[echoesofgeckos]

Hello!

I'm Elijah, 26. My pronouns are he/they/rep/bun

(I'll also go by Jasper online pretty often)

I'm publishing a webcomic! It's an enemies-to-lovers fantasy romance, you can read it here

Some useful tags to navigate my blog:

The gecko draws - All of my artwork is tagged with this

The gecko echoes - A more general tag for writing, answered asks, and just talking :p

The Traitor's Grimoire - Posts and updates about my comic (might also make a side blog just for this when I get more followers)

Hearts and Service - The tag I use for my fnaf dca x oc art

My current hyperfixation is Hazbin Hotel/Vox and Alastor in particular, so expect to see mostly that on my blog. I'll update as that changes. I also post and make art for:

Fnaf Security Breach, mostly the daycare attendant

Baldur's Gate 3 and other DND related content

Danny Phantom art in the past

Some Stardew Valley art in the past

[cbk1000]

As a society, we need to go back to understanding that strangers on the internet are, you know, strangers. I feel lately that I'm seeing a rise in 'An author I love blocked me because they took my comment the wrong way' posts on the ao3 subreddit, and then the comment is them calling the author a fucking bitch or something like that.

Don't do this. Tone doesn't translate well in text, and if you don't have a rapport with that author, they are not going to interpret, 'You're a fucking bitch' as, 'Author I hate you for being so talented and making me feel so keenly.' They're going to interpret it as you being an asshole. You can shit talk with your friends because you have an established relationship with them and can distinguish between playful banter and genuine anger. You do not have this with a stranger, no matter how much you like their fics. You will have a much more pleasant time in fandom and not get cockblocked from interacting with your favorite writers if you remember this.

[starofhisheart]

Happy pride to those 5 seconds where Charlie Swan thought Jacob was coming out to him in the most insane way possible

[katzebruh]

I remembered how disgusted my brother was when I bit into a tomato like an apple and it felt like smth Caine would do

[redstonedust]

watching a lot of anime and highschool dramas as a kid made me really believe 'student council' would be a bigger problem in my life.

[3hkowalski]

We're all nothing more than caged birds

The show must go on

[ghostgoober-swirl]

A few sun doodles :3

I love drawing him unhinged and weird

[dingbatsy]

Radiostatic sketchies~

[human-pet-they]

when the author describes someone dying and you can just tell they’ve never actually died by the way it’s written

[macmanx]

A NASA spacecraft discovers a formation on Mars resembling a bear

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped the uncanny photo in December. Eyes are formed by craters. A hill with a "V-shaped collapse struc

Come on [tumblr] where’s my Mars Bear fanart?

[sirartwork]

[feralkitten420]

"You need to relax"

Best I can do is dissociate

[lizardho]

I’m reading a book on biofeedback trainings right now and they talk about this. The words “try” or “need” add pressure to stuff. Sometimes switching from “I need to calm down” or “I’m trying to slow my breathing” to “I’m allowing myself to calm down a little more with each exhale” or “I’m giving myself permission to slow my breathing” can be more helpful. There’s a difference between “try to relax the muscle” and “allow the muscle to soften” that is significant enough that for some people it can totally change the outcome of a relaxation exercise.

For other tips and tricks, instead of asking “why” you can’t change a thought/feeling (why being an offensive question, meaning it forces you to respond defensively - in this case defending the emotion you don’t like) you can ask “is there any leeway or wiggle room with this feeling/thought/belief for something else?” Oftentimes we know multiple things at once, and by allowing for a small amount of ambiguity we can start to accept the situation more fully.

[lum1natriiix]

happy iron lung day to all who celebrate

[penny-anna]

Do Eridians know they are different colours. I bet Grace's alien kids love finding out what colour they are. It means absolutely nothing to them but they're like :O :O

[penny-anna]

Some of them think he's making this whole 'colour' thing up to mess with them and try to catch him out by asking again on a different day to prove he's just saying random noises but he's like you are still blue buddy and they're like :O :O

[penny-anna]

Like if we met an alien species who had extra senses & they said that some humans felt spingly and some humans felt spoingly I bet we'd all want to know if we were spingly or spoingly humans

[kouvixy]

Imagine tasting the exorcist head leads to a gradually intensifying addiction to angel blood ✨

[yellow-cat]

draw it bad and draw it weird and draw it catered only to yourself and draw it wobbly and draw it too small and draw it with the default brush and draw it without using references and draw it and leave it unfinished and draw it for the first time and draw it

[doodlepom]

to be loved is to be known

[murmurmurena]