[ID: Six photos of the same self portrait. The first is a bust drawing of a white person with white hair and bleeding eyeliner, wearing a black button up shirt. The drawing is layed on top of a piece of cardboard. The second is the drawing ripped into small pieces. The third is all the pieces begining to swirl into a black circle, and the fourth shows the pieces surrounding a hole in the center, showing the cardboard underneath. The last two are the pieces attempted to be places back into their original spot, mimicking the portrait, one very messy and the other more put together but with some pieces missing. end ID]
Christmas as a cultural icon is starting to get really dystopian in a climate sense, december has historically been a time of year in which there would be snow in a significant portion of europe and north america, and the fact that its not even icy this time of year and all the christmas songs and decorations reference a time of year that will likely never exist in the same way again in my life time is so strange.
Five years after the Night of Flames, the Bastards are sent to investigate rumors of the second Dominant of Fire in Dhalmekia. They arrive to a city already burning...