Successfully Survived Chult

My avatar is my DnD character, Takuya (Half-elf Shadow Monk), drawn by clockwork-inkubus.tumblr.com Korean/white, bi, he/him, 29, poly. I have too many hobbies: Writing, D&D, Judo, Anime, Rock Climbing, etc. If you ever want me to tag trigger warnings and stuff send me an ask.

[storybookprincess]

being sick & miserable objectively sucks, but it has become significantly easier to cope with since learning that “sickness behavior” is a well documented part of the body’s immune response

feeling not only physically but also emotionally like fucking garbage is unfortunately an extremely effective way to force your body to prioritize fighting infection & keeping you alive. i don’t have to like it, but knowing why i get weepy & pathetic when sick does help at least a little

[autumn2may]

i just found out that this is not common knowledge and am reblogging so more people know

YOUR BODY DOES THIS ON PURPOSE

YOU ARE NOT A BAD PERSON BECAUSE OR "WEAK" WHEN YOU ARE SICK IF YOU CAN"T CARRY ON AS NORMAL

[tartrazeen]

Rereading this on my sick days 🙏🏽

[gothiccharmschool]

Why do I feel like I should print this out, frame it, and hang it in my office?

[kurhanchyk]

my preemptive answer is that because people refuse to commit main characters to it but i'm sure there are many reasons

[monstrousgourmandizingcats]

#i think it's also because many people write about them from an atheist's perspective#i.e. they write like they can't believe a character would take a religion and its tenets seriously#without being a caricature of fundamentalism

(from @lilybarthes)

[fivekoboldsinacoat]

It's a good video! I highly recommend it. Watched it a few hours after it dropped and was thinking about it again this morning.

OP isn't wrong, exactly (saying this for everyone else reading, not at you, OP) and the pasted tags are excellent & about a real issue, but actually further from the thesis of the video.

That thesis boils down to fiction that creates religions, like fantasy novels or RPGs, is very prone to only really depicting the religion's myths and sacred texts. The creation stories, the pantheon melodramas, that kind of thing. Adjacent to this is a big focus on belief. Both of these, ReligionForBreakfast (RFB) suggests, are due at least in part to (unexamined or deliberate) Christocentrism.

The thing that's missing, that RFB proposes as what he thinks would make a big difference and be good to see in fictional worlds, is action. ("Ritual", for certain definitions of the word.) What do followers of a religion, or people within that religion's culture, actually do? How does it appear in daily life, in art and architecture, customs and food, etc.? And not just the Official Approved actions or activities, either.

It's a really solid video, just under 20 minutes long, link here for the interested.

[makesyouevil]

two pretty best friends 💫

[newsandstuffisee]

[busket]

portland has been smeared as being an "anarchist war zone" ever since the BLM protests in 2020. for the record, I support everything the protestors did in portland back then, and i hate the PPB. I don't think that activists need to protect property and wealth, and the portland police were the only ones enacting real violence. some windows got broken and walls got painted and I think that's fair game. HOWEVER footage of these protests where shown to the country about how portland is dangerous and how this city is falling apart at the hands of democrats. because this is a left leaning city in a blue state with an above average population of leftists, this propaganda has been used in the last 5 years for reasons why we need to be hammered down and crushed under the heavy boot of the law. portland has "fought" before and it's resulted in this propaganda, so the new tactic is to point out how absurd this all is. if you, as a cop or a federal agent, attack a kid wearing an inflatable costume, you don't look like a noble soldier putting an anarchist or terrorist back in line. you look like a violent freak attacking a kid, dancing in a frog suit. and if you fail to intimidate or arrest a kid in a frog suit, you look like a ineffective, weak joke!! fascists want to be taken seriously. they want to be feared and for people to cower from them, or violently revolt against them so their cause feels validated. so it disrupts the narrative and the propaganda. it's new, it's interesting, and it's gaining much more positive attention from the rest of the country than fighting in portland would at this stage in the game. so nobody better be insinuating that portland protestors are ineffective or cowardly by taking this route cos they've been through it all before, and they know what they're doing

[silverjirachi]

if you work really hard in life, sometimes you can make up a guy and then get really sad about him

[themurdochmemesteries]

thinking about the Character isn't enough. i need to put him between my teeth and shake him like a dog with a chew toy.

[ratdesire]

Guards! Put that sad man into A Situation.

[0000alisa]

early bonding experiences or st idk 👬

[sparrowlucero]

my shot for over the garden wall reanimated!

[theashenphoenix]

三船敏郎 // MIFUNE TOSHIRO 銀嶺の果て // Snow Trail (1947)

[moonshynecybin]

have you guys ever seen a crocodile with its fingies out

[moonshynecybin]

[aaronstveit]

STOCKARD CHANNING & PATRICK SWAYZE TO WONG FOO, THANKS FOR EVERYTHING! JULIE NEWMAR (1995)

[davidhudson]

Toshiro Mifune signs autograph books during the making of Seven Samurai (1954).

[penandinkprincess]

"Why must we Madonna/whore the vegetables?" is a phrase I just felt super glue itself in my lexicon immediately

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

brogly

[meowth]

[foolishfools-deactivated2024062]

#that little bat has no clue that it is embodying halloween right now #because it does not understand what holidays are #it does however #understand what pumpkins are #as it can eat those #it cannot eat halloween #bats

I needed your tags I’m sorry.

[thegreatyin]

there's a lot of truly excellent digimon designs but i think they really peaked with a little frilled lizard that turns into a dimetrodon that turns into an ojousama lamiagirl that turns into an even more ojousama spin on medusa with boots that open up and bite people. absolute S tier line that doesn't get talked about enough

[thegreatyin]

^^ this? this is peak.

[bongparade-blog]