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Heartwood Spring: This spring runs a day after heavy rains or at a random chance of up stream rain. Drinking the water provides no effect but the water is considered remarkably refreshing. Use as a material in potion making adds 1d4 healing to the finished potion. No utility applied later can increase this effect.

Water springs out of the Mulberry tree at Dinoša, Montenegro. For the last two decades, during the spring floods, the water has been running out of this old mulberry tree in a village of Dinoša in Montenegro.

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It is now 2020. I queued this back in '17. Have we met your expectations, @yanmagotchi?

when you hear “fire in the hole”and your team is bunched up

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let’s go on a date and by date I mean lay in bed and make out for 3 hours

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“It’s only a game, why do you have to be mad?”

Sakuracon 2019, ft. @yuunasei as D.Va!

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2019 Illustration

-OVERWATCH- Fan Art

D.VA

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May I present to you:

Book seller

Crystal seller

He sells flowers

She will sell you a pumpkin this fall

Would you like to purchase.. bean?

They are regulars. They buy mushrooms for soup

She has more options

Don’t be scared, he’s just been doing this for years and is passionate about garlic

Can I interest you in...melon?

Witch’s familiar needs coins to buy ingredients from toad next door

Please trust reliable, small business owners

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We can amicably disagree on whether pineapple goes on pizza, but not on whether the poor and disabled deserve to die if they can’t afford medical care. I don’t say this JUST because I’m poor and disabled (I felt this way before I became disabled, too), but I do happen to be both of those, things now, so if you’re against universal, comprehensive health care, you are actively rooting for me and people like me to die. And if that’s the case, we can’t be friends.

Politics, especially when it comes to issues like health care, is not an intellectual exercise for people like me; it is literally a matter of life and death. The American for-profit “health care system” let two of my sons die from lack of money, and I’m fortunate to have survived, because it has left me to die on more than one occasion. It nearly let one of my exes die, as well.

(And no, the current combination of SSDI, Medicare and Medicaid system doesn’t cut it for everyone–Hell, I had to leave the US to survive, and I’m lucky my situation allowed me to do so–If you ever had to rely on those programs, you know that they’re not enough for most disabled people who need them. Sanders’ M4A bill, on the other hand, would. It’s even better than some of the health care plans in many of the more civilized countries.)

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mmmm foil yawg…

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We can amicably disagree on whether pineapple goes on pizza, but not on whether the poor and disabled deserve to die if they can’t afford medical care. I don’t say this JUST because I’m poor and disabled (I felt this way before I became disabled, too), but I do happen to be both of those, things now, so if you’re against universal, comprehensive health care, you are actively rooting for me and people like me to die. And if that’s the case, we can’t be friends.

Politics, especially when it comes to issues like health care, is not an intellectual exercise for people like me; it is literally a matter of life and death. The American for-profit “health care system” let two of my sons die from lack of money, and I’m fortunate to have survived, because it has left me to die on more than one occasion. It nearly let one of my exes die, as well.

(And no, the current combination of SSDI, Medicare and Medicaid system doesn’t cut it for everyone–Hell, I had to leave the US to survive, and I’m lucky my situation allowed me to do so–If you ever had to rely on those programs, you know that they’re not enough for most disabled people who need them. Sanders’ M4A bill, on the other hand, would. It’s even better than some of the health care plans in many of the more civilized countries.)

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aaaaaaa haven’t drawn Overwatch stuff in so long

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modding skyrim be like

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The goose

is running loose

to the sound

of lizzo’s “juice.”

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me: (can't function)

me: okay, whose fault is it now

anxiety: ... wasn't me

depression: ... wasn't me

OCD: ... wasn't me

me:

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Airbrush experimentations. I recently picked up an airbrush and I enjoyed it! Even though I m still at that awkward experimental phase where I'm tinkering with mixtures for the paint and air flow levels.

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oh my gay little heart

Dame Archer kicks McDougal’s Scots ass there in the rain at the Washington Midsummer Renaissance Faire - August 11, 2018 - Photo by Douglas Herring

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Fantasy books written by women are often assumed to be young adult, even when those books are written for adults, marketed to adults, and published by adult SFF imprints. And this happens even more frequently to women of color.

This topic’s an ongoing conversation on book Twitter, and I thought it might be worth sharing with Tumblr. And by “ongoing,” I mean that people have been talking about this for years. Last year, there was a big blow up when the author R.F. Kuang said publicly that her book The Poppy War isn’t young adult and that she wished people would stop calling it such. If you’ve read The Poppy War, then you’ll know it’s grimdark fantasy along lines of Game of Thrones… and yet people constantly refer to The Poppy War as young adult – which is one of its popular shelves on Goodreads. To be fair, more people have shelved it as “adult,” but why is anyone shelving it as “young adult” in the first place? Game of Thrones is not at all treated this way…

Rebecca Roanhorse’s book Trail of  Lightning, an urban fantasy with a Dinétah (Navajo) protagonist has “young adult” as its fifth most popular Goodreads shelf. The novel is adult and published by Saga, an adult SFF imprint. 

S.A. Chakraborty’s adult fantasy novel City of Brass has “young adult” as its fourth most popular Goodreads shelf. 

Tasha Suri’s Empire of Sand, an adult fantasy in a world based on Mughal India, has about equal numbers of people shelving it as “adult” or “young adult.” 

Book Riot wrote an article on this, although they didn’t address how the problem intersects with race. I also did a Twitter thread a while back where I cited these examples and some more as well. 

The topic of diversity in adult SFF is important to me, partly because we need to stop mislabeling the women of color who write it, and also because there’s a lot there that isn’t acknowledged! Besides, sometimes it’s good to see that your stories don’t just end the moment you leave high school and that adults can still have vibrant and interesting futures worth reading about. I feel like this is especially important with queer rep, for a number of reasons. 

Other books and authors in the tweets I screenshot include:

Witchmark by C.L. Polk

A Ruin of Shadows by L.D. Lewis

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

The Day Before by Liana Brooks

A Phoenix First Must Burn edited by Patrice Caldwell

Shri, a book blogger at Sun and Chai

Vanessa, a writer and blogger at The Wolf and Books

TLDR: Women who write adult fantasy, especially women of color, are presumed to be writing young adult, which is problematic in that it internalizes diversity, dismisses the need and presence of diversity in adult fantasy, and plays into sexist assumptions of women writers. 

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Anyone for a deep fried meme?