#cos: torch

[vanhelsingapologist]

sneak peek of Rahadin design for next year’s game.

…and Mavka.

[curse-of-dming-strahd]

it cracks me up how often the Curse of Strahd module read-aloud flavor text describes the environment as sad:

the wind is bummed out. the torches are bummed out. the dirt is sad that it's dirt. like listen I know it's a realm of eternal despair but I feel like they could have hit the thesaurus a little harder on this one

though shoutout to the flavor text of Wachterhaus, which may actually have diagnosable clinical depression:

[faguscarolinensis]

Kniphofia x 'High Roller' / 'High Roller' Red Hot Poker at the Denver Botanic Gardens in Denver, CO

[dndsaga]

Bells of Notre Dame by Alan Menken // Kara Xu (2017-2018) // Maurice Sendak // selkielore on tumblr // The First Mourning, William-Adolphe Bouguereau // Antigone, Jean Anouilh // Santa Lilio Sangre by Ayumi Kojima // My Heart for Yours, Jolene Perry // butchfangss on tumblr

✘ brothers donavich. ( for @niroben101 )

as you die, watch the leaves that go crazy over you: everything loves you, my god-headed brother. say hey, my beautiful brother, your face lifted, holding back the holiness of light?

[kay-selfships]

yknow with all of the changes hoyo is making to make the game easier for new players, i’m kinda surprised they haven’t done anything about that liyue quest that literally locks you out of co-op and your serenitea pot until you complete it

[kavehshahrewar]

looks at you with my huge round eyes would you say I am the best exploder in the world

Yes love you’re the best exploder in the whole universe. You are so good at blowing up and setting everything on fire. Everyone can hear your explosions from really far away. Gives you a pipe bomb 🧨💥🔥❤️‍🔥

[tetedurfarm]

i keep looking at this litter of ten hotots that i need to start training and getting tired before i even do anything because hrrguh it's such an Event to carry kits back and forth 😩 i love my big rabbits that have big litters but also trying to do evals on big litters takes sooooo longgggggg

they need vaccinating though. i think i'm going to start doing it before i wean them just to get on top of situations like what happened with 480p's litter where they started dropping at like four weeks old. i may also need to vaccinate the does once a year or something too, but i'm hoping just poking kits will get the job done.

[moonlitrosecrafts]

Haha! I finally found a place that, theoretically, let's an artist make use of their 3d printers when ever they want! That means that CAD class can be put to use for the things that require precision! Precision, that my astigmatism makes hard to accomplish technical items in a timely manner by hand carving wax. I will hopefully be able to show an example of something made by hand carving wax vs CAD by next week regardless of how my walk through of the makers place goes.

[serious-goose]

it'd be really funny if they ended up taking breaks from the inn in the off-season to do piratey shit for a couple weeks only to come back to find that it's filled with spiders 🕷️

[vanhelsingapologist]

sing the song of sixpence that goes

“burn the witch.”

—

Um um um this is my new pc for a little game I may be in next year, run by my partner. She is a blood cleric. In other words: I will be back in the fucking building.

I will expand on her later but here’s some alt.

[snazzycyborg]

Brb gonna go drown my sorrows in fanfiction and gifsets for the next year

[faguscarolinensis]

Kniphofia x 'High Roller' / 'High Roller' Red Hot Poker at the Denver Botanic Gardens in Denver, CO

[sxreiinia]

Hm. HM.

[thebotanicalarcade]

n98_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: Floral gems /. Springfield, Ohio :McGregor Bros. Co.. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46112937

[bugsbenefit]

i'll say it again but you could literally just copy paste this into s4 and pretend he's reacting to their next plan

because even if they actually managed to burn him to death against all odds then like, what? there's small gates cracked open all over town now, and there's still a giant cosmic shadow monster living over there that's not averse to possessing people. just burning him isn't really a solution to their constant UD problem at this point

their big plan in s4 was just doing what they did in s1, and s2, and then wanted to do in s3 again but Mike told them not to, AGAIN. and shockingly it still didn't work

to be fair s4 had an additional final step to it with Nancy actually considering that the fire might not kill him so she'll... shoot him to death. with the guns that famously don't kill anything above small demodog size at best...

which is actually just her plan from s1 with the Demogorgon again i'm just realizing??

no one has original plans. the sauna test was the last shred of plan creativity that also actually did what is was supposed to and that was a whole season ago (and that might just be because it wasn't a "let's literally just kill it with fire immediately" plan which is what 95% of the other plans people are coming up with are, when it turns out that the UD is still causing them problems after... they tried to burn it to death the last time)

they really don't need Will or El to figure the UD out right now, they need to start small and primarily need someone to look them deep into the eyes and tell them that they're being fucking stupid again

if someone says, let's just burn the entire Upside Down this time in s5 i will lose my fucking mind

[esperderek]

Hbomberguy did a pretty good job pointing out how Somerton has tried to take up the air of modern queer creators, stealing the works they made to little or no money or exposure, and using them to bolster his own fame. It's a truly reprehensible act.

But I feel like it's also important to briefly touch on what he stole from the past.

The Celluloid Closet is a backbone text on queerness and cinema. Like, if you're at all interested in the subject, please read the book, and watch the doc. Yes, the language will be outdated. It was written in 1981 and the doc published in 1995. Language evolves. I was fortunate enough to both read the book and see the documentary in the early 2000s, when I attended university.

It was written by Vito Russo, who held a Masters in film and a desire to fight for queer rights after witnessing the Stonewell riots. The Celluloid Closet was first a live lecture presentation, then a book. He would try to get the book made into a documentary in the early years, and after he died, others picked up that torch to carry on his work and to pay respect to the man.

Vito Russo was also one of the co-founders of GLAAD. He was a co-founder of ACT UP. You may have, if you've watched documentaries or seen news stories about the AIDS crisis, seen parts of his speech, Why We Fight. He protested, advocated, and educated even as people he knew and loved died, and he himself was dying.

As Hbomberguy notes in his doc, he would go on to pass in 1990. This was a man who fought his ass off, even while dying, for a better tomorrow and better representation.

The fact that Somerton stole his work is beyond insulting to the queer history, and queer film history, that he purports to give a shit about.