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andie, united states, she/her nipples. bi and mixed race and other problems. this blog is full of Tolkien. also other big-eyes-emoji stuff, the thick and black root of the stars. ☤ i tag! my sideblog is @humans-of-late-numenor. my girlfriend is bright @ivanaskye, who is so much. cynewulf on AO3 | tumblr fic | some fanart doodles
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Actually the ideal Beleg should be clad entirely in colors that blend in with the environment (as per his canonical white winter outfit) except his shoes should be bright red poulaines for no understandable reason
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Comms open for may 2024
My laptop screen is being consumed by The Red so I'll be buying a huion kamvas to do a 2-in-1 solution to my art problems.
Heres some stuff I offer [bottom has link with more info and samples]
Minis for 50$ [good to be resized and used as icons]
Poptarts starting 90$
I do scenes like this and I calculate per hour spent. They're often Something around 400$-600$ with two characters, being lineless = less time spent so its cheaper. Thats also around the price for the lubricious stuff.
A quick scene alternative, I do full background speedpaints like those for 150$
I also do customs. Heres a couple random ones.
More samples, options, prices, info etc: xuucomms.carrd.co
More info and samples on the speedpaints: bengaly.art/timedcomms
If interested please contact me through email [email protected] , i have guidelines and info on my comms site, please check them before sending an email.
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Remember that time Nick Sayre wanted to turn the destroyer of worlds into a giant battery.
Yeah.
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my deeply problematic ecology opinion is that sometimes we should put species in new places on purpose beyond just 'reintroducing to range of [within past 100 years].' ecosphere's haunted. put cheetahs back in the north american midwest. cultivate joshua trees and their moths further north on purpose to match climate patterns. other stuff that i don't know about because i mostly know north american ecology. the world is crowded by the bad decisions of the past. make some questionable contemporary ones.
#the world is crowded by the bad decisions of the past make some questionable contemporary ones….#gonna be quoting this hdssefghvfsa#ecology
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Short story in Kaleidotrope
Not an April Fool’s! It’s ‘Charybdis’, a fun bouncy story about working in customer service, when all your customers are the supernatural type:
I was sitting at my desk with my feet up, filing my nails, when Martin Josephs walked in. Big man, black, probably a shifter with those eyes, probably a bear with those shoulders, he was looking around the dingy Victorian hall as if he might be trying to find the town council, then saw my desk under the pale fluorescent light and headed for me instead. I’d pegged him for a client straight away and you only get one chance to make a first impression. Unfortunately, I plumped for Cherry.
He hesitated, and I swung Cherry’s legs down from the desk with aggravating slowness and gave him a bored pink lipstick smile. “Hi,” I said. “This is the Old World Advice Bureau. Can I help you?”
I love Kaleidotrope and feel very much at home there: everything in the zine is fun and worth reading.
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Some hungry Abrictosaurus consors checking out a dried out river bed in Early Jurassic South Africa
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i learned about Tim Wong who successfully and singlehandedly repopulated the rare California Pipevine Swallowtail butterfly in San Francisco. In the past few years, he’s cultivated more than 200 pipevine plants (their only food source) and gives thousands of caterpillars to his local Botanical Garden (x)
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and the Silmaril that he bore was taken into the bosom of the earth
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KING CHUB!!!!
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If you're in the need for some kind of magical artifact of magic for your setting, consider Fresnel Lenses which are used in lighthouses:
These things are Alive.
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But there was a period of friction, when “hello” was spreading beyond its summoning origins to become a general-purpose greeting, and not everyone was a fan. I was reminded of this when watching a scene in the BBC television series Call the Midwife, set in the late 1950s and early 1960s, where a younger midwife greets an older one with a cheerful “Hello!” “When I was in training,” sniffs the older character, “we were always taught to say ‘good morning,’ ‘good afternoon,’ or ‘good evening.’ ‘Hello’ would not have been permitted.” To the younger character, “hello” has firmly crossed the line into a phatic greeting. But to the older character, or perhaps more accurately to her instructors as a young nurse, “hello” still retains an impertinent whiff of summoning. Etiquette books as late as the 1940s were still advising against “hello,” but in the mouth of a character from the 1960s, being anti-hello is intended to make her look like a fussbudget, especially playing for an audience of the future who’s forgotten that anyone ever objected to “hello.”
Because Internet, Gretchen McCulloch
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thinking about how when you experience a lot of shame in your formative years (indirectly, directly, as abuse or just as an extant part of your environment) it becomes really difficult to be perceived by other people in general. the mere concept of someone watching me do anything, whether it's a totally normal activity or something unfamiliar of embarrassing, whether I'm working in an excel spreadsheet or being horny on main, it just makes my skin crawl and my brain turn to static because I cannot convince myself that it's okay to be seen and experienced. because to exist is to be ashamed and embarrassed of myself, whether I'm failing at something or not, because my instinctive reaction to anyone commenting on ANYTHING I'm doing is to crawl into a hole and die. it's such a bizarre and dehumanizing feeling to just not be able to exist without constantly thinking about how you are being Perceived. ceaseless watcher give me a god damn break.
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