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[easorian-da]

Blink and you’ll miss it: Krem traces his jaw with the hollow of a bare hand, measuring its strength and texture. Finding it wanting. He puts his gauntlets back on and picks up his helmet. Some days are harder than others, but the armor fits.

Blink and you’ll miss it: Sera lingering near an ancient wall mosaic, her laughter a mocking bark. Elfy shite, who cares? But when the others are turned away she reaches out to touch its surface, wondering.

Blink and you’ll miss it: Solas reacting instantly with brilliant spells to save an ally, face twisted in desperation. When the spell fades he has a quizzical mien as if surprised by his own attachment.

Blink and you’ll miss it: Blackwall, stooped with fatigue and worry, pulling his shield free from his back and running a palm over the griffon painted on its battered surface. He swallows and stands straighter.

Blink and you’ll miss it: Dorian weaving explosive spells at breakneck speed, protecting his allies with sincere fury. They are his tether and his foundation, his friends–erupting walls of fire and ice save Blackwall from flanking Venatori–every blighted one of them.

Blink and you’ll miss it: Vivienne lags behind, turning to watch their tracks. She leans against the red stone for a moment, eyes closed, stealing a moment of fragility for herself. Then she’s among the group again, powerful and radiant.

Blink and you’ll miss it: The Iron Bull is quiet when the fog is thickest in the field, searching hard for enemies within it and taking out his violence on the assassins that come for him. This isn’t Seheron. His mouth shapes the words without sound.

Blink and you’ll miss it: Cole reacting to something Cullen says and yet stopping to think about it, seeing his own hurt more clearly now. His fingers tapping together but then he nods to himself and weaves away.

Blink and you’ll miss it: Cassandra crouches lower with her shield, searching the faces of red templars for some sign they can be redeemed. A spark of betrayed frustration every time, every fight, and she’s up and driving her sword in deep.

Blink and you’ll miss it, but Varric has the eye of a storyteller.

[omnipotentoverlord-deactivated2]

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[kushandwizdom]

Someone said "Are you really so stupid to think that Africa has the same technological advances as us? If they did they would probably have clean water and not live in houses made of sticks and mud. Get over yourself and stop being so ignorant."..... Below is a tiny collection of images of the Africa they refuse to show you..

ches

I’m sorry you’ve been made to believe that the whole of Africa is poor, I really am..

[shez-a-b0mbshell]

Reblogging for those of you who think Africa is only what the media and movies portrays it to be

[teddybearnova]

This fucks me up because it’s scary to think that we can be showed something all our lives and not even know it’s a lie

[2ollux-double-bulge]

And that my friend is the power of propaganda, indoctrination, and media

[the-collecting-turnip-deactivat]

Are these pictures of South Africa or of Africa as a whole? 

[fgsshinyhoard]

@the-collecting-turnip From top to bottom:

1. Port Elizabeth (South Africa)

2. Unknown

3. Nairobi (Kenya)

4. Pretoria (South Africa)

5. Aburi Botanical Gardens (Ghana)

6. Cape Town (South Africa)

7. Pretoria (South Africa)

8. Harare (Zimbabwe)

9. Windhoek (Namibia)

10. Windhoek (Namibia)

To @kushandwizdom this is a rather unfair portrayal of Africa as a whole since half of these are literally just South Africa.  So Instead to add to this post and better dispel the myth of Africa as the vast wasteland of poverty most people think, I found a much more mixed collection of pics from various countries.

Luanda, Angola

Agadir, Morocco

Lagos, Nigeria

Cairo, Egypt

Port Louis, Mauritius

Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire

Algiers, Algeria

Tripoli, Libya

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Tunis, Tunisia

So, there, a much better case demonstrating the various major cities around Africa showing it isn’t some technologically backwards continent, but actually pretty up-and-coming in the world of commerce.

[hockey-trash]

I once was talking to my Ethiopian manager about ignorant people asking her dumb shit about her life before she moved to the states…

the worst story she told me about was when she told a fellow student (at a fairly prestigious university) about a concert she went to back home. The other student responded with “omg you have music there!?” 🤦🏾‍♀️

[cricketcat9]

Rebloging, because we need to see these pictures. 

As for stupid questions: “do you have grocery stores in Ecuador?”

[justgot1]

These are great!

A redneck neighbor once asked my mom (in the 80s) if they had cars in Peru. Sigh.

This is the product of poor world history in school & little current affairs coverage outside Western Europe, except for catastrophes, so all we see are the war torn, poverty stricken, disaster-affected parts on the news. And racism, of course.

[lettingitoutabit-deactivated202]

I bet most Americans who think that African countries are just completely poverty stricken have no idea what the US looks like in its poorest areas, not everywhere in the US is nice suburbs or unrealistically large apartments on tv

[for-southendgirls]

Los Angeles, California

Hartford, Connecticut

New Orleans, Louisiana

Camden, New Jersey

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

McDowell County, West Virginia

Flint, Michigan

Washington, D.C.

[rabbitheads]

this American girl asked me if we had sparkling water in Korea…. sis….. I have a soda maker at home….

[kryptoknightmk1]

Critical Role Pubdraw Redraw. Since people are what I still struggle most with in art I am going to go back, watch every episode of Pubdraw and draw along. Hopefully I'll have improved by the time I'm done.

[i-hate-chick-fil-a]

Not to mention the fact that Mrs. White isn’t qualified to teach. She should be required to take a remedial English course. “I have went”? please. It’s “I have gone”, Mrs. White. 

first, my kid would not sign anything without me seeing it first. 2nd, upon seeing it i would be at the superintendant’s office the next morning. then we would speak to the teacher. black folk gotta nip it in the bud.

[holy-jeez-its-matt]

Dont let your children be controlled like this. I remember back when I was in school my mom always told me “if you really need to use the bathroom or attend to an emergency and the teacher won’t let you, then just leave the classroom and I’ll deal with teacher and principle”

Mom had my back

[sandersstudies]

If I was this kid I would use up those passes and then just fuckin’ throw up or get a severe nosebleed in the classroom and then refuse to leave because “sorry, I can’t go to the nurse, I already used up my two passes for the fucking MONTH”

[xenoqueer]

There was a student at my high school, who we will call John Doe, who actually did that. When teachers gave him a limited number of bathroom allowances (usually 3 per semester, which was the standard at my school), he would use them in the first week, and then induce vomitting my eating rotten food he found around the school garbage cans. If teachers refused to let him go, he would just throw up on something they had to touch. Light switches, keyboards, whatever was available.

Instead of making admin do anything about this toxic policy, they just doubled down harder, to the extent that one girl politely informed a teacher that she felt like she might be about to have a seizure and could she go to the nurse, please. She was denied, sat back down at her desk, and promptly passed out and concussed herself on the concrete floor when she fell. 

Another girl had severe vertigo-induced fainting, could not get a teacher to excuse her from a phys ed class, and fell off a monkey bars and split her head open, and nearly lost an eye because her glasses broke when she landed.

A student with, I believe, diabetes had a severe blood sugar drop and tried to eat a candy bar in a class with a “no food or drinks” rule. The candy bar was taken away, and she had to be taken out by EMTs. 

This kind of human rights abuse in public schools is not new. I graduated a full decade ago. 

I’m glad it’s being publically discussed again, (briefly around 2003-2005 this was also a popular subject of discussion). I hope that this time, concrete changes in policy are actually affected.

[flawedmangoes]

reasons why draco malfoy should’ve had a redemption arc

not wanting to kill dumbledore

lowering his wand and about to join the order

took care of luna lovegood while she in his house

not turning harry in when he was captured

gutted by the death of his friend

throwing harry his wand

was literally a fucking CHILD

[frickyeahducks]

reasons why Snape shouldn’t have gotten a redemption arc

- killed Dumbledore

- bullied children

- was a death eater

- felt no remorse about his betreyal till he was physically dying

- held a grudge against someone for over 10 years and took it out on his son

- crawled over the dead body of his crushes husband to hold her dead body while her infant son was crying alone in his bed

- was not a child lol

[holytragedyqueen]

Also, Snape would have remained a death eater if Neville became the chosen one

[bitchycode]

[nezclaw]

#she only needs to move one square to threaten that bishop

[gburanddragons]

These

Tables

Are

So

Freakin

GOOD!

Shoutout to Lady Tiefling for being kickass.

[rpgsandbox]

Keep an eye on her instagram for more loot tables.

[berniesrevolution]

Reminder that this is what the minimum wage would need to be in order for a single person to simply rent a living space in each state.

A secondary reminder to ask yourself if you really believe American market capitalism will provide these more livable and just wages voluntarily without government intervention.

[retrogamingblog]

Pokemon and the real creatures that inspired their design

Poliwag - Translucent Tadpole

Shellos - Chromodoris Lochi

Caterpie - Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Caterpillar

Ursaring - Sun Bear

Parasect - Cordyceps  Fungus

Sandslash - Pangolin

Goomy - Ceratosoma Amoenum

Victreebel - Pitcher Plant

Mudkip - Axolotyl

Drowzee -  Tapir

[anafigreen]

Hey look what old stuff I found on PC xD *always makes aesthetic collages when sad*

[solnecco]

a quick grass tutorial

I’ve never really wrote a tutorial before so apologies if this is bad

1. okay first thing I do is pick three colors, a mid, dark, and light. I like to check the colors in greyscale to make sure there’s enough contrast between each one.

I then plop down a blob of whatever my middle tone color is.

2. next, I take my dark color and just sort of randomly place it around. I try to make sure there’s a good amount of both the mid and dark tones spread throughout. I personally like to keep it kinda messy. I also have pen pressure on for both brush size and opacity, so I can have some blending action going on.

3. for the next step I do the exact same thing as before, except with the light color.

4. aight this is where we start adding details. see how you just have a bunch of colors and edges where two colors meet? use the eyedropper and go to an area where two colors meet, eyedrop a color, and then use that color to draw in your grass blades. I do this at every point where colors meet. should note I personally like to use a square brush, but you can really just use anything.

5. you can technically stop at the last step if you’re going for a more simple look, but to add more details I go to the “empty” areas of solid color and just draw in random strokes using a color nearby. it’s just a way to fill up the empty space.

6. basically more of the same idea of eyedropping and drawing. for more variety so things look interesting, I like to add random plant shapes.

7. and so the grass doesn’t look too plain, I add random dots of color and pretend it’s flowers and stuff.

and there you have it, this is how I approach drawing grass.

[shortvideosandstuff]

Hugh Herr: The new bionics that let us run, climb and dance

[algaecomplex]

oh my god they did it!

[lehanan-aida]

This is probably the most impressive and beautiful thing I’ve seen in years.

[chicanaspice-deactivated2018011]

This is amazing. As much as i joke about wanting new legs, I hope this gives amputees much wanted freedom.

[foxyamazingoperates-deactivated]

@kasaron *legs*

[heckifiknowcomics]

[jacktherph]

so something i think the rpc/writing community may have been sleeping on but i wanted to share…

“MEDIEVAL FANTASY CITY GENERATOR” 

by watabou

it’s a random generator for custom cities/towns that are perfect for things like roleplaying, writing, and d&d. it’s simple but just complex enough to allow for customization of the things you’d like to change

honestly i love this page because it’s so helpful for so many different things?? i can’t show all of the customization options here in the images but some are, but not limited to:

small, medium, or large maps

changing the map coloring

you can add a title and key

you can warp certain points for small adjustments

.png export

saving wips

and so much more!!

honestly the best way to learn all that the generator does is to play with it yourself. i adore using this and hope it helps anyone who also needs a similar resource!!

[ry-spirit-deactivated20200817]

Good knight

Ry-Spirit

[iraffiruse]

[blamethewolf]

calibraptor:

Oh my god I’m glad I’m not the only person that sees this

[clock-heart-deactivated20251220]

one of my favorite things about the pokemon universe is how the humans are esp. the bad guys 

like mob boss giovonni can pull out a glock and waste my 10 y/o ass but he doesn’t he just accepts that i knocked out his cat and hands me money

[therebloggening]

I have my own theory that humans in the Pokemon world don’t even have a concept of direct violence. They settle all disputes through Pokemon battles, but also a human without pokemon is entirely helpless.  This might lend its self further to the notion that humans can’t venture outside of towns without bringing trained pokemon to protect them.  Like, can Pokemon world humans even throw a punch? I think the notion of humans ever directly using violence against one another without pokemon involved is something they can’t even think of.

[operayawns]

In one of the movies ash just straight up clocks lucario

[squided]

ash is innovative in a world where humans can’t punch

[ganymedesclock]

*steeples fingers* okay so I know this is a humorous fun joke but like…

Let’s think about this for a moment.

Mob Boss Giovanni probably has a gun. Given the level of technological development in pokemon’s universe it’s very unlikely that nobody invented gunpowder or ever thought to put it together into a weapon, or that Giovanni would procure one.

Let’s also assume the average ten-year-old bright-eyed pokemon trainer is not wearing a bulletproof vest, or has particularly impressive gun dodging abilities.

Giovanni shoots child, Giovanni probably dies immediately.

Why?

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