The Road Less Traveled By

So, I've been wondering if we could start this trend? I always see people talk about how they feel weird reblogging their own stuff, and I've been guilty of this, too.

But the thing is, it's so easy to miss cool art, fic, gif sets, screenshots, headcanons, and other creations. The dashboard moves fast. A lot of people don't always have time to go through everything that was posted in the last 24 hours or maybe they're not on tumblr every day. Maybe they saved a fic in their tab and forgot. Maybe somebody followed literally yesterday and hasn't seen 98% of what's already been posted. Any reason is a good reason.

I think we should get more comfortable with reblogging our own stuff. It doesn't matter what kind of post it is or if it's from the last week or 10 years ago. It doesn't matter if you've already reblogged it 3 times in the past. It doesn't matter if it has 5 notes or 500.

I've thought that if we had a dedicated day for it and more of us made it a habit, it'd feel less weird? Plus, people who have missed those posts would have the opportunity to catch up.

We put a lot of love and effort into our works. Why not show them again?

Of course, that doesn't mean I want to contain self-reblogs to Sunday only. I've just thought that especially those that feel awkward about reblogging their own stuff could use it as an opportunity to do that. Like, if more people are doing it and all that.

This is a woman who woke up in a dungeon with a glowing hand, figured out she could fix the world, and thought "fuck it, it's not like I'll have anything else better to do if Corypheus sticks around. Also. Everyone here kind of looks like they want to kill me, so maybe I'll stick with the protective powers that be for a minute." And then all of five seconds later she gets her hand snatched by a sketchy elven apostate who knows exactly what to do with her shiny new powers and cannot stop himself from having a Mr. Darcy level hand-flex after he lets it go (in my heart and soul this happens just out of the camera's gaze) and goes "hmm maybe there's something to be said for this world saving thing."

This is a woman who brought an entire fucking avalanche down on herself and three of her closest friends (and I do mean closest as in physical proximity, she doesn't know these people who are looking at her like she's Thedas' Next Top Idol) because even if it killed her it was the proper middle finger to send to the wannabe god bringing his army tap-dancing down the mountain pass towards her on the one night she had scheduled off to celebrate finally taking a W.

2026/6/13 Today's drawing.

Backstage moment.

Ser Schmooples

cotton velveteen, wool, glass bead, and excelsior stuffing, glass eyes, tinted with thinned acrylic paints, aluminum armature wire in the hands and feet, bronze bell in chest, mylar in the ears.

(but not all, because I've been writing a lot lately and this thing's getting long enough already!)

Series:

Vallaslin (Lavellan's journey from a young hunter to the trip to Minrathous at the end of Veilguard, exploring how her connection to people and her culture changes over time.)

Vallaslin (Lavellan's journey from a young hunter to right before the Conclave) Halam'shivanas (Lavellan's journey from the Conclave to the trip to Minrathous at the end of Veilguard)

The Mundane and Divine (my canon Solas x Lavellan collection)

Invitation to A Dance (Josephine arranges dance lessons for the Inner Circle; immediately prior to Sleep Well?)

Sleep Well? (Solas contemplates the Fade Kiss and wonders where it all went wrong. Lavellan worries she's overstepped.)

Like A Lodestone (Solas considers allowing his heart to guide him)

Cataract (Solas and Lavellan on the journey to Crestwood, from Solas' point of view.)

Dragon's Teeth (the space between Corypheus' death and Trespasser, Iron Bull x Dorian, with Lavellan as the catalyst)

Uncertainty (Solas prepares for the confrontation with Lavellan during Trespasser)

Denouement (the immediate aftermath of the confrontation with Solas in Trespasser) Adjustments (Lavellan begins to come to terms with the loss of her hand)

Redemption, Restoration (Fade Prison trilogy, a subset of the Mundane and Divine)

Salvation (set immediately after Veilguard, in the Fade Prison) Molten as the Sun (Solas and Lavellan are figuring things out in the Fade. Her friends would like to have her back.) Written in Red (Solas and Lavellan work to soothe the Titans' dreams.)

Dreams and Desire (trilogy post-Written in Red, Solas and Lavellan figure out how they want to navigate physical intimacy together. Subset of the Mundane and Divine. Aro-ace Lavellan.)

Restraint (Solas, Bull, and Lavellan engage in some platonic ropework together and Solas starts to work on forgiving himself with their help.) Sanguine (Solas and Lavellan and some happily ever after risk aware consensual kink: explicit, no sex, aro-ace Lavellan)

Devouring (Solas and Lavellan engage in some risk aware consensual kink in the Fade: explicit sexual content, no sex, aro-ace Lavellan)

A Sinking Star (Solas and Lavellan rescue clan Lavellan from the Fade with the aid of Hawke and Varric. in progress)

The Dread Wolf's Heart (story within A Sinking Star as Clan Lavellan's Hahren and then Solas tell competing stories of the Dread Wolf's Heart)

The Randy Dowager Quarterly (It is what is says on the tin.)

Throes of Passion (by Vora'shivan, a Rook/Lavellan/Solas literature, smutty literature.) The Rabbits and the Pussycat (by an anonymous author, a Briala/Celene, Briala/Celene/Lavellan Orlesian attack propaganda literature, smutty, literature.)

Idyll (Solas/Lavellan, the results of the recitation of ancient elvhen erotic poetry.)

A few miscellaneous:

Loyalty (Demands of the Qun, featuring the friendship between Bull & Lavellan, as well as the Chargers)

Bull in A China Shop (members of the Inner Circle in Orlais) Like A Pyre (A tragedy with the Veilguard Trick ending, Solas and Lavellan.) Honeycomb (Sera x Dagna falling in love over a prank.) The Longest Night (A young Lavellan celebrates a winter solstice with her clan.) To Pass the Torch (Rook and Lavellan's first meeting in the Cobbled Swan)

To Heal the Hurt (Cole & Sera develop a tentative friendship)

Outmatched (Bull bullies Solas into a friendly chess game after Solas and Lavellan come back separately from Crestwood.)

Lingering Looks (In which Vivienne attempts to play chaperone between Solas and Lavellan to stop those lingering looks.)

A Dark Mirror Dawning (Davrin is recused from the Deep Roads by Warden Commander Tabris after Tearstone.)

I explained very clearly to the manager my issue with the meat section not having the price tags listed, and they claimed it was only going to be for the meat, since meat is by weight, and the price of each item is printed on the packs of each item.

Sure. That’s how they get their foot in the door. Fast forward not even two weeks, and here we are:

Bar codes. No prices, no item descriptions. No price stickers on the individual items. Heck, not even the name of the item that is SUPPOSED to be there.

No. The only way to see the price is to scan it on your phone app, which is also recording what you looked at recently, as a way of gauging what you might be looking for in the future.

So here’s what we’re gonna do gang:

Every time you go into a store that has implemented these price-less tags:

Take 1-3 items up to the cash register. Ask the cashier for the price, or hit the price check item on the self checkout, which will likely call over the attendant.

Express that you didn’t actually want it, you just couldn’t see on the shelf how much it was.

POLITELY, AND WITH A THANK YOU FOR THE PRICE CONFIRMATION, Give the items to the cashier or attendant to put back.

When they inevitably try to push the app, politely decline. If pressed for why not, say you don’t want to have to carry your phone in-hand the whole time you are shopping in order to see how much things cost. (Not having cell service or data to use the app is NOT a valid excuse, as stores already often have complimentary WiFi AND more stores will provide WiFi rather than give up on this push for surveillance pricing)

If it’s a shelf-stable item, the cashier will have to set it aside, taking up room in their limited operating space, and eventually pass it off to someone to put in a holding area to put back later. If it’s a fridge/freezer item, it might have to get tossed due to food product sale regulations.

In either case, you are making it a pain in the ass for them to have these digital bar codes. Tie up the checkouts. Give the employees more busywork that the company has to pay them to do. Hurt their bottom line having to toss the pint of ice cream you carried around in your cart for 20 minutes before giving it back to the cashier.

I don't think I've posted a big thing of Druffy with its lore after I did all the rest of the fiddling with it, so here it is. Turn the sound on to hear the little tail jingle and the ear crinkles and the heart bell.

It's cotton corduroy, vintage Soviet viscose schulte and German mohair, glass button eyes, stuffed with 3 lbs. of glass beads, wool, and excelsior for the face, and tinted with thinned acrylic on the face, claws, horns, and around the joints.

I actually finished a thing! And in a reasonable time, too! 'Tis a Christmas miracle!

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