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There's something in Oaxaca

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I have Thoughts about Little Shop of Horrors as a Ravenloft domain

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omg MABEL WRACK I FORGOT ABOUT HER

but ur so right!!!

Right???

I adore Which Witch. This is the children’s book that lives with me constantly.

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A moth in Edmonton, Canada caught fire after being attracted to a candle-flame. And though it burned, it was not consumed. It proceeded to migrate 2800 miles to Chiapas, Mexico, catching fire to every leaf and flower it perched upon along the way. Over 100,000,000 acres of forest burned. Though they were not consumed.

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one time I saw a photo of a skinned whale/dolphin flipper on reddit or something and I've just never recovered

there's just. A paw in there.

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I know we’re in a stage of ironic deconstruction of those comics where one person feels grumpy and has a low battery symbol over their head and then they hug their partner and the battery fills up, but for the first time in my life I’m finding out this is a real phenomenon. Holy shit. I feel incredible.

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You better hype me up for this one because it's my favorite.

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"this movie doesn't hold up bcos of dated special effects :(" to you, maybe. i would clap at a bat on a string

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can you think of anything better than dragons. no you can't. this is because dragons are the best thing ever forever.

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I’ve got a tiny black hole in a jar. Cute and incomprehensible isn’t it? Don’t open the lid. The last guy who did that got turbo radiation poisoning.

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There are two spells that wizards use for translation. There’s Zandaqar’s Handy Translator, and Zymoria’s Flash of Fluency.

Zandaqar’s puts a ward over your ears that changes the shape of words spoken to you so that you hear them in your native language. It doesn’t do anything for grammar or word order, but you can basically brute force your way into understanding what someone else is saying.

Zymoria’s temporarily transforms your brain so that you are perfectly fluent in the next language you hear. The effects wear off in about an hour, and the spell is much more expensive than Zandaqar’s, but the cost is generally considered worth it.

Lingering idioms are a common side effect of Zymoria’s. Wizards often find themselves saying things such as, “My mouth is shut and the monkey is dead,” which kills in dwarvish but loses something in the translation.

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gouache study of beautiful ancient artifacts !

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Dust Devil

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Being the resident discworld enjoyer is always fun because once in a while somebody will ask me what is this book you are reading about and I don't want to bore them with a long answer so I will say something like "oh, the personification of death has to take discworld Santa Claus' place to save discworld Christmas" or "One of the discworld gods has turn into a turtle and now they have to find enough followers to get their true form back" and they will say something along the lines of "Oh that sound fun and silly and goofy in a good way"

And then I finish the book and they ask me "Did you have fun?? Was it silly and goofy in a good way??"

And I can not find the words to explain that I have been emotionally compromised, felt the righteous anger behind the jokes in my bones, had so many of my hazy inner thoughts about the human condition and the world around us finally put into words in such a clear and beautiful way,

so I just say

"Yeah! It was really fun!"

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centipede god

bonus:

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“At least I don’t play Magic the Gathering,” I said. “I have that going for me,” I said. “At least I’m not the type of nerd that plays Magic the Gathering,” I said.

Anyways I played Magic the Gathering for the first time tonight and had a fantastic time. :)