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raymond or rastko. moots are free to call me ray! he/any. english/serbian are both fine. art tag - ray.png | barely online these days :p

[kianamaiart]

gorgeous commission by @mimiadraws!!

[bedrock-to-buildheight]

More worldbuilding? More worldbuilding

[chronomel]

Ponyville's number one LARPer vs actual Canterlot citizen

[metanarrates]

tbh if i was really into a het relationship with a fun unique dynamic and i logged online to tumblr and saw that the fans were going "alright we have 4 flavors of misogyny available to portray women with so we're gonna pick one" id become the joker. hetjoshis im so sorry you have to deal with fanon

[darkestmetamorphosis]

Peer reviewed prev tags

[prokopetz]

A thing that bothers me about wizard schools in popular media – outside of the magic-grade-school stuff, anyway – is that they're typically depicted as being basically magic universities, but their actual curricula and pedagogical approaches look much more like those of a technical institution. Like, buddy, that's not a wizard university, that's a wizard trade school. You can't just slap university student culture on top of trade school pedagogy. It doesn't work like that – the one emerges from the other!

[prokopetz]

"Well ACTUALLY wizards are" wizards are made up. They can be analogous to whatever real-world class or vocation the author wants. Wizard-school-as-university and wizard-school-as-technical-institute are both perfectly fine; what I am grumping about is wizard-school media that doesn't seem to have a clear picture of how different sorts of educational institutions actually operate.

[da-boy-o-kultur]

Okay but now I really want to know what a Wizard technician would look like. Would he wear magical overalls with all kinds of reagents and magic tools sticking out of his numerous pockets?

A guy like that walks into your tower with a toothpick in his mouth, takes one look at your summoning circle and goes

“I see yer problem. You used chalk B12 instead of S3. B12 is only for transmutation circles. Gimme a sec I think I have a piece somewhere here.”

He fixes your circle, test summons an imp and goes.

“There ya go. Fit as a fiddle.”

[ruckuscauser]

“It’s the chalk.”

“The chalk? I always use that chalk, it’s never been a problem.”

“Ah - yes. This stuff will work just fine for most circles, but, uh - here, take a look with my loupe. You see the off-color flecks? Can’t hardly see them with the naked eye, but those are impurities. Silicates, might even be some iron in here, to be honest. Usually won’t cause a problem, but - you said you hadn’t tried this particular summons before?”

“First time trying a 5th level, yeah.”

“Those silicates will make your scribing a little fuzzy when viewed from the astral plane. You see, for example, these three fine lines here? With this chalk, on the astral that looks like one thick line with fuzzy edges. They can’t tell exactly what you want, and they’re picky lil’ critters so they just won’t do anything in response.”

“Really? Oh. I always thought the expensive chalk was just fancy to be fancy.”

“Making pure chalk is difficult, you need a dedicated production line or dust gets in the finished product. To be honest, you don’t need to bother with it for most things, but 5th and up, 5th level and up, it actually is necessary. Anything with lines within about two millimeters of each other.”

“So I need to start over?”

“Unfortunately yes. You’ll have to erase all this, but with some good chalk it should work just fine. Next new moon your summons should go off without a hitch.”

“Dang. At least it’s not my sigils, I was worried it was my sigils.”

“Nah Your sigils look good. Even and balanced. You know what you’re doing, it’s just an equipment problem.”

“Thanks for the help, sorry to make you come all the way out here.”

“No problem! It’s my job.”

[godlessondheimite]

A YA romantasy writer filed suit against another writer for copyright infringement, and as is always the case with these things, she padded her claims with delusionally spurious examples. The judge issued a 160-page ruling against the plaintiff where you can tell from the start how resentful they (or whatever clerk actually did the work) are to have been forced by duty to have read the works in question.

[headspace-hotel]

"Alaska is a place known to the public, so setting a novel in a Alaska is not copyrightable."

[heedra]

In elementary school, my best friend and I had this game we would play where we were school supplies living inside a child's desk and going on slice-of-life adventures inside it. And I remember that a key component of our school supply society was a sort of religious schism that existed around the purpose and nature of the giant hand that occasionally reached in to grab different citizens, use them, and then return them, because most school supplies considered this an auspicious and enviable moment of being selected for a greater purpose and allowed a glimpse of a vast truth, but pencils considered it a horrible portent of doom because they always got sharpened during it and came back smaller and closer to death. We were third graders btw.

[bonk-donk-clonk-bajonk]

HOOOOOOOOOOOONK mimimimimimi...

[pk-freezer-burnt]

Black Jack "nothing bad ever happened" AU where the explosion incident never happened

I know the manga goes back and forth on whether Black Jack was already a wheelchair user before the explosion so I hc that he was an ambulatory wheelchair user (as in could walk sometimes here and there).

Dr. Honma never ends up performing surgery on him since he was never blown apart, so he doesnt end up going through years of intense physical therapy afterwards - so he would still use the wheelchair in this AU.

Black Jack also doesn't have non-stop murderous intent in his adolescence so he'd be less cold as an adult and doesn't get white hair from stress.

[masonhawthorne]

I keep remembering a run of Hamlet I saw a few years ago, where the Ghost was costumed in full plate armour which was very noisy, and instead of muffling it, they had him crash across the stage, stomping so the whole set rattled, and he said all of his lines in a bellow, like he was furious with Hamlet.

And the thing that made it absolutely terrifying was that Hamlet was the only one who reacted. He was cowering, and covering his ears with both hands, and yelling to be heard over the noise.

And no one else seemed to know why he was doing that. The other actors didn't even raise their voices.

That's scary, something so loud and painful, and REAL, and the people around you don't even notice it, and think that you're the crazy one.

[chestercopperpotz]

I love when I hear about a choice in Shakespeare I've never thought of before. Brilliant

[hannahp0calypse]

picturing post-story farcille where marcille spends years grappling with her feelings before finally coming to the conclusion that she's a lesbian, and more specifically a lesbian for falin, and she finally works up the nerve to say something and just before she does falin reveals his dragon testosterone induced hrt has helped him realise some things about himself. and marcille now has to work out how she feels about that for another decade

[hannahp0calypse]

double whammy for marcille when laios comes to some realisations about herself in the wake of this, and the touden siblings decide the obvious course of action is just to take each others names

[junebugdunes]

it's a nice day for marker doodles

[lexicrunch]

Been playing rayman 3 and had sm fun that I had to draw lad himself....

[longzone222]

Visit Original Link

[worldheritageposts-official]

World Heritage Post

[thetetra]

I managed to listen to exactly 3 seconds of this before I laughed so hard I couldn’t breathe.

[qixzel]

*lady gaga voice* In russia doing research.

[qixzel]

sorry

[ray-on-my-man-til-he-havoc]

Canon event in my au. Joyously telling the 2 day old "go my lil hitman, kill this old guy" and he goes "YEAH!" and spins around and his teeth sparkle

[prince-less]

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