How does a snake even write

Hi! My name's Brian. I'm 24, he/him, and I mainly focus on writing science fiction and fantasy. The tag for my stories and things relating to them is #wip, and each story has its own additional tag. My messages and ask box are always open if you have any questions or just want to chat, and I'm always up for tag and ask games.I follow from my main blog, startledserpent. Hope you all enjoy my stuff!

[a-ship-unto-thyself]

best trope: "ugh I guess I'll tolerate you for the time being, but this is a conditional, tactical alliance, and the second I get what I want, we're parting ways" to "you are the only good in the world and I will protect you to my dying breath"

[boltlightning]

I DONT CARE HOW MANY BEDS THERE WERE. WHAT IS YOUR BOOK ABOUT

[trekkiesagainstchastity]

(tearfully) w- working at the mattress store

[boltlightning]

i'm so fucking sorry. can you ever forgive me

[bogleech]

AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC FOR 13 DAYS, FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, HAPPY HALLOWEEEEEEEEEEEEEN

HOW TO BUY IT: PHYSICAL COPIES ONLY: ETSY PHYSICAL OR DIGITAL: KO-FI DIGITAL ONLY: ITCH.IO

Mortasheen is a monster-collecting setting I've developed for over twenty years, it has been in development as a tabletop roleplaying game for over fifteen years, and I have spent more than the last five years laboring on this first book alone. Credit to Morgan Mullins for the gameplay system, @gutsygills for every single playable monster build, rules expansion, testing and enormous amounts of other editing work.

History of the project here A condensed guide to the setting itself here

Expanding and co-managing a new tabletop gaming "brand" out of this setting is MY SOLE CAREER PROSPECT and potentially my entire new livelihood for the foreseeable future. This is literally now more than half my life's work. If you can't afford such a LARGE AND CONTENT DENSE new gaming book (a fair chunk of the price is only the raw printing cost!) you can help me survive and get this life-consuming project off to a good start by signal boosting and spreading the word. Miscellaneous Book Information:

8 x 11'', 350 pages. Includes all rules and mechanics for running a campaign or playing in one, player biotypes, NPC's, locations, gadgets, lairs, setting culture, ecology, unique original battle system, story hooks, a secret antagonist faction for more epic life-or-death adventures and a modular ability system for modifying and creating any conceivable monster, object or phenomenon. All 177 monsters in the bestiary include detailed biology and characterization.

Featuring guest artists including @biomechanicalmush, @sabedilemon, @iguanamouth and more Softcover $60, Hardcover $70-80 (more on etsy to offset their fees) digital pdf download $40 so we have enough to split with the gameplay devs. Books ordered during this first run will most likely arrive December within the USA, while international shipping from this country is currently undergoing unpredictable chaos. Backers of the original kickstarter should still receive their books first, and many already have! Over half are yet to finish printing, but we're getting there.

Free online-only playable bonus monster builds available on the front page of bogleech.com or at the bogleech.com/mortabook link, also all assembled by @gutsygills

[kleinergeist]

Oh, so when YOU grab a Danish for a quick snack, it's a guilt-free, tasty little treat. But when I, Grendel,

[hightide-error]

extremely cool that the removal of wolf protections in europe are being driven by an eu official having one of her horses killed by a wolf. literal cartoon villain shit

[hightide-error]

if you own horses you should be disqualified from participation in government

[hightide-error]

and after this happened, they put that specific wolf on a kill list and then proceeded to shoot the wrong wolf. geniuses

[somejack]

Environmental groups condemn EU Parliament’s approval to downgrade wolf protection as an attack on nature Today, the European Parliament app

For anyone who thought this is too stupid to be real, I'll remind you the year is 2025. The EU official in question is Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission. She is the latest in a long line of idiot Germans to think the CDU disguises her evil.

[shostakovalexei]

okay here's a petition against this

[dancinbutterfly]

If you are in Europe, for the love of god, please reblog and sign - these are a keystone species

[slapdashboard]

331,604 out of 500,000 signatures as of October 7, 2025.

[speciesofleastconcern]

Mediterranean apathy metaphors

[dftballama]

if anyone wants to see the rest of Europe

[hms-no-fun]

[vexwerewolf]

With all respect to the Icelandic, what the fuck is going on here

[the-haiku-bot]

With all respect to

the Icelandic, what the fuck

is going on here

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[iwilltryalittlearter]

⚽️

[iwilltryalittlearter]

I can’t believe this got to 20k notes. Is there something about this that resonates with people on some level?

[jolly-ob-saint-nixilis]

Round

[pokemon]

round

[the-real-nikki19]

a writing competition i was going to participate in again this year has announced that they now allow AI generated content to be submitted

their reasoning being that "we couldn't ban it even if we wanted to, every writer already uses it anyway"

"Every writer"?

come on

[rose-of-pollux]

Reblog if you're a writer who doesn't use AI.

[ahmad-ashi]

To all who are on Tumblr, I have not received donations for 15 days and my mother is in critical condition and we do not have any food, money or treatment. Every day that passes is worse than the days before. We cannot do anything else except with your help in order to stay alive. Every day we hear very strong blows and because of their severity we hug our children whose lives have been taken away and we try to support them, but now we do not have anything except your help. Please share the campaign and donate and help us reach safety please donate here. verified. CHUFFED (Chuffed allows dollars)

[bwaah]

pour one out for the guy who just spilled his drink

[bwaah]

situation worse

[amotleycrew]

you know what’s a trope that never gets tired is when theyre bouncing around in the plot and suddenly an important name crops up- it’s blorbo bleebus. and some dude is like who the hell is blorbo bleebus. and we immediately cut to our new friend blorbo bleebus pulling the most absolutely buckwild shit you’ve ever seen

[what-grace-has-forgiveness]

enhanced edition of this trope is when they cut to blorbo bleebus doing something entirely contradictory to how they were just introduced, like "i know a professional, someone discreet who can handle things quietly" cut to blorbo bleebus in the wildest fucking bar brawl you've ever seen, screaming their own name and stopping to down shots while still holding some dude in a headlock

[baqki]

OK to make a font out of your own writing

go here

http://www.myscriptfont.com/

instead of printing it off just use this blank thing that way you dont have to scan it or anything

so fill that out by pasting it in any art program and whatnot

then save it and upload it to that site

and itll give you an option to download it

so do that and then install it BAM

[dustandhalos]

[kittenmogu]

[pickle-inspect0r]

[ilikedaisiesinthespringtime]

I JUST GOT THIS ON MY TABLET IT’S SO COOL OH MY GOD

[nakadoo]

[jupiter24jay]

[movedtosaucymcfuzzy]

[zeekist]

for some reason it refused to recognize the third page of my letters but they were all pretty unnecessary mathematic things anyway so I’m not too worried. still something to keep in mind though, I hope it doesn’t happen for you!

[januarycomicsmonth]

paintfont.com would be a good place to go to quickly make a custom font for your comic!

[weavingmemories]

[timon-the-tomato-deactivated201]

ehh

It looks just as horrible in real life..even worse with the letter attached…

[frickmyrick-deactivated20170811]

[trveroman]

I’ll try this later.

[roachpatrol]

you can also use alternative alphabets

[authorloremipsum]

[cobalt-draws]

Welp. Guess I know what font I’m gonna be using for comics from now on. B)

[io-ooc]

Welp. Looks like I have to do this now. So I can use this for Tengri’s asks.

[keelime-art]

For some reason there is no apostrophe in my set, but it still looks cool.

[changephase]

NEAT THING ALERT

[kingloptr]

[mahouwl]

The site is now called https://www.calligraphr.com/en/ but it’s basically the same!

[marsupials-of-mars]

I’ve been wanting to make one of these out of my dad’s handwriting, he does last year and he used to write everything down about his life

[lab-gr0wn-lambs]

calligraphr is a godsend for webcomic artists

[c-rowlesdraws]

Sweet Pea’s sister tells this story all the time and both of them think it’s really funny

[c-rowlesdraws]

nap rotisserie...

(a twist: this is all the same nap... they're just very chaotic sleepers)

[c-rowlesdraws]

the sequel

[c-rowlesdraws]

started sketching this comic for Day 13 of @thebeardlyben’s “Gnollvember” prompt list… decided to use it to practice a more casual sort of inking style, and finished yesterday in between working on art people are actually waiting on me for.

Day 13 - “Think Twice”! Sweet Pea knows what money is, but Nettle wishes she’d be more mindful of their food budget.

[c-rowlesdraws]

reblogging for Gnollvember! It’s that wonderful time of year again. And alas, I… still haven’t had the chance to draw anything for Ben’s 2023 prompt list— this comic is from last year. 🥲

[omegaversereloaded]

pick a cold dessert for tonight!!

soft serve 🍦

hard ice cream 🍦🍦

popsicle 🍦🍦🍦

milkshake 🥤🥤🥤

other!!!

Voting ended onApr 23, 2025

Please help my friends Marah and Mahmoud and their lovely family!

Hi all, i'm going to keep this very quick. As you may know, the bombing in gaza resumed yesterday, and many people have been martyred. Marah and her family narrowly avoided one of these bombings, according to her brother, who I am in regular contact with.

They are still very hungry on top of this. Please share and help if you can! Thank you!!

I am hosting this campaign btw!! ^0^

@mahrahpalestine @palestinian95 this campaign is vetted, please check marah's blog(s) out!

[porkbuttsandtaters]

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