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for your 100th dragon you should use only 100 strokes/lines for the dragon. or if you have already gone past 100 do a dragon with the amount of lines corresponding to the number it is.

ex. 294th dragon gets 294 lines/strokes

personally i think it would be a neat challenge

#100- 一百 (yībǎi / one hundred) - Just connect the 100 dots to make a dragon! 🐉🐲💕

A bonus so you can try for yourself if you want :3c

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You were once the demon king. “Defeated” by the hero, you went into hiding to pursue a simpler life. Today the “hero” has appeared, threatening you family to pay tribute, not realizing who you actually are. Today you show them what happens when you have something worth fighting to protect.

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my favorite form of worldbuilding is when you seemingly avoid bloated sci-fi thesaurus syndrome by filling your setting with mundane Earth things like chess and alligators

and then casually have a character complain that they can’t play chess anymore because they outgrew their safety gear, or mention that the alligators in the moat outside have matted fur

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Aurora Borealis Jackalope Jewelry Dish 🩷🖤💚💜

This is a special piece that's pretty tough to get right. The blue effect will burn on a third firing if the temperature is too hot, and gold/pearl lusters won't adhere if the temperature is too low. Fun fact, the ideal temp is ~ 666°C in my test kiln 😈

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Ending the stigma of drug use will save lives.

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Tater is suuuch a velvety soft little guy

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Honestly, even though I'm glad Germany finally passed the Selbstbestimmungsgesetz, I can't really enjoy it.

Elections are next year. The current government is unpopular and it looks like the CDU will win again. Not only did they vote against it, they've become increasingly more queerphobic lately. Their stance used to be "We tolerate you but won't give you any rights", now it's "We want to take your rights away and make people hate you". Some states where they're the ruling party already outlawed gender inclusive language and that's only the beginning.

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13 year old Clark Kent learning about brood parasitism in middle school biology class and barely touching his dinner that night.

When both Ma and Pa are asleep he climbs out onto the roof, shuddering in the dark, because the teacher said some species' biological parents will secretly come by night to teach their young how to be a proper cuckoo or cowbird even as they're still steadily starving their foster nest. Maybe he can just convince whoever left him here to just take him away again--find a different nest. He doesn't want to hurt anyone here.

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god my favorite part of knitting/crocheting/etc is watching string become fabric. crumpling it in my hands. this fabric would've never existed had I not willed it into being. it isn't fabric, it's time made physical. made material. isn't that the high of crafting? you mold time between your hands and put it into other people's hands. my least favorite part is when my cat tries to cram the whole yarn ball into his mouth

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3d printed start gate

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Where is she? (x)

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Writing tip of the day: whenever you can, plug a plot hole with a character flaw!

Every time you realise that it makes no sense that the characters didn't do some super logical thing in the first place, figure out which character could have prevented it by simply the way they are as a person. You're not only solving the problem of the plot hole, but also the issue of writing flaws into your characters in a way that doesn't feel gratituous and contrived.

Why did the characters not use this weapon they had access to the whole time? - The character who could have told them about it wants to have control over people and had personally decided they shouldn't have it.

Why didn't that one genius character just tell everyone how to dismantle the robots? - They meant to, but being an absent-minded genius, they literally just forgot.

How did nobody notice that this little girl has been hanging out with an actual demon for seven years? - The demon made her pinky-promise not to tell anyone about it, and being naive and overly trusting, she didn't find that sketchy at all.

Why didn't the characters go to The Big Cool Guys for help in the first place? - The character who is stubborn and overly proud wanted to choose death before dishonour and didn't want to ask for help.

Every time there was a perfectly reasonable solution accessible to the characters all along, that could've resolved the whole plot in minutes, always try to find an angle where someone prevented it just by who they are as a person.

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take some time for you today!

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Everyone needs an emotional support dragon.

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“Borealis”

Day 25 - Dangerous

The ol’ North Wind starts to howl.

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Cow Plushies // Alpacasews