[void-within]

Some time ago I decided to do tarot cards for the Magisters Sidereal in my Darkspawn Age AU, but now I realized I never posted them here. So, here are Corypheus as the Five of Cups, the Architect as the Ace of Swords and the Augur as Nine of Coins. Still hoping to finish the rest before the year is done.

[rederiswrites]

Okay guys, for writing/general reference, a bit about what a ‘blacksmith’ is and isn’t:

A blacksmith is a generalist, a person who uses tools and fire to work iron.  Some blacksmiths work more specifically, so you get, say, an architectural blacksmith, who focuses more or less exclusively on things like gates, rails, fences, or an artist blacksmith, who makes wacky sculptures or what have you.  These days, though, that’s a pretty blurry line.  ‘Blacksmith’ is a pretty damn broad term, but it’s nowhere near broad enough to cover everything encompassed in ‘metalworker’, which is how I often see it used.  There are a LOT of different skills for working metal, and no one knows them all.  Some other terms:

A farrier shoes horses.  They may make the shoes, or they may buy them and then size them, but they actually do the shoeing.  Unless the blacksmith is also a farrier, they don’t know shit about horses’ hooves and are not qualified to deal with them and probably don’t want to.

A blacksmith works IRON, usually almost exclusively.  They might work with bronze or do a bit of brazing, but those are really separate skillsets.  If you work, say, tin and/or pewter, you are in fact a whitesmith.  You could also be a silversmith or a coppersmith, and so on.

Knifemakers and swordsmiths have their own highly specialized and fairly complex specialties, and usually a blacksmith wouldn’t mess with that unless they want to pick up a new skillset or if they’re really the only game going for a long way around.  By the same token, a swordsmith might never have learned the more general blacksmithing skills.  They’re not the same thing is what I’m trying to say here.  Likewise armorers.  There’s overlap but it’s not the same thing.

If you make metal items via molds and casting, you work at a foundry and are a foundryman.

Look, when metalworkers and individual shops and masters were the height of industry, this shit got REALLY specific.  There were people who spent their whole lives making pins.  Just pins.  Foundries specialized and made only bells, only cannon, only cauldrons, etc.  This is scratching the surface, I just wanted to make the point that ‘blacksmith’ is not the same thing as ‘magical muscly person who knows how to do everything related to metal’.

[rederiswrites]

@sixth-light gets it.

[stilljennyfromthebroch]

Has anyone done this yet I’ve been thinking about this all week.

[valcoutoart]

~Dean, Season 1

[milligan-vick]

You, Birna Bran, I sentence to death. You will be chained to a rock to perish of hunger and thirst, and sea fowl will pick apart your remains.“ 🌊🌊🌊 elysian.rebel as Birna photo, make-up by milliganvick 

https://www.instagram.com/milliganvick/

[thethirdamell]

A request! Amell meeting his father from Quentin’s perspective! Thank you so much for continuing to write, Accursed Ones surpasses my favorite book simply because I’ve never cried so hard.

Thank you for the request! And thank you for the feedback.

Here you go!

Apples and Apostates: O Children

A very short piece on Quentin.

[jensenackles-daily]

Jensen Ackles as Red Hood (2018) | Jensen Ackles as Batman (2019)

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

Qualities of Highly Sensitive People

In general, highly sensitive people tend to:

1. Be more sensitive to sights, smells, sounds, tastes and smells

2. Be philosophical and more in touch with their spirituality

3. Feel highly uncomfortable when being observed (e.g. by a teacher, a boss, during recitals and performances etc.)

4. Have vivid dreams which they remember in great detail

5. Have a deep appreciation for beauty, art and nature

6. Read other people well

7. Experience very powerful and intense emotions

8. Find it difficult to rebound from strong feelings and emotions

9. Be highly empathic and sensitive to others’ feelings

10. Be hard on themselves, and unforgiving of mistakes.

[dracoangel]

Alistair Red Rose Necklace

[gogartdump]

i… am soft

[mooreaux]

“His love for her felt dizzying.”

Inktober 24

[chubbyooo]

[itsagifnotagif]

dogs with jobs

[naamahdarling]

WHAT. GOOD. DOGS.

[little-wolf-white-peacock]

@vetivene

[spirituallyminded-deactivated20]

It occurred to Pooh and Piglet that they hadn’t heard from Eeyore for several days, so they put on their hats and coats and trotted across the Hundred Acre Wood to Eeyore’s stick house. Inside the house was Eeyore.

“Hello Eeyore,” said Pooh.

“Hello Pooh. Hello Piglet,” said Eeyore, in a Glum Sounding Voice.

“We just thought we’d check in on you,” said Piglet, “because we hadn’t heard from you, and so we wanted to know if you were okay.”

Eeyore was silent for a moment. “Am I okay?” he asked, eventually. “Well, I don’t know, to be honest. Are any of us really okay? That’s what I ask myself. All I can tell you, Pooh and Piglet, is that right now I feel really rather Sad, and Alone, and Not Much Fun To Be Around At All. Which is why I haven’t bothered you. Because you wouldn’t want to waste your time hanging out with someone who is Sad, and Alone, and Not Much Fun To Be Around At All, would you now.”

Pooh looked and Piglet, and Piglet looked at Pooh, and they both sat down, one on either side of Eeyore in his stick house.

Eeyore looked at them in surprise. “What are you doing?”

“We’re sitting here with you,” said Pooh, “because we are your friends. And true friends don’t care if someone is feeling Sad, or Alone, or Not Much Fun To Be Around At All. True friends are there for you anyway. And so here we are.”

“Oh,” said Eeyore. “Oh.” And the three of them sat there in silence, and while Pooh and Piglet said nothing at all; somehow, almost imperceptibly, Eeyore started to feel a very tiny little bit better.

Because Pooh and Piglet were There. No more; no less.

~ Kathryn Wallace

[firesuns-archive]

[joshpeck]

[mistress-light]

BUFF VS BATH - GERALT OF RIVIA

[endivinity]

A tutorial on meatspace I made for my patrons last year! Making things exist in the same space believably is a difficult process, but hopefully this will help drawing softbodied subjects interacting together a little easier!

[thelatestkate]

October 2019 Illustrations  ヽ(• ‿ •)ノ