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Darcy, 18. Gay-wine-aunt who doesn’t drink. She/They. #BlackLivesMatter "Own the right falcon and know the name of god."

[eldritchwaffles]

To my many followers, I have deemed this account archival and dumb. Go follow @evilnecromancer9000 if you want more of this garbage.

[schizm-deactivated]

help help help

[goldcrescent]

cinematic parallels

[mockwa]

[quixoticrobotic]

every horror writer in history wanted what the 19th floor subplot in the Wayside School books had

[maculategiraffe]

[quasi-normalcy]

Also the gentlemen with the black attaché case who offer you the choice between being safe or being free and the dead rats who live in the basement.

[nimthirielrinon]

I have no idea what Wayside School is

[quasi-normalcy]

It’s a trilogy of absurdist children’s novels published by Louis Sachar (the author of Holes) about a school that was supposed to be one storey with thirty rooms but is actually thirty storeys with a room on each floor because the builders were holding the plans sideways (and apparently this is how architecture works). Each book consists of a series of thirty loosely interrelated short stories about the students on the thirtieth floor, and there are a bunch of weird anomalous things that become running gags throughout the novels and, actually, now that I think about it, I can definitely see how Night Vale would have been inspired by this

[nakedcupcake]

I loved wayside school so much. There was one story where one of the students gets a tattoo of a potato, and I reference it with regularity, and no one ever remembers it. It would, in fact, be very wayside schoolian of me to have fever dreamed the whole thing.

[dr-falcon-fox-and-coyote]

I remember the potato tattoo!!!! It isn’t a fever dream!

[lauralot89]

the ice cream flavored to taste like the students

the kid covered in raincoats who turned out to be a dead rat

the time they installed elevators but one only went up and the other only went down so they worked for one day and then never again

the time the word door was banned and they had to call it goozack instead

when the principal was bringing students down to the office for interrogation and made the previously interrogated students hide under his desk

the substitute teacher who could steal voices

the substitute teacher who could hear thoughts

the girl who made up having a brother who kept ruining her homework but then it turns out her brother does exist on the nineteenth floor

what a good

[patrickdiomedes]

the substitute teacher who had a third nostril and could mind control people.

[wizardmania]

The wizard urge to summon a ketamine ape

[hauntboy]

Belladonna of Sadness, dir. Eiichi Yamamoto, 1973

[dankmemeuniversity]

[squeakitties]

[mechanicalangel-deactivated2023]

ohh you misheard! im a paranormal INSTIGATOR. im here to CAUSE hauntings lol

[dankmemeuniversity]

[squeakitties]

[c3rvida3]

The X-Files title screen edits I have saved on my phone now make a little poem. How cute.

[c3rvida3]

I completely forget the context of all of these. Enjoy.

[rabdoidal]

“She’s just a baby.” - Aelwyn Abernant

i. Rosario Castellanos, ‘Memorandum on Tlatelolco’ ii. Naomi Tydeman, Watercolour Print iii. Blythe Baird, Pocket-Sized Feminism iv. I’m a Fake, The Used v. @asoftersea​ comic [-316] (dies died will die) vi. Richard Kadrey, Aloha from Hell vii. Leon Murphy, Untitled House viii. Dimension 20 Live, Episode 9 - Fallinel ix. Nicolas Bruno, The Somnia Tarot (9 of Swords) x. Traci Brimhall, Vive, Vive

inspired by labelleofbelfastcity’s recent kristen post

[carnival-phantasm]

[stardial]

[transarsonist]

[pawthorn]

Taliesin's characters all suffer from competency syndrome.

What I mean by that is, they're good at convincing the other characters and the audience that they have things figured out. That they know how the world, or at least how their world, works. Percy thinks of himself as the only grown-up, even as he makes bad and self-destructive choices. Ashton laments 'has no one crimed!?' while not actually criming very well themselves. Molly declares that 'the truth is vicious,' and Caduceus insists honesty is usually the simplest and best strategy, while Taliesin shakes his head lovingly at what idiots they both are.

But because each is so firmly rooted in their beliefs, they come across as having their shit together, as being people that don't want or need guidance and advice. They handle themselves, and have private panic attacks along the way. Other characters rarely call them out on their BS. Percy literally had demonic smoke pouring out of him before Vex confronted him. Molly died, struck down by his own blood curse, before anyone could make him question himself.

Taliesin's character's have always been studies in hubris. He ends up taking some of the biggest risks in the game because his characters think they know what they're doing. Things often work out alright, but when they don't, as with Molly, the results can be catastrophic. Think back to Caduceus and Vokodo. Cad was convinced he’d figured out something about the entrance to Vokodo's layer. He swam close enough to test his theory, and got caught. If Fjord hadn't been close at hand, if Marisha hadn't rolled a natural 20 for Beau's search, the situation would have been dire. And yet Caduceus’ judgement was never really questioned. (Love that for him. Baby boy.)

And so I’m very interested to see what happens with Ashton. Because there is obvious, visible trauma there. And their outlook, the outlook that the word friend “implies a level of trust that isn’t necessarily healthy…” that outlook has to change at some point, by the very nature of the game. So far, the group has followed them, and no one has questioned them, not even Laudna But-how-did-they-die Laudna.

I wonder how long it’ll take the group to confront him, to challenge or question him, and what outside circumstances might push them to do so...

[l0s3r-g0r3-d3s7r0y4]

I looked up "roundest bird" and i dont know what i expected but im crying.

Look at it. Its called a bearded reedling

Look at them. Theyre so spherical. So round. Why is your face in the middle of your body sir. I cannot believe this bird is real.

I imagine i could bounce one like a basketball and it would be perfectly fine.

This bird is perfect. This is my new favourite bird

[yourplayersaidwhat]

“I’ve got a butterknife against Lightning-Hands McPalpatine, what am I supposed to do?!”

— our very stressed 2hp rogue, not knowing that they’re about to strike the killing blow against an evil sorcerer who already hit them with two lightning spells

[pictures-of-dogs]

Might I have some pictures of dogs in the snow in this trying time?

frosted dog