There is a special place in my heart for beefy eskel, huge eskel, gentle giant eskel.
his hands are massive, like it was his destiny to be forged for brutality, perfect for his craft. but he loves to use them to sew, to embroider when he can, leaving small tokens of himself behind.
his face may be scarred but his smile is so soft, glowing from lips reminiscent of a chipped teacup with fangs peeking through. but who doesn’t love imperfections, a sign of strength and resilience. the warmth in his eyes would put any smouldering hearth to shame, there’s comfort in the fire where families gather to break bread and share tales.
his magic is powerful but well controlled, it sparks beneath the surface, mixing with deep-felt emotions, a cauldron of chaos and feelings. though his face remains impassive among the unfamiliar.
he is ferociously loyal and protective, of those he loves but also of the innocent he meets on the path. his anger can draw warmth from a room, suck the air from your lungs, spark a storm rolling down from the hills.
his joy can sprout growth, a swath of greenery and new life blooming around him like cape. even the legendary fae would be breathless at the delights he can bring to bloom.
his content takes many forms; sometimes it’s like the crisp, sharp glow of a spring morning, like sunlight shining through the leaves on the trees.
at home it’s like a blanket, a physical thing that welcomes his pack home, enveloping them with warmth and lifting any weight from their shoulders.
even through their darkest times, after a year of pain & harsh words out in the trenches of the world, the others drag themselves up the harsh terrain of the killer to feel his magic warming their bones once more 🐺🧡
Some trans knights I made for pride.
I did order these as stickers but I have not heard from my manu yet, it has been two weeks, don't make me send you a follow up e-mail, I am bad at this Q_Q
If you are an ally (or even another trans person), I really need you to stop showing pictures of masculine trans men with "so you want HIM in the women's bathroom?" as a "gotcha". Because yes, yes they do. Can I tell you why?
Before I do, I need to make one thing clear: I am not a "discourse queer". I don't get involved in the labels shit, the oppression Olympics, or any of that BS. I don't see the point in inter-community bickering. So save the "well actually" shit and listen to a queer man just this once. We all have our battles to fight but at the end of the day I'm going to be in exactly the same fucking camp as you, if I haven't already stepped in front of a bullet for you instead.
They want trans men in that bathroom to make them stand out. They want transness to be obvious. If they could make trans people wear a pink triangle, they would. The easiest way to drive trans people to suicide or back into the closet is to make it impossible to live a quiet, private life as a trans person. To expose them to as much pain, ridicule and suffering as possible. If they make transition a gauntlet of agony where you will never fit, never have peace, very few people would survive it.
Trans men are viewed as lost incubators. Their sacred bodies belong to the state and the nation as mothers and wives. Their masculinity is viewed as stolen valour. Transition is a radical act of defiance against that ownership, as it is for trans women in the opposite direction. Forcing both trans men and trans women "back" into their "spaces" where they can be suitably punished for the audacity of putting themselves over society's choices for their bodies is exactly what transphobes want.
It was never about safety. It was never about the dignity of the masses. Only the thickest terfs swallowed that cover. It was always about lumping as much indignity and cruelty onto trans people as possible so no one ever transitioned.
So please, for the love of fuck, stop posting Leo's picture up with "HIM IN YOUR SPACE?" Because yes. They would love the opportunity to humiliate and belittle Leo. Putting him in women's spaces would do exactly that.
i am not like y’all , i will open tumblr in public without a second thought . if you’re invading my privacy by looking at my phone , i will scar you in return
I’m seeing stuff in the notes about “Miles would do this” and I just want to say: you’re absolutely right. All Spider-folks across all universes share one (1) singular brain cell and most of the time it’s Gwen’s.
At some point "fanfic can be as good as professional writing" became "fanfic should be as good as professional writing" and that's caused major damage to fandom spaces.
I can't stop reading the 1793 third edition of "A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue" (originally published 1785). I have been irritating all my friends and coworkers with fun new terms like "That's the barber!" and "He looks like God's revenge against murder."
Anyway, Ash talked me into drawing some of the phrases and I ended up with these little mid-1780s Londoners.
Highly recommend A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue if you want to write with or otherwise use interesting slang. Since it's old as balls, you can just pull it out of various archive sites for free.
Here is an easily found pdf copy of the 1796 3rd edition, for example. Tragically it's pdf images and not text searchable, probably because the uploader was a gollumpus.
That link is from the Internet Archive, whose amazing utility is not PDFs. Their PDF files are huge, and not always with OCR. (And if they're via Google Books, they're never with OCR). But if you go to their site and search, say, for "Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue", you can access all the versions online (I count 17 of them), and on each version you can go to the Full Text (see the column on the right, it's got a bunch of formats) and search for text from your browser, or after you download.
That said, these files are the result of an automatic process: they have mistakes, and no one has manually corrected them, and turned every "ſ" (that the machine read as "f") to "s" etc. Still a fantastic resource to find and read a book online (the Internet Archive is invaluable and irreplaceable, and I DREAD the legal troubles it's in), just not the best way to search for text inside.
So if Project Gutenberg, which does involve manual corrections, has the book you want, it's a lot more convenient. And in this case, it does! Here's the 1811 edition, fully text-searchable. :)
i need everyone reading this post to remember that writing is not "content." writing is art. you don't look at a painting of an ocean and say "eh, it's overdone." you look at it and think its beautiful, because it is, and y'all better start treating writing the same fucking way before you lose your favorite authors for good.
Art is not something to be capitalized on. Stop treating it like it is.
