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[me, fumbling a social interaction] oh lovely. another haunting addition to the collection

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For anyone wondering…I am alive and doing okay. Life hasn’t been conducive to writing lately (or non-mandatory human interaction in general), and I don’t know if that’s going to change any time soon. But life isn’t awful, and eventually I’ll be back to writing things I can actually post (e.g., not three lines of context-free dialogue or half a scene from a novel-length work).
To the various people who have emailed me, messaged me, and left comments, please consider this a blanket apology for the radio silence you received in reply. It’s not you, it’s me (for real). I do read comments (though let’s not talk about email), and they always brighten my day. Thank you, and please don’t take my silence to mean I don’t appreciate them. 💚
Zero's Fic Binding - Exit Light
Exit Light by Dragonflies_and_Katydids (@dragonflies-and-katydids)
Fandom: Dragon Age: Inquisition
Ship: Iron Bull/Dorian Pavus/Cullen Rutherford
Start Date: 9/13/24
End Date: 9/30/24
Pages: 225
First book bind I'm actually giving to another human. This fic is one of my best friend's favorites - and I found I really liked it too.
Crazy how purple the book cloth looks in photos. It's a DARK navy in person, so the tower and the title POP - but the lightning looks CRAZY cool. It's reflective - the effect is much easier to see in the standing spine photo
The tower is a HUGE theme in this fic - and a good chunk of the story revolves around the fight to not climb up to the top of it and find an alternative way down. I kept that theme for the whole book. The author had quotes at the beginning of every chapter, so those I've pulled out and formatted within the stonework for each chapter headers.
The header for the chapter with the climax of the story is the only header where you see the top of the wall…
Bondage is also a bit of a theme in the fic, ho ho, so there are a few knots and ropes for the page breaks.
Trim for this fucking book was fire. Headbands were also ON FUCKIING POINT.
This book has a sister - it's less attractive, darker sister - for my personal library. I'm so glad I did a trial run. With how small I originally cut everything, the scale of the entire cover was so off that i needed to redo it. AND it cut really horribly because of how small (and complicated) the image was. The color change and the castle angle updated for the real cover is - in my opinion - a great fucking improvement.
Noted to me for next time - this font, dude? Again? REalLy??
Go read Exit Light, and eat through everything Dragonflies has written. They deserve all of those sweet kudos!

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Pinch hitter?
Looking for an excuse to write tentacles? If so, I would like to point you toward the remaining pinch hit for Cephaloparty, which is the tentacle exchange I’m running. I don’t play in any of the fandoms the recipient requested, or the pinch hit would already be gone, because those freeform tags have my name written all over them. I’m hoping someone else around here will feel the same.
Works don’t need to be explicit, or even contain a sexual or romantic relationship at all. The only requirements are that the work be about tentacles and match at least one of the recipient’s requests. Fic must be at least 1,000 words and art must be at least clean line art.
Deadline negotiable, though if you can finish in time for us to open at noon EDT on Saturday, 18 March, that would be fabulous.
More details on the DW post here.
Relationship Maintenance and Rates of Relationship Decay
A concept I've seen named/discussed among people with ADHD (alas, I have ADHD and don't remember where I saw this) is that they don't experience "relationship decay" the way other people do. For those of you reading this who have never seen these conversations before, many folks with ADHD have people in their life they care about, like hearing from, enjoy talking to, and want to know about and be involved with - and will also (unintentionally) forget to actually talk to or respond to those people for great lengths of time. For some folks with ADHD, long spans of time without contact don't cause "decay" in the relationship, and they still feel attached to and involved with others despite the chronological distance between their interactions. The problem is that while those people with ADHD haven't experienced relationship decay in that time, the people on the other end of things often have. This is a frequently-bemoaned problem among people with ADHD, many of whom feel like they can't "keep up" with people well enough to have lasting relationships.
I think relationship decay is a concept that's relevant to many relationships, though, because rates of decay vary hugely in many circumstances, not just between individuals of different neurotypes. I know some people, for example, who don't feel intimate with their friends/partners without multiple interactions by text throughout the day every day, with often a minimum of several hangouts in person per week. Meanwhile, I know other people who talk to each other by phone once every six months, text one another short affectionate messages every two weeks or so, and consider one another best friends.
What causes relationship decay also varies. For some, lack of contact IS what causes the decay, and it doesn't matter how much trust or regard there is without regular contract. For others, feelings of closeness and security are easy to maintain across time with people whose regard they feel certain of, while with people whose regard they feel uncertain of, they need much much more relationship maintenance to feel at all close.
With all of this being the case, I wish it was more common for people to say outright what they need in terms of relationship maintenance to stave off decay with each other. Instead, I mostly see people couch this in moralistic, often derogatory terms. "So-and-so is so insensitive, they didn't think to contact me this week at all," or "So-and-so is so pathetic, they can't go five minutes without needing to hear from me." Certainly there are some situations where lack of contact does denote disregard, and where demands for contact are intrusive and harmful, but I also see this kind of moralistic take applied to situations that are a simple mismatch or lack of communication about relationship maintenance needs and capabilities.
Drivers; you can do one of these forever. Which one do you pick?
No more super-bright LED/halogen headlights
Everyone uses their indicator properly
I don't drive and I want to know.
Cephaloparty
Sign-ups for the tentacle exchange are now open! All consent levels and all ratings are welcome, because why would I run a tentacle exchange if I couldn’t make “the more, the merrier” jokes?
Various links…
FAQ Freeform tags Characters/fandoms Sign-up form Dreamwidth
And to set the appropriate tone for the whole thing, I give you my current favorite cartoon:

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I’ve joined Pillowfort and I’ve made a monster fucker community there, where I (and others) can reblog monster art!
https://www.pillowfort.social/community/RogueMonsterLovers
Anyone can join and reblog stuff right now. Pillowfort allows NSFW content freely, so there’s already some sexy yautja art to be found. 👀
Cephaloparty
Sign-ups for the tentacle exchange are now open! All consent levels and all ratings are welcome, because why would I run a tentacle exchange if I couldn’t make “the more, the merrier” jokes?
Various links...
FAQ Freeform tags Characters/fandoms Sign-up form Dreamwidth
And to set the appropriate tone for the whole thing, I give you my current favorite cartoon:
Tentacle exchange, anyone?
In a stunning display of something, I somehow tripped and ended up running a tentacle exchange. There’s no tumblr for it, but on the off chance anyone following me is interested and hadn’t heard, I thought I’d toss out the details here.
The exchange is open to all ratings and consent levels, and nominations are currently open.
Schedule (all deadlines as of noon Eastern): Nominations: 10 Dec 2022 - 27 Dec 2022 Signups: 1 Jan 2023 - 13 Jan 2023 Assignments Out: 15 Jan 2023 Assignments Due: 4 Mar 2023 Works Revealed: 11 Mar 2023 Creators Revealed: 18 Mar 2023
Links: Rules FAQ Freeforms tagset Fandoms and characters tagset AO3 collection Dreamwidth community
You know what’s some crazy $hit?
This fabulous bitch
She makes a shit ton of poses (like 16,000 or some crazy nonsense). I used this lovely lady to draw so much as a teen. Whether it was some nerdy pose for my Mary Sue as fuck OCs
or for full on fight sequences
or for tragic deaths of my OCs in the arms of a totally OOC main protagonist.
this bitch hooked me up.
And with the wildest, craziest stuff that you could see in your head but had no way or resources to reasonably draw like
or this
or this
DUDE! INASNE SHIT!! So I was using her for a pose reference and decided, you know what, I owe this bitch some cash. Lemme dole it out for her. BUT then, I looked and saw she only has 286 fucking patrons!! This chick gives out free shit and spends countless hours arranging these shoots and setting this stuff up.
I’ll fork up the cash, SenshiStock. You’re worth it.
Check out this amazing woman’s stuff, and get knowledged: https://www.deviantart.com/senshistock
I have been following her for years on deviantart.
Highly reccomend checking her out. She’s the best. If I had any money to throw I’d throw it at her for providing such a big help in my life.
This hero doesn’t wear capes, she instead wears (and looks utterly flawless) in tank tops(?)
Interrupting my regular Star Wars BS to reblog this because @senshistock is amazing and beyond worth the follow and support! I first started using her refs gosh I want to say back in maybe 2008, and I’m happy to be a supporter of her over on Patreon. If you’re an artist please go find her stuff on all the platforms, you will not regret it!
Yessss, she is so awesome! Been following her for years. My favorite stock artist is jademacalla, who is, incidentally, in the last two images above. He has a lot of great angles, costumes, gear, etc! I love his hands, too.
rb to save an artists life
Just so everyone knows, she recently stopped using the name SenshiStock and switched to AdorkaStock! All her links and socials have switched to that. Also she has a TikTok of her doing the poses live, which is stupid useful because you can pause it at any point in the pose for just the right reference.
Literally just used a Adorkastock reference the other night, god bless them
Also a reminder that Adorkastock Sketch exists, which is essentially timed poses to draw (including a class mode, that replicates a life drawing session), which you can even filter to focus on what you need to work on.
https://www.adorkastock.com/sketch/
MENTAI: HENTAI FOR MEN
why is this based on my likes
I think that one’s on you chief

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Rescued otter learning to get over it's fear of water
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Hello, fellow rare-pair enthusiasts! If you want to join us for this year’s exchange, time is running out. Sign-ups close at 8 PM EDT on July 16th, which is just about 48 hours away.
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