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(If you're on FF14 this blog is the main for Koke Qalli (songbirds-and-bows) & Aran Aethersmith (steel-and-aether) (Balmung) or Lucien Gravespast (glowinggunmetal), who each have their own blogs... otherwise, HEY LOOK I DO STUFF HERE!)

judging by the usernames, this post has found its target audience

Two, actually:

  1. Full, complete, instantaneous magical healing means no scar tissue. It also means no calluses, and no nerve damage. It always hurts as much as it did the first time
  2. Following on from "It healed wrong; you'll have to rebreak it" - you were impaled. Your wound healed around the object before you could get it out. Getting it out means having to do the same injury to yourself again. See point 1.

okay, making Koke's custom scales will be less hell than I was anticipating.

excited! I'm putting the rough draft under a cut because it contains body mapping? Iunno

okay so I went to DA right and then I went "holy shit so much AI shit?!" and I turned on 'suppress AI' which isn't on by default.

What the ever loving fuck.

What the EVER LOVING FUCK.

this is me working on my WoL AU for Lucien and going "I need a tag"

fuck I'm bad at making up tags

this is why I give up and just draw

Also everyone who has a WoL-verse for their XIV ocs makes me want to do one for mine. On the one hand you have Luke. Then there's Koke. Aran is in the running for most abhorrently bad choice for a WoL since we started these rankings. I keep wanting to drabble in those weird AUs.

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Hello Tumblr! I am posting this on behalf of the Queer Liberation Library, who don't yet have a Tumblr, but have promised me they're working on it. Some of you may remember them from the Twitter Poll I was involved in a few months ago where Hunger Pangs: True Love Bites beat multiple award-winning, trad-pub queer authors with a hefty 69% (nice).

For those of you unaware, the Queer Liberation Library, or QLL, is an organization fighting to build a vibrant, flourishing queer future by connecting LGBTQ+ people with literature, information, and resources that celebrate the unique and empowering diversity of our community.

And today, June 12th, 2023, they launched their fundraiser to try and reach 15k so that they can start purchasing digital licensing for queer media and hopefully open their digital doors to library patrons across the US in 2023 with as many queer and trans books as possible.

You can check out their newly redesigned website here:

(If you are in an unsafe space and need to exit the webpage quickly, there is a quick exit bar at the top that redirects to a weather page. When I spoke to them about their web design they were also open to accessibility suggestions and are potentially working on a dark mode for those of us who need it.)

If you know me, you know I am unequivocally pro-library, both as a reader and a queer writer. But with the current rise of homophobia, transphobia, and the proposed ban on books taking hold in certain States, the importance of having protected access queer books cannot be over-emphasized enough.

The QLL aims to protect that access, aiming to provide FREE access to queer and trans media (ebook and audio) to patrons regardless of location within the United States.

They are funded entirely through regular donations from their supporters and their now annual Pride fundraiser, where they hope to afford the cost of not just library books but also maintaining their web presence and staff.

I cannot emphasize enough how much this project is a labor of love for everyone involved and its importance.

And just to clarify, I am not involved in any way beyond raising awareness. When QLL reached out and asked me to retweet their fundraiser tweets, I readily agreed and offered to post about it on Tumblr because I believe in their mission and the world they are trying to build.

One where queer and trans books can't be banned or taken off of shelves because of bigotry and hatred.

If you would like to donate to the cause, you can do so here:

They've already surpassed their first 2k, and it'd be absolutely wonderful if we could help them reach their next milestone. And if you can't give, please consider signal boosting this post.

You can also follow QLL at:

Super odd to me to see people ask if X Y or Z fandom are still around.

I write stuff for fandoms that are maybe only alive to me, for once or twice a year exchanges, and trickles of constant love.

If you love something, there's a fandom there that loves it too, even if that fandom consists of you and whoever you share it with!

I have left some fandoms but even still, they continue to exist. Create! Create and continue to love the things you love! Reimagine them in new, shifting, continuously changing context! Discover something new to love about them!

Fandom lives as long as someone loves.

stop the animated flickering!

also

can you miss a taskbar?

fuck XP, you were a decent OS.

WINDOWS 11 ON THE OTHER HAND IS A PIECE OF SHIT