Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits (translated by Magda Bogin)
i like people who can appreciate silence
"con artist" is maybe the profession with the biggest gap between How Cool They Are In Media and How Cool They Are In Real Life
fictional con artist: I've gathered you all here because you each have unique skills and specialties that will be required for the Ultimate Heist: psychologically destroying the richest man in the world, and taking his mansions, his yacht, and his wife in the process.
real life con artist: plan A is to scare an old lady who barely speaks English. plan B, is to trick unemployed people into giving us money, which they famously have a lot of, in exchange for broadly-defined Career Services. plan C is we try to make NFTs a thing again
Yeah, snake out is the first step. Otherwise you’ll just piss your pants.
this is what a Bodhisattva is
Oh, literally!
sooooo
can you tell which one of us is Hikaru?
Uni's magical Mario Galaxy adventure..
this genuinely made me so happy
boys: jacking off
girls: jilling off
non binary : ferching a pail of water
I was born hungry
What are some chronic illnesses that can only occur in a fantasy setting?
- Partial transformation - mummy rot is slowly turning you to sand, a near miss from a medusa left you with partially stoned body parts, etc.
- Hypnotic suggestions from being mind controlled persist after the controller’s death, causing the victim to occasionally take actions to support the cause of a mind flayer cult that no longer exists.
- Repeated demonic possession has left the patient with permanent gaps in their soul’s defenses, causing them to immediately get re-possessed if they go outside a consecrated area.
- Post-resurrection trauma as the revived soul remembers an unpleasant afterlife.
- Magical healing can get very weird if something is stuck in the wound. It’ll get you back on your feet, but you can get outcomes like “there’s a chunk of wood fused into your chest because the magic couldn’t figure out how to get the arrow out of your chest and just healed it in place,” and this can cause mobility issues or infection vectors down the line.