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#gargoyles #marvellous #we need gargoyles back

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#yeen day #hyena day #hyena

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guy who is so nose

#prince nose #baby face #primarina

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#i am in this picture #and i do not like it

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I want to just drown myself in Flight Rising relieving writing but it is one of the settings that just elude my poor little mind. Years of this and I internally weep with a stoic, tired face.

#writing #pain #flight rising #writer pain

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Never liked you anyway

#pokemon

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Pros of teaching yourself how to do the yautja rattling thing: You can imitate a yautja whenever you want :)

Cons: It's become a stim, so I have to stop myself doing it in public

#very true

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Uncute my local Cult Dad Lamb

#cult of the lamb #lambsona #lamb cotl #i love his eyes

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Sylveon sends love your way! 💗

Available as print! ✨

#slyveon #baby beans #pokemon #fae pokemon

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Hey! Are there blacksmiths in your story? I'm a hobbyist blacksmith and I'm here to help!

Blacksmithing is one of those things that a lot of people get wrong because they don't realize it stuck around past the advent of the assembly line. Here's a list of some common misconceptions I see and what to do instead!

Not all blacksmiths are gigantic terrifying muscly guys with beards and deep voices. I am 5'8, skinny as a twig, have the muscle mass of wet bread, and exist on Tumblr. Anybody who is strong enough to pick up a hammer and understands fire safety can be a blacksmith.

You can make more than just swords with blacksmithing. Though swords are undeniably practical, they're not the only things that can be made. I've made candle holders, wall hooks, kebab skewers, fire pokers, and more. Look up things other people have made, it's really amazing what can be done.

"Red-hot" is actually not that hot by blacksmith terms. when heated up, the metal goes from black, to red, to orange, to yellow, to white. (for temperature reference, I got a second degree burn from picking up a piece of metal on black heat) The ideal color to work with the metal is yellow. White is not ideal at all, because the metal starts sparking and gets all weird and lumpy when it cools. (At no point in this process does the metal get even close to melting. It gets soft enough to work with, but I have never once seen metal become a liquid.)

Blacksmithing takes fucking forever. Not even taking into account starting the forge, selecting and preparing metal, etc. etc. it takes me around an hour to make one (1) fancy skewer. The metals blacksmiths work with heat up and cool down incredibly fast. When the forge is going good, it only takes like 20 seconds to get your metal hot enough to work with, but it takes about the same time for it to cool down, sometimes even less.

As long as you are careful, it is actually stupidly easy to not get hurt while blacksmithing. When I picked up this hobby I was like "okay, cool! I'm gonna make stuff, and I'm gonna end up in the hospital at some point!" Thus far, the latter has yet to occur. I've been doing this for nearly a year. I have earned myself a new scar from the aforementioned second degree burn, and one singe mark on my jeans. I don't even wear gloves half the time. Literally just eye protection, common sense, and fast reflexes and you'll probably be fine. (Accidents still happen of course, but I have found adequate safety weirdly easy to achieve with this hobby)

A forge is not a fire. The forge is the thing blacksmiths put their metal in to heat it up. It starts as a small fire, usually with newspaper or something else that's relatively small and burns easily, which we then put in the forge itself, which is sort of a fireplace-esque thing (there's a lot of different types of forge, look into it and try to figure out what sort of forge would make the most sense for the context you're writing about) and we cover it with coal, which then catches fire and heats up. The forge gets really hot, and sometimes really bright. Sometimes when I stare at the forge for too long it's like staring into the sun. The forge is also not a waterfall of lava, Steven Universe. It doesn't work like that, Steven Universe.

Welding and blacksmithing are not the same thing. They often go hand-in-hand, but you cannot connected two pieces of metal with traditional blacksmithing alone. There is something called forge welding, where you heat your metal, sprinkle borax (or the in-universe equivalent) on it to prevent the metal from oxidizing/being non-weldable, and hammer the pieces together very quickly. Forge welding also sends sparks flying everywhere, and if you're working in a small space with other blacksmiths, you usually want to announce that you're welding before you do, so that everyone in a five-foot radius can get out of that five-foot radius. You also cannot just stuck some random pebbles into the forge and get a decent piece of metal that you can actually make something with, Steven Universe. It doesn't work like that, Steven Universe.

Anvils are really fucking heavy. Nothing else to add here.

Making jewelry is not a blacksmithing thing unless you want jewelry made of steel. And it will be very ugly if you try. Blacksmithing wasn't invented to make small things.

If there's anything here I didn't mention, just ask and I'll do my best to answer.

#blacksmith #important blacksmith writing things #haven't writing as Axel forever but #Turelim

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The Lone Pine by Sandara Tang

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kind

#it certainly felt like that #rest easy rabbit #goodbye year of the rabbit #rise year of the dragon #2024

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#legacy of kain #blood omen #blood omen legacy of kain #new year new me #time to be naughty

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Emotional support ASSassin for @chennnington!!! ❤️❤️❤️

He's so crazy

#tes #the elder scrolls #lucien lachance #dark brotherhood #the only faction that matters #elder scrolls oblivion

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My personal depiction for my Durge, the albino dragonborn is just too good of an appearance. The monster lover that I am, wanted to give him features that warn others that something is just not right about him. The multitude of mandibles lining his jaws are normally barely noticeable until his killer instinct stir too strong to hide.

They splay and flare out with his jaws unhinging, able to wrap around a man's skull for a crushing mauling. If Durge doesn't just freeze and crush it like a gorey ice cube with near gator-worthy biting pressure. His wide vocalization of sounds go from spine-chilling viper hisses to shrill, thyroid-rattling screams and even, with his tempest-bloodline, a eardrum-bursting thunderclap of a shout.

Normally a very meticulous, clean creature, Durge walking around with these scars on his person is a constant annoyance. The slashes on his throat and ear-fins, the carving on his immaculate scales, the tender exposed scars in the back of his horned skull. Who or whatever done this is pay dearly.

#bg3 durge #bg3 dark urge #dragonborn #baulders gate 3 #dragon #white dragonborn

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I know probably no one on here has played the Legacy of Kain video game series but I was mega obsessed with it when I was like 11 and every now and then I still think on it

and lately I've been thinking about what a weirdly significant impact love has on the plot, despite the fact that "love" is not anywhere approaching the top 10 things I'd list if you asked me what Legacy of Kain was about

#yes good #the love is noticed #legacy of kain #love how Nupraptor despite being physically barely there have such a huge influence on everything #Raziel being hardheaded #Kain gotta nudge him along while caring as he do