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Dealing with Dragons: Cimorene sketch ^_^

Been re-listening to Dealing with Dragons recently (anyone who knows me knows I will not shut up about how formative this series was for me re: many things but mostly dragons) and so I got the urge to draw Cimorene again (I sketched her like a year or so ago, but can't find it, so I thought a redesign with my new style was perfect!)

Also, my fav book reviewer (I have one of those now?? What??) Just covered the first book of the series, so if you want to check out a great reviewer AND my favorite book of all time, here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMaKkwHQQKM

Not me trying to speak into existence an Enchanted Forest Chronicles graphic novel series that I get to adapt, whatttt noooo... ^_-

#enchanted forest chronicles #dealing with dragons #Cimorene #books #nostaltic books #fantasy #cool Princess #I also love her other princess friend #Morwen is also great #also so many cats #this is also where I got my CATS ARE BASICALLY DRAGONS thing #Kazul my love #what a fantastic series tho #highly recommend the audio book #if you like high fantasy with a subversion of tropes and with a fairy tale story structure #yes I know the book doesn't say she has freckles but it's my design so of course she has #this is also where I got my love of long braids

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People are talking about how reading Dungeon Meshi gives them an internal monologue Senshi for eating properly I think we all need to adopt an internal monologue Chilchuck at work. Like the boat is literally sinking and he's just watching it happen because he's on his lunch break.

#All queues except one grow up

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Aylin & Isobel, reunited

#All queues except one grow up

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Love that this is what Gideon thinks about while skipping leg day

#All queues except one grow up

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April Stamp Rally!

Trying out a new little thing given how patreon has changed its site layout, and since I really need to hit a particular milestone before August, I thought this would be a fun way to do it!

So, here's the deal! Every time there's a new monthly/yearly supporter OR a pledge increase of any amount here, or on Ko-fi, the card will get a stamp! If we hit 5 new and increasing folks, I'll release a supporter-exclusive drawing for you all to enjoy. If we're able to hit 10 stamps, I'll make another (more fancy) drawing for you all!

If, by some happenstance, support increases across all platforms by $100 in a month, the next month I'll drop a bonus Fates Errant page, as a little fun incentive ^_^

But that's just a little side bonus! And if we're able to hit the next milestone (I'd really love to reach $3500 a month in order to support my family with my wife out of work) then comic pages will be able to increase regardless!

So let's get some bonus sketches, shall we? ^_^

Join here!

Patreon ~ Ko-fi

UPDATE April 19th: Three increasing supporters have gotten us to two stamps already! Woo!

#<3 #last days boost #boost #webcomics

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A little heated table is a kotatsu. A kotatsu for your cat is a catotsu.

We still have our catotsu ten years later.

Source: Aichi Adventures

#Aichi-Adventures #cats #kotatsu #living in japan

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They have accepted their fates

#All queues except one grow up

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on Episode 1 of Dead Boy Detectives and it's already perfect, everything I ever wanted so far, I can't wait to watch more!!! One of those stories that makes me excited to go out and create ^_^

#tria talks #it's so funnnn #Tria chats #new tag for posts where I babble about my interests lol XD #mute it if you don't need to hear my overexcited thoughts XD

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Leverage Did It Well

I didn’t notice this the first time I watched Leverage (or the sixth), but when I posted a GIF of Hardison last week I noticed something…

The line is adorable, the writing fantastic, but the big thing I noticed is YOU CAN SEE HARDISON. Aldis Hodge is lit up so you can see his face easily.

Here’s another GIF.

And another…

So, here’s the thing. In most shows black actors fade in the background. They’re lit incorrectly and the dark background combined with the dark skin means the character vanishes. Especially on shows with cops and a lot of white people. 

Poor David Sinclair (Alimi Ballard) of Numb3rs is invisible in every night scene because he’s not lit up correctly. 

Before the advent of colored TV there were more black actors. They were common almost. But with color came the problem that a dark background makes a fair skinned person stand out while making a darker skinned person vanish. The Hollywood solution was to stop hiring darker skinned people. (Not a good idea).

In the first GIF Hardison is in a darker room. He should have vanished, they back-lit him, had ground lights, and framed him well. 

Same with the second on, notice the light on his head. He’s glowing like an angel.

Third GIF… notice the lamp placement? The light almost washes out the color of the green towel behind Hardison, but it means the viewers see him perfectly. And isn’t that really the goal? 

#All queues except one grow up

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Just in case you're still taking High Republic suggestions, maybe young Keeve and little Reath? I like to think Sskeer used to Padawansit for Jora, so Keeve is friends with both Reath and Des

POV: You're newly knighted and a bunch of Masters give you a "mission" and you've already lost 2 padawans

#All queues except one grow up

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Got a little more time left in the month, but three new/increasing supporters is the most I've had in a while! It's been a rough half a year ahah ^_^;;

If you know anyone looking to join, anyone you think would like my work, if we can get two more stamps before the end of the month, all supporters will get a bonus sketch just for you all! ^_^

Thank you so much for all the support this month, and I'm getting back to normalcy after wrapping up Pathways volume 2. Can't wait to have my brain back and be only focusing on one book at a time XD

April Stamp Rally!

Trying out a new little thing given how patreon has changed its site layout, and since I really need to hit a particular milestone before August, I thought this would be a fun way to do it!

So, here's the deal! Every time there's a new monthly/yearly supporter OR a pledge increase of any amount here, or on Ko-fi, the card will get a stamp! If we hit 5 new and increasing folks, I'll release a supporter-exclusive drawing for you all to enjoy. If we're able to hit 10 stamps, I'll make another (more fancy) drawing for you all!

If, by some happenstance, support increases across all platforms by $100 in a month, the next month I'll drop a bonus Fates Errant page, as a little fun incentive ^_^

But that's just a little side bonus! And if we're able to hit the next milestone (I'd really love to reach $3500 a month in order to support my family with my wife out of work) then comic pages will be able to increase regardless!

So let's get some bonus sketches, shall we? ^_^

Join here!

Patreon ~ Ko-fi

UPDATE April 19th: Three increasing supporters have gotten us to two stamps already! Woo!

#<3 #boost #last days boost

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April 28, 2024 - An unintentionally funny video by a zionist propagandist shows off some good organisation and discipline at the UCLA encampment for Palestine.

#omg #“It's so scary when people won't TALK to me ENGAGE WITH ME GIVE ME CONTENT” #like situation aside #this is such entitlement and influencer culture too #no one owes you their time #“I just want to know why you're here” hey so there are signs I'm sure that will tell you if you're that interested #you're not a war corresponder oh my god #serious tria

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the wenis is a dance

(thanks to tiktok user @thatbaroneboy for the amazing compilation!)

#All queues except one grow up

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Ah... do people not know about Memri TV?

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Leverage 4.11 | The Experimental Job ↳ bonus:

#All queues except one grow up

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Orym's argument against Ludinus Da'leth and the Ruby Vanguard is essentially "The purpose of a system is what it does."

This is a systems theory coined by Stafford Beer around 2001. He posited there is "no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do." It does not matter what someone tells you a system does if it does not reliably do that. The things it does consistently do are the actual purpose of the system.

Ludinus (and Liliana) claim the purpose of the Ruby Vanguard's violence is to free Exandria of oppression from the gods. Orym's point is that they have not consistently protected anyone from oppression. They consistently murder innocent people, indoctrinate vulnerable people into doing terrible violence (including children), support a ruling class that dominates the population through mind control and eugenics, and seek to release a predator so terrifying that the warring alien gods and native primordials worked together to seal it away as a threat to both of them.

So the logical conclusion is that the purpose of Ludinus' system is not to free anyone from tyranny, it's to install himself as the tyrant. And it does not matter what Ludinus says it's for or even what he believes it's for. The purpose of a system is what it does. And Orym has been personally and repeatedly victimized by what it does. Why wouldn't he keep reminding them of that?

Add onto that, the Ruby Vanguard is a death cult. They lure people in with believable lies. They use propaganda to control how people view them and to convince people to support them. Liliana has been groomed into a true believer who genuinely thinks what she has been told is true and that Ludinus' system does what he says it will. She has been convincing other people of this for years. Not because she's an inherently bad person but because everyone generally tries to convince others that what we believe is true. It is actually dangerous to let a cultist try to talk you into the cult's perspective. That's why Orym shuts it down.

Orym was already on edge but it's fully in a breakdown after FCG's sacrifice. One more iteration of Ludinus' system consistently murdering the people he loves. But he still told Imogen he wants her to have a good relationship with her mom again. He wants Liliana to make it through the other side of this. But that has to involve consistently stating the reality of what's happening against what she believes.

Ludinus believes in the rapture of the revolution. Burn everything to the ground on a fundamental level and a new perfect society will grow, with him to guide it. The reality is that kind of power vacuum consistently leads to horrific violence and conditions often get much, much worse. Especially for vulnerable people, who often do not survive. A lot about the gods' relationships to mortals probably needs to change, but this an incredibly dangerous gamble to fix it.

The purpose of a system is what it does. Any suggestion otherwise is cold comfort to Orym's family in the ground.

#All queues except one grow up

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