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The Gaze, watercolours on cold-pressed paper (2026) Bathed in gentle morning light, with his head pillowed in his arms, Do'vassha laid his gaze upon his still sleeping lover. Still slumbering when I'm just about done getting ready for the day, hmm, he thought, a light, affectionate chuff escaping him. Not for the first time, he found himself wishing those soft, quiet moments they shared could linger on a little longer, granting them a little more time. But he knew it would not stop for them; time would not stop for anyone. One day, they would be old and aching and their memories would fail them. So he watched. He watched and hoped to sear the image in his mind so that, in a lifetime, he could recall it.

A late ArtFight revenge for @strigoium, featuring her Khajiit character Do'vassha. She drew a looping animation of my S'hodantuh last year, and I keep going back to look at it. This painting is my thanks!

Pensées, the flowers he has in his hair, mean "thinking of you" in the language of flowers.

I haven't done any creative writing in a little while, and English isn't my first language, so bear with me!

Process shots and rambling under read more.

Despite the fact that I am not deaf, mute, or blind myself, one of the most common questions I receive is how to portray characters with these disabilities in fiction.

As such, I’ve compiled the resources I’ve accumulated (from real life deaf, mute, or blind people) into a handy masterlist.

Deaf Characters:

Deaf characters masterpost

Deaf dialogue thread

Dialogue with signing characters (also applies to mute characters.)

A deaf author’s advice on deaf characters

Dialogue between deaf characters

Mute Characters

Life as a Mute

My Silent Summer:  Life as a Mute

What It’s Like Being Mute

21 People Reveal What It’s Really Like To Be Mute

I am a 20 year old Mute, ask me anything at all!

Blind Characters:

The 33 Worst Mistakes Writers Make About Blind Characters.

@referenceforwriters masterpost of resources for writing/playing blind characters.

The youtube channel of the wonderful Tommy Edison, a man blind from birth with great insight into the depiction of blind people and their lives.

An Absolute Write thread on the depiction of blind characters, with lots of different viewpoints and some great tips.

And finally, this short, handy masterpost of resources for writing blind characters.

Characters Who Are Blind in One Eye

4 Ways Life Looks Shockingly Different With One Eye

Learning to Live With One Eye

Adapting to the Loss of an Eye

Adapting to Eye Loss and Monocular Vision

Monocular Depth Perception

Deaf-Blind Characters

What Is It Like To Be Deafblind?

Going Deaf and Blind in a City of Noise and Lights

Deaf and Blind by 30

Sarita is Blind, Deaf, and Employed (video)

Born Deaf and Blind, This Eritrean American Graduated Harvard Law School (video)

A Day of a Deaf Blind Person

Lesser Known Things About Being Deafblind

How the Deaf-Blind Communicate

Early Interactions With Children Who Are Deaf-Blind

Raising a DeafBlind Baby

If you have any more resources to add, let me know!  I’ll be adding to this post as I find more resources.

Another comm done. This is Burro! And he likes making churros. He's a joke NPC character in the campaign I play Vee in, and now he is a player character in the crooked moon campaign I run.

He caught the goat despite everything and now he has a goat friend. Also called Vee, because his player likes to torment me.

it’s not weird to love it and comment and leave kudos because the author will probably still see it someday and it will make them happy.

it’s not weird to like said author’s work so much that you want to go look for other fics from them.

it’s not weird to go through the authors profile and look for other fics from the ships you like (or maybe some that you’ll give a chance because you liked the author) and maybe bookmark them for later.

it’s not weird to read these other fics and like them too and comment on them because you actually like them and you want to let the author know.

it’s not weird to read fanfiction from 5, or 8, or 10 years ago and actually enjoy and engage with it because it’s perfectly normal to relate to something that’s less than a decade old!

let’s stop treating fanfiction like they’re instagram posts that stop being interesting in 24 hours! fanfiction is NOT social media, fanfiction is art!!! and art doesn’t get old in one day, one year, or even a decade!

I do not have to reinvent the wheel every time I write fanfiction

I do not have to make every chapter's word count above 1,000 in order for it to be good

It is okay if some things don't make sense

I can write whatever I want

I am writing this shit for free

If people don't like my stuff, they can block me. If they're being mean about it, I can block them.

The most important part of writing fanfiction is having fun

Writing fanfiction is supposed to be fun

I do not have to appeal to people

This shit is fun

readcomicsonline.ru

readcomiconline.xyz

readfreecomicsonline.com

zipcomic.com

comics-online.org

Download:

comics-all.com

getcomics.info

newcomic.info

@themasterpostlibrary

@thecomiclibrary

Bonus paid option:

globalcomix.com

(i'd never heard of this site before but from what i've found it's fully legal. It has a subscription model, but you can also buy comics individually and there's a bunch of free stuff too, mostly from small creators)

ETA:

a lot of people on the notes have also recommended

batcave.biz (despite the name, it's not just batman or dc or even superhero comics)

and there was some complaining about ads, so i'm also gonna rec

ublock origin (adblock for firefox)