Teach the children. We don't matter so much, but the children do. Show them daisies and the pale hepatica. Teach them the taste of sassafras and wintergreen. The lives of the blue sailors, mallow, sunbursts, the moccasin flowers. And the frisky ones – inkberry, lamb's-quarters, blueberries. And the aromatic ones – rosemary, oregano. Give them peppermint to put in their pockets as they go to school. Give them the fields and the woods and the possibility of the world salvaged from the lords of profit. Stand them in the stream, head them upstream, rejoice as they learn to love this space they live in, its sticks and leaves and then the silent, beautiful blossoms. Attention is the beginning of devotion.

Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays

2023 -> 2024

I don't mean characters that think they're the protagonist—I mean characters who know they're a side character. Characters who know what a story looks like and know when they're standing next to one. They're keeping their head down and watching events play out with morbid fascination or consciously performing NPC dialogue with a knowing smile. They choose their words carefully as they sculpt the story for you, or someone else, or just for themselves, as if describing the events will give them some kind of control. And maybe they forget that unlike you, the actual audience, the fourth wall will not protect them.

recent favorite type of fictional guy (gender neutral): Character That Thinks They're The Narrator

recent favorite type of fictional guy (gender neutral): Character That Thinks They're The Narrator

toki pona translation of Finnegan's Wake

The Smoke Mines of Damien

(i Will go back to everlasting haitus if that GFM slows down too much btw, seeing it to its goal ASAP is my primary focus right now)

Chilchuck discovering the power of a maneuver I like to call "pulling a Robo"

Chilchuck discovering the power of a maneuver I like to call "pulling a Robo"

Bewitched

Acrylic, 60x78cm

I made a dungeon meshi OC to join some friends' fan adventuring party. Would You Hire This Half-Foot?

DOBHAN FACTS:

From a fishing family/neighborhood of Kahka Brud's port.

Enthusiastic amateur and collector of old dwarven texts, since a full technical education is barred to non-dwarves. Self-taught enough Dwarven to read, but not speak it.

Advertises six years of expertise, but only the last 1-2 years have been field experience.

Fascinated by dwarven culture + history but too scared to speak to dwarves directly (might say something uneducated and get corrected in front of everyone OR say something *too* educated and get Got)

Quite nearsighted but got used to life without glasses and now can't be bothered to try to save up for a pair.

Known to mistake tallmen for each other because their faces are so blurry all the way up there and there's so many of them...

Favorite foods: Salmon, soft cheese.

Least favorite foods: Clams, shrimp.

An amorphous black blob thingy that shape-shifts into any hazard related thing.

ダンジョン飯 / Dungeon Meshi / Delicious in Dungeon, Kui Ryōko

some johns

Deflection

LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (1986) | dir. Frank Oz