the dream is ended; this is the morning.

mid-twenties, she/her. behold, stars! therefore, let there be madness.

[daggerfall]

Normal patch notes

[katherinetheassassin]

Got to see Florence and The Machine back on the 10th

Florence! I wanna be like you when I grow up!

[tanoraqui]

“Halandil Fang uses the Pariah Blades as prop swords” sounds like a Chuck Norris joke from the Dol Makjar theater community, and yet

[tanoraqui]

“the Photarch of the Candescent Creed tried to invite Halandil Fang to tea, and he said he’d get to it after Tech Week”

[tanoraqui]

“One of the pantomime masks that killed the Shaper Rauwyn using the power of theater once attended a Halandil Fang show. Afterward, it told him that he put on the best theater productions it had ever seen, and his play inspired it to become a real person.”

[tanoraqui]

“Halandil Fang’s brother was executed for rebellion last week, and he’s just using it as marketing for his upcoming show about a legendary Orcish rebel.”

“You think Thjazi Fang is actually dead? I heard Halandil Fang faked his brother’s death as marketing for his upcoming show, and to help Thjazi get out of dodge after he’d pissed off one too many nobles. Again.”

“Faked? Dude, he was hanged in the public square. We were there.”

“We were also at that show in the Rookery last year where it seemed like they set the whole stage on fire!”

[tanadrin]

So one of the things that can apparently contribute to kidney issues in cats is if they eat too much dry food and don't drink enough water; cats are adapted to get a lot of their water from their food since they're originally desert animals, and might not get enough water if they don't eat wet food. Unfortunately, Dozy won't eat wet food no matter what; she categorically refuses to touch the stuff. So a few months ago, we were looking for ways to get Dozy more fluids, and my wife noticed at the pet store a cat drink--basically meat broth with some floaty bits in--that was low-protein and meant for cats with kidney issues. So we figured, worth a try, right?

Great news: she loved it. Super tasty apparently. Great success. Along with the kidney-sensitive treats we found, it was a nice way to supplement her diet. Unforseen long-term consequence though: she loved it so much she began demanding it throughout the day. Like, would come up to us and meow, and meow, and meow, and not stop, until we got up, went to the kitchen, and got her some cat drink.

And by doing so on demand, we have unfortunately created a monster: no matter what we are doing at home, Dozy knows that if she sits next to you and meows, 1) you know what she wants, and 2) you know that she will not stop until you get it for her now. And when you do get it, she gets extremely excited. She will bum rush the kitchen door as you enter. She will run around your feet as you open the can. She will let out the creakiest, crunchiest, most nails-on-the-chalkboard meow you've ever heard if she thinks you're not going fast enough.

I do not begrudge her this. It is gratifying to care for a creature whose most ardent desires are so simple that it is this easy to fulfill them. But I am a little sad, because I know in my heart that I have never loved any comestible as much as she loves this cat drink. She has a pleasure of a purity and intensity that I will never know.

[the creacher in question]

[santapau]

New Secret Knots comic, "The River". I hope you like it!

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[anak1n]

no rest for me and im not even that wicked ?

[valtsv]

I love your "they ring the same bells for weddings and funerals" tag bc I work as a bell-ringer at one of the few churches in my city where you still have to ring the bell manually. and we do ring the same bell whether it's a wedding or a funeral! but ☝️ we also ring it if the local sports team wins at sports (the secret third thing that is neither a wedding nor a funeral)

the three universal human experiences: love, death, and sports

[short-for-melancholy]

[villainessbian]

*he queeres* place on *he in*erne*

[redjennies]

I know I was joking about this last night in the tags, but House Einfasen really has to be watching all these lords and ladies of the Sundered Houses and their vassals going missing like "if you had promoted a stronger culture of discipline, your Houses would not currently be in such a state of disorganization and chaos. that is not an insult, merely a criticism."

[lindirs-gaze]

where the fuck are the horse and the rider. like where even is the horn that was blowing

[wishiwould]

(Excellent tags by @opportunity-strikes)

[elierlick]

Yet another new study debunked the basis for the anti-trans sports bans. It was never about sports but for creating legal avenues for exclusion and abjection. This is one of the largest analyses ever conducted, involving 52 studies and 6,485 trans people. Read the study here.

[lucieslucidity]

post so nice had to reblog it twice and force it down everyone's throats

[fleshengine]

At minimum about 4.5 thousand people liked this without reblogging it.

We gotta fix that.

[theuglymachine]

I was commissioned to make a spearhead in the shape of a great egret

[cute-animals-only]

[polari]

grounding tips for the stressed aspiring tyrant: acknowledge 5 people you can sway to your cause, 4 methods you can use to persuade them (2 violent, 2 nonviolent), 3 people in positions of moderate power you can manipulate and usurp in order to gain access to 2 powerful institutions to destroy, and 1 foundational lie

[polari]

people are starting to character tag so i’d like to state upfront that this is part of a new branch of pop feminism i’m pioneering called despotette and as such is specifically advice for women trying to break into the world of tyranny, so if you must character tag it’s really only appropriate to do so if the character is a woman, thank you

[giftofgabber]

National Weather Service just said to watch for grave and ghostly apparitions of omen, misery and suspense between noon and 12:05 PM tomorrow

[2percentsugar]

does anyone else remember being a hapless american child looking at the prices of books on the inside flap and wondering. do we just hate canadians? this book is $8 here and $13 there, that feels..... mean somehow

[official-canada-post]

Official Canada Post

[markadoo]

people say “in difficult times like these people need happy music” but never “times are pretty good it would make sense to have the sad music now since the national mood can accommodate it”