#because a rock is a stone

[softer-ua]

I ship Todoroki with both himbo Inasa and pothead Sero

Call that being caught between a stoner and a hard place🥁✨

[marlynnofmany]

“Earthbending and waterbending are the same thing.”

“WTF? No.”

“Sure they are. Water is just melted rock, the same as lava.”

“No, it’s—”

“Ice is a rock.”

“What.”

“The experts agree. It’s naturally occurring, solid, has an organized crystal structure, and has a well-defined chemical composition.”

“But — okay, even if I accept that, which is a big ‘if’ — that’s the same as saying that waterbending is also airbending just because water can evaporate into a gas.”

“Correct.”

“Wait, what?”

“There’s no functional difference. It’s all manipulation of tangible things through willpower alone. Fire is from a different power set entirely.”

“Dare I ask why?”

“Fire is a thing that happens, not a thing that you can scoop into a jar. It projects from a source temporarily. Controlling fire involves manipulation of light, heat, and localized destruction all at the same time. Not every type of heat or destruction, but if you think about it, all light either comes from a sun or from tame lightning.”

“Hold on, so then—”

“A fully trained firebender can glow like a flashlight, incinerate things on the spot, and give you a wicked case of sunburn with radiation that you can’t see. Oh, and if they have enough finesse, they can split their light into rainbows. That’s my favorite firebending skill.”

“I need to sit down.”

“Welcome to Magic 101! I hope you’re taking notes.”

[heckyeahponyscans]

From the latest G5 MLP "Tell Your Tale" episode

[bbbrianjones]

BRIAN JONES - MR SHAMPOO

“As a matter of fact, Brian is a bit of a pest when he comes back home because he is always washing his hair.” - Lewis Jones, Brian’s father.

“I always did [his hair] for him. He was so obsessed with his hair. He had to have three mirrors when he was getting ready to go out, so he could see it from every angle… Brian’s hair was a nightmare.” - Anita Pallenberg.

“He was obsessed about anyone touching his hair or his clothes, especially his hair. If a fan touched his hair, or tried to tousle it, Brian went crazy, lashed out, then ran away. Sometimes he was so upset, he began to sob, stood in front of a mirror, recombing his hair, sobbing away.” - Alex and Violet Lawrence, the parents of Linda Lawrence, Brian’s girlfriend.

”My hair is not a gimmick. I’ve had it like this for a couple of years. It doesn’t strike me as dirty, scruffy or effeminate. To be honest, I think it looks good. I think I look right with longer hair. So I’ll tell you all this much: my hair’s staying as it is. If you don’t like it – hard luck.“ Brian Jones, 1964

[ghost-facess]

brian jones is so, so pretty.

[wizard-irl]

Modern crystal healing: It opens your ~chakras~ you will attract ~abundance~ you will ~connect with the universe~

Medieval crystal healing: This shit makes you invisible, stops your periods from hurting, and makes your husband love you.

[spaceratprodigy]

✨🤠 It's Teddy and Zinnie Besties Hours!! 🐮✨

@oldworldwidgets — felt like we deserved something quick and silly today <3

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[nyaskitten]

Dudeee I went to the Chima wiki to find info on the Mother Sun, right>? And ALL that informastion is just lumped into the main article for Chima, so NO article about the actual Sun itself right? Y'all TELL ME WHY THE WIKI IS JUMPING THROUGH LOOPHOLES TO DENY THAT CHIMA'S IN THE WYLDNESS...

GIRL not to be That Guy but why are you THIS angry about this shit...

[rockityrockandstone]

I think the team are all from different cultures btw

Like they're all dwarves, but they(to me) obviously come from different backgrounds and such. Places with different social expectations and ways of communicating.

Like an accent or the use of slang. They're all speaking the same language, but the details can get lost if you aren't in the know.

Like. Idk. Gunner comes from a place where being stoic is seen as the norm. Not much emotional availability, but a very heavy emphasis is placed on caring for your community and protecting your family. He was raised to take care of others and sacrifice his needs for the good of the group. This made it hard to accept that sometimes he would need help. Thankfully being with the team has opened his eyes, and while he still works tirelessly to protect those he loves, he knows sometimes he needs someone to lean on.

Engie comes from a place where the dwarves are friendly and hospitable. Very calm and open, and being a capable, self-sufficient dwarf who helps your comrades is seen as the ideal. He was raised to treat everyone like family and to be polite and kind-hearted. He still holds onto his more wholesome values of course, but has learned that sometimes being harsh has its place.

Scout comes from an area where friendly roughhousing is very common, along with jabbing at your friends in a joking way. Being self-sufficient is expected, and being a well-rounded dwarf with the ability to take care of yourself and others is ideal. He was raised to carry his weight but always be ready to help others with their load. This has led to him being hyperfocused on being helpful to others while completely refusing anything in return, viewing it as weak. Over time he's gotten over it, mostly thanks to the team, and will now readily jabber on until he gets what he needs.

Driller is from somewhere. I have no idea where it would be, and I don't think there's a whole culture of dwarves out there that act like him. I think he spent a lot of his life alone and doesn't really understand how others work. That leads him to overanalyze how other dwarves act from an outside and then interact based on how he operates. Basically he thinks everyone processes things exactly how he does, and he has trouble remembering that the dwarves around him may not enjoy the same things he does. This led to the team perceiving him as unnerving and aggressive, which although true, doesn't fully encapsulate his person. He enjoys roughhousing that borders on actual fighting, he likes quiet and darkness and warmth, and doesn't realize that not everyone shares that. So he bites and burns and bombs, stands in dark, quiet places and ambushes others with his unnerving silence. He doesn't mean any malice, not really, he's just showing his care in his own unconventional way. It's taken a long time, but over the many years he's worked for DRG, the team has managed to show him how they operate, which makes for less uncomfortable situations. He still blows up Scout though. Some things don't change.

They're all from different places and have had different experiences in life, and they've all had different amounts of time to work on it. It wasn't always easy, but they're all in agreement that doing things together is much better than trying to go forward alone. Through thick and thin, through the fighting and the peaceful times, they've vowed to stick together, to support each other. And for that, they're the strongest dwarves around.

[monerelluvia]

Since work has been very stressful lately I don't have anything new to show, but there's one character I never posted here - Petra! A gem Dragonborn (black topaz) who's a necromancer warlock to some ancient lich creature. The second drawing is her form of dread - a sudden burst of hardened crystal all across her body (oh the poor clothes) and a bit more wild draconic instinct coming on top.

She was initially offered as a sacrifice by the lich's cult, but hatched from her egg before the ritual could be finished. This was taken as a sign to keep the baby dragon and raise it instead. Around the same time a tiefling boy was born, and per the tradition of the cult, the two were taught together and raised together to become the perfect duo of mage and his protector. Petra is his shield and blade while he's the tongue and the soul of their cause. Recently, they were both sent out into the world to share the teachings of their religion and find their "god" if possible.

At least that's the theory, I didn't get to play her yet, but maybe soon! The tiefling will be played by my partner, and we totally didn't try to copy the necromancer - cavalier tradition from the Locked Tomb series. Nope, not at all!

[forgotten-rain]

Good on Chip for finally getting a second boyfriend

[unexpectedstormy]

Hyperfixating on rocks--flint knapping, rock tumbling, rock hounding, rock identifying...

[prototypelq]

Okay so, yesterday I've been on my worst DRG mission yet xD

I am a very green-greenbeard (barely over 10 hours playtime), my fav mission type is Liquid Morkite mining (space oil mining, you need to build a system of pipelines leading to each morkite rift, which requires a lot of fun terrain-conquering problem-solving), because building pipelines is addictively fun. So, as a complete idiot, I see a mission with modifiers (this was a decision I would later regret-but not really) and get on it on a public server (meaning any player can join in, which normally doesn't take too much time at all).

The modifiers on that mission? Low oxygen and Cave Leeches (Cave leeches are enemy type that grab you and drain your health to zero unless somebody else saves you, Low Oxygen means precisely what the name implies, and you need to regularly come back to the mining station to refill your oxygen tanks.) Oh, and the Cave Complexity was 3 (which means, as I've intimately learned on that mission, that the map becomes much bigger, and more obstacles will get in your way, this pairs very badly with low oxygen modifier, as your mission objectives are placed further, but you constantly need to route back to be able to breathe)

So, there my lonely Engineer was, with my best boi Bosco (robot-companion while you play solo, he actually does what you ask him to so he is more useful than actual players xD yes but not really but yes), terrified of the amount of lootbug mess I just stepped into, once I logged in and realised what exactly all those modifiers meant.

I was terrified to explore, as it would be extremely easy to get caught by leeches and Bosco can only revive me two times, and this was only the prep step of the actual mission. Very carefully, I was able to find the first morkite well, and then the real issue arose. While, I am really glad I picked Engie for this mission, as his ability to create platforms is extremely useful when building pipelines, he also is one of the classes that doesn't have innate fast mobility options. In the context of a big map and pipeline building this meant that I had to: imagine the route I can build the pipeline to that particular morkite well, figure out how to mold terrain so the pipeline route would be actually possible to build, go out and mold terrain, then immediately route back because I have no oxygen left, rinse repeat, but switch 'terrain mold' to 'pipeline construction'. Very soon the time I spent getting to the construction point and back took most of my oxygen, so I could work like 30 seconds maybe on a pipeline, before heading back, otherwise my dwarf would suffocate. Also, somehow, Nobody would join. I think I spent around 30, maybe a bit more minutes just trying to build the first pipeline. I was terrified of going outside the tried and true routes because of the cave leeches, so I didn't even have any nitra for a resupply when my platform gun ran out of ammo. I started manually digging through the rock to build the second pipeline. I mean, I started digging for 2 seconds at best, then had to run back because of low oxygen, then back to mining for my two limited seconds.

For some reason, I persisted through this, and built two out of three pipelines. Thankfully, the best route I found for the last line went parallel to my first built line for a long time, so that eased the process a little, and the middle morkite well turned out to be closer than the others, so that was a break. I only had the longest pipeline to build, the one where I had to manually dig a tunnel to place, when, THANK GOD, another player joined in. It was a Gunner, he clearly didn't feel nearly as terrified as I was of the cave leech ambushes, was I bravery or stupidity I know not, but he found us nitra, and I was finally able to order a resupply. Things went easier after I figured out that his ziplines took less time to go up the cliff that pipeline surfing, and with my reloaded platform gun things got much easier. Then another player joined in, a scout this time, and it all went pretty smooth after that. The entire mission took me an hour and a half to complete, and for the most of it I was on my own.

Bosco, I will never forget the bond we built on that mission, robot-buddy my dear,

and the joined guys really saved my ass there,

I would never have finished the mission without them. Remember, if you Rock and Stone, you're never alone!

[bbbrianjones]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRIAN JONES [28TH FEB 1942]

"I can talk about almost any subject. Lots of reporters say I’m an interviewer’s dream. But it’s on travel that I like to talk about. There are hundreds of places all over the world that I’ve always wanted to see. Egypt’s Pyramids, Sydney Harbour, Honolulu, the North Pole. I could name lots more. If I ever get the time and the money I’d like to seek out every corner of the earth." - Brian Jones

[cerbreus]

i need you guys to look at my pretty pretty rocks 👀💕❤❤💕