anything and everything I like and/or care about

On a scale of JJ Abrams to Benioff & Weiss, how little do you respect the source material or know the fuck you’re doing

Headcanon:

If a Padawan dies before having the chance to become a Knight, they are given the honour and title post mortem

A sort of knighthood at honorem.

Well buddy thank you for breaking my heart-

reblog to kill it faster

So they didn't want people using the very things they advertised as being useful; the reasons you'd tolerate an always-on virtual assistant in your life.

this is the kind of stuff the cyber dystopias never think to include. "spying on everyone couldn't make enough money :(" like what

I think you could low-key make that into the transitional event for a cyberpunk-to-solarpunk story.

People were promised all manner of conveniences for the intrusion of the megacorps into their life. When it became unavoidable, people said "hokay" and started cranking down on those little conveniences, avoiding the money traps everywhere. And cranking. And cranking. And the money traps got more and more obvious, and more frequent, and people continued to ignore them, and the whole system kind of... imploded. Not a hard revolution, but a death by a thousand cuts, as the greed of shareholders and the few antitrust laws that remained and masses who could no longer be squeezed made The Machine break down at once.

And then people shrugged and said "cool so now that you're going out of business we're gonna hack these to do what they did without the corporate bloatware, people have already been doing that for years without your permission but now we don't have to worry about you suing us en masse for EULA violation."

And the survivors of the corporate board fallout said "what".

And they watched as their factories were bought up for Indonesian Rupiah on the Dollar, and the schematics were released online for free, and patents were voided.

And they said "what".

And they watched as the industrial complexes they had built were torn apart and repurposed, as the factories that made the garbage that did nothing were tossed aside (they weren't useful anyway), and as people figured out how to make fabrication facilities that could make damn near anything on demand, without the waste, with parts that anyone could make to repair things.

And they said "what".

The suburbs that people lived in because well I can't afford to live in the city died, as the skyscrapers that had once been kept for offices or for real estate value alone were repurposed into homes and places for people to do things, or just into massive terraced gardens. If you didn't live on a farm town, you lived in the city. The highway system contracted as old roads that were massively disused went by the wayside, turned into fields again, or just left for the forests to reclaim. The solar and wind plants were everywhere within the first half a decade, everything that they had said was commercially non-viable, and damn if it didn't work perfectly. The rail system expanded until it was everywhere.

And at this point, they had stopped saying anything; those that were still furious about losing their seat at the top of the world were at least keenly aware they were laughingstocks, and the remora who had clung to the underside of the sharks had found other places to be.

The beauty of tumblr. I don’t know OP. Don’t follow Op but I have the same cloud from a slightly different angle.

Someone posted this on fb recently, WCCO shared it (not my pic)

But yeah. I have absolutely almost gotten into a vertigo-induced car wreck bc the clouds made me feel like I was falling down into the sky.

Reblog to open a rail line from your blog to the person you reblogged this from

our beautiful rail line... (so far)

Their wholesome interaction may be short but the impact is long lasting

I just need Senshi to teach him to make noodles, he’d be a great teacher

Anna Haifisch

Babe are you okay I saw you reblogging "here's the life I've always longed for"

for anyone curious there is a follow up image:

graceful gallop

Throw a saddle on him.

I used to work at this place. She’s a Cuban Crocodile & her name is Chainsaw. There’s 3 Cuban Crocodiles in this enclosure, the big male being named Ricardo. Some of the animal care staff told me how they had to enter the enclosure from different sides each time, because the crocodiles would start to anticipate their entry.

These guys are incredibly smart, & they’re also jumping crocodiles. They’ve been compared to the Jurassic Park raptors at the park itself, for their intelligence (plotting & scheming) as well as pulling stunts like this.

Here she is again

despite how it make look, they’re relatively small in comparison to the other crocodiles though, which was funny.

Cindy Wright, "Bacon Cube 3, 2005,

Oil on canvas,

78¾ h × 76¾ w in (200 × 195 cm)

I turn to Ares.

⚔️ If you want to read some queer retelling of arturian legends have a look at my webtoon

i think about this interview with ikuhara and his commentary for the last episode every single day of my life

The world (the stage) is free and wide.

dnd paladin character concept: a knight raised alongside a magic user, who loves his friend, considers them family — but the magic user through a twist of fate ascends to godhood, vanishing from normal human life. so the knight swears fealty to the fledgling god so he can have some connection to them even still & the god who loves him dearly in return blesses him with gifts and divine powers as a way to reach back toward him, back toward earth. this paladin’s vows are easy to keep, like second nature… and prayer is both automatic and personal

can you imagine being a new god’s firstborn devotee? their most beloved, their milk tooth? he knew his god when they were a lanky teenager and helped lie for them when they used to sneak out of their studies. the two of them would crack each other up late at night until they thought they might hurl. no other paladin knows his god as intimately and well — he saw them pimply and awkward and human and real, and worships them even still. that kind of devotion is impossible to manufacture

the paladin chooses a quest to follow, with the caveat “should my god allow it.” he goes to pray by the river — they used to seek the river together every time they made large decisions, and it was by a river he swore his sacred oaths — and murmurs “will you allow it, old friend?” to the water. a flower blooms at his bent knee. (his god trusts his judgement; they will never forbid him any path he requests to follow.)

This is lovely, though I don't think I quite agree with the god ALWAYS approving. Love isn't always saying "Yes", sometimes it's saying "No", no matter how hard it is.

The god loves their paladin and trusts their judgement implicitly, but there are instances the god has perceptions of what a course might lead to that only a deity can foresee, the destructive (or worse, self-destructive) forces which might be unleashed that a human could never anticipate.

And so, sometimes, instead of a flower blooming, the mournful cry of a bird is heard across a suddenly too still forest. And then the paladin knows that his friend is warning him off this course and so will not follow it, resisting all attempts to dissuade him, because he trusts his deity as he trusted his closest friend.

people, if he’s

then he’s not your man, he’s penelope's husband and it’s been twelve long years since he’s seen his wife, so go easy on him

Tatiana Blass, Penelope, wife of Odysseus 

I don’t think I have the chops for D&D or other tabletop RPGs but I could make a good DM’s assistant. I don’t play the game but I sit and listen and then after the session the DM can ask me for ideas.

and I am in character as the king’s most trusted advisor the whole time

I could say things like “yes, my liege, most clever, my liege” and keep notes for the DM and maybe supply a few character voices. and serve everyone very sinister tea.

No. I’m not looking for any words. Dungeon Mentat suits me just fine.

I believe he rolled a 3,my lord... He does this to spite you...

I think that we should take both states down with one hit