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🐦‍⬛🫐 🥧 🐦‍⬛ ✨ prompt 12 // pie & feast // gouache on hot press paper

#art #four and twenty!!! #id in alt text

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chronic illness comorbidity is so fucking stupid, u just slowly acquire all negative status effects throughout ur life

#symptoms disorder

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splinter 

#art #undescribed

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enough about taylor swift already. reblog and tag the smallest, least known artist you listen to

#gosh it's hard to tell #teddy cosmo maybe? #like 300 monthly listens on spotify #i should look through the notes on this though! #some more popular artists but Not Popular Enough: #mon rovia #sparkbird #quinn christopherson

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and they called it Madoka's big stretch

#art #puella magi madoka magica #undescribed

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sold

this was a commission, a raven take on one of my possum mugs

#id in alt text #art

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this was supposed to be silly but i listened to the WRONG song for silly so. more odd style false 4 you

#hermitcraft #undescribed

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#fashion #oh i love so many of these

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remember the fun we had

redrew this because it was making its rounds again

#nth life #undescribed

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Topics of conversation among the elven party come to visit Minas Tirith for Aragorn and Arwen's wedding:

Whether the paintings and tapestries of legendary events made by the city's denizens are accurate

Whether Glorfindel should be shown tapestries depicting his fall

Balrogs don't look like that

Whether Osgiliath really was as pretty as they say

Whether Osgiliath or Annuminas was prettier

Whether the Rohirrim resemble the house of Hador much

Whether Aredhel would have gotten on well with Eowyn (difficult question because on the one hand - gestures at everything - and on the other: Aredhel was a difficult person at times, had never met one of the secondborn and would likely have mortally offended the other within ten minutes)

Another Gondorian woman looking a bit like Lúthien

Why do Lúthien look-alikes turn up generations upon generations after Elros

Does Minas Tirith feature too many stone walls and too little greenery

Is there something wrong with the Noldor for not minding being cooped up within stone walls

There having still been far more greenery in Tirion last time the exiles had been there (7000 years ago)

Whether Tirion was much changed when Glorfindel last saw it (3000 years ago)

Whether Gondorians naming their children after Túrin of all people is taking things a bit too far

Whether an inkeeper should be informed his prized family heirloom is an elvish dinner knife

Whether a courtier should be informed his prized family heirloom had been made by Curufin because on the one hand he might consider it cool, and on the other hand - Curufin

Whether a certain type of cake should best be eaten hot or cold

Can you use osanwë accidentally and is it cheating if it happens while you're playing bridge

#matters of song #incredible

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this is a birthday gift from myself to myself

#nth life #undescribed

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magic=gay interpretation is all well and good but personally i think being gay in camelot is actually fine because uther's so focused on getting rid of magic he doesn't really care about anything else. like that politician from australia but with magic instead of crocodiles

#REAL #bbc merlin #undescribed

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Once upon a time, there was a cave, and there was a tree.

Oh, that's not how most people like to start to tell the story. The thing about telling stories is that it's often easiest to start from the ending. From tumbling down cliffsides and rings of cactus and dying just barely out of reach of your king, just barely after him. Of things constantly burning, of the first time being the first to die, of bunkers in the desert and a group of five standing around an enchanting table, waving a flag. Of clocks, and betrayals, and things that weren't actually betrayals (even though they seem like they should be), of firing squads--

That is not how the story starts.

It doesn't even start with a creeper, although I would guess if you asked them about it, more than one of them would probably say it did.

No, if I were to tell the story, I would tell it like this:

Once upon a time, there was a cave. Everyone had gathered in it, with crafting tables and beds. They were being attacked by phantoms. They're chatting about how to solve the phantom problem, because they are friends. They step outside to kill the phantoms, because they can, and because it's funnier, and because they don't know how to be afraid yet.

Once upon a time, there is a tree. It grows right under one of them, trapping them in its branches. "Help!" she cries out. "What's happened?" Everyone scrambles to help cut down the tree together. When she escapes, they all agree it was a close call. It would be awfully silly, they think, for someone to die this soon, and besides, aren't they all working together?

They go back inside and they laugh. They are all green. None of them have an idea of what happens when they aren't any longer. They are all happy.

This changes. It also doesn't.

I start this story with the tree because they all, together, agree that the tree is ridiculous and silly, but all help to cut it down anyway. I start this story with the tree because by the end--

Well. My point is that the tree is a far happier story, in my opinion. My point is also, maybe, that starting with what it would become, well, that won't do at all. Starting with the part of the story that's sad, dramatic, ridiculous--that rather misses the point.

The point is that it started with a cave, and a tree, and everything else came collapsing down after it. It's easy to bury the memory of a time it would be safe to all hide in a cave together, laughing, and save one another from a tree.

It does not do to forget.

#nth life #;__; they didn't know...

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she deserves the world

#ad astra abyssosque #thinking about Her today #undescribed

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For the suggestion game, G10 fistfight with god Pearlescentmoon perhaps?

once again decided to have a bit of fun with this one because it was another Pearl request and the color palette looked like fun to play around with

(art/ask game)

#nth life #pearlescentmooooooooon!!!!

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i am in purgatory

#🙄 typical 'white magic' mage trying to feel superior as usual #you're doing the same thing as us you're just more of a square about it! #(:PPP this really is one of those posts from an alternate timeline kind of thing)

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a small compilation of the saddest man on earth

#he's SO old #ancient crusty old man and I adore him #cats #undescribed #diegooooooo