The raven speaks

Probably human. Might be a bird instead or a snail. Or a slug. You’ll never know.

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The former place of Doctor Feathers and Doctor Jay Walker, now just a misc. blog

Plague doctor side of things: All in character posts All character stories (Confirmed lore stories: -Writ -The seaside -Prometheus’s stone -Forests) Post about Doctor Jay Walker and Doctor Walker's blog Plague doctor moodboard thingies

Personal side of things:

Pronouns: He/they

BMus (Anticipated BMus Ed). Going into law after my undergrad, I occasionally post university related stuff at @notquitedarkacademia. Chronically unable to stop overworking myself

Mainly posting personal thoughts and fandom stuff, will occasionally appear with space and writing stuff.

Also writing a book, but I don't update said blog very often ( @lostamongthesatellites ).

[acegender]

explain your gender in 10 words or less without using boring words like “male”, “female”, “nonbinary”, “masculine”, “feminine” or “androgynous”.

go!

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Cat with a weird pattern on their face and a bell on the collar

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every time someone mentions anything about cross-culture meetings, I think about the year we went on tour in America as a Canadian band (three bands in total) and we ended up getting along really well with Showband.CH, a Swiss band that was also competing. We got on along so well in fact, that Showband.CH basically followed us home. There's occasionally a Swiss band in the city's most important parade and barely anyone knows why they're there, but that's okay because the Canadian bands lorb them and they love us and we're each other's biggest fans aside from direct friends and family.

We took pictures with each other on that tour. The bands follow each other on instagram. The band parent who posts our videos regularly posts theirs when they're with us. At this point, where the senior band is, Showband.CH is. we're separated by half a landmass and an ocean besides. There's a language barrier. But we're still basically best friends. It's like the marching band version of an international penpal.

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hi hello plagueblr my newest hobby is turning people and characters into plague doctor squishable alter egos rb with your plague doctor so I can turn them into a squishable alter ego

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@digital-drag0n

salutations, you and Dr. X have been turned into plague doctor alter-ego squishables

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hi hello plagueblr my newest hobby is turning people and characters into plague doctor squishable alter egos rb with your plague doctor so I can turn them into a squishable alter ego

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THE GUY HAS A DMD. MED SCHOOL SQUISHABLE

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Hey. Hey you. Yeah you. If you're experiencing a heat wave stick an ice cube in your hat and then put your hat on. Short-term life saver while you walk to the grocery store. you're already wet from sweating ice buckets some ice water won't hurt

[blumineck]

This video brought to you by the Fantasy Adventurer Infomercial Committee

[cervinesatyr]

Shad literally used to make videos like this (not a compliment).

[blumineck]

Hey look I’m fully on board with Shad hate, but this comment is really unhelpful unless you tell me what the actual problem is

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Summarizing The Drama in Tumblr Dumbassery shorthand: How dare you say we piss on the poor + sharks are smooth both ways + anyone in this thread smoke weed? + Is Elon Musk in the room with us right now? + you are a tar pit + People irl: Hey man how's it going?

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A collection of campaign ideas:

Blood on the clocktower: - Vampires SMP and BoTC fusion - Players are given BoTC roles to base their characters off of - There is one vampire who must secretly and successfully turn all other members of the party before the campaign is over - At the start of every long rest/night with sleep, players can take a minute to discuss the ‘vampire situation’ - Players can pass notes to each other in lieu of being able to speak privately - Ghost player mechanics similar to BoTC ghost roles

Heartless: - Timed life mechanic similar to Limited Life from the Life Series - Kill = more time to live - Personal time runs out = you die - Players are being hunted down for their time in order to feed a semi-immortal dictator's life - The less time you have the more bloodthirsty you are

And an eye for an eye: - Based on TMA, but using the Fear system from 'Sing a song of sixpence' - City of Archia is on a precarious balance of magic, Elias wants to start a ritual to disrupt it and end the world - Sirens, werewolves, mers, banshees who each have a Fear 'patron' with powers to match

Fallen: - Backrooms amnesia campaign - Players wake up in the Backrooms together. They don't know who they are or who the others are - The Bacteria is hunting them, and they know this instinctively

Hold Fast: - PHM-inspired amnesia campaign - Players wake up disoriented and not knowing about who or where they are - Two of the people on board are already dead - Early encounter- players must decide if this is a friend or enemy

Bloodsplatter: - IL-inspired amnesia campaign - Psychological horror - Gaslighting mechanic involving Ellie the eel (my horrendous and vile gaslighting game mechanic) - Players are from Eden and have been captured by the COI for their 'crimes' - some are actual crimes some are fabricated - Corrupt system and Eden people are unfavourable- tossed in the deepest recess of jail, nicknamed 'Forest of Eden' as mockery - Criminals are amnestisized beforehand - Campaign starts just as Eden blows up Filament station - Players must get out before the COI collects them for a public execution- COI needs people to blame and players are scapegoats A desert town: - WTNV: Strexcorp take-over era - While Cecil is releasing the station from Strexcorp, the players are on their own mission to release their friends and families - Canon-typical weirdness allows for players to 'shoot' someone with finger guns or similar, but Strexcorp employees cannot be hurt conventionally - Possible magic system overhaul to fit Nightvalean weirdness (bloodstones?) Is the... moon big?: - Inspired by Hermitcraft Season 8's 'Moon Big' arc - Moon is crashing into Earth, players need to get out - One shot only- either players successfully get out or they TPK from moon Quest-luck: - PJO themed - Campaign is basically one giant quest - Players are all CHB campers You Do NoT Recognize the bodies in THe WAtEr: - Game mechanic, like sirens but weirder - Based on the Class of '76 canon in the SCP universe - Roll a wisdom save or someone has to physically pull you away from the water - While entranced, the character can only go on and on about how they recognize those people and have to save them [DATA BREACH]: - Campaign styled in classical SCP breach style, similar to CONTAINMENT BREACH - Takes place in Site 19, DM to choose which SCPs to include from existing roster - Players are D-Class Exclusionary zone: - Based on SCP-5000 (why?) - Players have to merge 055 and 579 together to reset the world - Issues to address beforehand- how to work in 055's anti-meme properties, how to present 579 without physically describing it

A very complicated campaign based on SCP Tale: THERE IS NO ANTIMEMETICS DEPARTMENT (need to work out how to put antimemes into D&D) Phasmaphobia-inspired campaign? Ghost-hunting system, players are investigating a haunted house MHA campaign? Players are quirkless students trying to sneak into UA's hero course --- Code: RED - Classical D&D style - There's a new popular hallucinogenic drug - It's actually safe there's no twist there and don't make one - Except all the dealers keep turning up dead Ship in a bottle: - Players are slaves on a popular slaver's ship - One player knows prestidigation to start a fire, but is not a magic class - NPCs do not know this player can magically start a fire - This slaver's ship is very burnable. Dragonborn are not transported for a reason. - also, bad storm outside Train going west: - Wild-west themed - Campaign takes place entirely on a train going from East to West - Specifically allows players to dip in and out of the table as they please- all players are criminals on the run hitching a ride on the same train at different intervals - When a character leaves the train, due to being captured or otherwise, the player leaves the table. A new player is introduced either at the next stop or doing something like jumping on a moving train from horseback

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POV: playing Meccha chameleon for the first time

How do I paint. No, guys, actually, how do I paint

WHERE DO I GO??

Oh gods YOUR MIC DIED

I am crouched. I cannot uncrouch. Help. I am stuck.

How do I free cam- oh I moved. Alright.

Yo how DID YOU HIDE LIKE THAT

Alright new lobby everyone let's get moving

I am. Unobservant. Help me.

[runs around screaming] WheredoIhideWheredoIhideWHEREDOIHIDE

How do... I shoot? Oh-

HOW DID YOU GET THERE???

GET ME OUT OF PAINT MODE SO HELP M-

Yo hey you're flashing-

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Do you ever think like, a little more in-depth then usual, about the kids who've been year-rounders at CHB since they were 7, like Annabeth, or 8, 9, or even younger then that gods forbid?

Kids whose legal parent is Chiron, or their Cabin Counsellor if they're old enough. Kids who get in trouble for kicking their shoes off during recess and running into the grass barefooted, because at Camp you didn't really need to wear shoes or boots unless you were sparring, or climbing the lava wall, or if it was winter (or if you were cleaning the horse stables), and it's easier to run without shoes on. Kids whose mortal schools were next to a small patch of trees that were off-limits to them because the school couldn't ensure their safety, who snuck into them during lunch and recess anyways, because it's not like Camp had a playground. All the play was done in the nature around them.

Kids who made friends with mortal kids. Kids who got the okay from Chiron to drag their friends on adventures around the city because their scent was still weak enough, and it probably wasn't responsible of him regardless because there was now a group of 8 year old kids, one of them barefooted, poking around the city without any adults, but they came back whole and alive and Chiron figured that that was good enough.

Kids who don't know how to act like school is in session, because for them Camp is always in session and inevitably come back into the classroom with dirty feet and mud cracked up to the knees, shoes nowhere to be found, because at Camp an older kid would just tell you to get into a shower but at school the teacher scolds you for ten minutes over it.

Kids who get the okay from Chiron to have playdates with their friends, which has a 50/50 chance of them crying back to the Camp Counsellor because they were climbing the roof and the parents didn't like that, and the Camp Counsellor in question has to explain that even though you're allowed to climb the roof of the Demeter and Apollo cabins, that doesn't mean you can climb actual houses, except the kids don't know the difference between a cabin and a house.

Kids that grow up into teenagers who just migrate to climbing abandoned buildings and hanging around in there with their friends, who would still rather spend half of their highschool lunch time picking up a stick and play-fighting someone then sitting around all the time.

[defilerwyrm]

Let people grow.

When I was younger I was very right-wing. I mean…very right-wing. I won’t go into detail, because I’m very deeply ashamed of it, but whatever you’re imagining, it’s probably at least that bad. I’ve taken out a lot of pain on others; I’ve acted in ignorance and waved hate like a flag; I’ve said and did things that hurt a lot of people.

There are artefacts of my past selves online – some of which I’ve locked down and keep around to remind me of my past sins, some of which I’ve scrubbed out, some of which are out of my grasp. If I were ever to become famous, people could find shit on me that would turn your stomach.

But that’s not me anymore. I’ve learned so much in the last ten years. I’ve become more open to seeing things through others’ eyes, and reforged my anger to turn on those who harm others rather than on those who simply want to exist. I’ve learned patience and compassion. I’ve learned how to recognise my privileges and listen to others’ perspectives. I’ve learned to stand up for others, how to hear, how to help, how to correct myself. And I learned some startling shit about myself along the way – with all due irony, some of the things I used to lash out at others for are intrinsic parts of myself.

You wouldn’t know what I am now from what I was then. You wouldn’t know what I was then from what I am now.

It distresses me deeply to think of someone dredging up my dark, awful past and treating me as though that furiously hateful person is still me. It distresses me to see others dredging up the past for anyone who has made efforts to become a better person, out of some sick obsession with proving they’re “problematic.”

Purity culture tells you that once someone says or does something, they can never go back on it. That’s a goddamn lie. While it’s true that some remain unrepentant and never change their ways and continue to harm others, it’s important to allow everyone the chance to learn from their mistakes. Saying something ignorant isn’t murder. Please stop treating it that way. Let people grow.

[got-zayn]

Still call it out and question it ….

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Bruh. No. Listen. Call out what people do now, absolutely. If they haven’t changed, call them out on their record. This post is explicitly not about people who HAVEN’T changed. What this post IS saying is, if someone is making an effort to be a good person, don’t go digging around in their past for evidence that they were once for what they’re now against, or once against what they’re now for, as “proof” of what they “really think,” because people’s opinions and beliefs can change. 

The obsession with finding shit in someone’s past and then claiming that a questionable or even sordid past negates all possibility of a good present needs to become extinct. Gold-star activism and purity culture are bullshit and we need to collectively reject the fuck out of them.

If someone has changed for the better, don’t harass them about what they were like before they fuckin’ changed. That’s shitty and it needs to stop.

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We can’t change the world if we decide people can’t change.

[sarasa-cat]

Gold-star activism and purity culture are bullshit and we need to collectively reject the fuck out of them.

We really need to start asking where this purity bullshit came from. I’m not  Christian and was not raised Christian but there has been a lot evidence that much of gold star activism and purity culture originated in of evangelical youth movements and then infiltrated progressive left-wing and center-left politics when those youth left their churches but failed to leave behind the black-n-white puritanical “you’re going to hell if you stray one inch from the righteous path” style of thinking they were taught.

I distinctly remember some conversations I had in the late 00s and very early 2010s with long time social justice activists who were baffled and disturbed by the new crop of youth activists who were practicing something that was decidedly NOT social justice despite stealing that phrase from us.

In the decade and a half that has passed since then, all of this gold-star activism and purity culture has done exactly what I predicted back then: empowered the far-right while sowing division everywhere.

Folks. This shit needs to stop.

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The extremely important part is that trust should be proportional to how much they actually demonstrate that they have changed. Especially when it comes to power.

A random person who had a moderately shady past or fucked up views before shouldn’t need to flog themselves to show how penitent they are beyond just doing better now, just to be able to live their life in peace, but if someone is campaigning to get political power and all they have to say for their life up to that point being a field of red flags, it isn’t enough for them to say “well I’m not like that now” if they haven’t actually achieved anything that makes up for it in the opposite direction.

We can’t allow ourselves to be our own worst enemies. We need an approach that allows for Oskar Schindlers without making excuses for Graham Platners.

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"Still call it out and question it" Do you want OP's younger form to go die. What the fuck is that going to do.

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I think the hermitcraft recap crew should complete the trio by making Pix sign up for Tumblr

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"Are you pro-ship or-" I'm a tired music ed student with a research lab and pep band to attend to. I have groceries to buy. Grants to sign up for. Rent to pay. Rehearsals to attend. Go touch grass and look at the clouds for a minute.

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there needs to be more fics of Roman kids going to CJ fresh off of being trained by Lupa, who's first instinct is to get down on all fours and growl when threatened, who learned to jump forward faster and up higher

kids who's first instinct isn't to use their weapons, but to wrestle their opponents and bite them, and are more used to eating raw meat then anything else

kids who hear 'prove yourself' and immediately just launch themselves at the nearest person, rip off their armour, and start biting and clawing at them

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Baby Jason sleeping on a wolf. Baby Jason who comes to CJ and his first instinct is to sleep on the floor. Baby Jason who spends the first few days at CJ defaulting to running on all fours and is faster than the poor probatio sent to catch him. Baby Jason who digs trenches out with his hands instead of a shovel and goes into battle covered head to toe in dirt. Teen Jason who has to be reminded by Reyna not to growl and hiss at annoying people. Teen Jason who people think is all smily and stuff but in reality is baring his teeth as a threat. Teen Jason who loses all his memories and fits right in with Piper and Leo's troubled kids thing because he started to default back to being a tiny feral kid raised by wolves and slowly transitions back into his praetor training over time as he regains more and more Roman memories.

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it's the way Martyn delivers "It's a WHAT" in Nice Life lmao

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there needs to be more fics of Roman kids going to CJ fresh off of being trained by Lupa, who's first instinct is to get down on all fours and growl when threatened, who learned to jump forward faster and up higher

kids who's first instinct isn't to use their weapons, but to wrestle their opponents and bite them, and are more used to eating raw meat then anything else

kids who hear 'prove yourself' and immediately just launch themselves at the nearest person, rip off their armour, and start biting and clawing at them