Xanathar's Pen

Just a 20-something They/Them chillin at the end of the world making NSFW Art for the Dopamine

[burins]

complaining works never 👏 stop 👏 whining 👏

[xanatharspen]

Momento Mori

I only remained on Twitter for so long because of Unus Annus. I was there for the Livestream and was live tweeting Pictures I doodled during the livestream with a timestamp of when I finished them in respects to the final count down.

But twitter is a trash fire so I took screenshots of my tweets and will be posting them and the originals below mainly for archive puposes now that I've deactivated my twitter.

Pictures below the Cut.

(Tweet of the first Picture "Momento Mori" completed at 4 hours, 31 minutes, and 53 seconds left in countdown to the deletion of Unus Annus.)

(Tweet of the second picture "Momento Mori 2" completed at 3 hours, 30 minutes, and 30 seconds until the deletion of Unus Annus.)

(Tweet of the third picture "Momento Mori 3" completed at 2 hours, 45 minutes, and 10 seconds until the deletion of Unus Annus.)

(Tweet of the fourth picture "Momento Mori 4" completed at 2 hours, 10 minutes, and 5 seconds until the deletion of Unus Annus.)

(Tweet of the fifth picture "Momento Mori 5" completed at 1 hour, 32 minutes, and 35 seconds until the deletion of Unus Annus.)

(Tweet of the sixth picture "Momento Mori 6" completed at 57 minutes and 45 seconds until the deletion of Unus Annus.)

(Tweet of the seventh picture "Momento Mori 7" completed at 47 minutes and 56 seconds until the deletion of Unus Annus.)

(Tweet of the eighth picture, "Momento Mori 8" completed at 13 minutes and 10 seconds until the deletion of Unus Annus.)

Final Tweet a screenshot from the last frame of the last moments

I debated whether or not to save these and repost, save them just for me, or just delete them all together.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not posting them because I want Unus Annus to come back or anything. But sometimes you need some motivation, some reminder that creation doesn't have to be for financial gain.

You are okay to draw fan art and write fan fiction. Sometimes it can feel like people want you to stop those hobbies and instead create something that you can get paid for, but creating happiness should be what you focus on.

I still think about the last Livestream of Unus Annus and how motivated I was afterwards.

[burntcopper]

things english speakers know, but don’t know we know.

[windycityteacher-deactivated202]

WOAH WHAT?

[ice-light-red-deactivated201611]

That is profound. I noticed this by accident when asked about adjectives by a Japanese student. She translated something from Japanese like “Brown big cat” and I corrected her. When she asked me why, I bluescreened.

[moved--306389]

What the fuck, English isn’t even my first language and yet I picked up on that. How the fuck. What the fuck.

[exomoon]

Reasoning: It Just Sounds Right

[arkthepieking]

Oooh, don’t like that. Nope, I do not even like that a little bit.  That’s parting the veil and looking at some forbidden fucking knowledge there.

[canthinkofaurl-deactivated20221]

How did I even learn this language wtf

[titaniumelemental]

I had to read “brown big cat” like three times before my brain stopped interpreting it as “big brown cat”

[arjan-de-lumens]

I’m kinda reading “brown big cat” as “brown (big cat)”, that is, a “big cat” - like a tiger or lion or other felid of similar size - that happens to be brown. “Big brown cat”, on the other hand, sounds more like a brown cat that’s just a bit bigger than a regular housecat - like a bobcat or a maine coon cat or something like that.

[the-real-seebs]

yeah, a brown big cat is almost certainly a puma. a big brown cat is probably a maine coon.

[whetstonefires]

yeah, if you put the adjectives out of order you wind up implying a compound noun, which is presumably why we have this rule; we stripped out so much inflection over the centuries word order now dictates a huge amount of our grammar

[delphinidin4]

Just looked up why we do this and one of the first lines in this article is, “Adjectives are where the elves of language both cheat and illumine reality.” so I know it’s a good article.

Things this article has taught me:

This same order of adjectives more or less applies to languages around the world.  “It’s possible that these elements of universal grammar clarify our thought in some way,” says Barbara Partee, a professor emeritus of linguistics and philosophy at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Yet when the human race tacitly decided that shape words go before color words go before origin words, it left no record of its rationale.

One theory is that the more specific term always falls closer to the noun. But that doesn’t explain everything in adjective order.

Another theory is that as you get closer to the noun, you encounter adjectives that denote more innate properties. In general, nouns pick out the type of thing we’re talking about, and adjectives describe it,” Partee told me. She observes that the modifiers most likely to sit right next to nouns are the ones most inclined to serve as nouns in different contexts: Rubber duck. Stone wall.

Rules are made to be broken. Switching up the order of adjectives allows you to redistribute emphasis. (If you wish to buy the black small purse, not the gray one, for instance, you can communicate your priorities by placing color before size).  Scrambling the order of adjectives also helps authors achieve a sense of spontaneity, of improvising as they go. Wolfe discovers such a rhythm, a feeling-his-way quality, when he discusses his childhood recollection of “brown tired autumn earth” and a “flat moist plug of apple tobacco.”

Brain scans have discovered that your brain has to work harder to read adjectives in the “wrong” order.

TL;DR: No one knows why we do this adjective thing but it’s pretty hardwired in.

[cuzosu-blog]

@deadcatwithaflamethrower Linguistics tidbit.

[eclipseshotel]

[penandinkprincess]

hi i just created an excel sheet where i can pick a meal and have it autopopulate the ingredients i'll need as a shopping list

i have never felt so smart

[penandinkprincess]

OH MY GOD I CAN MAKE THEM DROP DOWN LISTS

[penandinkprincess]

THIS IS TRUE POWER

I NEVER HAVE TO DECIDE WHAT TO EAT OR MAKE A GROCERY LIST AGAIN

I CAN MAKE THE MACHINE DO IT FOR ME, AND ALL I HAVE TO DO IS PICK A FOOD FROM A DROPDOWN LIST

OH MY GOD I'M THE SMARTEST PERSON IN THE GAME

[penandinkprincess]

HI IF YOU WANNA MAKE THIS

I DID IT IN GOOGLE'S EXCEL BC THAT'S WHAT I HAVE ACCESS TO ON MY PERSONAL DEVICE. I IMAGINE EXCEL EXCEL IS PROB SIMILAR.

column A: name of the dishes you want/know how to make

column B: ALL of the ingredients for each dish

put FILTER formula in E2. literally type it the exact way you see it here. the only adjustment you'll need to make is B16 and A$16, because you'll need to adjust those for however many rows you have in columns A and B. for example: if you have 100 rows total, you'll need the formula to read =FILTER(B1:B100,D2=A1:A$100). now enter the value (the name of your dish) in D2 to test it out. if you type the name of one of your dishes and it returns ingredients, congrats! you did it.

to make a dropdown list, select the cell you want your dropdown list you want to be in then:

go to Data, and select "Data validation"

click + Add rule

then it'll let you add dropdown options

enter the names from Column A, and bam! you got a dropdown that'll return ingredients!

to make lunch/dinner/etc, use the same =FILTER(B1:B100,D2=A1:A$100), and all you'll be changing is the D2. instead of D2, just put the name of the cell where you'll be putting your dropdown for the meal.

so for mine

Lunch is =FILTER(B1:B100,F2=A1:A$100)

and

Dinner is =FILTER(B1:B100,H2=A1:A$100)

voila, my friends! you now have a drop down mealplanner that'll autopopulate ingredients

ENJOY NOT HAVING TO MEALPLAN OR WRITE GROCERY LISTS FROM SCRATCH EVER AGAIN OKAY BYE

[xanatharspen]

I DID IT! I added the recipes to the recipe list at the top so it pulls the recipes too so I don't have to go searching through my phone for them! This is going to be so much easier...

[xanatharspen]

Updating this because I did something! I was trying to make a shopping list and kept having to manually sort things so I instead sat down and added a few Items to my version of this phenomenal thing!

First things First, I added a column Beside the Recipe and Ingredients so I could have a set of Area Dropdowns with my brains version of areas of the store:

Next I combined all three lists into one via putting the before mentioned formula into curly Brackets {} with semicolons seperating each list

Then I used the VLOOKUP function to pull the area in the column before the List. It's important that the area is first, I promise. the VLOOKUP function looks like this:

the first field is what we're looking for, in this example, the Ingredient in G2, then the range, which is both our Ingredients and Area columns, and then the column we want to pull our answer from when we find what we're looking for, with 0 being a standing for False which just means we want an exact match, not the closest match.

then we copy this down as far as your list will go when you have all your longest ingredients recipes selected. (We'll ignore the N/As)

Next we create a new sheet that will generate our shopping list from whatever meals we want!

I learned this from YouTube from the Farmer Spreadsheet Academy and I tried using it for the combining of the lists at first, but later on, just for making the sorted list.

In the first cell you're going to use a couple functions: the Sort function, to sort from A-Z based on the area, and the Unique function, which will get rid of any duplicates in your list (So beware if you have multiple recipes that call for 1 large avocado, your end shopping list will only have 1 large avocado in this method.)

This will sort your ingredients by Area and then List A-Z in this new sheet. Do you need a new sheet? No. but I feel like it's a little easier to copy and paste into my Keep notes afterwards like this

It will not remove spelling or capitalization differences so that might be one way to make sure, in your main list, to make sure you don't miss anything for example:

I know at least two recipes need Garlic cloves and two need Lemon Juice because I was lazy. Hooray!

I hope someone gets some good out of this.

[penandinkprincess]

hi i just created an excel sheet where i can pick a meal and have it autopopulate the ingredients i'll need as a shopping list

i have never felt so smart

[penandinkprincess]

OH MY GOD I CAN MAKE THEM DROP DOWN LISTS

[penandinkprincess]

THIS IS TRUE POWER

I NEVER HAVE TO DECIDE WHAT TO EAT OR MAKE A GROCERY LIST AGAIN

I CAN MAKE THE MACHINE DO IT FOR ME, AND ALL I HAVE TO DO IS PICK A FOOD FROM A DROPDOWN LIST

OH MY GOD I'M THE SMARTEST PERSON IN THE GAME

[penandinkprincess]

HI IF YOU WANNA MAKE THIS

I DID IT IN GOOGLE'S EXCEL BC THAT'S WHAT I HAVE ACCESS TO ON MY PERSONAL DEVICE. I IMAGINE EXCEL EXCEL IS PROB SIMILAR.

column A: name of the dishes you want/know how to make

column B: ALL of the ingredients for each dish

put FILTER formula in E2. literally type it the exact way you see it here. the only adjustment you'll need to make is B16 and A$16, because you'll need to adjust those for however many rows you have in columns A and B. for example: if you have 100 rows total, you'll need the formula to read =FILTER(B1:B100,D2=A1:A$100). now enter the value (the name of your dish) in D2 to test it out. if you type the name of one of your dishes and it returns ingredients, congrats! you did it.

to make a dropdown list, select the cell you want your dropdown list you want to be in then:

go to Data, and select "Data validation"

click + Add rule

then it'll let you add dropdown options

enter the names from Column A, and bam! you got a dropdown that'll return ingredients!

to make lunch/dinner/etc, use the same =FILTER(B1:B100,D2=A1:A$100), and all you'll be changing is the D2. instead of D2, just put the name of the cell where you'll be putting your dropdown for the meal.

so for mine

Lunch is =FILTER(B1:B100,F2=A1:A$100)

and

Dinner is =FILTER(B1:B100,H2=A1:A$100)

voila, my friends! you now have a drop down mealplanner that'll autopopulate ingredients

ENJOY NOT HAVING TO MEALPLAN OR WRITE GROCERY LISTS FROM SCRATCH EVER AGAIN OKAY BYE

[xanatharspen]

I DID IT! I added the recipes to the recipe list at the top so it pulls the recipes too so I don't have to go searching through my phone for them! This is going to be so much easier...

[thetreetopinn]

Sources for Somerton's Plagiarism from Hbomberguy's Video (as much as I could get)

I went back through Harry's video, focused entirely on the sources James Somerton pulled from in the hopes of creating as much of a comprehensive list as I could--though my Google-Fu is not very strong. I did however find something I thought was forever lost and that made me very happy--specifically the magazine Midlands Zone containing the column by Steven Spinks that Harry poignantly used as an illustration of gay erasure... while Somerton uses it to sound like HE is waxing remorseful about the very subject.

This is not a complete list, I'm sure. For one thing, I was only able to attempt to pull sources that Harry himself mentioned in the video. Surely there's so very much more out there. I expect there to be a great deal more internet archeology to unearth just how much writing and culture Somerton has stolen like he's the British Museum of Natural History but for gay people.

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Harry's list of mentioned youtubers:

Alexander Avila - https://www.youtube.com/@alexander_avila Matt Baume - https://www.youtube.com/@MattBaume Khadija Mbowe - https://www.youtube.com/@KhadijaMbowe Lady Emily - https://www.youtube.com/@LadyEmilyPresents Shanspeare - https://www.youtube.com/@Shanspeare RickiHirsch - https://www.youtube.com/@RickiHirsch VerilyBitchie - https://www.youtube.com/@verilybitchie

Harry created a convenient playlist of videos by these and other people he wants to bring to everyone's attention.

Please give them your support.

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Midlands Zone Magazine - Column by Steven Spinks

After a great deal of searching, I found an archive of the "Midlands Zone" magazine, where you can read through past issues dating all the way back to February 2014. I have also found the issue from which Somerton took Spinks' poignant discussion of gay erasure: Overall archive Specific Issue - Pages 16-17

It will not allow you to download it, but you can read it exactly as it appeared in print form.

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My best effort to find the exact book or article Somerton lifted from to be able to get attention to the original writers

Tinker Bells and Evil Queens By Sean Griffin

The Celluloid Closet By Vito Russo Wikipedia article about the book Wikipedia article about the documentary My weak google-fu could not find where you can access the book or documentary. Check your local municipal or university library for book or documentary, or if you know a good source for one or both, please reblog with it added

Camp and the Gay Sensibility By Jack Babuscio

The Groundbreaking Queerness of Disney's Mulan By Jes Tom Personal site with links to social media accounts

Why Rebel Without a Cause was a milestone for gay rights By Peter Howell

Why "The Craft" is still the best Halloween coming out movie By Andrew Park

Opinion: From facehuggers to phallic tails, is 'Alien' one of the queerest films ever? By Dani Leever

Women and Queerness in Horror: Jennifer's Body By Zoe Fortier

[Pride 2019] We Have Such Sights to Show You: Hellraiser and the Spectrum of Queerness By Alejandra Gonzalez

Revealing the Hellbound Heart of Clive Barker's 'Hellraiser' By Colin Arason

Queering James Cameron's Aliens (1986) By Bart Bishop

Demeter and Persephone in space: transformation, femininity, and myth in the 'Alien' films By David Greven

Fears of a millennial masculinity: Scream's queer killers By David Greven (Scholarly site, unable to access original work, offers a way to request a full copy of the text in PDF)

Queer Subtext in Stephen King's It - Part 1: 'Reddie' Character Analysis By Rachel Brands Rachel is the very unfortunate lady who found out she was being stolen from because she supported Somerton through Patreon and saw one of his videos early with her writing--lacking any form of citation or credit

How 'It: Chapter Two' Leaves Richie Tozier Behind By Joelle Monique

When Horror Becomes Strength: Queer Armor in Stephen King's 'IT' By Alex London

Why Queer People Love Witchcraft By Amanda Kohr

'The Favourite' Queers The Past And The Present By Giorgi Plys-Garzotto

(Wuko) Crush (Mako x Wu) By MoonFlower on YouTube

5 Terrible Movies With Awesome Hidden Meanings By J.F. Sargent

The Radicalization of Sexuality: The Queer Casae of Jeffrey Dahmer By Ian Barnard

Netflix's 'Dahmer' backlash highlights ethical issues in the platform's obsession with true crime By Shivani Dubey

The Possible Disturbing Dissonance Between Hajime Isayama's Beliefs and Attack on Titan's Themes Original Article by "Seldom Musings" (Author has made all posts not related to Attack On Titan private and has retired from the blog)

Everyone Loves Attack on Titan. So Why Does Everyone Hate Attack on Titan? By Gita Jackson

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The following people are otherwise named in the video. There are no direct citations of articles or books by them in said video. I am unable to guarantee that I have identified the correct individual.

Darren Elliott-Smith Michaela Barton David Church Claire Sisco King Amanda Howell Jessica Roy

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Telos announced and cancelled a film likely based on this book: The Final Girl Support Group - By Grady Hendrix

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I refrained from including certain sources.

First off only focusing on Somerton's work.

Secondly not including anything that might be visible enough to not require amplifying their voice (I cannot speak for all of those I have found links to, but journalism is frequently a thankless job).

Thirdly any source that is of a nature that is antithetical to the very existence of the queer community, such as the right-leaning source that didn't make it into Somerton's video, but Harry was able to identify as a source he had considered using.

If you feel I have missed a mentioned source--or you know of a source from material that was not covered in Harry's video--please do not hesitate to reblog with added details.

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Please share this information far and wide, and please add to it if you find more material that can be positively identified and linked to the creator/writer.

[viaalterego]

[trishacollins]

Actually, my therapist has told me this is a healthy way of processing things. Because you can get the trauma out of your head And you can write the ending you wish it had. The trusted person rescue, the catharsis of getting to kill the one who hurt you.

It's good for your brain. It's healthier than bottling it up. Fiction is where we go for emotional release. That can be true with trauma too.

[erelierraceala]

so what you're saying is

character: NO

therapist: YES

[vmures]

Adding @dear-massacre's tags because they are so true:

#this is why it's important to remember that fictional characters are fake #they have no agency. they're made up #it hurts no one to make any character go through the horrors #it is healthy and cathartic

[xanatharspen]

Most Fuckable DnD Monster

Below is a Link to a Google Form. This form has a survey to collect information on which DnD Monster is the Most Fuckable. Please copy this Link wherever your local Monster Fucking DnD Nerds hang out. Please Read the Rules at the top before getting started. https://forms.gle/4vEx5vC3YFfkXbcAA

[xanatharspen]

If you're not into monster fuckery, you don't have to fill it out. No one's forcing you to. No one's holding a knife to you saying, "Which dnd monster is the most sexually appealing?"

If you clicked on the link, you chose to take the survey. You can always close it if the answer is "None, gross."

[sapphling]

ever since my gf and i moved in together a couple years ago i've been semi-regularly executing something i call a "prank night." this is something you want to do frequently enough that it's not a special occasion, but spontaneously enough to make it a prank. the set-up for a prank night is simple

listen to your partner and take note of a couple things she's putting off doing, as well as a couple things she's been wanting

wait for a day when your partner is out of the house for work or errands

tell them that you'll be playing videogames/hanging out with the guys/doing very little all day. this way her guard will be down

now you can execute the four core aspects of the prank night

act of service. complete a chore or task that you know she's been dreading. doing the dishes/cleaning the living room/making an appointment/doing the groceries, etc.

lil gift. flowers, chocolate, anything that you know she wants but hasn't felt justified in getting for herself

sustenance. a charcuterie board, a homecooked meal, her favorite snack, or a fancy cocktail can all work

fourth, final, most important, when she gets home you sit her down and eat her out like she's your last meal on death row

The Look On The Girlfriend's Face Will Be Awesome!

[xanatharspen]

This is my DnD character and his boyfriend.

[xanatharspen]

Most Fuckable DnD Monster

Below is a Link to a Google Form. This form has a survey to collect information on which DnD Monster is the Most Fuckable. Please copy this Link wherever your local Monster Fucking DnD Nerds hang out. Please Read the Rules at the top before getting started. https://forms.gle/4vEx5vC3YFfkXbcAA

[widogaspmauk]

Y’all…. This fucking art by @agarthanguide is just… incredible.

Tal really blew it away with this design. I am absolutely going to cosplay this, but also all of these pieces could work in my regular wardrobe. Pair that shirt with some jeans. A cr shirt with the pants. I have never looked at a character I wanted to cosplay and saw clothing I would actually wear irl. But it also looks like it belongs in dnd! It’s fucking incredible! Anyway, once they move to New York of finished, I will be starting this for sure. Also super excited about remaking the hammer.

[xanatharspen]

I want to lick this art.

[frownyalfred]

your friendly weekly reminder:

ratios don’t mean shit

no fic is too short or too long

you don’t have to do what your commentators want

some of the best fics get 0 comments

some fics get more kudos because they’re in a popular fandom/pairing at a popular time

people will enjoy your fic without commenting and that’s hard sometimes

keep writing ❤️

[xanatharspen]

Art Dump of my DnD Character, Nul Markov (A Roguelock, Swashbuckler Hex Blade) and His Fire Genasi Boyfriend. Nul is a Shadow Genasi and uses He/They Pronouns. He has an Abbarent Dragonmark

Arsyn, His boyfriend, is a Fire Genasi Rogue, He/Him, More Genderpunk. They were seperated from each other and Arsyn's Fire, which was orange became Blue with the Anger.

Read the full History of these two on my Ao3 if you are so Inclined: The History Of Nul Markov

Level 10 Nul got a armor redesign here (and the Base I used for him):

And finally, Some more Non-Canon Doodles of Post retirement Arsynul and Nul in a slutty outfit

[ad-wills]

[xanatharspen]

Btw, I had a new idea for my DND characters Ao3 Series where I dont finish what I was working on and instead start another project for him!

[orym-blossoms]

I love Orym so much you guys this is all such excellent character stuff I'm living

[xanatharspen]

*eyes my art* Me too, for the same reasons and not for any hornier ones

[fernacular]

When a centaur runs full speed what do they do with their arms i need to know for science

[incandescent-creativity]

@theartingace

[theartingace]

I have been summoned ╰(*°▽°*)╯

I am but one humble centaur google but to summarize my other thesis post, blease accept my humble suggestions of:

the same as people when you run but instead of swinging around like a goofy biped they just *bounce* and if you spook them they hold them closer

Just for funzies

you know you can’t avoid it- by popular demand:

[xanatharspen]

So, to be clear, all Centaur do the neurodivergent T-Rex Arm situation.