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queer as in gay but also queer as in unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

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practice sketch

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We need to talk about this moment frame by frame!

Blitz is reaching for Stolas' hand, but suddenly he's outside the palace... did Stolas teleport him out!?!?

Like, is this happening literally or metaphorically!??

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have you obtained any cool rocks recently?

I recently acquired this gorgeous Apache Tear obsidian nodule!

While in the American Southwest these obsidian nodules are nicknamed "Apache Tears," the mineralogical name for this stuff is marekanite!

(So, like, an aside. Usually when the healy-feely folks claim a stone has some association with a "native american legend" they are making it up and being weirdly fetishistic of those cultures. Looking at you, labradorite. But as far as I can tell, this stone really does get its name from a legitimate Apache legend. If anyone of that culture feels like chiming in, I would love to learn more about it.)

Anyway, Apache Tears are cool stuff. Here's how they form.

A volcano erupts, and deposits a lava flow which cools super rapidly. It cools so rapidly that it doesn't have time to grow crystals and become a rock, and instead hardens into a black, volcanic glass called obsidian. Over about ten thousand years, groundwater slowly infiltrates this obsidian. The water gradually changes it into a white stone called perlite. But within that mass of perlite, nodules of the original obsidian remain, looking like glassy black marbles. Those are Apache Tears!

This specimen came from Arizona, where volcanic activity has been going on for over two million years! You can see some white perlite still sticking to it. This piece is HUGE for an Apache Tear, which typically don't get much bigger than your thumbnail!

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This episode in particular is gonna turn my insides into spaghetti.

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Gee, you guys, I absolutely can't wait...for my heart to break 🙃

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Gee, you guys, I absolutely can't wait...for my heart to break 🙃

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I feel the need to share since my lube post is going around that my life is just like that since I worked at the sex shop. Sex Ed is a very standard topic. People just immediately pick up a vibe from me and even in situations where someone doesn’t know I used to sling dildos for a living they’ll just start confiding sex stuff to me.

Not in a creeper way. But like this weight had been lifted and they can finally talk freely about sexual topics. The energy I put off is just so blasé and accepting that people tell me about their sex lives, usually very quickly after meeting me. They usually then have a moment of panic or regret and apologize but I always reassure them that I used to work in a shop and that I see nothing odd about talking about it.

My go-to line is, “I’m a creature devoid of judgement.” They always laugh. Then the questions get more specific or people start asking for brand recommendations. It’s always been funny to me.

My beloved has always been a little confused by it. “People don’t just start talking to me about sex! I know you don’t bring it up. It just always seems to go there when people talk to you.”

“It’s just my energy.”

The first time I was meeting their mom she was coming to stay with us. We picked her up from the airport and brought her home. My beloved went upstairs to use the bathroom. When they came back down their mom was asking me questions about vibrators and their jaw hit the floor.

In our room later they said, “She doesn’t even talk to me about that stuff! She’s so embarrassed about sex topics, I cannot believe she was asking you about that!”

“What can I say,” I shrugged, “I’m a creature devoid of judgement.”

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'Lay Waste' - Burn it all down, start anew.

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Illustration created in ProCreate on the IPadPro, it's been nice to draw something dragony for myself, it's been a while.

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Listening to 'Royalty' by Egzod, Maestro Chives and Neoni

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you give me cover from it all, but you're the brightest thing here

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you give me cover from it all, but you're the brightest thing here

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FREYJA, part 18 💙

Turns out Thor was right: Loki really kidnapped Don at the beginning. This is what Freyja is seeing in the Room of Desires: a glimpse of the past. But, not everything is like it seems to be. Yes, Loki was just an evil Queen at the beginning of this story: but we’ll soon find out she regrets forever these words, “who said I want them (your respect and love)?”. Yes she’s gonna regret it, later… right now she doesn’t know what love is.

BEGINNING/PREV/NEXT

Read it ahead on my patreon or find it on webtoon!

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Some art of my OC KyaraBat!

She has been getting some attention on tumblr again, so here are my favorite outfits for her!

Get prints, t-shirts and more merch with her designs here!

Support my work on Ko-Fi!

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FREYJA, part 18 💙

Turns out Thor was right: Loki really kidnapped Don at the beginning. This is what Freyja is seeing in the Room of Desires: a glimpse of the past. But, not everything is like it seems to be. Yes, Loki was just an evil Queen at the beginning of this story: but we’ll soon find out she regrets forever these words, “who said I want them (your respect and love)?”. Yes she’s gonna regret it, later… right now she doesn’t know what love is.

BEGINNING/PREV/NEXT

Read it ahead on my patreon or find it on webtoon!

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⚠️GO S2 SPOILERS⚠️

Fallen Pt 21

Voice of God: ... to say all there is to say.

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⚠️GO S2 SPOILERS⚠️

Fallen Pt 21

Voice of God: ... to say all there is to say.

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Finding love through sharing pain, sorrow, and loss. ❤️‍🩹🌹🍎

A study based on Adam and Eve after the Fall (Adam og Eva efter Syndefaldet) by Johan Vilhelm Gertner & inspired by the recent painting of @greypetrel. 💙 Had been quite a long time for me younger Aphrodite and Ares in their own Bronze Age Cypriot (Alashiyan) clothing (with jewelry ornaments came from all over Greece, Anatolia, Egypt, Levant, Mesopotamia) and Mycenaean Greek clothing.

Both of them met at a strange time and a strange place, outside the constraints of time and space. A spark between them would be created based on their sharing of grieving deceased mortal human lovers, bloomed into the flowers of close friendship bonds and ripened into the fruits of love. Aphrodite was still that brash, independent young woman during this time and until now, impulsive, ambitious and calculating, can be both kind or careless with other’s feelings, property, or even their lives. Ares, himself, was still hated and reviled by his family members, especially Zeus; and quite different from the later older, mature, and wiser bearded Ares that I usually drew him as.