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For Our Lord Sheogorath, without Whom all Thought would be linear and all Feeling would be fleeting - I have spent. Five. Months. on this art of what I can only call 'Sheogorath Phase 2'. Not continuously, because I was taking breaks to avoid going crazy, but you can see by the sheer amount of unique patterns and level of detail (all of which was done by hand, though I did copy my work over a couple times once I got the necessary bits of the wing line art done + simplified matters for the foreground/background butterflies) that this was a labor of love... and that I was going to go full in on my love of patchwork coats, given that I haven't made any Sixth Doctor art for a long time now. It took almost a month and a half to get just the rough design of the wings functional.

Butterflies referenced for the wings - Alpine Black Swallowtail, American Swallowtail, Monarch Butterfly, Spotted Fritillary, Scarlet Mormon Butterfly, Red Spotted Purple (which is more of a black + blue with a touch of orange), Cairns birdwing, Blue clipper, Painted beauty... and that's even before we get into the dragonflies/damsel flies that inspired the work on those parts of the wings, because I couldn't keep them all straight beyond the Blue Dazzler Damselfly.

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lamaery

Dalinar at the kid’s table practicing baby’s first glyphs with his grandson.

Actually this came from torithedormouse on instagram, prompting me to sketch Dalinar stuck in chairs too small for his big frame, after a bit in chapter 44 of Oathbringer, which describes him sitting on a small stool and looking entirely too big for it. 

So yeah 😁

Listen. I know there are some wonderful theories about how Adolin Kholin is going to be a villain, or how he won’t be able to bond with Maya, but listen, Listen. He would make such a good freaking edge dancer.

“I will remember those who have been forgotten.”

“I will listen to those who have been ignored.”

My theory? This man won’t even need to speak the ideals to form his bond because he is out there living them. Every. Single. Day.

He visits his fathers Ryshadium on the regular, why? Because Dalinar is too busy to go ride him.

He never forces that beautiful, intelligent creature to bear him, he is so gentle and loving and goes just to groom him and be near him. When Gallant does let him ride, he treats him with the respect he deserves, and Gallant repays him at every turn, even allowing Maya to ride frequently.

He speaks to everyone, and listens, and learns about their lives. His troops love him, even Kaladin is forced to admit that Adolin is simply a good man because he listens. Always, his mind churns with questions and concerns, with brilliant dueling strategies, but he never rejects people who need him to hear. The one significant moment that he trips on this, he backtracks and apologizes and supports Dalinar despite not believing him.

He listened to his sword. He listened to what he believed was a dead object and spoke to her with such love and tenderness over years of never knowing that she was a living being that eventually even through the pain of his touch she grew to tolerate and even like him.

No. Maya doesn’t need him to speak the oathes, she has heard such oathes before. Their bond will be one forged in the purest trust, the deepest love, and the kindest hearts. It won’t be a Nahel bond, it will be its own, and it will reshape Roshar.

Not just that but Adolin Is also repeatedly there for the ignored folk. Kaladin's first experience with Adolin was him defending a prostitute

Not only did he believe Kaladin when he told Adolin about Amaram, he was on Kaladin's side for it. He threw him self in jail out of solidarity. He knows the birthdays of his men and when the tavern couple got married or had a kid

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s-u-w-i

And finally, more dogs! Originals again for purchase🏹  ALL SOLD! But there is still few left of the previous bunch, so check it out! 30USD is the minimal price (shipping included). All the earnings will be sent to a charity, partly to help abandoned people and partly to abandoned dogs. 🐕 Anyone eager to adopt one of the dogs message me here or at s.u.w.i@email.cz  Thank you!  Also thanks everyone for all the tips and for sharing stories and photos of your dogs, I’m enjoying it a lot 💖

Anonymous asked:

You know that Ada Limón poem where she’s like “i can’t help it i love the way men love”? my dad recently confessed to me that he became a shoemaker because they buried my grandma shoeless

oh…………………………………

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Accident Report in the Tall, Tall Weeds - Ada Limón

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dollsahoy

I am super against light pollution, and have been for decades

but I am also super annoyed by the way it's framed as "without light pollution you can see how beautiful the night sky is" way more prominently than it's framed as "hey, did you ever stop to think of how much energy/resources/money are literally wasted by having so much light shine up into the sky?"

so people get the idea that light pollution can only be remedied by eliminating all night-time light, which would make being outside at night very inconvenient, instead of by making night-time light shine only on the ground where, y'know, the people who need it are

The mildest example of what OP's talking about in Dunedin, Aotearoa:

This is just with the streetlamp equivalent of using lampshades. Imagine what truly directional city lights could achieve?