It doesn’t mean “this is ideal or healthy or even realistic”. It means “this is beautiful, this is tragic, this is grotesque, this stirs emotion”, even if it’s not, as @starryroom puts it, something you would be comfortable seeing play out in front of you at Taco Bell. It’s about grandiosity and mythology and heroism writ large. It’s about playing with the id, as beautiful and terrible as it can be.
LET LOVE AND LUST BE MONSTROUS.
that’s why Wuthering Heights is STILL a romance
I’m reminded of a piece of advice I saw recently–
people like characters that have goals people LOVE characters that have obsessions
I understand. You found paradise in America, you had a good trade, you made a good living. The police protected you and there were courts of law. You didn’t need a friend like me. But, now you come to me, and you say: “Don Corleone, do you support this ship/kink?” But you don’t ask with respect. You don’t offer friendship. You don’t even think to call me Godfather. Instead, you come into my house on the day my daughter is to be married, and you ask me to get involved in your discourse.
How many of you have been banned from playing a bard in campaigns? I need to know for science.
For anyone that might ask- I had to sign a legally binding contract to not play bard characters if I wanted to join a campaign in my old group.
this is an outrage.
here’s what you do:
be a half-elf. the skill versatility trait is similar to the bard’s starting skill proficiencies
play a warlock. again, similar starting proficiencies. charisma is your spellcasting ability. very bardy
your otherworldly patron is the great old one. or the archfey. except call them your “otherworldly muse” or “otherworldly patron of the arts”
pick spells on the bard spell list, such as minor illusion, mage hand, dissonant whispers, or Tasha’s hideous laughter
take the entertainer background. much bard. wow.
choose pact of the blade if you’re a valor bard or pact of the tome if you’re a lore bard. i recommend the latter. pick the vicious mockery cantrip (because bard), as well as guidance and resistance (to emulate bardic inspiration)
for eldritch invocations, take beguiling influence for more skill proficiencies and book of ancient secrets to ape the bard’s magical secrets feature
if you miss having expertise, splash in a level or six of rogue, perhaps at fifth level
voila! you’re a bard in all but name. that’ll show ‘em
I’d never thought id be that much inspired by barbie
I wouldn’t normally reblog something like this but damn it needs to be said. I too have struggled with trying to balance my passion for the arts and sciences and people have made fun of me throughout my life telling me that I can’t do both.
I’m 26 and I’m pursuing my postgraduate degree in food policy and law and I’m also a classically trained musician, a dancer, and a photographer. Don’t let other people try to hold you back or contain you because they can’t wrap their heads around the diversity of your passions.
how the fuck am i supposed to believe this is a real animal
It doesn’t exist! Or well, it doesn’t anymore. It’s a Diplocaulus, and they went extinct. This is a model by Goro Furuta, a Japanese sculptor that creates a bunch of cool extinct creature replicas that are super realistic. Here’s some of his other stuff, and check out his Facebook page.
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I appreciate how, as our understanding of dinosaur anatomy becomes more refined, we simultaneously have improved the anatomy of our fantasy creatures that are often inspired by them.
Especially since the more anatomically accurate stuff usually looks so much better than our older ideas?
Like, what we used to think looked like this:
We now understand looked like this:
And what we once thought was shaped like this:
Turned out to be shaped like this
All of these olderideas of big, heavy reptiles kind of share the same anatomy problems:
And now that we’ve become more thoughtful about their anatomy, our fantasy creatures– even the ones that still wouldn’t technically make sense– still look so much more pleasing to the eye as a result.
It’s awesome how the closer to correct anatomy we get, the “prettier” things seem to look.
This. So much this. The closer they are to actual anatomical features, the more natural they look and thus both richer in detail and approachable as animals rather than amorphous blobs with sticky legs.
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