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Ju/River. They/them. 29, Don't worry I still have no clue about what I am doing. DID, fandoms, positivity, and being queer at signifs. Talk to me about anything/let me know if i need to tag certain things. I will do that. Proud aro/ace. Will fight. My icon is by buggachat and my header is by spatziline. They are both wonderful!

[wheelie-sick]

"oh, I live in a desert and-"

"wow that must be so terrible" "deserts are so ugly" "I would never want to live in a wasteland like that" "it's just empty nothingness"

wishing 10,000 exploding hammers upon you

behold New Mexico

[ID 1: tall, snowcapped rocky mountains rising above a plain filled with desert scrub

ID 2: brightly colored banded cliff walls of several mesas climbing their way into mountains

ID 3: a desert prairie

ID 4: colorful hoodoos against a twilight sky

ID 5: white sand dunes as far as the eye can see

ID 6: a collection of hoodoos against a stormy sky at sunset

ID 7: a juniper tree standing with a cliff wall in the background

ID 8: several juniper trees on a rocky landscape]

[wheelie-sick]

this post and all its wonderful additions (look in the notes) is circulating again. these photos and many of the ones added in the notes come from the US Southwest.

right now the trump administration is attacking the public lands in the Southwestern US. most recently (July 2026), in Utah the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments have been cut by over 90% to allow for mining. these lands are sacred to multiple Native nations in the area and contain irreplaceable archeological sites. additionally, the commission of Native representatives who aided in management of these lands has been dissolved leaving Native people without a voice in caring for the remaining land. (read more here)

here in New Mexico, the 10 mile buffer zone surrounding Chaco Canyon preventing oil and gas drilling is under attack. Chaco Canyon contains incredibly old and incredibly fragile archeological sites sacred to Pueblo people. these sites are threatened by mining and drilling. (read more here)

The attack on the Chaco buffer zone is currently in a public comment period open until July 29. PLEASE leave a public comment to save these irreplaceable places.

[wheelie-sick]

some people have cut this addition off of their reblogs and quite frankly that's disturbing.

you can't appreciate the desert and also erase the fact that these places are under attack.

and I'd even say it's downright racist. this isn't "just" the desert, these are sacred locations to multiple Native nations and they are under attack because they are sacred to many Native people. the least you can do is reblog to raise awareness to the attacks on these lands. there is no going back from mining and drilling. there is no way to repair these ancient archeological sites when the vibrations in the ground topple them and when they are bulldozed.

submitting a public comment is the absolute bare minimum you can do and if you can't be assed to write 1 sentence saying you don't support removing the Chaco buffer zone then at least leave the reblog encouraging other people to do so attached.

[sarascamander]

Remember when Merlin and Gwen would be at the edge of a banquet and gossip together?

[creepycrag]

i love when a villain is like "ahhh what a ROTTEN day" but they mean that it's good and they're just saying it like that because they arbitrarily like when things are bad

[plumbo-gummite]

[th-xeno]

the black hole's center of gravity

(and a more canonical monochrome version below!)

[bonus-links]

So much of this story is about messy habits someone forms in the wake of the Horrors. It’s very strongly about the different ways the links *dont* deal with their feelings, or deal with them poorly. Some of those are mental spirals, some of those are physical avoidance, some of them are temporary and some of them will stick with them for life. I think smoking or drinking as a vice in the wake of their games makes total sense to me in a story that was already pointing neon signs to “hey nobody is dealing with this in a way that’s being sanitized for observers”. Every character in this story is messy and that’s what makes it FANTASTIC because you expertly dodge ever making it into woe-is-me angst slop and instead feels like a very fleshed out set of characters who are more than just their worst moment or even their best, and for some of them those moments are the same memory. I really do adore your work as a writer but also as an artist, because the paneling and character detail work on this is expertly done to support the narrative you’re crafting.

🥺🥺🥺 RAHH THANK U!!! very happy to hear that bc it is 1000% my intention to explore all the different ways people respond to the things that happen to them. The tagline for the comic is “what happens when the quest is over” bc like. idk amongst all the time travel and rifts in reality and stuff that’s genuinely the real plot. What happens to people who are tools when the job is done?

I don’t include elements like this to be edgy or as pure angst fodder but just bc like. it’s a thing people do. extremely commonly. there’s humor in it and there’s also serious consequences in it, and it’s also a neutral thing, u know?

[bonus-links]

directors commentaryyyy plssss

okay i have a lot to say about this one here goes

i really like hiding war's face from u :D

there's like an underlying not-quite-argument Lana and Impa are indirectly having here lol, but talking to War instead of each other. Lana trying to remind War that his Hyrule's jurisdiction (and by extension its power over him) doesn't extend on the other side of that rift, while Impa reminds him that actually it does, because God Is Always Watching you.

obviously the nobles in this panel are whispering about him, but the other implication of this panel is like. War Is In This Picture. This is the exact kind of face he pulls while being snide to Lana in the last update. So it's one part, wouldn't it be nice to escape court (because they're awful to you) but also wouldn't it be good for you (because they're making you awful)

Is War just lying because Impa's in earshot here? Is he making it clear to Lana which side he's on? telling her to back off? you tell me. anyway I was really excited to draw this specific expression. like. the one you pull when you know exactly what someone is talking about but you want to make them feel crazy for actually voicing it. here are the notes for it in my script lol

bringing this screenshot out again. invoking farore at a spring for din, smh. also again we do not see whatever his reaction to this is untillll

he puts the Hero face on! i like the idea that war inside his head was like. oh fuck I looked too much like i was having a terrible time. quick turn the face on. say the little speech. THE DEPTHS OF MY DEVOTION ARE IMMEASURABLE, ETC.

the thing is. the depths of his devotion Are immeasurable. that part is real

because of the direction we read comments i'm able to pull off a little illusion of forward momentum even though we've actually gone backwards in page space. i mean. hopefully. ANYWAY YIPPEEE SPIRIT TRACKS FIRE TEMPLE!!! also baby's first dungeon for war lol

ooooh big shiny object symbolizing power. surely this means nothing

okay two things here. 1) when war is around other people he has his good boy face on but when he is alone he gets to look as irritated or simply Nothing At All as he wants. 2) Lana knows what she's doing by telling War that she can't actually see him, or tell where he is. i mean she does want him to help solve this problem but she also wants him to maybe live a little

one of the things i'm fascinated with is like. the evidence that the links must leave behind in the temples/dungeons after they leave. like, no one's there to clean up after them. broken pots are an obvious way to do that lol but I also meant to draw things like stray arrows and other equipment and i just like. straight up forgor. i think i drew one arrow in the corner there. anyway we can see some of spirit's old dried blood on the ground here too. guess he was injured before the boss fight and was looking for something to heal

I LOVE THIS PANEL it was so fun and I'm really happy with how it turned out :D i like getting to show how war moves as well? He can jump far enough to clear a gap spirit would have needed the whip for, he points his toes, etc. he also moves through the space very efficiently.

2 apples tall

seems like all the dungeon exploring was tiring lol. rip war u haven't slept in over 24 hrs and ur about to have to hike down another mountain. godspeed

AND FINALLYYYYYY THE SPIRIT TRACKS. the implication here is that war recognizes the tracks because spirit either described them or had photos during the war of ages. i was going to make them look like more functional train tracks but like. come on. they're magic and they're fun :D

hm. so it seems like things may have gone poorly during the war of ages. seems like spirit wasn't very nice to him. wonder what that's about. anyway the intention here was like. if the first update had all those paintings of the idealized version of what happened, this is a photo reel of the true events, or at least war's memory of them. and also like. even a photo is an image that had to be framed by someone, not a neutral representation of reality. and so on and so forth.

i somehow did not realize spirit smoking was going to be a shock to people at all. I think i am just really used to @wutheringmight's spirit, which once again i must always give frankie her flowers for how her work has influenced mine. actually even though it's become incorporated into my personal headcanons for ST link i associate it so strongly with that version of spirit that I debated whether I was gonna include it in the comic at all

what ultimately convinced me was like. okay imagine u have been smoking since u were like 15 because everyone u know does and then u get zapped into a magical time war with no notice and u have like maybe 4 precious precious cigarettes left in ur pocket. could u imagine. well that happened to my friend Link Spirit Tracks. and also jokes aside it ended up really working for the overall motifs of this update. fire theme->lit cigarette->the smoke of memory->something something. u know.

anyway. i'm going to show my work on how we ended up here i promise. very excited for more of spirit :D

oh is he reaching for the necklace because he figured out where he is? oh nope. flask. guess he's just not going to make a report then. also this is a full circle gag with impa stealing the champagne glass from him earlier. he actually gets to take a sip this time lol #thesubstanceabusebrothers

"farore preserve me" extremely hilarious response to this situation. sorry brother farore isn't preserving shit

ALSO ALSO his flask has been on him this whole time lol

i just realized via doing this commentary that i forgot to add a flush from the heat to war's face for this whole update. literally a crime i'm so upset.

i think that's all i got for now. thanks for reading!

[thenmichael]

A vision I had regarding the new @bonus-links update

[bonus-links]

OFF THE RAILS, pt. 4

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PATREON

[badgersandbees]

Every single non trans woman who proclaims to be an ally absolutely needs to be posting about how goddamn transmisogynist staff is.

Because when trans women dare to speak up for themselves, Tumblr nukes their blogs.

We need to be fucking loud about this, daily, because Tumblr staff is specifically targeting and deleting trans women who are not breaking ToS and who often have fundraisers up FOR THEIR SURVIVAL.

By deleting these blogs repeatedly, Tumblr staff is saying loud and clear what they hope happens to these girls.

Are y'all okay with that? Because if not we need to be posting about it more because we have seen by now it's incredibly fucking unlikely this sites moderation will delete our blogs for it because we are not trans women

Tumblr staff and CEO Matt Mullenweg want trans women in need to not be able to post their fundraisers, meaning they are okay with these women dying.

[jen-iii]

Do you think that since Toph is basically wrestling famous as well as hailed as a world hero and Greatest Earthbender that she has like actual die hard fans?

Like pro athletes do the John Cena ‘you can’t see me gesture’ but in this verse it’s Toph’s ‘I’m blind’ one whenever they do something cool? Kids running around the streets playing ‘Earth Rumble’ and they fight over who can be the ‘Blind Bandit’.

And since the Earth Kingdom is the largest, people stop and recognize her more often than even the AVATAR and try to get her autograph and stuff. And the rest of the Gaang try to say she can’t give an autograph because hello she’s blind, only for her to slap a muddy hand in the fans like clothes or face and they fucking SCREAM like that’s what they’ve been waiting for. And she’s like ‘What? Do yall not KNOW how big Earth Rumble was? I was the Reigning champion of course I had fans 🙄’ and they’re both confused and a little jealous about it 😂

[caffeinewitchcraft]

A 75 yo man proudly came into the cafe wearing an Ultra Maga hat. I excused my barista from the register to handle the transaction.

"The hat is customizable," he said, struggling with the velcro patch on the front. "If I need it, I have an ICE one too. I pick based off the business i walk into."

"Customizable is an important hat descriptor," I said. "what can I get you?"

"You wouldn't believe how offended people get these days," he said. "And I'm supposed to do something about it if you're offended? You chose to be offended!"

"We all have hundreds of thousands of decisions everyday," I said. I thickened my accent. "That's what my stepdad always said. But I can make one easier - we have a delicious Ethiopian roast available."

"Like if I told you you have a bull ring," he said, "because bulls have rings in their noses. Is that offensive?"

I laughed. "I've heard that before."

"It's a joke, but people get offended. Maybe you're offended."

I looked at him. I smiled. "You aren't trying to offend me though, right?"

Of course he was. I was being friendly and the friendlier I was, the faster he switched topics. He was saying anything inflammatory he could think of to see if I'd take the bait. After about 20 minutes of my redirecting and deescalating, he settled into a more normal interaction. He took up too much of my time showing me a product I'd feigned mild interest in to get him to stop talking about getting accused of inappropriate behavior at work. When we finally disengaged, he spent 10 minutes trying to catch my eye again. When he failed, he left.

There's this new breed of customer who insists on trying to incite political conversation through their clothing and, when that doesnt work, their snide little comments. If I owned my own business, maybe I would have given the guy the fight he wanted. But I work for a corporation and I love paying my bills so I deescalated.

Anyone wearing that type of shit and preying on workers for their own spank bank material is a brainless fucking sheep.

[headedoutleft]

something i want to mention because i’ve seen it growing as a trend online is that not only do people do this just for their own gratification, but watch for glasses. smart glasses are a growing segment of the consumer market, and creeps like this are harassing people in public in order to gather content without the victims being aware they’re being filmed

good job on how you handled it, op!

[ralfmaximus]

Indeed, spotting Meta glasses in the wild just got harder in 2026.

They are no longer exclusively Ray-Bans.

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

hearing anything about the nolan odyssey is so funny. it's like "they cut the extremely important and infamous nobody scene" "the cyclops is a giant puppet that they put in an actual historical cave + gave circe animatronics for her pig transformation instead of cgi" "they dumped plastic skeletons in an environmentally protected location they were not supposed to be in" "they recreated ancient greek instruments in order to have an accurate score" "all of odysseus's agency is basically gone" "anne hathaway actually learned how to weave ancient looms" "the women in this movie are treated like shit" "they actually buried actors alive to get those underworld shots" "did you see what the fuck zendaya was fucking wearing holy shit you can't DO THAT, MA'AM" "what do you mean there was a legitimate epic the musical reference" "NOT A SINGLE FUCKING GREEK WAS CAST IN THIS MOVIE"

like did nolan have two guys standing at his side at all times whispering ideas in his ear and one told the truth and the other told lies and they didnt tell him which was which until they wrapped production cause

[youhavethewrong]

Perhaps this is an obnoxious take on my part, but video games should, above all things, prioritize the ability of being paused. At any point. Regardless of whether it's during a cutscene, a special animation, or a time-based puzzle. You never know when you're gonna get a phone call, or someone will need you in another room, or you get a sudden urge to go to the bathroom, or you hear your cat licking plastic, or whatever. Other entertainment mediums like books, movies, and music can be paused whenever you want. Why do some games not give you the same luxury??

[couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name]

my family has had some pretty interesting encounters with psychics/mediums that seem genuine in the past, but nothing will ever be funnier to me than the last guy my mom talked to who was so definitely bullshitting, because she said "I was hoping to hear from my husband" and the guy went "he said....it's okay to Move On" and like. every single person my mom has recounted this too has been like "He Would Not Fucking Say That". as if this was an ooc fanfic about my father. it's just so fucking funny. fake psychic dude take your shitty headcanons about my ghost dad and LEAVE!!!

[couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name]

like, my parents were legitimately insane about each other. I cannot stress how much he wouldn't say that. I have to assume his ghost was standing right next to this fake psychic yelling "WHAT THE FUCK!!!!" when he told my mom to move on lmfao

[couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name]

actually. funnier to imagine he was a Real Psychic who was just trying to put a move on my mom and didn't think the ghost would do anything about it and now is now dealing with a violently angry haunting for the rest of his days lmfao

[couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name]

this psychic for the rest of his life all because he tried to hit on some dead guy's wife in an elevator

[couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name]

Ghost Dad: WE LITERALLY CHANGED OUR VOWS BECAUSE WE DIDN'T LIKE "TILL DEATH DO US PART"

Psychic: he says you need a real man. a tangible one. a man visible to the average eye.

[thequeeninyellowlace]

Psychic: I also choose this guy’s still-alive wife.

[chthonicillness]

i think it’s really amazing how total strangers who have nothing in common but their shared love of a work of fiction will come together across distances and dedicate their time and energy working collaboratively to build an extensive, richly detailed fanon that completely fucking sucks

[chthonicillness]

you guys are so committed to being bad at interpreting things you’ll just straight up decide this post means the opposite of what i wrote and reblog it anyway

[larachnae]

that fucking chrome dinosaur

[paradise-sys]

can someone please turn this into a gif

[rockergiirl]

[tiktokmuseum]

fake horse adventures

[bogleech]

one horse here is really hogging the brain cell

[theproblematicblogger]

REVEAL YOURSELF

[noodles-07]

the way the person in the back fake kicked at the gray horse took me OUT

[the-haiku-bot]

the way the person

in the back fake kicked at the

gray horse took me OUT

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[calandrinon]

@identifying-horses-in-posts

[identifying-horses-in-posts]

Sure, those are all horses. Don't worry about it.