Your sixth most recent emoji is how your guardian angel feels about you

just a reminder that if you were rolled out the test roll-out with the new post headers without floating avatars/icons to provide feedback to staff (original post in source).

i know there's already 3rd party fixes going around, but please take the time to send feedback to staff to get at least icons back in some capacity in the headers while this is still in beta testing mode.

old/current:

header being beta tested:

Thank you so much for sharing what the test looks like. That's unbearable, would make Dash unusable.

The subject I can't shake: rocks. Gouache and colored pencil on watercolor paper, 4.5x6in

my dragonborn barbarian keeps a sketchbook of the party’s adventures. unfortunately she is not a very good artist

kitten keeps walking across the keyboard i think it’s time to let her speak her truth

6 [editor’s note: she manages to unpause and then repause spotify at this point before sitting down completely still for a stretch of several seconds] m;gl,,n

[ed note: she leaves to chew on my mouse before returning midway through my typing the previous note] [[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[4rfiu d

-midna the kitten

^the little beast in question

this post just suddenly got a surge of notes for reasons I cannot discern so here is a compilation of midna being an absolute cartoon Creature for your enjoyment

idk how much people care but since this post still keeps appearing in my notes I guess it’s worth mentioning that midna has an instagram account now:

https://instagram.com/mishmashmidna

I think the reason conservatives hate environmentalism so much is that all the terminology is too friendly and lame sounding to take seriously. I purpose we change the following terms to get these people on our side.

Solar powered -> Plasma charged

Wind power -> Vortex energy

Electric vehicle -> Lightning machine

Renewable resource -> Infinity asset

Greenhouse gasses -> Death Clouds

Global warming -> Property devaluation

Environmentalists -> Wilderness cops

For example, saying you're a wilderness cop that drives a lightning machine powered by infinity assets to reduce death clouds and increase your property value sounds 100x more macho than the alternative.

I’ve been having a lot of feelings about the downfall of quality lately.

I ordered a pair of Dickies pants because pants are hard and workwear is usually reliable. When they arrived they were the scratchiest, most papery material–I can’t actually call it fabric in good faith–and fit a full three sizes too small. A week later I found the same pair in a thrift store, dated 2017. These are actual pants. They fit, they’re not made of asbestos. They’re only separated by time.

There’s no wood used in interior design unless it’s a custom build. I have a set of wealthy relatives who live in a condo. The downpayment for it was likely more money than I will see in my lifetime. The floors and the cabinets are all still laminate. I know I will never see real wood in a building constructed after 2000. Every “apartment hack” I see online has this very conspicuous, flat appearance because of all the paint and contact paper required to make these builds look personal in any way. The only natural materials are in the furnishings.

I’ve been harping on this for years, but everything is shit, nothing is designed to work, and “growth” and “profit” are just euphemisms for cutting corners until things are unworkable.

everything is more expensive, and everything is getting shittier.

they’re called love handles because. i love the handles. is that anything

they’re called love handles because i handles them with love

they're called love handles because i love to handles them

So play like a noob? got it

You’re joking, but it actually is a popular theory in chess that a complete noob potentially can beat a master by confusing them - as the noob doesn’t know what they’re doing the master is unable to recognize which of valid strategies they’re pursuing and cannot deploy proper counterstrategy.

Chessmasters when their opponent doesn’t make one of the five approved optimal opening moves:

#used to do shit like this when we fenced#for real tho a newbie is way more of an issue than a master because WHAT are you doing???

I’m currently a fencing coach for a high school club and my least disciplined fencer routinely beats kids who have been fencing for 5-6 years because he’s just so unpredictable and messy that his opponents have no idea what to do.

I know what a master is doing, I just may not be faster than them. I know I’m faster than a newbie but hey what the fuck is happening?

I have, on rare occasions, won pokemon battles like this. I have no idea what the meta is, and just slap things together that sound cool. It’s fun when you win by taking someone completely off guard because “Who would run that?!” Idk man, the noob that just kicked your ass. I’m not smart enough for all these mind games that go into serious competitive pokemon, but I do know big laser go pew.

The Newbie Flail™ is the most terrifying attack imaginable.

“Professionals are predictable, it’s the amateurs that are dangerous” -Murphy’s law of combat

You see this in Magic the Gathering sometimes! In competitive play the set of removal cards that people play is tailored to what threats are good.

The cards that can just universally kill any of your opponent’s creatures are usually more mana intensive and inefficient and so they’re not run very much in favour of cheaper, more specific removal spells that only hit certain types of creatures or creatures that cost less than a certain amount of mana.

So in a lot of metagames a card like Power Word Kill that doesn’t hit Demons, Angels, Devils or Dragons but costs 2 mana, is mostly a better card than Murder which kills any creature but costs 3. Those creature types are popular with casual players because they’re big and splashy (and dragons are fucking cool), but usually they’re too slow to be competitive so the downside doesn’t matter much. Even if there are playable creatures of those types it’ll only be one or two and so Power Word Kill can deal with most of your opponent’s deck and another removal spell can deal with the things it misses.

Another example is Abrupt Decay which can hit anything your opponent controls that costs less than 4, so while you can’t hit big creatures you get extra flexibility in what you can hit and competitive players are trying to be efficient so a lot of their decks costs less than 4 anyway.

The restrictions are relevant but you know what cards are good and played so you pick the ones where the restrictions matter least and usually you can kill pretty much anything your opponent plays.

Right up until a 13 year old shows up with a deck called Look At All These Big Cool Dragons I Own and suddenly you’re stuck with a bunch of Power Word Kill and Abrupt Decay in your hand that don’t do anything and you get rolled.

People with low spoons, someone just recommended this cookbook to me, so I thought I'd pass it on.

I always look at cookbooks for people who have no energy/time to do elaborate meal preparations, and roll my eyes. Like, you want me to stay on my feet for long enough to prepare 15 different ingredients from scratch, and use 5 different pots and pans, when I have chronic fatigue and no dishwasher?

These people seem to get it, though. It's very simple in places. It's basically the cookbook for people who think, 'I'm really bored of those same five low-spoons meals I eat, but I can't think of anything else to cook that won't exhaust me'. And it's free!

every once in a while Body Hair discourse returns and i simply must chime in with something. if your body hair is long/thick in a way that genuinely makes you uncomfortable (which is fair) you can trim it. it’s not any different than the hair on your head. you can use scissors, clippers, a razor with a guard on it, whatever. my leg hair grows really long and it’s uncomfortable so i trim it slightly shorter with a trimmer.

this isn’t really a comment on the western beauty standards that surround body hair. obviously, those standards favor the hairless. this is a comment on the practical reality of being a human being with a body. you don’t have to buy into the perfectly-hairless beauty standard or ignore your own comfort. free yourself. how you maintain your body hair is no different than how you maintain anything else on your body—please do challenge your personal relationship to beauty standards, but like, this isn’t a situation where you either have to shave every last hair off of your body or Never Touch That Hair Ever Again

i'd love to apply for a demolitions job. "tell us what made you want to apply for this position" well i've always had an interest in breaking things. the sight of devastation and destruction brings me immeasurable joy. i love to blow things up with bombs and tear them to pieces with heavy machinery.

i want to crack open complex structures to expose the meat inside and tear it out with the claws of my excavator. i am a predatory animal disemboweling a carcass for abandoned architecture. give me the keys to the bulldozer i am normal and can be trusted to operate dangerous specialized equipment.

Comments on erotica are so funny because a lot of the people in those sections are trying to compliment the author without directly saying "awesome job, I jacked it to this!"

Help.

Never quit never give-up!

If voting doesn’t work Republicans wouldn’t be trying to suppress people from doing it

hyperfixation sucks I think just a little too hard about a guy who isn't even real and I could start crying any second

CW: parental death, brain injury

Two years ago, an undetected aneurysm ruptured in my mother's brain. She'd been visiting a plethora of doctors to address frequent headaches and numbness/tingling in her arm, and not one of them recommending a CT scan or MRI. None of us ever thought to suggest cranial imaging, either, but now I live with the resentment and anger about her multiple doctors' failure to catch it.

I also live with the memory of the night we lost her in the early morning hours of September 30, 2021. I had no idea September is Brain Aneurysm Awareness Month until tonight. So, this year, in her honor and in recognition of Brain Aneurysm Awareness Month, I've signed on as an Ambassador for the Brain Aneurysm Foundation, specifically for its 2nd Annual Day of Engagement on September 21, 2023.

Your support will:

Thank you for supporting the mission of the Brain Aneurysm Foundation.

When I first started playing Dragon Age: Inquisition seven years ago I didn't like Solas' looks. I was surprised that he was romanceable- and not just that he was romanceable, but that game reviews were touting his romance as the most complex. I thought he was odd-looking. But he fascinated me. I understand now that it wasn't that I thought he was ugly, but that he was unconventional for a romanceable character by having no hair and I didn't know how to deal with it. As I fell for him throughout the story, I started to realize how attractive he was. Now I can't see a picture of him without swooning. He's so beautiful, not just physically but intellectually. I think what really drew me in besides his cheekbones and his eyes is how eloquent he is. I loved the way he talked about the Fade. I loved his sense of culture, his refinement. I loved his cheeky sense of humor. I loved his kindness towards the poor and downtrodden. I loved that he would encourage you to ask questions and learn from him. I loved how he was fascinated by Lavellan. He didn't just love her, he was consumed by his desire for her. He burned for her against all of his impulses. His thoughts were with her, against his better judgment. I loved his sense of duty to the elves, though I also disliked what he was trying to do in the name of that duty. He is a tragic figure and he's aware of it. He's an unwilling liar. I've always preferred stories with yearning and pining and angst over sweet fluff. I think because he was unconventionally attractive, it made me make more of an effort to get to know him as a character. I wasn't distracted by his looks early on. I wasn't flustered at first when I talked to him. I wasn't scared to mess up with him. He simply interested me. I didn't talk to him for the sole purpose of romancing him. I wanted to learn from him. Once I grew to care for him, I realized that I had been misjudging him and that his lack of hair did not make him less beautiful. If anything, it made him more unique. I think that's what made it so devastating for me when he dumped my Lavellan. I cried for hours afterwards. I slowly grew to care about him, against my initial misgivings, and then he hurt my Lavellan when she thought he finally cared about her. The worst part is he did. He loved her more than anything. And she loved him. Sometimes love is not enough. It was not a lesson I expected to learn in that game.