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Moving blogs

Hey all, I’m finally moving this blog to a new account so it has a new life as a main blog instead of a side blog.

Follow @delightedcrow for continued posts :)

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Moving blogs

Hey all, I’m finally moving this blog to a new account so it has a new life as a main blog instead of a side blog.

Follow @delightedcrow for continued posts :)

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Moving blogs

Hey all, I’m finally moving this blog to a new account so it has a new life as a main blog instead of a side blog.

Follow @delightedcrow for continued posts :)

[hurglewurm]

marco polo. that’s the joke thank you for your time 

[bruneburg]

I saw that pencil bottle post of yours and it's actually helping me. I bought a glass bottle and some wood pencils to try it out, and I'm drawing a Lot more. I have a hard time drawing more because I always agonize over a perfect finished product, and I feel like I waste materials when I don't. But now I'm making something else by creating even crappy doodles and it's very motivating. You don't have to answer, I just wanted to say thank you.

Thank you for letting me know, this was moving to read. I’m glad to hear that lil trick is giving you an easier time with arts. Idk. To me there’s also that tiny bit of glee in me over picking some pencil and thinking “Ha I’m going to use you up next.”I don’t fill up my bottles as fast as I used to, because I work a lot more digitally nowadays. But I brought this small bottle with me to my dorm which better fits the current pace.

(This is referring to this pencil bottle post here.)

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this is beautiful

[shubbabang]

the mood for today is

[shrineart]

“The most important thing I’ve accomplished, other than building the compiler, is training young people. They come to me, you know, and say, “Do you think we can do this?” I say, “Try it.” And I back ‘em up. They need that. I keep track of them as they get older and I stir ‘em up at intervals so they don’t forget to take chances.”

— Grace Hopper (x)

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Grace Hopper was such a bad ass

[markerslinger]

Dragons are red~

Krakens are blue~

I’ve got some fantasy adventure valentines for you!

I made a set of printable valentines you guys can use in you romantic adventures! 

Throw them at your player group! Slide them to your game master! Give them to complete strangers!

DOWNLOAD THEN HERE AND SPREAD THE LOVE. THE LOVE OF ADVENTURE!

As always, it’s a pay what you want product which means you can get them all absolutely for free! All I ask is that you tell your friends or reblog my post! Thanks, and have a good adventure!

Also please follow me on Instagram and twitter too! I’m also Markerslinger there! And check out my Patreon if you got the means!  

-M

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These are so freakin cute :D

[blindwire]

‪I’m getting very emotional over the poetic and potentially final message sent out by the mars opportunity rover 😥

[retrogamingblog]

Link’s Awakening is being remade for the Switch and it looks adorable as fuck!!!  😍 😍 😍

[retrogamingblog]

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OH MY GOD THE NOSTALGIA

[autter-pop-old]

That neurodivergent feel when you finish something thinking “Wow, that took so little time! Nice!” And then you look up and whoops it’s been five hours and whoops your feet are both asleep and your head hurts and you’re so thirsty it burns

[paper-shield-and-wooden-sword-d]

Who Will Survive the Night, a Visual Novel

A face, over there, in the tree you say? Surely not, detective, this is no haunted house, I assure you. Any bumps in the night are entirely mundane. One moment, these old doors are quite stiff. Ah there we are. Please, after you. I must say, I am glad that you have come, the other guests are all… well quite strange to be frank. But, the mistress insisted, so here you all shall be. Please, make yourself comfortable. Would you care for some tea? The other investigators are almost here, and then we will see… Who Will Survive the Night.

Ahem… I apologise detective, I have a fondness for dramatics. Fear not, of course you will all survive! I am… quite sure of it. Do you take sugar?

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Ahh exciting!! An announcement!!

So way back in November an overly ambitious me wrote a short intro for a project I was very much not ready to start working on, but I have finally taken the plunge and started working on the plot and the first sprite!

Do you like visual novels? Mysteries to be solved? A mad conglomeration of genres? A dash of Eldritch creatures? Magic? Old mansions full of dead ends? Art development? 

If you gave a hearty yes to any of those, then welcome friend, to Bellefair Manor. Will you prove yourself a worthy detective and solve the mysteries of the marshes, or will you fall before the clock strikes dawn?

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If anyone would be interested in being tagged in any of the development posts (sprite drawings, backgound art, story snippets, character bios) please let me know! 

If I recall correctly @theimportanceofbeingbookish and @kainablue showed an interest? 

WIP page coming soon ^.^

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This sounds amazing, I’d love to hear more!

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the funniest thing to me about maintaining an open source project is how you can have absolutely no clue that anyone at all is using your code… unless something catastrophically breaks

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like there was an issue with the Unsplash.com servers and within an hour I had 3 different people in my github issues letting me know my js module’s Unsplash api calls were failing...

And let me tell you if I had thought more than one person had ever downloaded that module I would have added better error messages a lot sooner 😂

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the funniest thing to me about maintaining an open source project is how you can have absolutely no clue that anyone at all is using your code... unless something catastrophically breaks

[otherwindow]

Visually impaired tabletop merch!

[probablyjustfairyrpgideas]

SIGNAL BOOST

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How cool is that?!?!

[another-elsewhere]

A twitter thread sent to me on disorganization

[another-elsewhere]

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A long but magnificent thread on ADHD and organization. TWITTER THREAD HERE for those of you that like that sort of thing.

[vanechoics-peace-of-mind]

To be honest, breakpoints are like my favorite thing.

No matter how frustrated you are with the current situation, you can always just place a breakpoint, take a step back, analyze the situation and make something better out of it.

They’re like your little friends telling you “Woah, slow down there. Everything will be okay.”

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breakpoints, for when you’re at your point break: