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ttrpg player pro tip- just tell your GM when you have a plot in mind for your character. Ask for events to happen. Walk up and say "I want my evil brother to show up and be a huge fight and I try to save him from himself." Your GM will ADORE having a whole encounter outlined for her, you'll get to have an awesome scene play out, you'll be invested, your GM will be invested, it'll be memorable. Hopefully, just don't be foreceful.

The idea that you and your GM will be able to like, psychically intuit each other's ideas for character arcs is bullshit. This is a collaborative relationship; communicate!!

#best thing in the world i did was walk up to my DM in a rpg I'm currently in and say #'hey is it ok if my character has did? I've talked to a friend about it and I'll be responsible about it i swear' #and she was like yea sure :D #so now my biggest fun is throwing bread crumbs on the ground to see which other player finds out first #it's so funny too #me straight up saying like 5 times 'i don't remember ANYTHING that happened yesterday ' #and one other playing commenting 'oh i thought she was exaggerating' #i lose it every time /pos #sadly didn't happen with another char of mine #from a canceled genshin rpg #the dm was too self centered #so when i shared ideas of what could happen to my character she didn't know how to deal with that :/ #bc she didn't really have a story in mind #it was v sad but at least i made one of my fav ocs #talk to your dms!!! #it's fun!!! #i also dm and i love it when my players ask me stuff #i made a whole cult investigation side quest for one of my player's character

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i appreciate the attempts a lot of game devs are making with gender neutral character creation, and i appreciate that it's actually a very difficult task to implement that depending on the game's base code. but it's so funny to me when you hear an uproar because some game has "entirely removed the gender option from character creation!!!!!" so you go to check it out and its just like

#literally Splatoon 3 lmao

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Why do horny blogs post like they’re in House of Leaves?

#literally tho #it's so funny

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It frightens and discourages me how pervasive "tribal" stereotypes and imagery are in the fantasy and adventure genres.

It's all over the place in classic literature. Crack open a Jules Verne novel and you're likely to find caricatures of brown people and cultures, even when the characters are sympathetic to the plight of the colonized peoples - incidentally, this is the biggest reason I can't recommend 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea to everyone, despite Captain Nemo being one of my favorite fictional characters of all time.

You can't escape it in modern cinema, either. You'll see white heroes venturing bravely into jungles and tombs to steal from natives who don't know how to use their resources "properly." You'll see them strung up in traps, riddled with sleeping darts, forced to flee and fight their way out. Hell, Pirates of the Caribbean, a remarkably inclusive franchise in many other ways, had an extended sequence of the white heroes escaping from a cannibal civilization in the second film.

And when fantasy RPGs want a humanoid enemy, the "bloodthirsty natives" are the first stock trope they jump to. World of Warcraft is one of the most egregious examples, with the trolls - blatant racist caricatures with faux-voodoo beliefs, cannibalistic diets, Jamaican accents, and a history of being killed in droves by (white) elves and humans - being raided and slaughtered in nearly every expansion.

It doesn't matter how vibrant and distinctive the real-world indigenous, Polynesian, Caribbean, and African cultures are. It doesn't matter how much potential these real civilizations offer for complex and sympathetic characterization. Anything that doesn't make sense to the white western mind is shoved under the same "savage" umbrella. They're different. They're strange. They're scary. They have to be escaped, subjugated, eliminated, ogled at from the safety of a museum.

Modern writers, directors, and developers don't even seem to realize how horrifying it is to present the indigenous inhabitants of a place as "obstacles" for non-native protagonists to overcome. "It's not racist," they say, "because these people aren't really people, you see." And if you dare to point out anything that hurts or offends you as a descendant of the bastardized culture, you're accused of being the real racist: "These aren't humans! They're monsters! Are you saying that these real societies are just like those disgusting monsters?"

No, they're not monsters. But you chose to design them as monsters, just as invaders have done for hundreds of years. Why would you do that? Why can you recognize any other caricature as evil and cruel, but not this?

This is how deep colonialism runs.

#reminds me of the hillichurls in genshin #which got worst when they made them sympathetic through lore #as if the implications alone weren't enough #it's infuriating how they're the basic enemies you gotta kill around #how everyone sees them as mindless monsters #and the you get to sumeru too #like. no words tbh #sumeru makes me feel insane

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weirdest art trick i have is that sketching limbs is easier and neater if you slice em at the joints instead of using those little circles

#yep #i do that!

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If I didn’t think of anything put it in the tags

#attacks very quickly #inspired by how i tend to play games #i use dualies on splatoon #and i use light weight acs in armored core #im a menace when it comes to movement

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Hey, just out of curiosity

#decline #straight up #I already feel pressure to be perfect normally on comms #I'm NOT doing a comm with a style that isn't mine

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Feel free to specify in the tags :) if the animal is one that needs company assume you'd have multiple

#rodent!!!!! #i would love to have rats!!!!!! #the only reason i don't see myself having rats in the future is bc i want big dogs and cats #so that feels dangerous #but i love love love rats

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Hey, just out of curiosity

#i enjoy trying things out #specially to improve #but I'm not doing that shit for free for someone else bruv #i like being able to chill and just try stuff #no pressure #i hate pressure

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the radiance of the sun

Theo #91416451 for AngelicAvian

#this is beautiful omg

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If you have a real life person as your pfp, I don't care if it's Taylor Swift or something, my subconscious will assume you look like that irl. Sometimes my subconscious even assumes that I look like my pfp irl. And if your pfp is not a real life person... Tbh my subconscious still assumes you look like that irl.

You know what, tag yourself... How close in appearance do you think you are to your pfp? Interpret how you will

#main blog is agent 8 from sploon #i look somewhat like her #my used to be much similar in shape before tho #now it's longer #side blog is laika from Laika ages through blood #sadly i do not look like a badass dog

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This is for the support of Gaza's Municipality Services - which help ensure clean drinking water, waste collection, debri removal and sanitation services - life saving services to run a state - reader I imagine wherever you are or how lacking the municipality services in your city is, it's not worse than Ghazza.

Currently it's only at 11% - please donate -

#important

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at this point i could not care less about criticism of ai art that does not focus on its environmental impact, its labor impact, or its potential misuse in larger disinformation campaigns. “ai art has no heart :(“ it’s embarrassing that you care about this and also who gets to determine what counts as art with “heart” and who is capable of creating such art. google “degenerate art” right now

#literally #it's frustrating talking about ai and people starting #'oh but it can be a tool...' #did you #not hear what i just said #it's one more thing destroying the planet #get a fucking grip

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I know no one follows me for homestuck, but I love these guys, and I love doing character line ups

#these are soooo cool

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This manages to be high effort and low effort at the same time

#how could he know

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Here's how you can help Palestine!!

Educate yourself and spread awareness with the help of these sites:

Al Jazeera - This is a news site that gives constant updates and information on Palestine.

Decolonize Palestine - This is a website that informs you about the history of Palestine, debunk myths, and gives out a lot of resources to look into.

Visualizing Palestine - This site creates infographics that can help people visualize the statistics from data collected about Palestine. They are free to download and share around.

US Campaign for Palestinian Rights - This website includes numerous campaigns and resources you can look into and support.

The Palestinian Museum Digital Archive - This site features a collection of many things from Palestine that archives documents, letters, and other items that show the lives and experiences of Palestinians.

Ways you can donate to/support families in Palestine:

Arab.org - Just do your daily clicks and you get to donate for free. Please take the time to donate to all of the causes.

Gaza Funds - Every time you refresh the site, it leads you to a different GoFundMe page for the people who need help.

Care for Gaza - This is an organization that sends aid out to Palestine, you can find more in their Twitter/X account. They also have a PayPal.

eSims for Gaza - You can send an eSim to people in Palestine to help them connect and reach out.

Emergency Relief for Gaza - This is a campaign that gives food, medical supplies, and other humanitarian aid to families from donations.

Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) - They also give medical aid to the people in Palestine and you can also support by donating to them as well.

Palestine Children's Relief Fund (PCRF) - Donate here to give funds and support to the children in Palestine as they specialize in pediatric care.

Google Docs/Spreadsheets:

Make sure to look at the other tabs within the spreadsheets as they lead to more options/resources!

Help Gaza - This is a spreadsheet with a list of fundraisers for different families/causes that need support! Look through and donate when you can!

Operation Olive Branch - This is a spreadsheet with many links and ways to help in the project! There are campaigns, fundraisers, volunteer work for other parts of the causes and such! Make sure to check it out!

★RESOURCE LINKS AND INFO★ - A google document made from Twitter/X user: para_docx. This includes links, resources, and information for the other ongoing genocides as well.

Some of these documents intersect and have similar resources and links, but I'm adding them just to make sure as they may also have some that aren't listed in this post either.

Free Palestine.

#important

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no offense but if i exit out of a program that program should close. none of that running in the background shit.

#me when i have to close discord #or steam #or any of these other lil shits #die