#and also very helpful for this heat!!!

[icewindandboringhorror]

recent lounging babey images

#he's so floppy recently and I hope it's just the heat. I think wamr weather makes everyone floppy and loungy #a beauntifulle boye... #cats #STILL working on posting some drafts. finishing new poll adventure.. other things... It's just hard with the weather and other things going #on. I've had a few more doctors appointments and other things to do recently that have to be done in a time limit #so I hvae to use my extremely limited energy working on that instead of doing the things I'd really rather do. :T #Main focuses though are keeping up better with doing and posting costumes + sculptures as main creative things. at least finishing the #main poll adventure story. Reworking the game I kind of abandoned for a few years. keeping up with game videos and a few other side things. #Especially the game though. I've been in a really worldbuildy mood recently. I just wish that was easier to manifest into something. I've #now put the worldbuilding slideshow reading video on pause for a while because it's SOOO long to do #and I think I should prioritize making games and stuff instead. but still other things. IT's just kind of like.. I have a whole world and #everything very built and planned out but now.. what do I do with it? what's the best way to share that? factual slideshows just going over #the information like a dictionary? make it into a game? write short stories? do art attached to the world? etc. etc. ?? There are so many #potential avenues I end up kind of flip flopping between them a lot because none really seem more beneficial than the others and they all #seem equally enjoyable and also equally hard so. It's like?? I guess just do what the hell ever and hope I made the right choice in terms o #cost benefit and reward for my time lol. ANYWAY.. Also why I'm in my 'trying to make friends' era still because I think having other creat #ive friends can help you find direction like.. people will meet each other and then go 'hey lol just for fun lets start a project together! #and then like 5 years later it's genuinely become something. etc. having other people to help weed out ideas and start small creative teams #together and etc. I feel is a very beneficial part of networking or whatever but also I have the social capacity of a stale bread roll and #am also inherently unrelatable to seemingly a majority of people due to my hermit wizard swag (detachment from general society and hyper #focus on fantasy worlds in my head gjhghj) so trying to meet people as a grown adult with social issues is Very easy and fun (it is not) #even very basic things like my core communication style is so incompatible with a lot of people it's like.. hhhh... People in this modern #age have GOT to stop being afraid of phone calls and/or text that is longer than 6 paragraphs. Work with me here. I WANT to talk to you. bu #I do not know what your emojis mean and it's physically impossible for me to type less than 85 sentences. please.. hhjgjgb #AAANYWAY!! I am working on things when I can given the circumstances (SUMMER).. hopefully some costume pictures and stuff soon. :'3 #I've not forgotten about my art and etc. - as usual I just am bad at social media and also functioning if it's above 65F lol

[incompleteninny]

The sixtieth free, unedited chapter of my upcoming book, “The Heist at Cordia Aquarium” is now available on its website (or click here to read from the beginning).

The name for this release is “Claws, Brawls, and Balls”. I think it’s funny. Please laugh.

"She saw my face — … — get her — … — I'll finish the job."

In the midst of barreling down the wavy corridor of the Hall of Discovery, sweat turns to ice against Avery's skin. She tilts into her sprint. No. A pompadour-having ogre does not get to murder me.

Then, as if someone ripped open the blinds of a dark room, Avery's mind swallows her up and spits her into a crisp, vivid world of possibility. An intrusive thought as tangible as the monster hurtling after her.

Her viewpoint switches. No longer behind her own eyes, but from the side. A profile view of the hallway and herself running. The man is there too, gaining a couple inches each second. She struggles: pumps her legs and arms even harder to outpace him.

Something tears.

Pain shoots up her leg; pain even her disembodied self can feel. She collapses to the carpet. A single bound is all it takes for him to reach her and...

Avery mashes her eyes shut. "Not now!"

The man calls out, closer than she expects and with a distinct, New Boston accent. "Yeah? Well that ain't an option."

She whips her head around. Whoa, how did I miss an accent that thick?

[...]

#did a self-edit of this chapter through a sickly haze #help I'm stuck in a cycle of cold shivers and heat induced fatigue #the sickness also absolves me of responsibility for any typos I missed #book tags I guess #queer author #protagonist with ocd #wlw protagonist #she isn't velma #but Avery is still a very good person who is cute

[not-poignant]

You've never seen snow before?? Coming from a 907 area code, i think you nailed cold down pact. I don't think i could describe like a beach or something. Do you have resources that help you describe weather you are not familiar with?

Never seen snow! Okay no well I've seen it from a distance in a plane on a mountain, and I saw it from a distance once in the UK on a mountain, lol.

But up until those points, I hadn't even seen it on mountains up until my mid-30s.

As for resources, they're honestly kind of like "the same" as they are for everyone else - the internet, TV, books, etc. I say "the same" because not everyone knows how to research? But I enjoy researching stuff, and I like recreating the sense of things.

But I always did find it amusing that you know the first two really long fanfics I wrote on this site heavily feature snow, snowing, ice, blizzards, ice powers, cold temperatures and so on and meanwhile the place I live hasn't seen snow since like the dinosaurs. :D

#asks and answers #SALverse #shadows and light #pia on worldbuilding #it's like the same free stuff everyone else has access to #but maybe not everyone knows how to access #also - also - it is a fact of life that we often put more effort into describing things we've never experienced before #over those that we have #so sometimes we may describe stuff we're very familiar with #like say tropical weather or the desert heat #in a less visceral way #so i do think it helps to just approach *everything* in some ways #like you're describing it to someone who doesn't know what it is #and if that's your description style #people often don't notice you *also* don't know what it is #dslkfdsajfas

[cypress-is-cy]

Bad news folks: local puppy boy rumored to be in heat cant touch his drippy boy cunt right this second

#tempted to start humping n grinding on stuff cjgksnfks #i came without permission TWICE IN A ROW pffftt like back to back bc my master made me so needy n left me to touch n hmph couldnt help iitt #i swear im in heat cnfksbfks im needy agaaiinn #and i cant touch bc next time i touch im supposed to get punished so i have to wait for mastterr #but i dont think im gonna be able to touch tommorrow bc ill be busy most of the day noooo #yes im complaining but also it just makes me even needier cnfksnfkskf #dumb lil puppy brain is so excited to be punished n be good for master n im gonna wait like a very good boy but while quivering n shaking #puppy sub #bd/sm blog #bd/sm community #nsft concept #queer nsft #nsft puppy #nsft trans #lgbt nsft #bd/sm puppy #bd/sm pet #ftm pet #pupplay

[swiftcast-selene]

Day 12: Style

it's all in the details.

#miqomarch 2024 #miqomarch #ffxiv miqo'te #seeker of the sun #miqo'te #he carries a little bit of every place he's loved in the clothing he chooses to wear :) #he wasn't a big jewelry person before - both because he couldn't really afford it but also because it just wasn't practical #but him spending time on the steppe opens him up to the idea of it.... and turns out he does like to be pretty. #but he's still very practical. long billowy sleeves cinched at the wrists are his favorite (keeps ticks off!) #and helps him stay warm #since he runs VERY cold (he's essentially a spigot for aether. always circulating it which means heat doesn't stay) #until he starts casting #in which case if he doesn't lose every item of clothing IMMEDIATELY he's gonna COOK ALIVE!!! #there's no winning. which is why he's all about those layers! #and if he must do armor. it's very light. #essentially he has the silhouette of a gay art student. #d: sagra

[scribblinaway]

wow ok i am now squarely in the target demographic for Chatelaine Magazine but their content is so great i'm not even mad about it, is this what it feels like to know middle age is fast encroaching?

#a very specific experience for a canadian in her thirties perhaps #chatelaine is mostly a magazine about cooking and homes and stuff #but it has always had a minorly subversive edge #in the 50s they were publishing articles like 'women: stop faking orgasms! it is bad for you and your husband!' #which is not a take you expect from a 1950s women's magazine #here in the 2020s they are one of the few mainstream media sources i've seen that has published anti-0zemp!c pieces #so you know #like i said #i am not mad #their reviews about like the best frozen pizza or the best jarred marinara sauce are RIGHT #their recipes are GOOD #their advice about whether you should install a heat pump is HELPFUL #and their opinions on women's issues are generally REASONABLE #but i do also feel slightly old

[manasurge]

Tis' the season where I mentally and physically suffer. Complaining below (feel free to ignore, I'm just venting. I usually do this every year to get most of it out of my system lol):

mmm the fall/winter SAD is indeed in full swing. No warmth + no sun = a bad bad time. I always get so annoyed when ppl assume that I love winter bc I'm a "winter baby", as if that has any sort of divine intervention on instantaneously adapting you to perfectly fit the climate you were born in. NOPE. Silly human superstition. I start to freeze once it hits below 20C. I wish I lived in a warmer climate o|-< The depresso is probably going to make me very whiny and moody until next spring, so an early forewarning bc I'm EXTREMELY annoying about it this time of year bc it's the only way I know how to deal with it. But moreso in addition to the physical stuff is how badly it messes with my mind, making me so depressed to the point of just... sitting in non-moving silence where I become stiff as a board (very painful btw) and I isolate, making the bad depresso brain time even worse where I overthink everything bc of the silence and isolation. It's also always the time of year where everyone goes quiet too, which is understandable, but also makes things 10x worse (I am very alone in my life and where I am, and kind of rely on online friends bc they're all I have. I don't even have a pet. I'm literally just, loner mode. I don't really have much family to speak of, and only one family member I do speak to. I have little to no connections at all. But regardless, this is still the best living situation I've been in my whole life, so that's saying something).

#i hate the cold; I hate ice; cold air hurts my skin and burns my lungs #i hate snow (I'm sorry I just don't think it's pretty. It's gross; erases all colour/everything; blinding; kills everything; claustrophobic #I hate long nights; i hate all the darkness #I take Vitamin D drops every day during winter and they don't really help #I also use those special lights meant to help during the long darkness for the same reason; and they also do not help #nothing works!!!!!! eating and drinking hot things doesn't help me stay warm bc heat dissipates away quickly and doesn't help my extremitie #the cold makes me SO dry and dehydrated; makes my bones hurt; makes outside DANGEROUS AF. ICE IS BAD. BE CAREFUL. #I can't retain heat; my hypothyroidism makes me colder by default and I just don't metabolize good/fast enough to keep myself warm #(my body temp is lower than average; fun fact! same with my blood pressure! both of them are very low) #I think my average from all the times I've had it scanned during covid was 32-36C. No idea how that works; I just remember checking it a lo #my fingers and hands are going to freeze; making it harder to draw/type/etc. #I'm not going to wear gloves inside my home bc that's dumb and they don't help anyways. It will just screw up my ability to use my hands #I get to be in pain for months with increased potential of being sick :/ #also I HATE bundling/layering myself with clothing or blankets; it's suffocating; restricting; sensory hell for me; sweaters are uncomfy :( #also whenever I try to do that all it does is insulate the cold for me; keeping me colder for even longer!!!!! it's so unfair!!!! #I've worn out 2 space heaters already and they don't work properly anymore (I used them both so much I wore out my preferred settings lol) #sobs; i'm a sad plant lizard

[stinkrascal]

110 OUTSIDE BUT I WANNA TAKE A WALKKKKKK:( WEATHER I HATE YOU

#i miss colorado so bad #the weather was so beautiful #it is so fucking hot and humid in louisiana ;-; #i will drink a bunch of water then go walking i think #im trying to walk more bc it improves my mental health a lot #im very scared of leaving my house without my bf so walking helps me feel independent ha #but also the heat:((((

[poems-of-a-lover]

im so ill in the head and my whole body hurts so im gonna charge my laptop, make somethin to eat, and hopefully sit in a bath for the rest of my life to get the soreness to die down. love being productive only bc im bored.

#my back hurts and my legs practically dead so hopefully this helps #i never used to use baths bc my hair was so incredibly long when i was younger that it was hard to clean thru #so i just used to shower but now that its cut its a lot easier to clean #plus i dont have to stand and thats nice #also idk if this is a me thing or what but i cant stand in the heat for very long like that #esp showers. i get real dizzy and lightheaded and stuff. like its just real hard to handle for me. is there a reason for that.

[icewindandboringhorror]

I have found a beautiful perfect humble rock specimen that is light yellow with a weird dark yellowy brown lining, somewhat resembling a chunk of smoked gouda cheese... effervescent

#I am still very into trash collecting at the moment and even went out and got one of those grabby sticks for cheap and a little #bucket I can carry around and put trash in. so I am going on walks in nature a bit more (not really to enjoy nature but more to play the #very fun Real Life Hidden Object Point And Click Game that is 'hunt for bottle caps and cans' .. but eh.. whatever gets me out of the #house lol).. anyway.. some nature places near water will have cool rocks #Which I know you're not supposed to take them and I MOSTLY dont.. but every once in a while it's like... when else will I ever find a #gouda rock... I have cleaned up 4 buckets of trash today.. I have helped the environment.. mayhaps.. i could take a One Single Rocke as a #treate... ANYWAY. but yeah. I don't know the names of rocks but there's a rock that's a matte muted marigold yellow sort of #color and I call them 'cheese rock'. I'm pretty sure this one is of the 'cheese rock' species but it just has weird brown coloration #like maybe it got stained or something on one side of it. Most of the other cheese rocks have no markings. though sometimes there will be a #auburn reddish sort of hue on a corner or something.. hrmm.. curious. I also got a Beginner's Hobby rock tumbler and some supplies #so I might try polishing some of the rocks from my enormous rock collection. even though they're all street rocks I picked up from sidewalk #and stuff. I saw a video where someone put random gravel and stuff in a rock tumbler and none of them were Stunning Gems or whatver #but some still turned out cool enough that I would be pleased with the result... OUgh.. I want to post more I need to like do costumes and #sculptures and stuff and be Active On Social Media and think about my Future and Career and how it always benefits artists to keep an #active social media or etc. but I just feel so tired and bad lately. I think the summer heat waves have really exhausted me. I also have #been trying to make new friends + on a weird schedule so I've been socializing and also watching media too much. I notice I always start #to feel this kind of unsettled stress of not making any forward progress in my life if I do that for too long. like 'Okay this week I've #done nothing but meet up with two friends & watch like 10 episodes of tv and only worked on a few projects on the side.. this is HORRIBLE!' #(ppl who follow me here that I talk to on discord: this isn't about you! Im specifically just referencing being tired of introductory talks #with a new round of random strangers during my Friend Hunt. Just clarifying so it couldn't be misinterpreted as vaguepost implying that I'm #secretly bothered by talking to you or etc. lol.. anyway) . Which I know to MOST people 'I talked to a lot of friends and watched some cool #stuff!' sounds like a GOOD relaxing time but.. to me it is not ghhj.. Those are 'external' focuses on things outside myself which bothers #me if not moderated. Like.. i MUST retreat internally to work on my worldbuilding and my own thoughts and etc. at very regular intervals or #it will really start to bear on me too much. Brain Mandated Hermit Isolation lol. Just being too detached from my world and stuff for #too long feels increasingly bad. PLUS. every day I don't make tangible progress towards my goals is a day wasted that I could have been #investing in my future by working on novels/games/sculptures/actual career relevant stuff. Not even in a Capitalism way i just genuinely #enjoy Completing Tasks & feel miserable if I don't for too long. EVEN the media I'm watching I turn into A Task since I rank in a detailed #google doc list after viewing lol.. Like EW movie too boring on it's own. NEED to turn it into something I can categorize and analyze ghghj #LOVE to make things more complicated than they need to be. like YAAAY organizational tasks! yaay meticulous sorting!! BOO ''mindless fun''!

[natsmagi]

hi again

#thinking abt deleting the prev rambling i did in the tags #bc i think i got a lil heated and i also feel my point may get misconstrued #the point i was making is i feel like people are coming at the current state of switch from very biased perspectives #and lacking in nuance of said characters aswell as the current state of all other units #a Lot of the !!-era stories have sucked and rehashed old conflicts between charas that had been resolved in !-era #and all in all its just been. Weird. for everyone #but i didnt like seeing people ignore the progress switch have made #which can even be evident in current stories #the charas have also changed since !-era and that shift should be acknowledged when discussing them in current day which i felt it wasnt #in a sense all of them are outcasts. the current state of switch is a very complicated one #i dont wanna talk about this too much #ive just been sad about the way the switch community has formed i guess #i remember when there werent many eng speaking switchPs #its the reason i even started posting about them so much to begin with #i wanted to share my love for them with people who loved them too #but whenever i check twitter its just so much needless discourse........ esp at the expense of tsumugi ?? #or just ntmg in general. its a weird shift that has happened and i know its to be expected but i cant help but feel a little sad #seeing these perceptions of the characters i love deeply be created and skewed in real time #i know i should just ignore it #and i have been for a while #but when nearly every single switch account is talking about the same stuff? i get tired #i dont know #this is very rambly #i was struggling to fall asleep which is why im typing this #this is very venty and i apologize #but yea. i dont know #nat rambles

[mabelsguidetolife]

my back hurts from hugging my dear friend goodbye while he was on the floor….. time for some advil

#I almost feel emotional relief knowing that he’s not hurting anymore #and that we don’t have to monitor him all the time for problems we could barely help him with #it rained three times in the past couple of weeks before he was at his worst and he loved walking around and smelling everything in the yard #all the wood and dirt and plants and the cool feeling really helped him feel happy #so he got to experience a few more rare instances where he got to chill outside without much exertion or heat #i’m not happy about it but i feel closure and i’ve accepted it #I’ve been grieving for him for weeks #taking care of him as his state deteriorated was kind of like the bargaining stage #I also thought that his first tooth fell out because we gave him (hollow) ice cubes as a treat so i thought it was my fault for a long time #since the tumor was nearly undetectable at the time I thought it was irritation but it just inflated terribly over time #he went very gently when he laid down to get the shot as though he understood it was his time

[darabeatha]

I think Tezcatlipoca would fix me

#god of duality darkness and night time help me help me god of duality darkness and night time #t.ezca on the bg: dont stack on me your problems man #IT'S S O HOT HERE ITD SO MUCH I CANT CONCENTRATE IM #-combusts- #i wish for summer a very happy die/j #m.octezuma x.ocoyotzin last aztec emperor would also fix me #by fix me i mean that neither would be able to do anything at all against this wave of heat actually

[oscill4te]

i never realized how important warmth is until these past 2 years... staying warm is so important.. blankets. tea. hot water from the faucet. bathroom heater. handheld heating device for when work gets to be too cold. gloves always, always. never walk to the store w/o bundling up. sleep with socks if feet are cold, even if its sensory hell. take care of the air drafts in your house. warmth >>>>> everything else

idk who typed this, me or a cold blooded reptile who desperately needs external sources of warmth to live -_- (both)

#its been a mild winter. still; ive been paying attention to my body when its cold instead of ignoring it #idc if i look like a slacker im making hot tea if my fingers are turning white at work (not dangerous- just sign of very poor circulation) #then a therapist telling me heat is integral to getting out of dissociative states which is... also refered to as a frozen state (yup..) #slowed heart beat slowed breathing slowed circulation... frozen slate #never realized how much heat helps with that.... especially working in a dairy cooler a lot of the time #so many memories involve being cold... i have so many feelings about the cold.. memories surge thru my head.. cold is everything #always was a winter girl its ugly time of the year but. freezing was always my thing. i found comfort in its numbingness #but warmth is better than coldness i think. id rather be sweaty and kinda uncomfy and warm nowadays than analgesic and cold... #txt

[transgayhawkeyepierce]

One Piece and M*A*S*H mix like oil and water, but Hawkeye ending up on Law's ship keeps percolating in my mind.

#Law and Hawkeye would also mix like oil and water #they're opposites in almost every aspect #I mean they're both radical #but Hawkeye is radical in a decent man studdernly keeps his decency and perspective in an indecent and insane situation #like Hawkeye cares about people that's why he's radical #Law is radical in a way LOL #like he cares and helps but only if it's not a risk to his crew or his goals l #because of his extreme aversion to more loss #but anyway I DO think Law would like him #because he likes decent goofs #the Hearts would love him #like Captain can we keep him he's funny <3 #Hawkeye would feel insane about these extremely sxary people understandably #I can see Law and Hawkeye getting into a very heated stubborn-off over a patient Law doesn't want to help #Hawkeye wins but Law's angry about it for a while lol #*Law is radical in a 'I kill cops' way LOL

[poptartmochi]

i think it would be very funny if astarion Also moved in with them. is there a polycule situation. is he their live-in bitchy grandma buddy. do he and mama dekarios have a summer wedding and Of Course he's going to live with his wife, grow up gale 🙄 the possibilities are endless

#all i know is he is the Designated Distraction when agustín lights the kitchen on fire #he is the World's Worst Cook.. he spends like. 35 years being a Noble and the next 7 living exclusively off inn food #i think part of him SWEATS when they get to camp the first time because he cannot be the camp chef. for the lauve of god don't make him do #it 🥺🥺🥺 and then gale's like oh i love cooking! 😇 HUGE breath of relief lol! the shadowmance begins there actually #but anyways domesticity is something agustín gave up on so it's very thrilling but Daunting to have this second chance #especially when your husband is foodie extraordinaire gale of Waterdeep City of Wonders #he is like.. gales surgical assistant when they cook.. passing him the tongs and ladle and whatnot #he will be just like me and Also have a fear of cooking tomatoes lol!!! mf killed ketheric thorm but FEARS the pop of boiling tomato sauce #it doesn't help that agustín also runs hot and gets hotter when he's worked up.. the ambient heat from this man could be a cooktop by itself #😭😭😭 #🦖