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A mess of Doctor Who, Critical Role, The Magnus Archives, DnD, A:LTA, pretty dresses, queer things, and anything else I find intresting.

[coffeeecatss]

Obsessed with them 💙🤍

[gracekb-art]

Doty, take this down… it’s Vox Machina!

[subatoism]

Love love love characters that present themselves as emotionally open social butterflies but the more you see of them the more obvious it is that they’re the most closed off fuckers in the story. Sure, they want to help you with your personal problems and messy emotions, but if you turn that shit back on them, they’ll shut down or deflect every time. Why are you sticking your nose in their business anyway? It’s not like it matters. They’re not a person, they’re just a role being played. They’re the guy who fixes things and saves people. Please ignore the man behind the mask, he’s fine. Everything’s fine.

[annafridacharlotte]

[aethira]

For the D&D campaign I run, I’m drawing portraits of all the gods for when the players meet them. It’s the 4e/Dawn War pantheon, and first up is Pelor, god of the sun and agriculture.

[rylandgraces]

Lionel Boyce as CARL Project Hail Mary (2026) dir. Phil Lord, Chris Miller

[regularknolls]

still one of my favorite exchanges in the whole campaign

[pyroinfusedtiger]

Posting this everywhere til im not obsessed with it anymore

[metres]

JUST A BEAR AND HIS NEW BABY SISTER……..

[catrasadi]

This is a tribute to Sunna Wehrmeijer, the composer of the music for She-Ra

We know that the show is full of parallels, but those not only implement visually or though dialogues, but also through the music - which happens so subtly but consistently

In both scenes where Adora and Catra have a confrontation with their feelings for one another, the background music is kind of their “childhood theme”

In Adora’s scene it’s shorter, but it’s still there, with almost the same notes as in Corridors, without being fully played

I know this is how scores work, nevertheless Sunna pays so much attention to detail with her music throughout the whole show

She did the most amazing job and She-Ra would only be half as emotional without Sunna’s magic

[I tried to mute the voices so you can focus on the music]

[digitalfashionmuseum]

Peach Pink Dress, 1860-1861, French.

Met Museum.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Fashions from the Third Quarter of the 18th Century to the End of the 19th Century, with Furniture and Acce

[nonanbaon]

アニメシーズン3おめでとう（秋！）

[prophecydungeon]

that’s not………. how child speech works…………………………………………..

[prophecydungeon]

god okay in an attempt to be less of an asshole, here’s how child speech DOES work (or tend to work, at least)

kids tend to hypercorrect — this means that they tend to say things like “sleeped” instead of “slept,” “writed” instead of “wrote,” “goed” instead of “went,” etc

kids tend not to make errors such as omitting verbs (“i hungry”)

kids also tend not to make errors in the i/me, she/her department (“me am hungry”)

simplification of difficult sounds — consonant clusters especially, so things like st, sp, ps, etc., as well as f, v, th-sounds, ch-sounds, etc.

“babbling”-type utterances (“apwen” for “airplane,” using one babbly word for multiple objects, things like that) generally occur in children under the age of three and a half

say it with me: an eight-year-old child is not going to be saying “me hungwy”

do not confuse child speech with stereotypical learner english mistakes, that’s not only incorrect but also gross on the stereotypical learner english front (“me love you long time,” anybody?)

if you’re going to write kidfic please do some goddamn research

[prokopetz]

Totally. It can be helpful to remind yourself that young children tend to speak as though the English language actually made sense. Our brains are pattern-recognising machines: children are really, really good at puzzling out the implicit rules of the English language, but they don’t necessarily know all the silly exceptions and bizarre edge cases that break those rules yet - those can only be learned through experience and rote memorisation.

Basically, when children who speak English as a first language make mistakes, it typically reflects a tendency to treat English as more grammatically, syntactically, and/or orthographically consistent than it really is. In some cases, this can be compounded by the fact that some kids will get offended at how little sense “proper” English makes, and insist upon using the more consistent forms even though they know very well that they’re technically “wrong”.

[idiagroena-deactivated20160720]

for a long young portion of my life I insisted on pronouncing Sean “SEEN” because that’s how it’s spelled.

[pftones3482]

As someone who spends a good majority of her time working with kids, it irks me to no end when I see children written as if they’re babies.

Past the age of about five or six years old, children can have deep, intellectual conversations about the most bizarre of things. I HAD A CONVERSATION LAST WEEK WITH FOUR THIRD GRADERS ABOUT THE GAS PRICES AND TAXES IN HAWAII.

Were they entirely correct in the facts they were giving? No, because it was all from what they had heard from parents or on the news. But that doesn’t take away from the fact that I was having a genuine conversation with four eight and nine year olds about taxes.

Just about the only speech problems most kids have, unless they have a speech impediment, is not being able to pronounce certain consonants (replacing ‘th’ with ‘fw,’ for example, and some letters are harder to form with your mouth than others) and doing exactly what the person above said: using the English language the way they know how, which isn’t always the way English works.

Kids aren’t stupid. Stop writing them like they are.

[miss-holloways]

CRITICAL ROLE: CAMPAIGN 2 Episode 6: The Howling Mines

[ohmyeightpastlives]

Mighty nein shitpost 136/?

[all-peristeronic]

You know what’s a scene from Persuasion that we should talk about the way we talk about the “Wentworth pries a clinging child off Anne’s back” scene? A “this man is grade-A husband material” scene?

It’s the way Wentworth talks to Mrs. Musgrove about her dead son. He knows better than anyone that Dick Musgrove was a useless good-for-nothing, that it was a piece of “good fortune” for his family “to lose him before he reached his twentieth year.” His first reaction to Mrs. Musgrove talking about “poor Richard” to him is to laugh inwardly–but. Instead of laughing at her, he goes over and sits next to Mrs. Musgrove and speaks to her so kindly and patiently–“with so much sympathy and natural grace, as shewed the kindest consideration for all that was real and unabsurd in the parent’s feelings.”

Austen goes on for two paragraphs about how ridiculous Mrs. Musgrove looks while lamenting over her idiot son, and the entire time, Wentworth is keeping a completely straight face, focusing only on the fact that this woman is sincerely upset and he can relieve her feelings a little by showing compassion.

What could possibly be sexier than this rich, dashing, battle-hardened sea captain taking a moment to show genuine kindness, generosity, and compassion? When he could instead be flirting with two pretty, single women, or talking to anyone else in the room? What husband material. And Anne is right there, listening to this.

[all-peristeronic]

Jane Austen, in every novel: Does he care about people? Does he use his privilege for good? Does he have a sense of duty and does he act on it? If not, throw him in the trash.

[hail-the-villainess]

There are many fun reasons to have a character avoid using guns, but I think "this otherwise-awesome fighter is a really terrible shot" is an underappreciated one. Yes, they're available in my setting and would work against my enemies. No, I don't have a moral code against them or a power that makes them redundant. I just can't aim for shit!

[hail-the-villainess]

In general IMO the more badass and hypercompetent a character is, the more they're enriched by having one skill they're just absolutely hopeless at. Terrible shot, terrible liar, terrible dancer, no poker face, no sense of direction, can't drive, can't swim, can't cook, can't read, always broke, always late, always falls for a certain trick...

[headspace-hotel]

this is true. I figured out recently that one of my favorite questions for fleshing out a character is "What is something they can do, but not well?"