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I'm a big fan of wizards-as-programmers, but I think it's so much better when you lean into programming tropes.

A spell the wizard uses to light the group's campfire has an error somewhere in its depths, and sometimes it doesn't work at all. The wizard spends a lot of his time trying to track down the exact conditions that cause the failure.

The wizard is attempting to create a new spell that marries two older spells together, but while they were both written within the context of Zephyrus the Starweaver's foundational work, they each used a slightly different version, and untangling the collisions make a short project take months of work.

The wizard has grown too comfortable reusing old spells, and in particular, his teleportation spell keeps finding its components rearranged and remixed, its parts copied into a dozen different places in the spellbook. This is overall not actually a problem per se, but the party's rogue grows a bit concerned when the wizard's "drying spell" seems to just be a special case of teleportation where you teleport five feet to the left and leave the wetness behind.

A wizard is constantly fiddling with his spells, making minor tweaks and changes, getting them easier to cast, with better effects, adding bells and whistles. The "shelter for the night" spell includes a tea kettle that brings itself to a boil at dawn, which the wizard is inordinately pleased with. He reports on efficiency improvements to the indifference of anyone listening.

A different wizard immediately forgets all details of his spells after he's written them. He could not begin to tell you how any of it works, at least not without sitting down for a few hours or days to figure out how he set things up. The point is that it works, and once it does, the wizard can safely stop thinking about it.

Wizards enjoy each other's company, but you must be circumspect about spellwork. Having another wizard look through your spellbook makes you aware of every minor flaw, and you might not be able to answer questions about why a spell was written in a certain way, if you remember at all.

Wizards all have their own preferences as far as which scripts they write in, the formatting of their spellbook, its dimensions and material quality, and of course which famous wizards they've taken the most foundational knowledge from. The enlightened view is that all approaches have their strengths and weaknesses, but this has never stopped anyone from getting into a protracted argument.

Sometimes a wizard will sit down with an ancient tome attempting to find answers to a complicated problem, and finally find someone from across time who was trying to do the same thing, only for the final note to be "nevermind, fixed it".

do you care to weigh in on the light up sketchers debate

there's a light up sketchers debate???

dash is dead im teleporting to the past

https://www.tumblr.com/dashboard?max_post_id=606474489540042752

hey there guys! i've been working on this uquiz to give queer book recs and i think it's finally ready to share :) anyway if there's any questions I should add or edit or anything plz lmk! here's the link :3

Edit: I should prob add that I add books that I thought were good as I finish them! If you’ve done this once and this crosses ur dash again, you might find it worthwhile to go through again and see if you get smth else :)

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE! This was an idea I had several months ago and having gotten the chance to work with all these amazing artists has been such an honour. Everyone did a tarot card inspired design based on the magnus archives fears and OH MY GOD they turned out so good.

feel free to check out each participants work and socials as listed! :D

The Lonely - @mariibeann

The Hunt - @oceanichymns

The Vast - @vpstrange

The Stranger - pencilshavings13 (IG)

The Flesh - @mintybagels

The Extinction - @wolfythewitch

The Desolation - swing_byforest (IG)

The Spiral - @mistspelt

The Dark - raven_and_rook (IG)

The Eye - @lailas-in-space

The Slaughter - eggbench (IG)

The Web - @mossiistars

The Buried - @teafromthemicrowave

The Corruption - @jouxlskaard

The End - @yelloartt

Season two bookbinding finally complete!! If you haven’t seen my season one copy, it’s here :D

Progress photos under the cut

One thing I didn’t expect from my new worldbuilding book is the author, roughly my dad’s age, including his opinions on furries

[OC] contracts.

main story • general tag

oh i never know how to explain this properly but i looooooooooooooooove when a story just absolutely TELLS you something and it’s so obvious it goes right by you. like the equivalent of hiding in plain sight. i’m thinking in the original cut(?) of alien where they showed the full xenomorph, crouched and ready to pounce, but because we’ve never seen it before, we can’t tell what it is and interpret it as part of the spaceship. or it’s a detail that seems so out of place or wildly insane that you automatically ignore it and assume you misinterpreted until that exact detail comes back in a big way? (like when noah the raven boy flat out tells everyone he’s a ghost and they take it as a joke, so the reader does too) is there a tvtropes name for this i’m obsessed with it

Source : indiasfilmss on Instagram 🖤

a couple snippets from a presentation i gave at school this past week on storyboarding!!

‼️DISCLAIMER: I am still a student and have only worked on student and indie projects! This is just stuff that I personally find helpful as an amateur, so feel free to take it with a grain of salt!

Happy boarding, friends! ✍️💕

Somebody actually made something close to a full decision tree map for Slay the Princess.

1. Can't wait to see how much messier this gets in a week. This doesn't even include optional or exploratory dialogue! 2. See, this is why we didn't build a timeline for you to jump into.

LINK: https://app.excalidraw.com/l/84AW7yZQM7h/7HuAkd7c5K7

Made a little Scream’d Stuilly compilation from various audience videos. History will call them besties but we know better.

carpenter and faulkner compilation

This is a ritual, a prayer, a plea.

This is a sacrifice, a bloodletting, a need.

This is a transformation of flesh, one stitch at a time. This is meat from a stone, warm and pulsating. From one mouth to another, this is the passing of a story with far too many limbs, slick and scaly. -

Mouth to Mouth to Mouth is a collection of transmasc horror erotica, made up of 7 short stories featuring insects, elves, fairies, and more -- all mired in the grotesque and profane. I cannot be happier with how this turned out, and I hope you find it sickening.

[out now]

ngl this is the funniest procedural thing ive made in a while i saw https://genders.wtf/gauntlet/ and realized that the only way it could be better is if it went forever

kinda curious to see what ppl get

Spy x Family = romance for people who fantasize about getting married and having kids

Kaguya-Sama = romance for people who deal with anxiety

Horimiya = romance for teenagers (seriously, this is the most “teenage romance” anime series I’ve encountered)

My Dress Up Darling = romance specifically for nerds and geeks (because Marin and Gojo are nerds in their own way and the show’s message is about embracing what you love)

Science Fell in Love, So I Tried to Prove It = romance for socially awkward people / people who don’t really get social cues

Grand Blue = romance for fratbros and sorority girls

DanDaDan = romance for weeeeiiiird people (affectionately)

Hey, I was part of this wonderful production of this wonderful show about love and death and automata and loneliness. Everyone in the show was so incredibly talented. Give it a watch if you've got the time.

i saw a post on here the other day saying it should be a crime or whatever, that skyrim still costs 60 dollars.

and i was like. HUH? it doesnt though. i got it on sale for like five bucks a few years ago.

and today i fucking found out this is probably because bethesda is trying to hide the original $20 release of the game, to force you to buy the $60 HD release.

so for anyone who wants skyrim, you can still access the page at its link, even though its not possible to find on the store page naturally.

store.steampowered.com

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim on Steam

EPIC FANTASY REBORN The next chapter in the highly anticipated Elder Scrolls saga arrives from the makers of the 2006 and 2008 Games of the

this seems fucking insane to me, by the way, considering old skyrim runs fine with amazing graphics on most modern pcs, while HD is unplayable on anything less than a high end gaming PC.

Hello literary agents are you ready for a novel about a sad scrunkly sopping wet Victorian orphan getting adopted by pirates in a story that gradually goes from adventure fantasy to supernatural horror? No? Too bad

this scene is so fucking funny the english dub of this show is so good

Ive been thinking about the peer pressure line lately. People often take it at face value, seeing it as Stu saying he really was peer pressured by Billy.

Personally I've always taken this line as sarcasm/ a joke, but I think we can get a little more understanding about Stu's meaning from it's context in the original script, where another line has been cut:

Here when Billy talks about a motive he's not necessarily talking about his real personal reasons for doing it, he's specifically talking about the story he's going to tell in court as a defence if he's caught.

Later, after Sidney escapes she asks Stu for his motive- not in the context of his personal reasons for doing it, but in the context of what he's going to tell the cops:

So when Stu answers here he's not telling her what his personal motivations are, he's telling her the story he's going to give the police.

In the movie Billy's lines about how he's going to use his story in court is cut, but Sid's line here is barely changed; she asks Stu what he's going to tell the police and he tells her. Peer pressure.

ITS A COVER STORY.

That day I woke up crying

Inspired by this article, which caught in my throat for a good while.

pinned. go away also.