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Amy Brier’s limestone carvings

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Deep in the yaoi mines here folks

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working on early horses, i wanted to do a quick sketch to show how small Eohippus was compared to an extant horse (this one is about 150cm tall). as you can see, it wasn't big at all. a perfect little lap horse :)

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Idiot lawyers!! On the brain!!

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Platonic PDA ft Wright & co and the Edqeworth-Von Karma sibs

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Okay one thing I really love about the first episode of Taz Royale is how beautifully the introduction plays to the players’ strengths. Like Travis LOVES a backstory, always has, and so giving him the Past vision gave him the chance to flesh that out for us. Like, Magnus’ pages of backstory when they thought TAZ Balance was going to be a one shot (LMAO) or Devo Mutt Beef still having fairly solid origins even in the ‘guys we’re not doing backstories’ campaigns. And of course Travis pops off with a giant cast of backstory characters to work with, trauma to pull from, and giant character motivation that’s simultaneously tragic and hilarious!

Versus Justin being in the Present. I’m fairly certain in a ttazz for Ethersea he had this discussion about wanting Amber to be a very present character, and preferring the now adventure to a backstory the audience can’t fully engage with. And I think his philosophy on that very much bled through Steeplechase, Justin leans into the improv and building things on the fly. Like the entire Nanofather! So giving him a near immediate present to jump off and immediately launch into establishing personality and a rivalry dynamic that’s immediately relevant and ready to unfold is right up Justin’s alley.

And with Clint, Future space janitor just works really well cause I think Clint usually takes a little time to get a solid grasp of his characters. Frequently he’ll drop a little comment or a scene near the end of the campaign that just utterly reframes my understanding of the character. Like, all of Merle and John but also like the fact he has kids, or Zoox becoming the Mind Melder guy tm. I almost always appreciate his characters more on a relisten. So, having his character start with a vision of a future to build towards (and an INSANELY compelling one at that) is just perfect.

Like, obviously the season just started, but I can just feel Griffin’s years of DMing this specific group and it’s really cool to see.

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Also some Merles!! I’d love to work up some full turns for the tAZ boys some day 🥲

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[murderbot voice] that was private

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Been showing a friend taz balance for the first time (we are halfway done with stolen century at the time of this post) which means I'm listening to taz balance all the way through for the first time in like 7 years so I wanted to make myself some wallpapers for my phone's lock screen :] great opportunity to tweak my old designs for these guys and see my progress as a character designer since I was a teenager lol! alt text should have image descriptions if Tumblr logged them properly.

Bonus Fisher under the cut vvv

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"kind of a shitty wizard" is such a character defining moment. the bullying of jenkins is the bedrock of tres horny boys. if you don't love taz at "and that word is my fucking name jenkins" you don't deserve it at "phantasmal and resplendent" okay.

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my collection

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Murderbot having an emotion. or whole bunch of them.

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HEY ARE WE TALKING ABOUT THE CONFIRMATION OF MURDERBOT BOOK 8 AND THE TITLE DROP?????

(title under cut in case u don't want to know)

Platform Decay!!!!!

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ermm

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The people who go "well who's going to look after you when you're old?" when you say you're not having kids are breathtakingly naive. Our next-door neighbour, somewhere in her mid-80s, has a son, grandkids, and a grear-granddaughter, and who's the one she calls when she needs help, and checks that she's not spending christmas alone? Me and my boyfriend.

Having kids is irrelevant if the answer to that question is still going to be "the mentally ill faggots next door."

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Blending in