Ser Damodred and her Ward 💙 🐟

It was healing to draw a bedraggled Rosamund Pike

Tumblr Tuesday: The Wheel Weaves as The Wheel Wills

The Wheel of Time has two episodes left, and emotions are running as high as the White Tower of Tar Valon. This one is all about the gals, their pals, and their lovers—if the fanart you're churning out at frankly alarming rates is anything to go by. Jk, we love it, please never stop. Here's a small collection of beautiful fanart for you while you bit-chompingly await the next episode.

Please be mindful of some mild spoilers (if you squint) ahead!

@by-izzmizz:

@wot-tidbits:

@flo-n-flon:

@grechkathekasha:

@jxsmindoodles:

@meyonherown:

@blacksalander:

@moiraineology:

@coconutbramblesprite:

@caprasoleil:

@sohndesmondes:

@mirandakat:

@c01dwitch:

@thatordinaryoddity:

@kaiartx:

@emillungs:

she’s offering you suspicions things purely for research and out of scientific curiosity. your actions?

it's been a year so i feel more comfortable talking about it..

when you're atheist and you lose someone, religious people don't really know how to interact with you. it's fine, we have different worldviews.

'He's in a better place, now.'

Sorry auntie, but I don't believe that. I believe that his brain stopped working at 5h55pm on december 11th 2022, and that's it. Nothing after that.

It makes grief very difficult, because not believing in god or the afterlife also means accepting that you will never, ever see that person again. That's it. The end. Nada mas.

But, back to the aunties and other faceless people gravitating in the grey blurry waters of your awareness.

They tell you 'He's with god now' and you tell them 'Yeah I don't believe that' and.

they. get. annoyed.

Here I am, gutted open, the worst day of my life, barely holding myself together, and they! Get annoyed that I won't smile and entertain their point of view!

Another faceless person tried to heal me with cristals. She also got annoyed when I told her I didn't believe in that.

I usually don't really mind religious people. It's fine, we have different worldviews. I think I'm right but so do they. As long as they're good people, I don't judge them for their faith.

I'll even be grateful for them trying to console me. I get that you're trying to give me strength and love. Thank you.

But I'm going to be true to myself, yes even when I'm mad with shock and grief. And I still can't believe they got annoyed that I didn't play along to placate them, on the worst day of my life.

(I wanted to share because I've never heard anyone talk about atheism and grief, and the loneliness that comes out of it.)

I have not lost anyone recently, but I purchased this book some time ago and found it helpful: Comforting Thoughts about Death that Have Nothing to Do with God.

Because as you say, there's very little discussion of how to think about death and handle grief as an atheist, when you don't have the comfort of thinking they're in an afterlife, they're just gone.

Please folks, whatever your own beliefs are, when you are comforting someone, you must align with *their* views and beliefs. You're religious and they're atheist? Maybe talk about how their loved one isn't suffering anymore, or remind your friend that they have a community around them who will support them as they grieve. You're atheist and they're religious? Go for that "they're in a better place" language, or that God is with them in their grief.

This is not a time that's about you. It's about the person that's grieving and you need to use the language that will connect with them! If you're not sure what to say, just tell them you're there for them and be present with them.

She can't help it, she sees a Bhaalspawn, she adopts it.

Minthara after killing everyone in the grove being like “and now we will have EVIL SEX where we CUDDLE and GENTLY SPOON afterwards” will never not be funny to me

if there‘s one thing about the forsaken, it’s that they’re gonna have homosexual tension with the people they’re torturing

how do draw good

this fucking post

i finally found it

In the light of Rosamund Pike saying her favourite character beside Moiraine is Siuan (and being extremely right in that opinion), I thought I'd unearth my masterpiece I never posted on here which is a perfect representation of my love for Siuan

My wife and I were discussing the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (specifically from the 1980s) and she referred to Master Splinter as “Big Rat Daddy.”

I wish to inform you all that this is now what I will be calling Nine-Fingers Keene.

The fact Emma Gregory's only announced meet and greet in the US is this Saturday across the country, tears at my soul.

I'm fucking praying to whatever thing is listening that she has a long line of people excited to meet her. I hope they get pictures with her. I hope they get prints and merch signed. I hope they tell her how awesome she is, how she brings Minthara to life, how much they love her work and love Minthara. I hope she has to cut the line off because so many people are there to see her.

She deserves so many fucking flowers for her work, and she needs to be recognized.