#non sims

[enkisstories]

Influences: Brendol & Armitage Hux in Star Wars card trader

[topnotchreaper]

There is a tornado watch here in Maryland and the storm has to be the worst I have seen this year.

I’m safe in the basement but I’m worried about my parents who are both coming home from work. Please send good vibes and positive thoughts.

Thank you

[kissalopa]

I just thought it's funny how they all look through telescopes.

I love the art style so much 💜

Previous || Next Beginning

[opheliasprings]

bought a controller so I could play alice madness returns on my pc and I'm yet to open the game

it’s really cute though

[enniewritesathing]

🙂 ah.

[cassandra-goths-wife]

An Inadequate Likeness

Centuries later, hyacinths are still Apollo’s favorite flower. Centuries later, he’s still not content with their design.

I wanted to tell a story about an artist’s relationship to their art and how we’re all our own worst critics. I thought the aftermath of myth of Apollo and Hyacinthus served this purpose well.

Read it here

[camisulsul]

more beautiful art from this wonderful fanfic, just because.

chapter 3

ughdontopenthiswillplease.jpg

illustrator @downeymore (X/twitter)

chapter 5

wbyers_art is typing…

wbyers_art is typing…

wbyers_art is typing…

wbyers_art is typing…

wbyers_art: i wish i could give you a hug through the computer

illustrator @downeymore (X/twitter)

chapter 7

*someone drew Rowan—I love it!

illustrator @arachnophobii1a (X/twitter)

chapter 8

*This is part of the drawing Will gave Mike for his birthday. It's beautiful <3

*I haven't seen anyone draw the whole illustration yet. I wish someone would, but I know it's such a detailed drawing that it would take weeks to complete.

illustrator @karmicmistake (X/twitter)

chapter 8

<3

illustrator @emery_pearl_ (X/twitter)

chapter 8

oh, Mike, what are we going to do with you? 🫠

illustrator @userbaby1586862 (X/twitter)

❤️

In this fanfic, Will has let his hair grow out—more out of laziness than because he likes it lol. So, his haircut and hairstyle are similar to Westley's, a character from The princess bride.

illustrator @b1mb0theh1mb0 (X/twitter)

[echoweaver]

Wow, this unemployment thing has really trashed my self confidence in everything. This layoff isn't even remotely about the quality of my work, and I know that. Plus that has nothing whatsoever to do with my ability to write or edit videos. Brains are stupid.

I do feel like I'm a new divorcee who is trying to figure out how to date after 20 years of marriage. The art of job searching has changed a lot since I did it last. The job market is also terrible -- and tech is horrifically bigoted. This is likely to be a long search, and I still am thinking about what I might do for retraining in parallel.

When I've vented to some of my peers about the daunting task of searching for a job in tech as a 50yo woman, I consistently get a pep talk about how I still have good skills and can still contribute. I'll be egotistical and say I KNOW THAT. I am a good software engineer. The part that's daunting is the part where I convince other human beings in the flawed tech community of that fact.

Anyway, this has illogically led to a lot of circular anxiety about whether my writing and editing are telling the stories I'm trying to tell, whether I've beaten the same point in my fic until it's cumbersome, and whether any of it is reaching enough people to matter at all. These are brain weasels, but wow are they hard to kill.

So I'm dumping some of this out into text because I'm the kind of person who processes that way.