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I’ve gone insane and started writing a cliche fantasy novel

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fat porcelain dollgirl with lovingly filled in cracks for stretch marks

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Cannot FUCKING stand when my loose leaf tea says to add tea in tablespoons instead of teaspoons. I'm sorry, bitch. Am I making tea or am I making a table. Let me double fucking check.

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Exerpt from Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy. (with art by @theblackwarden)

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laurie 😔

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...All right!

This lines up nicely with what I was already up to while learning Eureka - I have an OC from a detective novel that I built in the system. This post might get verbose - that's because if the creators of Eureka are seeing this, I figure it'd be useful to explain my logic in detail so as to show how a total lay(wo)man might be interpreting some of these ideas and concepts.

Name: Thomas Reaper

Truth: People deserve help, even if it hurts me.

Traits: Comfort Item (Alcohol), Bottled Up, Hard Under Pressure (Physical), Woo-Woo.

Potential Traits: It's For A Book, Quick Draw

Explanations under the cut.

Truth: When the Eureka handbook suggested a need to help others even at their own expense, I realized that nothing else fit Thomas better. At multiple points in his story, he notes in narration that the pay he's being offered for this job is well below his usual rate, and isn't enough to cover his rent, but he accepts it because he can't stand to see people fail to get closure because the cases he's working have been abandoned by the cops. Everyone deserves closure after a tragedy.

Comfort Item (Alcohol): This is the most straightforward one. Thomas is an alcoholic, self-medicating an inability to sleep normally due to constant noise in his brain that's resisted all other medication.

Bottled Up: Thomas is the type to just keep going and going until he hurts himself and has to stop. I could have used Burnout here, but I felt that Bottled Up fit it better. It's not a constant "run myself ragged until I finish this case" mentality, it's more like he'll ignore his health until he's starving, and then have to back away from the case to take care of it.

Hard Under Pressure (Physical): Thomas isn't a specialist, and is a bit too bad at taking care of himself to make a good interpersonal impression, but the saving grace is that he's got a sort of adrenaline-fueled desperation that fuels him physically.

Woo-Woo: This is probably the biggest stretch of the ones I picked, but the noise I mentioned in Thomas's brain earlier sometimes gives him hints and leads to follow. It's not exactly a "ritual or ceremony", and Thomas canonically can't control when it happens, but I didn't find a better way to mechanically represent "The voices in my head gave me a lead in the case" than the Woo-Woo trait.

Potential Traits - It's For A Book: I considered this one after reading its description. Thomas does get through a lot of situations without drawing police attention because he's a known quantity to them and has friends on the force, but I ultimately decided against it because he draws the suspicion of a three-letter agency instead, so this aspect is mostly just quibbling over what the in-universe "police force" actually is.

Potential Traits - Quick Draw: Thomas wields a very strange weapon - a large folding scythe with an electrical generator (Long story). It has a substantial start-up time, but Thomas is extremely good with it and can shave down the awkwardness of using it considerably. I considered representing that with Quick Draw, but decided against it because he's only good with the scythe - hand him another weapon, especially a gun, and he'll fumble around with it.

And there you have it! Hopefully this has given the Eureka team what they want out of this exercise. I'd be interested to see if I'm misunderstanding any of these traits, or if I could have made better picks, though I'm sure y'all are busy.

Fun Game: Make Yourself in 3-6 Eureka Traits!

There's a bit more to Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy character creation than just picking Traits, but this is a meme not a serious character creation session.

Make yourself in three to six Eureka Traits. Here's a big list of them. This isn't literally all the Traits, just the ones that have finished art. If you want to pick from all the Traits, feel free to download the free rulebook linked above! If you want to go a little further, you can explain your reasoning for why you picked each Trait and what they mean to you and about you.

Tag us, or just reblog your results onto this post! You don't have to make yourself either, it could be a character from pop culture, your friend, your OC, whatever! We wanna see what you do with it!

List of Traits (Non-Exhaustive)

Ambidextrous

Are You Thinking What I’m Thinking

Arithmomaniac

The Ascot

Ask Questions Later

Believer

Blissfully Ignorant

Bumbling Detective

Burnout

Cheerleader

Comfort Item

Dangerprone Damsel

Death Wish

Did You Know

Elementary!

Femme Fatale

Final Girl

Hard-Boiled

Hardy

It’s for a Book

I’m Okay, You’re Okay

Just Built Different

Just One More Thing

Kleptomaniac

Lovecraft Protagonist

Lover

Moneybags

My Glasses!

Night Owl

Nightstalker

Ninja

Not Finished Yet

The Other

Perfectionist

Push It

Predictable

Quick Draw

Renaissance Man

Rumbler

Showboater

Skeptic

Sleep on It

Smalls

Technically

Therapist

Unpredictable

Wicked

Wizened

Woo-Woo

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Im gonna take a swing at rephrasing this one. If you are not yourself transfeminine but are genuinely worried about "transfem seperatism", the best thing you can do to stop it is to make sure that you and the queer spaces you inhabit are welcoming to transfems- loud transfems, big transfems, kinky transfems, transfems who may not look like what you think they should. Check your biases, notice how many trans women actually stick around and act comfortable in your friend groups or game nights or clubs. Notice how you treat them. Ask yourself if you're holding them to a higher standard and quick to believe they're an aggressor or predator.

If that sounds like too much work or like it's not your problem, then you have no right to complain when we pack our things and leave.

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https://twitter.com/HypraSeaPea/status/971531769508896768

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Con sonido! 🔈🔉🔊

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ive been trying to find the original poster and song for years now i think about this all the fucking time

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“cartoons are so stupid!” a $100 million + hollywood movie couldnt even do enough research to realize egyptians weren’t white but you know who fucking did? yugioh

one of those two people is from egypt and it in’t the fucking lighter-skinned one

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Reverse RPG Maker horror game where the narrative keeps teasing the possibility of various horrible and moderately kinky fates befalling the protagonist, but the mechanics of play keep trying to shove you back on the "everybody lives happily ever after" route, and all of the "bad" endings where you spend eternity as a living crash test dummy or what-have-you are gated by incredibly obtuse unlock conditions that can basically only be achieved if you're doing it on purpose, and also if you almost manage to get a bad ending but fuck it up in some subtle way the game "notices" what you're trying to do and mocks you for it.

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I've been curious about this for awhile now, and with a re-surge of the "hey you know you tumblr doesn't have an algorithm and you need to reblog things here if you want to see more of stuff and/or support creators" posts I think I'll finally make a poll to test a theory, Which is that: 1) Where you came from before tumblr has a heavy influence on if you reblog posts or not and 2) That the decline in reblogs has come from a influx of users from other social media over the recent years who were conditioned to interact with 'content' in a "more passive consumption, less community-interaction" way. So, whether you reblog posts or not- I want to know where you came from before tumblr

[Clarification: For the purposes of this poll, "do reblog" refers to if you often reblog the posts that you enjoy. This doesn't mean that you reblog every single post that comes on your dash- just that you reblog posts more than you hit the Like button and/or you regularly also reblog posts that you hit the Like button for. If you rarely reblog (i.e: you exclusively hit the Like button on more posts than you reblog, and/or have an empty blog), then please choose "don't reblog"]

Also, obligatory, "Please reblog for larger sample size" Because: science