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i wanted to draw my warden in this trend but she would never. so zevran it is

"let me wear that for you, my sweet"-ahh behavior

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My fellow American hobby bakers, demoralized by egg prices and scarcity and how you will make the American apple pie or the chocolate chip cookie, fear not. I have spent many years turning regular baking recipes vegan for my corrupt and traitorous sister who last week ate a salmon cream cheesed roll. There are many, many substitutes for eggs including but not limited to:

Mashed banana: best added to compliment flavors of whatever it is you're baking (peanut butter, chocolate) make sure it's MUSHY and ripe

Apple sauce: again, best with complimentary flavors (cinnamon, brown sugar) use unsweetened and have the rest as a snack

The big boy champ, ground flaxseed: flavorless, though it does darken your batter/ dough a bit. Bags found next to cornstarch and almond meal, etc. Instructions on how to use right on the bag! Make sure to let the flaxseed water combo sit in a separate bowl until it has the consistency of mucus 👍

Now with all of these you MUST add a bit more leavener, they don't have the lil bit of lift eggs give, so make sure you add a touch more baking powder. Sort of ok for brownies and cookies if you want them a bit more dense but KEY for cakes, quick breads, muffins and other things like that or she is gonna be SQUIDGY 🫡

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headcanon that a ferengi tradition is putting your new baby up for sale at a ridiculous price to show how valuable they are to you (everyone has to be polite and not actually buy them or hands will be thrown, people will be sued, etc etc)

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What the shit????

Microsoft truly wants a dumbed down populace that cannot control the products they buy

If they do this then my dumb ass will find a way to install Linux or something

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greetings from the living lands 🍄 thanks for playing avowed, everyone!

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The point of the internet is for trannies and furries to meet each other, and for grandparents with undiagnosed autism to teach younger generations about their incredibly niche interests and craftwork skills. Everything else is bloat.

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seeing straight men be disgusted by booktok smut recommenders has actually radicalized me to the side of booktok smut recommenders. girls your taste may be atrocious but i will never disparage you for exposing mainstream discourse to the concept of soaking through your underwear. spent my whole life listening to men talk about penises it’s about time they get jumpscared by women talking about pussy in crude detail on social media. go forth and goon my warriors

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Encouragment for writers that I know seems discouraging at first but I promise it’s motivational-

• Those emotional scenes you’ve planned will never be as good on page as they are in your head. To YOU. Your audience, however, is eating it up. Just because you can’t articulate the emotion of a scene to your satisfaction doesn’t mean it’s not impacting the reader. 

• Sometimes a sentence, a paragraph, or even a whole scene will not be salvagable. Either it wasn’t necessary to the story to begin with, or you can put it to the side and re-write it later, but for now it’s gotta go. It doesn’t make you a bad writer to have to trim, it makes you a good writer to know to trim.

• There are several stories just like yours. And that’s okay, there’s no story in existence of completely original concepts. What makes your story “original” is that it’s yours. No one else can write your story the way you can.

• You have writing weaknesses. Everyone does. But don’t accept your writing weaknesses as unchanging facts about yourself. Don’t be content with being crap at description, dialogue, world building, etc. Writers that are comfortable being crap at things won’t improve, and that’s not you. It’s going to burn, but work that muscle. I promise you’ll like the outcome.

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One of the things we never talked about as much as we ought to have was how the stylization of early Bioware games really helped sell the non-humanoid species, especially in Mass Effect. I don't think the taurians, or especially the hanar and elcor, would have worked half as well if they tried to go hyper realistic.

More games should accept this.

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I think the only thing about Avowed / Pillars of Eternity that I truly cannot stand is the fact that they weren't brave enough to just make the Orlans furries.

The Orlan 2d art in the previous two games works (for the most part) because in a lot of ways, static 2d art is way more forgiving than 3d animated. As it stands, the Orlands in Avowed largely look like that aborted Sonic the Hedgehog design. Weirdly, Yatzli is the only one that mildly works.

It's not like it couldn't work the way they were originally conceptualized, but in my unprofessional opinion they'd need to be a lot less "realistic" with the designs across the board, and commit more assets to making the Orlan models more individualistic. TBH, I wish they'd gone the less realistic route, because while I love Kai, the Aumaua similarly out-of-place looking with the more-or-less decent human/elf/dwarf models.

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if you make an OC that you are genuinely insane over, like you are obsessed with this freak and can't stop thinking about them, then it will rub off on other people. the virus spreads

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sometimes you need dialogue tags and don't want to use the same four

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Art Club: photo study with requested Progress video! For @jaynotjunior

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the post: everything has a right to exist in fiction, even if it's fucked up

the comments: i was going to reblog this until i realized op likes fucked up stuff in fiction. this is a common dogwhistle phrase for people who like fucked up stuff in fiction. they have to talk in code to trick people into agreeing with them. stay safe out there!

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Just a quick note from your friendly neighborhood bookworm/indie author

if you use kindle for the majority of your library, they will be shutting down the function that allows you to download your files and transfer them via USB on the 26th of February. Which doesn't sound like a huge deal, but this also means that if a book is taken off Amazon for any reason—like it being banned—they can scrape it off your kindle as well. So maybe backup your library?

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I've reached the obsessive point of having an AU about my own OC, lmao. (Admittedly, Oneasaeno has canonical multi-dimensional elements involved, so it could be considered canon in a different timeline.)

Anyway, here's Older!Liwayway with her beau, Tomi, enjoying a nice afternoon nap. These two Adventured together some years ago, developing a deep friendship with a ton of UST / pining on both sides of it, while thoroughly convinced the other couldn't possibly be into them. After all, Lili is all sunshine and rainbows, and Tomi is all broody storm clouds. They fell out of touch after some Drama Happened, and only recently found one another again... in the midst of several concurrent apocalypse scenarios.

As previously stated, I am obsessed.

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