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pyrosomatic-metamorphosis · 1 year ago

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tbh i think that even unwinnable fights should be winnable. some of the BEST fights i've ever run as a dm were ones i built kill the players (in a fun way. I had some cutscenes prepped so even the loss would be a different flavour of win)- but then they were clever bastards and managed to either win the fights or pull themselves out of trouble. I think it's perfectly fine to plan for a fight that players aren't supposed to win, but you need to let them. if they can't win, they can't lose, and the meaning of that encounter is diminished. do that too many times, and they stop trusting you to give them roleplay prompts and start expecting to sit there waiting while you drive the story for them.

but if they can win... if there is always the chance to win, no matter how impossible the odds, then they ALWAYS have hope. they always get invested. they feel the big emotions of success or the big emotions of failure, and you fucking Win as a dm/roleplay prompter/lead bastard.

#qsmp neg #qsmp crit #discourse #<- for blacklists #im not grumping or anything im just musing on like. the mechanics of why everyone is so upset about the latest fight #and how it can be avoided while still keeping these fights genuinely difficult and intense #its hard because there's so many players and they all have wildly different strengths and weaknesses #so someone who could take on the code easy needs that enemy scaled differently than someone who isn't a big fighter #but it's hard to do that in a world where they interact w the same enemy #and you only have so much man-power to cater to a big server like this one #and then you bring in the big powerful items that the players can and can't access but which the admins have ultimate power over #and the fact that some of the admins themselves have lag issues or aren't super great at pvp so they accommodate that with better gear #and it starts getting messy #but for the fights themselves yeah regardless of what armour or gear or killing-methods they use there should Always be a win condition #and idk maybe there was one and we just didn't get to see it #but if that win condition is 'parents sit in the safe room with their babies while the others are overrun'#then i think there are ways to build better win conditions #anyway i love game design and player/dm interactions qsmp hire me now i want to know your behind the scenes #jk im too busy to apply #but man. i wanna nerd out so bad that sometimes i think about it

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somnimagus · 1 year ago

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out of the frying pan and into the fire and into another frying pan that's also on fire

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#dungeon meshi #dungeon meshi spoilers #dunmeshi #this past year i decided to get into some of the manga i hear people really rave about #and dunmeshi was the first one i read and i adore it so much i don't have the words #gosh ryoko kui is such a huge inspiration.. i hope i can save up and get physical copies of the manga some day #ohh and daydream hour if it ever releases in english...#and sorry toshiro doesn't have his armor. i always remember him in his disheveled casual arc #fan art #my art #i think i've just completely stopped trying to do a clean flat style... i've just started painting over my sketches now #it looks a little messy but it's so much more fun #this was the first time in awhile i looked forward to continuing a drawing

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nhura · 4 months ago

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QUICK NO ONE'S LOOKING

(See readmore for thoughts, cope, bonus, etc.)

Anyone else up thinking about Ratio's big, strong, secure arms and how warm and all-consuming they could be in a hug or embrace. :/ Anyway

I just wanted to draw them being cute and seizing a sliver of a moment where they could have some PDA silly time without actually having any eyes on them. They're public figures and working adults with very clear boundaries between public persona and private life (to varying degrees of "in a sad way"), so while it may be in Aventurine's nature to constantly blur lines for various agendas and self-preservation (read: play "the flirt" without an aligned goal), I believe that in an actual relationship they'd be fairly private.

It's kind of fun to break your own rules, though! Ratio would be more upset about the consequences, though. He's a little bit of a hypocrite, which is devastating for someone of such discipline, but nobody's perfect.

I'm of the mentality of, "If you're tired of working on it, then just post it!", so here are some fun peripherals that I didn't feel like adding:

Some staff in the background sweeping up to evoke a blended sense of fragile privacy and liminal time.

A laptop on the aquarium/bar/counter because there's something fascinating about seeing people on their work laptops in public.

The rest of their clothes (casual friday)

#hsr #dr. ratio #aventurine #aventio #ratiorine #my art #hsr fanart #there's nothing profound about this I just like drawing cute fluff. I'm having fun with my Gay Working Adults Romance #epic universe! still have to get on a conference call with ten people kind of thing #i'm always thinking about how both of them control the personality they convey very meticulously #how it's a survival mechanism for aventurine but some... other thing for ratio....#it's practicality and discipline and ideals.#it's also ''midnight on a sunday'' so i am going to schedule this to post at a ''normal hour''#and then ''go to bed''#what wip do i work on next. the answer is probably nothing i've already started #my art: hsr #aventurine doing his evil flirting thing to rile people up 🤝 ratio trying to ''be in character'' on the IPC broadcast and making his and #aventurine's work partnership ''seem blurry and messy''#= manufactured youtuber drama #they're going home and ratio's going to bake some fish dude!!!! aventurine is LLLLLLITERALLLYYYYY turning on the radio #and helping him peel carrots.#and most importantly #they are NOT googling themselves ‼

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orionthecritter · 1 month ago

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Realistic Henry Hotline (REALLY short mini comic.)

#art #digital drawing #finding frankie #henry hotline #fanart #short comic #starting to get the hang of drawing Henry #>:))#messy comic #messy sketch

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quirkle2 · 10 months ago

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a labor of love about milk. there are other things too i guess

#qkdraws #mob psycho 100 #mob psycho #mp100 #shigeo kageyama #mp100 mob #mp100 shigeo #ritsu kageyama #mp100 ritsu #fun fact this took 5 weeks to make #another fun fact this started bc of my girlfriend saying he thought it'd be funny if ritsu was lactose intolerant #i uhm. added some stuff tho VGEAYV #listen.i have to add trauma or bust #this was SUCH a blast to make.god i had sm fun #what a joy this was.im glad i made it #even if it's kinda messy and all over the place i had fun working on it #and i do think it's Vastly better than my other comic #watch this receive like 40 notes and then get dropped into the abyss.haha wouldn't that be funny hahahah hahhaa #i hope one person is like vaguely ill abt it at least.be ill with me

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kiwiuhhhhh · 1 month ago

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The kitakami siblings! I love them, so epic they are! I wish carmine is able to tease her brother without half of the fandom having meltdown about her “abusing” him lol

Really lazy idea I’ve been putting off for a while lol. This is base off that one audio that trending online a little while ago, if you know it then you get a gold star.

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xxplastic-cubexx · 2 months ago

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I love that is not even an exaggeration that they're sitting on each other's lap

i HAVE to be so 1000% right now i thought erik was sitting like This behind the table in the first panel and i couldnt register anything else

#xmen #xmen comics #charles xavier #erik lehnsherr #cherik #professor x #magneto #snap sketches #im so sleepy my eyes are so heavy and this is messy but this was a necessity to do once i got home and had a lil time vjAELVKEVAJK #finally starting to get to older asks hi .... sorry for the wait but this was necessary i need you all to see my visions #it is necessary i illustrate my thoughts alvkejeaj #and with that i go to bed now. just one more day fuckinnn YEEHAW #good night everyone !

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emoreooo · 5 months ago

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it’s always been you, wonderful you.

#omori fanart #omori sunny #sunny omori #omori basil #basil omori #omori #omori sunflower #fanart #my art #art #this started as just a messy sketch to get some thoughts out but i. got carried away #omori something #<- almost forgot her. the most stunning little miss

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verflares · 6 months ago

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collection of some loz origin au stuff i've been chipping away at for awhile now ^_^ with a healthy amount of dunmeshi insp for good measure LOL (the ooccoo isnt relevant she's just here for size comparison purposes)

feat my beloved good friend @linkvcr's hylia design also. because i am obsessed with her and you should be too 🫵

#sitting here hoping and praying these images dont get crunched too badly <- guy who knows its in vain #WELL WHATEVER. i had fun. kinda. enjoy bcus i am still playing ffxiv and will be for the foreseeable future #loz #hylia #link #tloz #loz au #loz fanart #skyward sword #zelda #sksw #hylink #yeah it gets that tag too. sorry. but his name isnt/wasnt link either he's just the og dude #'well what is his name then' whell..... idk <3 #we really have just been calling this dude the first hero or her hero for a few weeks now. hope you enjoy whatever vision is going on here #bcus i dooooo ^_^#speaking of which he definitely came out really messy but. gotta start somewhere i think. loved drawing weird and fucked up hylia though #OKAY NO MORE RAMBLING. see you later #my art

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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 11 months ago

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Happy Valentine's Day! (and this blog's first post anniversary!)

#poorly drawn mdzs #better drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #lan wangji #Woah...it's been a whole *year* since I took the leap and uploaded my 'first attempt' art.#It's outdated now but it holds a special place in my heart for the fact it started all of this off.#Calling this 'poorly-drawn' was always about accepting that my art was going to be imperfect and messy - and doing it anyways!#There has been a staggering number of times I have drawn something I almost didn't upload because I didn't think it was 'good enough'#only for someone to say they liked it - or that it made them laugh. And it has helped me realize -#-The worst critic for my work has always been myself. If I listened to it all the time...well we would not be here now B'*)#And now that I have dabbled in other fandoms I can truly see how lucky was to start out with the MXTX fans.#The supportive messages and tags have truly been a guiding force toward my artistic and self improvement.#I really can't describe how grateful I am.#Thank you for seeing something worth rooting for when I was just figuring things out.#Thank you for being sweeter than the candy I have strategically hidden in the nooks and crannies of this house.#But watch out! If you forget to find them we will get ants.#I remembered to not hide chocolate in the bed this year. Yes I know it melted last time. Yes it did stain. I'm still sorry.#Thank you for loving me regardless <3 Even if it looked like I shit the bed real bad.

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drawsmaddy · 4 months ago

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[ID: A digital illustration of Orym from Critical Role. He is drawn very small, floating in the middle of the image. His body is made of plants and he is shielding his eyes with his hand as a bright light shoots towards his face. Around him are messy drawings of snarling wolves, two hands made of plants intertwining, human mouths screaming and bearing teeth, bones and teeth, a green eye crying, Ruidus, and flowers. End description.]

A hunger you cannot fathom, a screaming you fail to recognise as your own

#i felt the full range of human emotions in one afternoon so i wanted to draw something messy of orym's cosmic horror experience #my situation is pretty stressful at the moment but hopefully it will finally start getting better soonish #orym #orym of the air ashari #my art #critical role #critical role fanart #bell's hells #bells hells #teeth

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tapeworrmart · 1 month ago

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