Gnomish Crafting

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[werewhorl]

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[werewhorl]

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[ehlonna-makes-stuff]

Maybe a weird take, but I think the old, weird, racist and just whacked-out descriptions of D&D's "always evil" species work if you assume they're in-universe propaganda. Like, the whole "drow are led by women, are always naked, are back-stabbing, duplicitous, keep men as slaves, and have strange rituals involving a spider goddess" might be inspired by the truth, but it sure sounds like the kind of thing an uptight, patriarchal society would write about a group of people they want burn at the stake, right? Like if someone told me that was pulled straight from the Malleus Maleficarum I'd probably believe them. "Orcs and goblins are stupid, violent, cannibalistic raiders who will raze your town and steal your women back to their backwards cave towns" really sure sounds like the kinda thing you read in historical texts about a society when the empire wants to justify colonizing them.

And the fact that all these "evil, barbaric" species always seem to have beef with the high elves, well, kinda points the finger toward whose leaders are spreading the narrative, don't it?

Like I don't blame anyone for wanting to move away from "fantasy racism" in their fun improv game with friends, I think that's great. But you still see "fantasy racism" show up a lot in contemporary campaigns and it always seems to be justified in-universe (except against tieflings, I guess) and that just DOESN'T sit with me

Just give another side to the story. High elves have this whole mythology about how Corellon cast down Lolth and all her children for being a traitor - and that story exists in-universe, and it's probably the first one humans hear. But you really think that's the drow side of the story? Really?? "Thats so interesting that you worship a god of the sun, we worship a traitor spider adulteress who turns us into mutants for failing arbitrary tasks" like FUCK that what's their actual version of the Corellon-Lolth cycle mythos?

[gnomish-crafting]

Hook-A-Book! My enchanted book bookstore on an SMP.

The inside has... a different vibe.

most of the fish have been renamed by ppl on the server, and include wonderful names like "Ford F150" (a big salmon), "Escaped Jellybean", and "Cuck"

[ironmyrmidon]

I love when Arabic loanwords get incorporated into other languages and they keep the al- suffix. I'm studying the gebra. It's a real the batross around my neck.

[gubrillaz]

I love movies bout guys in space who don’t want to be there

[liprairian]

James Patterson books are an invasive species humans brought into library shelf environments because we wanted fast-reproducing, easily-digestible food. But at the time, we didn't know as much about their natural airport environment, which has very few available nutrients. This environment greatly favours the genericalist species like Patterson, so there's very little bibliodiversity compared to the more specialized library or bookstore environment. This means that each species in an airport has an enormously expanded niche compared to just about anywhere else books can thrive - in their natural habitat, Patterson books may be one of only 3 or 4 species competing for available nutrients. In these low-density, low-nutrient environments, Patterson books occupy vast swathes of territory without bothering other species. This history makes it extremely easy for them to outcompete the more specialized inhabitants of the library shelf, who have often been carefully selected to fill ultraspecific subgenre niches.

Left unweeded, Patterson books will expand their territory over multiple book bays, crowding out or even straight-up eliminating space for competitors and sending contributor-author runners out to other shelves. Contained to a single, planned set of shelves and kept strictly pruned, Patterson books can contribute to a healthy ecosystem. But many curators don't know or don't care to do the planning and maintenance, leading to the nightmare of overcrowding and loss of circulation.

[blessphemy]

if you read about any biology you can quickly lose touch with what is astonishing and miraculous vs what is mundane, from animals that steal chloroplasts to become photosynthetic, to cloning technology being old hat, to trees that didn’t biodegrade for tens of millions of years, to naturally occurring lateral gene transfer between vastly different species, to the creation of gametes from adult cells, to the ability of some cancers to induce blood vessel growth, to desert shrimp that lie dormant for years, to the sensitivity of human touch receptors, to the fact that human hardware has a latent ability to see UV but their corneas block those wavelengths, to birds that echolocate and live in caves, to human skin being covered in enzymes that destroy RNA, to individual trees becoming genetic tapestries branch by branch, to life forms that gain energy from the electron potential of metals in their environments, to plants that recognize their siblings and adjust their behavior accordingly when growing next to them, to metamorphosis

which is to say. All of it is miraculous. and all of it is mundane. biology is Chaos vs. Order locking horns forever

[fallout-lou-begas]

wordle in 1: joyless. it is statistically inevitable that your go-to starting word will be the solution one day, and this is no more of an accomplishment than running a random number generator once a day until it gives you "1"

wordle in 2: misleading. you may think that this is the highest achievement, but it suffers from the same disappointment of a lucky guess that wordle in 1 causes. your second guess is a strategic choice, but ending the game this early just isn't interesting

wordle in 3: the peak. your starting word gave you some information and then your second guess contextualized that information into a solvable position. your sharp intuition and restraint is what truly separates you as above average.

wordle in 4: statistically average, par for the course, the baseline against which all other wordles are compared.

wordle in 5: you're sweating. you made a mistake at some point, or your starting word was effectively useless, and it took an extra guess above average to close things out. wordle in 5 comes as a relief.

wordle in 6: crushing humiliation. you have technically succeeded but at what cost. your thirty square grid will stare back at you like barrels of a firing squad. a failure in all but name.

wordle failure: never your fault. what kind of stupid word even was that like come on

[artbyblastweave]

Top Scientists at MIT have announced the development of a perpetual martyr who will continuously devour all the sins of the world. "The trouble with the last guy was, or at least, our understanding is, very one and done," the scientists elaborated. "Alright, the guy dies, wipes the slate clean, okay, good on him, nice of him to do that, but, like, come on. You know what we call a guy who goes to the dentist to get his teeth cleaned once, but never brushes or flosses on his own time? A guy with shitty teeth, probably! But this new guy, you know, he's basically all Shroud-of-Turin derived stem cells, so we can kill him as much as we need, any time it's looking like the levels of ambient sin are building up too much. Much more sustainable model for keeping us all out of hell."

[gnomish-crafting]

Hiiii! I saw your post on your MC build and it looked so cool! I was wondering, if you used any mods? If so, which ones did you use/Which ones do you use the most/what would you most likely recommend? ^^

-Ms. Meadows

No I play mostly vanilla! I do have some texture packs (full bright, redstone and qol stuff) and the server is lightly modded (fast leaf decay and /home) but that’s really it!

[gnomish-crafting]

If Grace is gonna live on Erid with Rocky, then he should get to run around Erid society in a large ball and complain about why it’s messy

[srutis]

Quick doodle of a creature mimicking a fawn with mandibles replicating the head

[gnomish-crafting]

My current survival base! The inside is a nightmare of ladders and pipes

[hirodraga]

Shhh... it's waking.

[rvicta]

human furnace

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[prokopetz]

Today's aesthetic: fic that spends several thousand words establishing Kink World, the world structured entirely around the author's excruciatingly specific kink, does one sex scene in like chapter two, then spends the next thirty chapters interrogating the sociopolitical implications of Kink World.