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bonetrader

fae (they/them): Do you want to get rid of me?

me ( / ): Yes. No, wait...

fae (they/them): It's too late.

( / ): Why?!

#fae #fairy #fey

slingerapen

cats know keyboard shortcuts even microsoft doesnt know about

memeuplift

athelind

It's a d

it's a dus

It's a dust bu

thehumantrampoline

I kept forgetting my nighttime antidepressant so I set an alarm where the sound was a recording of me saying "HEY. TAKE YOUR FUCKING PILL" because I thought it would be funny. It was funny about three times, and then it started making me mad and I'd dismiss it right away to make it stop. So I handed my phone to my partner, who made another recording sweetly saying "Okay Shira, it's time to take your medication" and now I don't get mad anymore and I take my pill. The "compassion over punishment" camp has gotta get something wrong one of these days

complexcrow

one of my friends often forgot to take her meds despite setting an alarm, so I set an alarm on my phone, and when it's med time, I send silly memes to remind her. if I message her, she takes her meds without fail, and sometimes, if we're on a call, you can hear her react to the alarm: "shut up you heinous thing" usually with a lot of cussing the alarm out, and it's so crazy how transforming a habit from a negative experience into a positive one makes a person so much more likely to engage with it in a positive way.

thestuffedalligator

I have never played Pathfinder but the adventure that ends with the party going to 1918 Russia to kill Rasputin lives in my brain rent free. The canonical adventure path where Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin traps his mother Baba Yaga using the inventions of Nikola Tesla. The canonical officially licensed adventure path where Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin is actually the father of Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanov and magically resurrected her after the Russian revolution.

thestuffedalligator

Things I really like about Rasputin Must Die:

The myth of Rasputin being poisoned, shot, and then drowned is canonized in his stat block, which states that he has to be killed three times before he’s killed permanently

Rasputin is said to have received a vision of the Virgin Mary when he was 18, prompting him to go to St. Petersburg and offer assistance to the royal family. In the game it was actually his half-sister telepathically contacting him from another dimension

Adventure path author Brandon Hodge has written about how he wanted the adventure to fit within our own historical timeline with “no distracting historical hiccups,” including the fact that the bodies of all the Romanov children had been conclusively identified in 2007. So despite being obviously inspired by the conspiracy theory that Anastasia escaped the Bolsheviks, the game’s answer to the question “How did Anastasia survive the revolution” is “Oh no she didn’t. She was dead as hell”

Half-elf with a tachanka

crazywolfthick

Fun facts:

After this adventure concludes, Baba Yaga (who is Rasputin’s grandmother) then spirits Anastasia away into the canonical world of Pathfinder and makes her a queen of a land of witches.

Where she’s now trying to explain to a bunch of magical people whose technology ended before the Industrial Revolution how to make trains because she wants to reestablish the Trans-Siberian Railroad, but make it Golarion.

And to appease her desires, her vast land of ice witches have crafted this

Tbh of all of the things I’ve managed to put into Pathfinder, this is my greatest creation.

allosaurusfragilis

Hey! Who wants to see a picture of a meh mech and an android girl and her monkey?

cupcraft

You never know what color pallette someone's Tumblr is till ppl are screenshotting posts and tags

aropride

do u like mine

cupcraft

Oh wow.

cupcraft

Some people on tumblr are reading ancient scrolls and you'd never know

prokopetz

Look, when you see someone talking about a particular bit of tabletop RPG rules tech and your first reaction is "well, that just doesn't sound practical", your first question should be whether you've actually identified a problem, or whether you've merely assumed without justification that every part of the game in question other than the bit you just read about is identical to Dungeons & Dragons.

prokopetz

You need to understand that I get "but that doesn't make sense because how would it interact with levelling up" in my notifications like three times a week.

penny-anna

Something I think ppl who aren't used to it struggle with when it comes to ancient history is that frequently 'we do not and cannot know this' is the only truthful response a historian can give. People severely overestimate how much we actually know about Ancient Rome.

I remember talking to someone at a party once about the debate over Septimius Severus's ethnicity (whole other can of worms) and they asked if genetic testing of his remains was not a way to settle it and I was like oh. Oh okay you are under the impression we have the physical remains of Roman emperors from the second century AD alright then. (We. Do not.)

penny-anna

Can't stress how much of high level study of Ancient History is devoted to trying to make sense of what actually factually happened. When I was at university (10+ years ago now) the discipline was embroiled in the lengthy and ongoing process of trying to unpack not just the biases in ancient sources but the centuries & centuries of biases within the field itself. I don't imagine this process is ever going to Stop. It's not uncommon for historical accounts to be so garbled & contradictory that it's not possible to reconstruct the real events behind them.

Once in an introductory lecture one of my professors was talking about this problem and articulated it very simply as 'we know real things happened between real people, but we aren't sure what they were'. Sums it up really!!

lermisv4

The world has suffered some kind of massive calamity. Humanity has survived, but at a great cost. In addition to the population decrease, mu

Go and read the Real Life section.

prokopetz

You know, when I've remarked that a lot of the responses to my posts feel like people are just plucking out keywords they think they recognise based on the shape of them and replying to what they imagine the post says based on that, the possibility never occurred to me that this is actually how many American schools are currently teaching kids to read.

prokopetz

Like, my assumption this whole time has been that when folks go "I misunderstood this post that says [thing] as saying [unrelated thing] because I mistook [word] for [completely different word that happens to start with the same letter]", that was a bit. What do you mean they're teaching kids a reading method that's tailored to produce this exact error?

buggyhuman

Three cueing. Once you learn about it, a whole lot of very frustrating online discourse with US Americans makes so much sense 😭

For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have

chongoblog

Had a dream that there was a new Pokemon that was ghost type and it was like. Half a greyhound. It was a spectral dog that was known as one of the fastest Pokemon. And yet it only had it front legs. There were wispy floating stubs on its back half which sort of implied there COULD be legs, but they never reached even close to the ground. It stood on its front legs as if the back legs were still there.

I don’t know what this Pokemon’s name was but its appeared in many of my dreams so either they made it real and I forgot or I’m being haunted by a Fakemon.

chongoblog

I have been informed it is not a real Pokemon so I’ll share another detail I recall seeing about it more than once.

One of its main features about it is that it could run stupidly fast, like, a solid 100 MPH (at least thats my best guess from a dream) but more impressively or eerily is that it could go from 100 to 0 almost immediately, stopping in a stance where it stood up straight and at attention

I think I love this weird dream dog

chongoblog

I assume this is for artists so sure thing

I imagine that this dog is very tall and sleek (like a good five feet tall), with a sickly pale (with just a hint of light blue hue). Its eyes are a pure empty (yet still piercing somehow) white. Along its front half across the back and its legs are pale green sets of stripes, almost like racing stripes.

As for how the ghostly “back legs” worked, they looked sort of like this

with his physical form slowly transitioning into an pale blue ectoplasm, and there were amorphous hints of what could have possibly once been legs. Despite completely missing his back half, the posture seen here is still its regular posture, standing straight up, as if a soldier at attention.

Hope this helps!