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what do you mean “what’s wrong with him”? he’s mentally ill. he’s catholic. he’s even gay

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it's rotten work, but without the rot nothing can grow

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Attack the Block (2011) Directed by Joe Cornish

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Wednesday at 10PM

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i need ranma and akane to have a mixed tag team coffin match against the ice skating couple and i need them to WIN

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guys you don't understand i love big buff horses so much

draft horses you are gods most perfectest creations

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please explain what is meant by this?

Just that it's a bit tricky to call space hot or cold in any way that we, as people who live in an atmosphere, would understand it. Vacuums don't work that way.

Heat is a property of atoms, which open space has very few of. Space is "cold" in the sense that there's not much heat energy, because there's not a lot of atoms to carry it. Space is also "hot" in the sense that the temperature is extremely high, because the atoms that do exist out there are very, VERY hot.

Because there's very few atoms to transfer your heat to, being in space is a bit like being in a thermos. Unprepared, you're much more likely to overheat in space than freeze. This is a pretty big issue with space stations and soforth, since any environment with humans in it or that has to use a lot of electricity is, by its very nature, generating a lot of its own heat.

On the other hand, there's very few atoms to transfer their heat to you, which means that black body radiation is super effective. (Black body radiation is a way in which things lose heat without directly transferring kinetic energy atom-to-atom, and it's a big part of why we can have space stations and rocket ships and soforth without the people inside them being cooked alive; they lose heat via black body radiation). So objects that don't generate heat and have no way of holding onto a lot of it (such as with an atmosphere) tend to get cold and stay cold.

Basically, our concepts of 'hot' and 'cold', what those terms mean and what they do to you, are pretty specific to the very niche situation of living in a gaseous atmosphere of about 1atm pressure. Things in a near-vacuum are a lot simpler, but also not remotely what somebody of Earth would inherently expect to happen.

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What are some chronic illnesses that can only occur in a fantasy setting?

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ideal ship dynamic

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SHES BEAUTIFUL WHEN SHES CONSUMED WITH MURDEROUS FURY

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Worldbuilding tip for aspiring fantasy authors! Give that swordsman a bigger ass

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3rd times the charm! Had the itch to redraw this again, really happy with this one, still based on that one scene I love

Previous versions below cut for comparison 🫡

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“I don’t think that every villain in the world actually thinks they’re being a good guy, but I do think that everybody creates a value system that justifies the actions they’re taking, and and I think there’s a difference between those two things. Not everybody believes that they’re on the side of righteousness, but everybody has a way of justifying the actions they’re taking. Not every villain has to be a misunderstood hero, and in fact I think there are a lot of instances throughout history of people who were obviously doing the wrong thing and probably had an understanding of that on some level, but had some rationale or justification for it. A lot of villains in literature and media have these weird, Thanos-esque philosophies of what it is that they’re trying to do, and I think human motivation tends to come from more primal places than that. So a lot of the villains I write can be brilliant or clever (and, in fact, probably should be), but their motivation tends to be primal. They wanna be rich, they wanna have power, they wanna live forever. There’s something deep down that is, when you break it down, not too complex. Right? If you look at the real world, the people that are doing bad stuff don’t need complex motivations. They wanna rule the world! They wanna be rich! They wanna be unafraid that other people can ever screw them over, so they screw other people over. Evil is boring. Right? I kinda believe in the banality and mundanes of evil. Evil is just selfish impulses, which at the end of the day are really easy to understand. It’s easy to understand why people do bad things. It’s like “yeah, ok, you’re selfish and scared and cruel, I get it”. Being good is complex and beautiful and hard.”

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Brennan Lee Mulligan, when asked how to create villains for ttrpgs

(I found this quote to be really meaningful in like…life in general which is why I posted it here. When he said “evil is boring”, it felt like something clicked in me that I had known deep down but hadn’t had the words for.)