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90% of my writing experience is doing this

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The Princess wishes to exert political pressure over Legoland to have them start making bionicles again

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FOG UP HIS GLASSES AND RUN

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Poll that could start a war in a small fandom

Every poll on this blog is about fictional characters only. This request was sent to us and we made a poll in response to it. Send any Blorbo-related question you want to our inbox and we’ll make a poll on which people can vote with their own Blorbos in minds

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I got Scarlet but I love this one better lol

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Art credit: みづき@sjsj_10 Twitter.

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Spin this wheel first and then this wheel second to generate the title of a YA fantasy novel!

(If the second wheel lands on an option ending with a plus sign, spin it again)

Share what you got!

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For the first time in millennia, a Magan Boat sails off the coast of Abu Dhabi. It’s a reconstruction that has taught the world much about the skill and achievements of Bronze Age sailors

Archaeology on Marawah Island, west of Abu Dhabi, has revealed that 8,000 years ago the Arabian coast was home to a sophisticated seafaring people. They built stone structures, herded livestock, fished and dived for pearls, crafted jewelry, and developed a talent for sailing that started a remarkable cultural exchange.

By the Bronze Age, around 4,500 years ago, the region was prominent enough to have a name in ancient writings: Magan. From the island of Umm an-Nar, in modern Abu Dhabi which was part of ancient Magan, merchants sailed an international trade route that connected Mesopotamia, in what is now Iraq, to the Indus Valley in today’s India and Pakistan. Magan traded locally sourced pearls, stone and copper, one of the most sought-after commodities of the time, for ceramics, fabrics, jewelry, and other precious objects. Its ships were renowned through the Arabian Gulf.

The ship was built using 15 tons of locally sourced reeds that were painstakingly prepared by being soaked, stripped of leaves, crushed, and then tied into bundles using rope made from date palm fibers. These formed the hull, to which was attached a wooden frame. The boat’s dimensions were calculated based on what is known about similar vessels as well as hydrostatic analysis of what was needed to make it float. The reed hull was then waterproofed with a coating of bitumen, which was traded from Iraq. The heavy sail, raised purely by muscle without the benefit of pulleys, was crafted of goat’s hair in a patchwork of shades.

The result was the world’s largest ever reconstructed Bronze Age vessel: 60 feet long, capable of carrying 36 tons of cargo, and achieving surprisingly high speeds of 5.6 knots.

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It’s tough being a Ceruledge…

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Okay you guys.

IF YOU PRIMARILY DO NOT SPEAK ENGLISH reply with what you mentally call it, if you have a nickname for it or something

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i have approximately worked out how arachnids look in idletry after a lot of thinking about it. i kind of needed to do it because i need more arthropods to fill backgrounds, and i wanted to write a little bit about why spiders look so different from insects when a lot of people see them as basically the same thing: bugs.

to be clear, though, i have had a strong idea of what arachnids should look like in idletry for a long time.

just didn't really know how to deal with that last pair of legs.

i will probably eventually post about bats and pterosaurs, which would also be very easy to stylize similarly, but i wanted to make them very visibly different. another type of animal i really haven't figured out how to work with yet is frogs. i may end up stylizing them in a way similar to kangaroos.

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And these guys...

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if you're a trans woman you have to survive