Hi there! Call me Eel or Prowl. Age 28, he/they, ace/aro nb.I started this blog for art stuff and it morphed into a main blog, so if you just want art, that's what the handy-dandy navigation post is for!
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
I started this Tumblr for art and fanfic reasons, but it quickly became a general aesthetic/fandom/politics blog, so here’s a navigation post for my specifically fanfiction-related stuff.
Here is my current fic project on Ao3.
Here it is on FFNet.
(I’m an nb who grew up reading HP fic and I wanted to get my toes wet as a first-time fic writer with something familiar and easy to fact-check that I feel zero guilt breaking over my knee. I haven’t given JKR’s politics a penny since 2007 and I have no idea what HP content is still coming out until I hear other people yelling about it.)
Illustrations I’ve made related to my fanfiction are under the personal fanart tag. I also have more specific tags under that heading: map, dungeon 1, dungeon 2, dungeon 3, dungeon 4, dungeon 5, pixel art, concept art, and characters.
The conlang for Hylian that I came up with can be found here.
Non-fanfiction art that I’ve drawn (including Zelda fanart, among other things) is tagged as doodle
The Etsy account I’m sharing (she does knit/crochet, I do art/sewing/cross-stitch) is here. I’ve got a few digital art listings, but it’s mostly traditional art stuff and finished cross-stitch.
ADHD in the era of the personal brand is wild.
You get into a thing and hyperfocus harder than anyone ever has hyperfocused. Dozens, hundreds of posts across multiple platforms. You discover things no one knows, you create many new things, you intangibly weave your very digital soul into the threads of this niche thing’s fabric. You are now known as “The Thing Guy” on several websites (despite not being a guy). People screenshot it and crosspost it to other websites, and the comments are like “OH IT’S THE THING GUY AGAIN!”
three weeks later, you drop it like a stone. You still want to do it, but you have no more motivation, and you can’t force yourself to touch it again. Your brain just goes “bored now” and moves on.
Mere months later someone goes “hey, aren’t you The Thing Guy?”. You are suddenly smoking a cigarette. You take a deep drag. “Used to be, long ago… back in March”. They look at the calendar. It’s halfway through May.
felt the urge to dump all the doodles… fry moefication goes on
You have developed a reputation for being an expert matchmaker. Whenever you’re around, people who meet each other end up falling in love. But what no one else sees is that Cupid has been trying to shoot you with an arrow for a long time now, and all you’ve been doing is dodging them.
hey! don’t do this! if it tears or otherwise leaks in any way you’re going to get cheese and meat grease in your toaster and that’s a really really great way to start fires. toasters are made for bread. they are not made for anything else and especially not something that is going to potentially drip grease as it heats up
i realized that just scrolling by this addition is easy to miss or skim over but tl;dr:
trying to gauge how common this is — have you ever been to the cinema by yourself?
no
yes, a couple of times
yes, regularly
I never go the cinema/see results
Cuban solenodon (Atopogale cubana)
The Dublin spire isn’t a bad looking landmark per se but why does it look like it was specifically designed to pop blimps
It looks like whoever designed this hates balloons.
It’s a 120 meter tall stainless steel spike. Can’t go in it.
this looks like it was designed specifically so you could trip a kaiju and impale them with it
I used to hate it, but it actually makes more sense when you’re actually in/moving around Dublin lol.
Most buildings in Dublin are less than 5 storeys high, so you can see the Spire from most of the city centre, and get to the rest of the city from it fairly easily.
The Spire is designed so it works as a landmark you can see from almost anywhere.
Before Google Maps was really a thing, and even now it is, you could use it as a physical reference point to move around the city, and you’re kind of drawn to it one way or the other naturally. It’s kind of a giant IRL map pin.
That means there’s always a group of people at the base; teenagers meeting up with their buddies before setting off for the day, tour groups, folks from out of town just off the bus waiting their friends, and - my perpetual favourite - well dressed people with visible nerves trying to act cool as they wait for their dates.
So rather than a blimp defense system, think of it more like a spawn point.
Also when there’s a Star Wars movie they turn it into a lightsaber.
for those interested, this is a good example of how “Major structure you can see from everywhere” is a good thing for cities. The needle, though maybe not loved by everyone, is exactly as EJF says - a navigational reference point.
If you were ever lost, you could look for the needle and identify a major spot in the city. This can help avoid getting turned around (since you can track your direction in reference to a single point) , or provide a known spot to return to if you get disoriented.
This would also mean that if someone was new, they could learn the directions from the needle to where they were staying, and then travel the rest of the city with confidence that they can find their way back when they are done.
Water towers can serve a similar purpose in smaller towns, which is one of the reasons why they’re often kept, even when no longer used for storing water.
In conclusion, make fun of how it looks all you want, but this giant needle is now part of vital city infrastructure.
Every single time I see someone shittalk homeless folks I instantly and irrecoverably lose all respect for them.
Yeah, people living in feral conditions sometimes behave poorly. You wouldn’t always be better.