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When I taught my uncle how to play D&D he played a dad bard just like this.

As a DM, the challenge with this type of player is figuring out what to do with all the adopted former enemies. He wants to keep them all but I cant keep track of 4 hobgoblins, an ogre, AND the displacer beast. (He called it T’Challa).

Horny bard is cancelled. We’re bringing the dad bard to the table.

Bardic Inspiration? Because I believe in you, champ!

Vicious Mockery? It’s all dad jokes.

Seducing NPCs? Nope, we’re using Persuasion to get them to give you information you need, because “I’m not angry, I’m just disappointed.”

Jack of All Trades? Yeah, yer old dad knows a little bit about everything.

Song of Rest? It’s called “tucking you in and giving you a bedtime story.”

Be the one to split up party treasure and tell them that this is their allowance.

Mix up your game. Put your bard in a polo shirt and cargo shorts. Hit that party with some Big Dad Energy.

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When I lived next to horribly noisy neighbors who kept me up all night I used to WISH I was a big scary monster with nasty sharp pointy teeth.

grendel did nothing wrong

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I have trouble understanding parents who aren’t supportive of their queer children.

When I came out as bisexual at the dinner table, my mom and dad looked at each other, sighed, and then my mom said “Well I guess neither of us wins the bet.”

I have a sister and a brother. When I came out as nonbinary my dad said “Oh, cool, that means we have the full set now.”

I am very lucky and I know it.

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clover flowers are tasty and sweet

pansies are edible but taste kind of like soap

Have you ever eaten a flower petal? I have they taste weird

the specificness of this ask makes me highly suspicious, but anyway, the only flowers I've ever eaten were these fancy lavender pastries one time. I've eaten lots of grass and plant leaves over the years, though.

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“How did you manage to lose weight during the pandemic?” my friends ask.

Well I moved. That’s it.

My old apartment was right next to the grocery store. Now when I buy groceries I have to lug them up a hill. And to be honest I’d rather be fat. Fuck that hill.

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https://www.redbubble.com/i/leggings/meat-by-post-human/33580346.7DWO7

I found some leggings for you.

I need to get some workout clothes that are printed to look like meat.

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— Too-Ticky in Moominland Midwinter by Tove Jansson (first published in 1957, tr. by Thomas Warburton) 

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I do appreciate what Cathy Hay has been doing of late. Her last video made me really emotional.

She has been trying to recreate the Peacock dress, designed by Worth and worn by Mary Curzon in 1903. It's a 10 pound chiffon dress of woven silver and gold thread.

Frankly, the embroidery is far more beautiful than its design.

But she's found it difficult to recreate, to say the least. The embroidery was done in colonised India, when The British Empire controlled and took credit for everything. And let me tell you, some of these Indian ateliers had a lot of people working on a single piece, because the designs are so intricate and elaborate.

And so, recently she's been more outspoken of the fact that British colonisation really enables these wealthy western Europeans to wear gowns that almost look impossibly beautiful, but rightful credit was of course never given to the people who made it. Cathy started talking about this during the height of media coverage of the ongoing Black Lives Matter protest. She said she was reflecting on her position in the world and the lens through which she saw the Peacock dress.

So Cathy Hay has been researching it's history. And she eventually found out the name of the man who owned the work shop that made it. Kishan Shand from Delhi. It was a firm owned by Manick Chand. And more importantly, she found a sketch of the men that worked there, around the period the embroidery probably would have been done. It was most likely those very same men.

And I just felt this lump in my throat. I always wonder about the craftsmen behind so much of history's most beautiful art. They're never named because the one who commissions the work, the patron, is usually given all the undue credit. We still don't know the individual names, but we have a sketch of their faces.

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I was trying to explain to my nieces what it meant to be nonbinary and they were just like ‘oh yeah like in the snowpeople song’.

We think little kids can’t understand these things, but kids can understand Anything if you make a catchy enough song about it.

So why do we roll up a circle, just to put ‘em inside a square . . . .

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A sheep in the role of Cordelia in “King Lear With Sheep.”Credit” Nick Morris.

Source: ‘King Lear With Sheep.’ Yes, Sheep.

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What are you listening to right now? I am listening to Stan Rogers and Cosmo Shelldrake and realizing that though they have different sounds they make me feel the exact same way: cozy with a hint of magic.

my people

i really like music and would like to talk music with you!!!

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Mushrooms 🍄 Print products here: https://society6.com/ullathynell

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Erin Kelso

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As you die, you wake up in a fiery place. You quickly realize you’re in hell. You ask the next demon why you are there, as you lived a very good life. “You’re not being punished”, he says. “You are the punishment.”

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Tomás Sánchez

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