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LET’S FUCKING GOOOOOOOOO

KISS KISS KISS KISS!

YA'LL FINALLY

I FINALLY HAD MY FIRST KISS

A MOMENT OF SUCCESS FOR THIS 26 YEAR OLD VIRGIN

LETS SEE HOW FAR I'LL GOOOOOO

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Meet the Bloodthroat! A species of bat dog which flies upside down because the underside of their wings have nebula colours and glow, so they mimic clouds by flying en mass upside down in a special pattern! They’re a new addition to my family of horrors that I give to people lol

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Trying to use the tumblr app for the first time! Forgive me if this looks weird!

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Westmarch menu :)

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A weird poem I made

There’s this darkness deep inside of me… I thought I had to kill it twice before the pain ended truely…

I sit here and writhe in sounds… Eyes staring for loves and laughter abounds…

This dark things that sleeps in me Its soft, feathery touch discerns the warmth of my eyes I use to see…

The elm tree… It helped save my life you see.

When will this pain in my mind stop? When can I see the end of my soul drop?

In this web…My heart beats. But it is simply a matter of patience, my sweets…

Wait for mother, she’s coming quick! And those monsters best be prepared to die with floors covered in blood slick…

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Fantasy Guide to Feasts, Food and Drink

Picture yourself at a banquet held at the local Lord's castle. The music is playing, the people are chatting and rustling about in their best clothes. You sit at a table and what sits before you? Not chicken nuggets, my friend.

Food is always one of the staples of any world you build. You can get a feel of class, society and morality just by looking at the spread before you on the table.

Food for lower classes (Peasants)

Most peasants lived off the land, rearing flocks, tilling fields and tending orchards. If they lived near the sea, lakes, rivers or streams, they would fish. But since they lived on land owned by churches or lords, they would only be allowed a portion of what they grew. In cities, the peasants would buy food from one another at the market.

Peasants would make bread out of rye grain, that would make the bread very dark. In some communities they would make sourdough, which involves using a piece of dough you made the day before to make that day's bread.

Eggs were a source of food that was easy to come by as farmers kept chickens on hand.

Cheese and butter would be sold and used in the farm.

Jam would also be made as it was easy to preserve and sell.

Peasants would not eat much meat. Chickens made money by laying eggs, pigs could be fattened and sold for profit and cows and goats would be used for milk. By killing any of these animals for food they would loose a portion of money. Poaching (hunting on private land owned by the lord) would come with severe penalties.

Pottage and stew were a favourite of peasants as they could throw any vegetables or bit of meat or fish in a pot to cook for a few hours. It wasn't a difficult dish to make and often inexpensive.

Pies, pasties and pastries would be a favourite at inns and taverns in towns and cities most containing gravy, meat and vegetables.

With most villages and farms set close to forests, many peasants could find berries at the edge of fields. Blueberries, blackberries, raspberries would have all grown wild.

Food for Nobility & Royalty

Nobility and Royalty could always afford better food than the poor. However it might be a patch more unhealthy than the poor's fare. Nobility and Royalty weren't fans of vegetables.

The rich would eat a lot of meat, much of which they would hunt down themselves on their own land. Deer, wild boar, rabbits, turkey and other wild creatures would all be on the table.

Nobility and Royalty would be fond of fish as well. Lamprey eels was a delicacy only preserved for special occasions.

They could afford salt which was important for preserving meat and fish. This would allow the castle/manor/palace to be stocked in times of winter or famine.

They could also afford pepper and other spices, all of which could cost a fortune, to flavour their food.

During a feast, they would eat off of platters made of precious metals but only if you were seated at the high table. Other less important guests would eat off a trencher, a piece of hollowed out stale bread.

Sugar would be the height of dessert. The sugar would be shaped into fantastical formations to impress the noble guests. Tudor chefs would create edible sugar plates for Henry VIII to eat off of.

Swans and peacocks would be served in their plumage. Swans would be more royal diners as in England the monarch owns all the swans. In Ireland, it is illegal to kill a swan mainly because they could be children trapped in swan-bodies. Long story.

Feasts

At certain events, the noble/monarch might throw a party. Most parties would begin with a dinner.

The high table would seat the family throwing the party and the honoured guests. All the food would come to them first to be distributed to their favourites. They would drink the best wine and have the finest bread.

The rest of the hall would be seated together at trestle tables, eating off trenchers. They would be sent food by the thrower of the feast on account of their personal importance or social standing. The closer you were to the salt cellar, placed at the head of the table the more important you were. The further away you were, the lower your status.

Servants called cupbearers would serve wine and drink and move about the hall to carry jugs of wine to water the guests.

Dogs would often be found in the hall, to be fed scraps by the diners.

Drink

No world or party is complete without the booze. Since much of the water in Mediaeval times was putrid or dirty, the classes would avoid it.

Beer: was both a favourite of peasants and the nobility. It would be brewed in castles or in taverns and inns, each site having a different recipe and taste. It would be stored in barrels. Beer was widely available across the world and could be brewed at home. So therefore it was inexpensive.

The two main types of beer would be:

Ale: Ale in the middle ages referred to beer brewed without hops (a kind of flowering plant that gives beer its bitter taste). It is sweeter and would typically have a fruity aftertaste.

Stout: is a darker beer sometimes brewed from roasted malt, coming in a sweet version and dry version, the most famous stout being Guinness.

Wine: Wine would be made on site of vineyards and stored in cellars of large houses or castles. They would be expensive as they would have to be imported from regions capable of growing vines.

Port: Port wine or fortified wine would be made with distilled grape spirits. It is a sweet red wine, and also would be expensive to import from the counties able to grow the correct vines.

Whiskey: is a spirit made from distilled fermented grain mash in a device called a still (which would always be made of copper). The age of whiskey is determined by the length of time it has been sitting in a cask from the time it is made to the time its put in bottles. Whiskey was a favourite drink in colder climates and could be made any where in the world.

Rum: Rum is made by fermenting and distilling sugarcane molasses/juice. It is aged in oak barrels and would have to be imported as it could only be made in lands able to grow sugarcane.

Poitín: (pronounced as pot-cheen) is made from cereals, grain, whey, sugar beet, molasses and potatoes. It is a Dangerous Drink (honestly i still don't know how I ended up in that field with a traffic cone and a Shetland pony) and technically illegal. Country folk in Ireland used to brew it in secrets in stills hidden on their land.

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Being gay is fun (when there’s not discriminatory people I mean) because people seem to say “you’re gay” as an insult, atleast near me, and I love being able to turn to them and just say “yes, yes I am”. Because they never expect it, I don’t know why lol

Somethin gay

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The most gremlin thing I’ve ever seen. I would gladly feed him my last $15.

More of this lil gremlin while I finish up something bigger

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YOU ASKED.

Someone said they’d be happy to see my conlang. This is a VERY incomplete conlang of mine, but hey! I wanna share it! So enjoy!

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I made a thing! Her name is Fayohlan, she’s part of a project I’m doing for a friend! :D

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I regularly eat peanut butter with a tablespoon…I grab a hulking mass of nut butter on a tablespoon and just shove it in there and slide it out. The spoon is clean…

And then the cycle repeats a few times!

ADHD is gonna be the death of me

I was home alone and I had the strange impulse to microwave cheese in a bowl and as I took it back out after 48 seconds (I can't enter in a normal amount of time) my mother walked in the door and I stood awkwardly with the cheese in my hands for the next few seconds before we decided I should just eat it

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yeet

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Hello Eumo!

Hello, the internet!

It's me! A stranger!

I joined Tumblr today because I've been facing art block more and more frequently, and I enjoy drawing for other people more than a lot of things, and I wanted to see if people would like their characters in my art style. Here are some things you should know:

- I can draw humanoids and human anatomy very well, and you don't have to worry about your character looking too surreal (the weirder the better!)

- I'm a traditional artist and mechanical pencil is my only medium

- I NEVER do nsfw but revealing clothing is alright

- I can't color for the life of me

- I don't do more than two comic panels unless you're lucky

- I need character references!!!

- I'd prefer if you told me whether it's a portrait, bust, or full body picture

- I need you to tell me whether or not I should add my own headcanons (the urge will always be very strong)

- My art is perfectly free for now, and I also offer art trades if anyone is open to it!

Thanks for reading this far! I'm also a passionate writer, and may occasionally post about my projects, my OCs, other people's OCs, etc. as well as share snippets of my writing for people to examine. I hope you enjoy!

(Here's some art of mine)

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Autism and blood tests are fun

I went to do a blood test at a hospital recently, because they thought I was having cardiac arrest, and instead of the blue tourniquet they use at a pathology office they used a yellow one, and my autism lit the fuck up. Idk what it is, but my sensory self really loves the yellow tourniquet compared to blue, is that weird?

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WIP Plant Person!

I’ll be honest idk what my plan was here, I just made it for someone and it’s a WIP ;u;

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Moriko

Moriko is a new character of mine :)

Moriko is 18, so she only has one tail!

Thank you to my Japanese friend Ocha for helping me make her!

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Everyone meet Hypnosis! Also known as Hype! I made her for a friend! I don’t know the friends username on toyhouse, but I know you can find Hype on Toyhouse somewhere lol

I hope y’all are all having spectacular days and are being safe! Please, try your best today! If you ever need some happiness, I’m a step away!