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Surprise! Tumblr just got turned into an epic fantasy RPG, just like [your favorite appropriate media franchise]. And the Tumblr RPG's plot needs to have all of its characters covered, in roles both large and small.

That means that you are assigned to a stereotypical RPG role inside our new fantasy world. Spin this wheel to find out what you are now doing for a living.

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Some additional colors for the outfit:

An outfit for Lunarae loosely inspired by a certain outfit from Arcane! Some highlights and notes: -Her outfit does have shiny sparkles on the fabric, to envoke the shine of snow and stars -Her ring is one of those astrolabe rings, that show the sky and stars, and her cloak pn had to be included of course^-^ A silver crescent moon and moonstone bead. -Her nails are iridescent blue and purple! -The colors of her eyeshadow is based on the colors of the northern lights, and colors of her whole outfit ended up having a similar feel. -The pencil sketches from my sketchbook was the first iteration of this outfit

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Chipping away at a personal masquerade project done in collab with friends ! Crafting the outfit designs and worldbuilding/story have been a lot of fun to work on. More art from this longer-term project to come!

Under the Northern Goshawk and Bearded Vulture masks are friend's characters! And the Snowy Owl is my character Lunarae *

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love the word lófrál. somfordál, even. you could even say sompolyog

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i'll do it for sam

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this will get to the right people

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Everyone please behold this baby tree:

It's so much smaller than the support posts, they had to secure it with caution tape.

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Chipping away at a personal masquerade project done in collab with friends ! Crafting the outfit designs and worldbuilding/story have been a lot of fun to work on. More art from this longer-term project to come!

Under the Northern Goshawk and Bearded Vulture masks are friend's characters! And the Snowy Owl is my character Lunarae *

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I love you trans people I love you so much I'm so glad you're alive I'm so glad you're here I'm so glad you exist

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"Are you ok?" I'm actually tired bro. From the bottom of my heart I'm tired

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Morning reblog! ✨ (And thank you for the kind tags, reblogs and likes! It means so much!)

Chipping away at a personal masquerade project done in collab with friends ! Crafting the outfit designs and worldbuilding/story have been a lot of fun to work on. More art from this longer-term project to come!

Under the Northern Goshawk and Bearded Vulture masks are friend's characters! And the Snowy Owl is my character Lunarae *

<> Bsky

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[Pinned Post & Info] [Toss a Coin to Your Artist] [Prints]

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Chipping away at a personal masquerade project done in collab with friends ! Crafting the outfit designs and worldbuilding/story have been a lot of fun to work on. More art from this longer-term project to come!

Under the Northern Goshawk and Bearded Vulture masks are friend's characters! And the Snowy Owl is my character Lunarae *

<> Bsky

<> Portfolio

[Pinned Post & Info] [Toss a Coin to Your Artist] [Prints]

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flowers in the community garden. watercolor on toned paper~

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2025

BE A STUDENT OF WHAT YOU ADMIRE

DO IT BADLY RATHER THAN NOT AT ALL

TO DESPAIR IS TO CEDE VICTORY TO THOSE WHO DO NOT DESERVE IT

BROADEN YOUR CULTURAL HORIZONS

REVEL IN THE ANALOGUE

ACTION ABSORBS ANXIETY

GRIEF IS PRODUCTIVE; GUILT IS NOT

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I need your help with a hypothesis!

For context: My linguistics professor and I got into a discussion after a test she did with us, and I was of the opinion that the reason for the results was different from the one she offered, so she encouraged me to test my theory.

What I need

All you need to do is draw a coffee cup (with a handle, not the disposable stuff) and then answer three questions.

I don't need to see the coffee cup. You can draw it wherever you like; on a piece of paper, digitally, in the sand, on a foggy window. Anything works. It does not have to be good. A doodle is fine.

You have to draw the coffee cup before you see the questions. This is very important. If you decide to help me with this, please doodle the coffee cup before you keep reading.

Assuming you have drawn the coffee cup, I now need you to answer these three questions:

On which side did you draw the handle?

Are you right-handed or left-handed?

Do you primarily write using the Latin alphabet or a different one? (please specify which)

More context

Most people will draw the handle on the right side. My professor says it's because most people are right-handed, so they draw the handle in the direction that would be comfortable for them to pick up.

I said drawing it on the right side just felt more comfortable to my hand and argued it's probably because we write a bunch of letters like that. B, b, D, P, p, R all look like a tiny "handle on the right side" and are all a straight line followed by a round one (so "cup first, handle second," like most people draw cups). The Latin alphabet doesn't have letters like that that face the other way, except maybe d, depending on how you write it, so it makes sense to me that people writing mostly Latin letters would go with the handle on the right side.

Which means that I need to know what Asians, Arabs and Greeks do and if the distribution of left and right sides of handles differs from the Latin alphabet group. Cyrillic seems to favor right, too, though it'd be interesting to see if there are differences.

If there are, my theory is right. Doubly so if there is a sizeable increase in a group whose alphabet has letters that benefit the left side choice.

So feel free to spread this to as many people as you like and put the answers in the comments or the tags of a reblog. The more answers I get, the better I can assess whose theory is better.

Thank you for your help!