.the fire flares alight inside.

Bookworm, rock music lover, proud nerd and weirdo, and a restless storyteller who knows no chill and always writes to indulge herself.

[moranice-solvej]

Endless War

Figured that the start of a new year and the whole 200k first arc completed is a good excuse to start posting my latest writing adventure.

Artwork by the fantastic @mitdemadlerimherzen who had cheered me on throughout this journey, helped me not lose all belief in myself while I was often in the throes of my deepest creative doubts to date, and was gracious to make me an art piece that commemorates this saga. Words cannot possibly describe all the gratefulness I feel for having you in my life, my favorite whimsical muppet. <3

Endless War (read on AO3)

Summary:

An aging warrior who knows the sting of many losses and regrets is driven by hope and spite and love to finally challenge the loathed traditions she once swore to honor, atone for her mistakes, and shake the very foundations of her clan’s worldviews for the sake of a better world. A young protector falls in noble battle, endures a life of slavery, defies death itself, and makes history on his way to become a ghost of vengeance and a harbinger of death to silence his aching soul and spare others from indignity of bondage. A young writer yearns to safeguard the history of her time with utmost honesty and to leave her gentle mark on the world as she abandons her life of peace and comfort behind in favor of a noble war, exploration, and the pursuit of her dream. Wild chance and all the choices they make intertwine the paths of these three souls, forge them into a family, and weave a story of hope and perseverance, of empathy and rebellions, of love and friendships that builds bridges from the ashes of cruelty and betrayal, callousness and regrets and leaves behind a lasting legacy of kindness.

— 0 — The Long Shadow of Death

— 1 — Ghost From The Ashes

— 2 — Ghost From The Ashes

— 3 — Ghost From The Ashes

— 4 — Ghost From The Ashes

— 5 — Ghost From The Ashes

[rederiswrites]

Just watched Adam Conover (of Adam Ruins Everything) make such a solid point that I think we should spread far and wide. Yes, having AI write your emails is lazy, sure, but people love being lazy. We need to really emphasize that sending AI emails (or using AI responses on social media, or publishing AI flyers, or or or) is rude.

It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.

It's rude.

[katsdom]

The above is doubly true if the content of the email is something that will be important to the person receiving - especially something that affects them negatively. They see that this thing that affected them so much didn't matter enough to you to write it yourself. I was a bystander to such a thing not long ago and it was just awful.

[pommegf]

the approach to sennen cove; southwest coastal path, Cornwall.

[voydhymn]

having many trinkets and books is so cool and fun until you realize you have to dust them

[longingforrotkehlchen]

Get your ducklings in a row. Get cosy, get lazy.

Stockenten (mallards) im Büsnauer Wiesental, Vaihingen.

[mitdemadlerimherzen]

[writingdose]

“I read this fic you recommended. I read it because of you” is a love language

[thekeymonster]

I’ve been working through some feelings lately.

Update: I’ve decided to add the other protest animals to this post so they are all in one place at least once.

None of my protest animal pieces are available as prints for purchase. Feel free to print them our and use them for signs or personal acts of resistance.

They are made purposefully low res so the scrapers are less likely to successfully steal and scam people with them.

[quasi-normalcy]

So what I think is that there's this default belief in patriarchy that men are superior to women and therefore the "masculine" sphere is superior to the "feminine" sphere. And so, as feminists have fought to expand the number of allowable female activities, men (on the aggregate over generations) have retreated from those activities because they're now seen as "feminine", and so partaking in them is incommensurate with their belief in their own superiority. And, unfortunately, as this has progressed, this has resulted in a lot of men sectioning themselves off from, frankly, everything that actually makes being alive worthwhile. It's a misery spiral, and the only way out is to abandon male supremacy.

[quasi-normalcy]

#men gave up deep friendships and reading and poetry and colourful fashion#all things that used to be considered manly in the 19th century#they're currently giving up on studying law and medecine#it's so stupid and sad

(I mean, the colourful fashion was more of an eighteenth century thing, but yeah)

[allthingseurope]

Saint-Gengoux-le-National, France (by olivier baron)

[jellyfishforest135]

Your friendly neighborhood space parents

[mitdemadlerimherzen]

[8nin]

the tragedy of tumblr is you will inevitably meet people who you should be having a sleepover with. you should be rolling around on their floor and rummaging through their fridge and watching shitty movies with. you should be shopping with should be going out to a cafe with should be wandering through the aquarium with. people who you should be experiencing quotidian joys with... and you cannot! because they live one million miles away

[longingforrotkehlchen]

That's a goose smelling a daisy. No other explanation needed or wanted.

Graugans (greylag goose) im Unteren Schlossgarten, Stuttgart-Ost.

[important-animal-images]

[moniquill]

'Borrowing the Tiger's Majesty' by Yuzu Kato

[flythesail]

Let's all quit our jobs and go play outside

[rednblacksalamander]

Disclaimer: for entertainment purposes only, just a joke, in a videogame, save it for the Terminators, etc.