Every time i’ve had to replant anything with serious roots and shake the dirt out i just can’t unsee the parallel
TERRIFYING TAG BOSS
For the unfamiliar, Turnip28 is a tabletop minis game where the story goes that an apocalyptic explosion devastated Europe in 1819, creating a volcanic winter as a vast complex of colossal and strange mutating roots spread across the land. The majority of animal and plant life went extinct, but warped simulacra of them grew from the roots and established an ecosystem rife with cannibalism and breakneck evolution. Magical and bizarre reflections of carrots, potatoes, mushrooms, and the eponymous turnip were discovered, as well as root creatures resembling pigs, elephants, oxen, or terrifying monstrosities unlike anything before. The reason the tags are so wild is it suggests that humans in the setting came from the roots too, and nothing shown so far rules that out.
It’s fun watching sociologists try to refute the Fermi paradox because 90% of the time it’s like “the idea of Fermi paradox says more about the institutional psychology of the STEM community than it does about the nature of universe because it reveals their unexamined assumptions about the nature of extraterrestrial life, and here’s why”, then proceeds to unwittingly put the commentor’s own unexamined assumptions about the nature of extraterrestrial life on full blast.
Bonus points when they try to flex their sociologist cred to position their framing of the issue as obviously correct, and in the process end up making universalising assertions about hypothetical extraterrestrial civilisations that aren’t even universally true of human civilisations.
It’s fun watching sociologists try to refute the Fermi paradox because 90% of the time it’s like “the idea of Fermi paradox says more about the institutional psychology of the STEM community than it does about the nature of universe because it reveals their unexamined assumptions about the nature of extraterrestrial life, and here’s why”, then proceeds to unwittingly put the commentor’s own unexamined assumptions about the nature of extraterrestrial life on full blast.
It’s fun watching sociologists try to refute the Fermi paradox because 90% of the time it’s like “the idea of Fermi paradox says more about the institutional psychology of the STEM community than it does about the nature of universe because it reveals their unexamined assumptions about the nature of extraterrestrial life, and here’s why”, then proceeds to unwittingly put the commentor’s own unexamined assumptions about the nature of extraterrestrial life on full blast.
Narilamb crack idea where lamb is a poor unfortunate sailor stuck on an island after a shipwreck and Narinder is the siren/seamonster circling the island attempting (unsuccessfully) to lure them into the water so he can eat them.
Over the course of time they end up bonding, and after multiple failed murder attempts on Narinder’s part he realizes that he’s stopped seriously hunting them, its more like a game between them at that point (lamb still assumes he would eat them if they fell in, though.) He eventually does catch them, but to lamb’s surprise, he lets them go.
Anyway that’s all I got for now but I am Thinking Thoughts
Narilamb crack idea where lamb is a poor unfortunate sailor stuck on an island after a shipwreck and Narinder is the siren/seamonster circling the island attempting (unsuccessfully) to lure them into the water so he can eat them.
Over the course of time they end up bonding, and after multiple failed murder attempts on Narinder’s part he realizes that he’s stopped seriously hunting them, its more like a game between them at that point (lamb still assumes he would eat them if they fell in, though.) He eventually does catch them, but to lamb’s surprise, he lets them go.
Anyway that’s all I got for now but I am Thinking Thoughts
‘people can write whatever the fuck they want’ and 'its good to approach writing about sensitive topics with some diligence and forethought’ are statements which can and do coexist
14 year old artists listen to me right now (gripping you by the shoulders) STOP caring about your “internet presence” right naow. Draw slower and stop trying to boil your art down to an acceptable marketable brand
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.
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.
the reason it’s so awesome when the bass at a concert replaces your pulse is that it’s the closest you can get to someone breaking open your ribs and squeezing your heart really hard in their fist
“My poor baby. My poor sweet little boy,” I lament out loud over a whole grown adult man who is not mine but is in fact a fictional character with fictional hurts. What matters is my feelings are real
I can’t believe none of this post shows off the actual most unique feature of this squid!!
One eye of this species is normal, the other is more than twice as big and bugged out. Each has different sensitivity to light levels so she can aim one up (towards the brighter sky) and the other down (to the darker depths) as needed.
No other animal has this setup that we’ve ever found!! You can’t ignore her monocle!!!
meeting up with someone with the explicit goal of figuring out whether or not you want a relationship with them spoils the dynamic. it sucks. it’s terrible. fall in love with your friends like normal people.
as expected this one is a hit with the autism website
Apparently a lot of people get dialogue punctuation wrong despite having an otherwise solid grasp of grammar, possibly because they’re used to writing essays rather than prose. I don’t wanna be the asshole who complains about writing errors and then doesn’t offer to help, so here are the basics summarized as simply as I could manage on my phone (“dialogue tag” just refers to phrases like “he said,” “she whispered,” “they asked”):
“For most dialogue, use a comma after the sentence and don’t capitalize the next word after the quotation mark,” she said.
“But what if you’re using a question mark rather than a period?” they asked.
“When using a dialogue tag, you never capitalize the word after the quotation mark unless it’s a proper noun!” she snapped.
“When breaking up a single sentence with a dialogue tag,” she said, “use commas.”
“This is a single sentence,” she said. “Now, this is a second stand-alone sentence, so there’s no comma after ‘she said.’”
“There’s no dialogue tag after this sentence, so end it with a period rather than a comma.” She frowned, suddenly concerned that the entire post was as unasked for as it was sanctimonious.
And!
“If you’re breaking dialogue up with an action tag”—she waves her hands back and forth—”the dashes go outside the quotation marks.”
Reblog to save a writer’s life.
Thank you
Oh my god thank you. No wonder grammarly keeps complaining about my punctuation when I boot my writing up into word counter
I can’t stand people that don’t let me speak hyperbolically. If I can’t respond to a minor inconvenience that someone should get shot in the fucking head for it then what’s the point of it all.
seeing people say “sometimes i wish i was a guy but i still want to be a girl too” or vice versa and it’s like YOU CAN!!! YOU CAN DO THAT!!!! TAKE MY HAND
i accidentally cracked a bunch of eggs with this post
I don’t care about Dungeon Meshi otherwise but “Tallmen” is SUCH an elegant solution to placing humans in a fantasy setting that it’s still blowing my mind. Just the term itself is enough to instantly recontextualize humans. They’re no longer the default race. They’re those big goobers with long legs, striding about all the time. I can so easily envision much more interesting relationships between humans and non-humans because of it. Like perhaps “tallmen” are stereotyped as shepherds by other races because they can watch over their flocks better, or as vagabonds because they are better suited to long travel on foot. And of course, they don’t *literally* have to be taller than everybody else, they were just the tallest around whenever the label became the norm, or something like that. I just feel like it’s so much better than what I’ve seen in settings like D&D that go “and humans are the… adaptable, generalist people :)!”
[Image ID: Tumblr tags reading: #for my own worldbuilding projects I always love associating humans with fire #I kind of hate the generic mcBlandRace thing humans always got going on while elves are nature incarnate and dwarves are stone and metal #I conceptualize it thus. a race’s elemental affinity is tied to the first friend of that race #dwarves mad their homes and hid from predators in stone caverns and mines #elves lived in harmony and attunement with nature and the forests #and were affected by their element dwarves are craggy and tough like stone and age like rocks. #elves age like the trees and take it slow #but like humans? we are the beings of fire. it was not the caves that protected us nor the trees of the forest #fire was our first friend. in the primordial darkness it burned and cast away the shadows and frightened beasts of the night #we use it to cook our every meal and need it in a way that influences every aspect of our culture #as civilization began it was used to forge our tools and weapons. it heated our homes. the energy we take for granted was all fire #even today electricity is still predominantly made by fire #and we are as fire. swift-lived but terrible. a hungering devouring forces which seeks to consume all the resources around it to expand #a human will never have the longevity of an elf or a dwarf. but the flame burns bright #much like the shifting lights and shadows of a bonfire the empires of mankind rise and fall with a terrible dramatic swiftness #compared to the relative placidity of elves and dwarves /end ID]
Been slipping into an adamantly anti-religion mindset lately. I’m angry at what it’s done to me and others and honestly it feels good to be openly mad, finally. BUT, just wanted to clarify that… how to put this. I don’t hate people for being religious. I was a religious person once. What I hate is the cult/ideology itself. Probably not a huge distinction but it feels important. Lots of people are just raised on it, don’t know anything else, are trapped. It’s maddening but I still believe that hating them won’t help them. At the same time, fuck cults.
