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everyone stop scrolling for a second and take a hand snail break i cannot express the amount of joy it brings
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Indian Spiny-tailed Lizards (Saara hardwickii), in a big time squabble, family Agamidae, Rajasthan, India
photograph by Pradyut Kumar Das
me when i fucking GET YOU
@cipher-dorito did you get to see this
YES!
also omg this picture won an award and was posted by Sanctuary Asia too! but YES. I HAVE WATCHED THEM FIGHTING AND THEY ARE RUTHLESS
Reblogged fishfrommars
what's your favourite colour of the sky?
[ID: A fake poll with several options, each one without text and filled in a with different color to match the "do you love the color of the sky" post. End ID.]
Ahh compressed for our convenience, just what I like to see
I wanna vote!
Reblogged randomfandomtraveller
tes THDPSSSSPS 💜
wgat did u say
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job search
Reblogged insertchaoticenbyname
my friend took in a stray and she’s the cutest kitty ever but he named her oil so whenever he sends a picture of her me and my other friends look like we’re roleplaying as the US military
in our defense this is oil
Me: why the fuck would you name a cat oil
OP: Here's the cat
Me: No they're not kidding that cat's name is supposed to be Oil
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the suffering never ends
sinksanksockie
This is the real process
thewritingbeast
Resources for you!
Character Ideas:
- Character creation masterpost
- Character Alignment Chart
- More character alignment descriptions
- Muslim Character questions
- Characters with magical powers
- Building a new character advice
- How to create a character for an online or tabletop RPG (also a good guide on creating characters in general)
- Royalty/nobility TV Tropes page
- Basic character profile
- OC masterpost
- Random character generators - (1), (2), (3), (4)
- D&D Character Building Tool
Character Design Ideas:
- How clothing affects a character’s personality
- Character Design Inspiration blog
- Concept art, fan art, cool art to be inspired by
- Character design references and inspiration
- Sources for POC character design ideas and models
- Create your own character model using HeroForge
- For horned characters
- Body and hair types guide
- Random outfit generator
Naming Help:
- Amazing site with an endless amount of naming resources
- General advice on avoiding naming appropriation
- Hispanic Surnames
- Gothic Victorian names
- Huge master list for character things in general
- Masterlist of names of all types - including but not limited to ancient/old world names, Celtic, African, Northern European, Southern and Central American Native names, Japanese, Chinese, Mongolian, Polynesian, and more
- Another name masterlist
- How to pick a character name guide
- Yet another names masterlist
Creating Background/backstory:
- Character Sheet/Development Sheet
- Another character development list
- In-depth character personality, motivations and traits sheet
- 320 talents and passions for characters
- On writing likes and dislikes that aren’t frivolous
- Why you should write non-human characters non-conforming to the gender binary
- Stereotypes, tropes, and archetypes
- Random backstory generator
- Assassin and thief character tropes to avoid
Character Interactions and putting your character into your world/story:
- Comparing character height/height references
- Characters who are scientists and writing about them doing science
- Describing what different voices sound like
- Describing skin tones
- Writing friendship interactions that are platonic
- Why having one character knock their friend unconscious to prevent them from doing something is a bad idea
- Advice on shipping OCs with canon characters and what to avoid doing
- Sweet Polly Oliver and Sweet on Polly Oliver situations (think of Disney’s Mulan for an example)
- How to write multiple viewpoints/juggling a main cast of more than 4 to 6 characters
- How to make readers care about your morally gray hero/anti-hero
- On platonic OC and canon character relationships
- How to avoid Godmodding in RPs
- When it’s cheap to kill off a character
- Writing dialogue
- Things you shouldn’t do to canon characters
- Avoiding purple prose in writing and RPs
- Slang resources
- Dialogue tips
- Websites to chart your story/plot/character relationships
BLESS EVERYONE IN THIS POST.
Oh my God!
It’s amazing, some links aren’t working for me but those who are, are spectacular.
Reblogging because NAMING IS HARD
!!!!!!!
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White & Red Dragon by Romain MAZEVET
Reblogged schroedingerscryptid
(wakes up in a cold sweat) ga, ga, goncharov, member of the russian mob
there was a man who did so much crime
ga ga goncharov, italy’s most famous slav
he really thought he had enough time
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