LivvYourLife

This blog is just a little place where I can share a few of my favorite things. Writing/ fandoms/ bands and the like.

[yourplayersaidwhat]

DM: “You could just run away and abandon him”

Barbarian: “I’m not going to abandon [Paladin]!”

DM: “You’re strangers - you’ve known him for like two days!”

Barbarian: “We’re brothers in arms you wouldn’t understand!”

Paladin: “We’ve bonded over our general apathy and dead parents”

[pusheen]

[yourplayersaidwhat]

"Your persuasion check was so bad that you are now casting vicious mockery."

- GM at our Bard after she rolled a 9 to persuade some muggers to not attack us (she failed)

[pi-la]

[xxtc-96xx]

First off, amazing that a Mewtwo can have gaps in memory. Perhaps dreams aren't retained well in memory? Second...

(Hands Huey a printed copy of the Mew and Mewtwo series, opening up to the page where Huey dreamed about the deal with Dialga)

They were probably just curious if this deal would've caused paradoxes or if Dialga had failsafes for these situations.

Huey remembers things that actually happened but people can't honestly expect them to remember every single dream they've ever had, they forget he was barely aware of what newtwo was talking about even at the time

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

suggestions for gender neutral version of mom/dad? something less formal than just ‘parent’

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

please note that while progenitor, guardian, spawnpoint etc are all respected titles, they are more the equivalent of mother/father than an affectionate nickname you would scream through the house multiple times a day. gimme something we can use people

[whyarehterecomendednamesstupid]

I just tried to combine the words and got “dom” and i cant-

[tinkering-goblin]

but wait, if we reverse ‘dom’ you get ‘mod’. I suggest we use ‘moderator’ as a gender neutral version of mom/dad

[madskittens-202-deactivated2026]

Admin and op would work makes them sound powerful and in charge of everything

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Admin (respectful) Op (derogatory)

[doggoneloser]

i was going to add something else to this but instead i got to thinking and i was like huh. what could you use.

in most languages the word for ‘mother’ usually starts with an M, because phonetically [m] is one of the easiest sounds for a newborn to make when they start babbling, and mothers tend to be the one most around the child. so in my mind that crosses M off the list, because it’s automatically associated with a feminine figure

similarly, ‘father’ tends to start with D, T, P, or B. (phonetically these sounds are very close together; [p, b] and [d, t] are all only different because of being voiced or unvoiced.) these are also phonetically easy letters and ones kids pick up on earlier.

now the hard sounds for kids are the following: [ɹ, d͡ʒ, tʃ, θ, ð] or in normal speak: the English R, the “j” or “dge” sound in “judge,” the “th” sound in “thigh” and the “th” sound in “the.” and we don’t want kids unable to say their parent’s name for years, so those are also off the list.

additionally, it’s easiest for young kids to just repeat the same sound twice rather than figuring out the tongue gymnastics of putting different sounds together, which is why kids will say Ma-Ma or Da-Da and not Ma-Mo or Da-Po. and we’ll want to stick with low back vowels like “ah” and avoid ones like the hard “i” or “ee.”

so what does that leave us? when we want a sound kids can learn easily and early but don’t want to just put a funky spin on “mama” or “dada”?

my suggestions: G, K, W, L. i personally lean towards W and L. they’re called liquids, since they’re the consonants that kind of aren’t consonants, and kids (and ESL learners) will tend to swap out the English R for a W or L until they can learn the R.

if i ever have a child, they’ll start calling me Wawa. then when they get older, they’ll call me Wala, or maybe even Wally.

and then, once they’re finally phonetically developed, they can call me by my true title as their nonbinary guardian for their 18+ years:

Waluigi.

[cipheramnesia]

[far--from-h0me]

Okay, but on an actually serious note, Baba is used in several different languages, but the meaning changes between mother, father, or grandparent. However, it is not used in English afaik, so it could be a good English option.

[shayvaalski]

baba is what I use as a nonbinary parent (it has a long history for butches!) and this post hit me like a two-by-four to the back of the goddamn HEAD

[daily-spooky]

[dataisgone]

Pixel Dailies #52 | 06/15/22 | Theme: Puppet Play nice.

[cookieinstinct]

any trans person reading this I love you

any woman reading this I love you

any poc minority reading this I love you

any queer person reading this I love you

[incendavery]

this art exercise is small and simple, but its easy to do anywhere with any materials

[havingrevelations-deactivated20]

oh my god it’s laika day everyone drop what you’re doing… we honour a little dog who was sent up into space 65 years ago today. she was found as a three year old stray mongrel wandering the streets of moscow. her ability to endure hardy conditions got her chosen as the candidate for a journey she was never meant to survive. she passed away seven hours after liftoff. I hope she died dreaming of chasing rabbits up in the stars I love u laika forever and ever

[timelordlettuce]

Never forget, she was loved

She was not killed as an act of cruelty, or simply neglected. People cared about her, and the many space dogs who survived proves it

She was loved

[mckitterick]

[adastra-sf]

great ritual for honoring Laika's memory (from another thread)

[pusheen]

[riseofthecommonwoodpile]

to drop my ironic and cynical facade for a moment, i think the most important thing for people mired in pessimism and defeatism today to remember is that so many people in this world right now are resisting and living beautiful lives under far worse circumstances than the most dire predictions for the next 4 years in the US. if they have that in them, you do too.

[rachelordwayart]

*bursts into the fandom 30 years late* Oh my gosh you guys, have you heard of this thing called Inuyasha?!

[1-800-horrorfilms]

i think "it takes a village" shouldn't be just "to raise a child". we should understand it takes a village to do literally everything we do. all day every day. without our communities we would not have drinking water or electricity or clean streets or food or shelter or anything. we cannot do any thing alone. we just can't. and with that comes the fact that you are not alone. you already have a community, seek to be an active part of it, you will feel better. reach out and thank them, they're happy to have you too. i promise. it takes a village to live.

[growing-yet-into-magic]

It takes a village to raise a child and it takes every neighbor to raise a barn and it takes all hands on deck to clean the river. We were built as a communal species. Lend what you can, and accept what you're offered.

[pusheen]

[thinkingabout-girls]

“but what if i’m being annoying :(“ everyone’s annoying dipshit it came free with fucking being alive and existing. now go talk to your friends