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Current Obsession: She Who Became the Sun

@dustteller

Arlen|She/Her/Any|Puertorriqueña Art, writing, and HCs courtesy of yours truly. #myart is my art tag I use both Dusteller and Orphicadmium as account names

Nobody does haunting the narrative like Troy.

It was a city that was doomed to fall from the moment it was built, and yet is the only city that never truly died. Sparta and Mycenae have long since become tombs of the past, places that have been subsumed by their history, but Troy? Troy still exists in our mind's eye, burning. It's people fled the city, or were dragged out as slaves, but they were still Trojans, and all the dozens of cities they built were built in Troy's image. Aeneas carried the gods of Troy to italian shores, and him and his bloodline built Troy over and over into the countryside. When Augustus took the throne as the first Roman emperor, he built his nation by reminding the people they were Trojans and Rome was still Troy. I don't think there is a single other city in the western canon that haunts the narrative of our civilization quite like Troy does.

Oh, okay. I see. You think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your closet and you select out, oh I don’t know, that gaslight gatekeep girlboss meme, for instance, because you’re trying to tell the world that you think modern feminism has been co-opted by corporations. But what you don’t know is that that meme is not from Instagram, it's not from Twitter, it's not from Tiktok, it’s actually from Tumblr. You’re also blithely unaware of the fact that in January 2021, Tumblr user missnumber1111 posted, "today's agenda: gaslight gatekeep and most importantly girlboss." And then I think it was a-m-e-t-h-y-s-t-r-o-s-e, wasn’t it, who reblogged it with an image of the phrase edited over a piece of "Live, Laugh, Love" wall art? And then gaslight gatekeep girlboss showed up in the feeds of eight different Twitter repost accounts. Then it filtered down through Instagram and then trickled on down into some tragic “alt side of Tiktok” where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin. However, that meme represents millions of notes and countless Tumblr users and so it’s sort of comical how you think that you’ve made a choice that exempts you from Tumblr when, in fact, you’re wearing the meme that was selected for you by the people in this room. From a pile of “stuff.”

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That’s……a fucking WOMBAT?!?!

i thought wombats were small. That looks photoshopped!

That’s Patrick! A wombat raised since he was a joey on a wildlife park in Victoria, Aussie, he’s known as both the oldest and biggest wombat we know of!

Most wombats average around 30 to 40 inches, so fat Pat is definitely an outlier. For comparison here’s a more ‘regular’ wombat. 

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I can’t speak for everyone, but I know that personally, I had always figured wombats were kinda like groundhogs in the USA. Not “small” small, not like a rat or a cottontail rabbit, but, y'know. Woodchuck sized. Punxsutawney Phil sized.

When I visited Australia shortly after college and went to one of the zoos and saw a wombat the first time, and learned they are the size of small children and can weigh 50-70lbs, I was VERY taken aback. Because we have what I THOUGHT was a pretty comparable animal. I had seen pics like this

And we’ve got, y'know. this thing.

I figured they’re probably the closest thing we have to wombats, and PROBABLY filled a similar niche, if not exact, and were PROBABLY close in size given the pics I’d seen of them… but I’d never seen a pic with a size reference, so I was not prepared.

I do wonder if Australians that know about woodchucks/groundhogs know they’re small, or were surprised to find out they’re small, compared to wombats.

I kind of suck at tagging, so I made this infographic to help make it easier.

Hey, thanks for making this!  I’ve never struggled with what to put in tags on my fic, but I’ve never been systematic about it, either–I just kind of put whatever.

The categories seem like a really useful way to think about it–not every fic will necessarily have something for each category, but it’s a good framework for either thinking of things to put, or making sure you don’t skip things that would be good to put.  

Image description: Tags are Tricky…a quick and dirty guide

1 Canon How does it relate to canon? Alternative Universe Canon Compliant Canon Divergence Crossover Fix-it-Fic Future Fic Missing Scenes & Codas Pre-canon/Backstory

2 Format Is it something other than a story? 5+1 Things Art Dialogue-Only Epistolary Online & Social Media Podfic Poetry Songfic Texting

3 Tone How does it make you feel? Angst Crack Fluff Humor Hurt/Comfort Smut and PWP Whump

4 Relationship Describe the relationship Platonic Coming Out, Families, Friendship, Siblings Getting Together Amnesia, Body Swap, Childhood Friends, Different First Meeting, Drunken Confessions, Enemies to Lovers, Fake Dating, Flirting, Friends to Lovers, Huddling for Warmth, Meet-Cute, Miscommunication, Road Trips, Roommates, Sharing a Bed, Slow Burn, Strangers to Lovers, Trapped in Elevator PG-13 Cuddling, First Kiss, Kissing and Making out Sexy Times ABO, Dirty Talk, First Time, Kink, Roleplay, Sex Pollen, Sexting and Phone Sex, Voyeurism Commitment Arranged Marriage, Established Relationship, Honeymoons, Infidelity, Jealousy, Kid Fic, Long Distance Relationship, Pregnancy, Weddings & Proposals

5 Theme What is the theme? Activities and Interests Baking and Cooking, Camping, Celebrations, Crafts and Hobbies, Drinking or Getting High, Fashion, Holidays, Pets, Piercings and Tattoos, Religion, Sports, Theater and Dance, Yoga Adaptions Fairy Tales, Historical, Reality Show, TV/Movie/Book/Adaption Character Driven Anxiety and Mental Health, Introspection, Queer Themes Jobs Artist, Celebrities, Crimes and Suspense, Firefighters, Lifeguards, Media and Journalism, Medical, Military, Musiscians, Pilots, Retails, Royality, Teachers Other worldly Apocalypse, Faries, Ghosts, Magic and Fantasy, Parallel Universe, Sci-fi, Shapeshifters, Superheros, Supernatural, Tentacles, Time Travle, Vampires, Witches, Zombies Places Bookstores & Libaries, Coffee Shops & Restaurants, College, Flower Shops, High School, Summer Camp, Wineries

Note: These are examples, not a definitive list, but I hope the categories are useful" end Image description

Tag your fics! It’s how we find most of them…

Either my article on Bad Bunny and Nations is perfect or I will drop dead. On the spot.

I have. Anxiety.

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