#technicalities

[prokopetz]

Inadvisable Dungeons & Dragons character #137: greatsword-wielding barbarian who refuses to give up their sword when entering areas where weapons of war are banned on the grounds that, owing to certain specific details of the construction of its blade and hilt, according to the laws of the land their sword is technically a pocketknife. They are willing to explain the particulars at length.

[maxladcomics]

Made a space picture and thought I was done but had to make a Papyrus themed one

[elsewhereuniversity]

Archivist, how do you pick safe names for the people that ask for them? Do you just open a dictionary to a random page and pick a word? Is it just whatever comes to mind first? Or is there something more to it?

Dictionary (pick a starting letter or two and see what comes up), edited keysmash, vocabulary of a niche profession, or Wikipedia list (eg. Birds)

[carriewhiteislove]

btw this is the funniest panel in all of sdc simply because it implies that dio gets the Joseph Tingle whenever joseph uses/is about to use hermit purple to spy on him and immediately strips and poses menacingly while hiding his face to keep his Suave and Mysterious Aura.

[tiredwishes]

carlandoscar as silly ahh cats

[fuck-i-like-too-much-stuff]

Small technicality i noticed recently while rewatching ViceVersa-

If Enchante is set in the universe that Pluen and Talay jump to, then Phupha and Wayo from Enchante should also be there... making Aou and Fuse from ViceVersa their duplicates/doppelgangers...

Ik this probably is an inconsistency, but its just something i thought there should be a tumblr post about

Also recently noticed that Aou was Akk's senior (the ex school president/head boy) in The Eclipse

[shinystealingbirb]

Hmmm you know how xianzhou’s “magic” is vidyahara Cloudhymms?

Those swords Yanqing has, and the fact that he floats in his boss fight, is he wielding cloudhymm magic of some sort, controlling those swords through magic and willpower? Or are the swords just able to do that, so he bought a couple hundred.

Cloudhymm swords would be cool…

OH MY GOD.

Cloudhymm steel.

Oh, edit, check the comments I discovered something fucking cool!!! it’s fiucking qi! TAHT EXPLAINS THE STUPID DEFEAT THE SWORDS SO HE HAS A WEAKNESS THING!!!

[meili-yinhua]

My favorite part about the online Library of Babel, is that you can probably have many debates on whether or not the books in it exist when they're not being accessed.

[fruityvermint]

I do think it's really funny that people (including me 😋) label Vincent a cannibal when he canonically just isn't. Like yes, he cooked Manon, but it's his whole character that it was for Rody. I'M STILL GOING TO DO IT THOUGH. That man's an enabler, and that counts for something.

[prokopetz]

Social media posts bemoaning the fact that you haven't written anything about your fic ideas are technically self-refuting in that they themselves constitute writing about your fic ideas, so strictly speaking the amount of writing you've done is now non-zero.

[maxladcomics]

he blushes pink

non of the others do that .Undyne, Alphys, Toriel , Susie ... Are all blushing black in there talking sprites.

( I don't know what to do with this information honestly)

No, not the maybe foreshadowing I don't understand yet, not again

[the-metatron]

#don't worry i won't threaten him with a shotgun #just the book of life

You don't have the Book of Life anymore, remember? Or is your old brain so rattled from coffee that you forgot?

I said I would threaten him with it. I didn't say I had it.

[elsewhereuniversity]

i was wondering: how do you keep track of all the objects that are traded back and forth? seems like it would get kinda cluttered wherever you’re keeping them. do you have a spreadsheet or something?

I tried spreadsheets for a while at the beginning! But it was too much time to summarize objects, and pasting the full text of asks got cumbersome very quickly. So the current system is a series of word docs, which is a lot easier to ctrl+f than tumblr usually is, due to tumblr's loading time and habit of just. hiding asks sometimes for no reason.

All charm asks get put into drafts right away, and their text is pasted into my 'charms - unposted', so I can easily search the text of the asks if I need to. Given tumblr's... everything, the most reliable way of finding anything again on the blog is also searching a specific phrase from the ask - another reason summaries weren't working early on to keep track of things.

When a charm is answered and put into the queue, the text is cut from 'charms - unposted' and moved to 'charms - current', which is sorted into sections by object type: pens, sewing kit, jewelry, weapons, rocks, keys/locks, etc. I bold the relevant part of the text, eg. 'when the moon rises this silver ring glows', to make it easier to scan quickly. All the different sections have shortcuts at the top of the doc so I can jump around easily. (I thought about organizing it by effect, but that was a lot harder to sort).

When they're given away, they get put in the 'charms - gone' doc, which isn't sorted because for the most part I don't need to find anything in here again. But it's still nice to have an easily searchable list of them, just in case!

[factual-flittermouse]

Wait, what? I knew stuff was going on, but huh? Is that even legal? Also, is it just within the CDC or everything? Source? Why is “pregnant person/people” on there? Is it because it’s more neutral? Also, if they made the distinction that both non-binary and nonbinary were banned, then is LGBTQ okay even if LGBT is not? What about terms like trans or enby? Are those allowed? What about abbreviations like AFAB or AMAB? What is the cited reason behind this? Not the real reason, we kinda know that already, but the cited reason - maybe that’s easier to work around? On the bright side, the CDC isn’t global so there’s plenty of documentation outside of the US that they can block but never actually touch…

Btw, this is how conservatives keep getting to claim that trans people are a new thing no one has ever heard, because our history and existences have continually been erased or obscured systematically through out history.

The most famous example was 92 years when the Nazis raided the library of the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, the medical practice where the term transsexual was first coined and the first gender affirming surgery was performed in in 1931.

What did the Nazis do after raiding the library on May 6th, 1933? You may be familiar with these images

It is happening again.

[necromosss]

sometimes we (i) forgot