Author: inkychild

vagabondprophet:

Embroidered

Many words I’ve written for thee

Deeds done and songs sung.

Six years ago you came

I remember it so clearly

Your blood was too sweet for safety

That it had to be diluted

And your mother

Looking smaller and stronger

Than ever before

Stumbling to feed you.

The pain in her face

Overcome by the joy

At seeing you expect her

Her soft touch and her smell

Her sound and her warmth.

That just by being herself

She could bring you comfort,

Eased all the pain of your coming.

Now from baring you into the world

Your mother now has scars

That she wears proudly,

As though embroidered with pride.

So many days ago,

So many spills and fevers and tears,

And each one is such a treasure.

My clever curly boy,

Young storyteller in the making,

Thank you for teaching me

That the most important thing I’ll ever do

Is be a loving dad for you.

– Vagabond Prophet

@delightfulharmonypoetry for our boy on his birthday.

I dont often actually cry over writing things but kudos

msmkcreates:

wickedhex-reblogs:

padmegreene15:

gravity-light:

janedoodles:

heidmaan:

joyfulldreams:

inuysha-link-lover:

algrenion:

i think there should be AU’s and then there should be UA’s

because Universe Alterations would be a good name for when your characters are in the exact same universe but you’re altering just a couple of plot points or a few character traits

EVERYONE WE ALL NEED TO MAKE THIS A THING

GOD THIS WOULD MAKE SHIT SO MUCH EASIER

guys. GUYS. THAT SHOULD TOTALLY BE A THING GUYS

So, UA is for things like “Everything is the same except” while AU is for “complete alterations of the way the setting and characters work”?

I can dig it.

YES

REBLOG THIS NOW FOR SAVE A LIFE

ASDFGHJKL

@msmkcreates @dicc-nugget @violetmaysnow

The theory behind my adoptables, actually! “Everything’s the same except ___”

maxofs2d:

hexcolour:

arizonabay:

Worked on this girl for 9 months. Now this new music video comes out and she’s immensely popular, arguably one of the most popular characters in the LoL universe.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m really glad she’s a huge hit, it’s super exciting to see so many people love the character design and the gameplay, and know that I contributed directly and significantly to the behind-the-scenes engineering that makes it all work. It’s validating.

But it’s also so fucking melancholy to know I did so much work and put in so much time for such a shitty company, run by shitty people, and the reward I got for it was unemployment. 

I threw a lot into this character. I cried at work. I started getting panic attacks, which I’ve never gotten before. I developed persistent heart palpitations from the daily overwhelming stress and had to go to the hospital (this is true, seriously.) I basically dropped all my friends outside of work. My manager (and his manager!) lied to me constantly to keep me working. They said I was doing a great job but to keep it up. Don’t worry, it’s going to turn out great, and it’ll all be worth it in the end – recognition, a raise, probably a promotion in short order. They promised me the world. When she was finally finished, I didn’t even get to go to the release party, they just walked me out. 

I remember a quote from my last day, it sticks out in my mind: “I know you realize this is really hard for me,” my manager said. Yes, in the end, when he awkwardly informed me I didn’t have my dream job anymore – or any job at all – and then stared back at my shell-shocked face, my thousand-yard stare, the only thing he felt was sorry for himself.

She launched with no major bugs and was considered a technical success. Doesn’t matter. Get the fuck out.

I don’t know how I feel. A weird sensation of pride and intense bitterness. I did a good job; at least, I think I did. Unfortunately, internal validation is the only kind I’m going to get.

Everyone reposting KDA should see this. Riot has successfully distracted everyone into forgetting their culture of sexism, exploitation, and toxicity mere months after it was all revealed.

Look, I get it. Akali is EXTREMELY my type. It’s obvious how much love and care was put into her development. But it makes me furious to see all the free advertising that Riot is getting from people who I thought would know better. 

And now? One of the people who is arguably responsible for all that free advertising? Who’s work is undoubtedly making Riot hundreds of thousands of dollars a day? Who was overworked to the point of near breaking? They get nothing. WORSE than the scant bit of credit that most devs can get in a big company like Riot. They got let go.

Fuck Riot Games.

One thing that I thought really sucked a lot is that the production company who made the KDA video isn’t even credited. They credit a lot of other people on their videos, usually, but the actual animators of the video are hidden; almost a lie by omission. At best it’s a honest mistake, at worst it’s sneakily trying to pass off the video as something made in-house when it’s not. 😦

This is wrong on so many levels

vagabondprophet:

Dad Jeans

I was unprepared to have

My heart ensnared

By clutches oh so small.

I was born of summer

But you were born of heaven

With joy in your smile

And sunlight in your eyes.

Born in November the trees

Shade giving virtue had fallen

Honeybee long gone

No longer searched for pollen.

But your young and tender body

So needy and so small

We both got the warmth we needed

In the embrace of one another.

Now every pair of pants I own

Has holes in the knees

They are all worn and torn

From being a train or horse

For you to explore the universe,

From crawling to find you

I the monster in your tale.

I get to see the world anew

From the eyes of a child

Who knows not what borders are

Only what kindness is.

– Vagabond Prophet

@delightfulharmonypoetry

thanks @josy57 for the prompt “Worn and Torn.”

kokokrispies:

delightfulharmonypoetry:

delightfulharmonypoetry:

kaijuno:

A lot of people my age are like “oh my great grandma/grandpa turned 90 this year!” And it’s like holy shit my great grandpa was born in 1873. My great grandpa would be 145 if he were alive. My great grandma is exactly 140 years older than me.

My great grandma is 86. She is 58 years older than me. 
Yours seems more normal??

Okay, like my children have met her. They have met their great great grandma. She is 82 years older than my daughter. Great great grandma. 

Why have I never processed this. I feel untethered. 

Inky, my bub, my mother’s own maternal grandmother has lived longer than her only daughter, her own husband, and both of the men her daughter had married. She just turned 104 this year, and if my oldest niece should have a baby any time soon, she’ll have seen one of her great granddaughters become a grandmother herself. My mom is 63, older sister, myself and the niece are 41/30/19 respectively.

YOOOOOO. OH MY GOSH SHE IS A LEGEND. Talking to your bub would be like time travelling ahhhhhhhh that makes me so freaking awed! 

delightfulharmonypoetry:

kaijuno:

A lot of people my age are like “oh my great grandma/grandpa turned 90 this year!” And it’s like holy shit my great grandpa was born in 1873. My great grandpa would be 145 if he were alive. My great grandma is exactly 140 years older than me.

My great grandma is 86. She is 58 years older than me. 
Yours seems more normal??

Okay, like my children have met her. They have met their great great grandma. She is 82 years older than my daughter. Great great grandma. 

Why have I never processed this. I feel untethered.