Dirt Under My Nails

Mossy. She/Her. 31. Queer. A happy magpie collecting words, art, and whatever catches my eye.

[mossyhare]

Welcome!

I wanted to do a quick introduction.

I'm returning to tumblr after a brief hiatus. Welcome to my page! Currently trying to retrain myself to use HTML and make my page pretty so bear with me...

You can call me Mossy! I am 31 years old, neurodivergent, and openly queer (Ace and Pan to be specific).

Please DNI if you are not legally an adult (18+) . This is for safety purposes.

My interests include, but are not limited to:

Video Games - Dragon Age, BG3, The Witcher, Cult of the Lamb, Diablo, Final Fantasy, and a bunch of cozy life/farming simulators

Writing - fanfiction (links will be provided), original (twice published author), poetry

Art - writing (obvi), textiles, traditional, digital, film

TV - Twin Peaks, Parks and Rec, True Detective, Cowboy Bebop, Delicious in Dungeon, Fargo, The Pitt

Film - many, many films. I went to film school and took a film review class, so I'm ultra critical and tend towards art house films. That being said, I will watch Austin Powers for the 500th time and still love it.

Misc. - City dweller, cat mom, lover of tennis and baseball.

I basically have my account on lockdown. But moots, feel free to reach out via messages. I follow back pretty frequently.

THIS IS A SAFE SPACE: Granted I don't have asks or submissions open, but no bigotry, fascism, hate speech, etc. will ever be permitted here.

All are welcome! Hope you enjoy the shit posts!

[fionaapplerocks]

Fiona Apple in her Boogie Nights T-Shirt at the 50th Annual Writers Guild of America Awards Roosevelt Hotel NYC, 1998-Feb-21.

[ideavian]

Wanderer

[filmgifs]

What we see and what we seem are but a dream, a dream within a dream.

PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK 1975, dir. Peter Weir

[aworldofpattern]

Tom Holland at the premiere of The Odyssey, wearing custom suit by Gieves & Hawkes.

The suit fabric has 'THE ODYSSEY' woven into it in morse code.

Fabric by Stephen Walters. Styled by Crystalle Cox.

[swarm-stims]

lisa frank stimboard!

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[theinternetarchive]

knitted textures from 'the encyclopedia of knitting,' lesley stanfield and melody griffith, pub. 2000.

[worldscoolest]

[okthisway]

[kirktism]

more mii shenanigans because im obsessed

[mossyhare]

WIP Wednesday…on a Thursday.

This a look at the first chapter of my Ancient Arlathan epic, The Lives We’ve Buried.

It will be tragic…

Note: there are typos and grammar errors. This is the very first draft. Edits to come.

Chapter 1 - Snippet

The courtyard glowed with Veilfire, green light casting the flowers in an eerie glow. Nobles mingled and danced, drunk and orgiastic. Servants, scantily clad with wrists cuffed in golden shackles, replaced empty wine bottles and platters with fresh assortments.

From a marble mezzanine, the Evanuris celebrated.

Solas watched, refusing wine and food alike. It was bad enough that Mythal demanded he wore his furs and diadem for such an innocuous occasion; he did not want to foolishly imbibe with the others. Women were forced to serve Falon’Din and Elgar’nan, feeding them grapes and having their heads patted like cats.

“They hate when you decline to join.” Felassan had sidled up silently; Solas did not jump at the intrusion. “The rebel wolf, refusing to fall at the All-Father’s feet.”

“The titans would’ve decimated them without my wit.” He spoke sullenly, lips pursed as he tried not to think of the endless wine.

“That’s the only reason Elgar’nan lets you brood.” Felassan was as wise as his own leader, a fine man to commandeer the sprouting rebellion. “He owe you his life.”

“And he’ll never forgive me for that.” His voice was unrepentant. Elgar’nan deserved far more than furious discomfort.

“You don’t suppose sharing Mythal’s bed worsened his disposition?” Felassan cocked his head doggedly, almost playful.

[mossyhare]

The Solavellan Ancient Arlathan epic now has a name and is in the planning stages!

Would anyone like to be tagged with upcoming snippets/future chapters?

[mossyhare]

Any Solasmancers interested in an Arlathan epic?? Been trying to write this for years and finally have the inspiration I need.

And as much as I love The Egg™️, Fen’Harel can sure rock an undercut…

[mossyhare]

Apollo has claimed the coveted mushroom and Artemis is jealous…

[mossyhare]

“Gloria, that’s my shit.” The best response I’ve heard to Laura Brannigan playing on the radio in a bar

[tlbodine]

For the last goddamn time...

"Kill your darlings" means "if something is holding you back, get rid of it, even if it sounds pretty."

That's it! That's all it means! It means if you're stuck and stalled out on your story and you could fix the whole block by removing something but you're avoiding removing that thing because it's good, you remove that thing. That's the darling.

It does NOT mean

That you have to get rid of your self-indulgent writing

That you should delete something just because you like it (?wtf?)

That you need to kill off characters (??? what)

That you have to pare your story down to the absolute bare bones

That you have to delete anything whatsoever if you don't want to

The POINT is that you STOP FEELING GUILTY for throwing out good writing that isn't SERVING THE STORY.

The POINT is that you don't get so HUNG UP on the details that you lose sight of the BIG PICTURE.

Good grief....

[prof-grace-aspen]

Also, you don't have to like, delete it from existence. Keep a second document full of the Darlings. You never know when you'll need it later.

[earhartsease]

yes, your killed darlings are ripe for rebirth

[eldritchsandwich]

compost your darlings

recycle your darlings

Darlings who don't fit this narrative go into the use later folder

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