The Smugglers Underground

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[ianpatrickwrites]

(Excuse the rough cover art) My newest story is out, it’s a sequel to another story called The Punctured Veil. This is Cassie | A Gunkrate story!

This world is based off of Irish folklore and mythology, and deals with generational trauma, forging your own path outside of your families shadow, and is meant to be a gritty coming of age story. If that all sounds good to you, please check it out!

Twenty years after Cal Gunkrate discovered the Obsidian Stairs, his daughter begins her own adventure. Cassie Beniah leaves the only life sh

[the-radio-star]

Finally some good fucking news

[rock-fish-deactivated20201231]

they concluded that the rats were having fun partially bc the rats voluntarily initiated games, hopped around joyfully and teased researchers by pretending to come close and then skittering away. rats are Very Good

[sindri42]

These scientists are getting grant money to play games with rats all day and that is just, living the dream.

[toastyglow]

hide and squeak

[joy-and-whimsy-official]

Official joy and whimsy post

[ianpatrickwrites]

Imagine going to college, being in debt, going to work were you wear a lab coat and people call you doctor and then you sit down and play with rats all day, trying to decipher a good squeak from a bad one.

Who am I kidding id take that job

[dependsoncontext]

[awed-frog]

thanks I hate it

[siderealsandman]

You Got a Friend In Horse 

[garrettauthor]

YOU DO NOT HAVE A FRIEND IN HORSE

[britcision]

You Got A Lotta Friends In Horse

[ailithnight]

CANNOT STRESS ENOUGH THAT THOSE ARE NOT FRIENDS IN HORSE

[ianpatrickwrites]

So basically Overly Sarcastic Productions was right

[aquilacalvitium]

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

[aquilacalvitium]

Please keep interacting with this post because when I come to tumblr to procrastinate, this shows up again in my notifications and guilts me into writing again

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[princess-ibri]

Different Oz maps I use in my different Oz-verses

Land of Oz Books

Great stuff, drawn with Baum himself. Love that it includes so many of the other countries Baum created. And yes, the East and West are flipped, it's fiiiine, Nonestica is just like that. Also, what's the Land of Dreams Lyman Frank? Why has nobody even in the Oz Books that came after ever written about it???

MGM Oz

What...is this? Why are the Scarcrow and the Tinman Gillikins now? Why is it surrounded by sea and not desert?? Why bother to color code the countries when literally only the Emerald City sticks to the color schemes in the movie??? Why is Glinda's castle still in the South when she's the Witch of the North in your movie???? Ahhhhh. It's fine, it's fine, I'll figure out how to make it work.

(Whhyyyy does it have locations from Wicked in it ahhhh)

Disney Oz

Honestly I really enjoy they kept the original East and West flip here. There is definitely influences from Wicked in this, ala Oogaboo being "Ugabu". I do wish the quality was better but I can make do.

Wicked-Movieverse

I know this is an animal centric map, which is cool, I do wish there was more detail in it, but I love the vibe. Shiz is a lot farther from the Emerald City in the movies than I thought, but that does make them having to take the train make more sense.

Couple of extras for fun cuz I like maps :)

Wicked Books

Wicked Musical

Enjoy!

[writingdose]

I am once again begging people to realize that AI checker doesn’t work. it’s never worked. it’s notoriously known to have flagged human-made works as AI and AI-generated works as human-made. and by feeding it people’s works, you are feeding more works to AI, because apparently the machine itself is AI.

the only thing AI checker does is harm genuine artists and people in general too.

[luaoftherings]

just follow the wikipedia guideline article to spot AI, it's really thorough

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing

[ianpatrickwrites]

AI Voice: “Its not just a failed AI Checker, its a statement. You brought it to the light, just like the villagers brought light to Frankenstein’s Monster. You did a good work!”

[and-fishing-equipment]

in 2026 DO NOT ask yourself whether your art is GOOD

instead ask:

is it SINCERE

was it CATHARTIC

was it FUN TO MAKE

is it MADE BY ME

and don't forget to stay silly

[moneyfucker900]

in 2026 DO NOT ask yourself whether your art is GOOD

instead ask:

is it HORNY

was it HORNY

was it HORNY TO MAKE

is it MADE BY ME (WHEN I WAS HORNY)

[svrt-degraded]

"Something More"

Drawn for a special edition commissioned by the AST publishing house.

[ianpatrickwrites]

The Silence Of Nobay

There’s silence in Nobay, On this Cold September day. Nothing, not even four feet, away, not today.

Where are the people? On this silent day, Silence in Nobay, today.

May the flashes of war, stripped them away? Could that be the Silence in Nobay? Has the raven already come? And taken them away? It explains the silence in Nobay.

[kay-katja]