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I remember when people pretended to care about bees for a few years because they were an indicator species and now I’m getting replies to that post like “idc if all bugs die as long as we get rid of mosquitos and flies and cockroaches” YOURE GONNA FUCKING DIE!!!!! WE WILL DIE TOO!!!!! WE WILL ALL DIE WITHOUT BUGS!!!! IM NOT KIDDING!!!!

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mothspun

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Ugly OC Asks

Let's get messy 🔥

Questions compiled with @monocytogenes. Reblog with your OCs tagged and enjoy the crunch!

(I'm not numbering these so people have to copy the questions into the ask box.)

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What is your OC petty about?

When's the last time your OC hurt someone emotionally? What did they do?

What's an unsavory detail about your OC or opinion they have (to a modern Tumblr audience)?

What's an unsavory detail about your OC or opinion they have (to their peer group)?

What does your OC's love interest dislike about them?

Is your OC ever wrong? Big ways? Small ways? About what?

What does your OC lie about?

In what way(s) is your OC bad at life?

What's the fatal flaw in your OC's relationship(s)? What could destroy those relationships?

What fills your OC with envy? Alternatively who does your OC envy and why?

What physical trait(s) is your OC insecure about?

What personality trait(s) or habit(s) is your OC insecure about?

What's a moment your OC is ashamed to remember?

What's your OC's biggest fuck up?

What unconscious biases or expectations does your OC have regarding other genders, races or sexualities?

What skill does your OC need to work on improving?

What uncharitable takes would your OC have about you if they met you?

What's the longest grudge your OC has ever held? Against whom and why?

In what way is your OC worse than you?

Have there been any horrible consequences to well-intentioned choices your OC made? How did they cope with that?

Who hates your OC? Why?

What do your OC and their LI fight about?

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Brain just spawned a homoerotic horror between two workers of an apple orchard- a new beekeeper who correctly pegs his tree-tending coworker as gay while conversing alone on his first day. The next few weeks turn into an anxiety nightmare where he can't tell if he's trapped in the orchard with a pretty but terrifying reality-bending bee-man who's bent on "pollinating" him, or if he's having a breakdown / series of inescapable nightmares. Who doesn't love a body horror scene where one's body curls into itself and they become an apple? Struggling to breathe while a man who somehow knew your every deep desire chokes you with deep honey-spit kisses? On my list of projects that will never happen bc don't have the time for a comic but wish I could drag the mental illness gay horror out of my brain

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New DND P/C Alert! Ivan Miskovic Level 2 Human Blood Hunter He/Him Campaign: Waterdeep Dragon Heist Stats: Str - 8, Dex - 16, Con - 14, Int - 12, Wis 14, Cha - 10 Backstory below the cut:

Born Ivona Lena Miskovic, in a small village just outside Silverymoon, to her parents, Chekhov and Elena, Ivona was always a quiet, calm child. Raised in a loving happy family, but growing up she always knew something was different, she felt as if she were born in the wrong body, had for years, but never quite knew how to explain it. As a young child into her teens, Ivona was never a soft, feminine girl, always wanting to go hunting with her father, etc. Around this time Lena became pregnant with a second child, Ivona’s brother, Yakov, a 14-year difference between the two, Ivona felt an immediate need to protect her little brother.

The need for protection and to find out who she truly was continued, especially when their father fell ill when Ivona was 16, she knew someone would have to step up and help their mother if something were to happen to him. During Ivona’s father’s illness, she decided to speak what she’d known for years, she told her parents, she wasn’t Ivona, in fact she wasn’t she at all, he was Ivan, and he’d become the man of the house if anything ever happened to their father. At first, they didn’t quite understand, to them, that was their baby girl, but after long talks, and realizing nothing would change between them, he was just their son now. Chekhov eventually recovered from his illness, but Ivan still stepped up and vowed to be the best older brother he could be to Yakov.

At 21, Ivan moves out on his own, spends his 20s/early 30s with his hobbies: hunting, camping, drinking at seedy bars and working to provide for himself. At 32 he meets Ward Pentower, he finds him grating/annoying at first, but the two keep ending up at the same bars and eventually Ward’s charm takes hold of him, and Ivan asks him out for dinner, the rest is history. The pair marry after two years and are both happy and in love.

A year into their marriage, Ivan and his brother (now 21) go on a hunting trip together, a trip that would change everything. Yakov was attacked and bitten by a vampire spawn in the woods; Ivan was able to fight off and kill the spawn, resulting in the scars over his eye, but couldn't bring himself to kill his brother despite the infection. Instead, Ivan kept Yakov alive, feeding him the animals he hunted and housing him in an abandoned cabin outside town. He was able to keep him like this for a year until one day Ivan left him alone in the cabin to head back to town for supplies and to check in with Ward. He stayed in town a bit longer than usual, and by the time he got back it was too late. Standing over the staked body of his brother, Yakov, was the legendary monster hunter, Rudolph van Richten, who had been tipped off of a vampire in those very woods. All Ivan saw was red as he lunged at the man, but before he could reach him, Van Richten fires his crossbow, barely missing and grazing his arm, but a distraction enough to escape.

The next 3 years were spent mourning his brother and blaming himself for his death, he began to go on more hunting trips and traveling around trying to find the hunter who’d killed Yakov. It began to strain his marriage, him being gone so much, Ward not wanting to live a life camping in the woods and hiding out. He tried to help Ivan as much as he could through his mourning, but eventually after 6 years of them being together, the two were no longer on the same path and decided to part ways. It's been two years since then, five years since the death of his brother and Ivan Miskovic now a hardened, scruffy 40-year-old man, has become an amateur monster hunter himself. He decided if his brother can’t live, neither can anything else considered monstrous. He now finds himself in Waterdeep in hopes of learning new skills to eventually hunt the greatest monster of them all, his brother’s murderer.

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i dont care if mondays blue. tuesday coo and wednesday coo. thursday yea im gonna coo it's friday im a dove

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“Steeple”

“Tall Grass”

“Procession”

“Underbelly”

pictures i painted at 3 am

based on the photographs of @ briscoepark

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hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

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You can have my heart if I can have your hand I can make your daddy understand

I haven't got a penny, haven't got a dime But I know how to have a good old time I ain't got a dollar, baby, when I do Gonna go and spend it all on you "A Bank Robber's Nursery Rhyme" - Goodnight, Texas

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Milo (L) and Xathel (R) having a lil photo session together. (Xathel belongs to @terrified-spider - These two are our PCs from a western/cowboy DND setting.)

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I've got another long day of art ahead of me, so I decided to dedicate a bit of time to a quick warmup! (:

The reference is here, and I've got the timelapse up on my bluesky! (:

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I haven't posting much recently due to college, but now that the spring quarter is up, I've had some more time to lock in on art! (:

Here's Uriel for @crouteann! (:

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Riz (@mrachniy) again <3

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It’s so unfair i don’t get to see where evolution will go in 50 million years

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Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

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Bug of the Day

Please enjoy this lovely plume moth (Geina sp.), doing what I can only imagine is a set up pull ups to show off its buff wingspan ;-).

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He looks down to his hands being held by the Count and wonders how a man so powerful and intimidating can also be so comforting.

The vampire smiles, his fangs gleaming in the warm glow of the sconces lining the castle walls, and steps closer into Winslow.

"Safety is such a rare thing, both in and beyond Barovia's borders; I am glad I can provide a haven for you." (Dialogue from "An Unplanned Date" RP in the Barovia Bugged campaign DM'd by @terrified-spider in which Strahd visits Winslow in his dreams and takes him on a short tour of the castle.)

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collab with @kieran-hayward-art! they did the linework and I colored!