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The mad king. I guess I can work with that, it just depends on what kind of society I’m in/ social norms are at play. I mean if this was a society with strict gender rolls a woman calling herself a king would be called crazy, no?

YOU'VE JUST BEEN ISEKAI'D!

You know how it is. You were hit by a truck or fell from a great height, and now you're trapped in a fantasy land! Quick, spin this wheel to find out what you've reincarnated as!

Remember to show this to all your friends :)

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If you’ve watched the Bad Batch series in the 3rd season there’s a young force sensitive *male* Mirialan

Mirialans can be pink and purple lmao why did no one tell me

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I have an impacted wisdom tooth but it’s on the side that had a tooth pulled so rather the being painful from pushing my teeth into each other, it’s just shoving the tooth into the gap left behind. I still need to get it sorted out, buts out of my budget right now and it’s not causing problems so it’s a problem for another day

Please reblog. Tell me about your teeth

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hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

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I’ve always seen it as- ‘My truth might not be The Truth but it is the truth I live with’

I feel like many people have a fundamental misconception of what unreliable narrator means. It's simply a narrative vehicle not a character flaw, a sign that the character is a bad person. There are also many different types of unreliable narrators in fiction. Being an unreliable narrator doesn't necessarily mean that the character is 'wrong', it definitely doesn't mean that they're wrong about everything even if some aspects in their story are inaccurate, and only some unreliable narrators actively and consciously lie. Stories that have unreliable narrators also tend to deal with perception and memory and they often don't even have one objective truth, just different versions. It reflects real life where we know human memory is highly unreliable and vague and people can interpret same events very differently

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Books by the same author are placed together- in order if relevant- otherwise it’s wherever they will fit. My bookcase is not big enough for all my books

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I currently live on the opposite side of the world to where I was born😃

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All grandmas in my family are known as ‘Nanny’ ( Nanny Dolly, Nanny R******n, etc)

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I can’t afford to go on a spiritual journey

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With the way the world is going downhill, it just seems the most useful in the long term

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PJO, HoO, TKC. I have Magnus Chase and ToA I just haven’t read them yet… I have a very long reading list

Cause I’m curious

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My fancy formal/semiformal/ spring-summer funeral dress $450 (on sale when bought $700 full price)

After that in the $200-$300 range is a pair of doc martins, a corset, a peacoat and my winter coat I’ve had for 12+ years

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When it’s cold it’s easy to just bury yourself in a pile of blankets and jumpers and adjust the pile to your preferred coziness. When it’s hot however, once your naked and have the A/C going, if you’re still hot- you’re fucked

Tag where you’re from for more context if you’re comfortable!

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I was scrolling through Genshin Impacts’ Tv Tropes page, and I’ve had an idea about what links all the various vision holders together- why they gained that particular element.

Anemo: they’re chained to the past, it’s less about seeking freedom but rather that the past doesn’t bind them. In most cases it’s a death or trauma (Kazua Kaedhara, Lynette, Wanderer, Xiao) but also things like Tradition (Jean Gunnhilder)

Geo: they’ve made an oath to do something or be something e.g. Noelle- to be a Knight, Albedo- to not be corrupted like Durin, Arrataki Itto- to his gang, Gorou- to protect Watatsumi, Ningguang- do gain wealth.

Hydro: They all present false faces to the world, actors, performers, politicians, Spies: Nilou is a Dancer, Barbra is a Singer, Yelan is The Spy, Ayato is a politician and ninja, Kokomi a revolutionary leader, Childe hides a battle maniac

Dendro: the spreading of wisdom and knowledge for the future- Tighnari studies botany not only for himself but to improve the forest ranges, Baizhu seeks immortality and studies medicines to do so not only for Changsheng and Qiqi but to improve the lives of the people of Liyue.

Cryo: a people who would give everything for what they Love- Eula loves Mondstat and would even sacrifice the love of her family to keep it safe, Diona loves her father and seeks to destroy the wine industry or protect him, Kamisato Ayaka loves her family and clan and sacrifices her own happiness for them, Ganyu loves Liyue and all her time and effort goes into prosperity at the cost of personal connections.

Pyro: all are passionate people but especially towards their favorite topics- Hu Tao: Death, Klee: bombs, Bennett: Adventures, Diluc: death of the Fatui, Yanfei: Law, Lyney: Magic (and the house of Heath)

Electro: this one stumps me but I think it’s Devotion. It’s similar to pyro and cryo but more and less, Razor to the wolves of Wolvendom, Cyno to upholding the laws of Sumeru, Yae Miko to Inazuma and Ei, Keqing to bringing Liyue into a future that doesn’t rely on the divine and can protect itself.

This is just my thoughts though

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I’m sorry, but that whole premise sounds a lot like Scooby Doo

you know what really grinds my gears?

okay, bear with me: so as you may know, harry houdini and arthur conan doyle were friends, at least for a while.

by the early 1920s, both arthur conan doyle and acd's wife jean, aka lady doyle, believed whole-heartedly in spiritualism, talking to ghosts and all of that. (sidenote: this was of course right on the heels of a devastating world war and a devastating pandemic, both of which had created a huge population of grieving people, so spiritualism was having a moment.)

lady doyle sincerely thought she had the ability to go into a trance state and pass along messages in writing from the dead. she offered to do this for houdini. houdini agreed.

lady doyle attempted to channel houdini's late mother. she basically drew a cross at the top of the paper and filled it with generic platitudes addressed to "harry." houdini's mom was jewish and didn't talk like that, so houdini knew the jig was up, even if lady doyle didn't. but not wanting to make the situation awkward, he kind of went along with it to their faces.

then acd decided to publish a glowing account of the seance, and since both he and houdini were super famous, it got a lot of attention, and letters started pouring in for houdini, asking if this was true. ultimately, houdini couldn't lie about it. so he essentially said, like, "yeah, i think lady doyle THINKS she can talk to ghosts but she absolutely can't." and it ruined his friendship with acd forever.

and then of course a lot of the people running seances weren't even well-intentioned like lady doyle, they were just simple charlatans taking advantage of traumatized people mourning loved ones. in houdini's youth, he and his wife had traveled the carnival circuit where he did an act pretending to commune with spirits, so he knew all the tricks of the trade AND he had lingering guilt over having done this, AND he was infuriated by this increasingly popular wave of con artists so he decided to assemble a team of anti-grifting grifters and together they went on the road exposing whichever spiritualists were preying on the locals.

houdini's best agent was a young woman named rose mackenberg, who donned disguises to visit the fraud de jour and then importantly sussed out what non-supernatural thing was actually happening, and then houdini would demonstrate the techniques onstage to packed audiences.

(if you want to know more, check out episode 175, "ghost racket crusade" of the podcast Criminal or read Tony Wolf's book The Real-Life Ghostbusting Adventures of Rose Mackenberg.)

but yeah, what really gets my goat is that all this happened and as far as i know, we still don't have like four seasons of a Leverage-style historical procedural about rose mackenberg and the rest of the crew having adventures in the 1920s as they unmask craven hucksters all over the united states. (what we do have, apparently, is one season of a show called "houdini and doyle" which is about the oddball friendship of two contrasting men solving sometimes-actually-supernatural mysteries, and whose premise does i think at the very least a real disservice to houdini's whole quest and also totally erases rose, who is arguably the most interesting part of this story to me.)

i am just steamed about this. steamed.

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