The Worldwalker's Diaries

Mads, he/they, Lv.35 | white, queer, trans, disabled | no one is free until we all are free | anti generative AI, pro artist | currently spends as much time as possible making things up | FFXIV blog: @theworldwalkerswols | header: @aston-faelich / faelich.bsky.social

[theworldwalkersdiaries]

Hi!

This is my (ancient) main tumblr! Topics are wildly varied, this blog is a multifandom cesspool. Posts about writing and issues important to me will also appear here.

If you want my UNHINGED FFXIV tumblr, you may find it @theworldwalkerswols

Find me elsewhere with my Linktree 🌲🌳🌴🌵

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DON’T MAKE ME TAP THE SIGN!!!

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Dumpster Fire Shit

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And, for no reason in particular,

Glaze | Nightshade | Cara App (integrated with WebGlaze CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE)

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General Tags

visual art / written work / videos / creative stuff: generalization

Hyperfixation Rotation

Legend of Zelda, Lord of the Rings, Dragons, Folklore and Mythology, Sailor Moon, Pokemon, Baldur's Gate 3, and many, many more.

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Baldur’s Gate 3 Tags

bg3 / bg3 spoilers / bg3 screenies Tav: Winter / Durge: Ædrian / Tav: Hope / Durge: Perdition / Tav: Kit

Multiplayer run with the spouse tag is Iamir and Perdi / Tav: Iamir

Specific BG3 Links

bg3 fanfic series Winter in Baldur's Gate Directory / Winter (Explorer Mode) Clipshow turned Longplay videos / Winter v.2 Mega Screenie Adventure / HalTavStarion Playlist: Lightning, Blood, Moonlight

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Pokemon Sword & Shield ⚔️🛡️ Tags

tagged characters will always appear in the format [name pokemon], for instance Bede Pokemon; games however will always be [pokemon abbreviation], for instance pokemon swsh

Fanfic universe Always the Thorns | Trainer OC Merritt Hargrave | The Regulars

Direct fic series link: Always the Thorns (Locked to AO3 users to protect from some AI scraping)

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PSA

I am not here to yuck anybody’s yums! Interpretations of canon, headcanons, ships, kinks, etc.: you do you! I like interpreting and analyzing and contextualizing things I like. That does not mean my takes are good or correct or right for you. I like seeing other people’s takes because all of us bring our own lens to the things we interpret.

Our mileage will vary. This is fine. Chase your bliss. I am here to vibe and collect things like a little Anxious dragon.

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And of course…

I am fundamentally against monetization of every skill and passion and art form, but unfortunately I live in a capitalist hellscape. So if for some reason you like my work and wanna kick me a tip, you may do that here.

[hymnism]

making a collection

[putridghost]

Wait I have more

[acemingo]

[paverics]

“my father is a boy and my mother is a girl so i’m mixed” is the funniest possible response to someone asking your gender and it came from 6’5 Viking footballer and notable weird little guy Erling Haaland on a Snapchat

[paverics]

comedians can only dream of writing something this funny

[henk-heijmans]

A natural wave is formed on Lake Michigan when the riptide meets the incoming tide and explodes upward, 2014 - by Michael Bernhardt, American

[little-grey-dowitcher]

So many people never learned to live with harmless discomfort at any point in their lives and holy fuck does it show

[little-grey-dowitcher]

“But I wanna know!” You’re gonna have to learn to be ok with not knowing some things, especially when those things involve personal details about strangers that they’re not comfortable sharing.

“But it’s confusing!” If you take the time to educate yourself it’ll no longer be confusing. Otherwise you’re just gonna have to learn to be ok with being confused.

“But it’s weird!” You probably do weird things all the time. Everyone does weird things sometimes. Life goes on.

“But it scares me!” Is it hurting you? No? You’ll be fine. Being scared and being harmed are not always the same thing. Learn to tell the difference and then act accordingly.

“But I want it!” And I want a million dollars. You can’t always get what you want.

[breelandwalker]

Addendum:

"But it makes me uncomfortable!" The world is an uncomfortable place and complete strangers are not required to fix that for you. Learning to endure harmless discomfort is a life skill for existing in public.

"But I don't like it!" There's plenty of things in the world and not all of them are fun or enjoyable or For You. This applies to everyone and we all have to deal with that in a mature fashion.

"But I want to do the thing!" You can't always do what you want. Most people learn this in preschool. Wanting something does not entitle you to be inconsiderate to the people around you.

[think-queer]

I'm sure someone else has said this, but "Right to Comfort" is considered one of the tenants of white supremacy

Learn to tolerate discomfort NOW

[amyritter]

the penis gazer

[gayhockeyshow]

[socalledmixtapelife]

Send me a 🎧 and I will put my music on shuffle and give you a song and my favourite lyric from it

[myshangel]

a little while after they move in together officially, ilya finds a beat-up spiral-bound notebooks in one of the boxes that still hasn’t been unpacked in the guest room. he flicks through it, expecting old plays that shane wrote down years ago, but finding only names on names on names. all players, organised by season, starting in the 2017/18 season. that’s almost five years of hockey. the notebook is almost full.

MARAKOV (C) 28 - BARRETT 17 - KENT 32 - MEURIAX (A) 04

and on and on and on. and for a second ilya thinks holy shit, is this a list of shane’s freaky hockey sex dreams? so he all but runs downstairs, holds it out to shane and wiggles his eyebrows and says i found your sex diary, hollander, very scandalous. and shane looks so confused, because the only sex dreams he’s had for the past ten years have been about ilya (and once, embarrassingly, stephen colbert)

so he looks at the notebook and looks kind of embarrassed and says “oh. no, ilya, that’s not a freaky sex book. don’t be such a pervert.”

which, honestly, ilya is kind of relieved— he doesn’t want to think about shane having sex dreams about troy barrett. but shane still looks kind of uncomfortable, so ilya keeps prodding. and shane sighs heavily, like he really doesn’t want to say, like he’s ashamed, and says

“i just. i don’t know, i guess i knew we’d come out one day. or i hoped we would. so i wanted to write down whenever someone said something, like, homophobic to me. or racist, too, i guess. so when we came out, if these guys started being like wow fuckin’ a, boys, we love you guys, like. y’know. i’d have a record. that i’m not crazy.”

ilya frowns, and puts both of his hands palm-down on the counter; his legs suddenly feel very weak.

“not crazy?”

shane shrugs. “i mean, i’m not— chirping is one thing, y’know? i only wrote them down if it was really bad. like, slurs, and stuff. i don’t know. it’s stupid. i stopped after we got engaged, i just… it didn’t seem important anymore.”

and ilya isn’t sure what to say, standing like an idiot, eyes fixed on this unassuming, beat-up notebook that holds a record of all the times someone tried to make his husband feel small because it was the only way they could even think of getting a one-up on him in the rink. and that he’d written them down not as a way to try and get some small justice for himself, but, what? as a record. a list of names of people they couldn’t trust if they ever offered their public congratulations.

shane goes back to what he was doing— making dinner, chopping kale beside the sink and having a one-sided conversation with anya about how she needs to stop begging, because it’s just leaves, and he knows she won’t eat leaves. and ilya just has to sit there, thinking about all the players who had said similar things to him, thinking about the tweets and the instagram comments and podcasters, thinking about the mental weight shane had been carrying for the both of them for so long.

[theworldwalkersdiaries]

Game Changers Ensemble Mini Text Fic feat. Kyric Swennett 🤍💙

I recommend opening the first image and then swiping through for the full effect 📲😘

[theworldwalkersdiaries]

STREAM MAIN POP PAPÍ BENTLEY ROBLES'S ALBUM OLYMPUS AND LISTEN TO HIS SONG EDGE!!!!

[theworldwalkersdiaries]

Game Changers Ensemble Mini Text Fic feat. Kyric Swennett 🤍💙

I recommend opening the first image and then swiping through for the full effect 📲😘

[theartistrans]

[kamyysh]

that was really fun to draw heheh

[mathewknew]

LOVE IS HANSRY 💛💛

[nudityandnerdery]

Beautiful, no notes. (Found it on Facebook, tracked it back to Reddit)

[tsunflowers]

reading a historical romance novel and reflecting on the way these stories often present woke nobility for the contemporary reader. a big thing is servants. you can’t not have servants in those times but many modern readers think “but I would never have servants. it would be so weird to have servants” and in order to make the protagonists of the story more relatable they are actually friends with the servants. but flip your perspective and think of it from the side of the servants. wouldn’t it be so awful if your boss was always trying to be friends with you. a really common thing you’ll see is the woke baronet having tea in the kitchen with the servants bc he’s not like other baronets. but what if your boss wanted to hang out and talk during your lunch break every day. not so charming when you think about it that way

[mothmanmagicalboy]

no sorry i dont really use instagram, i can contact you via ouija board, spirit box, fluctuations in temperature, flickering lights, and certain rituals. i am also on tumblr.

[witchy-worm]

I’m still thinking about Shane Hollander’s backwards hat (and Hudson William’s peloton ad)

[ilyashaneconnorhudson]

there's only me and you

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