beck @ i need to check the perimeter

Don’t rotate elbow on any axis but local x until done posing hand + wrist. Learn what supination/pronation of the wrist are and it’ll make sense why we can rotate our arms the way we do. Most common blunder i see

Supinate = holding soup
Pronate = proposed to

Today is the last day for pre-orders! You can see my piece alongside some truly outstanding talent! Definitely do not want to miss out if you are a Themis fan~

You can also get a 5.3 anniversary discount with the code here: bsky.app/profile/ffxi...

also apparently i hadn't checked off the cloud card so we're back under 50 cards remaining baybeee

well i was able to build back up about a quarter of what i spent by selling the dupes so at least there's that. 175k to go for clive card.

LMAO I WON A SECOND ONE

I SPENT ALL MY REMAINING MGP ONLY TO GET IT 10 CARDS IN SHRIEKS BUT WHATEVER FINALLY I'M FREE OF CARD PACKS except platinum but that's another can of worms

There are at least two threads on the forum active in the past couple of days since 7.3 that are reiterating that this visual noise sucks for A LOT OF PEOPLE, but it'd help to have more voices on them.

forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/thread...

forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/thread...

someday i'll get the zidane card...............someday............

every plan i had involving meaningful interaction with another person this weekend got cancelled and i think the subconscious is running mcfucking wild with that

here i am. awake at 7 pm as expected. to make things worse, after having multiple nightmares/unsettling dreams. yippee.

Goal for the rest of this year is push this number to over 10k 👀

I figure after doing this for so long, I should do a subscription push *at least* once.

i don’t want to go to sleep bc when i wake up it’ll already be almost sunset and that’s just going to make me feel like shit

constantly revenge procrastinating sleep bc being on a night schedule makes me feel like a useless person/i’m doing absolutely nothing with my life

do i think this about other people who work nights. no. just me.

what a mood

also the size juxtaposition is HILARIOUS

well, i HAD less than 50 triple triad cards left, then 7.3 came out

hey bro i love how chill and selfless you are do you perhaps have self-doubt issues that lead to a constant, cloying internal need to be considered "useful" to your peers and a fear that they will abandon you the moment you aren't?

Fish are all found, but discovery continues! All of these fish need to have surrounding times tested, other adjacent weathers, and even other weather possibilites.

u did it soldier.

SHE IS??? SCREAMS???

Part 23 in my weekly poster series of 2025 #art #hopepunk

what if i pull the plug on work 20 minutes early. as a treat.

if we want the rewards of watching fruits basket in public while having dinner alone, we must submit to the mortifying ordeal of a voter saying hi and then see that we are watching fruits basket in public while having dinner alone

PS: They are ! Bites and you need to enable snagging.

currently dying simultaneously from allergies, cramps, and Too Hot

Maomao and Shisui 🥰
#ApothecaryDiaries #薬屋のひとりごと #shimao

Post by @mirkemenagerie · 2 images 💬 5  🔁 1236  ❤️ 2334 · mirkemenagerie update · Lore Index I’ve had my own lore compilations thread on the RPC for some time, and now I’m porting the Index over to @mirkemenagerie. So you will now…

for folks interested in 1.0 lore, in-game history, mythology, and more, i cannot highly-enough recommend sounsyy's archive. literally every scrap of dialogue, quest journal entry text, seasonal event flavor, you name it. there's also a searchable script doc!

www.tumblr.com/mirkemenager...

by @asparrowsfall on tumblr Let's take a look at what makes dialogue unique to a character. I'm gonna list these as bullet points first, and then i'll suggest some exercises to explore these aspects of speech. Most important aspects - focus on these first Vocabulary - the words they use. As subset of this: Complexity of words, which can include: Syllable length Likelihood to be used in casual conversation - a character can be very smart and still use very informal language. Cultural touchpoints Culture can include pop culture references - think Tony Stark’s nicknames for everyone, i.e. “Point Break” and “Underoos” How in or out of sync the character is with the story’s setting with regard to both time and place - are they from a different country or era of time than their peers? Important - Check these out if you have time How likely the character is to speak their mind vs. change the subject - this could be for any number of reasons, from fear to duplicity Amount they say / Introvertedness / how reticent they are - This is somewhat related to the above point, but not necessarily, and should be researched from different angles. Subverting a topic is not the same thing as being afraid to talk about it. Different ways of speaking with different characters - this could be a function of story (i.e. how a character who is captured speaks to their captors as opposed to friends) as well as pure Code Switching Deep cuts - Advanced aspects of speech Fluency in the language they are speaking Accents - You do not have to write a character in an accent, i.e. spell the words differently to show the accent, if you don’t want to. It really depends on the piece (usually how light hearted or humorous you want it to be) whether you do or not.

Dialogue analysis exercise Find five (or more, but at least five) representative lines from your character’s canon dialogue. If they don’t speak, don’t have five lines, do the best you can. (I imagine other forms of communications can probably also be analyzed in this way, but I’m gonna focus on dialogue for now.) These are going to be your key phrases. They need to be from canon and they need to be words that really show off who your character is.

1. Say the words out loud. Read them again and again. What do they sound / feel like? 2. What is the average syllable length? How many long words do they use? 3. Do any words jump out at you as archaic? What about modern pop culture references? 4. What is a different way they could have said this? Write some alternate versions of this phrase and figure out WHY the character didn’t say it this way instead. What is the difference between the canon dialogue and the alternative? Try to be as specific as possible. It’s as important to know what they wouldn’t say as what they would. 5. Look up any of the more complex words and find some similar ones, with a similar level of complexity. Use a thesaurus you trust and possibly also Wordnik. If your character doesn’t use ANY complex words, reflect on that. Why? What’s their reason? How does that fit with the rest of their personality? 6. Think of some other characters from other pop culture pieces who speak in a similar way. It doesn’t have to be 100% the same, but if it can help your ear get used to some new-but-different phrases, it’s enough. You’re training your brain to speak like the character. Start to sort phrases they would say from ones they wouldn’t. How do these two characters differ? 7. Now that you have worked thoroughly through your key phrases, start to imagine these lines said in something other than the original context. What if they were said to a different character? WOULD they even be said? What would change? What would happen if your character was scared / hurt / overjoyed / sick? 8. Finally, after all that, write some NEW dialogue for your character, either as practice, or right into your fic draft. Keep using your key phrases as a guide and go back to canon as much as you need to! You can do this!

for you, dear reader: a tumblr post regarding writing existing character voices for fanfic which i've found immensely helpful

Every episode of Murderbot he looks like he's experiencing something inscrutable

I can't think of anything softer than Erenville and Irein with their newborns ehe.

Screenshot of a Steam bundle with 1000xResist and Mouthwashing titled "Feel Good Games"

>feel good games
>look inside
>emotional torment and anguish