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skygemspeaks · 9 hours

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Thinking about how Ysabo feeds the crows leftover scraps from the previous night's dinner every day

Thinking about how one night, Nemos Moore in his guise as Mr Pilchard, is feeding leftover scraps to the gulls

Thinking about how the crows are Queen Hydria's knights, transformed

Thinking about how one of Ysabo's earliest memories from childhood is how one day, while she was feeding the crows, a gull tried to swoop in and steal some of the scraps, and the crows chased it out to sea and tore it apart

Thinking about how the crows (knights of Queen Hydria) protected Ysabo from the gull (a stand-in for Nemos Moore) as a child and then, years later, those same crows saw her being followed by an invisible Ridley Dow. Ridley Dow who they recognized as a relative of Nemos Moore, several generations removed. And the crows drove him away to protect Ysabo.

The paper knights, the imposters installed by Nemos Moore, never truly saw Ysabo, never cared about her. But Queen Hydria's knights, even as crows, have been protecting her all her life 🥺

#the bell at sealey head #princess ysabo #queen hydria #nemos moore #ridley dow #booklr #book talk #patricia mckillip

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skygemspeaks · 19 hours

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I finished reading the Bell at Sealey Head today! It was a very sweet, gentle story and the wrap up was quite lovely! The only thing that could have possibly made it better would have been Ysabo/Emma 😤

#ignore me #the gentle courtship between judd and gwyneth was lovely and i was so happy for them!#the bell at sealey head

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skygemspeaks · 1 day

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things i’ll not call you a whore for:

sexual activity

how you dress

things i’ll call you a whore for:

stealing my food

stealing my lemons

my cat likes you more than me

#people thinking that link was a rickroll.....#can't believe lemon stealing whores is no longer required watching for all tumblr users #oh btw i tried watching the rest of it before out of morbid curiosity #it was pretty mid as nsfw vids go #i closed out halfway through because i got bored #but i feel like a lot of that also has to do with me being ace lmao #nonfandom #laugh tag #lemon stealing whores

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skygemspeaks · 1 day

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i think what’s on a person’s nightstand is very telling so reblog this and put in the tags the things you have on your nightstand

#two photos of my cat #an electric lamp from ikea that looks like a gas lamp #a bottle of tums #a tube of lotion because my feet get really dry and cracked so i moisturize them before going to sleep #lip balm #a bottle of cuticle oil #my glasses case #a little astronaut shaped star projectory #also i feel i should clarify that my night stand has this open shelf under the top #so like not all of this is right on top of my nightstand some of it is on the shelf right under #nonfandom #tag game

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skygemspeaks · 1 day

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Couch inspector gives his approval! 10 slow blinks out of 10! It's a roaring success!

#ignore me #cat tag #my ray of sunshine #nonfandom

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skygemspeaks · 1 day

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raiding the fridge AGAIN

#ALDHSJS #i love his face #one piece #black leg sanji #monkey d luffy #afk

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skygemspeaks · 1 day

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It’s Law manhandling hours 🕒

#AODHSHSJSJ #i love them #cora in a heart pirates jumpsuit >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> cora in the festher coat #donquixote rosinante #trafalgar law #afk #op spoilers #dressrosa

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skygemspeaks · 2 days

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this was a comment on one of my post from a recent live event. it was photos of joyful queer buckaroos celebrating together and proving love is real through creation, community, and a trot of love. most important I AM LITERALLY IN PHOTO AS A REAL FLESH AND BLOOD HUMAN

it got me thinking about how DEEP AND VICIOUS the irony poisoning of these early internet communities goes. the way buds like this cannot fathom someone just being a sincere person unrelated to their OWN old days of cynical posting. it is fascinating, and i will admit, sad too

despite a DECADE of work, countless live events, 350 tinglers written well before large language models were a thing, there are still people who cannot imagine someone like me could exist. it is a strange place to be. not just part of me, but my entire EXISTENCE is often gatekept

it is easy to say ‘well chuck your art IS strange’ but honestly i think it is more than that. magical realism is common. there are stories about dinosaurs and bigfeet and unicorns. this scoundrel reaction is about two unspoken things: my art is neurodivergent, and my art is queer

heres the thing: I WILL BE FINE. what concerns me is not an issue of MYSELF, it is a concern for the other young outsider buckaroos who see comments like this one and think ‘is that what they will say if i express MY unique way? will i be dehumanized like this at every turn?'

i will be honest, i cannot say that WONT happen, but i CAN say this: for as deep as this irony poisoning goes, it is slowly dying. the way i was treated at the start of my career is LIGHTYEARS DIFFERENT from the way i am treated now. there is a massive shift towards sincerity

BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY. to young artists trotting up, the things that i am harassed over and doubted for and made fun of for are NOT tangental to what has made me successful, THEY ARE LITERALLY THE SAME THINGS THAT HAVE MADE ME SUCCESSFUL. YES I AM STRANGE, WHAT OF IT?

the things that you tuck away for fear of a review that says ‘there is a PROBLEM with this art because it has always been done another way’ THOSE ARE YOUR SUPERPOWERS. the gatekeepers want you to tuck those parts of yourself away because THEY TUCKED AWAY THOSE PART OF THEMSELVES

never forget that your unique way is PURE UNFILTERED 100 PERCENT ROCKET FUEL. it will stick out (maybe, if you are lucky, scoundrels will even say that someone like you could never actually be real), but sticking out isnt so bad when you are waving the flag of love.

in fact, when youre waving the flag of love, sticking out is pretty dang cool. what are flags for, after all? LOVE IS REAL BUCKAROOS. thank you for reading, and if you enjoyed this long post then please consider preordering BURY YOUR GAYS.

LETS TROT

#some people are so wild #thank you so much for this post dr tingle #you and your work mean so much to me #thank you for continuing to be so unapologetically yourself #nonfandom #chuck tingle

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skygemspeaks · 3 days

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Art by Natcha Ngamtweerat

#WOAH #this is literally so beautiful i could stare at it all day #art tag #afk #nonfandom

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skygemspeaks · 3 days

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I will open the fucking TikTok app just to watch this video multiple times

#AKLSDJALKSJD #this video always makes me scream laugh when i see it #laugh tag #afk #nonfandom #tiktok #video

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skygemspeaks · 3 days

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It feels impossible sometimes to talk about your experiences as an asexual person without getting lumped in with purity culture because it’s somehow simultaneously true that society hates sex and puts sex everywhere so both people who want to express their sexuality and people who don’t want to participate in it end up having knee-jerk reactions to each other because we’ve all built up defense mechanisms ready to trigger at a moments notice so you try to talk about how sex and romance is everywhere and inescapable and you don’t wanna be involved with it and then people blame you for the kink at pride discourse when you weren’t even thinking about that

#yeah frfr #nonfandom #afk #aspec #asexual

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skygemspeaks · 3 days

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