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The Bowman

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heed the call —; shining beast of the daybreak sun! bright starlight scatters across her flank in a kiss as the earth's halo falls to her steed 🌞

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European Hare/fälthare. Värmland, Sweden (June 30, 2023).

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Dress with Two Bodices & Matching Fichu

c.1865

France

The MET (Object Number: C.I.69.33.9a–e)

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Pegasiiii 🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎

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her name is Luna!

(SHE/HER) 🐆🏳️‍⚧️🌙

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etruscan ring of gilded silver decorated with a winged lion, a siren, and a flying scarab beetle, italy c. 500s-400s b.c.

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Small fantasy worldbuilding elements you might want to think about:

A currency that isn’t gold-standard/having gold be as valuable as tin

A currency that runs entirely on a perishable resource, like cocoa beans

A clock that isn’t 24-hours

More or less than four seasons/seasons other than the ones we know

Fantastical weather patterns like irregular cloud formations, iridescent rain

Multiple moons/no moon

Planetary rings

A northern lights effect, but near the equator

Roads that aren’t brown or grey/black, like San Juan’s blue bricks

Jewelry beyond precious gems and metals

Marriage signifiers other than wedding bands

The husband taking the wife's name / newlyweds inventing a new surname upon marriage

No concept of virginity or bastardry

More than 2 genders/no concept of gender

Monotheism, but not creationism

Gods that don’t look like people

Domesticated pets that aren’t re-skinned dogs and cats

Some normalized supernatural element that has nothing to do with the plot

Magical communication that isn’t Fantasy Zoom

“Books” that aren’t bound or scrolls

A nonverbal means of communicating, like sign language

A race of people who are obligate carnivores/ vegetarians/ vegans/ pescatarians (not religious, biological imperative)

I’ve done about half of these myself in one WIP or another and a little detail here or there goes a long way in reminding the audience that this isn’t Kansas anymore.

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i made a character sheet. free to use as you wish, feel free to change whatever you want XD open source ass thing. spent all of ~maybe an hour on it.

Credit: the text in the insert-image box comes from this video, and the text for the top three lines (intense, complex, fruity) comes from this post. The actual image was made with the free NBOS character sheet creator, which is a sort of dated but free and solid text-layout sheet maker intended for ttrpg style character sheet creation.

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yeens :)

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fabulous creature?

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I've been looking forward to Junicorn for half a year and i can't even participate properly as i'm busy with other art + art fight preparations 😩

But i sure can drop these 4 quick weirdos as my contribution to it...

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Nerys!! ♥︎ She has possesed my body and soul these past few days I can't stop drawing her

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i could hardly believe my eyes.

twitter / carrd