Would you like to see some magic?
Sorry I’m late to the meme but here’s my offering
This is fascinating and I love the part with the mushrooms and the worms if this really works but my favorite part is that we spent decades like “oh no....oil is soaking into fur and feathers....if only we had something that could soak up all this oil”
garf :3 💜💙
the full strip
That makes it WORSE
i love how Critical Role plays with tropes.
Mr book smart, cat loving, timid, made-of-wet-paper nerd is clearly harmless and doesn’t know how to get his hands dirty, right? Wrong. He will fucking blast you into oblivion and oh, he also used to be an executioner in training. Did we mention he’s the most likely to suggest torture as an option?
Punchy angry jock with douchey rich parents is like, a stereotypical bully waiting to happen, yeah? Clearly she’s the mean dumb one. Nope, she’s the most emotionally in touch member of the team and ALSO right up there with the nerd looking for libraries. She WILL know your shit, or figure it out, plus – first in the campaign to earnestly say “I love you,” bitches.
The second smartest character, you ask? Probably that put together, charming green man over there who’s always so polite – oh wait it’s the other green one, the manic three foot tall alcoholic goblin who has been known to claim that there’s only one planet in the universe. And she DOES know what the fuck is up. Nott “it’s just thermodynamics” the Brave.
That gentle vegetarian cow man who loves nature and heals people is probably a pacifist, right? Try again. He has no qualms at all with slam dunking you directly into your grave and making sure you stay there. He knows for a fact that corpses grow lovely tea. Yes, our calm and kind healer IS the judgiest person here.
That absolutely ADORABLE leetle bloo tiefling who has a safe, loving, ALIVE parent, paints lovely pictures, and just wants to make everyone smile is a happy go lucky waif who – second strongest member, you say? Oh, she’s beating everyone at arm wrestling. Shit, now she’s crying. She’s repressed her trauma and sadness. Can someone hug her? Thank you Beau.
Wild and muscular barbarian lady from an enemy land with a mysterious past who’s signature move is literally exploding into rage in battle? Gentle. Soft. Awkward. Loves flowers. Just wants to Rest. Has never raised her voice at another member. Please let her pet the purring kitty.
That charming, polite green man we mentioned earlier? He’s responsible, right? He makes good decisions, right? He seems an open and honest sort. What do you mean he keeps touching shit and getting sucked through magic portals. What do you MEAN he spent months talking to his friends in a fake accent. WHAT DO YOU MEAN HIS DEFAULT SETTING IS “LIE HIS ASS OFF.” Okay so he clearly has ulterior motives – he’s just insecure? At this point that tracks, I guess.
And that’s not even getting into the whirlwind of subversions in how they interact. You’d think the serious, grim scholar who wants to break reality would be irritated by the energetic, relentless ray of sunshine, but he loves her to pieces and is the second most likely to actively aid and abet her bullshit for absolutely no reason.
You’d think the amazing talker who can read social cues and manipulate them like no one’s business wouldn’t have any time for the absolute social disaster who has trouble smiling at people, but he considers her one of his best friends and was the first person to actually try to HELP HER with socialising. He’s literally never been anything but encouraging to her about it.
You can tell how ingrained these tropes usually are when one character offers another flowers as a gesture of peace, and it’s a plot twist when they’re appreciated. Because the muscle-y broody goth would OBVIOUSLY sneer at flowers, duh.
Wrong. Welcome to “we took your one dimensional character stereotypes and played jumprope, enjoy” with a strong side of “fuck your contrived interpersonal tension, actually they love each other.”
By far the funniest transition timelines are the ones from trans men where the "before" picture is some teeny little guy with sad baby seal eyes and the "after" picture looks like Kratos
This is one of the top posts in r/transtimelines and it really sums up what I'm talking about
My irl saw this post and sent me this even crazier transformation today! The little guy to Kratos pipeline is real!!!
I love tumblr because “I love this character so much I want to put them in a blender, pour the results into an ice tray, stick it in the freezer, and make popsicles out of them so that I may consume their essence” is not only a common sentiment, but a socially acceptable one here
But when I, Count Dracula
it’s really great when you can hyperfixate on your own story. however it’s not great when you decide to hyperfixate on your fictional city’s infrastructure instead of. you know. writing.
adding this under “comments that could either be a compliment or a sick burn”
"pointillism is sexual" is certainly a bold claim by tumblr but for once i think we should hear them out on this
blood being frequently described as having a "coppery smell" in fiction is kind of funny considering that there is a metallic component to blood and it's not copper
in fact if your blood smells or tastes like copper you probably have more urgent things to worry about than it being outside your body. it's probably better that it's not inside you anymore actually.
story where blood is described as smelling or tasting "coppery" and it's actually early foreshadowing that all the characters are suffering from heavy metal poisoning
Friendly reminder
captain-price-officially
Won’t say it again!
cis people can reblog this btw
nothing would prepare you for this