I'm with you in the dark.

he. smells my cookie

Guda, after terminating a lostbelt: Its too late Mash, I'm already a demon.

i love to make fun of notorious white woman Taylor Swift and all of her embarrassing attempts to appear deeper than a plate of soup.

happy to announce that this post is at the top of the taylor swift tag, meaning this is the most widely shared opinion regarding Taylor on this website at the moment.

Asa Mitaka!! I drew this awhile ago but I might re-draw this one day

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Today's aesthetic: cosmic horror tabletop RPGs from the 1980s whose creators wrote the "madness rules" by simply plagiarising a list of disorders and their descriptions from the DSM-II and turning it into a d100 lookup table, except the DSM-II still listed "homosexuality" as a mental disorder (it wasn't removed until the DSM-III), with the result that there are several published tabletop RPGs where there's a small but non-zero chance that seeing Cthulhu will make you gay.

(Amusingly, one such game was later re-used as the core system for a licensed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles RPG, and the madness rules were carried over verbatim, with the result that seeing Cthulhu can also make your ninja turtle gay.)

Well NOW I'm wondering why in the world a TMNT RPG kept the madness rules at all!

Palladium Books is not known for giving careful consideration to whether a particular game-mechanical subsystem is appropriate – or even relevant – for a particular game before deciding to go ahead and include it.

(They did remove the random madness table from subsequent printings in response to complaints from parents who'd bought the game for their kids, but they didn't bother to update any rules which referred to it, so the second and later printings of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness just have the occasional dangling reference to textually nonexistent mechanics.)

the new madness is the players being gaslit about the existence of the madness table

Shit man, this wizard war is fucked. I just saw a guy clap his hands together and say "the ten hells" or some similar shit, and every one around him turned inside out, had their tibia explode and then disappeared. The camera didn't even go onto him, that's how common shit like this is. My ass is casting frostbite and level 2 poison. I think I just heard "power word:scrunch" two groups over. I gotta get the fuck outta here.

this is the best album release of all time because where else are you going to get unironic takes like this and then even get a few hundred people to agree with it

you ever get Supernaturally Beckoned to draw something

is it just me or do anti kink people sound like hardcore Christians?

Oh nooooo you're ruining your relationship to sex! Don't you know that's a special thing saved till marriage! Having icky sex consensually is essentially rape culture, cuz Jesus doesn't consent to it! You're feeding the worst part of society! You know! The satanists, the queers, the commies! If you continue being homosexual continue taking those hormones continue not being in the kitchen barefoot for your husband doing kink you'll be miserable and will only be able to cum by debasing yourself! You'll regret not being so pure that you cum from your first kiss!

Like for real rn, fuck off.

slapped some colors on that one wooooo

tsuchinoko real

tsuchinoko real

tsuchinoko real

Spiders? Hate them but see their use. Mosquitoes? Begrudgingly acknowledge that they like... feed bats. But can anyone explain what the fuck ticks are doing that's helpful??? Because frankly I'm not convinced they're doing anything nice for anyone

ticks are a massive source of protein for the many many creatures that eat them, same as mosquitos. they're integral to the food chain.

also, parasites of all kinds are incredibly important to ecosystems for many reasons: they help keep populations- especially of large herbivores and predators- low and healthy, they help individuals develop immune strength, and they are often integral parts of their food webs.

much of life is parasitic. it's a very successful life-plan and food strategy. dont hold it against them: blood is a really nutritious food and the creatures they target (generally) have a lot of it. it's not their 'fault' they have the capacity to carry even smaller parasites/diseases. that's just how life is

Deer is big creature, has microbe community inside it making it super good at digesting plant, turning plant into easy nutrients.

Small creatures would like nutrients. Deer is too big to eat, hoards all the nutrients. RUDE! Not everybody can be a wolf! Not fair :(

Tick bites deer. Tick takes tiny bit of deer's blood, falls off deer. Tick now contains deer's nutrients

Small creature eats tick. Nutrients in deer go into small creatures.

In this way, deer can become food for spiders, birds, lizards, beetles, ants. It couldn't happen without ticks. They are the portable snack packs of the forest

And not even just when they get eaten by something else, either! The tick also excretes waste and molts an old exoskeleton several times in its life, if it lays eggs then the babies leave thousands of old eggshells behind, and if it evades all possible predators it still eventually dies of old age. One way or another all those deer proteins are recycled by the many ticks, flies, gnats, lice and fleas living and dying for countless generations during the Deer's comparatively tremendous lifespan. It's easy to think of vertebrates like us as just the default neutral citizens of our planet, but the vast majority of life on Earth is microscopic and very short lived. Even a squirrel is on the larger and longer-lived end of our planet's biota, demolishing habitat and hoarding food that would have otherwise been used by millions of tinier lives. So humans might look at a squirrel's parasites and see a bloodthirsty plague torturing a sweet little woodland critter, but in the eyes of nature, they're the ones who evolved to stand up to a gluttonous dragon.

could post like “taylor swift sleeps upside down like a bat and travis kelce feeds her mashed fruit insects and sugar water with a medicine pipette” and inevitably one of the internet’s venerable hall monitors will be like “excuse me? THIS isn’t true. Hmmmmm, i wonder if people would even believe this if the OP said it about a MAN” well i wouldn’t say it about a man because there aren’t any men who do that it’s literally just her. Duh

you know what really gets my goat?

el chupacabra

I’m sorry!? What?!

Whoa, chupacabra’s a millennial?