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hi I'm from your pseudo-medieval fantasy city. yeah. you forgot to put farms around us. we have very impressive walls and stuff but everyone here is starving. the hero showed up here as part of his quest and we killed and ate him
yeah umm actually everyone kinda lives, inside.. the walls yeah. no yeah theres not any surrounding farming communities or villages to levy taxes from so we're pretty much just in a stone pit all together. Theres a massive stone castle tho! where did the infrastructure for the stone quarring come from? I dont know... Evil wizard maybe?
If you actually want to know how medieval (and overall pre-industrial) cities interacted with its rural enviroment, check out these articles:
Long story short, cities weren't islands in the middle of nowhere. If you're a generic fantasy character approaching a city, you wouldn't find a lonely Shining City Upon A Hill (hmm, interesting imagery there, wonder what it means...), but actually a highly populated area of farms, orchards and all that feeds and maintains a city.
consder the following: someone might want to write a story about characters doing stuff, and not a textbook on an imaginary land's infrastructure
- nobody is forcing you to do anything, nobody here said You Always Have To Do This
- is it not curious how often grand stories are told where the labor of the masses that is required to maintain a society is hidden away to focus on the upper class while their dependence on the exploitation of the lower classes is ignored? what does it say thematically, regardless of intentions, about a work and the culture it was made in when that happens so often, and when someone sees discussions of it as only possible as boring "textbook" material?
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Gonna get myself a fun little surprise I guess
This is better than I'd ever hoped for, I bet a rat could kill you with that thing by firing a laser back in time and electrocuting your grandfather
Just look at this thing
The rat gun is hereeeeee!
This is getting notes again so I will admit that "rat gun" was an autocorrect error and it was supposed to be "ray gun."
But it'll always be a rat gun to me.
The most expensive thing in these pictures was the cat, and he was $60.
I'll be honest--I forgot that the pump organ desk/bar was visible in the background, and it was NOT under $60.
It was actually $75.
The chairs, however, were paid for in human life. I inherited them; they were originally my great grandmother's. But they're not particularly rare-- you can find these exact chairs without a lot of effort, in reasonable shape, for not that much money. They made a lot of them.
your gazelle has a pearl choker
That's Hadrian. He's a bush buck and he loves fashion.
Hi you asked this question and I immediately went to the pottery studio to make a calcifer to put in my woodstove.
Will update if he survives the kiln.
i am still on tenterhooks vis a vis calcifer 🥺🥺🥺
I just brought him home from the pottery studio and wired him for light. He lives!!!!!
OP just wondering do you like have the closet to Narnia tucked in there somewhere?
Dude, c'mon, these things take time.
Give me a couple hours.
Okay!! We have doordrobe! It's not quite done but after nearly turning myself into an hellpancake while carrying this in from the garage to the house, I feel like I should call it a night.
Right now it's not going into a secret room (but the Angel of Death (And WiFi) behind it does have a secret compartment for my router? Does that count) but Malice and Vice are still exploring it like it's a whole new world.
The House of Horrors continues to be...well, exactly what it is.
Oh, no, all radioactive materials go in The Box.
please explain. Do you actually have a lead lined box for radioactive objects, or are you just talking about the router behind the painting?
The Box.
whoah hey man don't give out my address to strangers on the internet they're gonna mess with my schemes.
and anyways I'm not sure yet if I want to install a lightning effect ceiling. It's cool but it would be hard to dust...
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Is modding Stardew Valley relatively easy? I was thinking when I'm done with all this paperwork it might be fun to mod Silas and Gladys in as dogs. I didn't think I'd become a dog memorial person, but with my failing memory I'm trying to claw onto anything to make sure I don't forget, and I think it would be really cute and novel to see my little guys running around in a video game.
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MORDRED MANOR!
By popular demand - MORDRED MANOR! SPOILERS AHOY There were 9 total backgrounds for this set! Any space with white in the windows is where you'd get a glimpse of the graveyard outside :) Starting off with the Graveyard, the Kitchen, and the Foyer
Next up we've got Lydia's room, Sandra Lynn and Jawbone's room, and the Staircase ♥
And finally Adaine, Fig, and Kristen's rooms!
Fun little thing here - I originally wanted to give Adaine a bunk bed, since Aelwyn lived there too. But when I learned she'd moved out I turned it into a desk and loft bed, and then the props department MADE the bed to match the art!
I owe you my first born child. Thank you.
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this is my son he has every disease
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Desperately need a compilation of all the names Adaine has called Kipperlily
I'll get on that for ya boss o7 (this is actually a really silly project I love it.)
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"The Website Said it Was in Stock!"
New Epithet Erased short. Artwork by LuveyGold Original audio by Scott Seiss
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Hey artists, C. Spike Trotman, founder of Iron Circus Comics, just posted an invaluable thread on depicting different types of black hair. I’d do the thing where you screencap the whole thread and post it but it’s just too long (which is great because it’s a whole lot of useful information!) Give her a follow while you’re there.
Anyway, go check it out. I just wanted to save it and share it because I didn’t know how much I didn’t know!
This is an amazing resource, not only for artists, but for writers too! I love this!
poikaboo
{ID - tweet from @/Iron_Spike that reads, “Black Hair for Non-Black Artists: a Cheat Sheet Thread. Hi, folks! Just spur-of-the-moment decided to put together some reference for folks who want to draw/model black characters in their work, but arent confident they won’t make simple, obvious mistakes w/r/t black hair. END ID}
I noticed in the comments that some people can’t see the thread, so I took screenshots for y'all!
More will come in reblogs, since tumblr has an image limit
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Since the Percy Jackson show is coming out tomorrow (!!!!) it's time to shout something into the void:
DO NOT SEND HATE TO THE ACTORS. THEY ARE LITERALLY CHILDREN.
This means if you are:
- mad about a casting decision
- mad about a certain scene/character/line not being in the show
- mad about how something plays out in the show
- mad at a character for turning out to be a bad guy
- mad at a character for getting in the way of your ship
you DO NOT direct that anger at the actors who are just doing their jobs. You can be mad at Disney, you can be mad at Rick, but you leave the kids alone. Growing up in the public eye is really, really hard and we should do whatever we can to make it easier for them.
To that effect, this also means that:
- If two characters are love interests in the show, do not start shipping the actors in real life. This applies to all actors in all shows generally but especially to kids
- Don't make negative comments on the actors' physical appearances.
"So-and-so doesn't have enough muscle" "That person is not pretty enough to play a child of Aphrodite"These are kids who's bodies are still growing and developing, and pressures of Hollywood are already insane, so none of that shit.
Alright, shouting over. Enjoy the show!
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waiting patiently for the arrival of a beautiful woman called Skip Ad
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The Actor
Long story short, if you haven’t followed @fangirltothefullest by now, I highly recommend that you do so right now immediately. She’s a very talented artist who has made all sorts of gorgeous fanart for a variety of fandoms. Now, those of you who are already following her probably know about the Sanders Sides/ Little Nightmares AU she’s recently created. Little Nightmares is one of my all-time favorite games, and ever since Little Nightmares 2 came out, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about how I NEEDED to write for it somehow.
So, this is the start of a short series of snippets that I will be writing alongside Tashi’s drawings. Some may take a bit longer to post than others, but I will make an effort to finish them in time with when the art is posted. Once again, this AU is the product of @fangirltothefullest, not me. I’m just taking inspiration from her ideas. With all that out of the way, I hope you enjoy this snippet and the ones to come!
(Psst! You can also find this story and the ones to follow it at https://archiveofourown.org/users/WouldntYou_Like2Know)
(Trigger Warnings: descriptions of body horror, mentions of crying and self-deprecation, mentions of broken glass, mentions of blood. Please let me know if I missed anything.)
Red leaned heavily against the mirror, head hanging. It was difficult to breathe without hiccuping–his little gasps for air sounded desperate and shallow.
Stop it. Stop it right now.
A whimper rose crept from his throat before he caught it. Why was he shaking?
Why are you always so pathetic?
That voice in the back of his head…was that his voice? It didn’t sound like his voice–or maybe he didn’t want to think it did. Was he thinking that? Why would he? He knew he had talent–he knew what he could do and he was proud of it!
…Wasn’t he?
You’ll never get to go onstage looking like that.
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Terminal Hanaki? Boring. Chronic Hanahaki? Exciting.
Not enough chronic illness in fanfic. Shout-out to my folks who spend 6-8 weeks of the year in the hospital.
Prof you fucking genius is it seasonal? Like it happens in spring cause the flowers bloom? Imagine it hitting hanahaki season and looking around a room and seeing whose missing, who’s out on sick leave, thr curiosity the DRAMA
It’s like how everyone with autoimmune disorders disappears during flu season! Except with even more drama.
#this is honestly how I initially thought hanahaki in fic worked #coughing up flowers for years because you won’t cop to your feelings? #that’s the stuff #the dying thing puts on really uncomfortable pressure for me #like ‘love me back or I’ll die’ is uncomfortable as hell for me #whereas ‘ADMIT YOU’RE IN LOVE YOU JUST COUGHED UP A BOUQUET!’ #hanahaki-suffering person: ‘no’ THIS IMMEDIATELY IMPROVES THE ENTIRE TROPE! I had really disliked Hanahaki because it’s almost like the other person - if they’re a good person - is sorta blackmailed into either having feelings or being responsible for your death which is Not Romantic, but I can totally get down for FEELIGS made into an aggravating physical metaphor that you could potential deal with if you’d either confront them or get therapy or something.
This puts the song “I Won’t Say (I’m in Love)” in a completely new light.
I am in awe at how much this tweak changes the trope of hanahaki from something I quietly detest from a distance into something I would gleefully read and giggle about to others.
Honestly I don’t even think it’s even the removal of the death thing (like that’s certainly helpful, but you can probably keep it, if you need it for the Drama) that saves it, so much as it is the idea that the problem is caused purely by you not admitting your feelings, rather than the other person not sharing them.
Like, in the standard version of Hanahaki, the point is that the disease is caused by unrequited love, and the afflicted end up coughing up increasingly large amounts of flowers, until either they suffocate or the other person returns their feelings.
A lot of versions do require a confession on top of that, but fundamentally the most important thing is the object of your affections developing specifically romantic feelings for you. Or you die.
As an aro person, I’m sure I don’t need to explain why this trope is uncomfortable for me, considering that it basically paints me as a potential death trap.
Plus some stories also feature ‘The Surgery’, which removes the roots of the flowers from the victim’s lungs, thus saving their life, but in the process makes them incapable of romantic love, which is treated as the highest tragedy.
Chronic Hanahaki on its own would still kind of have this problem, it’s just toning it down a bit— rather than being responsible for your death, your crush is instead just responsible for your continued pain/discomfort and frequent hospital visits. Better, but still kind of icky.
Chronic Hanahaki (that could still be potentially terminal in the long term, if you need extra drama) caused by not saying your feelings aloud, regardless of how the other person feels, on the other hand?
Beautiful. Great metaphor for the real effects that repressing your emotions can have on your body. Lots of dramatic potential.
Like, obviously there’s your bog-standard “I love you but don’t believe that you love me, so I will choose to suffer tragically alone rather than risk making you feel bad for not loving me back” thing that the Hanahaki genre was made for, but there’s room for more here as well.
Especially if you expand it to be about supressed emotions in general, rather than just romantic love.
For example:
- The character who is in a relationship, but still has trouble verbalising their feelings sometimes, due to past trauma/mental illness, and thus still experiences recurring bouts of Hanahaki. Their partner who reassures them that it’s okay, that they know they love them, and that if they want to say it then that’s fine, but if they don’t feel they can right now then your flowers are beautiful babe, and that’s fine too.
- The character who notices flower petals lying around their kid’s room, and doesn’t understand why their child won’t just tell them who they are in love with, so they can support them in confessing their feelings. Only to find out that their kid has actually been dating their same gender best friend for months now, and the Hanahaki was about coming out to their parent.
- The autistic character with alexithymia, who by this point just treats coughing up the occasional flower petal as another, rather annoying autistic trait. “Fuck,” they say, coughing up a blood-stained rose and holding it up for their friends to see. “Anyone got any ideas what this one could be about?”
- The polar opposite of the traditional Hanahaki thing. The ever happy, toxic positivity character who will die from the flowers choking their lungs unless they finally admit that they kind of hate you sometimes.
- The character at the funeral of a family member they had an extremely dysfunctional relationship with, defiantly coughing their flower petals right onto the grave, and refusing to admit that they felt anything other than dislike or indifference for them deep down, because even now, when they’re dead and gone and it doesn’t matter, “you first, bitch.”
- The character who witnessed or was told something that they aren’t supposed to know, and not only has to deal with the secret eating away at them, but also has to come up with more and more reasons for why their Hanahaki isn’t going away, even after they confess all their other secrets.
- The character who, upon clearing out the house of a beloved elderly relative who recently died, finds a whole room full of rotting flowers, and is faced with the question of what their relative’s big secret was.
Reworking Hanahaki to be a material and physical symptom of emotional bottling or stress is absolutely fantastic, especially because it brings several more layers to the AU that weren’t otherwise worth exploring before when it was just a ‘cough flowers up till you die’ kinda deal. Obviously plenty has been said above me by excellent individuals, but I offer a couple more questions/ideas:
- There is a huge following of people who believe the petals or type of flower from Hanahaki symptoms somehow represents a person’s inner feelings, emotions, or state of being.
- Does a rose mean you’re holding back a romantic attraction? If your friend is coughing up daisy petals, are they hiding a secret? If you start finding lavender petals in your coughs, should you think about who it is you don’t trust?
- On the flip side, perhaps each person experiences Hanahaki with a very specific type of flower, and there are some who believe that flower represents the person in some form–perhaps to the degree of astrology. Someone who is a daffodil shouldn’t date someone who is a lilac, the two of them are intrinsic opposites and they’ll never get along!
- Fortune-tellers who say they can read your future if you’re currently experiencing symptoms and bring in a handful of petals you’ve expelled–they’ll read them just like palm lines or tarot cards.
Realigning this again so I can actually use it eventually-
Good job everyone, you survived, Ashton survived, have some water, and get some rest, yall truly deserve it.
(And kick Ashton on the way out for your troubles.)
I'm not watching the ep, but you guys are going *through* it and I'm so sorry but I'm laughing so much. Now I won't be when I watch the episode I'm sure, and I feel very bad for everyone that is, but watching the panic is oddly funny rn.
Good luck though, may the dice be with yall and Ashton.
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Anonymous asked:
AITA for dating my son’s arch nemesis?
I (29F) am a single mother living in Kanto. My husband’s been gone for a while and hasn’t returned in several years, and my son (10M) has been gone for quite some time, on his own pokémon journey. As a result, it’s been admittedly a little bit lonely around the house as of late, and given no word from my husband, I’ve been thinking about maybe starting to see someone else.
One day, while I was at work, I came across a woman, who we’ll call J (25F) and her group of friends? Coworkers? You see, J and her, let’s just say group, actually used to work for Team Rocket, and on multiple occasions in the past have terrorized my son and his friends for their pokémon. (I’ve actually met them before on a few occasions.) However, they assured me that their boss had fired them and were now done with the criminal lifestyle. They’re actually really nice once you get to know them! For the past couple of months, they’ve been helping me around the house (they needed a place to stay until they got back on their feet) as well as the restaurant where I work. They’ve even been helping out my neighbor, who’s a professor, with some work around the lab.
But to make a long story short, after really hitting it off, J and I have started seeing each other romantically. However, I’ve neglected to tell my son this while he’s been on his travels, so it came to a bit of a shock for him when he came home. I keep trying to convince him to give J a chance, and that she’s no longer affiliated with Team Rocket anymore, but he’s still convinced that she’s “up to no good”. What should I do? AITA?
this is perfect
