Black Book of Witchcraft, Memes and Gay

Belle (She/They) Trash Witch Worshipper of Athena, Hestia, and Dionysus Forever DM and Video Game Fanatic (header art by Leilani Joy)

[the-conquest-of-shred]

peak half assed inclusivity that speaks to reality

good on Lego for making a physically disabled Lego dude

absolutely incredible accidental commentary by making him not fit in any of the buildings

[1spoopyjerk]

[friend-crow]

What if we started pronouncing the final e in "seance" like you do in "Beyonce"?

[changelingfangs]

Man I fucking hate how people on this site think Calvinism is the default for Christianity and Christian theology.

Like I'm gonna pull my hair out. Guys, guys, come with me to medieval Christianity where we had *ninety* FEAST DAYS A YEAR and where REFUSAL to ENJOY God's creation was a MORTAL SIN.

Puritan ideas about humanity being separate from the world and all physical pleasure being sinful weren't the fucking norm please guys I'm begging you...

(not that suffering was seen as negative 100% of the time, and fasting was absolutely part of the faith but not everyone was expected to live like a monk who took a vow of poverty. Also wait until I tell you that like, 80% of cheeses we have now were invented at monasteries and that often, rich youngest sons were sent to live at monasteries bc it they weren't Franciscan (iirc) life was pretty fucking sweet for a monk!)

[vaspider]

Part of the reason I get so spun up on explaining how deep the roots of Calvinism are in American philosophy and life is because of exactly this! It's part of the American mindset to think that the way we do things here is Just How It Is, and to look past all the weird shit tangled up in the roots.

Like, no, Puritanism isn't actually how medieval monks thought! Puritanism was considered Real Fucking Weird and deeply heretical! Calvinism? Deeply weird! Deeply wrong! They had to fuck off to another continent bc people thought their shit was weird-to-the-point-of-being-illegal.

Calvinism puts every person in competition with every other person for one of a few Limited Spots In Heaven. That's not how you build a functioning society, actually, and that's why I keep yelling about it.

Life is here to be enjoyed, and G-d's creation is here to be enjoyed, and that's one thing that my Jewish ass and medieval monks actually both believe.

[preserve-or-raze]

i wonder if there’s any correlation between the calvinistic “compete for a spot at the top of the righteous food chain” and the capitalistic “compete for a spot at the top of the economic food chain” in societal development

[vaspider]

They sure make good friends, anyway.

[1percentcharge]

If the gore in a gore/body horror movie is mainly cg then what’s even the point

[diskette]

Ma’am what do you want them to do murdwr the actors???

[diskette]

Ohhhh I forgot about practical effects

[tree-of-blue-squirrel]

[maddiesharafian]

Oops, I never uploaded this one to Tumblr (which I only realized when someone else did, but then was kind enough to tag me, thank you)!

This is the comic that kickstarted my obsession with telling stories with as few panels as I could (usually 10-11 haha), so it’s got a soft spot in my heart. 

[otterlyart]

Live from London: Mighty Nien and Mighty Fine

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

These idiots :D

[sonatine]

Fran Lebowitz on writing

[kvothes]

poetry and musical theater get similar accusations leveled at them in terms of not being realistic, i.e. “no one fucking talks like that” or “people don’t randomly burst into song in real life” and sometimes i just want to take people by the shoulders and say. there are forms of art that are not aiming for perfect realism. are you capable of handling that

[probablybadrpgideas]

It’s easy for combat to drag in D&D.

Speed it up by repeatedly mentioning how the orcs are sighing and passive-aggressively tapping their watches while they wait for their turn in the initiative order. 

[zenatness]

#YOU TAKE YOUR TIME NOT LIKE THOG HAS LIFE OF OWN#NO NO YOU TAKE ANOTHER MINUTE#THOG NEED CALL GIRLFRIEND AND CANCEL DATE ANYWAY

[onyxbird]

Switch things up in the tabletop gaming world: D&D can borrow the timers from competitive chess to use in their combat turns, and chess players can start cinematically describing how their piece is going to take out that other piece they just attacked.

[tlirsgender]

You ever think about how crows are acting not unlike how early humans probably did and you're just like. Oh ok

[tlirsgender]

I saw a Thing one time about how the earliest sign of civilization is a healed femur because that shows that we were taking care of each other because if we Didn't a broken leg would mean you Die because you can't. Do things

And I was thinking about this and I remembered also seeing an article about this one mated pair of crows where one of them broke its beak and thus couldn't properly feed itself on its own. So the other one helps

So basically I have connected the two dots ("you didn't connect shit") I've connected them

And also they not only use tools but teach each other how to construct them, so uh

Really makes you think

[tlirsgender]

Realistically I know immortality would kinda suck but I'd love to see where crows are going with this

[findersfeeders]

Fun fact, there is little info on crows (as far as species of interest go) because they're so good at evading human tactics for collection and observation. I had a friend who studied them in grad school. Not only do they describe humans to each other (so crows you've never seen before will avoid you), they also learn the precise distance of net cannons (for trapping and tagging) after 1 encounter and then stand at that distance the entire time (making naive researchers think maybe they can juuuust caych em). So basically you need to befriend them (a common strategy), or find a murder that's never seen you before (researchers wear presidents masks to throw them off, but then they remember and describe the cars). In this case, you have one chance to collect enough in the group to get good data. Whatever crow you catch once, you probably will never catch again, ruling out biosensing devices (like they use with other birds and turtles n junk).

The latest big finding about crows is that they have a grasp of knowledge breadth, meaning they "know what they know" meaning they are conscious (self aware), have subjective experiences and can reflect on their knowledge. (Source) This also implies they have an understanding of the unknown.

Look up Andreas Nieder and Jon Marzluff's work if you want the deep skinny.

[kirtlandswarbler]

Small correction for the part about crows describing humans to each other: that is a misunderstanding of the actual findings that I've seen pop up a lot (and that I had myself at first). What the widely referenced study actually found was that crows learn from each other by observing other crows' behavior - this is called "social" or "horizontal" learning. In the case of the masked study this basically means that crow A observed crow B, who had been trapped by a researcher earlier, be upset at that researcher, and subsequently crow A would also be upset at the researcher despite not having had any personal first-hand negative experience with the researcher. While this is very much not the same as crow A being told by crow B that the researcher is dangerous, this is still a very notable form of learning that not all animals are capable of. If you want to read the study for yourself, it's freely available as an open access paper!

[masonicbeheadingritual]

[socialpsychopathblr]

[lookataleaf3000]

[dayrlbiggins]

you gotta be as gay as possible on the computer otherwise alan turing died for nothing

[leonidviigand]

this comment fucking destroys me. I can’t think about Alan Turing for too long or I start crying. 

[homunculus-argument]

You know how people sometimes get a cat by just having a random stray cat with no collar and no chip walk in and sit on the couch like "yo fucknuts I live here now", and the people just go "well fuck, guess I gotta go get a litterbox then."

Now consider: Humans doing that to the fae. Not being captured by the fae folk, not taken against their will but stubbornly walking in to their realm and refusing to leave before one of them agrees to take this damn creature. Faeries telling each other "naww come on, you can't make it leave, it already ate your food. Everyone knows you gotta keep them if you've fed them."

And another faery yells back "I did not fucking feed that thing, it climbed into my pantry and was eating flour straight out of the bag!"

[dduane]

cc: @petermorwood (re: Bubble) :)

[greelin]

“$20 an hour is nothing these days” you gguys are getting. 20? $? dollars? twenty of them ? Tw

[greelin]

[fyreblazes]

You guys are making money?

[roadhogsbigbelly]

i know you're not suppose to say "male characters tend to be more popular because female characters tend to be underwritten/given more boring safe personalities/be the "girl" character" because people who say they are usually the one's who are able to be interested in extremely bland male characters. but i think there is something to be say about how character designers have absolutely no limits with what they can do with male characters but the second you add "also they're a woman" suddenly they aren't allowed to make them too fat or too funny or too creepy or given any personally traits that might make than not sexy/unthreatening in a very narrow way and it's extremely tiring lol.

[roadhogsbigbelly]

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