mornyavie

[mornyavie]

100% in a spn archangels mood right now so: wip gabriel and raphael.  

#supernatural

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"Then Felagund upon the head Of Orodreth set it: 'Brother mine, till I return this crown is thine.' Then Celegorm no more would stay, and Curufin smiled and turned away."

For the @candcweek prompt "Oaths" -> Fëanorian Oath!

This line from the Lay of Leithian has always really stuck with me for some reason. The C&C brainrot is real.

#tolkien

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three rings for the elven-kings under the sky

#Art

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Hmm, I might be able to to help with that. What platform?

I've been trying to complain about Tumblr having a terrible loading time the past couple days, but I can't 'cause Tumblr won't load.

Is this just a me thing or?

And if it's a general issue are we going to start Tumblr Is Falling Panic again?

As a note, as usually happens "custom URL" blogs are loading just fine even when www.tumblr.com sites are frozen solid. I'm really curious why that's the case, because it's a consistent property across several slowdowns I've witnessed.

#I spent a long time fighting with this same situation. #tumblr is a functioning website

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I'll plug the Silmarillion Writers' Guild a bit here.

#polls #tolkien

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A horse amongst the lilacs

I can't wait for the lilacs to finally bloom here in Sweden, in the meanwhile I'll just have to make do with painting them. Also I recently watched Suzume so I was in the mood to paint something pretty.

#Horses

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This is one of the greatest things ever. Walk around every single version of the U.S.S. Enterprise in photorealistic 3D in your browser, from the Roddenberry Archive. On a phone you just see wraparound 3D pics. On a PC or laptop you get the full 3D interactive experience. They NEED to make this VR compatible, it'll be beyond words.

There are more Enterprises here than Tumblr will allow me photos of, and more will likely be added.

Here's the TOS Enterprise, which appears in several incarnations ("The Cage", "Where No Man Has Gone Before" and TOS proper as well as TAS with the second turbolift!), has the correct original graphics and is perfect.

This is the bridge from the unmade Star Trek: Phase II series (whose pilot episode "In Thy Image" was rewritten to become Star Trek: The Motion Picture), with it's legendary big comfy command sofa seat and tactical display bubble!

The Motion Picture, such an accurate recreation that there's even a very faint flicker on the rear-projection animated screens as seen in the movie.

Enterprise NX-01, looking exactly as it did in "Broken Bow"

Recognise this? It's the briefing room of Discovery season 2's version of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701. Although at the front of the saucer on the "real" ship, here it's off the second bridge door which may well be where the set was IRL.

I wasn't expecting modern Trek to be represented equally as the originals in this project, but it is. This is the Enterprise from Strange New Worlds, with Pike's Ready Room located just off the bridge.

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. My favourite version of the classic bridge, as a kid I drew all these control panels and stuck them on my bedroom walls. And now I can look around and look at them all close-up! They've even replicated the noticable TVs stuffed into the panels for the more complex animated screens.

The Enterprise-C bridge from "Yesterday's Enterprise". This one has always fascinated me, being a low-budget TV set (formerly the Enterprise-D battle bridge, originally built from the rain-damaged TMP set's back wall and redressed endlessly though TNG) representing TNG's immediate predecessor. In the episode they mostly shoot the back wall and imply the consoles make a huge circle, but here you can see the set's real dimensions and the weirdness of the classic movie helm/nav console in front of the TNG con/ops panels. I love it.

You know how much I love the Kelvin movies, so seeing this was amazing. For some reason the consoles don't have their screens lit (hopefully this'll be fixed soon), but you can see the saucer under the window and it's shiny and amazing.

The last thing I expected was the U.S.S. Titan-A/Enterprise-G bridge, but it's here. And the lights are on.

Other bridges available to explore which I'm out of pictures to show: The Enterprise-D (of course), Enterprise XCV-330 (the ringship, based on concept art for the unmade non-Trek series "Starship"), the Planet of the Titans U.S.S. Enterprise (again, based on concept art for a cool multi-levelled set) and the "launch" U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 (based on the very first piece of TOS bridge set concept art), the Enterprise-E, the Enterprise-F (seen on viewscreen for all of 2 minutes in Picard) and the U.S.S. Voyager NCC-74656!

Take a bow lads, you've done good. Now just add VR support!

That link again.

#Star Trek

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#was at a seminar recently where the presenter told someone “yeah I'll cover that in the second half of the talk” when they were. #40 minutes in to a 50 minute talk. #academia

[mornyavie]

I think sam should have asked for his 600 dollars back

#Asdfljjl; #supernatural #That means Dean should have gotten like $5000 ish though? Send that man to community college.

[mornyavie]

I've been trying to complain about Tumblr having a terrible loading time the past couple days, but I can't 'cause Tumblr won't load.

Is this just a me thing or?

And if it's a general issue are we going to start Tumblr Is Falling Panic again?

As a note, as usually happens "custom URL" blogs are loading just fine even when www.tumblr.com sites are frozen solid. I'm really curious why that's the case, because it's a consistent property across several slowdowns I've witnessed.

#tumblr is a functioning website

[mornyavie]

I'm kinda mad about it but I've finally hit on the first thing to make a significant dent in my ability to plan for TTRPG sessions:

Index cards

I've used them when running big fights before (I put quick stats on each index card and put them in initiative order, so it does double-duty as notes and a turn tracker).

But making an unorganized stack of index cards - things like characters (then I can write down motivations, possessions, etc.), important locations, whatever - seems to actually be a way for me to session plan that's both motivating and useful.

I've been procrastinating on planning an event and I just realized. Hey. Index cards. And now I'm doing it.

#ttrpgs #I will explain this “”“method”“” if anyone asks but I tried and it started making this post into an essay so not doing it right now

[mornyavie]

hostage situation

you want what

#stardew valley #funny

[mornyavie]

the way you win at DnD is making your friends laugh

#Funniest house rule situation I've been in was with a player who IRL really enjoyed wordplay and was playing a bard #so every time they cast vicious mockery they'd write a mocking limerick or other put down on the spot #and we'd all rate how funny it was and then the DM would modify the spell damage accordingly. #I cannot IMAGINE the self confidence it took to be chill with just improving jokes and then asking to get rated on the spot #but it was their idea in the first place and they had a great time with it. #d&d #Ttrpgs #Funny

[mornyavie]

ok tumblr.

settle a disagreement

(if it doesn't even have a name where you live, select the 'no' option please!)

(if YOU have to work but most people in your region don't, select the yes option)

reblog for sample size! THANK YOUUUUUUUU

(i forgot to change the time this runs for NOOOOOOO)

#It doesn't even have a name but that's the closest option I guess. #I guess it's May Day? I think that's a holiday I've heard of? #polls #NA

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51/327

S3E07, “Fresh Blood”

#Supernatural

[mornyavie]

more tolkien ladies: melian, uinen, haleth, and arien

#tolkien

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one of my favourite examples of preserving atmosphere in a remake or HD version of a game will always be deciding not to remaster any of the music for twilight princess HD, and actually not changing much of the visuals either, something about that games atmosphere comes from the hazy and and dream like quality of digital media from the time. the muffled audio has this incredible ethereal quality to it that you just do not find in games anymore. there was something truely magical about 2000s dark fantasy media that i hope we will see again someday

#I like how this video title advertises that it's in 1080p even though the graphics it's recording cannot support that in the slightest. #legend of zelda #Youtube