.the fire flares alight inside.

Figured that the start of a new year and the whole 200k first arc completed is a good excuse to start posting my latest writing adventure.

Artwork by the fantastic @mitdemadlerimherzen who had cheered me on throughout this journey, helped me not lose all belief in myself while I was often in the throes of my deepest creative doubts to date, and was gracious to make me an art piece that commemorates this saga. Words cannot possibly describe all the gratefulness I feel for having you in my life, my favorite whimsical muppet. <3

Endless War (read on AO3)

Summary:

An aging warrior who knows the sting of many losses and regrets is driven by hope and spite and love to finally challenge the loathed traditions she once swore to honor, atone for her mistakes, and shake the very foundations of her clan’s worldviews for the sake of a better world. A young protector falls in noble battle, endures a life of slavery, defies death itself, and makes history on his way to become a ghost of vengeance and a harbinger of death to silence his aching soul and spare others from indignity of bondage. A young writer yearns to safeguard the history of her time with utmost honesty and to leave her gentle mark on the world as she abandons her life of peace and comfort behind in favor of a noble war, exploration, and the pursuit of her dream. Wild chance and all the choices they make intertwine the paths of these three souls, forge them into a family, and weave a story of hope and perseverance, of empathy and rebellions, of love and friendships that builds bridges from the ashes of cruelty and betrayal, callousness and regrets and leaves behind a lasting legacy of kindness.

— 0 — The Long Shadow of Death

— 1 — Ghost From The Ashes

— 2 — Ghost From The Ashes

— 3 — Ghost From The Ashes

— 4 — Ghost From The Ashes

It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.

Get your ducklings in a row. Get cosy, get lazy.

I’ve been working through some feelings lately.

Update: I’ve decided to add the other protest animals to this post so they are all in one place at least once.

None of my protest animal pieces are available as prints for purchase. Feel free to print them our and use them for signs or personal acts of resistance.

They are made purposefully low res so the scrapers are less likely to successfully steal and scam people with them.

That's a goose smelling a daisy. No other explanation needed or wanted.