#no quality control on here

[ilaac-art]

I made this really quickly because i just wanted to try out fluid simulation. And i learned 3 new things from this!

1. I hate fluid simulation 2. My PC isn't good enough for high particles despite being high-end because of blender's poor optimization 3. fluid simulation sucks

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Tis but a flesh wound!

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[crystallizsch]

okay hi so listen hear me out

sea snake is a bit too obvious (and too boring)

so i made him based on some kind of lionfish??? (bc something something venomous marine animal) also with a LOT of creative liberties i made with how the fish looks like

let’s also give his fins some rips and tears here and there bc what are the implications of that??? that’s for you 🫵 to decide

anyways chat i lowkey dont know what i was doing

i had no other thoughts but haha funny snake man i turn into fish

[summerblueringo]

“We liked each other from day one.” [part 3]

[part 1 | part 2 | part 4]

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[protoindoeuropean]

Ding Yuxi 丁禹兮 as Mu Sheng "Ziqi" & Yu Shuxin 虞书欣 as Ling Miaomiao

Love Game in Eastern Fantasy 永夜星河 — Ep. 31

[wolveragrace]

BEHOLD MY MASTERPIECE!!!!

The bunnies belong to the lovely @sae-mian! This scenario was inspired by a recent drawing they did!

I got the speech bubble assets from nhaneh here!

(And in case this breaches containment: Vera and Nira are adoptive siblings. Mina and Nira are an item. Mina is Vera's mortal enemy and she's an amusing annoyance to him.)

[ifindus]

The Battle of Hjørungavåg - for the Mythtalia March by @hwsevents

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"Never have Danes held such a battle with Norwegians, not before nor since" - Fagrskinna.

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The battle of Hjørungavåg took place outside the Norwegian coast in the year 986, and was a sea battle between an invading Danish army and a defending Norwegian one. It was a battle of great national significance as the ruling Earl Håkon defended the country against the Danish King Svein Tjugeskjegg aided by the Joms Vikings, who wanted to take control over Norway and christen it.

The battle begun after some farmers tricked the Danes into believeing Earl Håkon only had 2-3 ships with him. They charged forth and got surprised by 50 ships lying in wait for them.

It was a fierce battle, and despite the element of surprise, the Norwegians suffered heavy losses early on. Most of the losses were with Earl Håkon, who fought against Svein Tjugeskjegg, a fight so intense that he had to shed his chainmail as it had become torn apart by all the weapons hitting him. Håkon's sons Eirik and Svein Håkonson fought against the Joms Vikings, Eirik saving his brother. This is when the battle turns.

Suddenly, a terrifying storm hits, with fierce waves of hail. The storm seemed almost magic and supernatural, and on the side of the Norwegians. Had the pagans used dark magic? It is said that Earl Håkon had sacrificed his 7 year old son Erling in a ritual for victory (probably false). The Earls of Lade had a connection to the female godess and spirit Torgerd Hølgebrud, who was called on whenever the family was in need. She came along with her sister and other valkyries on horses with bows and arrows, sending hail towards their enemies.

Torgerd is interpreted as an ancient fertility spirit, and these spirits are also connected with a warrior aspect. They protected certain families and are some of the oldest creatures in the pre-Christian Norse religion.

The supernatural warrior spirits was a convenient excuse for why Svein Tjugeskjegg fled the battle; it was impossible to fight against gods and trolls. It also supported the savage ways of the pagan religion.

As Svein flees, he leaves the Joms Vikings behind to be captured by the Earls. They were about to be executed by beheading, but one of them managed to get a hold of the sword and chop the head off the man about to kill him. Eirik Håkonson is impressed by this and grants them their freedom.

[heir-less]

Also, you know WHAT I never talked about?

They let a woman with cancer take the fall for a badly photoshopped picture?

They let a woman who was just diagnosed with cancer take the fall for a picture they could have easily just lied about?

[rwby-confess]

What do we do once we hit 1000 confessions

[ihateobeymelucifer]

translating this pmo Nobody’s getting with u in the first place dicknips 👎

assuming this is Lucifer WHAT THE FUCKKK. WHA T THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN "Rejected" WHAT. WHAT. Ohh my God that. That's disgusting what. Sorry I need a minute I don't think I've actually gone into detail about how in the game Lucifer ignores MC not giving consent to a lot of actions besides in Lesson 20 because it's an uncomfortable topic that I wouldn't be super comfortable making a longer post about without a lot more effort than most of my silly goofy or angry posts entail. But this is insanely blatant. I'll admit I haven't read a lot of the logs but I would imagine most other characters' responses to this question that don't just go "Okay we're breaking up" would involve asking their partner what the problem is and trying to find a solution. Here Lucifer seems to just be treating his partner like an object to possess which is grossss on sooo many levels. Oh my god Lucifer Stans blink twice if you need help

[hanzajesthanza]

"the michael kandel translation of "the witcher" short story can't hurt you!!"

the michael kandel translation of "the witcher" short story:

[jojolimons-arts]

gave this another go with charcadet :]

bonus smaller version

bg from pokemon eclipse

[air-mechanical]

Sergei figures out the docking procedure thanks to the 11.59 coaster and starts ripping it into shape, unconcerned that its edges are torn and slightly uneven. He has no time to lose. He's used to working with whatever materials he has.

Margo observes him and after one, two, maybe three seconds she's also figured it out. But she's not going to rip her coaster up. She requests a knife to ensure that her cuts are smooth and sharp. She's used to precision and control.

Sergei comes up with the design first. Margo creates hers first. They fit each other perfectly. 

[allyourfearsarecomingtrue]

it's a funny stage in online trans discourse when the niece of the twelfth-richest man in Thailand, a woman accused of partial responsibility for the deaths of tourists who were inadvertently poisoned by insecticide and best known for her long, rich history of harassment - a woman who not too long ago was slinging "tr*nny" around like there was a government incentive for doing so - has become a guiding light for the lgbt community because of her flagrant hatred of trans men

[lemonhemlock]

so, i'm going through your anti team black tag and living my best life, but one post in particular that you made got me thinking.

“george made damn sure rhaenyra’s bloodline sat on the throne at the end bc, if the hightowers won, house targaryen would have been reformed, and he couldn’t kill them all off at the end of the main series”

i'm pretty sure this might've just been a joke, but it makes me curious. do you think something like a targaryen reformation would be possible, hypothetically speaking? i certainly wouldn't mind it in a "greens win" AU scenario, but that's just me. i wanna know if anyone else sees potential in this. 💚💚💚

Hello, yes, this was mostly a joke, as it happens. 😅 (anon is referring to this post) To introduce another lengthy parenthesis, I remember at the time that some of the reactions to that post were in the range for "why doesn't anyone understand that the Hightowers are also feudal lords vying for their own interests and not some great reformists out to save Westeros", which... Listen. 😄 To put equitably, this fandom has a considerable issue with knowing when to level criticism and when to just treat banter as lighthearted horsing around and not take it too seriously. Something which even I'm not exempt from, I don't think. 🤷‍♀️

So, in the interest of making a meme, that post was kind of half-true in that it simplified a more nuanced concept (that was never an avenue that the author decided to explore anyway) for the sake of humour. I have, in the past, detailed my thoughts on House Hightower and what I think is their role in the wider narrative. This is based on the information we have on them presently. If I'm wrong, then I'm wrong. Who knows, maybe Lord Leyton and Melara plan on blowing Oldtown up for shits and giggles. We don't have to guess everything correctly - another aspect this community struggles with in their fandom wars and obsession with having the most correct, morally pure take.

Regardless, yes, the Hightowers obviously are a privileged family at the top of the social food chain, benefitting from the exploitation awarded by feudalism - a political-economic system based on vast inequality. Therefore, any type of reform they might be willing to undertake will be limited and not really something that significantly changes the status-quo. Just like the beloved, fan-favourite, and mostly confirmed "winners" - the Starks. A third element that our fandom has trouble accepting is the concept of incremental change. I feel like it would basically be a truism to point out that incremental change has been the most reliable vector of socio-economic evolution throughout human history. So, bad news for them, I suppose, but any superficial study of history will reveal that feudalism hardly collapsed overnight. Which leads us back to the idea that any small change, no matter how limited, does matter in the long run, because, as time passes, it will be compounded with another small change and so on.

Anyway, coming back to the question. Would Targaryen reformation be possible? Certainly! GRRM could have made up any story he wanted. Anything is possible if you plan for it and it makes sense within your worldbuilding. As it stands, the Targaryens are foreigners with a questionable culture, hailing from a land that used to engage in practices that even the feudal Westerosi found backwards, distasteful, barbaric or immoral: slavery, human sacrifice, incest, great feats of violence such as pillaging and conquering neighbouring lands for the sake of feeding their population to their volcano gods etc. The Targaryens also have fire-breathing monsters that, while not exactly enough all the time to prevent any rebellions from happening, are weapons that no one else has access to and that can cause a great deal of damage that no one else can replicate.

So, in order to "reform" and integrate, they would need to renounce all that. They would need to do it the traditional way. They do some of the work, but never go all the way. They accept the main religion of the land, but they don't let go of inter-marrying, because they don't want to lose their access to dragons. There are attempts to integrate, but, by the time of the events of the main series, they have returned to incest. Funnily enough, Aegon V plays a role in both - he marries outside of the family and has no dragons left, but his succeeding son and daughter marry each other and, eventually, Aegon decides that bringing back dragons is not such a bad idea after all. I do think that the symbolic weight of Daenerys having both her parents and her grandparents as brother-sister sets is laying the "dragon blood" metaphor thick - and that it holds more magical weight than any mathematical calculation of her actual watered-down Targaryen DNA.

In any such scenario where GRRM decided to go down a Targaryen reformation path, IMO it would have been thematically-relevant to ease into it via a marriage alliance with one of the oldest families in Westeros - a well-respected, rich house that also has close links to both the only centre of higher education and the main religious organization in the land. Hence the meme. :) But it doesn't last and the Targaryens go back to their dastardly ways eventually, that's the point of them in the story, because the author chose it to be the point.

[rwby-confess]

Aughhghrehaug just noticed there's two Confession #294s