King Icarus

Jaime or Icarus. 28 y/o. she/they. Artist, gamer, and equestrian. LGBTQ+ friendly. No minors, please!Mobile About page. Header by Niklaus Veenhuis on Unsplash.

[king--icarus]

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Hello, all! 👋 My name is Jaime, but I also go by Icarus! I'm a 28 y/o artist/writer & equestrian who enjoys video games, Formula 1, music (Sleep Token 🩵), reading, interactive fiction, stationery, and Warhammer 40k!

My side-blogs are; re-vamped art & OC / equestrian / Destiny-specific.

My Carrd & Linktree. You can also find me on Toyhouse & BluSky!

And remember; "for legal reasons, that is a joke! This is a satirical space!" :)

OC tags list can now be found here!

Further (random) yapping under the read more! ↴

IF recommendations!

Formula 1 - I'm a fan of Lewis Hamilton, Oscar Piastri, Alex Albon, Sebastian Vettel, and most, if not all, of the 2024-2025 rookies!

[damndorothea]

i saw this somewhere else but reply / tag what you did today so everyone can see that we all did something different today

[transcarcinization]

i can never leave this website bc when i put a stupid little detail in my art for pure love of the game and someone rbs it and calls out exactly that detail i get a rush akin to doing coke

[infectiouspiss]

you're mommy's good little printer aren't you? you'll print whatever mommy tells you to because otherwise mommy gets sad and leaves you for one of those free use library printer sluts

[infectiouspiss]

mommy needs you to print this document now and if you don't mommy is going to turn you off at the wall

[infectiouspiss]

listen to mommy okay? if you don't be a good little printer and fucking print my document and i know you want to okay mommy can see it in your print queue if you don't. print. my fucking document. mommy's going to get the hammer

[cruel-hiraeth]

if you build “community” around hating other people, just know that the second you step out of line—regardless of your moral uprightness or the hypocrisy on their part—you’re the next person they’re going to tear to pieces.

[alterena]

It's like you're daaaangerous toooo meeeee.

It's GREAT to be back. Still no place like tumblr.

[sashasparrow]

not doomed by the narrative but saved by the narrative. yeah i know you'd rather die than keep suffering but the story doesn't actually care what you want. you have to keep going, even when it hurts. even being erased from existence won't stop you from being salvaged from the wreckage of un-being. get up. keep pushing. keep bleeding. keep living.

[trentreznorsbutthole]

emoji kitchen is lowkey beautiful guys…

[mioxenoblade]

🍜🍥🍜

[ghost-mantis]

[twig-the-escaped-cephalopod]

i am Thinkimg . about the Character. and listening to a Song. i a m sure this will not have repercussions

[bluerose5]

Women with deep voices 😳👉👈

[thehmn]

One of the most heartwarming things I’ve ever heard a dog trainer say “A pushy pet who makes small demands and communicates their needs to you is a safe pet. It means they trust you and aren’t afraid of your reaction if they misbehave and push your buttons a little”

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[inkskinned]

Every day I handle more money than I will ever make. Every day.

At the start of my employment, my boss showed me videos of people stealing, and we both had a chuckle about it. How silly they were! There was a camera overhead, and it’s not to watch the shoppers. See, we can’t actually stop shoplifters. They get away with it maybe nine out of ten times. But we, who are watched and tallied and witnessed? We are always caught.

At first it was hard to hold one hundred dollars bills. An amount I had never seen before. An amount that didn’t exist in my household. It’s normal now. Here is something that is not for me.

“What the hell, I’ll take another,” says the man, pondering our 200 dollar watches. What the hell. Total comes to 580 and not even a flinch in his face. I have been working for 11 hours today and made only 110 dollars. It will go to my rent. Today I work for free, it feels. When I get my check, I will have 35 dollars left for food and saving.

The six hundreds he hands me go into the cash register. For a moment, I imagine having money. Then I put it away, counting out his change.

I know for a fact we sell our products for double what they are worth. That I could be making commission. That they could hand me those 580 dollars and change my life and not even mark the difference in their checkbooks. He’s not the only sale they make today, but I am the reason they made it. He’s not the only one spending 600 dollars, but if I hadn’t spent two hours with him telling me about his life, he wouldn’t have spent any. I go home. I don’t own a watch.

I have watched and rewatched a video on how to make salmon four ways. My shopping list is always the same. Pasta. Rice. Tuna. If I can afford butter it was a good week. I dream of the world I will never walk in, where I can throw the best fish fillet in the cart with a shrug. I hold hundreds in my hand and look up at the camera. I put them under the cash drawer.

I go to work. I scrap together my savings. I eat my bowl of rice slowly. My manager takes a paid week off from work just for his birthday. He owns a yacht. 

I’m not worth the cost of a watch.

[inkskinned]

i wrote this while i was working at orlando’s walt disney world parks.

i was part of their college program. i moved to the state for it. they legally owned the building i was living in and still charged me rent. i ostensibly was being charged to work for them. it was a 2 bedroom apartment and they placed 6 adult women in it in forced triples.

as many as one in ten disney employees have experienced homelessness while working for the company. despite huge efforts to unionize, strike, or otherwise demand fair treatment; disney has refused to increase employee quality of life.

disney admits publicly that a good portion of their success is because the employees (“cast members”) are dedicated, passionate, and selfless. this is never reflected in pay. even “face” characters (ie those that are princesses etc) make barely above a minimum wage.

at the time that i worked there, i made $8.50 an hour. at one point i was asked to create a human shield around a bag because a bomb dog had alerted to it. for eight fucking dollars an hour.

i now work a very cushy office job. i have bought the salmon and cooked it all four ways.

i go to the store. i am nice to the person behind the counter. she looks up at the camera while she counts out my change. there is nothing fundamentally different about her and i.

we are both worth more than the watch, anyway.

[teaboot]

At the risk of being annoying, can I ask how you use Tarot for self-reflection? I used to really like it but stopped doing it as I started to be less comfortable with the idea of "I'm talking to spirits/a higher guidance/the universe". Maybe talking to a higher self? I don't know what interpretation I could use and I was wondering what you use.

You know the rubber ducky method? Where programmers keep a rubber ducky by their computer, and if they get stuck on something, they explain their problem to the duck until they figure it out?

The rubber duckie itself is not listening. The duck has no special properties or innate power. It's just a focal point the programmer can use to slow down and break up their struggle into simpler terms that they wouldn't articulate the same way internally.

Tarot cards, rune stones, whatever- I use them lil sumbitches like that. Just different ways of breaking down my life and my problems in a way I wouldn't normally do, so that I can sit back and actually think instead of letting my lazy wet meat computer skip around from step A to step W just 'cause it's faster.

I'm not personally talking to a higher power. I'm talking to *myself*, and inventing the other half of the conversation in a way that makes me feel like someone smarter is guiding the questions

[lakevida]

press the teleport button to come over to my house and eat a bagel on the porch with me rightnow and you will earn 5 gems

[orteil42]

given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that