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you, reading this. you're a creature now. reblog to creature your followers

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saw a video that was like “everybody comment what you did today so we can see how everyone experienced something different” and the comments have me tearing up on this train. what the fuckkkk. the human experience

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blows my mind that cheetahs are apex predators. that is the single most anxious creature I have ever seen. at any given moment a cheetah is exactly one stubbed paw away from bursting into tears. that is a sad dripping wet animal, and it's at the top of the local food chain? babygirl what happened

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It's not about the glow-up or the maturity or the mental health or anything. It's about the what the fuck happened to the bleedin' TIME

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some words you can only spell on autopilot. once you stop to think about it you've already lost the fight

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watching gen z and millennials make fun of gen alpha has been torturous. "But they're actually stupid" 1. theyre middle schoolers 2. isn't that what older gens said about us? don't you remember being 11?

it truly is just "impulse reaction to cringe <- has not yet unlearned shame"

the cycle continues let me out of here

guys. guys I think we should kill cringe culture

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Local Child Extracted From Great Peril Says ‼️

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Finally! Pages 1 & 2 of 4 of my latest DATV fan comic. A little love note to Illario beginning to heal. 🥰 Pages 3 and 4 should be up tomorrow 💜

Apologies for the lack of posts recently- between work coloring and actual comic issue for a pal’s series and my mother in law being in hospice (which has involved biweekly trips out of state for days straight) things have been chaotic. I’ve missed these goobers though, and it feels great to get back to noodlin’ with them.

More soon! Thanks for sticking with me

#mxfitforge #dragonage #datv #dragonagetheveilguard #lucanis #lucanisdragonage #lucanisdellamorte #rookaldwir #illariodellamorte #rookanis #emmrichvolkarin #dragonagestrife #caterinadellamorte #bellaralutare #taash #viagoderiva #teiacantori #laceharding

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there’s nothing wrong with me plus i don’t have any wants or needs plus i don’t feel or think at all

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anyone else missing queen of thieves years later.....? because i just put out the first build of a ren'py remake, with vivienne's first season fully playable on pc! more details in the itch.io page below :D

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I'm a big fan of wizards-as-programmers, but I think it's so much better when you lean into programming tropes.

A spell the wizard uses to light the group's campfire has an error somewhere in its depths, and sometimes it doesn't work at all. The wizard spends a lot of his time trying to track down the exact conditions that cause the failure.

The wizard is attempting to create a new spell that marries two older spells together, but while they were both written within the context of Zephyrus the Starweaver's foundational work, they each used a slightly different version, and untangling the collisions make a short project take months of work.

The wizard has grown too comfortable reusing old spells, and in particular, his teleportation spell keeps finding its components rearranged and remixed, its parts copied into a dozen different places in the spellbook. This is overall not actually a problem per se, but the party's rogue grows a bit concerned when the wizard's "drying spell" seems to just be a special case of teleportation where you teleport five feet to the left and leave the wetness behind.

A wizard is constantly fiddling with his spells, making minor tweaks and changes, getting them easier to cast, with better effects, adding bells and whistles. The "shelter for the night" spell includes a tea kettle that brings itself to a boil at dawn, which the wizard is inordinately pleased with. He reports on efficiency improvements to the indifference of anyone listening.

A different wizard immediately forgets all details of his spells after he's written them. He could not begin to tell you how any of it works, at least not without sitting down for a few hours or days to figure out how he set things up. The point is that it works, and once it does, the wizard can safely stop thinking about it.

Wizards enjoy each other's company, but you must be circumspect about spellwork. Having another wizard look through your spellbook makes you aware of every minor flaw, and you might not be able to answer questions about why a spell was written in a certain way, if you remember at all.

Wizards all have their own preferences as far as which scripts they write in, the formatting of their spellbook, its dimensions and material quality, and of course which famous wizards they've taken the most foundational knowledge from. The enlightened view is that all approaches have their strengths and weaknesses, but this has never stopped anyone from getting into a protracted argument.

Sometimes a wizard will sit down with an ancient tome attempting to find answers to a complicated problem, and finally find someone from across time who was trying to do the same thing, only for the final note to be "nevermind, fixed it".

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I feel like in the rush of “throw out etiquette who cares what fork you use or who gets introduced first” we actually lost a lot of social scripts that the younger generations are floundering without.

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Love the ‘wizards as programmers’ post because it exposes a great fantasy of mine vis-à-vis liking sorcerers; being able to write code without having to fucking think about it.

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Bata Shoe Museum: T. E. Lawrence's gay sandals

Me: If anything will do numbers on Tumblr

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"there are only two sexes, it's literally third grade biology!" and pronouns are taught in kindergarten and you dont seem to understand those either

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Two identical infants lay in the cradle. “One you bore, the other is a Changeling. Choose wisely,” the Fae’s voice echoed from the shadows. “I’m taking both my children,” the mother said defiantly.