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Night Watch, by Terry Pratchett

We get, rightfully imo, pretty sad and somber and naval-gazey about Discworld and Sir Terry on the 25th of May but I need everyone who might be discovering this series through this annual outpouring of love and sadness to know that these books are mostly just really fucking funny. Like, they're heart-wrenching and poignant but really they can only pull that off because they're also the funniest books ever written. There's a line near the end of Hogfather that, when I read it, made me feel more deeply connected to, like, the concept of humanity then I ever have before, but the book was only able to deliver that because the rest of it is about what if Santa Claus got kidnapped and a Big Skeleton had to take over his job? It's a patently ridiculous series but that is absolutely also where it's power comes from.

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The complete Castles & Crusades cover art tribute to 1st edition Dungeons & Dragons:

AD&D Players Handbook (TSR, 1978) / C&C Players Handbook (Troll Lord Games, 8th printing alternate cover, 2021)

AD&D Dungeon Masters Guide (TSR, 1979) / C&C Castle Keepers Guide (TLG, 3rd printing alternate cover, 2020)

AD&D Monster Manual (TSR, 1977) / C&C Monsters & Treasure (TLG, 5th printing alternate cover, 2021)

fenmori

ID: an iridescent black dragon shimmering with purples and oranges on a black background speckled with stars. there are multiple small wings coming from its head and at irregular points on its body, as well as four legs with bird-like talons. glowing constellations, starmaps, and orbital arcs cross its body like markings. its face almost looks like it is grimacing, and tears made of glowing gold stars fall from its eyes. end ID

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You ever seen a Candy crab? I haven't heard about them until today! They look pretty!

lil guy.... pink as hell.... 10000/10

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love that scientists took one look at this and decided, quite rightly, that it had forbidden candy quality

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@partyhorn

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[Image ID: A kitten labeled “me, a depressed queer d&d player” snuggles with a teddy bear labeled “my emotional support d&d character.” End ID.]

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The Naughty Pelican Trying to Eat Capybaras Bathing in Hot Springs Recreated on a No-Bake Cheesecake

@magsgotswags

No, no it isn’t.

Yup

revisited mermay day 02: Courage!

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Context:

The lady is a succubus, which in this setting is mostly human but with superpowered pheromones that passively make humans aroused just by being in the same room and essentially drug people out of their minds if she touches them directly. [The effect is so strong that there’s an entire government agency devoted to observing (from a long distance) all known succubi to make sure they aren’t starting suicide cults or going on murder-rape binges or whatever.] This causes her a variety of problems in life; she has to get up extremely early and stay at work late to take mostly-empty trains in order to avoid being in a crowded metal box full of humans, for example. But worst is her nonexistent love life, because how can you ever be confident that somebody has genuine romantic feelings for you if you’re supernaturally attractive to everybody? Is it ever morally acceptable to have sex if holding hands is effectively a date-rape drug?

The guy is a perfectly ordinary biology teacher, who crashed into her in the halls on his first day and got a huge dose of aphrodisiac. But she is a Respected Colleague so it would be Highly Unprofessional to think of her that way, not to mention how Inappropriate it would be for a high school teacher to do or say anything while there might be students around, and wait a minute wouldn’t treating her differently just because of her biology be Super Racist? so obviously it is his Duty to act Perfectly Normal and pretend that he Feels Nothing.

She sees that he seems to have no reaction, and this sparks her interest. Is he immune to her powers? Clearly this requires further investigation! For entirely scientific purposes, not because if he falls for her he’d be the first guy she could trust to do so for legitimate non-chemical reasons (and totally not because she might be able to bone him without feeling bad about it).

So you’ve got the world’s dorkiest succubus clumsily trying to seduce this guy and he’s trying very hard to drink enough Respect Women juice to make up for over half his blood travelling south every time he sees her. Then for added fun several of their students catch on to these shenanigans and they ship it so they decide to “help”.

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you know I can respect that premise.

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I really love the anime this is from, too! Interviews with monster girls. It deals with monsters in every day life, in a realistic way where they have physical challenges living in a world that isn’t designed for them, and face a lot of discrimination and misunderstanding socially. A few monsters find each other in a high school and become great friends who have different challenges (different types of monsters), but understand and support each other. The Biology teacher is interested in what their life is like and is trying to learn more about them by talking to them.