You know when you're checking out a new fandom and you stumble across a writer/artist you loved in a previous fandom and it feels like running into a childhood friend at a bar
Running into the arms of trusted ao3 handles in a new tag like an airport greeting
Iโm sorry but this is so funny
The funniest part of this is that OOC-Ally was just looking for excuses to throw money at the rest of the party, but in-character they had just been through what was essentially the break up to a years-long relationship and were clearly spiraling.
So you would get character interactions where the other player characters would just be like-
โSugar Mommy, can we please have $70,000 to upgrade our laser canons?โ
and Ally would just respond along the lines of-
โSure. Why not? Not like money ever bought me anything important. Anyone want some hard drugs?โ
It was beautiful.
A little advice from someone studying extremist groups: if youโre in a social media environment where the daily ubiquitous message is that you have no hope of any kind of future and you canโt possibly achieve anything without a violent overthrow of society, youโre being radicalized, and not in the good way.
If the solution to your problems sounds like โwe need a blank slateโ itโs a lie. There are no blank slates, and the closest approximation people can generally imagine is โburn it all down and let God/fate/history sort it outโ.
Thatโs not problem solving. Itโs barely catharsis, in practice. It doesnโt just create more problems than it solves, it destroys more solutions than it creates.
Put the apocalypse down, and back away slowly.
Real solutions to complex, systemic problems are not so easily reduced to โus good, them evil; kill them.โ
no media training whatsoever and i love her for it. reneรฉ rapp, the icon you are ๐๐๐๐
How I accidentally became besties with really morally dubious people. We bond and I wanna think the best of them but over time... Oh I've made a mistake
โฆI would read the hell out of a series of a chosen eighty-five-year-old woman who goes on epic journeys throughout a dangerous and magical land, armed only with a cane and her stab-tastic knitting needles, accompanied by her six cats and a skittish-yet-devoted orderly who makes sure she takes her pills on time.
Battle Granny Gertrude with Phillip and co.
Iโd read the fuck outs this
this looks like the Lawful Good counterpart to Yzma and Kronk
A story about a chosen one who procrastinates fulfilling the prophecy until sheโs elderly.
โGertie, why did you wait so long to fulfill the prophecy?โ
โWell Philip, the witch who made the prophecy told my mother โshe will never know true happiness after her questโ and my mother made DAMN SURE i was well aware of that fact my whole childhood. So, i decided the prophecy could wait until id known true happiness, just to be safe.โ
โOh, so after the birth of your first great grandchild you knew true happiness?โ
โWell yes, but little Johnnie was incidental. Two days after he was born i finally beat that bitch Pearl in bridge, after 30 YEARS.โ
some human au fluff
The core of Star Trek is optimism about the future, and this is why one of the quiet, ongoing themes of every show is adults spending their free time engaging in table top games, pretend play, sports, music, art, and other hobbies. No matter what crazy space conflict or reality-warping improbability they've gotten wrapped up in, someone is still running around, pretending they're robin hood. Someone is painting a sunset. A pair of friends are playing cards. A group has formed a chamber ensemble. This is utopia.
it used to bother me that all the art in star trek was really mediocre. the paintings are banal and poorly executed. the music was bland. the games were all sort of slow and lame. but like. now it seems really nice, actually? now im jealous. these are comfortable happy people who are on their umpteenth hobby. they don't need to excel at leisure. is she *good* at painting sunsets? what a weird and sad thing to ask. she was happy to spend her evening painting a sunset. she had the time for it. i wish i did.
can i perhaps interest you guys in some griddlehark??
yknow it's a real shame that romans didn't have access to australia specifically for augury reasons. i really wish i could have seen a roman augur have to deal with australian birds. like imagine trying to properly interpret an omen from a fuckin. cassowary
loving that the general consensus here is that "the omen when you see a cassowary is that you are about to die of cassowary"
The cassowary evaluates your innards, not the other way around
embroidery from peacocksandpinecones my friends and I have been losing our minds over all morning.
I've seen these as w.i.p in a facebook group and in all stages it looks like forbidden magic.
normal griddlehark cus im sorry for last post's devastation
my prof just explained on the syllabus that heโs included more pionts in the class than we needed to pass, so we could skip up like?? 20 small assignments/quizzes/participation!! and still get a very high grade!!
the idea was that we could focus on assignments that played to our strengths - only do the participation stuff if we like to talk out loud - only do the quizzes/readings if we want to do the class remotely - only do online discussions if we like to talk and share opinions but struggle with anxiety in class ect.
and thatโs cool enough but then he pulled up DnD character sheets with drawings heโd done of these hypothetical student player classes and how our various accessibility needs could be gamified to โmax outโ different aspects of the class to get high grades and like!!!!!
hell yeah!!!! letโs treat accessibility in higher education not just as a necessity but as the fun, engaging, and creative aspect of learning that it is!!! I love this!!
other profs: sobbing and screaming bc someone needs to take notes on a computer
this dude: I record and upload every lecture for the paladins, monks, and rogues, but barbarians can watch them too I guess. Bards you only get one participation point per class, even if you talk multiple times, itโs only fair.