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runaway and duelist are in dd1 now or whatever

the real take away is my boy academic is inadvertently getting ported over to dd1.

does it make sense in lore, nope. is it gonna work the way i think it is? maybe??

ill assume they just like, add in the voice lines from the crossroads for them (iirc heros in dd1 dont have character specific death voicelines?)

gayteensupreme

"queer-owned business" means nothing anymore. OpenAI and Palantir are both queer-owned businesses.

gayteensupreme

if this is how you find out that both sam altman and peter thiel are gay im sorry

gayteensupreme

I'm going to address a specific set of notes in this post (without indicating who wrote them) because it's a valuable insight into criticisms of this post. Also keep in mind broadly that this post is a JOKE it's supposed to be FUNNY. But also I'm not stupid enough to think jokes aren't a very effective way to communicate and persuade.

"This is like saying female-owned businesses mean nothing because J.K Rowling is a businesswoman". Incredibly, that's exactly what I'm saying. I applaud this critique for correctly identifying how my stance might be applied elsewhere.

But what I would ask is this: do you not remember how JKR (being a successful female author and businesswoman) was lauded as a feminist hero during the peak of the books' success which allowed her to make a large part of modern feminism incredibly TERF-y because of her influence? Because I think we should all do well to remember that.

Interestingly, this critique then goes on to make my entire point for me, albeit maybe slightly more charitably than I. It goes on to say "queer people are not a monolith" and that we should inform ourselves as to who owns these businesses. Yes! Yes! This is my point! Relying purely on identity politics to judge whether businesses (and people) are good or not is bad!

It closes out by saying big corps "don't count" when talking about queer-owned businesses. Honestly? Yeah, I agree. Most of the time, people are talking about small queer-owned businesses. That is because this post is a joke. I have applied the label of "queer-owned business" to some businesses the label is not usually applied to to point out the limits of identity politics in business.

Corporations are not your friends. Small businesses can be your friends, and they are closer to your level than Big Corporations - but that doesn't mean they always will be.

contact-guy

Did you know that JRR Tolkien wrote an unpublished epilogue to Lord of the Rings? It's achingly, beautifully wistful in the way that only Lord of the Rings is. I revisited it recently because I'm guesting on my friends' LOTR podcast, and THAT reminded me that I drew a comic of the epilogue back in 2021 (all text is entirely canon). Anyway I thought folks on this website might enjoy it!

vicholas

not really a fan of the amount of people here who now hear “war crime” and immediately think “fun meme term”

vicholas

A good part of the tumblr userbase understands that rape jokes are bad, they understand that using “rape” and “rapist” as “funny quirky meme words” is fucked up and bad.

But at the same time we’ve reached a weird paradigm where a lot of people who understand that consider “war crime” and “war criminal” to be Funny Quirky Meme Words without realizing that war crimes very much includes rape!! It very much includes rape of all kinds in all kinds of scales!

It includes doing the most heinous things against children, it includes a wide range of the most heinous things. Just read the definition of war crime.

Why is it that you think that rape jokes are unacceptable but war crimes jokes are funny and cute and harmless?

Isn’t it trivializing of actual war crimes the amount of people in this site who now have the immediate reaction on their brain to thing of “war crime” as Funny Meme like a Pavlovian response?

Is it too weird that I think that this is fucked up?

vicholas

Man.

vicholas

I just wanna say, when I originally wrote this post I remember wondering if maybe the reason why people have different reactions to rape jokes and war crimes jokes had to do with people being largely ignorant about what war crimes entail.

Now it has gotten increasingly clear to me that it has less to do with ignorance and everything to do with people not thinking of war crimes as something “real” the same way they think of rape. Rape is something that can happen to them, within their communities. War crimes on the other hand are something that happens to other people, to other countries, therefore they don’t even register it as “real”. People treat it as some sort of imaginary concept because the victims don’t even register as real to them.

human-cyborg-relations

This fanfic shit is so easy

dogpuppy

mandywondering

I mean, in some very interesting Technically Correct ways, they didn't actually die? Now, they're very much no longer alive. But the forces involved are such that they didn't get any of the usual cellular processes of death, they simply went from biology to physics in less time than it takes a signal to travel down your optic nerve.

dietspam16

if you go from biology to physics without dying first you don’t go to heaven the uber driver went over this already

politijohn

Source

Slavery…

theconcealedweapon

"Slavery was so long ago. Get over it."

Slavery is literally happening now. Police never stopped being slave catchers. People are supporting it now just like they supported it then.

If you support ICE, you would have supported slavery, because ICE is slavery.

why-i-love-comics

Doom Patrol #100 - "The Fantastic Origin of Beast-Boy" (1965)

written by Arnold Drake art by Bruno Premiani

raqualswonderfunblog

witless-winion1

this fanfic shit is easy

interretialia

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⠀⠀"Minime," Ulixes mentitus est, odysseacee. hoc fabularum fautoriarum stercus facile est

nataliehall

Jimoteè Chamameé

Who wants a Jimothy tattoo 🤣

sonnetscrewdriver

lotta US people going 'Argentina Bad because a lot of Nazis escaped there after the war' during the anniversary of Apollo 11 huh

Critical Role Campaign 4 Episode 31 random thoughts and bits

Back with Wick and team Couturier

Well, doing a death boon is certainly a way to compensate for the whole "there's no resurrection magic in Araman"

Really interesting for Wick to decide to go towards Obrimus Manor

You know, all of these time I was super sure that the Mercanaud twins were demons, never crossed my mind that they were actually warlocks (with K'sharavi as their patron!), but that makes more sense

OH, so that's why I've seen so many fanart of Tyranny with a jet black microbikini

Kattigan respectfully trying not to look at Tyranny with the bikini

"I serve your father!"; "I'm his daughter, I dont' give a shit"

Also, interesting that Bolaire decided to just drop him, even tough he was super sure that the rest of the party was gonna kill Rulius anyway

Oh, so Kattigan actually agreed to have one of his fingers cut

GIRL

QUETZALCOATL

Hey, Temelow's back

Lovely image of Vaelus with the flowers around her, left by the faeries and pixies

Thaisha getting that nat 20 nature, to command the spirits of the dead, was just insane. Also, having full control of the paint as reward for the roll was great.

Vokjan's spirits being yeeted by his wife towards becoming a celestial was great

NEW ANGEL JUST DROPPED

Naming the new orc celestial as Kaedra was an inspired choice by Aabria

The simbolism of the Sundered Houses settling into the place where Azgra used to be didn't escaped anyone's mind

Great way for Hal, Murray and Thaisha to close the play with the falcon and the magpie in the sky

Olgud was too relatable there

Look, if Hal had the Creed target in his back before, now after especifically calling them out in his speech, oh, that old bitch is gonna be furious

I know that "Broken Wing" is a song from the rebellion, but also, I can't not thing about Mr. Mister's "Broken Wings".

Little naked dude with the acorn hat asking Vaelus to be their queen, amazing

What is Demodus' familiar doing here, and with a tiny painted Bolaire's mask?

Back to team Birdwatching

Teor rolling a nat 1, after already being dead, is just, it can't be more obvious

I've just realized that these difficulty rolls and threat rolls that Brennan has been having them made is like, a way to adapting the Daggerheart mechanics of hope and fear into D&D

Oh, Occtis has just felt that Vaelus shattered the Stone of Nightsong

Occtis and Julien fighting was *chef's kiss*

"I AM TIRED OF PRETENDING I GIVE A SHIT ABOUT YOU"

Laura's face during all of the argument and them deciding to go back inside Obrimus Manor has been a journey

5 dozen shades? Trimus is not playing around

Hannan being here is either gonna be super useful or, more likely, lead to a full disaster

Look, I appreciate Trimus being so forthcoming with Hannan (and also, she's way in over her head), but also, WHAT IS HANNAN DOING, like, the idea of dispelling the "curse" is hilarious in and on itself, but also, can you even dispell that and like, cut the connection between the afterlife and Obrimus Manor?

The way Hannan changed everything was incredible, but again, between the notion that Primus and the twins might return soon, and everything that's happening, I have a bad feeling

The ghouls becoming self aware of the effects of Hannan's ritual was funny

Oh no, Hannan rolled like shit, Primus et al are back

Whelp, Thimble found the bodies

Obrimus, Obrimost, Obrimess

Julien's shadow strikes again

Oh, the roaring celebration when Thimble killed the reanimated Raimond, that shit was tense, but killing him with one blow (and also, the poetry of Laura avenging the thing that killed Travis), great moment

Love that the Davinos sword's name is Sprezzatura, because of course the family heirloom was gonna be the italian concept of like, effortless grace

THIMBLE GETTING ARANESSA'S BROTHER'S BRACERS AND BECOMING INSTANTLY JACKED THANKS TO THE STRENGTH BONUS

LAURA FUCKIN' BAILEY, THE GOAT

"The most Tears of the Kingdom shit ever", you're damn right Matt

The padawan braid detail was cute

"MATT, SELL SOME SHIT"

Love the idea that when Thimble shrinks, the bracers become an armor

WELL, PRIMUS REALLY LOST HIS SHIT

Also, RIP Hannan, I knew things weren't gonna end well, but you were a real one

My pal: Power Word Kill is a 9th level spell, which means, Primus is a sorcerer of at least level 17

You know, we've all seen that Primus is some type of big bad evil boss, but also, I think that we've all been kinda played so far, in an incredibly amazing way by Brenann, regardin Primus. Because we've all seen his plans, the things he can do, but in a way we've been presented an appearance of someone a bit rushed with his planes, a bit bumbling, kinda tripping over himself, the way he hid some things in front of the Sundered Houses, the whole not having enough money, but I do think that the real Primus we've just saw, and he's been hiding that in front of everyone

You know, I thought that Wick had taken a more discreet carriage, but I guess the Candescent Creed doesn't deal in subtlety

Wick, you dumb fuck (affectionate, mostly), what are you doing?

Sam's rolling like shit

WICK, YOU DUMB FUCK (LESS AFFECTIONATE), WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!

Look, I get that Wick got out of there -barely- with his life, but there's no way that Primus isn't suspecting he isn't involved in some shit

Tyranny and Wick, one braincell, same shitty rolls

BADEBOTO, dammit Cruelty

A cigar holder is insane

We've all know (or have been) someone that turns into Murray when drunk

Azune going full into his conspiracy with the Einfasen was expected, but getting Murray into that was a neat surprise (and funny since she was so hammered)

Look, we can all agree that between all the Sundered Houses (not counting Royce), the Halovars are fucking cool as a concept

HOW MANY NAT 20S HAS AZUNE GOTTEN WHEN DEALING WITH THE EINFANSEN, IT'S BEEN AMAZING

I do wonder if Harondus doubts and hesitation (and the whole "he thought he was Otto's heir for 20 years before the birth of Otto's sons), might end up betraying Otto

Also, Azune playing and forcing the Einfasen to move -in secret, but still- against the Tachonis, and leading to help Royce, was a really interesting move

Thaisha just wiped the floor with Oscuro Milanti (EDIT: And with the Halovars, ABSOLUTE QUEEN SHIT)

From nat 1 to a 27, thanks luck (and Brennan)

It's wild to be reminded that's been like, 2 weeks between the death of Thjazi and now, with EVERYTHING that has been going on

Kattigan, never change

"Who are you, apple person?"

Not Misha putting Bolaire's mask

"I knew paradise would be a theater"

Everything's so chaotic, and also, OCCTIS IS SO DONE WITH WICK

So much stuff going on with Mara being back, Thimble being away still, they not knowing if Teor's alive or not, whatever happened with Occtis and the breaking of the stone, etc

And now they all know that Hannan's dead

Not Thimble having to carry both the corpses of the Pridesire brothers just by Thjazi's grave

Not Kattigan's reaction to Teor's body, damn

"Why are you big?", not these 2 making me cry

Less than 5 minutes of Mara being back and already talking and I already love her

I WAS RIGHT ALL THOSE WEEKS AGO, MARA WAS THE FALCON AT THJAZI'S EXECUTION

So Thjazi had an actual plan so die and then come back, but somehow that didn't worked; and then he saw Mara, and had fear, and decided to die instead, to fix whatever happened in the other side. Because Thjazi had no idea of what foiled Mara, but he knew of the plot to rescue him -even if he didn't know that plan also was destined to fail-, and even then he chose to die

I FUCKING KNEW THERE WAS SOMETHING GOING ON WITH JULIEN'S SHADOW BESIDES JUST "A CURSE", BUT NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS WOULD I GUESS THAT IT WAS THJAZI

AND ALSO IT FITS WITH THE WHOLE PETER PAN THING. BECAUSE IF THJAZI IS PETER PAN, JULIEN IS HOOK, ARANESSA IS WENDY AND THIMBLE IS TINKERBELL, OF COURSE THERE'S SOME FUNKY STUFF GOING ON WITH PETER'S SHADOW

Julien really can't believe that his spitting on Thjazi's corpse ended up saving his soul, incredible stuff

"a shadow of his former self", dammit Liam

What was that tension between Katt and Occtis

It's wild that, I kinda never clocked, that half of the party had no idea that Bolaire was a mask

Oh, so they brought back Termina by mistake, as a side effect of the whole plan that the Cloak was doing

"I didn't hate him until he taught me how"

Every single thing that Bolaire brought up was really well thought and interesting tho, like, I don't entirely get why they were all so dissmisive about it (or more like, I get why, but still I think they went through it very quick)

Amazing how everything in the forest improved after they created the bridge, and how much more it grew and improved after Thaisha used Enrichment. And of course, they way they joined everything with the Miller's road

Thaisha's finally gonna face the Circle in Dol Rungja (and also, way to fit Aabria's pregnancy into the schedule, really well thought out)

Look at Wick swearing a vow of revenge

That was a great moment, of Bolaire reversing out of despair to being just a thing, and then seeing the little paint of the mask and the lizard, and then Azune reasuring him

Azune rolling nat 20s whenever we need persuasion is incredible

Bolaire and Julien doing the Predator handshake meme, with the whole hating Thjazi

Wizard shit

The secret of the correct pronunciation of Azune continues...

Azune's collecting Einfasen weapons, now with Ingrid's axe

Thjazi meeting with Teor and Cyd one last time in the afterlife, that was a great moment

Thaisha leaving the thread and needle was a tender moment, but also, as we've seen before, that is a tracking device baby

Oh, Demodus gift of the flipbook got me, it really got me, oof (also I know some fellow critter out there is already doing it IRL)

Vaelus and Thaisha saying goodbye... IS THIS YURI?

"My brother told me to tell you it would be ok... and maybe it will be"

Well, it took us a couple of weeks to get through the episode, but now we are here, we did it, and now we wait until august

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