love when you see pets have a very specific weird game that they are very clearly enjoying and participating in
nowhere else
imagine you’re a guard for your castle, and you see this lady calling for help and saying she’s the queen, so you bring her in and everyone watches as she fucking eats the babies in there and just goes, “yep. Sure. New queen.” Because she got them, along with you, all high on psychedelics. And then she transforms into a giant fucking blue creature and crawls away, never to be seen again.
God forbid women do anything
There are multitudes of species whose survival is dependent on putting an ant colony through a psychological horror scenario
Quickly colored the sketch of Vimes and Sybil
Too many writers are using generative 'AI' to make their book covers, so I've written a guide on how to make your own cover for free or cheap without turning to a machine.
If you can't afford to pay an artist, you CAN make your own!
I hope this is a helpful overview that covers the basics and points to some free resources.
I annoyed my cat by writing this and not playing with her; you might find it useful?
This is a fantastic guide not only to the technical aspect of cover design but the aesthetic aspect as well!
This is GREAT STUFF. Highly recommend! Exactly the techniques I have used on covers in the past, and they look great!
here's tonight's hot take
original by clairetablizo
Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Swann
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
we could sit together and do nothing all day— i'd still be the happiest
Still siblings, after everything.
This is the last page I had planned for this story! I might add some extra goofy bits to it later.
And the thing itself, repainted in that “hexas” brush I made some time ago. I like the effect and the texture!
At work there used to be a sign on a few things that would say like "if this bubbles, run for your life" and "if you hear thumping run for cover" and "bears can and will kill you" and really in general I wish the park service was more willing to say "you are not at home, you are not at disneyland, you can die here and you can die so badly your family will have to bury an empty casket because no one will risk their own life to collect your idiot corpse."
If we're gonna make people more scared of something, it should probably be cars, infections, and heart conditions, not "outside".
THESE FACTS WILL BE RELEVANT I SWEAR:
Boiling point of water: 212°F
Crock pot temperature: 140°F-180°F
Crock pot depth (commercial, 100 gal): 3 feet, could not submerge most humans.
Meat begins to cook: 105°F
Water burns skin within 3-6 seconds: 140°F
Steak/chops/roasts are safe to eat: 145°F
Collagen melts into gelatin, meat "falls off the bone": 160-180°F
Average tourist: 30% collagen
Stomach acid: pH 1.5-3.5 (lower is more acidic)
YELLOWSTONE FACTS!
Max recorded temp of a Yellowstone pool: 280°F in Norris Basin
Depth of spring that dissolved a man: 10 feet, Norris Basin, could and did submerge an adult human
Lowest pH (most acidic) pH of a Yellowstone pool: pH 2-3 in Norris Basin
Yellowstone pools: crock pots full of stomach acid
I think if people ARE outside -- say, tourists near a spring -- they should be warned that the spring will cook them, then dissolve what is left. Because you CANNOT tell by looking.
We should be a LOT more afraid of some parts of Outside, actually.
this image is so endearing to me,, like,,