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This blog is pro tits and anti Nazi

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"I love you but you're doing wrong in a way I cannot condone" and "I hate you but you're being wronged in a way I cannot stomach" are top tier and I need more of them.

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this august do whatever you want and stay up late

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Rest in peace, Professor Lehrer.

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Dungeon Meshi Fragances by primaniacs

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oh the places we'll go

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”Oh I’m not leaving”

(siblings)

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oh god, I'm 26.

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A translation of British sayings, what non-British people think they mean, and their actual meaning.

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Looking to get into Stephen King and I need the people's opinion

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so, on Saturday, I ran a d&d game for 8 players (don't ask) and it made me realize how much experience both I and the group I usually play with have.

the biggest difference I noticed was investment; my regular group takes the game 'seriously'. that is to say, they try to their best to respond to scheduling texts, they focus at the table. the 8-player group was frustratingly lax, by comparison. there's also two characters with joke names (D. Endy and Aqua Pheena) that irritate me, but I can't exactly fault players for wanting to have fun.

who I do feel justified in complaining about, however, is Grimblor. Grimblor's player is experienced with TTRPGs, and I have higher expectations for him. at one point, we were in a tavern, and he returned to the table with a can in hand. he slammed it down on the table, demanding another from the bartender, and in doing so splashed multiple sheets of paper with his non-alcoholic beer. then, later, he began to act very, very drunk and would interrupt other players while they spoke. I can appreciate role-playing, but it was taken so far as to be disruptive, and I felt very frustrated.

I ended up getting a ride home with two other players (thank you Viloy). they and Pharadoth both had a lot to say about the game (both new players) and praised me for both running it and for my patience (if only they knew). I opened up to them about being anxious about my performance, and they offered some much-needed reassurance.

I'm starting up a new game for my regular group this Saturday. hopefully this will give me a confidence boost for that.

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Falin Drawlin ^.^

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genuinely wild to me when I go to someone's house and we watch TV or listen to music or something and there are ads. I haven't seen an ad in my home since 2005. what do you mean you haven't set up multiple layers of digital infrastructure to banish corporate messaging to oblivion before it manifests? listen, this is important. this is the 21st century version of carving sigils on the wall to deny entry to demons or wearing bells to ward off the Unseelie. come on give me your router admin password and I'll show you how to cast a protective spell of Get Thee Tae Fuck, Capital

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some people think writers are so eloquent and good with words, but the reality is that we can sit there with our fingers on the keyboard going, “what’s the word for non-sunlight lighting? Like, fake lighting?” and for ten minutes, all our brain will supply is “unofficial”, and we know that’s not the right word, but it’s the only word we can come up with…until finally it’s like our face got smashed into a brick wall and we remember the word we want is “artificial”.

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via @swatercolor [insta]

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i made a character sheet. free to use as you wish, feel free to change whatever you want XD open source ass thing. spent all of ~maybe an hour on it.

Credit: the text in the insert-image box comes from this video, and the text for the top three lines (intense, complex, fruity) comes from this post. The actual image was made with the free NBOS character sheet creator, which is a sort of dated but free and solid text-layout sheet maker intended for ttrpg style character sheet creation.

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Apparently a lot of people get dialogue punctuation wrong despite having an otherwise solid grasp of grammar, possibly because they’re used to writing essays rather than prose. I don’t wanna be the asshole who complains about writing errors and then doesn’t offer to help, so here are the basics summarized as simply as I could manage on my phone (“dialogue tag” just refers to phrases like “he said,” “she whispered,” “they asked”):

“For most dialogue, use a comma after the sentence and don’t capitalize the next word after the quotation mark,” she said.

“But what if you’re using a question mark rather than a period?” they asked.

“When using a dialogue tag, you never capitalize the word after the quotation mark unless it’s a proper noun!” she snapped.

“When breaking up a single sentence with a dialogue tag,” she said, “use commas.”

“This is a single sentence,” she said. “Now, this is a second stand-alone sentence, so there’s no comma after ‘she said.’”

“There’s no dialogue tag after this sentence, so end it with a period rather than a comma.” She frowned, suddenly concerned that the entire post was as unasked for as it was sanctimonious.