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I will always reblog this.

This made my heart get all tight and hot or maybe it was my stomach or like all of my organs. <3 <3 <3

I’m not a very good gate keeper. But I think I can live with that Happy Trans day of visibility! <3 <3 <3

Here’s a fun thing about tieflings: while many folks – particularly critics – seem to be under the impression that tieflings are the offspring of Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition’s brief dalliance with dungeonpunk aesthetics, their first appearance as a playable race actually came six years earlier, in 1994′s Planescape campaign setting for D&D 2nd Edition. Interestingly, though later iterations of the game would push hard for a standardised tiefling appearance, in their original incarnation you had the option to randomly generate your demonic features.

The tables for this are reproduced in their entirety below; roll 1d4 to determine the number of demonic features your tiefling possesses, then 1d100 on the Tiefling Appearance table for each feature, re-rolling any contradictory or redundant results. Some entries in the Special Side Effects table have been lightly re-written for mechanical compatibility with D&D 5th Edition, and may not represent reasonable racial features in a typical 5E game – the objective here is to reflect the source material as closely as possible, not to achieve balance.

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Reminder that Planescape is the best setting, bar none.

*returns to self-imposed silence and exile*

Zodiac signs? That’s so 2017

We Dungeon and Dragons 5th Edition classes now:

Click the image, it’s transparent!

CLICK ON THIS PLEASE

CLICK IT HOLY SHIT

HOLY FUCKING SHIT THAT’S AMAZING CLICK IT CLICK IT

EVERYONE DO YOURSELF A FAVOR & PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS BEAUTIFUL CLICK. ON. IT.

Jesus.

Look at this, and remember it next time someone says that the gay community survived the AIDS epidemic.

We didn’t survive, we started over. We lost all but an entire generation.

This is what “we survived Reagan, you’ll survive Trump” looks like. No, we didn’t.

This is what “we survived Reagan, you’ll survive Trump” looks like. No, we didn’t.

obi-wan sneaking around the death star + the pink panther theme song

OMG! So funny.

HEY ARTISTS!

Do you design a lot of characters living in not-modern eras and you’re tired of combing through google for the perfect outfit references? Well I got good news for you kiddo, this website has you covered! Originally @modmad made a post about it, but her link stopped working and I managed to fix it, so here’s a new post. Basically, this is a costume rental website for plays and stage shows and what not, they have outfits for several different decades from medieval to the 1980s. LOOK AT THIS SELECTION:

OPEN ANY CATEGORY AND OH LORDY–

There’s a lot of really specific stuff in here, I design a lot of 1930s characters for my ask blog and with more chapters on the way for the game it belongs to I’m gonna be designing more, and this website is going to be an invaluable reference. I hope this can be useful to my other fellow artists as well! :)

Myths, Creatures, and Folklore

Want to create a religion for your fictional world? Here are some references and resources!

General:

Africa:

The Americas:

Asia:

Europe:

Middle East:

Oceania:

Creating a Fantasy Religion:

Some superstitions:

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Africa:

The Americas:

Asia:

Europe:

Oceanic:

General:

Reblogging because wow. What a resource.

things my impossibly young looking Roman history lecturer has said

‘listen to your seminar tutors over the booklet, but only for seminars - in lectures i am king. unless you have me as a seminar tutor as well, in which case i am your king and god.’

‘has anybody played Rome: Total War? no?’

‘Cataline tried to burn the city and everyone he hated but he failed because, in short, nobody liked him.’

‘the mediterranean diet didn’t include tomatoes in the ancient world. i know. oh my god. i know.’

‘so of course when Hannibal turns up, the senate goes ‘sod it, lets kick his arse’.’

‘one man’s optimates is another man’s silver-spoon bearing prick.’

‘we don’t have much information about the 70s BC, largely because Plutarch doesn’t care.’

‘i’m not saying Rome: Total War is entirely accurate, but its battle campaigns are surprisingly historically informed.’

[hand drawing a map in chalk because the projector is broken] ‘i’ll give it a go, this is why i hate technology, and oh. well. that’s not italy.’

‘every army needs bakers and prostitutes, this is just a fact of life.’

‘Sulla. He’s a bit of a badass, but also a bit of a prick.’ 

‘yes, that is a slide from Spartacus. The film, not the series, which is more accurate and less like soft porn.’

‘the Romans liked Campania because its very fertile. they didn’t know this was because of its proximity to a volcano - poor buggers found THAT out later.’

‘Crassus gets given command of Syria and high fives everyone in the senate.’

‘Catullus was very pithy, very hellenistic in style. unlike the Iliad, which is 24 books of tedium.’

‘An Afternoon at Carrhae: the Romans being shot at repeatedly by Parthian cavalry because if there’s one thing the Romans aren’t good at, it’s having a cavalry.’

‘It’s good to have fast legs in war. Caesar moves very fast, not unlike Napoleon. The Usain Bolt of ancient warfare. I’m not sure why I said that, it’s an atrocious analogy.’

‘Athens is the Edinburgh of the ancient world; it has nothing to offer but education and pretty buildings.’

‘Shout out to those of you who spent your teenage years playing Rome: Total War.Which is what I did.’ 

‘The senate go into a panic and they decide to flee Rome at dawn, but some idiot forgets the treasury. I know. Ridiculous.’

‘Again: don’t use elephants during warfare. They’re not as cool as they look. And given they’re now endangered, it’d just be mean.’ 

‘I had to use this meme, I’m sorry. You’re all aware of the one does not simply walk into mordor meme right? I’m sorry, we’ll move on.’

‘I put this photo in for dramatic effect but I realise that it’s just a field. I don’t know why people bother going to see battle sites, they’re all really boring. I saw bones once, they were quite interesting. But most battle sites: boring.’

‘Caesar doesn’t tell Rome anything while he’s away in Egypt for a year, so they have no idea Pompey’s dead. All they know is that Antony is being a pain in the ass, which is, in all honesty, not unusual for Antony.’

‘Caesar is very good at one liners. You always draft a pithy one liner before a battle so you have something to say when you win. You don’t want to win and then just be like ‘whoo, thank god for that.’’

@neverbeenneverwhere

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Rape has become endemic in South Africa, so a medical technician named Sonette Ehlers developed a product that immediately gathered national attention there. Ehlers had never forgotten a rape victim telling her forlornly, “If only I had teeth down there.”

Some time afterward, a man came into the hospital where Ehlers works in excruciating pain because his penis was stuck in his pants zipper.

Ehlers merged those images and came up with a product she called Rapex. It resembles a tube, with barbs inside. The woman inserts it like a tampon, with an applicator, and any man who tries to rape the woman impales himself on the barbs and must go to an emergency room to have the Rapex removed.

When critics complained that it was a medieval punishment, Ehlers replied tersely, “A medieval device for a medieval deed.” 

- Half the Sky, Nicholas Kristof

REBLOGGING THIS. x1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

A medieval device for a medieval deed - yes.

This is perfect

BLESS THIS PERSON

I BOW TO THIS INTENTION

Can we talk about how beautifully this turns rape culture on its head? Instead of “If they weren’t dressed like that they wouldn’t have been raped” THIS IS LITERALLY “IF THEY HADN’T TRIED TO RAPE SOMEONE THEY  WOULDN’T HAVE SPIKES IN THEIR DICK”*

That bold bit~

reblogging for the rape culture comment omFG AMEN TO YOU 

14.06.15 

『知床半島、北海道』

by iseki kou

Sapadere Canyon, Turkey by Jacob Tietze

Golden Dragon Castle

Watercolor and gold ink. Adoptable :)

https://www.facebook.com/kinko.white/

Here is my full piece, ‘Femerai’, for the upcoming 1001 Knights Anthology. I’m very happy to announce it was selected to be part of an exclusive Buzzfeed article about 1001 Knights!

Check it out here for an exclusive look at some of the knights included in the anthology: http://www.buzzfeed.com/maritsapatrinos/1001-knights

And here is the Kickstarter if you still want to contribute to make the anthology as amazing as possible! http://kck.st/1lShgpB

@wearesamurai

The signs as things ive heard in my AP Gov class

Aries: Who the hell is Jeb Bush?

Taurus: Bernie is Jewish he can’t eat ass.

Gemini: You know the villian in Austin Powers? Fat Bastard! Hes actually Chris Christie.

Cancer: I got you a copy of the Communist manifesto.

Leo: What test?

Virgo: If Trump wins I’ll move to Mexico and build the wall myself.

Libra: Donald Trump is as good at buisness as I am at this class. I’m failing. 

Scorpio: George Bush was hot.

Sagittarius: I’ll email Hilary Clinton my nudes. 

Capricorn: Where is he? I think he stayed home to finish that essay due today. 

Aquarius: Do you think if I tell him I’m gay he’ll move the test?

Pisces: I’m changing my major because fuck this, fuck you, and fuck George Washington.

@neverbeenneverwhere