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Confessions Of A Depressed Geek

@magimerlyn

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Hey artist friends, I have a challenge for you

I want to know how you would interpret and draw some characters from a story I’m writing. I’ll give their physical descriptions and a description of their clothes, and you show me how you would draw them

Adrian:

Has purple Alexandrite eyes, neck-length black hair swept to one side of his face, and ivory skin. He wears an iron crown, a deep purple stone hanging from one ear, a high-necked black shirt tucked into high-waisted trousers, with an iron corset around his waist. He wears a black cape trimmed in gold and lined in indigo off one shoulder, and high-heeled dragon skin boots and iron bracers. He’s trans, uses magic, and is initially introduced as an antagonist, but he has his own reasons for the way he treats our initial pov character.

Pearl:

Has pale, milky skin and long, cream colored hair, and extremely pale blue eyes. She wears a pink knee-length skirt and a white blouse with lace sleeves. Her pink kitten heels have a small pearl dangling from each buckle. She wears a white pearl headband and carries a small, square white handbag with a light pink rose in the center. She is our initial POV character, and starts out very hesitant and nervous.

Ragnar:

Has tanned skin and chestnut hair pulled back into a low ponytail, choppy bangs framing his face. He has emerald green almond-shaped eyes. He wears a studded leather pauldron over a deep blue shirt, a few belts that would ordinarily hold his sheath and quiver, and dark brown pants tucked into leather boots. The only thing on his belt is Adrian’s Token: an iron dragon curled around a piece of cut alexandrite. He is Adrian’s one confidant and his love interest, and is fully devoted to his king.

Helena:

A dark-skinned girl with onyx eyes and long black braids pulled into a half-ponytail. She wears a yellow sundress paired with a matching flower crown. Her wedge sandals match the woven straw purse slung across her body. She’s one of the most beautiful characters in the story, and she loves to read. She’s also one of Pearl’s best friends.

Cynthia:

Has dark brown hair, tanned skin, and sharp sapphire eyes. She wears wire-rimmed glasses, a smart white blouse, and a deep blue skirt with polished brown shoes. She’s one of the most outspoken characters, and is Pearl’s other best friend, and is very protective of her friends. She carries a matching purse to Pearl, although hers has a blue rose instead of pink.

Victoria:

Long black hair framing a heart-shaped face, with sharp garnet eyes. Her makeup is simple, but harsh, her lips painted with a small blood-red heart. She has blunt bangs cut just above her eyebrows, and wears a high-necked, tight-fitting black shirt, with a red corseted skirt reaching just below her knee. She is Pearl’s newest friend, and has a regal air to her.

Draw them however you want!

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The problem with writing a fantasy story where they have computers that are powered by magic is that computers are already magic.

Seriously. Moreso than any other subject I know, computers are the ultimate bell-curve, where people who don't know much about how they work and people who know a lot about how they work both agree: they're magic.

Like, do you know how we make computers? We etch intricate patterns in crystals. Using light. The shape of the drawings determines how they work.

Seriously, that's how they're made. We grow super-pure crystals, cut them into wafers, cover them with acid, then shine a light on them through a mask to activate or deactivate the acid, etching away some of the silicon surface. It's called photolithography.

Only we've since decided light is "too big" and we've moved up to using x-rays, which are smaller. This lets us fit smaller drawings on our crystals!

The best part is that because some processes use light to harden the photoresist layer and some processes use light to break it down, it means some computers are made of light (because the parts of the crystal that got light on them remained behind) and some parts are made of shadow (because the parts that got light were washed away.)

Do you have a Light CPU or a Shadow CPU? You'll probably never know. This is industrial secret stuff.

And because we're making them with light, we can make them tiny and we can make lots at once. Like, I found a reference once that said that MOSFETs (a type of electrical switch) is the single thing Humanity has made the most of over our entire time on this planet.

How many have we made, exactly? It's estimated that between 1960 and 2018, we made about 13 SEXTILLION of them.

That's 13,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.

If every human alive (all 8 billion of us) lived to 70 and devoted our whole lives to making them, never sleeping, just making MOSFETs, we'd have to make 736 a second to make 13 sextillion MOSFETs.

Computers are magic. And we're very good at being wizards.

Y’all. I woke up this morning without a buttcrack-of-dawn alarm, got up naturally by about 7:30, went downstairs, made a cup of tea, sat on the couch in the sun near the cat, and read the newspaper.

And promptly cried about how normal it was.

I love it for you! Great job! Normal is nice and should be celebrated. Especially for those with executive function problems. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

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jousting is the most human thing ever invented, to me. lets ride on the back of horses and hit eachother with sticks as hard as we can for sport. i think that thought process is what the human spirit is all about

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elusiveblogueuse

this video does more in 10 seconds than your fave’s entire filmography

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For everyone who’s confused

I feel like im watching a wedding ceremony from a country i didnt know existed. Like, I have no idea how all this stuff is important but good for you?????

This is hella interesting.

btw she gave him a single which can be made in a matter of minute depending on pattern and size but he gave her a giant cuff which can take hours or even more than a day to complete based on just how complex the design and materials are. she wanted to trade something small and simple and he gave her a massive token of his love and respect for her as a fellow raver (and possibly his junior in the scene)

we need more representation in media for people who are just dogshit at improvising snappy one liners. too many characters these days can come up with the smartest funniest thing to say in any given situation with zero rehearsal or hesitation and it's just not realistic. we need more guys who say shit like "yeah, well, um, how about you, uh, suck my dick?"

It’s the same way that probably the only audio book I’ve ever listened to that I hadn’t read was the Silmarillion because I kept falling asleep. (I still fell asleep, but the guy had a good voice).

I could, but it’d be exhausting. I actually don’t really like listening to music with hearing aids in either.

Marlene Dietrich is detained at a train station in Paris in 1933 for violating the ban on women wearing trousers.

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As with all german actors in the 30's, you always gotta check the World War II section of their Wikipedia page. Well im happy to report that Marlene Dietrich was in open opposition to the Nazi regime, and in 1937 donated her entire salary for a film (over 9 million dollars in todays money) to helping Jewish refugees :)

it’s really important that you are a little bit in love with your friends btw. it’s crucial even

a lot of people seem confused by this post so i’ll clarify: this does not have to mean you’re romantically involved w your friends. you can love them very intensely but platonically. you can let the lines blur if you want. what matters is that you adore the ppl you choose to surround yourself with. the details of that aren’t so important as long as you and your friends are on the same page about it. hope this helps

We would be in a significantly better place as a people if “old” and “fat” could be neutral descriptions of fact and not seen as insults by default.

Just in case I need to say it, thin/young people can and should feel free to reblog this. That’s kinda my point.

The fact that this post got 10k+ notes before someone vomited a bunch of “there’s a weight limit on who I will afford basic respect toward” and “blah blah UNHEALTHY” bullshit, is a win. I mean it’s annoying as hell to have to suffer that at all, but if this was like 2015, it would have happened at 100 notes and I would have lost a crap ton of followers for defending myself and daring to suggest fatness is OK actually. So I’m taking the chance to be grateful for a little evolution.

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was originally gonna go with "dog" but decided to go for a longer word with more "reasonable" mispronunciations instead, but that ended up backfiring and now like half the people on this post think i actually pronounce it like this. guess you could say it was a bit of a. a b. it was a

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it was a bit of a self-own

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READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS

  1. why might op have said that she wanted to choose a word with "more 'reasonable' mispronounciations"? what could the quotes around "reasonable" indicate? why did she say mispronunciations instead of pronounciations?
  2. op writes that the post "backfired" and now "half the people on this post think i actually pronounce it like this." what might the word "backfired" mean in this context?
  3. what words could "self-own" sound similar to, and how could that relate to the rest of the post?

its possible to personally dislike or fear a creature w out demonizing it. u can be afraid of and annoyed by animals like snakes and mosquitos and roaches and rats etc w out treating them like theyre inherently evil or out to get u. theyre just animals. we're just animals. whether u like it or not they live here with us and its honestly really weird that theres such a pervasive deep rooted habit of anthropomorphizing these animals just to say theyre malicious and actively trying to cause harm

like idk man i just dont think its normal or healthy to look at animals exhibiting their natural behaviors and assume its being done solely to target u. thats just some little beast dude it doesnt know shit. it just knows it needs to defend itself and survive and sometimes that means the paths u cross will be unpleasant, thats literally just how shit works. learn to tolerate and coexist with the creatures u fear and i promise the existence of these animals wont be as scary

I know mosquitoes are just doing their thing and trying to reproduce.

I still fucking hate them, and in vast swaths of the world they are carriers for absolutely horrible diseases, same with rats. For the majority of pest animals, the reason we hate them are based in survival.

its possible to respect these creatures and their place on this earth with us AND acknowledge that they can cause harm that we want to avoid. it doesnt have to be either Wish Complete Eradication Because Theyre "Fucked Up And Evil" or Super Duper Best Friends Forever With Every Beast.

like i said its FINE if u dont like them or ur scared of them. the problem comes when u start applying weird human morals to animals exhibiting behaviors that happen to be inconvenient to us. yes, those mosquitoes can spread illnesses and cause harm. yes, they can be obnoxious and frustrating and even "gross" and "scary". but no, theyre not malicious and out to get anyone. theyre just weird little dudes doing the only thing they know how. thats all

Did you know that roach infestations can be quite literally traumatic? To the point where some people experience hallucinations of roaches long after the infestation has been eradicated (because that’s the only way to keep it from coming back, eliminating every roach and egg in the building)

its possible to personally dislike or fear a creature w out demonizing it. u can be afraid of and annoyed by animals like snakes and mosquitos and roaches and rats etc w out treating them like theyre inherently evil or out to get u. theyre just animals. we're just animals. whether u like it or not they live here with us and its honestly really weird that theres such a pervasive deep rooted habit of anthropomorphizing these animals just to say theyre malicious and actively trying to cause harm

like idk man i just dont think its normal or healthy to look at animals exhibiting their natural behaviors and assume its being done solely to target u. thats just some little beast dude it doesnt know shit. it just knows it needs to defend itself and survive and sometimes that means the paths u cross will be unpleasant, thats literally just how shit works. learn to tolerate and coexist with the creatures u fear and i promise the existence of these animals wont be as scary

I know mosquitoes are just doing their thing and trying to reproduce.

I still fucking hate them, and in vast swaths of the world they are carriers for absolutely horrible diseases, same with rats. For the majority of pest animals, the reason we hate them are based in survival.

Iceberg Siren pt 3

**a little Sunday morning treat for you all! Hope you enjoy!**

Jason stood in the corner of the ballroom, holding a delicate flute of champagne and scowling at any socialite who tried to approach him. Damian was standing next to him, suit impeccable, scowling even harder than Jason.

Bruce had dragged the whole family here, as it was a charity gala for orphans that the Wayne Foundation had set up. Damian had spent the evening before arriving arguing that he ‘wasn’t an orphan’ and ‘shouldn’t be forced into this farce of an evening’. Jason was just bitter that he’d been pulled away from an evening of patrol.