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IDK what entered my mind but I made a Weeknd x BTS edit and now I can't go back. Listen to RM and The Weeknd reciting Nobel Winning German poetry in English Translations.

Presenting: 'Every Angel is Terrifying'

Youtube link: https://youtu.be/wkYAVTUwldY

#videoedits #darkacademia #bts #bts dark aesthetic #the weeknd #city aesthetic #bts fanart #consumerism #art #btsarmy #kpop edits #bts video game au #bts dark academia au

mundclz

/flirts

Music to vibe to in MXTX heaven

I made one TGCF playlist based on my feelings while reading that book, and I still keep adding songs. TGCF has become addictive...uuuuh Also so many Cohen songs as I love his voice

Art: STARember

#tgcf #tgcf manhua #hualian #san lang #hua cheng #xie lian #jun wu #mxtx #tgcf novel #TGCF Playlist #spotify #tian guan ci fu #the heaven official's blessing #suikatl

ohsehuns

Chen Feiyu • Luo YunXi (One of the fmv that caught the 2ha producer’s attention)

serpentinerose

Ok so I saw someone on twitter saying that 2ha has more words than Harry potter?! And I can't believe cause HP is an epic saga that has so much stuff in it. And 2ha was definetely longer than mdzs or svsss, but holy shit not that long!!! Maybe he miscalculated, cause idk

So yes, this is correct. The entire Harry Potter series has 1,084,170 words. 2Ha is... wait for it....

1.6 million words (in Chinese I believe, which is a more succinct language than English).

Maybe our MTL editor can speak to how many words that came out to in English? But in any case, it is DEFINITELY longer than the entire Harry Potter saga! @wanning-of-the-night-sky

wanning-of-the-night-sky

Oh that was fun. So according to Calibre statistic tools, Rynn's translation (chapters 1-138) is 421 679 words long. My MTL (chapters 139-311) is 569 510 words long. Plus the mini-theatres that I've not yet added to the MTL, 1 807 words. The extras (chapters 312-350) are 186 013 words long. Total: 1 179 009 words.

This is less than the Chinese version, which is really strange to me because the Chinese is so concise compared to the English? So I may need to check what exactly is the statistic tool doing.

But in any case: yes, it's longer than the whole Harry Potter series.

chaotic-sublime

Aaaa can’t believe I’m already quarter way through it! in 2 days!!!

#2HA #the husky and his white cat shizun #chu wanning #mo ran #2HA Immortality meatbun HYX

fuckyeahchinesefashion

润玉 in 香蜜沉沉烬如霜 Runyu in Chinese drama Ashes of Love

chaotic-sublime

Shizun!

#2HA Immortality meatbun HYX

ruanbaijie

Sending Wishes to the Faraway Mountains & Rivers 《遥寄山河》 [½]

夙愿未成，是非由己衡，劫火了此生

long-cherished wishes left unfulfilled, right or wrong is a matter of personal judgement, let the punitive fire put an end to my life

song, translation, and full credits available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9aoqOxlqv4

About time I change my Dark Academia blog into something more BL oriented dumpster fire...

#2ha #mdzs #svss #tgcf #danmei #BL #mo dao zu shi #the husky and his white cat shizun #scum villain's self saving system #the heaven official's blessing

fraiseblond

“But how,” said Charles, who was close to tears, “how can you possibly justify cold-blooded murder?”

Henry lit a cigarette. “I prefer to think of it,” he had said, “as redistribution of matter.”

-The Secret History, Donna Tartt

florealegiardini

local-decadent

[id: a photo of some frilly clusters of peachy pink orchids with veiny petals. End id.]

uncle-knobheads

Fic authors deserve more credit.

Story time: I started a book about 23 hours ago and just finished it. Also in that time I slept for 10 hours, spent time with family, was at work, etc. Anyway, I enjoyed the book (Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda). But it felt like it flew by, so after I finished I looked up the word count because what are pages? Pages are meaningless. I only function in word counts anymore.

The estimate I found was 58,580. My immediate reaction was “oh, that’s why. That’s nothing!” But what a shitty response. Because no. That’s not nothing. That’s a whole. Damn. Book. An entire novel! And Fic authors regularly bust out 30k, 50k, 100k, 150k words. AND THEY DO IT FOR FREE. WHILE WORKING AND LIVING THEIR LIVES.

So anyway, thank your favorite fic author today because they deserve it. Because they’re amazing. They’re the MVPs.

galadrieljones

Some rough word count equivalencies for you, via famous novels, just to give you an idea of what OP is saying:

30k fic = Animal Farm by George Orwell

50k fic = The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

75k fic = Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

100k fic = To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

150k fic = The Two Towers by JRR Tolkien

200k fic = Moby Dick by Herman Melville

250k fic = Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling

300k fic = A Feast for Crows by George RR Martin

350k fic = Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

400k fic = Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

a-shakespearean-in-paris

I WROTE SOMETHING AS LONG AS MOBY DICK AND I DIDN’T EVEN KNOW

princesweetpea

I can’t believe I’ve surpassed Animal Farm.

Holy shit.

iffeelscouldkill

This is awesome. With that said, huge appreciation also to fic writers who write shorter fics - 10k, 5k, 1k, 500 words. Because yeah, huge long fics get a lot of love, and a lot of labour goes into them, but the same is true for tiny fics as well. Not everyone is banging out huge great novels, but little ficlets are fantastic and still bring readers a ton of joy.

So if you’re feeling a bit downcast because you can’t write that 50 chapter epic or your latest WIP is “only” 2k and it still took you ages - that’s amazing. Seriously. Not everyone is naturally wordy or prolific. And you can say a ton with just a few hundred or thousand words.

Props to short fic creators - you guys are awesome.

alakeeffectgirl

The moment I realized that in the average year, I write and post enough fanfic to equal a novel that falls between To Kill A Mockingbird and The Two Towers was a HUGE moment for me. I’ve only posted one thing that passed thirty thousand words ever in my ~career~, but it all adds up.

thegoodomensdumpster

Since I share fics rather often over here, here is a good way to estimate the length if you’re new to reading them ( as I was just a few months ago… )

gogomrbrown

1973. Some things never change

naaaaaaaaaah-deactivated2020112

let’s change them

chaotic-sublime

The housing crisis

Ode to Kiarostami, by Arfa Anan Saba

#kiarostami #abbas kiarostami #films #movies #movies on tumblr #poetry #poems on tumblr #artistic expression #haiku #iran #iranian movies #cottegecore #minimalart #minimalist #nature

glazecake

bymikoxuan on ig

rpgtoons

Ancestry & Culture: An alternative to Race in 5e

I just got my physical copy of this wonderful tome by Arcanist Press! It has a great introduction that explains why the use of the term “Race” in our beloved role-playing games is so problematic, and then offers a great solution for it that fits right in-between existing 5e rules.

We’ve been looking for a good alternative to “Race” for the character options we publish on our patreon, and we’re now going to do some tests to see if this model is something we could use.

I highly recommend you check it out! The free preview on DiveThruRPG includes the introduction & full rules for alternate character creation.

Find it here 👉 Ancestry & Culture

explolalola

I don’t understand why “race” is somehow a bad thing in D&D?

rpgtoons

Some people have responded to this idea with some confusion, so I’ll try to explain it as best I can.

Why “Race”, as used in Role-Playing Games, is bad.

Most role-playing games explicitly combine a person’s physical traits with their morality into one package at character creation, usually presented as “Race”. By doing this, these games (often unwittingly) support the idea that a person’s genetics decide a person’s morality and worth.

This is a bad thing because there are people who play these games – black people, disabled people, women, just to name a few – who have been told their entire lives they are lesser than others because of the way they were born; because of the way they look. For them, this kind of bigotry is a painful, every day reality. No-one should have to experience that in a game.

This is also why just renaming “Race” as it is presented in role-playing games to something like “Species” doesn’t help as much as you’d think. It doesn’t address the problem at it’s root – the false idea that a person’s genetics determines their worth (or: their traits).

Why I think “Ancestry” and “Culture” is a good alternative.

By splitting Ancestry – the physical traits inherited from one’s parents, and Culture – the traits taught to you by your parents & community, the game mechanics no longer explicitly imply a person’s genetics (or: appearance) determine their morality and perceived worth. In this updated system, Bad Tieflings can still exist. Evil dark elves can still exist. Bigoted people who believe all Tieflings and all Dark Elves are evil can still exist.

But those things are no longer assumed to be true at character creation.

Why I’m excited to start using the Ancestry & Culture method.

The world all of our games take place in, Hemelin, has various diverse cultures dotted around the place. I have often struggled to express this well using the existing mould of “Race”, but before I discovered the “Ancestry & Culture” method, I didn’t understand what was causing this struggle.

I find that using separate Ancestries and Cultures provides much more robust framework for us to design player options for our world with. I’m excited at the prospect of being able to present various cultures that players can identify with without needing to also be of a certain ancestry! I’m excited to empower our players to create more diverse characters that reflect our game world!!

A final note.

The book “Ancestry & Culture, an alternative to Race in 5e” explains all of these concepts way better than I can. I urge you to read it, even if it’s just the free preview.

You can find it here