I'd rather be a dragon but otherwise I'm good

Kai, 25, They/He Bisexual, gender queer, I'm just a nerd who loves to read, watch tv and movies, and just be a general geek! Also I figure skate. fandoms include Critical Role, pjo, ATLA, and more

[masterqwertster]

Got curious about Thaisha's switch up in her level 4 Feat, and man they changed Mage Slayer quite a bit in 5.5e.

Originally in 5e Mage Slayer gave:

When a creature within 5 feet of you casts a spell, you can use your reaction to make a melee weapon attack against that creature.

When you damage a creature that is concentrating on a spell, that creature has disadvantage on the saving throw it makes to maintain its concentration.

You have advantage on saving throws against spells cast by creatures within 5 feet of you.

Now in 5.5e Mage Slayer gives:

Ability Score Increase. Increase your Strength or Dexterity score by 1, to a maximum of 20.

Concentration Breaker. When you damage a creature that is concentrating, it has Disadvantage on the saving throw it makes to maintain Concentration.

Guarded Mind. If you fail an Intelligence, a Wisdom, or a Charisma saving throw, you can cause yourself to succeed instead. Once you use this benefit, you can't use it again until you finish a Short or Long Rest.

So, some big shifts that also open it up more to those who aren't melee martial classes.

Reaction Attacks to Spells got scrapped, which isn't a big loss for Thaisha who doesn't rely on a melee weapon as her main method of attack. And getting that little bump to her Dexterity instead also raised Thaisha's AC. So that's really a trade up for Thaisha.

Disadvantage on Concentration Saves when you deal the damage has remained the same.

And then the big shift, really. Instead of Advantage on all Saves against spells only when they are cast within melee range, it is now an auto-success on 1 Saving Throw of Int, Wis, or Cha (not specified as coming from a spell) per Rest.

This last change really takes away from Mage Slayer being only (or near exclusively) useful for melee combatants who are hounding enemy mages. Mage Slayer will no longer help you with point-blank Chain Lightning or some shit, but it is useful now for keeping even your ranged fighters from getting whammied by enemy casters. And one good Save can make all the difference in a fight.

[w0nderland42]

i get that americans love their cultural imperialism, but it really does piss me off that june is “international” pride month just because something happened in the united states.

in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. marsha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.

But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.

our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1986. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.

anyway, happy pride, americans. i’m truly sorry that most of you don’t see the negative impact your nation’s culture has on the rest of the world. and to the rest of the world reading this, try searching for your own country and culture’s queer history, don’t accept the american narratives as your own. we deserve our own histories divorced from the cultural hegemony of the USA.

[what-even-is-thiss]

I tend to do a lot of cooking experiments and frankly the amount of closed mindedness people have around what food should and shouldn’t look like is holding them back I think

[what-even-is-thiss]

I notice that a lot of people’s immediate reaction to hearing about a cooking technique or flavor combination that they haven’t come across before is open disgust. A disgust and primal hatred that they will then take out on the messenger of this new and glorious news that the world is a little bit bigger than they thought it was.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Yeah I put apples in soup sometimes. People have been doing that for centuries. Get the fuck over it like an adult.

[panic-at-the-aromantic]

i do agree with this however i think that peoples horrified response to me putting guacamole on banana is at least a little bit reasonable

[what-even-is-thiss]

I’m not gonna lie. The only thing stopping me from trying that now is my allergy to both avocado and banana.

[loveridden1999]

"they've had intercourse" "i know that i'm asking if they've kissed"

[loveridden1999]

i think abt this a lot

[afurioushawk]

[afurioushawk]

[frustratedasatruar]

Real and growing possibility of him dying live on tv and nobody in the room noticing for minutes on end.

Likes charge, reblogs cast.

[your-turn-to-role]

matt gala

[1percentcharge]

I met Alex Hirsch today and he drew a little picture in my sketchbook

[1percentcharge]

[cartoon-fanaticism]

GLaDOS voice: "Would you like to see some artwork I generated? I've heard from other test subjects that AI-generated artwork produces an uncanny valley response in human viewers because they can't perceive it as fully real. They've told me that it looks absolutely hideous to them, that they can't imagine anything more disgusting than AI art. But, well I've been practicing and wanted your honest opinion. Feel free to let me know how ugly you find this by ranking it on a scale from 'vomit-inducing' to 'eye-bleeding'." A robotic arm lowers from the ceiling holding a hand mirror up to Chell's face

[wassuppeas]

[liminalcritter]

Heads up, Martyn came out as finsexual on his most recent stream about 11 minutes in

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR TELLING ME I was about to go to bed but then I saw this and rushed to my drawing tablet while watching the stream. so happy he found a label he's more comfortable with!!!

for the people asking:

fin means "feminine in nature". gyne/gynosexual put an unnecessary emphasis on genitals that he wasn't comfortable with and he found a different label that moreso focuses on femininity regardless of genitals. the first one is the flag i saw him point out on the stream, the second is an alternative version of the flag without the symbol!

happy pride everyone, don't be ashamed of having niche labels. the human experience cannot be contained within a binary, don't be afraid to go out there and find (or even create!) a label that fits YOU!! (and it is also completely okay to not use any labels at all. you are wonderful regardless.)

[should-be-sleeping]

You are 60% water and every lake, river, pond, swamp, creek, and ocean you encounter wants to reclaim it desperately. Be careful out there.

[should-be-sleeping]

[should-be-sleeping]

Good, I hope it haunts everyone about to enter a body of water so bad that they wear a life jacket. 🙌

[should-be-sleeping]

Every single person I knew (past tense) who has drowned was "a strong swimmer." Water in the wild does not care how good you are at swimming.

[should-be-sleeping]

I mean this with all due respect:

You are not going to pass a skillcheck against a rip current once it has you.

Waves will not bow to your physical prowess no matter how impressive.

Shock does not care that you used to be on your school swim team.

If you hit your head, being good at swimming isn't going to turn you face-up while you're unconscious.

You may be unable to return to shore. Rescue may be unable to find you quickly.

[joanthreatt]

Scheduling this for when weather starts warming up. Be careful swimming this summer

[hirsuteandcute]

I'm just going to say it - body hair (and beauty standards in general) is truly one of the final frontiers of women's issues in the West. Too many women just love their gilded cage too much. It shocks me how virulently women will defend it. I barely open my mouth and the "well I like how it feels. it just makes me feel cleaner. sensory issues. I do it for me. feminism is about choosing (to conform)." brigade come rushing in by the dozens.

Well I don't like how it feels. I don't feel cleaner without body hair. I don't prefer not having body hair. But who will advocate for women like me, but me? For women who do like hair removal, they are advocated for every time they step out of the house and see 99% of the female population also conforming to that standard, or when they watch a movie and see all the shaved actresses, or view an advertisment, or open a magazine, or watch a music video, or scroll through social media, or walk down the streets without receiving insults and glares for having a completely normal bodily feature.

You genuinely can't even point out that hairlessness is a man-made standard without women losing their shit and acting like they are totally immune to propaganda they've been exposed to from birth. I'm so tired.

[slipping-into-madness]

[undeadentropy]

Don't even worry about all that

[montanabohemian]

#well why did he even buy a scrying mirror if he didn’t expect his familiar to scry

[paradoxicalli]

cat understood the assignment

[whereispearlescentmoon]

Happy Pride Month to ZombieCleo and GeminiTay specifically.

[biblicallyaccuratemoth]

The first LGBT group I ever joined asked me to leave because they didn’t consider asexual to count as queer. It wasn’t visible enough to them. And more than that, they were concerned that I was a CisHet man only using the label of asexual to sneak into what was meant to be a safe space

Now that I’m out and transitioned, I still run up against this suspicion that I’m just infiltrating spaces and making them dangerous for the people they’re meant to protect

I’m tired of being seen as a predator when I’m just trying to exist

[hotvampireadjacent]

[lacetulle]

Almée Couture | Whisper of the Earth

[tench]

You won’t deceive me, it’s just a big amateur therapy group Sombody help them