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🧚 enby (they/them/fae/faer), queer (panro-demi/grey ace) - over 50, creative soul, spouse, parent, elf lover, PC gamer, table top gamer, avid reader of books & fanfiction, crafter, craft supply collector, socialist, pagan atheist, gardener, multiply-neurodivergent, disabled US Navy vet. (header by me & icon by the-upper-shelf)

[fiadhaisteach]

About Me: @fiadhaisteach

Motto: Live a Creative Life

International Happiness Advocate, Copy Cruncher, Pasting Pulverizer, Knowledge Knavigator, Head of Technical (in)Competence, Research Response Lead, Regional Collector of Art and Crafts Supplies, Patron Saint of Inspiration and Focu... Squirrel!

🔸 I'm a fandom old.

🔸 I post whatever catches my attention, mostly reblogs. A lot of Dragon Age elves, but a lot of random other things as well. (Apparently I am a Dropout.tv fan now too).

🔸 I am a non-apologetic Solas apologist.

🔸 Most of my posts are queue'd. If I gave you a "Like" & it wasn't a personal post, but you don't see my reblog, just give it a few days. 🤗

🔸 If you want to find non-reblogs, look for the 'aisteach posts' tag.

🔸 I sometimes post content which is not suitable for viewing at work. Please filter/block 'not osha compliant', & maybe, 'mostly osha compliant' if you don't want to see that stuff.

🔸 If you’re following me from a “primary” account, but mostly reblog from a secondary account... or I followed your secondary/tertiary account and you’re following me back on your main account, a heads up via PM/DM is awesome.

I post fanfic Saturday Spotlight lists of "Things I've Read This Week" (and can recommend) each week occasionally. You can find them all here:

'Tis Impressed Reader Touting Works**

(posts formerly known as "Things I've Read This Week*")**

If you're confused by any abbreviations, or emojis, I made a TIRTW Key/Legend post, with explanations.

Other recommendations links at the top of my page, for the convenience of Mobile users:

Aisteach on AO3, Mastodon, & Pillowfort

Individual Story Recs

Master Fic Post Recs

Other possible tags of interest: living a creative life, my da characters, my screenshots, my photography.

Find me elsewhere on the intertubes:

@live-creatively - the place where I collect all the creative/crafty/inspiration guides & how-to posts & re-blogs so I have some hope of finding them again.

I'm never on Facebook anymore, though I do still have the account.

Other pseudonyms: Zombie_Slayer, SiberianSpring, Baisleac, Ceardai

**These posts are not tagged as such, but you may safely assume that many of the stories are not osha compliant.

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New "Try New Foods From Around the World" thing posts

[myjetpack]

My latest cartoon for New Scientist

[voroxpete]

To be clear, this isn't a bit. This is what they actually did. "Its too late" is the new "Climate change isn't real"... And its still a lie!

Every serious climate scientist agrees that there is no such as thing as too late, just as there is no such thing as too early. We should have done a lot more than we have to fight climate change, and the world will suffer for our inaction, but there is no point of no return. We can always work to reduce the amount of suffering that occurs, and eventually turn things around to the point where our planet is healing once again. Do not believe anyone who says it's "too late".

[apolladay]

On what part of your body is your biggest scar?

head

torso

arms/hands

legs/feet

a different part of my body

I have 0 scars

Remaining time: 6 days 1 hour

[apolladay]

If you want to be married, what do you want to do with your last name?

I'm married - I have my partner's last name

I'm married - my partner has my last name

I'm married - I have a hypenated/combined last name

I'm married - I didn't change my last name

I want to be married - I'll probably have my partner's last name

I want to be married - my partner'll probably take my last name

I want to be married - I'll probably have a hypenated/combined last name

I want to be married - I probably won't change my last name

I don't want to get married

My marriage and or last name situation is more complicated

Remaining time: 3 days 23 hours

No judgement for anyone's choice! I'm just curious what folks think/have done in these situations. If you've been married multiple times, answer for your most recent/current one, or what you would do if you got married again.

[flogisto]

big fan of stories that, while undoubtedly being about the power of friendship, acknowledge that the power of incredible violence is just as important

the love was there. the love changed everything. the crowbar helped also

[fiadhaisteach]

Sulahna disbanded her Inquisition and so it was time to roll up a new quizzy. (I also have a Rook on the PS, but younger kiddo is squatting on the other slots).

Anyhooo...

Basim Adaar

Rogue, bisexual disaster, currently torn between romancing Cass & Dorian.

[chryza]

We will literally never progress past biphobia until people realize that bisexuals in het relationships are still having a queer experience by virtue of being bisexual, we do not magically oscillate between gay enough and too straight. I’m going to maul someone to death.

[my-dailydreams]

[ahedderick]

Daisy Dogs

Lady and Rosalie attended my daughter's photoshoot the other day. So of course they got pretty pictures, too.

photo credit to @the_lucky_alexander on Instagram

The funny thing is; see those two little patches of daisies in that big field? We have no idea why there are daisies there, nor why they are in such distinct clumps. Just - a stroke of luck, I guess.

[ach-sss-no]

when brandon sanderson talks about villains in his famous free youtube writing class video lectures he'll say 'what's the difference between gollum and sauron' and of course he means the villain that's present in the narrative and characterized in a way the audience can potentially relate to or sympathize with vs. the looming threatening anonymous far-off force (among other things). but every time he asks that i think 'well one of those guys tracked down frodo and got his ring back'

[mysteryteacup]

Brandon Sanderson: What's the difference between Gollum and Sauron?

OP: Skill issue.

[haunteddollsgeorg]

As a society we have benefited so much from successful public health measures that we now have the privilege of declaring that we must not need them anymore

Bitch before enriched flour, neural tube defects like spina bifida were far more common. Even now, spina bifida clinicians and researchers are begging to have salt and maize fortified to reach groups that don’t use as much flour. Before iodized salt, the United States had a fucking GOITER BELT. Eleven years after the introduction of fluoridated water, a city in Michigan found the rate of dental caries among school children dropped a staggering 60%— in an era where tooth decay regularly fucking killed people

I’m literally not even going to start on vaccines, which are among the most successful and robustly studied public health measures in world history

You might say “oh well today we all have access to vitamins and toothpastes and dentists so we don’t need those things in our food supplies” and boy do white people on social media loooove to fucking say that. But here’s the thing: no, people don’t all have easy access to those things. That’s privilege talking yet again

[odinsblog]

This is their logic:

[fellshish]

reading other comments on the fic you’ve just commented on is like. asynchronous book club meeting 🫶

[shutyourmoustache]

When my mother forgets a word, she is the queen of coming up with new words. Words that would take a third National Treasure movie to fully decipher. I was talking to her yesterday, and she said this: “You know the time for los jibbities is coming up. You must be so excited!” Oh, is it time for los jibbities already? I must have missed it on my calendar. Are we celebrating something? “Of course! We should all be celebrating, shouldn’t we?” OK, so los jibbities is a happy thing. It’s not like something is giving you the heebie-jeebies, which would have been my one and only guess. “Los heebie-jeebies? Now you’re making things up...and this is my show.” You’re right. The time for los jibbities is coming up. Is this a season? “Yes, the season for love. The season for pride.” OK, los jibbities. “Yeah, sound it out.” Los…jibbities. LGBTs! “Sí, mira cuz you’re gay!” “You couldn’t just say pride season? You couldn’t just… *laughs*

[party-gilmore]

HAPPY LOS JIBBITIES EVERYBODY!!!

[greatmountainfloofsquatch]

The time for Los Jibbities has arrived!

[bowlby4]

[cumaeansibyl]

The thing about how tumblr labels "potentially mature content" is I now have no idea whether clicking on it will reveal a) the words "trans woman" or b) full frontal nudity

both of which I'm fine with but which would inspire very different responses if someone could see my phone screen

[anarchistmemedistro]

[posttexasstressdisorder]

Can fucking confirm.

While I've always been on the poorer-side of the spectrum, I have been "comfortable" before.

Losing all my $$$, having to sell most of my valuables and now barely subsisting on SSI ($1,253/mo) and SNAP ($298/mo) for my entire existence has thrust me into TEN YEARS OF ABJECT POVERTY.

I have no "life" anymore. I just exist.

Having to worry about "where is it gonna come from?" has changed me. I'm anxious as a baseline. I'm worried as a baseline. Fear of being "kicked off" SSI/SNAP is a baseline. Fear of yet another userous rent increase is a baseline. Not being able to buy groceries at all for the last two weeks of every month is a baseline. Not being able to get my truck re-registered and legal is a baseline. Not being able to get it an oil change for the last nine years is a baseline.

Money would solve ALL of this.

Period.

Anyone who says it won't is a priveleged asswipe.

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