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@thetallowman
Rome wasn’t built in a day. It was built much quicker than that. It only took a quarter of an hour. Which made it the world’s first 15 minute city
when they say all roads lead to rome they actually mean that there's a rome every fifteen minutes
oh lisa wilbourn they could never make me hate u fanart by @phthalos-blues and @tinkertech
you have to be careful reading too many things that are good/smart/well-written bc then you encounter something that isnt and you get confused like ? why didnt they just make this good ? were they stupid
Italian Pride Flag
Made this for pride month for Italians. Based the colors off of Mario and Luigi (Italian icons.) The red represents bravery, the green represents brotherhood, and the white represents gloves.
Who would win in a fight, furby or labubu?
they are both ridiculous creations of the capitalist mind and would fall to any cloth doll or homunculus made with any real heart. that said, the furby
Poll: If offered the chance would you willingly choose to be in a timeloop for 100 years?*
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High-magic setting where carrying a magic wand (i.e., as opposed to a full-size staff) has approximately the same practical function – and approximately the same cultural connotations – as carrying a sawed-off shotgun does in real life.
I think the spell the wand is loaded with is a determinant factor. A wand of magic missile (the D&D kind) would make sense from the perspective of self-defense, but a wand of fireball gives the exact same “I want to indiscriminately fuck up a whole room full of people with no warning” vibe that the sawed-off does.
I've gotten a number of responses to this post alone these lines, so I'm not calling you out in particular – I'm just highlighting this as a good example of the sort of thing I'm talking about.
What this sort of thing is doing is assuming that all fantasy settings work like Dungeons & Dragons unless explicitly stated otherwise, and ask "for what sorts of D&D characters would this premise be true?"
When you're doing worldbuilding, that's starting at the wrong end.
You don't start with a generic D&D setting, then work toward engineering a scenario where your desired premise is true as a goal.
You start with the desired premise, then ask: "what needs to be true about my hypothetical setting for this premise to be the case?"
To bring it around to the premise at hand, the question is not "what sort of character in a generic D&D setting would use a magic wand like a sawed-off shotgun?"; it's "given that, in my setting, magic wands have roughly the same role and connotations as a sawed-off shotgun, what needs to be true about how wands and magic work and their place in this setting's cultural milieu for this to be the case?"
Hate when I'm trying to find my luggage at the baggage claim but they all look the same. Many such cases.
please god watch this right now
The editing of this video is hysterical and genius- they switch between so many editing styles to reflect exactly what kind of thing they're going for in each segment its GREAT.
Sorry, I tried to trim it but it declined. Also I might have told it you were the one that wanted it trimmed, sorry. Anyway, best of luck
Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”
So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”
Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.
Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.
#'this is present in the text' is often a good first step #but those second and third ones (naming it; describing its function) are vital (via @elucubrare)
Outlines of two alligators that slept through the rain.
outlines of two alligators that got raptured by the lord himself
how come you'll say tragedy is your favorite genre and then 100 thousand million people will be like "you should check out this adaptation of this famous tragedy but the twist is there's a happy ending this time." GET THAT AWAY FROM ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
how come you'll say tragedy is your favorite genre and then 100 thousand million people will be like "you should check out this adaptation of this famous story of triumph with a happy ending but the twist is there's an egregiously cruel ending this time for no reason and with none of the crucial framework of a true tragedy to make the ending cathartic." GET THAT AWAY FROM ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
it's really embarrassing how much self control i have to exert when you put me in front of a tray of convenient and tender meat like if you put meatballs in front if me the fuckers are gone in milliseconds. same true of roadted brussels sprouts or basically anything that's a nice little dense and textured morsel. i am the hors that d'ouvres
do not stand at my plate and snack. that shit's all mine. please give it back. i am the dozen hors that d'ouvre. i am the meatball's gentle curve. i am the cracker's butter crunch. i am a thousand grapes for lunch.
i bet it feels good as fuck to intend to do something and then actually do it
I just ate one
You can lie when you name things
one time I almost gave my search action friend a heart attack by saying I "didn't believe" in metroidvanias and I think that was probably the most evil thing I've done to this day
I deadpanned through a 10 minute explanation of it and then dropped "oh, no, I get it. I just think every game kind of sounds like that." and I could feel how badly she wanted to kill me
