Mostly just reblogs, really

Jackdaw, agender, they/he, aro-ace, writer, artist, singer, cosplayer Attention new followers: As I have learned that sometimes Tumblr will force people to follow blogs before being allowed to edit your own, I will grant new followers with empty blogs a one week grace period to make themselves known to me as a human, otherwise you will be assumed a bot and subsequently blocked!

[spawnofdeath]

My writing in one place

My Empires SMP S1 Swap AU:

Two Sons of Rivendell Masterpost

My Vampires SMP writing:

"Can I take just a bit?"

Tell me of the Woes are yet to come

My AO3

[hateusandseeifwemind]

[pinene]

Can anyone explain wtf is going on here especially a Korean speaker

[tadeadshihamurder]

someone on reddit explained 😭

[no-one-offical]

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[desmolbean404]

That is one of the most astronomical fuck up translations I have ever seen.

[byjove]

I think about The Man of the Hole so often. 27 years alone. 27 years with no one to speak to but strangers to wave to. Survived a genocide, a massacre that killed everyone he had ever known and later, an assassination attempt. He still tried to warn researches about the traps he built. He was only about 60 when he died in 2022. The people who tormented him in life later desecrated his grave.

[byjove]

I do think it is important to share the stories of the Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island and Ishi and the countless other indigenous people who experienced the profound trauma of being the last survivor but it is important to remember that the last Aboriginal families in Australia to be contacted by Europeans were resettled in the 1980s and the Indian government has proposed a plan that will mean total genocide for the Shompen people. The total eradication of indigenous peoples, their cultures, their languages, their ways of life, is not something which occurred in a distant ugly past but an ongoing process.

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

Visiting family for the weekend, including my seven year old niece, who is obviously the most special and incredible child on the planet

Anyway, she really, really loves it when I tell her stories. She loves stories anyway, and at first this manifested as "stories about Tad-Cu Bryn", aka my father (her grandfather) who died before she was born. This has been a lovely way to keep his memory alive, and she adores every story - she has her favourites, which she will request.

Then it became apparent that she specifically loves me telling her stories. She'll happily ask others for them too, but from me she just wants any anecdote at all; which of course is wonderful and demonstrates that she is a child of impeccable taste and wisdom and brilliance, but also she has ADHD and the energy reserves of a seven year old and so this gets Tiring very quickly

Yesterday, in the car on the way back from the wildlife centre, she asked for one of my longer stories, and I was like hey, how about we try something different?

And she was like, no, tell me a story about Tad-Cu Bryn

And I was like, this will be a brand new story and you get to play it and help me tell it

And she was like, explain

So I gave her three characters to choose from. The first was a warrior with a sword she could name, who was nonetheless dyspraxic. The second was a gymnastic elf who could commune with trees but was afraid of heights. The third was a dyslexic witch whose spells sometimes go wrong when she spells the words wrong.

She picked the witch. I pulled up an online d20 on my phone. I went to start, and she insisted my mother had to play as the elf.

So I told them that the new queen of the kingdom had called for them, because their palace treasury had been robbed - specifically, a single enchanted coin that brings luck and wealth to a ruler's reign had been stolen. And tales of enchanted coins were suddenly emanating from across the land, so each one needed investigating until the right coin was found.

It turns out kids who like stories will absolutely lap this shit up. She was enthralled. It was the simplest story - they had to get into a bank, revive some unconscious gnomes, then enter the vault, find the coin that had been deposited into it, then get back to the queen. Enough to fill a half hour car ride, basically, but she managed to fill it with all the wacky hijinks you get from a ttrpg, particularly when she tried to smash a door down with a hammer but rolled a 1.

We finished with the queen saying it wasn't the right coin, and then my niece demanded we go again, this time with her playing as a sapient reticulated python. That time we made it all the way to the final boss fight, which was a sorcerer who created a big coin monster out of loads of coins; I asked my niece what she wanted to do, and she described graphically how she wanted to constrict and eat the sorcerer and immediately rolled a 19. So, sure! Okay. The sorcerer is now very dead. The coin monster, though, was still there, and as my niece tried to say she would do the same thing, I was like, no, you're a snake and you just ate. You're now immobile.

At this point, my sister advised her to regurgitate the sorcerer.

Great! said my niece. I'm going to do it at the coin monster.

And rolled a 20.

So she projectile vomited a dead sorcerer into the coin monster, and won the day.

Anyway, today she immediately demanded we play "the game with the story where we choose", and my brother in law is now asking me how he can do this with her ("Are you making it all up as you go along??"). But yeah, turns out, this is a fantastic way to entertain a seven year old. Vague ongoing quest, then three steps: get into (place), resolve (minor puzzle), boss fight to finish. Boom. Easy.

So far I've done a bank, a tavern, and an art gallery (it featured an exhibit that was just a room full of slippery banana skins). I'm going to do a pirate ship next

[junesugars]

I don't know if someone has already mentioned it but I love how Asgore silhouette changes from being yellow (justice) to red (determination).

Yes, at first he was trying to do the good thing, find the truth and do justice, but that was lost over time and the only thing left was the thought of "They need to know I was right". Sometimes being determined to do something is not a good thing, sometimes it will make you lose yourself and lose sight of the reason you were doing it in the first place. Determination can also be obsession.

[marzlucek]

my designs for the 7 flowers !!

[galacticsabc]

Go! Rocky, Go!

[hometoursandotherstuff]

1990 house in Waitsfield, VT was designed and built by Yestermorrow founder John Connell. It's supposed to be "creative, whimsical, but also highly efficient and exciting." 2bds, 2ba, 1,594sqft, $495k.

The first thing you encounter is the very different front door. There's a little mud area in the corner.

The living room is straight ahead, or you can take the stairs.

The stairs lead up to the kitchen and a sitting area.

The kitchen is up a few stairs and there's another staircase to the bedrooms.

This kitchen is exactly like another home I posted in Vermont. It has to be by the same architect. Same striped wood counter with the same "V" shape jutting out.

In fact, the whole layout of this floor is the same.

I guess you'd call this a family room.

The other house didn't have this counter, it was much a smaller home. The 3 stairs on the side are for Bd. #1.

Fancy. Inlaid on the stairs.

The half bath must be tucked in by the stairs somewhere.

And, then you go back down to the bedroom. Those stairs are terrible.

Why is there a slanted floor and an open clothes rack?

The room has sliders to the terrace that we saw outside.

This is unique.

Very unique.

Bath #2.

The other stairs come up to the 2nd bedroom. What is that hump in the floor? They aren't using the 2nd bd., but they have an office area set up in the corner.

The bedroom is basically empty. On the left, does that just drop down to the floor below?

This bar is weird.

There're little sculptural features on the cement columns.

Believe it or not, that's the Mad River running alongside the 1.77 acre property.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/149-Folsom-Brook-Rd-Waitsfield-VT-05673/463948972_zpid/?

[ralfmaximus]

Another entire house that will kill my drunk ass

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[ghostdaartist]

Bro videos are always 🔥 💯.. instant collaborations

[whatacartouchebag]

[mschelle]

Well hot damn if it wasn't enough for this loser to throw a public tantrum now he's going out of his way to follow predestrogen on other platforms and start harassing her there!!! You can't hide these Matt I got the screenshots lol!!!!!!

HE'S BLATANTLY LYING OUT OF HIS ASS!! SPREAD IT AROUND!! And also since she seems to be from Ireland even though I don't even know shit about eu laws from what little I do know this is a big violation of GDPR and should be reported as such!! https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/reform/rights-citizens/redress/what-should-i-do-if-i-think-my-personal-data-protection-rights-havent-been-respected_en

[creatureofthecornfield]

@photomatt should kill himself.

[fleshengine]

I genuinely hope this circulates forever.

[succubusboyfriend]

practicing self care less out of self love and more for the sheer logical reasoning of it’d be kinda stupid of me to expect myself to be able to function without proper maintenance

[succubusboyfriend]

“oh i don’t deserve rest and relaxation, i haven’t done enough, i haven’t earned it” and my car’s breaks don’t deserve break fluid because they aren’t breaking well enough to earn it. that’s what you sound like!!!!!

[homunculus-argument]

The only thing I remember of the dream I had last night was reading a book that I found at someone's place, just randomly opening it from the middle and starting to read from the middle of the scene.

It was historical fiction, roughly central Europe, I suppose somewhere around the 1300s-1600s, just depicting a scene of the protagonist, who was some sort of a knight, nobleman or such, sitting outside a tent at a campsite watching this kid, a boy of seven or eight years old, do chores in front of the tent fixing his stuff. A squire or servant of some other sort, specifically here just to do work for the protagonist.

And in the scene it's cold, just at the end of autumn when there's no snow yet but it feels like there ought to be, frost on tips of blades of dead grass that makes everything look like silver and sanded glass, with peoples' and horses breath fogging up into visible clouds. And he watches this kid work with no proper coat or anything, hands red and stiff from the cold, and he feels bad for this kid.

So he goes "boy, it's cold as shit in here. Get over here and keep me warm." And the kid puts down whatever he was working on and does as he's told, comes to sit on his master's lap and gets wrapped into his cloak. And the kid is cold as shit and his clothes are damp around the edges and this is extremely uncomfortable for the protagonist here in particular, but he could at least let the kid warm up on himself, while also maintaining the dignified facade of "I don't give a shit about you and you are here purely for my convenience".

So I was reading that and thinking "damn I gotta remember the name of this book and find it later" and then waking up, I remember that not only do I not remember the name of the book or the author, I know for certain that it doesn't exist at all.

>:C

[thelightcomingthroughthewindow]

Podfic is the ultimate portmanteau btw

[maybeasunflower]

Missed that we have net+work -> network, and inter+network -> internetwork -> internet.

[do-you-have-a-flag]

2001: a space odyssey found at the scene of the crime (product naming)

[dogpuppy]

[talontarget]

jkr is literally posting upskirt photos to her social media. when will it finally get through to harry potter fans that their support makes her feel confident and correct enough to do things like this

[dodykeahedron]

If the holocaust denialism SOMEHOW wasn't enough for you to shut up about your favourite kids book as an adult; JK Rowling just committed a sex crime IRL against a transgender woman.

When do we start to care.

[bigmommycommie]

oh noooo what do you mean theres weird stuff on the Weird Stuff Website, made specifically to hold the weird stuff that can't be posted anywhere else????

[writingdose]

I am once again begging people to realize that AI checker doesn’t work. it’s never worked. it’s notoriously known to have flagged human-made works as AI and AI-generated works as human-made. and by feeding it people’s works, you are feeding more works to AI, because apparently the machine itself is AI.

the only thing AI checker does is harm genuine artists and people in general too.