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I want to just drown myself in Flight Rising relieving writing but it is one of the settings that just elude my poor little mind. Years of this and I internally weep with a stoic, tired face.
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Never liked you anyway
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Pros of teaching yourself how to do the yautja rattling thing: You can imitate a yautja whenever you want :)
Cons: It's become a stim, so I have to stop myself doing it in public
Uncute my local Cult Dad Lamb
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Sylveon sends love your way! 💗
Shiny variant is now also available as print in INPRNT! ✨
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Hey! Are there blacksmiths in your story? I'm a hobbyist blacksmith and I'm here to help!
Blacksmithing is one of those things that a lot of people get wrong because they don't realize it stuck around past the advent of the assembly line. Here's a list of some common misconceptions I see and what to do instead!
- Not all blacksmiths are gigantic terrifying muscly guys with beards and deep voices. I am 5'8, skinny as a twig, have the muscle mass of wet bread, and exist on Tumblr. Anybody who is strong enough to pick up a hammer and understands fire safety can be a blacksmith.
- You can make more than just swords with blacksmithing. Though swords are undeniably practical, they're not the only things that can be made. I've made candle holders, wall hooks, kebab skewers, fire pokers, and more. Look up things other people have made, it's really amazing what can be done.
- "Red-hot" is actually not that hot by blacksmith terms. when heated up, the metal goes from black, to red, to orange, to yellow, to white. (for temperature reference, I got a second degree burn from picking up a piece of metal on black heat) The ideal color to work with the metal is yellow. White is not ideal at all, because the metal starts sparking and gets all weird and lumpy when it cools. (At no point in this process does the metal get even close to melting. It gets soft enough to work with, but I have never once seen metal become a liquid.)
- Blacksmithing takes fucking forever. Not even taking into account starting the forge, selecting and preparing metal, etc. etc. it takes me around an hour to make one (1) fancy skewer. The metals blacksmiths work with heat up and cool down incredibly fast. When the forge is going good, it only takes like 20 seconds to get your metal hot enough to work with, but it takes about the same time for it to cool down, sometimes even less.
- As long as you are careful, it is actually stupidly easy to not get hurt while blacksmithing. When I picked up this hobby I was like "okay, cool! I'm gonna make stuff, and I'm gonna end up in the hospital at some point!" Thus far, the latter has yet to occur. I've been doing this for nearly a year. I have earned myself a new scar from the aforementioned second degree burn, and one singe mark on my jeans. I don't even wear gloves half the time. Literally just eye protection, common sense, and fast reflexes and you'll probably be fine. (Accidents still happen of course, but I have found adequate safety weirdly easy to achieve with this hobby)
- A forge is not a fire. The forge is the thing blacksmiths put their metal in to heat it up. It starts as a small fire, usually with newspaper or something else that's relatively small and burns easily, which we then put in the forge itself, which is sort of a fireplace-esque thing (there's a lot of different types of forge, look into it and try to figure out what sort of forge would make the most sense for the context you're writing about) and we cover it with coal, which then catches fire and heats up. The forge gets really hot, and sometimes really bright. Sometimes when I stare at the forge for too long it's like staring into the sun. The forge is also not a waterfall of lava, Steven Universe. It doesn't work like that, Steven Universe.
- Welding and blacksmithing are not the same thing. They often go hand-in-hand, but you cannot connected two pieces of metal with traditional blacksmithing alone. There is something called forge welding, where you heat your metal, sprinkle borax (or the in-universe equivalent) on it to prevent the metal from oxidizing/being non-weldable, and hammer the pieces together very quickly. Forge welding also sends sparks flying everywhere, and if you're working in a small space with other blacksmiths, you usually want to announce that you're welding before you do, so that everyone in a five-foot radius can get out of that five-foot radius. You also cannot just stuck some random pebbles into the forge and get a decent piece of metal that you can actually make something with, Steven Universe. It doesn't work like that, Steven Universe.
- Anvils are really fucking heavy. Nothing else to add here.
- Making jewelry is not a blacksmithing thing unless you want jewelry made of steel. And it will be very ugly if you try. Blacksmithing wasn't invented to make small things.
- If there's anything here I didn't mention, just ask and I'll do my best to answer.
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The Lone Pine by Sandara Tang
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Emotional support ASSassin for @chennnington!!! ❤️❤️❤️
He's so crazy
My personal depiction for my Durge, the albino dragonborn is just too good of an appearance. The monster lover that I am, wanted to give him features that warn others that something is just not right about him. The multitude of mandibles lining his jaws are normally barely noticeable until his killer instinct stir too strong to hide.
They splay and flare out with his jaws unhinging, able to wrap around a man's skull for a crushing mauling. If Durge doesn't just freeze and crush it like a gorey ice cube with near gator-worthy biting pressure. His wide vocalization of sounds go from spine-chilling viper hisses to shrill, thyroid-rattling screams and even, with his tempest-bloodline, a eardrum-bursting thunderclap of a shout.
Normally a very meticulous, clean creature, Durge walking around with these scars on his person is a constant annoyance. The slashes on his throat and ear-fins, the carving on his immaculate scales, the tender exposed scars in the back of his horned skull. Who or whatever done this is pay dearly.
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I know probably no one on here has played the Legacy of Kain video game series but I was mega obsessed with it when I was like 11 and every now and then I still think on it
and lately I've been thinking about what a weirdly significant impact love has on the plot, despite the fact that "love" is not anywhere approaching the top 10 things I'd list if you asked me what Legacy of Kain was about
Like
Legacy of Kain is a pretty brutal series, with little to no room for positive emotion - the vast majority of it is taken up by things such as rambling about destiny and avoidance thereof, time travel weirdness, a whole lot of hatred and bloody revenge and hitting one another with swords, etc etc.
But there are a few instances of characters genuinely caring about one another, and it kinda seems like every time a character genuinely cares about another one, it ends up REALLY HEAVILY impacting the plot of the entire series
Kain cares about Raziel (all appearances to the contrary), enough that he tries his damndest to ensure that Raziel doesn't end up trapped inside the Soul Reaver despite the fact that it's the most favorable outcome for everyone else involved - and Kain saving Raziel from being trapped in the Soul Reaver at the end of SR2 is what leads to literally all of the events of Blood Omen 2 + a good amount of Defiance (Raziel being saved meant that he could go and resurrect Janos Audren, which resulted in the Hylden Lord possessing Janos and flying off with him to build the portal to release all the other Hylden, etc)
Raziel cares about Janos, which not only also plays a huge role in kickstarting the events of Blood Omen 2 (Raziel's resurrection of Janos as mentioned above, plus his unwillingness to kill Janos before the Hylden Lord could possess him fully) but also kickstarts the events of Soul Reaver onwards - Raziel's grief at Janos's death and subsequent murderous rampage against the Sarafan who killed him is what allows Kain to later collect the murdered Sarafan and turn them into his vampire "sons", including RAZIEL HIMSELF
Even - especially - Nupraptor and his love for Ariel! Nupraptor barely shows up at all in the entire series, he's shown in the opening cutscene for Blood Omen (I think? I barely remember tbh) and then he's the first boss you fight and then he's dead, but his love for Ariel and his grief at her death is what creates the corruption that infects the rest of the Circle of Nine and kickstarts The Entire Plot Of The Whole Series (still not over how goofy Nupraptor's name sounds tho)
I guess it makes sense that a story that has so little love in it has to make every bit of love count, but damn. LoK really went "the love these characters have for one another changes the entire course of history down to the shape of the timeline itself"
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If Tumblr goes down, y'all can find me in here
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He is Dr. E
The Best Eevee of them all
For he is Eeeevil
Once he was a little baby man until his trainer wanted mooore
Now he is no longer baby
For he have Poooowaaaah
Dr. Eeeeeee
For E stands for Eeeeveeeeee
As well as Eeeeevilllllll~
*dastardly 60s jazz intensifies*
DR. EEEEEE
THE MASTER OF EEEVIIIIILLLL
FEAR HIM FOR HE IS THE EVILEST OF ALL
HIS EV IS ABHORRENT AND HIS ATTITUDE IS FEROCIOUS
FOR HE IS
DR. EEEEEEE
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there are many complaints about how fandom tends to focus too much on shipping to the detriment of everything else, but frankly, i really don't think that's the real issue with it. not that the hyperfocus on it can't be grating at times, but i think what really bothers me is just 'fanon' in general. like, at this point i'm willing to say that fanon is its own entity and its not even unique to any work in specific. it's a one size fits all of generic, pre-made tropes that will be forced into each and every piece of media that gets even a bit of attention, even when these tropes and scenarios don't fit the personality of the characters or are in any way related to the original story they are supposedly drawing from. basically stripping everything that makes these works unique in any way just so they can be somehow twisted and shoved into yet another college coffee shop au. it's why you see people saying that they read fanfiction or engage with fandoms of works they haven't even consumed, which sounds bizarre at first (shouldn't you be a fan of something you make and/or consume fan works of?) but makes sense once you realize that yeah, once anything gets hit with the the fanonfication beam, it really does not make a difference whether or not you are even familiar with what this fanwork was even supposedly about, because they all become pretty much the same, like dolls reenacting the same little plots and following familiar scripts over and over again
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Frith Chronicles Bestiary Paintings by Ognjen Sporin
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Your daily dose of cat memes
I do in fact need everything to be okay