why do you stare up at the lonesome sky?

JD (she/her). Also on AO3 as argentumlupine (although I rarely create stuff anymore). Old enough to remember when you told the internet NOTHING thst could identify you in offline life. Fandoms subject to change without notice.

[thatpollguy]

RATE THE EXPERIENCE: Walking barefoot on tarmac, pavement or concrete

10 - Extremely satisfying

9

8

7

6

5

4

3

2

1 - Extremely unpleasant

I've never experienced this before

Remaining time: 4 days 8 hours

[samsincerely]

EVERYONE get in the tags rn and tell me your favorite cheese

[apolladay]

what age is your youngest cousin?

- 1-5

- 6-12

- 13-19

- 20-30

- 31+

- no cousins here

what age is your youngest cousin?

younger than 1

1-5

6-12

13-19

20-30

31+

I have no cousins

Remaining time: 3 days 2 hours

[currently-just-here]

I'm mass posting about dcc right now but I'm kinda surprised there's not a larger fandom on here. maybe it's too mainstream? I feel like there's a larger fandom on tiktok/Instagram as opposed to here which baffles me. this book series is like THEEEE tumblr shit,, y'all would eat this up. guys the dungeon ai is literally a freak. it's literally nerd dnd shit. y'all love that. where are you? get into dungeon crawler carl nowwwwww

[sparkly-trashfire]

The MC is a whitebread everyman who was cheated on

The star of the show is a cat in a tiara

There are enough pop culture references to make a spreadsheet of them

There's a Spotify Playlist curated by the author

Surprisingly deep themes and found family are hidden in the dick jokes and gory horror

Of like three canon romances (all side notes really) one contains a furry and one a sex worker

Toxic yaoi with a foot fetish on main

A literal ball busting GILF

The fandom calls itself a cult

Seriously though it's so good.

[victusinveritas]

[ultrastimpaks]

wait people sleep with their doors closed????

[ultrastimpaks]

okay now im curious. reblog this with where youre from and if you sleep with your door open or closed

[bioluminescent-fungus]

no amount of butter or salt removes the nutrients from vegetables

[therosielord]

Also cooked vegetables are more easily digestible than raw vegetables! People always act like raw vegetables are the healthiest but that is NOT true if you have a sensitive digestive system. Roast that shit.

[miseducatedmelanicmuse]

[iamaine]

my most Millennial trait is that i want big screen to think properly. to compose my thoughts. app exists for your thing but no website? bad bad bad not good for think, need big screen for think. i wrote this post on the small screen btw

[robotslenderman]

I read somewhere that one thing that really pisses off companies about Millennials is that we won't make big purchases on our phones, we always feel compelled to get out a laptop or hop on a desktop for it

[moveslikekeithrichards]

there is no greater joy on this earth than Making Lists, Categorizing, & Sorting

[flying-lemons]

oh do I have the game for you

[dancing-crow]

I could . not. put. this down for 48 hours - stayed up too late, had weird dreams about it, woke up early, and played it while I was supposed to be doing other things. the last several dozen items took a lot of googling, which I do not even begrudge it.

and then. My partner started it. And the SAME THING happened to him.

surprisingly compelling. start when you have free time. like, yanno, a snow day.

[foone]

oh my god, if you are the kind of person who gets sucked into logic puzzles, do not click that link if you have to do anything/go to sleep in the next couple hours

[improbabledreams900]

I was disappointed there weren't more levels, so I made them! The creator's code was under CC Share Alike, so I moved a copy to my website, rustled up 40 new categories, and added buttons so you can generate smaller puzzles!

Check it out! More levels!

[spencerthespacer-deactivated202]

[fox-in-the-wheat-deactivated202]

THIS IS THE HARDEST I HAVE LAUGHED IN SO LONG YOU HAVE CURED MY DEPRESSION

[ywg]

This is one of the greatest posts I’ve ever witnessed. The payoff was amazing.

[randomslasher]

My roommate heard it going and went “OH MY GOD is it EVER going to resolve?” then the payoff hit and she busted up laughing

[miseducatedmelanicmuse]

Like a new friend!

[deervsheadlights]

just the ol' nine-to-five

[another regular day at work || a regular workplace relationship]

[shutyourmoustache]

After the hell of the past two days, this reminded me of what America could and should be about. It’s a little pocket of hope when our administration is trying to extinguish diversity and community and basic human decency and replace them with fear and hate and division.

[schnorlap]

i know this post is about the triumph of human collectivism but goddamn that mushroom dish looks amazing like holy fuck bro

[theargentumlupine]

accidentally added double the Cajun seasoning to my pasta because I was so into my audiobook that I forgot I’d already added the full amount. Still tasty but yeowch that was hotter than I was expecting

anyway my sinuses are super duper clear now thanks capsaicin

[arcadianforests]

One theme in DCC that I've been rolling around in my brain for weeks now is "If you were always doomed, does the love matter?"

Li Jun is one of the most obvious examples, he is saved by (and saves) Carl multiple times, and it doesn't matter because he dies on the ninth floor, right before the chance for freedom. What did it mean for Li Jun to struggle so much, only to die? Does the extra time with his sister and best friend outweigh all the pain and suffering he went through? Would it have been kinder to let him and his family die?

Annie's the other obvious one, the tragedy wasn't that Annie was sick and dying it's that she was denied the comfort of dying with someone who loved her! She was never going to live but the love that Katia gave her was real! Does it matter if it couldn't change anything? If Annie was only ever going to break Katia's heart should she have loved her in the first place?

The crawlers on the fifth floor as well, especially Langley and company, was it worth it to fight so hard to get off the fifth floor only to die early on the sixth? What does it mean if the second they gain confidence and purpose they just die? Was it worth it? Was it worth the struggle and pain?

If all of Signet's memories of her family are fake, if her whole family is fake, does her love still matter? Does her pain? Her hatred? Should she still fight for them?

Was Donut's love for Bea wasted? Do the moments of love and companionship between them mean nothing now because of Bea's betrayal? Were the moments between them fake even? If Bea had never taken Donut, Dount would never have met Carl, but is that they only thing she would lose?

What of Yvette? A girl born into a shitty family, who struggled and suffered to grow up only to die horribly and painfully and young. Would it have been kinder if she just died in the collapse?

Would it be better if Carl's mom never took him to the circus? Is it tarnished by the heartbreak that came after? Was suicide really the only way?

And the series over and over and over just goes: No! This is the only thing that matters! There will always, always, always be suffering and tragedy and heartbreak and death and you have to wrench joy and love and community from a world that wants to deny them to you! If you're doomed matter how hard you fight to survive then fight like hell anyway! Love even if it only leads to heartbreak! We can see these tragedies and call them unjust and fight for a better future but even if we never reach better the fight alone is worth it!

[cordezshenanigans]

And don't forget the Tomb Raiders. God, the Tomb Raiders

I can't tell if their memory has fallen by the wayside because there's just too much going on or because Matt Dinniman is a genius and there are deep implications to their memory falling through the cracks.

Historians, when they talk about Carl's life, won't remember the Tomb Raiders. They made some stupid mistakes that made Carl's life a lot harder and got a lot of people killed. In Carl's quadrant, we have Carl, Donut, and Katya; Louis and Firas; and Langley's team of 6. Each bubble had about 150 people, which means Carl's quadrant started with 30-40, and we only know 11 of them because the Tomb Raiders got the rest of them killed before Carl could ever meet them. Not to mention any land quadrant crawlers that could have been saved if Carl got there sooner, and all the NPCs Carl had to kill because the Tomb Raiders made peace impossible.

But goddamn they tried. They tried. The only one whose name I can remember is Bobby, the rogue whose spirit was broken by the tomb. That tower was ten kilometers tall and it took everything they had to survive exploring the top floor, but they kept trying anyway. They suffered, and they were crumbling and they were lost, but they never gave up. Bobby was shaking and dissociating and broken by the end, but even he never stopped trying.

And despite it all, it mattered. They got that panel hooked up, which allowed the Royal Court to kill Quetzalcoatl. Maybe the Royal Court would have found another way to pop the bubble, but that would have taken time. Time that they used to save Srendelgor, to save Floren, to save countless other crawlers and all the changelings, which snowballed into so many more lives saved.

Most of the Tomb Raider guys died thinking their deaths would mean nothing. But it meant everything. I haven't finished book 8 yet, but I'm thinking that it's not just the crawlers. Carl is going to save every human left on the surface, he's going to be there to help with the Lucia issue, because the Tomb Raiders never quit fighting.

The point is that it matters.

[jet-dawnbringer]

Hey, this one goes out to Imani.

12 skulls Imani. The first example of "it might get worse before it gets better." Queen of "They will not break me." He might not even realize it, but Carl's ideals were demonstrated and reinforced by Imani. Maybe the most important woman in the series? (I love her)

Meeting all of Meadow Lark was clearly deeply formative, but meeting Imani? Imani, who loved her people enough to mercy kill them? Imani, who loved her co-workers enough to take that decision off of them? Imani, who physically left behind the bloody choices of the first two floors and the pvp tickets, and chose a race and class that let her go back to healing? (I love her)

All my homies love Imani. Three cheers for Imani.