I love one (1) half elf alchemist

Quinn, they/them. I do RQG and shenanigans. And I write sometimes. [Icon ID: A photo of a palomino horse and rider standing in the middle of a grassy field. The rider is a thin white person, and is almost completely covered by a progress pride flag wrapped around their shoulders and draped down the side. They're looking at the camera and smiling. End ID] [Header ID: a photo of two horses running towards the camera in a field. The horse on the left is a palomino and is looking directly at the camera. The horse on the right is a chestnut and is looking at the palomino. End ID]

[quinnoid]

Please let me know if I miss a spoiler tag! I sometimes get excited and miss them

[justalurkr]

Illinois made history as the first state to outlaw book bans once and for all. Marginalizing people, ideas, or facts has no place in our state — and they have no place in a democracy. This National Library Week, we continue our commitment to free thought and free speech.

In light of the First Amendment, coming to this point is surreal.

[faundlie]

This news is real but from 2023!

Current as of April 2026 is Illinois House Bill 5236, the Digital Library Protection Act. It would stop retailers from charging increased fees to libraries, and stops publishers from limiting the number of times an eBook or audiobook can be borrowed.

[phantomrose96]

Across tumblr no one owns a truck for clout and that’s quite a good thing.

[phantomrose96]

To start 30% of tumblr users don’t own their own car, which already eliminates quite a lot of potential truck havingness you see.

Then among the car havers, the most common kind is a 20 year old sedan that was purchased for $2,400 and will be driven until the rims weather into sediment and become a new kind of sedan sedimentary rock called a sedanimentary rock. The second most common kind of car is a Subaru purchased by two lesbians who are no longer in a relationship but remain good enough friends still to be effective car co-parents.

Now this does leave an amount of truck havers. About 0.5-1% according to science. But importantly when you ask them about the truck the answer is “yeah my job is to pull stuck bulls out of the mud on the farm” and then they pull away and you get to see all the muddy bulls in the back of their truck, which is a real treat.

[starlight-shadowbanned]

your vehicle?

i do not own my own vehicle

i own a cheap sedan which i will drive until it disintegrates

i own a subaru

i own a work truck

i own a truck that is not for work

im bald/vanilla extract

Voting ended onApr 21

[makesomenoise]

Has Brennan seen these Make Some Noise prompts? You can't know what you haven't seen until you see it!

➡️ Go to Dropout.tv to watch new Make Some Noise now:

Ally, Brennan, and Talia Try to Get Through Lunch - Season 4 - Dropout

Ally, Brennan, and Talia debate the nature of consciousness and out praise each other. Content Warning: Comedic Bit Referencing Pet Death

[cartoonsbyandie]

I have no explanation for this other than it's what pops into my head whenever I hear this on the radio

[bisexualshakespeare]

[ID: a drawing of beets (the vegetable) with smiling faces. One plays the piano, another plays the guitar, and another one sings. Caption: Gimme the beet boys and free my soil. /end ID]

[paladinplays]

I figured I would make this just in case anyone else discovered this and hates it as much as I do.

I got a new laptop over the holidays and was horrified to discover that they replaced my right ctrl key with a copilot button. Most people probably wouldn't be super affected by this, but unfortunately, I work with code and I use that button kind of a lot

So! Today I want slogging through the microsoft support forum about this exact issue. It took quite a bit of digging and some trial and error, but I have figured it out! Below the cut is a guide to getting your right ctrl key back if you really want it

The bad news is that there are 2 relatively minor sacrifices that come with this solution. You'll se what I mean as I get further into the instructions

Step 1 is to get the microsoft powertoys app from the app store- it's free and is probably safer than getting some sketchy software from the dregs of the internet.

Step 2 is to got to "keyboard manager" (don't forget to enable it) and then then to "remap a key"

Step 3 Select the copilot button either with the select button and tapping the key or using the dropdown and selecting F23 (same key). You will go to the other side of the screen where it says "send" and use the dropdown menu. Scroll all the way to the top and select disable

This is the only solutions for this part of it because while the key does technically work as a ctrl key, you can't use it alongside any other keys as I learned during this process

Step 4 Add another key remap. This is the first sacrifice you'll have to make, but at least with my computer usage, I don't really use this key much. You'll select the RIGHT alt key and remap it to be the new right ctrl. You'll also need to use the dropdown for this. Scroll up for a little bit and you'll find the entry

Step 5 This is technically more of a note than a step, but it's the other sacrifice that comes with this process. In order to actually be able to use the key with its new function, you have to keep the powertoys app running. This drawback is mentioned on the powertoys info page thing so at least there's that I guess

From there you are free to go forth with your newly recovered right ctrl key! And the only sacrifices were the right alt key and a little bit of your ram. Tbh I just got really tired of having to use both of my hands for a command I used to be able to do with one which is what started all of this. You can also use most of these instructions to just straight up disable your copilot key if you want.

[armengoldira]

Guy freezes his hair and it stands tall.

[coughloop]

Guy freezes his hair and it stands tall.

[talesfromtreatment]

A quick and dirty on why retractable leashes are the devil:

1- Your dog is 15 feet away... do you know what it just ate? Did you see the squirrel it killed before it did? How, exactly, do you plan to keep the dog out of the road?

2- If the dog gets a good running start it can pull the leash out of your hand. And if you suddenly hit the stop toggle you can harm your dog.

3- Those leashes are very sharp at speed. They can lacerate both you or your pet.

4- Congratulations, your dog just created a Gordian Knot around you, that tree, and an errant child.

5- That dog down the street is reactive to other dogs based on proximity. Your dog is now 25 feet closer to that dog.

6- Your dog just took a dump 20 feet out in a field of tall grass. Have fun playing hunt the poop.

[talesfromtreatment]

Was reminded of this post yesterday when I went to go get one of our tech appointments that was a very nervous 40 pound mixed breed and the owner refused to lock the retractable leash. This dog was darting all through our lobby trying to run away so I had to take the leash from her and slowly reel the dog in. Got him into a nice heel position with a locked normal leash length and he then walked with me without issue. Did what we needed to do, hand the dog back to the owner and... she immediately releases the lock and now the dog is darting back and forth along the entire hallway and attempting to go out the exit door when someone opened it.

I hate retractable leashes so goddamned much.

[slonechnik]

??? just pay attention to your dogs?? other dogs dont appear out of thin air you can see them from a distance and catch up/call them back in time, dont let them go too far with the extension and ur good for most of the issues u mentioned

like sorry if its giving you trouble but thats what we call a skill issue

[talesfromtreatment]

In your world, corners and bushes don't exist? And retractable leashes never get stuck while extended or have the lock break? and you can simultaneously have your eyes entirely and only on your dog AND be looking around for hazards in the distance?

Damn. Wish I lived in such a magical place.

[jackthevulture]

Fun fact you can turn your studies into unicorns and nobody can stop you. Ref from pexels. Ink, gouache, watercolor, white gel pen.

[yesornopolls]

.do you have any scars on your hands/fingers?

Do you have any scars on your hands/fingers?

Yes

No

Voting ended onJan 20, 2025

[glitchlight]

A migrating phoenix has stopped for a decadent sippy of water from a stagnant puddle in a Walmart parking lot and has ignited the years of accumulated fuel leaks into the surrounding pavement. It's so happy.

[seat-safety-switch]

Every car has at least one job that's a miserable grind. It's just the nature of the beast. They're impossibly complex machines made up of several subsystems that have to get jammed into pretty close to the same physical space. Eventually, some engineer is going to compromise on "can you actually reach this" in order to actually get the thing out the door.

Similarly, every mechanic can name a job in which they lost all hope for the future. German cars, especially, are quite bad for this. They have even more complexity than a normal car, which means they had to find even more silly places to stuff that complexity. Timing chains behind the engine? That's just the tip of the iceberg, and that's part of why your local Audi mechanic charges enough to buy a new car and drinks constantly at work. They had to put that shit somewhere, and it turns out that "in your wallet" worked as good as any other answer.

That's why the junkyard is so freeing. At the junkyard, you can just go get the part you want, even if it means breaking a lot of other parts in the process. The car's already going to get crushed, so who cares if it enters oblivion with all of its major organs cleanly removed?

On your actual car, you really don't want to, say, smash the power steering bottle into a million pieces with a hammer just to get at the pump tensioner, since you'll need it later. At the yard, the only thing keeping you from doing this is your innate decency: will the next person need this part? If so, maybe just Sawzall right through the power steering hose and throw the rest of it in the trunk. They should give you the key to the city, hero.

In fact, with a morbid enough mentality, you can see all the mistakes of the past. One quick entry ticket buys you a morgue's full of auto bodies to dismantle and see just how hard a prospective shitbox is to work on. If it seems easy, you can go get a running example to serve as your next car. It's hard to understand why everyone doesn't do this. Why visit the used car dealership, take test drives, when you could simply gaze into what the car looks like after you've rammed it into a bus while flaming out on meth?

[horseimagebarn]

horse peering at the camera from the top right corner of the screen its neck is bent at an odd angle coming down almost vertically so that it might stick its head through the metal bars of the pen fence the expression the horse bears is one of flattened ears and tightened lips around a slightly open mouth it seems as if someone rather low to the ground said or did something that caught this horses incredulous attention or perhaps it is just saying hello to an animal shorter than it like perhaps a goat or a dog

[blackpyrefly]

i saw a dumb tweet. here's a poll for people who read a lot of books as kids. there's no moral judgment attached to this poll at all; i do not care if it was your favourite book, that's completely fine, you don't have to lie just because you hate jkr now. answer honestly to the best of your recollection.

how good did you think harry potter was as a kid?

it was my favourite book/series

it was in my top 3 favourite books/series

it wasn't one of my favourites but i liked it well enough

i didn't like harry potter as a kid

Voting ended onAug 19, 2024

[saturnvs]

babies!

[3amsnow-deactivated20241128]

ID: digital art of 2 foals. there first is dark brown with a small white splash on its forehead; it is standing and scratching its face with a back hoof. the second is white with brown splashes and a white blaze, galloping. end ID

[horsesarecreatures]

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[quinnoid]

[image ID: a Facebook post from Milestone Equestrian with two photos showing different angles of a brown horse's back. The text reads "This is the top line of the Olympic Dressage Gold Medalist". The horse, Dalera, has poorly defined musculature supporting her spine which makes her look like her back is sinking and giving her a bony, underfed look. End ID]

[danskjavlarna]

Source details and larger version.

My favorite (and weirdest) equine images are collected in my horse gallery.

[quinnoid]

[ID: A traditional realistic painting of Ginger, a chestnut horse from Anna Sewell's Black Beauty, from the chest up facing the left. She has a thick, muscled neck, a thin white blaze down her nose, and a wispy red mane. She's tacked with a simple leather bridle and appears to have her neck arched to avoid pressure from the bit in her mouth. End ID]