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come watch eurovision we got:

funky uncle squad ready to throw hands with the nearest dictator

human neon conga line

thor in a toyota

pagan wedding rituals

edgar allan poe

token boyband

tiny woman in a box

possessed barbie dolls

xena, warrior singer

matrix cosplayers

glam rock fire lord ozai

cyberpunk ninjas and modern art sculptures

and lastly, europe when the votes come in

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World Heritage Thread right there

theres too many pokemon games where you play as a kid whos full of life and full of potential. there needs to be a pokemon game where you play as a college dropout who lives in a shitty apartment

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Smh colors aren't real. 7 year old me would question reality, why did adult me just... Accept it?

rb this with ur opinion on this shade of pink:

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My fireteam's last conversation with the Traveler before Lightfall

I thought I'd start writing D2 content, and no time to start like the end of the world. Here goes! I like to think my Guardians speak to the Traveler, for comfort and such. So this is the conversation they'd have right as the final shit show begins...

Wolf-4 (Hunter)

Hey, Big T... Man, listen, shit's been going down, now I keep hearing we're gonna go to Saturn... Promise me one thing, 'Kay? Whatever happens, whoever happens, once it's done, the EDZ will still be waiting for me. Can you promise that, you stupid ball, or will you just keep hanging up there like none of this is your mess?!

Pyra (Warlock)

Your flames always served me well, Traveler... Ever since Stasis arrived, they felt... Colder. Are you okay? You know that I need Your flames to cleanse the system... To cleanse Saturn now, of whatever dark beings corrupt it. Stay with me... Please... Let me be your torch bearer...

Alexandria (Titan)

New threats approach, Traveler. Please, grant me the resilience to keep defending the City. And if it is your will to have others continue my duty, grant me the strenght to go out on a mountain of corpses, with song on my lips, and with you on the horizon.

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Attack on Titan criminally underestimates its female characters...

...a.k.a. Attack on Bad Writing

Y'all know this hit anime, Attack on Titan? The one that's so good it has 2 episodes in iMDB's Top3 rated TV show episodes? Would it surprise you that this Japanese Shonen anime about vaguely German people is extremely sexist? Yeah, me neither. Female characters in AoT have always been criminally underused by the writers OR completely inconsistent OR extremely boring. You want proof? Okay, here's as many significant female characters as I can remember from AoT Season 1-3:

Mikasa

The female lead of AoT is one of the most boring, basic, one-dimensional characters in the show. She ONLY cares about Eren and this would be fine if she had literally any character development whatsoever. But she can't because then she would be more than a plot device that appears when someone has to do something badass while screaming Eren's name. Character so boring that I actually forgot her last name.

Annie Leonhart

Okay, guys, we need to make this one mysterious so that no one suspects she's the BBEG of Season 1, let's just... Not have her in 75% of the season. Annie goes from having 2 lines in a whole arc to having unclear motivations, no personality and no character development in the arc where she's supposed to be a focal point. Also, the show's attempt to make the Female Titan's identity mysterious is just embarrassing. She is *supposed* to be a shut-in, I get it, but it's done to an extreme, and she only gets very vague hints at her past, motivations etc. Season 4 partially solves this with flashbacks, but Season 1 is still completely criminal with it. Oh and then she gets written out for 2 whole seasons while still technically being a very significant character. Extremely good concept of a character, but she just doesn't get the screentime she needs to become interesting

Hitch

Hitch is on screen so rarely, it was hard to find a good gif for her. She's a bit of a cookie-cutter slacker, and falls into that stereotype heavily. Season 3 had a chance to do something interesting with her, but it intentionally refuses to by making 90% of her mini-arc happen off-screen. By the end of it, you don't even know if she is inspired or resentful by her crush's sacrifice. There was potential here, but it was never used (until Season 4 that I didn't watch and know very little about).

Hange Zoe

Brutally tortures prisoners. Invents rocket launchers. Horny for titans. Hange is actually a decent character in that she's completely out of pocket at all times. She is unpredictable, hilarious, and incredibly consistent in how insane she is. Her bits do get a bit tired over time, and she exists only to serve the plot, but she's actually not bad!

Ymir

This. Bitch. Has one arc of excellent development, great lore, consistent characterization and the cutest fucking relationship in the show, buuuuuut then Season 2 Arc 2 has her do completely out of character things, betray her love and promptly die a completely unnecessary death off-screen. Does this end up making Christa slightly better by giving her a solid motivation? Yes, but she already had a solid motivation. On that topic...

Christa/Historia

This is it. This is the one. The well-written female character who has a good arc, remains in character, doesn't only do things that serve the plot, has decent humor writing ("gotta marry her" is the best scene in the show, fight me) and is relevant for an adequate amount of time. She also doesn't fall into stereotypes - basically everything she does in Season 3 is a great combination of kindness, maturity and egoism, which are 3 traits that don't often coexist in AoT. She is the best female character, and arguably the best character, in AoT Seasons 1-3. I sure hope Season 4 doesn't do any weird things to her... Fuck.

Yeah, as you can see, AoT misses the mark nearly every time it tries to have a female character, which sucks because all of the above characters are, in principle, very good. Most of them need just... More meaningful screentime (Sasha is in the show more than most, but most of that is comedic relief and not development). Now of course, I'm sure Season 4 probably fixes everything and I'm committing a crime by not watching it - but that doesn't undo Season 1-3 and their writing mistakes. It's clear that there was capacity for good female characters in AoT, but all of the screentime gets eaten up by Eren's Mandatory MC Monologue that 90% of people will skip through.

Edit: technically, Pieck is in Season 3 in her Titan form, but you don't know it unless you watch Season 4 or read the Manga.

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Saving the monster is just as much of a power fantasy as slaying the monster.

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I'd care if the person I reblogged this from committed suicide.

Reblog this from anybody. literally. ANYBODY. even if you dont like them or even know them that well. YOU COULD SAVE THEIR LIFE.

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Swear Words By Fantasy Language

Common: hit your thumb really hard and see!

Dwarvish: Dwarves don’t have any swear words. Rather, a Dwarf must show their craftsmanship by combining non-swear words in a vulgar way. You’ve not been truly offended until a dwarf calls you a house-painting-horse-bargainer.

Elves: Elvish has exactly one swear word, and each elf can only use it once in their life. If uttered it kills all plant life in 300ft and everything capable of hearing must make a wisdom saving throw or disintegrate on the spot.

Giant: Giant contains such swearwords as “double fuck”, which is like normal fuck but twice as big.

Gnomish: Gnomish uses things like “tax returns” and “fiscal responsibility” as swear words. Mentioning your accountant will have you thrown out of respectable gnomish society

Goblin: Honestly, it’s easier to list the words in goblin that aren’t swear words.

Halfling: Halfling has incredibly harsh swear words, to the surprise of everyone when this pastoral little man toddling around a farm and eating muffins calls you a motherfucking shithead cockface

Draconic: Draconic swear words translate to things like “gosh darn it” and “oh heckers” but, to be fair, they come off as more serious when roared at you while you’re on fire.

Orcish: Orcish contains no swear words. Don’t assume based on stereotypes.

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TRUTH. What you need is imagination, and you don’t need to go anywhere to use it.

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The Red Knight by Ami Thompson

Updated 12/1/21 

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rise and shine, whores. there's blasphemy and legs to spread.

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yesterday for April Fool’s my workplace had a short training article on recognizing computer-generated faces from real ones and one of the tricks mentioned was “count the teeth” and I just wanted to say that it’s both ironic and kind of horrifying how society has unwittingly cycled right back to IF YE MEET A MAN ON THE ROAD, COUNT HIS FINGERS LEST YE DEAL UNKNOWING WITH A FAE 

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renaissance in the 21st century

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Picrews I use for online RPG

Mermaid MakerMermaid MakerGot into online roleplaying? Your DM needs a character token and you want something else than google-searching random people’s art that may fit your character’s description? Or are you a DM looking for quick NPC tokens and portraits? Try these picrews!

(This is a completely personal post, my intention is to keep these as in-setting as possible so I’m omiting the overly simplistic styles and anime styles)

Humanoid characters:

Baydews avatar maker V. 2.0 - Supports characters in fantasy settings. Supports heterochromia.

Tiefling maker - Great for characters in fantasy settings, not only for Tieflings!

Djarn’s character maker - No clothing choices for fantasy settings, but it’s a very detailed realistic portrait maker.

Bright’s picrew hell - A bit more cartoonish but has a lot of options for humans and fantasy creatures. Supports heterochromia.

Cute D&D character creator - Something more lighthearted if you want to see your OCs as cute chibis.

Murmur Character Creator - Not many “fantasy” options but it’s good for creating a nice female character portrait.

Dragon Age elf/human maker - For fairly realistic female elves and humans

The Dragon Prince Elf creator - The Dragon Prince style, elves/elvish characters, has horn options too. No clothings.

Hadingley Hill maker - medieval/renaissance portrait maker

Fantasy Icon Maker - For fantasy characters. Supports heterochromia.

Fantasy icon maker - another nice maker with many options

Fantasy girl - elvish/human female characters

Fantasy Hero Creator - Simple maker with some nicely detailed elements

Female human&elf / Male human&elf - a detailed fantasy maker

Muscular female / Muscular male -  a detailed fantasy maker for buff characters

Fairytale duet M/M | F/F | F/M - Humans/elves, realistic skin tones only.

Mystical elf maker - Cute elf girl portrait maker

Elvish character creator - Elf lady. Limited realistic skintones but nice clothing and background choices

AATAVEITH CHARACTER CREATOR - Human/elf female. Natural human colors only but many clothing options.

Mermaid Maker - Female mermaid or humanoid

Witch Doctor - Female only

Victorian Steampunk Dressup - A detailed steampubk character maker

Elven Fashion - Female elf only. Realistic skintones and some nice clothing.

Enchanter Maker - Female elf/human

Deity maker - Lots of creative options for inhuman characters. Base/lineart only

Makowka character maker II - Not many fantasy option but ir’s a cool maker anyway

Nellseto’s maker - cute portrait maker

Black Centered Picrew - Very nice maker with huge variety of black haistyles

Wervty’s Chime Picrew - portrait

Wervty’s Gasp Chara Creator - waist up character

TTRPG Isometric Token - Full fantasy character token.    Base/lineart only

TTRPG Portrait Token - Same as above but for character portraits.    Base/lineart only

Sci-Fi fantasy portrait maker - Fantasy and sfici/Star wars themed character portraits

Non-humanoid characters:

Dracthyr Maker - For all your dragons and dragonkin

Dragon PNGtuber Base Generator - Dragon base/lineart only. 

DnD Frog Maker - Frog people

Catfolk Maker - Cat people

Dragonborn - dragon people

Wolf / werewolf designer - Wolf face portrait with many nice options

Werewolf - fantasy werewolf

Anthro character creator - Various animal people

Animals:

Wolf&dog - Fluffy friend custimizable with apparel

felidaze’s cool cat creator - Cats with lots of options

Wolf Maker - simple wolf creator

My Froggie - Fantasy frogs

Mouse Warrior - For all you Mouseguard/Mausritter players!

RATS!! - Realistic rat portrait maker

gay rat maker - realistic fullbody rat with apparel

Mouse Guard Maker - Creator for Mouse Guard characters

Dream Horse Maker - Horses

Cat Maker - Cats

Avian Creator - Birds

Fantasy Bird Creator - birds

Realistic Goat maker - realistic goat with lots of options

serval creator - Serval portrait

This is a resource for private online gaming between you and your friends, no commercial/advertisement usage!

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typical fireteam activity

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“Step confidently—forward into the unknown, beyond the present. There you will find yourself waiting.”

— Destiny 2; 7th Book of Sorrow, 10th Understanding, I.V