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the campaign I ran this past year (ended now due to scheduling conflicts) had 2 warlocks with the Eldritch concept of a frog beyond human comprehension as a patron.

the Erdrich blasts were the frog licking the enemy with his long tongue.

Less Impressive Warlock Patrons

A metric fuckton of quasits who collectively add up to the power of one balor.

Mid tier internet celebrity who gives you instructions in the form of 3 hour video essays. That's how their eldritch blasts work too, incidentally.

Another Warlock! See, if you become patron to 10 warlocks, who become patrons to...

The Algorithm.

Keir Starmer

A really big guy. I know, I know, he doesn't sound like a patron, but you don't understand. He's really big.

Blorbo (From your show)

The Bit

The lifepath system from Traveller.

Undying Patron who's a gestalt of the souls of every monster you kill, that's why you get EXP from killing things.

1/1000th of a pact with a 1000 different patrons at once.

"Powerful Fiend" no-one else has heard of who bears a distinct resemblance to the warlock wearing a halloween devil costume. Odd that!

When Jason starts building his crime lord career, people start inexplicably comparing him to Matches Malone. They have the same mannerisms, the same fighting styles and a similar build. Some rogues even have theories that they're the same guy.

So when ever Matches is mentioned, red hood mutters "fuck that guy" under his breath and since Bruce puts his whole batussy into his personas, he's starts reciprocating that energy. All the rogues are scrambling to find out what happened to cause this beef. The entire Gotham underground now has to pick a side between one of their own who they've worked with and gotten to know over the years versus the new up and coming crime lord that's offering jobs and improving their lives. While Jason is wondering what he can do to stop being compared to Bruce, Bruce is trying to be a supportive parent (which means making sure the rogues don't turn on J) while protecting his persona he's been curating for years.

I still can't stop thinking about cryptid Dovahkiin. Like there's just something about them distinctively inhuman that they can't shake. The way they travel effortlessly through the country. The way they somehow know where their enemies are at all times in combat. The way they can navigate to anywhere in Skyrim with nothing more than a vague description. The way they always know everyone's name, without speaking to them. The way they always know where their objective is, unfailingly. The way they are a blank slate, hardly emoting, often locked behind armor or a mask. The way they react faster than anyone would consider possible to changing situations, almost like they've done it all before. The way they are able to melt into the shadows when they hide. The way they are able to navigate the landscape with unfaltering ease, climbing sheer cliffaces and walking along mountain ranges. The way they APPEAR so human, but are just... not.

dragonborn with teeth a little bit too sharp, even for an argonian or a khajit. dragonborn with eyes that seem to glow like embers. dragonborn whose voice echoes in your head strangely, like it's backed by the voices of each dragon soul they've consumed. dragonborn whose Voice causes earthquakes. dragonborn who moves a little too fast, is a little too strong, who loves fire a little too much even as a child. dragonborn who, if you look for more than a few seconds, is just as much dragon as human or Mer. dragonborn who loves puzzles and shiny things and has a temper to rival the Daedra. dragonborn who is just a little bit... off, like a fae.

AND YET A TRACE OF THE TRUE SELF EXISTS IN THE FALSE SELF

AND YET A TRACE OF THE TRUE SELF EXISTS IN THE FALSE SELF

I feel like ai art would be fun if we were all still just typing random prompts into it like mushroom giving a ted talk and going lol this looks stupid wasn’t that fun but instead people are like trying to replace jobs with it

God damn it.

My hungry ass could never be a folklorist

And here it is! My first fully completed Procreate Dreams animation. I used audio from one of Technoblade’s more famous rants during his Potato War series. I love Technoblade and miss him every day, so I hope that I was able to capture the magic of his energy in my animation.

I animated the roughs and drew the backgrounds in Procreate, but then I imported that into Dreams to do all the cleanup. It runs at 24 fps, but there’s a lot of variations to spice it up in there.

I wanted to really challenge myself so there’s a LOT going on in this short 9 second clip. There’s a camera move with multiple layers to achieve a subtle parallax scroll, there’s two lighting changes with one being a completely animated shadow layer, and there’s a warp effect on the curtains for when it opens and closes.

There’s still a lot that could be cleaned up. Some of the linework is a little more jittery than I would prefer, and the coloring process was awful. Every color was its own separate layer, which was exhausting to do. I really hope i can figure out a faster and easier way to do the coloring process because that took me over a week to complete! Yikes!

Overall I’m extremely proud of my work here. I’ve been working on this 9 second clip since Dreams released and I really wanted to showcase to everyone just how powerful Dreams is. I know a lot of people were complaining about it when it released and I wanted to do something to help reorient people’s expectations. I genuinely cannot believe that I did all of this on my iPad!

If anyone has any questions or would like to see a breakdown of this animation, please feel free to contact me!

And remember… Technoblade never dies!

This is just playing Dungeons and Degenerate Gamblers

(Game, can be found on itch.io)

hit me 🃏

Techno in Genloss [Redraw]

NOOoOoOOOOoO

D:

R I P to the most important sea otter in my life :(

Remembering Rosa the sea otter

Hello Aquarium family. It’s with great sadness that we share that our beloved sea otter Rosa passed away today. At 24 years old, Rosa was the oldest resident otter at the Aquarium and one of our most experienced surrogate moms, having raised 15 stranded sea otter pups in her time with us. 

While Rosa spent the last few months behind the scenes getting extra special care from our staff, she was the matriarch of the Sea Otters exhibit. Beloved and cherished by millions of visitors and fans of the live Sea Otter Cam, she was instantly recognizable thanks to her blonde head (eclipsed only by Ivy as our most grizzled of kelp grizzlies) and her signature head-all-the-way-back swimming style.

“Rosa was one of our most playful sea otters, and even at 24 years old, she would still be seen frolicking and wrestling with the younger otters when she instigated it,” said Melanie Oerter, curator of mammals. “Rosa was usually found sleeping against the window while on exhibit with her chin tucked tight into her chest and her tail swishing back and forth.”

After being found stranded as a four-week-old pup in September 1999, Rosa became part of the Aquarium family before our sea otter surrogacy program even took shape. Our Sea Otter Program staff raised her by hand for nearly seven months before releasing her to the wild. 

Rosa eventually returned to the Aquarium once again in March 2002 when she didn’t take to life outside of human care, and she immediately became a fixture in the formative years of our sea otter surrogacy program as a caring adoptive mother for rescued pups destined for wild release.

She was a delight to work with, though she certainly had her expectations of our staff according to the many Sea Otter Mammalogists who trained (were trained by?) Rosa over the years. 

"Rosa was an incredibly smart otter! Generally calm and patient with the staff. However, she could be defiant at times and there would be no convincing her to do something she did not want to do," said Oerter. "She would often just look at us or swim away. I believe she was the one who was really training us all of these years. I certainly learned a lot from working with such an incredible otter. It has been a privilege and to say we will miss her is understated."

Rosa relaxed into retirement from surrogacy in 2019, acting as a companion and cornerstone in the ever-changing raft of otters in our care. 

Wild female sea otters live between 15 and 20 years, and reaching the age of 24 is a testament to the exceptional care Rosa received throughout her life from our Veterinary and Animal Care teams. In recent years, she began showing signs of age-related health concerns.  In the last few weeks, her health had been deteriorating. After an exam, the veterinary and animal care teams made the difficult choice to humanely euthanize Rosa because those health conditions were compromising her quality of life. She passed away peacefully, surrounded by her caretakers.

Rosa’s legacy lives on both at the Aquarium with our other resident sea otters Kit, Selka, Ivy, and Ruby, and in the wild, where sea otter pups she raised continue to raise pups of their own, contributing to the recovery of their species and their ecosystems along the California coast. 

Rosa was an inspiration to millions as a charismatic ambassador for her threatened species while playing a leading role in the story of sea otter recovery from near-extinction during the fur trade. Rosa will be greatly missed by all of us who got to know her over the years.

To celebrate Rosa’s long life, please feel free to share photos and stories of your encounters with Rosa at the Aquarium in the comment section on this post, in her memory and for the staff and volunteers grieving her loss. Thank you all for being such a big part of Rosa’s life. 🦦♥️

NATO Standard Phonetic Alphabet,

The phonetic alphabet was developed as a way to spell things out over radio communications that may be less then ideal, I.E. a lot of static or weak signal. All the words were chosen because they have a distinct sound that is easy to pick out. Military and police communications use the phonetic alphabet heavily and can be helpful to know for talking over CB’s or FRS (walky talky) radios.

Visit Rapture!

Step 1: Stare at the centre dot for 30 seconds.

Step 2: Look at any of these 5 pictures.

Step 3: Enjoy!

Gaming for the good of our ocean 🎮📱🌊

Have you played @fathomverse yet? This cozy sci-non-fi game for ocean explorers was created by our research and technology partners @mbari-blog . By playing you can interact with real underwater images to improve the artificial intelligence that helps researchers study ocean life. 

Now available for download on the App Store and Google Play! Read more at https://mbayaq.co/FathomVerse

📸:@mbari-blog

i'm making a brand new, unbearable wizard quiz

you have GOT to get over the debilitating curse I gave you and just be a normal functioning member of society already

Reblog if you've made at least one friend because of a fandom.

Painted bunting!

Love these lil guys!

lahore pigeons are some of the most visually appealing birds out there. like in terms of visual design. very minimalist, good contrast.

@partycoffin

HE HAS ARIVED

tired: mermaids are all women

wired: much like elves, merfolk are mistaken by sailors for being all women because they have long hair and are very pretty

I swear… “but you don’t need a device with a headphone jack, your headphones are Bluetooth”. They’re only Bluetooth when I can’t be bothered to carry my devices around and I don’t have pockets. The rest of the time they’re hooked up to my devices using the HEADPHONE JACK.

pros of corded headphones:

Cant lose phone

dont need to charge headphones

they look cool and are amazing

cons of corded headphones:

Every doorknob in existence is now out to get you

I only make it halfway through the sandwich (if that) before I’m like “this was a good sandwich. Now show me the ~mayonnaise bread~ and Meat!”

Didn’t know this was a thing other people did!

So yet another weird thing about me is that I like to taste sandwiches both together and in their individual pieces. For about the first 2/3 of a sandwich I eat it normally but in the last third I eat every piece separately.

I did this even as a kid but my dad got annoyed at me “dissecting” my food and kept telling me to stop. So this began a two decade long ruse where I pretended to be very bad at eating sandwiches.

I’m not dissecting my food, father. The sandwich is simply falling apart. Oh no. What a shame. Guess I’ll have to eat these bacon bits and lettuce separately.

I recently told my dad about this because I’m an adult now and can eat how I want and yeah he never caught on. He thought I was just incredibly bad at eating sandwiches this whole time.

With the Slayer and the Princess away as mortals, the Cycle Broken, that leaves the 10~ voices and 20~ princesses left in what was once the Long Quiet, their centers gone, reality a simple cabin in nothing.

The voices however each believe in their respective princesses so much, they each shape the world with their beliefs, splintering multitudes of pockets of lifetimes in the nothing that is their everything.

Smitten and Damsel, simply staring into one another eyes in a meadow, they say nothing, do nothing, cause the other being happy is enough for them, and the other is happy if they are happy, an endless feedback loop.

The Tower on her throne, the Broken in a gilded cage beside her as she coos and pets him, the little Bird preening in adoration.

The Adversary and the Stubborn locked in endless, perfect, almost sexual combat, hand in unlovable hand.

The Opportunist and the Witch, embracing, smiling fake smiles, each with a blade ready to stab the other in the back.

The Razor and the Cheated playing Uno. The Razor is eating cards when the Cheated isn't looking.

Skeptic and Prisoner also looking into one another's eyes, each in chains, each squinting, never breaking eye contact.

The Cold and the Spectre, chilling.

The Nightmare and the Paranoid, gloved hand trailing across the bird's feathered neck.

Contrarian and Stranger, him trying to do something to annoy her, her laughing screaming in anger crying ignoring him.

The Hunted and the Beast, playing an eternal game of cat and bird.

What? They can't all bee good endings.

And yet, despite everything, none of them would have it any other way.

Not even the Paranoid.

At least his organs aren't shutting down anymore.

UM

Tumblr either thinks I’m a pregnant woman or a gay man based on the ads I’m getting. This…. This is odd.

I'm so tired of living this way (← girl that will never do anything to change her way of living because breaking the routine scares her more than anything)

My local Drug Store seems to be Having A Time finding nice stuff for the kids section.

Best 7 dollars spent of my life.