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I'm just going to post stuff that are either relevant to what I like, what i think is funny and/or amazing. Stuff will range from video games, animation, references, some Community stuff, and anything that pops in my head. Enjoy

[arthuspilorget]

animation: Valentin Stoll

[experimental-sponge]

When you’re GMing and your players are planning on doing something stupid and you need to dissuade them from doing that very stupid thing

[just-tabletop-things]

Player: *does it anyway*

[tabletop-rpgs]

Yep *Facepalm*

[5edndorks]

[dotcore]

Flow. by Luis Henrique Bizarro.

Available on Society6.

[we-are-rogue]

Lazarillo de Tormes, perhaps the original Rogue in literature

[abridged from wikipedia]

The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes and of His Fortunes and Adversities (Spanish: La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus fortunas y adversidades) is a Spanish novella, published in 1554 anonymously because of its heretical content.

Besides its importance in the Spanish literature of the Golden Age, Lazarillo de Tormes is credited with founding a literary genre, the picaresque novel, from the Spanish word pícaro, meaning “rogue” or “rascal”. In novels of this type, the adventures of the pícaro expose injustice while amusing the reader. This extensive genre includes Cervantes’ Rinconete y Cortadillo and El coloquio de los perros, Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones and Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Its influence extends to twentieth century novels, dramas and films featuring the “anti-hero”.

Summary

Lázaro is a boy of humble origins from Salamanca. After his stepfather is accused of thievery, his mother asks a wily blind beggar to take Lazarillo (little Lázaro) on as his apprentice. Lázaro develops his cunning while serving the blind beggar and several other masters, while also learning to take on his father’s practice.

Prohibition

Lazarillo de Tormes was banned by the Spanish Crown and included in the Index of Forbidden Books of the Spanish Inquisition; this was at least in part due to the book’s anti-clerical flavour. In 1573, the Crown allowed circulation of a version which omitted Chapters 4 and 5 [where Lazarillo serves a friar and a pardoner] and assorted paragraphs from other parts of the book. An unabridged version did not appear in Spain until the nineteenth century. It was the Antwerp version that circulated throughout Europe, translated into French (1560), English (1576), Dutch (1579), German (1617), and Italian (1622).

Literary significance and criticism

Primary objections to Lazarillo were to its vivid and realistic descriptions of the world of the pauper and the petty thief. This was in contrast to the superhuman events of chivalric novels such as the classic from the previous century, Amadís de Gaula. In Antwerp, it followed the tradition of the impudent trickster figure Till Eulenspiegel.

Lazarillo introduced the picaresque device of delineating various professions and levels of society. A young boy or young man or woman describes masters or “betters” with ingenuously presented realistic details. But Lazarillo speaks of “the blind man,” “the squire,” “the pardoner,” presenting these characters as types.

In contrast to the fancifully poetic language devoted to fantastic and supernatural events about unbelievable creatures and chivalric knights, the realistic prose of Lazarillo described supplicants purchasing indulgences from the Church, servants forced to die with their masters on the battlefield (as Lazarillo’s father did), thousands of refugees wandering from town to town, poor beggars flogged away by whips because of the lack of food.

The anonymous author included many popular sayings and ironically interpreted popular stories.

The Prologue with Lázaro’s extensive protest against injustice is addressed to a high-level cleric, and five of his eight masters in the novel serve the church. Lazarillo attacked the appearance of the church and its hypocrisy, though not its essential beliefs, a balance not often present in following picaresque novels.

Besides creating a new genre, Lazarillo de Tormes was critically innovative in world literature in several aspects:

Long before the Emile (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) or Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens) or Huckleberry Finn the anonymous author of Lazarillo treated a boy as a boy, not a small adult.

Long before Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe), Lazarillo describes the domestic and working life of a poor woman, wife, mother, climaxing in the flogging of Lazarillo’s mother through the streets of the town after her black husband Zayde is hanged as a thief.

Long before modern treatment of “persons of color”, this author treats sympathetically the pleasures and pains of an interracial family in his descriptions of life with his black stepfather and negrito half-brother, though their characterization is based on stereotypes.

Criticism by the author

The author criticises many organisations and groups of persons in his book, most notably the Catholic Church and the Aristocracy.

These two organisations are clearly criticised through the different masters that Lazarillo serves. Characters such as the Cleric, the Friar, the Pardoner, the Priest and the Archbishop all have something wrong either with them as a person or with their character. The self-indulgent cleric concentrates on feeding himself, and when he does decide to give the “crumbs from his table” to Lazarillo, he says, “take, eat, triumph – the world is yours” a clear parody of a key communion statement.

In Chapter 3, Lazarillo becomes the servant of an “Escudero” or squire. The Escudero openly flaunts wealth despite not being able to feed himself, let alone Lazaro. This is a parody of the importance of having a strong image among the nobility.

Text

PDF: English translation by Thomas Roscoe (London, 1881), along with Mateo Alemán‘s Guzmán de Alfarache “or The Spanish Rogue”.

Project Gutenberg / HTML text: English translation by Robert Rudder (1973), along with The Life of Lazarillo of Tormes, Part Two.

HTML text: Original Spanish text / Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes

[patientno7]

the suffering never ends

[sinksanksockie2]

This is the real process

[thewritingbeast-blog]

Resources for you!

Character Ideas:

Character creation masterpost

Character Alignment Chart

More character alignment descriptions

Muslim Character questions

Characters with magical powers

Building a new character advice

How to create a character for an online or tabletop RPG (also a good guide on creating characters in general)

Royalty/nobility TV Tropes page

Basic character profile

OC masterpost

Random character generators - (1), (2), (3), (4)

D&D Character Building Tool

Character Design Ideas:

How clothing affects a character’s personality

Character Design Inspiration blog

Concept art, fan art, cool art to be inspired by

Character design references and inspiration

Sources for POC character design ideas and models

Create your own character model using HeroForge

For horned characters

Body and hair types guide

Random outfit generator

Naming Help:

Amazing site with an endless amount of naming resources

General advice on avoiding naming appropriation

Hispanic Surnames

Gothic Victorian names

Huge master list for character things in general

Masterlist of names of all types - including but not limited to ancient/old world names, Celtic, African, Northern European, Southern and Central American Native names, Japanese, Chinese, Mongolian, Polynesian, and more

Another name masterlist

How to pick a character name guide

Yet another names masterlist

Creating Background/backstory:

Character Sheet/Development Sheet

Another character development list

In-depth character personality, motivations and traits sheet

320 talents and passions for characters

On writing likes and dislikes that aren’t frivolous

Why you should write non-human characters non-conforming to the gender binary

Stereotypes, tropes, and archetypes

Random backstory generator

Assassin and thief character tropes to avoid

Character Interactions and putting your character into your world/story:

Comparing character height/height references

Characters who are scientists and writing about them doing science

Describing what different voices sound like

Describing skin tones

Writing friendship interactions that are platonic

Why having one character knock their friend unconscious to prevent them from doing something is a bad idea

Advice on shipping OCs with canon characters and what to avoid doing

Sweet Polly Oliver and Sweet on Polly Oliver situations (think of Disney’s Mulan for an example)

How to write multiple viewpoints/juggling a main cast of more than 4 to 6 characters

How to make readers care about your morally gray hero/anti-hero

On platonic OC and canon character relationships

How to avoid Godmodding in RPs

When it’s cheap to kill off a character

Writing dialogue

Things you shouldn’t do to canon characters

Avoiding purple prose in writing and RPs

Slang resources

Dialogue tips

Websites to chart your story/plot/character relationships

Bonus art masterlist!

[brucewayneright]

BLESS EVERYONE IN THIS POST.

[printableheroes]

Test print of the Aboleth. Still not sure which color i’m gonna go with, but digging this purplish one.

[kotaku]

Star Wars vs Aliens.

[dragonsorcsandgeeks]

[theartofanimation]

Claire Hummel  -  http://shoomlah.tumblr.com  -  http://www.clairehummel.com  -  https://www.behance.net/clairehummel  -  https://www.instagram.com/shoomlah  -  https://www.facebook.com/clairehummelart  -  https://twitter.com/shoomlah  -  https://es.pinterest.com/shoomlah  -  https://www.linkedin.com/in/clairehummel  -  https://www.artstation.com/artist/clairehummel  -  https://society6.com/clairehummel  -  https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/clairehummel  -  https://www.patreon.com/user?u=80228  -  http://www.gallerynucleus.com/artist/claire_hummel  -  https://www.youtube.com/user/Shoomlah

[zebrafeets-art]

Quick doodle request of my oc Artemis!!!

MY PATREON

[dailyrey]

[artmagine]

The amazing digital art of song yueran

Beginner’s Guide to Digital Painting in Photoshop: Characters

[art-of-lockpicking-deactivated2]

(via How to Pick a Lock Guide)

[we-are-rogue]

Oooh, nice new gifs.

And one for raking, too!

[quarkmaster]

The Art of Warcraft (Part 6)

Wei Wang

Principal Artist at Blizzard Entertainment

[dm-paul-weber]

OVER 300 DOWNLOADABLE & PRINTABLE D&D CARDS!

I made over 300 of these bad boys to better help new players understand equipment or simply to add a more organized way of playing. All equipment, items, gear, vehicles, weapons, and armor are included in the free PDF with the google drive link below.

PDF DOWNLOAD https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzlzB4FzIyPQenZJaE00aV93VlU/view?usp=sharing

For more D&D fun stuff like this join my Facebook group page. “DUNGEON MASTER PAUL WEBER” or click on this link. https://www.facebook.com/groups/dmweber/

[printableheroes]

I don’t believe this can be shared enough times, so cool!

[justsomecynic]

I’m a very lazy person. I know my characters well, but every time I try to fill out a proper character sheet, I either get distracted or simply never finish them.

SO!

I made this! A silly, simple character sheet in which you only have to check boxes to get to know your dear puppet character. Use to your heart’s content, and if you’re going to repost, please credit! Enjoy~

PDF/Printable version on Google Drive

[writing-prompt-s]

Thanks you @happydooky for sharing this with the writing-prompt-s community! 

[5edndorks]

I’m more than a little tempted to throw this on the back of a regular D&D character sheet. Might help with some of my players who never develop their character beyond “I am Sir Hector the Well-Endowed and i kill monsters with a sharp metal stick”.