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Shade's TMA blog | 🪦 End and Vast 🌌| they/them | 23 except when being ageless and eternal is a funnier bit

[sunflowers-and-scales]

“this character did not act in the most objectively logical way possible!” is not ! actually valid literary criticism

[sunflowers-and-scales]

i have trust that the media literacy enjoyers will find this one idk

[acceptableduraz]

[the-story-of-the-tucks]

@dykobra-kid gave me this idea and I couldn’t not make it

[shadeswift99]

Hi! I've barely been on Tumblr lately, but I am in fact doing Artfight again this year! Updates including but not limited to: a couple new characters, I'm even more of a bat furry now, and cShade is back and has had some insane lore happen to them in the last couple years that has made them so normal. Come say hi!

(also if you have any bat characters or ghost characters DM or ask them directly to me, I want to collect those guys for future attacks so badly)

[enjoyvoidblack]

TIL that there is an Ex Altiora perfume

I do not have that kind of money for a bottle of liquid but I want this substance so badly. Imagine. Walk out the door smelling like Mike Crew. On-demand ability to give off a Very Specifically Unsettling Aura. I hope it's actually recognizable as ozone. I know it smells good because it is a commercial product but I hope it does not smell good. I want to buy this and then maybe feed someone to the sky.

[enjoyvoidblack]

HELLO. I HAVE THIS NOW. can report it is exactly as described and wished for. Bye I'm gonna go feed someone to the sky now <3

[pigmentofimagination]

Gerry page!!

[starpeace]

i love when tragedies are like “the love was there. it didnt change anything. it didnt save anyone. there were just too many forces against it. but it still matters that the love was there”

[stefisdoingthings]

wow i really like this gerard keay guy i hope nothing horrible happens to him

[phthalopathos]

surprise, I’m not dead!

(sorry gerry. anyways it’s time to make fun of his godawful hair dye.)

[vastandfurious]

Mike crew 🌥️🌥️

I had a lot of fun drawing this. The vast is just so cool. It’s my favourite fear by far. It’s so beautiful.

[xilo-core]

Gerry doodell

[enjoyvoidblack]

The entire time I've been relistening to season 5, I can't stop thinking about Jon Jarchivist's state of existence as a disability metaphor. The role in things he's been crafted for makes other people see him as having special privileges - and yes, there are perks! - but nobody really puts as much thought into how it affects his internal life, or the fact that he never chose this. Even the characters who are nice to him will make the occasional dig at him "always having liked being at the center of things", as if he didn't spend nearly every moment of the last few years trying to minimize his impact on others as much as possible, and seen it happen anyway only in spite of himself. He has a special diet and a requirement to stop and unburden himself regularly that can come on at inconvenient times, sounds physically uncomfortable if left unanswered, and impossible to leave so for long. The things that are good and restful for the others (sanctuaries from the Eye) fatigue and dissociate him, and his needs are always in an awkward balance with the differing ones of those around him, by practicality alone, even when he's with a person who loves him.

So many moments in S5 read like mirrors of myself or my other disabled friends hanging out and traveling with abled friends or ones with differing requirements: the awkward half-apologies that happen when you can't really control something that's being inconvenient and it's unpleasant for you too, the pushing yourself in spite of symptoms for something fun or restful for a loved one and yourself, the strained laughter at well-meaning digs, the struggling not to bring down the mood by explaining too much...it's all there. Being the Archivist is a disability. It is that from the moment the requirement for statements to survive kicks in, but especially especially in Season 5, and that's special to me. I sort of wish some of the other avatars had been more willing to be true allies, so that Jon could've had someone to talk and compare with. I think the company would've made him feel a lot less like a monster. (If, yknow, the company available was not mostly literal monsters or avatars too far gone to have much sympathy, alas)

[cryingbreaskfastfriends]

I love and related to this reading.

[cryingbreaskfastfriends]

I am still not over this.

Martin sets up a strong boundry "I can't be that for you." And thst is just amazing character development for him.

And Jon is like "I can't not though?!?!?! Oh! I can do it without you? Yeah I can do it in private alone. Ok phew. I can respect my boyfriends boundry."

And then EVERY TIME Jon needs to do it Martin is like "REALLY?! NOW? IN FRONT OF MY SALAD?" And THEN he tells Basira "He can't help it."

So you do understand then? So why are you being such an absolute fucking wanker.

[shadowchancellor]

i affirm the strength of the pig

[quietwingsinthesky]

you should be able to right click things in real life and see how old they are

[quietwingsinthesky]

somewhere out there is information on when these streetlamps were erected and who put them up, it’s just not information available to me. and i don’t like that. i should know everything forever.

[enjoyvoidblack]

@vague-magnus-archives

[dizzyafkartwork]

OH! I just realized I never shared this to Tumblr and that feels like a crime!

[mojo-chojoo]

im surprised no one else did this since gerry is stuck in a book

oh well

[hotcryptidsummer]

10 : Desolation

Hey fascist, (fuck I spelt it wrong I'm going to- remembers suicide jokes are bad for my mental health- burn a leitner) Catch. // Desolation!Gerry

Line art + no smoke version under the cut

[ilynpilled]

there r some characters that u really love that u do not want to see any opinion or discussion about online ever. u agree with like 2 ppl on earth total about. maybe 3. their haters lovers glazers fuckers shitters pissers whatever pissing u off to equal degrees. just a beautiful kind of torture chamber to find urself in