Reblogged kyroki
characters going “we were lovers once”: eh, it’s okay i guess. it’s nice enough
characters going “we were friends once”: absolutely devastating. one hit knockout i’m gone
Reblogged cloudster-clown
this is about procrastinating. or executive dysfunction. i think
yall the comedy wildlife photography results are coming out atm and
look
LOOK AT THIS LIL MAN
THANK YOU BRIAN MATTHEWS HOLY SHIT HES GOT SUCH A CASE OF THE MONDAYS
It's a crime not to link the whole thing, they are all fantastic! https://www.comedywildlifephoto.com/gallery/finalists/2023_finalists.php
Personal fave
Jessie what the fuck are you talking about
Personal fav - so spherical
whenever you feel sad simply google ptarmigans
they are a perfectly shaped being
The 2024 list is available now
https://www.comedywildlifephoto.com/gallery/finalists/2024_finalists.php
This is my favorite from this year
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH
sorry i am so fucking excited for this
Reblogged chickentits
we’re drinkin WATER TONIGHT BABEY
✨ recap ✨
Upon inspection, Sylphi recognizes the orb as an item of Ba’al (assuming that it is real). She explains, as Diana picks it back up, that according to her studies his domains as a god are barriers and promises. So she can’t understand why one of his items would kill on touch. Shockingly, no one else is eager to volunteer taking it from Diana to see if it is the real thing. Sylphi instead decides to test the orb on a seedling.
She pulls a seed from her pocket and infuses it with some of her magic to get it to sprout before placing it on top of the orb. It sparks from the center and it begins to glow before the seedling begins growing rapidly. It encases the orb almost entirely with its roots, causing Diana to drop it before they can grow over her hand.
It smashes back down into the stone floor, and Diana swoops down and begins to hack at the roots with one of her daggers to free it, but they will not cut. Between the roots and her gloves, Quincy feels like it’s safe enough to risk touching it, and picks it up gingerly to inspect.
She’s quiet for a moment before suggesting that this orb is a failed attempt to recreate Ba’al’s item. As far as she can tell, whatever it may have been intended for, the orb may just end up giving anyone who touches it Dragonborn characteristics. She then calls up the staircase to Agatha to see if she suddenly feels “dragony” since that seedling wrapped around the orb was from her forest.
Agatha irritataingly confirms she does not from somewhere upstairs.
Quincy decides she is intrigued by all this and hands her card and a communication stone to Sylphi. She explains that the stone can teleport one person temporarily for brief meetings or just for voice check ins, and that the seal on her card will bring them straight to her if they ever stop by her shop in Yeothia. She’d love it if they could keep her informed on any changes they may observe with anything that may come into contact with that orb.
She goes to head out, before pausing at the door to toss some spark rocks to Amoré…who does not catch them and they explode around her feet, before bidding them farewell and ducking out of the cottage, ignoring Amoré’s string of curses.
Anagtha decends the staircase to see the noticeable hole and slight scorch marks on her floor before flatly stating that it’s a good thing they just got paid because she expects Diana to fix that. Diana sheepishly acquiesces and hands Amoré and Sylphi their share of their payment while she’s at it.
While Amorè is tucking her gold away, Diana steps up to her and also places a small purple scale in her palm. She explains that it’s a gift from Ko Kiri, that she left one for each of them. Amorè muses that she doesn’t understand what about their time together warranted a gift, especially to her, and Diana hesitantly asks if Amoré knows what it means to receive a scale from a Dragonborn.
She admits she doesn’t, and proceeds to tuck it away in her pouch. Diana stays quiet and does not elaborate any further.
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As always, Diana : @wolfy1298
#duo rong#dnd character scrapbook#dungeons and dragons#duo chronicles#amore bellridge#diana blackthorn#dnd party#dnd art#dnd ocs#dnd pcs#dnd characters#sorcerer#rogue#digital art#backgrounds…my mortal enemy#did I make our dm draw me a floor plan for this cottage#no#they are just awesome like that#but I will snatch it and shove it into my resources folder
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I really don't understand how "without getting kudos or comments a fanfiction author is going to assume that people who clicked their fic didn't like it" became a controversial take.
I don't know why some people think an author should imagine, or guess that people who click their fic enjoyed it it when nobody is telling them that.
If you're re-reading a fic constantly, or leaving it up in your tab so that it re-loads every day for a hundred days the author is not going to know that unless you tell them. They'd love to hear it. It would make their day.
And if you don't tell them you liked their fic, there's no reason for them to assume you did.
Writers on AO3 when they see the hit counter on their fic go up and get an email that someone left kudos or a comment: Yay! People like my story! This made my day!
Writers on AO3 when they see the hit counter on their fic go up but the number of kudos/bookmarks/subscriptions/comments doesn't change: Oh. People are reading my story, but I guess they didn't like it.
Writers on Tumblr when they see notifications on their story: Yay! People are liking my story! Oh, somebody left a nice comment! Oh, they even reblogged it! That was so sweet of them!
Writers on Tumblr when they see 0 notes on their story: Nobody read it.
Also, just for fun, here are the stats for my fanfic with the most hits:
Almost half of the comments are my replies, so there are actually 27 individual comments. And almost 27,000 hits. So, basically a 1:10,000 ratio.
Do you still think writers are being unreasonable?
While 27 comments may not be much when someone gets them gradually, it's a lot to read through to make sure you're not contributing to unintentional spam.
unintentional spam?? I'm sorry this is just such a foreign idea to me.
I promise you there are vanishingly few authors who would be upset to receive more than one comment saying the same (positive) things!
If I receive multiple emails of comments on something I write, there is an actual zero percent chance of me being upset by it. Literally would make my day, week, month. Love your authors! Comments do not have to be detailed analysis - something as simple as “<3” conveys so much. (In fact, the very first comment I got on AO3 was “<3” and I treasure it.)
Spam your local fic author with comments. You never know what could happen.
They might fall in love with you.
Happened to the Goob author. Happened to me.
I made one of my dearest friends this way. And I bet she'd be completely unsurprised to know I still have her comments saved.
Tell 'em how long it's been, @sparklingganymede.
If you’ve heard authors complain about spam on ao3, they are talking about actual literal spam left by bots, which has become such a problem that ao3 is rate-limiting comments. They are NEVER talking about real comments from real users.
Comments are ALWAYS welcome. As long as you’re not being rude or negative, I promise you the author wants your comment! If they don’t, they can literally turn comments off whenever they want to. The fact that they haven’t means they want your comment, even if it’s exactly the same as the last three they got.
Even just a heart emoji or a “I liked this” will do, I promise!
Reblogged kyroki
cast iron? yeah thats a pretty common spell to learn
you come onto my post and be funnier than me
skillet issue
Reblogged zrllosyn
good morning kings let’s push this boulder
bad news about the boulder everyone
Good morning kings let’s push this boulder
bad news about the boulder everyone
2tari-aaren
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aredeemantagonist
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thee-silly-0ne
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thatoneaceidiot
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good morning, kings! let’s push this boulder.
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lilacposting
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bad news about the boulder, everyone :(
GOOD MORNING KINGS let’s push this boulder
Official Time Loop Post
This is not a time loop post. It is a reference to sysiphus. I believe that you have failed me and Tumblr as a whole.
ok but Sisyphus is in an eternal loop that he can never escape from. every accomplishment he makes (pushing the boulder to the top of the hill) is for naught. it will roll down, and he’ll have to do it again. and again. and again. and again.
the same day could be repeating every time the boulder falls, but he would never know. it’s not like it would make a difference for him.
it may not be a literal time loop, but it counts to me.
Reblogged zrllosyn
I think we need to appreciate this part of Brennan Lee Mulligan's WIRED interview a lot more:
"The evangelical right in this country needs to manufacture outrage to hold onto its voting block. [The satanic panic about DnD] was arbitrary, as the targets of their outrage always are. Fight the power."
Reblogged littlecofiegirl
There's an EU initiative going on right now that essentially boils down to wanting to force videogame publishers with paid games and/or games with paid elements such as DLC, expansions and microtransactions to leave said games in a playable state after they end support, or in simpler terms, make them stop killing games.
A "playable state" would be something like an offline mode for previously always online titles, or the ability for people to host their own servers where reasonably possible just to name some examples.
I don't think I need to tell anyone that having something you paid for being taken from you is bad, which is a thing that routinely happens with live service and other always online games with a notable recent example being The Crew which is now permanently unplayable.
Any EU citizen is eligible to sign the initiative, but only once and if you mess up that's it. You can find it here. (https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2024/000007_en)
Even if you're not European or you signed it already, you can share this initiative with anyone who is, even if they don't care about videogames specifically because this needs a million signatures and there is different thresholds that need to be met for each EU country for their votes to even count and could also be a precedent for other similar practices like when Sony removed a bunch of Discovery TV content people paid for.
SUPPORT BELOW 50% OF THE THRESHOLD IN THESE COUNTRIES:
Bulgaria - 35% Croatia - 45% Cyprus - 12% (!!!!) Czechia - 47% Greece - 27% Italy - 41% Latvia - 43% Luxembourg - 20% Malta - 11% (!!!!) Romania - 48% Slovakia - 47% Slovenia - 38%
SEVEN countries out of 27 have met the threshold so far. Deadline is 31st July, 2025.
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Do you guys ever think about how Shen Yuan/Shen Qingqiu probably was way quicker to let himself act 'OOC' with Liu Qingge because there he has no expectations of what the original was like? All he knew was that OG Liu Qingge and Shen Qingqiu didn't get along but that's basically it, so I can imagine that even as he's getting used to his life as SQQ, the only times he can afford to let down his mask a little is when he's talking with LQQ, teasing and smiling at him and showing the little smidge of Shen Yuan that no one else gets to see.
Do you guys think about that? I think about that.