What Time Is It, Mr. Wolf?

Howlin' mad

[transfrogrified-in-the-void]

Here is a free pdf of the players handbook

Here is a free pdf of xanathars guide to everything

Here is a free pdf to monsters manual

Here is a free pdf to tashas cauldron of everything

Here is a free pdf to dungeon master’s guide

Here is a free pdf to volo’s guide to monsters

Here is a free pdf of mordenkainen’s tomb of foes

For all your dnd purposes

[gumi-megpoidd]

Here's a site that has literally every official (and most UA) dnd stuff

including the books and campaigns

and you can add homebrew

[transfrogrified-in-the-void]

Hey rb this!!!

[suriandtaal]

@chitratxt​

[bunjywunjy]

so the megalodon is most definitely extinct? how do scientists know?

well, the thing about large predators is that they leave an impact on an ecosystem big enough that you can tell they’re there, even if you never observe one directly. in this case, we know they’re definitely extinct because of the behavior of whales! whales used to max out at about 50 ft long and were fast and agile, entirely because of predation by megalodon!

but about 2 million years ago, our whales began to rapidly increase in size until we ended up with real monsters like the blue whale. this pretty directly lines up with the extinction of megalodon, and the removal of the pressure they were putting on large whale populations.

basically, large whales can get away with being gigantic, slow tanks in the oceans today because there simply isn’t a predator big enough to take them on anymore. if megalodon still existed, we would be seeing its impact on whale populations! whales would be smaller, and a hell of a lot more skittish than they are.

everything in a given ecosystem is connected, and you can often get important information about the unknown parts by observing the behavior of other parts of the ecosystem.

[bogleech]

All this, and the fact that if the ocean had sharks as big as Megalodon and had enough of them to sustain the species at all, we would have found at least one Megalodon tooth washed up on a beach somewhere that wasn’t fossilized. More likely, we would have found hundreds of such teeth every year for as long as we have existed. “We didn’t know giant squid existed!” is a common argument I see from cryptozoologists, but it’s also flat out false. We did know. We knew there were giant squid for centuries because we found remains of them for centuries. We simply hadn’t captured or filmed a live one!

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Okay, so I am well aware that this isn’t at all how evolution or natural selection works, but I still want a horror film that begins with a pair of scientists with dramatic music playing in the background as they pour over piles of records, until one of them turns to the other and says “it’s the whales. They’re becoming smaller, and more skittish.”

The other scientist looks out the window, over the sea. “Mother of god,” she whispers.

[milkchuggs]

Alternatively;

We begin to find giant shark teeth washing up on shore. People freak out. “Scientists find evidence megalodons never went extinct!”

Then the lead scientist calms everyone down so they can explain. “No. It’s worse than that. If they never went extinct, we would’ve found evidence like this before now. This means… ” Dramatically takes off glasses. 

“They’ve just come back.”

[animeengineer]

“But they can’t just suddenly come back like that!”

“You’re right. Someone brought them back.”

[bunjywunjy]

PLEASE,,,

[crowgifts]

Jesus Christ Super-predator

[bunjywunjy]

I’m pretty sure that I was the one driving when we all got into this little circus car but now I’m wedged under the back seat and the clowns have just ramped us off the grandstands and directly onto the popcorn cart

[iron-kolo]

You could say this thread…

Had jumped the shark!

[scoutsmoocrew]

Hey because I'm pretty sure you don't get a lot of fun asks. Any knowledge on why some cows be brown and white?

Well, it’s simple really! Red/brown is just the recessive gene while black is the dominant gene. So if you have a red parent or a parent that carries red, you have a chance at a red baby

[wolfman-murphy]

*the reaninated corpse of Gregor Mendel bursts through the wall like the Kool-Aid man, fists overflowing with pea vines*

[skye-in-the-death-star-deactiva]

Ngl, tolkien making a superior race that was tall, fit, blonde with blue eyes and then making an evil race that are hunched over with big noses is sus

[hominish0stilis]

Maybe you’re just an anti-Semitic racist

[skye-in-the-death-star-deactiva]

No, given the time that tolkien was written he probably did have some suspicious opinions about jews. There have been multiple essays written on the anti semetic undertones in his work, it only takes one google search.

I made this post as a joke because I love tolkien, I've read and watched all of the lord of the rings and the hobbit and loved them. I don't think it's too big of issue seeing how it isn't exactly 'screaming in your face fascism' and Tolkien is dead but it is noticeable at times.

(Nice ableism you've got going on there, maybe next time you try and take the moral highground after justifying the murder of wild animals you don't come onto someone's account throwing around slurs.)

[hominish0stilis]

>blurb blur burrrr people have written opinion pieces that nobody sane gives a fuck about

Confirmation bias is one hell of a drug

It’s not a slur, you’re an actual retard lol

And apparently, an anti-Semitic racist since you saw “hooked nose hunched over people” and thought “JEW!”

>bluh bluh hunting is murder but I wanna shoot hunters so bad

I don’t expect that you’d be able to understand what the elves and the Orcs were meant to truly be allegories for, not “white people and JOOS”.

Tolkien wrote the Orcs as horrible, twisted creatures who were corrupted by the machine of War. The elves were supposed to represent goodness, sure, but they also had flaws and their aloofness and hubris were among those. They didn’t last, they dwindled and left middle earth. Men were imperfect and easily corrupted but also capable of hope, hope beyond what they were expected of, hope to endure and aspire to good. You don’t know shit about Tolkien or the magnitude of his work you trendy ass piece of shit.

[assoc-of-free-people]

Casuals don’t know that the elves in middle earth are exiles that killed their own kind and were subject to the ban of the Valar.

Orcs were elves captured by Morgoth and tortured and twisted into a mockery because Morgoth was impotent and incapable of creation.

All of this is lost on them.

[itishowitbe]

^^^^^ THANK YOU. I was about to come down here and say the same freaking thing

[skye-in-the-death-star-deactiva]

X here

sorry that I upset the super nerds lmao. I haven't just watched one film and gone "this is bad" I spent all of my formative years obsessed with Tolkien, I still am. I'm not pretending that liking Tolkien makes you inherently anti-Semitic or even saying Tolkien was a raging anti-semite? And "the magnitude of his work" please- even I can admit Tolkien was the ultimate nerd who wrote shit loads of highly specific and detailed booms for his following of nerds. Nobody outside of the nerd orbit or fantasy orbit gives a shit about lotr tumblr discourse. 😭

[silverscreenx]

Ignorant

[cookingwithroxy]

The absolute core of the problem here seems to be so blatantly obvious, which is of course why OP can't see it.

That their own personal biases have blinded them to any option OTHER than 'Tolkien was a racist' because they have to make even an author they love fit into their hierarchy of moral biases that they project upon the world.

The irony that this means that OP thinks just like a Nazi is just going over their head, because their presumed position of moral superiority makes them ABOVE such issues.

[takashi0]

[wolfman-murphy]

Fortunately, we have Tolkien's opinion on the subject in his own words, which came up when they tried to have a Berlin publishing house do a German translation of The Hobbit. He had already told his regular publisher at Unwin that he was already against to start with, as he found the Nazi position "wholly pernicious and unscientific" and had been opposed to a German translation at all from the get-go put of respect for his many Jewish friends and colleagues. So when the prospective German publisher writes back asking him if he's Jewish, he basically responds "No, but I wish I was, since you're making the entire concept of Germany look bad, also your foundational myth is literally impossible, linguistically speaking":

"Dear Sirs,

Thank you for your letter. I regret that I am not clear as to what you intend by arisch. I am not of Aryan extraction: that is Indo-Iranian; as far as I am aware none of my ancestors spoke Hindustani, Persian, Gypsy, or any related dialects. But if I am to understand that you are enquiring whether I am of Jewish origin, I can only reply that I regret that I appear to have no ancestors of that gifted people. My great-great-grandfather came to England in the eighteenth century from Germany: the main part of my descent is therefore purely English, and I am an English subject — which should be sufficient. I have been accustomed, nonetheless, to regard my German name with pride, and continued to do so throughout the period of the late regrettable war, in which I served in the English army. I cannot, however, forbear to comment that if impertinent and irrelevant inquiries of this sort are to become the rule in matters of literature, then the time is not far distant when a German name will no longer be a source of pride.

Your enquiry is doubtless made in order to comply with the laws of your own country, but that this should be held to apply to the subjects of another state would be improper, even if it had (as it has not) any bearing whatsoever on the merits of my work or its sustainability for publication, of which you appear to have satisfied yourselves without reference to my Abstammung.

I trust you will find this reply satisfactory, and

remain yours faithfully,

J. R. R. Tolkien"

In conclusion, Tolkien to Nazi Germany: "I ain't ya boi, and this story is explicitly Not for you."

[baixueagain]

People keep searching for ways to argue that JK Rowling has always been a horrible person deep down as a way of explaining her recent behaviour.

But here’s the thing: that’s probably not true at all.

Pretending it is discounts the harsher, scarier truth: that even decent, well-meaning people can be radicalised by dangerous, hateful, predatory groups, and given enough time they can become truly hideous versions of their former selves.

It can happen to me. It can happen to you. It can happen to any of us, given the right mix of circumstances. And over the past few years, we’ve seen it happen to one of the most famous children’s authors of our age.

Nobody is immune.

[agender-thanos]

So you’re saying that The Clown wasn’t always… outright evil?

[the-angry-ship-deactivated20220]

No one is born evil

[agender-thanos]

Well…

Good point, but prejudice is best installed at a young age. Why is why I assumed the said Clown was just evil since some early part of their life.

[baixueagain]

What I’m saying is that JKR, like so many average people, very likely started off in a place of well-meaning ignorance. Then she started exploring new and different ideas being shared online. Some ideas resonated deeply with her experiences as an abuse survivor, so she began exploring them deeper. Then, wham, public backlash. Her trauma is triggered - but so is her curiosity. After all, if something she did or said set people off, maybe she’s onto something. So she starts exploring more. Starts asking more questions. And when she does this in public, there is always backlash. Meanwhile, however, in private, her new friends are telling her “See? This is proof we’re right. This is proof that the world wants us silenced, because they’re scared of the truth, and they really hate women that much.” And what do you know, what they’re telling her starts sounding more and more reasonable, especially since the outside world is becoming more and more hostile.

And round and round it goes, until you have a radical.

[fierceawakening]

This is absolutely how radicalization works. I started out “I could never be a feminist, they hate kinksters” (yes, this was a massive oversimplification) and within, oh, i think two years? i was saying “well, i don’t like the overtones of ‘radical feminist’ but what’s so wrong with saying you’re a radical AND a feminist? we need to make sure there’s space for traumatized women who really do legitimately hate and fear men.” When you become an extremist, you become UNRECOGNIZABLE even to YOURSELF.

[filthyjanuary]

#also JKR is just the most famous and most heinous case#there are MANY MANY young people being indoctrinated with the same ideals within the circles they found safety and community in#i do not care that JKR has been radicalised; i am far more worried about people not recognising the radicalising process#and how it invades queer and women’s communties to deliberately and actively create harmful environments#as disappointing and gross as JKR is; it’s#it’s important to recognise that radical ideologies (be they alt-right racism or TERFdom) are spread (via @wondersmith-and-sons​)

[wondersmith-and-sons]

There is also this….revisionist tendency to say that JKR has always been a closet bigot and conservative and right-wing since she got famous, but that’s not even entirely true. One of her first major political stirrups was criticising Tory austerity measures and David Cameron, (she also once said “people who send their children to boarding schools seem to feel that I’m on their side. I’m not.”), donating to Labour and being openly supportive of the British welfare state. She has, in at least one interview (from 2000) self-proclaimed to be left-wing. As early as 2003, she claimed that one of her biggest writing influences was a Jessica Mitford, who Rowling described as a “self-taught socialist”. 

This isn’t to apologise for her behaviour or rehabilitate her into some former activist who is still worthy of saving; it’s to contextualise her recent descent into TERFdom compared to her previous political stances she’s openly held. She was probably never going to be a staunch ally for equality and diversity, and yes, a lot of the HP series were very problematic in retrospect, but she could very easily have gone the other way and at the very least turned out to be less of a bigoted shitbag she is now. The fact that her politics in late 2000′s/early 2010′s were similar to so many people who are now activists and organisers for queer, BIPOC and vulnerable communities should tell us to be all the more careful about radfem ideology and transphobia in progressive spaces. 

It’s comforting to say “we should have known in hindsight that she was always going to become a TERF, the early signs were all there!” but that’s also not true. We have to recognise that the toxic ideology, the active harm she chooses to participate in, was a deliberate choice; this was a path she chose to go down, not one that was pre-determined for her. It’s also an easy way to separate ourselves from being critical of radfem influence; “JKR was always a right-wing bigot and that’s why she became indoctrinated with radfem bullshit. I’m not a right-wing bigot, therefore unlike her, I will never fall for radfem bullshit.” 

People who become radicalised, including those to become radfems, were not always irredeemable right-winger proto-Conservatives doomed for extremism and hatred, and that’s the point. The revisionist idea that she was always beyond salvaging erases how TERFs recruit people (especially vulnerable, impressionable people) in queer, progressive and liberal circles and how easily their dogwhistles can go undetected. The idea that JKR was already a closet right-winger from the get-go and therefore could never have been a good person is ultimately unhelpful because all it does it separate from the reality of how radfem doctrine spreads. TERFs sell their own toxic, harmful views packaged as progressive ideas as part of their strategy and that’s why their ideology is dangerous and requires constant vigilance to drive out. 

[lyrapuppy]

And all of the above is why you should never look down on someone for posting sweet/silly/memey shit while the world is on fire. People on the path to being radicalized DON’T take mental breaks or a step back when it gets too much.

[emeraldmercury]

TLDR JKR wasn’t a TERF from day 1. She was a normal person who was brainwashed and indoctrinated. And this can happen to you too.

[cookingwithroxy]

And as a note: TERFs aren’t right wing. That they don’t mind agreeing with right-wingers does not make them right-wing, just that horseshoe theory is true, and people on the extremes of a position have more in common than their differences. The one thing that they agree with their right-wing counterparts is that they both hate trans people, and that’s why they’re willing to work together for that common cause.

Calling TERFs right-wing is just another step of the ‘it could never happen here!’ mindset that needs to be abandoned, because this is always going to be a thing.

[transpondster]

Heroism in Hong Kong, 2019

[note: for those who use the mm-dd-yyyy US date format, in the photo above “1/10/2019″ means Oct 1, 2019. Also, “Carrie” refers to Carrie Lam, the Chief Executive of Hong Kong]

[eternal-bauhinian]

Reblogging again

They did indeed pass the law, and by doing so, they basically declared war on the citizens of HK

[weirdlandtv]

The Dark Crystal (1982) concept art by Brian Froud.

[botanyshitposts]

My backyard is overrun with wild strawberries to the point where I have to watch where I step. Once I saw the blooms, 12,000 years of Human Farming Instincts grabbed me by the throat and now I am caring for my little army of fragaria. They don't care though, they're just happy I'm helping them fuck. I am hoping my enemy, the groundhog will let me have some.

anon spotted conveniently placed and accidentally selected food plants growing from discarded seeds in their closely knit semi-nomadic hunter/gatherer camp’s garbage heap and it shows

[shiftythrifting]

Submission from Mina: Shifty kids’ spy activity manual (already written in), with the weirdest, ugliest illustrations … spotted at the local op-shop ages ago

[anais-ninja-bitch]

sir

sir, you do not belong there

[cipheramnesia]

he has a permit, leave him alone

[anais-ninja-bitch]

he does, in fact, not have a permit to be in the cat food pantry. i know this bc i issue those permits, and i have issued no such permit to this particular gentleman. if he might be so called.

[cipheramnesia]

i promise you he filed the paperwork with my office and he is just waiting for it in the mail

[anais-ninja-bitch]

how did you get authority to give my cats cat crime permits?

[cipheramnesia]

This woman assured me I am authorized:

[anais-ninja-bitch]

my friend, this is a very common scam. this woman is well known to authorities for cat crimes, especially fraud.

[cipheramnesia]

that's what I thought ma'am but her lawyer assured me she was legitimate:

[anais-ninja-bitch]

so trustworthy in appearance, and yet so duplicitous! you are the victim of a worldclass bamboozle! please, consult your insurance policy. you should have some financial coverage, but i am afraid your reputation may never recover.

[simonalkenmayer]

Cats cannot be trusted.

[fthgurdy]

Re: the last post, the article mentions that some places use clams to test the toxicity of the water. It’s like that in Warsaw- we get our water from the river, and the main water pump has 8 clams that have triggers attached to their shells. If the water gets too toxic, they close, and the triggers shut off the city water supply automatically.  

The clams are just better at measuring the water quality than any man-made sensors.

Edit: check out this documentary trailer : https://vimeo.com/408820791

[zvaigzdelasas]

God Bless Our Troops

[looksmokin]

They hot glued a spring to a clam and gave it full control over the water supply

[joshpeck]

as they should

[galerion-deactivated20250610]

i find it funny that i type exactly the same as i did three years ago, the same all-lowercase with terrible abbreviations, the same emojis n the same overly-optimistic exclamation marks. guess my writer forgot to give me character development

[ducktracy-deactivated20260315]

HBOmax just released a trailer for looney tunes cartoons! may 27th!!!

[brunhiddensmusings]

this is the first time ive seen someone try to bring back a classic era cartoon but has actually watched and understood what made the originals appealing rather then saying ‘yeah ive heard of it’ and guessing they look like they actually put in the effort and the passion needed

[myrmicitephilosopher]

I have one complaint... why are Bugs Bunny’s gloves Yellow?

[ducktracy-deactivated20260315]

a throwback to his design from the 1941 cartoon “elmer’s pet rabbit”! he had yellow gloves in another cartoon before that from 1939, but they said they took the inspiration from the first short

[edgar-allan-possum]

Seeing Bugs with a smartphone was pretty surreal

[prismatic-bell]

Oh thank goodness there’s a reason for the gloves.

[thanos-the-dad-titan]

OooooooooooohMyyyyyyyyyyyGooooooooooood..........

😀😀😀

[fierceawakening]

This looks HILARIOUS

[smoqueen-deactivated20251108]

whenever you see people on here talking about “ketamine” it’s not real. they ate a temptations cat treat

[professional-dog-hugger]

callout posts in 2014: this user is sending mean messages to people! please be warned!

callout posts in 2015: this user is stealing bones from cemeteries for witch rituals!

callout posts in 2016: this user Actually A Nazi

callout posts in 2017: this user watches an anime I don’t like

callout posts in 2018: i went through this user’s youtube like history and found a video from JonTron that they liked in 2012, proving that they’re a bad person

callout posts in 2019: this user plays E-Rated Video Games, which are meant for children, which seems pretty sus to me idk :/

callout posts in 2020: this user stole 5 gallons of purified water from the New DC Resistance Camp and was last seen headed towards Sunken Brooklyn

[ave-aria]

what I REALLY don’t like is this post was made in 2017

[greenwithenby-deactivated201609]

People who prefer hot weather: Snow and ice are a pain, and the cold is just kind of uncomfortable even when you wrap up, you know?

People who prefer cold weather: MY SKIN LITERALLY MELTS OFF EVERY SUMMER I AM A FUCKING HUMAN SOUP AS WE SPEAK

[greenwithenby-deactivated201609]

you wouldn’t believe how many people reblogged this to whine about hot weather in the tags.

[nucleic-friend-deactivated20171]

too cold? put on another layer!

too hot? change into thinner clothes!

still too cold? put on another layer!

still too hot? uh, get naked I guess?

still too cold? put on another layer!

still too hot? Ţ̡̜̮̗̟̯͘ͅA̛͈͎̤͙̳̦̱̜̺̪K̢̻̥̥̥̪̙̜̩̗̼̤̻̻͖͍̜͈͉͠ͅE̟͕̩͔̪͓͔̥̦͇̣͇̳͕͉͜ͅ ̠̝̥̖̭̦̼́͝O̩̦͓̠͉̲̲̱̪̹̻̼̭̯͎͈̕͢F̷̸̢̛̙͇͔̜̙̮̗̲̤͇̯͡F̧̨̱̤̲̫͕͔̼̭͙̠̙͙̹̻ͅ ҉̫̠͓̙̠͔̕͜͠Y͡҉̴̘̭̬̳́O̶̶̧͚̞̣̯̩̫̜̩͉̤͎͖̖͟ͅU̶̵̺̠̪̘̱̮̮̙̻͈̣̦̭͠͝͞R̨҉̦̺͓̩̺͖̘̪̥̺͚̱͚͔̪͓̖̰ ̷̸̺͇̳͇̖̥̻̳͚̗̥͙̪̣́S̡̞̳͖̭̯͉̻̠͔̥̹̫̣̼̹͇͜K͏̧͍̪̗̖̜̫̙̱̫͈̟̝̮͈̻̺̯̟̠̀Į̧̙͙͔̠͖̟̕͝Ǹ͖͎̳͍̪̱̞͇̺̘̩͘͜͠

[the-mighty-birdy-deactivated202]

The cold is easily shut out, the heat is inescapable hell

[dashuramode]

THE TRUTH COMES OUT.

Avoidance techniques for the cold:

-more coats, fire, hot food and drink, stay inside, fuzzy sweaters, ear muffs, become a burrito

Avoidance techniques for heat:

-die, I guess.

[isharaytaoshay-deactivated20180]

FUCK. HEAT.

[valtsv]

women want me. fish fear me. dermatologists hate me. hot singles in my area want to meet me. god wishes he were me.