A Fading Wind

My personal OOC blog!

[themanualmuncher]

Siobhan speaking on something very important. I don't think it's been a problem so far in the d20 community,YET. I know it keeps happening in the Critrole fandom.

Let's remember to support women identifying roleplayers, and their choices!

[fadewind]

Holy shit. This.

Like I am a dude. I have a few female characters for d&d stuff.

And I remember having my woman warrior called a bitch by one player (PLAYER not character). Fun facts: she was respectful to his character (a necromancer). Until his character threatened to resurrect someone she just defeated in an honorable duel 1v1. She never even got to claim a prize. She also had massive PTSD for surviving a war against a much more powerful necromancer (in which her lover died and was turned into undead). And the character knew about the PTSD as by some Wild Magic, he saw her memories.

Even wilder fact, she met the Necromancer that was responsible for the war and she went off on him. He apologized that his deeds caused her to go through that. (Not wanting repentance for his deeds, but that she was a bystander in all this.)

I couldn't imagine what women PLAYERS go through if that is how I'm treated when playing a woman character. And this was a meatspace table too

[pangur-and-grim]

i’d rather die than do math in any context

[rinhkitty]

[fadewind]

It's so refreshing that they made sure that 1 was not a prime number.

[randomencounters]

Quest: whoso pulleth off this tire of this endangered crocodile’s neck, is rightwise president of Indonesia

[silver-tongues-blog]

Strange lizards laying in ponds distributing circles of rubber is no basis for a government

[oddeyesarcpendulumdragon]

based on a true story

[real-life-pine-tree]

I don’t think Fortnite is to blame for kids nowadays not reading…

[askshadetrixieandfamily]

That’s the joke. It’s the authoritarian overbearing parent.

[ranty9000]

He was being sarcastic lol

[draconic-duelist]

Reminded me of these

[vaporwavevocap]

That violin one hit close to home.

[kaldicuct]

I remember doing homework once, asked my grandmother if she was proud of me. “Do some thing for me to be proud of.” That hurt.

[fadewind]

I remember that in senior year I wasn't applying to college scholarships as much as my parents wanted to.

I was taking 4 AP classes (2 of which I skipped the prereqs for because the teachers wanted me in their classes again. This was Calc BC (skipped AB) and Physics C (never took a physics class before). As well as a college level thesis.

So my dad had a few too many beers one Saturday. (His version of drunk is running his mouth and saying stupid (funny) shit.) He threatened to pull his support of me going to college because he didnt think I was taking it seriously. I exploded in pure rage and anger at him and replied that I would go with or without his help.

That was the wakeup call both parents needed from me. I didnt get many scholarships, but all my AP classes cut out over a semester of work. And that thesis is what got me my current job.

Moral of the story: Just because your child isnt fully developed, they might be planning things years farther down than you are.

[overfalls]

IT’S NOT ‘PEEKED’ MY INTEREST

OR ‘PEAKED’

BUT PIQUED

‘PIQUED MY INTEREST’

THIS HAS BEEN A CAPSLOCK PSA

[owlbearcounter]

THIS IS ACTUALLY REALLY USEFUL THANK YOU

[ranetree]

ADDITIONALLY:

YOU ARE NOT ‘PHASED’. YOU ARE ‘FAZED.’

IF IT HAS BEEN A VERY LONG DAY, YOU ARE ‘WEARY’. IF SOMEONE IS ACTING IN A WAY THAT MAKES YOU SUSPICIOUS, YOU ARE ‘WARY’.

ALL IN ‘DUE’ TIME, NOT ‘DO’ TIME

‘PER SE’ NOT ‘PER SAY’

THANK YOU

[tassiekitty]

BREATHE - THE VERB FORM IN PRESENT TENSE

BREATH - THE NOUN FORM

THEY ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE

WANDER - TO WALK ABOUT AIMLESSLY

WONDER - TO THINK OF IN A DREAMLIKE AND/OR WISTFUL MANNER

THEY ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE (but one’s mind can wander)

[fairywails]

DEFIANT - RESISTANT DEFINITE - CERTAIN

[melancholicmarionette]

WANTON - DELIBERATE AND UNPROVOKED ACTION (ALSO AN ARCHAIC TERM FOR A PROMISCUOUS WOMAN)

WONTON - IT’S A DUMPLING THAT’S ALL IT IS IT’S A FUCKING DUMPLING

[proletariatbitch]

BAWL- TO SOB/CRY

BALL- A FUCKING BALL

YOU CANNOT “BALL” YOUR EYES OUT

[soggywarmpockets]

AND FOR FUCK’S SAKE, IT’S NOT “SIKE”; IT’S “PSYCH”. AS IN “I PSYCHED YOU OUT”; BECAUSE YOU MOMENTARILY MADE SOMEONE BELIEVE SOMETHING THAT WASN’T TRUE.

THANK YOU.

[everylineeverystory]

*slams reblog*

[leonawriter]

IT’S ‘MIGHT AS WELL’. ‘MIND AS WELL’ DOES NOT MAKE GRAMMATICAL SENSE.

[penbrydd]

SLEIGHT - DEXTERITY, ARTIFICE, CRAFT (FROM ‘SLY’) SLIGHT - VERY LITTLE, FRAIL, DELICATE

IT’S ‘SLEIGHT OF HAND’.

[maverlok]

[steftastan]

CAN I ADD TO THIS TOO?

IT’S NOT ‘COULD OF’, THAT DOESN’T MAKE ANY SENSE WHATSOEVER. IT’S ‘COULD HAVE’. SAME APPLIES TO ‘SHOULD HAVE’.

[oniongentleman]

And this is why my students look at me as though I’m the devil when I try to tell them that no i’m not lying this really is a thing

[hermoninee-granger]

IT’S ‘COULDN’T CARE LESS’ NOT ‘COULD CARE LESS’ IF YOU COULD CARE LESS THAT MEANS YOU CARE

[haiku-robot]

it’s ‘couldn’t care less’ not ‘could care less’ if you could care less that means you care

^Haiku^bot^0.4. Sometimes I do stupid things (but I have improved with syllables!). Beep-boop!

[miss-malaphor]

Please check out Homophones Weakly.

It’s a treasure trove.

And a goddamn delight.

[spicychestnut]

I laughed so hard

[toopuretobepink]

as a person whose native language isn’t English, I truly appreciate this

[dancinjanssen]

‘AFFECT’ IS THE ACTION. ‘EFFECT’ IS THE RESULT. SOMETHING DOESN’T ‘EFFECT’ YOU; IT ‘AFFECTS’ YOU. HOWEVER IT CAN HAVE AN EFFECT ON YOU.

[headless-horseboy]

It’s not delivery it’s digorno

[tkthegoddess]

👏🏼❤👏🏼❤👏🏼❤👏🏼💋

[daphneblakess]

In the midst of this discussion on the current “no spoilers” climate, I keep remembering what happened when the Gravity Falls fandom predicted the existence and importance of Ford’s character. You know what Alex Hirsch and the show’s creative team did? They bumped Ford’s introduction up by a few episodes (mid-S2 as opposed to the planned season finale), but what they didn’t do was trash his entire character and thereby waste 30 episodes of buildup.

And when Ford walked on screen for the first time and revealed who he was, I remember the fandom losing our minds. Because we had picked up on the foreshadowing! All our theories had been proven right! And now we were getting the catharsis of payoff. Anyone who was there can testify that Alex Hirsch did troll us with fake spoilers, but he wasn’t upset whenever we put together the clues he was leaving for us. In fact, he actively encouraged it! And that’s what I don’t get about writers like the Russos and D&D - if you’re going to punish your fans for interacting with your work, why are you in the business of creating?

[may-shepard]

if you’re going to punish your fans for interacting with your work, why are you in the business of creating?

[fadewind]

Add Abrams and Rian Johnson to the list.

Fucking hacks

[catchymemes]

[luvmesumme]

Questioning things is the cornerstone of intelligence.

[fahbee]

(source)

Bonus:

[lucifer-is-a-bag-of-dicks]

thank you I am going to use this in every single abortion argument forever

[miles-b-morales-deactivated2026]

[deluxury]

THIS IS THE SINGLE GREATEST POST IN TUMBLR HISTORY. RECOGNIZE.

[aspiritualbumpit-deactivated202]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[emonightcometh-deactivated20200]

only time i will ever reblog family guy

[kaiasinclair]

🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[fuckstev-deactivated20240104]

moms be like “call me if you need me” and then leave their phone on the other side of the house charging the entire day

[iicarys]

why do so many “icarus and the sun” artworks and stories portray the sun as a woman? do y’all know who controlled the sun? apollo. icarus is gay as fuck, y’all.

[jadedsoggy]

Sometimes it was helios, not Apollo. Icarus was still gay as fuck

[cctinsleybaxter]

“Icarus we just escaped prison don’t ruin it by flying too close to the sun”

[Icarus already fucking launching himself across the sky for the sake of some godly dick]

[erinye]

woops

[chesnaughtlover]

Guy getting himself killed to get some godly dick is propably the most Greek thing to ever happen in mythology

[xiggyxm]

I showed my friend this and he goes “Icarus want dat Dickarus

[antique-scarecrow]

this is incredibly grecian 

[maud-kenny]

How can anyone not reblog this?

[broadwaytheanimatedseries]

Can we appreciate how fucking hot Helios is

[crystalsoulslayer]

i see what you did there

[mooglemeet]

Hey everyone! A lot of people were liking this old headcount post but, since that post was created late September and we’re almost midway through December, I figured a fresh count was in order. So, without further adieu:

Please like/reblog this post if you’re an active FINAL FANTASY XIV blog looking for other people to interact with! Whether you mostly post aesthetic, screenshots, rp, etc; as long as you’re a roleplayer, you like the game and you’re looking for new people to follow, this post is for you! By looking through the notes, you should be able to get a quick snapshot of what players are out there and what content might be of interest to you.

This way the headcount should be a little more up to date and reflective of people looking for content, rather than a post that is close to three months old. Hopefully this will be of more use!

-Kupo mod.

[thelvadams]

people really complaining about rey’s backflip being unrealistic, as if this never happened:

[nezumionice]

I’M CACKLING WHAT THE FUCK HE JUST WENT NYOOM

[feralkwe-deactivated20210912]

ppl take Star Wars far more seriously than it was ever meant to be taken.

[fadewind]

At this point Luke had been trained by both Ben Kenobi and Yoda.

Much like his father, he has a bit of a Force Rage button which was definitely pushed at this stage.

Darth Vader had also been seen as a legitimate threat to Luke, Leia, Han and co. This was looked over because we watched a flawed, whiny child put his life on the line against an unstoppable killing machine.

It's called good storytelling that Rey never got. I dont even blame Rey/Daisy Ridley for the shit she gets. Rey had such amazing potential. Even other parts of Disney shows she should have had some training before clashing with Kylo.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

......... different fantasy races should be impacted differently by each other's alcohol

no more if this "fine elvin wine" shit, I am going to personally write a fantasy setting in which every human knows that elf booze tastes and feels like fantasy la croix. there's barely even a flavor, and you'd need to drink a few to even get tipsy.

meanwhile, every human with a lick of common sense knows that you need to plan accordingly if you're going to be drinking dwarven liquor, because it hits you hard and fast and you'll lose feeling in your legs faster than you thought was physically possible. the hangovers are the stuff of legend.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

the flip side is that elves are an entire race of (comparative) lightweights, and a whole gaggle of teenange elves can get piss drunk passing around one bottle of fruity human wine

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

I think there's some compatability among drinks brewed by reptilian races (dragonborn, lizardfolk, tortles, kobolds, etc) although you run into similar translation issues as mammalians, but there is absolutely no crossover. like if a drsgonborn and a dwarf in a (very cosmopolitan) tavern were to switch drinks it would be a nonstarter.

"this is basically just a capri sun," the dragonborn says, disappointed.

"cool, I'm pretty sure I just drank actual paint thinner," the dwarf says. "get me to a hospital."

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

humans and halflings are probably the most compatible drinkers of any two races, although halflings find most human wines, beers, ciders, etc, a little too dry and bland for their liking. halfling alternatives are very sweet, which makes them a huge hit among the 'I like alcohol but I don't want it to taste like alcohol' crowd

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

I think it would be very funny if being drunk was like... a relatively new cultural development for gnomes? there’s just something about their wacky gnomish constitution that prevented them coming by it naturally (traditionally they’re more into a variety of mushrooms and other recreational plants) but once they started mingling more with more alcohol-happy races they learned VERY quickly and started opening, basically, turbo-breweries that are basically one part distillery and one part wizard tower. VERY popular job for young alchemists trying to make some good money, and the reason why gnomes are known (among other things) for operating the craziest night clubs

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

here’s who I think should be able to get drunk but become sober at will:

1.) sufficiently powerful paladins and clerics

2.) aasimar [all of them]

2.) very very few tieflings. it’s not universal at all, but few tiefling traits are. I know 5e has really solidified them as horns + tails + inhuman skin color but we need to be making them weirder 

[battlecrazed-axe-mage]

I agree with every single part of this but especially that we all need to be doing our part to make tieflings weirder, and also please someone overnight me some halfling booze

[battlecrazed-axe-mage]

Kombucha Plus

[fadewind]

Then you're going to run into the wood elves or those that have spent centuries travelling.

Imagine the face of a Dwarf when some battle-hardened elf downs a Stein of their liquor, looks them dead in the eye, and says, "I asked for alcohol not spicy fruit juice."

[darning-socks]

((The ability to appreciate and evaluate human aesthetic is not determined by your sexuality))

[clint-ftm-barton]

THANK YOU

[selaphiraviel]

Reblogging at the speed of light

[theaceae-c]

“Aw what a cute cat!”

“What I didn’t know you were attracted to animals!”

[galaxy-lilies]

👏👏👏

[cramconk]

FACTS

[prokopetz]

I think my biggest “huh” moment with respect to gender roles is when it was pointed out to me that your typical “geek” is just as hypermasculine as your typical “jock” when you look at it from the right angle.

As male geeks, a great deal of our identity is built on the notion that male geeks are, in some sense, gender-nonconformant, insofar as we’re unwilling or unable to live up to certain physical ideals about what a man “should” be. Indeed, many of us take pride in how putatively unmanly we are.

Viewed from an historical perspective, however, the virtues of the ideal geek are essentially those of the ideal aristocrat: a cultured polymath with expertise in a vast array of subjects; rarefied or eccentric taste in food, clothing, music, etc.; identity politics that revolve around one’s hobbies or pastimes; open disdain for physical labour and those who perform it; a sense of natural entitlement to positions of authority (“you should be flipping my burgers!”); and so forth.

And the thing about that aristocratic ideal? It’s intensely masculine. It may seem more welcoming to women on the surface, but - as recent events will readily illustrate - this is a facade: we pretend to be egalitarian because it suits our refined self-image, but that affectation falls away in a heartbeat when challenged.

Basically, the whole “geeks versus jocks” thing that gets drilled into us by media and the educational system isn’t about degrees of masculinity at all. It’s just two different flavours of the same toxic bullshit: the ideal geek is the alpha-male-as-philosopher-king, as opposed to the ideal jock’s alpha-male-as-warrior-king. It’s still a big dick-measuring contest - we’re just using different rulers.

[burningsobright]

It’s just two different flavours of the same toxic bullshit: the ideal geek is the alpha-male-as-philosopher-king, as opposed to the ideal jock’s alpha-male-as-warrior-king. oh my god

[dontpokethevalkyrie]

That’s rather illuminating.

[fadewind]

Wait, wait, wait

Is this why "geeks" and "nerds" get so fucking uppity when women have the same interest? Because it makes their dicks smaller?

It makes sense but pisses me the fuck off.

[memelonmelon]

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