i love when people say "i’d read your book!" like girl me too unfortunately i haven’t written it yet because i am trapped in a cycle of procrastination and the feeling of impending doom
we're not kids anymore.
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i love when people say "i’d read your book!" like girl me too unfortunately i haven’t written it yet because i am trapped in a cycle of procrastination and the feeling of impending doom
My biggest tip for fanfic writers is this: if you get a character's mannerisms and speech pattern down, you can make them do pretty much whatever you want and it'll feel in character.
Logic: Characters, just like real people, are mallable. There is typically very little that's so truly, heinously out of character that you absolutely cannot make it work under any circumstance. In addition, most fans are also willing to accept characterization stretches if it makes the fic work. Yeah, we all know the villain and the hero wouldn't cuddle for warmth in canon. But if they did do that, how would they do it?
What counts is often not so much 'would the character do this?' and more 'if the character did do this, how would they do it?' If you get 'how' part right, your readers will probably be willing to buy the rest, because it will still feel like their favourite character. But if it doesn't feel like the character anymore, why are they even reading the fic?
Worry less about whether a character would do something, and more about how they'd sound while doing it.
I don't remember where I saw this piece of advice so I can't credit it, unfortunately
But it was along the lines of "instead of asking whether something is out of character, ask 'what would it take for this character to do this'"
Which I think fits really nicely with this advice of making the actual action itself also feel in character
i’m obsessed with how every single person can be stupid in their own special way and infinitely smart in another. simultaneously
Zombies, Run! Nostalgia
The recent post I reblogged about Zombies, Run! made me quite nostalgic about the early years of the app and the story. And judging from the reblogs, I'm not the only one...
How about we celebrate the story, the community and the fandom of the early years, and all use July to share some of our favourite posts, drawings, headcanons etc from back in the days. Just some great memories of the past. Maybe some bloggers who - like me - have mostly moved on to other things will be interested in joining us, revisiting the past for a bit?
No matter what the new-ish owners decide to do with the app and the story, we will always have those amazing memories, right? And for newer fans it might be nice to see what we've been up to in the past.
Maybe a hashtag might be nice, like... "ZR Nostalgia?" I dunno, anyone interested in joining me? Anyone who can come up with a more catchy name...
your story doesn’t have to make sense right now. neither do you. just put a guy on a horse and make him sad.
Hi, welcome back to Tumblr! Your Trigdasleng posts back in the day were fascinating, even though I never watched the show they're from. Keep on keepin' on.
Thank you! It's good to be back, and this is as good a place as any to talk about why I'm here and what I'm doing.
First, I left Tumblr when many others did when they instituted their infamous "female-presenting nipple" policy. It's not as if my Tumblr was ever a nsfw blog, or as if I had any female-presenting nipples, but I felt it was the wrong response to the difficult situation they'd been put in. It was something that hurt a lot of people who had a lot less of a voice and not much of a platform, and so I felt it was my responsibility to use the platform I had to take a stand, even if ultimately it didn't change anything.
As it happens, years later, Tumblr has finally reversed the policy (well done, @staff!). Tumblr may not be the wild west it used to be, but at least they aren't targeting anyone presenting a specific gender unfairly. I've missed my time away, and the people I got to know here, so I'm happy to be back!
As I see it, I'll probably be reblogging stuff less here, even though that's how I made my name way back when, and instead responding mostly to asks in my inbox.
To give myself a fresh start, I have deleted all 3,999 of my asks. I'm starting fresh—with this one, which was the first! My inbox got too overwhelming, so this was needed.
To answer some questions some may have, if you haven't followed me elsewhere recently:
I'm most active on Instagram, where I am @athdavrazar.
I have a YouTube series with partner and significant other Jessie Sams, who is @quothalinguist on Instagram. That series is called LangTime Studio, and we create a language from scratch together live on camera (we work on two hours a week every Thursday at 2 p.m. Pacific).
Jessie and I work together almost exclusively now, and we've done work on Freeform's Motherland: Fort Salem (which I hope you loved, Tumblr!), Peacock's Vampire Academy, the second season of Shadow and Bone (forthcoming), Amazon's Paper Girls (though you can blink and miss our stuff), and the second Dune film.
I worked on HBO's House of the Dragon, and got to create a writing system for High Valyrian, which I'm very excited about.
I created the Sangheili language for Paramount+'s Halo with Carl Buck, who is on Instagram as @tlacamazatl (he's on Tumblr as @tlacamazatl too!). We are presently working on season 2.
I worked with Christian Thalmann on Shadow and Bone seasons 1 and 2. The breakdown is this: Christian and I jointly created the Fjerdan language; I created the Ravkan language and orthography as well as the Kerch and Zemeni orthographies exclusively; Jessie Sams and I created the Shu and Zemeni languages jointly; Christian created the Shu orthography. I can't wait for you to hear and see our work in season 2!
Yes, I left Twitter (quite a bit ago). I'm now more active on Discord, where I'm on a few servers.
I created a wiki for all my languages, and am unevenly working on all of them, and some languages have a team of people working on them (in particular High Valyrian).
Despite being double-vaxxed and getting not one, not two, but three boosters, I got Covid in June, and that PoS hasn't completely left me alone since. (Note: I'd only had one booster before I got it; two have come since then, including the new one, which will hopefully be the last!)
I am traveling again, so I hope to announce those here when they happen.
If there's anything I missed, you let me know. I look forward to answering asks again, and joining in the general silliness of Tumblr! <3
Knight: I have trained in all forms of combat and weapons since birth. I cannot be bested.
Some horsecock motherfucker:
Knight: … What the fuck
OH FUCK YES I GET TO TALK ABOUT LANTERN SHIELDS.
For anyone seeing this post and wondering what kind of unholy heresy is currently having a blacksmithing orgy in front of their eyes, this is called a Lantern Shield.
This came from, YOU GUESSED IT, fucking Italy, home of lunatic steel-weaving mother fuckers who often simply looked at each other, and by each other, I mean their frenzied reflections in their shattered mirrors, and said “WHAT IF WE JUST DO THINGS”, which is, as we all know, Aunt Jemima’s recipe for success.
Lantern Shields were very indicative: They were meant to be bucklers that could carry a lantern, oftentimes for night time duels. Now, you’re wondering, why carry a lantern on a night duel when it could just prove detrimental to your overall movement? Why, to blind the mother fucker, of course! But, see, and this is the funny thing about Italy, when Italian blacksmiths realized that they could just add a hook to a buckler, they noticed they could also just add whatever the thrice condemned shit they wanted to them, so they started forging stakes, spikes, and blades that protruded out of the buckler and gauntlet as additional defense against anyone who, due to the poor visibility of mist shrouded, dark blanketed nights, would just walk right into your handheld barracks.
I mean, nothing better than a bloke closing the distance to you losing an eye or six because they didn’t consider you might just carry a porcupine on your arm, right?
Some specimens exists, but these are not numerous. If you know of or possess an actual, physical Lantern Shield, congratulations, you probably have an item that likely killed.
Given the fact that yeah, you’d need to be completely demented and more than a bit overdramatic to come up with something like this, I’m 100% unsurprised this shield also appears in medieval Russia.
Only they made it pink, because of reasons.
“whatever the thrice condemned shit they wanted” *applause*
@petermorwood can I interest you in a …. *checks notes* a … a this thing.
Colour me interested… :-D
Shields with a single spike in the middle are fairly common - the Scottish Highland targe often had a screw-off spike with a little scabbard on the back of the shield, so as not to inconvenience fellow-clansmen with unnecessary stabbings.
This, however, looks like one of those “If one (x) is good, then more are better” rich man’s gadgets / toys, what with the velvet lining and all. This inner view also shows the hand-grip “trigger” for opening and shutting the lantern port.
Here’s another view of the front with a better view of details: the open port, “fences” on two of the spikes as blade-catchers, holes and raised inner rim sections on the shield as point-catchers. (Secondary inner rings or rims often featured on smaller, simpler bucklers as well, for the same reason.)
IIRC this contraption appears a lot in RPG supplies lists - I first saw it in “Tunnels & Trolls” back in about 1978, on a list which was nothing short of a cherrypick from Stone’s “Glossary of Arms and Armor”. A fantasy RPG list is where it belongs.
This close-up gives a better view of the lantern, whose light source is probably a small fat candle.
As anyone who’s used a candle during a power failure will know, they go out easily when carried about. Any defensive manoeuvre that did anything but hold this shield upright was likely to put the light out (dark!) and if it was a OIL lantern it could spray oil all over the place (slippery!) or set someone, probably its user, on fire (Aaaah burny-burny!) Possibly, for full comedy value, all three at once.
Here’s a simpler version from the Higgins Collection, though IMO the lamp still comes with all the risks of going out, spillage and self-combustion already mentioned.
It’s a defensive / offensive weapon that has a light source attached, but is far less “sneaky” than the multi-spiked gadget version. There’s no trigger mechanism to dazzle an opponent with sudden glare*, just a hand-grip…
… and since the lamp was in the way at the back, the shutter had to be opened from the front. Not much of a sudden, dramatic combat move.
*That “sudden glare” from what might be just a single candle was more effective than you might think: medieval and Renaissance streets at night were dark places, and everyone’s eyes were sensitised. Try sitting in a darkened room for ten minutes then striking a match as you look straight at it. That’s what someone snapping open a lantern in your face would have been like.
Here is a lantern vs cloak combat, where they’re squaring up to each other.
However this illustration suggests that the actual technique involved working out where your opponent was in the dark, then dazzling and stabbing him in the same instant.
There were even simpler lantern shields where the lantern was simply fitted to or hung from the shield, without spikes, hidden portholes or anything else. Here’s one that’s a bit more unusual, but working on the same principal.
The hook is for a lantern, purely as illumination rather than a dazzler - there’s no way to suddenly open it if shut, and any dramatic defensive move would send it flying - while the raised concentric rings are point-catchers.
The vambrace (forearm guard) is an unusual extra, since the way it cups the wearer’s elbow prevents the usual use of bucklers at arms’ length.
This picture is from the Renaissance, but being able to hold a buckler away from the body seems standard right back to medieval illustrations in MS. I.33
That other shield doesn’t have a lantern, just a peep-hole, but seems equally impractical. Here’s a bigger view:
…and another version. The problem is obvious, and if you saw “A Christmas Story” over the holidays you’ll know the quote: “I can’t put my arm(s) down!”
Shoulder muscles will soon begin to ache, and after a few minutes resting the shield rim on one thigh, leg muscles will join in the chorus of complaint.
Finally, and though again no lanterns are involved, here are a couple of Indian weapons: the Madu shield, with a spike and two steel-tipped blackbuck horns…
…and the triple-bladed haladie dagger.
I couldn’t find a photo, but knowing what little I do about Indian weapons, I wouldn’t be in the least bit surprised to find that somewhere out there is a triple-blade haladie with a spiked madu-style shield over the grip.
After all, there’s this…
If it involved a couple of flintlock pistols instead, I wouldn’t raise an eyebrow…
Check out the 1973 “Three Musketeers” for one of the few cinematic sword-and-lantern fights; this one is between Michael York (D’Artagnan) and Christopher Lee (Rochefort) - not lantern shields, unfortunately, but shuttered “dark-lanterns” which is good enough - and the limitations on night photography* mean the scene wasn’t as dark as it could have been, but it gives an idea and is thoroughly entertaining.
*It’s possible photo limitations weren’t the concern, but the risk of someone accidentally running onto a darkness-hidden rapier point.
For all the artists out there
Youre telling me I threw away 10 dollar markers FOR NOTHING
REBLOG to save a life and a wallet!
Plus copics are actually refillable and you can buy more colored ink online for pretty cheap! So yeah dont throw out copics.
NO NO NO NO!
Never refill a Copic with regular isopropyl alcohol unless you have absolutely no other option.
Copic markers have their own ink refills to go with each marker,
They look like this and cost around the same price as a Copic Sketch maybe slightly more however they can be used to refill a marker several times
By using isopropyl alcohol what you’re doing, in fact, is diluting what little ink you have left in your make, therefore changing the shade of it.
Of course the one exception to this rule is the colourless blender 0 which is a marker that is full of regular isopropyl alcohol.
As a side note, DON’T throw away your marker if one/both of the is damaged
Copic also make replacement nibs for all of their markers
Which are much cheaper than buying a new marker as you get multiple in a pack.
Reblogging to save an artist. Copics are meant to be reusable and I know how hella expensive those things are. NEVER throw out your Copic markers!
ASBESTOS IS BEING USED IN REIKI/CRYSTAL HEALING - PSA MASTER POST
Worryingly Asbetos is being made into homepoathic wands and reki stones. Most worryingly claiming to cure CANCER, which Asbestos causes.
Being sold to many people under the intentions of “bring a bonding action between one and the subject of one’s desires“ and claiming that it’s the “etheric blueprint to correct imbalances and blockages that could manifest as physical disease and to heal cellular memory, one of the best stones for rousing the kundalini energies“ Chrysotile a type of Asbestos is quickly becoming one of the most requested minerals in reiki and crystal healing. And it’s not the only type of Asbestos being sold as a healing crystal.
Above is Richterite, it’s known to be as dangerous as any of the other Asbestos in the six categories and is being sold to people promising ironic cures for liver, pancreas, kidney or breast cancer.
Above is Tigers Eye, everyone knows it looks cool but it is also Asbestos and although polished Health Protection Agency in the U.K., claim these are still dangerous.
While some types of asbestos may be more hazardous than others, all are dangerous. Leading health agencies, including the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the EPA and the International Agency for Research on Cancer, classify all types of asbestos as cancer-causing substances.
The following are all a type of asbestos: chrysotile, amosite, crocidolite, tremolite, winchite, suglite, richterite, actinolite and anthophyllite.
All the identified forms of asbestos can cause asbestosis, malignant mesothelioma, lung cancer, ovarian cancer, laryngeal cancer and other serious diseases and will not cure any form of cancer. Some agencies, such as the Health Protection Agency in the U.K., claim amphibole varieties of asbestos are the most dangerous forms. The EPA has abandoned projects aiming to identify which asbestos fiber types are the most toxic, citing the overall regulation of asbestos and asbestiform minerals as a more pressing priority.
EXCUSE ME WTF
Literally my reaction too, for just $20 you can pay to have a lump of raw asbestos shipped to you to cure you of various forms of cancer.
Peeps, if you didn’t know, asbestos is MINED. It’s a MINERAL that - like arsenic, yes, arsenic is mined too - many producers continued to mine despite knowing that ‘asbestos lung’ was a thing among their workers since basically the start. A great many mined substances can be harmful to you. Just because it comes out of the earth doesn’t mean you can safely hold it in your hand or have it in your home. Be aware!
Well said and thank you for reblogging and adding your comments :D
Didn’t know Tiger’s Eye was a form of asbestos…
Many people don’t. Tigers Eye is formed when crocidolite asbestos is replaced by quartz fibers, because it’s still asbestos based I’d not recommend smashing your tigers eye any time soon. But I will add it isn’t directly asbestos once the quartz replaces. You can see the fibers on this piece of unpolished Tigers Eye below and why it’s still classed under asbestos.
Asbestiform is a mineralogical term referring to minerals that can be separated into fibers. Many regulatory definitions define a 3:1 length-to-width ratio as a fiber. The EPA states that all Asbestiform is as dangerous.
just to be clear it’s the fibrous particulates that are the hazard not the chemical content. if you have a nice polished piece of tigereye on your shelf it’s not going to kill you instantly, but if it starts to break or chip so that raw surface is exposed and starts to crumble those fibers off, that’s bad and you should dispose of it asap.
the bigger problem here is honestly that so much garbage is sold to desperate people as a miracle cure, like as a whole witch myself please understand why i’m saying this but your crystals and shit have no substantial impact on your health (like they’re really only tools you can use to adjust your own energy you already have so like maybe your pulled muscle hurts a little less but don’t fucking count on it that’s the scale we’re looking at here ) and half the ~alternative treatments~ that claim to cure cancer are actually seriously toxic. looking at you, apricot pits. but because health is a damn business in this country, there’s always money to be made, there are always fucking vultures around.
Nicely summarised Chillgamesh-the-swing
Writing Lefties
A Leftie list that exactly no one asked for
So I am right handed, but my sister is a leftie. Here’s some things to consider about lefties…
You have to be careful which side of them you eat on. I always sit on my sister’s right side, otherwise we end up bumping elbows while we eat. You could always take her husbands approach which is to intertwine their arms like those marriage wine ceremonies which works for about half a bite of food.
Things I never think about as a majority, right handed person… Lefties can’t see what they’ve just written. Also, the spirals on notebooks are under their arm as they write and sometimes they end up with spiral notebook lines on their arm.
There are also some things my sister just learned to do right handed. Most of the tutorials and stuff online for knitting/crocheting are for right handed people. She found it too difficult to learn/find/convert right handed stuff into left handed stuff, so she just taught her right hand to be dominant for these activities.
Random stuff is just set up to be more convenient for right handed people. It’s not like it hinders her life a great deal, but it is interesting to search left handed stores online and see what they offer. Stuff like scissors or notebooks with the spiral on the opposite sides. Even measuring tapes. Just stuff I don’t often think about.
Anyway. There’s my two cents!
Zipper flaps on pants/dresses/coats/etc all face towards the right. Same for buttons on shirts. It’s annoying.
when you’re trying to write and your last two functioning brain cells start yelling at each other
I FEEL PERSONALLY ATTACKED WTF
I’m still laughing with mine XD
via Drunk Austen on Facebook
Boy Bands, Hate, and Other Reasons No One Will Talk To Me
Sounds like an angsty young adult novel. I’m in!
Popularity, Hate, and Other impossible ordeals
Boy Bands, Vampires and Other Things the Fairies Stole.
Keep them, please.
Happy Endings, My Butt, and Other Things That Nearly Killed Me.
Sounds accurate.
Ok, I know I literally just posted this, but we did my husband and his is Cake, Liberty, and Other Things I Can’t Have and I’M DYING
French Kissing, Wizards, and Other Unspeakable Evils
French Kissing, Karl Marx and Other Signs of the End of the World
Holy shit
Macchiatos, Totalitarian Regimes, and Other Unspeakable Evils.
Happy Endings, Liberty and Other Unspeakable Evils.
..........questionably accurate to my life rn.
My chronically ill ass: *does something that pushes my body’s limits*
Able bodied person: haha you’re gonna sleep well tonight!
Me: haha yeah
My body: haha NOPE
zodiac signs? in MY 2019?
dwarves - (march 21 - apr 19)
hobbits - (apr 20 - may 20)
nymphs - (may 21 - june 20)
angels - (june 21 - july 22)
dragons - (july 23 - aug 22)
mermaids - (aug 23 - sep 22)
banshees - (sep 23 - oct 22)
elves - (oct 23 - nov 21)
werewolves - (nov 22 - dec 21)
sirens - (dec 22 - jan 19)
vampires - (jan 20 - feb 20)
faeries - (feb 21 - march 20)
IM A DRAGON
IM A FUCKING DRAGON
Egyptian gods by Yliade
(Chanting) ancient cheese with a deadly disease ancient cheese with a deadly disease ancient c
CAN WE STILL EAT THE FUCKING BOG BUTTER?
Fellas we’ve got ourselves 2 outta 3 ingredience for a legendary Grilled Cheese
Grilled cheese!!!!
HELL YEA BAYBEE WE DONE IT !! GOD HERSELF GONNA GRILL US A CHEESE
Tonight we dine like kings
This is still my favorite post on this whole site
Proving a point to my boyfriend.
PLEASE REBLOG if you (male or female) believe it is perfectly okay and natural for a guy of any age to cry
I’ve never hit reblog faster or harder.