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Elis, 28, I dunno what this is anymore... there's some of my art, my fics, and a whole bunch of random other stuff. The random other stuff outweighs everything else, by a lot...

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iamonlydancing · 7 months

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I need everyone to know that the ship Götheborg, the world's largest ocean-going wooden sailing ship, answered a distress call the other day.

Imagine waiting for the coast guard or whatever to show up and instead a replica of 18th century merchant ship pulls up and tows you to the coast.

#just outstanding #you'll never know but it's queue

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iamonlydancing · 8 months

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some of you need to make your bed and have a shower with a soap that smells nice, and then sit in a chair near the window and have tea with milk and read a hardcover book and see how your creative block is after that tbh.

#this this this

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iamonlydancing · 8 months

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#peak asmr #Video #you'll never know but it's queue

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iamonlydancing · 9 months

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when you die, all the processes in your body slow down and come to a halt before starting to decay. which means if you were to revive someone from the dead, necromancer-style, you'd potentially have to kickstart their entire system back up from a state of inertia. which means it almost certainly would not be pretty. i'm talking coughing up clots of blood, nauseatingly intense migraines and muscle cramps, and all the sensory overload that would come with firing up the body's engines from frozen cold to fully functioning all guns blazing in the matter of seconds it takes to cast a resurrection spell.

#ooooooh #you'll never know but it's queue #bookmark for later

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iamonlydancing · 9 months

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Xena Warrior Princess 3.05 Gabrielle's hope

#literally queen #you'll never know but it's queue #xena warrior princess

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iamonlydancing · 9 months

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A thing that bothers me about wizard schools in popular media – outside of the magic-grade-school stuff, anyway – is that they're typically depicted as being basically magic universities, but their actual curricula and pedagogical approaches look much more like those of a technical institution. Like, buddy, that's not a wizard university, that's a wizard trade school. You can't just slap university student culture on top of trade school pedagogy. It doesn't work like that – the one emerges from the other!

#100/10 world building #you'll never know but it's queue

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iamonlydancing · 9 months

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#aww #cats #animals #Video #you'll never know but it's queue

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iamonlydancing · 9 months

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Why are cishet men like this...

#i am having a very good time with this game #baldur's gate 3 #you'll never know but it's queue

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iamonlydancing · 10 months

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art for The Dread Pirate, Blackbird, for the @ofmd-reverse-bang

It was amazing working with InTabernaQuandoSumus to bounce ideas for their brilliant fic, go check it out! It's tabletop DnD meets pirates, and it's just a great read all around!

#OFMD #our flag means death #ofmd reverse bang #stede bonnet #edward teach #nathaniel buttons #elisart

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iamonlydancing · 11 months

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So my problem with most ‘get to know your character’ questioneers is that they’re full of questions that just aren’t that important (what color eyes do they have) too hard to answer right away (what is their greatest fear) or are just impossible to answer (what is their favorite movie.) Like no one has one single favorite movie. And even if they do the answer changes.

If I’m doing this exercise, I want 7-10 questions to get the character feeling real in my head. So I thought I’d share the ones that get me (and my students) good results:

What is the character’s go-to drink order? (this one gets into how do they like to be publicly perceived, because there is always some level of theatricality to ordering drinks at a bar/resturant)

What is their grooming routine? (how do they treat themselves in private)

What was their most expensive purchase/where does their disposable income go? (Gets you thinking about socio-economic class, values, and how they spend their leisure time)

Do they have any scars or tattoos? (good way to get into literal backstory)

What was the last time they cried, and under what circumstances? (Good way to get some *emotional* backstory in.)

Are they an oldest, middle, youngest or only child? (This one might be a me thing, because I LOVE writing/reading about family dynamics, but knowing what kinds of things were ‘normal’ for them growing up is important.)

Describe the shoes they’re wearing. (This is a big catch all, gets into money, taste, practicality, level of wear, level of repair, literally what kind of shoes they require to live their life.)

Describe the place where they sleep. (ie what does their safe space look like. How much (or how little) care / decoration / personal touch goes into it.)

What is their favorite holiday? (How do they relate to their culture/outside world. Also fun is least favorite holiday.)

What objects do they always carry around with them? (What do they need for their normal, day-to-day routine? What does ‘normal’ even look like for them.)

#oooo #bookmark for later #you'll never know but it's queue

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iamonlydancing · 11 months

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i love pitting classically trained magic users against self-taught magic users in sci-fi/fantasy but it shouldn’t be snobbish disdain for them it should be terror

#yah this is the good stuff #you'll never know but it's queue

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iamonlydancing · 1 year

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We need to go back to using sailing ships full time like immediately. Yes it would take longer to get places but the Aesthetic is unmatched