#curlyfoureyes

[joannekwan]

Commission for @CurlyFourEyes : Group photo of some long-time friends from a DnD campaign~

[copperbadge]

Hey! Just letting you know that "Still Life With Flerken" was featured on SYFY's Read This Fanfiction series yesterday!

Aw, nice! That was good of them. Hopefully folks will enjoy it! 

[samzikei]

I was commissioned by the lovely @curlyfoureyes to draw a logo for The Nerdventurists blog! I had a blast drawing you lovely ladies! x

[iamthetrainedcormorant]

I’ve been scrolling tumblr for 45 min and I have yet to see the fandom rises gif from The Great Mouse Detective. IF EVER THAN NOW.

[sincerelybluevase]

curlyfoureyes often puts 'no one suspects the INQUEUESITION and I'm like: damn. That is such a clever joke, I wish I was the one to think that one up

[sherlockismyholmesboy]

YOUR PRECIOUS CINNAMON BUN SON

Sexuality Headcanon: Hella gay.Gender Headcanon: Male.A ship I have with said character: aDoriBull, Inquisitor/Dorian, Dorian/HappinessA BROTP I have with said character: Cullen & Dorian (Cullen bemoaning how he’s just coming to terms with also liking guys while Dorian encourages him/supports him is My Ideal), the Inquisitor & Dorian, Dorian & Cassandra also have some rather interesting party banter I’d love to see expand into a proper friendship.A NOTP I have with said character: Cullrian (Cullen/Dorian), mostly because I love the idea of them being really supportive and close friends more than romantic partners.A random headcanon: It takes exactly eight beers before Dorian will join in with the Chargers to sing their theme song.General Opinion over said character: MY PRECIOUS CINNAMON BUN SON DESERVES THE BEST AND IF ANYONE TALKS SHIT ABOUT HIM I WILL MEET THEM IN THE PIT WITH THE SAME PASSION AND ANGER OBERYN MARTELL DID LAST SEASON ON GAME OF THRONES

[eyes-like-the-afghan-night-sky]

What is Travel? Some thoughts...

“One more step and I’ll be the furthest away from home I’ve ever been.”

That line, or something close to it at any rate, is uttered by Sam Gamgee to Frodo during the earliest stages of the journey that ended at Mount Doom, and has always struck a chord with me. Frodo, already worried about the ring and mind firmly on the journey ahead, pretty much dismisses Sam’s proclamation as irrelevant and I do understand why. After all, it’s the first of many steps that will fit the same description until they reach their destination and it makes no difference to whether they continue or not. However I, like Sam, see a significance to the words which make plain that the next step Sam takes is moving him over a boundary that he can never uncross. It may be an internally generated boundary, relevant only to him and invisible to the outside world, but it is there and he is choosing to cross it. And that means something. That matters.

Why? Because, by taking that step and acknowledging that he’s doing it, he’s opening himself up to new experiences, new sights, new understanding. It really isn’t about where his body physically is at all, but the explicit acknowledgment that the mind within that body is aware of the newness and is receptive to all it may bring.  

To me, that’s the essence of travelling; mindfully going somewhere you’ve never been before, crossing borders and boundaries with intent, purposefully seeking out the new.

I have been lucky enough to travel to quite a few places in my thirty odd years on this earth, including Russia, America and quite a significant chunk of Western Europe. Each trip was one of discovery (even if the trip was short and the discovery limited to if you sit for half an hour on a French beach at the height of summer without a hat on you will get sunstroke) and I don’t think I will ever tire of standing on a street in a different country, looking at the surrounding buildings and wondering how many people have done this before me, what they thought of landmark x or statue y, whether someone historically important has stood in this very spot and pondered things. I’m off to Venice in a few weeks and one of the things I’m most looking forward to is wandering the food markets early in the morning, hearing other people’s day to day lives happening around me, seeing their normal whilst I find it exhilarating and extraordinary.

But to me travelling isn’t only something you do physically. You can travel across the globe and experience other cultures without leaving your house thanks to the simple expedient of picking up a book or switching on a documentary. Of course it won’t be the same as going to wherever-it-is yourself but you are still learning, experiencing, discovering, all the same.  A journey of the mind can be equally as satisfying as a actual journey; different but no less wonderful for it.   This form of travel has taken me to every continent in the world, some of them at many points in history. I have walked alongside explorers through the rainforests of the Amazon and the jungles of Africa, I have seen the pyramids and the pharaoh’s tombs through the eyes of archaeologists, hunted with wolves, to name but a fraction of what I think of as my mental journeys, thanks to the people (many of whom I have never met and probably never will) who have shared their experiences with me via a variety of mediums and I am eternally grateful to them all.

I shall continue to travel, both physically and mentally, for as long as I am able to. I shall also continue to share my journeys through my preferred mediums (blog posts and photos on twitter) in the hope that I can pay the joy forward a little, and offer others a way to start journeys of their own.

These musings were brought to you via a combination of wanting to belatedly acknowledge the Tolkien Society reading day, which happened on Wednesday 25th March, and the prompting of fellow Sherlockian Kristina who, along with the other Nerdventurists, are undertaking a 10,000 mile car journey (otherwise known at the Mongol Rally) to raise money for Cool Earth and the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America. As part of this mad fundraising effort, they’ve been offered a custom “word shirt” by Litographs (who is one of their sponsors) which will consist of a t-shirt with many, many (5k-10k) words on it. And so they’ve appealed for relevant words to put on it, under the broad headings of “What Is Travel?” in the hopes that friends, family and supporters will provide their thoughts, which they can wear on their journey. If you’d like to add your thoughts, the link is here.  

[goodshipophelia]

myintimatefriend replied to your post:

@ ALL MY DRAGON AGE PLAYING FOLK

DA2 is probably my favourite of the trilogy and has good replay value (in my opinion) so it may be worth it to get it for console?

i’ll probably eventually get it for console, honestly, if only for completeness sake. BUT, if i wait and play it the first time on PC, then i can justify buying all the DLC for Origins now and get 2 later. 

i guess i could try it and if i find PC too jarring i can stop and buy it for console? it’s gonna be maybe $15.

curlyfoureyes replied to your post: 

@ ALL MY DRAGON AGE PLAYING FOLK

I played Inquisition on PS4 & then played both Origins & 2 on PC. It took awhile to get use to, but it works well enough. AND YES HAWKE/ANDERS FOREVER BE MAGE TRASH

okay good i was hoping other people would have dealt with the same experience. the only thing i’m a wee bit worried about is like, a couple years ago i did try starting a DA2 game on PC and had a SUPER hard time dealing with it?? this was way before i’d played any dragon age, ever, so i didn’t know what i was doing at all and it was a lag-tastic old mac, so maybe i’ll have better luck this time?

I AM MAGE TRASH IT’S AWFUL