the paper-hearted ghost

my name's ace, i'm not | they/them | 30+ | comic and ink artist | writer | general mess This is my main/writing/fandom blog! You'll find lots of writing thoughts and posts here, the obsession currently on the menu is Fullmetal Alchemist. I follow from nihidea-art. about me. AO3 ART BLOG ETSY Buy me a coffee? ❤

[calcifiedred]

"Diver," 2026. Photo transfers onto cotton, freshwater pearls, fish hook, thread, colored pencil, gloss medium, gloss gel. dimensions: slightly smaller than my hand :)

[escuerzoresucitado]

Pedestrian traffic lights

[sjorsdottir]

Ooooh, we have a bunch of really fancy pedestrian traffic lights in Germany! I need to share:

Starting off with the difference between formerly Eastern German traffic lights (upper images) and formerly Western German traffic lights (lower images):

The city of Erfurt had some additions, like an umbrella or a heart:

Same sex love in Marburg (upper image) and Frankfurt (lower image):

Traffic light lady in Bremen:

Karl Marx light in Trier:

Face of Friedrich Engels in Wuppertal:

Elvis in Friedberg (Hessen):

A sparrow (for the Golden Sparrow film awards) in Gera:

Winemaker in Bad Dürkenheim:

Mainzelmännchen (mascot of the public broadcasting service ZDF) in Mainz:

Otto Waalkes (German Comedian) in Emden:

Town musicians of Bremen in Bremen:

A miner in Pirmasens, Rheinland-Pfalz:

Bishop in Fulda:

Source: Saarbrücker Zeitung

Enjoy!

[translatingpoststogerman]

And we call these "Ampelmännchen" ("traffic lights little man").

[longsightmyth]

It's fascinating to see people be like oh this author is terrible and putting money towards evil causes but if I pirate the books I'm not putting money in their pocket!

Well. This is true. But why are you so desperate to read their works. Like. You don't have to.

[longsightmyth]

Nobody's saying you can't (no one can or should control your reading and purchasing habits, or at least no one on this here website, my sympathies if someone irl is in fact controlling your reading and purchasing) but I gotta ask, what makes you so desperate to read those books. Is it critique? Is it a required work for a course? Like. Do what you want, but it's forever a bit of a 'wut' moment when people go 'oh I'll just pirate the books then'

Why

[longsightmyth]

"Sometimes bad people make good art" yes and? This statement does not answer the question. This isn't food or shelter. This is entertainment. There are other good works. Replying 'oh I just pirate the books' is wild. You could read other books.

[possessable]

it's good enrichment for The Character(s) when one of their friends gets possessed and they have to find some way to bring them back. great friendgroup bonding activity. especially if they have to do some exorcism bullshit and it's traumatizing for everyone involved and there's collapsing and sobbing afterward. great thing for The Character(s) to do. highly recommend.

[adhd-alien]

No wisdom from me this week, I don't know WHAT MY ISSUE IS

ADHD Alien Graphic Novel & Stream here: https://linktr.ee/adhdalien

[aropride]

apparently u can't add polls to posts from 12 years ago so i'm screenshotting it

what "level" are you

egg

hatchling

baby dragon

dragon

still a dragon

mega dragon

super hella dragon

UNHOLY OFFSPRING OF LIGHTNING AND DEATH

Remaining time: 4 days 3 hours

[theliteraryluggage]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

finally caved, here it is!

Hostile engaging. Abort mission. I sent it on instinct, even though I knew it was much too late for that. What's going on? I could feel ART poking through my sensor data, trying to figure out what had made my threat assessment spike. Its tone was urgent, but calm. It wasn't sure yet if there was a legitimate threat or I was just having a Moment again. The answer was probably a solid "both". All of my organic parts told me to run. Most of my inorganic parts also told me to run. Feed ID: Negotiator Joslin Gender: fem-neutral I shoved the feed ID at ART. The negotiator?, it asked. She used to work for the company. She'll identify me as a SecUnit.

[theliteraryluggage]

Chapter 2 is up!

[theliteraryluggage]

And Chapter 3!

[cogneartive]

when the persona you made eats you; when the performance youve been putting on eats you; when the name they gave you eats you; when the image people made of you eats you; when the role you were assigned eats you; when the you that other people see or even made for you or you made for them takes over the you that you know and eats you alive.

[apollosunn-moved-deactivated202]

anyone else relate

[midnightclover]

[hasdrubal-gisco]

Stealing this from twitter but I liked the concept: put in the tags where were your 8 great-grandparents from (given modern borders) ?

[fuck-you-upmusicbracket]

Which song fucks you up more?

Ramblings Of A Lunatic

Only

Remaining time: 1 day 2 hours

Ramblings of a Lunatic (Bears In Trees)

Maybe this is the result of me finally accepting that I'll be alone forever/That I deserve forgetting It's a pointless endeavor, and maybe it's upsetting/But I've never felt more comfortable in the concept with things ending

“So I first learned about it from a Magnus Archives animatic, but basically it’s about art block and like. We’ve all been there. It’s just a banger and it hits ME right where it hurts, at least.”

Only (Nine Inch Nails)

Well, the tiniest little dot caught my eye and it turned out to be a scab/And I had this funny feeling like I just knew it's something bad/I just couldn't leave it alone, I kept picking at that scab/It was a doorway trying to seal itself shut, but I climbed through/Now I'm somewhere I am not supposed to be/And I can see things I know I really shouldn't see/And now I know why, now I know/Why things aren't as pretty on the inside.

“There’s just something about the beat that is so hypnotic and the lyrics!!! It makes me insane and at the same time helps me feel less insane when I’m doing bad. I can’t even put into words what those lyrics mean to me, it’s just visceral VIBES. But the way Trent screams “there is no fucking you, there is only me” just MOVES something in me. Also the music video fucks too.”

Only submitted by @theliteraryluggage

[ofchaosgoddess]

help I’m having ideas beyond my available free time

[nothereforthedrama]

help I'm having ideas beyond my available energy levels

[loveridden1999]

person (non-practicing)

[smashorpassgilf]

Happy Monday Y'all! I made a smaller, evenly balanced wheel. 50/50 chance of a woman, 50/50 chance of highest or lowest percentage. So, tell me.

Smash or pass this 60+ year old?

Smash

Pass

Voting ended onFeb 17, 2025

Tell us in the tags!

note: asexuals, smash means hang with.

[smashorpassgilf]

man this is still fun same question

Smash

Pass

Remaining time: 3 days 14 hours

[slightly-gay-pogohammer]

hey gang i got popsicles pick one as pass the box to someone else

mint

lemon

orange

strawberry

cola

pineapple

dark cherry

anise

Remaining time: 2 days 3 hours

"i cant believe you dont have this or that flavor" listen they had these ones okay

[alphacrone]

i don't really want to weight in on the "using big words in your writing is ableist" discourse happening on tiktok because i'm like 90% certain it's an anti-intellectual psyop to stir up drama in online circles to promote the use of ai to summarize literally everything and thus feeding the LLMs and lowering the populace's mistrust of such tools but i also have to say: dictionaries and thesauruses are the most accessible they've ever been. if you use an e-reader of any kind you can look up a word without leaving the page. there's a plethora of online dictionaries and if you just type a word + "meaning" into google it'll usually give you a definition. we used to have pocket dictionaries we used when reading in class. i have two on my shelf right now that i used in high school. stop letting the fascists purposefully misuse anti-ableism rhetoric to trick you into never thinking again.

[thememedaddy]