a common man in a world of giants

Cats and fantasy bullshit (affectionate)

[fuckblast]

I like to scroll through is this AI subreddits and here are my favorite non AI photos

Woman with an iguana on her head in a Walmart. Real. Looks weird because of metal poles and subject matter, but commenters were quick to note all of God's creatures they have seen inside the megastore.

My cat got on a counter weird and broke my speaker. Real. Cats are weird. "Surely my cat cannot look like this." Must be new to cats. Some wondered why the brother took a pic instead of preventing a speaker catastrophe, but I think that's explanatory.

And the best

Ice fishing with the dog. Yes that's real. It's not AI and it's not really really shitty Photoshop. The light is reflected up off the ice and removes most expected shadows.

[damnhotpocket]

Gema.piano on instagram

Why are all music teachers like this 😭😭😭

[communeist]

THEY ARE

[crematedequally]

when i was 8 i had a very intimidating russian woman as a music teacher- she was both my opera instructor and piano teacher. about a month into piano, she sat me down and said to my mother and i "this child- very beautiful voice, good for singing. i will not allow this child to continue piano. god did not want this child to play an instrument. he told me this in dreams. that is all."

my mom had it written down on a slip so we could remember the exact words because it was so funny. i HATED playing piano and i was definitely not good at it (i did end up having a good 5 years of opera training and ended up being a pretty accomplished choir singer though) and the idea of god sending my incredibly severe and serious russian piano teacher a dream begging her to stop teaching me piano was probably the funniest way it could have gone.

[kerosene-in-a-blender]

Primus Tachonis:

Food: 2000GP Clothes: 5000GP Evil Scheme Reparations: 30 000 000GP Utility: 1500GP

Someone who is good at the economy please help me budget, my noble house is destitute

Yanessa Halovar: Spend less on evil schemes

Primus Tachonis: no

[reynard61]

Let's ambush mama! 😼

[earendil-was-a-mariner]

Bilbo: wait I get it now. The dragon is a metaphor for greed and power. We need to ‘defeat’ it by being humble when we get the treasure.

Thorin: Bilbo, for the last time, it’s a real dragon and it has my gold

[the-august-one]

[sailorspren]

Putting aside the whole grandparents killing thing, I think Moash and Elhokar would have agreed on a lot of things. For instance Elhokar has a horse named Vengeance, and Moash is probably the only other person in the world who would unironically think that's a banger name for a horse

[gatoraid]

”[U]sually when men saw women, they were performing. Baoxiang thought of Madam Zhang and her immaculate facade. Even his favorite courtesan in Anyang, whom he’d grown close to, had surprised him the first time she’d shown him her real face. He’d had no idea, before then, that she thought and felt and desired as strongly as he did.”

-He Who Drowned the World, ch 6

”[Baoxiang’s] effeminacy was perhaps genuine to his nature, Zhu thought, but at the same time it was a performance. It was a performance that had made everyone else in the court overlook him. He had been amongst them the whole time, with murder in his heart and an ambition that outstripped their own, but none of them had believed those qualities could exist in someone who looked like him, who acted like him. None of them had seen him coming.”

-He Who Drowned the World, ch 20

[chamomile-teabag]

WHAT ARE YALL READING RN you must tell me

[theoriginalsupermodels]

Georges Hobeika - Fall 2026 Couture

[ginkgogoldenleaf]

Shadow

[en-theos]

some of my favourite history/knowledge games to play as a little break from work:

latin wordle

yeardle

conexus

catfishing- guess the wikipedia article

wikipedia speedruns

Anthropeum- daily guessing game on the providence of objects from the Met

timeguessr- like geoguessr but with a historical photograph

[seraphimfrog]

lingule - language guessing

[mammalianmammals]

Chinese Mountain Cat (Felis bieti), family Felidae, endemic to grasslands on the Tibetan Plateau of western China

Vulnerable.

photos: Shul Conservation, Scottish Wildcat Fdn, Wild Cats Worldwide

[kiisaes]

everyone eat more vegetables NOW!!! and mention the last vegetable you ate in the tags so we're all on the buddy system. I'll start: bok choy

[just-another-cat-blog]

pride month!!!

[lemonsharks]

Is that a miette?

[jeanjauthor]

Pride for you!  Pride for a thousand years!!

[lost-and-cursed]

you COME OUT to miette? you come out to her as queer? oh! oh! pride for mother! pride for mother for One Thousand Years!!!!

[twinklestarss]

“The candle requires still a great degree of noble blood to be spilled. We knew that if Thjazi was to die, the Lady Aranessa would come running to save him. We needed it to not be a death in private, but one with a trial and hanging, such that she would have time to make her way to Dol-Makjar. We fed the information to the Royce that we were looking for Occtis, thinking they might find him where we could not, and they took him to their home. Davinos was an improvisation, but wherever the Lady Royce and Occtis first met, I would've been waiting in the shadows, or enough of Aranessa's retainers to speed the Deva's journey to the underworld.”-Primus Tachonis

Campaign 4 Episode 29: Opening Night

[stealingpotatoes]

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[samijen]

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