Val Quainton - curmudgeon

Find me on AO3 @Val_Quainton. Applicable labels: Middle-aged. Feminist. Socialist. Do-gooding Auntie-type. Bi-polar. Queer. Spoonie - What I think that makes me: Empathetic. Inclusive. Supportive - Not interested in: Exclusionists. Religion. Right-wing political opinions

[mr-3rr0r]

[sequentialprophet]

There aren't words for how insidiously disgusting and blatant this is. (Link)

[porterdavis]

[myrandomstuffpage]

Support your local library 📚

[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.

[curiouspupsicle]

Unspoken Love - One Reader's Thoughts

Dropping a new fic is scary. That's why the first comment holds a special place in a writer's heart.

Are you curious about this Friends to Lovers one-shot inspired by another terrific fic? Check out Unspoken Love (T) on AO3 (where you'll find a link to the work that inspired it).

[bohoteacher]

The story behind my new PFP

For years I've used the same username almost everywhere online, but never the same profile picture. It was almost like every account had its own separate identity.

Last November, @naturallyteal offered to create a custom PFP for me. He told me, "The sky's the limit," and also reassured me that if I didn't love the result, he wouldn't be offended because a profile picture is such a personal thing. So I sent him a rather questionable sketch, photos of my fountain pen, a color swatch (with the exact color code!) of my favorite shade of green, and the simple idea of a gold fountain pen with galaxies flowing from it like ink.

An artist I am not!

My pen

And, yes, my very specific favorite color

He somehow took those scattered ideas and turned them into something that feels unmistakably me. The gold nib is modeled after my own pen, the green is exactly right, and the whole design captures the way writing has opened up the universe for me.

Thank you, @naturallyteal, for creating something so thoughtful and beautiful. I'm delighted to have an image that truly feels like me. In these days of AI-generated images, having a piece created by both an artist and a friend, with so much care and attention to detail, feels even more meaningful.

And here is the final result...

[spectrallydistracted]

What a beautiful gift from @naturallyteal, and what a lovely work of art that captures your spirit! Thank you for sharing the story behind this!

[myswimmingpewl]

Another drawingggg

Crowley!!!

[egelantier]

kazuaki horitomo’s tattooed cats.

[the-conquest-of-shred]

this guy designed all the tattoos in the Yakuza/Like a Dragon games, his IG is full of amazing work as well

[believerindaydreams]

@viir-tanadhal oh my gosh oh my gosh look at them cats

[monamoni]

[valquainton]

The Matter of Life and Death

By ElderlySardine, Val_Quainton, whovianuncle 

Written for the Warm Close: Through the Universes Event (hosted on AO3)

Chapter Three is now up!

The Book of Life has seen myriad forms that life can take in the multiverse. Will it change its mind about its happiness-for-all and live-and-let-live approach to life on Earth?

This is the shortest chapter. But we hope we can deliver quality, if not quantity.

Four chapters, posting weekly on Fridays throughout July.

(This work is available to registered users only. Please log in to your account and use https://archiveofourown.org/works/87398466/chapters/231523476# or search for the title with a Good Omens fandom filter.

Or start at Chapter One https://archiveofourown.org/works/87398466/chapters/231522716 Thank you!)

@gomens-timeaftertime 

[valquainton]

The Matter of Life and Death

By ElderlySardine, Val_Quainton, whovianuncle 

Written for the Warm Close: Through the Universes Event (hosted on AO3)

Chapter Three is now up!

The Book of Life has seen myriad forms that life can take in the multiverse. Will it change its mind about its happiness-for-all and live-and-let-live approach to life on Earth?

This is the shortest chapter. But we hope we can deliver quality, if not quantity.

Four chapters, posting weekly on Fridays throughout July.

(This work is available to registered users only. Please log in to your account and use https://archiveofourown.org/works/87398466/chapters/231523476# or search for the title with a Good Omens fandom filter.

Or start at Chapter One https://archiveofourown.org/works/87398466/chapters/231522716 Thank you!)

@gomens-timeaftertime 

[my-flying-sister]

I love rebloging. It’s the adult equivalent of showing everyone the cool rock I just found.

[valquainton]

The Matter of Life and Death

By ElderlySardine, Val_Quainton, whovianuncle 

Written for the Warm Close: Through the Universes Event (hosted on AO3)

Chapter Three is now up!

The Book of Life has seen myriad forms that life can take in the multiverse. Will it change its mind about its happiness-for-all and live-and-let-live approach to life on Earth?

This is the shortest chapter. But we hope we can deliver quality, if not quantity.

Four chapters, posting weekly on Fridays throughout July.

(This work is available to registered users only. Please log in to your account and use https://archiveofourown.org/works/87398466/chapters/231523476# or search for the title with a Good Omens fandom filter.

Or start at Chapter One https://archiveofourown.org/works/87398466/chapters/231522716 Thank you!)

@gomens-timeaftertime 

[valquainton]

Me and some Weird Friends at the Jean Giraud (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Giraud) tribute installation - an amazing kenetic 3-D interpretation of this brilliant bandes dessinees creator's 2-D works.

[valquainton]

The Matter of Life and Death

By ElderlySardine, Val_Quainton, whovianuncle 

Written for the Warm Close: Through the Universes Event (hosted on AO3)

Chapter Three is now up!

The Book of Life has seen myriad forms that life can take in the multiverse. Will it change its mind about its happiness-for-all and live-and-let-live approach to life on Earth?

This is the shortest chapter. But we hope we can deliver quality, if not quantity.

Four chapters, posting weekly on Fridays throughout July.

(This work is available to registered users only. Please log in to your account and use https://archiveofourown.org/works/87398466/chapters/231523476# or search for the title with a Good Omens fandom filter.

Or start at Chapter One https://archiveofourown.org/works/87398466/chapters/231522716 Thank you!)

@gomens-timeaftertime 

[dogpuppy]

[pleoros]

Eerie lava formations around the West Kamokuna Skylight in Hawaii's Volcanoes National Park, 1996 Photo: Laszlo Kestay

[whovianuncle]

@staff This is not mature content you buffoons, it's lava rock