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i hate when i send someone a meme in another language and they're like "uhm... translate? 😒" fucker i sent you a meme where 90% of the words have an english cognate and/or you don't need to know what they're saying to find it funny. can you at least TRY

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a piece from last year's @d20zinejam! the fridge snack selection at mordred manor sure is... aquatic....

(all zines from the jam can be found here)

#dimension 20 #fantasy high

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"my champion, my rock, my everything"

#dimension 20 #a crown of candy

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-Hamlet-

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eye of the vulture king

#fantasy high #dimension 20

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Re-reading all the Watch books right now, and I am so struck by something I never noticed before: the parallels between Vimes and Angua. Vimes may have ‘put words in Carrot’s head’, as Angua thinks to herself in Feet of Clay, but it’s Angua who is his closest equal in the Watch, and his natural successor as the City’s guardsman. Carrot fulfils just about every destined leader trope there is, but Angua is an equally determined investigator, positioned as a leader within the Watch, and she’s the one we see getting into the weeds on investigations as much or even more than Carrot (digging around in Thud, stowing away onboard ship in Jingo). Angua is in many ways the face of the new Watch that Vimes built, as much as Detritus is, and in some ways more so because she’s an immigrant and Detritus was raised in Ankh-Morpork: a member of a minority who made it good in a Watch that upholds the law, one law, one public law for everyone. She doesn’t always seem to feel like she belongs, but neither does Vimes in the later books, as he settles into a commander’s role and learns that he has to delegate. The Watch is still her home, and she always returns to it.

There are a lot of personal parallels, too. Like Vimes, she has a craving she has to fight constantly even after years of abstinence - though there’s the obvious difference that Angua craves blood because she’s undead, and Vimes craves alcohol because he’s maintaining sobriety and even after many years that takes effort - and it never leaves her. Her love for a personification of the city, her suspicious nature, the prejudices they work to overcome, all echo Vimes. They have a close professional bond and often seem to understand each other better than they understand Carrot, who’s operating on a different, destined plane. People try to insult Vimes, or compliment him, or at any rate describe him, by calling him Vetinari’s terrier, and he doesn’t know if he hates it or owns it or both - and then there’s Angua, who repeatedly alludes to wolves that follow humans being dogs and means herself, and clearly doesn’t know if she hates it or owns it or both. They have a vexed relationship with their own selves, and a sense of duty you could break rocks on: they’re constantly working to live up to the people that they need themselves to be, creating red lines in their own heads that they are just waiting to see crossed. Carrot’s destiny pulled him to Ankh-Morpork. Angua and Vimes took one look at their respective destinies (werewolf noblewoman scrapping for power with unhinged brother, drunken copper sinking beneath the surface into bitterness and bad noir fiction) and put the damn things under arrest.

Angua von Uberwald for Commander of the City Watch, is what I’m saying.

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IG : @emperorofmischief

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He!!!

#dimension 20 #fantasy high

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Art from Kumari Loves a Monster by Rashmi Devadasan. Illustrated by Shyam. 

“The young maidens in these pages all have beauty, brains and talent / They while away the night and day / With monsters fierce and gallant.

 A romantic picture book of young girls who have fallen in love with monsters.”

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at duty’s end

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reblog if you enjoy napping, being cozy, being conked out, snoozing, wrapping up in blankets, sipping a hot drink, catching some z's, hugging a plushie, or otherwise relaxing and resting

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Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1

The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.

So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.

So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.

Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.

And the probe is working again.

From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.

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hello, internet user. before you is a selection of pictures you tagged "dark academia." you have 30 minutes to explain what each of them has to do with academia, defined by the Oxford dictionary as "the environment or community concerned with the pursuit of research, education, and scholarship"

if you cannot complete this task a literature professor will enter the room and beat you into unconsciousness with a baseball bat that has the word "GOTHIC" printed on it in large letters

good luck

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Joan @ Anna Sui Fall/Winter, 1993 Ready-to-Wear

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