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Musings on Life and Geekdom

@hobbitguy1420 / hobbitguy1420.tumblr.com

Posts written (or reblogged) by a geeky recovering theater major.  Expect a combination of positivity, nerdiness, light social justice, and bad puns.  Really bad puns.
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Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

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meraarts

Might I add:

The defeat of the wizard who made people choose how they’d be to be executed

The woman who raised the changeling alongside her biological child

The human who died of radiation poisoning after repairing the spaceship

The adventures of a space roomba

Cinderella finding Araura (and falling in love)

I don’t know a snappy description but the my nemesis cynthia story certainly lives in my head

I am in love with you /p

What about the one with the princess locked in a tower learning to become a wizard? That’s lived in my mind for years and I haven’t seen it in a long time

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adamskiiii

Wow! @writing-prompt-s contributing to like half of these!

I can hardly take any credit for these stories! But I love sharing them. Unfortunately I cannot read all the prompt responses so please tag me if you want me to reblog a story that resonated with you so I can give it a little boost :)

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have i ever shown u people my hand sofa

my prized possession is this loveseat I bought from a divorced dad who couldn’t tell me anything about it and in the years i’ve owned it i’ve never been able to find out who made it or where it came from. it’s got nails and finger creases and palm lines but they’re all kinda hard to see in this pic.

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emeraldwhale
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kleefkruid
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these are my thotz as someone who has been directly exposed to 2022 and 1966 batman within less than a month: there's a sweet spot between silly/gloomy ways to write bruce wayne, there's unpleasant extremes, and then there's the real extremes that are such weird little freaks that they make perfect sense

Startlingly accurate

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Character Spreadsheets - Changeling the Lost (1e)

My most recent update to my character spreadsheets is for Changeling: the Lost, 1st edition.

I know it's out of date by now, but it's the version I still play. I think most of the character sheet can be used for either version, and the sheets should be easy enough to convert into 2e, I think.

As usual, I've included a safety tools sheet, which has Lines, Veils, and Lures, as well as a list of common safety tools that I use in my games.

I also included space to put detailed information about Merits and Contracts, because I know there's never enough space to write out what exactly it is your abilities do.

If you like this and you want to see more, I recommend checking out my full catalog of spreadsheets, linked below!

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prokopetz

One of the most common pitfalls of amateur media analysis is assuming that story Y must be directly based on or influenced by story X because they're kind of similar if you squint just right. You really do need to be able to point to a specific series of influences getting you from X to Y in order to make that claim; leaving that part out is how we get Joseph Campbell, and nobody wants to be Joseph Campbell.

(Yes, this applies even to stuff that's seemingly too specific to be anything other than a direct reference. At the very least, you need to rule out the possibilities that a. the thing you thought was a direct reference is actually a common trope in the genre which both works share; or b. it is a direct reference, but X and Y are both name-checking some unknown third work Z and have no direct connection.)

In literature as in statistics, correlation isn't causation.

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copper my beloved

rose gold, brass, bronze, what cant she do

beautiful base colour, beautiful patina, and it mixes to make beautiful alloys. 10/10 best metal.

she also makes up so much of your wiring, she’s a working gal too.

what CANT she do

Don’t forget about the most beautiful blue made by copper sulfate!!

my absolute FAVOURITE comments on this post are ones like this.

where they just add on something ELSE that copper does. it’s great.

When you need to work in an atmosphere where a stray spark could cause an explosion, you switch out your steel tools for copper alloys since it conducts heat much better and thus won’t spark easy.

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swan2swan

So when Tumblr user @mono-red-menace​ hypes up copper, it’s a 60k-note banger, but when I, Ea-nasir,

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I just want to remind everybody

Leverage gave us a middle-aged couple who impetuously fell into bed and had hot passionate sex, then cleaned up their acts emotionally before committing to each other in marriage.

Leverage gave us a young black man gently, wisely courting a non-neurotypical blonde white woman.

Leverage gave us a young black man whose two white male best friends both describe him as the smartest man they’ve ever known.

Leverage gave us a guitar-playing country boy, an ex-hitman and army vet, who puts his life in the hands of a geeky black man and his blonde girlfriend (till death do them part).

Leverage gave us Parker, Sophie, Maggie, and Tara; it also gave us female villains with as much cunning, ruthlessness, and agency as any man’s. 

Leverage gave us villains who were rich, powerful, greedy white people who had to have just a little bit more, and a clever, cunning, usually compassionate, occasionally terrifying white guy who beat them at their own game and robbed the rich to help the poor.

Leverage, gentlefolx.

Leverage also gave us a black man who was the computer nerd and not the muscly grunt.

Leverage also gave us an Alpha Male™ who unashamedly loved to cook, despite it being a classically feminine skill.

Leverage also gave us a discussion about faith, which was not used to bash the atheists for being non-believers, and was not used to bash the theists for not believing in science. Leverage gave us an interfaith relationship between a Catholic and an atheist.

Leverage also gave us a small, sexy, blonde woman who was not used as a sexual object, who was never told she screwed up when she couldn’t play that part, and who developed not into the sexy distraction, but into the team leader.

Leverage is amazing.

Leverage showed us an autistic woman surrounded by people who understood what she was, and didn’t try to make her change more than she was able to. Leverage showed us this woman grow and change AND FAIL and succeed. Leverage showed her grappling with emotions she didn’t know how to handle, and while not pretending this didn’t make her a pain in the ass to be around, didn’t make her the villain for being insecure.

Leverage showed us a man who fell in love with her including-and-not-despite the crazy, and showed that man recognize that he didn’t need to push.

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astranaut

Congratulations; you made it through another day! You have reached your new personal best.

Your record for longest amount of consecutive days without dying has reached a personal best. Well done, you.

This made my day

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