Chrysiridia rhipheus

Disabled Butch Dyke. 26. Writer, artist, coder, techsexual. Disability activist. FUCK AI

[chrysiridiawings]

Writeblr Blog Intro!

Been fucking around on here long enough that I figure I may as well write a proper one of these LMAO

Hello! My name is Jett! I'm 26, use they/she pronouns, I am a disabled butch lesbian, and I'm a writer, artist, and programmer! I am currently in college finishing my second degree/about to start my masters in Computer Science, and I work 2 on campus jobs so I'm fairly busy.

More info below!

Some important things to know about me:

Disability and queerness, while they do not define me, are core aspects of my identity and who I have become as a person. DO NOT come at me with any homophobia/transphobia/ableism, and expect me to not call them out. Yes I will post complaining about disability or chronic pain or disability justice, yes you will like it.

I am a writer before almost anything else, and there is almost no limit to what I will write. I believe that my writing is an art to be perfected, a tool through which to examine, deconstruct, and view the world. I primarily write horror, fantasy, and sci-fi, and I am filled with whimsy and curiosity the likes of which you have never SEEN!

My writing almost always includes some elements of horror. it may not be horror outright, but be it body horror, cosmic horror, ecological horror, mental horror, or psychological horror, there is always SOME element of it to my writing.

I like weird shit. I like cryptic shit, I like niche shit. Please ramble at me. Please autism dump at me. I'm so onboard for all of these things, my asks and DMs are quite literally always open for you to dump your latest hyperfixation.

I RP! My chosen place of writing is discord, and I prefer literate, multi-paragraph writing. If you suspect our interests would align and we could write some wack shit together, feel free to message me :3

My passion project is a high-fantasy, extremely in depth world called Athyria that I will regularly post about. Almost all of my OCs and all of my world building comes from or goes into this passion project in some way, and writing it and potentially making it into a game are my lifelong goals.

My fandoms include, but are not limtied to: Iron Lung, Monster Hunter, The Locked Tomb, Final Fantasy XIV, Final Fantasy XV, Fire Emblem 3 Houses, Cult of the Lamb, Horizon Zero Dawn, Hades games, DrakeNieR, Void Stranger, Borderlands, Kingdom Hearts, Soul Eater, Gachiakuta, Fullmetal Alchemist, and many many more, but the ones listed are the shit you'll prolly see me posting about most frequently.

The Tags you can use to find stuff on my account are:

Jett Rambles: for when I'm posting insane rambly thoughts about theories or numerology or religion or fandom or or or

Jett Reviews: for when I'm writing a review on a book, game, or movie that I've consumed and have enough thoughts, positive or negative, that I feel the need to write out

Jett Writes: creative writing

Jett Dergs: unashamed flight rising bullshit

Jett Rants: me ranting about bullshit, usually the casual ableism I experience on a daily fuckin basis

Athyria: Anything and everything Athyria, from my world building to OCs to writing snippets

Final thoughts:

My DMs and asks are always open. PLEASE message me, even if we aren't mutuals. Ramble at me. talk to me about posts of mine that made you think, or give me your thoughts on whatever you're thinking about. Give me ideas, pitch plots, characters, and AUs to me, do ANYTHING, DMs are ALWAYS OPEN!

If you see me reblogging shit and not responding, I promise its not personal, I'm prolly busy and also have the memory retention of a peanut

I'm always open to obscure book, movie, game, or music suggestions

If you've read all this,,,, thanks! and welcome! Yee haw!

[eldritchdilf-deactivated2025061]

Contrary to popular belief the biggest beginner's roadblock to art isn't even technical skill it's frustration tolerance, especially in the age of social media. It hurts and the frustration is endless but you must build the frustration tolerance equivalent to a roach's capacity to survive a nuclear explosion. That's how you build on the technical skill. Throw that "won't even start because I'm afraid it won't be perfect" shit out the window. Just do it. Just start. Good luck.

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[thebutchtomb]

Gideon and Harrow

[artofmaquenda]

Devotion

Saw this news and I had to make a rough sketch about it. 🥹 We humans always underestimate the empathy and care of other animals..

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I love this with my whole heart

[sapphireh3arts]

i know folks are gonna call me a pedo for this one, but i grew up seeing my mom and grandma naked. they had health issues and at times needed care and help showering. and i truly think more kids need to be shown the nonsexual reality of naked women at a young age. there is nothing sexual about my grandmothers breasts, they were simply body parts. more women die of heart attacks because people are too afraid of breasts to do real chest compressions, because they are scared to touch their breasts. the sexualization of our bodies literally kills us. i need people to be more normal about naked bodies and i'm 100% serious.

[elldritch-horror]

I find it very telling that Tamsyn Muir, who came up through this hellsite, wrote books where the evil emperor starts out as a basically okay leftist millennial tumblr user.

What makes the villain the villain (inasmuch as it's useful to examine TLT characters through that kind of simplistic lens) is that when the chips are down and he has to choose, his priority is punishing the wicked, not saving the people left behind.

I would invite anyone whose engagement with their cause consists of finding the 'correct' group of people to hate, to consider whether 'evil emperor' is the next career move you see yourself taking, and if it isn't, to gently suggest disembarking from the hate train.

Because no one wants their God King to be a tumblrina called John.

[griddles-bone-soup]

If I could directly implant this understanding into the brain of every TLT fan, by jod I would

[covid-safer-hotties]

The pandemic isn’t over—and queer people shouldn’t be acting like it is | Xtra Magazine

ANALYSIS: As a community, we talk a good talk about keeping each other safe, so why aren’t we doing it now? 

[peacevine]

You Are Not Immune To fanart of characters who die in canon that has them alive and well, with scars from the wound that originally killed them

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[lifeafterpsychiatry]

"I'm only criticizing the people who are lazy on purpose" is just not the reassurance people think it is when nearly every disabled person has been accused of not really being disabled and just being lazy on purpose

[eptck]

you have to be kinder to people with memory issues.

you have to be kinder to people who are slow processors.

you have to be kinder to people who don't understand your jokes.

you have to be kinder to people who forget important dates.

you have to be kinder to people with cognitive decline.

you have to be kinder to people who were always this way, too.

you have to be kind. you have to be kind.

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[kej-art]

happy pride to these idiots 🌈

(I'm thinking about drawing Ianthe and Camilla as well? we will see, we will see)

[herrmit]

prequel to the harrowhark collage. we love you gideon nav

[hotshotriot]

its like strippers and the economy to me

[rhymingteelookatme]

#eorzean proverb: one scion is happenstance two is coincidence three is impending calamity

via @ofdarklands

[definitely-not-an-alb]

Fascinated by everyone's but especially American's desire to give medieval keeps, especially in colder regions, central heating (and I think Winterfell is to blame for this trope, where, to it's defence, the hot springs were not a matter of comfort but survival wrt the deadly fantasy Winter that's not real irl), because I'm always like. okay I know they told you in middle grade that castles were all cold and drafty but like ... no also what

There's generally going to be rooms dedicated to and build for warmth, the living quarters, both for nobles and their servants. This will be the central living tower, or parts of it called a Kemenate (literally 'room with a stove'), the great hall and work spaces around the kitchen. You can put the Kemenate on top of the hall to catch the big fires' and daily living's heat through the wooden floor, but you often can't put wooden stuff on top of the kitchens (that's a fire risk). If you have the money and space, you build a whole separate comfy place for living because you don't have to stay in the most defensible part of the castle all the time. These separate living buildings are also called Kemenate and are often build from wood, cob, brick etc.

People used to wear much more clothes indoors, including while sleeping, and those clothes were much thicker and sturdier than what we largely wear today. Every time you think of how cold those stone walls are, think about everyone wearing a linen shift + two-ish layers of wool on all body parts except hands and head + stockings and shoes + some kind of head-covering. In Ye Old Middle Ages, women are probably wearing a wimple, which is kind of like a modern Hijab in terms of coverage. People wear shifts, socks, and a head-covering to bed.

I think people used to radiators also really underestimate how much a large open fire/tiled stove heats up a room. Also, middle and northern Europe (as well as parts of Northern China) had and to this day have beds and benches build into tiled and cob stoves. Those fuck.

Beds are enclosed so you stay warm in them, either by curtains, in wall niches or with wood. There's also a type of bed that's inside a chest (like a coffin) so you can stuff your stuff inside during the day and put down the lid to use it as a bench. That's also another reason for people to always sleep in groups. Depending on the era, one of the jobs of a lady's maid or a retainer might literally be warming their master's bed. In early times and among servants, people also sleep in large groups in rooms together in general even outside a farming context, often with animals like pet dogs, too, which further warms everything up.

Walls are not bare, cold stone, but covered with a layer of plaster or cob, tiles or wooden panels, sometimes layered, and believe me, this makes such a difference. Source: I lived in a Ye Olde German Farmhouse with 70 cm thick stone walls and flag stone floor and all that converted to modern flats for a while.

On top of that you hang tapestries on the wall, which are not like modern printed cloth but basically wall rugs, sometimes several inches thick, and rugs or rushes (like a light cover of hay) on the floor on top of stone, tile, wooden panelling or a cob floor cover that goes over the heave flag stone. Pillows and blankets on all sitting surfaces, often on top of panelling (in the case of benches build into the stone). The roof of a room is also tiled, panelled or plastered. Upper stories will generally have wooden floors. Stories in a tower heat each other upwards, so the nicer rooms are further up.

The inner stone walls of a castle, even if stone and very thick, will heat up a few degrees in comparison to the outside walls if the castle is continually heated/lived in, and also trap heat inside, and this will make a difference. Inner walls might also be thinner and made of wood, cob or brick. You're defending against the outside, after all.

You put stuff in the windows. Holy shit. Screens of wood, horn, cloth or leather/hide, often treated for extra insulation. Why are these fantasy castles all so drafty.

Like, idk, I know Americans especially can't pop down to their nearby castle museum to have a look around, but even with people who can and do: The castles you'll see, even the ones who aren't 'ruined' are ruins. They're stripped down. I remember touring Norman towers in England, and those places do look dire and are cold because even if they're still standing, they're ruins. It makes such a difference to get to look at a castle that is still lived in, has been inhabited until recently, or has been historically restored where these amenities are preserved. The exact amenities will depend on the era, of course, but they'll be there. The publicly accessible parts of Burg Eltz are a great example to google, especially since I promise you, you have seen this specific castle before. They have pictures on their English language website here, and the German National Geographic has a few further inside pictures here. Seeing a place like that that isn't a ruin with bare, stripped walls, nothing in the windows, no decorations and furniture etc. makes you realise that yeah actually. My characters are probably just gonna go grab a pillow if their ass is cold on the window's stone bench. Blankets are a pretty old technology, humans (elves, dwarves, whatever) can figure that one out.

[overfedvenison]

Oh these links are a FANTASTIC reference!

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