Zaradae - Faeries

Actually life is beautiful because the sound I make while trying to breathe around hot food sounds like my dog trying to eat an apple. When I yawn my cat tries to put his face in my mouth like a little dentist man and when he yawns I put my finger in his obligate-carnivore trapzone and we both know he will not hurt me. When I do not fold my clothes, they do not hold it against me.

I am demonstrably sad, and lonely, and full of fear. But there are other people who will hold my hand, who will point out the hawk overhead, who will give you That Look in a public place. The other day at a coffee shop a child said "look! It's snowing!" so all of us strangers went to go look out the windows. It wasn't the first snow and it won't be the last but wasn't it lovely, like that?

How wonderful to live in a world where birds and frogs both say beep! How wonderful to have an ocean of beautiful sharks with their dinosaur teeth! How wonderful the moon and her changing face, how wonderful the bees and their dancing to communicate, how wonderful shrimp and their forbidden layers of vision! How wonderful, you, and what you will give the world! The way we love things enough to spend entire blogs devoted to them? How people will let me explain my Pokemon team to them? How we will both jump at the scare in the movie, how we laugh so loudly, how it feels to give someone your baking? How wonderful to be alive. I am sorry for forgetting.

This is the process of getting better. With wonderful people and wonderful strangers and wonderful friends: I am getting better, slowly. Thank you, whoever you are. In some way, you've been wonderful, and left a wonderful place in the world to ripple out to me. In some small way - isn't it beautiful - I promise, you've been helping.

The bees came back today as the trees bloomed once more! 🐝

who am I if I don’t gently bully my friends kindly and lovingly

Update: due to multiple, and quite valid additions to this post, I have come to the conclusion (headcanon) that Gelfs are just capable of mimicking the noises they hear. And Deet definitely did a hollerbat call to scare those guards.

👏👏👏 gentle and resourceful

Quick question: How the fuck did Deet make those noises when pretending to be a monster?

Second question: Can all gelfling go full cryptid like that, or is Deet just special?

Be calm. When you close your eyes, you will be lying in a field. The grass is soft. Around you, there is birdsong. The sun is warm on your face. The sky is blue above.

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Tula

Grottan!

Maudra Argot’s chosen successor and raised by Argot from a baby.

Acts as a big sister figure to a lot of the younger Grot kids. Like Amri and Deet.

Was very sad and worried when Deet and Amri had to leave.

Led some of her clan members away during the Arathim attacks in Domrak and acts as a diplomat between their species after the dust settles.

Is colorblind (tritanopia), and it causes many fashion problems when she gets above ground. Someone, please, help her.

Shopaholic that will haggle vendors to the point of insanity.

Has a crush on Freckles

Has a fear of Nurlocs

Loves dancing more than anything. Convinces someone from every clan to teach her their dances and picks them up easily.

Can’t be a mom friend, because she’s easily roped into shenanigans.

Has many of the same mannerisms as Argot, so just let that sink in.

S A S S Y

Tries to flirt and fails miserably every time. She can dish it out, but if someone reciprocates the behavior she panics and shoots the finger guns at them before running away.

Honestly she’s an adorable mess.

Tula and Amri BROTP!

me: why did i not cry about my own trauma until i saw it replicated on a tv show

the tiny simone de beauvoir who lives in my left ear: the fictional woman is a vehicle for the ineffable traumas of your feminine self.

me: thank you madame de beauvoir