ughh im dreading tomorrow. i was excited but all of the qtubbo stuff is making me nervous it wont end up wellllll
i just want to see my cubito (qfit) happy for once :[ i want him to have a win!!! this has been a many many months long journey of growth to reach this point. this is the first person (other than ramon) hes willing to tell about the contract and about madagio, and god knows its taken so long for him to get to a point of even considering saying anything. he still has SO MANY fears pac will end up hating him, or get scared of the danger and reject him, despite everything, despite all of ramons reassurance. i want everything to pay off well for him. all the progress, all the trust to not be sabotaged. i want him to be happy. aaaaa
All of you are probably aware that I am a man who loves to think about the Ancients’ daily lives, but most of all I am a man who loves to think about them being happy.
The lives not spent in perpetual meditation and self-sacrifice, those spent truly living for something other than the hope to properly die.
Moon speaks of big festivals, of classical paintings so adored that people forged family portraits in their style – family portraits – they cared for their families enough to get them painted together!
She reads a fragment of a poem, from an ancient farmer. Their name is Pel, nowhere near as vivid as those of the others. In the mists of memory, your image dances, like the motes of dust, in a ray of sunlight that pierces a dark room. It is a love poem, it seems; to whom, no one knows. Nonetheless, it is a work of love, and nothing else.
She reads a dark pink pearl. In it are over six hundred memories of one person, who lived near the end of their civilization. They were married with children. They spoke in debate contests, and were apparently incredibly stylish. They preserved the memories of a tasty meal from their childhood, a triumphant victory in a debate, and a peaceful moment in their older years. They were left here to be cherished by those who remained. None do, except you.
But still, you are here. You remember what they were.
Things that let me know it's your art: pastels, purple, soft & lightly drawn lines. backgrounds are simple or not there - not because of skill but because the background isn't the focus
thinking of all the undiscovered species that must have ended up swept under the rug because they were discovered on a site intended for development or resource extraction and the discovery of a rare species would have stopped the plans
thinking of all the undiscovered species that exist in unprotected and heavily disturbed places that get overlooked because everyone thinks only "untouched wilderness" has undiscovered species
thinking of all the undiscovered species that don't get studied because if everyone knew that "already destroyed," "no longer wild" places contained priceless biodiversity, developers couldn't destroy them for profit