My Latest Obsession

[aranessa]

dnd/critical role/bg3 rp server looking for more members!

hi! i'm laufey :) i'm the owner of an 18+, mostly critical role based roleplay server on discord (though we allow original dnd characters and bg3 characters)! we have literally five members so far (including myself, and i wanted to promote it some more in hopes of more folks joining!

we're looking for a number of canon characters as well! original characters are also welcomed and encouraged!

our rp style is a bit different from other roleplay servers i've seen around in any fandom space. we have chatrooms that function as almost like group chats in roleplay! this is mostly for fun, and we do have a dedicated place for literate roleplay as well!

anyone is welcome to join except for those who may fit the basic dni criteria, trump supporters, etc etc. as long as you're a nice person, you'll fit right in!

please dm me or comment here if you're interested!! masterlist of our taken characters is liked under the cut!

Updated - 05/25/26

BG3 CANON MUSES - Wyll Ravengard - Gale Dekarios - Astarion Ancunín - Karlach Cliffgate

CRITICAL ROLE MUSES

VOX MACHINA - Keyleth

- Vex'ahlia

THE MIGHTY NEIN

- Jester Lavorre - Nott the Brave - Caleb Widogast - Beauregard Lionett

CAMPAIGN FOUR

SOLDIERS - Wicander Halovar - Tyranny - Thimble

SEEKERS - Thaisha Lloy - Occtis Tachonis - Julien Davinos - Vaelus

SCHEMERS - Halandil Fang

MISC NPCS - Universe Tachonis - Demodus Blix

[catchymemes]

[catchymemes]

@goth-queen

[0fficelady]

Collection

[hollowedskin]

My whole life I've known that you must leave at least one mistake in your knitting or crochet or tapestry, because spirits/demons can get lost in the perfection of the stitches and be unable to find their way out.

If you don't want a haunted scarf, you have to leave a mistake as an exit point.

[syntax-forest]

This is beautiful but I can't help but think that at least one of these originated with like, someone who fucked up their knitting and managed to convince everyone else it was intentional.

[hollowedskin]

I'm almost certain this is what happened. Because whenever I am close to finishing a crochet project, especially something in the round where each row is more work than the last, and I find a mistake in the last row as I'm stitching into it

The closer I am to finishing and not wanting to undo 2h worth of work to change that one single into a double, the more likely I am to go "well. That's the demons stitch then isn't it", and leave it be.

The demon stitch absolutely gives my ocd toxic perfectionism a loophole to allow something to remain a mistake, which is why I choose to believe in it.

[ave-aria]

oh, haha. a loophole.

[hamletthedane]

I'm too much of a sucker for the tragedy of Wicked's ending to take any of this seriously, but the funniest possible fix-it concept is that Glinda just. Does not know. How the fuck. To send this 12yo back to Kansas. Like why the hell would she know how to do that?? Who thought it was a good idea to leave her in charge of this???

And from Dorothy's POV, this is such a funny concept: imagine for a minute that you (a child) wake up in a Fairy-Land, become best friends with a (possibly mentally unstable?) talking scarecrow, and are told by the god-kind that you must go murder his political rival before he'll send go home. Fine. This might as well happen.

And when you return from said murder - which is somehow successful - it turns out the god-king is a fraud and cannot help you. Whoops. Well, how about the OTHER seemingly most powerful person in the country? Ah, no....it turn out she had pretty limited powers in the magic department. And they're mostly bubble-related.

So she takes you (by bubble) to a tiny seaside town on the edge of the map to seek the help of her most powerful friends….the woman you just murdered and your scarecrow best friend who was an accomplice to that murder. And apparently, they’ve all three been dating since undergrad.

I mean, what do you even do with that.

[hamletthedane]

Worse, they can't figure out how to transport you between realms either, and now you're stuck being raised Two and a Half Men style by your murder victim (she got better), your scarecrow BFF (aka your murder victim's situationship), and their girlfriend....the new Pope.

The sitcom practically writes itself.

[fancy-rock-dove]

Could not stop thinking about this… dragged my friend into it… we’re falling down a rabbit hole with this crack concept

[asteroidtroglodyte]

CHILCHUCK TOTO HEADCANON ACCEPTED

[muffinlance]

Okay but I just saw ANOTHER post that said canonically, all animals could talk in Oz, and Dorothy asked Toto in-series "Do you want to talk?" and all that grown-ass man of a dog said was "No." And never spoke again. For the entire series.

Chilchuck!Toto is his own union rep and he is NOT being paid for this.

[venndaai]

have you guys heard about the greenland shark. some crazy shit happening there.

[venndaai]

they are sexually mature at ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OLD.

their (live!) young gestate for. wait for it. eight to eighteen (??) YEARS. can have up to 10 at a time. good grief.

longest lifespan of any vertebrate, up to five hundred years

toxic flesh

has giant eyes but is usually blind because of a weird little crustacean that's evolved to live on and eat their eyes. this doesn't seem to bother them much.

lives in deep cold water and has the lowest swim speed and tail-beat frequency for its size across all fish species. just generally lives life in extreme slow motion

largest genome of any shark

eats everything including moose and polar bears

ma'am you are delightfully strange and I'm privileged to share a planet with you

[fluorescentbrains]

this post prompted me to refresh my memory on Greenland Shark Facts and this detail about how they feed goes so hard

just vacuuming up their unsuspecting prey. whole !

[muffinlance]

Good news good news good news! Recent research suggests the eye parasites do NOT blind them!

Eye-opening research: Greenland sharks maintain vision for centuries through DNA repair mechanism

Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk sits in her office, eyes fixed on the computer monitor in front of her. "You see it move its eye," says the UC Ir

I <3 you a normal amount Greenland sharks

[batsandboba]

“scientists don’t want you know” is a phrase that always cracks me up because if you actually meet a scientist they will be shaking and crying like an overstimulated chihuahua with the need to let you know

[themanedwolf]

Can confirm.

[flower-cute-posts]

Every tumblr girl from 2014 would’ve gone insane for this. (Available HERE)

[aatmadevata]

girls who used tumblr during 2014-18 were highly fashionable ones and had so many cool ideas 😩

[alyna-gg]

this is what happens when society denies women functional pockets for too long

[ca-rolinee]

[simon-newman]

"Why can't the women population just walk in these?"

Little known fact: You can. Nobody is stopping you except for yourself.

Men's pockets also got smaller over the years and I've been using belt bags and crossbody bags since ~2006.

[creativity-conduit]

I have a coworker who wears one of these to work instead of a purse. She absolutely loves it.

[themanedwolf]

I use a hip pouch instead of a purse. No need to sling a purse off my shoulder to russle through it searching for my wallet. I just reach down and unzip a pouch and bam! Wallet. It does have less space than a big purse though...

[corvidcall]

to anyone in the areas impacted by the wildfire smoke, my #1 biggest piece of advice as someone whos been dealing with wildfire smoke in the NW united states for years, is build yourself a Corsi-Rosenthal Cube

they perform as well as expensive HEPA air cleaners, and are comparatively VERY inexpensive. all you need is a box fan, 4 air filters, a piece of cardboard, and some duct tape!!!!

i think it took us maybe a half hour to put ours together, if that, and we replace the filters every 3 months. it's really made a HUGE difference, both when the air quality is bad, but also with our allergies

[o0fyuu0o]

Saw these easy to read instructions on Twitter. Stay safe 💚

[tinyyellowflowers-blog]

Great time to start pricing this out by the way, fire season starts… on the summer solstice this year, that’s fun. Signs point to it being a doozy.

[dandelionsresilience]

There’s also a subreddit

[todaysbird]

this rose-breasted grosbeak was banded by powdermill bird banding during the fall of 2005, during a random wild bird banding of the area. participants were surprised to find the bird to be a bilateral gyandromorph - one side of the body is male, the other female. this is typically due to an event that happens in early mitosis, where one of the dividing cells does not split its sex chromosomes in a typical fashion. interestingly, most birds only have one functional ovary on the left side of the body, so this individual could still hypothetically produce offspring.

[motherfuckingshakespeare]

A HANDY CHART FOR THOSE OF YOU WONDERING WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH THESE. NOTE THAT THESE ARE ALL THE INFORMAL AND YOU IS THE FORMAL SO LIKE YOU WOULD ALWAYS ADDRESS YOUR SUPERIOR/ OLDER PERSON/ SOCIAL BETTER WITH YOU BUT WITH YOUR BUDS YOU CAN USE THESE. 

[pervocracy]

How to hack any hospital computer

-Use the password taped to the monitor

How to hack any hospital computer (L337 version for advanced security systems)

-Use the password taped to the back of the monitor

[dysgraphicprogrammer]

As a computer guy: This is what happens when you have too much security. It reaches a tipping point and then suddenly you have none. Security at the cost of convenience comes at the cost of security.  

[pervocracy]

This is true of so many things in healthcare.  Example: our software is designed to automatically alert the doctor if a patient’s vital signs are critically out of range.  If someone has a blood pressure of 200/130, the doc gets a pop-up box that they have to acknowledge before doing anything else.  It makes sense, in our setting.

But then some mega-genius upstairs realized something: the system was only alerting for critical vital signs, but not for all vital signs that could possibly be bad.  Like, yeah, 200/130 is potentially life-threatening, but 130/90 is above ideal and can have negative effects on health.  Should the doctors be allowed to just ignore something that could negatively affect a patient’s health?  Heavens no!

So now the system generates a pop-up for any vital signs that are even slightly abnormal.  A pressure of 120/80 (once considered textbook normal, now considered slightly high) will create the pop-up.  We have increased our vigilance!

Well, no, what we’ve actually done is train doctors to click through a constant bombardment of pop-ups without looking.  We’ve destroyed their vigilance and made it much easier for them to accidentally skim past life-threatening vital signs.

But you can’t tell that to management, because you’d have to confess that you are a flawed human with limited attention resources.  They’d tell you “well, all the other doctors take every abnormal vital sign seriously, it sounds like you’re being negligent.”  And if you’re smart, you back down before you start telling the big boss all about your habit of ignoring critical safety alerts.

The end result is exactly the same as if we had no alerts at all, except with more annoying clicking.

[niiwa-angel]

The other issue is that most computer security is designed by people who will never work the jobs if those using their security systems.

No nurse has the mental bandwidth to remember 15 different passwords to 15 different computers. They have to remember which patients need what, who’s getting what medication when, who’s allergic to penicillin, and a million other things. Of course the passwords are going to be written on a piece of paper by the computers, they need to move fast.

My college apartment building made their fire alarms super sensitive, with the idea being that it would stop people from smoking in the units. What it actually did was set the damn things off all the time while people were cooking. So most people in the building just put cling film over their smoke alarms to stop them from reacting to regular cooking and would just take it off for an inspection.

[notexactlywonderland]

The fire alarm story makes a really good point because, this isn’t just a problem with computer security, it’s a much bigger problem of, corporate workers thinking they know better than the people who actually do the job.

I deal with this a lot, as a truck driver. Trucks are being built with a lot of new, fancy safety features that sound really nice to the corporate people who buy the trucks and the insurance companies that offer discounts for having them on the truck. The problem? All of those devices are designed, and tested, under perfectly ideal conditions and those are the only conditions they work under.

My favorite example is the system my current truck has that automatically steers the truck, if it thinks I’m too close to a line. Within the first month of having that, I nearly killed someone riding a bike because, when I merged, to go around them, the truck saw the line and tried to steer back into the lane.

The reality of these new systems is that trucks now have a lot of alarms that frequently set off when there’s not actually anything wrong. Most drivers are now constantly monitoring the ones that can be turned off, which is taking their attention away from the road. The ones that can’t be turned off, are so loud, and annoying, that we’re now seeing a major increase in drivers having anger issues (that’s not something you want a truck driver to have BTW). Meanwhile, a lot of people, in some office, are patting themselves on the back for the system they designed that works great, on a closed road, in California, in perfect weather

[dismalzelenka]

I’m an Uber driver, and I got dinged on a driver safety alert for braking too quickly one time.

The reason I slammed my brakes?

A piss-drunk guy ran out in front of me on a one way street downtown lmfao

I was like sure Uber I’ll just hit him next time you can handle my legal fees I guess ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

[scrollingdown]

[scribeherself]

I think one of the gentlest things in the world is when a friend just gets your weird little brain. like you say half a sentence and they finish it. you reference something incredibly niche from seven years ago and they’re already nodding. they understand your strange vocabulary for emotions that don’t have real words yet. it’s being seen and known and still loved. maybe especially because you’re known. god. what a gift.

[animentality]

[frontmansdefender]

people saying “don’t use your full government name for your ao3”, “create different emails for work and personal use” but personally I think it’s both sad and dystopian how capitalism/companies/even schools think they have the rights to cross your personal boundaries and insert themselves into your personal life. like, I get it, safety wise, why checking digital footprints can be important sometimes. but a gay fanfiction is not a fucking threat that could ever cause anybody harm. it’s funny (not really, it’s still sad and dystopian) how they now think they can control your personal life and prevent you from having hobbies

[buddie-romance]

thank you ao3 for being an archive and not an algorithm. thank you for letting me like things without consequences, thank you for being free with no ads, thank you for having lawyers to defend our freedom of speech. thank you tag wranglers. thank you to all authors and thank you ao3

[viettacrow]

The Science Behind The Apothecary Diaries: Death by Poisoned Wood

In episode two of The Apothecary Diaries, an army collapses without a single blade raised. Soldiers, healthy and confident just hours before, fall one after another -- nauseated, gasping for brath, dying with the confusion of people who never saw death coming.

The cause?

Not sorcery. Not sabotage.

Just a pair of chopsticks. 🥢

Let's talk about the wood that Kills 🪵

When the soldiers ran out of utensils they made their own -- carving chopsticks from branches around their camp, sharpening them by the fire.

But not all trees are kind. 🌳

Many species in the Prunus family (wild cherry, laurel, peach, almond) hide a secret defense: cyanogenic glycosides. When the plant is damaged or heated, these molecules break down and release hydrogen cyanide (HCN) -- the same gas once used in chemical warfare. 🔥

The heat cracked open the glycosides. Cyanide gas seeped out, invisible and sweet-bitter, coating the chopsticks they carved. Later, when the warm air of the mouth and saliva touched that wood, the reaction began again.

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But, how the cyanide silences the body? ☠️

Cyanide doesn't make you choke -- it makes your cells choke

It binds to cytochrome c oxidase, an enzyme in your mitochondria that lets your cells use oxygen. Once blocked, oxygen becomes useless. Your body still carries it, but your cells can't touch it.

You suffocate, even as you brathe.

Symtoms:

Nausea and vomiting 🤢

Dizziness and confusion 😵‍💫

Shortness of breath 😮‍💨

Rapid death by asphyxiation ☠️

In short, the soldiers' tragic fate was nothing more than a swift death by internal asphyxiation born from chemistry and fire.

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If you have any questions about this topic, I'd be happy to answer them. 🤔

I hope you enjoyed reading, and if you have ideas for other posts (outside this series) I'd love to hear them too. 💜