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Why cloud look ocean???
Well, they are also water
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More about long COVID by a young person with long COVID. Inspired by the stories of hundreds of COVID long-haulers.
A sequel to this comic on my long COVID symptoms.
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Reblogging this comic again as my other one is going around again. I think that this one deserves to be seen, too. Thousands of people have responded to my long COVID story and shared their experiences with long COVID. I wish you could read all of them, but I’ve summarized some of it here.
Reblogging December 30, 2021. As of November 2021, up to 50% of people who survive COVID will have long COVID.
Yesterday I received a request for Fuzzy Bear on a onesie, luckily, they offer baby clothing on redbubble, so Fuzzy Bear is now on a Onesie! It’s definitely baby season for me (Lots of family & friends are having kids) so I’d be happy to upload more of these 👍 https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/84528631?asc=u . . . #bear #babyclothing #redbubble #redbubbleshop #illustrationartists #illustration #art #babyfashion #babygiftideas #babygiftideas #blackandwhite #penandinkdrawing #digitalart #ktinasanti https://www.instagram.com/p/CSKVZ8qpXKh/?utm_medium=tumblr
“There are no trigger warnings in real life”
“The real world is cruel, get over it.”
My boyfriend is triggered by Christmas and Christmas music. We were in a restaurant, and Christmas music was playing, and he started panicking so he went outside for a cigarette. The manager of the restaurant overheard him saying he had to get out, and changed the music over for the rest of the time we were there. There are safe spaces in the real world. People are nicer than you think. And bullshit people who try to tell you to get over your triggers, ain’t shit.
people who say shit like this are egotistical and selfish. ignore them. there is goodness in the world, even if we have to be the ones giving it to ourselves.
Listen, listen.
I’m Jewish and I play Fallout 4.
I had a mod recommended to me called Constructable Crosses. It’s a bunch of different kinds of Christian religious iconography so you can build a church in your settlements if you want to.
I asked if it wouldn’t be too much trouble, maybe, since the author had another update planned, if maybe he could add a Magen David to hang outside a synagogue? And I would pay him?
I expected that I might be ignored or told no. At best, there would be one “okay” example of a Magen David and I’d use it because it was all that was available.
This dude went out and built an entire mod. And refused payment. He actually learned how to make a model to make a really gorgeous menorah, and put together a stunning range of chanukkiyot so you can, if you want, “light candles” for Chanukkah in your game. (And yes, I actually did this, it was fun.) He put together some wall hangings of the Ten Commandments. He made over a hundred kippah models so you can wear one as long as you have a vanilla hairstyle. The only thing the mod lacks that even the poorest synagogue would try to have, and I have maintenance rights on the mod so when I learn to make models I’ll be adding it, is a sefer Torah.
(Ironically, there is no Magen David. But since you can put up a literal actual menorah, that point is moot.)
People are kind. People are good. You just have to find them.
A sculpture I made out of wire, cardboard, and painted paper during Quarantine. It’s based on The Crow and the Pitcher fable, and is my submission for the Create Your Happiness Challenge! #createyourhappiness #sculpture #artistsoninstagram #artist #artofinstagram #papercrafts #paper #wire #aesopsfables #thecrowandthepitcher #freelanceartist https://www.instagram.com/p/CQAUXe_jD_B/?utm_medium=tumblr
In preparation for an upcoming sale on Redbubble, I have been uploading more work from my website for sale online. This piece is called “A Moment in the Sun” and a sketch I created when traveling to San Diego, Spanish Village Art Center pre-Covid https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/79041345?asc=u . . . . . #redbubbleartists #redbubbleartist #findyourthingredbubble #redbubbleshop #redbubble #drawings #drawing #sketchbook #linework #sketchbookdrawing #artwork #illustrator #sketchbookart #ktinasanti #artistsoninstagram #artprintsforsale #art #landscape #sunnyweather #blueskies #sunny #soakingupthesun #boutiqueshop #smallshop #spanishvillageartcenter #sandiego #inkartwork #inkdrawing #penandink #ink (at Spanish Village Art Center - Balboa Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPWVcqEjWAx/?utm_medium=tumblr
It has been a while! (I’ve had a second hand surgery since I’ve last posted- thus the rather LONG delay) I thought I’d show what I’ve been up to most recently. Here’s a recent Landscape from my...
Another past landscape I did in oils for a painting class while in college!
A Pennsylvania museum has solved the mystery of a Renaissance portrait in an investigation that spans hundreds of years, layers of paint and the murdered daughter of an Italian duke.
Among the works featured in the Carnegie Museum’s exhibit Faked, Forgotten, Found is a portrait of Isabella de'Medici, the spirited favorite daughter of Cosimo de'Medici, the first Grand Duke of Florence, whose face hadn’t seen the light of day in almost 200 years.
Isabella Medici’s strong nose, steely stare and high forehead plucked of hair, as was the fashion in 1570, was hidden beneath layers of paint applied by a Victorian artist to render the work more saleable to a 19th century buyer.
The result was a pretty, bland face with rosy cheeks and gently smiling lips that Louise Lippincott, curator of fine arts at the museum, thought was a possible fake.
Before deciding to deaccession the work, Lippincott brought the painting, which was purportedly of Eleanor of Toledo, a famed beauty and the mother of Isabella de'Medici, to the Pittsburgh museum’s conservator Ellen Baxter to confirm her suspicions.
Baxter was immediately intrigued. The woman’s clothing was spot-on, with its high lace collar and richly patterned bodice, but her face was all wrong, ‘like a Victorian cookie tin box lid,’ Baxter told Carnegie Magazine.
After finding the stamp of Francis Needham on the back of the work, Baxter did some research and found that Needham worked in National Portrait Gallery in London in the mid-1800s transferring paintings from wood panels to canvas mounts.
Paintings on canvas usually have large cracks, but the ones on the Eleanor of Toledo portrait were much smaller than would be expected.
Baxter devised a theory that the work had been transferred from a wood panel onto canvas and then repainted so that the woman’s face was more pleasing to the Victorian art-buyer, some 300 years after it had been painted.
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Christ men have been Photoshopping women to make us more “pleasing” since for-fucking-ever.
Also, Isabella de’Medici is nice looking, but also has that look in her eye of all Medicis: “I haven’t yet decided whether I’m going to kick your ass, buy you and everything you own, or have sex with you. Perhaps all three.”
It’s interesting the way the repaint has photoshop!Isabella affecting a slightly dreamy, docile gaze into the middle distance; she’s dewy-faced and unthreateningly soft. But in the original, she’s looking you right in the eye. She takes the male gaze and throws it right back at you. That’s a face that says go on, tell me I’d be so pretty if only I had a little repaint, I dare you. I’ll fuck you up.
They also made her hand smaller and I can’t tell if that’s an urn or scepter in her hand but considering it was painted out I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a symbol of power.
Oh, it’s a symbol of power alright. She’s a Medici, daughter of Cosimo I de Medici, First Grand Duke of Tuscany. The Medicis were the most powerful political family in Florence for almost forever. In Florence, the lines between politics, crime, warfare, and the Church were very blurry. They even managed, on four separate occasions, to get one of their own family members elected Pope, usually by very underhanded dealing with the cardinals. They had their fingers in every pie in Italy from 13th through 17th century.
In the case of Isabella, in order to secure an alliance with the Orsini family of Rome, she was married to Paolo Giordano I Orsini when she was 16. Contrary to popular belief, people in Renaissance Europe weren’t all that into child brides, this was just about the politics, so she stayed at her father’s household in Florence until she was of appropriate age. And then she just sort of… never left. Her new husband had zero concept of money, and her dad actually kinda hated him even though he was the one who arranged the marriage in the first place. So Isabella and her 50,000 scudi dowry (at a time when the average Italian earned somewhere between 10 and 40 scudi a year) stayed in Florence. Because she never went to Rome to live with her husband, she enjoyed enormous freedom and power back in Florence. After her mother died, she basically stepped into the role of First Lady of Florence, and was considered one of the keenest political minds in Europe. She ruled what she wanted, bought what she wanted, and fucked who she wanted, with no one really able to tell her no.
She was eventually assassinated by her husband while she was on holiday at one of her family’s country villas, probably because she was fucking her husband’s cousin, Troilo Orsini. Well, she had an “accident” while bathing, and Paolo Orsini said she must have drowned, but the coroner said she was strangled, and several servants swore they saw him do it. He might also have done it on the orders of Isabella’s brother, Francesco Medici, since he was trying to consolidate his power as the next Grand Duke, and by all accounts she was definitely in his way because of her political savvy.
So yeah. She was a boss, and that’s what makes it even more offensive that this Victorian sap tried to make her into this passive, skinny, doe-eyed wimp.
When your whole squad backs you up in a fight but you music af.
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i’m just mad that they were able to hide 2 whole people + trombones behind one person that’s amazing
The tuba player is what did it for me.
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Worldbuilding Wednesday - Going to a New Country
So your PCs enter a new town, a new province, a new whatever. What’s important is that they entered an area that has its own distinct borders and is filled with denizens. Be it a town, a country, a dungeon, it doesn’t matter.
Now how do you differentiate one new are from another? This is gonna be our main question.
How is Ancient Rome different from Medieval England? How will the players feel when they go to Feudal Japan to Ancient Egypt? Realistically speaking, there will be a big smack of cultural backlash. I believe it is important to emulate this in D&D, otherwise every village is the same Fantasy Medieval Setting TM.
To make each area unique, they have to have unique CULTURE. To make unique culture, you need to know what MAKES culture.
EXAMPLE #1: Ancient Rome
Culture is made up of elements within itself and outside itself. Let’s take Ancient Rome as an example. What defined the culture of Ancient Rome?
Rome was a Republic. People had an active role in politics. As such, talking politics was very common amongst townsfolk.
Rome had a focus on arts and culture, so everyone also loved talking about that.
Rome was expansive and included a large diverse group of people, BUT they made sure that all these people assimilated to Roman culture. So you’d see a lot of different kinds of ethnicity (or species if we are in a fantasy setting), but they wouldn’t act too different from one another, generally speaking.
The kingdom, while vast, was interconnected by roads, and travel was safe.
Rome constantly warred with the Barbarian hordes, who symbolized the disorderly wilderness and chaos to Romans. By extension, Romans symbolized to themselves absolute civilization. This distinction often made Roman underestimate their enemies (see Hannibal of Carthage).
EXAMPLE #2: Medieval England.
Let’s compare Rome to England circa Middle Ages, and you should be able to see the differences between the two.
England ran under a feudal system. This system relied on peasants to do the heavy work, while noble lords and ladies handled all the politics. So a common peasant won’t know a thing or two about complex politics.
Similarly, peasants weren’t educated. They couldn’t read, didn’t understand science. So they won’t be of much use.
Noblemen lives in towering castles and keeps, and didn’t accept every other schmuck inside.
The Church had strong power and controlled communities or even the King. It could sway the opinion of the people, so people tended to often discuss elements of religions
The kingdom was not safe to travel. Small settlements were connected by tiny roads that cut through heavy woods filled with abominable beasts. So most villagers, would not travel out of their village FOR THEIR ENTIRE LIFE.
The plague spread throughout England, killing indiscriminately. Many believed it was the END OF DAYS.
You can now, hopefully, see the difference. One is a sprawling empire with political intrigue and deception hiding under its facade. The other is a small kingdom where every day is a battle for survival, corrupt lords rule over poor peasants, and superstition rules supreme.
If you have two nations, and the Players travel from one to the other, this kind of difference must be clear to them. Some ways you can make it clear are:
Describe architectural differences. Mention that this is different than what they saw in the past.
People will react to random Murder Hobos in different ways. Peasants of England will treat them automatically as heroes, because they brave the wild and fight beast and demon. While the sophist of Rome will question them and debate them for the fun of it, to see how smart they are, only being impressed by their wit, not their skill.
Jobs the PCs get will be different. English peasants ask for their farm to be protected. Roman sophists ask for their political rivals to be assassinated.
Describe what role race plays in the nation. Rome was very diverse, so many races existed within a massive empire. England was in the corner of the world and 99% of people were Anglo-Saxons. So when your PC comes to England and isn’t an Anglo-Saxon human, what happens? Peasants would be curious, acting as if this creature is some alien. Others will be fearful. Nobles, being more educated, might not care for it.
Describe what role GENDER plays in the nation. In England women and men had distinct roles. Men go out to work, women tend to the house. In Rome the roles were different. Men and women study, grow, then marry different families to form strong intelligent communities.
I leave the rest up to you now. Brainstorm, figure out how you can make your nations seem unique, diverse, creative. Go wild with it. I hope this post is helpful to you. Best of luck in your future games.
The Unfair DM
“The double agent for the patriarchy is basically just a woman who perhaps unknowingly is still putting the patriarchal narrative out into the world. Is still benefitting off, profiting off and selling a patriarchal narrative to other women. But it’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing. You know, just because you look like a woman, we trust you and we think you’re on our side, but you are selling us something that really doesn’t make us feel good. You’re selling us an ideal, a body shape, a problem with our wrinkles, a problem with ageing, a problem with gravity, a problem with any kind of body fat. You’re selling us self-consciousness. The same poison that made you clearly develop some sort of body dysmorphia or facial dysmorphia, you are now pouring back into the world. You’re like recycling hatred. I find that really dangerous and I think it’s unacceptable and I don’t care if you’re a woman. I think constructive criticism is needed for anyone to ever evolve. For our gender to evolve we need some sort of constructive criticism. As long as we do it in a somewhat careful way. (…) So many of the worst things in the world have happened motivated by greed. And I just don’t think that’s an acceptable excuse anymore. How much money do you need? Really how much money do you need? How much money do any of these huge influencers who are worth millions or billions sometimes… why are they still promoting appetite-suppressant lollipops to young girls? And it’s not a fight against obesity. They have young, already slim girls, in their adverts for Flat Tummy company, this company that are absolutely everywhere, and they’re even being advertised in some of the most mainstream magazines, women’s magazines, and they have a billboard in Times Square. The money is built on the blood and tears of young women who believe in them, who follow them, who look up to them like the big sister they never had. It’s so upsetting and it feels like such a betrayal against women.”
Jameela Jamil explains why she thinks the Kardashians are “double agents for the patriarchy”
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