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If you're reading this...

go write three sentences on your current writing project.

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Just checking.... We all pronounce Miette like My-TAY in our heads, right?

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Reblog for larger sample size. Feel free to indicate in the comments your generation, approximate region of residence, your length of experience with fan fiction, or when/where you first encountered these terms.

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such beautiful interesting dragon illustrations, going through your blog has made me so happy.

I'd love to see what about a dragon inspired by fern leaves, no pressure though if you are working on other suggestions.

#102 - 龍頭 (lóngtóu / dragon head) - A pretty sight for over 360 million years! 🌿☘️🌱

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One thing most people don't realize about Gazebos is how bloodthirsty they used to be until the 1930s or so. It used to be that in order to appease your average small town gazebo you had to feed it 4-5 marching bands a year, or roughly 2 dozen barbershop groups. Noaways? Throw it a steely dan cover act every 6 months, maybe a bridal party every few years if you're actively trying to court its favor, and you're pretty much in the clear. And the crazy thing is nobody knows why they calmed down, or that their appetite for flesh won't return to its 19th century heights one day. It's actually an increasingly popular theory among modern Gazebo researchers that we're at the tail end of a period of dormancy and it's only a matter of time until they start howling for blood again. And if/when that does happen there's the question of whether our modern zeeb-keepers are really ready for the task of booking enough sacrificial acts to meet that increased demand. Guild policy has gotten lax in the century since the heyday of Dark Pavillionism and a lot of local keepers refuse to even look at newer research that threatened to upsettheir status quo. Kind of scary to think about

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Peace of mind

National Park Vicente Pérez Rosales, Los Lagos, Chile.

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Look, there's a lot to be said about the contemporary gaming industry's preoccupation with graphics performance in contemporary video games, but "no video game needs to run at higher than thirty frames per second" – which is something I've seen come up in a couple of recent trending posts – isn't a terribly supportable assertion.

The notion that sixty frames per second ought to be a baseline performance target isn't a modern one. Most NES games ran at sixty frames per second. This was in 1983 – we're talking about a system with two kilobytes of RAM, and even then, sixty frames per second was considered the gold standard. There's a good reason for that, too: if you go much lower, rapidly moving backgrounds start to give a lot of folks eye strain and vertigo. It's genuinely an accessibility problem.

The idea that thirty frames per second is acceptable didn't gain currency until first-generation 3D consoles like the N64, as a compromise to allow more complex character models and environments within the limited capabilities of early 3D GPUs. If you're characterising the 60fps standard as the product of studios pushing shiny graphics over good technical design, historically speaking you've got it precisely backwards: it's actually the 30fps standard that's the product of prioritising flash and spectacle over user experience.

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One of the funniest things about enemies-to-lovers ships is how they’re almost always obsessed with each other. Like if a character actively chooses to interact with another character over and over again instead of simply ignoring them? Throw darts at it all you want, but you still printed out a picture of them to hang on your wall

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If you're reading this...

go write three sentences on your current writing project.

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The process of getting comfy tucked in with mama.

Cinder loves to sleep under the quilt with me.

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Ohhh I love her blotchy little face! What a gorgeous fluffy little baby

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A brief moment of rationality from the bird place.

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Angel concepts

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"The Bride"

RIP to Walnut, the crane who took her keeper for a mate. The stuff of a dark fairytale.

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For tuck em in Tuesday: this is my mom's cat, Boo, who loves to burrow under things and tuck herself in 🖤

A strong, independent queen who don't need no man (to tuck her in, cuz she can do it herself. Also cozy. Also very cute)