scalefeathers

chase your joy. it's bound to get tired eventually. || she/her; disaster lesbian; probably older than you think || sometimes I draw things || terfs unwelcome.

[scalefeathers]

Wilkommen, bienvenue, welcome!

I'm Scales and this is my blog. It is and has always been a bit of a hot mess, but that's true of me, too. Apart from reblogs, most of my original posts are about my FFXIV characters:

Bylti Blomstrandi: My main character and 'official' WoL. Began with the concept of 'what if Utena and Anthy merged into one person and went on adventures', because I had been watching a lot of Steven Universe recently, I didn't know anything about the setting so I didn't have any ideas for an in-universe character origin, and my love for Utena is evergreen. Though I use the 'male' viera model, Bylti is female; I just wanted her to be androgynous, and it's easier to make a feminine male viera than a masculine female one.

Moku Shiroku: Onze for onze the angriest man in Eorzea. Born out of my need for someone to take on all the classes that didn't suit Bylti, my desire to play against type for lalas, and my realization that mokushiroku ('apocalypse') worked perfectly as a Plainsfolk name. He is frequently accompanied by @saesama's Zettai Unmei, who acts as Moku's pocket healer and chief apostle, as he's convinced Moku is the second coming of Lunar Bahamut.

I play on Crystal data center, Couerl server as part of the Gage Acquisitions FC. Feel free to say hi!

I also do artwork occasionally, though my creativity tends to ebb and flow and it is pretty ebbed at the moment. Mostly I do fan art, and mostly in recent years it has been Star Wars and Arcane focused. Here's my art tag if you want to take a look!

I'm not currently accepting DMs from tumblrs I don't follow, but you are more than welcome to send me an ask here!

I post about a lot of things, not all of them fandom-related. I will try to tag appropriately, especially for things that may be upsetting, but I expect you to curate your online experience. If you don't like what I'm posting or the opinions I'm expressing, I invite you to block me and move on with your life.

Edit: I’ve been getting some asks requesting help with fundraisers, for Gaza and for other expenses. While I don’t know that my reblogging will help that much since I don’t have an especially active blog nor very many followers, I’m happy to do what I can. If you want to send me an ask like that, please be sure to include a link to your fundraiser or the post you want shared. (Also if you’re a follower of mine and I share something that you know or suspect to be a scam, please let me know.)

[ampersketch-art]

Your friends watching something for the first time and getting to that scene VS you, the knower.

[artisfaction]

Apple TV Murderbot + Text posts

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[talonboot]

take my mermaid quiz boy

If you were a mermaid, what animal form would your lower half take? Are you a slithery eel, a powerful shark, or maybe a colorful reef fish?

[damianmcgintleman]

everyone talks about the folgers coffee incest commercial but remember the quizno’s commercial where the guy was fucking the toaster oven?

[mslockheart]

what the fuck

[flyawaymax]

what the fuck

[rose-mcgowan-stan-blog]

a MALE toaster oven

I support their forbidden gay love

[clearlyconfounded]

“Not doin that again that burned”

“We both enjoyed that.”

I’m dying how did this get produced

[suspicious-robot]

He also looks down at his dick when he said it burned

[lunacide059]

@nottweak

[thinblackbeauties]

“Put it in me Scott"😫😂😂😂😂

[cobraonthecob]

😹😹😹

[gaslightgallows]

I saw this fabled artifact ONCE on tv when it was new and then never again. This one got buried FAST.

[meatdiaz]

what’s your “odd” comfort movie? a movie that isn’t stereotypically comforting but does comfort YOU? mine’s conclave (2024)

[uberfluss]

first 5 faceless emojis are how your summers gonna go

[thesebonesbite]

Magnus Archives fan I see

[partywithponies]

THIS IS SO FUNNY I'M SORRY

[robertreich]

Congress is back in session this week. If any of these Republican senators represent you, let them know in no uncertain terms that they must not enact Trump’s Big Ugly Bill that would make devastating cuts to Medicaid and food assistance programs to finance tax cuts predominantly going to the super rich.

[inkskinned]

my brother got covid because he's a college professor and there's not much he can do to mitigate exposure when he has 200+ students per lecture. he's got a baby at home, so he does his best, but.

the governmental website for covid information is now propaganda. not a joke, not hyperbole, not an exaggeration: it's genuinely the definition of propaganda. this is biased misinformation determined to push a political stance. it is being hosted on a government server. it looks like something you'd find in a "top 10 weird internet conspiracy stories (and their origins)" youtube video.

my brother called me when he saw it. he had me type it into google. for a second i legitimately thought that i had typed something wrong. we have both taught college: we have both said "a .gov site is usually a reliable resource." i just stared at my phone for a long, long time.

i thought about how when i was a kid, conspiracy theories were mostly fun and a little spooky. unserious. i remember reading some long, complicated website about how avril lavigne is dead. how bigfoot is real. it used to be funny-and-a-joke.

over seven million people (globally) have died from covid. america has the highest death rate with over 1.2 million people.

the thing is - every time a person dies from something like a mass shooting or poverty or treatable illness - we are told don't make it political. we are told it's just something that can happen. we are told it's sad but what can you do!

the president of the united states is using a government website to try to erase the very-real deaths that he personally caused due to a complete mismanagement of the pandemic. the president of the united states is using a government server to host propaganda, undermine science and medicine, and encourage distrust amongst his followers.

nothing is going to happen. nobody's gonna, like, do anything about it. it's a thursday today, and we are just going to move on from this like we have been moving on from everything else.

yesterday my brother was outside walking his dog, mask included. a guy in a truck pulls up and shouts something about covid and whatever the fuck else. my brother has a good sense of humor, described it to me as enthusiastic! i hadn't ever been catcalled before, this was new and therefore thrilling! i do see why you hate it, though. like. i have actual covid, does he want me to cough on him?

my brother doesn't get extra time off work anymore, because the cdc practically doesn't exist. my brother said i'm not exposing 200 students to covid. his boss shrugged and said: who cares? they're going to get it eventually anyway. like it isn't a pandemic.

like it's just a fucking thursday, and who cares about it.

[fifthnormani]

I do want you to know that there are people who are trying to do something about it. Even if they are a drop in the bucket, they exist.

They are The People's CDC (they are a nonprofit who have 0 affiliation with the real CDC). I'm subscribed to their emails and they keep me updated, as best they can with their limited resources, on the spread of Covid as well as Calls To Action. This morning, at 11:30 AM, they had a virtual Press Conference to discuss the current attacks on science and what they can do about it. I unfortunately missed that one, but yeah.

[foone]

The thing neurotypicals tend not to understand about the ADHD brain is that it really only has two gears

I turn to the chalkboard and carefully write out

WORKIN' HARD

HARDLY WORKIN'

[kaminarider]

Much like a cars transmission getting stuck between gears the adhd brain can also access a secret mode called HORKLY WARDIN' that feels bad

[bununiii]

happy autism awareness day to all the girls who had “ friends” growing up who were actually bullying them . to the girls who always sat alone in the grass and wondered why nobody wanted to talk . to the girls who spoke to animals like they were listening . to the girls who created a little world in their room . to the girls who always felt ashamed for how deeply they love things and how passionately they enjoyed media . to the girls who covered their ears when they were overwhelmed by everything . to the girls who carrying a special thing around to feel safe . to the girls who never understood what they did wrong to feel so lonely . to the girls who were diagnosed later in life because they weren’t little boys who liked trains. you are so special and beautiful and you’re not worse for it, you love deeply and that is so wonderful please never try to push that down . I LOVE YOU !!!!!

[peskyfirefly]

iris by goo goo dolls really is insane though. I'd give up forever to touch you? you're the closest to heaven I'll ever be? all I can breathe is your life? and I don't want the world to see me cause I don't think they'd understand? when everything's meant to be broken I just want you to know who I am? does anyone hear me.

[scalefeathers]

Portrait of one of my old Pathfinder characters. She came back as a high-level npc in our new campaign so I made some new art to commemorate the occasion.

[knightofleo]

Visit Norway!

[scalefeathers]

I need to know everything about this person

[moggettt]

@whirlpoolleaf asked: Can I request Murderbot for the sketch request thing? Thanks so much :)

-performance reliability at 60% and dropping-

(I'm a big fan of the idea that mb tends to be very expressive during fights, considering how accustomed it is to the privacy of the helmet)

[questions-about-blorbos]

Would your Blorbo survive what Julius Caesar went through?

Yes

No

I have no idea what Julius Caesar went through

Voting ended onMar 22, 2025

Every poll on this blog is about fictional characters only. This request was sent to us and we made a poll in response to it. Send any Blorbo-related question you want to our inbox and we’ll make a poll on which people can vote with their own Blorbos in minds