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Ok so I went to my cousin's graduation today, some highlights include: 1. I have this list of names to use in various writing, because I'm bad at coming up with names...and then I started writing down graduates' names that I thought sounded cool...so now my list is considerably longer and I love the names people have, they'll be appearing in stories for quite a while. 2. We went to Costco and my older brother and I ran around and found all the best samples, I felt like a five year old again (especially since I haven't been in a Costco for literally years) 3. We went to a park for a picnic after and some of my cousins were playing spikeball...they got the spikeball stuck in a pine tree. So they threw their second spikeball up, and it got stuck. So my cousin threw his shoe up, and it got stuck. Next was a volleyball, then a frisbee, then several water bottles and then finally stuff started falling...then my cousin got stuck in the tree. Then my other cousin stood on her dad's shoulders and tried to reach the spikeball. After about 15 minutes, they finally got it down. Anyway, I'm about to go to my school's Morp, hope y'all are doing well!!

So I'm thinking if Stormlight heals you based on your self image then there should be no upper limit to how muscular a Knight Radiant can get. I'm talking straight meat diesel. Here's my case in point: the pump. When your muscles are having a pump you experience a feeling of... euphoria. And your muscles look physically bigger because they're swollen and flooded with blood. With this in mind, we can assume that anyone with Stormlight Healing could get catastrophically storming huge. Here's how we do it. Kaladin and the boys suck down a load of stormlight and rock up to the gym. They then work out till they hit a pump and stare at themselves shirtless while the euphoric feeling of the pump brainwashes them into thinking they actually look like this. Stormlight healing reinforces their self image and it doesn't have to actually do all that much work because their muscles are already that big. Rinse and repeat. It goes without saying this would work best on The Lopen. Within the week we have to give Bridge Four new names. Kaladin Stormblessed - Kaladin Swoleblessed Rock - Block Teft - Chest The Lopen - The Yokeden Skar - Bar Sigzyl - Squatzyl Dabbid - Lattib Drehy - Wheyhy

Welcome back for this weeks update on my life!! (imagine it in a radio voice) ON TODAYS UPDATE! everything sucks but hey I got Cal

Here's some rapid fire life updates: Feeling somewhat agoraphobic as of late. I'm pretty sure that's the right word. Tired. I am also that. I'm learning piano! It's going pretty well, I'm not too bad at picking up on new pieces. And then the biggest one, which some of you know already: I have a girlfriend! So that's pretty great.

My creative process

guys the drawing skills the drawing skills are skilling

there is pain and there is sorrow but nothing compares to watching the light leave somebody’s eyes when they say, ”you know, i don’t think i ever loved you.” there is pain behind that. because not even a month ago you said to them, ”look into my eyes, see my pain. my sins. my horrors. look there, into my eyes, and love me.” and they said, ”i will.” and now they see you with contempt with hatred with regret and animosity and they just want you gone.

It also confirms to me, 90% sure, that Shallan will go to the Spiritual Realm and experience it. Infact theory time, since spiritual realm has both the past and the future, this will be how Brandon gives us info about shallan's past without dedicated flashbacks. She will have a set of quick visions of the past and the future , like Rey touching the lightsaber in the Force Awakens, and we will have a bunch of theory fodder for the next 5 years. Chana can be revealed as shallan's mom, while also teasing about future Shallan and ghostblood fights in the cosmere.

DEATH YOUR DEATH MY DEATH EVERYBODYS DEATH DEATH death… So yeah. Sledding. Wheeee…. I LEFT NO RING WITH HER WHAT MEANS- I AM THE MAN SHE LOVES ME I willlll be heeeerrrreeeeeeeeeeeeee even if you decide to get rid of my favorite sweater This has been a small section of my brain as it fails to memorize everything and then some. Thank you for listening, please come again.

The difference between God and Miguel from the spider verse movies is that one cares about the individual and one doesn’t give a crap about the individual. that movie is so thought provoking though.

okay so i finally got two projects done that have been hanging over my head for weeks and this feeling this feeling is enormous and incredible

Weeelll howdy! I'm going riding tonight!!! I'm really excited it's been so long- Stress is not fun. Love y'all ~ Stick

we’re under a tornado watch again. in case you don’t know what that is, it’s basically like “oh my gosh, mom, we could have tacos tonight because we have all the ingredients” but you haven’t actually decided to have tacos. aka there’s all the right conditions for a tornado to appear, but nobody has spotted one. that’s when it becomes a tornado warning and you have to take shelter and the sirens go off. nothing too crazy’s going on right now, the sky’s just being a lil suspicious and it’s hella warm and humid with some cool breezes going the other way. prime tornado conditions, but we’ll see what happens

here is(are) the drawing(s) from the aforementioned SU before trauma after trauma hehehe these are obviously super duper rough but i’m excited to see how they end up!

Few things are as sad as being a fan of a universe and franchise with a boat-ton of lore and also being the only person you know who's a fan of that franchise.

we’re celebrating my little brother’s birthday today (it’s actually tomorrow) so we’re spending the day at topgolf! it’s been a blast already. hope y’all have an awesome day!

update: the elbow is not, in fact, broken. hooray! it still hurts, but i have a fair range of motion and was even able to wash my hair in the shower! also, my head injury is feeling better as well. it only hurts to the touch, and ive stopped getting headaches from it yay!

GUYS!!! THE DUCKS ARE DUCKING!!!!

I'm almost certain this idea has been done before, but I couldn't find anything posted here. Please note that this is a rough chart and not in any way definitive; it is a personal interpretation of how I think Shard Combination would work. All shards within a white box are a combo I see as being plausible. All Shards within a black box are double combos: doesn't count Grey boxes indicate Shards that would have extreme difficulty mixing. Pink boxes indicate Shard combos we know are canon. Green boxes indicate Shard combos that are possibly canon or could become canon. Blue boxes are not real Shards. They are my guess as to the sixteenth Shard and its respective combinations. I am aware that there may be inconsistencies with my logic. This is highly opinionated. However, I thought it would be beneficial to share it. If you have any questions, ask! If you have corrections, also ask! I am here to serve.

GUYS GUYS IM READING A BOOK AGAIN IT MAKES ME SO HAPPY

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*inhale* Hi people! I'm having some... anxiety issues, shall we say? Here's why. So... I'm not going to be online until Saturday night ish EST. Uhh... if I'm on before that, my anxiety made me physically sick and it was bad enough that I had to come home early. Love you guys... ~ Stick

taking a self-love break drawing hadley before/after trauma, super fun and i’m absolutely in love with her eyes. they’re maybe the most beautiful thing i’ve ever seen im sincerely sorry to anybody i may have snapped at or closed down or anything like that. i was extremely overwhelmed and had a pretty bad day, but that’s not an excuse and i’m sorry. love y’all!

Life update: First day back to school this week was pretty chill, just hafta write a whole case for debate and then do a study guide for bio and that's basically it (it's really not but that's all I'm letting myself do for today. Baby steps!). Hoping to be done by 4:30 (that gives me 30ish mins). My arm is officially hella jacked up. The pain has now spread through my whole arm, upper and lower, including my shoulder, I have next to no grip strength (accidentally chucked my phone while walking again due to this), and I never imagined unzipping my backpack could hurt so bad (physically). I can't even wash my hands without moderate to severe pain because of the rotating motion my arm makes. Oh, and did I mention it's my dominant arm? Lol so my mom said we should ice it and immobilize it with a wrap and a sling for the next few days--lowkey wish i was ambidextrous because that would make this so much easier. There's also some weird bruising going on with my veins on the inside of my elbow. Elbow... pit? With show choir done for just over a month now, my life is less chaotic but also less awesome. Which is okay! I can't wait for next season. ALSO I TALKED TO HALY DURING SCHOOL (we do this almost every day) AND IT MADE ME SO SCUDDING HAPPY AND I JUST LOVE HER SO MUCH AND I THINK I MIGHT VISIT HER THIS SUMMER. Fingers crossed! Hoping to draw a lil lovey dovey scene between Nova and Xander a bit later hehe so that'll be fun But yep Scud what else did i want to say... OH! Last night I was almost asleep when I heard meowing and felt little whiskers on my face and paws on my chest, and when I laughed, Oslo just plopped down right on me and purred and meowed quietly until I fell asleep. He likes his belly rubs lol. I just adore when he comes and seeks me out and lays down with me <333 like there are no words so instead have these pictures of him HE'S SO ADORABLE I CAN'T. anyways i should go do my hwk now lol

Tomorrow is last day of teaching for me. I know all of the feelings are gonna hit after I’m done, but I feel an inkling of them now. Hence this mini rant. Y'all, you don’t know how much potential joy and potential grief you provide your teachers. Same goes for your classmates too. And yes, I know that teachers provide potential grief and joy for students too. Both sides affect one another significantly. My joy skyrockets when I see my students working and actually contributing to what we do in class, regardless of whether or not their answers are correct. When I see my students simply trying i get the dopamine. If your teachers are good teachers, and anything like the ones I’ve worked with/tried to be, they love to see you succeed, and want you to graduate. The sheer amount of behind the scenes stuff that they do to get students to graduate is insane. I know school is rough, I’ve been on both sides of the story and the roughness is constant. Both sides are just trying to make it to the finish line. So if you got a teacher who has helped you at all or done something small that makes things a little bit easier, even if it is just as simple as responding to emails quickly or giving back a graded assignment the next day, tell them thanks for me. [RANT COMPLETED]

Yes, yes yes I know! another SU! BUT! I'm being a child at 11:00 my time Chillin' on my bed at the rental house in my pajamas and watching Soul Surfer. Snuggled in my blanket. Does it get more iconic than that? The answer is yes. It does when Veil is here. But she's not, so I'm being iconic all by myself. ~ Stick

YOU GUYS IM LAUGHING SO HARD RIGHT NOW WHAT THE HECK so I’m drawing and I needed really specific references so I just made some AND THEY LOOK SO GOOFY OH MY SCUD

Deicide. It’s not a word you hear every day, but it’s the only one adequate in your present situation. No doubt the news has already overrun T’Telir like wildfire. Those who Return always do die eventually, of course – some believe it is the calling and purpose behind their second life, to offer their divine breath as a blessing to others. But the breath of Dawntrue the Merciful was casually and blasphemously extinguished with the twist of a knife. Worse, it was one of his own priests that did him in, or so all the evidence suggests. Who else would have that level of access to the palace? Who else would know when and where to find Dawntrue alone? You are in mourning, and you have politely but firmly been refused the right to leave the palace grounds. You have each other’s company, and the knowledge that some of you are murderers. ❁ Factions Priests - Win by eliminating the Heretics. Heretics - Win by outnumbering the Priests. Core Rules The game is divided into 24 hour cycles. Every cycle there’s an execution vote. Two vote minimum. Ties decided randomly. Every cycle the heretics can choose one player to kill. Everyone gets 1 PM. You can include as many others as you want, you can open it whenever you want, but you get to create exactly 1 PM in the course of the game. If there is a Day 1 execution, the victim is flipped normally but becomes Returned. They can no longer vote or take actions and don’t count towards win conditions, but they are unkillable and untargetable, and they can still speak. The last 2 members of the Heretic faction left standing become Lovers. If one dies, they both die. Roles High Priest: In order to perform your duties, you possess the Third Heightening. This allows you to distinguish colors particularly well, especially green from red. You may visit another player every cycle. Every visit after your first, you learn if the player you visited has the same alignment as the previous player you visited. ❁ I will plan to close signups on May 5 at 6:00 UTC, and start the game an hour after that. Rollovers will generally occur at 7:00 UTC. ❁ Participants Quick Links

mmm. sandwiches.

here’s another potential faire fit (don’t question the tape on the wall ok) on the aesthetic scale it’s prolly like a 7 but comfort it’s like 3 i need a better drape thing situation and also not to tie the corset so tight next time ☝

HES MY ART DADDY - @Kajsa

My apple blossoms are starting!! Only on our tiniest tree but still!!

Thank you everyone :,) it’s been really great today, one of my favorites by far! Im 18 now and Im so excited for everything to come! :]]]

Numberless... Like stars in the sky The lights of the city shine A thousand stories I'll never know There are too many for human minds to ever see I'm alone. Lights flash red Like scars on my arm Like panic inside my chest It's distinct against white city lights A story I don't know, I cry anyway. Ambulance. True stories Forever we hide Smiles we fake, tears we smother When will we see each other clearly? Instead of lights we see a twink'ling city and never think about the ones whose stories are lost. My story.

I really really hate sunburn. and stress. and anxiety, now that you mention it… and horse slobber on my watch. Cinder decided that it was his yummy snack this evening, and tried to eat it. nahh, fr tho, riding was good. ima be mad sore tomorrow, but it was worth it ~ Stick

More juicy notes from Brad Wilcox +Covenants are not a cold contract, but a warm relationship. +The atonement doesn't just bring us back, but bring us higher. If the atonement was only to get us to come back to Heaven, why did we leave? So that we could get back better than we were. So we can get to higher ground. +The atonement is the battery that makes the whole plan of salvation to work. +Don't focus on the growth, just apply the doctrine of Christ daily. +God didn't give us weakness. We had it before our spirits gained bodies and before our intelligences gained spirits. +Strength easily gained is not Strength. +He doesn't care about right now as much as He cares about 20 years in the future. +Even when you go to the back of the bus, the bus is still taking you closer to home. So just stay on the bus. +Worthiness never was Flawlessness. Worthiness is Honesty.

"Something that is yours forever is never precious." I forgot how much I love My Name is Asher Lev until last night, it's a beautiful book. We close tonight. I'll cry a lot. Maybe you'll get a poem or something. Maybe you'll just get silence for a while. We'll see. On a related note, though, I just found out I have auditions next Monday. Big ones. One of the classes I want to get into is only accepting 20 people, the other 15. And of those 15, 9 get to go on our big fun trip to the Shakespeare festival in Cedar City. It's a little terrifying. I have to memorize a dramatic contemporary monologue, a humorous shakespeare monologue, and 32 bars of a broadway song that furthers the plot of the musical. I also have to write a work resume, a play resume, and come with a headshot and sheet music (all printed). On top of all this, there's also regular school, big tests, homework, trying to convince people I'm not a nerd, trying to get a couple jobs this summer, not die, keep my mental health alive, etc. etc. Am I stressed? Why, yes. How did you know? Anyway, I'll be here pretty sporadically. If I poof for a bit, sorry. Hope you're all doing well.

Just left the school for the last time as an official student teacher. The feels do be hitting.

SA spoilers

The moment as the drop in the song I was listening to came in, it started hailing. WHY IS IT HAILING SO MUCH??? Wait, wait, I wanna see if it'll stop when I turn it off- Dang it, I don't control the weather with music. Wait a second, that's actually a cool idea for a magic system.

y'all my bangs are being unnecessarily fluffy today it seems fun but trust me it's not it's making it hard for me to see T~T

Alright, two things: 1) Ticket to ride is a great game. Long, but really fun 2) the movie Escape from Germany is a wonderful movie. Everyone should watch it. And if you do, Elder McOmber is my uncle 3-4 times removed (he's the one with the camera). It's a great story, watch all of it including the credits, they have cool facts in them

Yes, I am aware it was been over a months, but here is finally another miniature, I give you Rlain I will be trying to do better with painting more regularly. And am going to try to get a real camera so the photo doesn’t suck. Anyway I hope y’all enjoy it.

Hey everyone who follows me. Sorry to bother you once more with an SU. I am excited to introduce you to my brother. His username is temporary I think, but anyways, give him a hello and a congrats for reading pretty far into the cosmere.

I watched Miss Potter last night, and was told it was a happy movie. It starts happy, but my gosh it's been a while since I've cried while watching a movie.

the new blue bunny soft serve mint chocolate chip ice cream lowkey tastes like straight toothpaste im so disappointed

uh oooh . . . the temptation to change my username cause I'm bored of it

The ducks are no longer ducking. But! We has pictures! #1: The art SetUp #2: What happens when an actual artist gets ahold of your watercolor notebook ;-; #3: THE WREN IS LITERALLY THAYLEN- ~ Stick

guys becoming an adult feels exhilarating and scary both i mean, ill soon be what the American system calls a "high school senior", and next year off to proper college ive gotten some salaried work and im looking for more so i can buy a secondhand pair of wheels, which i think should be doable ill be able to legally vote and drive and do other things from November storming crackers in a month or so it will be my third shardiversary joined when i was not even 15 and am an 18 come november of this year where did the time go?

GUYS GUYS GUYS LIZ MY SWEET LITTLE DARLING SHE LIVES!! (thanks @Anguished_One and @The Wandering Wizard) Empress: