I wanted to draw the different layers that Sarsenbi has to wear as his oracle garb. He wears it most of the time (and currently in the Strahd campaign, it’s his only clothing). He’ll only take off his veil and head scarf around people who he feels comfortable with and in private. If not wearing his oracle clothes, he’ll usually wear some kind of scarf on his head :3
-You discover a new document in your “completed” folder. It’s 20k words of fantasy and adventure. You have no memory of writing it.
- You take a sip of your coffee and set it down to type. After a moment, you take another sip only to find the cup empty. You have written ten words.
- You go to take a shower and discover writing on your skin. Dialogue, character description, tips for edits. You don’t remember bringing pen to flesh.
- The cursor blinks at you. You blink back. Time stretches as you blink, back and forth, back and forth until, at last, you both stop blinking entirely. Nothing gets written.
- The same word appears three times in the same paragraph. You edit them out, only to find them, again, three paragraphs down. You close your laptop and decide to go shopping. You stare at the word flashing by on the way to the store. You feel followed.
- Your pen carves vicious corrections onto a printed copy of your story. Later, you will not remember the way you grit your teeth while editing or why calling a character effervescent is “superfluous.”
- There are words scrawled on receipts, on post its, on torn out scraps of paper all over your room. You recognize your handwriting on most of them and choose to ignore those bits in handwriting you do not.
- Your mom asks about your day. You do not know how to explain the exhaustion in your bones or the way your neck aches with the weight of eyes you’d tried to leave on the page or the way your fingers are still typing phantom words against your thighs. You tell her nothing happened.
- Your roommates are concerned. You have not spoken in days. You wonder who it was you were whispering to last night as you scratched out another outline at the kitchen table.
- Your computer screen goes dark while you stare at your last sentence, trying to think of where to go next. You did not know that your lips could curl like that or your eyes could look so black.
Day 3 of @blupjeansweek! Couldn’t come up with anything clever so decided to just design some outfits instead
[ID: a cartoony cell-shaded drawing of Barry and Lup dancing together. Lup is a slim, brown skinned elven woman with dark brown wavy hair done up in a messy bun. She wears a orange and yellow dress with a golden ring shaped like a sun at the top, her hair held up by a sun-shaped tie and wearing sun-shaped ear rings. She is following the lead of Barry, who is a stout, chubby pale-skinned human man with rectangular glasses and short brown greying hair. He is wearing an ornate blue and silver 3-piece suit with a blue tie decorated with stars and crescent moons. A silver moon-shaped charm is hooked over one of his vest buttons, and the pattern of crescent moons and stars follows the silver trim of his jacket. They are looking each other in the eyes as they dance and both are smiling energetically. END]
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but if the phrase “self care” doesn’t resonate with you, try calling it “system maintenance” and see if that clicks.
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