Capricious Musings

[versains]

SPAIN WINS THE 2026 WORLD CUP

[autumnarchfeyartwork]

A few of my favourite BattleMechs as I try to learn to draw more mechanical stuff.

[queer-ragnelle]

grieving that the winter king show is ass & we’ll never get a second season of starz camelot. if you need me i’ll be in my chambers. weeping.

[mookybear12404]

I feel like the first class you played in DND tells a lot about you

Reblog and put in the tags what your first class was

[dalenthas]

The first time I played D&D, way back in 2nd edition, it was just me and my neighbor, who was DMing. He let me play two characters so I could have a better go at things than just having one guy with 4 HP. I had a fighter and a wizard, both humans for simplicity’s sake.

[capriceandwhimsy]

Elf Mage/Thief multi class.

[qin-shi-huang-di]

Bixia one of my relatives is scheming to steal my favorite horse and I humbly submit a petition to have him killed publicly.

Dont mind these chests full of silver I left them here for no particular reason and I will not miss them if they disappear

hi peon, you don't need to bribe me. punishing criminals is it's own reward!

[qin-shi-huang-di]

by Heaven you are right! i was so caught up in the euphoria of punishing horse thieves i forgot that bribery is also a crime!

guards, you know the drill! we even have an extra horse 🐴 to use!

🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🐎🧍‍♂️⬆️➡️↖️⤵️↙️⬇️

[swordsman-jing-ke]

this is the stupidest thing ive ever heard. you only have the head, arms and legs to tie things to. what is the sixth horse even there for????

[qin-shi-huang-di]

emotional support 🥰

[paksthestoic]

I love the “captain’s log” mechanism in Star Trek as a method for time skips and exposition.

I am, however, devastated that we never got an episode where any captain’s voiceover is strained and slow. very precise about the events they’re describing. While the screen itself is showing the most batshit insane events and making it clear that the captain is trying VERY HARD to keep everyone involved out of a court martial.

[wilwheaton]

“We have here again the old story. States run elections in the United States. This is guaranteed and mandated by the federal Constitution. Congress can set uniform rules for administering elections. The executive branch plays no role at all in setting rules for elections or administering them. The White House’s strategy is to use illegal means (threatened criminal punishment against state officials) to assert power or compel authority the Constitution simply doesn’t allow. This isn’t how anything works. A president cannot legitimately create by force powers that the Constitution specifically denies him.”

— State Sovereignty and Trump’s War Against the Constitution - TPM – Talking Points Memo

[wilwheaton]

“The man and his White House have the stiff stench of a loser around them. He seemed sickly, aggrieved, weak and deranged. The whole effort is best seen as a tantrum kicked up by what is mostly the failure of his election subversion dreams, an aging would-be tyrant shaking his fists at the clouds.”

— State Sovereignty and Trump’s War Against the Constitution - TPM – Talking Points Memo

[femmechilles]

if both teams in the final failed to beat you in 90min you should be crowned the honorary world cup champion. congratulations cabo verde 🥳

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

ohhh my god I just fact-checked, Nolan actually DID cut the "Nobody" scene from his Odyssey movie. Mfer that is like cutting the Father reveal from Star Wars. Let me speak in a language you understand this is like not dressing Batman up in his suit. "It was not possible to work it in" the TikTok musical with a budget of $4 and a scratched Hamilton CD managed to work it in in SONG form, step up your FUCKING GAME

[cannot-kill-the-sun]

I got a free ticket to this movie and i have Thoughts (below the cut in case anyone??? Is worried about spoilers??)

They cut the gods. All of them. Odysseus is overtly sceptical of their existence and refers to them as "your gods" to his men. "But wait amme" you say "zendaya was cast as Athena!" Mmhm shes a hallucination of a Priestess he watches get beheaded at troy because War Is Hell

They merged the lotus eaters and calypso?? Like they don't visit the island of the lotus eaters at all but calypso is feeding him lotus for 7 years make it make sense

Because theyres no gods they dont visit Aeolis. They don't get the storm bag. All weather is #natural and its superstition that makes the men think Odysseus is cursed and not... poseidon having cursed him

They still visit the Laestrygonians though? Super briefly because they need to kill off 2 ships of men but like they did make it where normally they dont

They did circe so dirty like 0 nymphs just a lady living in a hutt on hill who they gave a sister that she turned into a bird and keeps in a cage because "we get on better this way"

Agamemnon always looks like the black knight from monty python got given a mohawk and i swear hes on a hoverbord in like 3 scenes

Also they dont have Odysseus kill the baby at troy like he mostly wanders in a War Is Hell daze taking no punishable action

For some reason they decided the horse was a gift to athena??? Not..... poseidon? For again 0 reason

And the most atrocious change of all: they got rid of the tree bed. The super romantic tree that Odysseus builds his and Penelope's bed into. The thing Penelope uses to identify him. The Bed. Is replaced. By a pin of athena that Penelope was wearing and gave to Odysseus right before he went to troy.

[see-arcane]

#i went in with a very low bar and it pulled out a shovel via @cannot-kill-the-sun

Skip Letterboxd this is the only review I need

[tigerkat24]

#she identufies him by a tree bed?#i thought he was identifiablw by his bow and some wild trick shot?

@softness-and-shattering That too- he shot an arrow through the rings on some number of axes buried in the ground, and also was the only one capable of stringing the bow. But Penelope, understandably skeptical, annoyed, or both, decides she's gonna test him. She tells him that she will have their bed moved into the hallway for him to sleep in. Anyone not Odysseus wouldn't have known that he built that bed into a living tree so it can't be moved. He gets very mad about it and she accepts that he is actually her husband and not some rando.

[captainsparklefingers]

Can we talk about the greatest redemption arc in TLOVM for a second?

I am, of course, referring to Mythcarver.

In stream, that sword was very cool and also absolutely fucking useless. Scanlan used it exactly ONCE, and it wasn't even against a dragon! He got the sword to deal with the Conclave and he didn't even use the damn thing against them! In fact, I'm pretty sure that Mythcarver was basically a bit of a joke, the 'sir not appearing in this episode' of the vestiges.

TLOVM has turned shit around for that sword. Not only does it have additional cool powers, but Scanlan actually used it to slay a dragon! And that was a big emotional moment and everything too, considering the dragon Scanlan killed was the one who killed Kamaljiori, who gave Scanlan the sword in the first place! Even if that was it for Mythcarver, it would have had a moment in the sun and been elevated to the same level as the other vestiges, and it would have been great.

BUT THEY DIDN'T STOP THERE! They made Mythcarver ESSENTIAL to stopping the Whispered One! The sword was used to stop him the first time around, it's a big deal! It's IMPORTANT.

(and it got a brief stint as what may be the first electrical guitar in Exandria too, as an added bonus.)

So, three cheers for Mythcarver, the true redemption story of TLOVM, and the recipient of some of the best changes from stream to show.

[syrren]

doodles of my fave dendarii mercenaries

[scp-l4-clef-alto-001]

[voluptuarian]

So I binged the entirety of How To Build a Sex Room last night and this one scene just cracked me up

The designer's at a western leather/tack store looking for supplies to make a rustic-style sex swing and turns to one of the store employees for advice, which initially goes about as amusingly as you would expect

So then she pulls up some pictures to give him an idea of what she needs

And he's Immediately like

The professional disgust, I'm living

[sweaterkittensahoy]

The Hank Hill of it all delights me.

[mikkeneko]

I was NOT expecting to see Laudna pop up there lmfao

[klapollo]

Washington Post is paywalling the article but it looks like Taylor Farms — a consumer bagged salad brand that also supplies produce to grocers and fast food chains like Taco Bell, Walmart, McDonald's, Chipotle, Burger King, KFC, and Meijer —may be at least one of the sources of the current cyclosporiasis outbreak.

Taylor makes bagged greens, salad kits, chopped salads, the works. Keep avoiding supermarket greens, but keep an especially close eye out for this brand/supplier. The above list of grocers and fast food chains is NOT exhaustive, so please continue getting lettuce and other raw produce taken off your burgers, sandwiches, etc.

[mylordshesacactus]

For all that the 1800s etiquette guides are--obviously--derangedly sexist from a modern perspective? They're also mindblowing in how casually they will assert things that MODERN DAY CONSERVATIVES would scream and cry and shit their pants about.

"People back then always married young it's natural!!!" Every single 1800s guide I've ever met casually mentions that, of course, you really shouldn't get married before you're at least 20, and waiting until 25 is usually better.

Or, like. Okay here's a long segment:

Just firmly going "it is crazy sexist to blame The Wife for overspending when thirty seconds of asking questions will immediately establish that her husband was outright lying to her about how much money they had. Talk to your wife like a normal person."

Or--okay, here. A section on being honest and not writing love letters in secret, because that's usually a good sign that there's something untoward going on....

....except that he then immediately acknowledges that sometimes, the reason you're hiding this from your parents is that your parents suck. That there are parents who frankly have not earned the right to approve or disapprove of your partner.

(I realize the phrasing there sounds a lot less strong than my summary, but--trust me on this. When you're familiar with the narrative voice of these kinds of books, this passage is downright radical. The mere acknowledgement that if you treat your kids badly, it's your own damn fault when they don't talk to you? I've genuinely never seen that before in this genre. Don't freak out over "properly trained", either. It's just a linguistic shift--at the time, "training" was used the way we would say "raising" a child today. )

[mylordshesacactus]

"Delete all the nudes and sexts after a breakup or you're a piece of shit" has been the standard expectation since EIGHT. TEEN. EIGHTY. FIVE.

[mylordshesacactus]

"Men and women being friends with each other is literally normal. Don't be a controlling freak."

Anyway I was wrong the publishing date is actually 1882 so like.

[mylordshesacactus]

"If you have to abuse a child to keep order in your classroom then you're a bad teacher."

So like @ the modern Republican party, are the "traditional family values" in the fucking room with us right now--

[auncyen]

Link OP provided in comments: https://archive.org/details/manualofsochills00hillrich/page/112/mode/1up

[mitchipedia]

19th Century etiquette manuals were woke.