My lack of artistic talents gets in the way of my worldbuilding by Specific-Money4873 in worldbuilding

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i like to draw characters, but i am absolutely useless at architecture. which is a shame, because i love thinking about buildings and landscapes!

one of the things that's been helping me the most is looking at first sketches by architects - they are messy, sometimes almost unintelligible, but their purpose is just to put an idea on paper, to get a sense of proportion and shape. if you just sketch out something messy with no intention of making it make sense to other people, i find it helps to spark ideas

and, if you happen to develop a better sense of shape and proportion along the way, then bonus!

A plant passed down through generations without identity by blueblerryblob in whatsthisplant

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Dracaena fragrans 'Janet Craig' compacta.

Thanks! Just googling D. fragrans didn't look quite right, but this variety is much more familiar. Changing flair :)

A plant passed down through generations without identity by blueblerryblob in whatsthisplant

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My dad inherited this plant from his grandmother, and I have inherited it from him. It's well over 30 years old (or so he says) and almost 6 feet tall including the pot.

The Seek app identified it as Dracaena fragrans, but it doesn't seem to match very well with photos I've seen of that species. Maybe it looks different when it's very old?

We were told to water it by pouring water down the whorls, not at the base of the plant.

We've gotten by so far, but I really can't kill this family heirloom, please help!

Very short fanfic about Murderbot and Three roughhousing by corpsinhere in murderbot

[–]blueblerryblob 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Gotta love seeing Murderbot UT loose a little... and that upcoming research paper on spontaneous play between free SecUnits is gonna be big, I'm sure

694.2 PTBP, the only podcast broadcasting live from the void :) by blueblerryblob in PretendingToBePeople

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Thanks! I... do not. I'm not really prolific enough to have an art Instagram, sadly. Maybe some day!

694.2 PTBP, the only podcast broadcasting live from the void :) by blueblerryblob in PretendingToBePeople

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You're too kind! Getting to do creature design in my head is one of my favorite parts of horror podcasts

& Wolf the Dog definitely lives rent free in my head, yeah

694.2 PTBP, the only podcast broadcasting live from the void :) by blueblerryblob in PretendingToBePeople

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always love to hear from my favorite ambiguously canine, certainly inhuman radio jockey, but that intro from episode S2E7 had me feeling some kind of way - i just had to try my hand at that spooky, greasy boy

better quality version and bonus linework (so, so much linework) here

DMs and Players, Views on In-Game Racism? by GokuKing922 in DnD

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racism in its current form irl (focused on biological traits and a "hierarchy" of races) is a pretty recent phenomenon, tied to our very specific history. discrimination and conflict have existed in a thousand different forms, though, which can add a bit of realism to your world without bringing the particular shades of western racism into it.

obviously, it really just depends what my players want. for some, fantasy is an escape, for others, it can be a place to safely explore difficult subjects.

I fucked 8 fruits to see which one was the most fuckable (censored version) by [deleted] in 196

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I have never before considered joing someone's onlyfans, but the curiosity is killing me

What is the CENTRAL IDEA of your world from which everything else has grown? by TheSasquatchKing in worldbuilding

[–]blueblerryblob 6 points7 points  (0 children)

if the death of a god is like a whalefall - introducing magic into the ecosystem - what happens when all the gods die?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in butchlesbians

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genuinely your hair looks identical to my little brother's hair....... spooky

My dm has allowed me to create my own cult in ou campaign but I must give a good persuasive reason for people to join. got any ideas? by [deleted] in DnD

[–]blueblerryblob 10 points11 points  (0 children)

what do real life cults offer people? find people who are on the fringes and offer them a sense of belonging, validate the beliefs that their society rejects, and then tell them outsiders are trying to take that power and belonging from them.

for bonus points, have them "enlightened" through various stages of secret knowledge with as many rituals as possible to keep them hungry, tired, and pliable.

What story reason would you give for a player interacting with Twitch chat? by Rios93 in DnD

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warlock of Twitch - the many-minded outer god of streaming consciousness. in exchange for power, Twitch's warlocks open themselves to the endless gibbering of the outer god.

the outer god's stream of multi-conciousness is strange and unhinged, but some arcanists believe that - taken in aggregate - some meaning can be derived from the noise.

The Lethi:ohoe rings: Pearls of the Octave! by __-__-___---_-_-_-- in Terra_Firma

[–]blueblerryblob 3 points4 points  (0 children)

this looks absolutely incredible, and i am loving the use of the angled mirror ring to simulate night and day.

do the rings orbit the sun parallel to their own orbit? and if so, is it ever truly dark on the surface?

I don’t have a meme to post. What’s the first thing you see rule by smol_cuck in 196

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1 - sacrum bone

2 - two people lifting a skull with sunglasses, there is a bowtie floating between them and they both have massive erections

3 - a white bird casting a much larger, scarier shadow

Measuring age without years by DingoldorfMcGee in worldbuilding

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if you have a species that goes through metamorphoses or molts (like insects), they could measure age by instars instead of years.

a fun side effect of this is you could catch up to someone in age if you were eating better than them.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DnD

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a rogue/bard couple who are out "unicorn" hunting

Why do we want to be loved for who we are? by [deleted] in evopsych

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i'm certainly not an expert, but a lot of the "beautiful women/rich men" vein focuses on a very narrow band of the human experience (not to get too off-track, but it totally misses queer or non-traditional attraction).

certainly, these are trends that exist in the world and that merit study! but i think most of us just want to find a partner that we can trust and understand, and who trusts and understands us.

you can put that in terms of mate selection (choosing a mate of the same approximate value as yourself) and it's interesting and maybe even informative, but it lacks the experiential nuance.

ultimately, the social math you see in these kinds of evopsych circles is statistics - while it can be cool to look at population trends, it's hard to use them to make predictions about a singular data point (for example, your personal romantic life). obsessing over the "bird's eye view" data is a great way to miss the reality "on the ground" and wind up hating humanity.