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[targetedknowledge]

[ewoly5]

[hoerrrru]

The last of the academic drawings I want to show

My semester composition on "Pyramids" by Terry Pratchett

[moonmargaritas]

Vetinari: Do you want to know how I actually hurt my wrist?

Moist: Yes.

Vetinari: I was hula hooping. Drumknott and I attend a class for fitness and for fun.

Moist: Oh, my God.

Vetinari: I've mastered all the moves. The pizza toss, the tornado, the scorpion, the oopsie-doodle.

Moist: Why are you telling me this?

Vetinari: Because no one will ever believe you.

Moist: You sick son of a bitch.

[ahmnorhein-zkn]

Repost, now do your honors.

[jkl-fff]

Trans people just existing is no more sexual than when cis people just exist.

[fishing-princess]

I Defeated the Demon Lord but it Turns Out the Demon Army was Largely Unaffected and I Fell Victim to a Flawed Belief in Great Man Theory

[leftcosine]

I Executed The Demon Lord With One Flawless Strike And After A Brief Power Struggle The New Demon Government Is Substantially More Committed To The War Because Of Some Reason I Don't Know

[humanfist]

I Successfully Overthrew The Demon Lord And Instituted Demon Democracy But They Voted For A Commie So The CIA Not Some Fantasy Equivalent The Actual CIA Who Have Known About Magic And Alternate Realms The Whole Damn Time But Won't Just Unisekai Me Launched A Counter Coup And That's When Things Really Went To Shit

[wearepaladin]

The Red Knight/Inomina Universe by AmiThompson_h

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[midwestvivian]

Cities where the sun is hidden

[viejospellejos]

What the duck?

[humanbeanisnotamused]

[Description: the video is captioned "Find the duck game", and we see several blindfolded women in hijabs groping around an enclosed ring while spectators look on, cheering and laughing . After a few seconds the camera pans so that you can see the duck, who is waddling around, casually yet resolutely resisting capture. Periodically the women collide with each other. They do not find the duck. End ID]

[elvashayam]

#it is a beautiful day in indonesia and you are a terrible duck

tags via @humanbeanisnotamused

[hasufin]

That duck is having the most fun of anyone present.

[socialpants]

There's an awful trend in reading that's this CinemaSins kind of rejection of abstract concepts and suspension of disbelief, that makes people say it's bad writing when authors use descriptions that aren't immediately one to one with physical reality.

Like it's bad when a "tattoo is undulating" (as opposed to... "drawn in a wave like pattern on the skin"?), or when hair is "wet wheat from a late Summer field" (as opposed to "sort of brownish light yellow that dries lighter, but is not actual wheat stalks growing on someone's head but kind of reminiscent of the color and texture"?), or when when ice cream tastes like midnight at the fair" (as opposed to "ice cream flavour bringing back memories of undefined ice cream flavours that are individually popular but always tied to a memory of late evening at the fair ground and probably smelling vaguely like popcorn and sugar"?).

Please. We have to get back to understanding abstract descriptions that evoke feelings and memories and mental images or things we haven't experienced yet. This hyper utilitarian way of reading and judging text is killing fiction. it's robbing you of experiencing things you haven't actually personally experienced.

[ordheist]

NEW BOOK ALERT

28 page sci-fi bestiary styled as a vintage naturalist book. if you're a fan of Pikmin, speculative biology, or just looking at little beasties, you may enjoy Observations of a Small Boulder in Hantu Forest

digital release only for now, only 4 bucks! I’m trying to offload commission work and get a bit of income from my personal work, so any support is deeply deeply appreciated

https://ordheist.itch.io/observations

Observations of a Small Boulder in Hantu Forest by ordheist

A 28 page bestiary cataloguing various alien lifeforms in a small forest clearing.

[an-na-ko]

Please don't tell my vet

said criminal:

[vieaulette]

[vieaulette]

[harkamal]

I like finding out what people my age and older had as their first cell phone. Anybody younger and their answer is a generic Android or iPhone. Phones from the 2000s were some wacky device like the sidekick or samsung x83 or lg env2

My first phone was a nokia 1112 in 2008

[funnytwittertweets]

[thenightgaunt]

I ran an Aliens rpg years back. But the players didn't KNOW it was an Aliens game until halfway through the first session.

They thought it was a sci-fi game but they also thought the monsters were going to be zombies.

Over a period of 2 hours they then proceeded to make EVERY Aliens movie cliche "mistake" known to man. Because at the time they all made sense.

The characters in a story don't know they're in a story or what kind of story it is.

They might think their in a romcom instead of a slasher movie. And if you're not in a slasher movie, why the fuck would you search through every closet in your house just because a cup mysteriously fell off a table in the dining room?

[teawitch]

Characters in a murder mystery should have some fairly good clues they're in a murder mystery.

Though admittedly at least one character doesn't find out in time.

[puppygirllaika]

This is gonna sound like a completely random aside, but go check out this talk from Nickolas Means about Three Mile Island. It deals with the narratives we create following a major incident, which he describes as first stories (seeking to identify who to blame) and second stories (seeking the systemic reasons why people made the decisions they did), and it very much lines up with the concept of "the character doesn't know what genre they're in", but applied to real life as a framework for understanding decision making in high-stakes situations. It's not perfect, but it is very interesting, and has stayed stuck in my mind for years now.

[emp-roar]

The Doorman, 1898. A clayface comic study.

[valmillion]

it was international jazz day and all you guys listened to was a single album??

[frankiedotbiz]

[girlnephew]

not even close to joking when i say that everyone going "meeeee :3" in the notes needs to ask themselves why they're so much more willing to listen to jazz that isn't made by black artists

[balkanbruiser]

If you like Casiopea, check out some classic jazz funk fusion albums like Head Hunters by Herbie Hancock or Return to Forever by Chick Corea.

If you like the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack, check out some later period big band albums like Mingus Ah Um by Charles Mingus and The Roar of '84 by Buddy Rich.

If you like the Persona soundtrack, check out some more modern jazz fusion albums with electronic elements like Black Focus by Yussef Kamaal or Freedom Fables by Nubiyan Twist.

[catchymemes]

[thespectacularspider-girl]

Fun fact, The Questing Beast of Arthurian Legend is the result of people attempting to describe what a giraffe was, then being explained and drawn by people who have never actually seen it.

The Questing Beast was said to have a head and neck of a snake (long neck), body of leopard (coat pattern), hind legs of a lion (tufted tail) and feet of a deer (”hooves:).

[pixie-mask]

I’m having emotions at this artwork. It’s caught between fright and awe; fascination and fear.

[supreme-leader-stoat]

Behold, a unicorn.

[boss-of-the-plains]

He got two horns tho

[supreme-leader-stoat]

*record scratch*

*music starts back up*

BEHOLD, A UNICORN

[puppygirllaika]

I’ll be honest, i’ve always thought a lot of this was reaching, as folks have a bad habit of making these kinds of claims about the origins of historical myths without any real backing, but I was actually able to find what seems to be a relatively authoritative source from 2004 that tracks the etymology of the questing beast back to the giraffe along several paths, so that one at least seems like it might be accurate. That being said, there are numerous descriptions of the questing beast, and while the more giraffe like ones are the most common today, there have been other versions whose descriptions are a far cry from anything that could be interpreted as a giraffe, so still, take it with a grain of salt. As the mentioned source makes heavy note of, the questing beast was more meant as a metaphor than a literal creature, even if it’s description may have been drawn from a real animal.

Nickel, Helmut. “What Kind of Animal was the Questing Beast?” Arthuriana 14, no. 2 (2004): 66-69. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/art.2004.0088.