#It was glorious

[teaboot]

I have to remind myself that my characters don't have to be tortured or dramatic to be interesting.

My first DND character was a balding, paunchy, post-middle-aged human man whose wife had just left him and whose kids had grown up and moved away.

He quit his menial job and decided to take up music, something he'd never been very good at that didn't pay the bills, and become a bard.

He was bad at it. Really, really bad. His instrument was shit and he'd never had any formal lessons. On top of that, he was pretty tone-deaf.

BUT. He could play very, very bad noises very, very loud.

On our first campaign, he was cornered by a sea dragon and had no weapons, but by making a loud, horrible noise, he was able to startle it badly enough to lose grasp of the boat.

After that, he used it to herd a small crowd of goblins into a trap by sounding far bigger and more numerous a foe.

He never got much better, but he did grow his confidence, and won the affection and respect of his companions, who grew to support him in ways nobody else had before.

I had to stop playing him for a while after that, but last I had him, he was developing an interest in color and flare and fashion that he'd never paid much attention to before.

He didn't lose weight, or grow his hair back, or magically become younger, but he felt brighter, lighter, like he had a new lease on life, like he had something to offer and maybe he deserved to have a bit of fun, now and then, with good company.

He began to wonder if that was what he was missing, before. If perhaps that was why his marriage had wasted away. A lack of drive, of hope, of pride and passion.

I don't know where he would have gone on from there. I don't know if I wanted him to reconnect with his kids, or his ex wife, or his home town. Part of me likes the idea of finding his own way- settling and becoming good friends with his ex, something platonic but warm and fond, and reaching out to his kids and being there for his grandkids and someday passing away bright and loud and loved of old age, asleep in his bed, to be celebrated after by the loudest funeral with the worst music played by the most awful musicians his community had to offer, loud and proud and full of good humor.

Maybe they'd throw a festival, after that. An annual one, with firecrackers and trumpets and clanging pots and pans to scare away the monsters like he did, the roaring hero who came into his own a little later than usual, but wondrously all the same.

A symbol to show that you don't have to bend and squish and contort yourself to fit the space you're in- you can find another space, one that's just your size, and exist there exactly as you are

[samsheughan]

SAM HEUGHAN as JAMIE FRASER Outlander 1x12 "Lallybroch"

[the-football-chick]

Team USA finished 1-2 in the 400m hurdles with Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone setting another world record with a time of 50.37s. Anna Cockrell won silver, edging out Femke Bol ((Netherlands) with a time of 51.87 to Bol's 52.15.

[comradeacerbus]

(The Scene: It’s two in the morning at Lakeview Manor, but there’s a ruckus from the kitchen. Haldis goes downstairs to see what’s causing the noise only to be met with the above sight)

Haldis: Miraak what are you doing?

Miraak: Making snowberry crostatas

Haldis: It’s two in the morning. Why are you making snowberry crostatas?

Miraak: Because I’ve lost control of my life

[pop-punklouis]

had a dream last night that harry showed up on another yacht in the middle of some ocean and we all groaned until we saw that he was wearing a string bikini in every pap shot

[emismythical]

I can't wait for the smarter swifties to figure that music video out

[thievinghippo]

you all may mock me, but being able to reply to replies in the post and actually seeing comment threads...

it almost feels like livejournal and that makes me really happy

(It only look 11 years of being here!)

[gar-a-ash]

This little man ran face first into the fence at the breeder's<3

[gallifreyan-ginger-sociopath]

So shout-out to the parents with their adult daughter seeing Lisa Frankenstein in my theater tonight. I'm sure the kid being an adult did not lessen the awkwardness of the penis-sewing scene.

Also, RIP to the dad who was clearly confused as fuck while wife and daughter were having a blast. 😂

[stuckinapril]

i love good movies but i love bad movies too. i think everyone should hate-watch a movie at least once in their lifetime. everyone needs to have that one movie that is terrible but simultaneously comforting. everyone needs to invite their friends over so they could watch an awful romcom and make fun of it

[suspiciouslynotapastor]

I dreamt there was a Lorax 2 and all it was was the Once-ler street racing. There was so much detail in the way his hair moved. Bless you, dream movie animators.

[freddie-77-ao3]

the connor stoll fic i'm writing curently has 10+ mentions of how connor wants to go back to sleep and frankly i might just be projecting

[hoarder-of-dragons]

Trevor teaching Amanda how to Whip and Nae-Nae was not something I knew I needed

[witchydykebitch]

Every time a beautiful woman with tattoos compliments my tattoos it adds a year to my life span

[i-am-mldy]

im sorry are we as a community just gonna gloss over the fact that SCANLAN FUCKING SHORTHALT THE MOST BARD TO EVER BARD DEFEATED AN ANCIENT POWERFUL BEING BY HITTING HIM WITH THE EMO FEELS OF MILLENIA-OLD LONG DISTANCE LOVE OH MY FUCKING GOD

[ahalliance]

im cackling right after étoiles asked if ludwig ever cheats for content and lud said yes, etoiles called antoine over to help him correctly guess the geoguessr location LMAOOO