Nocte in Perpetua et in Perpetua Nox

"this too shall pass, better carve it on your forehead or tattoo it on your ass"

[timeslive-inhouse]

Figured I should make an index of my projects:

Original Novels:

The Jester Did It [m/m; not a romance]

Prince Dara watched the servants execute his family, his friends, and his court. On the third day of his imprisonment, a stranger comes by promising freedom. Whether the price is too high, though...

Apotheosis [f/m/m/f; polyamory]

While leading her war ever northwards, Enderra received an interesting gift. He's quite the odd man, and time will only tell what secrets those stormy grey eyes hold. Here's hoping he doesn't drive a knife into her back.

Opals & Ochre [f/m; monogamy]

They were going to execute him, Ilesidur just knew it. His head was going to be on the chopping block any second now, and it would be all his fault.

Your Attention, Please [f/m/m; polyamory]

The new king never speaks in meetings, using his guard's voice instead to communicate everything necessary for his advisors to know. Stony faced and stern, Queen Malaidor rules with a fist made of velvet, not iron. Hastion does his best to attend to his liege, the palace dungeons are far from an attractive place to be. Now, if those pesky emotions would stop getting in the way...

Aconite [m/m/nb, f/f; not a romance]

Sometimes, summoning a fae to be your patron isn't a good idea. Meet Hollyhock. He isn't known for his good ideas. This particular clever plan lands him in the medical ward of an unlicensed doctor in the middle of the woods, living with a politically minded half-orc woman with big plans for the kingdom. Why take a three-month road trip to the capital? Why not! Hell, might as well pick up a lost dragon diplomat on the way there! What could possibly go wrong?

Fanfic:

Look to Love, Always [Fallen London; nb/nb]

Respite Amorus, like everyone else, is susceptible to a clever, funny, charming wit. They, unlike everyone else, aren't afraid of getting what they want. In other words: the world's most normal person falls in love with Mr Wines. Very normal behavior ensues.

Novellas and Anthologies:

Feyverse [f/m generally]

Wouldn't you like a mothboy of your very own? Come down and pick one, but watch out, some are feisty!

Welcome to Belleton [varied; erotica]

The town that domesticates adventurers! Well... some of them, anyway.

In Progress:

Wildbound (draft finished, in edits) [f/f]

A wolven warrior returns home hollow-eyed and withdrawn, and is sent on a diplomatic mission. Her minder, though, would prefer she keep her nose out of private matters.

Of Gods and Men (draft finished, in edits) [m/f, m/m]

A failing guild hall, years of petty, seething fights, and a bill that comes due. Maybe it's time to talk.

[charnel-grounds]

Ary Oechslin (1914–1994), “Totentanz”

pen, ink & watercolour, n.d. — source

[surfingkaliyuga]

“Stag at Sharkey's” George Bellows 1909

[vonspe]

characters i literally don't know what to do with but i like them >:o

she's so el wiwi to me.......

[zedotagger]

Bamboo forest.

Process: https://bsky.app/profile/zedotagger.bsky.social/post/3mq7ppmjeys2y

[mortalityplays]

tips for managing cleaning/tidying in a way that gives you a sense of control instead of dread and shame:

dishes

- wash at least one dish every day. could be a single fork. just do one. at absolute worst this means you're regularly running clean hot soapy water through the heap of backed up dishes in the sink.

- any time you have to wash a plate or utensil because you're out of clean ones, wash two of them. need a knife? wash two knives. need your only baking sheet? wash a cup too.

clutter

- overwhelmed by clutter? take out the bins and do laundry. it's very difficult to organise a space when it's full, and trash and dirty clothes take up a lot of space both physically and mentally. emptying bins makes room for the whole cycle to move.

- those little boxes and containers advertised for ADHD really do work, even if you don't have ADHD. they let you move surface clutter around even if you don't have time to sort and clear it. you can quickly box up the craft project that's been taking up your desk for two weeks, clean the surface, and put everything back.

- on that note @3liza clued me in to the power of a simple wicker basket a decade ago and it changed my life. this isn't a desk tidy, this is a medium to large box or basket without a lid that you can comfortably carry in two hands (doesn't have to be wicker). personally I like a collapsible one so I'm not tempted to fill it with stuff when it's not in use. the point of it is collecting and carrying.

- instead of taking on individual sidequests for every item in an overcluttered room, walk through with your simple wicker basket and collect everything that has to go in the kitchen. take it to the kitchen, put it away. then collect everything for the bedroom. take it to the bedroom, put it away. it's your sifter, your filter, your best friend. this is but one use of the simple wicker basket.

trash

- differentiate in your head between dry trash and wet trash. dry trash is paper, plastic wrappers, packing foam, scrap fabric, dried up pens. 'shelf stable' trash, if you like. nothing likely to leak or rot. this can be collected in small lined wastepaper size bins around the house – one in every room honestly isn't overkill. you only have to empty these when they reach the top of the container.

- wet trash is food waste, soiled or greasy food wrappers, empty bottles, sanitary products, used medication ampoules, anything contaminated by mould or pest damage, etc. the yucky stuff. this goes in a single, large, lined bin with a lid, in a central part of the house (probably the kitchen). Empty this every 3-4 days or as soon as it reaches the top of the container. it won't fill up as fast without dry trash bulking it up, and disposing of it in small amounts regularly keeps the place feeling fresh. importantly it also means the gross stuff is contained in one place, not wearing on your peripheral attention day after day making you feel bad.

generally

- everything I said about clutter and surfaces above also works for floors. you can take stuff off the floor, vacuum, and then dump that shit right back where it was. you don't have to wait for one glorious day when you have the energy to do everything.

- the longer something goes untouched, the worse it gets psychologically. if a particular area of mess is especially upsetting or daunting to you, agitate it. pick up just one thing. dust around it. divide it in two. do anything you can bear that gets you to engage with it and handle it. it's manageable. you'll get there.

- never ever ever ever feel bad about spending money on trash bags, gloves, disinfectant wipes, sponges, or whatever you need to comfortably stay on top of things. you're allowed to use cleaning products and you're allowed to just throw shit out.

[iphigeniacomplex]

taylor swift is a tyrant for real like value neutral judgement but you can tell in her music the specific point that caligula started visiting her in dreams

[iphigeniacomplex]

she has this 3d-printed mini desk recreation of the bust of caligula with whom she communicates daily and in order to evade football’s suspicions she told him it was jesus and he was like Niiice jesus is actually awesomesauce ❤️ Like jesus helps you with touchdowns🏈🔥 and she was like yess exactly and then asked caligula in perfect latin if he could connect her with the ghost of genghis khan so they can talk strategy

[shapeoftheday]

restless spirits

[urgetocreate]

Dmitri Cavander (American b.1969), Ferry 5, 2024, Oil on canvas

[wizardarchetypes]

I knew immediately this is a ferry to the San Juans where I live, and indeed on his instagram, the artist tagged Orcas Island as the location!

[wizardarchetypes]

his other pieces in this series are so lovely. that's exactly how the light hits the benches in real life. really beautifully captured.

[wizardarchetypes]

Photo I took on the same route a few weeks ago. He nailed it.

[friendly-asteroid]

Who wants to see my cat totally brave and not at all scared at the vet

[friendly-asteroid]

Excellent. Here she is, being super brave:

[totallyuniquelily]

[holdyourthroat]

some emergency alert operator just gave me a three minute taste of being an indie horror game protagonist jesus fuckin christ

[70sscifiart]

Daniel Mróz

[thegreatyin]

finally. quality youtube recommendations.

[thegreatyin]

baby bats running amok btw. if you care.

[luntfontanne]

every day i think about the cat on twitter who looks more like a scheming eunuch than any creature has ever looked

monkey i love you beloved little freak i would die for you

[luntfontanne]

like……… look at this face

UNREAL

[whatcoloristhatcat]

dilute black (blue) tortoiseshell with low white spotting

[wizardarchetypes]

it's so crazy too bc i'll be like "this phrase/practice is being touted as ancient knowledge with a secret unbroken lineage, but it was quite literally made up in the 20th century. like we can trace it back to its very inception in like 1961." and someone will be like "that can't be true because my grandmother taught it to me." and i'm like yes your grandmother was 20 in 1961.

[chromalogue]

At the farmers' market I've been selling these cute little coconut strawberries. Whenever anyone exclaims over them, I say, "Thank you! It's a recipe I got from my grandmother."

The other person inevitably goes, "Ooooh."

And then I add the thing I discovered while going through her recipe collection in 2018: "She got it from the back of a Jell-O box in 1953."

[contemporary-petroleuse-deactiv]

The idea that hive minds in sci-fi have queens or some other central apparatus like a mother ship makes no sense at all. That completely defeats the purpose of a hive mind, which is decentralization. 

It speaks to kind of society we live in where it’s generally assumed that unity is achieved through domination only. 

[anarchyisfunandfree]

The way we talk about bees and ants suffers from this too. The queen in an ant colony or beehive plays an important role but doesn’t do Any actual leadership. All the coordination bees and ants do is completely decentralized. I’ve always thought it was funny how much people project our society onto nature.

[goluxexmachina]

The queen isn’t the brains of the hive, it’s the reproductive organs.

[maidslime]

My cat pulled the books off my bookshelf so he could sleep on the shelf???