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Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

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I was walking through the toy aisle at Target when I found this thing and had a VIOLENT AND IMMEDIATE FLASHBACK to when JP first came out and they had a bunch of REALLY COOL T Rex toys that I would have sold one of my scrawny small-child limbs for but my mother wouldn’t get me one because they were “too violent and also ate people” :(

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Hello! I come with some good news! In the EU, a law has been passed restricting generative AIs (particularly ones that pose a high risk). I hope other areas in the world follow suit, but this is huge! It'll take a while to be applied as well, though this is still a major win for everyone.

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pls reblog for sample size etc

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This reminds me of the control rods in Chernobyl jumping up and down just like that because the water was boiling from a runaway nuclear reaction.

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#Yes I have nukes on the mind again #AGAIN

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I made something

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Ha I wonder how many strokes the most complex Chinese character has like maybe eightee-

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would you put a discarded fruit sticker on my forehead in whimsical jest yes or no

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I made the first page so long ago but hey, I finished.

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What I find really hard is taking this to the logical extreme: writing a character obsessed with something you hardly know or think about. Without making it sound forced.

"Okay, so it's a tree. It's real tall and has green floppy things. What would my character see in this to devote hours each day to it?" *one wikipedia bender later* "Should she go on about adnated inflorescences, or should I just keep this line about how pretty the green floppy things are? If it does end up weird, is it an appropriate weird (which she actually is) or an immersion-breaking bad weird?!"

Ever disagree with a character as you write them? About something unimportant that bothers you?

First it was the centaur in Accidentally Human, who said that flying didn’t sound fun. (Sacrilege! Like many fantasy writers, I would jump at the chance to fly.)

Today I’m writing about a lizardy fellow who dislikes apples. Says they’re like eating soggy driftwood.

He is near and dear to my heart, but he is wrong about food.

#sometimes the green floppy things have white stripes #apparently this can be a pretty big deal #i really ought to talk to actual botanists at this point

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I mean the (US) library system doesn't sort by any of these, but by subject matter. Which is what I use and what I suspect most people use.

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Even our more powerful weapons work by getting a bunch of spicy rocks, and then hitting them with a *really small* rock.

Sometimes I think about how the entire history of the advancement of human weapons can be boiled down to: “we found more elaborate ways to hit things with rocks…”

Spears? Sharpened rocks.

Slingshot? Ranged rocks.

Arrows? Sharpened rocks with range.

Hammers/Clubs? Refined rocks.

Swords/axes? Sharpened refined rocks.

Guns? Sharpened, refined rocks, propelled by explosives…

We discovered how to make explosives, and we fine tuned that technology to better propel refined and sharpened rocks at insane distances… we are still hitting things with rocks… we just became experts in the science of hitting things with rocks… The human race is basically just a “dump everything into geology” build…

#talking about nukes #which are delivered in rock-ets even #when we say something is good

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Picked the strength potion because it seems to be the nicest one to have. Also getting the small stuff out of the way forces you to confront the most difficult, worrying tasks you have, and that's super painful and therefore EVIL.

play potions with your followers, but watch out..

#yes probably the most vanilla option #after the health one anyways #good lord that one is popular is everyone dying in here #i guess this is inevitable with the platform being dominated by 20s and 30s now

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Yay, unsolicited advice time! Or, not really advice, more like miscellaneous tips and tricks, because if there's one thing eight years of martial arts has equipped me to write, it's fight scenes.

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Fun things to add to a fight scene (hand to hand edition)

It's not uncommon for two people to kick at the same time and smack their shins together, or for one person to block a kick with their shin. This is called a shin lock and it HURTS like a BITCH. You can be limping for the rest of the fight if you do it hard enough.

If your character is mean and short, they can block kicks with the tip of their elbow, which hurts the other guy a lot more and them a lot less

Headbutts are a quick way to give yourself a concussion

If a character has had many concussions, they will be easier to knock out. This is called glass jaw.

Bad places to get hit that aren't the groin: solar plexus, liver, back of the head, side of the thigh (a lot of leg kicks aim for this because if it connects, your opponent will be limping)

Give your character a fighting style. It helps establish their personality and physicality. Are they a grappler? Do they prefer kicks or fighting up close? How well trained are they?

Your scalp bleeds a lot and this can get in your eyes, blinding you

If you get hit in the nose, your eyes water

Adrenaline's a hell of a drug. Most of the time, you're not going to know how badly you've been hurt until after the fact

Even with good technique, it's really easy to break toes and fingers

Blocking hurts, dodging doesn't

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Just thought these might be useful! If you want a more comprehensive guide or a weapons edition, feel free to ask. If you want, write how your characters fight in the comments!

Have a bitchin day <3

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i genuinely hope that boop day inspires everyone to interact more with other tumblr users. because it’s clearly way more fun this way!! even once the boop button is gone, there’s still asks, tag and ask games, comments, dms, fuck it let’s bring back blog rates i don’t care. part of the reason that tumblr is dying is that its way less social than it used to be. let’s fix that!!

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Pin for survivors

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Reblog if I can spam you with boops