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aglaea the goldweaver

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Finished the Spiritfarer art!! only halfway through this game and i am in love with all these incredible characters and stories, they make me sob like a baby

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Cosmos , Poppies , etc. - Julia Whitney Barnes ,  2020.

American , b.

Watercolour, gouache and cyanotype on cold press watercolor paper , 20 x 16 in.

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you can run but you cant escape

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The image of Astarion as flamboyant Dracula was too much to ignore. So have this.

Audio from the Dracula: a Comedy of Terrors play

Nice to meet you | Baldur’s Gate 3 | Animatic

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@westealtoys tagged me to put 10 gifs of my favourite movies without naming them. Let's go!

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i think if people are to become actually accepting of disability they need to radically rework what they consider to be tenants of a fulfilling life. independence and self sufficiency can be nice but they're not required for a fulfilling life. neither is having a partner and children, having a job, or getting out of bed every single day. sure they can be enriching but so can other things. we need to stop considering the lives that disabled people live to be inherently subpar. inability and struggle is also a part of life, it doesn't devalue it. and acknowledging the difficulties of disabled people doesn't make their lives inherently unfulfilled either. we're here living life too.

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WIP Wednesday 💀 Sunday!!

Thank you @westealtoys for the tag!

I haven't found the energy to draw lately so here's a few wips I haven't worked on for over month to motivate myself into actually finishing them 🤞🤞

I'm terribly late to the party so if you read this, imagine that today's a Wednesday and consider yourself tagged

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when you hear someone mention your hyperfixation

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i need them kill each other and die together

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fathers casually dropping the craziest lore of their lives in the middle of a conversation

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Was conspired against by @aya-m3k and @westealtoys to show ten favorite movies in gifs.

I have a nagging feeling I forgot something, but these will have to do!

It took me so long, everyone got tagged already, I'll try @nukritus and @zionmantis tho, no pressure

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Lena through the years

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Send him to the mountains, let him go free forever, he'll be running through the forests, dancing in the fields like this

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Hello! Thank you for signing up for my little fandom project. Like I mentioned in my post, these will be once a month character building/exploration questions. I don't expect immediate answers. Feel free to take the whole month, if you need! If you have more than one Step, pick your favorite or whichever you think needs more love.

We're going to start with the basics this month: Where did your Sidestep get your name? Do they know what it means? Do they feel any particular way about their name?

- Cigs

Thank you for doing these 🧡💜

Unironically, it is just his re-gene name.

His name as given by his fellows was:

Sun-Head River Soaked (shortened to just the sign for River in re-gene language )

Sun-Head: Simple and descriptive. The name he was originally given by older re-genes as a newly decanted cuckoo. I think his red hair stood out amongst the other re-genes, probably the only one, or the one with the most notable color even with a short shaved head.

[pictured: farm-era River with a short shaved head of red hair.]

River Soaked: Those who know anything about River know that he's fascinated by water. It might be ingrained into his very psyche. Or maybe it's the desire to return to the brief and first comfort of floating in the warm liquid before decanting, before never having another comfort ever again. That fascination is not specifically how he earned the add-on of River Soaked to his name, however.

He earned the name River Soaked on his first outing. Ending up 'mysteriously' falling in a river while tailing a target....

[pictured: farm-era River partially in disguise while waist deep in water. he is smiling slightly.]

He got reprimanded by the handlers, of course. He doesn't regret it one bit. Some re-genes found it funny, others consider the name more of an ironic reminder. Whatever the re-genes thought, it was memorable enough of an event that it earned him a name.

River loved it. Reveled in it even.

So he kept it. When Julia asked what his name was he replied on instinct, not giving her whatever name was on his fake ID at the time. River. His name. Only name he was ever given.

It's what he considers to be his "true" name, closest to it anyway. Can't exactly introduce yourself as the entirety of his re-gene name to humans, never mind a string of numbers.

Becker then came as a commitment to this identity and fascination of water. Becker like a beck (creek), or physiculus beckeri (fish).

River Becker. His name.