Purveyor Of Wanton Liberty

“I walk around like everything’s fine, but deep down, inside my shoe, my sock is sliding off.” —Anonymous

[introvertsnation]

[catchymemes]

[infinitydivine]

I am not taking a risk

[darlingsstern]

Not risking it pals

[doralimasstuff]

U know what I want potato of luck

[shrewreadings]

Damn right I’m reblogging. See previous post re wrath of whatever from high atop the thing.

[caitmayart]

potato I will never ask you for anything else in my lifetime please potato for fuck's sake

[midnightwinterhawk]

[tackedtothewall]

Images are of this twitter thread from Archer Kasai, depicting beats in the 1999 film The Mummy as moments in a tabletop RPG.

[skinteresting-enough]

@teashoesandhair

[midnightwinterhawk]

[tackedtothewall]

Images are of this twitter thread from Archer Kasai, depicting beats in the 1999 film The Mummy as moments in a tabletop RPG.

[skinteresting-enough]

@teashoesandhair

[lakesbian]

saddest thing that can happen is a cat so delicately and cozy putting their small apple head on your leg like a pillow to sleep while fully unaware that in like five minutes you're going to get up to go eat because they don't know human language or how time works

[brewerssupplies]

In relation to the fireworks wizard post and the Lord of the Rings part comp. The party composition for The Hobbit is just as crazy if not more.

It goes

Dwarf fighter

Dwarf fighter

Dwarf fighter

Dwarf fighter

Dwarf fighter

Dwarf fighter

Dwarf fighter

Dwarf fighter

Dwarf fighter

Dwarf fighter

Dwarf fighter

Dwarf fighter

Dwarf fighter

Halfling rogue

And occasionally that same fucking aasimar wizard.

[everything-narrative]

LotR: a balanced party with many capabilities and especially 'soft abilities' of knowing the right people.

The Hobbit: the action economy is in shambles.

[brewerssupplies]

26 attacks assuming each dwarf is at least 5th level. Maybe more if any of them dual wield and use their bonus action attack.

[brewerssupplies]

100% correct. That's because the 13 dwarf fighters are always getting caught up in their sad backstories and play the game for the lore versus the mechanics.

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[toaster-boi]

@rusty-moth

[frogayyyy]

imagine you start watching this new show and it’s a silly little show about space set in the future then they announce the next season so you wait excitedly for five months and finally it’s here… you all sit round the tv and suddenly one of the main characters who is known for being unemotional starts going mad because of “biology…” and you slowly realise that he needs to have sex or he’s going to die so the other main character risks his entire career to help him out then they start ‘wrestling’ on the sand and the one going through the mating fever ends up killing the other guy which ends the fever but now he’s depressed because he just killed his best friend but wait he’s not actually dead the unemotional one is overjoyed everything’s fine and then they go back to work like nothing happened… you look at everyone else sitting in stunned silence thinking “did any one else think that was a little… yknow” then you accidentally start modern fandom and shipping culture

[frogayyyy]

very much enjoying the tags thank you everybody

[olderthannetfic]

Wait till they all actually watch it and see the unnecessary titty window situation.

[nebulations]

[ID: A collection of tags that read:

#THAT was the plot?? #and they wanted us to believe the guy didnt have sex with the unemotional guy?

#star trek is so so gay

#ive seen some posts. but i did not realize it was..... that gay.

#only halfway through did i realise that this was star trek #i thought at first op was watching some freaky ass gay scifi and i was fully prepared to try find it #but lo and behold #ive already watched the damn show

#star trek #are they... you know... 💁🏿‍♀️

(In caps) #what #star trek invented fuck or die?????

#what the fuck is going on in star trek

#i have no idea what happens in star trek but uhm. #this is a little (long string of ellipses followed by semicolons)

#they didnt... they wouldnt... #you cannot be serious is that how all the startrek slash started? #spock went into heat???

#i would need to be lobotomized for my own health

#what the fuck is star trek about. End ID]

[airandangels]

Based on some of the first-hand accounts I’ve read, fans already had thoughts in that direction but were very cautious about expressing them, because, you know, it was 1967 and they were nice suburban ladies. They referred to the idea of Spock and Kirk being in love as The Premise. One little housewives’ fan club in California wrote to Leonard Nimoy in the hiatus between seasons one and two, and he was very pleasant and agreed to come and meet their group and tell them about being in the show. They didn’t say anything about The Premise directly, in case it offended him, but of course they expressed their enthusiasm for the rapport between Kirk and Spock and how curious they were about Spock’s background and inner life. And Nimoy, who was working on season two by that time, said that he couldn’t give away any specifics but there was an episode coming up that would focus more on Spock’s personal life and the planet Vulcan, and they were naturally delighted and intrigued.

So when they sat down to watch season two, episode one, “Amok Time,” they were primed for an important Spock episode, and then that played out before their widening eyes and I think it’s safe to say it blew their beehives clean off their heads.

[sniperct]

#lmao#star trek#lest we forget the literal binders of loose leaf paper with HAND WRITTEN FANFICTION being handed around#thank trekkers for fan fiction you literal babies

[dduane]

...And this is exactly how some of us got onto the path toward getting into SO MUCH [GOOD] TROUBLE later in our lives. Handwritten fanfic... pages and pages and PAGES of it. Tens and hundreds of thousands of words of fanfic. In looseleaf binders.

Just remember: “The first million words are for practice.” :) After that... all bets are off.

[neil-gaiman]

And it's also worth bearing in mind that Amok Time was written by Theodore Sturgeon. Sturgeon was a bisexual writer (according to his friend, gay author and academic Samuel R Delany) who wrote "The World Well Lost" (1953) which may have been the first SF story about homosexuality to be published in a mainstream SF magazine, not to mention gay-coded stories like "The Saucer of Loneliness". Ted Sturgeon was a brilliant writer about love, and he knew exactly what he was doing in Amok Time. Although he might not have known what it would spawn.

And if you are curious to read some of his fiction there's a Selected Short Stories of Theodore Sturgeon out there, and the novels The Dreaming Jewels and More Than Human appear to be in print.

[batshit-auspol]

A news report from Australia's government broadcaster in the 70s, found in their archives simply labeled 'lesbians'

Captions added by for your reading pleasure

[batshit-auspol]

Remind us to make this into a bumper sticker in the morning

[batshit-auspol]

Here's to those

[5-and-a-half-acres]

This needs a caption

[cornedbeefhashtags]

[ginandweas]

hate to break it to you buddy, but no one gets a say in what tv show I decide to hyperfixate on and no one knows when it’ll end, least of all me.

[mayhasopinions]

i am going to throw myself out of a window

[starmancyrus]

Just a reminder not to publically on big websites (especially not Twitter or tik tok) say where you’re torrenting stuff from cause that’s a GREAT way to get that specific avenue shut down

[starmancyrus]

I know y’all think you’re being helpful giving other people “resources” but uh

[starmancyrus]

Some of ya’ll are very bad at this and very confidently bad at this and for no reason so-

1. ZLibrary recently went down because someone made a popular tik tok about it

2. “But Reddit-“ most reliable sources of yor are gone now because of Reddit. Hate to break it to you but cops use Reddit. See how many of those links on subreddits actually still work and for those that do- how long.

3. Most reliable Reddit mods for topics like this will tell you not to be asking for this shit publicly because that’s how it gets busted. Remember the shop lifting guide masterpost? The only thing reliable about that now is that it is reliably known by every store manager on the continent.

Loose. Lips. Sink. Ships.

[starmancyrus]

That is what we call a “honey pot” something that many people in both the replies and reblogs would very easily fall for by the looks of things.

When a resource becomes compromised sometimes they’ll use it to try and find other resources like it from its user base as well as the identities of the heads behind said resource. Once they have what they want then they shut the whole thing down.

And that’s why snitches get stitches

[fromhersoul]

Adult friendships be like “I miss you bro, let's hang out in November"

[questionablepastries]

[thehussy]

[ladybeauyasha]

Dnd players taking table top game literally

[ancientbread]

The thing about method acting is everyone talks about that joker guy being a dick or whatever but no one ever talks about Viggo Mortensen in the lord of the rings sleeping in the horse stables and leading the entire cast on random adventures

[sithholocron-deactivated2012090]

[spockglocksrocks]

sometimes there’s videos that make me happy to exist on this planet

[cameoappearance]

i’d reblog this even if it was a still image

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I know it’s a sesame street clip but seriously, who is the target audience for this?

[cameoappearance]

Parents watching it with their kids, I guess?

[loreweaver]

literally everyone

[elfwreck]

Everyone. No, really… everyone.

For adults, the appeal is Sir Patrick Stewart doing a kid’s educational bit in full Shakespearean dress and style; there’s a delightful cognitive dissonance between the very serious presentation and the very simple content.

For very small children, it’s educational: this is the letter “B”; here’s how it’s shaped; here’s some words you know that start with it. Oh, and here’s a word you may not be familiar with that starts with it, so you can recognize that it’s the sound that matters, and not whatever other connection you made between the other two words.

For older kids: you’ve probably heard that “to be or not to be?” speech, or at least part of it, so you can enjoy some of the parody the adults are watching. Also, here’s how to describe how a letter is made - how to teach young siblings who don’t read yet, how to explain both the shape and the sound.

For kids with dyslexia: here’s how you differentiate a “B” from a P or D or E. You may have to go slowly and look carefully at the exact shapes that make up the whole, but there are differences and you can learn to recognize them. 

For teens or young college students: In addition to whichever parts of those are relevant to you, here’s what Shakespearean acting sounds like. Here’s how to enunciate clearly and slowly, so your audience can understand terms they may not recognize and still follow the gist of what you’re saying. If you’re reading Shakespeare in school, try sounding it out like this and see if that helps it make sense.

For new RenFaire workers: Here’s how to pronounce “zounds.” 

[frislander-deactivated20220305]

One of the most glorious things in the world is Shakespearean actors doing stuff like this.