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Responses to the most frequent comments on my Dungeon Meshi/TAZ crossover doodle

Laios and fair food

2. Taako cooking for real

3. Encounters with plants

bonus

#gjsjfjsjfjshf. Christ #get it Merle #taz balance #dunmeshi

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My new favorite thing in dwarf fortress is getting really into the gods of the world and building interesting layouts for temples that geometrically represent the concept of the god in their designs.

I made a temple to the goddess of luck and gambling thafs shaped like the 2d net of a die. It’s very cool.

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i think the best reveal in the final third of htn is that john just kinda assumed that harrow and ianthe were having sex the whole time. cause like we'd nover been asked to consider them from an outside point of view before but once you do. yeah wow it really does look like they've been having sex this whole time huh.

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Dinocephalosaurus, a strange, viviparous reptile from the Triassic, gives live birth in the shallows.

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Im gonna be planning this for the rest of my relisten to tlt now.

I have a really good idea for my favorite brand of making people feel

Incredibly complex emotions using a combination of the goofiest song choice possible and the gut wrenching visuals forcing a beautiful association between the lyrics and the blorbo feels.

#my my…. #just how much I missed ya #:) #why DID you let her go harrow?

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I have a really good idea for my favorite brand of making people feel

Incredibly complex emotions using a combination of the goofiest song choice possible and the gut wrenching visuals forcing a beautiful association between the lyrics and the blorbo feels.

#that lyricstuck je ne sais quoi

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The Third House | Book One

Coronabeth Tridentarius | Ianthe Tridentarius

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Gideon the Ninth is technically a murder mystery whodunnit except instead of collecting clues and solving the murder everyone is just like "Hmmm Gross. Yikes.... anyways back to our little tasks"

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I was playing Stardew tonight and got jumpscared by the wizard just walking his ass through town in broad daylight to go to the bookseller. For 8 years he’s been a hermit! Isolated from the townsfolk who fear and distrust him! At most, he might be hiding at the edges of a festival where no one could notice him! That was the extent of his outings to Pelican Town! But now the bookseller is in town and he doesn’t give a fuck, he’s going to march his ass out there with his silly little hat on in front of the whole town and Yoba to get his books.

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Blegh.

I’m so tired. I’m so ready to sleep. Unforch I have many many hours of work left to go.

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when is comes to asexuality and aromanticism you have to be okay with contradiction. one ace person will say asexuality is about not experiencing attraction, another will say it’s about not caring to act on attraction, another will say it’s not experiencing arousal. one aromantic will consider themself queer, one won’t. two people with seemingly identical experiences will use two different labels. aro people will be in romantic relationships, ace people will have sex. you get it.

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They should just stop doing the military, we don't need it and that 800 billion annually is more than enough to build a high speed rail line or two

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one of my favourite takes about the kirkwall hightown chantry is when people act like because it’s the only chantry they actually put in the game, it’s the only chantry in kirkwall

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Y’all I made a character for an episode at the beginning of the season who I had a lot of like; plans for? She was gonna be this dark brooding figure who referred dramatically the time before she lost her wife…….. but it turned out her wife left her bc she kinda sucked. And her companions were The Guy Her Wife Left Her For; really a lovely man. and that guys nephew. And, in the end it was a really funny episode and a really fun game! But the character ended up feeling kinda one- note!

In this tale; she was a hardened dwarven warrior whose love of her blade, crafted for her by her one, won out over her love for her one and lost her, in the end.

But like, what I really love about ftlcast, the podcast I’m on, is that now I’m picking her up again, a little further along in her story, at a very different point in her life, around a new group of characters.

And also in a completely new genre. So now she’s a Space Missonary hot gruff butch with a Huge Cyber Axe with a big green hard light blade, and a sad mysterious backstory. She gets to be that hero archetype a little bit with the added benefit of the fact that the audience knows it’s a cheap veneer already bc they saw her at her most pathetically angry.

Anyways the format of our podcast is cool and unique and lets us tell cool stories like that sometimes. Bc of our fun genre hopping thing! And while I’ve only really gotten intentional about character arcs in recent seasons, it’s structurally present across all our previous seasons bc that’s built into the format of the show.

#ftlcast #like I know I feel #like I’m shouting into the void sometimes abt how interesting the podcast im on is #but like truly! #it’s hard to market because of the way we do stuff #but I really think we have something special here #listen to follow the leader wherever you find podcasts

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God I have to work at 4pm………..

#this is ah extremely normal part of my life unfortunately #I have been experiencing this particular whoopsie for always #sometimes u stay up and upsie sun is there #cuz you got a lot on your mind

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so: masking: good, unequivocally. please mask and please educate others on why they should mask to make the world safer for immune compromised people to participate in.

however: masking is not my policy focus and it shouldn't be yours, either. masking is a very good mitigation against droplet-born illnesses and a slightly less effective (but still very good) mitigation against airborne illnesses, but its place in the pyramid of mitigation demands is pretty low, for several reasons:

it's an individual mitigation, not a systemic one. the best mitigations to make public life more accessible affect everyone without distributing the majority of the effort among individuals (who may not be able to comply, may not have access to education on how to comply, or may be actively malicious).

it's a post-hoc mitigation, or to put it another way, it's a band-aid over the underlying problem. even if it was possible to enforce, universal masking still wouldn't address the underlying problem that it is dangerous for sick people and immune compromised people to be in the same public locations to begin with. this is a solvable problem! we have created the societal conditions for this problem!

here are my policy focuses:

upgraded air filtration and ventilation systems for all public buildings. appropriate ventilation should be just as bog-standard as appropriately clean running water. an indoor venue without a ventilation system capable of performing 5 complete air changes per hour should be like encountering a public restroom without any sinks or hand sanitizer stations whatsoever.

enforced paid sick leave for all employees until 3-5 days without symptoms. the vast majority of respiratory and food-borne illnesses circulate through industry sectors where employees come into work while experiencing symptoms. a taco bell worker should never be making food while experiencing strep throat symptoms, even without a strep diagnosis.

enforced virtual schooling options for sick students. the other vast majority of respiratory and food-borne illnesses circulate through schools. the proximity of so many kids and teenagers together indoors (with little to no proper ventilation and high levels of physical activity) means that if even one person comes to school sick, hundreds will be infected in the following few days. those students will most likely infect their parents as well. allowing students to complete all readings and coursework through sites like blackboard or compass while sick will cut down massively on disease transmission.

accessible testing for everyone. not just for COVID; if there's a test for any contagious illness capable of being performed outside of lab conditions, there should be a regulated option for performing that test at home (similar to COVID rapid tests). if a test can only be performed under lab conditions, there should be a government-subsidized program to provide free of charge testing to anyone who needs it, through urgent cares and pharmacies.

the last thing to note is that these things stack; upgraded ventilation systems in all public buildings mean that students and employees get sick less often to begin with, making it less burdensome for students and employees to be absent due to sickness, and making it more likely that sick individuals will choose to stay home themselves (since it's not so costly for them).

masking is great! keep masking! please use masking as a rhetorical "this is what we can do as individuals to make public life safer while we're pushing for drastic policy changes," and don't get complacent in either direction--don't assume that masking is all you need to do or an acceptable forever-solution, and equally, don't fall prey to thinking that pushing for policy change "makes up" for not masking in public. it's not a game with scores and sides; masking is a material thing you can do to help the individual people you interact with one by one, and policy changes are what's going to make the entirety of public life safer for all immune compromised people.