you're valid i guess

ari | 28 | they/them http://www.artstation.com/meridianriver

[sawfish-by-any-other-name]

DO YOU LIKE FREE ART AND NUANCED BOOKS?

Digital wallpapers for your phone, tablet, and computer? Postcard-sized illustrations to give to your friends or tape to your wall? Stories where most people are trying their best, but some are actively making things worse?

Then go back the The Wisdom of Emperors kickstarter before 4pm EDT (9pm GMT) Thursday June 4 (tomorrow!! 19 hours from now!)!. All kickstarter orders come with digital wallpapers of the seven gorgeous landscape illustrations by Mosu Äijälä that will be included with every edition of the book, and physical orders come with 6– going on 7!– art cards of those same illustrations!

LOOK AT THISSSSSS IT'S GORGEOUSSSSSS AND IT COULD BE YOURS!!!!

if messy bisexuals on a misguided quest for love and power, or a twink that leads them halfway around the continent while insisting he doesn't want to be found, sound up your alley, please check it out! It also has footnotes! And a fake bibliography! and a scholar with a minor (very minor, they assure you) crush on just the coolest priestess in the whole tale!

the ebook is only $10 USD, and both the paperback and audiobook are $25 USD. And there's an enamel pin! and a notebook! and papyrus bookmarks! and a tote and stickers and a t-shirt and a goth dust jacket and the beautiful collector's edition-- but the wallpapers and misguided quest could be yours for only $10! Do yourself and local tumblrites Alexandra Rowland, Mosu Äijälä, and the rest of the art and production team a favor and let's make this kickstarter wrap up with a bang! LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

[sawfish-by-any-other-name]

DO YOU LIKE FREE ART AND NUANCED BOOKS?

Digital wallpapers for your phone, tablet, and computer? Postcard-sized illustrations to give to your friends or tape to your wall? Stories where most people are trying their best, but some are actively making things worse?

Then go back the The Wisdom of Emperors kickstarter before 4pm EDT (9pm GMT) Thursday June 4 (tomorrow!! 19 hours from now!)!. All kickstarter orders come with digital wallpapers of the seven gorgeous landscape illustrations by Mosu Äijälä that will be included with every edition of the book, and physical orders come with 6– going on 7!– art cards of those same illustrations!

LOOK AT THISSSSSS IT'S GORGEOUSSSSSS AND IT COULD BE YOURS!!!!

if messy bisexuals on a misguided quest for love and power, or a twink that leads them halfway around the continent while insisting he doesn't want to be found, sound up your alley, please check it out! It also has footnotes! And a fake bibliography! and a scholar with a minor (very minor, they assure you) crush on just the coolest priestess in the whole tale!

the ebook is only $10 USD, and both the paperback and audiobook are $25 USD. And there's an enamel pin! and a notebook! and papyrus bookmarks! and a tote and stickers and a t-shirt and a goth dust jacket and the beautiful collector's edition-- but the wallpapers and misguided quest could be yours for only $10! Do yourself and local tumblrites Alexandra Rowland, Mosu Äijälä, and the rest of the art and production team a favor and let's make this kickstarter wrap up with a bang! LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

[pr0digus]

[kurulover]

I hate that when you’re stressed enough your body just starts falling apart. I think it should realize you’re already stressed and don’t need that and start functioning better actually

[kurulover]

[romanceyourdemons]

i love translators’ notes. i love seeing a little footnote that’s like “compare my good and grass-touching translation to the STUPID translations of smith and johnson, who rendered the passage ‘xyz’ because their heads are so far up their ass they’re giving ouroboroses body dysmorphia” or “this sentence isn’t translated very well, but that’s because the author wasn’t making any FUCKING sense”

[thevampirecrow]

fellatio sounds like a supporting shakespeare character rather than oral sex on a penis to be honest

[pansy2025]

goo goo dolls if they were in dune: and i don’t want the worm to see me

[threedollarsdotcom]

but heres the catch: 🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟

[badassdemonsword]

[worm-suggestion]

It looks funny, right? You think it looks funny.

I do too. But it lives its whole life. So you have to take it seriously eventually, right? And be respectful and shit.

I think it can digging in the ground for tubers.

[3000s]

sometimes older people get annoyed when i say "no problem" instead of "you're welcome" but the truth is it's literally not a problem

[3000s]

and sometimes you're not welcome

[ariaste]

First illustration reveal for THE WISDOM OF EMPERORS!!!

My artist @qwertyprophecy has knocked it out of the park again <3 The first illustration completed for the book is of the Jeweled Gates of Xereccio -- I told Mosu the vibes were "Ancient Sumerian ruins before they became ruins" and "the Hanging Gardens of Babylon" and "the Gates of Ishtar". STUNNING STUNNING STUNNING art, go check it out!!!

Update 15: Illustration Reveal, Bookmarks, + Excerpt! · The Wisdom of Emperors: Deluxe Collector's Edition

Just in time for the ONE WEEK LEFT mark, my artist Mosu has finished the first interior illustration, the Jeweled Gates of Xereccio! Behold

[intactics]

[pushing my glasses up with an air of unwarranted superiority and gesturing toward a painting without a minotaur] the Minotaur is implied.

[milk5]

Spent the day with regirock. He's a fantastic guy. Great sense of humor and also 200 physical defense

[boltlightning]

I DONT CARE HOW MANY BEDS THERE WERE. WHAT IS YOUR BOOK ABOUT

[trekkiesagainstchastity]

(tearfully) w- working at the mattress store

[boltlightning]

i'm so fucking sorry. can you ever forgive me

[orchidblack]

Photos of Kowloon Walled City by Greg Girard. From his book City of Darkness Revisited.

[sanguine-scales]

i think something a lot of people don't get is that years of mocking your child, even in jest, does in fact tend to get under their skin

[sanguine-scales]

a decade or two of even light verbal harassment is very much accentuated when it's an authority figure you are in every meaningful way subservient to

[chaotic-neutral-knitter]

I do love the phrase executive dysfunction bc the image it conjures is of a bunch of people wearing business suits around a long oval conference table  arguing with each other to the point where they’re getting into physical fights, but in the background there’s just a big empty whiteboard with a To Do list with one item on it and that item is “take shower”

[decaffynated]