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A far cry from my usual posting, some dear friends and I are launching a 5e D&D actual play podcast! You can find it on Spotify at the link below or on Apple and Amazon music by searching The Cinders Wake.

When the mountain city of Kurapa finds itself beseiged by extraplanar evils, three citizens turned heroes must fight tooth and nail to save it. I hope you can enjoy!

amareergosum

WE’RE DOING A THING AND IM SO PROUD OF IT

people saying “don’t use your full government name for your ao3”, “create different emails for work and personal use” but personally I think it’s both sad and dystopian how capitalism/companies/even schools think they have the rights to cross your personal boundaries and insert themselves into your personal life. like, I get it, safety wise, why checking digital footprints can be important sometimes. but a gay fanfiction is not a fucking threat that could ever cause anybody harm. it’s funny (not really, it’s still sad and dystopian) how they now think they can control your personal life and prevent you from having hobbies

sashayed

but ykw at least i'm not on mount everest. at least i'm not paying tens of thousands of dollars to slowly suffocate in a 300-person line at the gates of hell. never in my life will i have to be steered in a hypoxic stupor through the maze of poop and corpses atop mount everest. on this earth a lot of horrible things can happen to you without your permission but there are a few that you have to opt into. you can just say no thanks! and be guaranteed never to have to be on mount everest. much to be grateful for actually

sashayed

still not on mount everest this morning 😌 alhamdulillah

sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog

My signature is worth negative 2 dollars and 82 cents.

captaindibbzy

tigeristired

i think 'I trust you with my life but not your own' as a trope is one of the ones that can always fuck me up no matter what

marvellouslymadmim

"I trust you with my life because you are good and kind and noble--I know you will not hesitate to do everything in your power to save me.

I do not trust you with your own life because you are good and kind and noble--I know you would not hesitate to sacrifice yourself to save me."

THAT is where it's at!!!!!

butchscientist

you will never catch me complaining about an actress on a tv show having an imperfectly concealed pregnancy or a character going on a sudden trip somewhere while her actress is on maternity leave. so many actresses (and women working in any other field) are fired, punished and pressured into making reproductive decisions for their employers' convenience & if i have to try a bit harder to suspend my disbelief then that's absolutely what i'm going to do if it means people are getting to exercise reproductive & bodily autonomy without punishment

yellow-cat

here's my cat for your dash btw. if you even care

one-time-i-dreamt

I care very much

fttitv

breakfastless behavior

wolves-willow

ITS MARCH YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS

forgot about stains, i really thought they were just listing off some things

the-haiku-bot

forgot about stains,

i really thought they were just

listing off some things

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

opendirectories

dragongirlsweetie

elodieunderglass

Thank you @bentothuglife ! Natural history used to be a bit more loosey-goosey

cheeseanonioncrisps

See I love this though, because this is one of the few pieces of medieval natural history where, as batshit insane as it is, the reasoning behind it does actually make sense.

See, barnacle geese live in the UK, but they don't breed here. They travel to the arctic to have their babies and don't return until they're fledged.

So, from the medieval perspective— given that most medieval brits weren't really in a position to go down to the arctic and check out the wildlife— barnacle geese a) vanished every summer and b) didn't seem to lay eggs or have babies. They just showed up at the same time every year, already basically grown.

Enter the goose barnacle.

The goose barnacle, supposedly, has a similar pattern and colouration to the barnacle goose. I can't really see it myself, except that they both have white patches, but medieval people apparently could.

Crucially, however, the goose barnacle likes to attach itself to driftwood, meaning that branches would regularly wash up on UK beaches covered in them. People at the time (not unreasonably) assumed that this meant that the barnacles grew on trees, whose branches later snapped off and fell in the water.

So, we have all these geese who vanish every summer and then emerge later in the year as full grown adults. And we have all these barnacles that apparently grow on trees (where birds like to live) and have a similar colouration to the geese.

So like, it's insane from a modern perspective, but you can see how they got there.

But ALSO, because your barnacle goose was born from a barnacle, many people at the time argued that it was technically a fish in the eyes of the Catholic church. At a time when nobody was allowed to eat meat significant chunks of the year, this was a useful myth to believe in.

The church, incidentally, did not agree with it. Not because they rejected the idea that barnacle geese spontaneously generated from barnacles— they were all in favour of that— but because, in the words of one writer “if anyone were to eat of the leg of our first parent (Adam) although he was not born of flesh, that person could not be adjudged innocent of eating meat”.