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#night shower #because why would I want to sleep in sheets with the filth I’ve accumulated throughout the day?? #unless y’all are washing your sheets every day you’re just caking more dust and sweat and whatever else on to your bed #how does that not bother you #also I don’t have to wake up even earlier and showering is a long process that includes thorough moisturizing so my eczema doesn’t flare up

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Saw this tweet foever ago n now i keep thinkin bout how making any character ever Canadian is funny as fuck. Theyre all canadian now

#when I see a dark hair and eyed character that’s definitely not east asian coded #🫵🏼 Filipino

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TDP fandom, help me out here, I’m having such a hard time understanding the logic of the magic system and the story telling around it. Like, we’ve got primal magic, and every non human creature has some affinity with the given primal they’re born to. Whether or not they can actively do something magical seems to depend on level of sapient intelligence since Stella can use portals but the adoraburrs have nothing going on in their heads. That’s all fine, that checks. Except, I’m still confused on why Callum has mastery over two arcanums. I have no idea why he thought he could learn more than one. There is no indication that any living being should be able to know more than one.

There’s dark magic, which I get like, conceptually. Kill a creature and essentially siphon its primal magic according to its arcanum. My issue with it is that I don’t understand what the limits of dark magic is supposed to be. I feel like with a sound, consistent magic system, it’s more important to know what you can’t do than showcase what you can do. My viewing experience feels hindered because I’m left going “they can do that??” when things like Claudia becoming a snake monster, Callum turns bindings in to snakes, or Soren’s paralysis is cured happens. At first I thought that sure, dark magic was initially used to help humans survive and they found more uses that existed outside the boundaries of primal magic and primal stones. But that just feels like bad story telling because then there’s no stakes if dark magic can be used as a cop out for any given situation. Also, the morality issue seems flawed. Like, if you were genuinely killing something for a dark magic spell as a means of survival, what’s the difference between that and hunting? Are the souls of that thing trapped? Does it desecrate their souls?

Also on means of survival, what can dark magic do on a practical level that primal stones can’t? That whole famine story that tried to explain the immorality of dark magic didn’t do its job because the whole time I was thinking that the problem could be dealt with just as effectively with the sky primal stone that we know Viren had, and an earth primal stone. Did nobody between these two kingdoms have an earth primal stone? Is there not a spell to bring the rain and quicken the crop growth? Why? Claudia says primal stones are rare but just how rare is “rare”? I shouldn’t have to do homework to understand the lore but supposedly the unicorns gave the humans multiple primal stones.

The crystals: why are they not talked about more? They’re evidently abundant and it looks like generally speaking, the elves have no use for them. Which seems weird to me because Callum being able to use a moonstone opal suggests you that literally anyone can use them, regardless of the primal of the user or the crystal. It just seems like they’re one time use primal stones. If the elves didn’t want humans to have magic, then talking about the crystals feels like it would’ve been relevant to that whole conversation. What’s the point of introducing this cave full of them if the only relevant ones are moonstone opals and the quasar diamonds that aren’t even there?

I don’t know what this falls under but whatever magic Kim’deal uses. What even is this blood magic? Like it looks sinister but I don’t remember anyone saying this is just a flavor of dark magic. What are the parameters of how this can be used? She can teleport, turn in to a mist cloud, have supernatural dexterity, and have scythe nails but why?

And I hate how I’m sure some of the answers to this are that it was in a book or an AMA but I still feel like I shouldn’t have to understand the magic system, the foundation of the storytelling, by looking outside the main material. I’ve just lost my trust in the soundness of the storytelling knowing there’s two required reading books and it’s so hard to get excited over season 6 when I don’t know what the actual level of the stakes are.

#the dragon prince

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this is the closest you can get to experiencing a jumpscare on social media

#me when terry mcgurrin liked my reply

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So a free tool called GLAZE has been developed that allows artists to cloak their artwork so it can't be mimicked by AI art tools.

AI art bros are big mad about it.

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I made a warrior cats clangen side blog bc why not have another art blog I guess: @quiet-clan

#clangen #warrior cats #warrior cats clangen #clangen challenge

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some animation practice :D

#if jock has no fans that means i'm dead #<<so true i'm right there with you

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kiss a blonde kiss a friend can a gay girl get an amen

#yes!! #I heard this lyric and my first thought was mkulia #also the line texture here is neat

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What the fuck. My bestie and I were literally shit talking gwuncan. This is so funny

#total drama

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GEN 4 SHIP SHOWDOWN FINALE

Propaganda

Rajbow: “the episode they kissed made me cry. like the pudding was gross but to get a healthy gay couple in a normally so homophobic franchise is so refreshing. everyone say thank you terry”

“best canon reboot ship (u know it’s true)”

“RAJBOW RAJ BOW RAJWBOR WR”

“Rajbow nation, wake up :3”

Mkulia: “Why did they have more chemistry than the canon ships. how. evil lesbian win”

“JK. because fresh says "jk" at yuri”

“I love yuri”

“they are in love with each other in a way that makes me kick my feet and twirl my hair and giggle.”

“cmon. theyre in love. and they fucking love and respect each other so much it’s the rivalry of all time”

“Evil yuri, that’s it”

“EVIL LESBIANS!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

#EVIL YURI WINS WOO!!

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💐<(<_<) ? (>_>)>❤️

#thank you I’m patting your head like a kitten

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Wait, Julia's girlfriend is a cool singer

#oh my god?? #td needs to have another musical season #the juxtaposition between MK’s scratchy talking voice but having a beautiful singing voice would be so good #also the fact that she was recommended to take theatre has to mean she was good in some other preforming art right

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GEN 4 SHIP SHOWDOWN FINALE

Propaganda

Rajbow: “the episode they kissed made me cry. like the pudding was gross but to get a healthy gay couple in a normally so homophobic franchise is so refreshing. everyone say thank you terry”

“best canon reboot ship (u know it’s true)”

“RAJBOW RAJ BOW RAJWBOR WR”

“Rajbow nation, wake up :3”

Mkulia: “Why did they have more chemistry than the canon ships. how. evil lesbian win”

“JK. because fresh says "jk" at yuri”

“I love yuri”

“they are in love with each other in a way that makes me kick my feet and twirl my hair and giggle.”

“cmon. theyre in love. and they fucking love and respect each other so much it’s the rivalry of all time”

“Evil yuri, that’s it”

“EVIL LESBIANS!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

#mkulia sweep!! #let’s go evil yuri

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imposter syndrome is a hell of a drug. oog

i love drawing at 3am

#I’m fine #I just haven’t drawn many humans specially in a while #just lots of cats #I had to recall how to draw flat faces

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I was making sure I still knew how to draw

i love drawing at 3am