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《21 || She/Her》 《Author》 《Creator》 《Biromantic & Asexual》 Most of the things that I write are written by the seat of my pants and are often if not always unedited. I talk about the series that I'm writing a lot. It's one of my passions, and I may or may not post teasers and art here. I'm excited to see what you think of the writing I post on my blog!

[decodamalion]

Malion Series Masterpost:

Everything you need/ want to know about my series!

Here's🔗 where you can find when each book was completed! I will keep this one updated with dates as they come!

Writeblr Intro🔗

Here you can find a link to my tag list post, and all that's really needed to know before looking through this!

Overall Novel Introductions:

Malion 🔗

Malion is the first Novel in my series. It is about a girl who watches everything she has ever known burn to the ground. She is then forced to survive alone in the wild before meeting another person who knows much more about her than she does about herself.

This book includes:

LGBTQ+ Characters, Fantasy creatures, various races (think elves, humans, dwarves ect), servere injuries, trauma, demons, and a royal family.

Malion: Royal Blood 🔗

Malion: Royal Blood (m:rb) is a continuation from Malion's story. This book is about the main character loosing someone very close to her, and her journey through grief and accross the continent to fulfill her loved one's final wish.

This book includes:

Fantasy Creatures, Travel, Gods of my own making, more LGBTQ+ characters and relationships, a royal family, various races, demons, servere injuries and way more gore.

Malion: Up In Flames 🔗

Malion: Up In Flames (m:uif) is book three in the series. This book is about the struggle of dealing with someone else's broken family and the consequences that come with actions that are not thought out. In this book, the main character starts to lose herself just before given the biggest responsibility of her life.

This book includes:

Gods of my own making, various races, magic, demons, torture, different realms, broken families, families being created, dismemberment, trauma and kidnapping.

Sorcery's Hue 🔗

Sorcery's Hue is about a completely different character than the one that was being followed thus far, however it is still a vital part of the series. This time, the reader follows an Osrocan boy turned man by his determination to control his magic and eventually master it. However the people he encounters and trusts turn their backs on him, either intentionally or unintentionally, which leads him down a path of destruction he never wished for.

This book includes:

Magic, LGBTQ+ characters, various races (think fantasy elves, humans ect.), abuse, death, trauma, imprisonment, loss and the death of an infant child.

Malion: The Battle for Skladmir

Malion: The Battle for Skladmir (m:tbfs) is a continuation of m:uif, with the inclusion of the main character of Sorcery's Hue. This time, our main character has settles into the role she was given in m:uif and is doing very well to support those around her, however the resurgence of power in an underground Osrocan city prompts revenge on the main character's family, and a war is declared. With the help of the Gods and the most powerful sorcerer known to Gaia, the main character might have a fighting chance.

This book includes:

LGBTQ+ characters, Gods of my own making, magic, death, trauma, politics, war, demons, a royal family, different realms and various races.

Malion: The Final Foe

Malion: The Final Foe (m:tff) is the final book in the series. It follows the main character as her responsibilities start to change her, and others around her. When her half-brother becomes so different that she doesn't even recognize him, her hand is forced into the most important decision she will ever have to make, which, according to the Gods, may destroy all of the nine realms.

This book includes:

LGBTQ+ characters, Gods of my own making, magic, death, trauma, possession, various races, a royal family, different realms and more

Wordbuilding:

All nine realms:

Gaia

The Beneath

The Celestial Realm

The Realm of the Banished

The Fen

The Crags

The Ice Plains

The Dark Realm

The Unknown

GAIA has three continents, each with their own unique creatures.

Aslen - the smallest continent

Here is a list of creatures and a brief explanation of what each one's is if necessary:

Aslantian - my version of humans.

Merrimos - a large, harmless worm.

Endoran - a massive, Hyena-like beast made completely of magic.

Maratren - a massive deer-like beast made completely of magic.

Osrow - The Middle Child

Deep Osrocan - My 'elves' that live underground.

Wood Osrocan - Osrocan that live in the wooded areas of Osrow.

High Osrocan - Osrocan that live primarily in mountains.

Ileth - nocturnal creatures that have an Aslantian form. The sun hurts them.

Glorpin - bipedal frog-slime with an Aslantian shape. (Credit to my sibling)

Karmaro - The Biggest Continent

Karmarean - Shorter, much stronger Aslantians. They are my 'dwarves'

Kani-Joorlin - A creature with an Aslantian form that can shift into the form of a large, bipedal wolf.

Vulpi-Joorlin - A creature with an Aslantian form that can shift into the form of a large, bipedal fox.

Feli-Joorlin - A creature with an Aslantian form that can shift into the form of a large, bipedal cat.

Vorrem - furry, Giant Endoran. Only one female exists at a time.

Characters:

Main Cast:🔗

Decoda Malion

Alexandrite Schmidter

Kaylum Laidon

Michelle Burns

Elliott J. Ruben

Herross of The Three

Selvan of The Three

Varitran Hue

Side Characters:🔗

Mister Michael Burns

Barbara Burns

Mistyal Burns

Arthur Martin

Baron Malion

Maraline Malion

Elizabeth Malion

Danté Malion

Diamond Blockit

Samuélle Malion

[radio-jupotter]

The Character will literally have you saying shit like "shes literally my special princess. she can do 9/11 as many times as she wants"

[radio-jupotter]

if you tag this as a man im killing you btw

[rdrshitsthatsomeoneaskedfor]

[holespoles]

Miyuta Komachi

こまちみゆた

[toratomori]

First post! Hi, tumblr!

[decodamalion]

Hi there! Welcome to tumblr! :D

[stealingpotatoes]

i hauve a cold

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[johannesviii]

Diictodon, who survived the most brutal extinction event on Earth, is happy to see you made it to the other side of that year. Eat well and rest for a bit, you deserved it

[johannesviii]

Diictodon is happy to see you made it again, to the other side of 2021 this time! And look, the ginko is regrowing! Eat well and rest for a bit, you deserved it

[johannesviii]

Hey! Diictodon is happy to see you made it to the other side of 2022! Here’s a nice tuber for you. Eat well and rest for a bit, you deserved it

[johannesviii]

Times are hard and the ginko has been damaged by fire again… but Diictodon is really happy to see you also made it to the other side of 2023! Eat well and rest for a bit, you deserved it

[johannesviii]

Diictodon and its new roommate are so proud of you for making it to the other side of 2024. No matter what happens next, the world has a lot for us to see. Please accept this nice tuber and stick around. And also rest for a bit, you deserved it

[lcb1313]

How to feel loved tutorial

[writing-is-a-martial-art]

1. Categorize love. Study the anatomy of love, the boring kidneys and intestines. By this I mean take apart the love-things around you into actions: care-words, routine, washed dishes, messages captioned "this made me think of you". This is a guide you will use later.

2. Erase subtext. Erase the concept of subtext: the questions of "but are they doing it out of kindness" and "but do I deserve it" are not the ones we're studying here. This is action and reaction, black box model: do they do the actions of love? Do you do them in return? If so, this is love. Congratulations. Grow and maintain it through making it.

3. You might say that this is no feeling, that what I describe is a strange science of a lonely person battling their brain: it is, and I am. But the thing is the only way to stop the thoughts spiraling is to let them not matter, in your head or anyone else's. There is nothing but the actions, and the actions of love are ones you can witness in your life. No miracle. No secret language. I offer a distraction in tough times, some words, to walk the dog: I make care, and I only say that because making love has been narrowed down to one particular action, which is as silly as can be.

4. I have to return to the feelings: I have to say, in my experience, they are shaped by the motions. If I let myself be nothing but worry then worry is all that I am, hardly there and not enough, certainly nothing to be loved. If I think, deliberately, switching the drive of my mind to manual, that what people offer me is love and not pity, is care and not charity, then that is who I am, and slowly, bit by bit, that is how I feel.

5. This feels like lying but please understand most social truths are stories that we tell together, and stories are just a pretty type of lie. This is to say love is a story you can spin around yourself, and reverberating through others it will turn into feeling, motion, light, everything better poets have already written about. But first, you must tell it. It starts so very simply:

6. You are loved.

[discount-supervillain]

[swagvo1d]

[nuclearloop]

Real girls have scoliosis

[jadedbirch]

Gather around, my young friends and fellow dinosaurs, let me tell you about some BULLSHIT no one ever tells you about. I'm talking about menopause and perimenopause. Now, menopause has a very stringent medical definition. You have to not have had a period for exactly 12 months and a day to be considered in menopause. All the bullshit before that day once you start going through The Change is considered perimenopause. Here's some bullshit you might experience that people actually talk about when you're in perimenopause:

- shorter time between periods

- irregular periods

- hot flashes and/or cold flashes

- fucked up sleep

- OMG NIGHT SWEATS

- Vagina as dry as the Sahara desert

- lighter periods and/or endless bleeding like it's The Flood but it's in your pants

- lack of interest in Adult Fun Times

This time of joy can last anywhere from a couple of years to a god damn decade and there's no medical way right now to predict it.

Here's some of the REAL bullshit they don't tell you about but your dinosaur aunt is here to let you know:

- You can start perimenopause in your 30s, don't listen to idiot doctors who tell you you're "too young" because they don't know your body like you do.

- Perimenopause will make you HELLA DUMB. Seriously, I'm talking Bigly broken brain. Brain fog? Check. Short term memory? Wave goodbye to it. Ability to make words form out of thoughts? Yeah, good luck to you.

- Perimenopause can cause horrible fatigue because in addition to losing estrogen, you're also losing testosterone. Oh and that also leads to muscle wasting, cool cool.

- Things might suddenly hurt more because estrogen is known to be neuroprotective.

- If you're super lucky like I am, and like to collect rare illnesses, you might even get Burning Mouth Syndrome 💀

- And meanwhile, while you're going through this bullshit, you'll be getting gaslit by doctors who are operating based on 30 year old debunked data about how HRT causes breast cancer (not really) and that they shouldn't put you on it until you're in actual menopause. (Data shows starting HRT early can potentially prevent Alzheimer's in later years.)

- There are entire online clinics right now (I use Midi Health) focused on providing care for peri and menopausal patients and they will happily prescribe you HRT even if your regular PCP or OBGYN do not (if you meet the criteria). I've been pretty impressed with how holistically they view the patient. For full disclosure, I learned about them from my integrative health doctor and they do not accept Medicare (yet).

I'm 46 years old right now and I've been symptomatic for perimenopause for the last 8 years, although it's gotten the most dramatic in the past 2 years or so, which I hope means I'm almost done, holy hell. Yeah I was on the early side, but if it can happen to me, it can happen to you, so it's never too early to think about these things. And I hope to at least spare some of you the mind-fuckery I've been through because no one told me about most of this stuff, including my own mother who just DOESN'T REMEMBER what happened to her and now I completely understand why. And because I also have a connective tissue disease, I used to just dismiss my pain and fatigue as being caused by that illness rather than the loss of hormones.

Anyways, this is why we need Elders in our lives, so they can do Grandma Story Hour like I just did and validate you when the entire medical field tries to gaslight you. I hope you've found some or all of this educational/useful. Please share with your friends because we really do NOT talk about this stuff enough. (Ewwww Moon Blood!)

Stay well, and don't let the bastards grind you down!

[gothiccharmschool]

Additional information from your 56 y.o Goth Auntie who is in menopause (Probably. My past endometrial ablation procedure makes it hard to be sure.)

All of those super-fun things that perimenopause may bring you? THERE IS NO GUARANTEE THEY WILL VANISH WHEN YOU HIT MENOPAUSE. None. You may experience them for the rest of your life.

Your body will change in weird ways, including putting weight on in ways you didn't used to. (I would be fine with my current weight if it was distributed in the way I used to gain weight, but nooooo.)

You will almost certainly get increased facial hair.

But you may also experience the hair on your head thinning.

Let me repeat: FUCKED UP SLEEP. ::sobs::

You WILL run into doctors who whole-heartedly believe that HRT increases the risk of breast cancer. If you have a mammogram (and then biopsy) that shows "atypical cells", it will be Strongly Suggested that you stop any hormonal therapy you may have been doing. If that happens, expect every single awful peri/menopausal symptom you've been experiencing to come back. (Related to this, if anyone has links to solid research that disproves this so I can throw it at my GP and oncologist, that would be awesome.)

Anyone who tries to tell you that perimenopause and menopause "are like going through puberty backwards" is uninformed. Puberty, while hell, was nothing compared to my experiences with perimenopause and maybe-who-knows menopause.

[dollsahoy]

Can I talk about the headaches? because people who know me know I'm going to talk about the headaches.

See, as estrogen levels start to drop with the onset of perimenopause--often sharply a day or so before your now noticeably irregular periods start--the body basically experiences withdrawal from it. And! Estrogen is known to interact with serotonin and the trigeminal nerve in ways that influence pain reception! So it hurts more! And is more resistant to treatment!

(I have a high pain tolerance--I had a caesarean and stopped feeling a need for pain killers the next day--but two periods ago? that headache had me crying. at least the next period wasn't as bad. it arrived a week early, though.)

I also want to echo the stupidity. I was helping Husband work on the car today and he asked for the screwdriver. I picked up a wrench.

(I caught covid for the first time this year, and I thought the grasping for words, spotty memory, brain fog, and worse-than-ever typing were all long covid symptoms. then my period started getting weird, and, oh. perimenopause.)

[madmaudlingoes]

Another prize you get in perimenopause, which I learned about this year:

-Estrogen is involved in collagen production, so your skin all over becomes less elastic and more easily irritated

-estrogen and progesterone also affects mast cells, important mediators of allergic reactions (and the lil shits behind MCAS). So allergies might get worse, and you might discover exciting new allergies, as your hormones go out of whack.

[creatingblackcharacters]

Lesson 1: "White Man Painted Black"?

Okay, I recognize that this is a strong foot to step off on! But! If you learn nothing else from this series, if you decide for whatever reason to forsake me: this is the ONE perspective I'd like you to take away!

You may have heard this quote before, when Black fans deride a character design as 'a white man with the brown bucket tool'. On its face, it means exactly what was said. But specifically, what it means is that we recognize that whomever designed the character drew the way they normally draw for a 'default' character in their mind- default usually meaning White/Eurocentric features- and they added a shade of brown within the line art to make that character now 'Black'.

Now if you're feeling defensive, wait just a moment! This discomfort is not inherently a bad thing!

I'm going to use both a 'real world' example first, to show you what your Black fans and peers are seeing, and perhaps you will also understand our discomfort!

(if anyone was curious, my folder for this lesson is titled 'brad' lmao and you'll see why)

(I'll have y'all know that I actually worked very hard to make Blackface Brad look mildly presentable lmao I'm sorry, I'm wheezing, I can hardly breathe looking at him 🤣)

You see how, despite knowing where this was going, and using one of the darkest shades of brown in my Skin Tones arsenal, you still know that that's Brad Pitt? That nothing about his hair texture, his lips, his nose, or really anything other than the palette change... changed? And you can still see that?

It's incredibly hurtful to be told that that's supposed to be you. You know it's not, you know why it's not, but rather than hearing how it makes you feel unseen and what they could do to be better (since they wanted to draw a Black character!), the artist lashes out at you.

And as an artist, you might have worked VERY HARD to do this! That might be a real handsome guy you drew!! But... is he really Black? Did you walk into it with the intention, that you were drawing a Black Character, or did you draw a character that just happened to be Black? It seems like a silly thing, but it matters!

Okay. I just finished laughing over Brad. Now let's get into some more perspective changes:

Now, imagine you drew a character. You want to make her Black, so you change the hair and skin colors. All right! You have your Black character... right?

Changed ONE feature about her? (You should obviously change more than one feature, but let's just go with the simplified example.)

What if, instead of just changing her palette, we changed her:

Hair?

There isn't nearly enough time in the world, let alone in this little scribble and blurb, for me to describe the IMPORTANCE of Black hair in Black character design. There are so many ways to do curls, afros, braids, twists, locs, SO MANY HAIRSTYLES!! Get used to searching in the 3C-4C hair textures!!!! I plan on doing an entire lesson or two on hair alone, but suffice it to say, Hair Texture is thee BIGGEST giveaway that you 'painted a white person Black'- from cartoon styles to realistic! It reveals itself in your writing as well- just based on how your character takes care of their hair, how your describe the texture, how other people might perceive it... it lets me know just how much research was done. Because we can have straight hair! But again, that's a conversation for a whole 'nother lesson so- come back later 👀?

Lips?

I love our lips, I really do. There's a long history of shaming Black women in particular for the way our lips look. So when I see them done in all their glory, it makes me very happy. Two-toned lips vary in shade and intensity, so make sure you're using references if you want to be 'realistic', but it doesn't have to be that hard. Even a little subtle shift like this in the design/story description lets me know that a creator was thinking about me.

Nose?

One thing I've noticed ever since I starting drawing is that... people in a lot of mangas/manhwas barely have noses! I admit, out of all the features on the face, the nose isn't the most important. I think they should be, especially when you want to emphasize that your characters look different! People have different types of noses! I especially want to gear this towards those with a goal of drawing realistic portraits and the like- there, the nose is ANOTHER dead giveaway. There are Black people with aquiline and straight noses- we aren't a monolith- but is that why you drew it? Consider why you went for that nose specifically. That's part of the intent, in all this!

Now, you might be looking at me and going "Ice... this is just character design". To which my answer is: Yes! It is! It feels so basic, and yet if you ask your Black friends/peers how often they've come across this feeling of not being properly drawn/written, from fanart to professionally produced works, it's unfortunately common despite how simple of a concept it is.

I hope that you can walk away from my first lil lesson with new eyes. Remember, it's the thought that counts, but the action that delivers!

[incidentalcomics]

The Shape of Ideas

[januariat]

this thread on twitter is fucking killing me

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

IT GETS BETTER

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[seimsisk]

lmao prev

[beastmode-daily]

Poorly proportioned creature

[decodamalion]

Cooly proportioned creature >:)

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[curlsandstems]

I need this.

[poni1kenobi-deactivated20250915]

Reblogged last year, hoping it comes this year