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Do people know this is the husband of the prime minister of New Zealand
And who is the guy burying him in the sand
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I must say the author of the codex fluff story has managed the impossible: they managed not only the first canon appearance of a female custodes, but she also is a fan-favourite now.
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This is getting to "list of things Trazyn has in his museum"-levels of meme. I love it.
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You know a writer has hit the mark with their character when the community is already figuring out how to include Kesh in their favourite fanfiction.
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Various audio snippets of my childhood that I've collected.
Oh, this is what it's like to time travel.
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Has this one made it to tumblr yet
book-limerence
person #2 is labeled: filler baritone which nobody will here but adds gentle thiccness
a-single-gay-potato-chip
it just keeps getting better
anomalous-heretic
HE DOESN’T EVEN SOUND OUT OF PLACE WHAT THE FUCK
Of course he doesn’t sound out of place
He knows what he is doing
How dare u doubt him
Kermit was a famous pirate known for his tenacity and success.
[AMV] Jon Arbuckle - You’re Gonna Go Far Kid
this is one of my favorite videos on the internet, and it kills me that the source has been silenced by youtube’s copyright system, so I’m putting it here!
I have seen a version of this on tumblr before, but the audio in that one is just a little bit off because that person edited it back in themselves
but today, I am proud to present the original video, sent to me by Crispy Crungy, who gave me permission to upload it here and share it with you all!
enjoy!
I love this description. It reads like a dedication speech for an art museum. Like we’re all witnesses to this video being interred in the Met. Preserving these things is important, and they really captured that.
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Wake up folks new absolute Legend on TikTok
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why yes I AM making boop gifs from screen recording
LEFT BOOPS!
RIGHT BOOPS!
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i remember adults telling me, as a kid, to listen to doctors and get my flu vaccine and any shots i could because they remembered Before.
then they started fighting Covid precautions.
i remember adults telling me, as a kid, that the ozone was disappearing and the earth was dying and we needed to recycle and save the planet.
now my parents think climate change is a myth.
i remember adults telling me, as a kid, that racism was a plague, that we had to love and accept everyone, that we should never judge before walking a mile in their shoes.
then they told me that protesting for my Black siblings was wrong.
i remember adults telling me, as a kid, that we needed to give to the poor. working at soup kitchens. making quilts. collecting food and money and supplies. building houses. because it was the christian and just plain right thing to do.
now they look at me, on food stamps with their grandchildren, and lament the "welfare state".
i remember adults telling me, as a kid, that it was easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven and that any rich man, especially an immoral one, should never run our country.
you can guess who they voted for.
i remember adults telling me, as a kid, so very much.
when did they forget?
Time to bring this back. Again.
Apparently this is evergreen. Dammit.
I remember adults telling me, as a kid that girls can be equal to boys in all fields including athletics. Now, they consider girls to be delicate flowers who could never hope to compete against boys.
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If you’re wondering what the whole drama regarding tieflings is in the Dungeons & Dragons fandom: basically, capitalism ruined tieflings, and for once that’s not even slightly a joke.
Tieflings were first introduced as a playable species in Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition, via the Planescape campaign in 1994. At the time, there were no particular rules regarding what a tiefling was supposed to look like. The text explicitly stated that their basic physiology could vary wildly depending on what their fiendish ancestor was, and one of the first major Planescape supplements even included a table for randomly generating your tiefling’s appearance, if you were into that sort of thing.
This continued to be the case up through the game’s Third Edition. However, when the Fourth Edition rolled around in 2008, the game’s text suddenly became very particular about insisting that all tieflings looked pretty much the same. Some campaign settings even provided iin-character explanations for why all tieflings now had a standardised appearance. Understandably, this made a lot of people very annoyed.
There was naturally a great deal of speculation concerning what had motivated this change. It was widely cited as “proof” that Dungeons & Dragons was trying to appeal to the World of Warcraft fanbase – which was nonsense, of course; nearly all of the Fourth Edition’s allegedly MMO-like features were things that popular MMOs had borrowed from Dungeons & Dragons in the first place, and to the extent that tieflings’ new look resembled a particular WoW race, it was in that they were both extraordinarily generic.
In reality, it was a change that had been lurking for some time. Though Dungeons & Dragons is directly published by Wizards of the Coast, Wizards of the Coast is in turn owned by Hasbro, and Hasbro has long regarded the D&D core rulebooks as a vehicle for promoting D&D-branded merch – in particular, licensed miniature figures.
This was a bugbear that had reared its head before. When the Third Edition received major revisions in 2003, Hasbro corporate had ordered the game’s editors to completely remove any discussion of how to improvise minifigs for large battles, and replace it with an advertisement for the then-current Dungeons & Dragons Heroes product line. Implying that purchasing licensed minis wasn’t 100% mandatory simply would not do.
If you’ve gotten this far, you’ve probably already guessed where this is going: tieflings having no standard appearance made it difficult to sell tiefling minifigs, as any given minifig design would only be suitable for a small subset of tiefling characters. In the brutally reductive logic of the corporate mind, Hasbro reasoned: well, if we tell tiefling players that all of their characters now look the same, we can sell them all the same minifigs. So that’s what the game did, going so far as to write justifications into several published settings for magically transforming all existing tiefling characters to fit the new mould!
This worked about as well as anyone who isn’t a corporate drone would naturally anticipate – and that’s the story of how capitalism ruined tieflings.
Here’s that table, btw. I really dig the art in the old Planescape books.
I already made a post talking about how varied Pathfinder allows/encourages Tieflings to be, but this seemed like a good excuse to just post a bunch of the official Tiefling art that really shows it off
There’s so much variety and flavor :D
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I got 2 sets of cards 1st time round, they are super pretty, n wished I’d had money for the uncut prints at the time.
Got the prints ordered this time, super happy they’re available again.
I bought a set during the first preorder run and these cards are very high quality and BEAUTIFUL! I have a potato camera but here are some screenshots from their Instagram stories:
10000% recommend!
Managed to get a better photo (close-up). The cards have a linen texture
Wow! Beautiful!!! And I really like that number cards come together to form a castle <3
Never ordered something so fast! These cards are absolutely gorgeous! ✨
GUYS BUY THESE
I got a birthday in 6 days
*hint hint, wink wink*
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Fanart for The Legend Of Liob written by @killbothtwins
"She had gotten a picture of Cody vaulting over the kriffing rock. The sun was behind him, explosions and blaster bolts dotting the background. His face was set in determination and apparently heroic fire, although Cody thought he really just looked annoyed about the stray lightsaber.
Paintbrush made it into a poster, styled as a stained glass window, and put it up in the bunk room on the Negotiator. "
I just couldn´t resist drawing the picture that was forming in my minds eye while reading this passage.
This fanfic is a favourite of mine that i suggest you go read if you love yourself a little humor in a very well written galaxy far far away.
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just to ease my followers
To add to this from the notes:
- Yes, every year, and they look ridiculous
- It takes them 3 year to hit maturity and grow their first train with eye feathers- the other two years they have a very silly looking brown baby train with no eyes. Even at three, their train is usually shorter and smaller; it sheds and regrows the following year fuller and longer, until they’re about 6. No one is keeping these fragile ass birds alive for 3 years just to kill them, and certainly not until they’re 6. Here’s what the yearlings look like:
- Not impressive, no matter what he tells you
- 20 is the low end of their lifespan. There are plenty of peafowl that live into their 30’s and I’ve even heard of a few living into their 40s.
- “It should be a boy because-” actually it doesn’t matter. Hens sometimes feather in like boys when their ovary stops working through malfunction or age or not developing. Like this:
- I am tipping my hat to the tags that suggested we could have a world full of cruelty free peacock feathers… we do. but also they drop this entire train in about a week’s time in the fall. For people with 1 bird or just a couple, that’s a hundred to a few hundred feathers to collect in a week. It gets old. You stop caring about picking them up after the first hundred or so.
- BIG breeders (like, 30-100+ breeding birds) sometimes just. burn them. Because they have not enough people to give them to. They clean the pens by relocating the birds, and using a portable little flamethrower thing to torch all the collected feathers. Because it’s *so fucking many.* If you want to collect feathers, find a breeder by July, and ask if they’ll let you collect feathers when they start dropping.
- They do not require “the strength of a grown man” to pluck from dead birds, even at the height of breeding season. Source: I just preserved one of my male’s train after he passed away from genetic health complications, and have done so with the first male I ever owned when he passed. You sit down, you pinch at the base of the feather where it hits the skin and rotate to loosen the skin’s hold, and while holding there, you pull near the base with your other hand. Should slide out. I hope none of you ever need this knowledge, but I’d rather you treat the dead with some dignity than not say it.
- If you ever see something (crafts, jewelry, clothing, art, whatever) with peafowl feathers in it, they are probably not fake. There are a lot of feathers that can be made out of plastic or whatever and still look kinda like real feathers… peafowl feathers are among the most difficult to replicate and also there’s no real reason to.
- peafowl do NOT fall under the MBTA. It is a USA-only act and peafowl are not native to the US. It is illegal to hunt or kill Indian peafowl in India, though I BELIEVE it is legal still to own naturally-shed feathers.
- re: the above, there ARE poachers of wild peafowl in India, who kill native birds for their feathers. Chances are STILL better that the feathers you see for sale have been naturally shed.
- Yes you can eat peafowl if you wanted to. I’m told by friends that have tried them that they taste almost exactly like chicken, though that may be because they were farm raised like chickens, instead of wild caught. That said, my understanding is that the birds are best harvested as yearlings, before the meat gets gamey, and at which point (as explained above), they do not yet have the train full of eye feathers.
- The entire train (frame feathers and sword feathers included) is around 200 feathers, but large eye feathers only account for around 100 or so of those. This dress apparently has 2009 eye feathers in it; more than I would have guessed, but not a surprising amount either. I’m guessing towards the body of the dress, smaller eye feathers were used, so (accounting for damaged or otherwise unsuitable feathers being discarded) my guess would be it contains around 15-20 trains worth of feathers. It also, iirc, took eight people 40 days to craft.
- It’s a wedding dress, in case you were wondering.
- By me, a peacocks full train collected by some random farmer (and probably not containing all the feathers) costs between $30 and $75. So, even though the feathers are naturally shed, the raw material feathers would have been quite expensive.
- Hell of a piece of fashion.
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