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Another worldbuilding application of the "two layer rule": To create a culture while avoiding The Planet Of Hats (the thing where a people only have one thing going for them, like "everyone wears a silly hat"): You only need two hats.

Try picking two random flat culture ideas and combine them, see how they interact. Let's say taking the Proud Warrior Race - people who are all about glory in battle and feats of strength, whose songs and ballads are about heroes in battle and whose education consists of combat and military tactics. Throw in another element: Living in diaspora. Suddenly you've got a whole more interesting dynamic going on - how did a people like this end up cast out of their old native land? How do they feel about it? How do they make a living now - as guards, mercenaries? How do their non-combatants live? Were they always warrior people, or did they become fighters out of necessity to fend for themselves in the lands of strangers? How do the peoples of these lands regard them?

Like I'm not shitting, it's literally that easy. You can avoid writing an one-dimensional culture just by adding another equally flat element, and the third dimension appears on its own just like that. And while one of the features can be location/climate, you can also combine two of those with each other.

Let's take a pretty standard Fantasy Race Biome: The forest people. Their job is the forest. They live there, hunt there, forage there, they have an obnoxious amount of sayings that somehow refer to trees, woods, or forests. Very high chance of being elves. And then a second common stock Fantasy Biome People: The Grim Cold North. Everything is bleak and grim up there. People are hardy and harsh, "frostbite because the climate hates you" and "being stabbed because your neighbour hates you" are the most common causes of death. People are either completely humourless or have a horrifyingly dark, morbid sense of humour. They might find it funny that you genuinely can't tell which one.

Now combine them: Grim Cold Bleak Forest People. The summer lasts about 15 minutes and these people know every single type of berry, mushroom and herb that's edible in any fathomable way. You're not sure if they're joking about occasionally resorting to eating tree bark to survive the long dark winter. Not a warrior people, but very skilled in disappearing into the forest and picking off would-be invaders one by one. Once they fuck off into the woods you won't find them unless they want to be found.

You know, Finland.

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Every single week I cycle through a different coffee shop in my town and ask the barista to make me their favorite drink in a medium. I have an entire spiel:

“All milk is fine, caffeinated and not caffinated i’m game, hot and iced both work, it can be coffee or tea or anything.”

It has yet to fail me. Every time I have tried a new drink I never would have thought to try and every one I’ve had has been amazing. The true delight I’ve seen in baristas faces pondering on what to make me and the joy they have when I like the drink always makes my day and I hope it makes theirs too. It’s the little things of kindness that can make someone’s day and I feel that it helps the world be kinder. Highly recommend doing this yourselves.

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France.

I happen to have a wee little child during the "club dorothe" era(ask your french weeb uncle, he'll know), so the memory is knida fuzzy.

I'd say candidates are "sailor moon", "attacker you!", one of the "Captain Harlock" series, or "Captain Tsubasa". but the most likely is that the real first is muddled in a mist of mixed up memories.

if we're talking first I really followed a little, it was pokemon

That post about death note being "everyone's first anime" (untrue statement) made me curious and now I want to gather data for science

Can you reblog this and tell me where are you from and what was your starter anime?

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Enjoy the spooky liminal backgrounds*

*spooky liminal backgrounds may contain up to 6% foreground cel objects

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I mean, the original movie is really not the hardest thing to translate in modern live action standards. the colors are less saturated than other animated movies, human characters can have real life counterparts with reasonnable adaptations, dragons have been made in cgi for a while now... I don't see any hurdles that compare to the Disney cannon.

My opinions on the original movie aside, the only question I have is why should anyone watch it? like the thing is barely 15 years old, and the story doesn't leave all much to be expanded upon... what are the fans of the original going to gain?

Okay the How To Train Your Dragon live action is almost certainly a marketing ploy for the new Universal HTTYD Theme Park area. That said, the animation DOES look pretty cool… I just wish people wouldn’t treat fully realized animated films as if they’re a test run for Hollywood movie adaptations. Also they should have kept Hiccups weird loser voice. Everything else looks fine tho and tbh the original animated films needed no notes so I don’t blame them for sticking to the blueprint this much. The live action adaptations balance HTTYD’s visual style far better than adapted movies like The Lion King. The original will always be the best, but Toothless turned out great. I’m actually excited to see this one!

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I'm glad I don't read THAT MUCH fanfic, because that one time I kept confusing one event in "dangerous liaisons" with its equivalent in the Stephen Frears movie. during a test.

dangerous liaisons is an epistolary novel, and the moment in question would require two people having a conversation which they would never transcribe in a letter.

Have you ever read so much fanfiction and consumed so much fanart that you genuinely forgot what canon is?

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A Jane Austen cartoon for the Guardian

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I was compelled by some sort of curse maybe to do nothing but make this for the past day and a half.

@reliqvia tagging op because it wouldn't let me put videos in the reblog

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cupping my hands together in the shower over my tummy letting them fill with water and spill over pretending i'm a beautifully detailed statue fountain in sicily that was modeled after the sculptor's wife that tragically passed and he considers it his greatest loss and he never remarried and wept while thinking about her every night until he died and an eclectic, sort of geeky and awkward art history student just finished his final about me in which he said that several historians consider me the most beautiful statue fountain in the world, and while that is true, he's also been obsessed with me since he saw a picture of me in a library book when he was young and i'm part of the reason for his taste in women as an adult and he's going to use the college fund money he secretly put away to go to sicily with his girlfriend to come see me because i was the art piece that made her feel beautiful and finally comfortable in her own skin after years of feeling unloved because i look just like her (she is also hopelessly in love with me) and he gently caresses the wedding ring in his pocket smiling gently glancing over at her glowing face as she makes eye contact with me and finally feels like everything is going to be okay. then i get shampoo. in my eye

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if it sucks hit da bricks <- litany against sunk cost

take it easy but take it <- litany against burnout/apathy cycle

fuck it we ball <- litany against perfectionism

now say something beautiful and true <- litany against irony poisoning

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My latest cartoon for New Scientist

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since youtube keeps giving cute animated videos, might as well try to show them to a new crowd