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cicely, she/her, 30, a shower of rain in a human body

[moon-meerkat]

never related to authors being like "childhood is such a blessed innocent time", catch me with that jane eyre shit like "such dread as children only can feel" and "I then sat with my doll on my knee til the fire got low, glancing round occasionally to make sure nothing worse than myself haunted the shadowy room"

[moon-meerkat]

CHILDHOOD IS MARKED BY FEAR WITHOUT THE WORDS TO EXPLAIN IT

[clementine-kesh]

i do think it’s funny when you’ve been into a thing long enough that you’ve done all the serious analysis you can do so now you’re mostly just thinking up looney tunes scenarios to put the characters in

[yinza]

Sliding in with this at the tail end of Mermay...

You usually see octopus mermaids with the torso the other way, but a friend pointed out that octopi have their beaks amid the tentacles, and I thought it'd be fun to play with. Imagine being welcomed into an embrace by all those limbs.

Prints available on Inprnt!

[Image Description: A digital painting of two mermaids in an embrace. The mermaid on the left has the body of an octopus which is black on top and a warm gold on the underside of the tentacles. She has light brown skin and wears a black hijab and long-sleeved grey shirt with a gold pattern. She is reaching around the other mermaid's waist while her tentacles swirl open around them. The mermaid on the right is a fat black woman with black natural hair. Her tail is that of a whiptail catfish and matches the brown of her skin, with a paler gold underbelly. She holds the face of the octopus mermaid in her hands. The two of them smile softly at each other. /end ID]

[curseofmeatthawsmoth]

[horreurscopes]

hi i was so charmed by these tags from @mamadyke on my old lil zukaang sketch that i dug out this unfinished sketch from 2019 and was momentarily possessed by my teenage self and finished it and now i'm going to bed at 3 am. sorry i love a narrative foil ship and people are cowards

[maniatown]

Girl whose most frequent mistake is inaction voice: wow I keep making mistakes I better not do anything

[pardalote]

Finished stitching my Oversight series.

12 small embroidered poem-objects in wool, linen, cotton, silk, stitched on canvaswork mesh and edged in glass beads.

[sandushengshou]

the untamed + text posts

[calliyx]

magicians! .✦ ݁˖

[lychgate]

i have painted the fellowship of the Big Naturals

[phantom-september]

Elfbruary Day 8: Arwen the Smith

I noticed in my recent reread that the banner Arwen makes isn't described as embroidered or woven. It's described as "made" and "wrought." Words Tolkien uses for things made through smithcraft. And the materials mentioned for the banner are metals, not any specific cloth.

And then I remembered both the brooch she left for Aragorn in Lothlorien and that it isn't mentioned who reforged Narsil. Arwen is associated with smithcraft, so why not her? :)

[enchantedbook]

"May" by Susan Seddon Boulet

[exhuastedpigeon]

You can and should write fanfiction that isn't perfect. You can and should write whatever fanfiction you want. You can and should write fanfiction that brings you joy even if it's silly or goofy or weird.

Except for me. My fanfic has to be perfect and read like a novel and ruin at least one person's sleep schedule.

[postarcadian]

tossing a grenade into a hornet's nest here but if I am being quite honest, I think the fandom-ification of certain aspects of ancient Greece and Rome combined with an approach that I can only describe as mining ancient societies and mythologies for (almost invariably M/M) shipping material does unfortunately lead a lot of people to (a) treat male homosexuality in Greek and Roman contexts as the punchline to a joke and not what it is, which is a spectrum of human sexuality that certainly included some relatively consensual relationships between adults of similar social status but far more often involved systematic abuse of people who for reasons of age, power, and legal status could not give meaningful consent, and (b) to downplay the extent to which the rhetoric of male homosexuality and homosociality in Greece and Rome is inextricable from both cultures' fundamental misogyny.

[postarcadian]

I should also probably say that it’s not the writing of historical slash fic that I take issue with, including fiction that depicts the violent or dubiously-consensual nature of most sexual relationships in the ancient Mediterranean - if anything, I think it’s significantly worse to present a version of ancient Greece or Rome in which everything is presented as totally negotiated according to modern standards of consent and everybody talks in modern therapy-speak. but it’s one of those cases that demonstrates how “you have the right to write and read about whatever you want, including uncomfortable and taboo things” and “fictional depiction does have real consequences” are not incompatible statements and when writing and reading historical fiction I do think it’s important to keep the actual lived experience of people who existed in past societies in mind. or to put it more bluntly, if your interest in Greece or Rome is coming from a place of “everything was super gay,” I do think you have a responsibility to not make that a punchline and to interrogate how homosexuality actually operated in those societies and what the lived experience of it was like (and not just for elite men!).

[apoemaday]

The Doorway

by Louise Glück

I wanted to stay as I was still as the world is never still, not in midsummer but the moment before the first flower forms, the moment nothing is as yet past –

not midsummer, the intoxicant, but late spring, the grass not yet high at the edge of the garden, the early tulips beginning to open –

like a child hovering in a doorway, watching the others, the ones who go first, a tense cluster of limbs, alert to the failures of others, the public falterings

with a child’s fierce confidence of imminent power preparing to defeat these weaknesses, to succumb to nothing, the time directly

prior to flowering, the epoch of mastery

before the appearance of the gift, before possession.

[natequarter]

i am going to get a bad grade in sleeping, something which is normal not to want but terribly easy to achieve.

[facts-i-just-made-up]

What is Tumblr?

Tumblr is the opiate of the very, very few.