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[delora-draws]

remembered this post and thought of them

[tinartss]

helpful young gentlemen (request for the haikavetham gotcha for gaza)

[nykloss]

Ditching D&D Beyond or never got it in the first place? Here's some free/pwyw resources.

Dicecloud. This online app allows you to make and track character sheets for free! It does a lot of the calculations for you, just like dnd beyond would. Best overall replacement. (Thank you, @chryslerisdead)

PWYW Class Character Sheets by Emmet Byrne. These character sheets in my opinion, are easier to fill out and harder to mess up, with class-specific features built-in. You can easily edit them digitally, and there's even multiclass/homebrew options. Slap em on Google drive or something, share with your DM, lots of options.

Point-Buy Calculator. Easily automates character stat creation if you're using the Point-Buy system.

5e Level Up Tool. Select your class, select your level, get a digestible checklist of everything you need to do to level up. This one is SO GOOD and so slept on.

5e Spellbook. A quick way to reference your spells and build a Spellbook with a ton of filters.

Encounter Calculator. I know challenge rating isn't everything, but this is a good/fast way to see how balanced your encounters are, at a glance, at least in the eyes of the source books.

RPGbot. Lots of resources for DMs and players: encounter builders, dpr calculators, and lists of player options with sample builds and optimization suggestions, which may be helpful to folks new to the game.

Bonus: Online Tools (System Agnostic)

Here.fm. This is the alternative I use instead of roll20, because it's faster/easier. Drag and drop in maps and tokens in seconds, built-in library of stickers you can use for effects, draw right on the virtual tabletop, use temporary drawings to map out moves, built-in dice rollers, and options for proximity chat. I use it in combination with discord (just have players join your here room muted), but it could be used entirely on it's own, I imagine. Not built for ttrpgs, but works incredibly well for them.

Kenku.fm. A PWYW mini browser focused on mixing and sharing music to your dnd games through whatever app you use, with helpful discord support. This app also LEGALLY bypasses the issue that got all the YouTube discord bots shut down, so you can share YouTube audio worry-free.

Additional Resources (Aka, stuff I found out about after I originally posted this):

flapkan. Holy shit, this might be the BEST character sheet option on this list! Form-fillable pdfs with fully automated built-in prompts to auto fill features and spells, built-in Point-Buy and other automated calculations, and it generates a lot for you. Can be used digitally or you can print!

[and-her-saints]

american who grew up protestant: all religion is bad because of [feature unique to christianity] and [feature unique to abrahamic religions]! i can’t believe all of us christians grew up being taught that [teaching unique to protestantism]! this specific religious issue affects everyone [by "everyone" they mean "americans"]!

like obviously there’s massive nuance to this but it’s sooo tiring hearing some american WASP or whatever discussing religion without knowing anything about religion in other countries, different cultures, Indigenous religions and spirituality, ethnoreligions, religious persecution, or religions other than christianity (or religions other than christianity, islam & judaism at *best*).

you cannot “destroy religion” your way into collective liberation.

you cannot argue for “a religionless world” without inherently and inadvertently calling for cultural genocide.

most of these exvangelicals don’t even care to explore the ways they’re still part of the cultural hegemonic majority. they don’t care to realize they’re still *culturally* christian, and that just because they now don’t believe in a god, it doesn’t mean their values, their perspective, their ethics, their cosmology, their politics *are no longer* influenced by their experience of their specific brand of protestantism/christianity. they are, most of the times and by all means, Christian Atheists™️

they have no interest in unpacking how their critique and disdain for “the Old Testament God” has historically affected and continues to affect Jewish people to this day. they have no interest in unpacking how their open mockery of Jesus also offends Muslims, not just their hometown church.

Christianity hurt you. but that does not give you a free-pass to be weird about all religious people and their beliefs. especially when their background, experience, level of privilege, geographical location, and religion practiced looks nothing like what you used to do. because, believe it or not, not “all religion” is the same. it’s soooo not that simple.

“end all religion” sounds like a liberatory chant when your ex-religion belongs to the cultural-religious hegemony of your region and has a strong political and social power (which IS to be criticised and dismantled, don’t get me wrong.) however, “end all religion” sounds a LOT less liberatory when you’re a persecuted religious minority. because “when” we do “end all religion,” who do you fucking think is going to be ended first?

TLDR: good for you for deconstructing. 👍 now, deconstruct some more. 👍 atheism is fine, anti-theism is a harmful pipeline.

[eriochromatic]

Do you have any speedpaints or process posts? I am absolutely in love with your coloring/lighting style!

If you don’t, would you ever consider making one?

Thank you for your time! ❤️

aaa thank u so much!! unfortunately my computer is quite old so recording speedpaints really take a toll, but here’s a breakdown of my process!

I do a couple different styles but its really just two different approaches (merge + paint OR line art -> flat colors -> shading), and then i just mix and match depending on mood haha

painting style:

cel shaded style:

combination:

hopefully that was helpful!! the painting style is the fastest for portraits and becomes slower the more overlapping elements there are lol (which tends to happen for half or full bodies) which is when I tend to switch to the cel shading style bc I'm impatient haha

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

Please dont ever become a stranger whose laugh i could recognize anywhere… I pace down the block I broke my own heart because you were too polite to do it

[t00muchheart]

The parallels between Dean verbalizing the way John failed him as a father in Dream a Little Dream of Me and acknowledging that he didn’t deserve what John put on him & Dean calling Mary out in Who We Are for making a deal that left them alone and put him in the position of having to step up and be a father and a mother to Sam instead of just being his brother !

Dean saying that he doesn’t deserve to go to Hell and letting himself feel the deep unfairness of the deal he’s made and the fact that he tells Mary he understands because he’s made deals to save the people he loves too !

The line “I hate you. And l love you. ‘Cause I can’t—I can’t help it” and the way it could apply to both Mary and John because Dean can’t stop himself from loving them, no matter how much their decisions hurt him, how he understands them in a way because he was raised to love by putting his own life on the line in the place the lives of those he loved, and how he sees how messed up that is but forgives it anyway because if he dwells on it, it might break him

[angellic-critique]

This is just going to be Angel Dusts² arc literally NONE of this was setup beforehand that Fizz was bullied into his

[pehmokoira]

I have been thinking about this line since the cancellation.

Because, David Zaslav, what did you think was going to happen? What did you expect to happen when you take this show away from a group of misfits, who have been fighting their whole lives for their and their loved ones' right to exist and be seen and understood and accepted in this world? Did you think we were going to say "too bad" and move on?

No. This is about more than getting our pirate show back. This is about the right for queer, disabled, BIPOC stories to be told in media. This is inherently a fight for queer rights, and yes, there are much more important fights to be had within that movement, but this is part of a bigger picture. Because if we are not seen in media, in everyday life, if we are not normalized, then we will always be less than. And at this point, we are sick and tired of being told that.

So if you think you can get rid of us without us fighting back, then you're wrong. You don't know the first thing about our community.

People quote this line a lot, but it irks me that they often leave out the most important part: "...when the world has told you you're nothin'." I understand the message is much more universal without it, but I think by leaving it out the whole meaning of the message changes. Because minorities get told that they're nothing every fucking day and sometimes our community is the only safe place where we're seen as actual people. And WB/Max is telling us we're nothing right now, by cancelling a successful, critically acclaimed queer show with BIPOC and disabled representation just for the lolz.

Well. You know what.

You fucked with the wrong crowd. We're not going down without a fight. Now let's get our damned show back.

[zephyrine-gale]

hi!! this isn't meant to be accusatory or anything i'm just wondering if u plan on finishing your kazuscara duel comic ^__^ totally fine if not! was just curious lol have a lovely day

Hi!! I do plan on finishing it, I didn't draft it up way back in December to not see it through 😭😭

But my standards for the following pages were too high so they didn't get finished as soon as I wanted, and then I ended up super busy with other things for the next several months :'>

[swanno-arts]

And a quicker piece for my American Literature final project! bc im so tired GHSK

"What if I just made a Cygnus AU where he's supposed to be Yossarian in an AU Halo of Red where nothing is okay." YEAH. hes going through it.

also the first image is based on the first edition cover,

[ceytal]

thinking about him (kim dokja)

[letmeliedown]

i don’t know who needs to hear this right now, but if you think someone you love is being abused: TELL THEM

no one will know you condemn their abuser’s actions or think they are wrong unless you SAY IT WITH WORDS. your internal feelings that it’s wrong are not enough. when they tell you their partner hit them or screamed at them, don’t just say “oh no, i’m sorry”, say “that’s abusive and unacceptable from a partner”. don’t fucking soft pedal it. i know all the guides say you have to treat an abuse victim like a feral cat and let us come to our own conclusions but sometimes WE CAN’T, sometimes the fog is so thick we will never see unless someone helps.

if you think your friend is being abused, SAY SOMETHING.

SAY IT’S WRONG. SAY YOU CARE. SAY HOW WORRIED YOU ARE OR THEY WILL NEVER KNOW.

[porcelain-animatronic]

robots built to be as human as possible has gotta be one of my favorite genders

[milligramspoison]

Not me accidentally spreading a potential rumor that Mikey posted sim versions of FOB on his story 💀

[catsandcataclysms]

There’s something that always strikes me about posts that talk about how people shouldn’t watch only kids’ shows or read only kids’ books.

While there’s always nuance to a situation-- like how having certain expectations will only get you so far in a media intended to younger audiences-- I don’t think insisting that people read or watch things they know they aren’t going to enjoy is going to help the situation. In fact, that’ll likely only serve to make them more stubborn.

And this sort of thing especially strikes me because often, when you think of an adult who enjoys shows aimed at younger audience in the real-world, you are likely going to think of an autistic individual. For example, I don’t enjoy live-action shows regardless of their audience, my oldest special interest is aimed at 5 year-olds, and the books I read are found in the children’s library. I also have a neurodivergent coworker, who sometimes brings plushies from a children’s show to work with them.

I’m not saying there isn’t any merit to the argument, of course, because when it comes to discourse it’s very silly to be willing to fight to the death over a kid’s show-- but then again, it’s very silly to be willing to fight to the death over an adult’s show, too.

Mainly, I think that when there’s posts about how a person absolutely hates people who are adults who don’t read or watch adult media, they should consider attempting to be more nuanced, lest it come off as ableist or aphobic.