#Tag story

[moonshroooms]

Unexpected thing about Dracula: I love how often people tell their friends "I love you." The men say it just as often as the women. It's said often in both casual and dire situations, loud and boisterous and genuine. It's really refreshing compared to how some people act nowadays, that I love yous are meant to be strictly romantic or familial. I wonder where exactly in the nearly 100 years since this book came out that things started to shift?

#moonspeaks #dracula #dracula daily #what i also love: quincy and seward harbor like no ill will towards lucy for not returning their affections #like they were turned down for a MARRIAGE proposal and not only do they not begrudge her #but they're also HAPPY for the last person in their besties squad that she DID love back #and not only do they have 0 animosity towards lucy theyre also willing to fucken GIVE HER BLOODa #which compared the well known practice of it nowadays was probably more dangerous and debilitating to the givers as well #anyways im quite enjoying this book #tag story

[nagalias-mindscape]

Sis: Go make your dnd character in Baldur's Gate or something.

Me: The harengon, or the tiefling? or my retired aarakocra?

Sis: Tiefling, dumbass. I want to see what you can do with that.

Me: I'm not going to make a new character just to roleplay a character I can't do correctly. My only bard- who happens to be a tiefling- is the dark urge, which is far darker than Medli is actually is, no matter the airs she puts on. Also, Med's perma blind. Can't do that to my BG3 character.

Sis: Not without mods, you can't. Bet you someone's already come out for something like that.

Me: Get me the mods required and I'll do the damn thing, bitch. I'll even romance and ascend the damn vampire for you.

#text #dnd story #tag story #so a bit about that aarakocra. It was hilarious. #it was an acquisitions incorporated inspired campaign that got canceled because life got in the way for everyone #but my little Errk was the cartographer of the group #and a rouge who would often attack enemies from the air with her bow #(aarakocra can fly all day and night if they have the right kind of altitude since their wings can lock in place and they can glide) #(something about air currents and being extremely light and whatnot) #but- and this is important #being the cartographer meant that Errk also had to deal with transportation vehicles. #the bird with almost limitless flight had to buy and manage transportation for everyone else! #(150ft flight speed in a single turn with dash action + cunning action bonus dash) #(and being so high above everyone meant that enemies had disadvantage on hitting them as they was usually out of attack range.) #ALSO #Errk's talons also did a 1d4-1 damage to enemies #so occasionally they would end up getting a nat 20 with a whopping 0 critical damage #just imagine getting bitch slapped by a bird with talons and then realizing that... nothing happened. #no pain #no discomfort beyond being tied up and glowered down at by a bird-person #who happened to have body-chucked you into a tree via high speed race through a forest #and they just slapped you for 0 damage #and probably just broke a point on said talons because their strength stat was an 8 (-1). #(would have been so much better if their strength was a -2 modifier. Errk roulette! Will you take damage or none or get healed 1 hit point? #lords help you if you saw them with their bow though #because a +8 to initiative and a +5 to hit meant that they usually were hitting things right off the bat #and being however odd feet in the air above meant they could just let gravity to most of the work with their range #did occasionally suffer a penalty for that kind of attack but the DM did allow Errk to bypass the normal bow range that way #and their alert feat meant that they weren't ever caught off guard even if they weren't focusing on whats around them #FUN FACT! Errk is only 5.

[excalisbury]

Something y’all here on tumblr may not know about me is that I’m a little bit obsessed with the Supreme Court and have been since I was a teen (with a little break in my earliest 20s for the all-subsuming gauntlet of architecture school). Anyway these days I have to sort of build up my resilience to horrible things before I go listen to my Supreme Court podcasts and read my Supreme Court articles.

And today. I thought I was ready. I though I was ready but I Was Not Ready. For Sackett v EPA

BRB crying about wetlands…..

(not the best article about it but some context)

#this case is so bad and depressing but also #I may not have been ready partially because I have been arguing with my own grandpa for… well also since I was a teen #so for like 8-10 years. about the clean water act and the rapano case (legal predecessor to sackett) #and for years both science and law supported me #but with this current court and how much they hate that Kennedy decision (among many of the Kennedy decisions they hate)….. I just #I mourn for the swamps and the wetlands. for the bogs and estuaries. for their birds and bugs and amphibians and creatures of all types #even for their imaginary creatures and monsters #wetlands my beloved 😭😭😭 #abbysurdities #tag story

[sunnyeggoup]

Thought about this comic the other day

#The other day #I lifted 2 marble desks without much struggle when helping a teacher set up class in the school I go to #I saw as like 2-3 people look at the twig (me) holding 2 30 pound desks without struggle while they have a problem balancing one #Immediately reminded me of this comic #Credit to Taytei #spectacular artist #my hero academia #boku no hero academia #mha #Tag story #Found it humorous

[descendant-of-truth]

Shipping is fun and all but I swear every single time someone makes a comment, whether as a joke or in a legitimate analysis, about there being "no other explanation" for a pair's interactions, I lose just a bit more of my sanity

Like, no, you guys don't get it. Romance is not about the Amount of devotion, it's about the COLOR. the FLAVOR of it all. a character can be just as devoted to their platonic friend as they are to their romantic partner, and they don't love either of them more, just differently.

But because the majority of people still have it stuck in their minds that romance exists on the highest tier of love, I'm stuck seeing endless takes that boil down to "these two care about each other too much for it to NOT be romantic" as if that's the core determining factor to how literally any of this works

In conclusion: stop telling me that I don't understand the story if I don't interpret the leads as romantic, I am TIRED

#analysis #meta #miscellaneous #fandom #shipping #media discussion #amatonormativity #lgbtq #I feel like tagging any of the fandoms I was thinking of when writing this would be a little mean-spirited potentially #Disclaimer: no one has actually been telling me personally that I don't understand any story in particular #It's just that the way people tend to phrase their analyses feels unnecessarily targeted at the reader and that's just. not great #even if I agree with every other point they make

[salamispots]

dream wip

#wip #artists on tumblr #flotsam diaries #arrhghhgg happy I got the textures I was aiming for #I was gonna go sleep but eve's song kororon really got me :'D #cough you can see the full image on uh instagram story if you don't wanna wait haha #technically this one's not a wip but wanna draw some others/make it a set #might tweak the octo though #anyways nOW I will sleep #muffled laugh #edit: oh!! thank for you radar tumblr staff :0 #but also radar putting my post tag ramblings on bLAST LMAO

[muppetfreak]

Mr. Riordan, it is truly a pleasure getting to experience your second draft.

#seriously tho what an amazing thing for an author #to get to revisit your series years later #and get to make all the tweaks now that you know exactly where the story is going #to go back with your theme crystalized in your head and say 'ok now this time on purpose!' #kiddo and I are enjoying the PJO series immensely #love demigods #wish adhd was real #now excuse me while I add 9 billion tags #percy jackson #pjo tv show #pjo #rick riordan #percy jackson and the olympians #disney+ #pjo series #percy jackson tv show #does this need to be tagged as a spoiler? I don't feel like it does #the suggested hashtag being spelled wrong is just *chefs kiss* #love that for us #anyway if this needs another tag tell me

[dunmeshistash]

Dungeon Meshi - Kuro & Mickbell extras

#dungeon meshi spoilers #daydream hour #adventurers bible #dungeon meshi #Kuro #Mickbell Tomas #Kabru #Kobolds #Dungeon Meshi Kuro #Kuro Dungeon Meshi #Kabrus party #Tagging as spoilers but none of this really shows up in the main story besides the third comic

[egguv]

no reflection needed.

#my art #yo get him tf outta there :( #unsolicited update in the tags but anyway #funny story abt this painting is that i pulled it off in 3 days bc neil newbon was announced to be a last min guest at a local expo #and i rly wanted to give him a gift so i guess what does hearing a cool VA coming over does to a mf #i got to meet him and he liked the drawing so W in chat guys heehee #i love this vampire prick sm it's embarrassing #fanart #digital art #baldur's gate 3 #baldurs gate 3 #baldurs gate fanart #astarion #astarion bg3 #astarion ancunin #bg3 fanart #artists on tumblr #bg3 #bg3 astarion #bg3 art #baldurs gate #bg3 companions

[con-lentitud-poderosa]

Diversity win! Both F/F and M/M shippers are ignoring the story for the sake of shipping

#dungeon meshi #gonna be talking about spoilers so covering them up with this tag #was falin the main drive of the story #when marcille made an exact recreation of her family home #and had a shapeshifter take the form of her human father

[moonshroooms]

My baby nephew, upon me and not his mama picking him up from school, AGAIN: you need to stop being here :/

Me:

#moonspeaks #i was like dkfkhk aww bud are you tired of seeing me? and his ass just goes 'yeah :/' djdkgkh #like im pretty sure with toddler logic he's certain IM the reason mom keeps having to go to school #and unfortunately hes like 4 so i have no way to explain that correlation ≠ causation #like im sorry lil dude but ur mama has to leave whether im here or not #if its any consolation i dont wanna be here and awake at 5am for y'all either 😔✌🏽✌🏽 #i love them but he was such a butthead that weekend lol and surprisingly his lil bro was SUPER chill #i can't wait for when he's older and i can tell him he told me to get out of his house like 3 times that weekend dkxkfkhmj #thankfully he only supremely disliked me RIGHT when his mom left in the morning and was mostly okay the rest of the day #one morning he threw SUCH a fit and the mere sight of me was making it worse & he insisted on being in the garage in the dark alone #i was like 'alright then batman but the door stays open so i can hear if youve died' #eventually i was able to make peace by loudly 'hrmmm im just gonna leave this bowl of blueberries here.... yknow...' #'just in case aaaanyone wants some for breakfast'. didnt get a vocal response but i heard his lil feet patter across the floor XD #5 mins later he asked for more blueberries lmao i made him a lil fort in the garage cuz he wanted to be alone that morning #honestly my peacemaking skills are phenomenal idk why I'm not president or something #tag story

[alectology-archive]

most annoying breed of author is actually someone who doesn’t respect a genre and sets out to subvert it.

#princess stories and fairytales are especially so susceptible it. I especially hate it when a man decides he can do better and writes a #story that insults the genre as a whole. do not fucking touch the genre please and thank you. #text #edit: if you’re here to check my tags ​pack it up kids I was ranting about brandon sanderson very tangentially. #but the people saying horror is subjected to the worst of this treatment are right

[cherubytes]

#how do we feel about this #i made this last night while dealing with the fact that my sister saw an instagram story she wasn’t meant to see #completely forgot about it but i think i intended to post it herre so :shrugs: #gabriel ultrakill #v1 #v1 ultrakill #gabriel #memes #???? #idk my own tagging system #ultrakill #mine #id included

[salemoleander]

I am BARELY resisting going full red-strings-corkboard on this season. And by barely resisting I mean not resisting at all here is an extremely long list of the events those pins would be marking out.

BigB getting a Task that was a different color than everyone else's. It's not just a randomly assigned Hard Task, bc Scar rerolled for a Hard Task and his was also just a white envelope. It's fundamentally different.

That task taking BigB away from socialization, and seemingly being an incredibly time-consuming and dull request. Of profound disinterest to any watchers.

The phrasing of his Task!!

Dig a big hole. All the way down. At least 3x3. Make it your base if you want.

Everyone else's are direct and formal - the only one with more than one sentence was Skizz's, with the rule clarification of "One attempt only." Bigb's Task is four short abrupt sentences. It is also the only Task to contain extraneous information, 'Make it your base if you want.' The requirements (at least 3x3) feel like an afterthought to mimic the numerical/specific demands of the other tasks.

Evo symbol on the face of the Secret Keeper statue.

The fact that there's a statue at all; the fact that there is a physical representation of what is assigning tasks that everyone must complete, when previously everything was always handled via commands and unseen RNG.

Grian talking to the statue, and (bc of his Actual Role as game organizer) acting as a mediator for the impartial decisions handed down, speaking for it.

Grian making one last bad joke and saying he doesn't know if it counted or not- depends on whether we the audience laughed.

Grian asking for task recommendations from the audience. The watchers are making the tasks. The Watchers are making the tasks.

Again I could be off-base, and I'm not usually even that smitten with bringing in Evo lore. I don't want a Big Bad really...but. It feels like something very unusual and intentional and cool is happening in this series. And I'd guess we'll know if theres something going on once we have more than one data point.

My largely unfounded suspicion is that there is another being (maybe Listeners, maybe something else) trying to reach out to the Players via decoy Tasks, and BigB was the first recipient. Get them alone, make them of disinterest to the watchers, and tell them something we don't get to know.

Because that's the really, really fucking cool part (if my wacky theory is remotely right): We're the bad guys. We're the ones giving out tasks - hell, we're the ones actively brainstorming harder and crueller tasks in Grian's comments!

If they actually made a story where the Players have to keep secrets from us I will be delighted. Bc that is the same genius bullshit that made Evo Watcher lore so fun

#secret life #slsmp #life series #grian #secret life smp #bigb #i think im starting to get the shape of the conceit #this could all be nonsense of course. i may be completely off base and nothing will happen and it's just a normal life series #but it feels like there's something Larger happening here #anyways. will keep thinking and mulling this over and collecting scraps of evidence #secret life spoilers #slsmp spoilers #spoilers #salem meta #salem tag #im so enriched. i love being wrong about stories

[thatdamnokie]

i love you fairy tales i love you folklore i love you myths i love you stories as old as humanity itself i love you oral traditions i love you characters carried through time on my ancestors’ tongues i love you story i’ve seen a million ways and want to see a million more i love you archetypes i love—

#personal #uh tags #fairy tales #folklore #mythology #stories #academia #memes #fiction #narratives

[shiny-eyed-corvid]

things found on the ground during my California road trip

favorite finds: a stone dolphin pendant found at the San Diego Zoo and a mysterious charm reading “Three Potato Four” from the streets of San Francisco

#mine #crowcore #found objects #shinies #trinkets #gremlincore #collection #california #i want to know the story behind three potato four!!! #like is it a cat collar tag for a cat named three potato four…. iconic