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Lots of thoughts recently. Everything feels plastic.

I could go on and on about why all that AI "art" is bad. I could mention theft, lack of creativity, it's impact on the work field and environment, but countless people have already said all that. I wanted to touch on something that to me is the most utterly wrong about all of it.

Art is more than just something pretty to look at or listen to. It's therapeutic. It's a form of communication. A tool for human connection. It's a pure, human need.

Support real artists ☀️

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We love having diverse subplots….

Mon Mothma:

Syril & Dedra:

Cassian:

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Ah, yes, the three types of Doctor Who episodes:

Silly space nonsense that is just a thinly veiled critique of one of society's current issues

Unexpected historical figures show up and do cool stuff that will never make it into any history books

The most traumatizing and anti-capitalistic 45 minutes of television you will ever see

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I made these as a way to compile all the geographical vocabulary that I thought was useful and interesting for writers. Some descriptors share categories, and some are simplified, but for the most part everything is in its proper place. Not all the words are as useable as others, and some might take tricky wording to pull off, but I hope these prove useful to all you writers out there!

(save the images to zoom in on the pics)

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Guess who's back!

He's so.... So....

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they’re so precious to me

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Pack dynamics for domestic urban fantasy werewolves:

● They're never exclusively werewolves. Werewolves have a habit of aggressively adopting everyone they are fond of and when you've won the trust and affection of one, the rest come along in a package deal.

● They're territorial in the protective sense. No trouble in our neighborhood. No hunger in our houses. No fear on our streets.

● They hold grudges. Shopkeeper overcharged one of the pack members in their store? None of them will shop there again. Restaurant owner yelled at one the cubs who got a job there washing up? They've just lost all their hungriest diners.

● Young werewolves think the word "pack" is way too old fashioned and prefer words like crowd, crew, fam, and swarm. ("Honestly, honey, swarm? What are we, pigeons?")

● They're nosy. The upside is no one with a werewolf pack to back them up will ever be left to fend for themselves. The downside is that everyone is always sticking their hairy noses in.

● They vary greatly in size. In some places, especially more rural ones, it's not uncommon to find entire villages that are basically one pack. In other places they might only have a dozen members, scattered about. And many packs start with a set of two or three going somewhere new to build a life and a community.

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Yall sleeping on this Sam L. Jackson interview about trump lmfao.

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sometimes you need dialogue tags and don't want to use the same four

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So in a fit of absolute projection and an attempt at coping, I looked at a character (Wu) who carries a walking stick once (“After All These Years” S4E1) and receives a lot of massages and sauna treatments and I assigned him fibromyalgia. And it makes a weird amount of sense (I say attempting to justify my projection). Wu just fits the vibe.

But I can’t stop imaging Wu with chronic pain. Mako would get really good at identifying when Wu is flaring up, and just pick him up, so he doesn’t have to walk while he’s in pain.

Everyone else is confused, but eventually learns to just accept this. Essentially the whole winter, especially if it’s snowed, anytime the rest of Team Avatar sees Mako, he’s carrying Wu. They would be hanging out at Air Temple Island, just talking to Pema or something, Wu would look uncomfortable for half a second, and suddenly be in Mako’s arms.

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bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements

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I come to offer one of my favourite crackships, Valtor x Ogron Valtogron? Ogroltor? I don’t have a name for them yet I fear 😔✌🏾

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I apologize if you’ve already done a post on this. Please link me to it if you have. I’m very interested in how the names from each of the 4 nations (except maybe the earth kingdom) use very similar sounds. In the water tribe you see a lot of K’s. The fire nation has Z’s and R’s. The air nomads seem to have a lot of A’s. Obviously the names themselves have meanings but I’m curious if there’s any purpose behind the names having similar phonetics and letters.

In the case of the Water Tribe, it's a reference to how common voiceless velar plosives, otherwise known as "kuh" sounds, are in Inuit languages. I have a post listing Inuit dictionaries here. A quick peak into any of these dictionaries will reveal quite a few "k"s:

Similarly, most Air Nomad names are Tibetan in origin and Tibetan names have a lot of rounded "a" sounds.

@mostly-mundane-atla also has a funny post about how the Z came to be a staple sound of Fire Nation names.

On a more serious note, climate and geography affect what sounds are more common to a language. For example, "Kuh" sounds are very common in languages that developed in high altitudes, Inuit included. According to babbel.com, the theory goes...

...these sounds are easier to produce up high because at an altitude where there’s already less air pressure, it makes sense to communicate with compressed sounds that are easier to produce with the thinner air. Additionally, ejective phonemes [k sounds] require us to emit less water vapor when they’re uttered compared to other kinds of sounds. Losing too much water vapor at high altitudes can lead to dehydration and altitude sickness, so this linguistic feature may also be a biological adaptation that helps people survive in these climates.

I doubt the ATLA writers were thinking that deeply about which sounds would be more common in each nation's names--- they were simply drawing from their real life inspiration--- but it's a fun factor to consider when worldbuilding a fantasy culture.

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hiiii. as both an artist and a fan of atla and hades (the game), i really wanted to ask about the hades style character pieces you did - i loved it in the game too, and you did an amazing job recreating it yourself. do you have any tips or experiences that might help with drawing in that style? details, colours, elements, etc - anything really. tysm in advance, and i hope you're having a great day!!

HAIII THANK U SO MUCH SORRY THIS TOOK ME LITERAL MONTHS TO MAKE OTZ

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unusual warlock pacts <3

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I don’t think I ever introduced my Miraculous Rewrite AU thingy, better late than never I suppose. I don’t have my notes compiled sensibly yet, but for now, here’s Alya’s redesign, main story changes as of now are how she gets the Fox Miraculous.