Diceverses

I’m lurkin’ here!

[uncertainlys]

MY FINGERS BARELY EVEN TOUCHED YOUR STUPID FUCKING AD STOP REDIRECTING ME TO THE APP STORE

[diceverses]

Celebrated session 69 of my D&D campaign a couple weeks ago and made this piece to commemorate it! It really was the perfect set up: the party returned to Waterdeep after a long and gruelling mission and arrived just in time for the Dragondown festival, where they got to reunite a bunch of previously kidnapped people with their loved ones and have a good time afterwards. Nothing raunchy happened but love bloomed as the sun set over the Sea of Swords!

Pictured: the first kiss of the changeling rogue pc, Eleanor, and a drow harper spy npc, Steve!

[aweebshitdrawings]

If you like Stan Pines, you might like Dean Winchester

[diceverses]

Whenever I read 80s era fics, in my head I hear all of mullet Stan lines in Jensen’s voice.

[cheaphalloweencostume]

not to be insensitive but some of the salem witch trials were so funny bitches like “i saw her at the devils sacrament!!!” girl... what were YOU doing at the devils sacrament 👀

[cheaphalloweencostume]

happy birthday devils sacrament. i wish you were never born

[topherchris]

[orcboxer]

okay what's going on here

[justcuriouspolls]

Can you win against your pfp/icon in a fight (in the sense of asking which one is physically stronger)? Assume you both have the drive and the motivation to fight eachother, and both of you are unarmed (unless your pfp explicitly shows them with a weapon, or they physically cannot survive without their weapon).

I can easily win against them with no issues

I can win against them, but it wouldn’t exactly be instantaneous

I can most likely win against them, but I would be struggling

I can juuuust barely beat them in a fight

We tie

They will win against me, but it would be a very close match

They will win against me, but they would be struggling

They will win, but at least I would have survived the first few moments

They can easily win against me with zero issues

I can’t imagine my pfp in a fight*

Infinite many nuance

Show answers

Voting ended onApr 14

*Not being able to conceptualize the idea of what a fight against your pfp would even look like, e.g. if your pfp is just a solid blue circle with no inherent meaning behind it

Is this a regular fight or a fight to the death? I don’t know, but odds are it wouldn’t make much of a difference

[dark-lord-of-awesomeness]

Cat Stan but he's a little sphinx. Winged cat who has to guard the door and demands people answer his riddles

The riddle is a progressively specific one that boils down to 'I am your cursed brother' that Ford just not figuring out. Stan's plopped down in front of Fords front door, has his normal regular human head on his little winged cat body, but somehow Ford just can't figure out what 'The shadow of Six' is.

Thankfully there's like, three doors into his house, so as he continues to get it wrong and gets bit for the trouble, he can just go to one of the other doors. Somehow it never occurs to him to go to the side door right away, or step over the sphinx.

When the curse eventually breaks Ford looks over all his recorded riddles Stan's asked him, trying to figure out how any of them alluded to him, then looks over at Stan wet eyes style when he realizes how a lot of them put Stan down, talk about how useless/unwanted he is, or how he's some variation of Fords extra/spare/shadow. He sadly needs to beat Stan up about this, as he swore he'd defend Stan against anyone who talked about his brother this way.

And also he's hugging and telling Stan how much he loves and values him, and how Stan's his own person who's super cool and funny.

[diceverses]

Thought of these:

To pass by me in this direction,

Name at once an unwanted reflection.

A broken beast no one can fix,

Bound to be the shadow of six.

A spare thing you’ll never need,

That cannot win, cannot succeed.

Who’s hardly capable of thought,

And yet so much misfortune wrought?

What will always wish for love,

But could never earn enough?

What’s a creature forced to roam

Stuck inside its metal home.

[twilightofthesandwiches]

Congratulations! You are now a Magic-User!!

Spin the wheel to find out in which way your Magic begins to gradually transform your body?

How do you feel about this?

HELL YEAH THIS IS PERFECT FOR ME

This is very cool!

This is neat, I guess…

I mean, it could definitely be worse….

I feel utterly indifferent about this change

Honestly, I don’t think I’d even notice anything is different

This transformation has both strong upsides and downsides, I feel conflicted

This is perfect for me (Deragetory)

This isn’t the worst, but I still feel disappointed…

This feels pretty sucky tbh…

This is a very lousy side-effect, but at least I still have magic, right?

THIS IS SO SO BAD MAGIC ISN'T WORTH IT FOR THIS SIDE EFFECT

Voting ended onApr 12

[all-the-bones-ever-deactivated2]

this hit me like a truck

[diceverses]

My new face!

[warmfigure]

i am massively overdue for a very very good week where not a single bad thing happens and everything is easy

[unlettered-heathen]

reblog to give prev a very good week where not a single bad thing happens and everything is easy

[fuckthisbloganditscurses]

Happiness Will Come To You.

[12goblins]

when tho

[fuckthisbloganditscurses]

When You Least Expect It. Probably Late March

[wizardshark]

reblog for happiness to come for you in late march!

[zigxortega]

[zac--efren]

I reblogged this last year and I hung out with blink-182 backstage on March 30. Reblogging again because it worked the first time.

[scientiablr]

honestly, last year one of the best days of my life happened in late March

[llamasgotoheaven]

I reblogged this weeks ago and it’s getting to be late march. I have had a great last few days lol

I reunited with a guy I had a thing with but life got in the way of initially, it went way better than I expected + I have been hanging out with my friends in really nice weather. I passed an exam and finished another one I’m optimistic about. I’m eating great food, loving up on my kitty cat daily, and One Piece Live Action season 2 came out recently.

[diceverses]

I need something good in my life in late March.

[canthaveshitingotham-crucified]

i hate it when i cant even write a poem about something because its too obvious. like in the airbnb i was at i guess it used to be a kids room cause you could see the imprint of one little glow in the dark star that had been missed and painted over in landlord white. like that's a poem already what's the point

[canthaveshitingotham-crucified]

you get it. you get the themes. i dont have time to do it justice. just look at it its on the ceiling

[brenna]

[teaboot]

[wheresmyphonemp3]

[fadingponycookiedream]

[andsorrowsend]

[werefeathers]

[hometoursandotherstuff]

I hate when this happens.

[diceverses]

My D&D group

[ratbastarddotfuck]

tumblr userbase is going to become unconscionably insufferable in response to this taste of power I suspect. don't let it go to your heads.

[ratbastarddotfuck]

Lots of talk about "bullying wins" and little talk about power and the flow of capital, which is what matters to the corporate bigheads who approve these things. imo a few things were at play here to make them rescind this.

- It was buggy. Tags not showing up for an OP past even an empty reblog did not appear to be intended (or at least, it was not mentioned in the announcement), and is a MAJOR problem. Specifically, it undoes the major update from around 5 years ago which was heavily praised by the userbase (one of few tumblr updates to actually be widely well recieved) which allowed a poster to see tags in their activity feed. If this was the only problem, they could have launched a bug fix. Same goes for not being able to turn off reblogs.

- Userbase unity? Well, maybe. Specifically - the userbase had a swift, harsh, and overbearing response to this update. Most of the complaints were the same: this will exacerbate harassment, this will disrupt the flow of communication, this will make it impossible for someone to maintain their posts. Big names in the tumblr ecosystem came down hard, fast, and with significant concern: if this stays in place, I will have to leave - this place will not do what I need it to do. Much of the userbase said the same, sharing alternate blog hosting sites and doing the thing we always do when this ship looks like sinking. Additionally, their replies and feedback forms were obviously being flooded. This put real pressure on their workers in the office, which puts financial pressure on the company. I think the most disrupting tactic though, was going offsite. I checked out their instagram and twitter comments; they were flooded. This is something we Don't Usually Do when we're just whining about the newest change. Usually we stay here to complain but we make do with the change. This, I think, is the thing that signified people weren't just whining but were actually for real pissed. And then of course...

- Five hours before the roll-back announcement, an article drops. That kind of bad press is the nail in the coffin for a dying company like tumblr. I imagine several concerned meetings somewhere in those five hours.

What do we learn? The answer is not "bullying works" and "swearing at customer service reps is fun". The answer is to remember that online, we are both the product and the thing that creates the value (similar to but obviously distinct from the actual workers of a corporation; if we vanished overnight they'd have nothing). Brush up on your collective bargaining & try to understand why this happened in this way. And don't try to replicate this for every random update that comes next by endlessly harassing them. Take stock of the little power you have and work out where to put it to use. This is still just tumblr.

[frownyalfred]

my feedback to Tumblr

posting a version here as well before I strike alongside other users for several days. I highly encourage you to submit your own support ticket and select "feedback."

-- Dear Tumblr Staff,

I have a blog I've been running since 2018. I encourage all of my readers on Archive of Our Own to come find me and interact here, on Tumblr. I post here daily and have consistently interacted with followers and non-followers alike. Some of these posts receive tens or even hundreds of thousands of likes, reblogs, and comments. I am sincerely proud of this accomplishment.

This process, this achievement, works because we can interact with reblogs, comments, and tags. With each other. Without it, what truly is the point of Tumblr? Siloing us into age appropriate categories? Disconnected communities and fostering a culture of indifference or worse, animosity to others?

The porn ban was one thing, and I understand the legal mess without agreeing with the outcome(s) But I do not understand this. At all.

No one asked for this. No one WANTS this. I don't say that to threaten, only to express my extreme displeasure with the new reblog chains, and to convey the reality of what is about to occur -- you will lose thousands of active users. Thousands.

For a site meant to build collaboration and foster interaction, this is a grave mistake. It is absolutely insane to launch this on people who have consistently valued those above items, keeping this site alive while a mass exodus occurred years ago. Those blogs and people have persisted, and this is the ONE thing that keeps them on here. Interaction with other people. Connection. A feeling of community stretching across blogs that may never be directly connected to each other.

I know you may or may not reply, and that an eventual reply would indicate that my feedback will be taken into mind. But it won't. Because this decision was forced on a userbase that had no input on the impact and did not want this. A decision that, in all likelihood, was never made with users in mind.

And yet, I still hold out hope for the consensus to alter the path we're currently on. I still believed in Tumblr, but not with this change.

[frownyalfred]

THIS DECISION FROM TUMBLR HAS BEEN REVERTED!

THANK YOU @staff and @changes for listening to your users!!!!!

[ariadne-mouse]

Omg they are actually rolling back the bad update in response to feedback??? The bar is in hell but I'm thrilled they cleared it