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*if you know/have confirmed from multiple sources, pick the first one you experienced

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if you're in Europe PLEASE consider signing the Stop Destroying Games initiative. the deadline is July 31st 2025. i've posted about it before; it aims to create legislation for publishers to stop killing the games you pay for and to provide an end-of-life plan for live-service products. thank you!!!

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Characters that are better when they suffer:

Gale

Astarion

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What’s your take on “tentacle faced” humanoids, like mind flayers from D&D, the Ood from Doctor Who, and Rubbery Men from Fallen London? How would such a creature work? What would the tentacles even be used for? I suppose the aforementioned Rubbery Men have the excuse that they can reconfigure their anatomy at will and thus the whole “squid-faced human” thing is a deliberate choice on their part, but the others don’t really seem to make sense!

I've never designed one, but they do have a very interesting look, don't they

my take is this: tentacles are basically just very specialized muscular appendages with no bones. I can compare them to an elephant's trunk or the weird little flesh whiskers on star nosed moles. flexible sensory organs with some ability to grab things.

(image description: comparative photo collage of an elephant, a star nosed mole, and an illithid, which is a humanoid with squid-like tentacles on their face. end description)

star nosed moles don't have very much gripping ability with their little face tentacles, but those things wiggle around and basically act as extra sensitive tiny fingers to find prey like earthworms.

elephants only have the singular trunk, but it moves in a very flexible manner, even being able to grab things like a hand, and it's an essential part of how they eat and drink.

so for tentacle-faced humanoids, i think their tentacles must serve a similar function. why you'd need grabby face tentacles when you also have perfectly useful hands is a bit more of a mystery, but like the coiled grip of a constrictor snake, perhaps it just offers extra stability when feeding (especially if your favored food is like, brains. or you reproduce by putting a parasite baby in someone's head. keeping your target stable by wrapping extra appendages around them would certainly make the whole process more efficient)

and leaving aside the use of face tentacles as extra grabbing appendages, they can also be incredibly useful sensory organs. octopus tentacles and star nosed mole face tendrils and the barbels on bottom dwelling fish like catfish are all so full of nerves and used to "see" by touch in dark and murky and obscured places. tentacle faced humanoids may rely more on the touch sense from their tentacles than their eyes or ears. maybe they even have special senses for magic related things! it really depends on how the writers choose to use them.

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For some reason we were given access to custom emojis on teams and it took people less than 24 hours to add the logo of the local unemployment office and start using it as a reaction when something goes wrong or upper management announces another shit decision

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*person who has rich parents* you can do like anything you want in this world you can literally drop out of highschool and go to Europe for a decade and come back to build a family and start a small business but it's like you have to want it you can't just expect things to come to you without you putting the work in

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imo a discord server should be like a breakout room for fandom. like the place to run your wips by your besties or discuss your otp in more detail with a few people who were insane about it on your post or organise events with a handful of trusted mutuals etc etc. if it’s where ALL the fandom activity is going to happen it will inevitably foster a cliquey environment where the fandom is divided into “those in the server” and “those who aren’t”, lurking is disincentivised if not made outright impossible, people who feel uncomfortable joining in conversations and would rather interact with fandom through reblogging etc are largely excluded because there’s no repost mechanism, and the fandom itself becomes an enclosed space so new fans are limited in how much content and meta they can access without having to make the plunge into Joining The In Group, there’s limited scope for interaction between different communities within the same fandom, god it’s just an altogether dogshit stupid idea. what if we moved all fandom activity to really massive private groupchats. STUPID

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23 Layer Chocolate Cake (via Instagram)

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👑 The Tyrant and The Assassin 🩸

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lugia loaf 🍞 i just really wanted to draw this pose

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quaker oats is disgusting and I will go out of my way to never eat anything made by them again. they kept at least one factory so disgusting that when the FDA said Hey you need to actually follow health regulations (in response to a MASSIVE fucking recall due to contamination that made a ton of people sick, and anecdotally myself and several people I know got sick from food that was NOT recalled) they said actually it would be too hard to follow health regulations and SHUT THE FACTORY DOWN INSTEAD

AND THEY TARGET SO MANY OF THEIR PRODUCTS AT CHILDREN

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drawing raphael until larian lets me romance him

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Can a dyke and a faggot really be Tumblr mutuals...

if china can put a brunette in jeans then anything is possible...