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[plaguedocboi]

I’ve been working on new species for my scifi project and I was considering an advanced species that’s blind and relies on chemical communication and echolocation, but like. How would a species like that navigate space? I assume ground-based vehicles would rely on sonar but would that work for a spaceship? There’s no sound in space.

And furthermore, would a totally blind species even be able to conceptualize “space”? If they can’t look up and see stars and planets, would they even know that stuff is up there? I guess if they built some kind of radio telescope they would figure it out, but would they ever think to do that? If “up” is just an endless void from their perspective, why would they think to build technology capable of looking through their atmosphere in the first place?

I’m probably overthinking this but that’s what I do.

[ansitru]

Question: if I were to make a floriography piece with "Your body, my choice", but with poisonous plants, a stylized bottle of aqua tofana and other poisons around it…

Would that be clear enough that the intent is subversive, or would it get picked up by shitheads thinking I'm agreeing with them?

Additionally, is there maybe an alternative phrase that communicates the sentiment of "put your hands on me and I'll cut off your hands", in the same way a subverted "Your body, my choice" would?

[w4nd3r3r123456]

Changes (3)

Changes One & Two

 (Whumpee and Caretaker have a platonic relationship )

Whumpee awoke the next morning to the sound of dishes clanking downstairs, Caretaker making breakfast. They continue to lay in bed, golden rays of sunlight flooding through the windows and reflecting off the mirrors in the room. Whumpee stretched as they forced themselves out of bed, a glint off the nightstand catching their eye. They outstretched a hand, their fingers curling around the cool metal chain before retracting and examining the diamond charm. A groan escaped their lips as they ran their fingers through their hair, memories of the past day flooding their mind, they way they sobbed and clung to Caretaker's leg. “The necklace’s only Caretaker's way of saying they pity me” Whumpee cursed mentally, Caretaker wouldn’t want them anymore, he would send them back to where he found them. They dropped the necklace back into the wooden stand, approaching the door before letting out a broken whimper. They couldn’t go down, not after making Caretaker miss work, not after being a burden. Whumpee paced around the room, tears pricking their eyes as they bit down on their knuckles to force themself quiet. It took a while before they finally came up with a plan, they would simply leave. Go down to Caretaker, apologize, and leave. They took a deep breath, wiping their tears as they twisted the handle before swinging the door open and trudged down the stairs. Whumpee practiced what they would say each step they took towards the kitchen, yet as they entered the Caretaker sitting at the table scrolling through their phone, they faltered, shuffling back to hide behind the wall. “Whumpee?” Caretaker called out. Whumpee pressed their head to the accent wall, tears rolling down their cheeks. “ Are you alright?” Caretaker questioned again. Whumpee responded with a broken hum, clenching their fists as they stepped into the room, standing opposite to the chair Caretaker was seated in. “I-i’m sorry. Sorry for y-yesterday…..i-..it was selfish of me to ask you to stay, a-a-and i-” they choked on their words while Caretaker pushed their seat out, the legs scraping against the floor. Whumpee stumbled back as caretaker approached, “ i-i’ll leave now if t-that’s what you wa-” Their words were cut off as a pair of arms launched towards them, they flinched back, raising their own arms to protect themselves from an impact that never came. Whumpee sobbed out as caretaker enclasped them, his head resting on their chin.

“Never.” He whispered out. “Never apologize for crying Whumpee. If anything, it was my fault, I left you with someone you had never met just so I could travel.” Whumpee wrapped their arms around caretakers torso, their head pressed into his chest as their tears soaked into his navy blue hoodie. Caretaker’s grip tightened before slacking slightly, his lips pressed against Whumpee's forehead “ I left you with a bastard” He hissed the words laced with venom, his own body shaking,” Not ever will that happen again. Like stars never leave the sky, I'll never leave you. I’ll be there for every high and low, I swear it on my life, I love you.” 

They held the embrace for a stretch, both finding comfort in each other's presence, neither one ready to let go. Whumpee had stopped crying, tilting their head up to look at Caretaker as he moved his chin. Caretaker pulled back, his own eyes glistening slightly as he brushed away Whumpee’s tears before offering them a smile. “Now go get washed up so we can eat, ya?” His footsteps receded to the oven after his  lips brushed against their head a final time. Whumpee stood frozen for a moment, their eyes trailing Caretaker as he worked. They nodded slowly as they mumbled a “m’kay” and swayed up the stairs, their every action after that a blur. Whumpee stood infront of the mirror staring at the shimmering diamond pendant now resting on their chest, their hand grasping it as they let out a sigh and turned their back to their reflection, making their way back to the kitchen. “Forever”.

[gone-to-flowers]

I dont know who to pick… I know rockrock is decent but honestly I’m good on casters. (I’ve got Adele and Susie and am saving up for Lappland alter.) I think provence is the one who has a good base skill? I know hung is not good.

So I’m leaning towards provence I guess…

[secretmedoingsecretthings]

Wrote smutty romantasy for the first time, input would be kinda slay :)

[giafaeryprincess]

I’m so sorry your going through this, it sounds like he doesn’t respect you at all & that’s not okay. You deserve better.

We all deserve better. But better won't happen. This is the best im gonna get. The joyous times make room for sorrow. The sorrow makes space for the joy. I need to tone down my arrogance anyway. It's a cheap quality in people to have. I need to practice meekness, surrender, and humility. Also, stoicism. I must be strong if I wish to experience earthly romance, and I very much do. 💝🪷💒🐾🪹💝

[gottacaptcha-em-all]

Say hello to my feral bog child, she is my first ever dnd character 😁 (lv.3)

The crocodile’s main prey in this bog are deer. Juni wears the skull of a stag.

Appearance-

Junebug, or Juni for short, is 14 years old and is no taller than 5ft. She has clammy tanned skin with a slightly green hue and always seems to have condensation on her exposed skin. She has big black eyes that match the color of her hair. Her hair is long and puddles around her when she’s in water. Her teeth are crooked (in a cute way), and her incisors are sharp… almost unnaturally sharp. Her primary weapon is two karambits.

Species - Water Genasi

+1 wisdom

+2 constitution

Acid resistance

Dark vision

Amphibious

Swim = to Walking speed (30ft)

Constitution based spell casting (or wisdom??? (Acid Splash cantrip, shape water cantrip, create or destroy water) 5ewiki and dnd beyond say conflicting things.

Class- Barbarian (path of the wild beast)

When in rage, the bestial power within Juni is revealed. Until the rage ends she takes on the attributes of a crocodile.

Build for Hermit/Outlander Barb-

Learned

Diagnose an Illness, or determine what killed the recently slain (Medicine) Recall lore about gods, religious rituals, and holy symbols.(religion)

Proficiency in Herbalism Kit.

Innate

Notice something that’s easy to miss (perception)

can follow tracks, forage, find a trail, or avoid natural hazards. (Survival)

Custom/Edited Equipment-

Background items

a hunting trap, a trophy from an animal you killed, a herbalism kit, cooking utensils, and a pouch containing 5gp (gold pieces)

Class items

A karambit, another karambit if the dm allows, a rapier, and an explorer’s pack.

*the dm said yes!*

🆒 - Boots of false tracks, Fishing tackle

Eventual Feat- Fighting initiative so that she can pick duel weapon fighting style, then gift of the chromatic dragon 4 acid damage

Questions For The DM:

1. Can we make it a rule that I can only enter barbarian rage after I am hit first. Or that I enter rage when I am dealt a certain amount of damage? Like after I lose a quarter of my health or something? I think that would be fun and add a bit more of a challenge to my combat style bc I would have to rely on my base stats until I could get rage bonuses. Which one of those do you find more interesting 😁?

2. Cån my constitution make it so my character has a really high alcohol tolerance because that would be hilarious if a 14yro could out drink an adult man w/lower constitution.

3. What if Junebug was introduced to the party(specifically the paladin or any lawful adventurers) by fighting them./ they can confuse me with the monster in the swamp terrorizing the town (or like a thief). But like there are things pointing to me not actually being the monster. I think that would be such a cool introduction bc it would impact our character dynamic/relationships but it’s probably something up to the dm

Lore/character details-

1. She was born a human but mutated into a water genasi due to prolonged exposure to the bog.

2. She makes tasty meals as treats for herself after a good hunt/forage and spices up her medicine and remedies. Small comforts y’know. cooking is she picked up out of necessity but became something she enjoys.

3. Juni fights like an animal. She acts like one too, she basically has zero social skills.

4. Juni has spent her entire life in the wilderness of the bog. It has taught her patience and it has taught her to listen, she hears and see things most aren’t still enough to notice. (Perception)

5. More feral than most Juni has learned to rely on her senses, she can expertly navigate the wilderness. (Survival)

6. One of Juni’s parents is a lycanthrope, and she’s inherited some of their curse. (This origin is cool bc it adds some religious flavor to why she was abandoned in a bog, Juni’s animal characteristics could’ve exposed her father’s lycanthropy to the rest of a very religious town, ruining his reputation.)

7. When she’s older she is going to become a priest.

8. Can preform impromptu but more than slightly unorthodox autopsies (medicine is wisdom based not intelligence based 😌😊)

Stats, Weapons, & Damage-

Can lift 128 at current age. 255 as adult

Can drag 255 at current age. 510 as adult

48 Hit Points

Primary

She primarily Duel wields karambits that she made out of crocodile claws.

(2d4 + 2d4)+ 4= 20

*bonus action* (2d4+2d4)= 16

20+16=36 Damage Point Max from Karambits +2 when in rage.

Secondary weapon

Is Rapier that she stole off of dumb noble who ventured into the bog and underestimated its danger. This is her shiniest possession. She doesn’t really find it practical to hunt with, so she mostly uses it to spear fish and roast small things over fires (would use it to toast marshmallows.)

(1d8 +4)= 12+ 2 = 16 when in rage

Natural weapons

1. Claws: 2d6 +4(2) +2 =22 Alt. 1d6 +4 + 2= 12

2. Bite: 1d8 +4 +2=14 If at half hit points when used, you gain health equal to your proficiency bonus.

3. Tail: You grow a lashing, spiny tail, which deals 1d8 piercing damage on a hit and has the reach property. If a creature you can see within 10 feet of you hits you with an attack roll, you can use your reaction to swipe your tail and roll a d8, applying a bonus to your AC equal to the number rolled, potentially causing the attack to miss you.

[thecatinthepurplepants]

Stupid but possibly maybe probably not genius idea I just had: stuffed animal version of a balloon animal.

I've seen a crotched/knitted version of it around where they make, like, the sausage link looking string of little tubes stuffed with batting connected with narrow sections, make the tubes correspond with how long you need each "body part" to be, and then twist it together like a real balloon animal

BUT

Sewed instead.

Again, this is probably a terrible idea and I'd have no idea how to feasibly pull it off in reality (would I be able to make the thin connecting bits fabric sewed into a tight tube connected to the main bigger tube structure or would it have to be a different material like string or yarn attached to the end of the main tube? How to structure the pattern to begin with and would I be able to pull off maybe making it one long ass piece sewed into a tube of varying thicknesses? What fuckin fabric do I even use for this??? etc etc, you get the picture)

If anyone has any input it would be appreciated otherwise it's the very time consuming and expensive option of trial and error, I'm gonna do some searching myself and see if someone else has come up with a version of this that doesn't suck

[system-of-a-feather]

Not to sound PD on main (/hj) but it came up in therapy that "people are - in general - not malicious, they might be ignorant and stupid, but most don't mean harm"

And like yeah, I agree, however that hardly consoles me much because a good portion of our abusers honestly didn't have malice. Most were stupid. Stupidity and ignorance has hurt us more than malice and so that line really doesn't reassure us much at all.

Everyone is stupid and incompetent and that's why I don't intend to ask people for help, duh. (/hj /saying the internalized core belief from trauma loudly)

[autumnbell32]

Has anyone ever had an interaction with a psychiatrist that had a very very bad effect (affect? Idfk, I never know) on you? Please, if you feel comfortable I’d welcome input.

I feel like such a garbage human, guys. Been crying since yesterday. Apathy is rampant in this health care system. I feel like a burden, pathetic, and really don’t know what to do. Overly emotional (there’s been a lot of pain in this 38 year life)? Probably. Subhuman because I have a mental illness? I didn’t think so.

[aesethewitch]

Okay. [steeples fingertips]

My friend flies in tomorrow to stay with us until Monday. I won't be doing tarot on Friday since we have Plans, so we have three options:

1. Nix free tarot this week completely and do two sessions next week;

2. Do free tarot tonight, leaving cleaning for tomorrow morning before she gets here; or

3. Do free tarot tomorrow while she and my partner are out playing MTG.

I'm undecided. I'll say tentatively we may do a stream later tonight. Most likely either that or waiting til next week and just doing two sessions. I've also still got a ton of work to do on these recipe cards, especially if I want to have the Spring Equinox ones ready for March 1. Plus a couple commissions. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[apnourry]

20:03 AND I JUST REALIZED I HAVE A WHOLE ICED LATTE IN THE FRIDGE DO I DRINK IT NOW

[izhunny]

I have a serious case of 'I don't want to write the ending because it's the end and I've enjoyed writing this fic so much'-itis. 🙄

Anyway, there's a preliminary summary below the cut for my current Frostiron WIP I haven't finished.

💚💚💚

Tony might be losing his mind. He finally caved and agreed to take a vacation. From everything. For the entire summer.

A derelict family property in the Adirondack Mountains in need of some TLC is just what the doctor prescribed to escape things he can't explain since having the reactor removed almost a year ago. Will what's haunting Tony follow him on his Upstate New York sabbatical?

Of course it will, this is a ghost story after all.

~♡~

[satansemployee]

question for my fellow fanfic writers: how do YOU differentiate between a Mature Rating and an Explicit one?

Does the mention of sex immediately bump a fic to explicit? Is the description of a sexual act the thing that makes it explicit even if it's not with the intent of being porn, or the fic doesn't primarily centre around it?

[hex-craft-art]

So, I’ve had this character idea for a while but I don’t think I ever posted her 

So, this is a Pokemon trainer OC I made, her name is Coral (after her eye colour). She is 11 years old, nonverbal autistic, girly, and has a service pokemon (An arcanine)

Problem is, despite me having pretty much her whole Pokemon team figured out, I can’t figure out what her main design should be…so, if someone could add some input, that’d be great. These are just kinda rush jobs so they will improve

Her colour palette is pretty much set in stone though, with a lot of pastel pinks and yellows with a bit of dark colours. The palettes were actually pulled from Sylveon and Mimikyu (2 of my favourite pokemon and they will be in her party)

Anyway, if you could give some input, that’d be great! Thanks!

[cherokeegal1975]

Dragoness and Mare. Fake video game screen shot. I drew the horse and dragon. The rest I borrowed from online. I was more interested in communicating the idea I had than trying to do a full drawing.

I can't make my own games, I'm not equipped and don't have the mind for it. So this is as close as I can get to making a game. It's too bad a game developer won't take me up on the idea.

Based on what I've learned from watching play throughs on YouTube, I'd like this game to be open world. Could be played with one or two people. Story driven, with one sandbox area like in The Legend of Zelda, where you get to make your own house. Lots of puzzles and action, but violence doesn't have to there...or at least not much. The characters can have abilities that compliment the other's. For example, the dragon is a great climber, but will sometimes need a boost to certain platforms, so her horse friend can act as a platform for her to jump from. Or, both can run pretty fast, but the horse has more stamina, so sometimes the dragon will need to ride the horse. But the dragon can swim a lot better than the horse, especially when diving is needed.

Lots of puzzles to solve too. Did I mention that I'd like it to be story driven? And it doesn't have to be for kids, it could have some adult themes too. Maybe in the beginning the dragon rescues the horse, only to find that someone has stolen her eggs out of her nest while she was gone, so they have to solve the mystery and retrieve the eggs before they hatch. Or maybe she hadn't laid them yet, until after the horse was rescued and the horse can help her gather materials for her nest...then they get stolen after they're laid...by some kind of villain who wants to use them in a cake or some kind of vile potion...or something. And her mate is also missing...why we don't know but that could be worked into the story for his rescue. Certainly, if the dragon hasn't laid her eggs yet, she'll have to rescue her horse friend while heavily pregnant and that could limit her speed and jumping abilities. But that wouldn't limit her ability to breathe fire or manipulate objects with her front feet that work almost as good as human hands or carry things with her tail for short periods of time. That temporary limitation to her speed and stamina could add some extra drama to the story.

The dragon lives inside a massive hallow tree and that's where the player can add decorations as well as build a cozy nest. It's big enough the horse can come in through the front door and move comfortably.

Never did work out the details of the story. Just open world, RBG, puzzles, story driven, not a lot of violence, gathering materials and food along the way, earning ability points. Standard stuff really...except for the low violence. I feel that games fall back on that too often. That and the horse and dragon can talk to any of the NPCs in the game.

Though I'm open to any ideas myself. I'm still very fuzzy on the story details and one of the reasons I quit writing for the time being is because someone always has a baby in my stories. I don't like how repetitive my plot elements have become, so I quit until I can find some new material to draw on so it won't be all variation so the same thing.

The horse and dragon are based on toys I lost years ago as a child but never forgot. They were ugly, but I liked them at the time. The drawings are actually much better than the original toys.