.:Nomadic Stardust's Art Blog:.

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[lumpatronics]

SERVICE DOG PSA

So today I tripped. Fell flat on my face, it was awful but ultimately harmless. My service dog, however, is trained to go get an adult if I have a seizure, and he assumed this was a seizure (were training him to do more to care for me, but we didn’t learn I had epilepsy until a year after we got him)

I went after him after I had dusten off my jeans and my ego, and I found him trying to get the attention of a very annoyed woman. She was swatting him away and telling him to go away. So I feel like I need to make this heads up

If a service dog without a person approaches you, it means the person is down and in need of help

Don’t get scared, don’t get annoyed, follow the dog! If it had been an emergency situation, I could have vomited and choked, I could have hit my head, I could have had so many things happen to me. We’re going to update his training so if the first person doesn’t cooperate, he moves on, but seriously guys. If what’s-his-face could understand that lassie wanted him to go to the well, you can figure out that a dog in a vest proclaiming it a service dog wants you to follow him

[thetenderpassion]

[headspace-hotel]

I’ve been reading about werewolves on Wikipedia and I just have to say. “Werewolves are warriors that descend into hell to fight demons” kicks unbelievable amounts of ass as a concept

[arcadianforests]

One theme in DCC that I've been rolling around in my brain for weeks now is "If you were always doomed, does the love matter?"

Li Jun is one of the most obvious examples, he is saved by (and saves) Carl multiple times, and it doesn't matter because he dies on the ninth floor, right before the chance for freedom. What did it mean for Li Jun to struggle so much, only to die? Does the extra time with his sister and best friend outweigh all the pain and suffering he went through? Would it have been kinder to let him and his family die?

Annie's the other obvious one, the tragedy wasn't that Annie was sick and dying it's that she was denied the comfort of dying with someone who loved her! She was never going to live but the love that Katia gave her was real! Does it matter if it couldn't change anything? If Annie was only ever going to break Katia's heart should she have loved her in the first place?

The crawlers on the fifth floor as well, especially Langley and company, was it worth it to fight so hard to get off the fifth floor only to die early on the sixth? What does it mean if the second they gain confidence and purpose they just die? Was it worth it? Was it worth the struggle and pain?

If all of Signet's memories of her family are fake, if her whole family is fake, does her love still matter? Does her pain? Her hatred? Should she still fight for them?

Was Donut's love for Bea wasted? Do the moments of love and companionship between them mean nothing now because of Bea's betrayal? Were the moments between them fake even? If Bea had never taken Donut, Dount would never have met Carl, but is that they only thing she would lose?

What of Yvette? A girl born into a shitty family, who struggled and suffered to grow up only to die horribly and painfully and young. Would it have been kinder if she just died in the collapse?

Would it be better if Carl's mom never took him to the circus? Is it tarnished by the heartbreak that came after? Was suicide really the only way?

And the series over and over and over just goes: No! This is the only thing that matters! There will always, always, always be suffering and tragedy and heartbreak and death and you have to wrench joy and love and community from a world that wants to deny them to you! If you're doomed matter how hard you fight to survive then fight like hell anyway! Love even if it only leads to heartbreak! We can see these tragedies and call them unjust and fight for a better future but even if we never reach better the fight alone is worth it!

[cordezshenanigans]

And don't forget the Tomb Raiders. God, the Tomb Raiders

I can't tell if their memory has fallen by the wayside because there's just too much going on or because Matt Dinniman is a genius and there are deep implications to their memory falling through the cracks.

Historians, when they talk about Carl's life, won't remember the Tomb Raiders. They made some stupid mistakes that made Carl's life a lot harder and got a lot of people killed. In Carl's quadrant, we have Carl, Donut, and Katya; Louis and Firas; and Langley's team of 6. Each bubble had about 150 people, which means Carl's quadrant started with 30-40, and we only know 11 of them because the Tomb Raiders got the rest of them killed before Carl could ever meet them. Not to mention any land quadrant crawlers that could have been saved if Carl got there sooner, and all the NPCs Carl had to kill because the Tomb Raiders made peace impossible.

But goddamn they tried. They tried. The only one whose name I can remember is Bobby, the rogue whose spirit was broken by the tomb. That tower was ten kilometers tall and it took everything they had to survive exploring the top floor, but they kept trying anyway. They suffered, and they were crumbling and they were lost, but they never gave up. Bobby was shaking and dissociating and broken by the end, but even he never stopped trying.

And despite it all, it mattered. They got that panel hooked up, which allowed the Royal Court to kill Quetzalcoatl. Maybe the Royal Court would have found another way to pop the bubble, but that would have taken time. Time that they used to save Srendelgor, to save Floren, to save countless other crawlers and all the changelings, which snowballed into so many more lives saved.

Most of the Tomb Raider guys died thinking their deaths would mean nothing. But it meant everything. I haven't finished book 8 yet, but I'm thinking that it's not just the crawlers. Carl is going to save every human left on the surface, he's going to be there to help with the Lucia issue, because the Tomb Raiders never quit fighting.

The point is that it matters.

[livingthedragonlife]

laios is perhaps the only character not to get the "they mentioned their favorite food once and the fandom makes it their whole personality" treatment. his favorite food is cheesecake and absolutely nobody cares

[aryisacapricat]

[kaos-stuff]

A wild Lugia appeared

[arctic-hands]

When I was a teenager and still on Neopets I was part of a pretty big Star Trek guild and eventually became part of its council, with the solemn duty of creating weekly polls. Well one day I created the poll "Which would win in a fight? Borg Cube or Death Star?". Naturally, since this was a Star Trek guild, the answer was overwhelmingly "Borg Cube", but someone did have the rationality to point out we were biased.

So I look up a pretty prominent Star Wars guild and message one of their council and ask them to poll the same question and get back to me in a week. They do, and naturally the fuckin geeks said "Death Star".

So then I look up a Stargate guild and messaged the lead council member, saying the same thing, and they get back to me almost immediately saying that the Death Star would immediately one-shot a Borg Cube but they would never be able to do it again to another Cube. And I took that wisdom back to my guild and we were mollified, and for one moment the Nerd World was peaceful.

[evilsoup]

[gilliagandy]

Truly thrilled to finally find this post on my dash.

[hillbillybubbeleh]

I was out working in the garden today and I realized while I was out there just how far my work in promoting biodiversity in the yard and creating a pollinator lawn has come along. When I first started being the caretaker of this patch of land some years back, it was an unfortunate "manicured monoculture" (basically just a green sea of one kind of turfgrass). Not anymore. 🍀🌿🌾🌼

Throughout the year now, you'll find a vast array of plants. There is a mix of 🌾 native grasses 🌾, along with so many flowering natives, brushes, shrubs. The Shrubby St. John's Wort popped last year, and hopefully there should be more blooming this summer. Last year, there was also what I think is Wild Bergamot/Bee-Balm growing along one of the property boundaries; so, I'm looking forward to seeing if that comes back this year. There's Wild Ginger I never planted, along with other surprises that have come up in the forms of Strawberries, Dew Berries, Wild Garlic, and Wild Spinach. You'll find Virgin's Bower vines, Thistles, Toothworts, Asters, Fleabane, cute little Seedbox flowers, Wild Violets, Dandelions, Flags, and Goldenrods. There's even been a Mustard patch this year, though I didn't plant it (it must have been a gift from the birds). There are wildflowers growing alongside my ornamental flower gardens, swaths of sweet-smelling Clover peppered here and there (and there and here), Bluebells and Morning Glories basking in the sunshine.

And, most importantly, there are birds, frogs, bees, butterflies, dragonflies, lizards, squirrels, spiders — wildlife everywhere, everyday. We even have a resident groundhog duo. 🦋🐸🐞🐦🐌🦆🐛🦉🐝🦗

There are still a lot of things I want to do with this space to improve it (a micro farming project I'm working on starting in one section of the property next year, introducing more wildflowers and herbs to the space, introducing some flowering native trees, and bringing in Milkweeds and Coneflowers again, because those have done well here in previous years and the butterflies loved them), but I'm really proud of getting things to the point that they're at now! And seeing all of the local wildlife enjoy it so much (as well as having plants that can provide them with food and shelter) is the greatest reward for the love and hard work put into this.

[deathlyfandoms]

There also needs to be a button for “this is the 5000th time I’ve read your fic because I’m having a horrible day and this is the only thing in the world that always brings me happiness.”

[my-nameless-bliss]

good news: there is!

[monster-bait]

Support the folks posting work on comment-ebabled sites!

[ladymirdan]

I love when people leave comments on my old stuff.

Its like passive income but it actually works to make me happy.

[katzedecimal]

Honestly though, comments like that are gold to me. I love to write and a comment telling me that something I’ve done has improved someone’s life even in a small way? That’s impact. We live in societies that tell us over and over we have no value and nothing we do is ever good enough. So for someone to post a comment telling us that we improved their lives with our stories? That tells us our effort had value. We writers set out to improve the world in tiny ways, offering random acts of kindness in the form of a few minutes’ entertainment, and comments tell us we’ve achieved that little goal.

[naamahdarling]

You can totally come back and leave a comment under that comment a year later! I’m glad to know you are still enjoying it and want to know if you’re doing okay.

[yesbothways]

There is no higher compliment than a re-read.  The longer the time that has passed, the higher it is.  It means a story resonated and stayed with someone. 

[nomadiclegends]

so... even tho i've hardly drawn anything in between these.... somehow the growth happens?? maybe. I could be wrong I am very tired.

certainly motivates me to keep doing these doodles every 2-5 years anyways, just to see ^^

[kyri45]

Hey I am really enjoying you comic, and I just wanted to send you this since I used you panel as a coloring book XD

I hope the art keeps art-ing the monkey boys keep inspiring you! Because you definitely inspire me!

BEAUTIFUL!! LOOK AT THE AMOUNT OF DETAILS!!

[nomadicstardust]

[roguemonsterfucker]

Artists are coming back to tumblr. Nature is healing.

[roguemonsterfucker]

You can do your part and plant trees (reblog art) to help nature heal.

[roguemonsterfucker]

Don’t support invasive species (art thieves/reposters) though. Only native plants (the original creators).

[roguemonsterfucker]

Lots of artists are reblogging this with their art blog! Go check them out!

[nomadicstardust]

So I decided that the most way to reread homestuck was to do it update by update in real time, and I joined a group doing just that. But.... it means I'm stuck drawing pre-everything john a LOT.

[nomadicstardust]

3am doodles are the most beautiful art I create.

[nomadicstardust]

Happy 4/13 Nerds. And gods help me… I am rereading homestuck.

[nomadicstardust]

When you convince your, also 30yo, friends to make Naruto OCs but you all have questionable taste.

[nomadicstardust]

It really is just fun fine-tuning the design... also in trying to draw in the naruto style XD

[nomadiclegends]

[nomadicstardust]

Once upon a time, in 2004, I was a suuuuper depressed middle-schooler and made a 200 page comic series about what happens after you end yourself (heavily influence by Bleach and being an egg 🏳️‍⚧️).

Today I hold tight reigns on such spirals of pain, but I am also sleeping 30 hours at a time due to chronic fatigue and that frustration made me remember that middle school existed. Ew. Welp at least my drawing skills are head and shoulders above child me, so take that depression.