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I know how it sounds, but like, bear with me.

I (28/F/former paladin), had been travelling with a cursed greatsword (Immeasurable/F/Sword) and was really into her for a long time. When we first met she told me she was the disembodied spirit of an ancient warlord and beamed images of a beautiful raven haired warrior in gorgeous blackened Gothic armor into my mind, she told me it was her true form and I was super into it so I forsook my paladin oath and we started hooking up

Early on in our relationship she was really supportive when I started to transition, telling me she was "nearing her apotheosis" as well. I didn't think much of it at the time, and dutifully listened to her when she told me to travel the kingdom and assemble the ritual objects for her ascension. There was a team of adventurers that tried to stop us and she told me to kill them but one of them was my former best friend Sir Roderick The Bold (25/M/Paladin) so I refused and only incapacitated them. She didn't like that and we had a huge fight about it after we'd left

Long story short after I'd done the ritual and assembled the artifacts she revealed her true form was a ruse and she was actually just a mass of tentacles and eyes (which I don't mean to yuck anybody's yum mentioning, it's just that tentacles don't really appeal to me lol)

She said she was going to consume the world, "starting with you" and that I had "outlived my usefulness". I felt really shocked and betrayed and helped the adventuring party that was following us around to defeat her and seal her back in the sword (which I left there), but I feel really bad about it

facepaint ref :)!

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

This is the most beautiful scientific diagram I've ever seen.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neodymium Not sure why but the above graphic omitted silver (Ag). When you use silver in glass you get... gold. Quite literally! It'll make rich yellows and earth tones. Sometimes you'll get whats called "metaling" from it, which is this reflective silver/gold look in places until you put it up to the light and it's all warm yellows. Here's some examples from my favorite glassmaker, Fremont Stained Glass, showing the milky silverish metaling streaks in addition to the normal silver ambers which turns all ambers in sunlight:

Source: Fremont's sales page- https://fremontantiqueglass.com/products/full-sheet-s3-287 And a video of it in action: https://www.instagram.com/fremont_antique_glass/reel/C-dbOp6yIWO/?hl=en If you use silver as a stain you basically mix a powder suspension of silver nitrate particles in water to get a "paint" and when painted on glass, fired, then wiped off, it leaves an amber yellow stain on the glass, like so:

Source: Sasha Ward- https://www.sashaward.co.uk/blog/2023/5/10/silverstain And lastly, there's the UV glasses: Uranium, Cadmium, selenium and Manganese. They're a whole lot of fun! They fluoresce under blacklight (or sometimes in bright sunlight). This makes them a favorite of glass collectors and easy to find since you just take a pocket blacklight with you when you go antique collecting. Uranium glows yellows and greens and yes it is very slightly radioactive (but safe):

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_glass Here's a video of it in action, courtesy again of Fremont Antique Glass: https://www.instagram.com/fremont_antique_glass/reel/C3k4tgIRi3t/?hl=en Cadmium glass (made with cadmium sulfide or cadmium selenide) and selenium fluoresces as oranges, reds and yellows:

Source: https://www.thebutterflybabe.com/about-uv-glass And Manganese, Green:

Source: https://www.thebutterflybabe.com/about-uv-glass

While writing this up, I discovered my beloved (hated [said fondly]) Neodymium glass is apparently also a UV glass! Now I have to go pull out some of my sheets of Neodymium and put a blacklight on them to see what happens! Neodymium:

Source: https://www.thebutterflybabe.com/about-uv-glass

An amorphous black blob thingy that shape-shifts into any hazard related thing.