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[canis-specialintris]

Unusual wolfdogs: poodle, collie, lab, and pitbull (X)

[crankybutthead]

LOOK AT MY PIGEON, BOY

[heyo-soul]

Friendly reminder that systems don't control splits and most modern media appeals to realistic human depiction and unresolved traumas. Meaning systems (esp nd ones) are especially more likely to split introjects now than any time in history.

[gruberjl]

Sometimes you might be tricked into thinking you have seen it all. However, nothing and certainly no formal training can prepare you for it.

[swishbishbosch]

Yet Another Major Revamp: Semi-Realism Edition + make-your-own toolkit!🥳

🐸 DOWNLOAD: SFS

This is an edit of Phaenoh' Realistic Major to Career Linking BUT with the following BENEFITS:

🌟 NOT REALISTIC... BUT MAXIS-REALISM: this edit made the ideal careers for each major somewhat logical and coherent (consult the table below for the changes) yet respects the internal logic of the game because Maxis' humor is underrated, slacker and criminal are treated as serious career pathways in this game so why not 🤩

🌟 ALL MAJORS BALANCED ⚖️: frustrated with the lack of benefits that some majors offer compared to others? want an easier time being a job-hopper?? what do you mean my skills aren't transferable in this market??? WELL:

All majors are now supporting at least 5 or more careers

Art [6]: Adventurer, Architecture, Artist, Culinary, Gamer, Slacker

Bio [5]: Athletic, Medicine, Natural Sci, Ocean, Science

Drama [6]: Athletic, Dance, Entertainment, Law, Politics, ShowBiz

Econ [5]: Business, Criminal, Music, Politics, Show Biz

History [5]: Adventurer, Artist, Law, Military, Politics

Lit [6]: Artist, Edu, Entertainment, Journalism, Law Enf, Music

Math [6]: Business, Culinary, Edu, Gamer, Natural Sci, Science

Philo [5]: Culinary, Law Enf, Music, Paranormal, Slacker

Physics [5]: Athletic, Dance, Medicine, Ocean, Science

PolSci [5]: Intelligence, Journalism, Law, Military, Politics

Psych [6]: Architecture, Business, Criminal, Edu, Intelligence, Paranormal

All careers are now supported by 2 or more majors, only the Politics career is supported by 4 (cause Maxis' choice was so good I didn't want to touch it!)

8 careers that require degree (only available for graduate): Architecture, Education, Intelligence, Law, Medicine, Nat Sci, Oceanography, Science.

🌟 OTHER INFOS:

🎓 You'll need UNI EP 🎓

Credits: Phaenoh (for the base mod I edited and the tutorial!), SimPE

Conflicts:

mods that lock/unlock degree requirement like Lamare's getUniCareerWithoutEducation

any mods do the same thing (Belladovah's, Phaenoh's & Cyjon's) which you might want to consider shopping around first before picking mine so look below 🛍️🛒👀

also conflicts with lauratje86's but their mod works with default replacement majors so it can't be covered here, check it out though!

note: Cyjon altered some majors' names and skill requirements (he also hates Philosophy methinks), Phaenoh offers a different version that changes which career requires degree (just like mine but ADDED Business), Belladovah offers Education version in which every major benefits the Education career.

📁 MOD RESOURCE: Linking Maxis Majors & Degrees to Maxis Career Toolkit 🥳

🎯 Difficulty: EASY (no modding experience needed)

It's easier to customize own or track which majors your career is linked to with a bunch pre-made templates right???

Download my edited mod as a base & start making edits 📝 Have these templates to easily cross-reference 0x2(2) values you need to change in SimPE following PHAENOH'S TUTORIAL.

The templates will look like the 2 tables you see above, they are available in:

odt (highly recommended, easy to use word doc file with Phaenoh's tutorial included)

md (markdown file)

csv (for both of the tables you see above)

Comparison Table - use to compare your edits to MAXIS original Career By Major Table - work out which major supports your career and calculate 0x2(2) values

4. zip (for SiYuan users to import, highly rec because I used that program to make the tables, it's Notion but ✨uglier and offline✨)

🐸 DOWNLOAD (browse what you need): SFS

[seasononesam]

I was the opposite of people who are like "the only thing I know about supernatural is there are two brothers" tbh I really didn't know about sam until I started watching the show 😭 what getting all your spn info from your destiel obsessed middle school friend and tumblr dot edu will do to you

[maks-arts]

RPG OC

(Click for better quality)

This is my character for the Paranormal Order RPG that I play, he's already a bit screwed because we're at the end of the first season of the campaign.

Information and translations under the cut

Translating some things, his name is Eduardo "Edu" Siqueira and he is a knowledgeable occultist. Before joining the Order he was a history professor who was (still is) passionate about the mysteries of the Middle Ages and researched very deeply about it, one day he discovered the paranormal and started researching more about it, at some point the Order arrested him, but in the end, because he was innocent, he was released and started working in a team.

(The arrow pointing says "loose hair")

As a good agent of the Order he lost his family, but he only cares about the loss of his little brother, he swore he would find a way to bring him back to life. At the moment his brother (surprisingly) came back to life because of a group of occultists, his face is disfigured and you can bet Edu had a panic attack when he received the information that his brother was alive (thanks and fuck you GM)

What about his scar you may ask? Well, he's the type to smile at everything, better saying- he fakes his smiles, always hiding what he feels and smiling to calm others down. As a gift, he was one of the Traveler's victims and survived, gaining that scar that will forever form a smile on his face (fuck you again GM)

Fun facts:

- His brother's name is Henrique and he is/was 10 years old, making them 13 years apart.

- Edu came from an abusive home, having severe anxiety because of everything he went through when he was younger.

- The rubber ducky on his belt was given by Henrique. His brother gave it to him as a gift to help with his anxiety attacks.

- The other green glove is with Henrique, they exchanged a pair of gloves when Edu left their house.

- Edu is originally from Rio Grande do Sul, Carpazinha (yes, the one from OSNF), he moved to São Paulo because of the greater opportunities the city offered.

- His father and brother were killed by his mother (she had died and turned into a paranormal creature).

- He's very good friends with a energy fighter called Hortênsia (my best friend's character :P).

- Edu considers Hortênsia his sister, but won't admit it.

- His pronouns are he/him.

- Because of the Traveler's attack he permanently doesn't remember one of his teammates, luckily it's someone he doesn't like.

- The sigils on his body tell the story of his life, so all the domestic abuse he has ever suffered, all the fights he has ever witnessed, the death of his family, the near death of his companions and the formation of his scar are all written on his body (and he can read these sigils).

- And for info, his NEX is 50%, his atual HP is 36/50 and his sanity is 11/65 (he lost a lot of sanity when he saw his brother "alive" again).

Well, that's everything for now, thanks for reading ^^

[cryptidcodex]

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🦇Cam☾

❤︎ They/them 🗡️

◣ Nonbinary, Genderfluid ☾ Ask for terms 🍷

🌹 Bisexual ⛧

⁺‧₊ bodily age 🩸23 years old

🍷Head Count ✮ 44 ish

My work

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🔪 Camomille- Core- 23- They/them 🥩

🔪 Samuel- Trauma Holder- 23- He/Him 🩸

🔪 Logan- Gatekeeper- Ageslider- They/he 🧛

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⚰️ Wade ♰♰♰ He/him ⋆𓂃 Double Agent ꧂

⚰️ Saffron ♰♰♰ She/her ⋆𓂃 Resentment Holder ꧂

More headmate info

Wishlists:

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Playlists:

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◣🦇Personal Info ♰♰♰

✧˖° Likes 🗡️Making friends, collaborating

🌹Dislikes ⁺‧₊ Pushy people, gossiping

✮ Hobbies 🩸 Art, Music, makeup

🍷Hyperfixes ⛓️ Sexuality, Learning, Anthropology

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🔪Other Info 🥩Socialist, Activist, Goth

🔪Disorders 🩸 BPD, ADHD, Autism, Fibromyalgia, Psoriatic Arthritis

🔪Suspected Disorders 🧛 none currently

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Boundary post

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Source List/Talk

[delulu-is-the-solulu-843]

Welcome to the EDU (Ellynn Delusional Universe)

Well hello there welcome to my little corner of chaos. I have no idea what’s happening here, but do any of us? This is my silly little blog for all my silly little interests. This blog isn’t a dedicated nsfw blog but there will be nsfw posts and reblogs so minors stay away.

Here’s a bit about me:

She/her

22

Bisexual

Psych major

Occasional writer

Full time dork

Masterlist and writing info

Asks and DMs open

Divider by @cafekitsune

[hylianengineer]

hello hylian! I just saw the aro post you reblogged and thought you might enjoy this stage play concept I came up with on a call w an irl friend last night: two chronically ill college/grad students, doing school remotely because of their respective health needs and thus remote school = accommodations, who are put together on a project/assignment thing and become friends over the course of all their zoom calls and .edu communications and working together. They become fast friends and bond over both being chronically ill, their group project, their shared nerdy interests, and how they both are interested in service animals. At one point they lose touch when one of them suddenly drops out of school due to their health needs and both are so sad about it because they always communicated thru their school contact info and then when the one dropped out ofc their accounts were no longer accessible. then years later they end up running into each other and recognize each other through their voices. the one who dropped out passes the one who didn’t at a con and recognizes them because they’re talking to their service dog. (Didn’t recognize them before because they were doing Cosplay Character Voice TM until they interacted with their dog) they’re both in cosplay at this con but because of their voices they turn and look at each other recognize each other at last and feel this wild hope that there’s my friend!!! I’ve missed you so much!!! and it is absolutely not in the least bit romantic and it is 100% platonic and it’s just a very sweet poignant friend reunion and we couldn’t decide whether the play ends with them making eye contact or with them embracing in the strongest friendship hug but. yeah. it’s called Beyond The Waiting Room btw because zoom waiting room and hospital waiting rooms and vet waiting rooms and the perpetual state of looking for answers one feels in a dr office and the parallel to the perpetual state of looking for each other Until!!! and just. yeah. ♡ me n the friend brainstorming this kinda went feral about it and I figured you might enjoy hearing our concept as a stage play ode to the power of sincerely deep platonic friendship 🫶🏻

Omg I love this concept! It's such a beautiful exploration of how important platonic connections can be!

[celticbotanart]

Wrote a very depressing tweet earlier, but was a coward and deleted it.

So, instead of being depressed AF on main, I'll take one of the things I said in it and will elaborate in a much better, healthier manner, which is... gushing about music, my beloved, my hyperfixation ~

In the tweet I mentioned André Matos, a BR singer, composer, pianist with a literal degree in classical music and conducting.

He became a literal metal legend here in BR specially in the 90s/2000s. Like for real - he was THIS CLOSE to replace Bruce Dickinson when he left Iron Maiden in the early 90s (Andre was in the 3rd place of choice).

Unfortunately, Andre passed away in 2019 at early age of 47 due to a cardiac arrest - it was very sudden and a shock to everybody, it's kind of insane even now looking back and remembering he's gone.

Anyway. That being said, enough with the sad stuff and let's turn this into THE COOLEST THING you guys will ever learn about Brazilian music!! As a kid, Andre Matos was the vocalist of a band named Viper, and later on as a young adult he joined Angra, a band that still exists to this day with other members and vocalists - BTW!!! SMALL PARENTESIS, the vocalist who replaced Andre in Angra, Edu Falaschi, sang the Brazilian version of "Pegasus Fantasy", Saint Seiya's opening theme back then!! Still a fucking banger, and Edu STILL often sings it to this day; Edu isn't in Angra anymore, I think???

But yeah. As you can see, we're already getting epic and complex and I didnt even get to Andre yet lol ANYWAY!! This is Angra with the OG formation with Andre as the lead singer/keyboardist - he's the 3rd one, the pretty boi in the middle, hehe

Angra was one of the pivotal points in Brazilian hard rock/metal; Sepultura is right there with them, I think - I don't know a lot about Sepultura (that's my sister's territory lol), but I know that much.

I'll skip straight into Angra's stuff cause there's where the good stuff begins!

First album of theirs is called "Angels Cry" and the title song is SUCH a quintessential Angra / Andre Matos song, i swear to gods. And the album art sdkjfhsdkfjshdf it's very Graphic Passion Is My Design. Don't be fooled by the dated album art tho:

Here you'll hear the "classic music interludes" that were very common in Andre Matos' songs due to his background and training in classic music. It's SOOOO 80s and their Iron Maiden influence is SCREAMING, quite literally. Worth mentioning I'm not an Iron Maiden fan lol btw #Poser

Another CLASSIQUE-TM from Angels Cry is "Time".

I'll throw the official videoclip in here because it's hilarious, even though the song slaps ksdjfhskdj (André's corny, pretty metal boi look in his early Angra days is kind of a goal to transNB me, ngl. #GenderEnvy)

WELL, do you guys know folk metal? Like, when we say that, it's usually metal + medieval/European instruments (like Eluveitie, for example).

In 96, Angra did what I like to consider "Brazilian folk metal", metal with BR elements and influences, in their album "Holy Land"

The concept of the album was like, the great navigations but it was also kind of a commentary in colonization - Brasil is our "holy land", and a lot of the songs feature this epicness and bittersweetness, joy and sorrow of being BR. The songs are in ENG, which is kind of ironic, but still The songs being in ENG is due to a lot of factors tbh, all of them involving the fact that Brazil doesn't embrace metal a lot, and they wanted to to sell their songs outside BR bc of that. Which sucks, but i get it.

Here we have CAROLINA IV, an epic describing a ship at sea, and it also references the Portuguese who arrived in BR back in the 1500s.

The song is all in ENG except the intro, which is a chant dedicated to Iemanjá / Janaína / Iemoja, the orisha of the seas and the most well-known orisha around here, if I'm not mistaken

"Hail, hail Yemoja, Hail Janaína And everything that was made in the waters They throw flowers at the sea God save the Queen And my journey on this sphere An orishas' caboclo Soon leaves the Earth Meeting his fate Where the sky meets the sea He will find his safe harbor And that's how it ends..."

Black culture and religions are strong here in BR, and this chant and the instruments used are a tribute to them <3 If you guys know of or remember Michael Jackson's "They Don't Really Care About Us", that's the same beat/Afro-Brazilian influence - in MJ's song, it was the famous group Olodum who did it, I don't know if they were involved in Angra's Holy Land though. "Carolina IV" is a very long with a lot of changes in pace and even genres (again, classical music interludeTM). It's very epic, very 80s metal, and very Brazilian as well, it has everything I love, ahhh <3

In the early 2000s, Andre left Angra and he and other, previous Angra members formed the band Shaman.

I think it's good for me to reiterate at this point that while we had bands like Angra and Sepultura, the metal genre WAS NOT and NEVER WAS mainstream here in BR.

So, the fact that Shaman became incredibly popular in the early 2000s because one of their songs "became to mainstream" was kind of an anomaly. THIS, MY FRIENDS, is where my story with Andre Matos' music starts. Because this was early 2000s, I was around 13 and the reason why I knew about the band, alongside hundreds of other teens at the time, was because a song by Shaman became soundtrack to a BR telenovela. The telenovela in question was O Beijo do Vampiro ("The Vampire's Kiss") and as the name suggests, it had vampires and 'edgy dark fantasy stuff' cause it was more targeted for a younger audience, as the protagonist was this middle schooler aged boy who was actually the son of a vampire.

The BANGER, THE ETERNAL, EVERLASTING ANTHEM from Shaman they chose as a soundtrack to that freaking telenovela was "Fairy Tale", from their first album "Ritual":

I swear to god, this song is fucking everything to any Brazilian metal fan my age. It was a literal game changer to a lot of us, because this was how we discovered or started really appreciating metal, since we were too young to catch on Viper in the 80s or Angra in the 90's. Other bands like Evanecscence, Nightwish and Linkin Park were also starting to become popular, so a lot of metal styles were coming around around that period.

Including a Brazilian singer that also leaned more towards a heavier sound, Pitty! That song is from her first album.

ANWYAY, BACK TO ANDRE MATOS - I'll make an exception here, and share two versions of the same song. I've shared the official videoclip with the studio recording, and below, is a very beloved live performance from 2003:

I'm sharing both versions because they are slightly different - studio ver starts with a religious chant in latin, and the live version includes a violin, played by Marcus Viana (another conductor and a famous composer of soundtracks for Brazilian shows and movies). In the live ver you can also see Andre Matos SLAYING on the piano because dude was a literal master of his craft ksjdfhksjdf

The song starts all calm with the piano, very lullaby-like, and then BAM!, 80s METAL HAIRFLIP AND GUITARS AND EPICNESS. And then it ends how it started. It's such a beautiful track. I love it so much, such a true banger. Makes me nostalgic AF, and I love the "epic tale" nature it has.

Another personal favorite of mine from that time comes from their second album, a track called Born to Be:

I love how it mixes mellow piano lines with heavier metal arrangements, it was kind of their thing and they did it so well! And by the way, I am aware the name of the band / cover of first album might be considered problematic nowadays?? It was the 2000s, unfortunately those things happened a lot. It's looking back into our teen years and realizing things were not as pristine as we remembered fskjdfhksd oh man. But yeah. Aside from that, the songs slap so hard, specially if you like the 80s metal feel. And speaking of the 80s music, Andre covered some pretty badass, daring songs over the years, not only but including... ..."Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)" from Journey, which he recorded after he left Shaman and went solo in the late 2000s:

I cannot affirm that for a fact, but I think this cover is sort of a "meme" because it was kind of a recurring joke that Andre Matos sang like Bruce Dickinson but looked like he was Steve Perry's "long lost son". Steve Perry was the most well-known vocalist from Journey. The "Dont Stop Believin" Journey:

(The picture above is Andre when he was like 15yo in Viper btw dfkjjsdf) And like, this is pretty fucking funny cause if you are here following my art for long enough - like REALLY, REALLY LONG ENOUGH, around 2009 deviantart -, you'll def remember me in my Journey/Steve Perry phase. And my Andre Matos phase too, it was around the same time lol

ANYWAY. BEST FOR LAST. CAUSE THE LAST IS "WUTHERING HEIGHTS" COVER. THE KATE BUSH "WUTHERING HEIGHTS". YEAH. THAT ONE.

Madlad decided to make a metal cover of Kate Bush with this falsetto voice and he just. He just did it. DIDNT CHANGE / ADAPT THE LYRICS, EITHER. You'll hear 22 year old Andre Matos in 1993 fucking scream at the top of his lungs HEATHCLIFF IT'S ME CATHY, I'VE COME HOME, I'M SO COLD LET ME IN-A-YOUR WINDOW. And he's singing VERY VERY HIGH NOTES, this song is fucking hard to sing y'all, I'll let you know right now lol. Anyway.

Here was the Andre Matos / Angra / partial Brazilian Metal history for you, and I hope you like the song recs, and if not, I hope you enjoy the trivia at least!

Remembering his music earlier made me nostalgic, but also made me sad, bc a lot has happened ever since 2003 and the "Vampire Telenovela". I've created OCs inspired by him - it was a two-in-one sort of OC, and he's retired for over a decade now; and I didn't do much with him anyway, so no artworks to show.

And I'm seriously considering bringing his music and influence back to a more recent OC (if you read my post about me looking for a new voice to my transitioned OC, that's what I'm talking about). It's a funny way to go back to where some things started.

That (and a lot of other, unrelated stuff) made me super sad earlier.

Andre Matos left us way too soon, and like I said earlier, it's always weird remembering he's dead, because it doesnt feel like that, to me. Maybe the fact I always "forget" he's gone is because his music and influence on me as a person still lives on, which is sort of a comfort~

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[thestudentfarmer]

🥳🥳🥳🥳

The cucumbers are starting to come in, ive picked 8 that are about 11-13 inch long with more to come :)

The front side pics only today, since the back is weirdly sparse at the moment.

Guranteed there will be a few hidden ones ive missed too. This is 3 or 4 plants, a couple died before taking off almost overnight so I'm not entirely sure.

These are a striped variety of armenian cucumbers, I like them because~~~~~

🌱once they get going they are very prolific producers on few plants.

🌱Fruit can be 12+ inches long and I've found some as thick as a watermelon once (was not tasty. The chickens loved it tho!) Bigger than 1.5 inch wide tends to start getting seedy.

🌱They can get some whacky shapes.

🌱If established and given a watering 2x a day for about 10-15 (early morning, sunset/dusk) before heat hits heavy, they will generally continue producing long after most other plants have finished. For my area that's about 3 days of sustained 105+*f. These cukes kept producing right through the summer with little stuttering.

🌱Did I mention they produce a lot? I'm not kidding, we grew I think 6 plants the very first grow (other varieties have done very poorly) and got over 200lbs of cucumbers. It felt very much like the zuchinni grow season joke. We had enough for us, The chickens and regular gifts to at least 5 other households with plenty extra to gift to coworkers and classmates. 😂

🌱They are pretty set em and forget them, trellising them this year is something new im trying so I can work out ways to produce more food on a urban sized lot.

🌱personal notes, no cucumber urps :D so if ya suffer from them, this could be a variety to try.

I've tried a few other varieties (pickling, lemon, straight 8s, english) and not been as successfully as these have been. At this time their gonna be the ones we grow from now on. I'll try others, but like said just haven't had luck with them.

They either grow too slow, weak and sickly or the 2 times we got fruit they were waaaay to bitter.

These seeds came from a packet at one of local libraries seed library. I'll be trying to figure out how to save the seed this year to return some back (which is all they ask folks to do, is return seed if possible) if it's viable.

I'll be for sure bringing some nasturtium and hollyhock seeds in the next time I'm up since both produced well this time :)

I don't wanna endorse any one seed page specifically at this time for addutional grow info, Since I like to get seeds from local or regional growers (small business's or gardeners and hobbiest most preffered), thankfully there's at least a Wikipedia page with some interesting info and an edu page too :)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_cucumber

https://extension.usu.edu/yardandgarden/research/cucumber-in-the-garden

That's it for today :)

🌱🌱Happy Homesteading and Gardening 🌱🌱

6.15.2024

[qequalsmcat]

yup. this is a neutron.

here’s what the text says (someone said i had “doctor font” handwriting so 😭😭):

NICO CHADWICK

QUANTUM STUDIES DEPARTMENT, THE UNIVERSE

nico.chadwick@theuniverse .edu

(xxx) xxx-xxxx

OBJECTIVE

Dedicated and balanced individual seeking to master the principles of atomic stability within the Quantum Studies Department. Aiming to support the creation of stable atomic structures by leveraging neutrality and mediation skills between charged particles.

PERSONAL INFO

A neutron. 5’9” (175 cm), He/They, Age 20, February 7

SKILLS

- Balance/Stability

- Mediation

- Adaptability

LIKES

- Puzzles

- Peaceful environments

- Neutral colors

DISLIKES

- Extreme emotions, volatile conflicts

- Being forced to pick sides

- Loud, overwhelming environments

- Feeling overlooked

[gruberjl]

Help the kids to make a Valentines box to collect all their sweet cards in. These awesome ideas will have them at the top of the class for creativeness.

[rggtattoos]

Hey! I've been meaning to ask where you got your information on the nuance of these kinds of tattoos? I've been meaning to look into it for ages but i just keep finding nothing but subtly racist picture compilation books by people who very evidently don't know what they're talking about and it's a little agonizing.

I definitely feel your pain on this one! It can be agonizing finding reliable resources, especially when it comes to folklore. It is very easy for misinformation to spread on something that relies on word-of-mouth communication in the first place. I mainly do my research online, so the possibility of finding false info is high. I do a LOT of reading, from as mainly sites as possible. I tend to favor .edu, official news sites, sites for art and history museums, organizations for cultural preservation, or sites run by noted folklore scholars whenever possible.

For example, I found someone talking about tattoos in Yakuza, and they said that the hakutaku eats dreams. I poured over my sources and could find no mention of dreams in relation to the hakutaku, even from a very thoroughly researched source who has published multiple books on yokai. I checked the Wikipedia (which any good teacher will tell you is a starting place, not an end source) and there was the line about eating dreams. I checked the source of the quote and it WAS from a published Japanese scholar…of Buddhism, not folklore. It was just a one-off line, seemingly mistaking the hakutaku for another yokai, perhaps the baku. Wikipedia quoted it, so this person took it at face-value without checking the source.

all my resources can be found HERE, but If I were to recommend just 3 sources for anyone who would be interested in this kind of research they would be:

Yokai.com - A website run by illustrator and writer of several different books on Japanese yokai, Matthew Meyer. Very thorough and well-organized, with fun illustrations of every entry. Even has many very rare yokai mentioned.

A to Z Photo Dictionary Of Japanese Buddhist Statuary - Detailed descriptions of the various gods, goddesses, and other creatures in Japanese Buddhist myth, along with some info on Shinto as well. Goes over the history of depictions in art as Buddhism traveled from India to China. Tons of photographs, with additional external sources.

Artist Horitomo's Comments on the Tattoos of RGG - Hard to get a better source than the artist's own mouth! The comments are very short, but give a lot of insight as to why certain tattoos were chosen for certain characters. Unfortunately it only has the tattoos from games 1-5, nothing from 6, 7, or 0.

[cassanovasanchor]

♛|| The Empire of Aublion ||♛

"Greetings, and welcome to the world of Aublion: a superearth type planet located in the Milky Way galaxy, about halfway through the Carina-Sagittarius arm.Its a relatively advanced space-age world inhabited by the large beings known as Sadrids, and their much smaller planetary predecessors, Gackles. Come join me as I flesh their universe out further and explore whats waiting for us, both cosmic and terrestrial!"

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                                             || Project Name ||

                                                    The Empire of Aublion

                                            || Main Premise ||

Aublion is currently being built to continue a project i started when i took what is now Aublion, from my fleshed-out-past-anything-canon, AU Homestuck based planet of Beforus. I developed a rich and complex history based on some characters i rped from that AU and the planet around them, and I wanted to do more with that setting, without being restrained by a fandoms canon. This project has technically been in process since 2016, but i began major revamping and started getting serious worldbuilding and original species information and content out in 2019.

My longterm goal is to have this be an open ended project, where people can create their own Sadrids, and plot out a story with them! (And make a webcomic with my fiancé in the setting as well!)

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                                              || Image Info || The map shown below is of the entire planet of Aublion, created in Inkarnate. An interactible version, with labels is available in 4k on Aublions WorldAnvil.

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                                               || Sadrid Visuals ||

What is a Sadrid?

A Sadrid is an incredibly tall carnivorous humanoid (10'5"-16'7"), possessing venom, digitigrade legs, paws, horns, long claws and a tail. They can switch from a bipedal stance to a quadrupedal stance at will, due to their longer arms, and rear connected skull positioning.

The three subspecies outside a "standard" Sadrid ( called a Lijdroa) are called Yalvit (winged avianesque Sadrids), Edu (Amphibious water dwelling Sadrids with gills), and Hroven (Subterranean Edu and Lijdroa that have evolved to live entirely under the ground) Below are example refsheets of each species. Please click for full detail and to read the flavortext!

                                                    Lijdroa

                                                   Edu

                                                   Yalvit

                                                   Hroven

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                                               || Other Info ||

Aublion currently has nearly a small books worth of information about it. I have information on culture, society and how they act, foods ,examples of music that sounds similar to what they listen to, information on technology they use, an in progress language called Tábufuian that has its own script, font ive made, translator, and dictionary with nearly 4k words, information about the species themselves, and how they evolved, their two main religions, and much more! Feel free to ask about the world or Sadrids in the reblogs, comments, or, check out how to join the server below!

Thank you for reading so far, and if you're interested in knowing more about Sadrids and Aublion when this is all done, i have a dedicated discord server where i post information not yet released to the WorldAnvil, artwork, WIPs, and more with a small community i have gathered. (we also have rp spaces if you'd like to join with your created Sadrid, as well as areas you can share your own worldbuilding!!) If you would like the link to join, just send me a DM on here! If you're over 18, ill give you the link (Not really for nsfw, its mainly due to everyone being in their early-mid twenties and up, and we would much prefer to keep it to a similarly aged crowd for our hangout space!)