Vombatus Piraticus

Hey, I'm El, they/them. This blog is a mish-mash of fandom, dnd, animals, queer shit, etc. If you like what you see, stick around.

[spyroforlife]

gonna post a controversial take alright are y’all ready??

…

actually typing out emoticons like XD and :D and :V never should have gone out of fashion and you can pry them out of my cold dead hands okay I know emojis are fun but THEY DON’T CAPTURE THE EMOTION IN THE SAME WAY

so like

…yeah that was basically it, thanks for reading

[reynaruina]

also websites that  automatically replace your typed out <3 and :D with emojis upon sending them are a Danger To Everything That’s Good In The World

[cumaeansibyl]

bring back nose smilies :-)

[porcupine-girl]

There is no emoji that captures what I mean by :P (I do NOT mean “hur hur goofy-ass face!”) and the one for :^/ is not great. And lest we forget, 🤷🏻‍♀️ is absolutely inadequate compared to ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[tempest-caller]

Faces no emoji has ever managed to capture, imo:

:P

^_^

:3

^u^

:/

O.o

0.0

>:/

<(^u^)>

[batneko]

I am too old to stop using XD

[therev28]

i have never yet found an emoji that fully captures the shifty energy of: 

>_>

<_<

[spyderqueen]

Oh man, I’ve missed O.o

Especially alternating to really capture how boggled you are.

O.o

o.O

O.o

[charlottemadison42]

Whatever the name of this team is, I am on it

[eeveedatparty]

this is   awesome

[defective-replicant-deactivated]

._. is pretty good too and 😐 just ISN’T THE SAME

[acrelion]

XD, ^-^, :3, <3, and =P until death

[zetsubonna]

¬_¬ is the most eloquent keystroke combo

[booksandcatslover]

U_U is my fav, and also O_O

[thehornedwitch-deactivated20211]

the SHEER MISCHIEF of OvO

[weaselle]

me af

[littlejowo]

Some personal favorites of my own:

:3c

>:3c

OF7o

òwó

ú_ù

n_n

owo

oTL

=(Ô . Ô)=

[revcleo]

Kaomoji (≧ᗜ≦)

[catbountry]

>:3 Rawr

[madjesters1]

:D

[fangirltothefullest]

Personal faves:

TTwTT

83

8U

>8U

>8Oc

>////<

>////>

(-^_^-)

( 6w6;;;)

( > ^ <;;)

=(^w^)=

\o/

OTL

[spindlewig]

my favorite thing is that my phone has a built-in emoticon part so I can super easily just do

✧⁠◝⁠(⁠⁰⁠▿⁠⁰⁠)⁠◜⁠✧

(⁠ ⁠˘⁠ ⁠³⁠˘⁠)⁠♥

(⁠ ⁠T⁠_⁠T⁠)⁠＼⁠(⁠^⁠-⁠^⁠ ⁠)

ʕ⁠ ⁠º⁠ ⁠ᴥ⁠ ⁠º⁠ʔ

〜⁠(⁠꒪⁠꒳⁠꒪⁠)⁠〜

ʕ⁠ノ⁠•⁠ᴥ⁠•⁠ʔ⁠ノ⁠ ⁠︵⁠ ⁠┻⁠━⁠┻

ಠ⁠_⁠ಠ

with just a quick little tap

you can pry good old fashioned emoticons from my cold, dead hands

(and even then it’s gonna be a struggle)

…⁠ᘛ⁠⁐̤⁠ᕐ⁠ᐷ

[eroscestlavie]

We rly need to bring back the term “acquaintance” like into regular and frequent use. So many high drama community squabbles and feelings of betrayal could be avoided if people just admitted there’s a step between “stranger” and a full on friend whose friendship you have a commitment to continuing and fostering. Like sometimes you’re just aquatinted with someone and you might decide you don’t like them after getting to know them a bit better…that’s very normal

[mysweetoddbird]

sorry but once you notice how often ppl use a southern accent as shorthand for being unintelligent you can never unsee it. classism is baked so deeply and why are you acting like anyone who talks the way my grandfather talks is stupid.

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

re ehrc guidance. which is not legally binding.

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

“should I do this for people of all ages?”

that's a very good addition actually, a solid "you want me to ask people's kids about their genitals? can i have that in writing?" should make upper echelons very uncomfortable.

[battlecrazed-axe-mage]

Are you beating the allegations?

yes

no

Voting ended onMar 22, 2024

[battlecrazed-axe-mage]

The allegations,,,

[templebarrio]

[birbliophile]

made a thing.

[doublism]

they used to make smackable technology. you used to be able to hit your tv when it didn't work good.

[wizardarchetypes]

when I was a kid I had an old tv in my room that would always turn to unwatchable static in the middle of shows but one night my sister and I were watching Naruto & every time Kakashi was on-screen the static cleared so we were like “hahaha the tv looooves Kakashi.”

I had a Kakashi bookmark so we held it up against the screen as a joke but the static actually cleared up. Mystified, we tried different bookmarks and objects with the same plastic material but nothing else worked, only the Kakashi bookmark.

We ended up taping it to the corner of the screen and it stayed there for 11 years until we moved out. When I was older people would be like “can you move the bookmark off the screen” bc it did sort of block a bit of the view but I would demonstrate the static issue and everyone was always just like “huh. what the hell?? well…alright.”

No explanation, but thanks Kakashi.

[scarletjedi]

I had a similar tv! It was a tv with a built in dvd and vcr because it was in college and I’m apparently old now. But! The dvd player never wanted to play- unless it was Chicago (2002). First, we would put that dvd in, let it start, and then swap it for the movie we really wanted to watch. It got to the point where we would put in the dvd we wanted and sing “he had it coming!!!” At the screen at volume. Fucking worked *every time*

Bizarre.

[inkcurlsandknives]

I miss when technology had real personality, instead of fake ones designed to generate lies and nonsense and spy on you.

[occudo]

Emperor Comatose, Meburger and Eridian language lessons~

[kiapet2]

My explanation for the book v. film difference on Eridian eating customs is that movie!Rocky was full-on bluffing.

Like he was just calling human eating disgusting, what was he going to do, say "okay actually the way Eridians eat is so incredibly gross we do it in private sound-proofed rooms"? And cede the conversational high-ground and sense of species superiority to Grace??? Nah, it looks beautiful, definitely.

Then Grace says "show me" and Rocky is stuck now, he's committed. So he just bucks up and goes all-in. It's not like he'll see the human after this is all done, he can pretend it's totally normal just this once.

Eventually before they reach Erid Rocky is gonna have to come clean, and Grace will laugh at him for an hour straight.

[night-the-starfish]

Hunter and prey, markers on paper.

[positivelyqueer]

[ID: traditional marker illustration of grey heron with background of swimming minnows. Minnows are green brown. Where they intersect with body of heron, they become simplistic and white with blue outlines. /end ID]

[stargazing-zani]

In universe Project Hail Mary memes upon ye

[necromycologist]

LMAO

[talkative-bookshelf]

this is such a sibling statement

[whatcannotbesaid-shallbewept]

Miles Vorkosigan is literally the best character of all time. I'm not even joking here guys, this isn't exaggeration to mean "I really like him" no. He's the best character of all time stuck in an out of print 80s space opera book series. And you agree with me. You just don't know it yet.

[necromycologist]

okay. so wjat if i died right now

[muskoxen]

Lois McMaster Bujold doing it unlike anyone else.

The Penric series: what if you were a male sorcerer (and host to a female demon) and also occasionally provided magical abortions

Vorkosigan series: what if you were only alive because you mother received an emergency abortion and your fetal self was able to be treated for neurotoxins in a reused artificial womb. Also, extensive discussions about the ethics of human genetic engineering, “natural” conception and gestation, congenital disabilities, and sexual assault as a war crime.

Curse of Chalion series: what if you were a very traumatized, sad mid-level bureaucrat of a man who accidentally got pregnant with a demon and the soul of a real bad guy?

Sharing Knife series: what if your early pregnancy was maliciously aborted by an eldritch horror and the death of your fetus was imbued into a magic knife?