#aplpaca

[thequeervampiric]

There's different species of vultures yeah, tho even the small ones are at least around chicken size, so def bigger than crows. The one in the post is a species of African vulture (I'd guess either Cape Vulture or White Backed Vulture, leaning cape vulture tho bc the eye looks yellow zoomed in). Vultures in North and South America are actually not super related to Eurasian and African vultures tho

oh dang, okay! interesting!

#aplpaca #birds

[luna-mistrunner]

homura modokamagica

it’s an honor 🫡

#I have the correct Madoka opinions so true #luna.txt #aplpaca #ask game

[aplpaca]

Grey-headed Flying Foxes. Digital collage from a free source image by Geoff Brooks and a public domain image of a eucalyptus flower (which flying foxes pollinate)

#theyre just little guys #except theyre pretty big #bats #art #artists on tumblr #aplpaca's art

[sidereon-spaceace]

I got tagged by @cherryredjoy to list ten songs!

Every Time / Seven Lions and So Below

You Know What You Are? / Nine Inch Nails

PULSE / Tony Ann

RUN THRU ME / MILKBLOOD

Free / Mother Mother

Nel Nome Del Codice / Keygen Church

American Money / BØRNS

Chemicals / The Glitch Mob

Herald of Darkness / Old Gods of Asgard

The Troubles - Alternate Version / U2

I'll tag @personshapedsplder , @tattoosingarishhues , and @aplpaca

#ramblings #the real challenge was not repeating artists I will just queue up whole ass albums for work

[uinferno]

OCtober Day 25 — Gifts

Late birthday gift to @aplpaca. Her PC, Vyma, in my Cyberpunk Mistborn game I've been running.

#oc-tober #bweirdoctober #oc #oc art #not my oc #original character #probably should have drawn her metalminds #oh well #mistborn 500 #cybermag #digital art #illustration #artists on tumblr #art #my art #uinferno art #uinferno #cram spam #<- tag to blog if youre sick of my shit in short succession

[cambodiancheese]

@aplpaca found this quote, decided to draw a picture.

#books #reading #quotes #writeblr #character prompt #creativepromptsforwriting #drawdaily #drawing #dialogue #original writing #tublr #tumblr shit post #drawinyourstyle #lies

[lightspren]

10 songs, 10 people

tagged by @cedar-phoenix and i hope i’m understanding right that it’s “10 songs u like, something you like about them, tag 10 ppl” because THATS WHAT I’M DOING lmfao

Worth It - Haley Heynderickx. This song has been There For Me in ways I can’t fully describe. “Maybe I, maybe I’ve been selfish / Maybe I, maybe I’ve been selfless / Maybe I, maybe I’ve been worthless / Maybe I, maybe I’ve been worth it”

The Graveyard Near the House - The Airborne Toxic Event. Possibly my favorite love song, as morbid as that probably sounds LOL. It’s just so full of meaning. “It’s better to love whether you win or lose or die / It’s better to love, and I will love you ‘til I die”

No Choir - Florence + the Machine. Another that makes me feel things. The opening lines live in my head rent free Forever. “And it’s hard to write about being happy, ‘cause the older I get / I find that happiness is an extremely uneventful subject.”

Not With Haste - Mumford & Sons. I don’t think I can even pinpoint a specific line on this one, it’s just the whole song that gives me Emotions. Something something enjoying all the time we have to it’s fullest and loving fiercely, something idk

Green Screens - Sleeping At Last. If you asked me to tell you what this song was about i’d just stare at you blankly until we both passed out. And yet it Speaks to me.

Almost (Sweet Music) - Hozier. My fave Hozier song, it’s so good and makes me super happy

Eight - Sleeping At Last. “When I see fragile things, helpless things, broken things / I see the familiar” as a kid who grew up in an occasionally volatile household, this song speaks to bruises still on my heart.

Some Nights - fun. SOME NIGHTS I STAY UP CASHING IN MY BAD LUCK lalala I’ve loved this song for over a decade and even in my worst moods, I will scream-sing it in the car.

All At Once - The Airborne Toxic Event. Definitely a song that’s spoken to me thru late teens and 20’s. “We grow old all at once / And it comes like a punch / In the gut, in the back, in the face”

Carry On - fun. Ending on one more song that carried (lol) me through my teen years and into adulthood. “If you’re lost and alone / Or you’re sinking like a stone / Carry on”

now for tagging!! if you don’t wanna do it please don’t feel obligated, it’s just for funsies. and if you wanna do it but i don’t tag you then do it anyway and pretend I did!

@herestothekids @cephalopodvictorious @aplpaca @wendelbarge @imnotokaywiththerunning @whovianuncle @unthinkingclunk @zeromorph @chris-wonder @iwishiwasatraveler

#tag game #kit talks #this got kind of Emotional lol whoops #i have a lot of feelings about music lol #i still wanna make people listen to my ‘me’ playlist lol it is Artfully Crafted

[mxlxdroit]

tagged by @deanmarywinchester absolutely AGES ago to do a receipt! thanks michael :) shoutout to your rhiannon giddens track, i love her music.

i had to do it for the past six months because i haven't used spotify in the last month, apparently

yes, i did buy the boygenius album so i don't have to listen to it on spotify all the time #supportartists

special shoutout to the blur song. it is so good and i want to get that album too

tagging: @aplpaca @satoshihiwatari @thebreakfastgenie @stroyent @charjo @sun-dari if you want to!

#chris talks #tag game

[thebookbin]

Inda

Sherwood Smith

Genre: epic fantasy, military fantasy Publisher: DAW Books (Penguin Random House) Year: 2006

It's easy to tell when certain traits are passed on through family. One of my oldest friends has the exact same sarcastic laugh as her brother. Another friend has a daughter that does the exact same expression of puppy eyes when she wants something. Me? Well, my mom buys stuff off instagram ads like nobody's business. While I don't do that exact same thing, I am easily influenced.

So when I came across a post by @aplpaca about one of her favorite childhood series, I was cautiously intrigued. Then, while waiting for one of my other holds, I discovered my local library had the entire quartet, so I grabbed a copy of Inda, which I read in a single sitting, and I have no regrets (justice for Dogpiss).

Where to even begin? One of my all time favorite tropes is books with child narrators when the books aren't necessarily for children (see: Ender's Game, This Tender Land, Dear Edward). I think children are such an underutilized point of view in books not aimed for children and Sherwood Smith manages it all so well, it's almost like there are two stories happening at once: one in the idyllic world of children and the other harsh light of adulthood.

Inda (who gives Kaladin vibes for the Stormlight Archive fans) is such a singular title character. This first book focuses on his childhood from a bright-eyed second prince to an exiled privateer on the high seas, this book takes you places. Inda, while clearly the main character, is not the only POV character by far. The world Smith builds is fascinating, queernormative, and expansive. It's hard to encompass everything this book is in one short review, so I'll try and hone in on a few specifics.

Smith is such a master of characterization that even the main antagonist, Aldren, most commonly referred to in the book as the Sierlaef, feels tragic. As a young boy with a disability and a distant father, it's so easy to see how in his desperate search for validation, he reaches for the poisonous influence of his uncle. No child should have to bear the weight of such responsibility, distance, and aloofness. As he grows and the adults around him fail him, and he rebuffs all pivotal moments of redemption and his inevitable descent into villainy becomes a tragedy. Just the right word here, a genuine friend there, and the Sierlaef would have grown to be a noble man, if not a good one. Instead, by the end of the novel he goes from misguided, angry teen to a selfish, dangerous, obsessed man. Every single character has this level of detailed motivation, story, and outcome—even the ones you don't like.

This book made me laugh, it made me cry. (Yes, I did cry real tears for a character named Dogpiss by his fellow child soldiers). The love depicted in this book—familial, friendship, duty—is exquisite. There aren't really any romantic relationships I can point to in this installment, most marriages are marriages of convenience or politics and romance isn't a factor. This is a book of loyalty, bonds, and destiny. I can't recommend it enough.

storygraph | bookshop.org | local houston

★★★★★ JUSTICE FOR DOGPISS STARS

#inda #sherwood smith #book review #coming of age #epic fantasy #military fantasy #all time faves #asexual rep #disability rep #fantasy #library #profound #queer #women writers #2006 #daw books #penguin random house #inda quartet #five stars #featured

[tibialtybalt]

10 Characters, 10 Fandoms, 10 tags

Thank you @mdzs-rabbithole for the tag!! In no particular order:

1. Jon Sims (TMA)

2. Jiang Cheng (MDZS)

3. Egwene al'Vere (Wheel of Time)

4. The Hollow Knight (Hollow Knight)

5. Shallan (Stormlight Archive)

6. Sunny (OMORI)

7. Kuro (Sekiro)

8. Eddis (Queen's Thief)

9. Mu Qing (TGCF)

10. Jonathan Harker (Dracula)

I'm tagging: @hoidingaroundthecosmere @sun-dari @hartro-owns-my-heart-ro @pathos-logical @pachimew @mspareader @masteroffoolhardyplans @aplpaca @skyofdarkmatter42 @highmarshall-azure though no pressure obv

#I'll get to your other one soon dw!! Tysm! #this was so HARD akdbsjsk I think about every single character from like 3 media ever. #do you know how close I was to picking rand over egwene and aubrey over sunny and wolf over kuro and sophos over eddis an #tia posts #tia responds to the world

[rlainarin]

tagged for ten fandoms/ten characters/ten tags by @aubergion

gonna vibes it to my blorbos of the day

1: Cosmere - Steris Ladrian

2: Star Trek - Julian Bashir

3: Doctor Who - Bill Potts

4: Warehouse 13 - Claudia Donovan

5: Dragon Age - Sigrun

6: Fullmetal Alchemist - Ling Yao

7: Babylon Five - Marcus Cole

8: Stargate - Daniel Jackson

9: Psych - Shawn Spencer

10: Dragonlance - Sindri Suncatcher

@honeybeeofficial

@aplpaca

@brilliantsnafu

@whodovahdovahwho

@knightofcrows

@circle-of-power

@transslehoff-burrfoot

@mocha-writes

@cosmerestuck

@brightnessrandom

[aplpaca]

look at my eagle collage boy

(digital collage of a Bald Eagle on its nest from a photo by Richard Lee on Upsplash)

#birds #art #artists on tumblr #aplpaca's art

[kidrat]

Tag 10 people you want to know better Tagged by @en-theos (thank u!)

song stuck in my head: uuuuh nge opening I think? I've never watched more than bits and pieces of the start of the show tho lmao

last song I listened to: technically just sleep lofi but before that I was listening to a Karen Jonz so last song 'peças quebradas' by her

favorite color: been on a green kick for a while, really like bright emerald tones / Houseplant Colour. generally a big fan of blue too, especially sky blues and vivid + pale + cool blues.

three favorite foods: there's these rlly good beef brisket noodles from a pho place in the city centre that i have romantic feelings for. been enjoying pbj sandwiches recently too which is random because I never ate them growing up. also ice cream, especially swedish glace chocolate stuff

last thing(s) I googled: lol after the song question I went and googled how you pronounce the letter ç in brazilian portuguese (like an 's' apparently)

dream trip: I don't really desire travel. like it doesn't rlly occur to me so I dont have hypothetical trips i think about? HOWEVER i am excited to go to london w some online friends this month! and to go on a canal boat long weekend w other friends later in summer

tagging @aplpaca @larvamotif @hardoncaulfield @facelessoldgargoyle @nitrosplicer @tyrannuspitch @finelythreadedsky @vracious @thoodleoo @orpheuscas

#tagged #tag game #misc #sorry if everyones been tagged already i know the blorbuscon clutuals are a bit cliquey #other besties and mutuals also free to do it! just added ten and was like 'phew!;

[approximately20eggs]

huh?????

@aplpaca did this post have text for you or did you see Literally Nothing and hit rb

[countdeworde]

tagged by @kensalyn477

Rules: Tag nine people you would like to get to know/catch up with (I'm tagging the magnificent seven that's enough)

Last song: Anytime, anywhere by Nena

Last TV show: Prehistoric planet (once a dino kid always a dino kid)

Currently watching/listening to: Just Communication from Gundam ost

Currently reading: I finished Beasts of Burden graphic novel a few days ago.

Current obsession: Wolf (that's a nickname, I nicknamed a guy I have a crush on)

tagging @aplpaca @summer-glitzglitz @feline17ff @charmergirl2468 @bcsterling @apologetically-nerdy @blueflyingturtleontheway

[kandrakelsier]

Quals are done, so I finally get to this. Thanks @merfilly for the tag!

10 characters

How to play: name 10 of your favorite characters from 10 different fandoms, then tag 10 people to do the same.

-Ahsoka Tano (Star Wars) -Vin Venture (Cosmere) -Edward Kenway (Assassin's Creed) -Bernadetta Varley (Fire Emblem) -Catra (She-Ra) -Eudico (Warframe) -Blake Belladonna (RWBY) -Hana Song (Overwatch) -Countess Amara (Codex Alera) -Isara Gunther (Valkyria Chronicles)

Tagging: @helianthus-hellion, @paltrymarshmallow, @cadenzarose, @ittybittytatertot, @hildegard-von-bangin, @ariapmdeol, @sherpawhale, @aplpaca, @onedragontorulethemall, @charjo

#textag #tag games #tagging standard terms and conditions apply #I realize i'm not in many fandoms #but i'm deep in the ones im in #also a lot of my favorite characters are just player characters #so that's just me projecting #see Noble 6; Sole Survivor; Saints Row boss etc etc.