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gloww0rms

this randomly blew up on twitter so i figured i’d post it here bc lord knows everyone on this app is neurodivergent

babushkaat

hometoursandotherstuff

beese-churger

Imagine if sometimes some fucking Ț̷̡͂̀̎͠h̸̜̅͐̄ì̸̩̮̃̃̆n̸̗̰̟͉͐̑͋͆͜g̸̮̻͔̼̬͌ could just crash through the shimmering veil of reality with a trail of fragments from the suffocating void enveloping it, grab whoever's unlucky enough to be closest, and swoop back out like it was nothing. And this was just one of your everyday hazards to worry about. Incredible cosmic horror concept

cipheramnesia

If I was a wasp, I'd sting you. If I was a venomous snake, I'd bite you. If I was a lion, I'd maul you. If I was a swamp, I'd poison you. If I was a mountain, I'd fall and crush you. If I was the ocean, I'd drown you. If I was a cat, I'd never let you touch me. If I was a dog, I'd run away. If I was a horse, I'd never let you break me. If I was a farm, I wouldn't grow for you. If I was a fire, I'd burn out without warming you. If I was a home, I would fall apart around you.

If I was harmless and small, and easy to hold, you would love me. If I was a worm you could put me in the soft earth and I would be helpless in your care. Of course you could love me, but could you love me if I stung you, bit you, pulled against you, hid and didn't understand you but wasn't harmless or helpless at all?

Could you love something for what it is, when that means you can't touch it or show kindness, maybe even never be near it, and it might never, ever love you back? Is it okay to exist and not belong to anyone, to not be useful to anyone, to be dangerous or poisonous or a failure but a part of the world all the same?

gallusrostromegalus

I know this is a metaphor, but if you take it kind of literally, there is an answer to this.

We build wildlife preserves. Often explicitly for the protection of animals and ecosystems that can and have killed humans.

Whenever a whale gets stranded on a beach, CROWDS show up ad risk getting bludgeoned to death trying to get it back into the water.

Every Zoo has a reptile house full of venomous snakes and a team of humans dedicated to giving them the best quality of life possible.

There are volunteer beekeepers who will travel for miles and miles and hours and hours to relocate an entire hive.

There are people who rehabilitate dangerous dogs and horses

There are people who restore structurally unsound houses

There are people who study the way that fire burns so it can rejoin the ecosystem and not be smothered on sight.

Every day, millions of people get up and devote themselves to things that can and will kill them by their nature. Things they can't touch or show kindness to. Things they can't go near. Things that are wholly incapable of loving them back.

And they do it because they love them.

Everything dangerous, everything poisonous, everything 'useless'- absolutely everything has someone, often many thousands of people, who loves them exactly as they are, without expectation that their affection will be returned.

It is alright for anything, even you, to not belong to anyone, to not be useful, to be frightening and dangerous and not adhere to any standard of success. It's all alright. You are loved. You are loved. You are loved.

real-language-facts

lifetime ban from the boba shop for ordering a kiki tea

drethelin

It was worth it though

lonestarflight

Apollo 17 vs Artemis II

mementochao

Despite everything, it's still you.

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That's really cool actually

tanoraqui

#excuse me but are you telling me that the Apollo pic is made with the help of the SUN and the Artemis one with the help of the MOON??? #that's actually so poetic i want to cry

@gorandomshesaid wait i need to sit with this one. wait.

beowulfstits-archive-deactivate

I want to go to this exact point and run around it saying “I’m in Sweden!” I’m in Finland!” “I’m in Norway!” until I get tired

i aspire to great things in life

therothwoman

According to Google Maps, that point is in the middle of a small lake.

leda74

So we’ll do it in January when it’s frozen.

nightmigrations

actually that’s why they’ve helpfully dropped a big-ass cement block with a bridge surrounding it in the middle of the lake: for the express purpose of doing what OP aspires to do

slaughtermetals

there’s so much beauty in the world.

illbeanisland

There’s also a point like this which connects Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands!

They even made a circle there which tells you in which country you are

consultwithmouse

And the tripoint of Slovakia-Austria-Hungary 👋😊

mist-the-wannabe-linguist

the tripoint of czechia, slovakia and poland is just A Rock In A Ditch lmao

enddaysengine

Glorious

whatamidoinghere56

Demon: The Descent's exploration of Clarke's Third Law in regards to the God Machine and its angels is really fascinating to me.

Some context. Demon: The Descent is the ninth gameline in Chronicles of Darkness (formerly the New World of Darkness), and it focuses on playing as fallen angels known as the Unchained. Unlike with most angels vs demons stories (and most stories in CoD), DTD uses more science-fiction tropes than fantasy.

The God-Machine is a giant machine that is so advanced that it can leverage all of the natural and occult laws of CoD to perform miracles on par with genuine magic. Angels, including the Unchained, are biomechanical monstrosities designed to do exactly that.

And the story runs with this with all of the Unchained's abilities. Their basic powers, Embeds and Exploits, aren't spells so much as they are tricks of occult physics programmed into them. Warping probability, silencing opponents, pulling random objects out of their pockets; all of that is explained as being some scientific or occult corner case that the God-Machine discovered and built Infrastructure around to take advantage of them. The core rulebook compares it to a child finding a loose board in a fence and using it for a shortcut. Even the more blatant Exploits (which include things like guns that shoot hellfire and turning animals into smaller biomechanical monstrosities) are explained as the demon brute-forcing an Embed to do what they want. Even with the most blatantly unnatural powers, there's an explanation that fits into the God-Machine's techno-mystical paradigm.

The other aspects of demonic powers are also explained in technobabble form. Why can demons disguise as humans? They have a Cover stitched together from their old job as an angel and bits of human lives they've bargained for. Why are they such good liars? They have perfect control of their unconscious reactions, and all their statements exist in a Schrödinger's cat state where they decide if it reads as true or false. Why do they bargain for souls? The Pact gives them a claim on the person's life that lets them hollow out the contractor and steal their entire existence as a new Cover. The supernatural becomes mechanical.

I wish more stories took this route of genre-bending. It's really fun.

alharinish

Demon: the Descent and Changeling: the Lost are two of my favorite game lines from Chronicles of Darkness. It makes me sad that they're dead, especially Demon since it didn't get enough attention.

enddaysengine

…I don’t know when we’ll get around to Demon, but I know the desire is there in both the community and the freelancers.

Lost though. Well. Keep your eye on the Storyteller’s Vault. Can’t say more than that. But keep a weather eye on the horizon.

(And if anyone seeing this doesn’t know, None More Dark Publishing has already made the Book of Seemings and the Book of Courts for Changeling. Not official, but has included writers who worked on Changeling 2e. Including your’s truly)

behindnightmaresanddreams

splodey-goat

scp-threats-is-back

usernameichoseonawhim

I love how tumblr users play with Jorge I mean jpegs not Jorge who the fuck is Jorge

Spiders jpg

Woah dude

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malicious-screaming-sentinel

evilfuckignskeleton

crabussy

you ask me what the time is and I glance at my wrist but instead of a wristwatch there’s a compass duct taped to my wrist and I immediately turn and walk north never to be seen again

dogpuppy

homunculus-argument

I wish there was a painkiller except for brain fog. Like when your head is full of gunk you could just take a pill with a glass of water and lie down for 15 minutes and your head would be cleared just like that.

mik-mania

im so fucking stubborn

invader-bean

michael what the fuck.

mik-mania

no its one of my fancy pencils :)

the end cap comes off :)

mik-mania

oh lard

mik-mania

my son he is sick he has every disease

mik-mania

we are nearing peak deviancy

mik-mania

happy back-to-school day

mik-mania

im so clever that its sickening

mik-mania

if i breathe wrong i'll lose him

mik-mania

it got too small for the clip. luckily i realized this eraser has the perfect holes

mik-mania

at what point does this stop being a pencil

bathroomcube

now remember, "kink" is to "fetish" as "poisonous" is to "venomous"

*hands you a knife*

you know what to do. we're all counting on you.

superdz555

(link)

cipheramnesia

Leverage episode where they have to bypass security and burn the Gävlebocken

cipheramnesia

This would be part of a completely unrelated job in Sweden where burning the Gävlebocken only ends up being necessary by a hugely convoluted sequence of events, so that the entire episode everyone has to constantly remind Parker they are not here to burn the Gävlebocken, leave the Gävlebocken, do not be distracted by the Gävlebocken. Until we finally are rewarded with the delight on Parker's face as everyone on the team concedes that in fact we now must burn the Gävlebocken.

cipheramnesia

Throughout the episode, it's loosely implied that every other person on the crew EXCEPT Parker has already, for one reason or another, had to burn the goat. Parker is increasingly outraged each time.