Back From Hades

A locale upon the internet in which I do intend to disclose both my personal art, writings and ramblings about my beloved fiction.

[wyrmicelli]

me tongue-deep in a sandalwood candle: 🤤

the tjmaxx employee loading a fourth tranquilizer dart into their blowgun: i need backup

[snowown]

[mariacallous]

[comeonamericawakeup]

Zelensky is a leader like Trump will NEVER be.

[tam--lin]

(7/30/26) The Red Cross just declared the second US blood crisis in its history.

Summer sees both a drop off in donations and, at least for our trauma center, a spike in traumas. Trauma centers across the US are in danger of running out of blood for our trauma patients TODAY, which is very scary but, unlike much of the other scary national news coming across our screens these days, is something you can help fix immediately and directly.

We need ASAP donations of blood, for people to spread the word, and for manager types to help facilitate others' donations. All blood types are needed, but universal donor blood (type O) is especially dire.

[tam--lin]

Useful notes and reminders from the reblogs:

Many things that previously made people ineligible have been rolled back. If you previously thought you were ineligible, please consider checking current guidelines!

While O- is the most dire need as it can be safely given to anyone in an emergency, all types are needed! Our emergent release blood is being pulled for patients who have a high chance of death if they don't get blood within the hour. Once they're stabilized, they can have their type confirmed and get blood of a specific, matching type released to them so that O- can go to the patients who need it most.

Canada is also in a blood shortage, not just the US. Even if you're not in the USA or Canada, maybe check locally, especially if it's summer where you are.

[raviollies]

my big tip to artists that if you spend a lot of time detailing something generic like a backdrop or an item you can just save it in a separate canvas to use later as clutter

[bowlby4]

[amberleewriter]

We are living in the world Eisenhower warned us about.

[latadelixo]

[freddkong]

Mewtwo….

[absurdcrow-deactivated20251107]

CURRENTLY SOBBING. OK SOO, RIPLEY IS GAY?!!

and lambert is actually trans?? 😭😭

[not-in-absentia-deactivated2023]

I had to check, it does also appear on screen

[necromanticalscience]

There's a better shot of it in Aliens, right at the start when they're listing the Nostromo crew memebrs!

Also I read that there are deleted scenes of Ripley and Lambert arguing and being more overtly in a relationship. Ever since I learned that it's been my favorite ship.

[gamebird]

Oh neat, I didn't know this!

(I'd heard the bit about the role being originally written for a man and they cast a woman, which explained many things.)

[pepurika]

Tiger, Tiger - eisnernews

A young noble lady steals her brother's identity and his ship to find love and adventure, and to write a book about the fascinating life cyc

Here's my shitty edit, BUT AA AA??+? AAHHH!! im gonna faint

[pepurika]

guys.... Look at it...

[tothechaos]

the thing they dont tell you about learning to "trust the process" is that you forget and relearn it every single time you make a new piece of art. unfortunately there is no cure either

[tothechaos]

a chart of what i mean for the visual learners in the audience

[veitstanz]

[vithcy]

MUTUAL!! THAT IMAGE IS AI GENERATED!! MUTUAL! DON'T REBLOG THAT!! IT'S AI!!MUTUAAAL!!

[marlinspirkhall]

Sigh. Yeah, sure, okay.

[dduane]

Yep. …Here’s the link to the article about this in the Indo:

Explosive diarrhoea infection spreads to UK as officials issue holiday warning

Cylosporiasis infections lead to nasty but non-life-threatening symptoms, such as ‘explosive diarrhoea’

The UK people suffering from this are mostly ones who’ve just returned from holidays in Mexico, where they caught it via poor food or water hygiene.

This is not a disease that can be passed from person to person. You have to come into direct contact with food or water (or, okay, bodily fluids/feces) contaminated with the parasite.

…Here’s the Beeb website’s article as well.

UK warned about 'explosive diarrhoea' cyclospora infection

The UK is seeing a sharp rise in cases - 67 since April - with many of them among travellers returning from Mexico.

And finally: here’s the NHS’s page about it.

Cyclospora

Find out about cyclospora, including how you get it, where it's found and what the symptoms are.

[panlight]

re: the Renesmee driving poll, I've had this image in my head since I came up with the last option and I was FINALLY able to sit down and make it and it's even more beautiful than I envisioned.

[dorothylarouge]

[autumnalfallingleaves]

I think one of the things that really fucks me up about Grace and Rocky and their bond is, like, you very conceivably could (and people do) construe their relationship as romantic. They're very close, they trust each other implicitly, they have soft moments together (deleted sleepover scene I owe you my life), etc., but it's not. It's got all the trappings of a romance, but it's not!! It's platonic!! It's a canonical deep platonic bond-- they are each other's person in the closest sense, but it's not romantic at all. Grace doesn't engage in romance at all during the movie, and Rocky already has a mate he adores, but they love each other deeply still and it's not romantic. You don't really see that in media a lot.

Personally, the romantic read is a bit boring to me-- it's been done before. But all of that as platonic? Oh hell yeah, sign me up. I can't really articulate how much that means to me, especially since it's in a very popular movie. Holy fuck, I want what they have 🥺

[autumnalfallingleaves]

@coredrill WAIT I THINK YOU'RE ONTO SOMETHING

I hadn't thought of it that way, but I think that's a perfect encapsulation of why people tend to not value friendship as much-- they view it as an amount of care rather than a type of love, and, in our amanormative society, it is percieved that more love in a relationship would convert a friendship to a romance. That isn't true, though, because "friendship" in and of itself can contain a fantastic amount of love-- like we see with Grace and Rocky-- without being romantic.

[tepkunset]

when you ask a knowledge keeper something and they say "good question"

[tenyai]

Hamzah reading as usual and Yara interrupting as usual 🤣 (dating era obvi) She has her own literary goodies to catch up on (usually on a tablet, he likes his paper books) but she finds his “focused” expression very catching and is often distracted. Enjoy girl enjoy.

[chacerider]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY @cubeee11!!

It's been a while since I last drew these guys... I hope Cube likes it 🙂‍↕️