oh god they found me

completely normal

[nastylilchangeling]

Intro Post

Hiiiii. I'm Changeling. Over 25, under 30, afab. Pick a gender for me, I don't much care.

I like a variety of things and this blog is basically gonna be an untagged stream of those things I enjoy. Memes! Art! Fandom stuff! I'll keep it PG-13 and below -- No explicit stuff here thanks.

If you're here because of my art, but don't want this assembled unfiltered stream of enjoyment, go on over to @sweet-harpy-key which is a blog for only that.

Things I Like:

Knights, Armour, Fantasy, Dragons, Wizardry, TTRPGs

Hunter: the Parenting, World of Darkness, Chronicles of Darkness, vampires, werewolves, so on

Warhammer 40,000, If the Emperor had a Text to Speech Device

Gravity Falls, Over the Garden Wall, X-Files, Cult of the Lamb

Sleep Token, My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, Nine Inch Nails, Vocaloid [generalized]

Not an exhaustive list... By any means...

I don't bite! Come say hi. DMs are always open ^w^

[wheelie-sick]

for the lovely lovely deafies out there who want to get involved in direct action you absolutely 100% cannot ever bring a hearing aid or cochlear implant with bluetooth to any direct action. bluetooth devices all carry a unique signal that can be used to identify you if it's picked up at a direct action. go with a [more] hearing buddy and communicate in sign language. if you don't mutually know a sign language then come up with gestures. do not risk your freedom because you want to have your hearing aid/cochlear implant at the action. it's not worth it.

[wheelie-sick]

flock cameras are also now tracking bluetooth device signatures when you pass them. if you drive past a flock camera with your bluetooth-enabled hearing aid or cochlear implant, the flock camera knows you passed through

[thewolfwaitsbelow]

Wait I just realized this is gonna apply to all cgms and most if not all insulin pumps. They’re all Bluetooth devices, it’s essential to how they work

[mylordshesacactus]

For all that the 1800s etiquette guides are--obviously--derangedly sexist from a modern perspective? They're also mindblowing in how casually they will assert things that MODERN DAY CONSERVATIVES would scream and cry and shit their pants about.

"People back then always married young it's natural!!!" Every single 1800s guide I've ever met casually mentions that, of course, you really shouldn't get married before you're at least 20, and waiting until 25 is usually better.

Or, like. Okay here's a long segment:

Just firmly going "it is crazy sexist to blame The Wife for overspending when thirty seconds of asking questions will immediately establish that her husband was outright lying to her about how much money they had. Talk to your wife like a normal person."

Or--okay, here. A section on being honest and not writing love letters in secret, because that's usually a good sign that there's something untoward going on....

....except that he then immediately acknowledges that sometimes, the reason you're hiding this from your parents is that your parents suck. That there are parents who frankly have not earned the right to approve or disapprove of your partner.

(I realize the phrasing there sounds a lot less strong than my summary, but--trust me on this. When you're familiar with the narrative voice of these kinds of books, this passage is downright radical. The mere acknowledgement that if you treat your kids badly, it's your own damn fault when they don't talk to you? I've genuinely never seen that before in this genre. Don't freak out over "properly trained", either. It's just a linguistic shift--at the time, "training" was used the way we would say "raising" a child today. )

[dubiousculturalartifact]

The new Odyssey adaptation has inevitably gotten people talking about a Muppet version of it, and they’re frequently suggesting Kermit as Odysseus, Miss Piggy as Penelope.

I’m sorry but that’s thinking way too small, hear me out:

We need to have Miss Piggy as Odysseus, and Kermit as Penelope.

Think about it… who’s the more fickle, prideful, warlike one in that relationship? Who is absolutely ready to go ham, at a moment’s notice?

It ain’t Kermit

[anyroads]

Miss Piggy tied to the mast while Statler and Waldorf heckle her from the sea

[mindovermuses]

But who is the single human cast member in this tale? Who gets to put in an Oscar-worthy performance alongside the Muppets and what role are they to play?

[muffinflarp69]

There’s no single human, everyone is a Muppet except for one scene. Circe, played by Janice, turns Odysseus’s crew into humans who still behave animalistic and are all played by Academy Award winning actors.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

personally I'm annoyed by the socioeconomic conditions that made words like "unalive" necessary but simultaneously impressed by the linguistic adaptations young people have made to continue talking about important things while subject to those conditions and I think if you can't hold both of those thoughts in your head you might just be old man yelling at cloud

[a-wild-embubble]

Two of my niblings (10 and 7) self-censor like this in real life during actual conversations. I tried briefly to explain to the 10-year-old that they didn't have to do that in real life after they said "unalive" out loud in casual conversation, and they just said they preferred to. On the one hand, I'm sad to see them unconsciously and fully without awareness succumbing to the panopticon. On the other... this post.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

it's not unprecedented in the evolution of languages to see euphemisms adopted as synonyms or even supplanting earlier terms. lots of people say "passed away" even in situations where there would be no particular social cost to saying "died".

for a particularly strong version of this kind of replacement: the word "bear" comes from a proto-Germanic word meaning "brown one" because there was a taboo against saying the animal's actual name. the taboo is gone but it was so strong in the past that we have no record of what the proto-Germanic word for "bear" even was.

maybe in 300 years the word "die" will be archaic and kids will dig it out of an etymology textbook and start using it because "unalive" is getting censored.

[luggifer4]

die has actually already undergone this process. die originally meant "flow" (i guess it's like you're flowing out of life or something? or maybe your life is flowing out of you idk). it was (probably) loaned from old norse to displace the now obsolete "swelt". and yes, that is the root word of "sweltering"

[dragon-in-a-fez]

[stormsbourne]

usually when you have a stomach bug your body is like yes sir we'll get this punk out of here, 48 hours tops. then you get a cold and your body is like I dunno ... between a few hours and eleven months ... maybe a week minimum .... you gotta understand we're short staffed

[tibli]

tbf to the body, stomach bugs are easier to flush out since they are already in The System That Flushes Things Out From The Body, and that includes BOTH ends.

with a cold you gotta wait for the macrophages in your blood to start Eating Everything, and they are. not big. it takes them a while. please be more considerate of your macrophages in the future, theyre doing their best

[marlinspirkhall]

I've got to find myself more macrophage

[acesexualspock]

Now Hiring: macrophages

[daughter-of-sapph0]

immunesystem.com/careers/macrophage

[prokopetz]

Speaking of medieval history, it's fun how the popular accounts are all "the peasantry disliked nobles, but typically loved the King and attributed any harmful decisions to bad advisors", and then the rare examples of surviving testimony from actual peasants are like "I hope the King literally explodes".

[bob-artist]

Thinking about this one day when I was in Chicago and it was so foggy that the buildings turned 2D

[bob-artist]

I mean... you're not wrong

[agentofdeterioration]

The Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad is, to a modern audiences, what classicists have called “boring as hell,” but I can’t help but think that if you were watching Homer recite it it would have been more like when comedians go, “anybody here tonight from Chicago?” and the Chicagoans in the back start cheering

Homer’s like, “and there were forty black ships from… LOCRIS” and the Locrians in the crowd start going absolutely nuts

[yandere-angela]

[holdtohealyourpartner-moved]

tumblr name a woman challenge (impossible)

[monstrousgourmandizingcats]

#why is the last one talking like women aren’t real and ‘woman’ a euphemism for ‘gay man’

(from @murderballadeer)

[getrealprim]

If you make a post about evil women, they’ll name a man. If you make a post about evil men, they’ll name women. If you make a post appreciating a specific evil woman, they’ll call you evil

[getrealprim]

LMAO YOURE JOKING

[jellyfishforest135]

Activated them like sleeper agents

[adventures-in-instant-ramen]

[thoodleoo]

reading about the participation of children in rituals as a form of play in ancient greece and came across an incredibly charming story from julius pollux's onomasticon where a flood prevented the adults from reaching a sanctuary to sacrifice a ram to heracles, and the children solved the problem by....sticking a bunch of sticks in an apple to give it "legs" and "horns" and offering it as a sacrifice instead. it's such a charming thought and i can perfectly picture kids these days also pretending at sacrificing an apple "goat" at recess

[theswisscheeserag]

You gotta be really publicly passionate about things if you want your friends to text you. Bc people will forget to text you because they’re human. But if you’re really openly the friend who loves identifying ants your friends will think of you when they see ants. And they’ll text you “what ant is this [blurry photo]”. And then they’ll ask you how you’ve been and we should get coffee sometime. But if they don’t know what you love they’ll never know what you like

[theswisscheeserag]

And then when the ant convention is in town they’ll be like dude… we should go to the ant convention. But they would never think to go if they didn’t know u loved ants

[theswisscheeserag]

And sometimes you need to ask them to go to the ant convention. But you Will not get anywhere hiding your passions

[bi-shop]

we are so excited to announce that we will be opening the Children's Pizza Restaurant from the hit horror game franchise There's Murders At This Children's Pizza Restaurant

[red-garden]

MAGA boomers SHOCKED by 20y/o commie speaking fluent hog

[red-garden]

Hog 201 for anyone interested in trying this:

Bodily autonomy (like abortion, anti draft, etc) -> “The government shouldn’t be able to force anything on my body I don’t want.”

Anti surveillance -> “I don’t trust big government/big tech (big brother if you’re feeling frisky) with the ability to spy on me and my family.”

Immigration -> “Next to all of us immigrated at some point, I don’t see why the elites get to decide who’s allowed to be where. What’s to stop them coming for me?”

Climate Change -> “Big oil shouldn’t get to determine whether or not I get to go places. I don’t want to be dependent on some big business to survive.”

State Violence -> “I don’t want the goddamn secret police breathing down my neck! I trust my community a whole hell of a lot more to help me than I do the state!”

The vast majority of conservatives think of themselves as underdogs being repressed by the government/the elite, and they value personal freedom (specifically their personal freedom, they don’t care about other people). The will almost always agree with leftist points if you can find a way to blame the problem on their vague enemies (useful, since rich people are the root of most problems), and tie it back to their ability to say fuck everyone else. NEVER appeal to science, theory, logic, or human goodness. Make it seem as if you are a paranoid lunatic who trusts no one. They love it.

[dinosaurjam]

#you need to tailor your arguments to people's existing values and priorities if you want to convince them #the flip side is that it's every bit as easy to tailor conservative arguments to convince a leftist audience #so don't get smug #you're not immune to this either <- prev extremely true

[vixensdungeon]

“You should let a natural 20 always succeed on ability checks, because why would you have them roll if there’s no chance to roll high enough?” This is a piece of D&D advice I see a lot, and on the surface it seems to make sense, right? Like why would you have someone roll with their +5 bonus if they need a 26 to succeed?

But then you remember the Great Secret of D&D 5th Edition, the enlightenment not all have reached: the DM deserves to be treated with respect and dignity, and it’s not their goshdang job to know what all your stats are.

[ninjacat64]

Also, having a 1/20 chance to succeed what whatever you are doing, no matter how outlandish, is really funny

[vixensdungeon]

You do realise that this post is against letting ability checks auto-succeed on a nat 20, right?

[cavegirlpoems]

tumblr is a website known for its reading comprehension

[vixensdungeon]

#i do allow crits on attacks because if I create a situation where they can't hit any attack I've messed up as DM

I'd like to inform you that crits on attacks aren't something you need to really allow as such, as that's just in the rules.

[overfedvenison]

I've noticed a lot of players have confusion about this In most editions of D&D: - You auto-succeed on attack rolls and saving throws of a 20 - In some editions, you have to then roll again to succeed on a critical hit - Other checks do not auto-succeed on a 20. Some things are simply outside of your skill. - Natural 1s auto-fail on Attack Rolls and Saving Throws - This does not mean you then stab yourself or fumble off a cliff. That is a house rule. A natural 1 is a normal failure. - Natural 1s don't automatically fail skill checks in most editions. The worst work by a master carpenter is still a functional chair.

[homunculus-argument]

Did you have a happy childhood, and can you cut onions without crying?

I had a happy childhood and I can cut onions without crying

I had a happy childhood and I can't cut onions without crying

I didn't have a happy childhood and I can cut onions without crying

I didn't have a happy childhood and I can't cut onions without crying

I emerged from a ditch already fully grown/I've never been trusted with a knife

Remaining time: 6 days 7 hours

No nuance, if you had to hesitate at all, the answer is "no".

[thetomeoftatteredthoughts]

i am waiting for the context behind this one, because its always the most esoteric thing ever

[homunculus-argument]

There's a specific way of pacing your blinking frequency that you can learn to do to prevent tears from welling up if you can anticipate what, when, and how something is going to make you want to cry. I thought the correlation between knowing how to do that, and having an unhappy childhood, would be stronger than that.