I said this before but an election day reminder: people who claim that if Biden is elected some vague group of “centrists” or “liberals” will go back to pretending everything is fine and drop any advocacy are really showing both their ignorance of liberal and left-leaning advocacy organizations and also making it very obvious they were apolitical or even right-leaning until 2016

and also idk, it’s been 4 years of Trump, literally hundreds of thousands are dead due to government inaction on the pandemic in addition to other deaths from family separation policies and hate crimes, waiting for the revolution is quite literally slower than just voting for someone who is better

i could never be a doctor aboard a starship bc the hippocratic oath requires you to “do no harm” but if the captain approached me saying we’re stuck in 1968 i’d start swinging no questions asked

McCoy vs Kirk

nah, Crusher vs Riker

paladin pronounced like paula deen

i did a character like this once! his name was paul, from the village of deen, and he was a member of the Pahl Adien, an order of paladins devoted to hestia. he was a goblin

every horror writer in history wanted what the 19th floor subplot in the Wayside School books had

i think the lovecraft comparisons might have something to do with the credits of every episode talking about how commonplace books does lovecraft stuff

i have been thinking and plotting and thinking and i dont think vesper is enough of a character On Her Own, i think in my (eventual) scifi worldbuild pt. 2 (the non-fool's gold side of things), seven is charade's twin. which means i need to overhaul things abt both of them to make more of them. Fit

#i will not be taking questions. ( i mean yes sure i can but i doubt this is News Enough to have questions about)

not a question but atton and vector Need™ to recognize each other and have a spider-man pointing meme moment while the sisters look at each other and realize they both fell for sith-backstory wifeguys

the art of. using periods incorrectly to fine tune line delivery

a lot of people in the notes are pointing out that they started doing this bc you cant use commas in the tags and it spread from there and im so obsessed w this. the medium is the message the sign manipulates the signal etc. the way that tumblr tags were never intended to be used the way they are and what started as a workaround  for the limitations of a medium not designed to be used the way it was grew past just replacing commas to become something semiotically additive, popularizing a new kind of pause that doesn’t just contain information about length but an indescribable sort of. flavor? u know. yeah idk i just love the way language has responded to its new applications in a digital/instant communication/globalized everyone-is-connected-world etc and the magnitude! and direction! with which its vectors shift like cephalopod tentacles changing colors !!

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obi-wan is my favorite character in anything ever because the cosmic forces that control the universe literally have it in for him specifically and this is something thats flat out stated on multiple occasions and literally everyone knows including obi-wan himself but he just keeps on sadly careening from one disaster to another as everyone he cares about dies in increasingly horrible and tragic ways while wisecracking every 5 minutes like it’s going out of style and somehow managing to become the sluttiest magic monk in the galaxy to cope. icon.

Obi-wan, covered in his own blood, laying on the ground: maybe, if i lay very still, the force won’t see me, for five minutes.

#wait WHAT is that why bad things CONSTANTLY happen to him at all times? #I thought he was just the writers' favorite whumpee

i mean the force is the plot so that's basically the same thing

Too many projects. Not enough brain.

i have good news for you about what there's lots of at your job

does anyone remember the time during protests where protesters were getting kidnapped in unmarked vans? was that situation ever resolved? because if this happened in any country the US considers enemy there would be call for military intervention

yeah it happened in the US, these things are normalized unfortunately because US police is so militarized and corrupt

one of my favorite examples of why you cant trust snopes.

“What’s true: The literal act of kidnapping”

“What’s false: Kidnapping is a criminal charge and no one involved has been charged”

literally BEYOND parody.

imagine this logic applied to a serial killer--"ted bundy isn't a murderer because he hasn't received the charges yet. victims of murder are technically not murdered until there's a legal charge of murder." you could also apply it to any dictatorship rising to power. fucking morons.

officially lost faith in snopes

snopes is still useful if you read what they actually say and pay attention. it's just the rating that's useless. like it'll be

CLAIM: this person did this thing RATING: MIXED WHAT'S TRUE: this person did this thing WHAT'S FALSE: that doesn't make them a bad person

they still fact-check, its just that they also editorialize

Yesterday (2019) dir. Danny Boyle

no beatles or harry potter hell yeah

just started watching it and

yeah

i agree with the energy that was created here….

wait you hate how well this fits? this- isn’t how an actual song goes??

quick someone post axis of awesome

pie chart for 2k21. the product of over like 2 hours of heated debate

deep dish pizza would presumably be pure structure in this framework, but would you say it's trad or neutral piedentity?

Haters be like

“It’s totally possible to make a path that goes through every door exactly once”

Idk if I did it right

sorry!

it’s true you can’t draw one continuous line that would do the trick. but if the kitty and bunny set out by going through the doors they’re marked beside and each walked the certain way their colored arrows show at the same time their “collective path” as a team would go through each door only once. The moral of the story is actually about friendship , and cooperation, because in this world there are tasks you can’t do on your own.

im just fucking with you i’m pretty sure this has no right answer

i concocted a solution with a 100% mortality rate

Stop being so incredibly funny on my impossible puzzle post

You can switch the tracks so the trolley will kill one person, or you can allow it to attempt the fruitless crusade of running over each person in the maze only once.

all in a days work! *passes out*

My indecisive butt, walking in and being faced with having to make a decision, immediately leaving

oOoOoooo I’m a ghost!

Fire

I will admit to fussing with this for about three hours last night before deciding sleep would be better for me.

…But now I’m wondering if it’s possible to make a path where you walk through every door EXACTLY TWICE.

yes, easily. the problem with the original is that there are three rooms with an odd number of doors

if you pass through a room's door an odd number of times then you will end up inside it if you started outside, and outside it if you started inside

to do that with three or more rooms is impossible, because you will always start outside at least two of them, and you can't end up inside both of them

if you're going through every door twice, there are essentially two doors in every wall with a door in it, which means there are no rooms with odd numbers of doors. you can start in one room (and outside all the others) and end up in the same room (and outside all the others)

granted i havent read lotr since i was 13 but the way legolas joins the fellowship always cracks me up, like hes literally a prince but they sent him as a messenger to basically tell the council like "whoopsiedoodles we fucked up and gollum is gone, that's what you get for entrusting him to the party elves of mirkwood you know how we get" and he feels SO bad he joins this super deadly quest like imagine you're thranduil and you're like "hey son can you go to elrond's house and tell him we fucked up royally" and your son is like sure pops can do but then you don't hear from him for like two months so you call elrond like hey e-dog what's good have you seen my son. and elrond is like. well i dont know how to tell you this but he went on a homoerotic voyage to the most dangerous place on earth. id be so mad

legolas: the ranger pledged his support before me, but it turns out he's a king so that's fine, actually. but i CANNOT get beaten to the punch by a dwarf

it’s easy to forget, so I’ll remind y’all: you can make fantasy versions of anything. yes even things you might not think about. like soil types. I am thinking of fantasy soil types right now

@natalieironside

oh Yeah

my DM made a town thats gonna delight you nerds. a little town called dirtsburrow theyre literal dirt farmers and are VERY prosperous. the various soils are used in magical rituals, or to grow potion ingredients. their PH scale has a Y axis. and presumably a Z axis as well!

Oh yeah that’s the stuff

i like to think about plantoid aliens whose agricultural industry revolves around producing fertilizer to reconstitute the dirt they eat out of like a bowl

Super-speed can power a city without polluting. Super-healing can provide an endless supply of donor blood. Weather manipulation ends droughts. Your job is to convince superheroes to use their powers for practical purposes instead of fighting crime, and you’re very good at it.

People always comment on how cool it must be for me to meet all the major superheroes. That they wish they could shake the hands of BrainGuard or WaterSprout, and I just laugh and wave them off. In reality, the actual talks are the least interesting part for me.

I much prefer the paper work.

I have gotten a reputation for being a smooth talker, as I have signed on the largest number of heroes to our community service by far. But I don’t think that is fair to the others. It is just that when I contact the super-powered people, I have the upper hand, because I do my homework. I pull the statistics, analyze their powers and, more importantly, their personality.

Stop suggesting all water and fire-based powers to go into firefighting. Not all super strength people are interested in search and rescue missions in fallen down buildings. If healers wanted to work in hospitals – they would just go do it!

Instead, I look for the connection between the person and the superpower. It has caused some controversial decisions, I understand this. However, I believe a happy healer working to reduce animal suffering, is better than a healer stuck in a cancer ward, wanting to die themselves. The summation of the good will be greater, even if the acts seem smaller.

Nothing has been quite as controversial as this one though. But I believe in my analysis. There is no doubt in my conclusion.

Grim Raven is chained to the table, his hands resting on the tabletop far away from my reach. Tattoos that he did not have prior to his arrest, peaks out of the sleeves of his shirt. I make sure to keep my papers out of reach, while I give my presentation. When I am done talking, he just laughs.

Expected.

“So? Would you be interested?” I try a convincing smile, knowing that my smile does not work like that. When the laughter dies down, his eyes fixate on my paperwork.

“You know what I have done?” The voice are rough. “You know what I did?”

“Yes.” There is no point in lying. He is decades older now, but the videos of his acts were major data points in order to reach my conclusion. “You walked into a mall as an old teen, and released your power after a particular heated discussion with your parents, causing every person in the given distance to drop dead. Dead of old age, as the autopsies later showed. You turned around, and continued to release your power periodically for the better part of a day, before a Power Blocker hero managed to stop you. Your estimated body-count is in the high hundreds.”

“And you suggest to release me? I am the biggest killer of the last century.”

“You took your judgement without hesitation. Reports are saying you have been staying on the powerblockers without a single slip up, luckily during you solitary containment. Only five died.”

“But you want me to stop taking them again.”

I meet his eyes.

“Your power is time manipulation. Time manipulation forward, specifically. Irreversible, deadly. To humans, of course. But not everything has as limited a timespan as us weaklings. The reforestation has been ongoing on the west coast for years. We are struggling with re-planting the trees while still sustaining our need for lumber. You would have a cabin. Food, water and entertainment delivered regularly. You would simply have to take the blockers in the periods when they are replanting or cutting down the trees. At any other point, we just need you to make them grow faster. What do you say?”

I slide over the paper and pen as a formality.

I already know I have him.

Help us convince Discord to support the plural community

Hey folks! Discord is currently considering integrating functions such as proxying in order to support plural folks, who currently have to rely on bots to communicate as ourselves. We just need to convince them that there’s a demand for this. We have a plan for that, outlined in a message from our friend @alaneiii which I’ll copy/paste below. Please consider helping us out with this, thank you

i filled out the form and they (already!) replied and said to focus on the community feedback page, so here’s the relevant thread:

https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/1500000687381-Integrate-functions-to-support-the-plural-community-on-Discord