Levi

28 | Punks not dead he's just napping | 18+ to interact I mean it

[metaphoricalghost1]

🖤 Pinned 🖤

- 28, do not interact with this blog in any way if your are under 18 I mean it and I check. Also pls pls pls put your age in your bio, even if you're not posting anything objectionable.

- My typical postings are DS9, Magnus Archives (DoorKeay shippers pls interact ily), Malevolent, Sleep Token, Star Trek (all flavors but mainly VOY & DS9) Dimension 20/Game Changer, D&D in general and reblogs of fanart

- Multiple sideblogs but I'll never tell you what they are

- Engaged to @fanfckery and QPPs with @southernraccoon

- Disabled

Boundaries below the cut

Boundaries -

- DNI IF ARE UNDER THE AGE OF 18, just a personal boundary for my own peace of mind

- If you believe that any person/people group deserves discrimination this is not the space for you.

- If you are anti sex work or anti porn this is not the space for you.

- If you are pro censorship this is not the space for you.

- If you are a syscourse poster, pls just go away.

- If you have no critical thinking skills this is not the space for you. I can and do engage with flawed media and I use my brain at the same time, novel concept I know.

I believe your online experience is your own responsibility and I use the block button so very liberally and I will not hesitate if I don't like your vibe. I expect the same in return.

[confusedbeing3]

Late to the party, but I am absolutely loving The Magnus Archives!

[notdaniellebird]

TMA Tarot :) Feel free to reblog but Do not repost.

0. The Fool - Georgie (and the Admiral!)

1. The Magician - Mr. Spider

2. The High Priestess - Gertrude

3. The Empress - Jane Prentiss/The Corruption

4. The Emperor - Elias

5. The Hierophant - The Magnus Institute

6. The Lovers - Jmart

7. The Chariot - Breackon & Hope

8. Strength - The Hunt

9. The Hermit - The Lonely

10. The Wheel of Fortune - The Extinction

11. Justice - brutal pipe murder 

12. The Hanged Man - The Stranger/The Circus

13. Death - The End

14. Temperance - The Dark

15. The Devil - The Buried

16. The Tower - The Desolation

17. The Star - the tape recorder

18. The Moon - The Spiral

19. The Sun - Martin Blackwood, my beloved (featuring meet-cute dog)

20. Judgment - The Eye

21. The World - The Vast

[hisclockworkservants]

The Eye + Every Fear :)

[starfoozle]

Heatwave Recipe Recommendations

The heat’s been brutal this summer but we still gotta eat! If you’re like me, heat might suppress your appetite, and the last thing any of us want is to sweat over a hot stove and oven when it’s already boiling outside. Here are some of my favorite hot-weather recipes to keep hydrated and fed with when the weather is unbearable! (All recipes should be un-paywalled).

NYT’s best gazpacho (lives up to its name!!)

Persian cold cucumber soup (if you like tzatziki you will like this!)

Eric Kim’s cold noodles with tomato (infinitely riffable Korean flavor profile — for a creamier and less brothy take, try these cold sesame noodles too)

Vietnamese chicken and herb salad (this is an excellent time to get a rotisserie chicken so you don’t have to turn the oven on)

Radish sandwiches with butter and salt (and in a similar vein, if you dig this flavor combo you should try this Polish cottage cheese dip on some good rye bread or even crackers)

It’s still a little early in the season, but you can never go wrong with a BLT (or, if you don’t eat bacon, try this tomato furikake sandwich in its place)

Infinite iterations of pasta salad! You can use anything you got but here is a template I like.

Assorted dense bean salads. This back pocket canned salad is a weird combo of jarred ingredients but it slaps, this hoagie-inspired one is super satisfying, and cowboy caviar is a classic for a reason.

Poke bowls! Canned tuna mixed with some kewpie mayo and sriracha is a budget-friendly riff on the usual ahi and makes everything taste like a spicy tuna roll, but use whatever proteins you like, this is more of a loose template.

Please feel free to add some of your own favorite summer recipes in the replies and comments! We’ll get through this together. 🤝🤝🤝

[flintandpyrite]

If you can buy pre cooked or canned beets at the store, chłodnik (beet yogurt soup) is a great choice. You can leave out the radishes if you can’t get them.

I also love sardines on fresh bread and butter with assorted vegetables. Buy the fanciest canned sardines you can afford but even regular ones are pretty good. Plus, very healthy!

[coffinbutch]

This requires cooking some of its ingredients but here's another eastern European cold soup that I like:

Okroshka (Cold Summer Soup)

Cold summer soup Okroshka is made with boiled and fresh vegetables, eggs, fresh summer herbs, and meat. Perfect option for hot summer days

I make it vegetarian by leaving out the meat and adding some white beans + upping the seasoning

[spookfished]

Mul-naengmyeon (Korean cold noodles in chilled broth) 물냉면

Korean icy cold noodles are so savory and refreshing, they are an awesome way to cool down in the summer but I eat them all year round. Why?

its a bit elaborate, but im a big fan of mul-naengmyeon! its a cold noodle soup :] maangchi has a cute video for it here

[metrotransitposter]

Instead of a magic school bus my ms frizzle cosplay has a magic metro bus because the youth of minneapolis understand the magic of their school-provided public transportation passes

[prokopetz]

Why is it so seemingly common to see crunchy gamebooks (not just D&D, lots of games) follow a method of writing where game terms that are invoked dozens or even hundreds of times will have only one passing mention of the term's definition.

Never repeated, never pointed to by any other passage, not even given in an index or glossary, just secreted away in a seemingly random spot like a game of Where's Waldo in a 200+ page text.

This isn't meant to be venting, it's genuinely perplexing that an approach so specific and so counterproductive seems to happen so often. What's the deal?

Most tabletop game designers are very bad technical writers.

(This isn't a knock against game designers in particular; most people in general are very bad technical writers, even among those whose job is to be good at it. It turns out that assessing how your own writing will read from the perspective of someone who doesn't know the things you know is an extremely difficult skill to learn!)

[prokopetz]

If you're bent in a very particular way, it can be a fun exercise to go through independently published tabletop RPGs and count how many times they just plain forgot to explicitly define some critical piece of jargon the text uses constantly. For most that number is higher than zero!

[prokopetz]

@rampagingpoet replied:

At least one RPG kept telling you how many dice to roll and how many successes you need for things without ever defining what kind of dice or which results constituted "a success".

You might be surprised how many games will instruct you to roll "dice" without thinking to specify at any point whatsoever how many sides the dice in question are meant to have, in a medium famously associated with dice with variable numbers of sides.

(One may be inclined to assume that a game that just says "dice" without further qualifiers must be talking about conventional six-sided dice. If so, one would assume wrongly.)

[prokopetz]

#i'm guessing the other most popular assumtion is a d10 from people who came from wod? (via @moon-of-curses)

In my experience it's a three-way tie between "the unqualified die is a d6 because that's what 'dice' means in everyday language", "the unqualified die is a d20 because the author assumes all games are basically identical to Dungeons & Dragons unless otherwise specified", and "the unqualified die is a d10 because it's a dice pool system and the author has never played a game with dice pools constructed from any other kind of dice (and also the text employs but does not define the term 'dice pool')".

[ineffectualdemon]

"ban social media" BUILD COMMUNITY

When I was a new parent we had children's centres that had health visitors and nurses come and visit to answer questions and play groups and support and they were fantastic and were a massive help in getting me through the rough first few years and helped me be the kind of parent I wanted me to be

Most of them are closed now

We need investment in community outreach. Investment in groups that support marginalised communities and investment in infrastructure and third spaces where people (including kids and teens!) can meet and socialise

Invest in places where doctors and nurses can answer questions

Where social workers and volunteers are available.

Give education and services that support local communities and facilitate understanding

More importantly give people more safety nets so they don't feel so fucking desperate and stop hiding the safety nets we have!

Governments when presented with a social problem love to respond with "it is now illegal to have social problem"

Rather then address the actual issues or solve the actual source of the problems

[maswartz]

[fractally]

This has been my main argument against "AI" from the very beginning.

OpenAI scraped the entire web. All of which had been a labor of love from humans. Wikipedia is the backbone of a lot of LLMs, and that was volunteer human labor. They stole it and now they're selling it back to us.

And worse, they're trying to destroy the free sources that they stole from. It's destruction of human knowledge on an unprecedented scale. The burning of the library of Alexandria has nothing on this.

[wuntrum]

ripley :)

[claudiatieno]

Not mine, credit to @audhdwithzoe on tiktok!

[dragonqueenbizawagi]

Hey y'all, quick PSA because I just realized something awesome:

If you wanna know/learn something check your local library first!!!

I was looking on my public library's website, trying to find the search for its in person catalogue, but instead I first found that it offered a digital library Libby. Now, I've heard of that one, but upon scrolling down a bit more it said that it offers a bunch of online resources you can access with a library card. I clicked to see all, and STARS! There's so much I never knew about! Including:

Several news sites, from local to around the world

Digital libraries for audiobooks

Digital libraries for comicbooks

Digital libraries for movies and tv shows

Digital libraries for downloadable music

A language learning program (I'm particularly pumped about that one!)

Consumer reports (idk if it's the full subscription like my dad pays for, but if it is...!)

Auto Repair Source™ – "Contains information on most major domestic and imported vehicles, with repair information for vintage makes starting as far back as 1954."

Several sites that help you discover book recommendations based on your interests

A site where you can learn how to code from the ground up

Several reference finding sites

And plenty more!

I'm aware that my local library may be better funded than some others (we got a cool makerspace a while back, among other upgrades), but it really never hurts to check! PLEASE feel free to share any gems you find in your library – whether digital or in-person!

[clownfactories]

there should be a second pride month in fall or winter for people who have heat intolerance. no other reason.

[naamahdarling]

Literally true. Cannot participate in outdoor events. Move it to October.

[murkymarco]

Caught myself spiraling and then remembered it's just my body not wanting to exist in these temperatures

[fyodior]

a talking point i often see when defending the consumption of dark content is that it’s a coping mechanism for those with trauma which is very valid and true but i also want to make this abundantly clear: you can like dark content for no reason. you can enjoy fucked up shit in fiction because it’s enjoyable and entertaining. trauma is not required as a ticket for entry. enjoy your dark content bc it’s fun and sexy and don’t let anyone take that away from you

[amorphousgenderlesscryptid]

sometimes the reason is this

[robot-roadtrip-rants]

reblog if you love to see that shit that was fucking crazy

[howldean]

“june is over so now it’s gay wrath month” blah blah reminder that july is disability pride month and is often ignored and disregarded!! funnel that wrath into advocating for your disabled peers and amplifying their voices

[metrotransitposter]

Need a place to cool off in the Twin Cities during the extreme heat this week?

Hennepin County and Ramsey County both have many cooling centers for you and your neighbors to get out of the heat this week!

If you are in Hennepin County, this link will take you to their cooling sites map and extreme heat info page!

Find places to keep cool on hot summer days in Hennepin County.

If you are in Ramsey County, this link will take you to their extreme heat info page and they have a link to a really great map with all their cooling sites!

Learn about extreme heat in Ramsey County, including the dangers of high temperatures and humidity. Find public cooling spaces, precautions

If you see neighbors (especially our unhoused neighbors) struggling with the heat, you can use these maps to help them get to the nearest cooling center. Extreme heat becomes very dangerous very quickly and can be fatal. Be safe and keep looking out for our neighbors!