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of the sea and desert

@moyaofthemist / moyaofthemist.tumblr.com

I am genderless and prefer they/them/their pronouns. (ey/em/eir is also acceptable; she/her is not) I’m going to be 33 this year.
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As a heads up, I reject the retcon that Whirl and Jetstream are the same character, so that affects how I characterize Whirl. It's totally all right if that's not something you can get behind! I wanted to include this warning for anyone looking to read my fics.
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My Opinion on AI Art

Since it seems like there’s some confusion about this (people talk like you can only be either categorically for or against AI art), here are my opinions so y’all can decide whether to block/unfollow me or not.

(Warning: This is so fucking long. Sorry. It's a complicated issue and I wanted to make it clear what I do and don't support. If any of it is too confusing, feel free to ask for clarification. Anon is off, though, so you’ll have to ask me face to face.)

I am kind of surprised that "D&D: Honor Among Thieves" isn't getting as much [tumblr] love as it deserves. This is my contribution:

  • Everyone involved-- writer, actor, director, wardrobe, camera, EVERYONE-- understood the assignment.
  • There is no attempt to apologize for the fact that it's an ensemble fantasy comedy-adventure movie.
  • The plot is clever without being Too Clever. All of the major twists are well-telegraphed, and while it surprises you in a couple of places, it doesn't try to shock you.
  • Given that the archetypes of the fantasy genre came to us from Tolkein, Dungeons & Dragons, and Tolken-by-way-of-D&D, you will not need any context for the game and the lore that is not provided by the film itself. If you aren't familiar with the lore, there are no jokes or plot points you will miss.
  • If you are familiar with the Lore, there are references galore, but they're not fan service, they're the byproduct of the fact that the movie is set in a known location in a richly developed world. For example, despite that the fact that it's set in Neverwinter, at no point do any characters utter the phrase "Neverwinter Nights".
  • If there must be a negative comparison to the game, it's that no Dungeon Master alive could get a party to stick to the plot that well. They'd have gotten off track at the battlefield and the bard would have tried to seduce the Red Witch. Or everyone would have tried to adopt Themberchaud.

My mother, who understands D&D only as that loud nerd event which takes over the dining room four nights a month, loved the movie.

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Anonymous asked:

hey. Please link the pillow? 😢

i am going to use an amazon affiliate link but if you would rather look it up elsewhere, i support you. if you can find it cheaper literally anywhere, get that one. if you can find a bootleg please tell me because i looked for months before giving in and buying this fucking pillow. if you think you can get away with making your own out of foam, go for it. if your work gives you an HSA/FSA you can buy it with that, but you cannot get health insurance to reimburse you for it (i checked). i had to buy this fucking pillow with a goddamn payment plan. a pillow payment plan. nothing will make you question your life choices like needing a payment plan for a fucking pillow.

anyway it's called the medcline.

i have horrible acid reflux but ended up basically never using my bed wedge when i finally got one because trying to side sleep on a cheapo wedge is a nightmare. on multiple occasions i have slept so wrong i couldn't turn my neck for days. one time i fucked up my shoulder so bad i couldn't sleep on that side for a week. i have no idea how i pulled that off but clearly i have invented some advanced sleep failure techniques. as near as i can tell my sleeping body defaults to the family guy death pose, which is not ergonomic. so i bought the goddamn armhole pillow and figured if it didn't work i'd return it.

my side of the bed is a fortress now. when i pull the duvet up it looks like ferris bueller is trying to convince someone he's sick. the big curling body pillow looks like i killed clippy to sleep inside his corpse. when i am getting ready for bed it looks like i'm plugging myself into some kind of pod. it's so fucking dumb. i am sleeping great and no longer falling asleep to the taste of bile and waking up with a fucked up neck. my hips don't hurt. i can't return it. i can't go back to the before times. i'm so mad about it.

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This is the post that finally reduced my migraine. I tried literally everything—including shots—and nope. It was this post that did it. I had a 7-9 out of 10 migraine from June 2022 to April 2023. One medication put me in the ER. (‘I need to do a cognitive assessment’ ‘…’ ‘I want you to go to the ER’ <— BAD DAY)

I saw this post. Saw a comment saying it helped with their headaches. Compared the price tag to a year of medications that did fuck-all.

My neck hurts less. My hip basically doesn’t hurt at all. My migraine dropped to 4-6 and then 3-5. Then 2-4. Now it’s no longer constant.

I will fold myself into Clippy’s corpse every night for the rest of my life. I GUESS.

I have a question about fics and tagging preferences!

These don’t really work for fics that just develop polycules on their own after escaping their outlines… Hm. If anyone has opinions on that specific possibility, I’d be curious about that, too.

Huh. I wasn’t expecting it to be unanimous. Interesting. What if the polyamory surprises the author, too, though? Does the note just go, like…at the beginning of the installment where the fic jumped off the rails? Do you retroactively put the note at the beginning of the first fic? 🤔

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One 0f the greatest and hardest dance scenes ever recorded......

One 0f the

greatest and hardest dance scenes

ever recorded……

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

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Cab Calloway and the Nicholas brothers! I don't think I've ever seen the colorized version of this before!

I haven't seen it in color either! It's a fantastic dance scene!!

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one of many things i love about this scene and the nicholas brothers generally is that you get both astaire and kelly every time, like you get harold grinning like a loon having the most fun ever captured on camera and then fayard who is so smooth and elegant with it that he almost retreats into the background UNTIL you realize how much he's doing and how quietly pleased he seems to be about it

It's always interesting how trans people see their transition. Some people are like "I was a boy now I'm a girl" and some are like "I was always a girl" and every once in a while you get a fun one like "I used to be a boy but the girl won"

This vessel used to belong to a young man but he had a weak will and gave in to my dark influence

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MY FRIEND IS FINDING OUT THAT HES COLORBLIND AND WE’RE ALL HELPING HIM THROUGH IT LMAOOOOOO

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UPDATE WE HAVE TWO COLORBLIND BITCHEZ IN THE SERVER

what the fuck is going on

On the last one Deuteranomaly and Protanomaly are identical though

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What I’m getting from this is that there are a lot more colorblind people in the world than even colorblind people know.

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WAIT! DEUTERANOMALY AND PROTANOMALY IS THE SAME! IT’S THE FUCKING SAME! WHAT ARE YOU GUYS TALKING ABOUT?????

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this is different

I think this post needs a signal boost. I need to show these to my friends and family to see if any of them have a form of colorblindness.

some people are so so so unwilling to acknowledge that - even if they are disabled in some way - there are disabled people who cannot do whatever they think most people can do. some disabled people can't leave the house. some disabled people will need support to run a blog like this. some disabled people are spending all their energy on managing their health to do whatever else you think is more important. if a disabled person says "i can't do x" there is never a time where it's appropriate to say "i did it and i'm disabled" because all you've said is that you're less impacted by that disability than the other person

i still don’t understand why peoples’ reactions to writers and artists having a hard time supporting themselves financially is “there should be more copyright laws” and not “the government should ensure that everyone can live comfortably regardless of their income”

The delusion that stronger copyright laws will somehow help starving artists instead of just gorwing the stock portfolios of Disney shareholders

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Transformers - All Media Types, The Transformers (IDW Generation One) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Swerve/Whirl (Transformers) Characters: Swerve (Transformers), Whirl (Transformers) Additional Tags: Time Loop, Pining, Brain Damage Summary:

It’s the same conversation, again, again, again. Self-soothing with repetition.