disappeared for five years and transed my gender

yikers!

[carcosa22-deactivated20240521]

we need hrt that makes you an immortal space pirate

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

the dissonance between “the public’s general knowledge of sonic the hedgehog” and “actual sonic the hedgehog canon” is SO funny. how many newcomers are surprised to hear about the game where he turns into a werewolf, only to find out it’s one of the most loved games in the franchise? do they know sonic has fought a god and won on multiple occasions? you wouldn’t bELIEVE how many people i got in the notes of my shadow backstory post saying “what do you MEAN shadow’s backstory, featured in one of the most well-renowned and beloved sonic games of all time, is just ‘fuck the military’ written across twenty pages???” somehow the only obscure thing everyone knows about is sonic underground but yet they don’t know about tails’s dead plant girlfriend

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

things in sonic the hedgehog canon i am NOT joking about:

sonic killed the time god back in 2006 and is the only one who remembers this incident

amy and sonic are not actually dating due to the fact that amy is twelve years old and sonic is fifteen and she keeps chasing him with a hammer

amy is also an avid tarot card user

and in the anime they canonize that she can pull endless giant hammers out of thin air i am in awe of her power

tails, sonic’s 8yo fox little brother, has a kill count

blaze the cat is a magical fire princess from another dimension who is roughly equivalent to being that dimension’s sonic. she has her own tails who is a 7yo australian raccoon who waterbended once and never again and nobody ever asked about it or explained it ever

shadow and rouge hang out with a five-foot-tall murder robot whose ONLY goal in life is to kill and destroy things but he’s mainly killing and maiming eggman’s robots so he counts as a hero

we all know the “WHOA HE’S BISEXUAL I DIDN’T KNOW THAT” but in a canon(?) “twitter takeover” all the sonic characters used gender-neutral pronouns when talking about eggman’s love life implying that he might actually be bisexual

metal sonic and shadow actually get along decently. in the same game we discover this, silver mugs tails

the infamous “human girl romance” was not specific to 2006. the original sonic pitch bible gave him a human girlfriend (“madonna”), satam’s sally acorn was originally designed as a human, there was this human/catgirl who had a crush on him in the ova… i desperately want to know WHO at sega kept pushing for a sonic/human romance until 06 happened

at the same time, rouge has a human girlfriend in the anime

sonic has dimension-hopped to both the arabian nights and the king arthur myths. in the former he killed a genie’s abusive boyfriend and in the latter he became king arthur

one time in sonic boom tails called eggman’s dick small. possibly unintentionally but it’s tails he knew what he was doing

also in sonic boom they did an entire parody of “the telephone hour” from bye-bye birdy. the episode was not a bye-bye birdy parody nor was it 50s themed. it was about eggman not having a doctorate. the song was changed to be about eggman not having a doctorate. when the song ended, nobody ever mentioned it or did anything similar to that again.

sonic is canonically black (specifically egyptian)

the characters of “team chaotix” are detectives whose only goal in anything they ever do is to get money to pay rent

shadow the hedgehog is edgy because everyone he knew, including his sister, was murdered by the military in front of him

shadow is also half-demon alien

also he was made in a lab by robotnik’s grandfather

there was a point where shadow was convinced he was an android clone of himself. not only was this not true it is so easily disproven shadow just put a hand on your heartbeat you idiot

honestly so much about shadow is SO wild i love him

sonic has a dead robot son

tails has a dead plant girlfriend

which reminds me: MULTIPLE genocides. there is one in each sonic adventure game (unless you count the ark incident as a “massacre” instead of “genocide”, but that’s just semantics) and one in practically every other episode of sonic x season three

well, sonic x season three in every language but english because the english dub was done by 4kidz who censored it heavily. examples of their censorship include: replacing alcohol with cheeseburgers, cutting out a robot being gay, and completely gutting the scene where knuckles accidentally walks into a strip club

sonic’s dead robot son has a clone who bodyguards cream the rabbit

werehog

literally anything ken penders put into the archie comics, aka we all hate him

like straight up no joke if i saw ken penders on the street i would kill him without hesitation and no court would find me guilty

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

great example of the dissonance between “sonic fandom” and “what the public knows about sonic”: these tags only a few minutes away from each other

[tilthat]

TIL a star discovered 75 light-years away is no warmer than a freshly brewed cup of coffee.

via reddit.com

[bloggersremorse-deactivated2018]

Yeowch!

[bloggersremorse-deactivated2018]

Still preddy hot

[lazyleafeon]

petition to defog the lonely with hairdryers

[weloveshortvideos]

[rehfan]

If you are having a bad day, please unmute.

(Huskie puppy doesn’t quite get the howling thing. Sounds like a baby babbling.)

[filbipott]

“Banana!”

[iamallrightfine]

* day is fixed* 

[chileananderson-deactivated2017]

ok. i super needed this.

[stellagibsonisalifeforce]

THIS. The whole world should watch this.

[katsen13]

Huskies are very vocal, even when they no freaking clue what they’re saying.

[toxictiktoks]

[inkwell-attitude]

all the tips I found for drawing a fantasy map are like :) “here’s a strategy to draw the land masses! here’s how to plot islands!” :) and that’s wonderful and I love them all but ??? how? do y'all decide where to put cities/mountains/forests/towns I have my map and my land but I’m throwing darts to decide where the Main Citadel where the Action Takes Place is

[fatal-blow]

okay so i know i said most of this in the replies but it might be easier to actually reblog and say stuff instead lmao

Cities - go near water!  freshwater lakes and rivers (rivers especially) are the best places for cities because A) source of water and B) travel and trade is much easier cus you can put your boats like right there.  Basically ever relevant city ever was built on a lake or a river.

for rivers in general - because gravity, rivers run from mountains (forming from melting snow and ice (this is why they get fat in spring–more stuff melting)) to lakes/ocean where they can empty out (and even lakes will have rivers leading out that eventually get to the ocean), which can help when mapping out where those start and end.  rivers are also much thinner and faster in steeper elevations and very slow and wide when the land is flat

mountains - i like to think of what the tectonic plates look like because that’s what makes mountains!  mountains are also never standalone they’re always in mountain ranges (archipelagos are really just underwater mountain ranges babey).  a cool trick I like to do is occasionally separate mountain ranges across continents, because over time the tectonic plates shifted and literally split the range in half.  These mountains are really old tho so they’ve eroded and therefore it makes them smaller and rounder (like the appalachians) as opposed to relatively young mountain ranges like the rocky mountains which have taller and sharper peaks

Another mountain trick: if your mountains run along the ocean, the ocean side of the mountains will get a LOT of rain while the other side will be very dry–almost desert-like, in fact.  think of temperate rainforests in British Columbia vs the drier conditions in the canadian prairies

forests - depends on how warm the area might be.  coniferous forests are found further north (before you hit the tree line, and then it’s only tundra onwards) but as you head south you get leafier trees, and the leaves tend to get larger too

If you think about general elevation too, you’ll have places that might be swampy (wet + lower).  if your world has an ice age like we did, then glaciers may have carved the land, leaving piles of soil in the south that was left when the ice receded and places where the bedrock has been bared north of that (like the Canadian Shield in Canada–the reason we see that is because of the glaciers)

You might also have a land that’s dotted in a shitton of freshwater lakes as well because the meltwater filled the holes that the glaciers scraped out (this is why canada has so many goddamn lakes)

and if the ice age was more recent than it was in our world, then you might not even have the forest re-growth and it could be a lot of open plains

tl;dr i like to think of major climate events that might have also shaped the land on top of some basic rules

[possiblypedanticrpgideas]

The Artifexian has an entire series on building your world from literally the stars down and then the ground up.

Worldbuilding Videos - YouTube

All my worldbuilding videos

Though, for fantasy, you can make the world operate on entirely different principles:

With that done, the actual topic of city placement can be covered by videos like this:

Or

Once you have your places, if you want help naming them in realistic ways, this video can help:

This one is on architecture, which is definitely a subset of cities:

But for a more relevant practical guide on making settlements realistic:

Here’s a quick guide for making demographics:

[inkwell-attitude]

holy shit?

[spookberry]

Scorbunny but somft

[spookberry]

Personally i woulda Not made a soccer bunny but like.... if i had to it woulda actually looked like it played fuckin soccer

[rneadowsoprano-deactivated20211]

Hanging out with old people rules because after a while they trust you enough to confess to murder totally unprompted

[hiscarissima]

Wait what.

[rneadowsoprano-deactivated20211]

Sometimes old ladies had to kick the ladder out from under their stepfathers when they were girls and that’s valid

[my-lover]

i made a uquiz about what you long for in life based off the words i find the prettiest. 

[my-lover]

you can take it here !! i cried while making it, so have fun i guess

[dykeblight-deactivated20201006]

let me try to read you like a book and also assign your vibe a color via uquiz

[orcixs]

made a quiz, tell me what greek deity favours you!!

https://uquiz.com/N17OGW

[orcixs]

i see ya’ll complaining in the comments on what you got.

you don’t pick the deity !!! THEy pick you!!!! 

[sirengf-moved]

@rottable

[faeparrish]

please sign this petition to protect the protesters responsible for taking down the statue of a slave trader in Bristol from prosecution

[ajkal2]

just read an article that compared the clap for the nhs to saluting big brother. what

[ajkal2]

its here, go point and laugh

[valtsv]

ok but the hunger games literally did mention it All like… the use of propaganda by the elite as an attempt to divide the minority groups they oppress by making them perceive each other as rivals and prevent them from recognizing and uniting against their real enemy? check. criticism of the way we consume media with no consideration for other people’s privacy like we’re entitled to every detail of their lives and a lack of empathy for their pain because it makes good entertainment? yeah. realistic depictions and explorations of the effects of trauma, particularly that caused by conflict? hunger games has you covered. acknowledgement of the existence of and links between racism and classism, and that conventional standards of beauty are influenced by the societal elite, which people are encouraged to harm themselves in order to conform to (the fact that the weathier people in district 12 are white, blonde and blue-eyed while the coal miner families are mostly people of color; that the two poorest districts, 11 and 12, have majority poc populations; that most people, katniss herself included, consider prim to be prettier than katniss partly because she looks like her white, blonde, blue-eyed mother, who was from the wealthier part of the district; that the first thing that happens to the tributes when they’re taken to the capitol is they they’re “prepped” to conform to capitol beauty standards before they even meet their stylists in ways that literally violate their bodies permanently, and that many of the capitol residents have extreme body modifying surgery that can take a severe toll on their health and wellbeing in the long term)? none of this is accidental, and is both brought up and criticised multiple times throughout the trilogy. the sexualization of minors for adult consumption, especially young celebrities? the fact that politicians in positions of power and authority gain those positions through corruption and by considering anyone harmed in their acension collateral damage? the significance of propaganda and social influence in modern warfare? the misery caused by poverty, which is caused and intentionally maintained by the wealthy elite? the brutal and violating experience of living in a surveillance police state, especially as a member of a minority group and/or poor person? the inherently immoral and corruptive nature of warfare and the military and the unimaginable atrocities and suffering it leads to for ordinary civilians? every YA dystopia novelist tried so hard to be mrs collins but most didn’t even understand half of what went into her books that made them so compelling.

[darkgreyclouds]

pro skate

[bloodbonestelephones]

Death

The Nine of Cups

Justice

The Nine of Swords

The King of Swords

The Hanged Man

The Hermit

The Six of Swords

The Eight of Cups

The Five of Cups

The Sun

The Three of Swords

‘The Ghetto Tarot’: Haitian artists transform classic tarot deck into stunning real life scenes:

Welcome to the Ghetto Tarot, a project from award-winning documentary photographer Alice Smeets and a group of Haitian artists known as Atis Rezistans. The idea was to take the classic Rider-Waite tarot deck of 78 cards and create a photographic version of each card using settings and objects in the vibrant ghetto of Haiti.

As Smeets says, “The spirit of the Ghetto Tarot project is the inspiration to turn negative into positive while playing. The group of artists ‘Atiz Rezistans’ use trash to create art with their own visions that are a reflection of the beauty they see hidden within the waste. They are claiming the word ‘Ghetto,’ thus freeing themselves of its depreciating undertone and turning it into something beautiful.”