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platforming palestinian joy is just as important as sharing the suffering they're enduring during this genocide. despite continued displacement and bombardment, you cannot steal their joy and spirit. happy birthday to this sweet baby 🖤🇵🇸 may they grow up to see a free palestine

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Reality shifters believe they can phase their mind into the world of Harry Potter, and this is because every possible universe exists somewhere out there.

But, J.K Rowlings "Wizarding world" is not among them.

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One year ago today I posted this miniature Star Wars photograph I created, all shot practically using figures and miniature sets only digital element is some foreground rain I added in the rest is all in camera

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felt like doing some petscii art and i feel like this game kinda fit the vibe

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Family guy death pose

Legend says, if you listen closely, you can hear your sneakers crying for a run each morning. But let’s face it, the only running some of us do is running late. Whether it’s fear of judgment or simply not knowing where to begin, starting your fitness journey can feel like rocket science. But remember, even astronauts had to start with basic training. So, let’s break it down; aim for consistency, not perfection. Missed a workout? No biggie, your muscles don’t hold grudges. Eating healthy feels like a quiz you didn’t study for? Start small - swap that daily soda for water. Your body will thank you with more energy than a double espresso.

Building muscle or losing weight doesn’t require a PhD, but it does ask for a little sweat, a bit of determination, and a dash of humor (because, let’s be honest, sometimes we look more like a flailing octopus than a graceful swan during workouts). Remember, every pro was once an amateur. So lace up those sneakers, and let’s make your fitness goals a reality, not a punchline to a joke. After all, the only bad workout is the one that didn’t happen. Ready to be the hero in your own fitness story? Let’s do this!

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I LOVE Dungeon Meshi's Realistic Fantasy Races

Ok, I had to stop for a moment to gush about the fantasy races of Dunmeshi, and all the consideration that's been put into them, because they actually follow a degree of natural/evolutionary logic not found in most fantasy stories!

Half-Foots (halflings/hobbits):

So we all know these fellows have excellent hearing and smell, but have you considered WHY? It's an adaptation to counteract their size. Humans (called tallmen in this setting) rely so much on eyesight because we're really tall compared to most animals, giving us a fantastic vantage of our environment. Half-Foots don't have this advantage, and therefore rely on their other senses. It's also much more important for them to be able to detect unseen threats and move quickly, because their size makes them ill-equipped for direct conflict.

Dwarves:

So Dwarves are depicted as MUCH stronger than tallmen despite their size, right? This is because strength is determined not by size, but by mass, and dwarven bodies are very dense! Yet this comes with the downside of their bodies burning more energy and overheating much faster, which is why dwarves are also shown to be heat-resistant, and why they tend to wear lighter clothing that exposes more skin! Their night-vision is also better than humans' due to their semi-underground lifestyle, while their hearing remains about the same since sound naturally carries in caves. Their hairiness is also likely a direct adaptation to counteract magic, as it's been shown to form a natural buffer when left unwashed.

Gnomes:

Gnomes are supposed to be evolutionary cousins to dwarves, and it shows! They share a similar height, but are less muscular and have peculiarly-shaped ears, almost mirroring the difference between human and elven ears. Their affinity with nature and spirits also makes sense, because physically they're in an awkward spot compared to the other short races, lacking both the hefty strength of dwarves and the light nimbleness of half-foots. Being less equipped both for fight and flight, it makes sense they'd instead adapt the instinctive ability to read their environments and mitigate its threats through cohabitation.

Elves:

Like gnomes, elves are in a physically awkward place, however it's even more extreme. Their relatively light and weak bodies make them ill-equipped for direct conflict, and while likely able to move faster than tallmen due to weight, they lack the half-foot's danger-detection senses. This makes them seemingly helpless, however interestingly it actually explains why they're so advanced compared to other races! They were basically forced to coordinate problem-solve, and control their environments out of necessity, which is reflected in their more controlling and direct relationship with magic and nature compared to gnomes.

This actually mirrors the real-world difference between humans and neanderthals. Anthropologists believe neanderthals weren't actually dumber than humans, but that their superior strength and durability meant they weren't forced to problem-solve or control their environments like humans, meaning they seemed less advanced.

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A Workshop for Creating Magical/ Fictional Crystals: A Guide from a Geologist

Hi folks, its me, here to talk about fictional writing again! Today I'm just tackling the idea of magical stones/mana stones by looking at existing minerals today and some neat properties that they have, and how you can apply these things to a fictional world. The goal is mainly to help you if you are stuck trying to come up with a unique magic system, or a unique identification/characteristic of your mineral.

First Things First: Mineral Shapes

I am exhausted, petered out, down-right fatigued by seeing every mineral depicted with having the crystal structure of calcite and quartz. There are soooooo many cooler, more interesting crystal structures, don't you think you would stop and take a look at a perfect cube in nature? It is completely unsettling.

Second: Color

Color within minerals can either be really important, or not important at all! It is your choice to decide if color is going to be something that means something to your mineral. But what are some times when the color is important? Well.... there are some elements that are called chromophores, this classification just indicates that these elements, when present, will determine the color of whatever they are in. So, if you wanted to treat mana like a chromophore, you could say, "Oh everything that contains mana turns green!" This could mean that regardless of the mineral, if that mineral is a specific color, it means it contains mana. This concept is exciting because you can just stop here and use minerals that already exist! You can also use it as an indicator for a magical ore! Chromophores are typically metals, so if you are making a new metal weapon, making the ore of that metal a unique color would make a lot of sense!

However, your mineral can also just be every color of the rainbow like quartz and perhaps that's what makes identifying your mana stones elusive and create an illusion of scarcity that your character can solve.

There are other things that can change the colors of minerals, like radiation damage, and electron exchange, but I think that is beyond what would be helpful! So lets talk about some unique color properties that happen in nature that seem magical in the first place! Maybe you don't need to design a mana stone, but you want a unique gemstone that only the royal family passes down or something (IDK).

The first one is the alexandrite effect! This is where a mineral can change color in natural light vs. incandescent light. (the mineral itself is not changing, but the lights contain different amounts of different colors that then get absorbed by the stone). Even if you don't use electricity in your fictional world, you could have the colors change in the presence of light magic. This could create fun misunderstandings about what the mineral is reacting to!

Pleochroism

Pleochroism is something that most minerals have, it is frequently used to help identify minerals in thin sections, however minerals are usually not pleochroic enough for it to be visible to the naked eye! Pleochroism is just a fancy name to describe the change in how light is absorbed based on the angle of the mineral! So if you scroll up to the first image where I showed a lot of crystal shapes, most of them have angles where they are longer and shorter! This will effect the way light travels in the crystal. Tanzanite is a popular mineral that does this.

Photochromism

This is when a mineral will change color (in a reversible way) when exposed to UV light (or sunlight), I am not going to go too into the details of why this is happening because it would require me to read some research papers and I just don't feel like it. The mineral that is best known for this is Hackmanite!

Alright! These are all the really cool color effects that might inspire you or maybe not, but now I am going to talk about how you might find your minerals within a rock!

When I see a lot of magical caves/mines, typically I see them with some variation of a geode honestly, but most minerals are not found like that! Now I am sure most of you guys have seen a geode, so I will not really talk about those, but I will talk briefly about porphyroblasts which is when the mineral grows larger than the minerals around it, this happens in metamorphic minerals!

sorry random stranger, but this is an image of garnets inside a finer-grained rock at gore mountain in New York!

Another way you might find minerals is in a pegmatite! This is when all minerals are really large! This is a formed from really slow crystalizing magma!

But something else to think about is that your mineral might just be massive, it doesn't have to have distinct crystals, it may be similar to jadeite where small grains grow together which leaves it looking smooth and seamless! A note about all of these is that you would have to mine into the rock to find these, there would not be any natural caves in these rocks! Caves are only ever really formed in limestones and maybe marbles (rocks that react with acid).

How can your characters identify these minerals?

Typically when you are out in the field you will look to see what type of rocks the minerals are found in (The overall texture of the rock will tell you how it formed). If you know how the rock formed, it will narrow down the amount of minerals you need to think about by quite a bit! Next, you are going to look closely at it and observe its crystal structure, does it have an obvious crystal? if so what is the general shape? If it is broken, how did it break? Did it fracture like glass or did it break along uniform planes. Some minerals have a thing called cleavage (breaks along planes of weakness). If a mineral exhibits this habit, it will again help narrow this down. Next we can look at color. Color can be misleading, because minerals like quartz can be any color imaginable, but minerals like olivine will always be green! The next thing your character can do is test for hardness, minerals all have a specific hardness that can help identify it as well.

After you go through all of this, your mineral might have some special property! This could be magnetism, fluorescence, reactions to acid, or any of the color changing effects I mentioned above! Other than that, your character can take it back to a lab and do a number of things to identify it, but the most typical thing would be for them to make a thin section (very thin piece of the rock) and observe it under a cross polarized microscope!

On that note folks! I hope this helped in some way in thinking of new magic mineral properties! I have other guides that explore some different fictional worldbuilding issues you might run into, but if you have any topics you would like me to cover please that I haven't mentioned already, let me know!

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Hey, go play the Snufkin game.

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just saw a post by @plumbum-art and honestly this idea is so sweet.

Crowley screams at and abuses his plants because it allows him to relive his own trauma. his fall. He discards plants that are less than perfect, just like how God cast him out once he asked a few questions.

Once they move into together, Aziraphale picks up on this. He knows Crowley has never been too receptive to his compliments and words of adoration, so he starts to pour them into the plants. Praising their beauty and growth. Treating them with so much love, talking to them and uplifting them with words he wishes he could say directly to Crowley. He forgives imperfections in the leaves and encourages them, saying that they are more than the few spots marring them.

Crowley is almost always in hearing range of Aziraphale and the plants, and hearing the praise for the imperfect plants slowly heals him. He pretends to hate it, it only entices Aziraphale to be even more doting to the plants. It helps even more.

The plants grow taller. The leaf spots still appear from time to time, but heal over within days as Aziraphale encourages them. Crowley changes too. Less scared if being abandoned, more secure and safe knowing Aziraphale is so close and won't leave him behind again.

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people are cowards about fantasy settings and not including some things in em. I get the aversion to not wanting too modern of tech, however dwarves would invent and fucking love metal folding chairs

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Snorkmaiden and Little My with Peonies

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Hometown (Undertale edition)

1: Kris (doesn’t have an exact UT counterpart but they’re similar to Chara, Frisk and the unused orange Chara sprite)

2: Main characters (Asriel, Asgore, Toriel, Alphys, Undyne, Papyrus, Sans)

3: Secondary characters (Mettaton, Napstablook, Mew Mew, Annoying Dog, Temmie, Royal Guards, Snowy, MK)

4: Vendors (Gerson, Nice Cream Guy, QC, Burgerpants, Bratty, Catty)

5: Amalgamates and Fun characters (Crystal, Shyra/Lemon Bread, Muttler/Endogeny, Donut Guy/Follower 1, “normalnpc”/Follower 3, Everyman, Suzy/Susie)

6: Assorted Ruins/Snowdin NPCs (Froggit, hotel bunny, piranha, politics bear, Ice-E, Jimmy Hotpants, knock enthusiast)

7: Assorted Waterfall/Hotland NPCs (snail, Onionsan, school kids, lion, Heats Flameman/Hots Fireguy, Snowy’s dad, dragon dad, hotel/town hall receptionist, CORE employee)

8: Backgrounds and other parallels (Dreemurr kids’ room, Grillby’s, Papyrus and Sans’s house, SOULs, school)

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Art by Alariko

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KUMATORA BLASSSTT

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"Shapes and Colors"

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