Alice !!

blood being frequently described as having a "coppery smell" in fiction is kind of funny considering that there is a metallic component to blood and it's not copper

in fact if your blood smells or tastes like copper you probably have more urgent things to worry about than it being outside your body. it's probably better that it's not inside you anymore actually.

story where blood is described as smelling or tasting "coppery" and it's actually early foreshadowing that all the characters are suffering from heavy metal poisoning

aeserathedreamer

angelgirl instant loss with this one simple trick

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wizardarchetypes

No more sleeping with my phone within reach because I was having an extremely vivid dream that I was the victim of some sort of mass-poisoning. the notorious poisoner? "The Centipede Cult." They used a specific type of poison, referred to only by its chemical nomenclature, which I somehow remembered perfectly upon waking. It went: □□ Na({}^{2})

Because that makes sense. Anyway, this poison would submit me to its well-known and much-feared symptom: "17 Day Paralysis" in which you're paralyzed for exactly 17 days and you only chance of survival is to be on full machine support for 17 days.

Just before the medical team intubated me I remembered I have a Zoom meeting with my academic advisor today (I actually do in real life) and I needed to email him to let him know I was the victim of a mass-poisoning and would need to reschedule.

I kept trying to type the "□" symbol in my dream but could not figure out how and gave up.

I woke up in real life to find I'd begun drafting an email in my sleep to my professor in the Gmail app. I was apparently using talk-to-text (I often do because of my hand neuropathy) but speaking in Irish, which talk-to-text never understands, so other than the words in English "poison" and "centipede" the entire email was complete nonsense.

wizardarchetypes

I told my advisor about this and he said, "well, if you had been poisoned, I would have provided you whatever academic supports available to us."

You are 60% water and every lake, river, pond, swamp, creek, and ocean you encounter wants to reclaim it desperately. Be careful out there.

Good, I hope it haunts everyone about to enter a body of water so bad that they wear a life jacket. 🙌

Every single person I knew (past tense) who has drowned was "a strong swimmer." Water in the wild does not care how good you are at swimming.

I mean this with all due respect:

You are not going to pass a skillcheck against a rip current once it has you.

Waves will not bow to your physical prowess no matter how impressive.

Shock does not care that you used to be on your school swim team.

If you hit your head, being good at swimming isn't going to turn you face-up while you're unconscious.

You may be unable to return to shore. Rescue may be unable to find you quickly.

joanthreatt

Scheduling this for when weather starts warming up. Be careful swimming this summer

oneheadtoanother

precision-instrument

There is a crow that has been repeatedly bullying my annoying neighbor. Every time she steps outside it screams at her and gets territorial. Nature is beautiful

herpsandbirds

Rotenberg’s Pumpkin Toadlet (Brachycephalus rotenbergae), family Brachcephalidae, endemic to the Mantiqueira Mountains of Atlantic coastal Brazil

Poisonous.

Recently described (2021)

This is a tiny toad, with a max. length (SVL) of up to 1.8 cm.

photograph by Sandro Perez Veltman

Got isekaid into a fantasy world and they said to go back to earth I have to kill the demon queen.

Damn. Hope they have other options.

Aight so turns out they did have other options and once the demon queen dies we all go home no matter who kills her so I've been just killing adventurers.

Yeah it turns out if you pretend to be a weak girl and they "rescue you" they automatically assume you're joining their harem and then you can just stab them.

I have so many random legendary weapons now

Ok so it's kind of hard to keep track of all these adventurers but I have a plan. I'm going to become one of the demon queen's lieutenant.

I was worried I'd have to fight to get into her palace but the guy at the gates in account of being one of the "heroes" but the guy at the gates said something about my soul being stained by a hundred deaths or something and just let me in

I'm going to meet the demon queen now, everyone told me she was some hideous monster. Wish me luck...

This is the hottest woman I have ever met

So I have a leash now.

You know I think people had the wrong idea about the demon queen. Her idea for covering the land in eternal darkness seems really smart and orphaning an entire village is just how she blows off steam

Ok so mommy said my new armor will make me better at serving her but it is just a chainmail bikini

There are no corporations here! There's no global warming! Normal medieval/renaissance era issues you'd worry about don't exist for genre reasons!

If those stupid anime protagonist wannabes managed to kill mommy I would have been sent back to earth and have to live in capitalism land again!! So obviously I had to stab them in the chest again and again and again until the smugness left their eyes!

What's not clicking?