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We have to protect our souls minds from contamination by sinful illogical thinking. Indulging even the smallest and most 'harmless' deviation superstition opens the way to more serious unvirtous behaviour cultlike magical thinking and can lead you astray from living your life in accordance with God's commands principles of logic and science.

We must be ever vigilant and stamp out even the smallest bit of Bad Thought in ourselves as well as others, it is the only way to remain Pure

okay im going to limit how negative I am on here every day so i'm not constantly cranky

but for today

some of you guys are so fucking stupid 😭

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Never too late to start drawing again - except when it's almost ArtFight and you need to finish doing your refs! :'D

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Banter

Superheroes these days don't know how to banter properly. It's all quippy one-liners designed to show they're not really treating any of this seriously. The only time they ever actually communicate is when the fight is against someone who wronged them personally, and then it's the minimum reminder of what they're specifically mad about, delivered all stoically like "his name was Bob and he was my friend" or "some of the old takeout in there was still good and I had to throw it all away".

Earnest back-and-forth banter is a necessary part of the job. Punching or blasting or eye-beaming you enemies into submission is only a temporary measure, if you want to effectively remove threats you have to be a sort of combat therapist. You don't aim to befriend them, even if it often works out that way in the end, but you gotta understand where they're coming from.

I've said before that as a superhero, you are a symbol, and whoever goes to the trouble of getting a themed outfit and a codename to challenge you is essentially engaging you in a debate. (But with more property damage.) You can't just brush that off with quips speculating about their background and family life. Engage them honestly and ask what they are hoping to accomplish. You'd be surprised at the amount of problems you'll discover that you never knew about! Even "nothin' personal, I'm just gettin' paid" is a thread to pull on, because now you're thinking about people who have that kind of money and benefit from you being tied up in this fight.

The first rule of good banter is to let your enemy go first and match their energy. If they lead with a rant about how you've been a thorn in their side for too long, don't just cut 'em off with a "who are you again?" or "get to the point". That's not clever, it's just rude. Yeah, it pisses them off, and I guess if your combat strategy depends on the other guy being too angry to think straight then you do you. But if you ever want to hear your codename being bellowed in honest, heart-felt rage, you'd better learn to say things like "your reign of terror ends now!" and "I will never accept defeat while there are people I can protect!" without a wince and a nervous laugh.

Then there's the total opposite, what I call the "smarmy type" bad guy. They rarely have a costume, their base of operation is usually just a very normal skyscraper or factory or lab, not even shaped like a letter. They don't show up and monologue at you; in fact, you're more likely to be the one breaking into their office to confront them. They'll lead with a "Ah, gentlemen", or a "you do know breaking and entering is a crime?" or something about having a meeting scheduled.

Obviously a "your villainy ends today" is just going to get an indulgent chuckle from this guy. But even your best sarcastic quips are not going to serve you well either. Let's face it, if you just broke down a guy's door or window or wall, you can't exactly play it off like you're not really invested in the whole situation, you know?

What you want to do is aim for earnest, but in an unexpected way that sort of slips under the smarm. I was on a team the other day and we found some really solid evidence at a shady arms-deal linking it to a business big-shot, so naturally we went to catch the guy before he could leave the country. Bust into his office, he goes with the "to what do I owe the pleasure?" and before our Lawful Guy could do the big accusation, I cut in with: "We have some advice about how you could improve your weapons-smuggling operation."

That threw him off. (Threw Lawful Guy off too, and the rest of the team, really.) He tried to recover with a "what advice?" which, hey, bonus tacit admission. I had the biggest fell-for-updog grin when I said, "Stop running it."

(Extra tip: If you break anything wooden and they yell "that was mahogany!" look down at the pieces and say confidently, "nah, that's stained walnut, your contractor's ripping you off." nine times out of ten they don't know enough about woodworking to dispute it.)

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You get different kinds of "Fire Magic" depending on whether you're calling on the spirits, making a physical spark and then directing that with alchemy, poking holes to the Elemental Plane of Fire, or using magic to rapidly accelerate molecules around you.

Instead of "reality consensus", the rule is that a given individual can only use magic on things they know about. You have to get to know the spirits before you can use that style of magic, and you have to learn about the atomic theory of matter to interact with it magically on that level. That way the protagonists can still have a special style that unifies everything but it's based on learning respectfully from different cultures and understanding how disparate points of view intersect.

Fantasy setting with magic neatly organised into elemental spheres, except each magic-using culture disagrees with all the others about what the primordial elements are, what their associations and correspondences are, and even how many of them there are. Spells always interact with other spells from the same magic system as though its elemental theory is complete, consistent, and correct, but when spells from two different magic systems come into contact it all goes a bit sideways, often in ways that require flowcharts to explain. Like, you think Ground Type vs. Rock Type is bad? There are five separate, mutually exclusive spheres of magic all called "Fire". The Sylvan Confederacy's "Water" magic explodes on contact with the Empire of the Five Pillars' "Water" magic and nobody knows why.

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[guy whose holiday experience is limited to thanksgiving, easter, and labor day] so when's cinco de mayo this year?

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New avvie/icon/pfp/image to represent myself

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All the jokes are "polyamory so we can afford a house!" but the grim truth of the matter is, before you can even get to that you gotta spend extra money on gas to go see all your honeys 😔

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The humble preposition is like an ordinary girl with big dreams, at her first job fresh out of school. Many writers will make her put in unpaid overtime to fit in all the tasks she has to do, when what she needs is a harem full of beautiful men called "gerund verb forms" that can easily take over some of her specific tasks.

Why do you keep describing men in suits and women with elaborate dresses on. Big strong dependable "wearing" can handle that.

In a car? On a train? The duo of confident assertive "driving" and sweet blushing "riding" can handle that.

In school or at university? Leave it to competent glasses kuudere, "attending".

The preposition doesn't have to do everything on her own. Let her depend on the people that care for her, and learn to relax sometimes.

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in loving memory of my favorite shirt

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Sometimes I post stuff I know Terfs will hate just so I can get a free block list in the notes

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Reblog for greater sample size.

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Dutch longsword fencer Tosca Beuming

Photographed by Martin Philippo and Andress Kools