Sep 9, 2025
WARRIOR CATS AU... was nice to draw these guys again though its been so long.
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WARRIOR CATS AU... was nice to draw these guys again though its been so long.
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WHAT IF FATHER TIME & DEATH WERE PLAYING A CARD GAME?
What if your card--my card-- all our cards are in the deck?
What if everything we call “life” is nothing more than the shuffle and draw of two players who never laugh, never fold, and never once ask your permission?
We like to think we’re building something. Careers. Legacies. Families. Futures. But in the end, it’s just one card flipped from the deck.
Blink. Shuffle. Deal. Gone.
When your card is pulled that’s it.
No speeches. No warning. No soundtrack swell.
Just discard pile.
I. YOU WERE NEVER IN CHARGE
You tell yourself you are. You set alarms. You make schedules. You chase money. You think “control” is real.
But it isn’t.
Billionaire? Doesn’t matter. Father Time doesn’t pause for yachts.
Millionaire? Still irrelevant. Death doesn’t care how many digits are in your account.
Clout? Your followers can’t stop the reaper’s hand. Your trending post is a whisper in a graveyard.
Father? So. Mother? Meh. Child? …sorry.
When the deck is shuffled, your roles don’t matter. Your titles don’t matter. Your little human dramas burn into the same ash as the nameless faces that never even made history.
II. THE STATISTICS YOU CAN’T IGNORE
Let’s rip the veil off.
Every day, over 150,000 people die. That’s two people every second.
Snap your fingers. Two cards just hit the table.
By the time you finish reading this? Another thousand souls, flipped and discarded.
Your life expectancy? Around 4,000 weeks if you’re lucky. That’s it. Not infinite summers. Not unlimited tomorrows. Four. Thousand. Weeks.
Sounds like a lot until you do the math:
You get about 25,000 mornings in total.
Around 700,000 hours of breathing.
Roughly 2.5 billion heartbeats.
You’ve already burned through a terrifying percentage of those. Most of them wasted scrolling, worrying, waiting for someone else to move first.
And none of them will stop the moment your card is drawn.
III. THE COSMIC CASUALTY
Here’s the part you don’t want to hear: When your card is flipped, the game doesn’t stop.
The table doesn’t pause for mourning. Time doesn’t fold its arms in respect. Death doesn’t drop a single tear.
The game continues. The shuffling doesn’t end. Another card is drawn. Another life blinks out.
And soon, no one even remembers the shape of your face.
Within three generations, almost no one remembers you at all. You fade from photos, from stories, from the world itself.
Your name becomes a half-erased scribble in a family Bible or a digital file corrupted by the march of updates.
That’s the real discard pile.
IV. YOU THINK YOU’RE ABOVE IT
You aren’t.
Not above the shuffle. Not above the draw. Not above the discard.
Your wealth, your body, your followers, your righteous opinions, your careful plans
all kindling.
The fire doesn’t care how expensive the wood is.
V. THE QUESTION YOU CAN’T ESCAPE
So here’s the only question worth asking:
What do you do knowing your card is already in the deck?
Do you waste your hours pretending you can control the shuffle? Or do you live with the reckless awareness that your card could be pulled tonight, tomorrow, or 40 years from now and it makes no difference to the dealer?
Do you hold your tongue? Do you keep waiting? Do you keep living like time is your servant?
Or do you finally speak? Finally burn? Finally stop pretending you get infinite draws?
Because the shuffle is happening right now. And the next hand could be yours.
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Reblog if this hit you like a card snap in your chest.
Read more cadence-based mortality parables and scrolltrap transmissions at: 👉 https://linktr.ee/ObeyMyCadence
🛡️ Blacksite Literature. Existential card games.
☠️ Reminder: When your number’s up, the table doesn’t stop.
They just keep playing.
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Rankin Bass Draw 20 (Day 18) - Father Time
Time marches on for us all.
Admittedly I'm starting to get worn down by this challenge to draw 20 characters. I'm not sure I'm giving my 100% to the last few. That's why I stopped at 20 instead of going all the way to Christmas or the end of the month. Still got two more to go and I'm really excited about these last two (though one of them's a cheat bit of a cheat to this challenge).
Father Time has enough on his plate than to deal with a one certain holiday....
Will post more eeveelutions later but I wanted to make something a little original. Took me a bit to finish due to procrastination, but got it done anyhow. So I hope you like it.
This commissioned piece is being picked up soon so I thought it would be good to draw it! "father time" #drawingoneaday #watercoloursketch #moleskine @moleskine #fathertime #stainedglass #suncatcher #simonekaystainedglass #kilnfiredpainting (at Simone Kay Stained Glass) https://www.instagram.com/p/ConSVjwomCN/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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