Laugh hard. Run fast. Be kind.

Hello! My name is Sage. My preferred pronouns are they/them/their. When I follow/reply/ask, it'll be under fuckyeahbatgirls, because I have no foresight and Tumblr won't let me change my primary.

[dol-makjarcoffeehouse]

Bolaire Lathalia can be worn by someone voluntarily. Someone can wear him on purpose. He does not have to trick people into wearing him and take their lives and kill them. He can be worn by volunteers.

We know this. This is an established fact. This is how he worked up until he gained agency.

This is the context in which he kills.

In order to discuss whether or not he's a serial killer, you have to start with the fact that he deliberately chooses murder over pursuing other options, which he does have.

He can be worn by someone who chooses to wear him. He 100% knows this.

A lot of people have done a lot of murder apologia for Bolaire about how he has to do this for survival, but he doesn't. Like, flat out, he doesn't have to kill to continue to exist. He could choose to work with people and find compatible partners who are willing.

He doesn't.

[may12324]

Queen Tilde and Princess Elise from 'A Snake Among Swans'. I read this book in like two days and have so much fanart on the way...

[morggo]

2026 - 2025 - 2024 - 2023

in spite of it all, happy 2026 pride.

you can download current and past hi-res versions of these over at my ko-fi (ok to print for personal use): https://ko-fi.com/mxmorgan/shop/freedownloads

you can also snag shirts here which go to various orgs: https://mxmorgan.threadless.com/collections/pride

these get reposted a whole lot from here to reddit to twitter to tiktok and on and on, and i don't personally care whether or not i'm credited. i made these for everyone to use, enjoy, and find meaning in them. i appreciate folks who do credit me, but if able, please at least link to the threadless shop in the previous post - folks can get an official shirt where 90% of earnings go to trans led orgs focused on mental health (which is an important matter in general, but very personal to me) and not from a scam bot site selling AI-churned maga garbage where you probably won't get one anyway. i also suggest downloading the files from my ko-fi - they are free/PWYW and you can use them to make your own shirt, patch, embroidery project, whatever. tips are always nice, cuz i do like a pizza now and then, but never required for download.

final thought - breaking the pride tradition and more than likely won't make a new piece. the top one from TDOV is all i'm making this year. i have my focus on other projects currently and i don't want to force a poster design. these came from a specific head space and my current head space is Very Tired lmao so i wanna work on other things. 👍

[harrirats]

first flower of the ninth

[solidsmax]

X-Men '97 Season 2 arrives July 1.

[papanowo]

happy pride to these FREAKS

[kateammann]

Happy Pride Month!!! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

[itsmarsiart]

may i offer you one of the episode's hugs as a quick sketch (more are coming)

[forestfright]

fire

[nimiten]

a look into the past

[nn-ee-zz]

The passage of the seasons - Summer defeating Spring

Summer as blinding light, heatwaves, and fire

[avadaniels]

Julien raises his blade in the direction of Occtis. I immediately step forward. I interpose myself between them.

CRITICAL ROLE Campaign 4 Episode 4 "Stone-Face"

[tieflingkisser]

[rarilee33]

Also on windows 10!! go to typing settings- how ai has helped you- typing insights-off

[bookshelfdreams]

fucking youtube video essayists trying to criticize the tradwife movement/aesthetic, and it genuinely seems like they have interesting things to say, but then, as framing, they will be like:

"Here's a short history of societal misogyny: In the middle ages, women were respected co-owners of family businesses, only got married if they wished to and had children entirely on their own terms. Then the industrial revolution happened, which led to an increased demand for cheap workers, so men conspired to force women into the home, devalued domestic labour, and outlawed birth control and abortions. The church instigated witch hunts to kill all the midwives and single girlbosses. This all in an effort to disempower women and raise the birth rate, and this is how the housewife was born."

Okay. Nice narrative, but nothing about this is even remotely correct. How can I trust anything you have to say if this is the level of care with which you approach ... the entire historical foundation of your chosen topic.

[chocolatepot]

Semi-relatedly, I was watching a video essay on youtube about the re-rise of crafting that I was really enjoying for talking about sustainability, enshittification, etc. -- basically the positive side of it, rather than going to the "traditional hobbies make a comeback due to people capitulating to rising fascism/traditional hobbies are inherently conservative" place that I feel like I typically see this discourse go to.

And it occurred to me that I'm not sure I've ever seen any of these essays (or if I have, it's been rare and was probably a while ago) be able to handle a take as nuanced as "old-fashioned hobbies and clothes are having a moment for multiple reasons that thread around but also reinforce each other while being entirely disparate". Which is what you get in social history -- actual social history, good social history, written by historians. You can have a General Vibe in an era that comes from multiple sources and results in multiple things, good and bad and uncategorizable: not an easy just-so story. Likewise, really, the fandom sociology posts that are like "[trope I don't like] means X, and only X, and comes from Y, and it's just one of the many terrible things that comes from Y."

It is important to learn about things (like history!) from actual sources, rather than from people repeating stereotypes, because you can't put out something good yourself if you're in a garbage in, garbage out situation!

[nattousan]

ok so, I approached my local library with a proposal to donate a mural as a way to A: build portfolio/gain practical experience and B: give back to a beloved public institution. The director was very enthusiastic about it and i've been working on it since the beginning of March. Come with me as I endeavor to paint what is in all honesty an excessive amount of birds

I wanted the birds to look like they were actually in the space so first thing after doing the draft was to do a lighting study

after that I covered the walls in letters in lieu of a projector/vr headset bc i have neither of those :) Then i take a picture of the section of wall and superimpose the lineart over top of it so I can pencil in the lines

et voila

and that was a whole week on it's own so next comes the paintin' >:)

[nattousan]

and now, the birds

Birds 1 and 2/14: Red Winged Blackbird, Male and female, Agelaius phoeniceus

[nattousan]

Bird 3/14, American Robin, Turdus migratorius

[nattousan]

hoo boy, ok *out of breath*

GIVE IT UP FOR BIRD NUMBUH 5, THE CANADIAN GOOSE, Branta canadensis!!!!

this guy took me about 4 days to completely finish, all of those freakingk coverts were a bear to render

[nattousan]

speaking of obnoxious coverts:

bird 5/14, Bluejay, Cyanocitta cristata

the friggin stripes almost got me chat, i may not make it

[nattousan]

Madam....

[nattousan]

birds 6 and 7: American Goldfinch, Spinus tristis, male and female

pleasantly simple to paint! next is the flickerrrrr

[nattousan]

*melts into goo*

BIRD NUMBER 8, (yellow shafted) NORTHERN FLICKERRRRR, Colaptes auratus

genuinely made me start questioning my sanity around day 3, it's half the size the of the goose, WHY did it take me 4 days to finish??

nothing but pain and suffering, i'm sure hope the next bird will be much easier and with FAR less barring :)

[nattousan]

in other news, I am losing my mind hairline

[nattousan]

SHE'S DONE!!

Bird number 9: Red-tailed hawk, Buteo jamaicensis

my chains are broken i am FREE. although i did have a great deal of fun with this, the barring on the wings itself took me like four days and i am READY to move on

this was a week and a half of continuous work so please excuse me for getting a little emotional in the bg 🙏

[nattousan]

*does a little jig*

BIRD NUMBER 10!!! The Male Mallard Duck, Anas platyrhynchos

the male and female ones are gonna be posted separately bc they're taking a lot longer lol but yea! super happy i was able to capture the iridescent green of the head, i found metallic green and blue paint at a craft store that really made his head POP. it looks better in person i promise

ALSO!! As this is the 10th one, BIG announcement. The end is in sight!!!!! I plan to finish within the next 3 weeks and there will be a small dedication ceremony/ unveiling happening at the library to commemorate its completion on the 16th of May. If you live in the Western New York region and want to check it out for yourself shoot me a dm!

Also thank you everyone for your kind words and support throughout this whole process, it's been a genuine treat thinking there are potentially thousands of you out there cheering me on while I paint this 🥹

[nattousan]

aaaand another one bites the duck,

we're movin right along with bird numero 11!! The lady Mallard!! Anas platyrhyncos

the 16th is looming in the distance so i'm trying to get thru these as quickly as i can so i can have as much time for the GBH as possible. i still need to do the names next to all of them so i've got about a week and a half to finish everything which is GREAT because i have adhd and nothing gets my ass in gear like a fuckin deadline, let me tell you

[nattousan]

power couple that they are, here's bird number 12 and 13,

the Northern Cardinals, Cardinalis cardinalis

and NOW that they are complete, ITS GO TIME, in the next five days (library's closed for mother's day 😭😭) i need to have the GBH fully rendered, the names of the birds vectored, weeded, masked, applied to the wall, and then painted, plus additional cattails throughout. I may be able to get away with just getting the GBH done in time for the unveiling and then just have the names and cattails added later, but i'm gonna really try to get it all done in time. BUT, i have a plan. Part of why i take so long on these is because i really am just figuring it out as I do it lmao. there have been many a time where i am sitting on top of the ladder googling "how to paint birds" but I think if i take the time tomorro to do all that figuring out how to approach it beforehand, this will go a lot faster. I may also recruit some of my artist friends to help with the placing of the names... hrmm we'll see.

Anyways, shout out to the librarian who tracked down exactly the thing i needed so i could figure out where to place the highlights in my birds eyes, ur the real mvp

[nattousan]

thanks for the reminder, kid

[nattousan]

at long last, we've reached the end...

Bird number 14 out of 14,

The Great blue heron, Ardea herodius

thank you to everyone who reached out or got excited about this project, it genuinely gave me the fuel i needed to keep going. In total, the 480+ total hrs it took me to cover this wall pales in comparison to how long its expected to spend on there, hopefully imparting a sense of beauty and love for the natural world to the next generation and here's hoping i'm only getting started with these.

i'll see y'all soon :')

[cronchy-baguette]

what do you know of loss?

no words for how much I adore these two characters and the ways their journeys parallel one another's... take this as part character study (what if they helped each other heal!) and part ship content (they were made for each other...) anyways. the shadowzel illness never stops

[shobogan]

i wonder if azune thought he could keep holding it together before he actually saw thimble again. shoulder the risk and suffer the consequences, without complaint, like always.

luis has talked about how hard he would be trying to compartmentalise, and how good he is at it.

but suddenly: here's someone who knew you when you were still just mayali's little brother. suddenly, you can't bear the idea of living and dying a lie.