people might think creating OC lore involves a lot of thinking & planning, but in my personal experience, OC development is more like a divine vision from a god slamming you over the head with a mallet while ur doing the fuckin dishes or folding laundry
To me, they wander in like stray cats like yo what up I'm home
where's that masterpost of quotes that have no right going as hard as they do. I'd like to submit "Protagonism is best left to teens and the insane"
Every time I consider making a sandwich I think of this fucking tweet.
The stupid thing is that it puts me in the mindset of being an NPC looking forward to a balanced, delicious, good-looking sandwich, instead of some vegemite half-heartedly smeared between a couple of bits of bread. So now I'm like "well if my goal is Sandwich, it should be a good sandwich". I mean it's gotta look good in the thought bubble right? Some guy wandering around in a computer game would be imagining a picture of a ham and cheese toastie AT MINIMUM, probably with tomato and some greens in there. Possibly he'd imagine a full on sub sandwich.
I have started putting actual effort into making tastier, prettier sandwiches. Because of this fucking tweet.
sandwiches
every goddamn day
If you could have one Shakespeare play done by the Muppets what would it be?
obviously a Midsummer Night's Dream, can you imagine? Kermit as Oberon, Miss Piggy as Titania, the non-fae characters are played by the only humans, when Bottom is transformed he physically becomes a muppet, Puck is naturally Gonzo with bonus Rizzo
drawings you can hear
*new yawk voice*
Shut up and take my fucking money
Occasionally as an Australian you'll be talking to someone from overseas, and you'll discover a common phrase you took for granted is, in fact, not universally known outside of our country.
Turns out casually dropping "fuck me dead" into conversation will give unsuspecting Americans an aneurism.
The more you know.
Imagine being on a work call with an Aussie and they suddenly announce they're gonna blow a load in response to a problem.
Not Aussie but I asked an American once if she was taking the piss ( i.e. pulling my leg, joking. Perfectly cromulent and friendly english expression)
and she got really upset because she thought I was threatening to piss ON her
This is killing me
Rifling through the tags, here's some other terms which are apparently causing mass carnage whenever they escape our borders:
When you fuck up a work call so bad it gets your entire country trending on social media
🧡 to all of the above.
(I know what USAnians mean when they say they are pissed, but it will forever irk me to know in my heart that they are so often inebriated. Probably comes from drinking cider* from early childhood.)
(yes* I also know what they call "cider" now, thanks to the inimitable @elodieunderglass, but I still do a double-take every time)
I'd love to learn strine, though. One flavour of idiosyncracy can never be enough.
Thank you for thinking of me, this was great!
slutty gargoyle be upon ye
@elodieunderglass LEGS LEGS LEGS
Why DONT we see sexy grotesques more often? Much to ponder!!!
The true unsung star of that episode was Elaine. Sam created the Game Changer Intelligence Agency but had no way of knowing that there was a mole in his own home. She'd been there the whole time! Elaine. Queen. Is 51st base planting a camera in your own kitchen to help your partner's employees get petty revenge on him?
I love when fanfic authors are freakishly unhinged. "Yes, hello, I am here to write a heart wrenching story about relationships and mortality. My medium is Ducktales (2017)"
Oklahoma is attempting to pass a bill that would ban explicit romance novels. Authors, narrators, and sellers could all face fines of up to $100,000 and up to 10 years in jail for each instance.
If you live in OK, call your representative and tell them this bill should not be allowed to pass.
This is likely a test case. Republicans will try to pass it in OK and if it passes other states will likely try to pass similar laws.
In the meantime, get physical copies of books you like. Download those pdfs. Archive your AO3 stories and keep them on a physical hard drive. (Storing those files in the cloud could be problematic in the future as the company managing the cloud service can see what your files are)
I know this doesn’t apply to any of the romance authors on here, but I really hope the Twitter/tiktok authors who cheered on the porn bans and told the rest of us we were crazy to “fear monger” that Romance would fall under fire are having a very “stub your toe for the rest of your natural lives” kind of day.
TEN YEARS fucking prison suggested for writing one book with naughty words in it.
A Colima zoomorphic vessel representing a spider. 200 BCE-600 CE, now housed at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City.
@elodieunderglass wonderful things with legs
Delightful, thank you!
💯 but its 000 for when something's fuckall
To an Australian this looks like you're emphatically calling emergency services
Rb for larger sample size appreciated :)
Truly, the world is a better place for having skilled people who are willing to use their skills in the pursuit of incredible silliness.
