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Another worldbuilding application of the "two layer rule": To create a culture while avoiding The Planet Of Hats (the thing where a people only have one thing going for them, like "everyone wears a silly hat"): You only need two hats.

Try picking two random flat culture ideas and combine them, see how they interact. Let's say taking the Proud Warrior Race - people who are all about glory in battle and feats of strength, whose songs and ballads are about heroes in battle and whose education consists of combat and military tactics. Throw in another element: Living in diaspora. Suddenly you've got a whole more interesting dynamic going on - how did a people like this end up cast out of their old native land? How do they feel about it? How do they make a living now - as guards, mercenaries? How do their non-combatants live? Were they always warrior people, or did they become fighters out of necessity to fend for themselves in the lands of strangers? How do the peoples of these lands regard them?

Like I'm not shitting, it's literally that easy. You can avoid writing an one-dimensional culture just by adding another equally flat element, and the third dimension appears on its own just like that. And while one of the features can be location/climate, you can also combine two of those with each other.

Let's take a pretty standard Fantasy Race Biome: The forest people. Their job is the forest. They live there, hunt there, forage there, they have an obnoxious amount of sayings that somehow refer to trees, woods, or forests. Very high chance of being elves. And then a second common stock Fantasy Biome People: The Grim Cold North. Everything is bleak and grim up there. People are hardy and harsh, "frostbite because the climate hates you" and "being stabbed because your neighbour hates you" are the most common causes of death. People are either completely humourless or have a horrifyingly dark, morbid sense of humour. They might find it funny that you genuinely can't tell which one.

Now combine them: Grim Cold Bleak Forest People. The summer lasts about 15 minutes and these people know every single type of berry, mushroom and herb that's edible in any fathomable way. You're not sure if they're joking about occasionally resorting to eating tree bark to survive the long dark winter. Not a warrior people, but very skilled in disappearing into the forest and picking off would-be invaders one by one. Once they fuck off into the woods you won't find them unless they want to be found.

You know, Finland.

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I was having a thunk about the Ghast biology and with everything we know so far I've come to the conclusion that Ghasts are giant Cloud-Eater creatures.

I had a discussion with my partner about whether the Ghast was native to the nether or not, and there were a lot of details about where it would make the most sense for it to be and stuff like that.

I was about to propose a new fourth dimension, (Like the aether but real) before I realised that "floating bubbles of water" was just clouds.

Once I thought about that, everything else clicked. We feed them snowballs and water because they naturally feed off cloud ice crystals.

Also, as a subscriber to the ancient builders theory, bringing the ghasts to the nether as transport would have two primary benefits if they're cloud eaters.

1) they can fly, allowing them to naturally be above any harmful creature or hazard the nether has

2) with how much of their body is water, they would have plenty of longevity in the nether because they would have a higher temperature tolerance. Potentially, even, they might be cooler to the touch due to their moisture and act as a comfort to their riders while in the nether.

Therefore, it'd make enough sense that Ghasts are a non-native, overworld species that once ate clouds and were abandoned in the nether by their ancient riders.

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Body Language

When someone is...

Sad

Face/Body:

Avoidant/reduced eye contact

Drooping eyelids

Downcast eyes

Frowning

Raised inner ends of eyebrows

Dropped or furrowed eyebrows

Quivering lip/biting lip

Wrinkled nose

Voice:

Soft pitch

Low lone

Pauses/hesitant speech

Quiet/breathy

Slow speech

Voice cracks/breaking voice

Gestures/Posture:

Slouching/lowered head

Rigid/tense posture

Half formed/slow movement

Fidgeting or clasped hands

Sniffing or heavy swallows

Self soothing gestures (running hands over the arms, hand over heart, holding face in palms, etc)

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Gravekeeper

Send me a DM for commissions!

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wizard hat that is also a lava lamp

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clarification

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injecting my annoying hopless birds with potion of shut the fuck up

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Reblogging for keeps

a list of 100+ buildings to put in your fantasy town

academy

adventurer's guild

alchemist

apiary

apothecary

aquarium

armory

art gallery

bakery

bank

barber

barracks

bathhouse

blacksmith

boathouse

book store

bookbinder

botanical garden

brothel

butcher

carpenter

cartographer

casino

castle

cobbler

coffee shop

council chamber

court house

crypt for the noble family

dentist

distillery

docks

dovecot

dyer

embassy

farmer's market

fighting pit

fishmonger

fortune teller

gallows

gatehouse

general store

graveyard

greenhouses

guard post

guildhall

gymnasium

haberdashery

haunted house

hedge maze

herbalist

hospice

hospital

house for sale

inn

jail

jeweller

kindergarten

leatherworker

library

locksmith

mail courier

manor house

market

mayor's house

monastery

morgue

museum

music shop

observatory

orchard

orphanage

outhouse

paper maker

pawnshop

pet shop

potion shop

potter

printmaker

quest board

residence

restricted zone

sawmill

school

scribe

sewer entrance

sheriff's office

shrine

silversmith

spa

speakeasy

spice merchant

sports stadium

stables

street market

tailor

tannery

tavern

tax collector

tea house

temple

textile shop

theatre

thieves guild

thrift store

tinker's workshop

town crier post

town square

townhall

toy store

trinket shop

warehouse

watchtower

water mill

weaver

well

windmill

wishing well

wizard tower

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Drew a doodle today. I've been practicing anatomy... too much...

I'm proud of the progress I've made in terms of anatomy. My coloring and shading skills need some work though. Felt like sharing anyway, since this is the first thing I've drawn in a while.

(The circus theme was also only potentially influenced by recent internet things)

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I can really IMAGINE myself being like... sad in front of a campfire right now.

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(Wiggles & waggles with joyous abandon)

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im on the website

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reblog if you miss pangea

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monk for @nocturnalityrpg

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Very simple (stylized) ear drawing 💕✍️