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Okay fun little reblog game: reblog and put in the tags what character you associate w prev or reminds you of prev but you cannot use their icon

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Yeaaaaahhh so I got a GIGANTIC artblock this week, so I tried fighting it by drawing the Companions girlies 👌

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How do you plead?

Alongside being a page artist for @taz-balance-zine I also got to be a spot artist which gave me a chance to make some smaller art pieces to accompany a wonderful fic! I worked with Pip ( @writersstareoutwindows ) who wrote a wonderful fic about John and the Hunger which you can find in your copy of Through the Static! Stay tuned for the rest of my spot art coming soon :3

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Deadlands chess- the finale

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25 ways to be a little more punk in 2025

Cut fast fashion - buy used, learn to mend and/or make your own clothes, buy fewer clothes less often so you can save up for ethically made quality

Cancel subscriptions - relearn how to pirate media, spend $10/month buying a digital album from a small artist instead of on Spotify, stream on free services since the paid ones make you watch ads anyway

Green your community - there's lots of ways to do this, like seedbombing or joining a community garden or organizing neighborhood trash pickups

Be kind - stop to give directions, check on stopped cars, smile at kids, let people cut you in line, offer to get stuff off the high shelf, hold the door, ask people if they're okay

Intervene - learn bystander intervention techniques and be prepared to use them, even if it feels awkward

Get closer to your food - grow it yourself, can and preserve it, buy from a farmstand, learn where it's from, go fishing, make it from scratch, learn a new ingredient

Use opensource software - try LibreOffice, try Reaper, learn Linux, use a free Photoshop clone. The next time an app tries to force you to pay, look to see if there's an opensource alternative

Make less trash - start a compost, be mindful of packaging, find another use for that plastic, make it a challenge for yourself!

Get involved in local politics - show up at meetings for city council, the zoning commission, the park district, school boards; fight the NIMBYs that always show up and force them to focus on the things impacting the most vulnerable folks in your community

DIY > fashion - shake off the obsession with pristine presentation that you've been taught! Cut your own hair, use homemade cosmetics, exchange mani/pedis with friends, make your own jewelry, duct tape those broken headphones!

Ditch Google - Chromium browsers (which is almost all of them) are now bloated spyware, and Google search sucks now, so why not finally make the jump to Firefox and another search like DuckDuckGo? Or put the Wikipedia app on your phone and look things up there?

Forage - learn about local edible plants and how to safely and sustainably harvest them or go find fruit trees and such accessible to the public.

Volunteer - every week tutoring at the library or once a month at the humane society or twice a year serving food at the soup kitchen, you can find something that matches your availability

Help your neighbors - which means you have to meet them first and find out how you can help (including your unhoused neighbors), like elderly or disabled folks that might need help with yardwork or who that escape artist dog belongs to or whether the police have been hassling people sleeping rough

Fix stuff - the next time something breaks (a small appliance, an electronic, a piece of furniture, etc.), see if you can figure out what's wrong with it, if there are tutorials on fixing it, or if you can order a replacement part from the manufacturer instead of trashing the whole thing

Mix up your transit - find out what's walkable, try biking instead of driving, try public transit and complain to the city if it sucks, take a train instead of a plane, start a carpool at work

Engage in the arts - go see a local play, check out an art gallery or a small museum, buy art from the farmer's market

Go to the library - to check out a book or a movie or a CD, to use the computers or the printer, to find out if they have other weird rentals like a seed library or luggage, to use meeting space, to file your taxes, to take a class, to ask question

Listen local - see what's happening at local music venues or other events where local musicians will be performing, stop for buskers, find a favorite artist, and support them

Buy local - it's less convenient than online shopping or going to a big box store that sells everything, but try buying what you can from small local shops in your area

Become unmarketable - there are a lot of ways you can disrupt your online marketing surveillance, including buying less, using decoy emails, deleting or removing permissions from apps that spy on you, checking your privacy settings, not clicking advertising links, and...

Use cash - go to the bank and take out cash instead of using your credit card or e-payment for everything! It's better on small businesses and it's untraceable

Give what you can - as capitalism churns on, normal shmucks have less and less, so think about what you can give (time, money, skills, space, stuff) and how it will make the most impact

Talk about wages - with your coworkers, with your friends, while unionizing! Stop thinking about wages as a measure of your worth and talk about whether or not the bosses are paying fairly for the labor they receive

Think about wealthflow - there are a thousand little mechanisms that corporations and billionaires use to capture wealth from the lower class: fees for transactions, interest, vendor platforms, subscriptions, and more. Start thinking about where your money goes, how and where it's getting captured and removed from our class, and where you have the ability to cut off the flow and pass cash directly to your fellow working class people

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some truths get tired the longer we wait OxBlades, Gen, crew & Eleanor Additional Tags: Campaign 02: Oxventure Presents: Blades In The Dark, No season 2 spoilers, figuring out Eleanor’s secrets, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Past Relationship(s), Implied/Referenced Character Death

 “Do you ever think there’s something strange about Eleanor?”

Eleanor’s been keeping secrets. The crew’s ready to figure out what exactly those secrets might be.

I don’t generally post fic links here, and I doubly don’t always both when it’s Ox fic, because I am not willing to use the main tags for those anyway. But I want to post this one so I can highlight a personal milestone anyway.

19 or so years of fic-writing fandom, and I’ve never finished a fic over 10k before. This is the longest – and, though this is obviously less objective, I think the plot-heaviest – thing I’ve ever written, finished, and posted. And I am honestly, almost surprisingly, really happy with it in the end.

I don’t expect a lot of people around here to be interested in it, because I don’t actually have that big a circle for this fandom, but I wanted to mark that fact anyway, cause it feels really nice.

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im watching a little doc on youtube about an 11th century castle, and theres a bit where they are talking to a group of older women who are working on a large hand embroidered tapestry commemorating its nearly 1000 years of history & into the modern era.. and off on the border they show a bit where the women have stitched themselves working on it into the piece itself, and it made me kinda emotional

how amazing to have a visual depiction of the women who spent literal years painstakingly stitching such a wonderful piece of art that historically would have gone uncredited

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the kiss of judas

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A fanart i did not so long ago.

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the most important bit, that was left out; everyone say hi to bird (though they haven’t got that name yet)

part one | part two

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Nobody knows what’s under a Spirit Warden’s mask. Not that anyone wants to; people scatter when they hear the bell, spooked by just the thought of those bronze death-masks.

Keep reading

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a small Picket backstory, though the most important bit has been left out

part one | part two

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Everybody knows that the Lampblacks’ second in command isn’t afraid of anything. A lot of folk have lost bets—also fingers, limbs, and the odd life—trying to find the thing that will make Picket flinch.

Keep reading

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no time for drawing instead have picrews of Them

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scene not included here but Picket’s lackey Hook tries to spear himself in the face rather than return to Picket having failed her, and I just think that’s an attractive trait in a woman

relistening to Oxventure Blades in the Dark so I will once again be forcing others to think about my original Oxventure wife of all time:

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if you're in the throes of cosmic despair i cannot recommend museums enough. art or science or history it doesn't matter. oh we're all connected, all of us and everything, throughout all time and space, and no one, no one, no one is alone? awesome. that's what i thought i just wanted to make sure.

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relistening to Oxventure Blades in the Dark so I will once again be forcing others to think about my original Oxventure wife of all time:

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grom dance <3

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hearty congratulations to kenny @kineema for winning my lil art giveaway :-] here is his falmer mage oc Reddanyis!