#twan

[jade-wyton]

Finished a few old refs that were almost done but that I never got around to! A couple of these ones I've posted before but I wanted to put them all up together in one post. These are the adventurers who saved Maggie when she was a kid :)

#art #my art #dnd #dungeons and dragons #lizardfolk #kenku #dwarf #leonin #orc #human #blathe #twan #beth #kzaskza #krok #dorndaroth #cras

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Image Credit & Copyright: Tunc Tezel (TWAN)

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After Sunset Planet Parade: Look up tonight and see a whole bunch of planets. Just after sunset, looking west, planets Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars will all be simultaneously visible. Listed west to east, this planetary lineup will have Venus nearest the horizon, but setting shortly after the Sun. It doesn't matter where on Earth you live because this early evening planet parade will be visible through clear skies all around the globe. Taken late last month, the featured image captured all of these planets and more: the Moon and planet Mercury were also simultaneously visible. Below visibility were the planets Neptune and Uranus, making this a nearly all-planet panorama. In the foreground are hills around the small village of Gökçeören, Kaş, Turkey, near the Mediterranean coast. Bright stars Altair, Fomalhaut, and Aldebaran are also prominent, as well as the Pleiades star cluster. Venus will rise higher in the sky at sunset as January continues, but Saturn will descend. [Scott Horton]

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"Then he showed me a small thing, the size of a hazelnut, nestled in the palm of my hand. It was round as a ball. I looked at it with the eyes of my understanding and thought, 'What can this be?' And the answer came to me: 'It is all that is created.' I was amazed that it could continue to exist. It seemed to me to be so little that it was on the verge of dissolving into nothingness. And then these words entered my understanding: 'It lasts and will last forever because God loves it. Everything that is has its being through the love of God.'"

~ Julian of Norwich (1342 – 1416)

[Ian Sanders]

#Scott Horton #sunset #planets #space #sky #Tunc Tezel #TWAN #quotes #Ian Sanders #Julian of Norwich #a hazelnut #the universe

[starhasarrived]

Clouds and Crosses over Haleakala Image Credit & Copyright: Wally Pacholka (TWAN)

Source

#apod #astronomy #astrophotography #milky way #saturn #vega #deneb #antares #northern cross #southern cross #haleakala #maui #hawaii #stars #constellations #night sky #panorama #twan #the world at night

[maindmischief]

"biscotti" by BTP twan, 2023

#hip hop #rap #art #biscotti #btp #twan #btptwan #album cover #2023

[aseaofquotes]

Tan Twan Eng, The Garden of Evening Mists

#Tan Twan Eng #The Garden of Evening Mists #memory #memories #sunlight #shadows

[metaphorformetaphor]

I tried not to think about it as I went about my days, and mostly I succeeded. But occasionally the memories still found their way in, through a sound I heard, a word someone uttered, or a smell I caught in the street.

—Tan Twan Eng, from The Garden of Evening Mists (Myrmidon, 2011)

#Tan Twan Eng #The Garden of Evening

[oldshrewsburyian]

Between us lay this great, heavy silence, accreting over the years, layer upon layer, hardening like a coral reef, except a coral reef was a living thing, wasn't it?

The House of Doors, Tan Twan Eng

#i cannot overstate how good this book is #tan twan eng #the house of doors #book quotes #adultbooklr #adultbooklrquotes #currently reading

[toonbly]

i have to listen to music whenever i get my t-shots bc im Deathly afraid of needles, so i just had the very surreal experience of listening to the lords in black beginning to maniacally laugh and chant at the EXACT moment my girlfriend stuck me with a needle. its what wiggly wouldve wanted

#nerdy prudes must die spoilers #needles mention #hello fwendy wends! im going to twans your genders!

[magnetisticc]

mirrors

#my art #screwed up on actual mirroring oh well #my postcoma design for twan #antoine d'coolette #patch d'coolette

[noona96n]

just when im finally over naval aviator boys... went and read The Garden of Evening Mist and became obsessed with the kamikaze pilot slash sad historians mutually in love with his married flight instructor

#top gun maverick #the homoeroticism took me by surprise in this one ngl #top gun #top gun 1986 #tgm #tan twan eng #the garden of evening mist

[will-pilled]

I hate when Those People will try to bring up a lot of trans people being autistic (as if it's some sort of gotcha when if you actually look into it it makes a lot of sense but not in the way they think it does 💀) because it is literally just the "Autistic people are fucking moronic and stupid and can't think for themselves" mindset wrapped in the "pwotect da kids UwU" neat little box with a little bow when we ALL know you're saying the same shit.

#Just call me the r slur I know you want to. #just get it done and over with #“Autistic people are fucking rt-d-ed and cant thi k for themselves so they fall for da twans pwopaganda!!! Theyre just widdle kids!” #this is exactly what you mean and I hate you for it #autistic #autism #actually autistic #autistic things #ableism #transphobia #transgender rights #transitioning #transgender #trans #trans issues

[shameeater]

Weight and Gender

I'm slowly realizing that as I undergo HRT and various gender things, and as I settle into and fully accept my kinks and my appreciation, I kind of crave gaining weight (still in a non kinky way, at least for me) that I can't gain when I'm hitting a lull in my transition.

I think because as I am, I've never exactly felt comfortable in this body. Sure, I appreciate it. I've been told how beautiful it is, that I should be grateful, that I won't 'gain weight'. It's kept me going long enough. It looks fine, I'm repeatedly told that, and I'm given attention I don't want for it, and it's all not me.

Obviously I've been missing something my whole life, and I'm working on getting that through transition, but when I can't move any further my body still feels a desire to change.

I want to be fat, I want to feel comfortable in my body in a way that *I* chose. I want to feel present and warm and comfortable, I want to feel like I'm complete and whole.

It's almost easier to ache to fill out my clothes rather than ache to change through hormones and surgery (a surgery that's very far off but still has a small window to be done in).

It's very hard to go through life feeling like you're in an improper shell and I just... I want to be in a shell that makes me happy.

#cw dysphoria #wg #se personal #se twans

[lizzy-bonnet]

I got tagged in a post for (I think) the first time ever by @gooseberrily for books read in 2023! Here's a selection of the ones I liked best.

I actually read loads more books than this in 2023 but I've been bad at keeping track and consequently I can't remember a lot of them, even if I really liked them. I also read all three LOTR for the first time (why did I wait this long) and re-read, as always, many of my beloved favourites (The Red Tent, Northanger Abbey, Dracula, etc). This year I am trying to photograph the cover of each book I read so I can remember what they were and when I read them.

Tagging @kaaaaaaarf, @alwayschasingrainbows, @crabapple10, @linseia and @conversationalroundabout in case anyone is interested in sharing some of their reads! (please this is how I find new books to become obsessed with)

#books #shirley jackson #ursula k. le guin #jrr tolkien #fiction #nonfiction #the cartographers #we have always lived in the castle #lotr #nk jemisin #tan twan eng #the night circus

[metaphorformetaphor]

Memories I had locked away have begun to break free, like shards of ice fracturing off an arctic shelf. In sleep, these broken floes drift towards the morning light of remembrance.

Tan Twan Eng, from The Garden of Evening Mists (Myrmidon, 2011)

#Tan Twan Eng #The Garden of Evening Mists

[solopezoncillos]

TWAN KUYPER

#twan kuyper #open coat

[oldshrewsburyian]

Mine through the magic of pre-order!

Even if I hadn't loved Tan's The Garden of Evening Mists (and I did), a film-noirish historical novel incorporating the case that The Letter was based on and including W. Somerset Maugham as a character would go on my must-read list.

#book cover #cover design #tan twan eng #the house of doors #adultbooklr #historical fiction