#this is my labour of love

[80linesofvirgil]

"The Parade" 2023 - Joe Eason

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Another chapter in my "Illustrations From A Gay Fantasia" series

#my art #art #gay fantasia #pride #labour of love

[uncanny-tranny]

Good news! You aren't required to make your hobbies and passions "marketable." In fact, your crafts, hobbies, and passions don't even need to be public if you so choose. You don't have to spend all of your energy becoming perfect if you aren't enjoying the process. You are not a product, you are a person, a creative, and your work also does not need to be a product.

#positivity #yet another post that's like... thinnly-veiled as being for myself #i find myself freezing with anxiety when i think about the things i used to do (writing especially) because... #...i had felt this force to make it ~content~ and ~marketable to an audience~ and it was so fucking daunting... #...it felt like being a gladiator in a coliseum #even now i fight the urge to equate being marketable to being acceptable and worthy of admiration and praise #i wish i hadn't burnt myself out of writing by doing this because i'm simultaneously grieving my writing and hating it #and it sucks the life out of what makes you feel like a person and it takes the art out of art #so be free! pist your art or don't! you are beholden to nobody!!! #(obviously this is not the case for professional artists who rely on their art to keep them alive) #(and i criticize heavily the idea that audiences are entitled to an artists labour) #(i understand that this isn't universal and if it doesn't apply to you then you don't have to take me seriously) #(if you are a professional artist or what have you i hope you are able to feed and house yourself off of that career!) #(i hope you are able to live a happy life and be able to keep loving what you're doing)

[momotonescreaming]

don't say nothing’s wrong

Rating: T | WC: 20k | Steve & Dustin Character Study, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Dustin Centric

“If you’re gonna continue to bully me, dude,” Steve starts, brows furrowing; lips pursed in a tight, angry line. “I don’t think I want to be your friend anymore.”

“What?” Dustin replies indignantly, whipping around to face Steve, mouth hanging open. What the hell is Steve talking about? He’s not a bully? He’s one of the nerds, the freaks, he’s the one who gets sneers from jocks and got pushed around on the playground by the bigger kids. He can’t be a bully, it’s like, in the rules of high school. Steve must’ve gotten hit on the head harder than Dustin thought.

It was a Saturday afternoon, they were hanging out at his house, and everything was going fine. Good, even. So where did this come from? A stack of movies from Family Video on the coffee table, a bowl full of popcorn, they were laughing and it was fun. Dustin was just joking and now Steve’s saying this?

“I’m not a bully, what the hell Steve?” Dustin adds, louder this time, frowning over at Steve. He has his arms crossed as he sits in the large armchair in the corner of the lounge. Suddenly he feels so far away. “Are you serious or are you stupider than I thought?”

He watches as something flickers over Steve’s face. Something small, quick as a flash, blink and it’s gone. Something in his eyes, the downturn of his lips, his brow. Dustin can’t quite place what it was, especially not now that it’s gone, and there’s a horrible feeling in his gut that it was important. Steve immediately steels his face, smothers it, and it’s reminiscent of King Steve. That aloofness, carelessness, that air about him. That he’s better. That he knows more than you. He’s got the upper hand.

He’s unaffected.

Flexing his jaw, moving in such a way that it looks like Steve’s digging food out of his teeth with his tongue. It almost feels like disdain. He’s never looked at Dustin like this before. Even back in the tunnel, with Billy, when he was dragging him down the train tracks. So what’s gotten into Steve now? It was just a joke, and now Steve’s threatening to ditch him? He would never.

“Thanks Dustin.” Steve says, uncrossing his arms and resting them on the armchair. As if he’s about to lift himself up to standing — and leave. “Thanks for proving my point.”

[read the whole thing on AO3]

#stranger things #steve harrington #dustin henderson #My Writing #this was a labour of love so if you liked it please consider reblogging <3

[thelongestwalk]

I am not caught up on neverafter but I cannot deny the power of cinderella's character and design combo

#my art #rendering this is going to be a labour of love #cinderella neverafter #d20 neverafter #neverafter

[freckleslikestars]

Claudia Black as Aeryn Sun in every episode of FARSCAPE

#farscape #aeryn sun #farscape gifs #claudia black #claudia black gifs #aeryn sun gifs #my gifs #when I say making this gifset nearly killed both me and my laptop #a true labour of love #im planning to do one for crichton too #but i need to give my eyes a rest first #please dear god don't let this gifset flop #this took a grand total of 19 and a half hours #nine hours spent selecting and capturing footage #and ten and a half hours actually making the gifs #but i'd do anything for the love of my life #i was contemplating doing an x files one of these for scully and mulder but scully's would be 2 1/2 times longer #and like...i don't have the time or energy for that #but i will do a crichton one at some point

[skyrim-forever]

The Elder Scrolls Language Families

This is heavily based off of the speculated tree from UESP: Ehlnofex Languages featuring my own speculations.

Notes: Old Cyrodilic is partly based on Ayleidoon, Nedic and Tsaesci. Old Cyrodilic can be thought of as a pidegonlanguage or possibly a lingua franca.

*Dwemeris is spoken by some scholars, but not in a speech community.

**I speculate Ashland is a dialect of Dunmeris. 

+Spoken by Gelebor and known by some scholars.

The choice to call something a language versus a dialect is largely political so I went based off of my judgments.

I chose to call Snow Elvish, Snow Elvish over Falmeris because Gelebor prefers to be called a Snow Elf :)

@uesp I'd love to hear your thoughts! Particularly on the dialects! (Also Tumblr killed the image quality so DM me if you want to see the clearer image)

#skyrim #the elder scrolls #tes #oblivion #tesblr #morrowind #daggerfall #arena #tes linguistics #my linguistics #this took so long #but it was a labour of love #my two loves #linguistics

[kaaaaaaarf]

Uhhhh....so! I made the fanny pack from chapter two of The Killing Time (unwillingly mine) aka murder husbands for Hallowe'en. 🔪🩸💕 (click for higher res)

#this was a labour of insane love #yes I am going as remus for hallowe'en #no i'm not actually leaving my house #fic: murder husbands #fic: the killing time (unwillingly mine) #epicblueblanket

[aimasup]

sure i COULD ramble about how ai is one of the multiple things that check all the marks of humanity's seven deadly sins but would that be extreme

^^^ possibly insufficiently educated

#the pride the hubris of believing you can do better than innovation and nature by playing god and not in the fun way #the lust it's being used for in so many awful cases #the sloth the way its encouraging everyone to check original sources less before believing anything. Also to not take time to develop skill #the greed its being used for profit without consideration for ethics or fair labour #gluttony. we always have to be faster. shinier. better. no matter if it ends up being less convenient or wonky #the wrath it sows in between people creating more differences to be frustrated over. more hatred #the envy how it takes and takes. always trying to be as clever as the best humans. as beautiful as a real forest or sunset. #do you think the ai wants itself #if this were a scifi movie would we be the bad guys #but this is not a movie and the ai cannot love us. so we cannot love it. and there's that #my post #personal stuff #thinking aloud just silly yapping n jazz 没啥事做就这样咯~ #(￣▽￣)~* #when i was in primary school our textbooks for chinese had short stories and articles to learn about #there was a fictional scifi oneshot about a family in the future going to the zoo #the scifi zoo trip was going great until the zoo's systems went offline for a moment #and it was revealed that all the animals roaming in their enclosures were holograms #the real ones went extinct ages ago #when the computers came back online the holograms returned and there they were #honestly at first I thought it was a bit exaggerating #but I still think about it once in a while

[eremeldanin]

Finally finished the Galadriel armour piece ✨

#this was a labour of love lmao #I love armour #I love Galadriel #i had to give my wife the best and shiniest armour #rings of power #my art #galadriel #the rings of power #lotr #morfydd clark #art #digital fanart #galadriel fanart #rings of power fanart #rop fanart #the rings of power art

[murderballadeer]

barbara stanwyck + letterboxd reviews 

#this is a labour of love it took forever but i like looking at her face so. #barbara stanwyck #double indemnity #the strange love of martha ivers #night nurse #baby face #the great man's lady #remember the night #stella dallas #ball of fire #the lady eve #christmas in connecticut #my gifs #my edits #gif warning #filmedit #oldhollywoodedit #uservienna #uservita #ritahayworrth #usersjoy #tusercamille #1930s #1940s #silverscreendames

[uncanny-tranny]

I've talked before about how the way people treat suicide can be unintentionally devastating to the suicidal person, but I don't think I really ever said how to avoid that.

Speaking about suicide in how selfish it "is" ("think about how you'll transfer your pain to your loved ones!") might seem like a way to put logical sense into the suicidal person, but, honestly? It runs the risk of massively increasing their shame and guilt about being suicidal. Suicide is not inherently a revenge fantasy or a way to "get back" at someone's loved ones, so when the suicidal person is treated like a criminal of a "crime" they haven't even committed yet, you can imagine how unhelpful that can become.

Instead, if you want to point out how cherished your person is, frame their relationships as something they can keep fostering.

"Your cat will miss you :(!!!!" becomes "you and your cat seem close, right? I'm sure it's beautiful having a close friend like that!" and maybe include ways that they and their cat are close and meaningful to each other, tailored to that relationship.

That's only one example, but when you shift the focus away from why that person should repent and feel guilty for being suicidal, you can instead focus on why they would live for that reason. See how you can frame that as a positive? Whatever is keeping that person tethered should never be used as a bludgeon, I think, because then you're taking away why they're living, the positivity of why they are here. Whatever they are here for should be remembered often and honoured.

#mental health #mental health advocacy #mental health support #suicide #suicide tw #(after this i'm going to rant about being told the unhelpful narrative i included above) #when i was younger the thing i was told the most was that suicide would only transfer my pain to others... #...and is that true? maybe. was it helpful? no. #why was that unhelpful? #because i started using that as yet ANOTHER reason to feel guilty and to lash out against myself... #...because that didn't magic away my suicidality like it 'should have'... #...and that was ~obvious~ proof i didn't care enough about my loved ones to keep them out of harms way... #...and it can be really hard not to do that (give advice like that) because if you're not the suocidal person... #...you have the luxury of thinking without the burden they are labouring under... #...you can see 'logically' and make assumptions about what the other person 'needs' #it's just frustrating because i know that people like this want to help but i worry about *how* they are helping... #...in the sense that i want their efforts to actually help their person and bring them closer

[furbhii]

a piece i did for aleena over on twitter in lieu of stickers from my raffle, given that she already owns most of them LOL

they requested flug in the camp leader outfit from the Elmore short, and given that that's probably my favourite short i was more than happy to oblige!

(considering making that middle one into a sticker... he's just so cuuuuute)

#villainous #villainous fanart #dr. flug #demencia #5.0.5. #my art #aleena was sooooo patient with me and i super appreciate it #november and december were a total mess for me with me running that secret santa #did i talk about that? hi i moderate the r/neopets secret santa art event now #I GUESS #it was totally a labour of love i really cherish being a part of it #but i was WOEFULLY UNPREPARED #so its january and im not even done sending christmas cards out yet #and i meant to make more headway on that this week but i got sick #so. next week. i hope. #in between building ikea furniture #we desperately need storage so i bit the bullet and got a wall shelving unit #i'm very excited ive wanted it for like. two years now. #it wasnt cheap but thats what credit cards are for baybeeee #ok thats it love you bye #if you reblog please delete my tags lol

[flapjaktwo]

I was feeling inscure about how it looked the whole time but i love the result : D

kabour 9 just like me fr /j

#art #digital art #artist #illustration #my art #csp #fan art #horror #horror art #hatoful boyfriend #hatoful bf #hatoful kareshi #hatoful spoilers #hatoful bbl #shuu iwamine #shuu #hiyoko #hiyoko tosaka #labour 9 #bad boys love #iwamine

[writeouswriter]

Reading a fic that's so well written I wish I could close my eyes and just let the descriptions and atmosphere wash over me, but the dilemma with closing my eyes is, well, I then would not be able to continue reading this fic, now would I.

#fanfiction #fanfic #reading #i don't read longform fic very often but this one is so good wow i'm in awe and clicking next chapter next chapter #the movie it's for I'm not even a particular major fan of itself but I am a fan of the character and the ideas and oh my god #they perfect it to a tee in every way even better than the movie could and yet keep their characterization spot on in line with the og #it's amazing the way they balance the humour and banter with the suspense/tension and drama/horror #and their descriptions are gorgeous/pick out just the right details #their follow-up is more canonical to me as a sequel than the actual official sequel which is wrong in so many ways #and I am in love with their writing style so much my god #i'll say the fic if asked probably will honestly make a rec post for it when I'm done just because wow but here i'm just vague posting #i mean it's 10 yrs old and I've been reading fic for 8-9 yrs and it is truly one of the best I've read in all of that #from all my tags I mean you can labour a guess for the fandom or fic and if you were to guess it wow good job I'd be impressed #but anyway !!! love finding masterpieces I hope this person decided to become an author in those 10 yrs almost *sobs* #I'm gonna say the fic anyway whatever it's From Out the Ocean Risen by Bluestar god it's good (for p/acific r/im)

[viric-dreams]

Title: The Geriatric Geodian

Name: Graham

Age: ???

Occupation: New Sequencer (Probably... no one's ever seen him do any actual work)

Main Skills: Dreaded, Persuasive

Main Quirks: Ruthless, Heartless

-Nobody knows how long Graham has been on Grand Geode. He's simply always been there.

-Most Dreaded Man in Zelo's Town. Not because he's scary, but because he's absolutely exhausting and unpleasant to deal with.

-Has been around for seemingly every historical event, and always has the most rank take on it.

-Not even dawnpilled, just believes in the Dawn Machine's goals.

-Spends his days sitting on his porch in Zelo's Town and judging you personally.

-Once had a companion, who's since moved on to the Tomb Colonies. If you try to express sympathy at his loss he'll call you a sentimental ninny and hobble off. His companion is probably wreaking equal havoc in the Tomb Colonies.

-Has personally victimised each and every sequencer on Grand Geode at least once. (stories welcome)

Graham has been Roberts' nemesis on the Geode since the 70s. Roberts enters every encounter swearing he'll put the old man in his place. He usually ends up apologising and assuring him that of course he'll ensure that the zailors stay off of his lawn in the future. He then spends the next several hours after the encounter kicking himself for it. He's personally repaired Graham's roof at least twice. He tried to suggest delegating this task to another officer, but was immediately insulted and told "not to faff about and get up on that ladder." Roberts was utterly furious after the fact that he actually did it.

#fallen london #my art #new sequencer just dropped #based on a story of freddie's great uncle so thank you for that #anyway i love this terrible terrible man #the commodore finds all of this absolutely hilarious by the way #that's why it's been going on for so long #absolutely rancid guy #fully believes in bringing back child labour because their tiny hands are great for fiddling with the dawn machine's gears #honestly he might have ego death powers of his own #because he just seems to always get his way #and roberts has no idea how it keeps happening but suddenly he's doing whatever stupid thing graham is whinging about #he's probably only around the dawn machine because game respects game #anyway if any of your guys want to 'yes and' on their oc's terrible time with this man please have at it #graham