May I - - Stand Unshaken

[rdrevents]

How cowpokes! We’re very excited to get this years Secret Winter Exchange underway. You’ll find information for sign-ups and the event schedule outlined below. If you have any questions about sign-ups, the schedule, or the event in general, you can check out our FAQ (linked below) or reach out to us via our tumblr (@rdrevents​).

Sign-ups for our Secret Winter Exchange will open FRIDAY 15TH NOVEMBER 2024, so keep an eye out for the application! Valid emails will be required for the sign-up form as this will be our primary form of direct contact throughout the event. More information on sign-ups and confirmations will be included on the sign-up post that goes live tomorrow.

Until then, please see our schedule below and check out our [FAQ, Rules, & Values]

Sign ups: Friday 15th – Thursday 28th November

Matches: Friday 29th – Saturday 30th November ----

START OF EVENT: Sunday 1st December ----

Half-Way Check In: Thursday 12th December + Dropout Deadline ----

Gift Creation Deadline: Tuesday 19th December

Gift Reveal: Friday 20th – Tuesday 24th December

[rdrsafehaven]

Call for RDO Xbox Players!

Howdi cowpokes, @rdrsafehaven (a Red Dead Community Discord) are looking for Red Dead Online Xbox players to join our little fandom corner. If you enjoy being part of a posse, meeting new players, need help with missions, or want to learn the game with a few helping hands, please do consider joining! We have a very small group of Xbox players who would love more people to ride with. You can find information about RDR: Safe Haven and how to join [HERE]. -- PC & Playstation players are also welcome!

[rdrsafehaven]

RDR: SAFE HAVEN TURNS 3!

We are thrilled to be celebrating Safe Haven's 3rd birthday today, and to commemorate this milestone we are hosting a week filled with server events including: movie streams, RDO sessions, games, and more! After a quiet turn in 2023, we are making strides to rekindle Safe Haven as a hub of community engagement, inclusion, and activity - and we'd love to see you there!

(saddle up a donkey and come check us out via our FAQ!)

[rdrevents]

Hello and welcome to our new followers! After an unexpectedly quiet 2023, we are geared up for 2024 with a new look and a hankering for fun activities and events! We have two exchanges lined up for this year, but we want to know what YOU want to see and take part in! Are you a fan of prompt bingo-boards, theme weeks, character features, exchanges, or other types of events? Drop them into our ASKBOX and we'll see what we can do! Or, if you run your own RDR event and want to be an affilliate, get in touch via dm!

[rdrsafehaven]

RDR: SAFE HAVEN IS BACK

We are thrilled to announce that the remodel of RDR: Safe Haven, our active, friendly, and inclusive Red Dead Redemption fan-community server, is complete and once again open to new members! Geared towards gamers, artists, writers, fandomers, content creators and consumers alike, RDR: Safe Haven is a discord server that aims to provide a safe and friendly platform no matter your age, interests, gender identity/orientation, culture or creed. You can find out more and how to join via our BLOG or PINNED POST. We hope to see you there!

~ RDR: Safe Haven

[aidashakur]

[southernlynxx]

Caliga The Bun - My Last Update

For those of you who have seen, shared, and supported the commissions and fundraising for my bun, Caliga, who came to me injured in February, it’s with a heavy heart that I inform you of Caliga’s passing on Tuesday 20th June, 2023.

Cali was my first rabbit since my very early teens, and my first ever indoor bun. It’s as an adult I learnt the true extent of a rabbits needs and the genuine joy and stress they can bring you. In only 5 months, I grew to love this sassy, opinionated, and brazen wee girl to an indescribable degree, though it was not without obstacles. Learning to give a reluctant rabbit 4 different medications twice a day was a steep learning curve, and I was fearful of her resentment overshadowing any bond we’d yet to develop. The severity of Cali’s injury and the risk of amputation was a heavy emotional and financial pressure, and the times where she went from coming to me for pets and then avoiding me due to mistrust were hard, because you know they can’t understand you’re trying to help and do the best for them that you can. After 5 months of countless appointments, several emergency appointment, two x-rays, 4 x different pain medications, and a short course of probiotics and re-hydration medication, Cali seemed healthier than ever. Her leg had made an almost miraculous recovery, she’d come down to a healthy weight, and had a renewed appetite for her hay that I hadn’t seen in months. She was finally ready for her spay surgery to enable her to live a full and unrestricted free-roam life. Unfortunately, despite her health and the pro-activity of the veterinarians and their precautions (Cali had a very specific reputation for causing trouble) I received a call not two hours after dropping her off that Cali had passed away during her spay preparations, two days before her first birthday.

It was a devastating gut-punch like none I can remember and I was back at the vets not 15 minutes later to hold her and apologise profusely into her fur. Leaving her there was the hardest thing I can remember doing in a very long time. I still miss her dearly, but I opt to remember frequently and fondly all the positive interactions and Cali’s wonderful, hilarious little quirks; the way she’d come running when she heard her pellet box, waiting impatiently with her little paws on my foot. Scooting about the living room like a madthing with her treat-ball full of pellets. The way she’d get in between your feet from pure excitement for her salad (no threat of my death by tripping or her getting accidentally punted three feet across the room could dissuade her from this). Our nightly routine where she’d get her meds then come running back for her evening biscuit (which she would snatch from your fingers, the little madam) followed by a good half an hour of pets, cheeks rubs, and tummy massages. She would lie very patiently while a showered her head with little kisses, permitting even chin rubs and the odd trim to neaten up her little victorian mutton-chops. I hope she now gets to frolic freely and without pain, and I was able to give her a better quality of life, though I wish it hadn’t been so short. Rest in Peace my little bun <3

[zenosarrw-deactivated20240107]

arthur morgan + characteristics of a shakespearean tragic hero

[southernlynxx]

jc, that last one kicks you in the chest like a horse

[loyaltwmzine]

Loyal to What Matters Zine: Interest Check!

Hello cowfolks,

The Loyal To What Matters zine team is collecting interest and feedback from the community!

Form for Interest Check: https://forms.gle/FFBiVkZP2ifnsgLT9

And for more info and updates, follow us on social media, here on Tumblr, and on Twitter at loyaltwmzine.

Hope to talk to you all soon!

[southernlynxx]

If you want a Morston Zine in your life, register your interest to make it happen!! LET THESE COWBOYS LIVE ON IN FAN ADORATION.

[southernlynxx]

15 Questions // 15 Mutuals

Got tagged by @picnokinesis​  - I actually saw this one 🤣

1) Are you named after anyone?

My first name if after an 80s Marillion, one of my middle names is the French version of my nanna’s name.

2) When was the last time you cried?

I’m not too sure, I’m not usually much of a crier unless super stressed out. The last I can probably recall is January, but there may have been something between then and now (April) that set me off.

3) Do you have kids? 

I have a bunny and I love her.

4) Do you use sarcasm a lot?

More than I probably should, but it’s not as chronic as my swearing!

5) What sports do you play/have played?

Oh man, time for my undiagnosed childhood ADHD to surface; Running, Basketball, Mixed Martial Arts, Horse Riding, Football, Field Hockey, Volleyball, Rock Climbing, dance & Pole Dance (classing these as a sports/fitness activity). And though I never did it competitively, I swam *a lot* as a child.

6) What's the first thing you notice about other people?

Probably their hair or height. Or their present presentation. Whatever is the most super-obvious visual detail because I am not observant.

7) What's your eye color?

A greenish-blue.

8) Scary movies or happy endings?

I do love scary movies (scary, not gory or brutal fetish-fests), but ultimately I’m a happy-ending kinda person. Put me through the emotional wringer, but leave me feeling satisfied. Even if I can appreciate a tragic or bittersweet ending for it’s narrative or artistic means, I need to leave happy.

9) Any special talents?

Nothing in particular special comes to mind, but I’m pretty good under pressure and taking control when things start breaking down. I like solving problems, finding solutions, and I’m not usually one to flustered or stressed out in unpredictable situations.

10) Where were you born?

Hospital in Edinburgh. 2.02 AM and about a week late (a quality that will stick with me to this day).

11) What are your hobbies?

Hello ADHD is that you. My ongoing hobbies include DIY (nothing is safe, things are being painted, renovated, re-tiled, decorated, I have no idea what I’m doing). Gardening (mostly keeping our plants alive), writing/drawing (very sparse, these are very stressful hobbies for me), crafting (learning to sew, and still have a calligraphy set and pyrography pen to use), Making lists (at this point it’s more a hobby than practical!), Fandom events/activities (comes with fandom server management), video games (so many video games), Reading (mostly fanfic, but I hope to get back to books at some point), yoga. Past hobbies include horse riding, violin, origami, knitting, puzzles, pole dance, dance, cycling, acting/improv, amv/video editing, online roleplay, film making, plus some others I probably forgot.

12) Do you have any pets? 

YES. I HAVE A CUTE SASSY BUNDLE OF OPINION AND CALIGA AND I LOVE HER

13) How tall are you?

Just pushing 5′3″ ):

14) Favourite subject in school?

Either Art, P.E, or Media Studies, depending on what we were doing at the time (fuck you beep test)

15) Dream job?

Don’t really know anymore; whatever pays me decently and doesn’t take up my life so I can live comfortably, travel, and keep up my hobbies.

Tags, in case you’re interested! @purplecatdad​ | @sweet-by-and-by​ | @avengertonystark​ | @gaslightwestern​ | @krystal-callahan​ | @sunspott​ | @mephistia-arts​ | @littlestarofthewest​ | @theyoftenwhisper​

[southernlynxx]

You're ARE a respectable shipper & need no validation ♥️ but will it help if I pretend to be an angry jerk in your asks?? "How can you ship a fictional couple in way that has NO effect on my life?!!? You DARE to have different views & thoughts from me?! 😡 I will antagonize & insult you totally unprompted in order to assert my opinions!!!!!!"

Oh my gosh you are the CUTEST, thank you for humouring me and my silly posts 😂😂 You are a gift to this fandom and may you be blessed with peak Charthur content this week <3

[oldstormyy]

HOSEA KICK JOHN LIKE FOOTBALL?

[southernlynxx]

I’ve been in this fandom for 2 years, unapologetically shipping morston, and do I get any anon-action? NO. I have to get my cheap thrills second hand from the respectable shippers 😤

[maleficore]

What's funny about the Morston hate is that back when the game came out... it was The Ship? The majority of the first works written for the game on ao3 are Morston. It's very recently, in the tiktok era, that the soft, unproblematic Charthur became the only appropriate Arthur ship and Morston shippers became "freaks" that need to be beaten into the dirt for their transgressions.

[southernlynxx]

What’s this I hear? The horns of Gondor call for... aid Morston? 👀

[froggyspongecommissions]

£70.00 Detailed Colour Commission for @purplecatdad​ for their P&P Campaign Group’s Characters! If you’re interested in a commission, please find my prices and examples below;

View Commission Sheet on Tumblr View Commission Examples on Ko-fi

All commission payments go towards the ongoing treatment and surgery expenses of Caliga, my friend & flatmates adorable bunny! You can read about Caliga’s story [HERE]

[froggyspongecommissions]

Did you know bunnies can honk at you when they’re upset?

Caliga wasn’t happy about getting her pain meds twice a day (she’s on FIVE different medications!), but when she stopped eating and we had to give her critical care FOUR times a day, she really made sure we knew her feelings on the matter!

LINKS

Read Caliga’s story here

Find my commission info and examples here

[southernlynxx]

Look, I’m not saying Caliga is so insanely adorable that people should feel compelled to support her ongoing treatment/preparation for surgery, but look at that little face and mad scientist hair 🥺

Check out Caliga’s Ko-fi page for commission details, updates, and more! We’re SUPER happy and relieved to see Cali eating her hay again! For anyone unaware, Cali stopped eating her hay last week, and that’s a BIG danger-sign in rabbits. She’s been on Critical Care for a week now, alongside 5 different medications, but is still somehow tolerating us fussing over her <3 We have an appointment with the Head Vet/Snr Exotics Surgeon this Friday (Mar 31st) to chat about Cali’s surgery options. Follow us on Ko-Fi for more regular updates about Caliga’s journey!