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"I know chatgpt is bad but you just don't really have any choice" you literally do. Don't use it. Have some moral backbone.

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just heard a skeleton skitter past ...

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Some witches skating

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Easy to forget the best stories are some where the hero rejects the call first show me some anxiety show me some trepidation show me some fear thank you so much

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i think its actually just a theory but im a big fan of "azura has grey skin and red eyes and when she turned the chimer into the dunmer she made them look like her" bc. it fits the story more. she didn't do it so the dunmer would be cursed and shown as abandoned but instead because she wanted the tribunal to know, every time they looked at their own people, what they did. everywhere they looked they would see the markings and appearance of azura. unable to escape it.

and also yknow its less "having dark skin is Bad and means you're Cursed" which is. pretty racist of a trope in a fantasy story.

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reachfolk jewelry arts

the plentiful silver deposits in the druadach mountains have inspired a rich metalworking tradition among the peoples of the reach. elaborate silver jewelry is the most prized accessory in a reachman’s wardrobe, including marvelous bracelets, brooches, necklaces, and more.

reachfolk art is renowned for its complex and ornamental style, mirroring the organic and variable qualities of nature. detailing such as filigree, interlace, and engraving reveal the high level of skill and meticulous craftsmanship of silversmiths. plant and animal motifs are seen in ring terminals shaped like thistles, wolf and deer heads, and most strikingly, open-mouthed serpents or dragons biting their own tails, perhaps as a reflection of peryite and his connection to the cycles of life and death.

one of the most famous examples of reachfolk jewelry is the “reach brooch”, which is an open ring brooch with a rotating pin. traditionally adorned with gemstones and ornate chip-carved designs for use by leaders and speakers, its utilitarian function as a clothes fastener has popularized the basic form of the reach brooch across tamriel. reachfolk clans follow unique customs for the placement of the brooch and the direction at which the pin should point.

silver torcs are another staple of the reach’s metal arts. designed with a rigid structure and a small opening that makes it difficult to remove, a torc is worn by a reach warrior for nearly their entire adult life, and thus becomes central to their identity. illustrations of legendary heroes and spirit-gods often depict them wearing or carrying torcs to represent their power. during the reign of the longhouse emperors, torcs were adopted as a status symbol by elite soldiers of the imperial legion, though they quickly fell out of favor after the death of emperor leovic.

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commission of calypso for a wonderful @merrigold!! ♡

thank you so much for being constant source of comfort and inspiration!! ʚ₍ᐢ ›̥̥̥ ༝ ‹̥̥̥ ᐢ₎ɞ

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I read a fic where Maia was raised away from Edonomee and ended up significantly taller than in canon and thinking of that conversation he has with the kiddos about his intimidatingly tall grandfather, and now I can’t get the idea of Maia having a growth spurt while emperor out of my head. Like. Say he didn’t eat well at Edonomee and was fairly malnourished (which isn’t quite canon but it’s a headcanon that can be explored in lots of directions) and then when he became emperor suddenly he’s eating like an emperor, eating well for the first time in his life, and all the growing his body had almost resigned itself wasn’t going to happen is suddenly an option. It takes a few months to be noticeable but a week or so after his nineteenth birthday Maia’s cuffs are too short. His edochari are thrilled. The tailor is bemused. Maia himself is sort of frightened and excited at the same time.

He goes through three sets of new pants in a month and keeps the tailor happily and helplessly in business for a few months after that, trying to re-make his entire wardrobe before he’s even really done outgrowing it. It’s a messy, confusing time and more than once Maia wonders what happens to all the clothes he can’t wear anymore. The entire court makes note of the change and new gossip breaks out over how obviously young he is. Some are more forgiving because of it, some more resentful of having an emperor who is barely an adult. It’s a whole thing.

Maia ends up a good five/six inches taller than he thought he was going to be, and is so clearly not used to being tall that it’s painful to watch him adjust to his new height and limbs. He is delighted once he gets used to it, and learns to use his height to full effect.

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a writing competition i was going to participate in again this year has announced that they now allow AI generated content to be submitted

their reasoning being that "we couldn't ban it even if we wanted to, every writer already uses it anyway"

"Every writer"?

come on

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Star Wars has three types of guy: Fump Geezgo from the Womflee system, Stabba Badguyman, and Chris

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A tip for excellent writing I just learned: Don't introduce a character with their Dramatic Backstory. It makes readers go "oh alright this is the Dramatic Background Story Character" and establishes a baseline of Tragic, either for the story as a whole or this character in particular. With no contrast of light and dark, pure darkness isn't impactful, it just looks like the absence of anything to look at.

If you really want someone's dramatic backstory to hit the audience like a gut punch, let them get to know the character first. That way the dark backstory doesn't come off as a description of who they are, but an explanation to why they are the way they are. Bonus points for connecting it to something that's already been established as a part of the character - what a devastating blow to suddenly put together that hold on, that funny quirky thing that they always do is a fucking trauma response.

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Chinese calligraphy cr 祁么么mo

I saw this comment under the previous calligraphy video, and honestly, I’m not sure how Reddit jumped to that conclusion. These videos are from 祁么么mo, a professional calligraphy and stationery content creator. She’s posted other hand-cam footage—writing flawless print font in sand with a twig, even modifying an electric toothbrush to write near-perfect print-like characters using its vibrating head. No offense to Reddit, but this isn’t ‘critical viewing’; it’s baseless arrogance. Also, name one prosthetics company that nails hyper-realistic cuticles and hangnails. Not coming for this commenter specifically, but I’ve noticed how a big chunk of Reddit loves to trash stuff from Xiaohongshu. Like, they’re weirdly obsessed with it—but every time it’s some performative ‘debunking’ like ‘everything on Xiaohongshu is fake.’ 

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If I had a time machine I'd get in right before QAnon and introduce the American right wing to the concept of an ARG. I'm pretty sure that's what those guys wanted. A good ARG and maybe a local larp group could've saved so many of them. Instead they got caught up in something where they thought that the only way to get emotional fulfilment and catharsis indulging their little conspiracy brains was to believe it was actually real.

If you look at early QAnon stuff it is so so clearly a bunch of people desperate for an ARG but they weren't provided an alternate reality and had to dump all their bullshit into this one.