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sunday. slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.

Franz Kafka, "The Diaries of Franz Kafka 1910-13".

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In a dream, a name for a fantasy magic item came to me. I'm still half asleep, so not sure if it's good in the waking world, but in the dreamworld it was hilarious.

So. A cloth armor that gives the wearer immunity to fear effects.

It's called

Don't Tunic

#rpg #dnd #magic item #dream

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My Nimona post from back in July is still making rounds. It was the second thing I've ever posted on tumblr, and it's at 25K notes now. Everything else since then got zero. Ibguess that's how it feels to have peaked in school :)

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The sin of Sodom

What exactly was Sodom destroyed for? The Bible is vague here: it says that the citizens "were wicked and were sinning greatly", but the identification of their sin as homosexuality is clearly a much later invention by the Christian theologians. In the Judaic tradition the sodomites are condemned for being prideful, unjust and inhospitable, which are regretful, but not exactly uncommon sins. It doesn't explain how the atrocity they had committed was so exceptionally terrible that it had to be purged by a direct divine intervention, and how exactly every person in the city, from old people to toddlers, could partake in that sin. Could it be that the reason was a single unforgivable crime committed by the entire city as a whole? It feels like the key to this mystery is hidden in the forbiddance that God had imposed on Lot's fleeing family. They weren't allowed to look back on Sodom as it was destroyed. Lot's wife disobeyed, and was punished, but for what? I don't think Sodom was a nest of cruelty and violence. Quite the opposite, it was a happy city. Its way of life was alluring, and that's exactly why it had to be destroyed along with everyone who would miss it or be tempted to recreate it elsewhere. This was the point of the punishment that befell Lot's wife. This also explains why there weren't even ten righteous people in the city: everyone who couldn't live by the laws of Sodom had left it long ago. You see it now? Sodom is Omelas.

#bible #christianity #judaism #mythology and folklore #theology #religion #ursula k. le guin

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US politickques are getting crazier every day.

#usa news

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Do I read yuri manga to get called out like this?

(Yes, I do)

#yuri #a tropical fish yearns for snow

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...I profoundly apologize to the 2.5 unfortunate people who will get this horrible joke.

#caretaker

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Baldur's Gate in Darkest Dungeon style, two of my most favorite games!! This isn't my usual style but I've absolutely fallen in love with it after creating this piece! I may make more work like this in the future!

I got hella DD vibes from the Shadowlands in Act 2, which inspired me to make this!

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I was asleep last night, and in my dreams I was scrolling the dream internet. I woke up with a meme I saw there stuck in my mind. Usually dream ideas are like fey gold, they feel great in the moment but turn into garbage once morning comes. This one, though, felt somewhat meaningful, so I decided to recreate it. So, enjoy this meme from the dream Tumblr!

#meme #mental health #dream

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potatoes and molasses season

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Linking the flame, keeping the streak.

#duolingo #dark souls

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Absolutely obsessed with the SWOL OWL. True boss of the gym!

#duolingo #gachimuchi

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What are you doing, green owl.

Get your mind out of the gutter!

#duolingo #japanese

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depression creature

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Warhammer 40k & Age of Sigmar – Trans Pride series !

My other big pride project, with the pride marine series ! The goal here is to paint one representative for each of the Warhammer40k and Age of Sigmar universes faction using the Trans Pride flag color scheme.

I’ve already done 11 factions (12 to be exact, the Ork I finished lately isn’t on the group picture yet).

Pictured above, from left to right :

Banshee (Nightaunt – AOS)

Horrmagaunt (Tyranids – W40k)

Spiritseer (Eldar – W40k)

Drone (Tau – W40k)

Cadian Castellan (Astra Militarum – W40k)

Reiver Space Marine (Adeptus Astartes – W40k)

Royal Warden (Necron – W40k)

Plague Marine (Death Guard – W40k)

Palatine (Adepta Sororita – W40k

Skitarii Marshall (Adeptus Mechanicus – W40k)

Xandria Azurebolt (Stormcast – AOS)

And a Warboss in Mega Armour I will post here later, probably.

Project Origins

For those who are wondering why I started this project, it’s pretty simple.

Everything started with a single model (obviously), the Horrmagaunt. I was trying to find an interesting gift idea for a close friend and, remembering that friend love the Tyrannids, I thought of painting them a little bugger. Since I wanted that gift to be even more personal, I decided to use colors that would be really meaningful to them, the trans pride flag colors. It was a first, since, up until that moment, I almost exclusively painted classic schemes (imperial Fists, blood angels, salamanders, etc...).

Here was the result :

As you can see, my goal when translating flag colors on a mini isn’t to reproduce the flag 1 for 1, but to evoke it as naturally and logically as possible.

To be perfectly honest, when I started that little gift, I wasn’t entirely convinced the result would be all that great. After all, it was first and foremost more about the meaning behind the colors than anything else. But oooooooh boy was I wrong because, as the kids says, « that shit slaps yo » or something. I don’t know, I’m not a kid anymore !!

But one thing was certain, I fell in love with that scheme and couldn’t wait painting it again.

So, that’s what I did, that time with a Space Marine seeing those are my personal favorites. And once again, I was really pleased with the end result :

Also look at them, being best friend forever, woooooh !

You can easily guess what’s next. I simply had to try that scheme on basically everything, so I started the project of doing it on every faction !

Hell, I had so much fun painting such an unusual scheme, and having to find ways to integrate it logically on a mini, that it's the reason I started another project in parallel, the pride marine one, to try and see if the other pride flag schemes would work as well as the trans pride flag (guess what : not a single one of the scheme I tried disappointed me, even if I have favorites).

Anyway, if you want to try that scheme on your minis and need some inspiration / guidance, here is the recipe I use for the 3 main colors of the flag. Have fun !

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Bad: Spending hundreds of pages carefully explaining your meticulously planned worldbuilding.

Also bad: Doing no worldbuilding at all.

Good: Putting in the work of doing the worldbuilding, then refusing to explain or justify any of it, simply mentioning pertinent details briefly and in passing, allowing the reader to glimpse the outline of something vast gliding beneath their narrative point of view's tiny boat.

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A couple of cacodemons. I'we wanted to paint these cute evil raspberries for so long! ♡

#doom #miniature painting