rohanrider3

[rohanrider3]

I am once again screaming inside because at his core Halsin is a deeply PLAYFUL person!

His playful, sarcastic "I AM?!" when you say he's big for an elf! He has banters where he teasingly roasts Shadowheart AND Gale at different times! He teases that you might be a lunatic for freeing a bear without knowing if it would attack you, he indulges the Drow twins by changing into a bear and letting the player ride him around, he loves bear puns (or really animal jokes in general), the way he flexes his muscles if the player mentions him moving things three grown men couldn't...

He wants to PLAY!!! The reason he's so serious for most of the story isn't because he's just the "sage wise archdruid" but because all the trauma he's faced FORCED him to be. Given the slightest bit of a chance to be himself (like traveling with a camp full of weirdos), he instantly shows his playful side, and it only comes out more in his epilogue.

He just wants to play!!

[rohanrider3]

The reason the work you’ve done on how you feel doesn’t seem like it’s working is because you need to do it until it works. It’s never been “this strategy will pull you up” it’s always been “here’s something you can do that will END with you getting out of that hole” the climbing still hurts and the being underground still hurts but that doesn’t mean it’s not working

[rohanrider3]

I don’t think any movie will make me feel the same ethereal sense of otherworldly sorrow and disembodied awe as that scene in Lord of the Rings where the loyal son is sent off into a doomed battle to please his vindictive father while Pippin sings a mourning song of his people

I was like 12 and high off this shit

[rohanrider3]

[rohanrider3]

You were the caretaker for the mythical beasts of the royal family. Yesterday they decided to replace you with some incompetent noble, before kicking you out of the castle. You then spent the night in a nearby forest. However today you were awakened by the beasts who chose to follow you.

[rohanrider3]

Official art of Ashton and Fearne's titan transformations by Tyler Walpole, used to create their miniatures featured in the most recent episode!

[rohanrider3]

Hey, we saw you from across the bar and we really hate your vibe

Start Running

[rohanrider3]

2nd prediction for Wind and Truth (via 3 death rattles from Way of Kings)

Potential Stormlight Archives/Cosmere Spoilers below the cut:

TLDR: Kaladin is going to die because he knowingly takes in more stormlight than his body can handle.

Hear me out:

I'm re-reading the Stormlight Archives to prep for Wind and Truth later this year, and there's so much in it about how the light feels like it's a storm raging under his skin, how the power is boundless, and how drained Kaladin always is after pushing through to new powers.

Here's what I think happens: The contest of champions comes up. Odium picks a kid. (Specifically, Adolin and Shallan's kid/Dalinar's grandchild, cuz I think Shallan is going to have become pregnant during the Shadesmar journey cuz time is strange there, and thus she's going to give birth when they get back to Roshar). A more perfect, evil, awful, wrenching choice for Odium's champion? I think NOT. (Referenced death rattle below):

"I hold the suckling child in my hands, a knife at his throat, and know that all who live wish me to let the blade slip. Spill its blood upon the ground, over my hands, and with it gain us further breath to draw. ”

BANG you have both the "suckling child" AND Odium's perfect choice as his champion. Whoever Dalinar chooses as champion (Adolin? Himself? Kaldadin?) is faced with the nightmare of killing a child--that child--to protect the world.

But wait! There's ANOTHER death rattle we have here--oh hey look--"So the night will reign, for the choice of honor is life... ”

I think this shows Honor's champion letting the child live, thus dooming the world to night.

Huh. Night. Like the a really, really intense...High Storm. (plus the Everstorm which together is practically Apocolyptic)

Now if only there was someone who could keep pace with said Nightmare Storm. By flying, perhaps.

But that's not all! Last death rattle links the stormlight (presumably from the Nightmare Storm) to Kaladin and his death:

The death is my life, the strength becomes my weakness, the journey has ended.

"The strength becomes my weakness" sure sounds like stormlight and the intense weakness Kaladin always experiences after he uses a huge amount/pushes himself too far protecting others.

"The journey has ended" sounds like, well...the end of his journey. Journey before destination, one of the first ideals, is all about how you live your life (the journey) before you reach the destination (death).

I think Kaladin's gonna die, you guys. But I think he's gonna die protecting Roshar's people from Odium's victory. In the most Kaladin way possible. (I also think he'll really want NOT to do it. Because if he WANTED to die and GOT to die, then it wouldn't be in keeping with his journey of self-discovery and fighting to stay alive.)

I think Kaladin's going to realize exactly what he needs to do to protect everyone. I think he's going to have to fight the storm across Roshar until it burns out.

And he burns out with it.

#cosmere spoilers #mistborn spoilers #Brandon Sanderson spoilers #stormlight archive spoilers #kaladin stormblessed #Saladin storm blessed spoilers #wind and truth spoilers #kind of #roshar #stormlight archive #dalinar #shallan #adolin #odium #stormlight

[rohanrider3]

Broke:

Belle has Stockholm syndrome because she falls in love with the Beast, her kidnapper.

Woke:

Stockholm syndrome was coined to slander a woman who had been in a hostage situation but openly criticized the poor police response which recklessly put her in more danger and escalated the violence. She was then belittled and discredited publically by the police for this.

So. Yeah. Maybe Belle does have Stockholm syndrome actually.

[rohanrider3]

[rohanrider3]

hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

[rohanrider3]

[rohanrider3]

I made this zine last year to teach Japanese stab binding. It's a technique that every artist should know—with just a few tools, it's so easy to bind your own sketchbook or to make a physical version of your art/writing/etc. Download the PDF version (with bonus photos & tips!)

[rohanrider3]

A thought that arises from the idea of tiefling babies often ending up being abandoned: A rich tiefling adventurer retiring and starting up a tiefling orphanage that takes care of rejected tiefling babies and children.

[rohanrider3]

by will mcphail

[rohanrider3]

“Nobody’s going to want to sit on high-speed rail for fifteen hours to get from New York City to LA.”

Me. I will sit on high-speed rail for fifteen hours. I’ll sit on it for days. I’ll write and read and nap and eat and then do it all over again. I’ll stare out the windows and see America from ground level and not have to drive. I’ll see the Rockies and the deserts and cornfields and the Mississippi River and your house and yours and yours too. I’ll make up stories in my head about the small towns I see as we go along. I’ll see the states I’ve yet to see because driving or flying there is a fucking slog and expensive to boot. I’ll enjoy the ride as much as the destination. And then I’ll do it all over again to come the fuck home.

[rohanrider3]