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26/nonbinary/Slytherin/ENFP

[iamatticus19]

Dark side of the Nyoom.

[hxasinthus]

i wish it was 1600 so i cood spelle words howe everr my harte desyred

[hyydraworks]

I made more!  They’re just screaming for krill.  Where is the krill?  I am so close to actually finally updating my Etsy, and when that happens these guys will be there.

[prokopetz]

Lesser-acknowledged varieties of film appreciation

I’d be willing to see it again for the sake of showing it to someone who hasn’t, but wouldn’t undertake repeat viewings of my own initiative

Viewing it was an incredible and life-changing experience and I absolutely never want to see it again

I very much enjoy the version of the film I made up in my head, and sometimes forget that the film that was actually made is nothing like it

My first exposure to the film’s cast of characters was via weird Internet porn, and I can’t watch it without that in the back of my mind

I’ve seen it easily a dozen times, but inexplicably cannot recall a single detail about its plot, characters or setting when prompted

I’m really into one specific scene, and just sort of tolerate the other 90% of its running time for the sake of providing needed context

The very notion of the film so repulsed me that I hate-read the reviews so I could talk informed trash about it without having to actually watch it

I just read the Wikipedia article so I could understand the memes

[redlipstickresurrected]

William Mackinnon (Australian, b. 1978, Melbourne, Australia) - 1: We will meet again soon I hope, 2016  2: The Princess Freeway  3: The Great Indoors (II), Summer at Mullimbimby, 2015  4: Searching, 2016  5: Untitled, 2015  6: Light and Dark, 2016  7: Almost Was Not Good Enough (Moonlight II), 2014  8: Exit, 2013

[crow-folio]

TIME TO REST  

A short comic about Tiffany Aching and Sam Vimes, ​two of Discworld’s hardest working characters. The recent conversation about crunch inspired me to make this piece.

[prokopetz]

Okay, this is a very petty nitpick, but: no Julius and Augustus Caesar didn’t move a bunch of months around in order to institute the months of July and August – they just renamed existing ones – and it’s not their fault that the names of the later months don’t match their ordinal positions.

The real reason that October, November and December aren’t the 8th, 9th and 10th months of the modern calendar is that the Ancient Roman calendar counted the New Year as starting with the month that contained the vernal equinox. When you start counting in March, October is indeed the eight month, as you’d expect from the name.

The revised Republican calendar that bumped the start of the year back a couple of months was adopted no later than 153 BC, a full half-century before Julius Caesar was even born.

[prokopetz]

It probably says something about nerd culture that such a visible portion of the wizard spell list in most fantasy tabletop RPGs is devoted to spells that make them supernaturally effective at housekeeping.

[zsweber-studios]

I’d say it says more about invention and innovation, as it is the nature of humanity to constantly seek out easier and quicker ways to get things done. In the human world, that has led to the creation of such things as sewing machines, improved cleaning supplies, and better dishwashers. In a magical world, though, it creates the spells Mending, Purify Food And Drink, Mage Hand, and Unseen Servant.

[prokopetz]

Sure, but tabletop RPG mechanics aren’t a context-free worldbuilding bible; they’re a set of instructions and procedures for how to play a game. By devoting significant word count to detailed game-mechanical descriptions of these spells, we’re not merely asserting that they exist in the world; we’re asserting that the proper gameplay role of a heroic wizard is, or at least encompasses, solving (and causing!) life-threatening problems by being really good at housekeeping.

[somewhatmiffed]

Being really good at housekeeping in the sort of times these things are set tends to keep you alive and shit so in order that it doesn’t ever interfere with life-threatening things. If wizards were typically parents you’d see a ton of child-rearing stuff in there too.

[prokopetz]

Again, you’re ignoring the game-mechanical context. Games of this type don’t typically have rules for housekeeping in general, and then wizard spells to engage with those rules; wizard spells are literally the only game-mechanical context where the subject comes up at all. The game has rules for housekeeping if and only if you are a wizard – or, to put it another way, the game’s housekeeping rules are specifically wizard-oriented.

To draw a parallel, imagine that rangers – and only rangers – had a bunch of mechanically fine-grained special abilities related to doing your taxes, while the rules otherwise don’t address the subject of taxes in any way. The assumption that’s being encoded there is not “only rangers file tax returns”; it’s “the process of playing a ranger involves the playing out of filing tax returns, while the process of playing other classes typically does not”.

[thesnadger]

Today I found out that Mountain Goats aren’t goats and it completely blew my mind.

[thesnadger]

By which I mean I learned mountain goats, the actual animal, aren’t true goats but a different, closely related creature. I’ve known that the band The Mountain Goats wasn’t formed by goats for over six months.

[just-shower-thoughts]

People who like rocks see cool rocks everywhere. People who like birds see interesting birds everywhere. The tree on your yard could be an exceptional specimen. The world around you could be amazing and magical, but you aren’t enough of a nerd to see it.

[lesbianshepard]

my fave greek history story to tell is that of agnodice. like she noticed that women were dying a lot during childbirth so she went to egypt to study medicine in alexandria and was really fucking good but b/c it was illegal for women to be doctors in athens she had to pretend to be a man. and then the other doctors noticed that she was 10x better than them and accused her of seducing and sleeping with the women patients. like they brought her to court for this. and she just looked at them and these charges and stripped in front of everyone like “yeah. im not fucking your wives” and then they got so mad that a woman was better at their jobs then them that they tried to execute her but all her patients came to court and were like “are you fucking serious? she is the reason you have living children and a wife.” so they were shamed into changing the law and that is how women were given the right to practice medicine in athens

[autieblesam-deactivated20190506]

Yeah, this isn’t some Greek myth story about a hero or demigod or something, Agnodice was a real person who actually did this.

[thewickedwilds]

A woman traveling into the dark woods to an evil witch’s house to trade her firstborn child for selfish desires sounds a lot like a demonized version of a woman traveling to see a cunning woman to aid her with an unwanted pregnancy js

[thejonymyster]

straight person:

gay person:

bi person:

pan person:

demi person:

ace person:

the giant tyrannosaurus rex in the room who cant see you if you dont move or talk: i guess there is no one here

[lesbx]

Hi this is my superhero movie, it’s about a guy who can shoot electricity and his name is Volt Ron. what do you mean I can’t call him that

[jueki]

Close-Knit 2017 ‘彼らが本気で編むときは、’ Directed by Naoko Ogigami

[lesbx]

before I came out as trans, whenever my mom saw me pick up anything heavy or whatever she would instinctively say “heeee-maaaan!” and after I came out she switched it to “sheeee-raaaa!” and you gotta love that

[teaboot]

The number of times I have been delighted by witty banter only to find out later that I was “Flirting” is both unfortunate and disappointing.

[teaboot]

“haha so what about that guy, huh?”

Me: what about him

“Well you seemed super into him”

Me: what why

“…dude you were flirting all night”

Me:

Me: Whoms't™™

[trainerdelaney]

I found out several of my female coworkers were planning on trying to get our male coworker to ask me out because “You guys kept flirting” but I was like “We were literally just goofing around. Like we literally just told jokes to each other. Literally just stuff that friends do, the same stuff you and I do.” I was definitely 100% NOT flirting but everyone thought I was

[trainerdelaney]

“You were laughing at everything TJ did!”

“He paper clipped a banana to the ceiling, Isabelle. That’s fucking bonkers”

[spindletrees]

This might be a good time for Ms. Psych degree here to step in and let ye all know that People Are Unable To Identify Flirting. There are double-blind studies to support this, if you instruct participants to flirt or not flirt with another participant, neither the second participant nor onlookers are able to accurately tell which instruction the first participant was given. Even if you get the flirting participant to rate their attraction to the person they’re flirting with, and only count trials where people are either flirting with people they find attractive, or not flirting with people they don’t find attractive NO ONE CAN TELL WHO IS FLIRTING OR WHO ISN’T.

[gallantblade475-blog-deactivate]

I’ve heard that people actually have a *less than 50% chance* of guess whether someone is flirting or not.

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

Thank fuck this isn’t just me failing at humanity

[stammsternenstaub]

SagePub has one such study here, dated 2014. There might be more recent work, however.