Vampire

Brodo baggins at your service also known as the tallest hobbit in the shire

[5theditionhomebrewing-deactivat]

First set of constructs. Whole lot of stuff being made about them right now. Going to take some time to get done. I’ll work on fixing up some of the wording and presentation later. Just wanted to get these out after so long.  PDF

[5theditionhomebrewing-deactivat]

I had plans to make The Golden Vault into a warlock patron for years. Never got around to it. I have however made it into its own faction in a card game I’m making. So that’s exciting. There’s a lot of errors in this. Need to find the original file so I can fix it up.

[meloetta]

multiplayer video games bad for health, heart, and emotional wellbeing. cut them out of ur diet.

[bewbin]

did u lose again

[meloetta]

[martinihomestead]

Basic Homesteading Skills

Crafts

quilting

embroidery

cross-stitch

knitting

crochet

sewing

Cooking and Baking

homemade bread

homemade butter

homemade extracts

dandelion jelly

Canning

26 canning recipes

canning jars 101

60 canning recipes

Gardening

edible trees to plant

what to plant to save the bees

cure and braid garlic

save seeds for next year

braid onions for long term storage

build a greenhouse

Animals

homemade chicken feed

raising mealworms for chickens

why to raise nigerian dwarf goats

Outdoors

starting a fire with sticks

trail signs

knotting

find true north without a compass

Medicine

homemade neosporin

all purpose healing salve

[shisasan]

Reblog if  you have never in your life sent a mean anon message.

[every-journey-sassypants-loves]

Never. And never will

[leatherwingsinc-deactivated2015]

[caluummhood-deactivated20140506]

HOLY SHIT, IT WAS THE ORIGINAL ONE

MAKE A WISH

[jamesjoeboyleeeee-deactivated20]

the first post ever on tumblr

[powerpuffsposts-deactivated2025]

I WAS EXPECTING IT TO BE A REMAKE OF SOME SORT HOLY FUCK

[kpopdotexe-blog]

WHO THE FUCK KEEPS BRINGING THIS BACK

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[adulthoodisokay]

like actually though. i’m in AWE of the notecount.

[artmagine]

Top 12 alternatives to Photoshop for digital painters and illustrators

Hello there!

Yes, we haven’t done this in a while… but our inbox and chat are swamped with questions on the subject, so this article was very much needed.

it’s a simple list of art apps, but we know you love those :D

Enough with the intro, here it is, a list of twelve art apps you may want to check out.

ArtRage is an art program for beginners and professionals. With its minimal interface, it’s easy to keep the essential tools at hand without stealing space from the canvas. Panels can be moved around and tools can be customised. We all know how important it is for digital artists to be able to modify brushes!

Pros: easy to use; friendly interface; essential tools from professional apps available; available for iOS, Android, Windows and Mac

Cons: it may get sluggish with big files and when using big brushes, but performances also depend on the running machine; limited selection of editing tools if compared to Photoshop - ArtRage is more of a painting program rather than an editing one.

Paid

ArtRage Lite is a different version at a cheaper price, mostly for beginners, but also for professionals if they need the essential.

Now free, Sketchbook is the famous app created by Autodesk for various platforms.

Pros: clean, friendly interface; easy to use; professional features; autosave feature

Cons: lack of official tutorials; doesn’t offer as many tools as other apps (it’s down to the essential); paid subscription in Adobe style for Enterprise License

Free and paid

Black Ink is a powerful little program few actually know, but there’s a reason: this isn’t your classing drawing app. What’s cool about it is the vast selection of special brushes, completely non-realistic, and definitely able to boost your creativity.

Pros: vast selection of customisable brushes; excellent performance

Cons: not very easy to use; non-intuitive interface

Paid

This is probably the most complete software for painting, drawing and animation. It was originally known as Manga Studio, but with its updates and addition of features, it became Clip Studio Paint. 

This doesn’t say much about the quality of the features themselves considering the affordable price (if you haven’t used the app yet, that is), but among graphic apps, this one is the top seller.

Pros: professional features for illustrators; layout tools for comic/manga artists; 3D reference models; customisable tools; various sales with special prices

Cons: the interface may not appear intuitive at first; the program may lag (again, performance also depends on the running machine)

Paid

GIMP is the famous open source image editor originally created for GNU/Linux and available for OS X and Windows. 

Best known as Photoshop’s main competition, this is a manipulation program for both beginners and professionals who love design.

It offers many professional features, making the program a powerful tool.

Pros: professional editing tools; supports different formats; supported by different platforms; active community

Cons: in spite of the simple design, many options are hidden and it takes time to discover all the features; slow startup

Free

Krita is an open source painting app created by artists for artists.

Pros: easy to use; intuitive interface; great brush workflow; brush stabilizer; customisable brushes; general good performance; very enthusiastic, although small, community

Cons: it may be slow or even crash depending on the running computer and the app’s version; very few editing tools compared to Photoshop

Free

MediBang Paint is a free and light app for drawing and painting, perfect for manga and comic creation.

Pros: vast selection of brushes; cloud sharing; friendly, minimal interface (non-desktop app); also available for iPad, iPhone and Android

Cons: requires an account to use all features; non-intuitive interface (desktop version)

Free

Mischief is a sketching app with essential tools, useful for brainstorming and ideation.

Pros: infinite drawing canvas; friendly interface; easy to use; cheap pro version

Cons: few updates; offers only the essential (but that’s the point); no editing/adjustment tools

Free and paid

Corel’s jewel, Painter is the most famous software that offers digital tools able to give a traditional feel to brushes and canvas.

Pros: different selection of media; many professional features; PS-friendly

Cons: certain brushes may work slow; not easy to use at first; the software may crash (this is the most common report); pricey

Paid

Paintstorm Studio is a professional software for digital painting. It’s focused on the use of brushes and blending, which makes the software a little gem in the digital painting field.

Pros: good brush workflow; brush stabilizer; “close gap” feature; customisable interface and tools; professional features; affordable price

Cons: non-intuitive interface (desktop version)

Paid

Procreate is the powerful drawing app for iOS. 

With the very sensitive Apple Pencil, Procreate is so easy to use that many artists chose the iPad over the most famous graphic tablets.

Pros: friendly interface; makes it easy to organise files; excellent brush workflow; customisable brushes; video recording; affordable price

Cons: hidden features; only available for iPad

Paid

SAI is a simple app for artists who want to focus on painting and drawing. 

It’s well known for its good pressure support and its essential tools for manga artists, but SAI can be used by any kind of artist who wants to paint.

Pros: easy to use; friendly interface; light software; customisable brushes; tons of (non-official) tutorials

Cons: limited selection of tools, even basic ones; limited canvas sizes and uses; it might crash from intensive work, especially with big canvases and brushes; supports only RGB colour mode; lack of support

Paid

HONOURABLE MENTION

Many call this app an advanced PaintTool SAI, and for a reason. FireAlpaca offers almost everything PTS has and more.

Pros: friendly interface; brush stabilizer; lineart selection; customisable brushes

Cons: no colour slider; limited brush control; although more advanced compared to PTS, the features are quite basic.

Free

We hope you’ll find this list useful. 

If you think there are other apps that should have made this list, don’t hesitate to let us know!

Thank you and peace out,

G&M

Other articles:

10 inspiring and helpful YouTube channels for digital artists

6 inspiring Art Podcasts for digital artists

7 amazing Photoshop extensions and tools for digital artists

[sapphire-sapphic]

when you tell a girl her outfit is really cute and she does a little pose thing then smiles, reblog if u agree

[ainye]

Yule ideas for the exhausted witch

After so many of you enjoyed the post about low-energy ways to celebrate Samhain, it is time to share some ideas on how to celebrate Yule without too big of an effort. 2020 was a hard year and everyone deals differently with handling the crazy stuff this year threw at us. You are valid and your faith isn’t less important or less worthy because you can not spend the energy you might want to on the celebration of the solstice. A blessed Yule to all of you!

- As an easy charm for good luck: Tie some tiny bells to a ribbon and wind it around the handle of your door. Who ever enters will be cleansed of their negative energies and the sound of bells will invite prosperity and luck inside your home.

- Treat yourself to some sweets. Doesn’t matter if self-baked or store-bought, we’re talking of all the delicious treats of the season full of cinnamon (protection, luck), vanilla (friendship, passion), cloves (beauty, love) and ginger (energy, success). Yes, please!

- Give thanks and give back. You don’t need to volunteer for days to show your gratitude. Feed some birds, donate a bit to your local shelter if you have the money, small gestures matter!

- Who needs a big Yule tree? Get yourself some twigs (please don’t just break them off) from an evergreen and place them on your windowsill or inside a pretty vase. 

- Solstices are turning points, times of change. Make a list (written or mental) and remember all the things you are grateful for that happened this year. Also note things that you want the new cycle to bring to your life. Keep the list close during the time of the solstice and burn/bury them at the end of The Twelve Nights.

- No energy to decorate your altar? Decorate yourself. Wear green, red, gold or silver colors and jewelry with rubies, garnet, jade, agate or rose quartz.

Have a blessed Yule and feel free to reblog and add to the list!

[lemmysunshine]

as a spoonie witch who often feels Big Guilt for “not doing enough witch stuff” for sabbats, I find this lovely and helpful. thank you💕

[radical-eve]

[skullsmuldon]

A little video we all should take a moment to watch and think about. 

Instead of thinking about what divides us we should think about what we have in common…

[cantgetanygayerthanthat]

I’ve reblogged this on every account I have.

[actuallyclintbarton]

This is simplistic and intended to tug on heartstrings and all that shit but guys I really needed to see something about people not being dicks so if you needed that too please watch this.

Thanks for this, Denmark.

[jumpingjacktrash]

i think maybe we could all use a little simple heartstring-tugging right about now. <3

[official-lucifers-child]

when that one person walked up and was alone and then the caption came on i just broke, i just started sobbing

i think we all need to watch this

[iusedtoknowwhatawishwasfor]

Wow. This is powerful. I also wish I could have been there to stand with my fellow bisexual.

[selectivegeekwithstandards]

ok ima go off but I feel like that bi one was super important, because everyone then applauding them it was like, it’s not just about the people who you have something in common with, it’s also about being able to stand there and applaud and support the people who you don’t have something in common with. I think that’s what made me start crying tbh. 

[subtubitles]

[golemmanifesto]

Notice how Shan Yu doesn’t even question it or make a comment about “BUT YOU’RE A GIRL” he just instantly goes into a “I’LL TEACH YOU TO KILL MY MEN AND STEAL MY VICTORY” rage and I think about this a lot sometimes

[ruffnutthorstonthebesttwin-deac]

((Well that might have to do with the fact that he’s a Hun.  Women among the Huns had higher status than their Chinese counterparts and even some of their own men. Women were free to hunt and fight along side of the men, could choose their own husbands and divorce him if she choose to. There were even records of clans being led by women leaders. So for Shan Yu Mulan is just another soldier))

[hotdiggitydammit-deactivated202]

thank you, history side of tumblr.

[nealdk-blog]

He also might not have been able to see very well, due to whatever horrible disease has taken hold in his eyeballs.

[temporalscallywag]

Pretty serious Wilson’s Disease judging by the copper buildup in in irises, and apparent melanocytosis localized to his sclera.

[moonfallplays-deactivated202501]

Thank you medical side of tumblr

[aquilacalvitium]

I’VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS FOREVER

[muraae]

It’s always mandatory to reblog this whenever it appears

[my-pussy-horchata96]

Shan Yu said these hands rated E for everyone.

[midnight-spectrum-again]

I snorted

[jasoncanty01]

[maximumsunshine]

Ok.  I’m asking this seriously.  Public schools aren’t businesses.  They don’t turn a profit.  They aren’t running in the red.  How is opening schools back up supposed to jump start the economy?

[maximumsunshine]

Oh I see.  It’s so parents can return to work allowing the government to skip out on another round of stimulus money.

Hmm.  Don’t like that much.

[com3150project]

I hate that this scene works as a reaction gif to something so predictable, so preventable, but so inevitable.  We get to see it play out in real time.

[nerothefuzzyface]

It’s a shame that people have to spell it out this way as if the thought of dead children and teachers isn’t enough to elicit sympathy

[juicetrump]

The GOP knows and they aren’t just “letting” it happen, they are trying to FORCE it to happen because trump is desperate for normality to return before Nov and the GOP doesn’t want to fund education to do distance learning well. Their kids are in private school which are NOT reopening in Aug.

[still-godless-david]

Teachers should go on strike, nationwide.

[pftones3482]

This is not just so parents can go back to work.

The “Back to School” sales every year? Make BILLIONS of dollars. Billions. New clothes. New supplies. Teacher shopping lists. Lunch boxes, backpacks, shoes, tech.

If schools were online this fall, at least half that money would go out the window. Parents wouldn’t have to buy tissues and crayons for the teachers. Most people with kids stocked up on art supplies at the beginning of this when they knew they’d be stuck inside a lot. Who needs new shoes if you aren’t actually going to school? Or new clothes for that matter? Don’t need a backpack if you’re not taking stuff to and from school, no lunch box if you’re eating at home.

Don’t think for one second that schools don’t make the economy money - its just not as obvious as everything else.

[gay-jesus-probably]

And not to derail this conversation a little bit, but on the subject of safety, sanitizing really doesn’t help prevent infections. Covid transmits mostly through air; surface contact is pretty irrelevant. Just look at a case in South Korea where there was a small outbreak in a skyscraper that housed multiple businesses; if surface contact was an infection vector, the door handles and elevator buttons everyone had to touch should have spread it around the building. But of the 97 people who got infected, 94 of them worked in the same call center as patient zero. And even then, it was contained to the tightly packed open area they worked in; two thirds of their section were infected. Only five people were infected on the rest of the floor.

Covid-19′s primary transition method is airborne. Getting it via touch would require someone with covid to cough into their hands, touch something, then you immediately touch the same thing and lick your hands. Seriously. Sanitizing everything is a waste of time that gives a false sense of security. It doesn’t matter if teachers have the time and equipment to sanitize everything. They’re still going to be spending long periods of time indoors, in a single room, with extensive talking. Unless classrooms have some really good ventilation, they’re going to be perfect infection vectors.

And no amount of lysol wipes will prevent that.

[24ozsteak]

thinking about that WoW epidemic

[24ozsteak]

[swampgallows]

i was telling my dad, ever the skeptic, about corrupted blood back in March at the start of lockdown, and how the cdc studied it. how it can be used as a model for what to do and how people might act in the event of an unpredicted pandemic, and how people were playing out the same behavior during covid.

he said “so they fixed it, right? how did they fix it in the game?” and i told him the truth: they didn’t. they couldn’t control it. they had to reset the servers and roll them back to the time before the ZG encounter.

a CNN article recently referenced another “viral” event in world of warcraft: leeroy jenkins facepulling as a metaphor for the expedited reopening of businesses. what it fails to mention however is how the video ends. everyone who charges in with leeroy dies. he wipes the raid.

it really feels like that meme where it’s like “wow, cool video game reference!” and the point soaring over their head says THE DAMAGE WAS IRREVERSIBLE. THE THREAT SPREAD TOO RAPIDLY AND EVERYONE DIED.

[wheel-skellington]

weird reframing of the corrupted blood incident to make it seem, for some reason, like it was all selfish actions that people said was unrealistic because real people would help others. in fact its literally the opposite, it was used as real world data specifically because of the player driven efforts to fix it

[the-jellyfish-galaxy]

The reason this plague in the game was a good model is because we had all walks of life type people reacting in different ways.

Those with healing magic would go into infected areas to see if they could save the infected or at least keep them alive through the disease. Those that couldn’t do that tried to warn players before they entered infected areas. NPC could be infected and have “no symptoms”; they could be asymptomatic carriers and pass it to nearby players.

The best part though was by the time Blizzard had finally come out and said “if you are infected, try to quarantine yourself so you don’t spread it!!” the player base was ALREADY DOING SO. The players had recognized the problem and worked together in myriad ways to fix it.

They also had negative reactions as well, another reason this was such a good example of a real outbreak. They had a couple people report healers or alchemists who were claiming to sell cures/treatments to the disease that ultimately would do nothing. They had a group of players that would hide in the mountains near cities and just pass the disease back and forth between themselves and then raid cities to infect them all over again. They had higher level players start rebelling on the servers. Saying it was an overreaction and if you get it you’ll just die and you can come back and be fine, etc. Since they could get the disease and survive, ie it didn’t do enough damage to them since they were higher level, they felt it unnecessary to care about whether they got it or not. They complained about not getting to play like normal just because this plague could kill lower level players.

ALL of these reactions, good and bad, were real enough to what we assumed a real life epidemic would play out that people started to use it as a model. And now look, we have proof that it was accurate.

However, what we needed to learn from it was primarily that it wasn’t reversible. The bad reactions and lack of care from the few players that weren’t cooperating made it impossible in the end to contain. The only reason it was fixed at all is the game had to reverse time, literally just delete their entire game log a few weeks and time travel weeks into the past to before the plague even began.

Think about that.

The reason no one believed it was a valid model is that it was a video game and thus the consequences weren’t permanent. “No one would act like that in real life.” But look at how we are handling this outbreak. Is it not eerily similar?

And we can’t time travel.

[musicbasedmind]

reblog if you’re a safe place for:

lesbian

gay

bisexual

transgender

queer

pansexual

demisexual

ace

hopeless romantics

cis-men

cis-women

non binary folks

the whole spectrum etc…

follow everyone who reblogs ;)

[fotobilog]

[iwillreadyourbooks]

STOP! Let the little penguin cross your dash he has places to go.

[rebelmeg]

I just sat here and waited for a pixel penguin to waddle across my screen, AND I WOULD DO IT AGAIN

[drnikolatesla]

Despite what the internet and history books tell us… Nikola Tesla was the first to:

1. Discover the rotating magnetic field.

2. Invent an commutatorless alternating current motor which 90 percent of our electrical power relies on today.

3. Invent neon lights.

4. Demonstrate wireless power.

5. Explain the harms of X-rays and help make them safer for medical use.

6. Discover the electron (over 7 years before J. J. Thomson).

7. Invent radio (Guglielmo Marconi was a hack).

8. Discover and explain radioactivity (Marie Curie was over a year behind).

9. Discover cosmic rays (23 years before Victor Hess).

10. Smash atoms

11. Discover and demonstrate plasma.

12. Invent and demonstrate remote control.

13. Prove the existence of stationary waves.

14. Send a current around earth faster than the speed of light in experiments at Colorado Springs in 1899 (yes… this is a fact).

15. Explain the photoelectric effect (4 years before Einstein).

16. Discover the neutron.

17. Invent a particle beam weapon for defense in war.

[of-aurora]

Reblog if you're not homophobic

Every url that reblog’s will be written in a book and shown to my homophobic dad.