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when someone makes a post about befriending or being kind to weird scary creatures or mythical beasts and someone comments on it like ‘wow you’d totally die’… does it feel good to reinforce the ancient barriers of monstrosity? do you enjoy snarkily commenting on the concept of rewriting a myth from pain to kindness. do you want nobody to have a monster to hang out with. you sad asshole

Was at the art museum earlier and i have a new favourite painting

Is this not the cutest??? Its called ”Me and Brita” and this guy in 1895 was like ”i love this kid so much imma do a painting of us having fun so the world will always know how much i loved her and what a good time we had”

the painting in the background is looking at them like “my word what a cool pair”

More specifically that is Carl Larsson with one of his 8 children.

He came from a extremely poor and abusive background but worked his way into fine society, where he fell in love with fellow artist Karin Bergöö, and his works shifted to painting his home life.

Painting titled "My Loved Ones"

[in reference to his career] "the most immediate and lasting part of my life's work. these pictures are of course a very genuine expression of my personality, of my deepest feelings, of all my limitless love for my wife and children."

sauron teaching elves how to make ring

Such a good tutorial I’m gonna go make like 9 of these

A new print for Scotland MCM, where I’ll be at the end of this month!

this is just. so fucking funny to me

It's funnier when you consider that Weird Al tweeted this in response.

Legends only.

chillin on a Saturday night

Calm down jojo

you’re right, I am looking a little stiff here, I should try to relax

You call that “chillin”?

Everyone knows the best way to relax is with a good book and a warm drink

I dunno, man,

 sometimes I like just relaxing on my laptop

get on my level boys

Unfortunately to “get on your level” I’d need a boat trip to the Mariana Trench and a pair of cinderblock shoes.

Thats gotta be the sickest burn ive ever read holy fuck

this post appears once every million years

I kept hoping someone else would one up me and I’d have to escalate even further but nobody has.

I don’t think it’s possible to one up you

That’s why so many caught The Big Gay

Men like to believe theyd be great in apocalypse scenarios but they dont even know how to sew

Some male friends of mine were once talking about how useful they’d be in an apocalypse, and I pointed out that as a weaver and sewer and maker of stuff, I’d be pretty damn useful and they tried to tell me they could just loot clothes from WalMart and they’d be fine. As if WalMart has endless supplies without weekly deliveries.

So just last night a friend of mine was talking about who he’d round up in the event of a zombie apocalypse and how I’m his go-to farmer on account of I know how to keep an entire homestead up and running and we’re talking about what kind of resources I’d need to keep a colony of about 50-ish people alive and i bring up what all goes into processing wool for clothing and such and he just kind of stops me like ‘wait, wait, we don’t need to do all of that because we can scavenge for clothes we don’t need to be able to make them’ and i’m just like, ‘dude, that works in the short-term maybe but if this community is going to be sustainable you’ve gotta have people whose job it is to make clothes and blankets and shit’

also cloth rots pretty quickly when left exposed to the elements and after the first few years or so anything we manage to scavenge isn’t going to be wearable anymore and anywho we’ve got to teach the kids everything or they’re not gonna know what to do some decades down the line when everything’s too rusted or rotted out to be of any practical use anymore, etc etc, and he’s reckoning that things like woodworking and smithing and ranching are more important than say, cleaning or cooking or dairying and meanwhile i’m just smh may all the gods have mercy on this poor fool

He also balked when i brought up how to run a laundry and what all was needed to make everyday shit like soap and toothpaste - like dude, you think this is going to be all about hunting and scavenging and being neato manly-man drifters like in the walking dead let me teach you a thing about keeping a village alive and healthy for more than a week man most of it is shit you keep thinking is non-essential on account of it being “women’s work” or “simple chores” that’re actually pretty labor-intensive and take time, training, knowledge, and practice to do successfully, let alone well, and are 100% absolutely necessary work in order for you to have any reasonably good quality of life after the world ends

Drakkin

Image by Sam Wood, © Wizards of the Coast. Accessed at the Monsters of Faerun Art Gallery here

[Monsters of Faerun was a weird book, not quite being fish or fowl. It came out before the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting for 3.0 did, and only about 2/3rds of the monsters in it were really from that campaign setting. Some good generic monsters, like firenewts, leucrotta and bullywugs, ended up in that book, and I half suspect that they were cut from the core Monster Manual for space purposes.

Anyway, Monsters of Faerun was a major influence on my prehistoric campaign setting I wrote in high school, as there were lots of amphibian and reptilian humanoids to populate the various niches of the planet. The dragonkin didn’t have an empire of their own, but were wandering mercenaries.

Edit: I’m going through and updating my index, and I’ve decided to change the name to avoid confusion with PFRPG’s Pern-inspired dragonkin]

Drakkin This giant, muscular humanoid has the wings and scales of a dragon, and a broad, reptilian face. Fleshy tendrils grow from their head and chin in a mockery of hair. Their scales are a mix of browns and greens, marked with darker patterns and tending to lighter shades along the wings. They wear armor and clutch a finely made weapon.

The drakkin are an artificial race, created long ago by a wicked dragon as their minions and go-betweens with humanoid races. That dragon is long dead, but their drakkin remain a scourge on the world. Drakkin are greedy, venal and rapacious, killing for sport and spreading violence wherever they go. The only creatures they respect are dragons, and some evil dragons hold a tribe of drakkins in thrall. If not serving a draconic master, drakkin are nomadic, wandering the landscape in search of new prey and plunder.

A drakkin trains its entire life with arms and armor, and bands of drakkins will frequently differentiate themselves through their equipment as much as any other personality trait. They commonly have names associated with favored weapons or preferred acts of violence, and many drakkin change their names several times over their lives to reflect accomplishments. Drakkina can see magic inherently, and they are covetous of magic items. Disposable items are frequently stashed away, being seen as too valuable to use except in case of emergency (and useless to many drakkins anyway, as few of them can cast spells). Magic weapons and armor, however, are used. Although drakkins are too motley in bloodline to have inherent energy immunity or breath weapons, they can tap into their latent draconic heritage to access these powers briefly.

Drakkin advance by character class, and most of them advance in martial classes such as fighter and barbarian. Although few become spellcasters, those that do frequently rise to power by making magic items and distributing them as bribes to favored lackeys. A spellcasting drakkin often commands the loyalty of several squads, and can be a threat to large regions.

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Updated to rename the dragonkin, as well as clarify the wording on the Martial Mastery ability.

COME GET YA’LL JUICE

LMAO I SEE THAT TOOTHPICK nice try you dumbass moth I know you didn’t realize that was edible until your keeper unrolled your tongue and stuck it in there

you know too much

you PROMISED these superbowl fans sweet victory…

but all I saw was…

SICKY THE SICKO MODE

cat loaves 2 brighten up ur day

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