#screamingatmyfandom

[solmesia]

Oh no, I'm sorry you're not feeling well! Here's one of my favorite headcanons to help a bit:

I think vampires can purr. After all, bats can, and they're associated with vampires all the time. Can you imagine Astarion getting his hair pet, or being in the middle of a group hug, or in a cuddle, and getting so startled when he starts purring? Gale and Karlach would lose their minds. It's gonna be "Hug a vampire day" every day for the rest of forever! XD

thats adorable oh my god

[oopey-doopey]

Sun/Moon can absolutely lift Monty with ease. He's hanging like a ferret. He's being cradled. He's in total shock because this skinny beanpole???? Is just skipping around with him in their arms?????

Now the relationship turns into who can surprise pick up who the fastest. It's like aggressive kidnapping but with love and smoochies

[prokopetz]

Oh snap I actually just backed Cerebos!! 😆

What is editing like? What do you do?

(With reference to this post here.)

Being an editor for tabletop RPGs is a bit like being an editor for prose fiction, and a lot like being a technical writing consultant. You end up asking questions like:

What does this body of rules assume the reader already knows about tabletop RPGs? Are those assumptions warranted? What if this is the first tabletop RPG our hypothetical reader has ever been exposed to? Who is our target audience?  

What assumptions is this body of rules making about how the game ought to be played? About the kinds of stories it will be used to tell? About the explicit or implicit setting in which those stories take place? About what activities will form the focus of play? About the roles and responsibilities of its participants? Are those assumptions stated anywhere?  

Are the rules in fact consistent in this respect? Are different parts of the rules making different assumptions about how the game ought to be played? Is this intended? (This one more often comes up in multi-author projects, but you might be surprised how frequently even a text with a single author can end up with different parts of its rules describing completely different games.)  

Are there any important rules whose purpose is non-obvious? What is that purpose? How can it more effectively be communicated? If the reason that a rule exists is difficult to puzzle out, is it really as important as we think it is? Does it need to be there at all?  

Does the way this rule is phrased admit multiple equally plausible interpretations? If so, which interpretation is the intended one? How can we close off the non-intended interpretations without making the text longer or more complicated in the process?  

Are there any edge cases, degenerate strategies, or weird interactions the text doesn’t currently account for? Is it worth spending the word count to address them? (Tabletop RPGs are different from board games or video games in that “yes, you could do that, but don’t be a dick” is a perfectly valid way to address many issues of this type.)  

The text keeps making reference to rule X, but did we remember to write rule X down anywhere? (You’d be amazed how often the answer turns out to be “no, no we did not”!)

... and about a dozen more besides, including basic nuts-and-bolts stuff like “is our use of terminology consistent?” (rarely), “does the way the rules work in the fiction and examples of play line up with the rules the text actually describes?” (almost always no) and “wait, are we using this word in its game-rules sense or its everyday sense there?“ (about 50% of the time it’s the word “action”).

Of course, the real trick is accomplishing all this without turning the game into an over-wordy tome in the process. On a good day, you can end up with text that’s clearer in its intentions, more consistent in its language, more transparent about its assumptions, and shorter than what you started with. The rest of the time… well, you do your best.

[nocontextdoctorwho]

It's 2 am and I'm desperately trying to hold in my laughter because it's been so long that I forgot just how bizarre this show might seem to someone who's never been seen it and then I see these actual screencaps FROM THE SHOW ITSELF and I just...I'm dying.... 😂

it sure is a show ❤️

[goodomensheadcanons]

When Crowley gets drunk, he sometimes goes to his greenhouse and cries to his plants about Aziraphale. Sometimes he hugs them. This terrifies the plants more than him yelling at them.

[the-patrex]

I love how I can literally recognize your art. I see some DW art cross my page having been reblogged by like 20 people and I'm like "oh hey, that's Patrex!" 😆💜

omg how did I not see this before!?!?

This is very interesting to me bc I have this perception that I can’t settle into any style At All

(and I’m sorry that you have to see the same weird doodles of mine over and over oh god)

But in all seriousness, thank you for leaving this message! I’m feeling somewhat unmotivated lately, only posting older (ish)  works bc I don’t feel anything I’m currently making is turning out good, but seeing stuff like this truly makes me want to keep trying!

[artsymeeshee]

I love how pretty much everyone in this fandom decided to adopt to adopt two janky old dudes with emotional issues and we call them 'the boys' and everyone immediately knows who we're talking about and starts cooing over them!

skflajfilasj It’s true and it’s inevitable. They win hearts quick. 

[moonshadow-memes]

I don't remember which post I read because it was three in the morning but I read "dark magic" as "dank magic" and nearly died laughing!

this made me imagine viren wearing sunglasses indoors and dabbing with a deep fried explosion sound in the distance 😂