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Call me paranoid but this seems less like a complete shitshow and more like a deliberate tactic to see how long they can 'accidentally' detain US Citizens before it's obvious that these aren't 'accidents.'
THIS is what 'First They Came For' means. The complacency required by fascism isn't just silence, it's presuming a violent opposition force is just a bunch of bumbling idiots making stupid mistakes because of their broadly contradictory policies. It is a tactic.
And it's working.
New commission finished
The homeworld of the Trebhum, besieged by the Eternal Cylinder, has hosted various titanic life forms that have dominated every ecosystem, at the top of it the Terrible Krastobak It stands as the formidable and fearsome creature of all.
Commissioned by MonsterArchivist https://deviantart.com/monsterarchivist
I really thank him to introduce me on the story and game of the Eternal Cylinder, It's a game that feels like a spiritual successor to Spore in its aesthetics and creature design.
Dobby’s Grave in Castlemartin, Wales Freshwater West has been rated one of the best beaches in Wales. It is remote yet accessible, which makes it perfect to sit back, relax and enjoy the scenery. It’s popular with families in the summer. And along the beach’s southwest walking trail, there is a pile of stones and old odd socks. With sand dunes and hills to one side of you and the lush blue ocean to the other, This is the grave of Dobby, a free elf. Dobby’s death in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows shocked many fans of the fictional film series so much that they managed to track down the exact film location and erect a shrine. (The beach was used as the filming location for Shell Cottage, but the small building has since been taken down.) Fans travel from all over the world to visit and leave a stone or sock, however, residents feared the ecosystem would be harmed by all the objects that were left and demanded the shrine be removed. But after local environmental officials reviewed the site, it was decided the shrine could stay, as long as visitors no longer left socks or any other unnatural objects on the site. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/dobbys-grave-beach
Potter fans complained after a project manager suggested cables would go under the grave in a BBC interview.
Trying to divert an actual powercable from some actual renewable energy plants because it might interfere with the imaginary grave from a mediocre fantasy series written by a famous bigot.
Welp.
Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” that was written in 1950 is set on the day of August 4th, 2026 (tomorrow)!! Now’s your chance to read it around the time it’s based in!
Audio: A recording of Leonard Nimoy reading it on Internet Archive.
Text: A PDF version.
Graphic Novel: On Internet Archive.
I used to set this one for second year undergraduate creative writing seminars on writing science fiction on a double bill with Octavia E. Butler's "Bloodchild" and no-one here gets out alive.
!!!! Today is the only chance we’ll ever have to listen to this absolute banger of apocalyptic fiction on the very day the story is set 😲✨
Nemoy’s voice is PERFECT in this!
(A content warning if you do listen - the dog dies, though it’s not super graphic)
I paused the robot vacuum so I could listen to this 1950’s story predicting the robot vacuum.
It's Smaugust again and with the third season of House of the Dragon teasing Baela and Alyn's relationship I stumbled upon an interesting lore tidbit from the books.
In the book lore, the two have a daughter named Laena Velaryon, and as per tradition, a dragon egg is placed in her cradle to bond with the hatchling within. However, to everyone's horror, what hatches out of the egg is not a normal dragon hatchling, but a "blind, maggot-like, wingless white wyrm" that promptly attacks its cradle-mate and injures her until Alyn finally kills it by "hacking it to pieces".
The exact nature of this "wyrm" is left unclear, with the most likely one it being just a prematurely-hatched, severely-malformed infant dragon lashing out in pain at anything in the vicinity, a mutation caused by the declining gene pool of the last few surviving dragons. However, a couple of more interesting possibilities are probable given another bit of lore given in the books about the origins of dragons and magic in Valyria.
According to some theories by historians, dragons were actually hybrid creatures created by ancient Valyrian magic using two naturally-occuring creatures in Valyria, the wyvern and the firewyrm. So it could also be that Laena's "wyrm" was a sort of "genetic throwback" to the firewyrms like how Caraxes is often theorized to be (though significantly more malformed), or perhaps it could even have been a straight-up firewyrm egg mistaken for a dragon's egg, and as they are described to have "no love for men" it merely considered its cradle-mate a potential meal rather than a companion.
Aside from drawing these three possibilities of what this "wyrm" could be I also drew some designs for the original Valyrian firewyrms and wyverns. The firewyrms, stated to be subterranean burrowers, would certainly fit the "blind", "wingless" and "pale white" descriptions of Laena's "wyrm" as a subterranean creature would have no need for eyes or pigmentation, and their fire breath likely used to help melt through solid rock as they burrow underground. The wyverns, on the other hand, are more mundane flying creatures similar to pterosaurs, though scaled rather than covered with feathers or fuzz, and having prominent brow crests that extend into horns, similar to those of Syrax or Silverwing, marking them also as throwbacks like Caraxes, but more toward the wyvern side of their ancestry.
Trying to figure out some Eridian gaits! There aren't a lot of references for pentapodal gaits, especially for radially-symmetrical pentapods, so I experimented with several different walk cycles and ended up with these two I liked best.
- The "star walk": each leg steps alternatingly, similar to a quadruped's trot. However, as there are an odd number of legs, the two steps eventually lead to two adjacent legs moving with one opposite leg, and then leaving the two remaining legs to move.
- The "round walk": each leg in turn takes a step, clockwise or counterclockwise, creating a sort of "ripple" effect that goes around the body.
Not sure which of these work better, but perhaps the star walk could be used for a more balanced or stable gait, while the round walk could be used at a faster gait when running? We don't get much clips of Rocky running in the movie so not sure if an Eridian run would feel more like a "scurry" or a "gallop".
Also I ended up using red and blue for the model Eridian for visualization purposes but he...kinda somehow ended up becoming a character lol.
Parker:
-he/him
-engineer at the space elevator who participated in the Blip-A launch, worked alongside Rocky and Adrian before the launch
-has a crystalline, iridescent carapace that shifts between red and blue depending on his angle, but more uniformly red in the torso and more blue in the legs.
-named by Grace for both his spidery appearance and color scheme
-had a big crush on Adrian but they fell in love with Rocky instead. While holding no hard feelings for Rocky he ends up thinking he could maybe have a second chance with Adrian if Rocky doesn't come back, but Adrian still declines, is insistent that Rocky will return and patiently waits decade after decade.
-feels like a horrible person for feeling sad that Rocky did come home after all. Rocky is both snarky about it but also somewhat supportive and hopes he'll find someone else someday.
-is in the process of moving on, and instead spending his time studying and learning more about the Hail Mary and its structural workings to help take his mind off things.
im realizing very fast that people do not in fact know that sometimes things in stories suck on purpose and it sucking is the point
"this story is misogynistic!!"
>looks inside
>about the pressures of societal misogyny and how its bad
disney when pinocchio shows children drinking alcohol and smoking on "Pleasure Island"
What if Rhaegal and Viserion became severely deformed, somewhat like Sheepstealer, but instead because of their long confinement in a dungeon where they did much of their growing?
The misshapen look would probably have better fit dragons who had been chained up for most of their lives in a small, cramped space, as opposed to one who had been living free for decades. Plus, with their distinguishing colors fading as they matured, it would have been interesting to have given the two smaller ones distinct physical deformities to tell them apart.
What if Jax's abstracted form retained some rabbit-like features? Would have been interesting if each Abstraction retained a few vague reminders of who they used to be.
What a great kickoff to HOTD!
Sheepstealer has a wicked underbite. What if it was actually an injury from an older battle, instead of just a short snout? Something akin to what you see in alligators.
I wanted to make the teeth look more natural as well
SHEEPSTEALER + reddit commentary
HOUSE OF THE DRAGON — 3.01 "Salt and Sea, Fire and Blood"
HOLY SHIT WAIT. CAVE PAINTINGS DRAGON. everyone hold your horsies I will be back
hi. had dinner. it was really good I had a mustard incident. back to the dragon I hope you are all still holding your horsies for me
thank you for holding your horsies. now check this horsie out. almost burst into tears drawing this. felt like I was part of something. hi humanity!!!!!! let's make art together!
they're fine, don't worry. they're a deity of human survival!
well, stratt, turns out there were some unforeseen consequences of nuking antarctica
And a couple more Eridian characters!
