Waddell's Re-Blog

香港 M Here resides a penguin THEME: snowiey BACKGROUND: webtreats SIDEBAR: chibird

[juney-blues]

look at this cool 3d dog I made >:)

[fembutchboygirl]

Can i pet him

[juney-blues]

you can try

[starryskiedcats-deactivated2022]

the vet measured junta on sunday, and as we were leaving the assistant said “he wrote down the measurements for you” and passed me this

[starryskiedcats-deactivated2022]

delighted that this post has lived on in people’s hearts

[aletheyass]

like sometimes you just have to toast yesterday’s bread put some sicilian tomatoes and a fuckton of mozzarella and oregano on it and call it a day

[aletheyass]

sorry. sorry it's pissing me the fuck off that people are assuming i didn't put olive oil on this. you think im putting unseasoned tomatoes on my bruschetta. do you genuinely think i didn't pour oil on that toasted bread the moment it came off the pan. of course i added fucking olive oil and salt and stuff like who the fuck do you think i am do you think i was raised by fucking wolves. i didn't mention it because it's obvious. automatic. implicit. did i add olive oil. did i. i'll tell you more actually not only did i add olive oil but my olive oil is extra super virgin in a way your oil will never be because it comes directly from my olives. you cunts

[larndraws]

I was asked how I made the rainbow light effect in my last piece, so I put together a quick step by step.

[broadlyaudrey-deactivated202106]

the four types of enjoyment derived from video games: 1. make number go up

2. make color get big

3. make all the people like me

4. gay

[doktorpeace-deactivated20251208]

[markv5]

Ученым удалось впервые получить фото кота Шредингера в момент перехода между квантовыми состояниями….

[moonlit-sewers]

[jkl-fff]

This is a brilliant piece of the tumblr art genre.

[noroithecurse2005-deactivated20]

we need to talk about wikipedia's example for a resting bitch face

[skeletrixislandradio]

Love

[boggblog]

Two planes having kiss

[sapropel]

Latios and Latias

[pukicho]

Oh boy.

OH BOY

[hellsite-yano]

[sadoeconomist]

[goldcrescent]

be soft

but be ready

[cannedtins-deactivated20201027]

scientist 1: we have succesfully cloned mew, what shall we name it

scientist 2:

[egberts]

op naming the second scientist

[dungeonhavoc]

Not everything a DM tries works out as intended. Sometimes a story arc falls flat, or a little extra description causes the party to halt for a few hours to fiddle with a rock…. it happens.

[sir-popard]

I was in a Lovecraftian GURPS campaign set in UK in the 1980s that ground to a halt for a solid hour because one of the players was adamant that we calculate the exact cost of plane tickets for our team.

[lawfulgoodness]

Truly, rules lawyers are an eldritch abomination.

[creepsandcrawlers]

lifehack if the players are obsessed with something give it to them. Often a small interesting answer will make them stop faster than a hundred boring ones.

[campbell-soup]

once my players rifled through some dead goblins’ clothes and i didnt expect that (dumb, i know) so i put a “very smooth pebble” in a pocket and the players were so interested in it they almost started a fight over it

[creepsandcrawlers]

i was one of the players and we were valid

[batmanisagatewaydrug-deactivate]

very early in my campaign - like, 2 or 3 sessions in - the party went to explore a shipwreck. among the loot in the wreck was a black marble statue of a goddess called Blibdoolpoolp. I found her name in a list of d&d deities and thought she sounded cool. her domain is crustaceans and madness, which fit with the overall tone of my bullshit campaign, so I threw her in for a bit of ~flavor~

the party got… attached.

they lugged that statue back with them when they left the shipwreck, even though they were being chased by a sea serpent. they brought it back to the inn where they were staying. in-character, they started seeking out all the information they could about this silly throwaway goddess.

out of character, they started flooding the group chat with lobster memes.

eventually - and I mean, like, several months later - I just gave in and let them have a whole adventure fighting a cult that worked for Blibdoolpoolp, defeating the cult, and letting them take over as Blibdoolpoolp’s primary worshippers. she’s their patron deity now and showers them with crustacean-themed blessings.

[animalwoonz]

[batbetbitbotbut]

@elodieunderglass I lack understanding

[elodieunderglass]

Do you not feel the raw alluring sexuality of the GREBE

[alessandromancodogphotograp-blog]

[sexhaver]

two sick horses evaluating an orb

[6qubed]

“it floats”

“don’t like that”

[holomoriarty]

[emmablowguns]

Snakes

[plomptipples]

This is how Tumblr’s search function works

[prokopetz]

One of the funniest things about Bram Stoker’s Dracula is that it’s mentioned in passing that most of Dracula’s powers don’t even have anything to do with the fact that he’s a vampire; he can do all that stuff because – and I swear I’m not making this up – in his youth he attended a magic school whose headmaster was the actual Devil. This is never followed up on.

Basically, what I mean to say is that you can picture a scenario where any fictional devil you care to name is a teacher at a magic school where one of the students is kid Dracula, and this would be a totally canon-compliant crossover.

[azzandra]

Was… he a student at the Scholomance? Is this why the Western world is familiar with solomonari even though in Romania it’s such an obscure mythological reference??

[prokopetz]

That’s pretty much exactly what happened. Bram Stoker read one (1) book on Eastern European folklore that had a bit on the Scholomance in it, threw a passing reference to it into Dracula’s backstory, and English-speaking audiences have been going “hey, what the fuck?” ever since!

[prokopetz]

(Incidentally, this means that if you’re doing one of those classic crossovers where Victor Frankenstein ends up fighting and/or working for Dracula, Dracula absolutely gets to talk shit, because at least he finished his degree!)

[absolxguardian]

Does Dracula have a PhD equivalent in dark magic? Does “Count” override “Doctor” in forms of address (I feel like this one does have a real answer)?

[prokopetz]

I’m not aware that there’s any universally accepted rule for the situation.

Outside of formal, your-name-is-your-biography introductions, the general rule is that you can have both a prenomial and a postnomial, but not two prenomials or two postnomials. There’s no postnomial for being a Count, so – assuming for the sake of argument that being instructed in blasphemous sorcery by Satan himself is a doctorate of philosophy rather than of law or medicine – that leaves “Count Dracula, PhD” as the only obvious form that would incorporate both titles.

However, academic postnomials are not used in everyday speech, so in practice he’d probably have to choose between being addressed as “Count Dracula” or “Dr. Dracula”. The rule there is to use whichever title is most immediately pertinent – e.g., “Dr.” when serving on a university’s board of directors – and otherwise to go with the individual’s stated preference, if any.

So the real question is: would Dracula prefer to be addressed as “Count Dracula” or “Dr. Dracula” in contexts where no other rule of precedence applies?

[jonkakes]

Twist: his actual name is just Acula and he wanted both titles

[justabrowncoatedwench]

Doctor Dracula De Ville, Count of Wallachia would probably be the complete way to address him (link).

[godeord]

I should point out that in Europe multiple prenomials are perfectly common, e.g. Dr. Prof. Ing. Dracula, PhD

[prokopetz]

Yeah, that’s the “formal, your-name-is-your-biography introductions” scenario I alluded to. There are almost no other circumstances in which you’d actually say all that as a spoken address.

(Well, unless you’re German, because the German language’s handling of titles and addresses is fundamentally ridiculous.)

[babyboomerbullshit]