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Look, I get nervous when I see a cop car driving behind me, but there is NO WAY I’m going to risk trying to pass this fucker

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Damn Steve. I don’t know if you’re aware, but your blog was one of the first that I started following back in the day all those years back. I don’t even remember how I first found your blog. I think Nick might have been a mutual of both of ours?

But the how isn’t even really relevant, is it? We know, when we see each other’s blogs there’s a certain rush of relief like, “Hey! There’s a familiar face! Hello old friend!”

Your addition to this post is absolutely beautiful, and I am so grateful to still get to site this with you.

Man, I really want to start posting again. I really miss connecting with all you amazing nerds.

Because for me? That is and has always been the best part about Tumblr. Connecting with people. Sharing ideas. Building on ideas! Collaborating on stories!

Regardless of the specific fandom or community, it’s amazing that practically anyone can find a community they connect with on here, and they can swap content, make connections, share appreciation and laugh at each other’s jokes.

Viral posts and memes are fun for sure! But nothing quite hits that same high as seeing that someone you follow and admire has responded to your creative prompt, or added to your joke, or points out an eerie twist about your short story.

I know we all enjoy ragging on Tumblr for being a hellsite, but if hell did include people like you, how bad could it actually be? I’d hang out there.

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Howdy Dave! I really enjoyed your writing for Alterra's world-building back in the day. Have you done any creative writing since then?

And if you went back to revisit the 10 Elemental Heavens, is there anything you would update?

-sincerely, someone for whom your writing really impacted

Hey CoffeeTime88!! It’s good to chat with you again my friend!

Yes, I do think that there are some significant updates I would make to the Elemental Heavens! My thoughts on them have shifted around quite a bit since I did those worldbuilding posts for the @exploringalterra blog. I should write a post about those updates! (This isn’t going to be that post because I’m already high tonight and my sentences get rambly when I’m stoned.)

Thank you for the great question and writing prompt! I appreciate you, my friend!

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Man, I really want to start posting again. I really miss connecting with all you amazing nerds.

Because for me? That is and has always been the best part about Tumblr. Connecting with people. Sharing ideas. Building on ideas! Collaborating on stories!

Regardless of the specific fandom or community, it’s amazing that practically anyone can find a community they connect with on here, and they can swap content, make connections, share appreciation and laugh at each other’s jokes.

Viral posts and memes are fun for sure! But nothing quite hits that same high as seeing that someone you follow and admire has responded to your creative prompt, or added to your joke, or points out an eerie twist about your short story.

I know we all enjoy ragging on Tumblr for being a hellsite, but if hell did include people like you, how bad could it actually be? I’d hang out there.

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Hey, so we all agree that in mythology, a character that is the offspring of a deity and a mortal is called a “demigod,” right?

I mean, that’s like the most common kind of demigod. One immortal parent and one mortal parent.

So from a strictly mythological perspective, can we agree that Jesus Christ should be categorized as a demigod? I mean I know that the stories about him usually stress the whole “son of god” thing, but he is also the son of Mary, who was mortal.

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Ha! “Infinite Tea” I see what you did there

♾️☕️🐉

infinite tea dragon for all your tea needs:)

[prompt: tea, butterfly, wyrm]

kinda following @kmccaigue 's list:)

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I suppose for rules reasons the power and toughness could be considered 2/2 while the creature is still face down (for example, if there are cards that care about the total power among creatures on the battlefield or something.) But while that might be technically true while the creature is face down, the real risk is that the opponent doesn’t know the creatures ACTUAL power and toughness (as well as other abilities) until AFTER they have already declared blockers.

Is it a bluff? Is it a brutal beat down? It’s quite difficult to choose when operating in the dark, isn’t it?

Thanks for asking!! Sorry for taking nine years to reply, but better late than never, right?

Black & Blue Brain Beating - Infiltrate

Ever since I read @follower-of-liliana‘s post about coming up with an evergreen mechanic for Blue and Black that is combat relevant, I’ve been beating my head against the wall trying to come up with some new ideas. 

I came up with an ability I call “Infiltrate.” I’m not sure if it has enough design space to be evergreen, but I thought it was at least worth sharing. I would love your thoughts. 

Terranor Assassin

Terranor Ambassador 

Gal Nohj, the Hidden Blade 

Like I said, I’m not sure this is a finished product yet, so I would love some feedback and collaboration. @magicarasa, @follower-of-liliana, @orb-warded-kor-warlord, @remakingmagic, @the-burnished-hart, @awkwardpotatotales, @faultyschematic, @damia-sage-of-memes, @diegania, @ezuri-claw-of-progresso, @wardanofthefirsttree, @phyrexian-punlife, @urzas-office-employee, @mixingmetaphorsoup AND LITERALLY EVERYONE ELSE please share your thoughts! 

Let’s figure this thing out!! 

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OK, but like. Back when knights wore chain mail, aluminum was still considered by many to be a mythical metal, the way we would think of mithril.

So this blanket would have been the stuff of LEGEND.

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Reblogging to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of this original post. I’m still quite proud of it. ☺️

Priorities

The college professor looked out across the students in his class and raised a jar onto the table in front of him. Without saying a word, he began placing stones in the jar until they reached the opening. “Tell me class,” said the professor, “how many of you think that this jar is full?” A few students raised their hands. The professor then pulled up a bucket of sand and began pouring the sand in the jar between the gaps in the stones until it reached the top. “Now how many of you think this jar is full?” he asked. Again, a few students raised their hands. Then the professor brought out a large jug of water and poured it in to the jar, emptying most of the jug. “Now the jar is full,” said the professor. “You see, much like this jar, many of us believe that our lives are already too full to include any more worthy endeavors, when really all that is necessary is prioritizing the tasks that go in first.” “Hold on,” said one student, standing up. “That’s not why I raised my hand when you asked if the jar was full. The jar was full even before you started putting rocks in it. It was full of air. It’s not like you brought in a sealed vacuum tube or anything.” “And I say it’s STILL not full,” said another student. “At an atomic level, all of the matter in that jar is still mostly empty space. Unless you plan to fill it up with matter from a neutron star, which would probably destroy the whole continent, it’s not ever going to be full.” “And what kind of lesson is this anyway?” asked a third student. “This is a graduate level physics class, not some junior high philosophy elective. What actual college professor would be this dumb and condescending? It’s like a story from a bad email chain letter!” “Look, I’m going to level with you,” said the professor. To the collective horror of the class, he removed his face, revealing scaly green skin and yellow eyes underneath. “I’m not really your professor. I ate him last night. I was sent to your planet to find out if there was anyone with brains worth saving before my people destroy your planet. It looks like you three fit the bill.” Suddenly the alien professor and the three students who spoke up were teleported away. A moment later, an antimatter bomb annihilated Earth. The Moral of the Story: Make it a priority to speak up in class. It just might save you from annihilation.

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Concept: Names of Dragon Sexes

I recently had an idea that I wanted to share and ask for your thoughts…

Dragons have specific terms for males and females of the species, like many other creatures do. Like how bovine are bulls and cows, deer are bucks and does, chickens are roosters and hens, etc.

I propose that male dragons are called drakes and female dragons are longs. And that even the word “dragon” comes from a generational telephone game of saying “drake long.”

Thoughts?

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List of things I think George Ezra is saying in his song Budapest:

“My libido”

“And DeVito”

“My new Speedo”

“And we veto”

“I eat Frito”

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I don’t think that the Munchies and Dry Mouth should be considered two separate side effects of getting high.

I think they should be two categories of the same side effect:

Munchies (Food)

Munchies (Drink)

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I’m pretty sure that future generations are going to listen to our music and think, “Man, they really had an over abundance of Slim Shady impersonators that needed to be dealt with, huh?”

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Alternative to Societal Collapse: Village Cybersteading

OK, imaging the homesteading movement of self-sustained living. Building your own cabin, growing your own food, making your own stuff, and so on.

But now imagine combining two other elements to that movement that are growing rapidly: Automation and polyamory. (I know this probably sounds crazy, but hear me out.)

When I say “automation” I’m talking about both artificial intelligence and general purpose robotics. And both of those are accelerating at an unpredictable pace. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to imagine a future in the next decade for a personal assistant robot to be affordable for the average adult, and for those robotic assistants to be essentially experts in nearly any and every skill set.

And if you have that kind of utility that simply requires a power source, your options for homesteading basically become limited by access to a power source and water.

Then imagine if instead of just you and your robotic assistant to manage the homestead, it was you and a best friend and/or significant other. Wouldn’t that be amazing?!

But wait, what if you have several friends? Or what if you are polyamorous and many of your friends are also partners of yours? And your friends and partners likely have their own friends and partners!

And while it’s possible for this to continue indefinitely, I find that most social groups kind of have core groups with lots of connections that then taper off around the edges.

So imagine a social group of about eight or so friends who decide to go claim a spot of land out in the woods that has a connection to a power supply, and build a self-sustained community out there. And over time they invite more of their friends or family or partners from outside the community to join the community until it eventually grows to the size of a small village.

And normally the very idea of all this would be absolutely ridiculous and idyllic, but keep in mind that in this scenario there is about a 1:1 ratio of adult humans to robotic assistants who are each experts at virtually any skill imaginable and don’t get tired or need vacations. So it’s not so crazy to imagine it being that simple to establish a village somewhere, if there were ever some kind of collapse of the United States or some other huge country.

And I feel like that’s kind of comforting to me. How about you? ☺️

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Can I get your thoughts?

This post goes out to everyone out there who still follows my Tumblr. I’ve been having thoughts about what I want to do with this account and how I want to keep it as a part of my life, even though I haven’t been using it the way I used to.

So here’s the thing: I’ve been thinking lately that I want to start journaling.

Not like a blog where I’m trying to produce content that I think people will like. But an actual journal where I write down my experiences and my thoughts to get them out of my head and process them, whether pleasant or not. Whether fun or not. Whether funny or not. Just writing my thoughts with no regard to any possible audience.

But if I did that, I wouldn’t want to have to censor it. I wouldn’t want to think to myself “The only audience that matters is yourself,” but then also say, “But make sure you don’t swear or talk about sex or weed or anything because this used to be a very ‘family friendly’ blog, and you don’t want to alienate a lot of people by changing that.”

So the way I see it, I kind of have two main options here.

I could begin using this blog as my online journal, writing my deeply personal thoughts. That would probably have me posting a lot more than I am right now, but it would also mean potentially pushing away people who have supported my blog in the past, by posting content they’re not comfortable following anymore.

I could create a totally separate blog from this one, and use that as my online journal. Maybe I would share a link to it sometime, or maybe I’ll just wait to see if anyone finds it on their own without knowing that it’s me. That could work out well, though it would probably mean I would still be posting rarely on this blog for the foreseeable future. (Just because of time constraints if nothing else.)

So my friends, I bring this question to all of you and ask for your thoughts and your wisdom. Which solution would you personally prefer? If you feel strongly enough about your opinion on it, please feel free to elaborate on WHY you feel that way in a reblog. I would very much like to know your thoughts.

Having said that, if you’ve read the post so far, can you please select one of the options in the survey below? I’d really love to check the temperature of the room.

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What I discovered tonight while high

My wife had showed me a short video of people making quesadilla nachos and it looked stupidly good. So we were trying to figure out what to eat tonight and I started to think about what we had on hand that could be yummy like the video we saw, but without so much work.

And then I remembered we had a big box of chicken and cheese mini tacos from Costco in the freezer. So I put eight of those in the toaster oven. When I took them out, I laid them on a plate and smothered them with shredded cheese, and then put it in the microwave for 45 seconds to melt all that cheese.

After that, I spooned some salsa on top of the cheesy top layer, and then put some sour cream on top of that.

And I… I can’t believe how utterly delicious that was.

I mean, it was super simple, made with what I had I hand, and the result was SO GOOD!!

And if that’s not irrefutable evidence that cannabis should be legalized EVERYWHERE, then I don’t know what is.

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How do you prefer your cole?