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cappurrccino · 2 months ago

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on tonight's episode of dnd, Ara did maybe kind of kill one of her party mates a little bit, but in her defense she just got swept up in the euphoria of being back in an arena and forgot she was fighting, essentially, a coworker, and she did try to make up for it by giving her an invisibility potion she bartered with an imp for that she was gonna keep for herself originally (because come on, what's scarier than an invisible fighter ambush attack) but figured would probably be better to give to the squishy little lightning cloud as a quick escape tool

#//juri speaks #juri's ttrpgs #dnd: chains of asmo #oc: ara #she's trying to remember everything her gf told her about trying to be a ''good'' person #and she's not very good at it #but she's trying

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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 8 months ago

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License to Kitty.

#dungeon meshi #izutsumi #marcille donato #chilchuk tims #I still stand by my tags on the Izutsumi character study piece I did in January - but I will repeat myself on a few lines here:#I *really* love this character. I love that all of the dungeon meshi crew are complicated and have difficult to love components.#But Izutsumi is a particular kind of hard to love. I foresee a lot of people being turned off by her abrasiveness and lack of teamwork.#She is very self-centered and openly goes against what the party agrees on.#She's a picky eater in a story that is 50% about eating good and healthy food!#It is in part about her growth but admittedly even *then* she remains rather true to her self-centeredness.#Even though she isn't as nice or funny or compassionate as the others...Izutsumi is still someone worth loving.#Even the more difficult people are someone worth loving.#And those people in turn are people who have something and someone they love.#She may be a girlcat but she is the most human of them all.#I hope that if you are an anime only watcher and are feeling put off by her at the moment; you'll give her a chance.#By the way: *yes* I worked very hard to draw that skateboard pose. It was worth it.#EDIT: HAPPY 500th POST OF POORLY-DRAW-MDZS!!! What a comic to commemorate the milestone with!

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ajaxgb · 7 months ago

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Okay no I need to talk about the book version of Howl's Moving Castle. I love the movie but the book has such a different vibe and you, yes you, should read it.

Movie Howl is a soulful and quiet. Book Howl is a drama queen and Causing Problems and has a long string of jilted exes and couldn't shut up if you paid him.

Sophie and Howl drive each other up the wall at the beginning and it's really funny. Sophie and Howl are (despite themselves) very much in love by the end and they still drive each other up the wall and it's even funnier.

In the movie, Howl has been ordered by the king to participate in The War, and Howl is avoiding it because he is a brave conscientious objector. In the book, Howl has been ordered by the king to rescue his lost brother from the Witch of the Wastes, and Howl is avoiding it by any means necessary because he is a cowardly weasel who wants to stay as far from the Witch as possible.

In the movie, the Witch cursed Sophie because she was jealous about Howl speaking to Sophie for five minutes. In the book, the Witch cursed Sophie because Sophie had been doing surprisingly powerful magic for years without knowing it and it was actually starting to cut into the Witch's plans. (Sophie does not discover any of this until nearly the end of the book, but the reader can start to pick it up much earlier and the way Sophie's magic works is pretty darn cool.)

In the movie, there's a rumor that Howl eats the hearts of maidens, but this is implied to be nothing but nasty fearmongering. In the book, there's a rumor that Howl eats the hearts of maidens because Howl started the rumor so people would stop asking him to do wizard junk all the time.

The book lightly parodies a couple of tropes from Western fairy tales. In particular Sophie has internalized that, as the eldest of three sisters, her "destiny" is to fail so that her younger sisters will look cooler when they succeed, which is why she's so resigned to the hat shop at the beginning. (Sidebar: Sophie's sisters come up much more in the book and they're great.) There's also a really funny bit where Sophie attempts to operate a pair of seven-league boots.

In the movie, the fourth and final location that the magic door connects to is some sort of black void / mindscape / time portal dealy. In the book the fourth location is Wales, in the UK, on Earth, so that Howl can visit his family, because from Howl's perspective this is an isekai story.

#also there are two sequels #sophie and howl aren't the focus but they're still very good #howl's moving castle #howls moving castle #howl's moving castle the book my beloved #diana wynne jones #<- also read everything else she's ever written #me #my text post

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ghosted-jazz · 27 days ago

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Soldier, Poet, Kings

Bonus wallpaper version with just Joel:

#wild life smp #smallishbeans #zombiecleo #goodtimeswithscar #inthelittlewood #trafficblr #I adore the celestial theme and im a tarot card truther but I toss this symbolism into the ring.#Change it up every 3 (ish) winners. It *is* a mainly 3 lives system. 3 is a good number for this series and symbolism #the red bandana on Joel's arm is Gem's he took after she died. his wedding ring is on his necklace. because family #Gonna draw silly car winner art FOR SURE. How can I not? Joel and is not exploded very important car. I love him so much <3 #my art

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regicidal-defenestration · 9 months ago

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A bus is basically the classic thing to wait in the rain for

#it is Cold #also every time I listen to the Cure I remember the bit in Lisa Frankenstein where she's like they help you emotionally #like they are a very good band but I don't think From The Edge of the Deep Green Sea is imbuing me with anything but melancholy #welcome to night vale #Well tangentially but like You Know

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andstuffsketches · 1 month ago

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girl who lives in a cave

#ok i started batgirl 2000... its peak #i mean caveat caveat caveat for all the sht that happens in 90s comics but cass rules so hard #“how are you going to fight someone you cant hit?” “you tell me” lived rent free in my brain for days afterwards... shes Her #batgirl #cassandra cain #cass cain #batgirl 2000 #batgirl comics #dc #dc comics #barbara gordon #oracle dc #batman #im on like issue 23? where bruce and babs are talking about casss deal w shiva. i love how bruce sees a lot of himself in cass (accurate) s #he decides he should treat her like himself (bad!!). its very human #the thing i keep thinking is “they should give her white eyes to emote like batman” and thank goodness they did later #im reading batgirl 2024 too but obviously theres only 2 issues out so far #panel redraw #id in alt #2024

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kathrynmhahn · 1 month ago

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WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS 6.09

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chloesimaginationthings · 23 days ago

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Vanessa is about rich as hell in FNAF

#myart #chloesimagination #comic #fnaf #five nights at freddy's #fnaf fanart #security breach #michael afton #fnaf vanny #fnaf vanessa #Michael has the right idea here #the fact Vanessa was able to make a full fursuit #on her own without prior knowledge #means she’ll be very talented at exactly this #Vanessa will be a millionaire PFF #this is how she’s paying to live somewhere with Gregory and Freddy #she has the funds through commissions #good for her honestly this is definitely canon

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bacchuschucklefuck · 5 months ago

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typical tavern scene

#dimension 20 #fantasy high #fhjy #fabian seacaster #riz gukgak #adaine abernant #kristen applebees #figueroth faeth #gorgug thistlespring #got my version of this in lol. I feel like this is mandatory if u draw fh art #trying to remember whats on the menu at a typical swensen's. its been years since I last was at one #tho I am so absolutely unfamiliar with like elmville level of town scenery. just immediately drew from my own experience lmao #I used to think malls are the same everywhere.... but then I hear from my US friends and. wow they sure are not #mm. good day to reminisce a little bit. but I am now sleepy #not a lot to say abt this I think most of this is pretty straightforward. I did use this to test out some overlays in SAI2 #that I never really touched. the talisman on fig's guitar case takes from the house protection talisman you'd put on the front door #and also I think kristen slipping while fully sat down is very funny and special. she means so much to me #okay. alright. I should really go to sleep. and tomorrow I should take my dang walk... see the sun #have a good night lads! enjoy ice cream

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inkskinned · 2 years ago

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probably time for this story i guess but when i was a kid there was a summer that my brother was really into making smoothies and milkshakes. part of this was that we didn't have AC and couldn't afford to run fans all day so it was kind of important to get good at making Cool Down Concoctions.

we also had a patch of mint, and he had two impressionable little sisters who had the attitude of "fuck it, might as well."

at one point, for fun, this 16 year old boy with a dream in his eye and scientific fervor in heart just wanted to see how far one could push the idea of "vanilla mint smoothie". how much vanilla extract and how much mint can go into a blender before it truly is inedible.

the answer is 3 cups of vanilla extract, 1/2 cup milk alternative, and about 50 sprigs (not leaves, whole spring) of mint. add ice and the courage of a child. idk, it was summer and we were bored.

the word i would use to describe the feeling of drinking it would maybe be "violent" or perhaps, like. "triangular." my nose felt pristine. inhaling following the first sip was like trying to sculpt a new face. i was ensconced in a mesh of horror. it was something beyond taste. for years after, i assumed those commercials that said "this is how it feels to chew five gum" were referencing the exact experience of this singular viscous smoothie.

what's worse is that we knew our mother would hate that we wasted so much vanilla extract. so we had to make it worth it. we had to actually finish the drink. it wasn't "wasting" it if we actually drank it, right? we huddled around outside in the blistering sun, gagging and passing around a single green potion, shivering with disgust. each sip was transcendent, but in a sort of non-euclidean way. i think this is where i lost my binary gender. it eroded certain parts of me in an acidic gut ecology collapse.

here's the thing about love and trust: the next day my brother made a different shake, and i drank it without complaint. it's been like 15 years. he's now a genuinely skilled cook. sometimes one of the three of us will fuck up in the kitchen or find something horrible or make a terrible smoothie mistake and then we pass it to each other, single potion bottle, and we say try it it's delicious. it always smells disgusting. and then, cerimonious, we drink it together. because that's what family does.