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Guys I'm doing the Temple of Bhaal for the first time and I am trying not to save scum and Lae'zel died (Orin kidnapped her) and I have a little bag of her possessions and I feel so sad so I am genuinely considering save scumming to save her.

#lae'zel #lae'zel my bae'zel I am so sorry #bg3 #she's so cool I was so angry when my rolls were too low to save her :(

woman-becomer

imagine a goat with a hat

STOP-

what hat did you give the goat what is the instinctual hat you gave to this goat

#top hat

Started reading He Who Fights With Monsters. Jason is known as "the guy with the evil powers" despite his protests that his powers are not, in fact, evil. He is good at people, not with people. The love of his life cheated on him with his brother and apparently everyone in his family thought he should just accept that. He can't stop calling out rich people for their privilege. He is aggressively Australian. He named an apocalyptic leech demon Colin. He is seeking out every local recipe that he can find and stealing it. He went a little crazy in a simulated battle and is now questioning if he is actually evil. Guy of all time.

#he who fights with monsters #jason asano #i love this funky little guy #he is australian and the australianisms are correct! fuck yeah #i love seeing Australian characters!!#even if he is (gags) a Melbournian #< says the western australian

carolxdanvers

Indulge me. And tag your favorite please

how did you determine your favorite Pokemon? for all of these, elaborate in the tags if you want, I'd love to read it

aesthetic reasons: it looks cool

aesthetic reasons: it looks cute/pretty

video games: it's a strong member of my team

video games: plot point/character arc

video games: nostalgia

card game: it's a strong card to play

card game: a particular card art

card game: nostalgia

anime: plot or character arc

anime: nostalgia

more than one of these (which ones?)

something else (explain in tags)

Voting ended onJul 22

#SAMUROTT MY GOAT #SAMMY THE SAMUROTT WHO OKO'D MT BROTHER'S SERPERIOR #SAMMY THE SAMUROTT WHO GOT THAT ICE BEAM HIT #SAMMY THE SAMUROTT MY BELOVED YOU WILL NEVER BE DELETED #I LOVE SAMUROTT SO MUCH

takofukkatsumi

Reblog this and tell me what was your biggest crying over a piece of fiction. You can be vague if you don't want to spoil.

#the thirteen in throne of glass #project hail mary #though to be fair i was Not In A Good Place when i watched it and that movie was like the first light of dawn #i cried like 5 times watching it #that movie single handedly kept me going for months

yesornopolls

is there a regional dish specific to the region you live in or grew up in that you particularly like?

Is there a regional dish specific to the region you live in or grew up in that you particularly like?

Yes

Voting ended onJul 21

#going of prev saying the usamericans are going to say state variations #imma go with spearmint milkshakes #apparently they don't have spearmint milkshakes over east (bunch of fucking weirdos i say as a west australian)#and while i can't drink them anymore i did enjoy them when i could

canwriteitbetterthanueverfeltit

hey, tag this with a food people get really upset about you not liking

#prev i also cannot stand mushrooms #that is fungus it is mould from the ground no thank you #and the texture? foul. disgusting. evil

canwriteitbetterthanueverfeltit

hey, tag this with a food people get really upset about you not liking

#mango #the last time i had mango i spent two weeks chucking after #i now mnow that it was actually my coeliac revealing itself after eating rice bubbles but it took me over six years to be diagnosed soo...#the damage is already done. even just the smell still makes nauseous #also just like alcohol in general #can't get around the taste and people always grill me when i say i don't drink

stargoyle

"This person has a secret onlyfans!" "This artist does NSFW commissions!" "This author writes porn on the side!" I cannot begin to tell you how swag and awesome that is.

#i love perspective #i work full time and study part time and previously had a mortgage (house sold pog)#and i see call out posts and I laugh a little because mate you gotta pay the bills #who gives a fuuuuck #good for them #if i found out a coworker or friend was doing onlyfans or whatever i would not care #you get older and you wise up that like who gives a shit #there's bigger things to worry about

rockets

________

You will be remembered as a hero. ________

For those wondering about the fox. Grace has a subtle motif with this animal throughout the movie, but especially this shot where they pack this toy fox with his belongings on the Hail Mary. The pose of it looked a little haunting to me, thus prompting this illustration. __________ (Small/large prints are also available on my etsy ❤️)

#project hail mary #oooo this is giving me IDEAS

homunculus-argument

The Odyssey but retold as a low-stakes modern adventure of one guy out with his girlfriend leaving the bar with his buddies to do just one (1) simple thing real quick, it'll take like 15 minutes tops, he'll be right back, but then some bullshit happens and the trip keeps getting more complicated as more bullshit keeps happening while he just tries to get back to the bar because he promised his girlfriend that he'd get back and he knows that she's still there because she told him she'd wait there.

And by the time he finally gets back it's almost 3 am and the bar is about to close while she's sitting there stone cold sober, surrounded by 5 drunk guys unsuccessfully trying to convince her to give up on waiting for him and go home with one of them instead. And the guy shows up to proceed to beat the shit out of them before explaining himself to her like hey sorry bullshit kept happening, my phone fell into a storm drain and my wallet got stolen when I was trying to find someone who'd borrow me a phone so I could call and

thekijs

His girlfriend had been fending off the 5 drunk guys for most of the evening by explaining that even if she was going to ditch her boyfriend, she can't possibly leave without finishing her beer, which she is keeping perpetually full via careful sleight of hand where she's just pouring it back and forth into and out of the pitcher.

However the drunk guys are also drinking, and eventually she can't afford to buy another pitcher for the table so she can't keep up the ever-full beer glass trick. At this point she has to resort to setting up the pool trick shot that she's never seen anyone but her boyfriend pull off, and says she'll leave with whoever manages the shot first.

That buys her another hour or so and then, finally, her boyfriend makes it back. He looks like shit, hair down and just a mess, he's wearing an entirely different jacket that he got from an alley, and barely recognizable—especially to 5 guys who've been drunk for hours now. He lurks for a minute, finds out what's going on, and proceeds to pull off the trick shot first try. Throws the jacket off, fixes his hair with a hair tie his girlfriend lends him, finally looks like himself again, and THEN beats the shit out of them with the pool cue.

weaselle

yuh i was there, that's how it happened

#the odyssey #i would eat this shit right up

a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay

do you have a hobby that's expensive as fuck

yes

all of them

absolutely 0!!!!

results

Voting ended onJun 30

#you would not believe the price aquarium gravel that won't kill your fish #the things i do for my sons #woe the price of fish safe aquarium gravel be upon ye

robotslenderman

The recent hot VS cold polls have made me realise that a lot of people have no idea how to cool down.

As someone from a hot country that's regularly on fire, here's some tips:

WATER IS YOUR FRIEND! WATER! IS! YOUR! FRIEND! You can transfer SO much heat into this bad boy! You cannot cool down without water!

Wrists under the cold tap. Splash your face and the back of your neck. Fan yourself.

In some countries you can buy a little handeld fan with a water sprayer.

Damp tea towel around the neck. Stick an ice pack in there on hotter days.

Half fill a water bottle with water, stick in freezer. If you use a bottle with a straw, make sure it's lying on its side with the straw side up and out of the water. When frozen top up the rest of the way with tap water and off you go.

Desperate to cool off? Wet T-shirt. Sit in front of a fan. This will nuke it, just don't get hypothermia and don't fall asleep like this.

Cold showers are also your friend in summer. Some people get psyched up by these. Personally, I sleep like a baby, so I'm good to have them before bed. Just keep in mind that it takes a bit of time for the cool to circulate, so your body will tell you that you're colder than you actually are. I find that when I have cold showers I need to step out of the spray when I think I'm cold... I'll just wait, and thirty seconds later the temperature has evened out and I actually need to step under again. Rinse and repeat until you maintain coolness even after stepping out for a bit.

If you can't do cold showers, turn the cold shower on anyway and just stick your arms under. When they're cold, lift your arms up above your head. The sensation of cool blood draining into your body is fucking weird and kinda unpleasant but less unpleasant than being hot.

Feet in a tub of water with ice. Blood naturally flows to your extremities when hot, so take advantage of this. If you don't have a tub of ice water, sticking a wet rag on your feet in front of the fan works too, it's the less powerful version of the wet T-shirt.

Drinks lots of water but make sure that water has electrolytes as well. Stay in the shade.

Keep air circulating. Fans don't actually cool rooms down, they just help transfer heat from your body to the moisture on your skin or the air via evaporative cooling.

Block north facing windows early in the morning so the sun doesn't get in. If you're in the northern hemisphere, this is opposite for you. Keep in mind that if your home is brick, the bricks will still heat up and slowly release heat into your home even after the sun goes down so this will only do so much.

If it's hotter inside than outside, close all your windows but two, making sure they're on opposite sides of the house/unit you're in. Point a fan out of one window, making sure that the doors between the rooms with the open windows are all open. This will help create a mini pressure system in your home, pulling cooler air in and pushing the hotter air out via the fan. Bonus points if you can get that fan high up where the hot air rises; even within a single room the top is much hotter than the air by the floor. Adjust the amount of open windows based on how many fans you have, but generally you want more windows with fans open than windows without fans to keep the pressure correct.

Obviously, use your common sense for these. Not everything WILL work for you, just use the stuff that does and adjust what needs to be adjusted. Some of these will be impossible to use in the workplace but others you can still use. Others are best used at home. If humidity impacts your ability to use any of these, get a dehumidifier if that's an option, or use more ice instead of evaporation.

Also keep in mind that the skinnier you are, the faster these will work. More fat means more insulation, means more heat, so you may need to be more patient with some of these or use them in combination.

robotslenderman

Bringing this back for my dying mutuals

#seconding these #i will also add that if you have tile floors they are amazing to lie on #sometimes you also just need to stick your head in the freezer and take a couple deep breaths

pronouncingitwang

at some point in your life you will be boiling fruit, water, sugar, and lemon juice in a pot to make a syrup or jam. the instructions will tell you to simmer for a certain amt of time. your timer will go off and you will look at the pot and go, "hm, this doesn't look thick enough. maybe i'll let it go for another 10 minutes." this is the devil speaking. it's only so liquid right now because it is at boiling point. it will thicken when it cools down. learn from the follies of my youth and do not let this happen to you

yokowan

at some point in your life you will be making a sauce or a stew in which you need to add cornstarch to thicken it. and you will prepare a slurry of starch in cold water and think "this looks like way too little starch to thicken this amount of liquid." this is the devil speaking. cornstarch instantly polymerizes at 95°C and if you add too much it will turn into an impossibly thick goop.

le-jardin-inculte

at some point in your life you will be making some sort of cream based dessert that requires gelatin to thicken it. and you will soak some gelatin sheets in water and think "this is too few gelatin sheets for this amount of cream." this is the devil speaking. it will thicken in the fridge and if you add too much you will end up with milk jelly

shithowdy

at some point in your life you will be baking cookies. you will take the sheet out after twelve minutes as the recipe instructs and the cookies will still be glistening and soft. "these don't seem cooked enough," you will think to yourself, "i should place them back into the oven until their edges are nice and golden." this is the devil talking. this is how you get dry, overdone cookies. the cookies will continue to bake on the warm sheet for several more minutes and then harden up after sitting on a rack for a while. trust the process. trust the process.

whitachi

at some point in your life you will be adding a small pasta to a soup and you will think "that is not enough small pasta." this is the devil talking. the pasta will absorb the stock and expand. this is how you end up with a soup that is a solid mass of soggy ditalini.

araceil

At some point in your life you will be adding garlic to a dish and you will think "that is not enough garlic." These are angels speaking. They are correct. Add more garlic.

polka-spots

At some point in your life you will be making rice to go with dinner. The recipe will tell you to add 1/3 cup of rice per person. You will pour the rice into the pot and think it is not enough. This is the devil talking. The rice will expand and you will have so so so so so much rice.

dragon-in-a-fez

"you don't know what you have until you lose it" works for things that suck too btw. sometimes you need to experience life without something for a while to realise oh damn that was some bullshit

#me with the last six months of my old job #got out and into my new role and realised i had no support system no stability #my mental health had hit rock bottom and i was starting to dig #like i was lowkey passively suicidal #i spent months crying on and off of as i recovered #like i was past burn out into the void and just kept going #did not realise how shit that situation had gotten until i was out of it #I'm healing now but sometimes the edges are a bit raw #i felt like an exposed nerve for months #like my mental health was balanced on a razor blade and i could not tell which way it was going to fall

mutationgirl

(having a good week) that’s right. the goal is to increase my baseline. make the spirals shallower until they spin lazily on the surface of the water, lose their suction. im not trying to fix it all at once, im trying to incrementally improve my way into something tolerable. and once im there maybe i can shoot for good

(having a bad week) and in my terrible forge i will temper the flames of ruin

#so true bestie #good weeks i feel like i can do anything #bad weeks i feel like i am handcuffed to the festering corpse of myself and brother that corpse is starting to twitch #for the record i have anxiety