[bunjywunjy]

are all animals dangerous?

every animal has the potential to be dangerous under certain circumstances. for instance, a dog could bite you, a moth could distract a UPS driver into plowing through your living room window, you could inhale and choke on an earthworm.

[snickeringsnicket]

did lemony snicket write this

[special-lucky-chosen-one]

people say that the Spaniel is a gentle breed of dog. and yet, when accelerated out of this railgun at 2,500 m/s directly towards this group of orphans,

[cubesandstuff]

Me, in the summer heat, taking 2 points of fire damage every second: aeugh aeugh aeugh ough eough ough eaugh

[veil-of-exordia]

confusing Odysseus and Orpheus is like confusing a liar and a lyre. send post

[abalidoth]

Looking back, Nobody found this funny.

[sp1c3-r4ck-synd1c4t3]

Does your birthday coincide with something interesting? (From memory, no looking up)

Yes, something big (National holiday, equinox)

Yes, something small (Local holiday, celebrity birthday)

Yes, something tiny (Game release anniversary, day in memes)

Yes, something personal (Friend's birthday, anniversary event)

Can't think of anything

Results

Voting ended onJun 10, 2024

[aardvaark]

leverage season 1 plot

[theehorsepusssy]

[pocketss]

happy old gnoll

[hiveswap]

If you got enough money to live happily and comfortably for the rest of your life, but everyone who saw you immediately knew what fandom you are in and understood what that means, would you take it?

[thatsbelievable]

[arytha]

[ID: A graphic that's titled: Should You Open the Forbidden Door?

Underneath is a simple flow chart that begins with a clip-art graphic of an old wooden arched door with carved stone surrounds. The chart points to two boxes in succession below.

The first box: That all depends.

The second box: What side of the door are you on? End ID]

[silkypicrew-deactivated20260725]

speechless. the pose. the expression. this should be a painting.

[c---crow]

i'm no good at painting sorry. i have excessive line work instead

[wolfythewitch]

Archery practice

[ysabelmystic]

I just heard my mom tell my brother, “when you die, you will go outside and garden until your father says you’re done” and it took me a second to realize that my brother was playing a videogame and this was not a theological discussion.

[martianaviator]

Purgatory

[sharper-and-bigger]

The Garden of Death

Watercolor and gouache by Hugo Simberg, 1896

[probablybadrpgideas]

A dragon with glitter breath that's adored by it's kobold followers. "Make Shiny!"

someone please draw this

[artbyabyst]

[theeclectickoalastudent]

"My Little Kobold: Glitter is Magic"

[what-even-is-thiss]

Wait a minute if elves take a hundred years to grow up that has some weird implications.

So… if we say a human comes of age in fantasy worlds at 16, that means it takes an elf 6.25 years to age one human year. If we say the age of maturity is 18 that’s 5.55 years.

So then… okay with people that live a long time have to see their human friends die and probably see them like pets yeah that’s been explored to death. But what about a human just seeing their friend not grow up?

An elf toddler and a human toddler become friends at a playdate. At the time the human is two and the elf is 13. Emotionally the elf is just a little older than the human. But then the human grows up. He grows up and as he grows up his friend doesn’t. Not much, anyways.

She’s still sucking her thumb and throwing tantrums the entire time that he grows up. When he reaches the age where he’d choose a trade or go to an academy he’s earning extra money by babysitting her. During his initiation into adulthood on his 18th birthday she’s there with her parents holding a stuffed animal. Later that afternoon he sees her being shown some colorful flashcards with letters of the elvish alphabet on it by her father.

The human gets older. He learns how to fight, he goes from town to town getting work. At some point he joins the army. Every time he visits his hometown he has at least one more scar and by the time he’s 30 and the elf girl is mentally seven by human standards she starts to understand that something is wrong. Even after he settles down to be a home maker for the local blacksmith something feels wrong.

And she watches him grow old. When she’s in her 80s she babysits his grandchildren for extra cash after school, coming over in her school robes and ruffling his hair. She doesn’t remember why she became friends with this human or when but a strange sense of jealousy fills her heart.

Now she realizes it. She realizes it too late, on the day her friend learns that he is dying. The first day of her 100th year and the start of his last. Humans’ lifetimes may only last for the childhood of an elf if they’re lucky, but they learn so fast. They do so much. They cram their days full of love and hate and learning and wonder.

He knew this was coming. He knew all of this decades before she did, because elves are slow. Not stupid, certainly not stupid, but very very slow. She holds her old friend’s hand as he lays down on his bed. A man that has led such an ordinary life but feels so extraordinary to her. Because he has always, always been there and now he just won’t. Because in her eyes he became so wise so fast and now he’s just gonna be gone.

On an elf’s 100th birthday they are allowed to choose a new name for themselves. It can be important, or not. Usually it will follow them until the end of time. She stands in front of her family’s elders and is asked what name she will be called from now on.

She names herself after him.

[nothing-an-iratze-cant-fix]

I think elf maturity is not parallel to the human understanding of maturity. When elves take so long to reach “maturity” it normally means a) emotional/mental maturity only and b) an elven level of maturity that surpasses human. So an elf the same age as a human is basically as mature as that human, but will, over a longer time, become more developed than the human will have the opportunity to be. To an elf, they are immature because the development an elf goes through is much more prolonged but to a human they’re equally as mature as them. It’s just that as time goes on the elf continues to mature and the human dies. So human has achieved 90% of the maturity we expect from a human but elf has only achieved 30% of the development they expect to in their lives. But physical maturity seems to be roughly equivalent. Basically elves are just snooty.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Hey man did you know that I can just make things up with my mind

[nothing-an-iratze-cant-fix]

See if you were 150 you wouldn’t be so touchy about this…

[what-even-is-thiss]

I’m not touchy I just keep experiencing people putting dnd logic into my little story I made up like five years ago and figured I should finally say something about it. You aren’t the first person to say something like this and you probably won’t be the last. I just wanted to point out. That I can just make up stuff with my mind. And I’m not following the canon of anything. I made this up. It’s kinda weird that people keep telling me I got elves wrong in that context. Cause like. I made this up with my writer brain.

[medicine-and-compassion-blog]

“Why did God create the appendix? So that surgeons don’t go hungry.”

— A surgeon

[headspace-hotel]

I did not interpret this the way it was probably intended

[largishcat]

there have been 774664 studies on basic income and the results of every single one have been “wow! we gave people money and literally everything improved! crime rates are down! the actual sky is bluer! my (the researcher’s) wife decided not to leave me after all!” but these have all been short studies, just a couple years. i think what’s really missing from the field is a proper long form study, with a broader, bolder demographic, to really get us those numbers we need. a truly diverse study pool like, say, everyone. forever

[valtsv]

in fucking Tears thinking about how disgusting a baby griffin would look

[valtsv]

behold. my ugly son.

[since-times-long-forgotten]

don’t know how to draw baby birds but here u go I drew your son