Doodles for THE RED CIRCLE…putting Watson in miserable situations for my own amusement hehe
the funniest thing about ttrpgs is that you can create a guy and say "his name is blorbo bleebus. he sucks severely. i hope that many misfortunes befall blorbo bleebus. he does not deserve to be happy." and at least one of your friends will immediately jump in to say "noooo... don't bully blorbo bleebus... i love blorbo bleebus..."
“To Make a Long Story Short”
Stephen Andrade’s wonderful pulp-style tribute to Clue (1985)
Prints and original artwork available at nineteeneightyeight.com or through @galleries1988 on Instagram :)
The post about angel wings not needing to be purely white to be beautiful reminded me of a picture I LOVE
This pigeon is an angel
They are perverts and need to mind their business
the usa shouldn’t be the political and economic focal point of the entire fucking planet, actually
This is.....niche. Do period-appropriate chickens even still exist? Idk anything about chickens. I like the fancy ones.
Period appropriate chickens ("heritage breeds") do still exist, and even include some very fancy ladies, such as:
The Brahma, a popular giant known for its massive meat production and comically large eggs.
The cochin, seen here with gold and black 'lace' pattern
The barred plymouth, an incredible forager for lightly wooded terrain
The fayoumi, often regarded as The Oldest Breed of chicken
The wyandotte, a particularly good forager as well as a bulky, meaty bird.
The Minorca, a Spanish bird with stunning black feathers
And of course, the famous indonesian ayam cemani, which has black meat and bones
Old timey chickens often ARE the 'fancy' ones!
This is.....niche. Do period-appropriate chickens even still exist? Idk anything about chickens. I like the fancy ones.
Smeeking on my flower
not to be insensitive but some of the salem witch trials were so funny bitches like “i saw her at the devils sacrament!!!” girl… what were YOU doing at the devils sacrament 👀
If ANYTHING is a heritage post it’s this.
Local Detective gets a taste of his own medicine, more at 11.
Anyway Radio Holmes continues to be a fantastic (and occasionally hilarious) adaptation. And I enjoy Mycroft and Sherlock so much in it - Mycroft calling him "my boy" and knowing he's bored so sending him on a case.
[ID: a digital drawing of Mycroft, Sherlock and Watson. Mycroft is smiling and saying "he's annoyed with me, doctor, because i didn't tell him everything right at the start of the case." Sherlock has his arms crossed and looks displeased. Watson, hand resting on Sherlocks bag smiles and looks at him with a raised eyebrow saying "and you find that irritating, Holmes, really?" /End ID]
Ron Finley in his garden wearing a moss and succulent coat created by Melissa Meier
You know what fantasy stories don't use enough? Different measuring scales, and confusion caused by them. Because before the metric system, practically every place and culture had their own measures for weights, lengths and distances. It would be fun to add that into a story for added realistic cultural confusion.
The average dwarf is four or five feet tall, but not in human measures. Yeah they're still shorter than humans but the dwarf foot (and the namesake measure of length) is bigger in proportion to their body. "Is that in dwarf feet or human feet?" is a common question to hear on construction sites, wherever human carpenters and dwarf masons are working together.
A dedicated local Common Misconception Historian has a pet peeve about the whole "princess Featherblade was only 12 years old when she led the attack on Marshland Halls" -myth, because the historical recordings on the human side are off. While she was remarkably young, that myth came about back in the day when humans were still trying to apply "dog years" to elves, and in an elven life span, 120 years is not a direct equivalent to a 12-year-old human.
A whole culture whose smallest unit of weight loosely translates to "about as much as an apple", and varies from region to region depending on the size of local apples. These people are famed for their alchemists, whose uncanny ability to simply measure their ingredients by heart, making their recipes essentially impossible to replicate. This famed skill is a matter of survivor bias - the ones that don't have that knack ten to explode into fine mist.
As a sidenote. Medieval construction sites actually decided at the beginning of the project just exactly whose feet, inches and thumbspaces they were going to use for this site. Then they’d post them on a board at the workshops so everyone could be on the same page here.
I want to believe that there have been several incidents where this desicion was resolved with a fist fight.
Agreeing with all the above. (And there are a few places in my own stuff where measurements are an issue.)
But also losing it at "Princess Featherblade" and wondering what happened to make her folks name her after a cut of steak. :)
This Wikipedia article has a more comprehensive list
There’s no results
You have to pick
And one and 2, electricity and Wi-Fi does magically work
For the scotch bonnet, during the start of the industrial revolution
bird names that are fun to say:
- little grebe
- great tit
- bustard
- squacco heron
- hottentot buttonquail
- hoopoe
- SWAAAAN
bird names that sound like terry pratchett characters:
- exclamatory paradise whydah
- hudsonian godwit
- geelvink megapode
- hoary puffleg
- drab seedeater
- malabar trogon
- perplexing scrubwren
- brolga
- limpkin
- titicaca grebe
- superb fairywren
- tinkling cisticola
- ōū
birds that aren't evil but have evil-sounding names:
- hooded crow
- satanic nightjar
- monotonous lark
- widowbird
- pitylus
- killdeer
- masked owl
- dracula parrot
- parasitic jaeger
- tyrant flycatcher
- dark chanting goshawk
- sabrewing
bird names that are just really, really good:
- powerful owl
- go-away bird
- tit tyrant
- amethyst-throated mountain-gem
- inaccessible island rail
- macaroni penguin
- flying steamer duck
- sandwich tern
- spangled drongo
- bananaquit
- sad flycatcher