salty-dracon

[salty-dracon]

Anxiety: You're almost 30 and haven't published a single book. You wasted your chance to become a successful author!

Me: Stan Lee created Spider-Man at age 40. George R. R. Martin wrote A Game of Thrones at age 48.

Anxiety: Oh fuck nvm you do you, king.

[salty-dracon]

...what is the "sex is just rock climbing" category

It was kind of a joke between me and a friend ("you wouldn't judge someone for having gone rock climbing with a bunch of different people") but honestly the more I thought about it the more I bought into it unironically because:

It is a physical activity done with one or more partners

You should only go rock climbing with people you trust to not let you fall

You should not go rock climbing with someone who is drunk or currently incapable of rational decision-making

Some people get super super super into rock climbing and do not shut up about all the places they have climbed and how many are left on their bucket list and these people are usually men between the ages of 20 and 35 and like it's fine dude I'm glad you're happy but I don't know what most of those mountains even are

While many consider it a fun activity, pressuring someone into climbing when they don't want to (or ignoring their feelings and just dangling them off a cliff,) could cause both psychological and physical trauma

There is no moral value to it whatsoever. Who you have gone rock climbing with (or whether you have rock climbed at all) has no bearing on who you are as a person. Imagine telling someone "it's not that heights make you nauseous, it's just that you haven't found the right person to belay you!" or "you need to save your first time rock climbing for someone special." That would be absurd.

For some people it is a deep and moving personal experience.

historically I have not asked myself "will this aggravate my hip flexor injury" before participating when perhaps I should have 😔

[salty-dracon]

This is who is leading the NYC mayoral democratic primary rn

[salty-dracon]

Do not think for a moment that this admin is only going after trans folks. They are ultimately going after the whole LGBTQ community. They start small, like getting rid of a hotline option, then go BIG.

[salty-dracon]

[salty-dracon]

Source

A huge win for NYC! A better world is still possible

Next stop: general election

[salty-dracon]

happy pride & remember: there is no such thing as a heterosexual vampire

[salty-dracon]

Why are my friends like this

[salty-dracon]

"should we tell authors on ao3 when we have discord conversations about their fics" i don't speak for everyone here but if y'all ever find a group chat discussing my fics you can should must and WILL send me screenshots of the whole damn thing. inflate my ego. gimme

[salty-dracon]

religious killer: i can hear God speaking to me, to kill the demons that live in this world with my gun of justice

atheist killer: I kill only because of my own moral code. Whether it's for money so I can survive, or self-defense against a threat, I am the one who chooses when I kill.

agnostic killer: nobody really knows why I shoot people

[salty-dracon]

"Kill them with kindness "WRONG! BIRD ATTACK 🕊️🕊️🦅🦅🦆🦆🦜🦜🐥🐥🐣🐣🐣🐥🐥🦢🦢🦢🦢🐓🐓🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🦤🦤🦤🦤🦤🦤🦤🦤🦤🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🦚🦚🦚🦚🦚🦚🪿🪿🪿🪿🪿🪿🪿🪿🪿

[salty-dracon]

"Kill them with kindness "WRONG! BIRD ATTACK 🕊️🕊️🦅🦅🦆🦆🦜🦜🐥🐥🐣🐣🐣🐥🐥🦢🦢🦢🦢🐓🐓🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🦉🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🦤🦤🦤🦤🦤🦤🦤🦤🦤🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🦚🦚🦚🦚🦚🦚🪿🪿🪿🪿🪿🪿🪿🪿🪿

[salty-dracon]

happy make a terrible comic day 2025 . I am 80% mucus today

[salty-dracon]

Live theater in the His Dark Materials universe must be wild. Surely an actor's daemon also has lines to recite, so their daemon's form probably also factors into casting decisions. Maybe some plays have vague character descriptions for daemons, but I bet other plays have really specific or central daemon characters. And sure, big-budget theaters can afford to hire a separate actor with a particular daemon to stand backstage while their daemon plays its part onstage, but community theaters don't have those kinds of resources.

Like if you're casting for Julius Caesar, surely the real historical Caesar had a pretty iconic daemon, right? Are you going to cast an actor with a pigeon daemon as Caesar and just have everyone suspend their disbelief that it's Caesar's lioness, ἁμαρτία?

[salty-dracon]

permission to lib out?

[salty-dracon]

danger approaches 🚨

[salty-dracon]

i hate dogs with blue eyes. why is fucking jeff the killer at my back door