Leader of the Temple Houris

Writer of Flash Fiction, Purveyor of Nightmares

[mihri-the-sasscatte]

Size comparison of Y’gathok, the Ceaseless Hunger and Bjorn, our level 20 Goliath Barbarian.

[professorsparklepants]

Hey quick question: why the FUCK do you have that

[kittyopteryx]

Imagine, from out of nowhere, your dm casually slapping this thing down on the table like any other encounter.

[mooretimetoplay]

“Yeah, the fight will start in a sec, uh…I’ll give inspiration to whomever helps me get this fucking box out of my car.”

[necrowemancer]

https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/7asxci/oc_ygathok_the_ceaseless_hunger_final_boss_of_our/ This is the reveal of this ridiculousness during their game

[jelloapocalypse]

Please watch this reveal video it’s kickass

[creepsandcrawlers]

FUCK ME  the reveal video

[threefeline]

“CHRIS??????”

[tanoraqui]

“Um, I don’t think our plan is gonna work.”

[8bitmickey]

[island-delver-go]

Always reblog Y'gathok

[robot-roadtrip-rants]

always ALWAYS reblog Y'gathok!

[maryfitzroy]

[catastrophe-jones]

@skippingdowntherabbithole @remedyjones this post is better than the entire movie

[curlsandstems]

Have you ever seen a violinist going APESHIT?!

Be sure to check out IAmDSharp!

[thegreynightsky]

GO OFFF

[babydollbucky]

Ok so I’ve been playing for 18 years and i’m a string teacher. Can i just say how IMPORTANT it is for young kids to see a BLACK, MALE-PRESENTING PERSON playing, nae, SHREDDING on a violin? I’ve know maybe 5 black people who played stringed instruments throughout my schooling and teaching (predumably because i’m an upper middle class white woman). In districts where the population is predominantly black, funding is always low, so the instruments are crappy. Kids quit, or the program is dismantled. I’ve seen very few professional string players who are black.

Obviously there are black string players. We just don’t see them because they “don’t look like” string players.

This person is the real deal. They were clearly classically trained, and seems to have some fiddle training as well. How cool is that?

[lil-tumbles]

But also… RAD PLAYING MY DUDEEEE

[ladyofspoons]

this is the coolest guy alive actually

[creepymutelilbugger]

I think this might be the coolest thing I’ve ever seen in my life that involves a violin

[crabussy]

-> listening to a jaunty country style song -> hear the lyrics wrong -> pause. frown. go back a few seconds to relisten -> hears the same fucked up lyrics -> check the actual lyrics to see what it ACTUALLY says

-> oh!

[catastrophe-jones]

Okay but

What did you THINK it said??

[rosieandthemoon]

I am cordially inviting all of you to post this in the comments/reblogs of any and every Al post you come across, on any platform. Especially useful for accounts who “teach” people how to use Al.

[kumkaniudaku]

And then you can’t even say shit about bc people start trying to put you in a jacket and shit. Like omg it’s so strict???

[catastrophe-jones]

Ngl, every time I wear a white shirt outside i romanticize how it would look if i were shot in public. Bright red blossoming, like poppies, the look of confusion, then pain, then nothing as I fall boneless to the sidewalk.

Is gun violence awful? Absolutely.

Would it hurt? Hell yeah.

Do I wanna get shot? Fucked if I know. I guess? Of course not. Maybe?

Obviously something’s going on in the electric fat running this meatsuit but I take my meds and assume it’s a short.

[artistformerlyknownasbutttrumpet]

i was training a young person at work, and she referred to sexual assault as "SA" out loud, and i immediately was like, "no, it's sexual assault, call it what it is," bc idgaf if the algorithm overlords have taught y'all that you should fear direct language, how tf do any of you expect to ever address real issues with any amount of seriousness if you can't even say the words? imagine an advocate looking a sexual assault survivor in the eyes and asking "did he grape you?" it's absolutely fucking absurd, but these young interns and new hires are coming into an environment where we deal with survivors of all different kinds of abuse, and they're coming with the mindset that the words are as bad as the actions, and that makes them shitty at the job and look juvenile af

i HATE self-censorship for a lot of reasons, but being in crisis work makes it even more frustrating. who are you censoring for? like i am being so fr, WHO are you censoring for? have you even thought it through? people who have been raped know that they have been raped. if someone attempts suicide or is grieving someone who did, saying "sewer slide" isn't going to protect them from any of the feelings. a murder victim's family isn't going to feel better bc you said "unalived" instead of murdered. if anything, it's just extremely invalidating and othering. it's saying "what happened to you is so bad that i won't even say the word," which is NOT trauma-informed care. you are not protecting survivors/victims when you self-censor. the ONLY things you protect when you self-censor are the puritanical ideologies that are being encouraged by rich fascists who want your money and obedience

say the fucking words, guys. just say the goddamn words before i go insane!!!

[catastrophe-jones]

This this this this this.

There are words some people should not say. Slurs that most folks agree on. Words that have been used to denigrate, other, harm. Some of them may even be considered reclaimed. Usable only by the group that ostensibly bears the label, as it were.

N-word, R-word. I’m sure there are others but you get the point.

Even they shouldn’t be “censored” so much as there are certain people who should recognize that if they use them in certain contexts, people are definitely gonna judge (and rightly so).

But.

Words (and phrases) like: die, kill, rape, murder, assault, sexual assault, child sexual abuse, suicide, forced sexual contact, grope, self-harm, cutting, fondle, groom, and all others like them, describing the acts or states themselves…

They are words that mean awful things. Traumatic things. Things that people have done to themselves or others. Things that hurt.

But the words themselves are not used to hurt, harm, or other, the way that slurs are.

Stop hindering clear, respectful communication in the name of being sensitive. You’re not being sensitive. You’re being a scared little baby, afraid that people will cancel you.

You might fuck up, sure. But if you’re kind and careful and listen to the people whose toes you step on, you are far more likely to receive grace, and learn from your mistakes.

Don’t let a bunch of social media bullshit take communication from you because you’re worried that saying the word “rape” will cause someone to drop dead.

(Also: Arguments in bad faith about subtle nuance or false equivalence are just Richard Maneuvers and won’t be tolerated. You can get fucked.)

OP I’m curious, did the young person swallow their own face in shock or manage to take the feedback?

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

Is fictional cheating still considered proship?

*deep breath* proship has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do what what the fic/the ship is about.

fluff and healthy fic is proship. fic that promotes christianity is proship. fic that promotes satanism is proship. fic that’s about heterosexual romance is proship. fic that’s about wholesome queer love is proship. fic about fidelity is proship. fic about found family is proship.

every single thing is proship because proship is NOT about what the fic is about. therefore ALL of these CAN also be anti ship if you choose to harass other people. so it’s about what you DO to real people. NOT what fictional things you write about in your fics.

the ONLY definition of proship is “anti censorship and anti harassment.”

that’s it. that’s all. proship literally just means “write whatever you want, however you want. censorship is bad. also don’t harass real people, especially over fiction.” at no point does it mention what tropes count as proship because PROSHIP IS AN ANTI CENSORSHIP AND ANTI HARASSMENT STANCE. it’s not about what someone writes.

if you don’t harass other people and if you understand that censorship is bad, then by definition you’re proship.

what you write about has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not it’s proship.

that said, I think the word you’re looking for is “darkship” which IS about dark and taboo ships. but to my standards, infidelity is NOT darkship — unless it involves something more taboo and messed up. a ship between a rapist and their victim is darkship. an incestuous and physically abusive ship is dark ship. a ship where one of the characters locks the other one up in their basement and tortures them is dark ship. but infidelity alone, when it comes to fiction where real-life moral compass cannot be applied to it, is just drama. think of it like a rating system. while everything I’ve mentioned — a rapist x victim ship, an incestuous and physically abusive ship, a straight up sadistic ship — is rated mature, I personally won’t rate a fic that involves infidelity as mature (unless there’re things like violence, blood and gore involved), that’s just teen and up audiences.

but no. proship =/= darkship.

[evelynmlewis]

What am I if I believe some shipping is immoral but choose not to harass people about it? Because up to now I only heard that proship means "believing that if you ship something in fiction that's always morally okay 'because it's fiction', no matter what the content is or promotes."

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

you can think whatever you want. you can find so and so in fiction disgusting. as long as you’re not shaming or harassing people who enjoy the things you hate and find disgusting, and as long as you’re against censorship, your stance is proship by definition.

personally I still believe real life moral compass cannot be applied to fiction. I enjoy reading and writing non-con, but I can separate fiction from reality and I’ll never condone it in real life. the same way people who enjoy horror or slasher movies where fictional characters are brutally murdered aren’t all automatically morally bad people just because they enjoy fiction that is “morally wrong”.

that said, the main value of proship is “anti harassment and anti censorship”. so as long as you’re not harassing people over fiction and as long as you’re not advocating for censorship, you’re proship by definition (whether or not you’ll use the label is up to you).

[catastrophe-jones]

Anyone else get a lil whiplash over the fact that ‘pro’+‘ship’ looks like ‘pro(censor)ship’ ?

No? Just me? Istfg sometimes slang rly confuses the shit out of me.

To be clear, however: fiction is fiction and real life is real life. This isn’t an opinion, it is literally a fact.

They influence one another in ways you can and can’t possibly imagine but they are, in fact, both separate and different.

Folks who confuse the two are ignorant if not straight up delusional.

[parkchanwoohoo]

Sobbing ofnfjfkfklg

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[carrionthird]

"Stop scrolling and please help me spread the word, because if I've landed on your page you're most likely either a black woman or someone who cares about black women and the simple phrase I'm about to share could help save a black woman's life.

Doctors are to black women what police officers are to black men. That may seem controversial but I believe it to be true and I speak from personal experience.

If you've seen this TikTok you know that a 2016 study showed that 50% of medical students and residents thought that black people couldn't feel pain the same as white people.

And we learned from this video that because of a 1999 study, to this day, there's a black correction factor for the creatinin levels in black people's kidneys, meaning we're less likely to recieve a kidney transplant if needed.

So if you go to a doctor, feel you aren't getting proper treatment or they refuse the treatment you've requested, say to them the following:

I will need you to document on record that you are refusing the treatment (or medicine) I've requested, and the reason you are doing so."

[dovewithscales]

This works. I have used it in other situations. If medical staff have to document and take responsibility and be on the hook legally for doing shady shit they behave much differently.

If you weren’t already going to spread this advice because black women are at risk, then spread it because it’s applicable to everyone else as well, including you reading this.

But particularly women, and especially black women.

[this-is-multigenderphobia]

Pt: I will need you to document on record that you are refusing the treatment (or medicine) I've requested, and the reason you are doing so."

[alagaisia]

Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?

[alagaisia]

It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!

[alagaisia]

It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.

[watermelon-converse]

Hey. Hey. Tumblr. Ides of March ppl. We can do this

[emi--rose]

Hell yeah moon holiday

[hello-delicious-tea]

Ooh coming up we should celebrate

[ariaste]

PITCH: We call it Moon Day, and then every 7 years when it falls on a Monday, that's an even BIGGER deal and we call that Moon Day Monday and go absolutely apeshit about it (the next Moon Day Monday is in 2026 so we have a couple trial runs first)

[psychopomp-reborn]

HAPPY MOON DAY EVERYONE

[beautifulterriblequeen]

HAPPY MOON DAY MONDAY 2026

[random-fandom-ramble]

HAPPY MOON DAY MOTHER F¥#%ERS!

[catastrophe-jones]

Have a spectacular Moonday folks

[redscharlach]

It has come to my attention that some of you have never seen what I firmly believe to be the greatest music video of all time: Bonnie Tyler’s Total Eclipse of the Heart. It is the perfect marriage of a galactically bombastic power ballad and a writhing mass of 1980s video clichés, thrown into the path of a wind machine and blasted down a moodily lit corridor into the realm of legend.

In case you’re wondering what the heck they were thinking of when they made it, I remember Bonnie once explaining on TV that it’s about the dreams of a headmaster’s daughter, hence all the boys in (and out of) uniform. In retrospect, the whole shebang is quite fascinatingly female gaze-y, and I’m pretty sure it was a major formative influence on my pubescent imagination.

And yes, there is also a very amusing literal version, but for my money, the original is definitely the most hilarious…

[redscharlach]

A sad and deeply fond farewell to Bonnie Tyler (1951–2026). May somersaulting ninja schoolboys sing you to your rest.

[kinda-okay-incorperated]

Happy Out Of Touch Thursday

[monopoly-man-777]

Once in a timeline, out of touch remix plays, and we have to thank the tumblr gods it this to go on for so long

[catastrophe-jones]

Happy Out of Touch Thursday!

[cute-catts]

[forthegothicheroine]

“Muppet Dorian Gray with Gonzo narrating as Osc-” [security wrenches the microphone away from me]

[forthegothicheroine]

Muppet Importance of Being Earnest. The Importance of Being Ernie.

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[willgrahamscock]

how are you gonna be 31 and posting fandom content bro leave it to the teenagers

People 10 and 20 years older than me are writing your favorite fanfics, and drawing your favorite characters. You'd have no fandom without the people you think are 'too old' to have hobbies.

[nessataleweaver]

Who the heck do you think started modern day fandom with Star Trek? It sure wasn't teenagers.

Who do you think makes professional quality fanart and fanfic? People who've been practicing it for ten, fifteen, twenty years!

Or even people who've been practicing it for thirty, forty or fifty!!!!!

example: Diane Duane. Currently in her seventies. Star Trek fangirl since the original run. Goddess-level Ascended Fan who has created official tie-in works in more forms of media than pretty much anyone else alive, possibly even Rodenberry himself because they didn't have audiobooks or video games when he was with us. Writer of Spock's World, The Wounded Sky, Doctor's Orders in TOS. Co-writer of TNG script Where no one has gone before, and writer of the tie-in novel Dark Mirror among others. Writer of a half-dozen Star Trek Comics. She has adapted her own work for audio, has written for the Star Trek manga series, has written short Trek fiction for anthologies, and plotted and wrote the video game Star Trek: the Kobayashi Alternative.

In other fandoms, she was a personal friend of Terry Pratchett himself. As a scriptwriter, she's also worked in fandoms like Scooby-Doo, Transformers, My Little Pony, Gargoyles, Batman: The Animated Series, Spiderman: Unlimited (and a trilogy of tie-in novels still in print) and Barbie: Fairytopia. ...And that's just cherry-picking her imdb page.

While she can't give out specific details due to Obvious Reasons, she's still active in the Sherlock BBC fandom - and there's a specific subset of her fans who love guessing which of the legendary fanfics might be her work (I am not one of them, BTW, as it is None Of My Business. I'm old-school that way).

Fandom is not for teenagers. Fandom is for everyone of good heart and enthusiasm for a good (or even bad! No judgement!) story.

Just wait until you grow up, Anonymous OP. Wonder how long it'll take you to change your mind.

[dduane]

...Some days when you're feeling tired and sad, and wondering "what the hell is the point... why am I even bothering?"... it's nice to be reminded that you're supported.