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[midwinterhunt]

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.

[tofupixel]

MapCrunch. Environment artists rejoice. Random locations, filter by indoor or outdoor, rural or urban, specific country. Great for realistic/authentic building ref.

[ab1lify]

[knave3]

purple chronically ill wizard i have some thoughts about you

[bgsobvioustourist]

I want to know all of these thoughts immediately. This is glorious.

[weavingwyvernx]

On my Gale bullshit again, bear with me (inspired by @stupidsexywizard ‘s reblog of my Gale + neuropathy post):

Gale with chronic pain/neuropathy would 100% have enchanted items to disguise it. Not so much purely out of vanity (though that too), it’s a mask. He’s already fallen so far, out of Mystra’s graces, out of his former power, and his body is betraying him. But he’s intelligent. Resourceful. Desperate. So in that year in the tower, he crafts things.

- a ring with a modified version of Disguise Self that gives the illusion of steady hands

- boots that stabilize an uneven gait, lessen the weight on his right leg.

- a custom staff. not enchanted for battle, he can do combat fine without it, but optimized as a mobility aid. no one questions a wizard leaning on a staff.

- handmade magical salve, for the arcane scarring.

None erase the symptoms. They can’t. He’s tried a hundred things. But they make him appear more whole, avoid the pitying questions. They help him keep up the pretense of “Gale of Waterdeep”, the respected mage, rather than “Gale Dekarios”, the man with the divine rejection and failing body.

[weavingwyvernx]

On my Gale bullshit again, bear with me (inspired by @stupidsexywizard ‘s reblog of my Gale + neuropathy post):

Gale with chronic pain/neuropathy would 100% have enchanted items to disguise it. Not so much purely out of vanity (though that too), it’s a mask. He’s already fallen so far, out of Mystra’s graces, out of his former power, and his body is betraying him. But he’s intelligent. Resourceful. Desperate. So in that year in the tower, he crafts things.

- a ring with a modified version of Disguise Self that gives the illusion of steady hands

- boots that stabilize an uneven gait, lessen the weight on his right leg.

- a custom staff. not enchanted for battle, he can do combat fine without it, but optimized as a mobility aid. no one questions a wizard leaning on a staff.

- handmade magical salve, for the arcane scarring.

None erase the symptoms. They can’t. He’s tried a hundred things. But they make him appear more whole, avoid the pitying questions. They help him keep up the pretense of “Gale of Waterdeep”, the respected mage, rather than “Gale Dekarios”, the man with the divine rejection and failing body.

[xiamei-sami]

Highlights from Darth Maul: Saboteur by James Luceno

Darth Maul: Saboteur is a tiny story about what happens when Sidious sends Maul to turn two mining corporations against each other for the benefit of the Sith. Here are some interesting passages: 

This, to me, says that Maul is not necessarily malevolent by nature. He grabs this insect and rather than crushing it, either reveling in the taking of a life or simply carelessly destroying it without a thought, (as no doubt Sidious would have done) Maul lets it go. It’s a common trope in Maul’s books that he does not enjoy killing things that are of no threat to him, and oftentimes Maul is shown to find compassion for such creatures.

Even when Maul’s loyalty to Sidious was at its peak, he still had doubts about his life and about who he was. He found himself wondering about his identity and who he could have been.

Predictably, Maul does not consume any intoxicants, and even looks down upon those who do. I’m reminded of Maul: Lockdown when Maul gives the spice/glitterstim-addicted prison guard a good talking-to.

The second part of this passage is interesting to me. The implication being that Maul is admitting to himself he could possibly summon up compassion for a being that was less careless and weak.

Another common trope is Maul silently admiring a certain character, judging their worthiness and deciding he doesn’t want them to suffer a dishonorable death. Maul seems to easily become attached or emotionally invested in those he finds admirable, even if he has said no more than a few words (or none!) to that person. 

Maul could have said nothing, but because he had decided Bruit was worthy, he went on to assure the man that his death was necessary for a grander purpose. Maul seems to show no malice in killing Bruit, only doing so to please Sidious and further their Grand Plan.

(I’d like to thank @sl-walker​ for pointing out the flitter-bug passage and Bruit’s death passage in a past post of theirs)

[ssalballoon]

why he 😼

[starlightweave]

It's surprising I've never seen anyone ever talk about Gale as like a divorced person having to go back to dating for the first time in 10 to 15 years. Like okay yeah they werent married but gale was UTTERLY devoted to mystra. I think we can all agree he didn't sleep with let alone even look at anyone else while with her. Also because she's a goddess and he was having mind blowing, sharing body and soul, sex in the weave with her. Part of Gale's story is his belief that mortal life is "wallowing in the dirt," and he not only desires to "be among the stars," but believes that it's his rightful place up there. So I'm sure he was like lmfaoooo look at these losers having old fashioned mortal sex, these peasants have NO idea what true pleasure and connection is.

And then his hubris leads him to the orb, and he gets throw out on his ass, and that's it, the most important relationship of his life for the past perhaps decade or more is gone. It meant everything to him and nothing to her, not in a malicious way, but just, she's a goddess. She's incapable of loving a mortal the way mortals can love each other.

And then he falls for Tav, so not only is he back "out there" in the dating world for the first time in a decade+ of being w/ the same person, but now he also may be wondering am I reading the signs correctly? Does Tav actually care for me? Or am I seeing what's not there, just like with Mystra?

I mean, it's natural to wonder if someone we are very newly dating feels the same about us. I don't think Gale comes off as mad extra in his need for assurance, but surely he must've thought at some point "I hope I'm not reading more into this like I did with Mystra"

[galesilkleaf]

I think the main trait of Gale that people leave out (both fans, and sadly, from his Canon endings) is his very earthly hedonism.

Gale does not really care about status, which is why he is bewildered when his Godhood is unsatisfactory, why people do not recognise him, why Tara despises him. Godhood is empty and stagnant and the world narrows to his portfolio, a particularly empty one at that. His curiosity vanishes, his playfulness turns cruel.

Gale has a god-sized hole that neither devotion not divinity can fulfill. Gale is desire incarnate; yearning for Mystra, for Tav, for Waterdeep, for something yet unknown own over the horizon. He never says what he wanted the power Mystra denied him for. He just wanted it.

He wants the best in everything, but look at what he talks about, lusts for: books, wine, beer, food, soaps, a bath, a crackling fire, a warm Tressym in his lap, a quiet tower, beauty, poetry, sex, sex, sex.

They are all very sensory things- things to savour, experience, not hoard miserly. He talks about savouring the little things to both Tav and Karlach, even in his fantasy of being a teacher it's the apples he's after half as much as the praise.

And yet to Lae'zel he admits he wants time to stand still, he asks he repeatedly about the Astral Plane. He mentions how much he misses Elysium to Shadowheart, how much he liked and respected the transcendental nature of his lovemaking with Mystra.

These two conflicting desires are what make Gale, Gale.

The hedonist, who is curious and appreciative of nearly everything he comes across; who gives compliments when they're due; who wants the best out of and for the people he comes across, who is generous and warm and charitable.

The hedonist who is greedy, and thoughtless, who thinks of himself and not the consequences, who gets off on watching others sate the desires he cannot come to terms with. He eats gold and jewels and magic and ultimately himself.

The transcended one, ascetic; the martyr, who seeks to remove power from the unworthy, to break the shackles of tyranny, the one who can make the hard choices, who can deny himself desire itself for over a year, the one who has transcended and come back different, filled with the compassion born of the outside perspective, who sees the world as one, who wants the end of suffering, who can see how it could be done.

The transcended one, who has lost all human perspective, who sees the world as one and cannot fathom why people would choose differently than his right way, the one who treats mortals as the very playing pieces he sought to wrest from the hands of the god. The one who is so afraid of growing old and weak and irrelevant that he would rather stop time.

Both sides of Gale are selfish. Both sides can be kind. It isnt a battle for good and evil.

If Gale chooses to stay, he should stay for the stars and the firelight and the flow of magic in his arms and the taste of boar on his tongue - not (just) for Tav, for the the promise of forgiveness. To do otherwise is to make a wet noodle out of a man who nearly tore a hole in the world because he wanted just another taste.

his lesson, imo, should have been to realise that the pit of his desire is endless and unfillable - but to numb it would make him inhuman. Instead there is a middle way

(Are there other traits that play into this? Obviously. But this is one I think a lot of people forget in the fantasy of making him some sort of classic gentleman academic.)

Edit: this took off more than I thought it would! If you like my perspective on Gale, perhaps you might like my Gale/Tav fic. It is the Seldarine variant of the ever popular Drow/Gale fic, and hopefully this little meta above explores why Gale is such a popular choice for a Drow Tav (of either flavour).

[doodlesofacleric]

Gale at the tiefling party: yeah, you remind me of my cat. *extensive rambling about missing his cat*. Also you smell bad. But I like your smell. And I won’t elaborate on any of the other things I like about you. Anyways go drink without me because the nuke in my chest will trigger if I nut

[vielens]

[bokatankryze]

tips for writing Star Wars fanfic/Star Wars roleplay things

it’s not concrete; it’s duracrete

viewports are the windows on ships

not a plane; ship or speeder

it’s not steel; it’s durasteel

books are rare; holorecords or datapads

it’s not a glass pane it’s transparisteel

caf is the equivalent of coffee

it’s not paper it’s a flimsi

medcenter is a hospital

Star Wars can be very similar to things we’re already used to, but getting familiar with some of these terms can make your writing really fit in with the universe

[askshivanulegacy]

This is brilliant!  Here’s another:

It’s not a movie; it’s a holovid

It’s not a phone or cell; it’s a holocom or communicator or just comm (unit).  You normally comm someone instead of call them.

Searching our standard terms in Wookieepedia will normally provide you with one or several in-universe alternatives.  The other items exist, they’re just either archaic terms or really low-tech versions of what’s commonly used (like concrete is a real thing, but just extremely less durable and strong than the more advanced and common duracrete).

[roane72]

I’ve seen ‘permacrete’ used in the latest books as well.

[deducecanoe-deactivated20161213]

Back in the day weren’t the “glass” windows on x-wings and ships called like invisa-steel or something? That stuck in my head from the Thrawn trilogy I think. I remember sitting there in deep contemplation over how the hell you make the molecule chains in metal transparent and worrying about carbon chains and shit because what’s what you do in 10th grade.

[sugardaddylukeskywalker]

I remember seeing med center used as medbay and sickbay as well, and dishwasher as sonic dishwasher? (correct me if wrong tho, I can’t remember v well). But here’s some more:

bandaids = bacta patches bathroom = refresher watch/clock = chrono first aid kit = medpack, medkit   motorcycle = speeder bike, swoop bike camera = holocamera internet = holonet shower = sonic shower(?) 

Correct any of these if they’re wrong ;P also they’re all legends I think and I’m not sure if any of them are in new canon.

[freshbrainss]

I love this, because it’s not condescending or pretentious…just fans letting newer fans know ways to improve their fic. I love the films, but I haven’t been able to get access to so many of the books and comics yet (even though they’re waiting in my Amazon cart for pay day), so this is awesome. And I’ve basically been living on Wookieepedia lately, too!

[borgevino]

a shower is a sanisteam

nearly everyone has commlinks but holocomm units are a bit more pricy – think space skype. they’re connected to the holonet.  i don’t think there’s a star wars term for emails (maybe just mail) but those also exist.

personal computing devices are datapads, stationary ones are terminals.  also, you don’t get a stack of physical paper for paperwork; you get a stack of datapads. (although paper is called flimsi, paperwork is still called paperwork. go figure)

kilometers are klicks

a lot of fighter pilot helmets have tongue switches for their commlinks so pilots don’t have to take their hands off the controls during dogfights.  random factoid that might come in handy

some in-universe swearwords: sithspit, sithspawn, fragged, fragging

a hacker is a slicer or codeslicer

I was thinking of making this post just today – glad to see a version is already going around!!

[captainofthetidesbreath]

Klick is actually a real-world slang term for kilometer! Everything that I can remember is that the galaxy uses the metric system, or at least the GAR does. And I’ve seen showers just called showers in some Legends novels.

Some things I don’t see above:

Plastic is often called plastoid, and I’ve seen the clone troopers’ armor called either just plastoid or plastoid alloy. Plastoid goes for either your thick stuff or your thin sheets. There is a thing called plastifoil, I’ve seen it used in reference to the material of a thermal blanket.

Bucket is a slang in (at least) the GAR for helmet. I don’t know how common it is among stormtroopers.

Your memory card type things, which go into your datapads, are (natch) datachips.

Similarly, your ID is an identichip.

And as far as video recorders, above says camera as holocamera, but I’ve also seen holorecorder.

Also, as far as I’ve seen, though the city on Coruscant covers the entire planet, the city itself is called Galactic City during the Republic and Imperial City (iirc) during the Empire. Triple Zero (or Trip Zip) is a military slang term for Coruscant because of its coordinates 0-0-0.

More generally, when looking up slang terms and swears, consider where it comes from. I wouldn’t expect a Corellian to say the Mando’a swear shab. Though, the Huttese fierfek seems to be universal. The swear kriffing is also a common one.

[stormears]

Bless you all for compiling this!

[mylastmoment]

Further swear words include karabast, kriff(ing) and kark(ing). 

Lightsabers short out in water unless turned to a special mode beforehand!

I’ve also seen “plastoid” referred to as “plastisteel”.

Pens/pencils are generally referred to as a stylus.

There is a difference between a ship and a speeder; ships are like planes or boats in terms of they are for long-distance space travel. Speeders are like cars or motorbikes; for planetary travel.

[luciefee]

Awesome !

[kylorenxreader]

me realizing I have been a fool all this time:

[beachbutterflies]

Just in case anynody needs help! I know I do when I’m writing.

[fandom-sarlacc-pit]

Maul clearly has a problem with patience. It's mentioned by sidious, it's been his downfall, and it got me thinking. Of course he's impatient. His master always left him anticipating alone. He'd torture him, hype him up, and then isolate him. He's a ticking time bomb. The more I read about the way he was raised the more i don't know what Sidious expected sending him to naboo.

[abyssal-ilk]

i love hitting characters with the disability beam. we should all be hitting characters with the disability beam. my favorite activity

[abyssal-ilk]

annoyed that your favorite character canonically receives a grievous injury that they seem to walk off without issue? oh do i have a solution for you.

[taffingtons]

so, i'm reading some of star wars: the clone wars: darth maul: shadow conspiracy tonight (talk about a mouthful of a title), because i miss my wife tails but i can only manage finger food atm. it's a kids-oriented novelization of revival, eminence, shades of reason, and lawless. (i'm very curious to see what it does with lawless)

and i think jason fry, like so many of us, is in love with sam witwer's voice. LOL

from a neutral POV:

this description makes me laugh tbh and i want to steal it. this is so good. the disrepancy of maul's appearance with his in-universe posh accent deserves more attention (especially with what it betrays about his background...)

but then, next chapter, blatantly obi-wan's POV:

STRANGELY BEAUTIFUL, HUH? i mean. i agree. i think it's an accurate statement. maybe not strangely but like. HELLO??? OBI-WAN???

this also reminds me that it would've been the first time obi-wan ever heard him speak. no wonder it threw him off. but still. BEAUTIFUL? MOVIE STAR??

[yevyanko]

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[lotusshim554]

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