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#breadthief thoughts <- is the tag for anything related to my fic. Blacklist or follow as you desire

I always have too many ideas to possibly write, here's a list in case I never get around to them

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🟠 Not started, posted/collected notes

🟡 Started, unposted WiP

🟢 Started, posted WiP

Ideas in the oven:

#breadthief thoughts #impossible to make a good portmanteau of kelson x samson 😔

jaynovz

Potentially unpopular opinion but this trend to "bookclub" fics in private servers largely ends up excluding the author from a lot of positive reader feedback. It's treating fan creatives like they aren't, y'know, -part- of the fandom community, is what I mean. In my experience it does not actually foster community despite having the outward appearance of doing so.

Like, it's not even about wanting to be showered with praise. It's that this person spent a lot of time making the thing yall are gushing about. Don't you think they, more than anyone, want to chat about it with other people who love it too? Putting them on some weird exclusive pedestal isn't flattering or validating. They're just another fan who wants to talk about The Thing We All Like, Together.

Anyway, I am once again encouraging yall to talk to creatives whose work you enjoy, they don't bite. 💜

(Literally you can just compile a few of the things you said in the server about it and copypaste where the fan creative can see it. Simple!)

#not that i think anyone book clubs my stuff #a lot of my writing is shaped by feedback #if people hadnt told me they liked my OCs #they wouldnt have returned to be principle characters!#thats thousands of words of story that just wouldn't have happened!#if you enjoy something SAY😭🙏#youll get more of it!#ty to the one person who enjoyed the baptism of the toy rabbit #otherwise I'd have thought that addition was a complete failure #and too dumb #i hope that the story has enough emotional authenticity to suspend reader's disbelief #but i know its not successful in every case #that story in particular #Anyway #my default setting is that no one is interested #like someone being interested enough to read to the end of a story is remarkable in itself to me #for someone to want to know more about the story beyond that???#im literally not gonna know if you dont ask me😭#i would love to talk about my stuff #i think about it all the time

campodefiori9

Tufted Titmouse in a fairy pose ,from the previous winter. Tupelo meadow ,Central park.

#an angel #but also jazz hands

mlleclaudine

Embroidered Sculptures Recreate Lifelike Mushrooms, Lichen, and Fungi in Thread

by Grace Ebert - Colossal, February 25, 2022

Amanda Cobbett suspends a singular moment in the fleeting lives of fungi by stitching their likeness in thread. The textile artist photographs and gathers specimens that she brings back to her Surrey Hills-based studio, where she finds fibers to match pale green lichens and golden chanterelles. Using a free-motion embroidery technique on a sewing machine, she then stitches multiple layers onto a piece of dissolvable fabric that, once the organism is complete, is washed away to leave just the mushroom or mossy bark intact. As a scroll through her Instagram reveals, the resulting sculptures are so realistic in color, shape, and size that it’s difficult to distinguish the artist’s iterations from their counterparts.

Currently, Cobbett is preparing a collection that will head to the Artful Craft exhibition at Make Southwest, which opens on April 2.

#woah

atomikats

upgrading from the ball

oilpalette

Eventual Glimmers, 2024 by Eli McMullen (American, b. 1992); Acrylic and gouache on panel, 14 × 11 in

weirdly-specific-but-ok

yes, India made legal gender change impossible but the doctor down the street who gives me my T shots in a clinic so small that it's just two rooms was excited for me when she said my voice had dropped yes, India made legal gender change impossible but the receptionist who could see that I was a man didn't bat an eyelash when I asked to see the gynecologist and called me sir when he asked how I wanted to pay yes, India made legal gender change impossible but the barber cuts my hair exactly how I want it and never gave me strange looks for being in a men's salon not even back when I didn't pass as one

yes, India made legal gender change impossible but my friends have always gendered me correctly and stick to it even when it confuses other people and my friend's little sibling calls me older brother in Kannada yes, India made legal gender change impossible but my dog learned my new name quicker than the humans and she runs to give me a kiss when she's told to without being confused about who's being referred to

yes, India made legal gender change impossible but I can feel the Adam's apple growing in my throat and my muscles getting stronger, and my smile more real and I'm growing a beard, and I talk more freely

yes, India made legal gender change impossible but I'm here, and I'm alive, and so are you and there are good people, people who care and don't let them make you forget that-- you are not alone.

inkfinch

with a tropical grace

Dressing up a Conclave fave in your traditional wear, so here's Vincent Benítez in a barong tagalog 🥰

[ Image description: Image 1 is traditional painting of Vincent Benítez from Conclave. A closeup of his profile and hand holding the salakot. The image has a maroon frame.

Image 2 is the full body illustration. Facing sideways with a slight smile, he's taking off a violet salakot/wide-brimmed hat with one hand and in the other, holding a golden pendant with a cross on it. The hat halos his face, with yellow aura radiating from the rim of the hat. He's wearing a knee-long, high-collared light yellow Barong Tagalog, with diamond-checkered pattern with floral details, along with a light purple short-sleeved camisa de chino/undershirt and a long striped purple and magenta skirt underneath. The background is orange with a light yellow frame. End of ID.]

edgebug

I think it would be funny if most of Grace's eridian students went to him and asked for earth pronoun designations instead of picking for themselves, because they think it's cool to get word-gifts from the coolest teacher in the galaxy

and grace is trying so hard to not accidentally be sexist or assign gender roles to a monogendered species, so like, trying hard not to call someone he/him just because they like sports, or she/her just because they seem caring, or whatever. and he's having a hard time about it because he's like oh man why am I assigning the pronouns I'm assigning, i hope I'm not bringing any of my biases into this. just absolutely eating himself up over it

he tries to fix this by starting to roll a die, or throw darts at a dartboard, but his students immediately throw a fit because the point of the word-gifts is that they are specific, picked deliberately for them, right? and grace tries to explain gender bias and so on, but it becomes clear these kids could genuinely not give less of a shit, they just want to know what their AGAG (assigned gender at grace) is, alright? why is this so hard for him to understand??

eventually grace comes to the conclusion that he's on a different planet, and severely overthinking this, and that his kids really just are having fun--they really don't see the grace-given pronouns as categorization, he figures they see them as something more akin to astrology. or an eridian tiktok trend. when grace learns they call the assigning a word-gift he probably cries tbh

"teacher grace!!! what my pronoun question???"

"hmm. getting big they/them vibes off you"

"HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY. THANK"

sharkfiinn

prism's parental situation

hauntedgrease

🏴‍☠️❤️

pineappical

whole house mad

vinnocent

The funniest part for me is that I cannot fathom Lawrence/Lomeli being younger than the 75 he canonically is. He's an old grandpa. He's a tired old man who can't sleep, has migraines and complains about bad food he doesn't even eat. He is a friendly old man who smiles encouragingly at a 67 year old Benítez like he's his grandson, rambles to the younger folks about interesting tidbits he knows and then worries he's boring them. He can get stuck for hours staring at a painting He's passed by for the past few decades. He's worried for his fellow cardinals being claustrophobic when he exhibits the most claustrophobia anxiety out of all of them. His first thought when he sees someone coming up to him bearing bad news is 'oh no who died this time'. He takes the elevator up one floor. He is jealous of Benítez because he can bend over and easily put his shoes on in less than ten minutes while multitasking a whole ass conversation. He himself takes ten minutes to rock himself up from bed because his old frail body needs momentum to pick himself up. He survived cancer but because of it believes he's about to die any second. Hell, when considering his papal name he says John because, and I quote "it was traditionally a name associated with Pope's whose reigns were short; as he was certain his was bound to be." He thinks Tremblay's phone is a small prayer book. He falls asleep during the ballot where he gets 40 votes. He's so old he just wanted to retire and his boss told him no bitch and promptly died and now he's stuck being old and in charge of a high stress event while feeling insulted for being called a manager. He is so far removed from anything sex related he will try to avoid dealing with his next door neighbor's possible scandal at all costs and can't tell that he's attracted to his coworkers. Or when they're attracted to him. He sleeps with his hands crossed on his chest for Reasons. He doesn't want to be here, or anywhere for that matter. He doesn't know how to use a printer.