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[darkeningwood]

In the archives of our office we have found a historical collection of public safety handouts.  Containing many copies of fliers, pamphlets, and booklets, this trove of information is a unexpected find amongst our materials, and must have been a forgotten piece of memorabilia from one of the previous staff at this institution (though why so many copies have been kept is a reasonable question, but we can only assume eccentricity).  While this information is no longer current, this very much is the history of the Darkening Wood itself.  This material dates from approximately the time of the Magical Disaster at Volsalburg, and this information gives a good insight to the feelings and attitudes toward magic (and its dangers) at the time.

This information includes the six-page booklet “Dealing with Magical Fallout“, a brochure “Safe Places During Magical Fallout“, and a small pocket checklist “Household List for Magical Disaster Preparedness“.  All of this information comes from the International Department of Magic Regulation and Support.

We, of course, do warn that this material is no longer considered current.

[darkeningwood]

[darkeningwood]

Size comparisons of the currently known species of the Darkening wood. The largest sizes are conjectural from limited sightings.

The first chart includes all tiny and small sized creatures, from approximately 30 cm (roughly 1 foot) and below (excluding the Velvet Mud which is comprised of microscopic individuals).

The second chart includes all medium sized creatures, from approximately 30 cm (roughly 1 foot) to 2 m (roughly 6 feet).

The third chart includes all large sized creatures from approximately 2 m (roughly six feet) and above.

While undoubtedly there are many discoveries yet to be found in the Darkening Wood, our survey has a revealed an astounding array of diversity in these beings born out of magical fallout.

[hunter-rodrigez]

I love how Discworld uses the fact that the world is a disc for its world building in actually interesting ways.

Not just the obvious stuff like the danger of people falling off the edge, but how instead of the cardinal directions, they use "hubwards" and "rimwards" because the mountains in the center of the disc can be seen from pretty much anywhere.

Or how the speed of light is significantly slower, which makes earth-like sunrises and sunsets on a disk possible. But this also leads to lines like "On a clear day, you could see all the way to last Wednesday" and descriptions of sunlight literally flooding over mountains like glowing honey.

But one of my favorite bits of disc related lore are the clacks towers.

These towers use the six lights on the top to relay messages over huge distances. Much greater distances than would be possible on earth, since the horizon would get in the way after 10 kilometers or so.

It's basically Discworld's version of radio towers before the discovery of electricity, and it's something that would only work that well on a flat world.

Oh, and they're called clacks because the shutters make a clacking sound when in operation, which just feels so realistic as far as nicknames go, like, of course people would call them clacks or clackers or something like that.

[xenosaurus]

vaguely working on a vampire comedy about a group of vampires dealing with the death of their sire, not because they're mourning him, but because they're rapidly realizing that a lot of the Vampire Rules were him just straight up fucking with them

[xenosaurus]

what do you MEAN we can go out in the daytime, he just didn't want his neighbors to notice that he had half a dozen twinks in matching outfits hidden in his basement???

[xenosaurus]

YES it’s about the stark absurdity of looking back on an abusive situation you thought was normal YES it features a scene where a bunch of vampires in anachronistic formal wear try a ton of off-brand sodas from the dollar store to see which ones make them puke

[xenosaurus]

Original rule: vampires cannot eat and must consume the blood of the living

Proposed theory: vampires cannot eat solid food but otherwise go wild

Results: Carbonation Bad. Pudding counts as a liquid. Vampires can be deeply, horrifically lactose intolerant.

[hashtagloveloses]

should you delete twitter and get bluesky? (or just get a bluesky in general)? here's what i've found:

yes. my answer was no before bc the former CEO of twitter who also sucked, jack dorsey, was on the board, but he left as of may 2024, and things have gotten a lot better. also a lot of japanese and korean artists have joined

don't delete your twitter. lock your account, use a service to delete all your tweets, delete the app off of your phone, and keep your account/handle so you can't be impersonated.

get a bluesky with the same handle, even if you won't use it, also so you won't be impersonated.

get the sky follower bridge extension for chrome or firefox. you can find everyone you follow on twitter AND everyone you blocked so you don't have to start fresh: https://skyfollowerbridge.com/

learn how to use its moderation tools (labelers, block lists, NSFW settings) so you can immediately cut out the grifters, fascists, t*rfs, AI freaks, have the NSFW content you want to see if you so choose, and moderate for triggers. here's a helpful thread with a lot of tools.

the bluesky phone app is pretty good, but there is also tweetdeck for bluesky, called https://deck.blue/ on desktop, if you miss tweetdeck.

bluesky has explicitly stated they do not use your data to train generative AI, which is nice to hear from an up and coming startup. obviously we can’t trust these companies and please use nightshade and glaze, but it’s good to hear.

[gothfoxgirlboy]

Spellcasters hate this fact but if you just stick your fingers in their mouth while they're casting a spell with a verbal component it's literally more effective than a counter spell.

[gothfoxgirlboy]

This also works with pinning their hands against the wall when they're trying to use somnatic components.

[gothfoxgirlboy]

Basically if you make out sloppy style while pressed against a wall the spellcasters can't do anything

[jean-jackit]

wrong ♡

chain lightning

[gothfoxgirlboy]

You're really gonna try chain lightning with a tongue in your mouth? You think that won't end horribly? You think you have more HP than me?

[whydidisavethistomyphone]

[thatdisasterauthor]

If you aren't paying attention to the RESTRICT act because it is being Trojan Horsed as the "Tik Tok Ban" I urge you to go look it up right now. The bill itself has NOTHING to do with TikTok. It is a horrible bill that massively impacts freedom of speech, access to information, and the open internet. Even major Republicans are calling it out as too broad and ill conceived.

[ktempestbradford]

Please do read why this bill is a huge problem.

Please do contact your Congresscritters and let them know they should vote NO on this bill and kill it completely.

If calling is Not For You (I hear ya), use ResistBot to contact them. It's easy to get started.

You can send the letter I wrote instead of writing your own. Here it is in social media sharable form.

Please also encourage others to contact their electeds.

Congress needs to hear from us on this. We can't let another Patriot Act sail through.

[glacecakes]

Happy Mariah Carey season everyone

[faeriekit]

"This fic was ai generated—" Cool, so lemme block you real quick

[justheretoread-ao3]

[mercymomentmurdermeasure]

i immediately thought of this

[manfrommars2049]

UBI needs to happen. via antiwork

[hasufin]

I think most importantly, it would give us the leverage to say “no”. To walk away from bad jobs and abusive managers. To refuse to work in unsafe environments. To demand better pay.

To demand better, because the options are no longer “suck it up” or “die”.

[earhartsease]

and that’s why there’s so much resistance to implementing it - capitalism wants workers who don’t have a choice

[nonegenderleftpain]

CAPITALISM WANTS WORKERS WHO DON’T HAVE A CHOICE

[katestewartt]

"The Runaway Bride" is such an iconic episode, really. It was just Donna in her wedding dress appearing in the TARDIS while the Doctor was in the middle of a heartbreak, and she immediately changed his life, and hers in the process, from the second she started yelling at him to TAKE HER TO THE CHURCH.

This woman came up with a whole variety of pet names for the Doctor in a span of a few hours, some of which (SPACEMAN) would become legendary and character defining and would be remembered fondly by the Doctor.

This episode is full of iconic scenes, like Donna getting kidnapped by a robot Santa and the Doctor trying to save her by encouraging her to jump out of a moving car on a motorway, and while Donna is refusing to jump arguing that she is in her wedding dress, the Doctor's best response is to compliment her look like "girl, you look perfect for a jump out of a moving car on a motorway."

And the next scene on a rooftop solidifies the silly tone of this relationship by the Doctor putting a biodamper ring on Donna's finger cracking a wedding joke, which Donna immediately joins in on.

This scene right there was the start of their friendship and that bond that would last for the rest of their lives. It all started with a robot Santa, a wedding ring and a silly joke which hilariously continued into the next scene with the Doctor and Donna standing under the "Just Married" banner. Comedy gold.

A very underrated moment of the Doctor continuing the affectionate insults tradition between them by calling Donna a 4H pencil, trying to explain to her how she got transported into the TARDIS.

There were these small moments throughout the episode that showed exactly how this friendship of a lifetime started. Like the Doctor taking Donna to see the creation of Earth right after the moment her fiance betrays her and admits he hates and wants to kill her. The Doctor sees all that and tries to distract her by showing her something so extraordinary and beautiful that no other human saw before her. And it works. This woman who has been so unimpressed with him calling him SPACEMAN (derogatory), was now cracking jokes and laughing with the Doctor and very much enjoying his company.

The Doctor and Donna who spent the good portion of the episode trying to get rid of each other, were now ride-or-die besties.

The Spaceman and Earthgirl are now imprinted on each other so much that this little Christmas adventure will become a life changing event and a start of a relationship so meaningful and deep that it will end up changing the Doctor's and Donna's lives fundamentally and save this world and a multitude of others.

The Doctor started the episode with "I don't want you here anyway" and ended it trying to make Donna laugh and making it snow when he heard she didn't like Christmas, and openly telling her he would be lucky to see her again and inviting Donna to come with him.

And Donna who starts the episode yelling at the Doctor and being so unimpressed with him, ends up understanding him on such a deep level and leaving him with the words that he would carry for regenerations to come. And failure to remember these words would lead to the death of this incarnation.

Donna is asking the Doctor to find someone, and she doesn't yet realise that he already found that someone he needs, a platonic soulmate, a friend, a partner, and that someone is her.

"The Runaway Bride" was a start of a many years (for Donna) and many centuries (for the Doctor) road from that rooftop to the garden where they will sit together with a bright shared future ahead. Best mates having the best of times for the rest of their lives. TOGETHER.

[yimra-deactivated20250209]

[oh-totoro]

[beardedmrbean]

[woody112704]

They really want people to start torrenting again eh?

[advanced-procrastination]

[reffitt-blog1]

Remember kids, piracy is bad. Stay away from these sites.

[queer-vocaloid-enthusiasts]

we mostly NOT use gomovies.sx :3

[xaveria]

i cant speak for other polyam people but being in a triad/throuple relationship in real life is just inherently funny. show up to the family function with two guys and everyone else has one guy. just seems like a power move every time even though we're just living our lives. hilarious. i recommend this for comedic value alone

[xaveria]

i love tumblr if i had made this post on twitter someone would have tried to murder me in the streets

[limbosava]

archers gloves vs digital artist gloves being opposite of one another

[staticandlove]

Much like how archers and digital artists are mortal enemies

[ashestoashesjc]

[colorousme]

Behold, the digital artchery glove!

….but Wait…

…….!!!

FUCKA YOUUU!!!!!

[clownsnake]

Ok but wgat if we held hands…..

and we both had carpal tunnel syndrome 😳

[jollysunflora]

not carpal tunnel syndrome 😫

[skullamity-deactivated20250823]

[crankyteapot]

[al-msantos]

Wounded