Naming Stuff is Hard, Amiright?

Call me Em, or Mari || she/her || Christian ✝️ || Chem. Engineering major and astrophysics nerd || STEMinist || intersectional feminist || Bi with absolutely no rizz 💖💜💙 || S. Korean 🇰🇷 || mad scientist wannabe Interests include: Original Characters||Tabletop RPGs||Robots||Hanbok Art blog:@mmari-draws (but I don't post much art there anymore it's mostly just art and writing prompts that I swear I'll get around to doing someday) pfp:https://picrew.me/en/image_maker/2288696 by @veluv_art on instagram

[memento-mariii]

I took Drastic Measures to reduce my screen time (changed my phone to a y2k-style flip phone), so if I'm not around as much that's why, dw about me I'm doing fine 😉

[ceika111]

it's my birthday today! posting starry august borzoi dog to celebrate it 💖✨️

[somecunttookmyurl]

i can tell i’m sleep deprived bc i just made myself cry about tutankhamun and i have, like, negative interest in the kid

[somecunttookmyurl]

have now made the rest of the discord cry about this little boy who had multi-coloured ducks sewn onto a tunic that he loved so much he wore it to a Very Important Event because he was EIGHT and have you SEEN my DUCKS

[somecunttookmyurl]

sorry no i’m not done i’m gonna make you all cry some more i’m bringing you down with me

there was once a little boy.

he is born disabled. his body hurts, and he can’t walk properly the way the other children do. he doesn’t understand why. he’s a little boy. but he plays with wooden boats and pulls toys on a string.

somebody makes him a tunic. they sew ducks onto it in red and green and yellow and blue. the bright colours of a child.

the little boy is eight years old, and he’s going to be king now. there’s a big ceremony about it. he doesn’t really fully understand what’s going on, because he’s eight, but he wears the tunic with the brightly coloured ducks for the occasion because he loves it. look at his ducks! aren’t they great?

he is a child. the adults around him manipulate and coax him to gain more power for themselves. he still plays with toys.

as a teenager, not yet an adult, he fathers children. they do not survive. he’s not even old enough to have full agency in his job and is still being manipulated, but he had babies and they died.

he does not make it to his twenties. at eighteen or nineteen years old he dies, and is buried. his babies, so tiny, are buried with him.

and so is his tunic with the little ducks that he loved so much he kept it long after it no longer fit.

there was once a little boy.

[somecunttookmyurl]

yeah i think that like. especially with historical figures in your mind people who were kings and queens or important nobles were adults. even if you know how old they were it doesn’t really click. it doesn’t seem real

but then you get something like a little tunic with brightly coloured ducks on it and it hits you like a fucking truck that this really was a little kid and no matter how far removed you are a little kid is still a little kid. their brains didn’t develop any quicker back then. he was just as developed/mature mentally as any 8 year old now. he had cartoonish animals on his clothes and he played with toy boats and probably terrorised the local cat population.

tutankhamun was a child and he didn’t make it to adulthood because he was unfortunate enough to be a very important child

his dad died when he was 8. he saw his own babies die when he was still just a boy himself.

but he had brightly coloured little ducks on his favourite shirt, and he kept it.

[somecunttookmyurl]

and he did not just keep the duckie shirt either

tutankhamun had a little pair of sandals with ducks on them. he had earrings decorated with ducks. he kept those, and other items of childhood clothing. some toys. keepsakes. things he loved, and treasured. he kept them all in a little wooden chest. the chest… was carved with ducks.

and that little duck chest, filled with things he kept from his childhood, was buried with him. maybe he was keeping them for the little babies who did not make it. maybe they just reminded him of good days and fun times.

but he was a little boy who thought ducks were just the best

[somecunttookmyurl]

WITH PLEASURE

(greyscale makes it hard but the duck head is on the right above the toe strap. always takes me a while to find it too)

[beggars-opera]

[libriamore]

Ok but this is how to teach history. This is how you get people to pay attention, to care. Find something small and make it personal, then zoom out to the wider context. History is best taught as a story, with people who lived their lives in ways that came together to create something remarkable that we still talk about today, but who were still just human at the end of the day. They kissed, argued, cried, and dreamed just like we do. And sometimes they really liked ducks.

[anonbeadraws]

today's warm up: a spaceman went travelling

[a-book-of-creatures]

I knew I was getting close to Textile City. I could see their monument, a colossal weaving device, looming in the distance.

[introspectres]

salt air & light through canvas || riso print in aqua, violet, yellow & flo pink

[bethfuller]

The Means of Destruction - Animated Pilot

An animated adult comedy pilot about what would happen if a dark lord's underlings unionized.

my friend is making an animated show! they need to fund the pilot so please consider donating to the kickstarter if indie animation is your thing :))

[agnes-nielsens]

[agnes-nielsens]

[mauriziodiiorio]

@ Champagne for SZ Magazin

[wordfather]

something strange going on with my wip where nothing is happening because im not writing. does anyone know how to fix this

[daggersoliloquy]

hey don't cry. on december 3, 1926, agatha christie went missing for eleven days and because the uk police didn't know what to do they recruited sir arthur conan doyle, creator of master detective sherlock holmes, but all he did was conduct a séance to try and contact her distressed spirit

[the-real-numbers-deactivated202]

"be not afraid"

demanding

you have no right to control another person's feelings

does not provide a productive alternative

"when you hide behind that rock I feel as though you don't appreciate the fact that I came all this way to deliver the word of god"

statement of fact

not pushy

opens conversation to productive compromise

emotionally aware

[tatikogi]

[skelebells]

dead end dot com / convers8

[interstellar-superdrive]

Ranma 1/2 (2024) Season 2 ED

[valtsv]

recurring dead wife flashback where it becomes increasingly apparent that the person remembering her has dishonestly claimed a romantic dynamic to their relationship that never actually existed and erased any conflict that ever existed between them now that she's no longer able to say no to them

[valtsv]

dead wife flashback where each time we see her she looks more confused and upset by how she's remembered, then desperate and furious, until she's hammering on the glass screaming to be let out

[paintedhen]

we’re just normal men