(this is also actually how all of life works, and even without your friends if you don't start taking risks you are doomed to failure, so step up and take your shot you little bitch)

More than 2000 years of desperate coping and seething from apologists and theologians and they still have not actually resolved the Epicurean Paradox

this bit's potentially faulty reasoning: if god's love is absolute and all-encompasing, that means god loves everything unconditionally, even evil things.

in the same way that god doesn't smite us whenever we do something bad because he loves us, god doesn't stop hurricanes because he loves the hurricane despite the damage it does.

Then that god is indistinguishable from an amoral and asapient universe, and thus without identity or agency, making worship and prayer useless exercises.

The person who acts agently for the good is infinitely more righteous and powerful than a god who loves evil as much as goodness.

this <3

As much as I love the skeleton war meme, I do feel the need to warn you that human skeletons are sexually dimorphic, and your skeleton can still be easily sexed and gendered by sight. Though I guess you could get bottom osteotomy.

Transphobes be like

lowkey turned on

Replies are restricted by anti-LGTBQ+ groups, so I reblogged to say that yes, these are exactly why

source: i am sciemtismts

You had me until poor. If you're trans and poor, you are doing it wrong.

Hack the system. Break the rules. Rise above. PS: Do you think Spider-Man followed the rules??? Read/watch literally any Spider-Man story, he is a professional criminal hunted by traditional systems of social control and simultaneously using their failures for profit. His dayjob is literally to con the corrupt media for money and self-promotion of his heroism. If you think Spider-Man would just roll over for Nazis, you did not fucking understand Spider-Man.

I can only assume anyone who cares strongly about what's in a baby's diaper is a child molester and should be isolated for the safety for everyone else.

I’m seeing stuff in the notes about “Miles would do this” and I just want to say: you’re absolutely right. All Spider-folks across all universes share one (1) singular brain cell and most of the time it’s Gwen’s.

As the current author of Spider-Gwen, I can attest that Gwen has not seen the brain cell in years.

I FOUND IT

I finally lay my eyes upon this glorious post myself

This thread made me literally laugh out loud, and also encapsulates why Spiderman is my favorite Marvel superhero, and also demonstrates that great living artists are just people hanging out which I have found to be true in all eras.

at the mariners bar: sorry mates i cant go out today.. My boat's transmasc now. He's more comfortable with he/him. He just went through top surgery to get his sails removed and he's recovering. Bluebeard-and-Pronouns the woke pirate: arrg so he's gotten a mastectomy. well i'm glad that he's discovered himself.

there's narrative space for a story about pirates regendering their ship and a traditionalist navy refusing to recognize the vehicle's new pronouns, i know there is

I am the DM for both of these paladins, watching them fight it out and genuinely (and in-lore) supporting both of their theological cases.

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.

Saving for posterity!

Concepts like sex magic and fertility deities in fantasy are actually really interesting to me as a person with a lot of interest in anthropology and mythology like Yes I am curious about the weird sex that elves have but its pretty much exclusively explored by authors who are Weird Horny Dudes and forget about putting that stuff into a d&d campaign

Oh we’re talking about sex in fantasy settings are we?

Oh, famed fantasy author Ed Greenwood! So good to see you, we're having our panel down here in my wine cellar,

WAIT I HAVEN’T FINISHED TELLING YOU HOW THE DROW MATRIARCHS DISCIPLINE THEIR UNRULY MALE CONSORTS

It's come to my attention that Ed Greenwood has seen this post and thought it was kinda funny. Not sure what to do with this information

In this one specific aspect, at least, you would apparently enjoy my D&D campaigns.

Someone who uses "sensitive" as an insult can only be understood as one of Spiderman's villains.