since i made a slightly less silly version of medoute’s canon costume siskier gets one too. same general idea as what you will find her wearing in the game, but this time with built in protection from wardrobe malfunctions.

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as with that medoute art i posted a while back, i am going to need yall who dont go here to know that this characters canon outfit looks like This:

this character runs around the battlefield doing unnecessary combat flips because they look cool and she is wearing a balconette. thats a recipe for a wardrobe malfunction per 30 seconds. if you Mufte put a boobed character in a top like this without it literally being glued on, at least stick a horizontal strap across the boobage either where the shoulder straps attach to the cups or between the highest point of the cups to stop that shit from escaping confinement like a bowl of jello piled too high

jinkies! it’s may pokemonrse/oras from my headcanons!!!!

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zoinks!!! it’s lyra pokemonhgss from my headcanons

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uh oh!!! its leaf pokemonrgbyfrlg from my headcanons

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Hello, Sherlock Holmes adaptation writer. I have trapped you in this room. It is fully furnished and comfortable. On the table, you will notice a copy of A Scandal in Bohemia by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, of which redistribution is perfectly legal, as the work is in the public domain. You will notice it is rather thin. You have 24 hours to read the approximately 8,550 words in this story. To exit this room, all you must do is summarize the plot of the story without referring to Irene Adler as a seductress or implying she is attracted to Sherlock Holmes. Good luck.

I think one of the goals of society should be that someone who requires expensive medicine and a lot of care can live an amazing life, the longest life they possibly can, with dignity, even if they have no friends or family or anyone who cares enough about them to help. the goals of a society should be to make life better than if we are alone, society should want life to be as good as possible for as many people as possible, and those goals should account for people not having social support networks.

social life aside, the most hated or ignored person in town should be able to live as good and fair and just of a life as the most loved person in town. survival needs to stop being a popularity contest.

Literally cannot emphasize enough that my #1 writing advice is to stop being afraid. Stop being afraid of sounding too cringe, or too stupid, or too horrifying, or too horny, or too weird, or too much, or too little, or too you. You need to put your entire pussy into your art. Sure, it won't be to everyone's tastes, but if you keep yourself to the blandest tamest safest roads possible you will be of no one's tastes, not even yours.

Permission to be vulnerable in this torture dungeon. Do you guys even like me 

New type of weird girl just dropped 💕⛺️

so now that tears of the kingdom has been out for a month, it's time to take this one again! this time i'm SURE i didn't forget anyone or make any minor wording errors. have fun!

anyway,

I made this like 2 years ago so now that I found it in my hard drive I’m chucking it out into the wild like a live grenade

Ghost type Pokémon! first new sticker sheet I’ve done in years I think. Happy! [Image ID:  A digital illustration of 6 Pokémon intended for a sticker sheet, there are little stars, a moon and purple flames as little stickers as well. There is the ghost-fire type hisuian typhlosion, litwick, polteageist, hisuian zorua, drifloon and mimikyu. /.End ID]

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youtube: neutered by advertisers and algorithms and also tiktokification

reddit: half of the site is down due to protests about the removal of third-party API support

facebook: my mom is on there

i come from the 8tracks generation where you weren't allowed to just dump three and a half twee indie folk/tswift records into a fanmix and call it done. on 8tracks you had 8+ handpicked songs in rigid chronological order and an accompanying mission statement and thesis defence detailing exactly why each one applied to your derek x stiles coffee shop au AND cover/track-list art hodgepodged from stolen pinterest/tumblr aesthetic photography, and all of this was done under constant threat of death because it was the DMCA wild west and the site was in a constant state of gradual collapse.

One of the hard parts about being a writer with a vivid imagination is that there are So Many Ideas, and they fall into so many categories, such as

And, of course

My brain:

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'the human body is perfect god doesnt make mistakes' what about wisdom teeth then. huh. gonna let those bastards grow in and fuck up your jaw for god. didnt think so

also the exploding appendix

there's an entire book about all the ways the human body is fucked up, but the highlights I remember are: -The blood vessels for our rods and cones in our eyes don't run behind them but rather in front of them. It's like putting the power cables *over* a camera's lens -the nasal sinus cavities fucked up during evolution. when our skulls shortened, we went from having a straight shot from one end to the other to having basically a basin which can collect mucus, which then has the actual exit for the chamber at the top of it. this normally isn't a problem bc cillia can work viscous mucus up it, but when we get sick and produce super watery mucus, it no longer works, which is why our noses get stuffed up. the book is called Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes. I recommend it.

Most mammals can’t get scurvy. They make their own Vitamin C. But in primates, the gene to make it is broken. Normally, when an important gene breaks, the organism dies and has no surviving descendants, but when it broke a few million years ago, our ancestors were living in a lush climate with lots of fruit and survived the failure just fine.

Then humans invented fire and clothing, and moved to colder climates where fresh food was only available part of the year, and scurvy was born.

And our reproduction, oh heavens. There are SO MANY WAYS that human reproduction is fucked up that simply DO NOT APPLY to other animals, even the our nearest relatives, the great apes. When a gorilla is giving birth, she finds a nice hiding place in the trees, squats down for like half an hour, and pushes out a baby. Humans, not so much. In fact, the outcomes of unassisted childbirth in humans are so poor that most anthropologists agree that we must have invented midwifery in some form before we became fully human.

people will act like a character being a little bit of a cunt sometimes is a flaw and not a positive trait but they are wrong

I GOT FROGGED???

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This is my favourite bit of Jon's character arc:

I'm not being snide, I really like the arc Jon gets of showing how his sense of judgement develops. Later on we do get to see Jon screw up, of course, but overall he's a good ruler and he's a good ruler precisely because he has this incredible sense of scale and of the big picture.

This is easier for me to explain in reference to Daine and Kel, but the sense of bigness is one of my favourite things about Tamora Pierce's writing and the thing that has most influenced me, so I get sentimental about it.

So I absolutely love your pointing this out, and I think it touches on something about Tortall that kind of sneaks beneath the radar! I wrote a passage about Jon in a recent fic that took me by surprise:

I really interrogated that when I went back to reread it, because I wasn't sure it was good characterisation. And then I realised I'd hit on one of Jon's big picture things: the books talk about women fighters and schools, the modernisation of Tortall's armed forces and the development of non-hostile relationships with the Bazhir as changes Jon and Thayet make... but in some ways they walk right past something that changes completely between SotL and PotS, and that's the rule of law.

Jon and Thayet are slowly moving the needle from feudal privilege to the rule of law, so slowly we don't see it happening. King Jasson was a conqueror, famous for steamrolling countries that had the misfortune to be his neighbours; that isn’t accompanied by a merciful or clement attitude to justice. King Roald was prone to inaction, and despite what that bit of SotL says about Jon granting pardons, Roald's the only king we actually see grant an effective pardon - to his treasonous nephew, who then proceeds to wreck shit around him, nearly destroying Tortall and killing hundreds if not thousands. And Roger was originally "convicted" of treason through not judicial trial but a form of trial by ordeal during which Alanna killed him. Fast forward to Jon's reign, and traitors to the Crown are tried in court and sentenced, while trials are held for other crimes and agreements are made with Immortals for the enforcement of the law against their citizens - explicitly different to the previous state of affairs, where Raoul tells us lone knights like SotL!Alanna enforced the law they felt like enforcing. We even get one massive legal set-piece, which I think is a demonstration of how much Tortall has changed as well as how much further it has to go. Joren’s trial is a massive deal, in many ways noble privilege vs the law of the land - Joren can't be brought to trial until he's off his family's lands, but the fact that he's tried for kidnapping a servant girl at all is considered an outrage by his advocate and the Stone Mountain steward is stunned by the size of the fine. Duke Turomot goes out of his way to make the fine as heavy as possible. It's meaningful that he did that, and that Jon and Thayet showed up to see it done, and especially that the crown prince showed up to sit with Kel and Neal - Prince Roald is subtler than his parents, but that would have been a huge political statement. You can bet everyone noticed. And it's also meaningful that when Kel appeals to the king for justice, it's not for his personal intervention in the specific case, it's to change the law. I think we overlook the fact that Jon and Thayet want to make the change Kel demanded in favour of assuming Jon's trying to win her confidence, but that's only one of the potential reasons Raoul gives for his complicated friend's decision. And Jon himself explicitly says to Kel that she can't challenge Joren because challenging him would be based on noble privilege, not the rule of law for all, and it's the rule of law for all that they're trying to establish. Kel acknowledges the accuracy of that.

Alanna fights repeatedly to establish Jon's feudal authority. Kel swears an oath to Jon that she won't use feudal authority to take private vengeance. That's how much Tortall has changed in just twenty years. 500 years from Squire there will be very frustrated academics wishing that, just once, dramas about the reign of King Jonathan and Queen Thayet would pay lip service to the massive changes in jurisprudence, but noooo, it's all CGI Immortals and shitty golden armour that looks like it's made of Crunchie wrappers and people duelling when that was illegal by the 470s, can the historians of this world not catch a break even once?

Don't apologize for this essay its magnificent and you are so right.

I think the thing with the pardons for me, is that King Roald granted this pardon, and it was because he doesn't like fuss and trouble and Roger was a close relative, and it would be difficult and awkward and he didn't want to do such a difficult, awkward thing.

Whereas Jon grants this whole list of pardons and they're all for very specific reasons. He grants George a pardon because he has this very specific thing he needs from him, and then he grants a lot of pardons because he knows that if he starts his reign with a mass of executions he'll never live past it.

One of my favourite scenes in Squire (a long list) is the one where Raoul explains to Kel the difference between Warriors, Commanders and Heroes. And Heroes, in the Tortall books really exist to let commanders work. Like, when Nonsense goes down you need people like Alanna and Daine to defeat the evil sorcerer duke/defeat the nameless ones/distract the graveyard hag/yell at several gods. But by doing that, they make enough room for rule of law to take effect.

My favourite scene in Lioness Rampant is actually the council where Alanna is named champion, because she was already a hero when she left Corus in Hand of the Goddess... but there was all this controversy, and she was really unsettled, and she still wasn't comfortable with it (or her magic, or her gender, or her friends, or anything else) but she comes back a real established confident hero. And meanwhile, we haven't seen Raoul or Gary for a book and half and last time we saw Jon was his absolute lowest point. But Alanna walks back in as a hero, and she's greeted by these three fantastic Commander-Statesmen, who all fill in variations on the commander role, and are building rule of law, and are competent, and enthusiastic.

And Pierce is really sincere and serious about her world-building so there's no thinly veiled allegories, or snidness about the gods and immortals and etc. Its these three people (+ my beloved Duke Baird) who are trying to do exactly what you say, and instate this rule of law... but they live in a world of Gods and Monsters and Evil Sorcerers, so they need Alanna to give them the space to do it in.

And furthermore I also love (this is getting out of hand but its true), that after two superb hero characters (Alanna and Daine), we get Kel, who is a commander character... but she's much younger, so she has never known the randomness and feudalness that would have been familiar to Alanna, she's grown up under rule of law, she's used to Jon's overall level of success to the point that she can take it for granted and say "that's not good enough, we're not stopping here" which is superb.

And you're SO RIGHT about the historians.

All of this! And I think it makes an especially fascinating contrast with the fact that, in-universe, Jon's reign is the Reign Where All The Nonsense Happened. Immortals were a half-forgotten nightmare! Wild magic was a disrespected folk practice and a niche academic interest! Alanna was only the harbinger of Tortall taking one giant leap into what her contemporaries consider a time of myths and legends. I think it's Lord Imrah of Legann, or maybe Lady Marielle, who says that when they tell the story of these battles their grandchildren won't believe them.

And Jon and Thayet, as rulers, respond to that with revitalised infrastructure, military reform, and legal innovation.