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A Stupid Guide To Unlocking Zones On Alts
For stupid people like me, who like to be a weird little completionist
Note: This is for !!ALTS!! and assuming you've already done all this content on at least one character. WoWhead has decent guides on how to unlock zones for the first time, but not much on how to do so on alts and skip as much work as possible
Classic: There are no zones that require unlocks from Classic. There are some that get reused in new phases, but those will be stated in the expansion their new phase got added
TBC: Isle of Quel'danas has the Sunwell raid and Magister's Terrace dungeon. Should be by default unlocked on all characters, you get there via a portal in the middle Shattrath building
WOTLK: There are no zones that require unlocks from WOTLK
Cata: Molten Front has to be manually unlocked on any character you want to do it on, but it's mostly achievements, so I personally don't see the need to do it on alts. You access it via a questline in Hyjal, and a portal to get to the zone is in the southwestern part of Hyjal, near Malorne's shrine. All other Cata zones should be default unlocked on all characters
MOP: Isle of Giants and Timeless Isle both should be unlocked by default on all characters. You can just take a flightpath to both places or fly there manually. Isle of Thunder, however, requires a short questline to get onto the island. This should start at the portal to get there in Townlong, by the Shado-pan Garrison
WOD: Your garrison requires a short questline to set up and a bit of time to build it into anything worthwhile. If you use the hearthstone, it'll teleport you to the empty plot of land where your garrison would be. Just go towards where your dock is eventually built, and start the questline. Tanaan should be by default unlocked on all characters, though I haven't checked if you still need to do the questline to build the base in order to use the portal back and forth from Ashran (I usually just fly around Draenor and hit Tanaan that way)
Legion: When you first use the Dalaran hearthstone, you need to walk a few steps into the city until you get an NPC pop up with your class questline. I've forgotten if you go to your class hall first, then do your weapon, or if it's weapon then class hall. Either way, you need to do the first weapon in order to unlock the rest of the setting up of your class hall. Unlock your WQs at Khadgar in the tower, Suramar phases in once you save Thalyssra (also from Khadgar). Argus teleporter should be unlocked by default on all characters, though the Broken Shore you might need to just talk with Khadgar at Krasus' Landing and skip the instance in order to set up the camp there
BFA: Ugh. Now the messy expansions with not enough skips and way too many unlocks. Make sure you get your Heart of Azeroth from Magni. Nazjatar should be a relatively quick questline from the docks area. Mechagon will appear from disgruntled workers in the main city. Unlocking your WQs should be from I think the docks as well - if not, you need to set up at least one camp in the enemy zones to unlock the mission table and upgrades. I had to go to the zone select map, click one, and then not continue it in order to do anything with the ship. You should probably do the questline for Vale of Eternal Blossoms and Uldum since it gives you the legendary cloak you need in order to do the last boss of Ny'alotha. Unfortunately this is a LONG questline, like at least a few hours worth. There's not really any skips for this which I think is just the worst. I tend to stop once I just get the cloak, but you can keep going in order to unlock the visions. Almost forgot battlefront zones (Darkshore and Arathi) which should be unlocked by default on all characters. I just stepped into the portal and didn't need to do anything else
SL: Oh boy! More content with not enough skips! To unlock your covenant, you have to just choose it in Oribos and do the whole. dang. campaign. All of it. You can skip your renown grind with the vendor next to the Oribos flightmaster, but that's really the only thing somewhat useful. Otherwise you're just funneling anima to whoever's next on the list to do stuff with it and unlocking things little by little while earning the tmog. The Maw you get sent to during your covenant campaign, very early on, but the covenant invasions to the zone seem tied to Korthia's unlock. If you hate Torghast, there's no skips for the tutorials there and it's part of the covenant campaign. You may be alarmed at the Eye of the Jailer and no mounts! These things unlock with Korthia. Korthia seems to unlock via the campaign, too, after the Torghast, Maw, Runecarving tutorials. You still have to do the questline to get the lodestaff and the guy to come to the cave if you want to earn rep there, though. This should start with just looting any treasure or rare. Zereth Mortis unlocks with a skip on dialogue with Bolvar pretty early in the campaign, like around the time you select a covenant
Dragonflight: Since DF is current, all of the unlocks are just via talking to and using dialogue skips in Valdrakken when you hit cap level. I just hop up to the Seat of the Aspects, talk to Alexstrasza, kill the rebels in the city but drop it after that point, skips for Forbidden Reach are also at the top of Seat of the Aspects, after that you can go down to Zaralek with Sabellian and Wrathion but drop it when Loamm is opened, talk to Shandris to get the Emerald Dream quest and use the item she gives you as a skip. You still have to do the part where you go through the portal in Ohn'ahran Plains and then talk on the other side, but can drop after that (The reason for that is that despite the Emerald Dream portal automatically by default open for alts, the weekly quest doesn't count them as allowed to finish until you've done that one step of the questline. It's dumb)
#personal#wow#world of warcraft#long post#reference for myself basically#did I miss anything?#I'm finally just going through old content with my Dracthyr so this is what came of it#reference#guide#PLEASE tell me if I missed any skips especially for BFA and SL I die
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super old portraits of gideon & harrow. i used my girlfriend and i as visual references for this which made it extra fun
#my art#the locked tomb#tlt#griddlehark#harrowhark nonagesimus#gideon nav#there were MANY toggleable alternatives for this so im just giving you the basic ones all together#i miss them sm#diclaimer: i used our faces as reference only#bc im as white as snow LOL#this isnt me as harrowhark this is me loosely basing a drawing of harrowhark off of myself#get me?
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koschei ☆⋆。𖦹°‧˚ ༘
#i like this guy a normal amount i swear#ANYWAYS#RANT#this was basically me trying to teach myself how to render without a reference picture#bc im so dependent on those its like actually a problem#so if it looks rlly wonky then yeah!!!! that explains it!!#im at a weird place w my art rn where i feel like technically im improving#but also it feels like im less???? free????? in a way#yeah im tryign to figure stuff out by drawing gay ass gallifreyans ig#doctor who#thoschei#koschei#koschei oakdown#the master#academy era#my art <3
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The thing is, "Nothing" isn't something that can feel the ache of loss or lack I think. Like,,, when you introduce things like "something" - where you can have a positive value - you can also have a negative value. You can have ten dollars, and you can owe someone ten dollars. You can have ten more than nothing, or you can have ten less than nothing. Zero becomes somewhat of a doorway i suppose? You never stop at zero and just rest there. Either you're in debt, or you want more. The only solution is to remove Things, Stuff, Etc from the equation. Can't have or owe anyone ten dollars if there be no dollars
When you choose to stop and sit there, at nothing, in the home of Zero, 'more' and 'less' cease to mean anything. Cease to affect you. To me this is oddly similar to the concept of Being Here Now, in the Present Moment, unconcerned with the hauntings of Yesterday or the threats of Tomorrow. I am Here. I Am. Here. Now. That's it.
Now feels very similar to Nothing. Not because there is an emptiness, but because there is a Radical Refusal to engage with ephemeral potentials and what-could-be's. They don't exist. What Is Here and Now exists.
when asked, "what do you want?" the response "nothing" doesn't mean 'there is nothing that i care to want', it means 'i am accepting of what i have Now, and i ask naught for anything else, lest I be distracted from what is Here'.
"Nothing" is like Radical Acceptance. It says "This is what Life has served me. This is what I'm working with. This is where I will focus my attention. Wishing for More of something Good or wishing for Less of something Bad will only serve to create more suffering within me. I choose instead to attend to the matters at hand. The good, the bad, and the ugly."
"I want nothing." == "I am accepting of what I have Now, and I ask naught for anything else."
"I am nothing." == "There are no titles labeling me Greater or Lesser - they are all false. I simply Am."
"This is nothing." == "There is no specialness that makes what is going on between us more or less than. We simply Are."
Andrew does not want. He will simply Be that which he Is, Here Now, with whomever is with him, and he will take them as they Are. And if what Am and Here and Now equates to is something good, well...
He'll take it.
#basically andrew said#i accept whatever you have to offer#if what you will offer is your absence then so be it#if what you will offer is your presence then so be it#and honestly?#that's very similar to neil#“what do you want?”#“whatever you'll give me”#“nothing”#they're the same picture#they match your honor#all for the game#andrew minyard#neil josten#andreil#side note: posts like this are out of contexts statements from thoughts i had to myself#this whole post is the final statement of thirty minutes worth of thoughts#containing references to several years worth of Other Thoughts#my mind is a detectives board covered in red string#and my posts on this blog are blurry polaroids taken of a corner by someone being chased out of the room
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Sometimes I think to myself "I wish Chuuya Nakahara was real" and am immediately forced to remember that he was. He existed. And the version of him I'm talking about is from a super powered mafia-detective fanfiction (manga)
As such, I now have to specify in my OWN MIND that who I'm referring to is the Chuuya Nakahara from hit anime/manga bungou stray dogs, and not the real life poet whom he was based off of.
#the things I do to prevent myself from remembering that bsd is basically just an illustrated RPF#nakahara chuuya#this could also refer to literally any character from bsd but I thought of Chuuya first#bungou stray dogs#bsd#chuuya nakahara#bsd chuuya
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#house of ashes#jason kolchek#an attempt to get myself out of artblock#uninteresting fact: the reference for the last one (i drew basically from nature) had the right arm bent#but i wanted to make jason's left tattoo visible#and to be fair there are moments in the game where he does things with the left hand
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klapollo baseball/photographer au
#klapollo#ace attorney#apollo justice#klavier gavin#apollo justice ace attorney#um so basically. you know that line in turnabout succession where apollo talks about passing notes to a crush#well in the jp version he references baseball#and fun fact: in highschool i did all of the yearbook coverage for one of our softball teams. which was an insane thing to assign to a baby#gay such as myself#so this spawned from a combination of those things#so if we’re being very technical this is a high school baseball player/yearbook photographer au. but high school aus aren’t really my thing#so they can be older idk i didn’t put that much thought into it
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Arval Fireemblemwarriorsthreehopes and A Xenobladechronicles3futureredeemed were a targeted one-two strike against my gender identity, and I will never forgive them for it (affectionate).
#cal draws lucia draws#arval#fe arval#arval fire emblem#a xenoblade#a#xenoblade#xenoblade chronicles 3#xenoblade chronicles 3 future redeemed#future redeemed#xbc3#xc3#xc3 future redeemed#xc3fr#fire emblem warriors three hopes#three hopes#fewth#oh my GOD I can't believe I'm finally done with this#(or at a point where I'm really able to say 'good enough')#not counting two meme doodles and some scribbles#this is actually the first thing I've drawn digitally??#and I'm honestly shocked at how happy I am with the result#a lot of it is traced to be sure#a in particular cause I had a reference I could basically pose myself#but with arval it was a lot more tricky because for them I didn't have that#which I guess you can tell with how their sleeves and. uh#floppy cloth tendrils came out#but still I think I'm satisfied with the results#I even added in fingernails for arval#*FINGERNAILS*
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[Image description: A traditional drawing of Katrina from the film Vamp. It is boldly coloured with oil pastels, and is a close-up of her face, stretched out to bare her fangs. Both her mouth and her eyes are wide open, although one of her eyes is obscured in a dark shadow. She is deeply shadowed, although the contours of her face are lit up from below in a bright and unnatural neon green, which also makes her visible eye look uncanny. There is a pink rim light around the top of her head, and deeper reds behind her. The oil pastels create a grainy texture that is offset by the rigidity of the colour blocking of the different tones of her face.]
#katrina vamp#vamp 1986#vamp#katrina vamp fanart#vamp 1986 fanart#vamp fanart#traditional art#so basically i havent posted in nearly a year now due to mental failings (i say ambiguously cos its hard to sum up)#which is to say its more of a persistent but underlying mood than something catastrophic and that so dw too much#anyway#this whole time i have been really sad that i havent been posting art and it would make me happy to do that again#so here i am#i think i will try inktober this year just to get back into things but like give myself 2 days ahead this time#if it is hard i will just finish it in my own time lol#but this is a pretty old piece as i have a backlogue of older and newer ones that im gonna post#about 2 b4 inktober and i will resume the rest after#anyway vamp is great and grace jones is amazing in it and u should all watch it 💛💛#pinnacle of 80s red green lighting (my fave type of lighting)#also for reference i scanned this a week or so after i stopped posting lol
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filipino percy's issue with the gods started when he realized that the gods are why there's an exclusive "our" and an inclusive "our" in tagalog. and the gods clearly were never talking about their family in a way that included their children 😐😐
#jshdksb this is hard to translate into an english post fuck me basically there's a way for the gods to be like#“we had to do it to protect our family! to save our honor!” and they would explictly be only referring to themselves and not their kids#or whoever they were talking to. so this works in a lot of the ways that they would excuse their behavior but 100% tell on themselves#bc it would be clear when its not for the collective good. and thats what pinoy percy is all about wbk#its ok the audience for this one is me myself and I so#percy jackson#pjo#filipino percy
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one thing I enjoy about patrick o’brian’s writing is that quite often not only are the curtains intentionally blue, sometimes they manage to be blue in reference to two different characters, a major theme, something classical, and a dad joke. Love books that make me decode one-off references.
#This is generally a little more true of the early books#it reads as if he was entertaining himself via packing as many references as he could into his stories#i was so pleased with myself for catching the mention of Actaeon in the first chapter of Post Captain#but the lubber’s hole has caught other classical references involving diana that went right over my head#im especially mad abt the Iphegenia one bc I literally JUST re-read Iphegenia at Aulis lmao#also the ‘palm in gilead’ aubreyism#being a reference to a bible verse with the line immediately following being basically ‘is there no physician?’ in the KJV#in the chapter where stephen is not present and will be revealed to be in danger#aubreyad
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Edited and subtitled a fun old clip but it's the middle of the night for most people, so I'm posting that tomorrow.
#mod talk#Saw someone asking about the clip where Fit told Phil about how Tazercraft started#I wasn't even home but I was like ''hold my beer'' and found the date + timestamps in like 2 minutes#I swear the VOD timestamp archive is basically my own personal reference book at this point#tbd#Posting this mostly to remind myself to publish it instead of leaving it saved as a draft
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Another thing I’m interested in speculation-wise is how Haymitch’s character will be handled. I like to think THG series has great and well-written characters because they have flaws.
I think fandom and our own biases kind of form rose-colored glasses of certain characters, which is understandable.
And Haymitch is arguably more of the (book) fandom’s golden boy than canon-golden-boy Peeta.
But like, I’ve seen a lot of posts during my time being really into THG, and something that’s stuck with me is the idea that Katniss is not very likable. This was before Tbosas came out but this is even more so true for Coriolanus!
They’re both from a limited perspective, so we get to read all the messy thoughts, the unpleasant and angry ones. They do fucked up things and it’s so great to read.
But now with Haymitch being the confirmed protagonist (💖💖💖), it makes me think of what we’ll see him do. The thoughts he’ll have.
I jokingly typed somewhere “what if she [Suzanne Collins] makes him [Haymitch] a cheater or smth 😭” (idk if this was to a friend, a tumblr draft I never posted, or like just somewhere on my phone or smth) and I wasn’t being serious but the initial worry was still there: “what if my favorite character does something that makes me think differently/more negatively about them?” I’m not actually “worried” about this for SotR, but it’s still something I think about.
This also applies to Maysilee and every other character we know of in SotR. It also ties into the unfortunate reality of SotR being the headcanon destroyer 💀
There are so many what-if’s that come to mind with Sunrise on the Reaping,
Again, I’m not actually too concerned (at least I’m trying not to be?) that SotR will ruin Haymitch or the entire way I view Panem, but I’m interested to hear what others have to say. Because I’ve pretty much seen this sentiment before ever since SotR was announced.
#the hunger games#haymitch abernathy#sunrise on the reaping#this isn’t too well written but honestly I’m just posting this to get it out of the drafts#I’m deluding myself into the idea that this helps me somehow LMAO#thg#sotr#I also think it’s important to get these ideas out BEFORE SotR comes out#not ‘important’ but like…preferred. personally.#lmao watch me eat my words#God I hope Haymitch doesn’t do something unequivocally bad💀#LIKE WHAT IF HE’S SEXIST OR SOMETHING IDK-#jk#I just hope he’s ‘Katniss’ unlikable and not ‘Gale or Coriolanus’ unlikable#this also HEAVILY applies to his girl#this is basically just me preemptively complaining about little things LMAO#but like what if his girlfriend does petty things or threatens to breakup with him or smth-#me referring to THG series about political and class dystopia: but what if the teenage romance is messy and not perfect and I dont like it#anyway!#please sotr give me a Haymitch ship that’s like Everlark and not a Gale/Katniss ship#and im also begging the fandom to pleaseeeeeeeee not give the new fanon Haymitch (a conversation for another day) a cheater arc
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Linked Universe hours hell yeah
#I got a little lazy with this lmao#first time drawing them all tho and I wanted to get a basic color reference for myself#I got a little lazy with it too lol#linked universe#lu legend#lu warriors#lu four#lu twilight#lu time#lu wild#lu hyrule#lu wind#lu sky#brenda's art
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Assigned male by tiktok user
#i genuinely laughed my ass off for a solid 10 minutes#can't even be mad because it's so funny and just stupid to me#i'm so confused what the thought process here was#i mean yeah it's assigning someone a gender based on your own assumptions and taking their autonomy of their own identity away#basically just found a progressive version of “you're a man because [way they look dress act etc]”#but the thing that kills me is that they used my pronouns to do that#something that is understood to be something put in place wholly by the individual themselves#i think it would be common sense to assume i'm aware what my pronouns are#and that if i use terms like wife of my own volition it isn't invalidating to my gender because i chose both of those ways to refer to me#“Your pronouns are he/him which means you're a husband!” made it sound like he/him pronouns are something objective i have to conform to#and not... words i deliberately picked myself?#what could they even have thought was happening here to think that would be a helpful sentiment?#yeah pronoun police is very common nowadays and people losing their shit at the idea of someones gender not aligning with their pronouns#realistically that's probably what happened here#but if i try to read genuine good intention into this it makes it so much funnier and ridiculous#tiktok#pronouns#gender nonconforming#nonbinary#non binary#genderqueer#multigender#multigender umbrella
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yesterday at work, one of the older kids (ish; five) saw my water bottle (it's like 64 oz I'm a thirsty bitch) on the counter, and said, "is that your big water bottle?" and I was like yeah so he was like "why is it so big' and I said "well I'm a big boy I need a big bottle" and he said "you're not a boy you're a girl!!" because while I'm out with the adults I don't tell every kid my pronouns yknow most of em don't even really speak yet. my coworker refers to me as them in front of the kids but like they're kids, right? and if you've got no context for my whole thing or gender Stuff in general, sure I look like a girl and that's not a like, offensive guess, ykwim?
anyway, I said, "that's just your opinion, man," and turned to help another kid. it did not come up again.
#my philosophy re child rearing is basically just explain stuff#I frequently use works that I KNOW the toddlers won't know#but I also always define it if I know I've said something they won't get#and idk if they actually pick any of it up#but I did get to teach a little girl about poinitilism last week and that was cool as hell#but yeah I'm not like Explaining Gender to these kids I just refer to myself correctly#also you gotta offer them choices#but yeah if you're super chill most of them time when you break out the full name and the loud voice#that kid is 100% gonna freeze#if you're always yelling they'll ignore you you gotta be chill and then add sauce when needed#I'm not a parent I'm just a day care guy okay
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