&& i'm addicted to words and they're useless.

i'm just a person who loves magic. the magic of pictures, the magic of words, magic: the gathering, pokemon magic, and the magic of the collaborative storytelling experience that is d&d.

[spaghettiwoman46]

Ugh they are always doing this

[keepcalmandcarriefischer]

Little freaks

[dogpuppy]

[o0kawaii0o]

Hero of Time

[luna-azzurra]

Something nobody prepares you for is that the better you get at writing the harder it becomes. beginners write freely because they don't know enough to know what's wrong. then you learn. and suddenly you can see every single flaw in real time as you're making it and you have to write anyway while your own brain is in the corner going "that's a weak verb. that transition is lazy. you've used that word three times." getting good at this is mostly just getting better at ignoring yourself.

[clarisimart]

Same thing happens with visual art

[probablybadrpgideas]

Probably Bad Spell Idea:

Dispel All Healing:

When cast upon a target, the effects of all magical healing that the target has ever experienced are immediately unraveled.

This includes healing spells, healing potions, rings of regeneration, or other magics that cause the restoration of lost hit points, divine, arcane, primal, or otherwise.

This may have no impact on peasants, merchants, many bandits, or other characters in mundane professions who may never have encountered healing magics.

Conversely, the effect on high-level adventurers may be extremely messy.

ah, hyperscurvy

[frankomudo]

sleeping heracross for my friend nicholas

2026

[kimiko24]

I fucking love this video

[shencomix]

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[drewbirdart]

Gameboy Nostalgia - Pokémon Red & Blue Versions

2020

[mortalityplays]

whether they're Good Media™ or whatever aside, I think mainstream liveplay ttrpg shows have been a fucking disaster for the hobby. it's hard to imagine anything that could have fucked the expectations:results differential for people more than having celebrities do college improv with dice (and an entire media production team behind them) and telling a generation of new players that's what tabletop gaming is like

[mortalityplays]

I am very lucky that my main ttrpg groups my whole life have been mostly made up of actual writers and artists who are already deeply invested (AND EXPERIENCED) in putting in fiddly annoying work to get satisfying results and in actively collaborating with others to keep shit fun and productive for everyone. the few times I've played with groups outside those circles have really driven home to me that those are all acquired skills, and they are not things it's fair to baseline expect a GM to compensate for. you HAVE to turn up prepared to pay attention and learn things and put in some effort. that's not a system issue, and it's really annoying that that's so often where the conversation goes because of these weird skewed expectations.

[gayvampyr]

it is funny when people who don’t draw tell people who do “i can’t even draw a circle”. a shape that is notoriously difficult for artists to get right on the first try. or “i can’t even draw a straight line,” something many artists literally have to practice drawing over and over again as a warmup exercise

[geminisee]

x

[andmaybegayer]

it still makes me go insane that somehow no social media site bothers to implement interleaved text and images. Fediverse cannot support it broadly, Bluesky can't handle it, Facebook can't do it, Twitter can't do it, fucking, LinkedIn doesn't do this, somehow only Tumblr has this, and it barely even counts as a popular social media site.

[palant1r]

well you see we're the new pdf

[kosmogrl]

let this be a reminder that even if it takes time your dreams can come true

[rabbitindisguise]

an astronaut foretold to go to the moon by a fortune cookie can be a kind of magical girl, I think

[goldensunset]

i know in my heart of hearts that within the pokémon universe it’s all the really cute popular marketable pokémon that have the most irresponsible trainers. small dog syndrome ramped up to a whole new level. that is not a toy that is a lifelong commitment. ma’am please keep your untrained sylveon in its pokéball inside the store. no that is not a service pokémon it wouldn’t be using moonblast on everything if it was

[goldensunset]

sir! sir!!! your pikachu is decimating the ducklett population at the pond and you aren’t even looking! you are NOT ash ketchum you are NOT gonna catch ‘em all because that involves trade evolutions and you have NO friends!!!

[goldensunset]

ok literally. that palafinstagram mom who posts pictures of her rowlet not understanding it’s displaying distress behaviors making fun of the cool person whose best friend is a solosis or rellor or unown letter f

[warrior-kitty]

if one more middle aged mom tells me that i should’ve kept my raichu a pikachu because ‘she’s much cuter that way’ i’m sending out my full team and throwing hands right there in the starbucks

[furansunokamikaze]

[milfyspamton]

anyone remember what these things are called like little cartoony expressive doohickies i think they have a real name but i can’t remember

[milfyspamton]

im not fucking crazy.

[milfyspamton]

if i have one more person say sparkles on this post im gonna blow i swear to god

[evengirlierballs]

They're squeans I'm pretty sure! If they pop like that anyway. But the term for this kind of "symbol to refer to the general vibe of something in art" is called "Emanata" because it emanates from a person or object.

[creepymutelilbugger]

what the fuck. comics are magic

[charlesoberonn]

somebody put a quimpsy spurl on my blorbo

[eirapparent]

she quimps on my jarns til I nittles