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Random fanon (cartoons, superheroes, movies, books). Sometimes I draw, sometimes I write. 18+ | AO3 |  #mine , #musings

[d-a-mante]

Luci the cat update!

I delayed this one for a month because I was apprehensive. But I'm happy to say Luci is doing well. He's been off meds for 4 weeks and is on observation. Observation lasts 12 weeks. He's doing great on all measures except his balance— his full run is janky, and sometimes he'll stumble or fail a jump. But he's running and jumping. Vet says the balance thing might be permanent. Neuro FIP is brutal.

Don't worry about his mobility, because Luci is a champ despite the problems. It seems the house's mice population rose while he was down, because now that he's back? He is cleaning house. Five mice in three days. His hunting average was never this high. Luci's making the mice fear him again.

Thank you for everyone's support! Here's hoping he gets to 12 weeks without issue.

[remotepunch]

[anthonyhurd]

Tonight’s thoughts as we’re hitting the half way point of pride month.

[d-a-mante]

I wanted sparkly blue and orange dice, saw the vibrant orange in these product pictures, but received this. :(

Close enough for Jason Asano dice I guess.

[undead-knick-knack]

Seriously wtf is their deal

[transfagrified-in-the-void]

Here is a free pdf of the players handbook

Here is a free pdf of xanathars guide to everything

Here is a free pdf to monsters manual

Here is a free pdf to tashas cauldron of everything

Here is a free pdf to dungeon master’s guide

Here is a free pdf to volo’s guide to monsters

Here is a free pdf of mordenkainen’s tomb of foes

For all your dnd purposes

[zxiqky-wicky]

Reblogging for other dnd nerds

[demon-rum]

>^>

[jacobtheloofah]

also here is a whole website that not only has a shit ton of adventures and such but lets you search for any item or npc or whatever and see their stats and info at your fingertips

[d-a-mante]

I wasn't quite into halaire until Bolaire said "can you help me with this intimate thing and also if you don't that's okay" and Hal stabbed his body (with detail) and then transferred Bolaire to another body. Whatever the fuck that was, that got me into the ship.

[nilim]

Ok, so I was reading this news story:

So far so normal, right? But then:

Like what. And then:

Like, I think Alaska State Trooper Ken Marsh wants to be a romance novelist. 

[panicblanket]

well would you look at that

[autisticexpression]

One of the best posts

[such-a-fellow]

Testing more illumination-style drawing with this!

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Yde et Olive is a french narrative poem written in the thirteenth century. It’s a section of a larger cycle of poems that are sequels to the legend of Huon de Bordeaux, and may have been an adaptation of the myth of Iphis and Ianthe, though that isn’t known for certain. It hasn’t been studied much in English, but there’s a great translation by Mounawar Abbouchi here, along with analysis and in-depth translation discussion! It tells the story of Yde, the daughter of a king who disguises herself as a man to escape from her father and becomes a renowned knight before gaining the favor of a king and marrying his daughter, Olive. In a very unusual twist for this type of story, when Yde confesses the secret of her identity to Olive, Olive brushes her concerns off and vows that they will be happily married regardless of Yde’s biological gender. Like in the story of Iphis and Ianthe, their secret is found out and Yde is transformed into a man by divine intervention before he can be prosecuted for his transgression of gender.

it’s not an unusual story in itself (a young woman disguising herself as a man, doing brave deeds, and being transformed into a man so she can marry a woman in love with her is a familiar formula!), but its handling of Yde’s gender is striking, both in Olive’s blithe acceptance and in the combination of feminine and masculine language used to refer to Yde throughout. Stories of same-sex romance that end in transformations like this are often written off as heteronormative and of-their-time, and while obviously that’s a necessary lens to apply given the religious and social context Yde et Olive was written in, I don’t think that’s the end-all-be-all of what this story can be. The transformation allows this, a story from the 1200s, to contain both a sympathetically portrayed story of sapphic romance and a wonderful, nuanced tale of a transmasculine character who grows into himself through the story. Yes, this is applying a modern lens to it; we don’t know what the author of Yde et Olive intended when they wrote it and these aren’t terms they would have had or used. But regardless, in a time when being trans is day-to-day becoming more and more difficult in many parts of the world, I think it’s comforting to find glimpses of joy in stories from the past.

[mysweetoddbird]

sorry but once you notice how often ppl use a southern accent as shorthand for being unintelligent you can never unsee it. classism is baked so deeply and why are you acting like anyone who talks the way my grandfather talks is stupid.

[in-the-drowning-deep]

ditto cockney accents being used to denote stupid and evil. why are you acting like someone who talks like a member of the working class is irredeemable and an idiot.

[queen-mihai]

Ditto black accents for being classless and somewhat of a criminal. Oh that black character talks with a posh accent? Must be a professor.

The professor breaks out some street slang? Better break out hard rap music and CGI a tattoo on their face

[biglawbear]

I'm instituting a new policy of "if I can't easily read your crusty scanned PDF then I'm sending it back to you, telling you to get your shit together and save your .docx as .pdf, and causing snakes to manifest inside your house"

[christaaah]

this but also if you are in accounting and you have an Excel file please do not save it as a PDF or take a screenshot of it and then paste it into another Excel file

[biglawbear]

I take it back whatever you have going on is way worse than what I was dealing with holy shit

[firstbornsons-deactivated202605]

@thesummoningdark hello?????

[thesummoningdark]

yeah no this is a real thing an actual human being said to me

[biglawbear]

Good afternoon to everyone in the notes having a horrible time! Y'all are fighting demons I never knew existed!! I think every person that makes you do stupid time wasting shit like this because they refuse to learn basic computer literacy should be fired!!

[some-pers0n]

From the perspective of an outside observer, it seems as though being a fan of comic books is a form of masochistic torture

[some-pers0n]

Every time The Comic Mutual gets online and liveblogs about reading an issue it's like "I swear to god all these authors need to put in jail I hate this everything hurts but at least there's Scrimblo Jeremy. I don't know how I would do this without Scrimblo Jeremy" and then you look up Scrimblo Jeremy and he's the third cousin twice removed of some iteration of Jason Todd

[d-a-mante]

PLEASE! 💔 I need your help! I know you come to my page for fandom, but For My Cat, I'll do what I've never done before: ask for money from somewhat-strangers on the internet.

My cat Luci was diagnosed with neurological, dry FIP.

He started showing neurological problems (wobbly walk, eyes drifting on their own, loss of balance) two days ago (Jan 11), and now will not eat on his own. Watching him try to walk makes me cry. He has days left, maybe, but his meds are very expensive and I'd just lost my job this month. I can do the first week, but after that I don't know where to find the money. It's 22,000 php (371 USD) just for the first month. Another 14,000 php (236 USD) for the rest of it (oral treatments).

Update: he needs a whole lot more, because his neuro case is proving difficult to treat (he's backsliding repeatedly and it's fraying my nerves 😭) - more updates at the end of the post.

$1,308 total. There's no way I can afford that. Maybe even if I get a job in the next month. And he needs at least 3 months of treatment.

If anyone would like to help (please and forever thank you):

PayPal: [email protected] (please send as a personal payment)

(Philippines) GCash: 09174822608 (Yv* M*)

I can't start a GoFundMe because they don't send to the Philippines.

I love my cat. I really want to save him. As thanks for generosity, I can, like, draw you fanart or design OCs for you.

Thank you. Even just reblogs are very welcome.

Update (as of Mar 27): Thank you thank you for covering his meds for the entirety of February. And March. You saved my boy!

Okay actual update: Luci started on a different antiviral, and he seems to be doing a little better on it? He's not cured yet, but I'm very hopeful with this one. It's much cheaper, but it also comes with more risk. Just more monitoring needed, and I've decided to extend his treatment to make sure he's fully cured.

Update (as of Apr 17): Luci is once again declining. Fast. And my vet has no idea why, not really. His WBC is very low from side effects of the last med he took. We're back to the old antiviral but in oral form but he's still declining. His phosphorus is low but otherwise bloods are normal (besides the WBC). No idea why the phosphorus is low.

I have a job now but it's been only 4 days of work and I don't get paid until the 22nd. I'm truly sorry but I'd appreciate help for Luci's latest emergency treatment. We've tried so hard.

Update (as of Apr 30): It's been rough, but Luci is slowly improving again. We're still not sure what the decline a couple of weeks ago was— went to two different vets, got the tests available (no CT-scans for pets over here), and had two different diagnosis: a GI problem, or a new FIP symptom. So we just treated for both. I don't know which worked, but it worked. He's eating really well again, although he's not running or jumping yet. I'm happy with that.

Thank you for all your help. 🥹

(I'll edit this post with updates later)

[clearancecreedwatersurvival]

my new plan for 2026 to turn the wheel of time live action adaptation into a cult classic so another streamer will pick it up is the same as my old plan and two fold:

-continue to spread the yuri cocaine (s1e6 the flame of tar valon you will always be famous to me) gospel and speculate about further possibilities to the gay adaptation agenda already present (would min get girl on girl action finally as she deserves?)

-start a fandom conspiracy (ex: johnlock, byler, larry stylinson, phan) that rafe and co. WERE in fact planning to a. make Cauthor canon and b. let Rand also add other men into his messy chosen one polycule (book readers can probably guess which characters I am speculating about here) this is useful both because i do think leaning into the yaoi baiting as much as possible could boost the popularity of any future seasons significantly AND because i do personally believe it to be true

[meterapix]

SO ENGLISH ISN’T MY MOM’S FIRST LANGUAGE AND TODAY THERE WAS A SLUG ON THE STEPS AND

[riverssongs13-deactivated202606]

Eva Stratt saying "You don't even have a dog" to a terrified Grace is the equivalent of Moiraine Sedai telling Lan Mandragoran they were never equals (in the WoT tv show)

Not a statement out of malice, but said with just enough deliberate pain so as to push the other person away. A stab deep enough to bleed on that occasion, but actually meant something heartfelt in hindsight.

Moiraine implying Lan is beneath her, all the while meaning "because you've always been the better of me", when she admitted this in Falme.

Stratt implying Grace has no meaningful connections on Earth, all the while meaning it's the entire world and Life itself that Grace has, and will be rescuing. His "something to die for", as per Commander Yao's word.

[clearancecreedwatersurvival]