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some food art !!

I swear I felt my brain twist while I stared at this and tried to follow a particular segment.

That is SO COOL I’ve never seen one moving before!

Ohhh, three sided Mobius strip.

SEGMENTED 3D MOBIUS STRIP BABEY

Immensely satisfying infinite sparkle loop

Now THIS is how you rotate your blorbos

Ok but Zuko using the knowledge he acquired during his banishment to help him as the Fire Lord. Like making small talk with Earth Kingdom dignitaries about their local foods that he enjoyed and even misses. Like having in-depth conversations with his captains about sea currents and navigation. Like, in the middle of a meeting with several high-ranking naval officials, pointing out flails in security, like how a person can cling to a Fire Nation ship for hours at a time, or climb aboard using hatches on the upper decks, or disguise themselves as a lower ranking guard with easily accessible spare armour….

Though none of his experiences can prepare Zuko for the long, awkward silence that comes after he admits to doing or at least knowing something illegal and/or completely buck wild

fire lord zuko: you should maybe revisit the security measures around the water ducts that the sealturtles use

northern water tribe leader: that’s not necessary, no one can survive submerged in the artic ocean for so many minutes

zuko:

zuko: remember that time the fire nation attacked you

Zuko: okay first you have to promise not to get mad

Earth King: Tell me about your first visit to Ba Sing Se.

Zuko:

Okay, but before all this:

Advisors: Princess Azula did perform the astounding feat of infiltrating Ba Sing Se…

Zuko: Huh? Oh, that’s not hard. It’s pretty nice, if you don’t mind the brainwashing, but you can’t get a spicy octopus for love or money. We ate so much jook. *shudders*

Advisors:… you got in too…. interesting.

Advisors: The mysterious Water Tribe city at the North Pole

Zuko: It’s a pretty place, if you like ice.  Lots of sealturtles. They have a really nice little sort of sacred grove thing there, too, I kidnapped the Avatar from it once.

Advisors: …. we have some questions….

Advisors: We still have not found the Fire Lord’s secret supplier of new weapons - 

Zuko: He’s at the Northern Air Temple. (Realizing they’re all staring at him) Oh, no, I haven’t met him personally, but I have friends who have. He sounds like a very interesting guy.

Advisors: SO MANY QUESTIONS

Zuko: (while directing post-war reparation efforts) Oh, and we need to send a lot of people to work on replanting the forest around this obscure village.

Advisors:…. may we ask why?

Zuko: Apparently the local panda spirit is pretty mad about having its forest burned down. 

Advisors, now afraid to ask: ….Yes, Fire Lord. 

Every now and then, the curiosity gets too much and they’ll bring up something like ‘legendary sand benders’ or ‘Southern Islands’ and Zuko invariably produces some tidbit of local knowledge (either his own or gleaned from the Gaang’s stories) and six Foreign Ministers have resigned in fear and the seventh one only barely held it together when Zuko greeted an envoy from a tiny, insignificant Earth Kingdom island with ‘Listen, I am really sorry about what happened last time, I hope the supplies I sent helped with the rebuilding, do you still have that giant eel thing?” IS THERE ANYTHING HE DOESN’T KNOW.

This came to me in a vision

me when @lilbeanz posts:

losing it at this photo of the counts puppet not being used. literally he looks like hes just taking a nap on set or something

ITS SUCH A FUCKING HONOUR I COUNT WORDS IN POSTS

i think about this video a lot

Wtf is going on

Hey y’all film crew member here. For those of you asking, they’re running like that to stay out of the shot.  For us crew we TRY OUR HARDEST TO NOT GET FILMED. IT’S IMPORTANT. It’s like playing the floor is lava but with a side of “you’re fired” if you lose too many times.  We’ll do anythING to not be seen. Duck around corners, dive under tables, jump in the bushes, assume fetal position on the floor, climb trees, get in the robot, hide in the trojan horse, become a vampire, you fuckin name it.  My fav game while watching a movie is “guess where the crew is hiding in this shot” it’s great fun you should try it.  The only problem in this particular shot is there is nowhere to hide except behind the camera which IS MOVING REALLY FAST.  Why they didn’t just leave the room I have no idea. it could be any number of reasons. Time, lack of proper equipment, need to supervise/direct, etc.  The real question is how the hell did Gaga not fucking lose it seeing a herd of film nerds scamper desperately in circles behind the camera

Love all the film crew people in the notes sharing their dumb hiding locations

leave your laundry on the floor for them

I love watching two people who can just fight perfectly together, and was like ‘how would you translate this to D&D?’ This is the first attempt, will probably take some tweaking to make it valuble but not overpowered. 

[id: a piece of dnd homebrew of a feat called “Battle Couple.”

Prerequisite: two characters must take this feat at the same time.

You’ve had so much experience fighting side b y side with your companion, it’s like you can guess what they are going to do. As a result you gain the following.

what's the most cancelable shit y'all do when ur not online

sometimes i like to acknowledge nuance

Sometimes i try to see where people are coming from and how they became who they are and what drove them to make certain decisions

this is unforgivable.

i occasionally change my stance when presented with new evidence.

I reconsidered things that I've believed to be true for YEARS and changed my mind.

I occasionally converse with people in different age categories than my own.

You’re the town’s superhero. Your greatest enemy is the town’s supervillian. However, secretly, your both brothers. This isn’t anything tragic, as your whole destructive rivalry is actually just a massive prank on your third brother, the mayor.

finally, a realistic sibling relationship in the media

The superhero and villain are twins and switch places when they get bored. The mayor brother acts grumpy about the situation but actually doesn’t mind because it brings in tourists because people love street theater and the city’s economy is booming. They all have an older sister who is the DA and the really big brained one. She ends up manipulating the twins in such a way that the city is safer because criminals don’t want to draw the notice of either person with super powers, so they just end up clearing out while they can.

The villain routinely kidnaps the mayor because it’s the only way to get him to attend family functions

I find very funny how in the books, they (Rick) tried so hard to sell Annabeth as the perfect match for Percy, and then they tried really hard to make the couple seen as the goal in relationships matter, AND THEN RICK GOES AND GIVES US NICO DI ANGELO. You know, the 13 year old who took Percy to the Styx so he heightened the chances that he wouldn't DIE, the 13 yo who turn on his father, A GOD, the second Hades tried to hurt Percy, the solid reason why they didn't die in the battle of Manhattan in the first place AND HIS SOLID MOTIVATION WAS THAT HE DIDN'T WANT PERCY TO DIE, all this poor kid wants is for Percy to live, and he goes to extremes to garantee this, even if Percy hate him afterwards, at least he's make sure he'll survive. Nico wasn't even with the Olympians, he was on Percy's side, and Percy just so happen to be on the Olympians side, I'm fully convinced that If Percy have had said "Fuck it" in BotL and just told Nico to just turn around and fight along Kronos with him (cofcof), Nico would had done it, he hadn't even meet Hades yet.

The trouble with trying to talk about "the players just dick around while the GM does all the actual work of making the game happen" as a dysfunctional mode of play in tabletop roleplaying spaces is that it's so normalised that a lot of GMs genuinely don't realise that's what's happening. They'll look at a description of the problem and with a perfectly straight face declare "yeah, that shit would never fly in my group, that's why we [proceeds to describe a way of organising play in which the GM does all the actual work of making the game happen]". And we wonder by GM burnout is such a universal phenomenon!

(It's by no means limited to structured or rules-heavy play, either. Semi-freeform play where you throw out 90% of the rules and look to the GM for an off-the-cuff ruling every single time someone picks up the dice is one of the principal forms of making the GM do all the actual work.)

But Brennan Lee Mulligan makes it look so easy

Brennan Lee Mulligan gets paid.

Three tips from me, in order of importance:

1. Tell me what you want your character to do. It's not quite plotting out their story in advance but tell me "I want to do this sweet move in combat" "I want to romance an NPC" "I want my character to lose something important". This helps a GM give you what you want and provides a central moment they can plan sessions around.

2. Be invested in the table. This is my anti-lone wolf spiel. Your characters should have their own stuff going on but their primary focus at any given moment should be the vibe of their team. Is it bad, is it good? Work with your fellow players and make your bond the centre of the story. On a pure energy level side of things, every second you mob are talking to each other is a second I get to rest my voice and prepare for the next thing.

3. Be aggressively aware of the time. This one's anxiety inducing, sorry! We only get to meet once every however long and we want to get through as much story as we can. Hesitating and over planning eat up precious minutes that could be used for kissing goblins or killing god. If the players move themselves and each other forward to action then the GM isn't the one having to corral you away from the rulebook and back to the game.

Humans have finally managed to land on Mars, only to find a locked safe buried in the Martian soil. The key is apparently on Earth, but no one knows where.

The galactic council watched on to see how humanity would handle the task, much as they had with several species before. What the test was supposed to show was whether or not a species of violent nature could ever be brought to work together. They finally picked something up, another ship already headed to Mars? Was it possible humans were that clever to have found the key, maybe it was more specialists and equipment to analyze the locked crate to ensure it was safe to open. A few minutes after landing, they got another broadcast from the red planet.

“This is the LockPickingLawyer and today I’ve got something quite special, this locked alien chest. First of all I have to thank everyone who recommended me for the job, I’m honored that you all thought of me. Now let’s get to work”

The council representatives were confused as they started analyzing the translation, before even getting through the name he spoke something haunting

“Normally I don’t say things like this but this lock is quite unique, however with no security pins it will still be quite quick.”

“There we go, a click on 3… “

All the species of the galactic council sat dumbfounded, they spent many galactic cycles refining and perfecting their study and in all their time not a singular race had tried this method. Click after click, even in such an intricate lock the human had only spent around five minutes tampering with it.

“There we go, now while I can’t open this as part of my video I can say that I at least have a clue what the key should look like in case it ever gets locked again. I admire the design choices and the fact that at least it was harder to get open than anything Master Lock has made”

we are the “oh, I know a guy” teamwork species

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"This fic was ai generated—" Cool, so lemme block you real quick

i immediately thought of this

i had to get the slytherins out of my head. also the dynamic i personally imagine for eighth year drarry

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