[sluggoonthestreet]

Pete just learned he can't win a staring contest against someone who has no eyes to blink.

[mindlessbimbo]

I would advise against it.

"Against what?" the adventurer asks. They didn't say anything, but this does not tend to stop the ilithid from passing judgment on stray thoughts.

This is not a stray thought. It is an unwise fixation. There are not enough hours in the day to comment on the majority of your 'stray thoughts'.

The adventurer smiles. "If you insist. Well, what's so unwise about it? You'd want to eat me?"

No. I still require your assistance.

"Good to know." They laugh. For a proportedly straight-forward species, their ilithid companion tends to beat about the bush.

It makes an audible grumble. You will not be able to resist domination, and I will not let you go.

That gave them pause. "And here I thought you were indifferent to me," they joke.

You are useful. You would make a good thrall.

They cross their arms. This does beg an obvious question, doesn't it?

Your guild's trust in me is tentative. Enthralling you would be counterproductive.

"Fair enough, I suppose." But—

It is in my nature to dominate. I resist this impulse at its root. Letting you go is another matter altogether. It would be as unnatural to me as you choosing to starve mere feet from a banquet hall.

"Fine, fine, I get it, I'm too tempting for a taste," they say, waving their arms in the air. "Just don't complain if one of your buddies enthrall me first."

There is a palpable silence in the adventurer's mind. It raises the hair on their neck; the ilithid is never this quiet.

You make a compelling point, it finally 'says'. Perhaps it is in your nature to be dominated. You will be useless to me if you stray.

Their heart skips a beat. A moment passes. Nothing happens. "...You're messing with me."

No. It was a test.

Face flushing, the adventurer scoffs and says nothing.

Perhaps we should return to the guild. Your perversions are a liability.

"Hey! That's not fair, I just— I thought—"

Very little.

"Shut up, I just panicked," they insisted, heat crawling down their neck. "That's the whole reason I figured it might be a good idea to– to, y'know, get me used to the, um... The sensations, or warning signs—"

There would be none. Your mind would spread for me at first provocation. Instantly, you would slip into a waking slumber and never rouse again.

"...Hmph." They fold their arms again.

If nothing else, your eagerness is noted. Perhaps the guild would allow me to buy you at some future junction.

"I'm not for sale!" they bellow, indignant.

Indeed. There was a rueful intonation to the ilithid's reply. Let us stop here for the evening. It seems I will need to prepare a stronger ward for you against psionic influences.

[todaysbird]

today's bird is this Common Swift! this CRAZY photo was taken by Eden Davies from the uk. (image was pulled from reddit in r/Birdsfacingforward)

[avxx]

Me: oh if only I had a way to plot points in two dimensions

The ever reliable cartesian coordinate plane:

[jacine-the-queen]

Transphobes can die mad 🤷🏻

[femmesweetheart]

A closer look because these ladies deserve to be appreciated 💓

[musiicpix3l]

Yes yes i know love is love. But they are still killing CHILDREN. over this.

[fluffmugger]

"Love is love" is a milquetoast cishet marketing phrase

Pride is a FUCK YOU to a society that wants us dead.

[rederiswrites]

Just watched Adam Conover (of Adam Ruins Everything) make such a solid point that I think we should spread far and wide. Yes, having AI write your emails is lazy, sure, but people love being lazy. We need to really emphasize that sending AI emails (or using AI responses on social media, or publishing AI flyers, or or or) is rude.

It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.

It's rude.

[mercurialmilk]

New reaction image for ‘posting something on the internet and having it be wildly misinterpreted’

[weareatgreg]

reblog if you’re a lesbian who supports bi girls, a bi girl who supports lesbians, or if you want all wlw to have a nice day

[queerasfact]

Happy Pride! Here's some examples of trans men and transmasculinity to learn about this month!

Check out podcasts on each of these here: Albanian sworn virgins, Njinga of Ndongo, Ewan Forbes, Michael Dillon

[were--ralph]

tumblr is the funniest social media site to go viral on

[were--ralph]

on tiktok people will quit their jobs after going viral once but on here not only can any post get 50k notes, but if it does theres nothing you can do with it. theres no monetization or any transferable skills at all. you just made a funny post and people liked it and thats the start and end of your career

[were--ralph]

you could say "i left the stove on" with no context and it might break containment on here and people start tagging it with ships and kins and theres no way to delete it forever unless staff gets involved. your mistake will never go away but your claim to fame will instantly

[were--ralph]

its like yes im the pineapple werewolf guy but no one outside of here and like 5 posts on reddit will ever know what that sentence means. i could jump on tiktok and no one would know me. no one on youtube or facebook. this is my little corner of the internet and i will die here before i give up that title and when i do know i lost nothing in the process

[were--ralph]

exactly

[lady-raye]

Happy Pride Month!

[cypric-rat-hyperfixation]

[sastheforestspirit]

I didn't realise these are thistles before but done! I can't wait to see how the rest of the motifs look like in this yarn

[sastheforestspirit]

A few more centimetres and I will be separating back and front!

[sastheforestspirit]

Back!

[sastheforestspirit]

Repeating the colour work super excited I did this much already. It's been a month since I started.

[sastheforestspirit]

Front!

[iplaywithstring]

Finished a big spin!

This project started a while ago. The fiber is from Good Fibrations and was gifted to me. I wasn't sure what to do with it, until thought of sunsets and looked up some pictures.

To spin the gradient I separated out all the colours and blended them on my hand as I spun, trying to make smooth changes.

It took me 2.5 hours to ply today - it was spun very fine and chain plied. I don't have the length yet, but I gave it a rinse and it's drying. I'm really happy with it.

And no, I don't know what I'm going to do with it yet.

[yvesdot]

I have seen a young lady with her table loaded with volumes loaded of fictitious trash, poring day after day and night after night over highly wrought scenes and skillfully portrayed pictures of romance, until her cheeks grew pale, her eyes became wild and reckless, and her mind wandered and was lost — the light of intelligence passed behind a cloud, and her soul was forever benighted. She was insane, incurably insane from reading novels.

-- an anonymous pastor in 1864, on the greatest threat to young women

[kedreeva]

I planted ten little pawpaw trees today

Pawpaws are a Michigan native fruit that looks like it should not be a Michigan native fruit.

I'm told that it has the consistency of avocado, but tastes like a combination of banana, pineapple, and mango, with and earthy aftertaste. They are EXTREMELY delicate fruits, such that they are not really shipped anywhere- to eat them you have to find someplace local that has trees, or have trees, yourself.

I've always wanted to try them, so, I bought a few saplings, and spent a couple hours tonight planting them. They won't fruit for another 5 years at least. Each hole dug, each rootball excavated from its pot, each circle of mulch around the base of them... that's hope. That's a promise to be here 5 years from now, to see them flower, to pull sweet fruit from the limbs and try it for the first time.

A lot can happen in 5 years. But, I hope that you'll be here, too, to see how it turns out.

[iconuk01]

I confess I'd only ever heard of the paw-paw fruit from "The Bare Necessities" in Disney's "The Jungle Book" so had always thought it was native to somewhere in or around India... UNTIL NOW!

Now when you pick a paw-paw or a prickly pear And you prick a raw paw, well, next time beware Don't pick the prickly pear by the paw When you pick a pear try to use the claw But you don't need to use the claw When you pick a pear of the big paw-paw

You mean Baloo was either lying, or eating imported fruit?

Is NOTHING sacred?!?

[kedreeva]

Welllllll it's more likely he means pawpaw/papaw as in papaya (as pawpaw is another name for papaya), but it does get a bit confusing, since prickly pears are also only native to the Americas, particularly Mexico and South America, just like papaya

BUT they've both been in India for centuries, so it's entirely possible they are out there growing wild as invasive species.

[morgan-the-lonely-brick]

Cinemas should sell DVDs of the movies they're playing as you're walking out. If you liked the movie you could buy a DVD right there on the spot. Wouldn't that be awesome