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almost every person i know bathes/showers in the evening while i do that in the morning, i’m curious which is more wide-spread so please reblog with tags saying if you take a shower/bathe in the morning or the evening

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Reblog and put in the tags if you can remember where you got the shirt you're currently wearing.

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It’s insane to me that Dragon Age 2 is sandwiched in between two WAY HUGER and WAY MORE SUCCESSFUL games about more traditional fantasy protagonists facing off against world ending threats and winning and it’s this…weird, raw, personal tragedy about how no matter what you do, you can’t always stop crisis and disaster from occurring. Like The Hero or Ferelden, no matter who they were, wants to stop a Blight. The Inquisitor wants to repair the sky. And Hawke, like, wants to make some money, hang around their friends, and keep their family and their adoptive city safe. And they can’t even fucking do that, so unlike the heroes before and after them. You spend seven years in Kirkwall until the game says, “yeah, no matter what, the prejudices and traumas and hurts of this world are Too Much for one person to stop them. The world changes, wars roll over the land, you cannot stop history, Hawke. You tried. You failed.” And then you just sit there, sixteen years old, listening to “I’m Not Calling You A Liar” and you’re like….well, I guess I really wasn’t a hero. Damn. I love it.

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Bonus points if you reblog with the pet's name in the tags

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if you were the victim of a workplace emergency on 911onfox what would your emergency be. i'll start i would be attacked by a paralegal.

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hang on I’m trying to see something

don’t tell me the name of your pet, just tell me in the tags the name you call them that’s got nothing to do with their actual name

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To those wondering, these style of "how is this even a question???" posts are designed not to be an honest question, but to drive engagement through these kind of "who on earth is asking this?" type comments/reblogs.

🕉.

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are you a “mark for later”, bookmarking unread fics on ao3, bookmarking unread fics on ur browser, 25 fic tabs open, or a “i’ll just find this later in my history” gay

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Thank you! I made it using this pattern here, though I kind of decided to just keep going on the length.

RQG Motif Scarf

Looking to fully immerse yourself in the main cast of Rusty Quill Gaming? Well, here’s your chance! Coming in at over 2m long, this scarf will wrap you up in all your favourite characters!

… and Bertie, too.

This is a pattern that I wrote for the RQG charity fanzine (”We’re Still Working on the Name”). Now that sales of the zine are over, I’m releasing the pattern for free. It’s made in a slightly modified version of tapestry crochet. Pattern below the cut.

Keep reading

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Every instance of the “loads of hitpoints” joke up until episode 188, so be warned, there are spoilers. Some fun stats I thought were interesting:

We associate this Joke with Zolf, but it actually started with Grizzop (the first three are him)

The largest concentration for a single episode was in 139 (five), with the total for the time spent underneath the institute going up to twelve

In second place is episode 187 (three), with the total for the Garden of Yerlick as a whole being nine

The joke has been made by people other than Ben a total of sixteen times

Compared to twenty nine from Ben himself

This compilation is going to be out of date soon because they won’t stop making the joke (and we wouldn’t want it any other way)

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RQG Motif Scarf

Looking to fully immerse yourself in the main cast of Rusty Quill Gaming? Well, here's your chance! Coming in at over 2m long, this scarf will wrap you up in all your favourite characters!

... and Bertie, too.

This is a pattern that I wrote for the RQG charity fanzine (”We’re Still Working on the Name”). Now that sales of the zine are over, I’m releasing the pattern for free. It’s made in a slightly modified version of tapestry crochet. Pattern below the cut.

In this pattern, gauge isn’t important. The example was done using worsted weight yarn and a 5.5mm hook. This assumes some experience with tapestry crochet. The charts are worked horizontally in my example, though the motifs can be worked vertically if preferred. Chain 2at the start is not counted as a hdc

Colour changing: it is very similar to the process of swapping colours in single crochet. Yarn over, insert crochet hook into stitch below. Yarn over and pull up a loop. Now yarn over with the colour to which you are switching and pull through all three loops.

Row 1:​ Chain 35. Hdc in the third chain from the hook and each chain across. Chain 2 and turn (33 hdc in this row and every row after) Rows 2–3:​ Hdc in each stitch across. Chain 2 and turn. Row 4:​ Begin chosen motif. The motif itself is 27x27 stitches, and will have 3 stitches of just the background colour on either side of it. At the end of the row, chain 2 and turn Rows 5–30(27rows):​ Continue working motif. At the end of the row, chain 2 and turn. Rows 31–33(3rows):​ Hdc in each stitch across. Chain 2 and turn.

Repeat rows 4 to 33 with whichever motif you desire until the scarf reaches the desired length.To finish, work single crochets evenly around the perimeter of the piece. Fasten off and weave in ends.

Charts

Cel

Azu

Bertie

Grizzop

Hamid

Sasha

Zolf

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To clarify for randos: it is fake. If you scroll down on the website, it tells you that it is a giant shitpost.

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RQG Zine Giveaway Contest!

Want to win a copy of the full RQG Fanzine, including ALL of the digital merch? Thanks to a generous contributor, @ladyjudica, TWO lucky winners will be selected to receive the digital PDF of the zine + digital merch package!

Fill out this form to enter!

The giveaway will run for ONE WEEK: 1 March to 8 March. 

RULES:

You must provide us with a way to contact you on the form (an email or social media account work!)

Winners will be contacted on 9 March. You will have two days from when we contact you to respond; otherwise, we will select another winner. 

BONUS:

Want a better chance to win? All entrants who reblog this post will have their name entered twice! Note: you have to fill out the form to enter. Sharing the post does not count as your entry.

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In the meantime… sales for the RQG Zine will be open until NEXT FRIDAY, 12 MARCH! Buy your copy today.

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How many of these movies have you seen that people said “you haven’t seen [blank] yet??” to me about

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There’s also the option of this skin, which takes giant blocks of tags and shoves them in a little scroll box. So you take this (or tag lists that are even longer!)

And you put them in a scroll box with a max height like this:

Bonus with this one is it'll catch any fics with giant tag lists and smush the tag list down, not just filter out that one fic you know of.

So I just found out that there are more people making works on AO3 with a million tags on them in protest to AO3 not removing that one fic (you know the one). I would just like to state my own personal opinion about that right up front: if you’re trolling AO3, no matter your reason for doing so, you’re the asshole.

I know we all call it AO3, but the a stands for Archive. It’s a site built on the premise that fanworks deserve to exist and shouldn’t be taken down, unless the author is making that decision for themselves. 

This means that there are lots of works on AO3 that I think suck. There are works that are poorly written or boring or morally reprehensible. And guess what? All of that is protected because it’s not about a single work, it’s about fanworks in general and all of us having a place we can rely on to have our backs. 

The whole point of AO3 is not deleting works just because someone complains about them. The work needs to violate the Terms of Service and if it doesn’t, then it shouldn’t be removed. The rules that protect me protect those other works too. 

The volunteers at AO3 take the site’s goals and premise very seriously. They aren’t going to make snap judgements about a work, not even a work with a million tags. They also aren’t going to make snap judgements about implementing a limit on tags when there hasn’t been one before. 

They need to talk things out and discuss the short and long term ramifications. They need to talk about where to draw the line, and how can they explain why they decided to draw the line there? Will this decision affect works that already exist on the Archive? What do we do about them? Those authors posted before this new rule came into being, so you can’t punish them for a rule that didn’t exist at the time. 

Creating more works with the same issue just means that volunteer tag wranglers have even more work to do. Mass reporting a work that has already been reported just means that Policy & Abuse volunteers have even more work to do. If you fill up their lives with nonsense tags or repeat reports, you know what they can’t do? The thing that everyone (including them) wants them to be doing. 

People who volunteer for AO3 also read on AO3. They are as annoyed about these works as you are. But making more work for them to do isn’t the answer. Being patient is. It’s going to take time for them to make decisions about things like tag limits. It’s going to take time for them to code the limit into the site. It’s going to take time for them to test the code and make sure it doesn’t break anything. And in the meantime:

Filter out the author and bookmark your filter in your browser so you don’t have to enter it every time.

Add the work-blocking code to your site skin so you never need to see that work again, as long as you’re logged in.

There are tools you can use to avoid the things you don’t want to see. Creating a bigger problem isn’t the solution. It’s just a dick move.