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For a lesbian dragon, the correct answer to "which horns" is "whatever kind her princess finds comfortable to hang on to when they're flying".
(What we have in mind for now are black dragons, with low density silver glitter, silver enamel, so that the pride flag pops)
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While I fully understand the frustration with their thought process, I think it's important for fandom old(ers) and olds--I am one olders--of those to remember that we have readers who legit might be 18+ and also not remember a pre-Web 2.0 internet or not remember much. TikTok might be the most social-media-y but it just has traits the others share, cranked up to 11. It didn't bring new things in. Just shamelessly pursued the cynical parts.
People are smart. Anyone who came up in an age where Amazon, Google, and Facebook were the internet is going to assume algorithms are everywhere.
We can educate them when they find one of two major sites that aren't (AO3 and Wikipedia) but it's worth remembering that viewing the internet as of this moment, ours is the niche view. No algorithm? Yeah right. That's what they all say.
thinking about that post of people assuming ao3 has an algorithm and also about how bonkers persistent the view is that ao3 is social media lite. like with startling regularity I get comments saying something along the lines of "it's probably weird to comment on a fic this old--" no it isn't!!!! this is an archive I am literally just assuming you searched for a selection of specific tags or sorted by kudos or looked back on my pseud or any other number of completely normal ways to use an archive site ?? kill the tiktok ghost in your brain and comment on old stuff it's NOT weird
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This is why user freedom on devices is so important. A handful of companies shouldn’t limit our choices!
Cat software on dog hardware
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The real enemy a soldier must survive: paperwork.
What if they had to do paperwork?
(Unlike the other comics this doesn't actually happen in any of the games I'm just a fan of how dumb they all are)
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Rebageling to add to my pantry for future AUs.
Pirate Terms and Phrases
-> Pirate Lingo
-> A Pirate's Glossary
Batten Down The Hatches - tie everything down and put stuff away for a coming storm.
Brig - a prison on a ship.
Bring a Spring Upon 'er - turn the ship in a different direction
Broadside - the most vulnerable angle of a ship that runs the length of the boat.
Cutlass - a thick, heavy and rather short sword blade.
Dance with Jack Ketch - to hang; death at the hands of the law (Jack Ketch was a famed English executioner).
Davy Jones's Locker - a mythical place at the bottom of the ocean where drowned sailors are said to go.
Dead Men Tell No Tales - the reason given for leaving no survivors.
Flogging - severe beating of a person.
Gangplank - removable ramp between the pier and ship.
Give No Quarter - show no mercy.
Jack - flag flown at the front of the ship to show nationality.
Jolly Roger - black pirate flag with a white skull and crossbones.
Keelhaul - a punishment where someone is dragged under the ship. They are cut by the planks and barnacles on the bottom of the ship.
Landlubber - an inexperienced or clumsy person who doesn't have any sailing skills.
Letters of Marque - government-issued letters allowing privateers the right to piracy of another ship during wartime.
Man-O-War - a pirate ship that is decked out and prepared for battle.
Maroon - to leave someone stranded on a. deserted island with no supplies, typically a punishment for any crew members who disrespected the captain.
Mutiny - a situation in which the crew chooses a new captain, sometimes by forcibly removing the old one.
No Prey, No Pay - a common pirate law that meant crew members were not paid, but rather received a share of whatever loot was taken.
Old Salt - experienced pirate or sailor.
Pillage - to steal/rob a place using violence.
Powder Monkeys - men that performed the most dangerous work on the ship. They were treated harshly, rarely paid, and were expendable.
Privateer - government-appointed pirates.
Run A Shot Across the Bow - fire a warning shot at another boat's Captain.
Scurvy - a disease caused by Vitamin C Deficiency.
Sea Legs - when a sailor adjusts his balance from riding on a boat for a long time.
Strike Colors - lower a ship's flag to indicate surrender.
Weigh Anchor and Hoist the Mizzen - an order to the crew to pull up the anchor and get the ship sailing.
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Liara: "Shepard, babies are terrible at espionage. Also you can't cite them as a co-author in a paper."
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Another great thing about cardinals is their inherent vibe of "Useless dandy, ninth son of duke so and so, and his beloved and very practical wife, Molly, who came from a farm."
Being bright red is not a great trait for an easily edible species--hence females being a nice, camoflauge ready brown--but the ladies like it, and male cardinals are chugging the respect women juice so hard they are are willing to die on that hill (branch).
This is an adorable thing that cardinal couples do. Most birds only feed their young this way but cardinals feed their mates as part of their bonding rituals.
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I suspect they’re multi part: things like a comm chip (audio / video) or a projected keyboard (laser projected keyboards exist) could be wrist and ear implants. They’re in the realm of “improving on existing tech”. I think the CPU lives here. It’s a very cool smartphone.
But stuff like the combat parts (flame / ice projector, tech armor / Omni blade printers) would be much bigger, if for no other reason than they have consumables.
This also fits when in tense situations, the crew is asked to hand over their omnitools but can still get comms and hear aliens speak.
There’s a wired in portion everyone, civilian or military, has and then a bracelet or something that does the dangerous stuff. The latter would be seen as a weapon, the former not.
Omnitools?
Quick question, Mass Effect folks! I could google it but that would lead down the 20+ tabs open scenario and I'd much rather write.
Do we have a generally accepted headcanon about how omnitools actually work? Bracelet? Implant? Something?
I'm tending to implant rn, but I wanted to know real quick if there is some canon or broadly agreed fanon about it.
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Mass Effect’s First Law of Sapphic Narrative Structure
The more a hero of the galaxy (defined as an irreverent sassy bitch) faces, the more she needs her girlfriend (a young asari expert in the culture and technology of lost civilizations…).
If they give us a third pair, it’s an official trope!
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Excellent demonstration about why AI isn't that impressive. It can put sentences together based on probability of words being near each other.
But for anything remotely complex, knowing that a star and a coat are not animals is important. AI doesn't just not know that, it doesn't know anything besides X appearing appearing in the same sentence as Y at least Z percent of the time.
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I vote Milly. Give us Rhaenyra-level haughtiness in Kara.
To be honest I feel kind of bad for Sasha Calle, she seemed so happy to be playing Supergirl, only for the movie to be the Flash and for it to end up being a one time thing (multi-verse shenanigans aside).
I mean, at this stage I get WHY the role is being recast (scraping off all of the old universe A and B tier character's actors and getting new ones), but I still feel bad!
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We love some flirting by way of biting correspondence in the Yorkshire countryside...
Hebden Bridge, Calderdale, West Yorkshire (England)
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These all seem illogical to have exist, and that's why they work.
Ten inessential worldbuilding features for local communities in your fantasy RPG:
A grievance or conflict of interest with a neighbouring community which the community's members feel much more strongly about than the issue's magnitude really warrants
A substance or commodity important to everyday life with no local source, and the complicated and inconvenient arrangement the community has made to obtain it from outside sources
A local practice or custom whose original motivation has been rendered obsolete by changing circumstances, and which is now carried forward out of tradition
Something that's technically illegal, but everyone does it on the sly anyway, with enforcement of its illegality being reserved for people the community's leaders want to mess with for unrelated reasons
An obscure piece of trivia or local history which the community's members regard as obvious and widely known, to the extent of treating outsiders with contempt for revealing their ignorance of it
Some undertaking or realm of achievement in which the community isn't particularly exceptional, but which the community's members believe they're the best around at as a point of civic pride
A mostly harmless thing that nobody talks about because its existence or some facet of its historical context is regarded as an embarrassment to the community
A particular prank that's become traditional to play on visitors to the community, and which occasionally gets taken further than is strictly appropriate
A specific area of the setting's history where what the community's members insist really happened is wildly at odds with the accepted version of events
A genuinely dangerous circumstance that everyone treats with casual disregard because it's always been there, and only a damn fool would actually get hurt by it anyway
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okay so im struggling to word this, but like, eye (descriptions?) but not like color or looks, i mean like when books says "her eyes fluttered closed", "half lidded" and stuff like that. i have no idea how to use these, and no idea how they work
Illustrating Emotion with Eyes/Eye Movements
Eyes and eye movements, along with other aspects of facial expression and body language, can play a big role in indicating the emotion a character might be feeling in response to something they're thinking or experiencing.
Eye movements can be divided into three types:
- eyeballs
- eyelids
- eyebrows
Here are some things eye movements can indicate:
Eyes that brighten – acceptance
Eye contact – acceptance, admiration/adoration (prolonged eye contact), agitation (avoiding eye contact)
Eyes that twinkle – mischief, adoration
Eyes that harden – anger
Eyes that glaze over – boredom
Eyes that dart back and forth – anxiety, fear, disbelief
Eye that gleams – confidence
Eyes that glance furtively – desire, romantic interest
Eyes filled with tears – intense sadness or happiness
Eyes that look down/away – discomfort, guilt, uncertainty
Eyes that wander – boredom, indifference
Eye contact that’s broken – insecurity, discomfort, guilt
Eye contact that’s unsteady – vulnerable
Eyes that gaze longingly – loneliness, wistfulness, nostalgia
Eyes that seem to flicker or spark – rage
Eyes that are “doe-like” – innocence
Eyes that appear dull – stunned, exhaustion
Eyes that roll - annoyance, disbelief
Eyes that stare into the middle distance - deep in thought
Eyes that glance upward to right or left - thought
Eyelids that widen – amazement/surprise/shock
Eyelids that narrow – suspicion, scorn
Eyelids that blink rapidly – appalled, disbelief
Eyelids that don’t blink – courage, determination
Eyelids that flutter – pleasure, coy
Eyelids that close – defeat, frustration,
Eyelids that clamp shut – anger
Eyelids that are half-lidded – pleasure, lust, desire, exhaustion
Eyelids that squeeze shut – panic, intense fear
Eyelids that close gently, lightly – relief
Eyebrows that rise together – amazement/surprise/shock
Eyebrows that wiggle – teasing, suggestive
Eyebrows that draw/knit together – concern
Eyebrows that crumple/furrow – confusion
Eyebrows that rise in question – hopefulness
Eyebrow that rises alone – skepticism, satisfaction
Eyebrows that lower – wariness
Eyebrows that wrinkle or crease – worry
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Some Quick Dialogue Tips
1) Reveal character through dialogue. When a character is speaking, it can reveal a lot about them as a person. Is their word choice careful and kind, or do they speak unfiltered and sarcastically? Are they withholding information willingly? Do they have mannerisms when speaking? The way a character talks and how they say the words can reveal how they’re feeling.
2) Balance dialogue with action and narration. Your scenes should contain a mixture of dialogue, action, narration, etc. If you have long conversations of dialogue, make sure to add in some actions, descriptions, and inner thoughts… too much constant dialogue with nothing else in between can mess with the pacing of your story.
3) Assign a voice to each character. Everyone in your daily life has a different way of speaking. The timid people, the bubbly people, the confident people, the deceptive people. Don’t go overboard with it, but giving your characters a distinctive way of talking will make the conversation feel more real.
4) Keep it natural. When conversing, people don’t typically use intricate vocabulary (unless that’s part of your character’s personality) nor do they speak non-stop for five minutes. When people are mad, they can be very short with one another– or rant and rave beyond control. Humans pause when thinking, can forget their line of thought, and even stagger over their words. When in doubt, just think about how you and your friends/family talk to one another.
5) Read it out loud. If you have a hard time speaking a line of dialogue, chances are it might be too wordy or complicated. If it doesn’t sound organic when you speak it, it won’t sound natural on the page.
6) Use dialogue to push the plot forward. You’ll hear it time and time again– everything in your story should progress the plot. Dialogue is a wonderful place to do that. Your characters can find out information/secrets that are vital to the plot through conversation. Character development can also happen when your protagonist opens up or vents.
7) Your characters don’t always have to tell the truth. In real life, we don’t mean everything we say (whether this is deliberate or not). When a coworker asks you how you are, you probably default to “I’m fine” even if you’re not. Through action tags and narrative, you can create an organic conversation by having your character not always say the exact truth (but their actions say otherwise).
Ben and Cassie ducked their heads as bullets ripped through the air around them. A huge blast knocked them to the ground.
“Shit! There’s is gunfire everywhere, you good Cassie?”
“I’m good! The blast missed me.” Cassie held her side tightly and grimaced at her fellow medic. When he turned away, she tripped her way towards the wounded children who needed her help, each step causing blood to soak her hand.
By not saying the exact truth here, we learn through her actions that Cassie is caring and selfless.
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Love this so much. Also hoping I can get that font for my fanart, @skyllianhamster and @rackofages--it’s gorgeous.
painting practice because something something new year's resolution
special thanks to @rackofages for brainstorming the blurb pun and especially for making my made-up asari alphabet glyphs into a font so I don't have to suffer through my own handwriting
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