An Eclectic Bundle Of Joy

[favoritesticle]

Hi Would You Like To Talk To Me About Dinosaurs?

[butchflirt]

Yes Absolutely

[valtsv]

it fucks me up that tolkien only died in 1973. dude has the vibe of a victorian scholar who wrote all his manuscripts by candlelight but then you look him up and realise that he knew what color tv was. what the fuck.

[tiwaztyrsfist]

Tolkien had personal beef with the Beatles

[solepunk]

He actively encouraged Led Zeppelin to write songs based on the LOTR series and considered it an honor

[sillymarillion-comics]

[luccorvus]

When the current queen of Denmark was young, she made illustrations for his books and sent them to him under a pseudonym. He liked them and they were printed in the Danish version of the book.

[kaispeakshermind]

WHAT

[helenakey]

The Queen of Denmark drew LoTR fanart 😮😩

[the-chibster]

I want to see more art from the Queen of Denmark please

[mickedy]

you know who else was pushed off a cliff by a bunch of dalmations????

[nopanamaman]

a

[ambrosiadreamer]

“If you’re racist I fucking hate you.”

[cactuarqueen]

[mcsiggy]

more genderbends w/ Zagreus and Theseus uvu

[mutatedfish]

[jacobtheloofah]

[tredlocity]

[maddiesharafian]

The Need to Stay

(Thought I’d upload my recent comics to Tumblr! I totally forgot it only lets you upload 10 pics at a time, and this is 11, but fingers crossed it works!)

[andysambrg]

PARASITE (2019) 

Dir. Bong Joon-ho

[theonlinemuse]

#i think about this moment a lot #and how accurate it is #to how rich and poor #talk about hardship #something like a flood #or a global pandemic #doesn’t affect people the same #to lots of rich people #it will be a funny anecdote #how 2020 was weird #to others it was devastating #entire families gone (via jetgirl78)

[cursed-and-haunted]

I know this is going to make me sound pretensions but I have to get it off my chest. I feel an unimaginable rage when someone posts a photo and is like "this picture looks like a renaissance painting lol" when the photo clearly has the lighting, colors and composition of a baroque or romantic painting. There are differences in these styles and those differences are important and labeling every "classical" looking painting as renaissance is annoying and upsetting to me. And anytime I come across one of those posts I have to put down my phone and go take a walk because they make me so mad

[cursed-and-haunted]

In case you're curious here's what I mean.

Renaissance(distinct lines, stability and the individual man):

Baroque (bold, chaotic, dramatic):

Romantic(romanticize the simple hard working life):

Do you see the difference?

[genderfluid-and-confuzled]

op is a vampire who painted works in all of these times

[cursed-and-haunted]

[nedsseveredhead]

Zagreus: Father, whilst I was ransacking your realm, I came across a peculiar shade by the name of Bophades...

Hades: HMMM.... I DO NOT RECALL THIS NAME BOY. WHO IS THIS BOPHADES?

Zagreus: Bofa deez nuts you miserable old man!

Hades: TSCH.... SUCH DISRESPECT FROM MY OWN KIN.... THE LIKES OF WHICH I HAVE NOT SEEN SINCE UPDOG.

Zagreus: Updog? What’s updog?

Zagreus:

[injuries-in-dust]

Comic made by PetFoolery.

I thunk they just stumbled on an amazing plot for Zootopia 2!

[browsethestacks]

👀

[harboretum]

Solidarity

[glyndarling]

*chanting* Selkie! Selkie! Selkie!

[domestically-loving-monsters]

AWWW THATS SO SWEET

[prokopetz]

One of the things I love about the classic World of Darkness is that all of the game lines ostensibly exist in the same universe in spite of having wildly different and totally incompatible metaphysics and creation myths – which would ordinarily just be a source of fun trivia, except the way certain critical game mechanics interact is vaguely defined in such a way that the most reasonable ruling depends on which version of the setting’s metaphysics you go with. The upshot is that if you get pulled into one of those who-would-win nerd slapfights and try to resolve it by reasoning from the rules, it turns into an honest-to-gods theological debate, and if you’re on Team Vampire, you have to become Catholic.

[magfrump]

The mage: the ascension metaphysics is both sufficiently meta to incorporate all the others AND nicely dovetails into the world’s past being the setting of exalted, which is my favorite thing about the setting.

[prokopetz]

Mage: The Ascension’s metaphysics are so incoherent that rulings on basic game mechanics can turn into theological debates even without crossing over between game lines.

[tardigradetheking]

what are you talking about

[prokopetz]

Hm.

Okay. I’m going to be simplifying a fair bit here, but the gist of it is:

Keep reading

[unseenphil]

Thanks, I’m gonna be having flashbacks to Newsgroups arguments over whether a  “pretend that the bible in your pocket stopped a bullet” spell was vulgar without witnesses or coincidental.

(The answer seems to depend on whether you make the bible whole cloth to stop the bullet, because the hypothetical observer might be able to see in your pocket,  but even then people fight over that bit. And don’t ask about if you can use time magic to say the bible was there all along.)

Notably, the one thing everyone agreed on was that if you did this enough times it was -definitely- vulgar as reality called shenanigans, but how many conveniently placed bibles could cause this was definitely up in the air. 

[thydungeongal]

A couple of cool CRPGs I've been playing recently:

Tyranny - By Obsidian and uses the same engine as Pillars of Eternity, their spiritual follow-up to the old Infinity Engine games which I found ultimately disappointing. Tyranny just makes me think where all this energy was when they were making PoE. It owns. You play an evil overlord's henchman in a kinda sorta Hellenic influenced high fantasy setting and even though it's not perfect it has a lot of room for unique characterization through dialogue and mechanics and also Chrono Trigger style combo attacks so it's basically a JRPG

Disco Elysium - A magical realist murder mystery with the most unique take on the CRPG formula I've ever seen. I often joke that Planescape: Torment is a really good point and click adventure game with RPG elements and a bad combat system tacked on top, well Disco Elysium is like that except without the combat system and the RPG elements pumped up to eleven. It also left me with a feeling of closure even though I knew there was so much more I could have done in the game to the point I'm not even sure if I want to replay it. I'm happy having finished the game as a superstar detective who's a giant communist and a bit too into cryptids. I know I could see what else the game and story have to offer, but even that one playthrough was good enough for me.