all angels are transsexual

no way look who at pride

indiv pics under cut

she asked me if i believed in god and i told her that when i was four i almost drowned in a public pool and in my panic mistook a stranger for my father. i clawed my way up his leg. four years later he’d send my parents a picture of the scars alongside a tin of cookies. he said, “i hope she’s still okay. i carry her with me. it isn’t every day you save a life. it isn’t every day you feel like you were here for a reason. when it does happen, you have to cherish that memory. for once, i had a purpose. just being there was enough. she tore me open but she taught me a lot about love.”

my friend took in a stray and she’s the cutest kitty ever but he named her oil so whenever he sends a picture of her me and my other friends look like we’re roleplaying as the US military

in our defense this is oil

[ID: Digital fanart of Trigun Stampede characters. In the first, Wolfwood lifts up Meryl by her arms effortlessly, laughing as he does. Meryl looks displeased at her current situation. Then, Vash lifts up Wolfwood by his stomach, grinning. Wolfwood looks surprised and thrashes in his grasp. End ID]

id by @starberry-skies . Thank you so much!

if cis people are so great then why don’t they have a siberian orchestra 

the flesh is unwilling and honestly, the spirit isn't too keen on the idea either

She would change the world to keep him safe

A follow up to my last post

me at work: im evil

1 second after i clock out: not evil anymore i want to be loved now

next day at work: evil again

the subway is an angel and they've plastered ads all over her

things that are part of the subway angel: tunnels & trains & tracks, commuters & tourists & buskers, rats & pigeons, graffiti & poems & sculptures & mosaics, signage & lights, beams & poles & high ceilings & echoes

things that are not part of the subway angel: advertisements, cops

THE TURNSTILES ARE ALSO NOT PART OF THE SUBWAY ANGEL. SHE WANTS TO SEE YOU. SHE DOESN'T CARE IF YOU HAVE MONEY. SHE JUST LOVES YOU

guys I got too attached to the sacrificial lamb again :( yeah I let myself pet its soft little head and care for it forgetting that I would be its undoing again. yeah I witnessed the unconditional love and trust in its innocent eyes even as I held the blade to its throat and set it free again. sorry :((

no i don’t have an “astigmatism” i can just see the halos of the angels that live in car head lights that you losers are too spiritually closed off to see

my body trying desparately to inform me I'm iron deficient: YOU FEEL BAD EAT MORE LEAVES

my brain: have we tried love. have we tried falling in love

had a fight with a partner yesterday where I was completely in the wrong, so today when we met up again to discuss it, I bought flowers (one reddish rose, one white blossom, two blue blossoms) beforehand

and presented it with the rest of my apology, in an embarrassed monotone, because by all accounts this should not work to affect his emotions at all, and I was doing this in a kind of "hopefully this alien ritual works to convey my earnestness because I don't have a lot of additional vectors for it... sorry if you perceive it as a ridiculous and ineffective bit of bribery" way

the presence or absence of flowers seems orthogonal to my internal state (e.g. contrition, probability of future improvement). they're not a useful gift. they're not zero signal of caring, but it's a low barrier to entry signal. getting flowers is not difficult or very expensive

but he said it worked! I grilled him about it. here are my findings.

he said that the flowers reduced his anger to 60% of initial anger when he walked in through the door

I asked whether more flowers would have worked better. he said a full bouquet (probably 20 flowers?) would have been noticeably better, but the curve goes flat after that.

I asked him how much 20 flowers would have reduced his anger, and he said to 45%. so here's a graph extrapolation (that does not account for non-flower factors like the quality of the apology)

via @itsbenedict and @argumate I think these are important parts of the post

next year all our troubles will be out of sight

i just know that the ethics classes in magical fantasy realms would be off the rails

philosophy undergrads when an evil wizard invents another new way to torture people

character class ideas for echoes dnd au (note that this is an attempt to make them an interesting party of characters & not strictly accurate to the game, which would be boring)

Python is playing a rogue. he's all about darting around the battlefield, finding his perfect shot, and dealing a lot of damage in a single hit. he subclasses into scout because the other rogue archetypes are too edgy or too cool for his character.

Forsyth definitely wants the Protection fighting style, so he's playing either a paladin or a fighter. he chooses paladin for flavor reasons (loyalty, strength of conviction, etc) and play a straightforward oath of devotion paladin.

Clive and Mathilda are playing matching cavalier fighters. i'm not as familiar with the mechanics on these, but horse people don't have that many great options in dnd. they have different fighting styles (maybe defense for clive and great weapon fighting for mathilda?) but are otherwise pretty identical characters.

Lukas could play a paladin, to match Forsyth, but for the sake of interest, i'm going to pitch that he's playing a barbarian. he makes the unconventional choice to have his Rage manifest as cold detachment and a sudden stomach for violence that contrasts his character's polite exterior. he takes the beserker subclass to emphasize this.