reject wizardry, embrace clericdom

26, he/him. Currently blogging about: Worlds Beyond Number, Critical Role, Dimension 20, with a handful of other projects thrown in there.

[taxi-boi]

every time someone treats Feeling Love™ as Political Praxis i want to beam this whole Moses Sumney quote into their head

[fairycosmos]

sources are saying ohhhhhhhhh brother

[sotrias-labyrinth-deactivated20]

I feel like when I say ‘relatable’ what I really mean is ‘resonant.’ I don’t want characters who I feel are like me, I want characters who have emotions so strong I can feel them through the page.

[secretlyatargaryen]

I think this is important because a lot of us forget the power of stories to make us feel things about characters who are not like us, who have experienced things that we never will. The purpose of listening to someone else's story should not necessarily be identification, but understanding.

[angelicguy]

i bet girls hated it in 1902 cuz you would constantly go on dates w guys who are working on an invention to present at the world fair

[evilwizard]

he breasted the boulder boobily up the hill…

[evilwizard]

one must imagine sisyphus big naturals

[trying-trying2lyk]

i love writing out numbers and then putting them in parentheses like "one (1)" even when i dont need to i think its funny

[justatiredlittlesnail]

[chestnuthorse]

[snarkspawn]

I spent way too much time on this ✌

[revvethasmythh]

[rexuality]

y’all my friend decided to investigate what was blocking their drain system and you are not prepared for the answer

[rexuality]

[citisstreets]

i never draw for posts but something about this overtook me so sorry op

[halandilfang]

CRITICAL ROLE MEME ☆ [4/8] members of the Mighty Nein ⇨ Fjord

Why didn’t we just go talk? I feel like we’ve abandoned the use of—here’s my thing, right? Magic’s new to me, this sword is new to me. I didn’t have most of this all my life. All I had was my words to get out of situations, to try and heal conflict, to try and outsmart somebody. Now, all of a sudden, I have this power and I feel like it’s a shortcut and that I’ve been cheating myself. I don’t feel like I’ve put forth the same effort to resolve something because I can just will something into happening. That doesn’t seem right to me.

[crippled-peeper]

people who have never grown food for sustenance or to supplement their diet have such an extreme view of it. I guess that’s what happens when generations of people are living lives completely divorced from cultivation, harvesting, processing, slaughtering. in theory they believe it’s the easiest thing ever - that it should come naturally to every human ever born, simply because you’re a human. then you ask them if they would ever kill a chicken hypothetically, and they act like you shot their pet in front of them.

[moniquill]

The first time I saw a deer up close was in my grandfather’s back yard; I was about four years old. I don’t remember the reason that my mom dropped me off at my grandfather’s house for an afternoon, but I know that it was unplanned - because he was in the middle of processing a deer. It had been field dressed, organs already removed, and was hanging by its ankle tendons from the t-shaped steel pole at one end of the backyard clothesline. I was startled, worried, concerned that the animal was hurt. There was blood! There was flesh!

My grandfather responded by calmly explaining what he was doing, step by step. Explaining why he was skinning the deer, and quartering it, taking it from this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-tailed_deer to this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venison

By the time he was cooking tenderloin medallions and plating them up to me with grape jelly (don’t knock grape jelly on meat until you’ve tried it!) and instant mashed potatoes, I wasn’t startled or concerned anymore. I had a deeper understanding of the way the world worked, of my role as a consumer, a predator. Of the responsibilities that entailed. I couldn’t have explained it then, of course, with my 4-year-old mind and vocabulary - but Philosophy had been set into motion. This is a core memory for me. 

I did not have nightmares about the butchered deer. 

More people should be introduced, as little children, to their place in the ecosystem and the responsibilities that entails.

[what-even-is-thiss]

I’ve never personally butchered anything but my family used to grow some of our own vegetables when I was a kid. Corn, squash, tomatoes, peppers, herbs, etc. we even tried grinding our own flour for a little bit but that didn’t last long because if you’ve ever ground flour by hand you understand.

People have such a romantic view of farming and growing food but a lot of my summers as a kid was spent trying to come up with ways to stop birds from eating our vegetables, planting other plants and releasing insects to keep other insects away, and pulling weeds.

Food doesn’t just sit there all pretty growing in the sun. Everything wants to steal it away from you. Agriculture even on a small scale is a never ending battle against insects, other plants stealing water and sunlight, birds, small mammals. You are not the only one who wants the fruits of your labor.

It’s important to remember that. Every tomato you eat is one that survived the never ending assault of insects and birds.

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[kittykittyredcat]

[swordscleric]

I'm just after watching a video on bg3's "box" (the artifact that Shadowheart has) and a few thoughts have crossed my mind:

"A good Dungeon Master never says no" WRONG a good DM says no frequently because "no, but" is as necessary a response in improv as "yes, and"

This idea that DMs should always agree to what PCs want is also ridiculous as an expectation because bowing to someone's every whim is frankly inexcusable and reveals more about the person making the argument's mindset regarding service provision

Why on earth did Larian decide to allow as much choice as they did with the one game mechanic that in the logic of the story results in an instant game over and not just cut down on their own workload by just game overing everyone who didn't have it.

[ozempicofficial]

[eternally-dentheaded]

[shieldfoss]

Thagomizer or not, it'd probably still be about as peaceful as other large herbivores in the class - the cape buffalo, or the joyful hippopotamus.

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[midnightssea]

it’s amazing how women are able to navigate crowded rooms without ever touching a palm to a man’s lower back