Hiroshi Yoshida - Color Woodblock Prints From The Series United States Of America.

Hiroshi Yoshida - Color woodblock prints from the series United States of America.

OH MY GOSH.  LOOK AT THIS!  CHAR IT’S BEAUTIFUL :’)

dead guy,

I wanna see the light

what’s on the other side?

will that satisfy me?

right now,

I see a million miles

feel like the holy child

and let the night keep rolling

mister impossible

-

Nora Adler — Railroad agent — patron saint of missing children

Hello there! I've been following your blog for quite some time and I was just wondering when will the next chapter of Memories be posted. No need to rush or anything! I'm just curious. Take the time you need, dear! I'll always be reading! :)

HI!  I’m sorry.  I know you probably sent this a lifetime ago.  Please forgive me.  I haven’t been on here in a WHILE.  So.  I’m hoping next chapter will be posted by the end of this month. :)  Thank you so much for being so understanding and kind :’)  Messages like this just make my day.  Thank you!!!!

A light dusting of snow in a forest of British Columbia, Canada [1472x2048] [OC] - Author: DeathTech_1vp on reddit

OC Personality Test

 1. Go to this website. 2. Choose an OC and take the test for them. 3. Put their stats here.

This was so fun, and I feel like I might have a better grasp on the character now because of this!  Thank you so much, @shallow-gravy​, for the tag!  This is for Constance, the OC in Memories of the West.

Advocate (INFJ-T)

Advocates have an inborn sense of idealism and morality, but what sets them apart is that they are not idle dreamers. These individuals are capable of taking concrete steps to realize their goals and make a lasting positive impact.

People with this personality type tend to see helping others as their purpose in life. Advocates can often be found engaging in rescue efforts and doing charity work. However, their real passion is to get to the heart of the issue so that people need not be rescued at all.

Advocates indeed share a unique combination of traits. Though soft-spoken, they have very strong opinions and will fight tirelessly for an idea they believe in. They are decisive and strong-willed, but will rarely use that energy for personal gain.

Advocates will act with creativity, imagination, conviction, and sensitivity not to create an advantage, but to create balance. Egalitarianism and karma are very attractive ideas to Advocate personalities. These types tend to believe that nothing would help the world so much as using love and compassion to soften the hearts of tyrants.

Advocates find it easy to make connections with others. They have a talent for warm, sensitive language, speaking in human terms, rather than with pure logic and fact.

It makes sense that their friends and colleagues will come to think of them as quiet Extraverted personality types. However, they would all do well to remember that Advocates need time alone to decompress and recharge, and not to become too alarmed when they suddenly withdraw. Advocates take great care of others’ feelings, and they expect the favor to be returned – sometimes that means giving them the space they need for a few days.

Really, though, it is most important for people with the Advocate personality type to remember to take care of themselves. The passion of their convictions is perfectly capable of carrying them past their breaking point. If their zeal gets out of hand, they can find themselves exhausted, unhealthy, and stressed.

This becomes especially apparent when Advocates find themselves up against conflict and criticism. Their sensitivity forces these personalities to do everything they can to evade these seemingly personal attacks. When the circumstances are unavoidable, however, they can fight back in highly irrational, unhelpful ways.

To Advocates, the world is a place full of inequity – but it doesn’t have to be. No other personality type is better suited to create a movement to right a wrong, no matter how big or small. Advocates just need to remember that while they’re busy taking care of the world, they need to take care of themselves, too.

4% Extraverted / 96% Introverted 60% Intuitive / 40% Observant 37% Thinking / 63% Feeling 79% Judging / 21% Prospecting 46% Assertive / 54% Turbulent

Strengths: creative, insightful, inspiring and convincing, decisive, determined and passionate, and altruistic.

Weaknesses: sensitive, extremely private, perfectionistic, always need a cause, can burn out easily.

Tagging @electriicfleur​ because I’d love to see Tallulah or Maggie :) 

Last Line Meme

Tagged by the talented and so kind @shallow-gravy! Thanks for the tag! :) 

This could be riddled with errors because the amazing beta reader @electriicfleur hasn’t seen this yet.  But.  Here’s a snippet from the next (or maybe the next, next?) chapter of Memories of the West:

He started talking to her, then. Teaching. Drawing out a map for her with words.  The Lower Montana cut apart two states, New Austin and West Elizabeth, and then it curled upward and pooled into a place called Aurora Basin.  He told her they would follow the line of this river all the way up, past the basin, over some mountain, and then they would come across its sister river, The Upper Montana.  Here, they would cross Owanjila Dam then they’d go up even further, until they ran into Little Creek River, and that they would follow on into another string of mountain.

“We pass over that, and we’ll be in Fontaine,” Arthur said.  By then, the light was getting low. Dusky. And Arthur’s eyes were getting sleepy, around the edges.

“Where will we go after that?” she asked.

He stirred, like he was trying to wake up.  Then he grabbed a little pebble, tossed it into the roaring waters.  “Anywhere you want.”

The freedom of that frightened her a little.  She didn’t know what to say.

I’ll tag @electriicfleur and @reddeaddufus if y’all wanna join in! :)