Opal Celestia @opalcelestia - Tumblr Blog

orbiten

PAUL MCGANN as the EIGHTH DOCTOR

antikate

Current mood

spartanlocke

mood. and alternatively:

vibrantstarfire

ugh we need more manipulative characters that aren’t evil. lie and cheat and steal for a good cause. control every narrative. use narcissism for justice. ruin all of your personal relationships for the good of the mission.

milktea-grn

“i walk your earth. i breathe your air.”

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George James Howard - Algiers, Cecilia in Pink (1892-1893)

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The Card Players (1892) by Paul Cézanne

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M. C. Escher - Up and Down (1947)

an0neemouse

Sometimes what you write isn't what is popular. Write it anyway. Imagine how unutterably dull the world would be if the only stories that exist were the popular ones. Sure, you may not get the traction you might want, but you get the satisfaction of creating something that matters. It's not easy, but it is important, so do it anyway.

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Edgar Degas - A Peasant Woman (1871)

athena5898

(Quds) UNICEF spokesperson Louise Wateridge reports that at least 300 children in Gaza have been killed since a ceasefire agreement came into effect last October.

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Frank Buchser - Greek woman on Corfu (1884)

a-kind-of-merry-war

you get a comment on tumblr. it's a bot trying to scam you. you get a DM. it's a bot trying to scam you. you get a message on instagram. its a bot trying to scam you. you're an author and you get an email telling you how much they loved your book and want to showcase it at their bookclub. it's a bot trying to scam you (and it uses bad AI to pretend it knows your story). you get a comment on ao3 saying how much they love your fic - and they made you fanart!! it's a bot trying to scam you. you get a hate comment on ao3 which insults your writing or calls you a monster for writing something "problematic". it's a bot. but at least that one isn't trying to scam you.

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there's just something really cruel and insidious about this wave of scams going after creatives. You get an email and think someone genuinely loved what you made but - no. It's another scam. It's someone trying to trick you into sending them money. On AO3, it might literally just be a bot someone made specifically to be a hateful little shit.

putting the stuff you've made out there for everyone to see is hard and scary and we're all just bumping around looking for a bit of appreciation and love and connection and these bastards are using that to try to rob us. I hate it.

a-kind-of-merry-war

Im going go get into the sea and stay there

a-kind-of-merry-war

okay come forward which of you reposted this to reddit lmao I SEE YOU

fixyourwritinghabits

Okay everybody go leave a comment on the fics you're reading, find your favorite author's social media and tell them you liked their book, and comment on your favorite artist's YouTube or Bandcamp page, go go gooooo.

aziraphales-library

Omg someone else took the account ?? Welcome ! Hope the work isnt too much rn

There have been a few questions/asks/messages along these lines so I'll answer them at once--hello! Yes, so far there are two of us, Mods A and C (no relation to Aziraphale or Crowley, just a coincidence); there may be others joining us in time. We can't promise to be as phenomenal as Mod D was but we're happy to be here. :)

There's a large backlog of things to catch up on so we hope you'll all bear with us as we adjust to all this. Thanks everyone who wrote in to encourage and welcome us!

-Mod A