#tricksy blog

[remyfire]

I think Leo Bardonaro is an anesthesiologist.

One, because an anesthesiologist's job is to take the 10 or 15 minutes max they have with a patient and essentially convince them to put their entire life in their hands. Other doctors and surgeons typically get a significantly longer chunk of time to interact with the patient and answer their questions, but at the end of the day, it is the anesthesiologist who will be keeping the patient alive, stable, and safe while the procedure is going on. For better or worse, Leo has the kind of relaxed, companionable personality that would not only be able to leave a patient laughing, but also to feel entirely at ease—he's confident, he's collected, and if he's not worried about this, why should they be?

Two, because I think he would've had way too much fun making jokes about laughing gas.

[gollancz]

I just stumbled into your beautiful editions and realized, you don't ship to the US?!? *sobbing* Love, love your Terry Pratchett covers.

Ah yes I'm sorry! Some books we can, but it all depends on the rights we managed to acquire. If we don't acquire US and Canadian rights, we legally can't distribute in North America, because those rights belong to someone else.

[crowholtz]

i so desperately want to talk about my CoS pc Helene and her desire to save and 'redeem' Strahd bc she loves him and they're so insanely compatible vs. her struggle with the fact that he's literally a soulless monster and has done terrible horrible things to so many people (and some terrible things to her too tbh)

Helene is in an constant eternal struggle with herself and what she wants, what her duty is, and what she is willing to accept. It drives me crazy

[darlingdollhousevn]

Aaaaa in the one ask about if mc had a partner while Lowell is stalking them the audio sounds like morse code I think?

But I'm not sure how to translate it and can't find any good websites to translate it either (I've spent the last hour trying to translate it belive me 😭)

So could I PRETTY PLEASE- Have a hint on translating it? I'm struggling bad right now-

[_o_d__on _otw____ _or__r_y _ab___ou _tit_,__ _low__e_ _ll_iski _nd__afu _nny__s_ _om____e _ti_me_s __!_____]

:o)

[merlinenilrem]

alright guys if i were to change my icon which one should it be to. ignore the different sizes & stuff i'm just asking about the style

[eddie-gluskin-and-i]

Oh eddie your back I'm so sorry I was on the floor scrubbing the floors when my dress got caught and tore I'm so sorry *Allison said with crocodile tears wearing the 1950's housewife style dress made from fabric scraps torn from my escape attempt unknown to eddie* you tried so hard and I ruined it *she mumbled brushing off his collar playing the good housewife act but my knuckles and fingers were bruised from pulling a hidden vent off*

Darling! How wonderful it is to come home to such a loving wife… Only tell me, dear, what happened to your dress? Oh, and give me your hands! Look at these awful bruises *kiss to the knuckles* What happened?

[markscherz]

i'm curious, when people ask you to identify frogs based on a picture, do you just look at it and immediately know which frog it is and the scientific name for it? or do your thoughts go through some sort of flow chart/process of elimination where you consider different aspects of the frog (colour, size, etc.) until you arrive at a conclusion? or is it a mix of both depending on how distinct the frog is (i'm assuming some are easier to identify than others, yeah?). and do you ever have to look it up to double check? either way, i'm very very impressed by your vast expanse of frowledge (frog knowledge) and i'm learning a lot from your blog!

It is a mixture. The first thing you do is see the whole animal, but get few details on the first pass. That can sometimes be enough. Some frogs are pretty instantly identifiable, even without any other information. But after that, things get a bit more deductive. Here, location is key. Knowing where a frog was seen is incredible helpful in narrowing down among the possibilities. Frogs are typically very range-restricted, so location helps me get to a list of possibilities.

Then there are a few more super obvious characters to look for. The 'habitus', i.e. how the frog sits, is important. The relative eye size. The length of the limbs. The fingers and toes, and the presence of webbing between them. Toads are almost always instantly identifiable by the parotid glands. Knowing these kinds of family-features makes things easier.

Colour is tricksy. It is very tempting to rely on colour to get to an ID, but frog colouration is IMMENSELY variable, and some species change dramatically by mood, or time of day, or ambient illumination. People like to use dorsal stripes to identify species, but they are almost always polymorphic (i.e. there are almost always individuals in the population without them). So, beware of colour.

To your last point, I almost always double check. Firstly, it is embarrassing to be wrong, and I hope that I lack the hubris to assume I am always right when it comes to these identifications (not least because I am really specialised on Madagascar, and the rest of the world's frogs are still comparatively unfamiliar to me). Secondly, I may have a rather broad overview of frog diversity, but I am far from a global expert, and there is always a chance that there are frogs that could be confused with a given one, of which I am not aware. I really want to fight the misinformation, so I try to only give species identifications if I can do so confidently, or otherwise couch my identification with caveats.

[annabelle--cane]

You’ve hit 10k now deactivate & move to a new blog (silly, not hate anon)

alas I signed a deal with a tricksy fairy in the eighth grade and now I have to keep running this blog until the day my fingers can no longer type

[suzukiblu]

hi! happened across a post of yours someone reblogged and have promptly fallen down the rabbit-hole (your writing is AMAZING by the way oh my gosh) but I'm struggling a bit with finding like, all the snippets in one AU at once. do you have a taglist of your stories/AUs somewhere? if yes, please could you provide a link to it? thank you! I hope you have a great day

Thank you, glad to hear you're enjoying my stuff! ❤️ And I do have a taglist, yes, it's supposed to be linked on my blog's main page sidebar but apparently doesn't always show up because it's a custom layout, so THANKS for that, Tumblr, hah. The list can be found here, though!

Also in case the link decides to be tricksy because I know that's a thing sometimes at least on mobile:

https://suzukiblu.tumblr.com/assorted-aus

[cookinguptales]

I'd love a reading as always! I've currently got Danse Macabre by Ghost stuck in my head, haha

Sorry for the delay! My blog seems to be in working order again now. lmao

Danse Macabre (Ghost)

(Not the Danse Macabre I'm used to, but still fun!)

(Seven of Swords, The World, Nine of Cups)

You know, I have to admit. This spread made me laugh. There really is a vibe of "crime always pays" here.

The Seven of Swords is generally a card about betrayal. It means that someone is being sneaky and underhanded, a sword hidden in the grass. But is being sneaky always such a bad thing? Raccoons are tiny criminals and we still love them.

With that in mind, the Seven of Swords can also mean that you need to achieve your goals in an unorthodox way. Not necessarily cruel or immoral, but... you are certainly looking for a back door of sorts. You might have to be a little tricksy to achieve your goals here. Think Trojan Horse rather than Benedict Arnold, y'know?

I'm just hoping you don't go too far! Please use your cleverness for good!

The funny thing is that the rest of this spread is so positive. Like, if you get your grubby little raccoon paws over this situation your own way, you will succeed.

The World is a card about wholeness and completion. It generally symbolizes the end of a cycle (in a positive way) and a sense of totality. You'll often see this at the end of a job well done, and it tends to have a strong sense of catharsis.

The Nine of Cups is often referred to as the "wish card" because it means that your wishes will come true. This is a card overflowing with happiness and contentment, and it usually indicates that something you've wanted for a long, long time has come to pass.

So putting it all together... I guess go forth, be gay, do crimes, etc. Have fun and enjoy your rewards. Just try not to go too far!

[naddpod-arc-tournament]

Eldermourne Arc Tournament

We can't have a blog for NADDPod tournaments without venturing into the dark and lovely, sinister and tricksy world of Eldermourne as well! Fewer episodes, fewer arcs, fewer rounds, but all the sweeter for it.

Update: We have our winner-- the Hexbloods arc!

Bracket:

Links to the polls:

Round One: polls here

Semifinals: polls here

Finals: poll here

[whoiwanttoday]

When I was a kid there was this big push suddenly to make Halloween costumes more visible so kids weren't hit by cars. It always felt a bit like bullshit to me because I knew a lot of kids as a kid and I didn't know a single one who was hit by a car. Not any day much less Halloween. As an adult I realize that perhaps that wasn't the greatest sample size but also we went out Trick or Treating alone by like the age of 7 so if our parents were that concerned they could have left the house but it was a time when parents didn't do that. I mean, they left the house, they just didn't remember they had kids half the time and we would get up, go outside, and they might notice in a few days if we ever made it home. The solution the parents in my neighborhood came up with was to get these bright silver reflective stickers and put them all over our costumes. It was fucking ridiculous and I remember telling my mom then entire point of being a ninja was not to be seen, no one would think I looked like a ninja if I was covered in reflective tape. Then my mom said the third meanest thing she ever said to me, "No one was going to think you looked just like a ninja either way". Anyway, being clever like we were we just took the stickers off of each other once we left the house and our parents being inattentive didn't even notice there was no reflective tape by the time we got home. They also didn't notice that we watched Halloween 3 on TV and that was a movie about kids our age getting murdered on Halloween and boy just the theme scared me shitless. Anyway, this is a lot of talk about a post that isn't about Halloween, it's about visibility. It's lesbian visibility day which means it's time to shed some light on those stealthy lesbians. Probably my favorite stealthy lesbian is @kat-eleven (along with @wildflagsure who is so committed to remaining in the shadows she hasn't posted in 5 years despite still reading my blog but that's because she always says she must remain hidden and tricksy in Dolos' honor) who is always walking places, like to her home or the store or her dad's house so is in extra danger. So we want to get both of them more visible. First of all, everyone send messages encouraging @kat-eleven to wear bright orange vests and high visibility tape today because I don't know any lesbians who have been hit by cars but the irony of it would be too much to bear today of all days. Second, I am posting Alysha Newman who is not a lesbian which is why you can easily see her in these pictures but is known to be loved by lesbians, so my hope is lesbians see this post and wear bright clothing. Stay safe girls. Today I want to fuck Alysha Newman.

[moonkssd]

Wrong blog but!

I wonder if John is innately afraid of Chairman Rose because the man seems so Fae-like. You know how tricksy and nasty they can be...smiling, but always scheming. Maybe that's what it is.

Chairman Rose smiles like an evil fairy.

[wearethekat]

April Book Reviews: Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

Recommended highly by multiple people on here and also by an author blog I follow. Prickly scholar Emily Wilde has traveled to Iceland in order to gather research for a seminal work on the faeries native to there. Unfortunately, her irritatingly charming rival professor Bambleby has taken it into his head to visit her-- and the faeries of Iceland may be stranger and more dangerous than she realized.

I found this book to be absolutely as charming as it was advertised to be. The sweetness and relatively fairy-tale tones is leavened by Emily's personality. She's difficult, prickly, and genuinely very bad with people, sometimes to the point of cruelty. She is, however, very very good at her job, which is fun to read about even when the job is fictional. Her foil is the likeable and frivolous Bambleby, who's accurately been compared to book Howell Jenkins. Which obviously makes for very interesting character interactions.

Contains: dangerous ice faeries, concerning levels of academic pedantry, tricksy brownies, and a story about stories. Highly recommended.

[ineffablefool]

programming note: this blog will remain a safely non-tricksy place throughout the entirety of April 1st in all time zones.  stay soft 💜

[bumblewarden]

Unusual OC Associations

>>-Novhen Tabris--|>

tagged by @apostacism (ty!) tagging you back in case you want to run another oc through and also tagging @heniareth @icy-warden and @scarletkilometers if any of you want to do this as well

Seasoning: star anise (technically a spice but w/e)

Weather: the morning fog after a long night of rain

Colour: so sage green (i know that's not sage but i'm not messing with html today) is the novhen color, but i often also tie him to a lot of blues due to his heavy association with the wardens

Sky: late at night when the moon and stars are just barely visible from behind fast-moving clouds

Magic power: invisibility

House plant: baby tears plant

Weapon: bow and arrow 🏹

Subject: history!

Social media: he wouldn't really use social media, but maybe tumblr for the relative anonymity. blogging platforms generally might be more his speed 🤔

Make-up product: ...kaddis? (i don't know make up sry)

Candy: black licorice

Fear: causing harm to those he's been trying to protect

Ice cube shape: i want to say regular, spartan cubes, but also, i imagine he'd get a good kick out of those novelty ice cube molds and would want one with little fishies for special events

Method of long distance travel: until someone invents the train, the answer is wagon

Art style: more of a technique than a style but ✨chiaroscuro✨

Mythological creature: is it cheating to say griffon? yes? probably a sphinx then. both are tricksy guardians

Piece of stationery: rubber band

3 emojis: 🌙🙄🧵

Celestial body: the moon :3