes are normal. As a child, I had already noticed my claw toes allowed me to do certain things with my feet instead of my hands with more ease then you normal toed tolk. Like using the remote control with my feet. I've tried typing with my toes too on my keyboard-because I'm not used to it I am slow and it's difficult for me to see which keys I am pressing unless I put my laptop to the ground but I can fully type with my toes. So then I was like, 'Why the fuck am I not learning myself how to paint with my feet?! Why not actually use my deformity to show to the world what claw toes are capable off?! I've gotten jokes about it all my life, a remark about my feet was literally the first thing my aunt ever said about me according to my mom, I have gotten injured so many times with my feet because I cannot afford to get shoes specially made for my feet. Yet I am not even allowed to join the Body Positivity movement according to fat activists because I am a size 4. Despite everyone always wanting to make me feel so insecure about my deformed feet... Well, you normal toed people, SCREW YOU.' So now I'm trying to learn how to paint with my feet! My first attempt wasn't downright terrible, nor was it good. I'm definitely sticking to working with both and retouching my painting wherever it gets too messy with my hands, but it's not too terrible that I am getting discouraged.