cheetah enthusiast

she/her, european, bi, millennial forests, music, stories, cats, summer

[csny]

this is sort of sickening to me. can they swap

[jakeperalta]

have harry potter fans considered getting a grip on reality

[htmelle]

-grave

Harry Potter fans force relocation of £430m undersea cable to avoid Dobby’s ‘grave’

Power cable linking UK and Ireland now passes near Bronze Age human burial remains instead of fictional grave on Welsh beach

Link because I couldn't believe it. Shout out to this insanity and also that people refuse to stop messing with an ecologically sensitive site.

[greaseonmymouth]

yeah you know what I have lost the remaining shred of respect I had for hp fans at large

[depsidase]

[brightlotusmoon]

[quarkyfied]

I’m in a bit of a pickle about the campaign I’m running. I want to add an easter egg that won’t actually have much bearing on THIS campaign, but it would open up to future ones. It means the most to one of the players as it hints to one of his “dead” characters.

I may have to abandon this idea though because there are some issues like potential railroading, TPK, and possible feelings of confusion or disappointment with the players when it turns out she doesn’t show up again and was not a key figure in the story despite being so powerful.

Buuuut it would be fun if I could leave this little nugget in there so I’m torn.

I’m doing Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk.

Some spoilers ahead!

So, I would replace an NPC with the above mentioned character, but the thing is that if the party decides to fight her, they will not win. She is, at this point in time, i.e. when the party runs into her, a powerful high priestess or cleric of Vecna who’s out on a mission to gather ancient netherise arcana and knowledge (she won’t say this). She is willing to make them a deal. If they hold off a band of rowdy orcs that seem to seek trouble for her, she will give them information and/or a reward. (I would fine tune the reward if I go with this.)

She could probably kill the orcs herself, but it would prolong her stay and she simply doesn’t have the time. (I would work on this too.)

I’m thinking of leaving clues for the party that this is not a fight they want to pick. For example, she controls a dozen undeads (and this is actually the same as the NPC in the book, who is a necromancy wizard of Thay). A wizard of Thay is easy to identify if passing some checks. I guess there can be signs of belonging to a cult of Vecna, too. But they need to know that this is not some mere level 3 cleric. This character will kill them if they instigate a fight instead of cutting a deal or leaving in peace. I don’t want to railroad, but I’m not sure what clues to leave to help the party think before they start blasting.

She would not likely leave the fight either but I guess that is a possible out. It’s just… she’s not done with her mission.

So idk if I should just keep the wizard instead, even though he’s also not important for the campaign, he’s really just a side quest that can lead to two other quests, one which they have already picked up from someone else, and the other being dealing with the orcs. Which I also think is just a side quest that will serve very little for the rest of the campaign. I think these side quests serve partly as a way to gather resources and make allies, to earn levels, and also they force the players to leave Phandalin so that each time they return, they see changes in the place and the inhabitants, and that serves the second part of the campaign as it hints that something else is going on in the area.

So we’ll see what I do. This is my first time DMing and I chose a ready campaign to learn the basics but I do want to homebrew in the future. I guess this is my first taste of like semi-homebrewing something.

I’m working on getting the players’ background stories into the campaign in some manners, and have done so partly when the opportunity arises, like gambling. A dragon or two will also show up and I can work with that for one of them. I work best when I get lightbulb ideas but brainstorming will be required for this.

Anyway. Time for bed. I just couldn’t sleep until I got this out of me. None of them have tumblr so they can’t see my plans and that’s why I’m here.

[quarkyfied]

Well I did it! I replaced the NPC with this character and it was SO MUCH FUN!!!

The party got enough information to at least be able to make the decision to not fight this one, so she answered two questions (that the Thay wizard would also have known) in exchange for their service in getting rid of some ruffians bothering her work in the area. She was a lot of fun to play and my partner was MORTIFIED and thankfully he rolled a very high arcana and could determine that she a) is an aasimar, b) deals with necromancy or death somehow and c) is powerful. My out was that she would have laughed if they fought her, and she would have poofed off and sent her hoard of a dozen zombies on them. But in retrospect, I might have let her have some fun first…

It is unlikely I’ll bring her back to the story, as she’s meant to be an Easter egg, but I may later on implement her in some other way (but they’ll never meet her again). I do have an idea that she is the one that finds a wizard that the party lost, and she turns him into a ghoul. We probably won’t play that out but I’ll try to let them know or figure it out somehow later on. See, I also left them clues that she turns people into undeads.

My next thing will be to let the gambler run into some problems with the loanshark he owes money, but it will be when they next return to town or the return after that (they go back and forth between Phandalin and its surroundings).

Seeing as this is my first time being a GM, my players are very understanding that it’s a lot for me to keep track of, but holy cow was it fun to semi-homebrew content for them and see the look of absolute, pure horror on my bf when I said “pale, fissured skin like that of a cracked porcelain doll”

Him: Can you please describe her again?????!!!!!

Me: Ashy hair, gleaming green eyes, sickly pale skin full of cracks and fissures… (:

Him:

Ah it was amazing. 100000/10 would recommend.

[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

[jvlianbashir]

"haha these alpha trad men really just have dom/sub kinks!" i know misogyny isn't real to a lot of you guys but did you know that some people just actually do genuinely think women are inferior creatures

[jvlianbashir]

like if you actually threw one of these trad men into the dom/sub community, he would just be a danger to a female sub because the problem isn't really with him wanting to dominate but with the the fact that he has internalized the idea that women as a whole are not deserving of respect as equals and exist to be dominated

[quarkyfied]

My partner and I are number 8 in line for a flat about 2 minutes away from where we live and I want it so fucking bad 😭

It’s got three bedrooms, one bath/WC and one WC, and most importantly: ITS OWN LAUNDRY ROOM AND A BACK YARD.

A YARD. WHERE YOU CAN PLANT STUFF.

The back and front are in the south west, so sun all day, but there’s some shade from trees so there’s shade + full sun depending on where you stand.

There’s also a little meadow outside the fence.

With three bedrooms we can have our bedroom, a hobby room, and a gaming/work room.

We’d have to build a catio, since they’re used to having free access to the balcony.

I can’t even begin to explain how badly I want this flat. But number 8 in line for a relatively cheap “four” (which is what we call a 3 bedroom+1 living room with a kitchen) isn’t looking very promising. I have no doubt in my mind that someone if not all of the first 7 people are going to accept, though my dad thinks the area will scare people off. Why would they apply for it if they hate the area though, right? He’s so optimistic 😂 It’s a nice neighbourhood in this area and it’s like a semi townhouse, so I expect it to be hella coveted, especially for families. It’s seldom you see flats with 3+ bedrooms.

I’ll know next week. I wish I could know before the weekend but hey, guess I’ll try to not think about it lest I implode 😩

[quarkyfied]

Imagine being a social worker meant to help people but you actually add fucking negative value into the life of the person you’re meant to help. Not even zero worth of value. Negative. You actually make someone feel like shit. What the actual fuck is wrong with these people?

[quarkyfied]

Everyone talking about a heatwave. It’s 18°C and cloudy here. Winds are coming from the north. I’m cold and therefore I’m in pain. I’m so tired of living in this cold soup. Can my life stabilise so I can move south and melt like butter?

[ambienne]

This tweet means a lot to me.

[ambienne]

It’s probably a really cool and good sign that this post I made in 2014 is going around again, right?

[literary-sparks]

“Why don’t you use ai” idk man beyond the obvious environmental and “this machine causes psychosis and encourages people to kill themselves” thing I think asking the equivalent of a solid D student who is also a pathological liar if they can answer my question/do the work for me seems pretty fucking stupid

[labelleizzy]

[eriyu]

[a-mel0n]

reblog if you’ve had an online friendship that’s lasted more than 2 years

[quarkyfied]

I’m in a bit of a pickle about the campaign I’m running. I want to add an easter egg that won’t actually have much bearing on THIS campaign, but it would open up to future ones. It means the most to one of the players as it hints to one of his “dead” characters.

I may have to abandon this idea though because there are some issues like potential railroading, TPK, and possible feelings of confusion or disappointment with the players when it turns out she doesn’t show up again and was not a key figure in the story despite being so powerful.

Buuuut it would be fun if I could leave this little nugget in there so I’m torn.

I’m doing Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk.

Some spoilers ahead!

So, I would replace an NPC with the above mentioned character, but the thing is that if the party decides to fight her, they will not win. She is, at this point in time, i.e. when the party runs into her, a powerful high priestess or cleric of Vecna who’s out on a mission to gather ancient netherise arcana and knowledge (she won’t say this). She is willing to make them a deal. If they hold off a band of rowdy orcs that seem to seek trouble for her, she will give them information and/or a reward. (I would fine tune the reward if I go with this.)

She could probably kill the orcs herself, but it would prolong her stay and she simply doesn’t have the time. (I would work on this too.)

I’m thinking of leaving clues for the party that this is not a fight they want to pick. For example, she controls a dozen undeads (and this is actually the same as the NPC in the book, who is a necromancy wizard of Thay). A wizard of Thay is easy to identify if passing some checks. I guess there can be signs of belonging to a cult of Vecna, too. But they need to know that this is not some mere level 3 cleric. This character will kill them if they instigate a fight instead of cutting a deal or leaving in peace. I don’t want to railroad, but I’m not sure what clues to leave to help the party think before they start blasting.

She would not likely leave the fight either but I guess that is a possible out. It’s just… she’s not done with her mission.

So idk if I should just keep the wizard instead, even though he’s also not important for the campaign, he’s really just a side quest that can lead to two other quests, one which they have already picked up from someone else, and the other being dealing with the orcs. Which I also think is just a side quest that will serve very little for the rest of the campaign. I think these side quests serve partly as a way to gather resources and make allies, to earn levels, and also they force the players to leave Phandalin so that each time they return, they see changes in the place and the inhabitants, and that serves the second part of the campaign as it hints that something else is going on in the area.

So we’ll see what I do. This is my first time DMing and I chose a ready campaign to learn the basics but I do want to homebrew in the future. I guess this is my first taste of like semi-homebrewing something.

I’m working on getting the players’ background stories into the campaign in some manners, and have done so partly when the opportunity arises, like gambling. A dragon or two will also show up and I can work with that for one of them. I work best when I get lightbulb ideas but brainstorming will be required for this.

Anyway. Time for bed. I just couldn’t sleep until I got this out of me. None of them have tumblr so they can’t see my plans and that’s why I’m here.

[plainclothes2025]

bork is on sale

[theamiableanachronism]

[ordinarytalk]

Recovering from autistic burnout as a high-masking adult:

To recover, you literally need to manually learn skills that most people learn as a toddler

You need to learn what makes your body uncomfortable, and what to do to fix it

If you are high-masking, that usually means that you have learned to ignore every distress signal your body sends unless it is a distress signal that a neurotypical person would recognize. People have likely been unintentionally gaslighting you about your lived experience your entire life

If you feel bad or panicked for no reason, stop and try to pay attention to your body. Are you tense? You are likely feeling physical pain somewhere. If you've been gaslit about your pain your entire life, you might not be able to identify it.

Go through a sensory checklist.

SIGHT: Try closing and covering your eyes. If this gives you relief, the lights are probably too bright. You may also need differently-colored lights

SOUND: Cover your ears. Does this give you relief? If so, you may need earplugs or noise canceling headphones. You may also benefit from a neutral or pleasant background noise, like soft music or brown noise.

TOUCH: Are your clothes uncomfortable? Your chair? Your body? Do you feel greasy, like you need a shower? Do you need softer, sensory-friendly clothing?

TASTE: Do you need to brush your teeth or tongue? Would chewing on something help?

SMELL: Is there a strong or unpleasant smell in the room? Do you need to clean or empty a trash can? Would an air purifier help? Would a pleasant smell like a candle help?

INTEROCEPTION: Are you hungry? Thirsty? Tired? How is your posture? Are any of your muscles tight or sore? Scan your body slowly from head to feet, tensing and loosening each group of muscles. Going for a walk or doing a series of quick stretches may help a lot.

Learning how to do this stuff is not intuitive, if you've had an entire lifetime of gaslighting telling you that everything hurting you isn't a big deal and you're being dramatic over nothing.

This takes time, it takes work, it's not intuitive, and it's hard. Most people forget how hard it is, because they learned this as toddlers.

If you want to recover, you need to relearn your whole body. And get over your idea of "normal" and just wear the damn sunglasses and put on the headphones. If people stare, fuck em. You're disabled and they can deal with that.

[boiga]

Iguazu Falls, Argentina

by Pablo Begni