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......... different fantasy races should be impacted differently by each other's alcohol

no more if this "fine elvin wine" shit, I am going to personally write a fantasy setting in which every human knows that elf booze tastes and feels like fantasy la croix. there's barely even a flavor, and you'd need to drink a few to even get tipsy.

meanwhile, every human with a lick of common sense knows that you need to plan accordingly if you're going to be drinking dwarven liquor, because it hits you hard and fast and you'll lose feeling in your legs faster than you thought was physically possible. the hangovers are the stuff of legend.

batmanisagatewaydrug

the flip side is that elves are an entire race of (comparative) lightweights, and a whole gaggle of teenange elves can get piss drunk passing around one bottle of fruity human wine

batmanisagatewaydrug

I think there's some compatability among drinks brewed by reptilian races (dragonborn, lizardfolk, tortles, kobolds, etc) although you run into similar translation issues as mammalians, but there is absolutely no crossover. like if a drsgonborn and a dwarf in a (very cosmopolitan) tavern were to switch drinks it would be a nonstarter.

"this is basically just a capri sun," the dragonborn says, disappointed.

"cool, I'm pretty sure I just drank actual paint thinner," the dwarf says. "get me to a hospital."

batmanisagatewaydrug

humans and halflings are probably the most compatible drinkers of any two races, although halflings find most human wines, beers, ciders, etc, a little too dry and bland for their liking. halfling alternatives are very sweet, which makes them a huge hit among the 'I like alcohol but I don't want it to taste like alcohol' crowd

batmanisagatewaydrug

I think it would be very funny if being drunk was like... a relatively new cultural development for gnomes? there’s just something about their wacky gnomish constitution that prevented them coming by it naturally (traditionally they’re more into a variety of mushrooms and other recreational plants) but once they started mingling more with more alcohol-happy races they learned VERY quickly and started opening, basically, turbo-breweries that are basically one part distillery and one part wizard tower. VERY popular job for young alchemists trying to make some good money, and the reason why gnomes are known (among other things) for operating the craziest night clubs

batmanisagatewaydrug

here’s who I think should be able to get drunk but become sober at will:

1.) sufficiently powerful paladins and clerics

2.) aasimar [all of them]

2.) very very few tieflings. it’s not universal at all, but few tiefling traits are. I know 5e has really solidified them as horns + tails + inhuman skin color but we need to be making them weirder

battlecrazed-axe-mage

I agree with every single part of this but especially that we all need to be doing our part to make tieflings weirder, and also please someone overnight me some halfling booze

battlecrazed-axe-mage

Kombucha Plus

I really want to replay P5R again. Bit I can't decide how I want to do it. Do I use the completed data where I maxed all my social links and abilities? Or do I make a new save file?

Having platinumed and completed the vanilla version 5 times (at varying difficulty levels), I am very good at knowing how to pace the game. I got all my confidants and stats up to max well before the 3rd semester began on my first playthrough of Royal. I certainly didn't do everything like the Jose and Lavenza fights(the later requires ng+). But it felt nice to just worry about upping the stats and revel in the new confidants. I worry that doing a new game+ will just be like the 3rd semester, where I was just languishing and waiting for the story to progress.

#video game whining

ratfish-blues

Socialists in the 1910s were like, God is real but I hate him very much and when I get to heaven I will unionize the angels

alextheflowerdyke

this is just the plot of His Dark Materials

romance-n-sex-repulsed-aroace

Society: You can't just stay single and live a life that's completely fulfilled without a romantic relationship!!!

Me:

dollopheadedmerlin

I have … a tip.

If you’re writing something that involves an aspect of life that you have not experienced, you obviously have to do research on it. You have to find other examples of it in order to accurately incorporate it into your story realistically.

But don’t just look at professional write ups. Don’t stop at wikepedia or webMD. Look up first person accounts.

I wrote a fic once where a character has frequent seizures. Naturally, I was all over the wikipedia page for seizures, the related pages, other medical websites, etc.

But I also looked at Yahoo asks where people where asking more obscure questions, sometimes asked by people who were experiencing seizures, sometimes answered by people who have had seizures.

I looked to YouTube. Found a few individual videos of people detailing how their seizures usually played out. So found a few channels that were mostly dedicated to displaying the daily habits of someone who was epileptic.

I looked at blogs and articles written by people who have had seizures regularly for as long as they can remember. But I also read the frantic posts from people who were newly diagnosed or had only had one and were worried about another.

When I wrote that fic, I got a comment from someone saying that I had touched upon aspects of movement disorders that they had never seen portrayed in media and that they had found representation in my art that they just never had before. And I think it’s because of the details. The little things.

The wiki page for seizures tells you the technicalities of it all, the terminology. It tells you what can cause them and what the symptoms are. It tells you how to deal with them, how to prevent them.

But it doesn’t tell you how some people with seizures are wary of holding sharp objects or hot liquids. It doesn’t tell you how epileptics feel when they’ve just found out that they’re prone to fits. It doesn’t tell you how their friends and family react to the news.

This applies to any and all writing. And any and all subjects. Disabilities. Sexualities. Ethnicities. Cultures. Professions. Hobbies. Traumas. If you haven’t experienced something first hand, talk to people that have. Listen to people that have. Don’t stop at the scholarly sources. They don’t always have all that you need.

dollopheadedmerlin

I … LOVE reading the replies and tags for this post! I’m happy that, out of all my posts, this is the one that’s blown up so quickly.

I love the people who are a part of a minority, that are gushing about their favorite fics or books that seem to have done this and offer proper representation.

I love the people who are bringing up the toxic mindset that is very popular on tumblr, the “you can’t write about it if you haven’t lived it” ideology that makes writers feel guilty for providing representation.

I especially love the people who are mentioning how they should start doing this. I love the people who are probably young or inexperienced writers that are seeing this and thinking of doing this for the first time. I love that there are people who read this and then think to better their writing because of it.

piratedykes

I wanna do one of those “if you’re lgbt put your orientation, sign and favorite tool in the tags” but I know most of The Gays have never touched a tool on their life. I’ll be left with 15 lesbians, one gay dude and a handful of bisexuals and they better all be tagging screwdrivers

piratedykes

Eh. Doing it anyway.

If you’re lgbt put your orientation, sign and favorite tool in the tags”

#ace and Philips screwdrivers and hex keys #they're just really satisfying to use

catsnsmiles

🐱🐱⭐️

yu-nyx

I’m proud of Akechi for being able to express himself more freely–

On the other hand, glad that Joker can be salty too

#p5r #aketchi is just pure bottled rage

sar-per

Sometimes I look back on my life and I'm like "how did I not notice that I'm queer as fuck?"

#bruh #talking to friends candidly about sexuality #i am like 'dude how did i not know i was ace until COLLEGE?!'#like that's what puberty was like for you?! i cannot even concieve that!#that's what things are like for you now?#nope i can't say i get it!#and then it's just me and them going back and forth going #'i cannot relate to your experience at all and it's fascinating!'

vet-and-wild

I get weirdly offended by all the “cats are mad we’re at home” jokes. Cats are social animals and we have evidence that they love us. I just really love my cat ok?

avoiding-claws

My cats are so needy that as soon as I sit down they do this

Both bundled onto my lap, purring, and staring into my soul.

They get meow in protest when I have to get up to go to work.

saltiestsoprano

My cat is even more clingy than usual too. He’s upset because he knows my routine is disrupted and that WORRIES him.

theparadoxmachine

From my cats’ perspective when I had surgery, I packed my bags so they knew I was going somewhere and they didn’t like it. Then I vanished for a solid week. Then I came home smelling weird and was clearly very weak and sick. Now I’m home recuperating and they are thrilled. They’re thrilled I’m alive and they’re thrilled I’m home all the time.

Seriously Horatio especially is super happy I’m home all the time right now. They are both being super snuggly and social. They are definitely not mad about it.

annethecatdetective

Lego believes that he has FINALLY convinced us all to not leave the house all the time, and he’s gone MAD WITH POWER and is now trying to convince us to always all be in the living room together so he has all his humans in one place at once, and he HOWLS outside my sister’s bedroom door in the morning demanding she join Family Time.

Momo has never been happier, because he’s been my clingy boy since he was a tiny wee bab and now I don’t go out with friends, don’t go to appointments, don’t go to the store all the time… he’s living his best life.

aevios

[id= picture of one white cat and one pale silvery grey cat sitting on a fluffy tan blanket in someone’s lap. they are staring at the camera with big green eyes /end id]