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Kiana Khansmith
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Three Goblin Art
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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Misplaced Lens Cap
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@mysteryteacup
Hi, I'm Teacup!
Here's the post where I keep my massive list of fanfic ideas and thoughts for:
Humans Are Space Orcs
SVSSS
Dimension 20: Cloudward, Ho!
Here's my AO3 if you want to read any of the fics I've written because of all those ideas.
so in D&D the gelatinous cube is an explicit in-setting ecological representation of the fact that "dungeons with ten-foot-wide corridors" are a common enough feature that there are creatures adapted or designed specifically for them. but dragons aren't adapted for that design at all, nor are a lot of the other big guys; they either need separate exits or to use magic or shapeshift into a human form to go throguh the tunnels
but this is a problem that has been solved in real-life! the problem of "large animal that needs to get into a fairly consistently-sized tunnel that's significantly smaller" is solved by snakes, and, crucially, by mustelids, animals that are very long relative to their size. so I think D&D needs more of that. there should be giant ten-foot-wide dungeon weasels and stuff.
I love everything this post is laying down, but let’s not zoom past the most important possibility.
Square dragons.
My dumb ass really thought I was gonna be able to scroll past this post without drawing the two most ridiculous dragons to have ever infested my brain.
@thecreaturecodex
I hate to be the one to tell you all this, but dragons are also called wyrms (worms) for a reason. By all rights dragons should be the snakelike predators of the dungeon. Older medieval dragon images are often a lot more serpentine than the chonky lion-like body shapes we see nowadays.
Malcom said it best ✊🏾
Amazing
Swing state gothic
You have to love her. You have to love her when she sleeps til noon because she was up late. You have to love her when she doesn’t have the energy to do anything but lay in bed. You have to love her when she didn’t shave today. You have to love her when her thighs are hairy because the sensation of shaving them is too much for her to handle. You have to love her when she spends a day playing games because working is too overwhelming. You have to love her when people assume the worst of her. You have to love her when the world turns against her. You have to love her when she feels powerless and alone and abandoned. You have to love her unconditionally.
You have to love her when she's plural. You have to love her when she's little. You have to love her when she's racialized. You have to love her when her autism isn't just quirky hyperfixations. You have to love her when her mental health isn't just #Relatable Internet memes. You have to love her when she's disabled. You have to love her when she has chronic pain. You have to love her when she needs help with the little things. You have to love her when she's unemployed, broke, struggling. You have to love her when people ignore her. You have to love her when people talk over her. You have to love her enough to lift her up. You have to love her enough to give her what she needs. You have to love her enough to stand by her no matter what, because no one deserves to be without love.
AND LOVE IS NOT JUST "I love you" EITHER. Love is support. Love is safety. Love isn't just donating to charity. Love is paying for her to eat when you know she won't otherwise. Love isn't just reblogging a positivity post and hoping she'll see. Love is seeking her out and telling her how much she means and how happy you are that she's here.
Love is not just love, love is action. If you don't get that, then you've missed the point.
woah bitch the fuck was that for
Okay, so a thing about Tolkien's Middle-Earth is that, for elves and other beings of comparable metaphysical stature, the "distance" between an act of will and its tangible result is shorter than it is for mortals. The universe is just more inclined to play along with how they want it to work, which is why they're not lying when they claim not to know what magic is even though the products of their craftsmanship are by any reasonable standard supernatural – they just make stuff, and it works the way it does because that's how they intended it to.
This has a number of fun worldbuilding implications, like inventors having tangible authority over things crafted using their techniques, regardless of who does the actual crafting, because they literally willed the principles which allow those techniques to work into being, or the fact that when powerful beings die, sometimes stuff that depends on techniques they invented stops working. However, there's a bigger implication that that's generally gone unaddressed:
Elves can't do science.
Like, it's straight up impossible. A Tolkien elf cannot construct and carry out a meaningful experiment of any sort – it'll always works the way they expect it to, but only for that particular elf. Confirmation bias is an insurmountable barrier.
I want to read a story about the elf who figures this out and it bothers them terribly.
modern social media should stop offering "sync with your phone contacts to follow them" options and start offering "block all your phone contacts so they never see your account" options
i'm drunk and thinking about torsewell
smth smth smth Maxwell finding whimsy in a likeminded being. feeling free to abandon the propriety he's been raised in to save a friend. Torse finding kinship and community in flesh, understanding his true heart isn't as unworthy as he thinks it is. two sides of the same coin
welcome to my epic fantasy world. we have many developed fantasy kingdoms with 2000 years of rich lore and history. and to the south you can see the evil sand people and to the east theres japanchina.
Here are all the white characters, with names that are well thought out and deeply meaningful.
And if you look just to your left, you'll see the two POC characters: Distasteful Historical Reference and Racial Slur!
One of the white characters is destined to be king. Tt's okay that people get to rule over other people because of their 'bloodline'. Don't question it.
first time bruce picked up Jason from school
bruce:*is late*
jason: oh well *shrugs and walks home*
bruce:*arrives* ummmmmm where is my kid???
jason: *at home *
bruce:*loses his dam mind*
jason:*makes snack*
bruce:*runs inside* ALFRED I LOST JASON
jason: you didnt forget me?
#i love headcanons where bby jay is not defiant#just unused to supervision#‘jason where have you BEEN?’#‘the library? the book i had on hold came in’#‘why didn’t you say you were leaving or ASK US TO TAKE YOU?’#‘it umm… didn’t occur to me?’(via @byebyeskylark)
i hate the way fat antagonists have their weight moralized and used as a metaphor for greed and corruption and i hate the way it's overcorrected into fat people being "soft squishy friend-shaped cupcakes who look like they give incredible hugs" and i long for the day we have nuanced, interesting, and complicated fat characters and most of all i long for the day people are normal about fatness
worrying is like worshipping the problem
and brother i’m on my knees
okay so the problem with nonfags' analysis of homoeroticism in art is that most of you are very very bad at recognizing actual homoeroticism. I say this as a gay man.
like most of what you guys think is homoeroticism is actually just "gay bravado", which is a process where straight men ritually reinforce their own heterosexuality by joking about gay sex with each other. It's a form of homophobia. The joke is that gay sex is repulsive, bizarre, and inconceivable for them to actually engage in. it's incredibly common and I can't believe we're still having this discussion honestly
no no this is an excellent addition thank you
prev tags: #it does rub me the wrong way when people say men who hate women must be gay/that straight male culture is gay#like i know that its not the intention but youre still using gay as an insult there yk #but at the end of the day these men who hate women are mostly not attracted to men#because that would require a personal authentic relationship to their sexuality that they do not have #theyre literally hetero-sexual#their sexual identity is being straight#not having genuine and sincere attraction to women as human beings#but being straight
if your disability makes it difficult for you to leave bed to brush your teeth, Colgate makes a product called Wisps that are single use, no-rinse toothbrushes you can use while in bed. They have a bead on the brush that dissolves and acts as toothpaste and can be swallowed. The other end has a toothpick.
[id: A small blue and white tool with a point on one end for a toothpick, and bristles on the other end which are positioned in a circle around the small bead mentioned. /end id]
This is Accessibility!
I may try these myself, it seems like the bristles may be silicone or thin plastic though which is a sensory issue for me.
