bloom and rot and bloom and rot and bloom and

CANCER FREE 7/31/2024 🥳 she/her ✵ 20s ✵ gmt -5 ✵ 🖤🩶🤍💜 metal, fantasy, horror, and tragedy are my sisters ✵ túrin turambar’s okayest soldier ✵ header by @essenceofarda ✵ icon by @sauroff

[gemsoflasgalen]

curufin has better things to do than pose for picture day. he has a son to raise. baby tyelpe decided that he also has better things to do, like seeing if his father’s hair is good leverage for climbing (spoiler: it’s not)

see the rest of fëanorian picture day portraits

speedpaint below | support me on kofi!!

[serregon]

“ahh” “bih” “dih” is my least favorite “gen z slang” like ok we’re not just misusing aave anymore, we’re onto phonetically writing in a blaccent

[casakhelone]

Bury My Heart (Galehaut Laid to Rest)

"HERE LIES GALEHAUT THE SON OF THE GIANTESS, THE LORD OF THE DISTANT ISLES, WHO DIED FOR THE LOVE OF LANCELOT" "And Lancelot himself lay his companion to rest inside the tomb. After he had laid Galehaut down, he kissed him three times on the mouth in such agony that his heart nearly leapt out of his chest. " - Lancelot Part IV (Lancelot-Grail /Vulgate Cycle)

I haven't completed a traditional drawing in pencil in years after switching almost completely to digital. There was a few times I almost gave up in the sketch phase, so I'm proud of myself for seeing it through.

Its been genuinely healing to work on this and pour my heart for these two.

If I ever have the time I'd really like to make a short comic of the events that transpire between Lancelot finding Galehaut's original grave and bringing him home so that they may eventually rest together. (Note: I did add a blue wash on the background since I wanted to leave the original drawing in pencil with no paint or marker. I'll be sharing the original drawing with no digital edits, some color tests (since I still plan to do a colored version), and a deep dive on the many references/inspirations behind this piece on Patreon later this month.)

[serregon]

I know we make jokes about the proverbial asexual pervert who has written hundreds of thousands of words of smut on ao3, but also shoutout to the aces who aren’t perverts. to the aces who skip the sex scenes and wince at sex jokes and awkwardly leave the conversation when your friends start talking about sex. your boundaries aren’t childish and fuck anyone who says otherwise.

[serregon]

10k notes and no one’s been stupid in the replies yet nature is healing 🖤🩶🤍💜

[sleepingreader]

While Eva is a dutch first name, Stratt isn't a Dutch last name.

I hereby present reasons for Eva Stratt to be named that

1. Andy Weir did his research bad (boooring)

2. Stratt has a German dad and a Dutch mom but lives in the Netherlands (plausible)

3. Grace misheard Stratt say 'I'm Deutsch' and assumed she was Dutch (funny as hell and very in character)

[evvergreen]

tumblr is the website for if you're just someone's weird sister

[werewolf-transgenderism]

STOP the "grimdark muddy and grey medievalism film about a white dude doing some bullshit" industrial complex. WHERE is the Questing Beast WHERE are the cool women WHERE are the people of color WHERE is the fun and whimsy and fantastical

[werewolf-transgenderism]

and I said this elsewhere and immediately had people jumping in to be like "here's why I don't WANT color in my medievalisms" I DON'T CAREEEEEEEE. it's ahistorical and I'm sick of it!!

[lordofseagulls]

Lil Nas X should not be allowed to be this funny

[funnyforsmile]

[capacity]

Let’s all actually do this

[sidmarillion]

another one of my lil guys, this time an OC (…sort of; Olwë is said to have multiple sons as well as his daughter Earwen, but only one son, Elulindo, is named in any draft, so I made up another). I RP him at @highbornlowtide. His full bio is at https://volwe.carrd.co/#dossier

[byjove]

Right before every election, I try to get people to go vote for legislation that mitigates the damage America is doing and brainless dumbasses in my replies are like “I refuse to participate in this evil system, the only solution is revolution.” and another year passes and more Killing People and Locking Them Up legislation comes into effect and there is also still no revolution. Not the fault of these online leftists but infuriating anyway. We need to abolish America and until we do, America will continue to work as an evil explorative force globally and you will continue to live here. The least you can do is try to go out and vote against sending unlimited money to Israel and stripping healthcare from the 340 million people who live here. If voting did nothing at all, the GOP wouldn’t be trying so desperately to meddle in elections and discourage people from voting. You live in a society. It might not be the one you want but you live in it. Call me a stupid lib or whatever but you’re doing fuck all to help anybody and being so smug about it.

It is one thing to not be able to vote and another thing entirely to brag about not voting when you could. That is not something to pat yourself on the back for.

[pollkien]

Congrats to Beleg for winning the gay poll. Except it’s not over yet. Gayest of Them All SECRET FINAL ROUND:

Beleg

Maedhros

Voting ended onJul 18

[mysticetes]

ur actually a bad person and a terrible human being for shaving ur legs, is that what u wanna hear

[segamascott]

taylor swift invited a guy who owns and operates an ice detention center to her wedding swifties can pack it up forever now your bitch is awful

[originalitysquared]

Wild how no one made announcements like this about P.Diddy when his trial was happening.

Wild how abusive artists like Micheal Jackson can have biography movies made and not a single mention of accused abuses or the subsequent trials will be mentioned.

Hmmmm I wonder why people feel the need to explicitly condemn women and any action they may have possibly been a part of (like inviting a shitty guy to your wedding) yet do not extend this same behavior to men in the same industry who commit abuse and atrocities on a much larger scale 🤔?

[segamascott]

yeah i hate concentration camps because i hate women you caught me

[valtsv]

my that one friend that's too woke opinion is that in a similar vein to how you almost never see fat people or women without makeup on tv you never really see anyone experiencing incontinence issues unless it's a humiliating comedic moment at their expense and that's kind of scary

[valtsv]

like sorry to be the bearer of bad news but people piss themselves. when they're afraid. when they've experienced mental and/or physical trauma and their body needs a way to express that stress. when they've been sexually assaulted. when they get older and their muscles start to wear out from a lifetime of service. a not insignificant majority of people Will experience incontinence in their lifetimes and while there are steps you can take to manage it for your own comfort and others', there's simply no moral dimension to it whatsoever. & like i'm not saying every show and movie needs checkhov's bed wetting scene but we have seriously got to get more okay with acknowledging that somehow.

[valtsv]

[reggiemess]

Cannot stand the trend of censoring any and all words that describe concepts that might make you go :( especially when the censoring is done in that quarter-assed way that's just 'did a lil scribble over a vowel so you know that I know this word describes a no-no."

I'm not even going to be vague about what sparked this. Do not fucking censor the word 'stole.' I'm at my fucking limit.

[reggiemess]

Who does this benefit. Who is made safer by this. Whose life is made better by this. Who is out there going "Wow I sure am glad I didn't have to see that word without it scribbled on a little. That really reduced the emotional impact of reading that word." Can I kill them?

[riding-with-the-wild-hunt]

Swords of the wandering star

(Anguirel and Anglachel for @esotolkienweek day 4: relics)