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love the idea that infernal is a language tieflings don’t have to learn, they just have it built in from birth, and they quickly discover that they can say anything they want out loud in infernal, since almost nobody else understands any of it.
thieves have thieves’ cant, tieflings have the secret language of satan
where the superhero and villain have a common friend that they have to hold it together for
“claire is getting married next week”
“i can reschedule the death ray”
“OH CAN YOU?”
The Demonslaying Greatsword
Painted the Moon Elf calling forth Exile from whatever Abyss it has been forged in.
Side note, how tf do artists juggle commissions, multiple social networks, personal work, life in general, social life, and even a day job on top? Like damn, I barely can keep up and I’m not even doing all of the above…
members of the chain (?)! blue and buts!
I heard that there were people making ocs for the chain and I’m slight temptation
ok but galaxy brain concept: if you finaggled ashivon's color palette around a little bit it'd be the bi flag which means ashivon said bi rights babey!!! happy pride month!!!!
shit dude he sure did :D
Here is something you may not know about the moon: Earth’s clingy best friend is also the site of one of the largest-known impact craters in our entire solar system. Essentially, something caused a giant hole on the moon billions of years ago, and astronomers have just discovered that there’s something big – really big – buried underneath the surface.
Need to drill that moon hole.
Faience polyhedron inscribed with letters of the Greek alphabet. Possible used for fortune telling. Roman, possibly Greece. 2nd to 3rd century A.D. [3791x3792]
SWITCH TO FIREFOX AND ADD UBLOCK ORIGIN
I generally like and support both conspiring and d&d
I’d love a co-conspirator to help me plan d&d games
My new meds make my skin throw a fit. It’s not terribly bad, just a few things here and there, but it’s bumming me out because I’ve never really had too many run-ins with acne.
My four-year-old sister, however, is under the impression that it’s just “3D freckles”, and that they look very, very pretty. She wants all of my freckles to “pop out”, especially the ones across my nose; they’re her favourite.
And it puts me in this weird position where I can’t say, “No, this is acne, and it’s bad,” because I don’t want to teach her that it’s a bad to have unclear skin, you know?
Because the more I think about interactions I have with children, the more I realise that children will consistently compliment “flaws” until they’ve been taught not to.
Like, a kid at the library, whose sister has vitiligo, saw my scars once and suggested that his sister and I should be cats for Halloween, since I have “tabby skin” and she has “calico skin”. “I can be a black cat,” he immediately added. “It’s not AS cool, but they’re the spookiest.”
When I started losing weight, my little brother immediately demanded that I gain it back, because I wasn’t as comfortable to cuddle with anymore.
And my other little sister always wants to wear her paint-stained clothes to school so that “everyone can tell [she’s] an artist”.
I don’t know. I guess talking to little kids just reminds me that all of this superficial shit we worry about really is 100% made up.
https://www.reddit.com/r/mattcolville/comments/axlq5p/spoiler_the_cult_of_nails/ I’m sorry followers, but I may never shut up about Nails. I was thinking about this idea as well, and honestly it’s my favourite possibility opened up by the Nails scene. I just really like the idea that circumstances beyond his own control quickly turned Nails into a developing god, and whether Sweet’s sacrifice to save his friend’s humanity truly stopped his ascension or not doesn’t matter, because belief is what makes gods and saints, and the common soldiers of The Chain eventually make prayers to Nails to look out for all of them, like he always tried to do in (mortal) life, and to Sweet, as a saint representing the foolhardiness and self-sacrifice that members of the Chain praise. The comment where someone said “A lesser deity of mercenaries and lost causes,” fits too well, and in my mind, Sweet’s sacrifice was what kept Nails’ humanity from diminishing; the moment where this infantile deity was no longer the universal threat Omega Nails, but he became Silver Eyes, deified protector of the Chain.
It seems like people in chat don’t get that the idea of a magician’s ‘true name’ having power over them is something that’s almost a constant in fantasy. It’s as much a “reference” as fighting a dragon ‘references’ Beowulf.
fuck the zodiac tell me which sin rules your personality
It’s not on sale? Oh, that’s strange, my very ferocious bear could have sworn it was
(Companion piece to this)
I drew a bunch of OCs from our little Chain group!
Bags is mine Mint is @hubbleablubble / @mint-mcmonk Paisley is @wojtekbc Haft is @pantographicclone Cherry is @thesandman115 Footpad is @xynnos Hops is @zarozinia Hawthorn is @fisyx Beebee is @krunk-mcdunk / @the-zoa
i don’t think people really get how little feedback fanfic authors actually get? like the effort to reaction ratio is so abysmally skewed here that a fic nearly 50,000 words long takes an entire year to amass like. 16 comments. someone reblogged a fic i wrote at 4 am and tagged it with a 5-word compliment and i can’t stop thinking about it, not because it was so nice but because half the time you post a fic you’re going to hear nothing and anything feels like so much
fandom culture is so, so good about giving artists the credit they’re due, but we gotta start doing that for writers too. you’ve got no idea how much people put into their stories and get maybe a handful of reblogs and a dozen-odd kudos. that’s not enough. writing is an endurance sport and y’all need to start giving fic writers a reason to endure it and improve their craft. encourage writers like you encourage artists. reblog fics, leave tags, leave comments, acknowledge that these stories do not just spring into being for your entertainment.
every single damn writer i know feels like half of their readers see them as a machine. that’s gotta change.
drew some kids today at the stream! as usual, I am apparently only interested in STRONG ORANGE LIGHTING. also, I didn’t realize it until halfway through, but I definitely borrowed the color scheme for Ashivon’s from some of @monoflaxart’s gorgeous fanart!! >O>
Playlist for Helltrooper Beebee
Parakeet - Damon Albarn
Back when life was slow, before his name was Beebee, all this kid wanted to do was sit up in his tree and read. Maybe pelt a few wanks with his slingshot, take em on a good chase. It was quiet. He’d look out over the rooftops of his town and sing a little tune. He still does all that from time to time. Just keeps a better eye out for house fires.
Seasoned Oak - Daniel Pemberton
Sprinting through the woods surrounding town. Learning how to dodge trees, climbing anything and everything, falling on his ass and getting back up. Firing a bow so many times his fingers would bleed, not stopping till he hit his target enough times to be satisfied. The only thing he can’t outrun is that damned cat…
The Wrong Company - Flogging Molly
After joining up with the Chain, there were a lot of watering holes to get kicked out of. This is Beebee’s go to song - once he’s drunk enough at least.
Romanian Wind - Hans Zimmer
He may not look it - he’s tall and fairly broad shouldered, and he never takes off that coat - but Beebee has the moves on the rare occasions that he dances. It takes plenty of drink to get him singing, but you can tell he’s gone once he stands up to dance. Especially because he’ll let Elbee gracefully balance on his shoulders the whole time.
Swagger - Flogging Molly
Sloshed beyond belief, potentially lost, and having a damn good time. The goal every night he drinks. And the night he doesn’t drink is the night he’s dead.
Fix My Life - Melt Yourself Down
Like the sun is sure to rise, Beebee is sure to piss of the wrong person. Probably had it comin to em. Thing is, there’s a point when you’re squaring off against a meathead twice your size and half a dozen of his friends that you think to yourself “fuck” and book it. The cat can catch up. What else is new?
Assassins Breath - Daniel Pemberton
Sheer focus. Aiming an arrow, hearing that thud and seeing the target fall down - onto the next one. It never really stops, but does he even want it to?
Tried not to have doubles of artists on here but fuck it. Also, I couldn’t find a song that was exclusively about protecting Geddit, but that’s only because it hasn’t been written yet.
C2, F1, G3, Z1
Finally have a chance to get this answered!
C2 - I can’t help but immediately think of that stereotypical butt-in-the-air sleeping position because it would be hilarious, but in a serious sense Hawthorn probably sleeps in whatever position he hits the bed in, usually on his stomach.
F1 - Like a true dwarf, he loves to carouse, but in his spare non-party times, Hawthorn likes to watch birds - there aren’t many in the Khemhara and certainly not underground, and he’s fascinated by them.
G3 - He’s so thoroughly unaffected by alcohol that you always have someone watching out for your drunk ass, and he’s fiercely loyal. Once you earned his trust he’ll kill for you. Seriously. He’ll do it. Just point him at the bastard.
Z1 - As mentioned before, he’s fascinated by birds, of all kinds. But his heart lies with giant lizards. They’re like the horses of Khemite Dwarves. He used to ride them all the time and that is an experience.
Alternative explanations for why your fantasy setting has powerful magic items just lying around where any random schmuck can pick them up:
Up until a couple hundred years ago, the world’s magical background radiation level was much lower than it is today. Most of magic items were once minor lucky charms and simple household conveniences; being designed to function in what’s now considered a low-magic environment, their effects have not only increased considerably in power, but have also become warped in unexpected and frequently ironic ways.
It’s impossible to create a magic item on purpose. Random objects just become magical, and nobody really knows why. Living things are never affected, and the phenomenon seems to favour manufactured objects over natural ones, though it’s unknown whether this is a real trend, or a reflection of the fact that people rarely “use” natural objects in ways that are likely to trigger any powers they might possess.
Magic items are actually the larval form of monsters. They spend the first part of their life cycle sessile, feeding off of the heroic destinies of the adventurers who carry them. When those adventurers eventually TPK, it triggers the next stage of the items’ development; shortly thereafter, the items “hatch” into a new colony of monsters and spawn the next generation of magic items, continuing the cycle.
There exists a possible future where the forces of Order and Chaos fuck up so badly that the world is torn apart and smeared across its own past. The wreckage of that future are/have been/will be raining down over the entire span of history leading up to it. Being indestructible, magic items comprise the bulk of the debris, but sometimes creatures, buildings or chunks of terrain make it through, which is where dungeons come from.
The world’s supply of magic items is actually very limited, but is constantly being manipulated by the gods to place them in the paths of people who will make best use of them – where “best use” is defined roughly as “hey, you know what would be hilarious?”. The random magic item tables the GM rolls on aren’t a game-mechanical conceit, but a completely literal modelling of the gods’ decision-making process.
There are no such thing as magic items. Sometimes ordinary objects just do things when adventurers pick them up. Almost no-one knows this.
This site is not only full of deliberate disinformation and hoaxes, it’s rife with anti-intellectualism.
I encourage people to research anything that sounds fantastic and totally different than what they were taught - even in my posts.
If you see a blog post with startling information, do the CRAAP Test! (developed by Sarah Blakeslee and her team of librarians at California State University, Chico)
Currency: What is the copyright, publication, or posting date? Does the date matter? Is the information outdated?
Relevance: For what audience or level is the information written (general public, experts/scholars, etc.)?
Authority: Who is the author, creator, or publisher of the source or what organization is responsible for the source? How do you know if the author is an expert on the topic (e.g examine the author’s credentials and/or organizational affiliation)?
Accuracy: What indications do you see that the information is or is not well researched or provides sufficient evidence? What kind of language, imagery and/or tone is used (e.g. emotional, objective, professional, etc.)?
Purpose: Why was this source written (e.g.to inform, teach, entertain, persuade)? How might the author’s affiliation affect the point of view, slant, or potential bias of the source?
More help:
The Ultimate Cheatsheet for Critical Thinking
Judging Source Quality
The Layperson’s Guide to Online Research
Media Bias/Fact Check Use the search feature to find the bias (left, right, center, and in-between) of any news source.
Snopes fact check
How to Spot Fake News from FactCheck.org
What is a “Good” Source? Determining the Validity of Evidence
Fake News and News Bias
Compiled all the Church Animatic info so far into a doc!
This is not by any means a slight against the other person who started this process a while ago! But since I have all the information in my head, and I’d never demand that they keep theirs constantly updated…this seemed like the best way to proceed. @v@
Some relevant notes:
-To comment, select the text you want to comment on and click the little speech bubble button in the top right corner! There’s also a key command for this but I’ve forgotten it. To reply to someone else’s comment, just click it.
-Please don’t just write comments in my text!
-To view the nice organized outline, click the pull-out tab near the top left corner with the list symbol on it!
People have been asking about colors and ref for this animatic! This would’ve been handy while I was drawing it, but hindsight is 20/20. Anyway, I made the designs with animation in mind so they’re all very simple, and it turned out fine! Never did sort out how their waist wraps go on though, oops. >.>
is there a list or smthn of what all the signs in church mean?? just curious :- O
there is now! so Murderer and Executioner are already in there obvs…there were going to be more tattoos for various crimes, but 1. that seemed overly-complex and 2. I didn’t want to dig into a bunch of horrible crimes…why not just stick with murder, I thought.
anyway, the symbol of the church that people have tattooed on their chests would have had an identifying shot where it was labeled “DIVINITY” but I only thought of this later in the animatic and I couldn’t find a good place to add it later. fortunately, I think it read pretty clearly anyway!
the chest tattoo is somehow the conduit for divine magic (which can hurt or heal), and the wrist tattoos channel it into the hands! the bar means they can forge a weapon from their power. (you’ll notice the guy who gives Ash his executioner tattoo at the beginning doesn’t have a bar! he’s not a warrior monk type)
Now that I’ve got a long-term video project off my plate, I can start another one!! An animatic this time, since full-color finished animations take actual years. @v@
$1 patrons on Patreon will get(/have already gotten) WIPs and concept art for this project–I hope you’re excited for this tattooed nun and her huge demon boyfriend, because I sure am!
Original Animatic | CHURCH
I came up with the characters and story solely for this project; they are not “from” anything, just this! The nun’s name is Sanga, the demon’s name is Ashivon, and you can find more of them here.
An animatic is, by its nature, a planning stage for animation. But since I wasn’t sure whether this one would ever end up being fully animated, I put extra care into it. So now it’s in that animatic/animation gray area. While making this video, I was torn between the thought “well this is some melodramatic middle-school bullshit” and “actually it’s pretty good”. In the end, I’d like to think it’s both things. :)
Song: Church by Fall Out Boy Program Used: Adobe Photoshop CS6 This took me eleven months to make!