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Actually my favourite part of Pokemon Scarlet and Violet is that you can complete like 80% of the pokedex before defeating any gym or beating any titan pokemon. Like, you go through that school scene and they just. Open the map. I can go wherever I want.

Like, I went all the way to the caves to catch a level 36 Frigibax with my team that is otherwise entirely in the early 20s and a plain old regular poke ball. I have a doofy little Frigibax before I do absolutely anything. I love it.

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URGH. Emmerich Holyblade and I just went to The Ceremony to receive our RPG Job Titles, and he OBVIOUSLY got Chosen Hero Sword Saint. So now he's gonna set out to kill the Demon Lord of Darkness.

Me? I just got Dark Mage. Honestly, it's pretty rare, but the job opportunities are also limited. You either get into covert assassination or dungeon raiding.

God, just because we're the only two kids in The Village, Emmerich Holyblade automatically assumes this makes us friends. He doesn't even realize I hate him and his stupid smug swordsman ass.

URGGHHHH he just asked me to join his Grand Hero's Party. fuck. I can't just say no if the Grand Holy King himself is gonna payroll us to do this shit. Whatever man. Let's rock till the Demon Lord of Darkness is dead, and then I can retire and never see Emmerich Holyblade again.

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Too bad the prophet Cassandra never met Odysseus

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“What if I write it and it’s bad-”

WHAT IF YOU WRITE IT AND ITS GOOD? WHAT IF YOU WRITE IT AND ITS EXACTLY WHAT YOU WANTED? WHAT THEN????

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Cats getting caught doing crimes

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If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

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LAVA Germany-based photographer Jan Erik Waider shares beautiful photos of the lava in Iceland. All images were taken at the volcanic eruption in Geldingadalir on the Reykjanes peninsula (Iceland)

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ok so being a parent IS really hard but not the way you think. well its probably hard the way you think but its ALSO really hard because my toddler pronounces peanut butter like "peepee yaya". and see, because he learns from me, i can't say "peepee yaya", no matter how much i want to, because i have to teach him that it is actually pronounced "peanut butter". and dont even get me started on how he pronounces "shaun the sheep" (shit the shit)

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Being carried swiftly by mama

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That's what he said, Luke-

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hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

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I

Love Peter being annoying on purpose. Peter Parker knows he's obnoxious, he practices being obnoxious, he spends his free time reading how-to guides on being the most obnoxious person in any given room at any given time.

He's terrible. Horrible. Flirts with everyone but especially the ones that are trying to kill him. Part of every team as a spare member but no one ever wants to call him because he's the fucking worst. His enemies hate to hate him.

Peter being an angel? Unfeasible. Peter Parker Spiderman is a man who catches his foes in webs because he thought it would fit his theme. He considers committing crimes because he thinks it would probably make more money. Man is legit willing to do just about anything for money and the things he isn't willing to do he makes fun of as annoyingly as possible.

Peter has a Master's in Being an Asshole. I can't get over it. I can't get over how this man angers people for fun, as a hobby, I bet there are at least a few people in the comics more willing to spend time with Deadpool than Spiderman because he's THAT bad.

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Deleted Leia sass from The Empire Strikes Back

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The name "Jane" is a female version of "John", and if Wikipedia is to be believed it developed not out of "John" directly but as a more novel and upper-class version of the then-commonplace "Joan", also a female version of "John", in the manner of the Kayleighs of today.

But "Joan" is still weird, because it's like that for no clear reason -- the original masculine/feminine pair here is like Johannes/Johanna, which explains nothing! It ends up in German as Johann and Johanna, and stress changes can induce vowel changes, but you'd expect that to work the other way round, with the unstressed O becoming shorter, so it seems to just be that "John" and "Joan" appeared at different times and the need to distinguish them kept the latter from drifting as far as the former. You can see the same general thing happening with "Steve" and "Steph", with the opposite gender/vowel length relationship.

So this isn't very systematic, obviously, and it hardly ever happens. But isn't it tempting to imagine us adopting a convention of gendering names by ablaut?

Bill (m.) -> Beele (f.)

Jeff (m.) -> Jafe (f.)

Bob (m.) -> Bobe (f.)

Dan (m.) -> Dane (f.)

Mike (m.) -> Make (f.)

Greg (m.) -> Graygue (f.)

Keith (m.) -> Kayth (f.)

Scott (m.) -> Scote (f.)

James (m.) -> Jymes (f.)

and so forth