Blaze's Obsessions

Agender (she/they pronouns), aromantic/asexual working in civil legal aid in USA.

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Hosting site Imgur will remove explicit and anonymous content next month

Older content without account ties also subject to removal, leading to potential link rot.

[unpretty]

so many posts on so many different forums are about to break

[dduane]

In case you hadn’t heard…

[v171]

[gingersprites]

The funniest thing about fandom wank over whether Sansa or Arya is most like Lyanna is that you’re looking past the most obvious candidate aka Robb. Someone who only exists through other people’s memories, a shrine for people to flagellate themselves at, the beautiful dead girl whose absence defines the narrative more than her presence ever could?? That’s literally Robb’s whole point as a character.

[n-award]

All you need to know about whiteboard markers

For it’s time to learn more about this tool

in depth review of 9 sorts of whiteboard markers assessed on a variety of criteria

well worth a read.

[danndesigns]

Once I’ve finished pondering my orb I begin orbiting my pond

[prokopetz]

A thing that bothers me about wizard schools in popular media – outside of the magic-grade-school stuff, anyway – is that they're typically depicted as being basically magic universities, but their actual curricula and pedagogical approaches look much more like those of a technical institution. Like, buddy, that's not a wizard university, that's a wizard trade school. You can't just slap university student culture on top of trade school pedagogy. It doesn't work like that – the one emerges from the other!

[prokopetz]

"Well ACTUALLY wizards are" wizards are made up. They can be analogous to whatever real-world class or vocation the author wants. Wizard-school-as-university and wizard-school-as-technical-institute are both perfectly fine; what I am grumping about is wizard-school media that doesn't seem to have a clear picture of how different sorts of educational institutions actually operate.

[da-boy-o-kultur]

Okay but now I really want to know what a Wizard technician would look like. Would he wear magical overalls with all kinds of reagents and magic tools sticking out of his numerous pockets?

A guy like that walks into your tower with a toothpick in his mouth, takes one look at your summoning circle and goes

“I see yer problem. You used chalk B12 instead of S3. B12 is only for transmutation circles. Gimme a sec I think I have a piece somewhere here.”

He fixes your circle, test summons an imp and goes.

“There ya go. Fit as a fiddle.”

[ruckuscauser]

“It’s the chalk.”

“The chalk? I always use that chalk, it’s never been a problem.”

“Ah - yes. This stuff will work just fine for most circles, but, uh - here, take a look with my loupe. You see the off-color flecks? Can’t hardly see them with the naked eye, but those are impurities. Silicates, might even be some iron in here, to be honest. Usually won’t cause a problem, but - you said you hadn’t tried this particular summons before?”

“First time trying a 5th level, yeah.”

“Those silicates will make your scribing a little fuzzy when viewed from the astral plane. You see, for example, these three fine lines here? With this chalk, on the astral that looks like one thick line with fuzzy edges. They can’t tell exactly what you want, and they’re picky lil’ critters so they just won’t do anything in response.”

“Really? Oh. I always thought the expensive chalk was just fancy to be fancy.”

“Making pure chalk is difficult, you need a dedicated production line or dust gets in the finished product. To be honest, you don’t need to bother with it for most things, but 5th and up, 5th level and up, it actually is necessary. Anything with lines within about two millimeters of each other.”

“So I need to start over?”

“Unfortunately yes. You’ll have to erase all this, but with some good chalk it should work just fine. Next new moon your summons should go off without a hitch.”

“Dang. At least it’s not my sigils, I was worried it was my sigils.”

“Nah Your sigils look good. Even and balanced. You know what you’re doing, it’s just an equipment problem.”

“Thanks for the help, sorry to make you come all the way out here.”

“No problem! It’s my job.”

[weirwoodsugar]

the main value of r+l=j is actually that it makes ned hot. like if jon was really just his kid he would be such a nothing man like this man doesn't look like anything to me. but if he's lyanna's kid ned is suddenly THE KING OF SECRETS and the most audacious man on earth. a secret targaryen baby? in your house?? your best bud is king bob noted targ baby killer? secret targaryen baby IN YOUR HOUSE? and you PULL IT OFF and no one ever finds out and the kid makes it to adulthood and NO ONE EVER FINDS OUT and you just take it to your fucking grave? insane! very sexy! like he and howland reed were like lets never tell anyone 👍 and then they just didn't. LF and varys GAGGED

[kitnjon]

Tags by @lady-griffin

[hungry-skeleton]

I need as many people as possible to watch this video from the official Angry Birds tiktok or else I'll get a fucking hemorrhage

[redbuddi]

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[frontline-titties-of-the-fifth]

im excited to get top surgery bc oh blah blah disphoria back pain slouching not a girl but mainly because i have been planning for over a year a joke thats about to pay off:

my family does not know i am getting surgery so i made sure to get all the same bathings suits i wore last year in a new size and just straight up gas light my aunt about it

[frontline-titties-of-the-fifth]

like imagine her. you go to the beach with your family one day. its a beautiful day and you are obsessed with commenting on peoples bodies. everyone begins removing their coverings and you are now seeing someone who, historically, has bazonga’d with the best of them. this person is no longer breasting boobily. child, you say, what has happened to your one redeeming feminine quality? the child responds, auntie wat the hell you tawking bout? ive always looked like this i literally wore this last year??

[artyphex]

I think the most unintentionally pretentious part of me is I genuinely forget that most people do not have a near-encyclopedic knowledge of mythology and folklore. I literally just assume most people know at least the name of every Greek god. My mom and I were watching the Banshees of Inisherin and at the start, she asked "Do you know what a banshee is?" and I was so stunned because it would never occur to me to ask that question because I would never assume the average person doesn't know what a banshee is. The average person knows what a banshee is right. You know what a banshee is right. You know the names of the greek gods right. You know that norse myth where loki fucked the horse right. Right. RIGHT

[shutupmerlin]

A series of events:

1. I put in an Annual Leave request form almost 3 weeks ago and my boss has not approved it yet

2. I went into my office today and replaced every single writing utensil with crayons in preparation for April Fools Day on Monday

3. Whilst searching for pens to remove, I found my unsigned Annual Leave form in my boss’s drawer

4. I placed my unsigned Annual Leave form in a photo frame and put in on his desk

5. The frame I used was from a photo of his kids that I deemed less important than my Leave form

6. My boss sometimes goes into the office on Saturdays to work

7.

[aerialsquid]

I appreciate the context of 1-6 or else 7 might have had some very concerning implications.

[hues-of-purple]

Reblog if you or someone you know is ace… I’m trying to see something

[magicalgirlmindcrank]

Prommy 👉👈🥺

[openworldadventurer]

Like to charge, reblog to sack the empire and end this fucking age of nightmares.

[musicandmasochism]

Normal

[liberalsarecool]

Activist judge. From Texas.

No science involved. No medical expertise. No women involved in decision.

Federalist Society strikes again. Where are the State's Rights? What about settled law?

Men deciding health care for women is never a good idea.