Comic book artists be drawing women like

These are hilarious! NGL major preference for adults here. Other adult bonuses:

A thought that arises from the idea of tiefling babies often ending up being abandoned: A rich tiefling adventurer retiring and starting up a tiefling orphanage that takes care of rejected tiefling babies and children.

A thought that arises from the idea of a tiefling orphanage: the rich tiefling adventurer regretting his initiative of filling a mansion with dozens of little devils that all can cast Thaumaturgy. At will.

Oh Boy. :’D

Personally I headcanon that tiefling magic starts to manifest around puberty, but if that wasn’t the case, they’d just have to suck it up and tiefling baby-proof the hell out of the place. B) Have no vases and stuff that might fall over and break during tremors. Have sturdy furniture. Lock doors and windows. Avoid having open flames around. Shove cotton or something into your ears.

Oh yeah, and some of the babies might in that case be able to cast friends, minor illusion, ray of frost, or mage hand. Could result in chaos…

My next one shot is definitely going to be “A party of tiefling babies escape from the orphanage (to go to the candy shop)”

Oh my fuck. I legit NEED to play (or run?) that one-shot now

I have a tiefling community just outside the more conservative and superstitious area of my campaign world. Founded by one of my old PC’s, It’s not even a village yet just a few like minded folks collecting tieflings in need and a couple of genasi not welcomed by the wider area or left on the village doorsteps by human parents who don’t want them. Farming, fishing, foraging and hunting, and now I guess there’s an orphanage!

Welp. Time for me to run a one shot.

Trans activists in Mexico City, protesting violence against the LGBTQ community.

Yes at this point I’m reblogging this every time I see it.

I have become known at my library as the dude who knows how to deal with computers.  I’m not in IT, and I don’t know shit about hardware, but I’m pretty good at figuring out what is causing an error, or how to perform a task in a specific program.  

I have also joked repeatedly that all I really need to do is stand near one of the student computers in the library and it’ll start working again.  I’ve no idea why, but for some reason errors that happen repeatedly just go away whenever I come to look at the computer.

Last week, I helped a student who was having issues with his laptop.  Multiple programs had frozen, but he hadn’t saved his paper, and luckily I was able to get it working long enough for him to save three straight days of work that he otherwise would’ve lost.  It’s worth noting that I spent most of the time I was trying to fix it whispering, “C’mon, baby, work with me” at his computer, because… just because, okay.  It’s what I do, it works, don’t question it.

Anyway, I was around late at work last night, waiting for my ride, when the student worker came back to my office and said there was a small group of students looking for me, and could I give them a hand even though I was off the clock?

Sure, why not.

I came out to find a group of six students, including the guy I helped last week, at a table clustered around one laptop.  I rolled up, said, “Hey, what can I help you with?”, and the guy said, “Can you just hang out here for a second?”

Sure, my dude.  I’m off the clock, I’m listening to a podcast, I can chill at a table with your group until my ride shows up, if you want.

So I spend some time flipping through my phone, only half paying attention, figuring they’re finishing something up and they’ll ask their question as soon as they’re done.  But after a minute, the guy says, “It worked!” and there was a chorus of excitement from the rest of the group. They all thanked me, and excused themselves to go back to class.

Turns out they had a group presentation, and the laptop they were trying to present from had froze up on them.  Not knowing what to do, this guy apparently told his group there was a computer wizard in the library, and that merely being in my presence might be enough to fix it.  To be fair, he… was not wrong.

I just find it delightful that this has become such A Thing that students are now seeking me out.  Not to ask a question, or get some help, but just to stand near their device and share my mythical computer-fixing aura. It’s like being a terribly benign cryptid.

You’re the Installation Wizard’s cousin

A special kind of magic happens when kids gather around a table to play a fantasy role-playing game. Legends are born, friendships are forged, and they begin to experience real-world personal growth.

For the past seven years, we have been using tabletop games as therapy to help kids become more confident, creative and socially empowered. We’re ready to help thousands of children around the world, but we need your help!

Critical Core is a tabletop role-playing game designed to help kids on the autism spectrum build social skills and confidence. It’s a great way for parents to engage with their children at home, and for professionals and experienced gamers to use as a group social skills tool.

Critical Core is brought to you by Game to Grow, a 501©(3) not-for-profit organization, and co-developed with autism advocates, parents, therapists, and educators.

The Critical Core Starter Set has everything you need to play. The game has been tuned to be as easy as possible to get started and stay engaged.

Please note: Artwork shown is work-in-progress and may be subject to change!

Critical Core is fit-for-purpose, designed to help neurodiverse players get started and stay engaged. At the same time, facilitators are provided with the right tools to make the experience effective without it ‘feeling like therapy’.

Each encounter the players face is targeted to help build strength in areas that are related to challenges associated with autism spectrum disorder.

Critical Core is scaffolded around the DIR/Floortime model, and game encounters map to the FEDC framework. (Function Emotional Developmental Capacities)

But all of this is under the hood. At its heart, Critical Core is simply FUN.

When kids engage in a world of fantasy play they are free to explore new ideas and relationships in a safe and fun sandbox. Skills learned while playing Critical Core can last a lifetime.

Although designed for kids on the autism spectrum, Critical Core is just as beneficial (and fun) for all kids. It’s an easy stepping stone into the fantastic world of tabletop role-playing games.

Critical Core is built on established developmental frameworks and distills seven years of practical gaming therapy experience into an easy-to-use format. It is an amazing tool that can be used at home, at school, in a therapist’s office, or out in the community. And above all, it’s great fun.

Game to Grow - Adam Davis (MA Ed) and Adam Johns (LMFT)

Critical Core is brought to you by Game to Grow, a 501©(3) organization that runs tabletop RPG therapy gaming groups every week. Founders Adam Johns and Adam Davis are distilling 7 years of experience and best practices into the Critical Core project so that the benefits of intentional gaming can be spread to an even wider audience.

Virginia Spielmann (MSOT) - Executive Director of STAR Institute for Sensory Processing Disorder in Denver, Colorado.

Virginia is a British trained Occupational Therapist with more than 20 years experience working in pediatrics. Virginia co-leads the development of the Critical Core Project, defining the system within the established DIR Floortime™ framework of developmental intervention.

mcgarrybowen Greater China - creative agency

The Critical Core project was initiated and co-created by creative agency mcgarrybowen Greater China as part of an ongoing program to provide creative solutions for social good.

ICDL - The Interdisciplinary Council on Development and Learning

A not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting each person’s development to their fullest potential. ICDL was formed over 20 years ago to be the official home of DIR® and DIRFloortime, recognized as the next generation of evidence-based intervention for autism and other developmental challenges.

Your passion and support can make Critical Core a reality. Please, pledge now and then get a friend to do the same. Together we can bring the incredible benefits of intentional gaming to those who need it most.

We’re committed to getting this right. The majority of our time will be spent improving and refining the Critical Core Starter Set with the feedback from beta testers and testing groups. We also have some final artwork and design work to take care of, and of course there is the physical production. We’ll be keeping you informed throughout the process, and probably asking for some help and advice along the way!

Game to Grow is a not-for profit 501© company, and our donations are allocated to helping run game groups for kids across the Seattle region. Kickstarter is important for two reasons:

Perhaps you already have a favorite role-playing game and are wondering how Critical Core can fit into your gaming life. Like many of you, we are avid gamers and have many games we’ve loved for years.

Critical Core can improve the games you’re already playing.

If you’re already playing an established RPG with your kids, your students, or your community, Critical Core can still help you improve your game and boost your outcomes.

Critical Core contains a rule system, designed to be easily accessible to a neuro-diverse population as well as new facilitators, but that’s not all! If you are already established using a game that you enjoy and find effective, you’ll be able to use the other components of Critical Core that are designed to support a game facilitator in helping their players learn and grow.

Critical Core contains a unique module design where in-game scenarios are targeted to real-world development outcomes. This can be translated to most established role-playing games. Additionally, the Critical Core kit includes a facilitator’s guide which contains the learnings of the past seven years of facilitating role-playing games for social growth.

Do I need prior experience with role-playing games to run Critical Core?              No. Critical Core is a ‘rules-light’ tabletop RPG, and the instructions will be designed to help brand new Game Masters quickly learn how to facilitate games that are enriching and fun. We are also planning to release video guides and tutorials to help you out!

I’m already playing tabletop RPGs with my kids!

Awesome! You already know the amazing benefits we’re talking about. You also know from experience, that tabletop RPGs can be easy to pick up and play, but learning how to be a great Game Master can be challenging, especially for new players.

Why not use an established role-playing game platform?

Critical Core’s rule set is adapted from D&D’s 5th Edition Open SRD. We have taken out some of the complexity for new players and Game Masters. Think of Critical Core as an entry-level platform: easier for parents, schools, and clinics to pick up and play.

Are you trying to replace my favorite game?

No way! We see Critical Core as a stepping stone to the wide world of RPG gaming. Actually, we hope that as kids grow familiar and comfortable with the system, they can move on to your favorite platform. If you’re already using some of the great games out there, then more power to you!

So how is Critical Core different?

We have applied our experience and best practices to help children (and caregivers) have the most effective and fun experience possible.

I’ve been GM'ing for years, what’s in this for me?

For starters, you’ll be able to pick up the Critical Core system in minutes. We have had inquiries from organizations from across the globe who want to start using Critical Core. You could be a great mentor or GM partner for Critical Core games. Please contact us for more info on how you can help!

Kickstarter campaign ends: Fri, April 26 2019 8:00 AM BST

Website: Game to Grow

Please support this Kickstarter!

Oh!  I was kind of concerned because while I didn’t see anything like “people with autism” that might be a big red flag, I couldn’t tell.  So I went to look at the comments.

It’s really nice to see that they seem to be doing it right. (I hate it when I see a thing targeted at autistic people that looks like it might be really cool … and then I start looking at it and it’s the Autism Speaks type bullshit.)

I think it’s weird that there’s metallic Dragons based on Alloys

Like, if you put tin/zinc on a copper dragon and cast fireball on it, does it turn into a bronze/brass dragon?

No, y'see

When a tin or zinc dragon and a copper dragon love each other very much…

That’s what I would have said as well, if there was such a thing as tin or zinc Dragons

Just because something hasn’t been documented, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.

Play a character who is seeking creatures that haven’t yet been discovered.

Also what kinda dragon would have thermite as a breath weapon? Asking for a friend

New homebrew project: create a dragon for every metallic element and every major alloy

Or, to be even more ridiculous, make some non-metallic element dragons as well.  …after all, when a carbon dragon and an iron dragon love each other very much, a steel dragon is born!

…Lithium dragons fizz in water…

Uranium dragons are a sight to behold, but volatile and violent. Even if you think you escape with your life, you might retain less of it than you initially think. They eventually kill everything near their lair, causing them to migrate to a new spot, leaving a lasting wasteland in their wake.

Iron dragons, while similarly violent, are a lot less ill-tempered. They revel in war, and nothing gets their blood flowing like getting someone else’s blood flowing. Smart generals coax them into joining their ranks as living siege machines.

We don’t talk about helium dragons.

Personally, I can’t speak highly enough about helium dragons

This is brilliant nonsense

Hydrogen dragons are small, but they’ll mate with damn near everything. You’ll want to avoid their offspring with any of the alkaline dragons, though. Those things are insanely volatile.

New writing rule: Checkov’s friend

If you introduce a named character with a relationship to a protagonist, their character arc must be resolved in a way that feels reasonable and satisfying

Which is to say: they can’t just dissappear when they’re no longer a convenient plot device

Thor’s Mum rule – If you’re going to kill a character who’s carried any part of the plot, take a bit to reimagine the plot as if she were the main character, and the story ends when she dies.  If it’s unsatisfying, rewrite either her plot points, or her death, to make both more meaningful.

Which is to say – don’t treat side characters as ammo with which to hurt your main guy.  ESPECIALLY if they’re women.

I’m reblogging because this second part is the best explanation of how I distinguish between fridged characters and other characters who just die.

And yes, it is intrinsically a bit subjective and that’s okay.

CAKE

Normal or Gluten-Free German Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

Frosting

Directions

1.     Grease three 9 inch round cake pans and line them with parchment paper. Preheat oven to 350°F.

2.     In a double boiler or in the microwave, gently heat German chocolate and water, stirring until chocolate is melted and mixture is smooth. Set aside to cool.

3.     Set egg yolks aside. Beat egg whites until stiff peaks form, set aside.

4.     Combine milk and lemon juice in a glass, set aside to curdle.

5.     Cream butter and sugar with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Add egg yolks, one at a time, beating after each addition. Stir in cooled melted chocolate and vanilla.

6.     In a separate bowl, whisk together flour blend, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt.

7.     Add flour mixture to creamed sugar mixture, alternating with lemon/milk mixture and beating after each addition until smooth. Gently fold in egg whites and be sure not to over-work the batter. Place batter into prepared pans.

8.     If cupcakes: bake for 18 minutes or until inserted toothpick comes out clean. If cake pans: Bake 24 minutes or until inserted toothpick comes out clean. Remove from oven to cool for 10 minutes. Remove cake layers/cupcakes from pans to cool on wire rack.

9.     Toss everything for the frosting into a mixing bowl, but hold back 3 of your 4 cups of powdered sugar. Blend well with a mixer on medium speed; add the remaining sugar in ½ cup measurements until thoroughly blended. Makes enough frosting to cover a cake, or lots of cupcakes.

A batch of Mimikkyu variant commissions! I’m so glad people like these babies and that I get to make more for everyone!

— via Equal Pay Day Brings Home Long-term Costs of Pay Inequality. (via ncpssm)

“Girls want a Superman, but they walk past a Clark Kent every day”

You fuckin CLOWNS think you’re a CLARK KENT? Not on my fuckin watch. You dumb, headass motherfuckers are barely a Guy Gardner and you think you’re a CLARK KENT? The amount of disrespect is unreal.

Listen here, wannabes: My boi Clark is 240 lbs of PURE KANSAS BEEF trained from a young age by Ma Kent to Love and Respect women as the Intelligent, Independent beings they are.  He is shy rambling about tractors and casually moving the copy machine when my pen falls behind it and he would NEVER demand I be sexually or romantically interested just because he’s nice.

Y’all ain’t Clark Kent.

I have never hit the reblog button so damn fast.

“barely a Guy Gardner” is the sickest comics related burn I’ve heard to date. 

They might walk past a Clark Kent every day but Clark Kent doesn’t actually mind because he respects their decisions

buss down thortiana

thor: hrrrrnnggh avengers im trying to sneak around but im dummy thicc and the clap of my asscheeks keeps alerting thanos

Ridiculously Easy.

“Ridiculously easy buttermilk biscuits!” You click the link. It’s a novella about finding inner peace in suburbia. You never knew you were disturbed till now.

“Ridiculously easy green beans!” You click the link, there are twelve ingredients. None of them are green beans.

“Ridiculously easy salted pistachio caramel latte coffee cake in three easy steps!” You click the link. There are twelve steps. 

“Ridiculously easy marshmallow fondant!“ You click the link. It’s another novella about suburbia, this time about the dangers of feeding chemicals to your children. You wonder when you acquired these children and worry about their eyes. They are too bright, too happy, too shining…

“Ridiculously easy evaporated milk custard!*” *Must own own cow.

“Ridiculously easy shortcake in 12 steps!” You click the link. There are no steps.

“Ridiculously easy, easy to make, easy in three minutes, easy!” It doesn’t tell you what you’re making but you’re pretty certain it shouldn’t be hissing.

“Ridiculously easy,” the article reads, “easy, it’s so easy, easy” you hear laughing. Your face hurts why does your face hurt?

“It’s so easy,” you tell you friends, your smile is not your own. You can feel your teeth growing, “so easy, you’ll hardly feel a thing!”

Posted with permission from the artist @ByTwistwood. Story by Matthew Wisner.

Mr Rogers A+ Parenting

How Canada Talks

A light-hearted read on this New Years Eve. I find it totally interesting how Canada differentiates between provinces and our neighbouring country. 

I, a Lower Mainland British Columbian (the little tiny bottom left corner of BC), use almost all of these terms, other than I never use chesterfield, it’s a Couch, I use Utencil not cutlery, we call the electric bill just Hydro, I pronounce Toronto as “chur-OHN-noh”, and I usually say gutters not rain gutters. 

SOURCE - This is How Canada Talks.

“did chris evans actually jump that high to grab onto that helicopter in civil war?”

friendly reminder that chris vaulted with ease over chris pratt after just telling him less than a minute before that he would be able to clear him if he only put his head down.

I want a Celebrity Obstacle Course show where all the pretty people can show off their hard stunt work for us and also occasionally eat it, because they need to be humbled sometimes. The judges would be career stunt people, to give them visibility, because they work even harder. Shirts optional.

You wouldn’t even finish the phrase “Celebrity Ninja Warrior” before Chris would start jumping up and doing yelling “Me! Me! Pick me!”

Anyone know how to contact Netflix about this?

friendly reminder Chris did most of his stunts bc the stunt guys couldn’t move like him.

“One thing we found, too, is Chris can run very fast. He also has a very unique run. It’s almost a dancer’s run. And when we tried to double him for running, there was nobody who could run like him. They just didn’t have the same dynamics or the way he moves. He had to end up doing most of his running.”

“What we also found, is that we had gymnasts come in to do things, and Chris could do the same stuff that they could do, but it would look like Chris Evans. When the body doubles or the gymnasts or the runners did it, it just didn’t look like him. He has such a unique way of moving, and he could pretty much do all of his own physical stuff that wasn’t dangerous. Like this shot right here, we had a gymnast do this, and Chris actually ended up doing it better. That’s Chris here. He hops up on a tank and over a 12-foot wall. It looks effortless but it’s not that easy!”

“Chris worked his butt off for four months doing gymnastics and stunt training so in a scene like this he could go toe-to-toe with Georges St-Pierre and make it look really credible. Once the helmet comes off, 95% of that is Chris, except obviously for that massive aerial kick that he does. I think he did a fantastic job.”

gifs and commentary (blu-ray) above from @sherloques Rehearsal above from @dailymarvel

The really cool thing about Chris Evans is that he’s a super talented, athletic guy. He retains things amazingly well. I mean, I’m blown away. I can show him a 15-punch fight two times, and he’s got it. - Thomas Harper, Stunt Coordinator, CATWS

gifs & commentary from @bealeeve-me

gifs from @aguaman 

*happy sigh*

@littlesnowarrow