for bringing flowers home

so I read Hands of the Emperor and then the entire rest of the series and then also like half the AO3 tag and - okay, so, I clearly liked it, but also I'm having the incredibly disorienting feeling of liking a work of fiction and also having really strong critiques of it, which is not usual for me at all. this might just be "needs an editor" disease, I remember sentences and also speeches in Hands of the Emperor where I distinctly thought she should've cut them off significantly earlier and been less heavy handed , but it's also in the macro structure. At the Feet of the Sun especially really feels like it takes themes from the first book and shoots itself repeatedly in the foot as it tries to - idk, elevating them and by elevating them kind of wreck them?

For reasons and also causes I have recently written the wikipedia article for mpreg and am trying to find an illustration for it. Do I happen to know any fanartists who want to release some (ideally sfw) mpreg art under a wikipedia compatible license* for eternal glory and wikipedia bragging rights?

I am the author of this image and I release it under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (CC-BY-4.0) !

this sure aged well! (hussie made this image)

Sometimes spoon theory feels true, i.e. "you have a tight budget of energy for the day, pick your battles, plan for only getting a small amount of productive tasks done and plan for needing a lot of rest breaks". But other times, something like the opposite feels true, what you could maybe call "momentum theory", where getting a task done has an energizing effect and actually makes it feel easier to do another thing, and I have thoughts like "wow I've crossed [number] things off the list and it's not even sundown yet, I'm gonna do [another thing] and see how far I can take this". I especially associate this kind of day with having a productive morning specifically.