ITS ALL COMING UP ROSES BABEY!!!!!!!!!!!

A wolf in love is no longer a predator

Roche's attitude to Anais is just that I can't…. just die of sweetness right here and now

want to sleep now, just practice

some general hanza sketches but primarily a lot of of angoulême, and thinking about some of her dynamics with the rest of the group :,)

#jesus.#orpheus and eurydice#as a poem#using a poll#this is probably the greatest exploitation of mediums i have ever seen op#every reader has the chance to become part of the text by voting#not the subtext#the TEXT#and i love me some ephemeral works in concept#you had to be here for this one week#and then the text is locked#(barring any edits to the original post of course)#and i just think that's so beautiful#beauty springs from the simplest things viewed askew#and all you need is a poll that accepts long enough strings (via couchcrusader)

WE. FUCKING. WON.

They will not be moving forward with the new OGL. It will remain as is and will be irrevocable. Thank you to everyone that made their voices heard and made sure they understood we would not compromise. Victory is ours!

I don’t trust easy, I’m still here like…

You can be as suspicious as you like about 3rd Edition / future editions and the original OGL, since they could change their mind tomorrow. Sure. But 5e? They just published 5th Edition's SRD under a CC licence. Not a draft, not maybe, they did it.

This if final. D&D 5e is in the Creative Commons, forever.

This is fucking incredible. Let's take the win.

faramir and eowyn stuff from twitter

some old stuff

a few elf sketches :^)

more elf sketches -v-

coming back from a little art break with some predictable favs :,)

even the sexiest car is still less sexy than your ordinary average tram. that's just how things are in this world

rewatching bobbit and finished sketch from last year

when you both depressed but trying your best

So, let's go over everything Wizards of the Coast is trying to do this coming year.

>Erasing everything that made DnD fun

>Sanitizing everything to appease a minority of leftist puritans

>Making anyone who wants to play DnD pay microtransactions

>Making anyone who makes anything based off of DnD pay royalties to Wizards of the Coast

I hope the company fucking crashes and burns, Hasbro failed to claim TSR as their own now we just need it all to crash and burn so TSR can make a big comeback.

Wait, what do you mean Microtransactions? For a tabletop game? HOW?

They're planning on making all DnD content switch over to digital only eventually, meaning any source material can only be accessed through DnD beyond, and the ones being charged won't just be the DMs, it'll be players too as they'll lock everything behind a pay wall that you need to pay into to play.

They'll most likely disable any ability to share the content with others, meaning each person wanting to play will need to buy access to the content.

BTW the new DnD CEO was a former Microsoft employee who was instrumental in implementing ever more microtransactions in video games.

They’ve switch the President of the D&D portion of WotC a couple times over the last few years. Mearls was an idiot, but then they replaced him with Ray Winninger, a guy who at least had some background in RPGs and Tabletop hobbies, but was clearly hired because of his background in trying to force tablet and app integration into games (which failed). Things under Winninger apparently didn’t impress the higher-ups. New guy, Dan Rawson, is a nepotistic pick from the current WotC President, Cynthia Williams, who also worked at Microsoft with Rawson. Williams is the one above being quoted about not monetizing their brands enough, Rawson’s entire career has been monetizing and e-commerce.

WotC has been a fucking terrible company for years. There’s been more than enough reasons to dump them entirely over the past decade, but over the past few years they’ve made a dedicated effort to prove that it can absolutely get worse. They’re currently trying to sell piece-meal content from their books on the DNDBeyond website.

Individual feats, stat blocks, items, and anything else they can break up. It’s cheaper to just buy the whole thing instead, but this shit shouldn’t even be an option. They’re doing this because they’re trying to see what they can get away with. They will try worse. They will do worse. They will try to stamp out competition. 

People will make excuses that they can just keep playing 5e and keep using homebrew, but they need to stop making excuses for why it’s okay to support WotC indirectly and WotC will continue to see what they can get away with because not enough people will have abandoned them to make an impact on their profits.

The link above has:

Players handbook 5e (color and black & white copy)

Dungeon Masters Guide 5e

Monster Manual 5e

Deities and Demigods

Moon over Graymoor

Character Sheets 5e

note: all are in pdf format!

Tons of resources for DM's including music!

More fun resources! ^

That link has lots of different formats! ^

Fuck corporate greed! Ya'll have fun and stay nerdy!

Got any older stuff? Like ADnD and 3.5?

not at the moment, but I will try to find some stuff and share links!

Okay that link has:

Complete Adventurer

Complete Champion

Complete Divine

Complete Mage

Complete Psionic

Complete Scoundrel

Deities and Demigods

Draconomicon

Dungeon Masters Guide

Fiend Folio

Magic Item Compendium

Miniature's Handbook

Player's Handbook

Savage Species

Shining South

Spell compendium

I believe that is the complete collection and it has different formats available.

D&D is going to drive their audience straight to the secondary market. Buy now or start pirating.

Jewel-smith

the thing about code or language switching is that its almost always context-based and purposeful. strip it of its context and it becomes frivolous and meaningless.

the reason “hola mi nombre es juan. oh my god I didn’t realize I was speaking spanish.” is ridiculous is because it’s exceedingly rare anyones going to accidentally switch languages. in everything everywhere all at once, they speak chinglish to each other. they never accidentally speak mandarin to deirdre in the IRS office for example because that would be ridiculous.

eeaao is such a splendid depiction of this. especially due to the varying levels of mastery across their generations. its clear joy understands mandarin but doesn’t speak it (except when jobu is trying to be dramatic). she doesn’t have enough grip of cantonese to tell gong gong that ruby is her girlfriend but she understands enough to know evelyn doesn’t say it. you have to understand that Both of these things can be true for this scene to hit so hard. in particular, i love the back and forth between waymond and evelyn. she fully switches to english when speaking to alpha-waymond. but switches back and forth with her waymond in a way that feels so reflective of speaking languages that represent home in different ways. with an ease you can only grow into with someone having grown up in both environments.

There are also so many more layers to this, especially in how Mandarin vs Cantonese vs English is used

So as a preface: Cantonese and Mandarin are two dialects of Chinese but they are fairly different grammatically, and while many people in Hong Kong and Guangdong (Canton) region speak both, understanding one dialect if you only speak the other is more or less impossible. Native speakers of one often treat the other as a second language.

so in the prime universe, Evelyn speaks Cantonese and only Cantonese with prime!Gong Gong, who is never seen speaking any other languages aside from Cantonese. He barely understands Joy's broken Mandarin and only offers a berating response to her in Canto. Waymond and Evelyn's Chinglish is a mix of Mandarin and English together, but they mainly speak English with Joy, and she can barely understand her mother tongue.

between prime!Gong Gong and prime!Waymond, Waymond is only ever talked at. Gong Gong speaks to him in Cantonese (which he presumably understands) but he only replies back in Mandarin once. There is very little direct communication between them without Evelyn.

so you have a major language barrier between Joy and her grandfather and minor language barrier between Waymond and Gong Gong - they have the means to communicate and could understand eachother, but it takes tremendous effort to do so.

and Evelyn has to navigate all three worlds, between her daughter, her father, and her husband, and be the bridge between them, as the balance and the tether and their touchstone. Which is such a brilliant metaphor for generational disconnect here and how Evelyn really is in the centre of all that chaos —

but it doesn’t stop there.

most crucially, Mandarin and Cantonese are used for the emotional and private dialogues between Evelyn, Waymond and Gong Gong. In all their flashbacks, in the kung fu/movie star universe, and also when Evelyn and Waymond talk about their domestic life in the IRS building - their divorce, their marriage, their daughter - conversations about the matters of the family are in Chinese.

Which leads us to: the Alphaverse!Wangs all speak English with each other and exclusively in English. Alphaverse!Waymond calls Alphaverse!Gong Gong “sir”, Alphaverse!Gong Gong tells prime!Evelyn to kill Joy in English. The only time Evelyn talks to alpha!Gong Gong in Cantonese is when she confronts him about letting her go.

English is depersonalised in the movie — it’s used practically and for exposition and to communicate quickly, while Chinese usage is infinitely personal. (Really, the first clue that we get that Waymond is...different is when he speaks to Evelyn in English with no Chinese at all).

And the most ironic thing about it all: the universe where the Wangs all understand and communicate perfectly is also where the family is most broken - Alphaverse!Waymond thinks that his own daughter is no longer capable of mercy or worthy of saving. Alphaverse!Gong Gong thinks he has to kill Joy in every universe.

Yes, the remaining Alphaverse!Wang family all understand each other, but without Evelyn, without their mother tongue, they might as well not be a family at all.