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daisywords · 2 years ago

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One of my biggest nitpicks in fiction concerns the feeding of babies. Mothers dying during/shortly after childbirth or the baby being separated form the mother shortly after birth is pretty common in fiction. It is/was also common enough in real life, which is why I think a lot of writers/readers don't think too hard about this. however. Historically, the only reason the vast majority of babies survived being separated from their mother was because there was at least one other woman around to breastfeed them. Before modern formula, yes, people did use other substitutes, but they were rarely, if ever, nutritionally sufficient.

Newborns can't eat adult food. They can't really survive on animal milk. If your story takes place in a world before/without formula, a baby separated from its mother is going to either be nursed by someone else, or starve.

It doesn't have to be a huge plot point, but idk at least don't explicitly describe the situation as excluding the possibility of a wetnurse. "The father or the great grandmother or the neighbor man or the older sibling took and raised the baby completely alone in a cave for a year." Nope. That baby is dead I'm sorry. "The baby was kidnapped shortly after birth by a wizard and hidden away in a secret tower" um quick question was the wizard lactating? "The mother refused to see or touch her child after birth so the baby was left to the care of the ailing grandfather" the grandfather who made the necessary arrangements with women in the neighborhood, right? right? OR THAT GREAT OFFENDER "A newborn baby was left on the doorstep and they brought it in and took care of it no issues" What Are You Going to Feed That Baby. Hello?

Like. It's not impossible, but arrangements are going to have to be made. There are some logistics.

#idk what to tag this #worldbuilding #writing fiction #historical fiction #fantasy #a real-life example: my dad (a pediatrician) was once entrusted with the care of a baby who was born with a rare condition #this was in a place without great hospital/medical access and anyway they were going to fly the baby over #and he specifically asked them to bring the mother and baby #they show up with baby and...the baby's uncle #and he was like. y'all. do you think I asked for the mom to come just for fun??? We don't have formula here. what is the baby going to eat?

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mroddmod · 8 months ago

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they are like puppies. 2 me

#gravity falls #dipper pines #mabel pines #stan pines #stanley pines #ford pines #stanford pines #gravity falls fanart #fanart #disney #pretty happy with the bg on this one!!!#to be honest i don't know how i got here #at first i just wanted to draw mabel and dipper sleeping on the floor bc i thought it was a cute idea and i love to draw cuddling #and then um. suddenly i had placed them in an entire environment and added stan and ford #couldn't tell ya what happened #but i had fun with it!!#anyway yeah thank you again for all the recent support #hit 12k!!!! woah!!!!!#i was gonna make a post thanking you for 10k but then i hit 11 and now 12 so um. whoops #to be honest i don't even know what to say 😭😭 it's just crazy to me that ive gotten this far because ive had this acc since i was like. 12 #it was my first social media i think #and the first way i got into fandoms #so yeah anyway. thank you :'))#mods art #mods draws #my art

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crowberri · 14 days ago

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Swooned & Knighted

#i was doubting what i was seeing when this happened but then someone pointed out that the file is literally #krisknighting or smth like that #so :::DDD kris honey darling sweety gravy what have you been up to #art #crowberri.png #kris dreemurr #susie #ralsei #the roaring knight #deltarune spoilers #deltarune #the perspective is fucked but whatever #i did have a grid i just suck at placing characters in perspective and keeping my loose brush strokes to the grid #doodle -> value study -> random gradient maps go -> ok i guess im overpainting my sketch -> oh its 3am #its so dark but i dont wanna fix it anymore #i spent actual time on susie meanwhile ralsei is barely a sketch one hue layer to make him green and like 3 brush strokes lmfao #the canvas is like half the size of my usual illust canvases i didnt bother upscaling the sketch have fun counting pixels

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joshuamj · 1 year ago

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Okay, but what if EoW!Zelda had to impersonate Link

#echoes of wisdom #the legend of zelda #loz #loz eow #zelda #link #josh art tag #the scenario i imagine is that nobody but zelda onows that link got got #and link presumably when on a whole quest to save zelda so people would know him or at least of him #so maybe zelda would feel the need to make everyone think everything would be okay #cuz look! links still here and taking care of things!#idk i just think its a cool idea and its one ive actually had for a while #a little while ago i wondered what the next loz game would be like and what i would want to see #and i of course thought of playable zelda #but i thought #what would cause zelda to be playable?#so i thought maybe something would happen to link and he would be unavailable so zelda would take his place #and then that idea fit so well with eow!#i think its fun seeing a zelda in the classic green. and the hat #imposter!zelda au

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hinamie · 4 months ago

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don't feel too well//you're always on my mind

#my art #hina.sketch #jujutsu kaisen #jjk #jjk fanart #yuji itadori #fushiguro megumi #itafushi #sukuna #ryomen sukuna #draws 3/4 of a sukuna says Thank You now i can tag him yippee #anyway its weekly sketch sheet time yaaaay #grits teeth sketching is a part of art sketching is a skill i can build i might not have fun now but someday i Will #honestly i dont hate my sketches i just havent hit a place where i recognize them as Mine yet if tht makes sense #i like these ok tho!! i am particularly fond of athletic compression socks yuuji i think tht one is miku voice Mwah #i feel myself gravitating towards sketching yuuji as a default which is new and unusual as a megumi main #but i wont complain im all for the extra practice w this kid bc god knows he goes through phases of fighting me when i try 2 draw him #perhaps this wave of yuuji insp signals th beginning of a new era #but what is more likely is th fact tht i just finished yuuji's bday piece and he's still fresh on the brain and in my hand muscles #either way we stay winning smile

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courfee · 11 months ago

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17 December 1975 / 15 May 1976

#hp #marauders #sirius black #regulus black #black brothers #sirius black fanart #regulus black fanart #marauders fanart #the black brothers #marauders era #my art #black borthers angst #mine #sirius and regulus #jsyk what you see there in the background actually is the sky you would see on the above dates from islington #i specifically chose the dates cause sirius wouldnt be visible anymore at that point #and he could have totally run away already by that point being 16 and all #also because i am such a nerd who has to get things correctly that is actually more or less the view you would have from claremont square #grimmauld place #took me for fucking ever to find some good references above the roofs and i still had to improvise a lot #originally i had an inbetween slide with regulus watching james and sirius walking together having fun in the great hall #but i didnt do more than just a very rough sketch of that it somehow didnt fit sorry #(also i am still not 100% happy with especially the first one but ive tried so long to fix it i eventually had to give up...)

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mipexch · 11 months ago

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i love animating these little freaks

#tpot #xfohv #bfdi #their designs are so simple its so fun. i missed this #i was able to make so much good hollow knight animation work because their designs were so simplistic that i could add detail in places-#-where it made sense to (cloaks + nails + etc) to make it look nice and it worked so well... ultrak sent me to hell world animating-#-complex armor and mecha but I Do what i must... and i've got that map part to finish still #thjank you clover for the four Loves to bite affectionately headcanon. it makes sense. hes just like that #bfb four #bfb x #tpot two #fourx #4x #fourtwo #twox #<- all of these a little implied. apart from fourx thats just a given #gen art #animations

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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 6 months ago

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I'm back in the Tigers cage again.

(You too can join in on throwing a Rat Of A Man into a Tiger cage by reading Tiger Tiger)

#non mdzs #Still need a sona tag name...#Tiger tiger #When I say 'I need to hunt him down for blood' what I really mean is:#'I really like this character and I enjoy how he's able to provoke emotion in the readers'.#Thank you Petra for being such an amazing writer!#The penultimate chapter of Tiger Tiger is underway! I'm so excited to see how things will conclude!#There is truly no better time to be getting into Tiger Tiger than right now! Don't wait!#More TIger's comics *are* on the horizon. So sorry for underfeeding you guys.#Life got busy and I ended up taking a break for 2 months but I am *back* and I won't be leaving any time soon.#I got a tad overwhelmed with the discord; it's a fun place to chat but very busy - I'll try and pop in more often.

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zorangezest · 4 days ago

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(part six) we've got some chill filler chapters to get through before some really exciting stuff can happen!! thank you for reading along!!

once again, tw for blood, violence, and very bad times for this whole series.

the next part will be shorter and very different to give myself a break!

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sciderman · 7 months ago

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well - webtoons is over, gang

#sci speaks #if everyone would please just read the blog at it's intended home on tumblr #and please stop getting me to waste my energy on all these other sites that i hate then that would be primo wonderful #tapas and webtoons are actual shitholes. convenient to read sure whatever. but i hate the format anyway #and how they treat their creators.#not to mention the way tapas gamifies their interface so you're like on a fucking gambling site?? like if temu were a webcomic service?#what happened to the internet being a free and fun place for anyone to post anything.#noo. copyright laws because we want to make money we can't just host anything out of the spirit of fun and freedom #what about the money??? what if we risk money??#internet used to be a better place. i hate the earth as it is right now. the internet is like a mine that corporations dug into.#and destroyed. right in front of my eyes.#it used to be a beautiful green pasture with wildlife roaming and now it has been flattened and turned into an ugly shopping mall.#the things i do for you guys who really. really wanted me to archive it somewhere else.#i''m not doing it anymore. it is here until tumblr dies or we all enentually die and all our efforts are lost to the sands of time.#nothing matters in a cosmic sense anyway. enjoy it while it's here.

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akanemnon · 1 year ago

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Turns out this new Dark World is paid DLC

FIRST - PREVIOUS - NEXT

MASTERPOST (for the full series / FAQ / reference sheets)

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abd-illustrates · 9 months ago

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💜 Doppel & Glass 💜

Finally got round to doodling some of the Heartless crew again - been juggling some very intensive work and life stuff lately so it was therapeutic to get lost for a lil' while drawing this one. (Thanks again to everybody who voted in those polls a bit ago - The results were very interesting so I'm looking forward to drawing more of the most-voted characters sometime soon)

[DO NOT EDIT OR REPOST TO OTHER SITES / ACCOUNTS] ♻️reblogs are lovely tho!♻️

#artists on tumblr #abd illustrates #heartless #Doppel & Glass #Doppel #Glass #ik i already said so but those polls were very fun to see #and very unexpected in places!#startin' off what i hope will be a more-than-intermittent doodle series with the dark horse(s) comptetitors here lol #good for Doppel & Glass though they deserve a win #Doppel is the type to chomp on his tools when he needs his hands free or when hes thinking #Glass is the same but in less of a aggressive way and more of a nervous-thoughtful chew on his pencil kinda way #this was a very quick one so i have no idea how the screentones will looks at different resolutions sgdfksfs

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dreamsy990 · 4 months ago

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drew some of my fav ody designs! wasnt originally meant to be also replicating the styles but thats sort of just how my brain works. except i didnt copy the lineart styles of anyone here so its DEFINITELY a bit uncanny for a couple of these (LOOKING AT YOU QINNY IM SO SORRY) but whatever

the designs featured here (from left to right) belong to: me, @gigizetz, @neal-illustrator, @irunaki, @bigidiotenergytm, @qinnyanimation, and @foopsie-daisy