Mom Called Me A Fag Yesterday By Accident

— Chariots of Steel v1.0 by @open-sketchbook, p. 72

This is very possibly the best explanation for lack of realism in a tabletop RPG I've ever read.

I can't tell if my dragon worldbuilding has gone too far when I start reading scientific papers on bat wig morphology and comparing them to bird morphology.

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Speaking of double vision, here’s my collection of vintage “seeing double” imagery.

Bravo also to Robert Eggers for probably the least bad depiction of Transylvania in Western vampire cinematic history:

1. Having actual Romanian actors doing the dialogue in Romanian. You'd think this is a low bar to clear but nope.

2. High quality costume design that looks pretty accurate to 19th century Romanian and Roma peasantry, even down to specific braided hairstyles from the Transylvanian region.

3. Depiction of Roma people but refrains from having them as some typical Hollywood exoticizing role like a magical fortune teller etc. They're in like half a scene, just chilling and playing music in front of an inn.

4. Use of the word "strigoi" which are actual spirits in Romanian folklore, unlike the term "vampire" which didn't exist in Romania.

5. Sorry to the Nosferatu moustache haters, but a Romanian nobleman would have had that exact facial hair.

6. Depiction of religion (nuns, churches) that actually looks like Eastern Orthodoxy and not some vaguely spooky goth Christianity.

Paweł Ossoliński Fotografia

Scrimshaw corpus

I can make any character a woman

Exactly!!!! He’s just like Howard Hughes fr

Capt Nemo: Imma tell you how my ship works and how I stay alive underwater in excruciating detail

Prof. Aronnax: Oh hell yeah gimme all that science

Nemo: And I'll tell you exactly how I managed to build this ship without anyone finding out

Aronnax: I believe every word of this increasingly ridiculous story

Nemo: Now it's time for my diatribe about how I hate land and will remain underwater forever

Aronnax: Go off, queen

Nemo: Aaaand that's all you need to know I guess

Aronnax: Cool cool cool. I definitely don't need to know who your crew is, where they came from, how many there are, or how you managed to convince ~100 people to give up life on land and just live underwater for the rest of their lives

Nemo: Yeah lol why would you care they're not like PEOPLE

Arronax: lololol totes bestie

Nemo: oh btw we don't have a doctor

I always feel like somebody's watching me...