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Future Grandkid: Grandpa, what was it like when Obama was president?

Me: Aah, yes… the Homestuck President.

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AO3 Subscribers Poll

(please reblog and share for a bigger reach <3)

#52 which is way more than i thought #....i really should write more

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rachel animorphs is literally three seconds away from turning into a grizzly bear at all times but like that was true before she got the ability to literally do that

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one fun thing about being a teacher in march 2023 is that chess is a literal epidemic among teens. we are starting to have meetings about how we can STOP teenagers from playing too much chess which is like if we were trying to figure out how to stop them from reading for fun. When i was in high school five years ago chess was nerd shit only but now it is transcending every social and language barrier and is absolutely rampant. kids aren’t on their phone texting in class anymore it’s ONLY chess.com. kids are playing chess on their phones while playing chess in real life. this is still better than tiktok because at least the kids are developing an attention span from this

#wait chess is trending?

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Play Royal Affairs - Out Now!

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As the middle child of the Queen of Westerlin, you’ve led a sheltered life in the palace, but now you must spread your wings and prepare for your royal responsibilities with a year at the exclusive Archambault Academy.

Everyone knows your name, everyone has an opinion on what you do, and everyone views you as the face of the new generation of royalty. Your every move is reported in the press, a word from you could make or break a teacher’s career–or the fate of the school itself. You’re being courted by every club and social group on campus; and there are countless students who would love to be in your orbit.

In luxurious armchairs behind ivy-covered walls, you and your fellow students debate political theory—but outside, real trouble simmers across the realm. There are activists fighting to open voting rights beyond the aristocracy, and you can use your influence to sway the government’s decision in either direction. Relations are growing increasingly uneasy with your country’s neighbors, and there are conspiracies around every corner. Why is your mother whispering behind closed doors with the Prime Minister? Have the leaders of the protests really disappeared? Which allies can you trust? There are some secrets that only your royal authority can uncover.

Will you honor centuries of royal tradition and follow the path that your mother the Queen has laid out for you? Or will you be a force of change, leading your country in a new direction as you break free of a lifetime of expectations?

Oh, and speaking of expectations—there’s also the foreign royal that your mother wants you to marry. Who is in your class. And who happens to hate you.

Play as male, female, or non-binary; gay, straight, or bisexual; monogamous or polyamorous; asexual and/or aromantic.

Find love and/or friendship with your free-spirited childhood companion, a firebrand radical, a dreamy dancer, a financier haunted by tragedy, your devoted bodyguard, or a rival foreign royal.

Cuddle and train your pet: a horse, dog, or bird of prey.

Put on a lavish play, become a sports star, or run Student Council; and represent Archambault Academy against its rival Gallatin.

Become your classmates’ confidante and help them solve their problems—or make those problems worse.

Embrace your royal responsibility and carry on your mother’s tradition—and perhaps even take your sister’s place as heir to the throne.

Forge a path to the future by supporting revolutionaries’ calls for change, or stamp out the movement with scheming and deceit.

When this tumultuous year ends, will you be Archambault Academy’s crowning glory?

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#buying this in a fucking heartbeat

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jason todd poses in photos like men on tindr pose with fish except instead of a fish it’s a gun

#dc

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If you like the word “queer” reblog.

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this sounds cute tbh. i was hoping for a hateship though!

also what the fuck is the sea people thing that the quiz mentioned. now i gotta do homework!

What Cursed DPXDC Ship Are You? uquiz

Take a gander at this funky uquiz I made. It took me over 5 hours and you can actively see my sanity wane as the questions go on.

#dcxdp #sea people???

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hey. what do a selkie and a ziploc bag have in common

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Two-Face, brass knuckles dripping blood, black and white satin shirt with three buttons popped, sleeves rolled up to his elbow, golden rings stained with gore, announcing he's gonna kidnap Bruce Wayne

Bruce: Harv, this isn't you, come to your senses.

Also Bruce:

#this is why awkward wedding smooches happened in fall risk #dc

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imagine if ur parents had to name u by the combination of their two names together

#i narrowly avoided being named jim #why is that relevant? #because kim and tim thought that would be cute #WE WOULDVE BEEN KIM TIM AND JIM

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Reading through the Tortall books in publication order is funny because you start with Alanna “the village healing woman taught me all she knew” going off to become a knight, and end with Numair “world’s most powerful mage” as young Arram Draper first learning magic at the Carthaki university. Because of the 40 intervening years and five(?) different series further developing the Tortall universe, the magic system is now SO much more complex.  Arram is learning an elementally-based, heavily theory-dependent form of magic where conceptual power is applied to physical objects or energy constructs. His teachers make him develop skills in non-magical areas like juggling, jewelry making, and gardening so eventually they can safely guide him through complicated applications of magic. In comparison, Alanna complains that Duke Roger is spending too much time on theory in order to prevent her and her peers from learning “actual magic” and becoming his rivals. And then she throws purple light at things until they explode or she passes out! We also learn from Arram’s misadventures that most of “magic” is creating methods of applying, storing, and accessing power so the user doesn’t drain their own life force and pass out or die. Alanna uses NONE of these techniques; instead, she pulls her magic directly out of her own life force, thinks about what she wants it to do, and hopes she reaches that goal before draining herself. She even (sometimes) factors in the impact of magically draining herself of energy while attempting tasks that require both magical and physical endurance (such as when deciding how much magic to spend warming herself when making her blizzard hike to claim the Dominion Jewel.)

For one thing, this makes Alanna insanely powerful. In In the Hand of The Goddess, she breaks open Roger’s magically locked door (presumably designed by Roger himself– an immensely strong and well-trained sorcerer) by shoving her own magic into it until it MELTS. This builds an Alanna who decided magical theory was useless at age 12 because she has an immense access to magical potential energy, and who never learns the basic life-preserving models of magic usage that are taught in intro-level classes. She doesn’t have an interest in learning more sophisticated forms of magic, except in healing, which she cared about enough to learn non-magically. So when she heals, she uses magic as a guide or a supplement, rather than depending on it and then draining herself.  Since she isn’t attempting complex magic, most of the time the limitations of drawing directly from her own life force doesn’t impact her that much. The things she does magically all have much more efficient alternatives, but they require an understanding of magical theory and ability to store energy that Alanna never learned! If she wants to do larger spells, she just keeps feeding energy into it until it breaks or she does. 

The intervening series and Numair’s story makes Alanna’s simultaneously more and less believable. It now makes sense why everyone with even a slight understanding of Alanna’s type of Gift gets angry at times and tells her she’s using magic irresponsibly. (Before, we only understood Alanna’s side of the argument: “Well, I didn’t die and it worked, so calm down.” !!!) The fact that she never actually dies and only rarely is seriously harmed through her own magic use now requires some suspension of disbelief!

#this makes me want to read them meeting #and just numair/arrams steadily growing horror as he realizes how alanna is functioning #tortall

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So you know which cryptid is at the top of my personal list for “most delightfully ridiculous cryptid?” The Slide-rock Bolter. It’s a lesser known cryptid that seems to have originated from miner/trapper folklore in 19th century Colorado, and…it’s a land whale.

It hooks onto the peak of a mountain with its tail and when it sees something it wants to eat, it lets go and zooms down the slope, swallowing everything in its path whole.

It is not clear how it gets back up a mountain once it’s done this, but I suspect it can manage.

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sometimes i say things on twitter and then make a little graph about it

#honestly i dig foe fiction #does it count as foe fiction if you're eyeing up another section of fandom as your foes

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So you know which cryptid is at the top of my personal list for “most delightfully ridiculous cryptid?” The Slide-rock Bolter. It’s a lesser known cryptid that seems to have originated from miner/trapper folklore in 19th century Colorado, and…it’s a land whale.

It hooks onto the peak of a mountain with its tail and when it sees something it wants to eat, it lets go and zooms down the slope, swallowing everything in its path whole.

It is not clear how it gets back up a mountain once it’s done this, but I suspect it can manage.

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Dick Grayson, age 9: I hate you Bruce! You’re not my dad! I’m going to kill zucco with my bare hands!

Jason Todd, age (idk, 13?): golly gee mr Wayne this sure is a nice place you got

Jason Todd (age 19, recently resurrected): I was never the son you wanted! You wanted a replacement for dick!

Bruce Wayne (age too fucking old for this shit): *rolls up sleeve to point to several bite mark shaped scars* you wanna know how I got these scars?

bruce: all i ever wanted was a non-feral child. just one that didn't want to gruesomely murder people. took an interest in college and other noble pursuits that have nothing to do with illegal vigilantism. crochet maybe. i remember i had one, once. a wonderful, smart, bright eyed child

jason: oh YEAH. well i'm SORRY that i can't be as perfect as DICK was, with his PERFECT GRADES and his COLLEGE DEGREE and—

bruce: i could not have been more clearly talking about you

#i am dying #dc