Things That I Like

It’s always hyperfixation season here, babe. E; any pronouns; 24.

[thetangledsheet]

Politically, Ingrid is an excellent match for Julien not only because of her position in Helvar and her vast fortunes or even her sorcerous might. It is also because she has a spine of fucking steel to stubbornly defy the likes of her father, flee his command, betray his motives, and agree to continue doing so for the sake of finding an out from a Tachonis marraige and her own attraction to Julien, and thus might be one of the few individuals in Araman who can weather having Maya Davinos as a mother in law.

[kerosene-in-a-blender]

Is your Dungeons and Dragons character too happy? Are they too settled into their life and thusly require some kind of personal tragedy to motivate them to leave it and take up a life of adventuring? Try Primus Tachonis!

Primus Tachonis is an all-purpose personal tragedy creator sure to spur your character to adventure specifically so they can get his ass. Whether you need an old money asshole muscling in on an institution beloved to your PC or an evil sorcerer to slaughter their entire family Primus Tachonis has the magic and the social station to create whatever tragedy is required to serve your backstory.

Primus Tachonis is so versatile as a backstory tool he has professional D&D players raving:

Primus Tachonis killed my character's best friend and now she has to figure out who she is without him! -Laura Bailey I wrote a light backstory because I was still feeling out the setting and my dungeon master used Primus Tachonis to turn my brother into a statue! -Travis Willingham Primus Tachonis is trying to take over my character's magic school and endangering her students, and she will not have that! -Marisha Rey I had intended my character to have a tense but ultimately repairable relationship with his father, but then my DM used Primus Tachonis to rip his skull from his head. Now my character is on a quest to kill every member of Primus' noble house! -Matthew Mercer My character was a happy and established local playwright until Primus Tachonis had his little brother executed. Now he's taken up the sword again in his brother's stead! -Liam O'Brian I needed someone to murder my character's wife and daughter and my dungeon master suggested Primus Tachonis, and I couldn't be happier with the result! -Robbie Daymond Even works on members of his own family! -Alexander Ward

So don't miss out on the one-man solution to forcing your character to feel the call to adventure, try Primus Tachonis today!

[dol-makjarcoffeehouse]

I just want to make a quick note about this before people get too silly about the situation. It's very important to remember that Robbie is Native American, and is putting a lot of work into making sure that Kattigan has indigenous cultural touchstones as part of his characterization. And that is the appropriate lens through which we should view his missing and murdered wife and daughter, I think.

I would be reluctant to use fridging in this exact context, because this isn't some imaginary scenario to generate manpain for a white hero, this is a much more common experience of Native American and First Nation people, having their wives and daughters and sisters (in particular, but not exclusively) go missing. And never getting answers, never learning what happened, and not being believed that there's a problem in the first place.

This is like how being rescued from a tower by a prince is not particularly empowering or affirming to cis physically able straight thin perisex white women and girls, but can be for basically anybody else. Particularly black girls and women, who do not get a lot of cultural messages that treat them as people who are so valuable and precious, who may not have the strength to save themselves, or may wish that they didn't fucking have to save themselves (and everyone else) all the time.

White men have this story so often happen that we have a trope name specific to one specific and particularly egregious version of this, but you don't often see men who look like Robbie dealing with this type of story in fictional settings, even though it happens for men like Robbie in real life with horrifying frequency.

Sometimes stories that are old can be new again in different hands, from different point of views, so just... mind how you step here.

[animentality]

[stephank]

Thaisha has an awkward question for Sir Julien...

[quiddie]

I’m absolutely DYING. THIS IS PERFECTION. 🥹

[kaijuno]

[evilwizard]

[skeletonsweatpants]

I’m an oldest sibling, of course giving advice is my favorite drug.

[wheeloffortune-design]

you know you're good at your job when every single person tells you "thank god you're back"

[sharkangelic]

Boss makes a dollar You make a dime You read unsanitary pirate slash On company time

[animate-mush]

Look if you read fanfic on the clock and everyone is still relieved that you're back you must just be that got-dang good at your job

[lasrina]

Fam, some jobs are like being a firefighter. 90% of the time you're not doing anything that important, but by golly, when they need you, they need you.

Some jobs, you can fuck around for six hours a day, but you know what you're doing so well that the work you do in two hours would take somebody else ten.

Some jobs, you spend those two hours preventing other people from making mistakes that would take 100 hours to fix if you weren't there to steer them right.

So don't buy into the idea that if you're not working 480 minutes a day, you're not doing enough to get paid a day's wages. That's the capitalism talking.

You're a better employee when you keep your morale up, and sometimes you do that by reading fanfiction on the clock in between putting out your little fires.

[sharkcougarhawksnakescorpion]

My grandad worked nights for the railroad, and he liked to say that he got paid for what knew, not what he did. There would be nights without a single train, but someone had to be there to make sure that any train that came by was on time and on the right track. It could be so slow the guys set up a projector and watched x-rated films on the clock. OP, I think your okay.

[wheeloffortune-design]

Yeah I guess.

I may read fic in the clock but I'm the one who knows where the files are.

[ximenasbrokencd]

we as a society need more good cheesy stupid sapphic romcoms

[jennegatron]

the splash of cold water by brennan to remind you that this is not what the camarilla would want their vampires to do. that they're not getting a good grade in purpee because they aren't supposed to care about what happens to the people. it's so good.

and THEN you get dangling offers to madelaine, to lavonte to be selfish the way they have been for so many long years, to turn their backs on these people they've been forced to be near. what does a 6 month old friendship mean to a 400 year old vampire? nothing when it means getting to leave purpee! they don't even have a prada store in purpee!

sowing some little seeds of conflict that even if everyone makes the nice choice, is still interesting. what a wonderful season. what a delightful ride this season is so far

[chipthekeeper]

Life Transference™

[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

[foreos]

zac oyama having a good idea but having to deliver it through zaeth is so fucking funny

[mysweetoddbird]

sorry but once you notice how often ppl use a southern accent as shorthand for being unintelligent you can never unsee it. classism is baked so deeply and why are you acting like anyone who talks the way my grandfather talks is stupid.

[tiktoks-i-enjoyed]

How your (fast fashion) clothes are really cut

[mysharona1987]

[redstonedust]

idk how to explain it but im never truly comfortable with the way people insinuate that all older folks are inherently bigoted. it always feels like it kind of hand-waves away personal responsibility like ohhhh grandpa cant help homophobic, hes old. well ive met plenty of older folks who are normal about gay people. i think grandpa could be better. i think we should hold grandpa to higher standards.