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"My beautiful, penitent child. You have already enjoyed my ministrations — do not be greedy."

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Cazador: Remember, daughter.

Cazador: When somebody gives you advice, don’t just accept it!

Cazador: Question it, always!

Aurelia: Yes, Master.

Cazador: *outraged face*

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[I like the idea of Petras not using actual swear words.

“Gosh dang it to heck”

“Frick”

“Doodie”

He needs to sound childish and dorky.]

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Annoying little brother Petras

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Aurelia: Leon, what's the one thing I asked you not to do tonight?

Leon: Raise the dead.

Aurelia: And what did you do?

Leon: *shamefully lowering his head*…Raise the dead.

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Bats! This is a very self indulgent post for me and it’s an excuse to draw bats lol. Close ups and some facts below 👇

So some of these are based on vibes but there are some interesting reasons I chose some of these.

So Cazador is actually based on an extinct species of bat which is basically a massive vampire bat which are about 30% larger than a common vampire bat

Astarion is of course a common vampire bat . I couldn’t find much info on the existence of albino ones but I based him off the few images I could find

Leon being a fruit bad just made sense in my head (Maybe baby bat Victoria is under his wings lol)

Petras being a Pallid bat made sense because of course Pallid=Pale=Pale Petras

I love the idea of Aurelia being a little brown bat because I feel like I HC her as having a more diminutive and reserved personality and I feel that goes with little brown bats

Yousen is a species of Microbat which of course are some of the smaller bats in the world

I feel like Violet would be very proud of her long ears

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I have officially drawn this meme twice. The monopoly meme was super fun to make with a one of those chance wheels. Drawing in this style is super fun. Rules of the "Bad Dice Roll sad Bitch Box":

thou shall not pass "Go"

thou shall not acquire 200 false coin

destroy this box before the Master sees this

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Messaging people for the first time is so hard. What am I supposed to say? Like, "You seem really odd and your blog intrigues me. Do you want to have philosophical conversations or perhaps talk about fictional characters?" What! Whatever. I will just follow you back and stare at your blog with my big beautiful brown eyes.

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Aurelia: I won’t hesitate to kill you if you hurt my family.

Abdirak: …Promise? 🥺🙏

Aurelia: …In your sleep, where it’s painless.

Abdirak: 😨

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sometimes you need dialogue tags and don't want to use the same four

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Skip Google for Research

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free

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I'm sorry but this killed me dead. This man heard a cellphone ring and popped up like a terrier scenting a cocaine-dusted rabbit on the breeze.

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Dalyria: It looks diseased.

Petras: *gasp* IT MOVED!

Violet: …You sure it’s isn’t an artwork of yours?

Aurelia: *apologetic*

Abdirak: *scooping it into a container*

Abdirak: We’ll use it to kill me if it’s necessary, dear one. :)

“It”: *was meant to be food for Abdirak*

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her smug expression and silly little loose strands continue to bewitch me

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Aurelia: *angry* Who broke Cazador's corpse?

Violet: *apologetic* ...It was me.

Aurelia: *grabbing Violet by the ear* ...Now come glue it back together with me.

Abdirak: *suddenly not grateful anymore for Violet covering for him*

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[I HC Astarion(and all vampires/vampire spawn)could drink the water in close proximity to a starfish if he went diving in the sea.

Why?

Because starfish use the water around them as blood(they pump it inside themselves to get nutrients directly from it).

I also HC it would taste horrible.]

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(What do you call a pairing so rare that you made the first fan art of them? 😅) I just think that Pale Petras and Araj Oblodra would make a interesting couple. I can just imagine this happening at end game (With Astarion's good Spawn ending of course) Petras is complaining that Astarion has a Tav and he wants one of his own. So, being the evil good 'brother' he is, decides to set him up with the one person who wouldn't mind at all to date a Vampire. Araj. Astarion is practically cackling at this point as he sets them up. But.. They actually hit it off. Someone said that Araj's blood is like Kombucha to Vampires and Petras is the only one that doesn't mind it. (After a few tries of course haha)