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Leonardo: What the shell just happened?

Donatello: We just got the shell beaten out of us.

Raphael: I’m gonna bash him straight to Shell!

Michelangelo: Yeah, fuck that guy!

just to be technical

you probably know that the fabric sewn to the inside of a garment to make it smooth and finished is called the lining

but I'm not sure how many people know the fabric of the outside of the garment is called the shell?

I didn't. I always use "shell" just to refer to like... a sleeveless blouse or nice sleeveless top. The kind I'd wear under a blazer or cardigan for work. That's. All I got.

That is also a shell! And if it's lined, it's both kinds of shell. And if it has, say, a conch print...

it’s time for Wiggly Wednesday.

I KNEW IT

IT WAS

wish i had an ass so i could make some booty shorts with weird sayings on them

booty shorts that say “life is pain”

as a player you should really internalize the intent/task sentence structure. “i wanna open this door by prying it open with a crowbar,” “i wanna set fire to the hay bale with my firebolt,” “i wanna haggle this price by commenting on some minor scratches.”

very often i see players only stating one of these. either “i wanna open the door” or “i cast firebolt on the hay bale.”

what the intent/task structure does is properly communicate to your GM what a success/failure state looks like, and what kind of challenge they propose. sometimes players have a very specific outcome in mind, but when they just state the task, even a successful attempt will be disappointing because the GM does not know what you want to achieve. and vice versa, just stating your intent puts weight on the GM to not only come up with the consequences to the actions, but what even causes them to begin with.

sometimes i think about narnia and i vibrate out of my skin like...

you walk into a world you cannot understand, frozen and dying, and it is you who thaws it. you who kills the witch, you who breaks the stone table, you who slays the wolf. it is you who is crowned and it is you who wails for two worlds when the wardrobe doors shut behind you.

your skin never sits quite right and your teeth are too dull. there are wars in your bones and decades in your eyes before you can reach the telephone on the wall.

you are king. you are queen. they won't let you read the newspapers at breakfast.

it calls you back from beyond a train and from within paint. begs with bloody palms and salt-crusted cheeks. takes from you all that you can give - and sends you back.

you watch your sister fade.

you are a child twice and an adult once. and when you stand in your home again, with crushed bones and the smell of coal still in your nose, you watch them sneer at your sister.

your sister is the sun above you. she is, beautiful and stone-cast, alive in a world you could never stomach. she smiles, still, and stretches her skin over human bones.

she is no longer a friend of narnia. do you tell them it is her who has to bury you all and the stars that are falling from the skies in shards?

Followers, today we are gathered here to mourn our dear friend, our fallen brother, little icon dude. Though his time on our phones may have been short it was full of joy, love, and life. Love him or hate him, he generated content for jokes and posts we all delighted in. For those of you who have not updated, he lives on in blessed memory. For those of us who have lost him to automatic updates, he is with us in spirit. Rest In Peace, my sweet, silly little guy.

based on a real interaction with my dad

Zeldatube has been resurrected

Obviously Harry Potter is fucked up as hell, filled with bigotry and stereotypes, and a lot of the morals they claim to espouse are very broken aesops.  

However, there’s one broken aesop/fucked up thing that I haven’t seen anyone talk about: the fact that the narrative tries to push wizards as “oppressed”, when really they are oppressing basically everyone else.

Literally the only time we see a wizard being oppressed because they’re a wizard is Harry with the Dursleys, and a couple mentions of the Witch Trials.  The Harry thing is one isolated incident, which hasn’t happened to any of the other known muggleborn and/or muggle-raised characters.

I’m not saying that the Dursleys didn’t abuse Harry, or that he “deserved” how they treated him.  I’m one of the first who will call the Dursleys’ abuse what it is, and no child deserves to go through that shit.  Also, I know that HP-verse wizards are born with their ability to use magic and they can’t help it.

However, wizarding society as a whole oppresses everyone who isn’t a wizard, and even some wizards.  

Wizards see muggles(non-magical humans) not unlike how muggles see those apes that know sign language(and other intelligent animals).  They also see nothing wrong with regularly fucking with muggles’ minds and memories, and they often all but divide/isolate muggleborn wizards from their muggle family members.  

Wizards treat all non-humans and part-humans like utter shit.  This includes oppressive laws(eg. werewolves and goblins, as well as the whole bigoted “beasts vs beings” classification the wizarding government does with non-humans), mass enslavement(eg. house-elves), wars and thievery(eg. goblins), full-on genocide(eg. giants), and general societal assholery and disdain(eg. half-giants and other hybrids, and centaurs, and others).

Wizards even see their own kind as “lesser” if they have any muggle ancestry that is more recent than great-grandparents.  They especially see wizards that have completely muggle parentage as “lesser”.

Even the “good guy” wizards tend to be dismissive of muggles and prejudiced against non-humans!

So like, it really screws over the supposed messages about “bigotry being bad” and “your blood not mattering” and whatnot.  Especially since most of the supposed “good guys” are still bigoted, and the bigotry against non-humans wasn’t changed even when things got better for muggleborn wizards.  

Also it honestly makes me uncomfortable these days when I read a fic that suggests that wizards are “oppressed” for being wizards/having magic.  This is most commonly seen in fics that mention/are about Harry and his experiences with the Dursleys.

Again, Harry was abused by the Dursleys and treated like shit for having magic.  He was arguably “oppressed” by his blood family for having magic, and he didn’t deserve what he went through.

However, Harry’s case was one isolated incident, once which hadn’t been seen in the cases of any of the other known muggle-raised wizards.  The only other character who arguably had an abusive muggle family member was Snape, and from what I know his dad mostly fought with his mom, and, while Tobias Snape was an asshole, he wasn’t the horrifyingly physically abusive monster that the Snape Stannies paint him as in their Snape-woobification stuff.  

And even if you take Snape into account, there’s still the fact that Harry went from being “oppressed” to being in a high rank of the oppressor class as soon as he joined the wizarding world: he was a fully human wizard, and one of his parents was a pureblood wizard from a rich and well-known pureblood family, and he also has the “Boy Who Lived”/“Chosen One”/“Savior Of The Wizarding World” fame and celebrity status on top of that(though the way he got that fame/status is fucked up and tragic, I’ll admit).

So, while Harry did have a shitty life, he wasn’t oppressed in the wizarding world, especially not for being a wizard.  In fact, he’s actually really privileged in the wizarding world, outside of the whole “dead parents + abusive relatives” thing and the “constantly targeted by Voldemort” thing.

Equity and bias IRL.