Dragonclaw Library

[debelice]

VistaNow

[healing0923]

[filmnoirsbian]

I think toy doctors are so nice actually like i remember being a little heartbroken kid when one of my beloved stuffed animals got old and torn up and my mom just threw him out. And i know what it would have meant to me, to have someone lovingly stitch him back up instead so i could love him just a little longer. And I'm really glad there are little kids out there who get to see pictures of their stuffed animals and dolls with little fake hospital beds and casts as they "rest & heal" before returning to them good as new. Like what a sweet thing to do with your life.

[filmnoirsbian]

This is so nice 🥺

[gritty4lyf]

It’s also so good for normalising the idea of illness, hospitals and recovery not being bad or scary places, even if sometimes they’re not very nice, because the people there are doing kind things to make you better so you can go back home. No one knows which kids are going to end up dealing with major traumatic illnesses or injuries, and having a safe framework for the idea of a hospital, a safe, painless, vicarious hospital experience is such valuable preparation

[immaplatypus]

growing up with a major heart defect I spent a fair amount of my childhood in hosptials, some of it in surgery.  since my infancy i’ve had (and still have, I’m a sentimental fool) a plush cookie monster that I used to cuddle so consistently that he started to fall apart over the years.  every time we had to sew him up, I saw it as a surgery...and felt really comforted by the shared experience as a kid.  it helped me feel less alone, given that my condition was so rare--even if the only person who understood was a little plush cookie monster.

then i got older, and found out that the children’s hospital of wisconsin does this exact thing for many young patients!

the toys (with the patient’s permission of course) undergo the same “procedure” as the kids and when the kids wake from surgery, their best friend is recovering right alongside them.  i know everyone is different, but for me an experience like this was so helpful with my cookie monster, and I can’t imagine how it would’ve been even more reassuring if I knew cookie monster had been specifically undergoing heart surgery like I was. 

bless the doctors who go this extra step to make kids feel less alone, and anyone who does these kinds of “stuffed animal operations” in general. we need more of this kindness and gentleness in the world

[flameslikeanything]

If you’re ever feeling down, just pull up google maps, zoom in on England and start looking at all the place names.

[flameslikeanything]

[lowpolyrats]

my personal recommendations:

[quincunx]

[sedraboc]

[dererumvita-art]

Join the Fellowship of the Ring, we have:

the local weed man, who is secretly the most powerful being in the land

a bunch of surprisingly competent tiny adults 

a semi-immortal twink

the Axe testimonial

a hobo

Sean Bean

[sillymarillion-comics]

It’s the weed that made him powerful

[idbkdi]

'Brambly Hedge' by Jill Barklem

[text-mode]

The Morris worm or Internet worm of November 2, 1988 was one of the first computer worms distributed via the Internet. It was written by a student at Cornell University, Robert Tappan Morris, and launched on November 2, 1988 from MIT.

[pyronoid-d-deactivated20181217]

It’s trapped on a floppy tho this is some dark shit it has been denied its purpose forever bound to this obsolete storage

[smolmzd-deactivated20150612]

am i glad it’s in there and we’re out here

[undergroundmonorail]

people reading fantasy novels ask “why did the ancient ones seal the evil away for ten thousand years instead of just killing it” but then we go ahead and do this shit

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

We have learned nothing from every fantasy novel ever O.O

[ayellowbirds]

The best part, from the wiki article: “According to its creator, the Morris worm was not written to cause damage, but to gauge the size of the Internet.”

It was intended to do good, but the programmer made a mistake and it got out of hand, becoming viral.

[dr-archeville]

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[hotcommunist-deactivated2019032]

the year is 28AW (after worm) and still we suffer

[superfluousspork]

Oh, w o r m

[upkayac]

[toastbutteregg]

[agdistis-sanctified]

Deadpool (2012) #35

[len-yan]

snowswept by len-yan

[kkachi95]

Sokka and Suki absolutely deserve more time with each other

[thecollectibles]

Fallen Ancient by Josh Norman

[wonders-of-the-cosmos]

moon by frankastro

[patientno7]

the suffering never ends

[sinksanksockie2]

This is the real process

[thewritingbeast-blog]

Resources for you!

Character Ideas:

Character creation masterpost

Character Alignment Chart

More character alignment descriptions

Muslim Character questions

Characters with magical powers

Building a new character advice

How to create a character for an online or tabletop RPG (also a good guide on creating characters in general)

Royalty/nobility TV Tropes page

Basic character profile

OC masterpost

Random character generators - (1), (2), (3), (4)

D&D Character Building Tool

Character Design Ideas:

How clothing affects a character’s personality

Character Design Inspiration blog

Concept art, fan art, cool art to be inspired by

Character design references and inspiration

Sources for POC character design ideas and models

Create your own character model using HeroForge

For horned characters

Body and hair types guide

Random outfit generator

Naming Help:

Amazing site with an endless amount of naming resources

General advice on avoiding naming appropriation

Hispanic Surnames

Gothic Victorian names

Huge master list for character things in general

Masterlist of names of all types - including but not limited to ancient/old world names, Celtic, African, Northern European, Southern and Central American Native names, Japanese, Chinese, Mongolian, Polynesian, and more

Another name masterlist

How to pick a character name guide

Yet another names masterlist

Creating Background/backstory:

Character Sheet/Development Sheet

Another character development list

In-depth character personality, motivations and traits sheet

320 talents and passions for characters

On writing likes and dislikes that aren’t frivolous

Why you should write non-human characters non-conforming to the gender binary

Stereotypes, tropes, and archetypes

Random backstory generator

Assassin and thief character tropes to avoid

Character Interactions and putting your character into your world/story:

Comparing character height/height references

Characters who are scientists and writing about them doing science

Describing what different voices sound like

Describing skin tones

Writing friendship interactions that are platonic

Why having one character knock their friend unconscious to prevent them from doing something is a bad idea

Advice on shipping OCs with canon characters and what to avoid doing

Sweet Polly Oliver and Sweet on Polly Oliver situations (think of Disney’s Mulan for an example)

How to write multiple viewpoints/juggling a main cast of more than 4 to 6 characters

How to make readers care about your morally gray hero/anti-hero

On platonic OC and canon character relationships

How to avoid Godmodding in RPs

When it’s cheap to kill off a character

Writing dialogue

Things you shouldn’t do to canon characters

Avoiding purple prose in writing and RPs

Slang resources

Dialogue tips

Websites to chart your story/plot/character relationships

Bonus art masterlist!

[brucewayneright]

BLESS EVERYONE IN THIS POST.

[startripperhq]

COOL.

[petitprincess1]

I’VE REBLOGGED THIS BEFORE AND I WILL REBLOG IT 20 TIMES MORE

[dansemacabre-]