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Here's a painting I made for the ImagineFX art challenge "Mystical Meets Machines".

The theme was too intriguing to pass by - especially after I got the idea of some unicorns grazing by the remnants of an ancient, mechanical dragon. Someone in the past were keen on acquiring the great powers of a dragon for themselves, leading to a bitter end. Now it has rested peacefully for centuries, becoming part of the landscape.

Lots of fun painting this one, especially all that moss!

Photoshop, April 2024. And as always, no AI used.

#art tag

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i appreciate the attempts a lot of game devs are making with gender neutral character creation, and i appreciate that it's actually a very difficult task to implement that depending on the game's base code. but it's so funny to me when you hear an uproar because some game has "entirely removed the gender option from character creation!!!!!" so you go to check it out and its just like

#YEA #and then they otherwise still follow all traditional beauty standards :') #vidya gams

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I’m going a bit crazy today m

[ID: a digital illustration of Laios from Dungeon Meshi/Delicious in Dungeon. The composition frames him inside a stomach with a red interior surrounded by black space. He is curled up inside it with his back down and his legs up in the air, feet up against the stomach wall. He has the Mad Sorcerer's spellbook held open close to his face, obscuring it. The image is rendered primarily in red and green tones aside from the spellbook and some highlights, which are pale blue. A screentone texture is applied to the illustration. In the top right, red text in all caps reads "dungeon meshi", with most of the 'm' being obscured by Laios's foot. End ID] Id credit to : @dracudyke

#dungeon meshi

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More eye halo plus give him a friend!!!

#jonathan #martin #jonmartin #tma #tma s5 #gerry

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see 0 note flop posts aren't that bad when they're personal but 0 note fandom posts feel literally so bad. like if you don't wanna play toys with me anymore just say that. i'll pack up my super cool awesome things and go and i'll sit on the other side of the playground by myself and i won't even look at you. fuck

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ok. years have passed and we've had some distance, so i'm finally gonna take the leap of faith that tma fandom is finally ready to hear me on this. let's talk about tannins.

161 was the first tma episode i heard on early release, and i felt the bit where martin declines wine and cites tannins was pretty obvious in its implications. cool, got it, say no more.

imagine my surprise when i was one of maybe three people i saw read between the lines there, in a fandom famous for red stringing--a fandom that immediately caught the much less obvious thread of ignition sources in the same episode. i'll spell it out: alcohol is an issue for martin.

maybe it just felt obvious because addiction is a pet issue for me--as it is for jonny, who has said everything he writes is filtered through a lens of addiction. i don't know if that's due to his own experience or a loved one's, and i won't speculate; i also don't know if martin personally struggled with drinking or just avoids it for fear he would, but alcohol would fit what we know of his family. his dad walking out and his mum spiralling into bitter wallowing and verbal abuse? i'd bet one or both of them drank, yeah.

on a basic level martin tries to decline alcohol, and that alone should have raised eyebrows given what we know of martin and, again, a fandom that dissects everything. we already knew martin "K" blackwood lied about his personal life and his family in particular, especially pre-canon, which is when this flashback took place. i was shocked that everyone took his flimsy excuse at face value with no further questions.

and the excuse is flimsy. martin turns down wine by--nervously--exclaiming tannins are "a proven headache trigger!" which sounds like trivia from a magazine cover and not the words of someone who actually has headaches--and it hasn't come up before or since. jon, confused, points out that tea, a drink martin consumes to a degree that is memetic both in- and out-of-universe, also contains tannins, and martin squawks a panicked, "what?!"

if tannins are enough of a concern for martin that he knew they're in wine and so avoids it, why didn't he know they're in his drink of choice? why does he still drink tea at the time of canon, and why doesn't he struggle with constant headaches from consuming 'a proven headache trigger' day in and day out? why, indeed, would someone avoid wine and not tea?

when sasha insists martin drink he caves and agrees to 'just a drop'. i imagine him pouring it in a plant, which admittedly he could have done if tannins really were the issue. i will say that i, for one, would be less likely to falsely agree to something that makes me physically ill than to a private issue that i'd rather not be pressed on any further. this scene also establishes martin's birthday was an ice cream party instead of the more traditional visit to a pub.

also, this scene was in the first episode of the final season, as one of three flashbacks that could have been to any pre-canon event in the archives. prime narrative real estate. not really time one would waste on establishing the important character context that martin has... headaches. which never comes up before or after, even regarding the week he spent in spiral town. but you know what is pretty crucial character background...?

it felt like a no-brainer, and yet all i saw was h/c fluff about jon attending to martin's headaches. and i hate feeling bitter about disability representation. i want folks with chronic headaches to feel seen and have fluffy escapist fantasies. i don't want to be mad about people portraying a character with a disability. but, guys? you got the wrong disability. jonny sent a clear message, and it went over fandom's head.

#i knew it was a lie because [gestures] but youre right i didnt think on it any deeper than that #tma theory #martin #tma #tma s5 #absorbing this info into my catalogue on martin info

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y'all this post is untagged ai. a lot of people aren't realizing it, but if you take a second to look at it, it becomes very clear

tumblr keeps showing it to me and OP has refused to tag it, so when you go in the reblogs it's a bunch of people who don't seem to realize that it's ai either. i recognized a lot of usernames in the reblogs, from people who i definitely know are against ai stuff. so if you've reblogged this thinking a human made it because OP refuses to edit the original post for transparency— now you know.

#glad i haven't seen it on my dash but #4500 notes OTL #oof #tma #ai art #EDIT ok i went to the og post cause u know. benefit of the doubt and all that #(also its on top of the tma tag with 5000 notes now so not like its going out of my way to find something small) #and yea its definitely ai. OP keeps vaguely defending ai art in the notes without saying whether they used it or not #and going on their blog; they were posting about tma all the way back in 2021 but only now (that ai art is a possibility) #are they sharing their lovely work with the world 😑 #but why im saying this is cause #op posted new images of tma characters since this post. but for some reason (to beat the allegations?) edited in #some 50% translucency middle school eye drawings into the background. lmao. #i get that the idea your art will be scrutinized for signs of ai is demoralizing to (new) artists #but frankly. posts getting 5000 notes for just running a pic of some actor through midjourney is a lot more demoralising imho

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“kill them with kindness” WRONG. House attack ████ ████ ████ ████████ █████████████████ ██████████████████ ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████

#oh no its the five minute hallway #house of leaves

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need to get over the feeling that i have to get a good grade in tmagp by perfectly predicting every plot beat

#even if just to myself #theorizing should be FUN why else do it. no one is keeping score. stop optimizing the fun out of stories. #🗞️ whack whack #joos yaps #delete later

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chk!

#baldurs gate 3

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good ebbysode

#tmagp vague

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#~diens~ #polls #dutch

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A scientist

#oooooooo #manuela dominguez #tma #tma s4

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Celia is like if you got your average real life magnus archives fan and put them into the protocol universe. Hey do you have any statements about things being BURIED (wink!) or maybe about MEAT? (wink!) They could be connected 🤔 heh at least we're not working with TAPE RECORDERS! (WINK) Hey the voice reading the statements sounds a little FAMILIAR! (nudge) Alice it's like we've made some kind of archive... (GIGGLE) wouldn't be surprised if next episode opens with her saying What is this, some kind of Podcast Distributed By Rusty Quill Licensed Under A Sharealike 4.0 International License?(WINK🤪)

#celia voice: a lot of people tell me I sound like lowri ann davies from tma (if you don't know who she is then get da hell out out here!) #<prev dhdjdhdh #celia #tmagp #tma #tmagp s1

[gammija]

The thing i love about dungeon meshi is it's about eating. And not in some bullshit metaphor way like eating as an analogy for love or power, no, it is unapologetically, literally about eating. How we relate to eating socially and culturally, how the dynamics of eating shape the natural world, how important eating is to our bodies and our wellbeing, everything comes back to eating. It is a story with total thematic focus on something most people would write off as too benign to be able to carry a whole story. But eating is important! We all do it, three times a day! Why shouldn't it get a story all to itself?

#dungeon meshi

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#i need me dnd sessions

[gammija]

Let us suppose that the "average" horse would have equal proportions of all these parts. The degree to which each part in this poll deviates from the "average" size (20% of total) will determine how large or small that part of our horse will be (i.e a horse with only 10% in Legs will have legs half the size of the average horse).

I will draw a picture of the horse we make!

#polls #laugh rule #idk why but the dry 'and there you have it.' amuses me