I Got To Hold A 500,000 Year Old Hand Axe At The Museum Today.

I got to hold a 500,000 year old hand axe at the museum today.

It's right-handed

I am right-handed

There are grooves for the thumb and knuckle to grip that fit my hand perfectly

I have calluses there from holding my stylus and pencils and the gardening tools.

There are sharper and blunter parts of the edge, for different types of cutting, as well as a point for piercing.

I know exactly how to use this to butcher a carcass.

A homo erectus made it

Some ancestor of mine, three species ago, made a tool that fits my hand perfectly, and that I still know how to use.

Who were you

A man? A woman? Did you even use those words?

Did you craft alone or were you with friends? Did you sing while you worked?

Did you find this stone yourself, or did you trade for it? Was it a gift?

Did you make it for yourself, or someone else, or does the distinction of personal property not really apply here?

Who were you?

What would you think today, seeing your descendant hold your tool and sob because it fits her hands as well?

What about your other descendant, the docent and caretaker of your tool, holding her hands under it the way you hold your hands under your baby's head when a stranger holds them.

Is it bizarre to you, that your most utilitarian object is now revered as holy?

Or has it always been divine?

Or is the divine in how I am watching videos on how to knap stone made by your other descendants, learning by example the way you did?

Tomorrow morning I am going to the local riverbed in search of the appropriate stones, and I will follow your example.

The first blood spilled on it will almost certainly be my own, as I learn the textures and rhythm of how it's done.

Did you have cuss words back then? Gods to blaspheme when the rock slips and you almost take your thumbnail off instead? Or did you just scream?

I'm not religious.

But if spilling my own blood to connect with a stranger who shared it isn't partaking in the divine

I don't know what is.

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I should have added ! All request / comissions should be asked in my dm ! It would be easier to keep in touch that way !

Hello 👋 can we request our own OCs?

Hello ! Nice to see new people in here !

To answer your question and make it public : YES ! You can absolutely request your own OCs but...

Remember the quality of a request is lesser than one of a comission and the time I will take to make and complete the piece will be completely random ! It can take a long while !

With that disclaimer out of the way, it will realistically, at worse, take up to three weeks but I will keep you updated during the whole process! You can always ask me question during the whole process !


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Pilot part 5

Hey, long time no see, it's like the hundreds time I try to post this, and I was so close twenty seconds before but it disappeared, I don't have the strength to write down everything again. I was talking about the places I wanted to be instead of my current location : the ocean, on a hill and in space watching a supernova. A friend of mine confess his feelings to me and it feels so wrong and weird. I feel sick and I want to cry ! Everybody keeps telling me I should be happy but I am NOT HAPPY! I feel bad, I don't like it,I am scared and I don't know what to say! I don't understand, I don't like it, I want to run away from my life! Be anyone else! Nobody will ever find this account, I know those things I post are supposed to be part of the pilot of the story I planned to write but I use them essentially as a diary. Goodbye

Fair enough lmao

Do you even read something so bad, or play a game with terrible script and worldbuilding that you think "I'm not even good at writing but even I would do a better job ?" Yep, that was me when I was 14 and today I just finished writing my first book. Keep your eyes peeled because I fully intend to publish it !

Since nobody will ever find my blog I’m just gonna start writing a story

Nanami Kento As A Palace Guard From Aladdin (1998) For @princeasimdiya12 !
Nanami Kento As A Palace Guard From Aladdin (1998) For @princeasimdiya12 !
Nanami Kento As A Palace Guard From Aladdin (1998) For @princeasimdiya12 !
Nanami Kento As A Palace Guard From Aladdin (1998) For @princeasimdiya12 !

Nanami Kento as a Palace guard from Aladdin (1998) for @princeasimdiya12 !

Plus a bonus Gojo as Aladdin in his prince disguise!

Hope you like it !


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Here It Is !! (albeit Really Late ) Linda From Samba De Amigo And Linda From Rio (2011).

Here it is !! (albeit really late ) Linda from Samba de Amigo and Linda from Rio (2011).

I hope you like it @sambadewinx !


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I wasn't expecting to be tagged on anything so soon but ty so much. Let's goooooo

Last song : Running with the wolves by AURORA

Last show : Hudson & Rex

Currently watching Young justice but I'm going on vacation so I will have to wait a bit T-T

Currently reading: A brief history of time and Exoplanets

Current obsession: Dc comics and justice league !So that was fun ! I'm tagging...@w0lf-kin @obstructed-birdsong @wolfyboi44705 @sootandfangdiary

nine people i want to get to know better

ty @lesbee-dee, @sewerkingcharlie & @thekidkelly for the tag!!

last song: sane by greentea peng

last show: nathan for you & x files

currently watching: WWDITS & all seasons of Drag Race airing rn

currently reading: all the lovers in the night by mieko kawakami (prob the best book i've read so far this year, recommend if u like japanese realism)

current obsession: planning a trip on my way home to Australia next year after spending the last 3 years in Japan (hyperfixation rly comes in handy when it comes to making itineraries, i fucking live for it)

i tag @milo-is-queer @kathleenbrash27 @heartshpedfx @sunnydregs @clumpofglitter @gayrights666 @trillgutterbug @charliekelly89 @brezideje if u want <3

How did you discover you were a kingfisher?

Okay, that might sound a bit weird but even now I am questioning whether I truly am a Kingfisher.

I knew it was a bird because of small shifts and some habits of mine that can be interpreted as kin related. But that was step one.

Then (when I realised it was most probably therian related) I tried different types of birds : small birds or bigger ones, predator or not. So the steps were something like : "okay so I might be a hummingbird wait no more like a Pelican, no that's too big, oh ! Maybe it's an hawk !"

(To this day I still think that my theriotype is hawk (or related) and kingfisher)

Then I picked up a book about birds and looked at all of them, and did some research, then gave up.

A month later, I was chilling on my sofa, watching a documentary on the science chanel (as you do) and then a Kingfisher came on screen and as the voice was describing their habits and their habitat I was left wondering.

Am I just empathising with this bird in a "haha" way or am I empathising with them because not only we have a lot in common but because I have a sense of "kinship" towards them?

I picked up this idea and took it to my computer and resumed my researches.

There it was, small bird that lives near the water and who fish. Sounds like my dream life honestly.

But more seriously, it was trials and errors (I am still questioning my theriotype) and I feel comfortable with this identity but maybe that is just because I haven't found the exact bird yet. It takes time and I won't lie I was tempted to just give up and never acknowledge my needs and yearnings. But not only does it make sense (for the bird therian situation) but it also feels good to finally put explanations and names on quirks that you could never understand before.

I don't know if that is a satisfactory answer to your question but I found it nice to write about it fir you anon ! Have a great day and a merry Christmas or Hanukkah or any holiday you might celebrate!


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Love the idea plus it will get me out of my editing/writing block.

Here is the main character Ava (without spoilers <3)

Love The Idea Plus It Will Get Me Out Of My Editing/writing Block.
Love The Idea Plus It Will Get Me Out Of My Editing/writing Block.
Love The Idea Plus It Will Get Me Out Of My Editing/writing Block.

Yes the book is missing a title, yes I am working on that.

OC in Three

I was tagged by @thatndginger ^^

Rules: share three pictures that represent an OC

My urban fantasy novel, Our Demonic Hearts, doesn't get as much attention as AoC, so here's the main characer Ana Kravens <3

OC In Three
OC In Three
OC In Three

No pressure tags to @frostedlemonwriter @starlightnecromancer @steh-lar-uh-nuhs @thestorywitch and open tag to anybody else who would like to join!


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ifelllikeashootingstar - Ask me about the books I wrote pls
Ask me about the books I wrote pls

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