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Reclaim Our History From The Dark

@firebreak-titan

Various reblogs and some posts of Destiny, anime, and some thing in between. Of course, memes as well. Welcome, and enjoy.
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I’m opening up commissions. Just need to post this already and get it over with. I’m starting out here with a nice YCH commission. If you would be kind enough to message on Twitter so I can keep it all in one place that’d be awesome! Thank you all for your support, I love you all and appreciate it a lot!

$45 for either Desktop or Phone Wallpaper $50 total for both (it’s a steal!)

Extra Costs for +More detailed characters +Personal “sun” shape No cost for -Basic “sun” shapes (circle, diamond, etc.) -Changing the text (Color/Text) -Horizon line color

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shopping carts are pathetic little herd animals and when you don’t bring them back to their corrals after they’re done helping you they scream and cry and wail because they’re alone and scared and exposed to predators. you have the power to prevent this

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Hey btw, if you're doing worldbuilding on something, and you're scared of writing ~unrealistic~ things into it out of fear that it'll sound lazy and ripped-out-of-your-ass, but you also don't want to do all the back-breaking research on coming up with depressingly boring, but practical and ~realistic~ solutions, have a rule:

Just give the thing two layers of explanation. One to explain the specific problem, and another one explaining the explanation. Have an example:

Plot hole 1: If the vampires can't stand daylight, why couldn't they just move around underground?
Solution 1: They can't go underground, the sewer system of the city is full of giant alligators who would eat them.

Well, that's a very quick and simple explanation, which sure opens up additional questions.

Plot hole 2: How and why the fuck are there alligators in the sewers? How do they survive, what do they eat down there when there's no vampires?
Solution 2: The nuns of the Underground Monastery feed and take care of them as a part of their sacred duties.

It takes exactly two layers to create an illusion that every question has an answer - that it's just turtles all the way down. And if you're lucky, you might even find that the second question's answer loops right back into the first one, filling up the plot hole entirely:

Plot hole 3: Who the fuck are the sewer nuns and what's their point and purpose?
Solution 3: The sewer nuns live underground in order to feed the alligators, in order to make sure that the vampires don't try to move around via the sewer system.

When you're just making things up, you don't need to have an answer for everything - just two layers is enough to create the illusion of infinite depth. Answer the question that looms behind the answer of the first question, and a normal reader won't bother to dig around for a 3rd question.

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bfleuter

This is good advice on worldbuilding.

And also. 

I would really like to play a vampire-hunting sewer-nun and her pet alligator in a ttrpg.

Woops uh oh oops woops.

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charhounds

i do not care if i reblog something ive reblogged before my memory is weaker than the lead in a mechanical pencil

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yellowpie

If you signed up for my show you signed up for some reruns too

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hey I wonder what happens if I put powdered milk into carbonated water

my cereal is loud and it's demanding to know why I would sin against both nature and god so thoughtlessly

...how does it taste?

the fizz comes from carbonic acid in the water splitting up into CO₂ and H₂O over time. And carbonic acid is – as an acid – sour.

By adding milk to sour water you've created a very convincing emulation of spoiled milk, so I'll believe in a heartbeat that the taste is Not Great™.

I have mastered the potion: Instant Spoiled Milk, therefore earning the rank of shittiest alchemist currently alive.

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Apparently one of the Germanic manuscripts for the Ars Almadel (medieval angel summoning grimoire) has a piece of advice where if an angel isn't picking up, you can write their name on one of the ritual candles to FORCE them to appear for as long as the candle keeps their name legible.

You are COMING to Brazil

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