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my name is maple, i use all pronouns and i speak spanish and english. i roleplay, write, code, and i also make gifs from time to time. this is my personal blog! i use it to reblog stuff about fandoms i am a part of, such as hades, critical role, baldur’s gate 3, and dungeon meshi. i also reblog art, random posts and things i find funny. feel free to spam like/reblog. please don’t interact with me if you’re under 17.

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you can also find me here: @maplecoded​ where i make codes, graphic templates and other fun stuff! + @lavorrcs​ where i share resources, writing stuff and inspo.

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starguiders → fangstarion → beifongisms

AI disturbance overlays for those who don't have Ibis paint premium. found them on tiktok

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how do you use these?

Put these on the top layer above everything, set layer to 'overlay' then adjust opacity. You can put it on whatever opacity you want but usually 30%+ is most effective.

The point is to obstruct the picture so AI can't read your image because AI counts every single pixel in your art

By this post alone, in less than 5 hours.

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I need you all to calm the fuck down

NEEDED AND NO WE WONT THIS IS BRILLIANT

Art people pls use this

throwback to the time that one girl got SO mad at me because I said Will Graham and Hannibal Lecter canonically wanted to dick each other down because shipping them would make straight people think all gay people are murdering cannibals

sent a message
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answered a message

other actors: I sent live rats to my costars and drank sewage water bc I’m a method actor

rpatz: I played sonic everyday —but only the dark version— to really get in the headspace

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Well this sure hit me like a ton of bricks

Also, it's a hell of a lot easier to learn skills to NOT forget things so often when you're not dealing with constant distress over the problems the forgotten things are causing you, actually!

So he's MORE LIKELY to grow up to be an adult who doesn't lose multiple jobs due to forgetfulness if he's given the opportunity to learn those tactics with a safety net as a kid.

I'm reminded of a thing I saw somewhere.

"you can give a man a fish AND teach him how to fish, you know. And it's a lot easier to learn how to fish when you're not starving"

Give a man a fish, and he might discover that he likes fish, making him far more motivated to try fishing, which you are then in an excellent position to teach him!

Watching Przewalski's horses run free on the Kazakhstan steppe for the first time in 200 years

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It's my time to shine as a horse girl!!

  • These horses went extinct in the wild 60 years ago! They were reintroduced in other parts of Mongolia and Central Asia earlier than they were reintroduced on the Steppes, but having them back here has been generational conservation work. It's truly amazing.
  • These horses and other kinds of horses are probably different branches of evolution, which is CRAZY AWESOME. Modern horse breeds trace back to one branch, and these dudes evolved separately. They have 33 chromosome pairs whereas the horse you're used to seeing in movies and TV shows (or riding if you too are a horse girl - gender neutral title of expertise) have 32.
  • Despite this, you can interbreed these two species and they will have fertile offspring. That's really rare! (A common equine cross between species, the mule, is an always-sterile offspring of a donkey and a horse, for instance).
  • I did have to look the exact numbers up here, full disclosure, but it's believed that Przewalski's horses and other breeds have a common ancestor about between 160,000 and 38,000 years ago
  • The horses you see on cave art? These guys!
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  • It's likely that Attila the Hun and his armies rode these horses (though hard to prove decisively)
  • Part of the conservation efforts around them involved CLONING to avoid a genetic bottleneck. ISN'T THAT DOPE. You can read more about that here
  • These are the only truly wild horses. All other "wild" horses -- Australian brumbies and American mustangs, for instance -- are feral descendants of domesticated horses, which is partly why you can see such a wide range of heights, colors, conformations, etc in those populations.

Anyway. This is incredible news and this species of animal is very special, very ancient, and very cool.