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the whimsical boy genius has been hanging out by the monolith outside town too much and now all his charming inventions are made out of jagged black iron and animal carcasses

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there is something erotic about watching someone be extraordinarily competent at something especially if they're also really passionate about it

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i think this is probably true of every office, but there's a middle aged woman working in business who doesn't hold any particular place in the chain of command but is Sovereign. i was running support and she has access to more secure network drives than i do. im pretty sure she has an admin account. i was having trouble with my parking pass and my boss just said to talk to kristen- one day later i had parking in any garage on campus. she's not even in charge of parking in our building

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Ok then let me just see the other option and

Oh god dammit

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the idea of headmates needing to be distinct is so pervasive. even in the plural community here, there feels like theres this unspoken expectation that being plural involves very distinct and discrete personality states. or at least that you should be able to make a pk that has all of your headmates. because all headmates should have a name and discrete identity apparently. i dont hate pk but it definitely reinforces that idea that systems need to be structured in a specific way

it leads to a lot of hurt. a lot of people fighting their brains to try to fit into a specific idea of plurality. or just deciding they cant be plural or that they arent plural enough

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i think that killing a dragon should have catastrophic nuclear-fallout level environmental consequences tbh. their blood should scorch and wither the earth with fire and poison, the toxic fumes released as they decay should choke the land and all nearby living creatures, and the entire landscape where they fell should be transformed into a blighted wasteland where bleached leviathan bones loom upwards out of the ground as a warning that can be seen from miles away, the boundary markers of an exclusion zone.

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why is trespassing not allowed. like i just want to look

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I hate that the "x reader" or "x Y/N" style of fanfic has become sooooo popular, partially because it's just not for me and partially because they clog general non-fic related tags and those authors seem allergic to the "read more" function on this website, but ALSO because I believe that you should have to go through the trouble of creating an absolutely batshit self-insert character, with a backstory that makes no sense and a name that doesn't really gel with the aesthetics of the universe. Legolas and Aragorn should be in a love triangle with Kylie, the angsty sixteen year old half-human half-elf and inexplicable tenth member of the Fellowship. Do the WORK. If everyone was doing "Y/N" nonsense back in the day, there would be no Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way, or probably Bella Swan. These are important women. They deserve to be named, confusingly and with no regard for the fictional world they inhabit.

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I remember hearing about some game with an Arachnophilia setting that added two spiders to every combat, one allied and one hostile for game balance reasons.

I liked that the spiders were equally balanced between friendship and enmity.

video game with an arachnophobia setting that removes all the spiders and an arachnophilia setting that puts all the spiders in lingerie

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Shovel :(

Emoji that I'm continuously surprised still don't exist every time I go looking for them:

Lighthouse

Erlenmeyer flask

Stage/window curtains

Generic statue (not a landmark)

Fishtank

Songbird

Cat with flattened ears

Robber

Sea serpent

Pentagram/summoning circle

Manta ray

Anarchy symbol

Shovel

Generic cube

Gas mask

Twig/stick

Eye on a yellow triangle

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it's that time of year when countless people in countless schools and universities start thinking about running a d&d night, and I'm here to tell you: that's the devil talking. listen, I play a lot of games, D&D among them, and I run a LOT of events for college students. what you want is a game with dirt simple mechanics, character creation that can be completed in about a minute or less, and a contingency plan to split your attendees into groups if too many of them show up to reasonably play together. maybe something that doesn't even have dice idk. I'm not being a buzzkill I SWEAR I'm sincerely trying to save you from the horrors of a D&D night where 20 people show up and half of them have level 20 characters packing 16 magic items and a bad case of Main Character Syndrome and the other half are going to need to spend 45 minutes making their first character sheet ever. just play a different game man.

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Every morning I walk back into my great uncle's magic puzzle house and kiss my three best friends on their little heads:

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really ultimately blue prince is a game about how it is inherently virtuous to have a robust public transportation system

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...yet (so I'm writing it down anyway)

blue prince: i know this is a puzzle, i just don't know how it's a puzzle

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for make a terrible comic day

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Attention, rare sightings of the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork 🦩 🖤

“From the back, Vetinari looked like a carnivorous flamingo.” - Men at Arms

“Thin, pale, and clad all in dusty black, the Patrician always put Ridcully in mind of a predatory flamingo, if you could find a flamingo that was black and had the patience of a rock.” - Reaper Man