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#I DON’T UNDERSTAND WHAT I NEED TO WRITE MY NAME FOR

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flutiebear

This is the single greatest thing this fandom has ever produced.

This is fucking transcendental. AND THE BEST PART IS THAT IT’S ENTIRELY WITHIN THE REALM OF CANON POSSIBILITY.

I’m actually surprised that this hasn’t happened.

poor sammy

Dean: “Uh…character flaws for 100”

Gabriel: “This character suffers from crippling issues with his own self-worth due to a lifetime spent religiously obeying his abusive father!”

Dean: “Oh come on…”

Gabriel: “Final answer?”

Dean: “No uh…Dean. Who is Dean? Me. Whatever.”

Gabriel: “Correct! Nnnnnext category!”

Dean: “…C-character flaws for 200.”

Gabriel: “This character used to consider himself the better of two brothers, but after several years of reckless decisions and huge failings that left hundreds perhaps thousands dead he’s since spiraled into a perpetual state of self-hatred and depression!”

Dean: *side-eyes Sam* “C-can I choose another category?”

Gabriel: “Nope!”

Dean: “But I—“

Gabriel: “Oh come on this one is EASSSYY! I’ll even give you a hint.”

Dean: “No I—“

Gabriel: “It’s the same brother who got your mom kille—”

Dean: “SAM ALRIGHT? SAM. WHO IS SAM?”

Gabriel: “CCCOOOORREECCTTT! AND DEAN IS BLAZING UP THE LEADER BOARD. NNNNEXT QUESTION!”

*Both Winchesters sink into immense inescapable self loathing*

Gabriel: You’re still in control of the board Dean, you’re doing great.

Dean: *smirks at Sam* Ok, let’s get out of this fucking category.  Sexual Humiliation for 500.

Gabriel: If you’re sure.  “This character tried on panties and he liked it.”

Sam: *buzz* “Who is Dean?”

Gabriel: Right you are my boy. 

Dean: Dammit Sam, how did you know that??

Sam: It was an educated guess.  I’ll take sexual humiliation for 300.

Gabriel: “This character is in love with a certain rebel angel named Castiel and he won’t admit it.“

Castiel: *buzz* “Who is Dean?”

Gabriel: Correctomundo!  I’m surprised you got that, you always were a bit dense bro.

Dean:  CAS?!

Castiel: *ignores dean* Why are these answers in the forms of questions?  Or should I say *buzz* “These answers are in the form of questions” to make it a question.  It’s all very confusing. 

Gabriel: Come on, kiddo you’re sucking the fun out of it. Just pick a category.

Castiel: *squints at board* .. uh.. Betrayal for $100.

(laser beam noises)

Castiel: What-

Gabriel: WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT IT’S THE DAILY DOUBLE! 

Sam and Dean: *groaning*

Gabriel: How much you wanna wager?

Castiel: Wager? Gambling really isn’t a good habit, and I’m not sure-

Gabriel: All right, the whole $500 it is! “This character betrayed his family for the Winchesters, then betrayed the Winchesters for Crowley, and then, in proper assbutt fashion, betrayed Crowley for himself. And then kind of fucked the world over a few times too, in the meanwhile.”

Castiel: … *heavy sigh* I promised I would redeem myself-

Gabriel: OOPS WRONG ANSWER. We’ll open it to the other contestants. 

Sam: *buzz* Who is Castiel?

Dean: Sammy, come on..

Sam: What? I wanna win..

It got better

Every bit of this is gold.

Where has this been all my life

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A wyvern is a four-limbed dragon with the first pair of legs extending into wings. That’s a distinction that driftwood artist James Doran-Webb likes to make when presenting his sculptures. The first wyvern he made required an expansion of the studio and a huge metal frame. It’s a huge wooden creature that’s perched on a trunk of a long-dead tree.

Another driftwood wyvern stands on a gazebo made from reclaimed steel and upcycled water bottles. It made an appearance in the prestigious Chelsea Flower Show 2015. The piece is called Wyvern’s Folly and weighs 4 tons!

James Doran Webb is based in the Philippines. He works with many local initiatives aimed at preserving the environment and replanting trees. Webb buys his sculpture material from local gatherers, aiding their villages. Aside from wyverns, Webb has also made many other (and smaller) sculptures of galloping horses, goats and other animals.

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Random Gemstone Generator

image credit: Lucas Durham

A “Gemerator,” if you will. Since there is already a way to roll randomly for gemstones in the DMG (p. 134), this series of tables is for creating brand new gemstones that might not even exist in nature. These are the gems as you might find them in a dungeon. To determine their worth, I would use the DMG. The appearance of the gem might not affect its overall worth since we are inventing new gems, so just make it worth as many gold pieces as is appropriate for the circumstance. You can also use this with my jewelry generator.

Gem Type

Most precious stones and minerals considered gems come in two varieties, either a stone or a crystal. Roll 1d6 to determine the gem’s type:

  • 1: Stonelike (Matte)
  • 2-3: Stonelike (Glossy)
  • 4: Crystalline (Opaque)
  • 5-6: Crystalline (Translucent)

Gem Size

First roll for the gem’s size. Since this is D&D, the gemstones can afford to be much larger than in reality. Fun thing I never really thought about before making this is that gemstones are a good way for adventurers to carry around gratuitous amounts of wealth in a smaller amount of space. Imagine carrying around a one-centimeter diamond instead of 5000 gold coins in a one-ton chest. Don’t ever dismiss the importance of gemstones.

Gem Shape

Although a gem’s shape does come from its cut, to simplify this series of tables and increase the variety it generates, I’ve separated the gem’s cut and its shape into different tables.

Gem Cut

Most valuable gems found in a dungeon have already been cut unless said dungeon is a natural cave system. To determine how the gem was cut, roll on the table below. Before modern advances, most hard gems were “cut” by abrading two gems together of similar hardness, beveling the natural crystal’s corners into facets. The gem dust from the abrasion was gathered and mixed with water or oil for polishing the gems into their finished form.

Gem Color

Next roll for the gem’s color. I could have just gone with ROYGBIV colors but gems can come in many varying hues. If you roll a 20, the gem has two colors. Roll again, ignoring further values of 20. Then roll on the next table to determine how the two colors interact.

Gem Pattern

Duo-colored gems are common, especially among stones rather than crystals. Think things like banded agate or tigers eye.

And you’re done! You’ve got a brand new gemstone that may or may not exist in nature! Use it for important or unique magic items or when imagining a new mineral for your setting.

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Random Jewelry Generator

Follow the tables below to generate a random piece of jewelry complete with a random material, gemstone, style, and type! Pair this with the Gemstone Generator on my other post for even more random results.

image source: jljewelers.net

Jewelry Material

Pieces of jewelry can be made with a variety of materials. I tried to make it more common to get gold or silver since most sought-after jewelry would be made from those materials. Pewter contains a lot of tin so those were lumped together, and platinum, rhodium, and palladium are all members of the platinum group, chemically, so I lumped those together as well. 

Gemstones

Here is a link to my random gemstone generator. It was a little too lengthy for this one blog post so I made it a separate one since it can have a different use. You can also roll randomly on the Gems tables in the Dungeon Master’s Guide (page 134). For the purposes of this jewelry generator, though, you should determine the quantity of gems on the piece. I kept the terminology vague since the jewelry can come in many sizes.

Roll 1d4:

  1. No Gems.
  2. One Gem.
  3. Several Gems.
  4. Many Gems.

Appearance and Style

While I could go on about different art movements and list every object in the world that could be turned into jewelry, I tried to keep my terminology open enough here to allow artistic interpretation for your setting. Any specific motifs I added due to their overwhelming occurrence throughout history, like “flowers” and “ribbons.” A roll of 20 will bring you to the Figurines table further down in the generator.

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Jewelry Type

Here we get into what specific piece of jewelry we are creating; what its purpose is. First roll 1d8 on this table, then roll on the next related table below to get your final result.

1: Fastener

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Mood. 

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tarper24

This was me for a long time. It changed this year when I started to have too many things to worry about. Between classes, jobs, friends, and groups I am a part of, I am being pulled too many directions, and I am beginning to suffer from it. Not enough sleep, not getting class work done, and much more of my life falling apart. I’ve started to drop what I can, but I really enjoy most of what I am involved with, barring some of my classes, and I don’t want to stop. However, my classes are a higher priority than other things, not my friends or family though, so I kind of have to keep working at those. I didn’t have the mental capacity and time to work on everything, so some of it started to suffer, including my own mental health. Don’t take on something if you don’t have the time and/or mental capacity to do it. I didn’t know I wouldn’t be able to do everything I had on my plate, but it was still bad.

TL;DR: Yes, you can hurt your own mental health by putting too much on your plate. Find your own limits, and work from there. Don’t be afraid to ask for help when you need it.

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About a week ago I posted this.

I’ve been getting horrible messages like this in my ask for months, including:

and my personal favorite

After getting the message saying “Just go kill yourself” I was completely done dealing with this person’s horrible messages and replied with just an “Okay.” and logged off tumblr.

About a week later I logged back on with 17 messages in my ask, most of them from the anon. I scrolled down and at first when I logged off, the anon messaged me things like

I scrolled up more and all of a sudden they started sending me more and more messages like

This was extremely surprising to me. I thought “After all those horrible messages you sent to me for MONTHS about hating me and wanting me dead, you say ‘sorry’ and that you ‘cant be responsible for someone’s suicide’?”

But I guess the lesson goes like this:

DONT TELL ANYONE TO KILL THEMSELVES UNLESS YOU ARE PREPARED FOR WHAT MIGHT ACTUALLY HAPPEN

DON’T TELL ANYONE TO KILL THEMSELVES EVER.

THIS POST IS SO IMPORTANT I WANT EVERYONE ON TUMBLR IN THE WORLD TO SEE IT

This needs to be reblogged. I couldn’t scroll past this if I tried, I got a message like that but not for me, it told me to my friend to kill them self, I was livid! I didn’t answer it because a message like that doesn’t deserve an answer but I don’t see what is so funny about telling someone to kill them selves! I really don’t! It’s sick and it’s wrong. This person though, I take my hat off to you. You taught that bully a lesson.

this.

This will always be number one on the list of things that aren’t okay

Ho-ly shit.

I’ll never not reblog this

If you dare scroll without reblogging this you have no soul…….. i mean you do but reblogging this wont ruin your blog……. please just spread the word.

Please people don’t send anon hate your just hurting yourselves…

Don’t tell anyone to kill themselves. EVER.

A PSA we shouldn’t need, but we do…because some people are fucking horrible

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fckingnoir

THIS IS IMPORTANT REBLOG XX

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pancakeke

I want the world to understand computers don’t just do things, they only do what the user tells them to do.

“Digital art is cheating! The computer does it!” No, the user painted it.

“Digital music isn’t real! The computer makes it!” No, the user composed it.

“I don’t know what happened. The computer just started acting weird on its own.” NO, YOU’VE BEEN CLICKING ADS AGAIN, MOM.

That last one, tho. That’s my mom.

I just started an art class with the same teacher who practically kicked my sister out of her class for being a digital artist. I’ve known her for a while but never took a class of hers until now. This is her opinion on art:

Digital art isn’t art because “the computer does it for you.”

“It’s not art, it’s illustration.”

Tracing is cheating because “you don’t learn anything from it.”

Everything has to be abstract somehow.

Your art has to be a literal extension from yourself. If you just did something because you felt like it or you had a random idea, it’s not art.

Art is not a skill, it’s a talent that only certain people are born with.

I’ve only been in her class for a few days and I already feel insulted and put down by her actions and words towards me and my original art. Please don’t let stingy “artists” make you feel like shit about your art. Ur beautiful hun.

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tarper24

Your art teacher is just wrong. Art is not a talent, it takes a lot of skill to make art. Some of the best art I see these days is done by an artist on a computer. It is not computer generated, a user created it. It also is not computer aided because the computer is a tool you have to learn to use just as much as any other art tool like paint and brushes, or pencils, or anything else. Some of the best art ever was created because some just wanted to do that for some reason reason or they felt like it. Anything someone created with the intent to art is art. Even things someone did not intend to be art is often art. My point is, if you view something as art, it is. Even if the Creator doesn't think it is art.

P.S. You are... Yes, you. Right there reading this. You are beautiful. Don't let anyone, anyone tell you otherwise.

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@staff I used your new tag filtering to avoid spoilers because I'm not caught up, but it has failed me.

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signs that don't fuckin Do anything

Taurus, Cancer, Gemini, Leo, Libra, Sagittarius, Pisces

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tarper24

As a Sagittarius, can confirm.

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IF YOU NEED TO CALL 911 BUT ARE SCARED TO BECAUSE OF SOMEONE IN THE ROOM, dial and ask for a pepperoni pizza. They will ask if you know you’re calling 911. Say yes, and continue pretending you’re making an order. They’ll ask if there’s someone in the room.

You can ask how long it will take for the pizza to get to you, and they will tell you how far away a dispatcher is.

Reblog to literally save a life

I’ve done this.  I’m alive because of this. 

My flat-mate’s date for the night was almost as drunk as her.  She had passed out in her room and locked the door.  He refused to leave because he wanted to have sex.  He also demanded food because he was dealing with “whiskey dick”.  He didn’t like the lack of food in the fridge.  I called 911, did the stuff stated above, and he was getting PISSED about how long the “order” was taking.  He took my phone, demanded they “hurry the fuck up”.  Police arrived two minutes later, arrested him, and helped me file a police report.  Pressing charges wasn’t necessary because he had warrants on him from THREE different states for the very thing he planned to do to me.  Several months after this happened one of the officers informed me he was charged with two felonies because he crossed stay lines, and will be serving no less than 35 years in prison.  The officer ripped into my flat-mate about her bringing home complete strangers, while drunk, knowing full well this shit could happen. 

This was 14 years ago.  

Do the pizza order, do it as calmly as you can.  The dispatcher I spoke to said things like this:

“If he’s drunk say you want mushrooms.”  I said I want extra mushrooms.

“If he’s threatening you with sexual assault say you want onions.”  I said I want onions.

She went like this with different toppings and sauces for a description of him, like pineapple if he’s blonde, black olives if he’s tall, extra large if he’s tall, etc.

They’ve heard this sort of coded call before.  They’re trained for it.  They will understand what you’re saying.  Order the pizza.

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torios

Really though. I’m in training for dispatch and this was one of the first things they taught us. Pretend you’re talking to a friend or relative, pretend you’re ordering pizza, we’ll figure it out. We’ll word questions so you can answer in an easy, casual way. Please, just make the call and we will do everything we can to help you.

Reblog to save a life

Why the fuck is this not more widely known?

Please say this is true.

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missiur

Reblog if you’d be okay if your friend came out as transgender

let’s see how many transphobics we can weed out

if you can’t reblog this unfollow me right now

☝☝☝☝☝

I mean I’m trans soooo

my friend is trans, and my other friend is transitioning right now. so, if you truly can’t reblog this, go fuck yourself.

I don’t mind I mean we are all human and I would be probably be proud of them for being who they want

I mean I want to be trans but I’m afraid to soooo

love all my friends, no matter what.

Fuck yeah

I’ve been okay with it every time it’s happened so far.

Ditto.

It’s OK with me as long as they’re still my friend and happy

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REBLOG IF YOU THINK BISEXUALITY IS VALID

I am proving to my biphobic family who claimed that I should “stop lying to myself and admit that I am either gay or straight”

as a bi boi can confirm it tis’ valid as a salad

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nerdeas

My father unfortunately became convinced the earth is flat… How do I snap him out of it?

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tarper24

Throw him off the edge. Or at least threaten to.

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@ Dreamworks, I want to hear Snotlout make masturbation jokes.

Bonus points if it happens at the Riders’ dinner table and they all laugh. 

Bonus points if it embarrasses Hiccup. 

I lowkey picture Hiccup being like “Stop that” when Snotlout makes those kinda jokes.

I could see Hiccup being like “We are in the presence of ladies [Astrid and Ruff]” as a reason for him not wanting Snotlout to make such jokes and Ruff, esp but Astrid too, TOTALLY being like WHATEVER. And they make their own masturbatory jokes.

Because everyone wants to embarrass him. 

And now I lowkey want someone in the gang to make a masturbation joke in mixed company (basically anybody that isn’t them) and Hiccup to just… oh fuck.

^That would be Snotlout in front of the wing maidens. Or some other important ambassador that came to Berk. 

Oh my gods, he definitely would have made a dick joke or a masturbation joke in front of the Wing Maidens and Atali would have totally called it out and it would have been amazing.

Or in front of the Berkian adults. Stoick is like, “I knew I shouldn’t have let them stay on an island by themselves,” and Gobber is laughing with the gang and Spitelout is shaking his head disapprovingly and Hiccup tells Toothless to pretty please kill him.

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Tumblr Code.

If I ever see any of you in public, the code is “I like your shoelaces”
that way we know we’re from tumblr without revealing anything
I’m just going to say this to strangers until i find a tumblr person
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must keep reblogering!! Im going to be so suspicious if any one tells me this now!
Remember the answer is: I stole them from the president.
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always reblog tumblr identification

This is an absolute tumblr relic. I feel like an archaeologist right now. This is incredible that this is on my dash.

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squided

this is from an era long passed

Okay but THIS STILL APPLIES

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robogal328

Why is this going around now? I feel I have no choice but to reblog…

Okay I’m in *raises hand*

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tarper24

I like your shoelaces.