Lukas Sprehn

I'M ONLY HALFWAY THROUGH BOOK ONE so pls don't spoil but i love you Num & Say 💕

so sharing one of the videos for your delight :D

dont think i drew them as gross as i was imagining but that wouldve been more in the colours and line art i guess

yoinked some lotr screenshots, also not quite what i have in my head but close enough i guess. i was imagining that you only see the mouth and jaw, everything else is shadowed by the hoods. imaginign sickly gums and jagged yellowed teeth and spots and black saliva/blood dripping from gaping jaws etc

🤔 i actually thought Rodda was going to go another way with the wordsmiths because the line that described them as all single men seemed poignant, especially with their venerated status and power -- with their education and their control of the fourth floor etc. i thought their isolation wouldve been explored more and how that would make them vicious and unrelenting and unempathetic but alas

anywayyy my early theory was that derry was the son of a wordsmith and thats why he could read unlike everyone else.

Queenie i would die for you 🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔

Drinking horn with gilded copper mounts, Europe, 15th century

Thus I submit the theory: True's had secret dealings with Free for decades to further the scientific progress of both countries.

It would make at least some sense, right? Free has the mines/equipment/resources, and True has the complete lack of restricting oversight and a surplus of cheap labour as a result of their puppet-king and indoctrinated citizens. Both governments benefit from looking the other way, from hiding where exactly they got such and such breakthrough from.

Give me the complex backroom deals and exchanges. Give me the morally corrupt individuals and greedy corporations. Give me the secrets and traitors and spies and triple-crossing and sabotage. Give me the scientists who cannot care less about morals or allegiances or laws and have instead devoted themselves to that shining, cold, distant star of progress.

And not to say that Free's government knew the threat of attack was real, or knew about the giant doomsday weapon that True had in its arsenal. But maybe, say, if a few nobles and officials were tucked up in the Safe Sites instead of being in Alma City on The Day of the Comet "just in case" those pesky rumours of attack were real, and if perhaps they'd been accompanied by most of the country's top scientists too... well, then it would be no real loss for them if their useless queen and her warmongering generals were taken out of the picture, if suddenly all that land down in the south was free from governmental oversight.

Proboscis Bat Rhynchonycteris naso

It is found from southern Mexico to Belize, Peru, Venezuela, Bolivia and Brazil, as well as in Trinidad. The bats are nocturnal, sleeping during the day in an unusual formation: most of them line up, one after another, on a branch or wooden beam, nose to tail, in a straight row.

In the photo, the two bats on the lower left are carrying young.

hey hey! @crabcrabcrabcrab is seeing if there's interest in a community project for Deltora Quest 👀

🔗 Deltora M.A.P. Info/Interest form ↗

I'm just gauging interest here! I've been following and sometimes participating in MAPs for about 10 years now so I can definitely answer any questions yall have lmao What is a MAP? In this context, a MAP is a Multi Animator Project. Sometimes people will write it as MAProject to avoid confusion with other terms. A MAP is a collaborative video that artists make and edit together. MAP parts are usually a couple seconds long so the artists don't die trying to make something crazy YOU DO NOT NEED TO KNOW HOW TO ANIMATE TO PARTICIPATE!! There are many MAPs that rely more on illustration than movement! Examples of short MAPs that I think are good reference for us/our skillset: - The Valley [Warrior Cat PMV MAP] <- A fandom themed MAP example that uses no animation; just illustration, panning, and a clear color palette - Machine Love [Anything MAP] <- an upbeat MAP that isn't themed (tho it mostly features teto lol) and shows a wide range of styles and colors. Note that a couple parts are line art / sketches / grayscale / multi-media etc. If you want more examples, I highly recommend browsing youtube! The warrior cat community has been doing these especially well since FOREVER What the MAP ends up looking like is completely based on your skill level and comfort!  - It's the participant's job to apply for a part and complete it (you can absolutely get help from others too if you need help with drawing / coloring / editing) - It's the MAP host's job to facilitate everyone and edit the entire thing once everyone is done! (That's me unless someone objects) Example of a MAP call that will begin the process. I'll be making something like this once we choose a song:  [Open MAP Call Example]

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