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I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY MADE SIDON STRAIGHT I AM SO DEVASTATED WHY WOULD THEY DO THIS TO ME

Well played….

An ask blog entry for a question why a loner such as Rorschach was once a team-player

1 page: Minutemen worked as a team. Associated masks with comradery

2 page: Seemed a friend would be… usefull in fighting darkness

3 page: Grew up from childish misconceptions

You know, I feel like everyone understands the process of having to render a character twice and then draw a n entirely seperate sketch to really get the vibe alone.

Minor Map-Making Tips

I’m super not an expert, but here’s some stuff I bear in mind while designing maps for our RPG setting.

Rivers run away from the nearest high ground/mountain range towards the ocean. As they approach the ocean they usually (but not always) get wider and slower.

Deserts are usually not near large bodies of water unless something (possibly divine or human intervention) has catastrophically affected the soil or there is a mountain range in between keeping the clouds away

Ocean currents can justify some pretty weird temperature effects, e.g. why Hawaii is very close to the equator but is not miserably hot; it’s surrounded by hundreds of miles of cool open ocean that sucks up the heat.

Colder temps = coniferous forests (pine and fir), not deciduous (leafy green boys). They handle the cold better. Forest takes more humidity than grassland to survive, but also creates humidity once it’s established, so an area can lose its forest and be unable to bounce back.

Cities are usually built near sources of transportation or freshwater. A big river is both, even inland, a place where two rivers meet is even better (e.g. Pittsburgh), and the place where a large river meets the ocean is everyone’s first choice for a city even to some extent in modern times and definitely in pre-industrial times.

That said, Tolkien’s maps make no sense and Lord of the Rings was still wildly popular anyway, so… don’t stress too much.

Why do they need to swim in a pool when they’re underwater.

Flash warning for the bottom clip!! It’s just a Timelapse of this.

4 days until wet rat wednesday

Let's talk about mynoise.net

Have you ever been listening to Rainymood and thought, “Yeah, this is good … but it would be nice if I could customize the sound more, or if there was a little more choice.

Let me introduce you to MyNoise.

MyNoise is a customizable sounscape looper with so many options, even within each soundscape.  So say, for instance, you really love rain sounds when you write or study or relax.  Anything.  I know I’m a big fan of rain sounds.  They have a page for that.

But say you like really high, pattery rain, and LOTS of low thunder.  Here’s where MyNoise really stands out: you can customize that.  See those sliders with all the cute colors?  That is your equalizer. You can adjust the levels based on what you want to hear more and less of.  Here’s how it looks when you want high, pattery rain and low, rumbly thunder:

But say rain isn’t really your jam.  Say you want something a little more ambient, a little more background noise-y.  Something with people.  Well, they have customizable coffee house chatter that even has the levels listed for things like “kitchen,” “babble,” and “table”:

Or say you miss the ocean.

Or say you miss your cat.

Or say you miss your spaceship.

Or say you miss the dungeon where you and your team of scalawag adventurers used to explore and face off against, say, dragons.  In the dungeon.

This site is seriously so helpful, and those are just a fraction of every kind of sounscape the site has to offer.  The best part is that if you want to layer it with music (for instance, I’ll layer a playlist + rain + coffee shop if the scene I’m writing takes place in a coffee shop), you can adjust the master volume, meaning all of your layers stay at their respective volumes, just louder or quieter.

Enjoy!

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