Sadlach today, on the happier side of things I discovered that I have started to enjoy painting her and Wyll's horns.

✨Astarion / Gale I / Gale II / Jaheira / Shadowheart / Wyll ✨

Wyll has had enough (It's based on a screenshot from the scene when he isn't allowed into the city.) and I am still recreational portrait painting.

Ever since I first deconstructed I decided to start celebrating life in the weeks leading up until my bday by overindulging on everything that makes me, me. I let whatever comes up to overtake me, and for my inner child to go buck wild.

I made it my mission to validate that kid who needed a parent, and instead got his life stolen away by lies, depression, anxiety, and a religion that trained me to be a solider and not a human. I choose to see and feel life for once. I refuse to let anything/anyone take it away from me.

It’s been 30 years of hating my life, and wanting it all to end, and now I’m happy to feel the sunlight every morning for my own self.

I really just have to summarize Thomas's entire life:

He was in a committed relationship with a male swan named Henry for 18-24 years before a female swan named Henrietta showed up and mated with Henry.

Thomas was initially jealous of the pair and attacked them, breaking 2 of the 5 eggs Henrietta had laid. However, once the remaining eggs hatched, Thomas warmed up to them and helped raise them.

Henry couldn't fly because of an injured wing, so Thomas taught the cygnets how to fly.

When they needed to reduce the goose population in the pond where Thomas and the swans lived, they dyed Thomas's feathers red so he wouldn't be separated from Henry.

Henry, Henrietta, and Thomas remained in their happy throuple for years and raised 68 cygnets before Henry died in 2009. After Henry's death, Henrietta found another swan and flew away, leaving Thomas alone.

Thomas finally met and mated with a female goose in 2011 and had his own babies. However, another goose named George stole them and raised them himself.

As Thomas grew elderly and blind, he was relocated to a wildlife center where he raised orphaned cygnets.

His caretaker at the center described him as "pretty high maintenance."

Thomas died in 2018 at the age of around 40. He had a funeral that included a small coffin and a procession that was led by a bagpiper. He was buried under the stone where Henry was buried, the two finally reunited in death.

“No age gap??!?!?”

“And no non-con elements”

“NO NON CON?”

“And no coercion or otherwise manipulative behaviors”

“Joe they want a vampire with NOTHING”

and they have a specific relationship with crested caracaras, in which the black vultures assist them by not only preening them after meals but also leading them to food in the first place— due to their superior sense of smell— while the caracaras assist the black vultures by acting as a warning signal in case of danger

and while this is more typical of black vultures, this is not common at all for any member of the falconidae family— it’s a special bond!