Musings of a Dark Lord

Main Blog, Primarily consisting of randomness and WoW stuff. Bnet: DarkLordTaco#11435 /// Discord: Dark Lord Taco#9480

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Mini forests created by Masahiko Kimura (b.1940), one of the most famous and important bonsai masters of contemporary Japan.

[noirandchocolate]

“Why does the third of the three brothers, who shares his food with the old woman in the wood, go on to become king of the country? Why does James Bond manage to disarm the nuclear bomb a few seconds before it goes off rather than, as it were, a few seconds afterwards? Because a universe where that did not happen would be a dark and hostile place. Let there be goblin hordes, let there be terrible environmental threats, let there be giant mutated slugs if you really must, but let there also be hope. It may be a grim, thin hope, an Arthurian sword at sunset, but let us know that we do not live in vain.”

— Terry Pratchett, “Let There Be Dragons” (A Slip of the Keyboard)

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This is exactly why grimdark GoT-type fantasy does exactly nothing for me.

[karalora]

I swear I reblog this every damn time

[alpha-beta-gamer]

Webbed is a wonderful web-slinging arachnid platforming adventure starring a ridiculously cute little spider.

Read More & Play The Alpha Demo, Free (Steam) 

[blackbearmagic]

@edderkopper

[taretaglia]

Hey. Stay warm this winter by purchasing a blanket from KotahBear - a native owned and operated group by Kotah and Missy, two members of the Diné tribe. While you’re at it, buy some cool jewelry while supporting native owned businesses.

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as much as the concept of Jesus being a fairly normal lad has its charms, im personally very intrigued by the idea of him being just… extremely weird. not even in a mystical sense, just…….staggeringly BIZZARRE. 

you go to the well to get some water, and here’s Miriam’s boy, staring at the sky, completely still. his expression is unreadable. you hazard a hello and ask how he’s doing, and he slowly, unblinkingly, lowers his gaze on you (he’s 8 and is missing his frontal teeth, not that this is making you any less uncomfortable) and says “I cannot speak of the state of my being, Nathan son of Saul, my brother, but rejoice for the water you shall take today will be as pure as the soul of the children of Heaven”

…you start sweating

[secifosseluce]

normal person in 1st century Nazareth: making my way downtown, walking fast

*sees J boy, 8 yo, staring at you from across the street*

normal person: walking faster 

[secifosseluce]

even funnier, the only person 100% on board with his Prophetic Kid Talk is his mother Miriam, an otherwise placid, absolutely normal woman around 25 or so

kid JC, coming home at twilight, a single white dove following him and chirping with weirdly human-like precision:

 moth̫́er,̦͌ ̮̉i h͙̉av͔̽e ͓͗b̘̃r̞̓o̮͘u̲̒gh̟͒t̺́ you a do̗͐ṽ͙e̢͘ ͈̾m͒͢a͈̽dē̝ ỏ̘f ͈̓c̆͜l͔̂aỷ͇ aṋ̑d̳̿ g͢͞i̹̾fted̖͡ ̻͐it ͓͂w̖̿it̎͜h t̥̃h͙͒e ̨̒m̧̂i̡̍ŗ͒â̫cḷ̔è̤ ̛̻of̞̅ l̘̈i̛̦fè̳

Miriam: ! that’s my little boy :) now let’s go get ready for dinner :) 

her husband Yosef, a carpenter who only marginally got signed up for this: 

[bargains-by-duckface]

This post is so Christian, but it’s the spicy kind of Christian that gets you murdered by other Christians for heresy, so I’m torn.

[secifosseluce]

literally biggest form of compliment i’ve ever gotten

[moonsterm]

that means the angels are babysitters then

[moonsterm]

here have more

[patricia-von-arundel]

You guys really need to read Christopher Moore’s Lamb, if you haven’t.

[frikinnerd]

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[moonsterm]

I made more. cause it’s fun

[crap-copper]

I love that you guys used their actual names

[moonwaterwitchery]

I recently found myself in a conversation where I was defending Fenrir’s validity as a figure one can worship or follow. My opponents held that Fenrir is, without a doubt, nothing but a destructive monster who has no real place in the pantheon. He was proud and quarrelsome, yes, but he did not come to despise the Aesir until they betrayed him.

He was raised by the Gods and hand fed by Tyr. Can you imagine how it must have felt to have been double crossed by the one you trusted most? They bound him and ran his jaws through with a blade, causing him agonizing pain, and for what? Because of a prophecy that he would become the World Eater?

If you ask me, the Aesir created the World Eater. Fenrir isn’t just a destroyer. He is an embodiment of vengaence and retribution. I fear that this perspective lost me a friend’s respect this weekend, but I simply cannot accept the notion that Fenrir is nothing more than a violent monster that was kept at bay for a time.

In following Fenrir, I’ve learned that sometimes, anger is good. It is always a reaction to a perceived injustice. Sometimes, injustice can be resolved without drastic measures. But sometimes, you have to be willing to burn it all down in order to have a chance at making things right. Fenrir teaches me not to fear or be ashamed of my rage and righteous indignation. He teaches me to harness it.

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[accelerationist-king-piccolo]

Dope

[mourge]

talk about getting two birds stoned at once

[the-library-alcove]

That just means that the local economies will be able to recover without a predatory megacorp sucking them dry as well!  What a win-win!

And that’s not a joke: The average Walmart Supercenter costs taxpayers between $900,000 and $1,750,000 (since they don’t pay their employees a living wage, the workers have to go on public assistance programs) this is intentional, since Walmart accepts SNAP, it means that they not only get to skimp on paying their workers properly, they can also funnel taxpayer money into their bottom line.  

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Fuck Walmart :)

[explorerrowan]

Every last member of the Walton family is a criminal.

[luxwing]

Good morning to Gandalf the gray, Gandalf the white, Monty Python and the Holy Grail's black knight, Benito Mussolini, the Blue Meanie, Cowboy Curtis, Jambie the genie, Robocop, The Terminator, Captain Kirk, Darth Vader, Lo-pan, Superman, every single Power Ranger, Bill S. Preston, Theodore Logan, Spock, The Rock, Doc Oct, and Hulk Hogan

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[prokopetz]

Look, I know facile trope inversion is for weenies, but I still really want to see a JRPG-style game where the shouty teenage boy who gives long speeches about the power of friendship is the fragile healer and the girl with the gentle piano-and-strings theme song and self-sacrificing “must save everyone” attitude is the melee tank. I don’t think I’m being unreasonable here.

[prokopetz]

I’m not even being ironic – I honestly think it would work better that way. Like, let’s put power-of-friendship boy in a position where he actually needs to rely on his friends to get anything done, rather than just talking about how they’ve inspired him while he solos the final boss. And as for Little Miss Messiah Complex, well, tell me you can’t perfectly picture how the standard tank protagonist move where you intercept a blow meant for a critically wounded party member, facetank a fucktillion points of damage, then get back up again with one hit point and a voice quip about how the baddies will have to do better than that would play out under her idiom. You can see it, right?

[prokopetz]

People in the notes are looking at the second one saying “that’s just She-Ra, that’s just–” no, it isn’t. Gentle piano-and-strings theme song, remember? It’s essential that each archetype’s stock personality remain intact, and only the role changes.

She’s sweet. She’s humble. She wears homespun dresses and grows pretty flowers in her free time. She has that vibe that says “I’m going to die halfway through the game to make my boyfriend sad”, except that doesn’t happen, because the baddies don’t have a big enough gun.

I want to see the obligatory scene where the bad guy’s army is burning down her Beloved Peasant Village™, and she’s standing between the evil commander and a group of soulful orphans, begging with tears in her eyes for him to see that there’s already been enough death – except when he callously rejects her entreaties and moves to backhand her out of the way, she catches his armoured fist mid-swing, without even the faintest tremor of effort, and in a tone of infinite patience informs him: “You misunderstand, sir: it’s not our lives I’m pleading for.”

And then she punches people until all the soldiers run away and feels conflicted about it afterwards.

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