Happy #WorldPenguinDay!
Images here from Frederick Cook’s Through the First Antarctic Night, 1898–1899, a remarkable journal recounting the highs and (many) lows of the Belgica expedition, including experiencing a night two months long: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/through-the-first-antarctic-night-1900
Penguin Day!
When I read a fanfic I like, the author becomes a mini celebrity to me. So when an author with a work I like kudos’ or comments on my own fanfic I just-
THIS THIS THIS
top human instincts are make art, put food in dough and call it new food, cuddling teddy bears, protective arm in front someone you love, waiting around, hand prints next to each other, pet that animal, laughter, shared glances, make more art - all the art, trying to find comfort in the most trying of times, kicking any spherical object around, caring for other species, and stuffing vegetables.
Adélie penguines By: Michael C. T. Smith From: The Fascinating Secrets of Oceans & Islands 1972
flying through the water
Penguins!
Roman rock-crystal icosahedron (20-sided dice) used in fortune-telling. Each face has a Latin letter on it and a corresponding Roman numeral, then matched with pre-prepared oracle answers in a divination handbook. Currently at the Louvre.
DND Heritage post
Look, brain, if you're going to insist on being so depressed we can barely function, the least you could do is get some new material. You ve been doing the same routine since we were 8, it's boring, jazz it up a bit huh?
WIP Game
Rules: make a new post and share 1-2 sentences from your most recent unposted WIP(s) with zero context – Let your followers guess!
Tagged by @spacebarbarianweird and @nyx-knox (genuinely thank you both, lol, this inspired me to actually sit down and get some writing done today).
Tagging @brabblesblog @icybluepenguin and @astarioffsimpmain (no pressure, per usual, and sorry if repeats)
And by 2 sentences I'm going to mean 2 very much first draft lines of dialogue:
“I…” She paused and gave her head a brisk shake, as if to snap herself out of a daze. “Just so we’re absolutely clear, what are you saying?” “Isn’t it obvious..?” The grin that had crept habitually onto his face felt like a suffocating mask. She only stared back into his eyes, unblinking, waiting for him to continue. “I could turn you. Grant you an eternity.” ‘With me’, he wanted to add, but the look in her eyes made the words die on his tongue.
Ooooh that looks fun!! Love the longing Astarion is trying to hide.
I don't have anything in progress worth sharing, so I'll tag @grandmother-goblin @elemit @wilteddreamsofbaldursgate 🙂
im not the guy who posted that spawn/ascendant doubleteaming confession but i have Thought About that. especially bc my tav is a massive sub who talked astarion out of ascension but would Definitely be hot for ascendant. bc ascendant astarion kinda treats tav less like an equal and more like a prized possession, and my tav would be miserable being in a lasting relationship like that but he could get off on it for a few hours
anyway. spawn and ascendant astarion dp'ing tav with them leaning back against spawn for support while ascendant cups their chin. ascendant telling tav what an adorable little thing they are, praising them for melting so completely at his touch, how beautiful they'd be if only they'd been ascendant's consort, idk just whatever the hell manages to accidentally hit their buttons just right to get them into subspace
meanwhile spawn just holds his tongue and kisses tav wherever he can reach, every move he makes filled with as much care and adoration and longing as possible, both out of jealousy/fear that tav's more aroused by ascendant and out of need to make sure they know theyre loved, actually loved, not owned by this twisted version of himself, this stranger who bears his own face but cazador's aura.
also, both of them feeding on tav at the same time
im sorry this is so long but i am Normal about this okay (< lying)
"bears his face but Cazador's aura" is so good. Also the rest of it is fucking hot but that hit hard
I commented on a person's fics and now I'm a beta reader for their current ongoing work! Traded comments with another person and now we're fandom friends and I gained the courage to join a fan server where we get to yell about our fave characters all we want and admire each other's works! Commenting RULES!
IT ABSOLUTELY RULES!!!!!
Aquamarine Crystal from Northern area of Pakistan
Photo: gems.fa
FAYYAZ AHMED
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE SUGAR GLIDER ASTARION PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE I'M BEGGING ON MY KNEES
HIS EYES I'M DEAD