Nightmare Writer

i really can’t tell you how many times i get this in my inbox:

i love your confidence! your confidence is sexy! i envy your confidence! 

and a thin girl recently told me: confidence is the most attractive thing a women can carry though, and that is only something you can control.

If the sky comes falling down, for you There’s nothing in this world I wouldn’t do

\o/ IT IS DONE! Emma and Banal’ras from @elvensemi‘s legendary fic Keeping Secrets (what do you mean you haven’t read it? Have you been living under a rock?!?! Go fucking read it you coward)

Four days of work, 60+ layers, and a lot of fuck ups later, it’s complete! I had so much fun experimenting with photoshop and seeing what it can do. I’ve been wanting an upgrade for a while and this was just the project to start with–I learned how to do download brushes, do lighting effects, work with clipping masks, and attempt to make a gif! Though it’s not as thematically complex as other tarot cards I’ve made, it definitely challenged me in composition! I’ve never done a background this elaborate and it was definitely a change of pace. If you want the full ultra HD experience in 600 dpi, message me and I’ll send you the file.

In the future I’d love to learn how to make gifs of all the layers that go into a piece like this. I guess we’ll see what the future holds!

Huge thanks to @elvensemi. I don’t know how you do what you do, but I’m eternally grateful for your determination to get this monster written. <3

-they implied everyone can/should be vegan, ignoring issues of poverty & health that make it impractical or impossible for many people

-they tried to make you feel bad about eating something

-they believe that the current animal abuse/environmental contamination/health crisis is caused by individual consumers rather than the manipulative capitalism of the meat and dairy industries

-they support PETA (eww peta)

Bad reasons to get mad at a vegan:

-they asked you about the ingredients of a food to find out if they can eat it

-they asked if your group could go to a restaurant with a vegan option

-you asked them to explain why they are vegan and they answered

“What hits really hard in moments like this is that really… nothing is forever. The loss of history, of art, of creation, is real and deeply tragic. But what’s really itching at the insides of my chest is watching something I thought was forever suddenly not exist.

“We know this, of course. We know in our brains that nothing lasts. But that doesn’t stop us from just going about our lives forgetting about that reality. And then we get hit in the face by it… sometimes individually, sometimes collectively.

“A lot of us are feeling this now together… though at the same time, many other people don’t have such a visceral tie to Notre Dame. Which is why I’m doing my best to not be very angry at the "it’s just a building” comments. (Though, honestly, if that’s how you feel, be quiet.)

“But Katherine also reminded me that Notre Dame is not one thing… and while nothing lasts, the story of human culture isn’t of building things that last forever, it’s changing, growing, progressing, remembering, and /rebuilding./

"She reminded me that Notre Dame is history, but so is today. We don’t get to be separate from history. And we are not the first people to see beautiful things destroyed. Indeed, we’re not the first to see much of Notre Dame Cathedral destroyed.

"Much of Notre Dame is nearly 1000 years old. Some of it is 50 years old. The spire was built 150 years ago. The Rose Window is (was) from the 1200s. It’s heartbreaking.

"But in a moment when I’m reminded of how fragile things are, I also want to be reminded of how much we have created and preserved… and how much we have rebuilt. So that feeling is in there with the bad ones. It’s not bigger than the bad ones, but it’s in there too.”

- Hank Green after talking with his wife Katherine about the tragic fire consuming Notre Dame

Love it.

Oh my god