Art, Skyrim, and...er...things I like

Writer, artist, adult but bad at it, likes to bake, bad at starting conversations. Occasionally a moron. Massive crush on Miraak. Please ask me about my OCs and my pets. She/her.

[victusinveritas]

[black-crested-jaybird]

I always think of the description I saw years ago: Self-imposed deadlines don't help me, because I know the person who set them, and they're full of shit.

[makingtrouble]

Give yourself the treat before you start. I'm serious. And ideally during the task and afterwards too.

Executive dysfunction comes from a lack of available dopamine. Common advice is wrong. You need to provide your own dopamine before you can start. Otherwise you're trying to run your car on empty.

"But what if I still don't do it" well you already weren't getting it done anyway. Now you have a little treat. Try again later.

You deserve kindness and care even when you aren't being productive.

(Also read How to Keep House While Drowning by KC Davis)

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[freyaloi]

Finally finished the doodle i started in my stream yesterday. :3

I’ll leave it up to your imagination as to what they are laughing at…8D

[snowkissedmonsters]

Obviously a big fan of the "I would kill for you" Character Type but I also love a bitta "Actually I'd kill for anyone or anything, but for you I could be Gentle" Character Type

[godkissedme]

I’m not avoiding my destiny I just had to lie down

[ominous-signs]

Official terrifying sign

[thirdity]

“Fantasy is true, of course. It isn’t factual, but it is true. Children know that. Adults know it, too, and that is precisely why many of them are afraid of fantasy. They know that its truth challenges, even threatens, all that is false, all that is phony, unnecessary, and trivial in the life they have let themselves be forced into living.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night

[catchyvideos]

OP theaverycottage on TikTok ♡

[baygeethefirst]

...WOW. 🤩

[the-davest-of-uncles]

Holy cow, that's amazing!

[evil-is-relative]

Ten Seconds of Pickles Very Quietly Snoring (VERY quietly)

[itscolossal]

The Japanese Mini Truck Garden Contest is a Whole New Genre in Landscaping

[writing-prompt-s]

You’re a mermaid who’s fallen in love with a human that you’ve been observing for a long time. You wish to speak with them and confess your feelings but there’s a language barrier between you and them. They speak in a phonetic language, you speak in music. Write what happens next

[evil-is-relative]

Heartbreak was a song I knew well. I’d wailed it to the uncaring winds for decades, harmonizing with the sounds of calm and tempest alike. Whales had been my chorus and the waves my percussion. Sailors believed my kind to lay in wait, luring them to their doom with our voices and beauty. Perhaps for some that truly is the case, but for me, the truth was much more complicated and yet, much simpler than a wish to cause mere destruction.

I was lonely.

There were once many mermaids on these islands. They’d left over the years, or been killed. The wild vastness of the sea doesn’t just call to the human men that set themselves adrift on vessels of wood and cloth that they believe can ride the waves like any other beast. I’d watched them go in and out for more years than I had the ability to count. Unlike my sisters, they came back, most of the time. Mermaids haven’t the ability to weep, so sometimes, when I’d see them return where my sisters had not, I would scream at them, shriek and wail in a voice that entranced them. The more I hated them, the more they loved me.

It was after one such bout of grief that I looked up and saw a ship. The men on it raced over it like bottom feeders on a sunken carcass. A massive, unwieldy thing, it made my heart tighten behind my breast, the comb I detangled my hair with falling from my hand, unheeded. The blue banner that whipped and undulated in the rising wind was familiar to me, and filled me with dread and fear.

As I said, there were once many mermaids here. This harbor was too dear to them to let a thing like a clan of mermaids sink their laden vessels.

My rage rose within me, bringing song to my lips and strength to my arms, my fingers digging into the rock and barnacles to raise me to the highest point the water still reached, the spray of crashing waves mixing with the sudden rain. Clouds boiled across the sky, their bases dark as the sea. In the abrupt, early twilight, they saw me. A grim smile curled my lips and I reached for them, beckoned them to me. Ropes dropped from benumbed hands. Bare feet shuffled across slippery wood to gaze at me better. In their eyes I saw fear and adoration, on their mouths I saw prayer.

Perhaps they should learn mercy themselves before demanding it of others.

Keep reading

[evil-is-relative]

Up on AO3 now.

[hemipenal-system]

the dragon is mocking you for your silly little skimpy armor

[hemipenal-system]

“oh its actually super enchanted im protected” girl your tiddies and thighs are out you’re so biteable

[teethseeker]

well yeah, i wouldnt be caught dead in any armor that rendered me unbiteable

[hemipenal-system]

yeah tumblr user teethseeker i believe that information about you

[stjohnstarling]

In light of recent events, I have begun submitting bug reports when I see mature content labels applied inappropriately to posts, especially if an appeal has been rejected.

[a-kind-of-merry-war]

Extremely good idea - how are you doing it? Through the contact us option?

[stjohnstarling]

Yeah it’s one of the options on the Contact Support form:

[sharas-bae]

for what it's worth: after a few months of submitting help tickets as 'feedback' when i saw a post inappropriately flagged as mature, i tried following this suggestion instead. today i got my first-ever response from tumblr support on this issue, letting me know that a post i'd submitted a ticket before has had its mature content flag removed.

[stjohnstarling]

Hey it worked! Maybe if enough of us make a stink they’ll fix the fucking system.

[animusbell]

celestia is such a funny character like she's constantly manipulating twilight and friends to do shit instead of just asking and you could arguably frame that as being bc she's a "god" and pushing fate to her design or whatever, except that she engages with the group like a normal and relatable person, which makes it more like villainous machinations, except 90% of this manipulation goes towards things like "I don't want my party to be boring shit again. put my little country girl blorbos in there with zero prep so they fuck it up bad"

[animusbell]

you think you've fucked anything up around princess celestia and she's like heh. no worries. all according to keikaku

[jukashi]

Celestia instantly makes more sense as a character when you ignore the princess stuff and remember that she's a 1000+ years old wizard. Of course she does manipulative trickster stuff to teach moral lessons and/or cause chaos to amuse herself, that's classic wizard behavior. Of course sometimes she's actually socially awkward and bad at personal relationships and has bad ideas that she thought were good that result in her eating shit embarrassing style, that's classic wizard behavior. Of course she lets the aristocrats and nobles run around being assholes she's still running on wizard advisor programming, she's basically trying to merlin the entire upper class of equestria instead of just a king and some knights. "Yeah uuhhh we'll release the incarnation of chaos himself from his ancient prison because we think this shy girl can be friends with him", terrible plan if you're thinking like a ruler, amazing plan if you're thinking like a wizard. Just look at Canterlot 'Castle' for five seconds and ask yourself if that's in any way a castle. No. Wizard tower, yes. Wizard.

[animusbell]

You are so right actually

[endcrys]

@crabussy

[funereal-disease]

Thesis: the rise of fanwank and anti culture correlates directly with diminished understanding of what “romantic”, in a literary sense, actually means.

It doesn’t mean “this is ideal or healthy or even realistic”. It means “this is beautiful, this is tragic, this is grotesque, this stirs emotion”, even if it’s not, as @starryroom puts it, something you would be comfortable seeing play out in front of you at Taco Bell. It’s about grandiosity and mythology and heroism writ large. It’s about playing with the id, as beautiful and terrible as it can be. 

[augustdementhe]

LET LOVE AND LUST BE MONSTROUS.

[celciusdiscourse]

i feel like Guillermo del Toro ghostwrote that

[xtine-daae]

“I didn’t say I liked it. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.”

- Oscar Wilde 

[stella-draws-things]

[galileosballs]

The nice thing about solar power is that once you've built a solar farm the sun does not then need to be shipped to you through a series of international shipping lanes that can be cut off by other people's governments in response to the actions of other other people's governments. The sun is not subject to the stupid decisions of people you did not vote for in response to the stupid decisions of other people you did not vote for. The sun does not need to go through the Strait of Hormuz.

Even if you don't care about any of the other arguments in favour of solar power, this is a really good argument in favour of solar power.