Teddy contemplated if Miss Rumphius visited Lake Pukaki when he found these Lupines by the shore. Then, he found himself pondering if these invasive flowers do indeed bring a little more beauty to the world.

also forgot to post this one

tugs out heart locket and opens it to reveal a cutout of this babe

nothing more embarassing than when you develop personal beef with a piece of media thats entirely petty. like sorry no i cant talk about that show it. bit me.

this is by far the most fun Ive ever had reading tags on a post that blew up

baby tripod fish (bathypterois grallator) | source

ID: photo of a white rabbit sitting on a path leading up to a statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe. The rabbit seems to be looking at the statue.

Funmaxing: How to Create a Character You'll Like Playing

Part Two: Choosing Your Features

'part one: choosing a role that fits' can be found here.

Okay, so you've decided on the roles that sound fun to you and that suit your character. Now for the fun part: actually doing character creation.

Every part of character creation is made up of two basic elements: flavor and mechanics. Each of these affects the other; when people talk about the 'fantasy' of a given class, they're referring to the experience created by the synthesis of the flavor and mechanics. For instance, the 'fantasy' of the Ancestral Guardian barbarian is a character that goes into a mystical warrior state to deliver no-holds-barred beatdowns, powered by the support of their long-dead ancestors. In order for that fantasy to work, you need both the flavor of the 'mystical warrior state' and the 'support of long-dead ancestors,' and the mechanics that let this idea work out in practice -- a character needs to be able to deal sizable damage in one-on-one combat, with meaningful support mechanics from their ancestor spirits.

The trick of choosing character options that work for you is twofold: you must determine which mechanics let you engage in the roles you have selected in part one, while also checking the flavor for compatibility with your character's roleplay concept.

First, let's talk mechanics.

It bothers me how many people are morally incurious, and it bothers me even more how many people seem to think that interrogating morality is proof of immorality- because I'm pretty sure that the latter is at least partly driving the former. Asking why an action or institution is wrong does not necessarily mean that someone thinks that that action or institution is right. If you never ask yourself why something is wrong or right, then what is determining your morality? Because it's not you.

I think it comes from beleiving that morality is a stagnant thing, never changing, black and white. If something is wrong it is always wrong and in no circumstances can be right. If something is right, it will always be right and never be wrong.

Thus any look at morality become 'If it is wrong now, it was wrong when I did it before'. And people will fight agaisnt all reason to not see themselves on the wrong side of morality.

Granted there are a few things that are objectively one or the other, but those actions/concepts tend to come with definitions that are more abstract than concrete.

It is easy to say Murder is wrong, but everyone has a different idea of what Murder is.

Honestly, I think that murder is one of the more interesting examples, because it's nearly universally agreed on, but the reasons are wildly diverse even when we do all agree that it's murder.

Reasons I've heard people give for why murder is wrong include and are not limited to:

"Human life is sacred."

"It's against the law."

"If you kill someone, then you remove something unique from the world."

"Because we are made in god's image, murder defiles the image of god."

"We have the right to live, and nobody has the right to violate that."

"Because of the amount of collateral suffering it causes to the people who depend on them and care about them."

"If you murder people, something is wrong with you."

"Murder is an antisocial choice to make and harms the fabric of society."

"You remove the potential of the good that person could have done."

"That's just not what you're supposed to do."

These reasons often drive how we define murder, and how we respond to murder. For instance, people that think it means something is wrong with the murderer are, in my experience, more likely to support the death penalty than people who believe in the inherent worth of human life. People concerned about the social fabric of society may see covering up a murder as a legitimate solution if they don't see the primary problem as the murder itself.

People also often hold more than one of these opinions. None of the above are wholly contradictory.

Also it is worth mentioning that, specifically with murder, it is also a political tool whether or not something is considered murder. You already mentioned the death penalty, where strictly in the definition of the word—killing another human being—it would be considered murder, but opinions vary on whether it is moral and/or murder or not. Similarly, when a civilian kills another civilian usually it is agreed to be immoral and considered murder, but when the military (or even the police) does so, people call it "casualties". When one militant kills another, it is often even celebrated to a degree.

Given that murder being immoral is mostly an unquestioned assumption, the above cases hint that as long as you can frame something as murder, you can write it off as immoral. And vice versa, if you can frame something as not murder, you can frame it as morally right (or morally neutral).

This can also be seen in the abortion debate for example, although subtly different because it is more whether or not the fetus is framed as a small human or as an amoebe blob, and then by extension if it is murder or not based on that. Although you could say that framing what a fetus is (all the misinformation aside), is the tool to frame abortion as murder, because you need a reason to call something murder for people to believe it.

As long as you leave this moral shortcut unquestioned, your morals will always depend on whether others can frame something as murder.

saw an opinion i disagreed with and didn’t say anything about it. +350XP

I think the best advice I ever got to stop myself from getting in my head over issues i was having with a partner/friend was “Are you deciding on ultimatums in your relationship without the other persons knowledge or consent? Are you having conversations in your head where the other party is a projection you supply the responses for? If so; you have done this person a huge disservice in not allowing them to answer on their own terms. You have done so much architecture around this problem in your mind that is impenetrable for anyone who was not there when it was being built.”

That shit really changed my life and honestly? I think made me a nicer person to be around.

I need a way to say this character makes me feel insane amounts of lust but not in a sexual or romantic way

Guards, dissect this man

No it's too clinical I need something that emphasizes the feral desire to devour

Guards, sous vide this man

Guards, prepare this man for dinner

Guards, rend this man asunder

Guards, hand this man's heart to me on a platter so that I may devour him

Guards, resurrect him I didn't like that last phrasing

my liege is everything okay in there

tomfoolery at an all time high

we are so fucking back baby

Autism acceptance includes accepting all autistic manners of communication.

That means supporting autistic people who talk in a "very childish" way. (I do this a lot irl)

Autistic people who do "TV talking" (this means talking like a character from your favorite media,basically talking in quotes and copying their speech patterns,as far as I know)

Autistic people who use echolia.

Autistic people who are very awkward/quirky when they communicate.

Autistic people who are overly technical,or have very sophisticated and articulate speech.

Autistic people who mumble.

Autistic people who talk really fast.

Autistic people who can't control their tone of voice/inflection.

Autistic people who talk in a monotone voice.

Autistic people who use different kind of sounds,or body language to communicate.

Autistic people who talk slowly and draw out their syllables.

Autistic people who use a lot of sentance fillers.

Autistic people who use Aac devices,communication cards,etc etc.

Edit: acceptance of nonverbal autistics is also necessary. Nonverbal people deserve love,respect,acceptance,accommodation and support.

in general I think this website has a serious problem about wanting to feel smugly superior about Literally Everything without spending even five seconds thinking about it first

thankfully I don't have this problem, because I'm better than you losers

Watch my daughter’s story as she speaks as a Palestinian child who dreams of living like the children of the world, with a safe life away from bombing, destruction and a sense of danger.

My daughter, Dalin, was deprived of the most basic rights, such as education. She entered school in the first grade for one month, because of the war on Gaza.

Her only wish is for you to stand with us and help us by traveling as quickly as possible, saving her family and all of us going out to live a life without danger or losing any of us.

My daughter is like your children. Help us by donating through the gofundme campaign, and we ask you to save us before it is too late.

Please donate generously before the Israeli army enters Rafah, and share the post so that it reaches the largest number of good people.

Feel for us, my friends, and fulfill Dalin's wish, to live a safe life