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💎 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗺! Pop-Up Business Card
Wondrous item, common ___

This two-by-three-inch paper card somehow weighs 1 pound and feels like it’s made of wood and metal. It looks like a wooden shop sign with a painted lantern on either side.

You can use an action to toss the card to a point on the ground within 10 feet of you and speak its command word. The card then magically unfolds to instantly reveal a wooden market stall. A lawful neutral goblin merchant stands behind the stall, who has at least one piece of each type of adventuring gear for sale, as listed in the Basic Rules. The goblin also has 1d4 − 1 potions of healing, and is unwilling to barter, haggle, or buy anything offered to it.

When the goblin senses that there’s no more business to be done, it snaps its fingers and disappears in a puff of smoke, along with the stall. If the goblin is harmed, both it and the stall immediately disappear. In either case, the card is then destroyed. ___

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ffxiv doodles

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Coming soon to a facebook/tumblr/twitter post near you

Me, gushing about various video game mods, video games, music, and anything that I want to talk about.

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Personally called out here.

People who know me know that I just like to randomly flail my arms in excitement.

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Some MegaMan girls I've drawn this year, a lot of people seem to love Alia and Roll

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Sometimes i think about the idea of Common as a language in fantasy settings.

On the one hand, it’s a nice convenient narrative device that doesn’t necessarily need to be explored, but if you do take a moment to think about where it came from or what it might look like, you find that there’s really only 2 possible origins.

In settings where humans speak common and only Common, while every other race has its own language and also speaks Common, the implication is rather clear: at some point in the setting’s history, humans did the imperialism thing, and while their empire has crumbled, the only reason everyone speaks Human is that way back when, they had to, and since everyone speaks it, the humans rebranded their language as Common and painted themselves as the default race in a not-so-subtle parallel of real-world whiteness.

In settings where Human and Common are separate languages, though (and I haven’t seen nearly as many of these as I’d like), Common would have developed communally between at least three or four races who needed to communicate all together. With only two races trying to communicate, no one would need to learn more than one new language, but if, say, a marketplace became a trading hub for humans, dwarves, orcs, and elves, then either any given trader would need to learn three new languages to be sure that they could talk to every potential customer, OR a pidgin could spring up around that marketplace that eventually spreads as the traders travel the world.

Drop your concept of Common meaning “english, but in middle earth” for a moment and imagine a language where everyone uses human words for produce, farming, and carpentry; dwarven words for gemstones, masonry, and construction; elven words for textiles, magic, and music; and orcish words for smithing weaponry/armor, and livestock. Imagine that it’s all tied together with a mishmash of grammatical structures where some words conjugate and others don’t, some adjectives go before the noun and some go after, and plurals and tenses vary wildly based on what you’re talking about.

Now try to tell me that’s not infinitely more interesting.

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Contains mix tapes recorded from radio/vinyl.

MAXELL, VARIOUS - audio cassette tapes, 1980-1990

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Certified @thefandomfather mug moments.

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I'm sad now.

Techno would be so proud of himself AS HE SHOULD

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Well, I was going to reblog anyway.

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I mean, spotify isn't wrong. I do love listening to the same music over and over again but bringing in new songs is my jam.

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Old rbm I made her name is polar woman and she’s an arctic research robot

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Anti-Father Has Arrived For @thefanofpipes413 Art by me ^-^

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Artist Credit: Artist: https://twitter.com/PricklesCatcus Oh, hey. I guess I’m finally back here. Been a hot minute since I’ve posted on there after my big move to Facebook so many years ago. So lemme reintroduce myself. I’m The Fandom Father, and my whole shtick is that I’m some doofus dad who is already proud of you. The original design is an amalgamation of some other dadly dads in the fandom world, and my fans have molded it over time into the gent that he is today. My actual shtick is that I go to some conventions in the Midwest, take photos of as many cosplayers I can, and then give them that card above so they can find their photos later. It’s my goal at every con to take as many as I can to ensure more and more people get photos of their hard work. I’ll probably be using this platform again to post cosplay stuff when I get the chance, including an eventual photo dumping of all the photos from previous conventions this year once December comes around.

Thanks for letting me back, Tumblr.