What, we’re just ignoring the intense connection that instantly formed between Zuko and Song’s ostrich horse, forcing them to abscond together into the night? Some might call Zuko an ostrich-horse thief, but anyone could see it was love at first sight. They even plan to share that bag of feed before Gow steals it.

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.

MapCrunch. Environment artists rejoice. Random locations, filter by indoor or outdoor, rural or urban, specific country. Great for realistic/authentic building ref.

The Blue Spirit putting out firebending with a bucket of water is the absolute funniest thing ever done in avatar combat. It just is.

oh my god @murple

In a bit of shameless self-promotion, I’m going to share a relevant scene from my fanfic series The Legend of Scout Li (based on an amazing outline by @muffinlance).

The premise is that Zuko is knocked out in the fight in “Zuko Alone”, wakes up with amnesia and enlisted in the Earth Army as “Scout Li”, and promptly makes that everyone else’s problem.

Excerpt from A Legend is Born: Chapter 6 - “Crazy Dramatic Awesome”

(Thanks to commenter wellcrud for the scene idea!)

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The Legend of Scout Li (44,000 words, Gen, Complete)

I only realized I was ace when I read the statement “you can be asexual and like erotica”. Like, the fact that I enjoy reading about *someone else* enjoying sex in *their* body, but don’t want to have sex in my body, is legitimately on the asexual spectrum and not something I need to “grow up and get over”.

DnD Character Concept: A Cleric who insists stubbornly and earnestly that their obviously evil patron deity (I'm thinking Lolth or Asmodeus but really any Evil Greater God would do) is actually Good and Benevolent and Just and dismisses all evidence to the contrary as slander from rival deities. Their proof to their claim? Using their divinely granted powers for the most intensely Good tasks and quests they can find: feeding the hungry, protecting the weak, curing the sick- all done in the name of their Terrible Dread Lord and without any expectation of compensation or string attached.

The deity in question is all "???" but keeps granting the cleric power because all that free worship and influence from the people who now pray to them is nice, and hey if the cleric wants to put in the leg work to launder the deity's reputation what reason do they have to say no?

Only it turns out that the cleric is actually playing 4D chess because of the way faith works in Faerun (and most DnD settings). As more and more worshipers start believing The Terrible Dread Lord is actually a Good and Kind and Noble god they start to be influenced by that to become Good and Kind and Noble. Slowly but surely they find themselves warping to match the perception of the masses. It starts by just giving a few random blessings out of what they think is pity, or maybe sending a sign to help someone who is lost on what the deity insists is a whim....but it snowballs until you have Lolth smiting down slavers or Asmodeus sending out devil's to drag down a tyrant to the depths of hell and then they realize 'oh oh no' but by then it's to late: the religious reform movement within their flock is too massive and been ignored for too long as benign. They can't just turn around and smite their own followers- not only because it's tacky but because they feel... compassion and responsibility for those that look to them for guidece.

And then you have the cleric, who at level twenty is literally their most powerful agent and also the high priest of this out of control heresy smugly sipping their tea because, because they where right all along. Their faith in their deity is vindicated- after all what is faith if not believing in something so strongly, against all evidence, that it becomes truth onto itself?

I played a paladin who was the only one in the world who could actually commune with a god or channel miracles, and I served… the kitchen god. The least important of the pantheon, the patron god of beggars and the destitute, whose followers run soup kitchens wherever they haven’t been driven out of yet. The only true paladin in the world served not the god of sun or storms, not war or destruction, not even commerce and prosperity, but the god of the soup pot.

At least, that’s what everyone thought the god was, until it chose a paladin and revealed a new aspect: as the god of the downtrodden it was also the god of popular revolution. Turns out the god’s holy symbol (scythe) could also harvest the lives of tyrants, and no one saw it coming from the kitchen god.

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Instructions on how to apply are at the above link. 💗

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the funniest thing to come out of those batfam twitter au’s is the repeated gag of people getting mad at various batkids for insensitively ‘making fun’ of their dead brother by interacting with a ‘jason todd parody account’, and the kids don’t even try to defend themselves like ‘he’s dead idgaf’ while Totally Alive Jason Todd is in the replies like ‘i died just to get away from you’ and nobody ever mentions it outside of twitter. i think one day bruce is doing an interview when a reporter finally brings it up and he’s like ‘the kids are interacting with a what now’ and when he’s shown the tweets he just blinks a few times before going like ‘we all grieve in different ways,’ and then he pauses and squints at the screen before saying in a genuinely offended tone ‘does jason not follow me on twitter-!?’ and the reporter spends the next ten minutes trying to explain that it’s not jason because jason is dead while bruce completely ignores them just devastated that the parody account of his dead son isn’t following him on social media

Rereading some of my own original writing and I got so pissed when I realized there wasn’t fanfiction I could read of it once I ran out of content. I love these characters and this world so much, but the only way to get more of it is to write it myself because I’M THE ONE WHO MADE THEM UP IN THE FIRST PLACE —

I want to share my problem that I feel like is the same vibe but has a different root. I don’t regret the lack of fanfic. I get annoyed because my brain is so far ahead of the storyline that is writing. It makes it so hard to keep writing because I’m going BACK to things instead of writing new things. 😅

So real. I'm at the point where I know how their journeys end and the culmination of their character arcs and everything, and then I'm like... wait I have to write that journey? Shit.

I've got a story that I desperately want to see completed. It's an enemies-to-lovers between two people on opposite sides of a global war where after having to cooperate to avert a worldwide crisis that would wipe out both of their factions, they realize that they actually like each other's company, and are forced to reconcile that and their budding relationship with the fact that they are both still extraordinarily loyal to their homes and people, which are enemies. One of them even has a healthy amount of religious guilt due to following a deity that has a taboo on romance.

And I keep doing other stuff rather than writing it. I already know where they're gonna end up, so I just want them to be there rather than having to go back and get them there.

The struggle is real

(via together. by ~resemble on deviantART)

Oh, my heart.

Devastating to have more evidence that done IS better than perfect

Additionally, findings indicate that the act of doing shows you that you were not seeking perfection, you were fearing inadequacy

@grey-and-lavender

Good news! There is!

Bad news! It is called 'done'

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Ok, but surely the procrastinator lobby can pay some science shills to cast doubt on this vast scientific consensus?

I actually really like Azula's most-recent-to-date comic appearance. This story is all about how she feels. And girl is lying. Her people abandon her. Her desire to be loved is put in stark relief. She is forced to confront everyone she's hurt, and everything she is. And she falters. She rejects it all. She doubles down hard. She's not ready. "Azula did nothing wrong," Azula cried. And at the end she lets her people be anyway. "You didn't win, I let you win." You were never going to get therapy speak from Azula, and it would feel out of character if we did. But we have this. This is Azula's 'Zuko Alone.' I love it, personally.

Robins with robins with robins or something like that

These make me so happy! Even the grump-faces.

A gryphon inspired by the Swallow-tailed kite. They are one of my favorite birds!

Gorgeous!