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Church of Whale Fall

I made a uquiz to find out what member of a doomed spaceship crew you are, take it to find out what member of a doomed spaceship crew you are.

WTW PRESENTS OUR 38TH EVENT!

Love is in the air, and this Valentine's week, WelcomeToWriteblr invites you to celebrate with our prompt event! We have prepared five prompts based around five of the ancient Greek words for love. From FEBRUARY 14TH TO FEBRUARY 18TH, create something in response to that day’s prompt and post it. You’re welcome to do absolutely anything for the prompt of the day, whether it be a drawing, an excerpt, a playlist, or a moodboard. This event is aimed to get everyone involved and we will accept all submissions!

HOW TO PARTICIPATE

Tag your posts as #WTWEVENT and #WTWCOMMUNITY

Format your posts like this: WTW VALENTINE'S WEEK - CHOSEN PROMPT

Wait for your post to be added to the queue.

NSFW content will not be posted to the blog.

OPTIONAL: Join our discord server if you would like to ensure your post makes it onto the blog! Tumblr’s tagging system can be unreliable and we want to make sure everyone’s creations are shared! Please note, you must be 15 OR OLDER to enter our server!

PROMPT LIST

Day 1 - Philia "Love Between Friends"

Day 2 - Storge "Love Between Family"

Day 3 - Eros "Passionate Love"

Day 4 - Philauta "Love of Self"

Day 5 - Agape "Selfless Love"

Oklahoma School for the Deaf has opened up FREE ASL COURSES for the Fall season this new school year and anybody can join. The courses close on December 31st of this year (2023) so if you've been thinking about learning ASL here is your opportunity to get professional lessons for FREE

If you're interested, here's the link: https://courses.osd.k12.ok.us/collections

This is a GOLDMINE for information because not only do you get free video lessons by professionals that you can do at your own pace, but there's also graded quizzes as well as resources to educate you on the history of Deaf culture as well as sub-communities within, with links to loads of different websites to read up on Deaf-related topics.

take it.

Breath of the Wild Horse Stable Miniature made primarily from paper (also ft. floral wire, basswood and microLEDs) made fresh as a donation incentive for #AGDQ2023 for #GamesDoneQuick A piece I've been wanting to create for 2 years and I think a great way to close out 2022.

HAPPY FLORUKKAH ↳ ft. ARIA DRAFT 1

my e-spouse, my beloved pris @serpentarii has done it again (made graphics for the holidays) ILYSM KITHES MWAH

↳ and featuring select excerpts from the perspective of florizel “vegan in spirit but not in practice” von hauenstein

transcripts and taglist under cut (send an ask/dm to be +/-!):

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this took me an hour (well spent)

original post by @metallicat5678

Through the window, 1926

Arthur Wasse

Note: I claimed a community copy for this game, so while I did not pay money, I received it for free.

Exquisite Biome was pointed my way by one of my Discord community members as something I'd be interested in, and oh my God, they were right. As a professional ecologist and wildlife conservationist--and a fan of all things spec evo/bio--Exquisite Biome is everything I love conceptually, and it even had the audacity of being fantastically designed.

Caro Asercion on itch.io has managed to make a masterpiece of a GM-less game for one to three or four players, using only a single deck of cards. It's incredibly simple and intuitive, with much of the interaction coming from the human element. In fact, I loved the test run I gave it. Exquisite Biome (is it named after Exquisite Corpse? I'm pretty sure right?) uses drawn cards to guide player(s) through the designing of a speculative species, from the creation of the biome it lives in, to its most notable features and how it interacts with other species within the ecological web. Each designed species culminates in a scene played out, almost akin to a nature documentary, of an important part of the animal's life--giving greater insight into both its daily existence and its most important evolutionary aspects.

I can't give too much detail as to how, exactly, the game parts function, or what they are, but they are precisely balanced between detailed and loose enough to allow players the structure/random element needed for fun and guiding through the process, while leaving the vast majority of the imagination up to them. A traditional Exquisite Biome session is intended to be done with creating three unique animals, seeing how they all intersect with each other, but there are also other options for various modes of gameplay given as well!

My favorite aspect of Exquisite Biome, however, may be what isn't in the game just yet. The system itself is so perfectly intuitive and genius that it lends itself instantly to conceptualization of further deep-dives into specialization (speciation?) of different biomes and concepts--expansion packs, in short. What would a variant of EB look like in a xenobiological setting? Or perhaps an entire variant dedicated to rainforest or tropical reef biomes (or the various listed ones, even--even deserts have great biodiversity!)? Caro Asercion has managed to hit upon something here that I would really hope to see find success, because I can envision it having an incredibly dedicated and loyal fanbase for years and years to come.

I'd recommend this game to anyone who loves nature documentaries, who is passionate about life sciences, and who enjoys worldbuilding natural elements for tabletop settings! For fans of Monster Hunter, In Other Waters, Pokemon, Pikmin, and Wingspan, definitely give it a look to see if you'd be intrigued!

And, bonus round--a sketch of my own Exquisite Biome's first animal, the Shepherd Spider!

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A highly territorial species of cobweb-spiders, shepherd spiders create various 'pastures' with their webs where small insects such as beetles, flies, butterflies, and aphids can safely use as nursery habitats. By hiding within the webbed pastures, they obscure their location from predators, allowing an easier chance to reach adulthood and pass on their genes.

Additionally, the shepherd spiders tend to avoid immature specimens as much as possible: they prefer to hunt adult prey at the end of its lifespan, or sickly or otherwise 'unfit' food. In doing so, it ensures itself a steady supply of food, keeping a 'pantry', and opportunistically feeding on the young as needed when times are dry.

Shepherds mate for life, and their courtship rituals are based on the large, iridescent eyespots of the chelicerae. During rainy seasons, male spiders will gather up dew and rain and daub them on themselves, magnifying their false eyes to greater proportions and causing bright refractions in the water's reflected curves. A female will choose her mate based on the brightest display. There seems to be a growing subpopulation of males with prominent pseudopupils as well, which may affect apparent fitness during these rituals versus specimens with smaller or nonexistent pseudopupils.

on major character death

and putting your back into digging their grave

new substack is up, this time with my thoughts on character death, narrative weight, and making it all effective!

Hi!

If you get this, answer with 3 random facts about yourself and send it to the last 7 blogs in your notifications, anonymously or not! Let’s get to know the person behind the blog! No pressure of course!

Oh cool this seems fun.

I don’t like cake, but I love tart. I have a boating license but I don’t know how to drive a boat. And my favor color is green.

Hope that’s suffice. :>

UPDATES ON THE JOSH FIGHT!

According to Fawcette, the main streamer of the event, the amount of Joshes who turned up is about 75-100 Joshes. Any streams are really laggy, but for those who couldn’t tune in here are some pics:

These were taken from a laggy stream, but as you can see the turnout is massive. The crowd is estimated to be at least 200 people.

The latest winner from the series of Josh fights is “Tiny Josh”, a four year old child who was inducted into the battle. As of right now, the bearer for the title of “The One True Josh” is the original Josh Swain.

Updates will continue if the stream stops lagging.

Trying to draw buildings

Today I learned

→ Star Wars Atlas (2009) - Galactic Regions → Interesting notes:  Location of many notable planets, the layers of galatic regions → This is a selection of maps showing the sectors of Star Wars’ galaxy, radiating outward from the center.  While no longer strictly canon (as of April 25, 2014) it still gives a good idea of what planets are where.  It can be especially helpful if you want to find a planet that’s nowhere near Coruscant to strand your characters on or if you want to find a more densely populated world near the center of everything!  Or if you just want to know how close a specific planet is to the center of the galaxy. ✦ Deep Core:  

Byss

(Note:  The Deep Core did not hold as many notable worlds as the Core Worlds/Galactic Core/the Core, it had a massive black hole at the center which made hyperspace travel difficult and it was extremely densely packed with stars that had tremendous gravitational pull.) ✦ The Core:  

Alderaan / Anaxes / Brentaal / Corellia / Coruscant / Duro / Kuat / Nubia / N’zoth

✦ The Colonies:  

Fondor / Neimoidia

✦ Inner Rim:  

Bestine / Hapes / Onderon / Taanab / Thyferra

✦ Expansion Region:   

Mimban

✦ Mid Rim:  

Ansion / Bothawui / Boz Pity / Ithor / Kashyyyk / Malastare / Naboo / Nar Shadda / Ord Mantell / Ruusan

✦ Hutt Space:  

Nal Hutta / Nar Shadda / Toydaria

✦ Outer Rim:  

Anoat / Bespin / Bonadan / Christophsis / Dagobah / Dantooine / Dathomir / Endor (Forest Moon) / Eriadu / Felucia / Gamorr / Geonosis / Honoghr / Hoth / Kamino / Kessel / Korriban / Mandalore / Mon Cala / Mustafar / Mygeeto / Nal Hutta / Ossus / Raxus Prime / Rhen Var / Rishi / Rodia / Ryloth / Saleucami / Sernpidal / Shadda-Bi-Boran / Sullust / Tatooine / Toydaria / Triton / Tund / Utapau / Yavin

✦ Wild Space:  

Bakura / Kalee / Teth

✦ Unknown Regions:  

Csilla / Iego / Ilum / Nagi / Lehon (Rakata Prime) / Rattatak / Zonama Sekot

Writeblr Intro

So I've been peer pressured by a friend into joining Writeblr, and so I don't know much about this all. I am just here to have a good time.

About Me

I don't like using my actual name online, so you can call me Maura. My pronouns are she/they. Despite being on this runaway train we call Tumblr for six years, I don't really think I have ever shared any of my writing on here.

I mostly write high and urban fantasy, but I dabble in crime dramas, romance, and science fiction every once in a while. I have ADHD, so I am always jumping between a couple projects at a time.

Current Projects

Barknola Island

When Evie Bryn wants to escape the rush of urban life, what better way to do it than work as a lighthouse keeper on a small, rural island? But when she arrives to find the lighthouse abandoned and in disrepair, the last thing she expected was to uncover a mystery as old as the island itself.

A more lighthearted fantasy that features Celtic folklore creatures. Basically, if My Neighbor Totoro met Song of the Sea.

Blood by Proxy

Desdemona Walsh has amassed plenty of dirty cops within her city's police department and has dealt with plenty of undercover operations as the leader of the city's crime syndicate. Usually she can thwart all attempts through bribes and just enough reasonable doubt, however, the cops throw a wrench in her plan when they send her an attractive rookie detective by the name Allana Bunker. But as time goes on, Desdemona can't let her infatuation put her behind bars.

A slow burn, enemies-to-lovers crime drama starring two women who refuse to let their emotions get in the way of their jobs.

I think I've rambled on for long enough. Shout out to @problematicallybored for making me do this.

hey reminder that the monterey bay aquarium has livestreams of the tanks and also fish r pretty

I Guess I’m joining Writeblr

I have no clue what I’m doing, but I got dragged here via friendship, so I might as well roll with it.

ME!

I go by Ginger. Pronouns are They/Them. I’ve been on tumblr for a little while, so this is my poor attempt at finally interacting. 

I really like high fantasy and sci-fi stuff. Horrors in any setting is great. I’m also a big fan of thrillers. Subsequently, my main Wips are all horror, triller, fantasy, or a combination of such. Go thunk it. 

Other interests include: art, music, comics, video games, and reading. I might post art or a comics relating to what I write. We’ll see how it goes. 

WIPs

Nom de Guerre

Tis a bunch of smaller story hiding as one big story in a trench coat. The overarching plot is that a group of revolutionaries abandon their old lives, pick a new name, and work together to overthrow a corrupt king + government. The smaller stories go into more detail about different groups of revolutionaries, as each plot follows another step in overthrowing the government. Even if they could just kill the king, it not that simple. 

*In 1950 announcer voice* Nom de Guerre is brought to you by: Shady churches, Hugo the Bear, a horse thief, a couple of wizards, a tired dad, an ex-knight, too many main characters, background knight trench warfare, and much, much more. 

Benny

Benny drugs race track horse for a living, until one day the mob he works for need him to drug a human too. He messes up the dosage, get a little in over his head and questions why his dad couldn’t have given him fair warning before ditching town. Basically Mafia thriller.

Poems

I mostly write haikus, so anything more than three lines will be a fun surprise. I shall leave you with my favorite so far:

Two fools, tax exempt, / going to arrest a third. / Crime? Tax evasion.

With that I think I’m good. @sprigofbasil​ for dragging me into this. :>

skin color ref because some of yall non-black poc and whites keep fucking up as if yall don’t know there’s other shades of brown when u racebend for woke points or something 

(non-black artists please reblog)

You can donate to the kickstarter here!

I just really want to write a book (in fact, I think that I’m going to) where the protagonist is in a wheelchair. And they live in a city where there’s a group of superheroes. And there’s a big, magical, villain because of course there is.

And since they were a young child, this protagonist has wanted nothing more than to join the group of superheroes. Like they’re a huge fan of the group and they just know that it’s their destiny to join.

And one day, when wheeling through the city, they see the group of heroes fighting the villain. And they quickly wheel over and cry, “Let me help!”

But the ‘heroes’ laugh and instead make a whole bunch of ableist remarks.

And so the protagonist has to prove themselves.

And the villain is trying to warn them to stop.

But the protagonist ends up taking their footrest off of their wheelchair and they swing it. And it hits the villain in the side of the face and the villain collapses and groans in pain.

And so the protagonist proudly smiles and turns to the group of heroes.

Because they just proved that they are strong and worthy enough.

But the group of ‘heroes’ still keeps making ableist remarks.

And the protagonist is shocked.

And meanwhile, the ‘villain’ staggers to their feet and is standing next to the protagonist’ wheelchair.

And one of the ‘heroes’ goes too far when calling the protagonist the R word.

And the protagonist and the ‘villain’ just sort of glance at one another.

And the ‘villain’ is just like, “You know…I can zap them for you…if you want.”

And the protagonist hesitates and says, “Yeah, alright!”

One fried group of heroes later, the ‘villain’ says, “Why do you think that I’m always fighting them? They’re all a bunch of assholes.”

And the protagonist sadly nods and starts to wheel away.

Then:

“Hey, do you want a job?”

The protagonist turns at the villain’s remark. And the protagonist mumbles something like, “Oh, come on. I don’t need your pity.”

And the ‘villain’ is like, “Pity!? Do I look like someone who hands out pity!? I don’t pity you! I’m kind of afraid of you, to be honest! I mean…I’m going to have a giant bruise on my face because of you.”

“Yeah…sorry…”

“Water under the bridge! So, what do you say? Do you want a job?”

And the protagonist thinks about it for a minute before shrugging.

And the ‘villain’ is all excited because they’ve wanted someone to work with them for years but no mortal is allowed to ‘step into’ their lair.

And then the ‘villain’ stops and is like, “Hang on…you can’t work with me in that.”

And they gesture to the protagonist’s wheelchair.

And the protagonist is all embarrassed.

And then the villain goes, “Because we can get you a much better wheelchair! It’ll look great! And it’ll be indestructible! And it’ll have all sorts of weapons and gadgets! Hey, how do you feel about flying…?”

And all of that is literally in the first chapter and then the rest of the story follows the two going around the city like BAMFs, forcing people to stop being ableist, one way or another. And maybe it’ll have some commentary on the scale of morality and what it truly means to be a hero and what it truly means to be a villain.

Would anyone be interested in this!?

Because I really want to write it!?

Seriously, where did Steve find that armor? I hope he didn’t steal it from an aggressive warrior or something…I don’t want him to get in trouble, ya know? It’s been a year since this tutorial is on Patreon, so I’ll post it for everyone now! (I have to work on a reptile scales or transparent materials tutorial one day tho)

Fire tutorial: https://darhak.tumblr.com/post/186828219798/thats-my-first-and-probably-not-last-art

Free Links to DND Sourcebooks

Player's Handbook

Dungeon Master's Guide

Monster Manual

Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica

Mordekainen's Tome of Foes

Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide

Volo's Guide to Monsters

Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron

Xanathar's Guide to Everything

Eberron - Rising from the Last War

2nd ed. Sentient Species of Star Wars: The Old Republic: a visual dictionary

Qualitative Surveys on Fan Fiction

howdy, y’all. i’ve been thinking about expanding some of the research i did for a paper during undergrad for a while now, and i’ve finally worked up the energy to get the ball rolling on that with these surveys. 

if you could all help me out by reblogging this post if you see it so my responses aren’t skewed to reflect one cluster of a single fandom, i would be forever indebted to you. thank you, and much, much, much, much love!

opinions on fan fiction for readers

opinions on fan fiction for writers

each one should take anywhere from 10-25 minutes to complete, depending on how much you have to say for the open-ended questions.

mwah x

ok fuck it

every single person who reblogs this will get a picture of a possum in their inbox, loosely based on the vibes i get from your blog

(as long as you have asks or submissions on tho)