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Cat has a lot of horsepower

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In the D&D campaign I'm running with my wife's siblings, one of them learned about how trolls regenerate within minutes of any damage not caused by fire or acid, and then asked why people don't just like. Cage them and eat them, forever. Why there aren't troll meat dungeons in the king's castle as a safeguard against sieges or famines.

And you know, I thought it was a fair question, so I said that if you eat enough troll meat, you start getting troll-y. And then I went further and just treated it like troll flesh is a general contaminant - if you eat enough troll, you'll turn into a troll, but if you bury enough dead troll flesh in a forest, the trees will start growing in strange ways, and will scream and heal and bleed when you hit them with axes.

I liked this idea. So as we played further, I just played around with the idea of Troll Origins, and I came up with something sort of like the Odyssey, but instead stealing Helios's cattle, it was Hathor's, and the horrible, awful, unending immortality was her curse of the army that pillaged her lands. A god of healing does not condemn you to die, she condemns you to live.

And then I got this fun idea for maybe the king that led the army is still kind of alive in the troll taint. Like a sort of literal fisher king. The kingdom is sick because he is, literally, the kingdom. The trees that bleed, bleed his blood and their screams are his screams. He is both the faintly green bear running down the mountain and the faintly green deer and there is no way past this without suffering. He is the entire ecosystem, and he eats nothing but himself and he dreams nothing but death and yet still, on and on and on and on, he lives.

Anyway they're traveling next session so I'm throwing this shit at them. I already have some gross ideas for like. Describing everything like it's a body (flowers red as blood, white as bone, pink as meat, grass fine as hair) then finally throwing horrible living things at them. Trees that grow eyeballs that turn and stare at them, or flowers with teeth instead of petals and trolls that speak in long dead tongues about how they wish they'd never tried to rob a god.

Anyway I'm passing this on because this is my new troll lore and I want it to become canonized in the way that all D&D lore becomes canonized: By having eople read it and go "oh, neat" then start doing that too.

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the new dj crazytimes song … now that’s what I call music!

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Amongst the responses to this opinion from the GQX director, I've seen a bit of arguing over whether or not Witch From Mercury's popularity actually brought many new fans into Gundam as a whole, so I thought I'd try polling G-Witch Tumblr.

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Just a couple of ads on tumblr that I screencapped for no reason. I've had text posts with the phrase "die in a car crash" in them get age restricted just btw. Unrelated.

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my entire body hurts i'm sobbing so bad over this holy shit

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Yang and Vi, punchy gay eldest sisters! what do you think they're talking about?

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having watched the matrix i honestly wanna know what the right wing political take is on this movie. what do they think about the scene where neo meets trinity for the first time and neo says "i thought you were a guy" and trinity says "a lot of guys do". because i think the purpose of that scene at the very least is attempting to subvert gendered expectations, it's the movie telling you "pay attention to gendered dynamics for the rest of this movie,". If i were a little more bold i'd say this scene is meant to code trinity (who in this scene is wearing her hair short and slicked back and overall looks a bit butch androgynous) as being a transgender woman. I don't know how you'd read this scene as some capitulation to traditional gender norms either way

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how my wife and I communicate when we miss each other

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Tag Team Batgirls! Commission for @majingojira!

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“Nobody’s going to want to sit on high-speed rail for fifteen hours to get from New York City to LA.”

Me. I will sit on high-speed rail for fifteen hours. I’ll sit on it for days. I’ll write and read and nap and eat and then do it all over again. I’ll stare out the windows and see America from ground level and not have to drive. I’ll see the Rockies and the deserts and cornfields and the Mississippi River and your house and yours and yours too. I’ll make up stories in my head about the small towns I see as we go along. I’ll see the states I’ve yet to see because driving or flying there is a fucking slog and expensive to boot. I’ll enjoy the ride as much as the destination. And then I’ll do it all over again to come the fuck home.

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mutual pining simply never misses. the yearning. the stupidity. the desperation while also thinking themselves alone with it. the rattling relief at the revelation. the way it works in so many scenarios— friends to lovers? a banger every time. casual hook-ups/friends with benefits while they both want more? show-stopping, spectacular, incredible. enemies who are so deep in denial it just makes them madder at each other? utterly unmatched every single time. slow burn, fast burn, burning while already fucking. mutual pining really just is that girl like truly who does it like her

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If you're a writer you're supposed to write a lot of bullshit. It's part of the gig. You have to write a lot of absolute garbage in order to get to the good bits. Every once in a while you'll be like "Oh, I wish I hadn't wasted all that time writing bullshit," but that's dumb. That's exactly the same as an Olympic runner being like "Oh, I wish I hadn't wasted all that time running all those practice laps"

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Hm... Volume 10 might let me reach a level of emotional damage that I haven't reached yet

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:p

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KERRY YOU CANT JUST SAY THAT AND NOT ELABORATE HELLO???