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Imane Khelif photographed by Sam Rock for d la Repubblica

[dooanuh]

OMG BUTCHNATURAL???????????????

[samdyke]

i know things are bleak right now but no matter how scary it gets, dont start rewatching supernatural. dont do anything you cant take back just because it seems dark right now 🫶 like pulling up the first ep of the cw’s supernatural

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Captain America: Brave New World sambucky gifset (part 1 of 7)

[nosnexus]

Well we got episode 3'd didn't we?

[mangapeach]

day 1: kisses

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The Pre-Timeline of Dimension 20

Just because I've seen a lot of confusion about this following the release of The Roll of a Lifetime: How Dimension 20 Sold Out Madison Square Garden, in which the story of how Dimension 20 got started is edited in such a way that viewers come away with an odd impression about the timeline, I thought I'd put together as clear and annotated a timeline as I can of how and when the Intrepid Heroes met, got into D&D, and got cast in Dimension 20, plus some of the greater context they were operating in. All of this is publicly available information, gleaned mostly from years of interviews, Adventuring Parties, NADDPod Short Rests, and social media posts.

1998: Noted science-fiction author Elaine Lee signs her ten-year-old son Brennan up for a Dungeons & Dragons game at October Country, a local comics and gaming shop, in order to provide him with a social and creative outlet after having to start homeschooling him due to pervasive bullying at school. Within weeks, he begins running his own games for fellow children.

December 1999: CollegeHumor.com launches, posting user-submitted funny and/or titillating content from around the web. Within a few years, banner ad revenue and merch sales have made its founders young tech millionaires. By 2004 they are hiring writers to produce original content.

August 2006: CollegeHumor is acquired by InterActive Corp. Shortly thereafter, Sam Reich is hired to produce video content on the strength of videos he'd posted online of his improv team Dutch West.

April 2007: CollegeHumor staff writers Jake Hurwitz and Amir Blumenfeld begin posting videos of themselves performing absurdist sketches in their downtime at work; this inspires the long-running Hardly Working series, in which CollegeHumor staff appear as heightened versions of themselves in the office.

2008: Brian Murphy is hired to answer phones at the CollegeHumor offices. He soon begins writing for the website and appearing in videos, striking up a nerdy friendship with staff artist Caldwell Tanner.

2011: Emily Axford is hired by CollegeHumor as part of a wave of new talent as the original CollegeHumor cast moves on to bigger opportunities. She and Murph are memorably cast as romantic interests in Jake & Amir videos; some time later, they begin dating.

Early 2014: CollegeHumor's video team relocates to Los Angeles in order to establish themselves as a traditional TV production house, including shows like Adam Ruins Everything and the Jake and Amir series Lonely and Horny. Murph and Emily are among the cast who make the move. They marry in September and begin developing the TV sketch show Hot Date.

Early 2015: Siobhan Thompson, Zac Oyama, and Grant O'Brien are hired to write and act in sketches for CollegeHumor as cast turnover continues. Emily and Siobhan become close friends, and Zac bonds with Murph and Emily over anime.

August 2015: Jake and Amir, having quit CollegeHumor earlier that year, start the podcast network Headgum, whose initial slate of podcasts is shows by other CollegeHumor alums.

November 2015: Brennan Lee Mulligan wins $50,000 on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, pays back a loan for medical expenses, and begins the process of relocating to Los Angeles to pursue more opportunities in production and development.

July 2016: Siobhan throws herself a birthday party, inviting people she knows from doing comedy in New York and Los Angeles. At the party, Emily overhears Brennan talking about D&D and corners him to ask him to run a game for her and her friends. During the conversation, Zac turns around, asking what they're talking about, and gets invited too. Siobhan, Zac, Emily, Murph, and Adam Ruins Everything producers Jon Wolf and Travis Helwig start playing in a home game with Brennan DMing. Murph plays a paladin, Emily a druid, Siobhan a ranger, and Zac a monk.

Around the same time: Lou Wilson meets Brennan through Upright Citizens Brigade (where Brennan coaches improv) and begins playing in a different home game as a barbarian. Both of these games are played in 3.5, Brennan's preferred edition of Dungeons & Dragons at the time.

September 2016: Murph, Emily and Caldwell start 8 Bit Book Club, a podcast about video game adaptations, on the Headgum network.

April 2017: Ally Beardsley is hired (along with Raphael Chestang and Rekha Shankar) to join the CollegeHumor sketch-video cast, as Siobhan has left to pursue other opportunities and Murph and Emily are busy with Adam Ruins Everything and Hot Date. During this round of hiring, Brennan is considered but doesn't make the cut, although a few months later he is hired part-time to write questions for Um, Actually. Ally and Zac become close friends and perform improv together.

Summer 2017: Zac leaves CollegeHumor to write on a new season of Adam Ruins Everything. Rather than go through another round of auditions and hires, Sam bumps Brennan up to main cast.

Fall 2017: Wanting more of a return out of their investment, IAC insists on CollegeHumor starting its own streaming service. Existing staff are required to pitch original shows. Brennan is halfway through writing a pitch document for a TTRPG actual play, citing the success of The Adventure Zone and Critical Role, when he is called into a meeting and asked how he would feel about DMing an actual play.

October 2017: Brian Murphy guests on If I Were You, Jake and Amir's flagship podcast, and explains Dungeons & Dragons. Jake is intrigued, Amir not so much.

November 2017: Dimension 20 begins the planning stages. For the next three months, Brennan works with producer David Kerns, coordinator Ebony Hardin, director Michael Schaubach and designer Rick Perry to develop a unique set, feel, and pace for the show. After some chemistry test games, the initial cast is set as Brian Murphy, Emily Axford, Siobhan Thompson, Zac Oyama, Lou Wilson, and Rekha Shankar, who has never played before.

December 2017: At a Headgum Christmas party, Jake Hurwitz corners Murph and suggests that they start a D&D podcast so that Jake can play.

January 18, 2018: Murph, Emily, Caldwell and Jake announce Not Another D&D Podcast on an episode of 8 Bit Book Club.

February 7, 2018: The first shooting day of Fantasy High, which will be the first season of Dimension 20. Only a few weeks before shooting, Rekha has a scheduling conflict and can't fit Dimension 20 in between her duties as head writer of CollegeHumor's sketches and developing other shows for Dropout; Ally Beardsley becomes her replacement at the Dimension 20 table. It is Ally's first time playing D&D at all; it is Brennan, Zac, Siobhan, and Lou's first time playing 5th edition. Earlier that day, Brennan shoots the first CEO video, which will net him viral notoriety and a vocal fanbase within the CollegeHumor audience, with an undercurrent of "finally, a straight white man" to the praise.

February 8, 2018: The first campaign episode of Not Another D&D Podcast is released. It releases weekly thereafter, and they are 32 episodes in and have done their first live show before Dimension 20 premieres.

September 26, 2018: The first two episodes of Fantasy High are available when Dropout goes live. It is the immediate breakout hit of the platform, so much so that the second season, The Unsleeping City, goes into production while Fantasy High is airing; but because it will take so long to edit before it's ready to air, a short "sidequest" is filmed in a weekend with Matt Mercer, Erika Ishii, Amy Vorpahl and Ify Nwadiwe from the online gaming world and Mike Trapp and Rekha from CollegeHumor to tide the audience over, establishing D20's production rhythms for the next several years.

[lilybug-02]

Go save your friend!

Bug Fact: Fig Wasps have a mutualistic relationship with certain fig trees. They pollinate the fruit by laying their eggs in the unpollinated fruit bud. Pictures Below.

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Volume 2 Masterpost ▴♥︎▴

Look at these weird little guys. This one is Pleistodontes froggatti, a fig wasp native to Australia and adapted to Moreton Bay Figs.

[nerdylizard5]

Mighty Nein: Nonagon

Sometimes wild inspiration hits as you’re falling asleep and make a note on your phone and then spend 8 hours over 2 days completing the piece. My subconscious is better than my conscious at art ideas. So enjoy this Critical Role Mighty Nein art I completed last night!

(Prints)

[yourstrulynobody]

The Executioner and the Judge.

Still getting used to drawing NovaFrost, but I'll get the hand of it eventually :)

This is based off what Solar said at 4:38 of SAMS newest ep :D!!!

[mintghostko]

Happy Dannyversary everybody! ✧⁠◝⁠(⁠⁰⁠▿⁠⁰⁠)⁠◜⁠✧

Another scene I made for the DP RePhanimated project :) the yt upload is having some copyright issues right now but you can keep an eye on the channel to check it out later ♪(´▽｀) I had a blast working on my parts and drawing these characters, seeing it all come together has been really really neat (⁠◍⁠•⁠ᴗ⁠•⁠◍⁠)

links to my other scenes :)

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[dooanuh]

should i make charms

[thejukeboxzero]

Alright, alright, I hear y'all, here's pt.3 to this whole situation-

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“Daddy!” Jack's voice rings out again and the blue-eyed man suddenly disappears from Dean’s view, too busy being tackled by a kindergartner.

Dean struggles to his elbows, head still spinning, and see’s Jack’s father is crying. It’s so silent and subtle that Dean doesn't know if the guy’s even aware he’s doing it, hell, Dean only knows because he can see the slight shine on his cheeks.

Jack reaches up and pats his fathers face, “Are you okay?”

The man responds by nodding and cupping the back of Jack's head, hugging him to his chest and burying his nose in Jack's hair, “I am now, yes.”

“Dude,” Dean's view of the heartfelt moment is obstructed by his little brother's massive form kneeling in front of him, too many emotions on his face to properly name, “Why do you have Professor Novaks kid?”

Oh shit.

Dean’s heard of this guy before, Sam’s mentioned him offhandedly as a hard-ass grader with zero emotions at all. What was it he taught? Criminal something-or-other? Dean can’t remember off the top of his head, but he knows it involves Sam reading through books thicker than his head.

“Why were you and your professor running around together? You were supposed to meet me 2 hours ago!” Dean hisses back at Sam, trying to deflect the question.

“We were looking for Jack!” Sam’s eyes are wide as he gestures to the kid, “He wasn’t on campus- Dean, did you take him off campus!?”

“Not on purpose!” Dean scrubs his hands over his face, cheeks burning with shame, “I- I…”

“You what, Dean?” 

Jack’s father is on his feet now, storming towards the Winchesters with Jack held on his hip.

“I thought he was you, Sam,” He hangs his head miserably, “He got in and I didn’t check the rear view and I thought it was you…”

“How?” Sam sounds as confused as he does disappointed, “Dean, for the love of God, how?”

Dean throws his hands up in the air, “It’s been a long day, Sammy!”

“That’s not gonna’ hold up in court!”

Damn, Sam’s in his first year of law school and he’s already turning into a fucking stiff.

He lets out a miserable groan and gets to his feet, knees popping with the movement, “I swear, I turned around the second I saw the kid back there.”

“There shouldn’t have been a kid back there.” Sam stresses.

“Yeah, well, someone-” Dean wheels around, facing the furious looking Professor Novak, “Should teach his kid not to get in strangers cars.”

Sam makes a strangled noise as Novak steps closer to Dean, almost nose-to-bloody-nose with him, “I could have you charged in countless ways for your carelessness.”

“Dude, you decked me.” He gestures to his bloody face.

“You had your hands on my son-”

“Don’t phrase it like that!” Dean’s skin crawls at the implication, “We were just looking for you, ask the kid, he can be my alibi!”

Behind him he’s pretty sure he hears Sam mumble something about children not being reliable alibis, but Dean pointedly ignores him.

“Jack,” Novak is careful not to let Dean out of his sight, even as he glances down at his son, “Can you tell me what happened?”

Jack nods, very seriously for such a little kid, “You said to get in the car so I did but it wasn’t your car and Dean said I shouldn’t get into strangers cars so we came back but you weren’t here-” Jesus Christ, Dean’s not even sure he’s taking breaths as he talks, he’s just letting his words collide with each other like a ten car pile up, “We’ve been looking forever but you found us first and then you hit Dean.”

Jack pauses and frowns, none of the adults daring to fill the silence, before leaning up to stage-whisper in Novaks ear.

“I thought we weren’t supposed to hit people?”

The professor blinks down at his son, looking like he’s at a loss for words.

“Your dad was just protecting you, Jack,” Dean answers, feeling a bit of pity for the dude, “He thought I was a bad guy and wanted to keep you safe.”

“But you’re not a bad guy!” Jack gasps, looking between Dean and his father, “He’s not bad, he has a pet road.”

Novak squints and cocks his head to the side- oh god, it’s genetic- as he processes the words, “A- A what?”

“I work at The Roadhouse, you know, the bar in town? Told him it was called that because it’s a house that has a pet road…” The older Winchester rubs the back of his neck with a sheepish chuckle, “It was funnier in the moment.”

“I’m certain it wasn’t.”

Prick.

“Listen,” Dean offers out a hand, a peace offering of sorts, “I really am sorry about all this, why don’t you stop by The Roadhouse and I’ll hook you up with some free drinks, we can try and put this behind us.”

Professor Novak stares at his hand for a moment, then back up at Dean, face a scary type of expressionless, “You’ll have to excuse me if I’m not keen to see you again anytime soon.” He casts a wayward glance towards Sam, “I will see you in class, rest assured today's events will not affect your standing in this school.” His voice drops to a mumble, just loud enough for Dean to catch, “Lord knows we can’t pick our family.”

Dean whips around to his brother, wanting to exclaim in outrage ‘are you hearing this shit!?’, but Sam’s too busy looking like he might vomit from relief for Dean to get his quip out. He turns on his heel again, wanting to argue with the jackass professor, but he’s already walking away, stupid beige trench coat billowing in the wind, Jack clutched to his chest.

“Bye-Bye, Dean!” The kid shouts with a wide grin and a wave, gestures so bright that they almost balance out the way Novak glances back to give Dean the death glare of the century.

Dean gives Jack a half-hearted wave of his own, waiting till the pair are firmly out of earshot to clap Sam on the shoulder, “He’s got a stick up his ass, don't he?”

“You-” The younger Winchester is pale and Dean’s certain that, if he had a string of pearls, he’d be firmly clutching them, “You kidnapped my professor's kid.”

“Barely.” Dean knows how bad this looks, he really does, but he has his priorities, and a top one will always be tormenting his little brother (it comes right after keeping Sammy safe with every fiber of his being), “Now let’s rock n’ roll, bitch, there’s leftover pie in the fridge with my name on it.”

Sam still seems dazed, shuffling after Dean back towards the parking lot, holding onto his backpack straps with white knuckles.

“T-that- You committed a felony.”

“I didn’t mean to and I brought him right back, use that lawyer brain of yours, Sammy.”

Sammy just looks at Dean like he’s going to be sick.

“Or don’t, you look like you’re gonna’ hurt yourself.”

He herds his brother towards Baby, trying not to think of the way he sort of respects Jack's father for hitting first and asking questions never, he would have done the same for Sam, parental instincts can be a hell of a thing. He can’t be mad at Novak (except for the fact that he never taught Jack stranger danger) he just can’t find it in him and it’s infuriating.

What’s worse is that he’s holding out hope that Novak will take him up on the offer of a free drink despite his obvious distaste for Dean, it’s just…

Dean can’t get those electrifyingly-blue eyes out of his head.

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I'm callin' this little venture 'Communication Breakdown' (at least for now) because A) did you see a lick of good communication from anyone here so far, except for Jack? And 2) Because it's a Zep reference and no one can stop me

Also, gonna' throw a quick apology out to @colorlessjay lol, I dunno' if this is the direction you anticipated from this prompt but.... suppose we're all just dust in the wind

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KCD Memes

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It’s Always Sunny in Pelican Town

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