For centuries, people of all walks of life have turned to tarot to divine what may lay ahead and reach a higher level of self-understanding.
The cards’ enigmatic symbols have become culturally ingrained in music, art and film, but the woman who inked and painted the illustrations of the most widely used set of cards today – the Rider-Waite deck from 1909, originally published by Rider & Co. – fell into obscurity, overshadowed by the man who commissioned her, Arthur Edward Waite.
Now, over 70 years after her death, the creator Pamela Colman Smith has been included in a new exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York highlighting many underappreciated artists of early 20th-century American modernism in addition to famous names like Georgia O’Keeffe and Louise Nevelson.
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i think that killing a dragon should have catastrophic nuclear-fallout level environmental consequences tbh. their blood should scorch and wither the earth with fire and poison, the toxic fumes released as they decay should choke the land and all nearby living creatures, and the entire landscape where they fell should be transformed into a blighted wasteland where bleached leviathan bones loom upwards out of the ground as a warning that can be seen from miles away, the boundary markers of an exclusion zone.
heres a shitty cartoon about dogs i made in like 4 days when i was still in animation classes years ago. i wanted to call it sons of bitches but they censored me
(the first song was by louie zong, I think the second was like, the soundtrack to a dog's life or something?)
so this bizarre drow source material is a grand example of How Not to Write your Fantasy Races 😭 it's just eugh
telling him to read more was a bad idea
Wahahahha ;u; hello wastelanders! I got really back into Fallout 4. I love these two dorks.
Something came over me and I just HAD to get this idea out of my head. Partially inspired by this lovely fic by Scorpius_Wears_Short_Skirts about Nick and Hancock. Not referencing a scene in particular but the idea that Nick can’t see stars ;_;
Have a wonderful night/day!
werewolves can be anything. they can be ANYTHING if you just believe. metaphor for trans. metaphor for gay. metaphor for autism. metaphor for disability. metaphor for anger issues. metaphor for generational trauma. metaphor for mental illness. metaphor for addiction. metaphor for wanting to kill someone. you can do anything with them truly
Whoever made the mod for RE8 that removed the hair textures, thank you.
I’ve been looking for Vârcolac anatomy references but the hair got in the way, and my own speculations could only satisfy my curiosity so much.
It’s my fave depiction of a werewolf transformation
Look at this thing!
The way the jaw OPENS!!! Skin can only stretch so far so fast and the implication is the transformation was so quick that the skin didn’t have time to stretch is a detail I enjoy (even though that sort of drastic change in phisiology would take years, but this is a resi game)
The crease at the back of its neck and the way the throat sort of bulges! Human spines don’t connect to the skull the same way most quadruped spines do, meaning it’s technically looking “up” at all times to compensate
The extension of the maxilla (upper jaw) and mandible(lower jaw) its like somebody just pulled the face away from the rest of the skull, and it likely has larger, more sensitive olfactory bulbs as a result.
The extension of the forearms and increased muscle mass in the back and shoulders is more obvious too, adding to the uncanny valley effect due to the messed up proportions
Love this kind of shit
blah blah Bethesda bad anyway
my favorite thing about Elder Scrolls is how goddamn fuckin weird it is
like on surface it's just some dnd game but like even a cursory glance shows tis fucking insane like:
The moons is the corpse of a god
the stars are actually holes in reality when alot of primordial spirits hated that mortals were becoming a thing and fucked off
The demon lord of forbidden knowledge/resident Cthulhu stand-in might also be the beta version of the entire fucking universe made sentient when it wasn't chosen to be the used reality
there are cat ppl that take the form of furrys, lions, or regular cats, so you can have a cursing Pirate legend whose an alcoholic & wanted in 5 countries but is also a like basic tabby cat
the wood elves are so pro-nature they're cannibals and also they murder vegetarians
Vampires came from the Lord of Rape doing well ya know
Werewolves came to exist bc the lord of hunt got bored and is a furry
sex is treated like a fucking ip copyright contract on what aspect of sex is happening and what god it's under. There's been many religious wars about this
The lizard ppl are part tree
the Dwarves all fucked off somewhere and disappeared bc they were so atheist they did math to break relativity and literally no one has any idea where they went God or mortal (except maybe Cthulhu and hes not telling)
Said Cthulhu stand-in treats hiding your grandma's secret cookie recipe & hiding a spell that would end the universe and slay a god the exact same and he will murder you for either
Everyone wants to fuck the Orcs but will never admit it and they got so bent out of shape that a demon god killed the og orc god, ate him, and shat him out bc she couldn't deal with everyone complimenting them all the time so now all Orcs are cursed to be hated but they're all still sexy & so is their god
Types of wizard:
Demigod
Minor god
Just some asshole with a stick
Just some asshole with a stick immortal edition
Just some asshole with a stick necromancer edition
Biology major
Teen protagonist
Drug dealer
Undead asshole with a stick
Physics major
God’s most favorite little special guy who’s gonna save the world yes he is
Guy in a van
Drug dealer in a van
Preteen protagonist
Cool professor
Bad professor
Python programmer
Climate change scientist
Functionally an archer with extra steps
Man behind the curtain
Literally just Merlin
My dream for the election is that it’s definitive. I want a 2012-style Election Day where everyone built it up beforehand to possibly be close but then the results start rolling in and it was like “Oh, nevermind. It’s obviously Obama. Everyone go to bed.”
I just want voters to put a stake right through the heart of Trumpism so that it crumbles to ash before our eyes. That’s the dream.