Fully losing it at this facebook screenshot. 22 inches of green and 1.5 of carrot.

Apparently the Dusk Bow is just sitting on the highest spire of Hyrule Castle, not even in a chest

If anyone's been looking for it, it's wayyy up here, lol

this tweet hasn't left my mind once in the two years since it's been posted

accidentally fell into the greatest wikipedia rabbit hole earlier

I officially want a wikipedia summary of every past and future meme, complete with this many examples and citations

Shepherds of Haven

Description

Shepherds of Haven is a dark fantasy interactive fiction game. In it, you play as a Mage living in a world where magic is outlawed and your people—those possessing supernatural powers—are oppressed and reviled. The world is ruled by humans who believe in science, technology, and industry: at best, you and your kind are nothing more than a fairytale, and at worst you are the state’s greatest threat. 

Thus, using magic has been illegal for centuries. But after years of persecution, you are suddenly offered an opportunity to use your powers for good: demons are now returning, and the world needs fighters like you to protect the population from their invasion. Guns and bullets do no good against monsters pulled from primeval nightmares; only your people and your supernatural powers have the ability to fight fire with fire. 

So you join the Shepherds: an order of elite heroes and fighters comprised of the very people the world once feared more than the demons themselves. As a Shepherd, you’ll solve magical crimes, slay demons to protect the citizens of Haven, and build your reputation throughout the capitol. Explore the world of Blest, recruit allies and factions to join the Shepherds’ cause, find romance and companionship, investigate mysteries, lead rebellions and exorcisms, and uncover answers to the crises plaguing the world. Where are the demons coming from? Where have the gods or God gone, if they ever existed? And who are you, really? 

And will you be the world’s true savior… or will you be its ultimate downfall?

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Sitcom about a immortal (and rather antisocial) wizard who lives in a great stone tower several miles outside of the local village, except that’s only the establishing prologue.

The meat of the show takes place a thousand years later, when the village has become a modern city and urban sprawl has resulted in it expanding to entirely surround the wizard’s tower, which is now sticking out like the proverbial sore thumb in the middle of a suburban housing development.

The inciting incident of the present-day plot involves a local kid who’s read too many of Those Kind Of YA Novels persuading the wizard to take them on as an apprentice, prompting the wizard to become involved in the community after centuries of relative seclusion.

The result is a sort of reverse fish-out-of-water comedy where it’s society at large that keeps getting tripped up by the out of place character’s strange expectations. The wizard isn’t unwilling to adapt, but their default attitude of “explain to me in detail how any of this is reasonable” is something most other characters don’t really know how to respond to; this is exacerbated by the fact that the wizard’s first contact with many of the foibles of modern life is filtered through the aforementioned kid apprentice and their bizarre YA-media-driven misconceptions about what being a wizard actually entails.

via @prokopetz #the wizard shows up for the kid apprentice’s next parent teacher conference#because in their day a master had parental obligations toward their apprentice#so of course this is their responsibility#right?

Of course it is, and don’t you let anyone tell you otherwise, says the middle-aged lady who’s having a spectacular time watching the chaos

I’m mostly wondering how the wizard dealt with the local HOA before the kid bullied them out of the tower. Yes, the tower predates any and all development around it and is no doubt exempt from any association rules, but everything the internet has taught me about HOAs leads me to believe that they would still try. And turning the reps into toads would probably just ear the wizard a write-up for keeping non-approved pets.

I imagine they’d mostly have dealt with it the same way they dealt with royal tax collectors any time they didn’t feel like starting a war with the local monarchy; i.e., being exhaustingly pedantic about microscopic points of protocol until the annoying mortal gives up and goes away.

I’m not saying toads never happened, mind – I’m just saying toading’s not the only tool in the toolbox!

“Technically, the land grant of everything between here and the river is subject to an easement to me, my “heirs and successors,” for, and I’m quoting the text incorporating the township, “wizardly affairs, sorcerous conduct and rituals, magical doings, and the requirements, results, effluents, and effects thereof and therefrom.” I am pleased to inform you, Brenda, that yes, my herb garden is a requirement for many of my rituals and, though you may not understand it, the flamingo – which I will remind you is the immature Phoenix – is also necessary, whether live, plastic, ceramic, or otherwise.“

Queuing this for January too.

From

You’re doing amazing, sweetie. 😍

I laughed so hard I actually have tears in my eyes. Oh my god 😭

I submit to you that the most iconic feature of any animal is either unlikely or impossible to fossilize.

If all we had of wolves were their bones we would never guess that they howl.

If all we had of elephants were fossils with no living related species, we might infer some kind of proboscis but we'd never come up with those ears.

If all we had of chickens were bones, we wouldn't know about their combs and wattles, or that roosters crow.

We wouldn't know that lions have manes, or that zebras have stripes, or that peacocks have trains, that howler monkeys yell, that cats purr, that deer shed the velvet from their antlers, that caterpillars become butterflies, that spiders make webs, that chickadees say their name, that Canada geese are assholes, that orangutans are ginger, that dolphins echolocate, or that squid even existed.

My point here is that we don't know anything about dinosaurs. If we saw one we would not recognize it. As my evidence I submit the above, along with the fact that it took us two centuries to realize they'd been all around us the whole time.

XKCD

So that people don’t need to go through the notes:

- We have fossils of spider webs

- Paleontologists have reconstructed the larynx (voice box) of extinct animals and we have a pretty good idea what vocalizations they were capable of

- Fossilized pigments have been found in a variety of taxa

- Soft tissues fossilize more often than you think; we have skin impressions for like 90% of Tyrannosaurus rex’s full body (shoulder blades and neck are the only bits missing)

If pop culture is your only window into extinct animals, then you do not remotely understand how much we know.

We know the entire lifecycle of a tyrannosaurus. We know from the sheer amount of remains we have, from every stange.

We know exactly how other dinosaurs look, down to colors and patterns, because bones are not the only information that is preserved.

The Sinosauropteryx is one such dinosaur. Because pigmentation molecules were preserved in the feather impressions, we know it's colors, and it's tail rings (which one would argue would be it's "iconic feature."

(Art credit Julio Lacerda)

Microraptor is another! We know from feather impressions that it had four wings. We know from pigmentation that it was an iredecent black, like a raven.

(Art credit Vitor Silva)

This is not limited to dinosaurs, or feathers. We've found pigmentation in scales and skin. We've completely reconstructed two extinct penguins, colors and all. We've figured out the colors of some non-avian and non-feathered dinosaurs. We can identify evidence of feathers existing on animals without feather impressions.

We have feathered dinosaurs preserved in amber.

We can defer likely behavioral patterns through adaptations we see in bones, and from the environments they were found in. We can see how certain movements evolved through musculature attachments (yes, how muscles attached is often preserved). We know avian flight likely evolved by "accident" by the way early raptorforms moved their arms to strike at their prey.

We also understand behavior in extant animals and can easily speculate likely behaviors in extinct animals. (A predator running for it's life is not going to exhibit hunting behaviors)

We learn and understand way more from "rocks" than paleontologists are given credit for. And if you watch a movie like Jurassic World, which has no interest in portraying anything with any sort of accuracy, and your take away is "We can't possibly know anything about these animals," then you don't understand science.

As for shrinkwrapped reconstructions, we understand how muscles attach, and how fat works. Artists who lean into shrinkwrapping are are not generally concerned with scientific accuracy, or biology. They're only concerned with Awesombro.

If true paleoartists tried to reconstruct a hippo, while they naturally would not get every bit correct, it would certainly look like a real animal, and not that alien monster that tumblr is so fond of using as "proof" that paleontologists don't know anything (an art piece that itself was extreme and satirical, and a condemnation of the particular subset of paleoartists I mentioned earlier)

Every time paleoblr tries to show you how extinct animals actually looked, all we get is a chorus of "thanks i hate it" and "stop ruining dinosaurs!"

Loosing my shit at the knowledge that T-rexes nursed their loved ones back to health

@lusus--naturae​

it is past time we jettisoned the useless false dichotomy of introversion vs. extroversion and just accepted that everybody has a minimum amount of social interaction, failing which, they get really weird. and everybody has a maximum amount of social interaction, exceeding which, they get really weird. these levels are different for everyone, for a variety of reasons, and have no moral dimension. and that is all.

why would you come to this club and just shoot Myers & Briggs like this

myers and briggs deserve it

for context: myers and briggs were racist eugenicists

wig

My collection of clothing references for writing. 

Ya know what , I’m adding. Here are more useful references that I use;

POPEYE?!?!??

should i post the walmart comic

or should i simply wait

If no one responds then I will have no choice

one sec

here it is. the surreal horror walmart comic i made in eighth(?) grade.

8TH  GRADE?!?!!?!?

Pay them ppl man.

(…to be continued!)

I’ve recently decided to finally draw a backstory comic of one of my favorite DnD characters - so here’s the first part of it! I am not yet finished, and am actually not even sure how it’ll go, but I’m excited about it and wanted to share it with you all. 

The Grad Student Shuffle- Christ Fleming

HOLD UP HOW WAS I NOT AWARE OF THIS

was gonna leave my comment in the tags but tbh i’m silent enough about this as it is.

seeing stuff like this is so upsetting because these terms were well known and widespread in the ace community but because of exclusionists many people stopped using terms like this because they felt uncomfortable and unsafe.

i loved these terms when i was in highschool, i loved the feeling of community, but i lost that because i didn’t feel comfortable openly and proudly calling myself asexual.

they’ve hurt so many people and damaged our community badly and i will never forgive them for that. we deserve to use our own terminology and feel safe within our community.

sometimes i notice i haven’t seen “grace” (grey-ace) in a while and consequently wonder if i made it up.

I remember ppl - even other ace ppl - saying the card suit thing was “cringey” and “straight ppl aren’t gonna take us seriously” (sounds familiar?) So i guess the community wound up abandoning it. We were also having severe issues at the time with aces being stereotyped as “childish/immature” for associating things like cake, dragons, and space with asexuality, plus in general as most aces just don’t “get” allosexual things in media and irl. We were starting to be viewed as ignorant, virginal, childish, losers, etc. I haven’t seen an ace-cake thing in a good while now.

This was the infancy of exclusionary influence on us. I didn’t realize it did more damage than just closeting us. Whole symbols and terms have been lost. Community has been lost.

I remember three-four years ago I got myself into the ace community on Insta, and I came across these terms. People in these circles would talk about cake, space, dragons, and the black ring on the middle finger. Then, a year or two later, ace content fizzled out (I thought it was Insta’s algorithm figuring out that I knew all this and didn’t bring me the old stuff) and young aces had no idea what any of these were - including the black ring. Finding out young aces had no idea what the black ring meant nearly snapped my heart in two - I proudly wore the black ring, I drew characters with it, and it was my quiet way of communicating to others what my sexuality was. I was baffled at the lack of knowledge - and it turns out that exclusionists got their hands into our community and snuffed us out. 

Anyways, we need to bring this back. I thought the card suite thing was cool, it taught people the different ways people can experience attraction, I loved making jokes about preferring cake, I loved wearing the black ring and talking about it with my fellow queer people at my highschool QSA club. 

I’m sorry, people don’t know about the cake or ring anymore? I remember being welcomed with spams of cake gifs, photos, and MS Paint drawings. I also distinctly remember that the block solo ring in the midle was meant as reference to the Ace of Spades (black, solo, middle of card). Only thing I didn’t know was that other aces could represent a more refined nuance. Let’s see if we can get this all rolling again.

Welcome to anyone who is interested in helping with the culture revival.

Im so sad I didn’t know about this, I’m technically demi ♦, but I’ve never really found much of a community for it. I’ve always just identified as bi, so I figured it was just because I was not engaging with the ace community alot, that I didn’t know the references. But it would make sense they’ve been erased due to exclu harrasment of the community

it’s been such a gradual realisation for me that this type of ace content has pretty much disappeared over the years

i discovered my asexuality in 2014, and while i’ve never had much interaction within the ace community, i’ve carried those jokes with me over the years

i’m still waiting for a good moment (and the money) to buy a properly fitted ace ring

i still joke to myself that it’s a disgrace that i don’t actually like cake that much

i still add dragons anytime i can

i’m known among my friends for my awful sense of humour and love for puns

it might’ve disappeared from the larger knowledge, but i still carry it with me

and i’ll be damned if i let it go

I’m a ♦️! :D

Is there a specific meaning to the ring or just a generalized ace thing? I was also welcomed into the community with cake and its horrible that its apparently died down :(

I think some people on a forum came up with the ace ring back in 2008? iirc? It may have originated on AVEN. 

I got a silicone black ring sized to my right middle finger and because it’s silicone I wore it to Longsword practice instead of my usual rings. (I got mine on Enso- the first one turned out the be too large so I asked if I could run an exchange, their customer support is super friendly and helpful!!) 

The coolest thing was: One of the other longsword classmates noticed it and very shyly, quietly pointed it out and asked if it meant anything - I think they made sure to specifically ask me when we were on the sidelines so they didn’t have to draw attention to it. I thought it was weird they asked specifically if it meant something specific but it happened to be Coming Out day and I thought ‘why not’ and told them i wear it ‘cause I’m ace.

They replied that they thought so, and only asked because they’re grey.

I was shocked because I had seen no mention of the ring for years prior. It’s really, really cool when somebody else sees it and goes “oh!! same hat!” so we should def be revitalizing that.