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Oh hey,

It's invei's birthday ! She was made six years ago :›

you people have terrible taste

Cranberries and frog it must be fall.

Barbra's ethnicity is Texas? /j

my batfam face ref sheet i made for myself + my ethnicity hc's for them :]

aquaman's answers crack me up

JL Interviews 4 & 5

oh my goodess..

peak

★ 👽🛸ALIEN & SPACE WEB GRAPHICS🪐🔭

I crush…. the aliiieeenn.. 🤏

🛰️These were found on Gifcities & glitter graphics!

why does a mile a minute sound faster than 60 miles an hour?

she looks like isaac

Today's izutsumi: crying her eyes out while being healed

murder, grand larceny, resisting arrest, destruction of stolen property, torture, solicitation to commit many crimes, taking hostages, terrorism(?), reckless driving, rigging an election, unlawful possession of a fire arm, battery, gang activity, petty theft, counterfeiting, making cocaine, aggravated assault, arson, reckless animal endangerment, fraud, assault, public intoxication, breaking and entering, identity theft, unlawful use of explosives, hacking, burglarizing, and having a very poor fashion sense

rock on!

"Long ago in the far ancient past before there was any nation of humans, before the great tower Leviathan, before the fall of the bygone elven empire of Eladrin'eldar, before the dwarves left the underground… back in the primordial days of thunder, when gods and their angels waged war against the demons and the eldritch;

Phthonos the envy-king of the demons learned the power of creation, and with it forged a new kind of beast, a form of devil, for these beasts had: great stamina, curiosity and creativity, hierarchy, thaumaturgy, and ambition beyond all! these new beasts could bring the end times, but Ythy (god of destiny), Viddin (goddess of horizons), and Zchetten (god of knowledge) could prophesize that these beasts, if freed of their chains that bound them to Phthonos and the forces of Sheol, could be the greatest of heros.

And with a ritual, they placed a subtle mark of free will! breaking Phthonos' dominion of those that he created, and after the liberation, Phthonos himself was shattered by Lollimar (god of victory).

what were those beasts of Phthonos? Humanity, and they don't know their true origins as devils." this is the origins of humans in my setting

Humans in fantasy settings with multiple races have kind of a problem, which is that it's hard to figure out what their "thing" is.

The biggest problem with establishing a "thing" for humans is that humans are the baseline for our understanding of the world, and any axis you move humans along, you're immediately cutting down the possibility space of all other fantasy races.

For example, if you said "humans are fast", you would be left with the problem of having to make all other races slower. If you said that humans were smart, you would have to make all other races dumber. There inherent problem here is that elevating some human trait as "their thing" blocks out concept space.

One of the stock characteristics that humans get is being all-arounders, which is boring but preserves them as being a baseline species. The other big one is "adaptability", which I think tends to be a decent choice because it means that humans can show up everywhere, but also means that there's nothing that humans are excluding anyone else from doing. There are other options, and I know everyone has their favorite.

I do have some affection for writers who decide that humans will exist at some extreme, with all other fantasy races being warped around that. There's some nice commitment to the bit that comes from deciding that yes, humans are at least a foot taller than any other race, or that humans are the mayflies of the mortal species and have by far the shortest lifespans.

the average American citizen's understanding of world history is.. lacking.. to put it nicely.

Like this: "God emperor of mankind Julius Cesar uniting all of the world in a great crusade, while both gathering his 20 sons and fighting against the chaos powers of napoleon bonaparte, King Arthur, genghis khan, and Charlemagne. His most loved son, brutus the lupercal, betrayed him leading to the fall of rome, the collapse of the tower of Babel, and the death of the people's WWE champion Jesus; even as the praetorian of the Esquiline, Leonidas, tried to hold the walls. in the collapse arose the french, the germans, the britsh, the chinese, and the russians."

but the average american's rough understanding of the USA's history is passable.