#handy excuse

[nemfrog]

The Insanity of Genius. 1891. Title page.

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#madness #genius #insanity #word #title page #nemfrog #1891 #19th century #handy excuse

[breezypunk]

the art of touch.. ♥︎

(I'm not sure how they managed to keep their clothes on hehe).

#cyberpunk 2077 #cyberpunk 2077 photomode #cyberpunk screenshots #cyberpunkedit #cyberpunk aesthetic #cp77 #cp77edit #gamingedit #dailygaming #virtual photography #gaming photography #goro takemura #takemura goro #takemura x v #takemura x masc v #oc: vaughn leblanc #otp: golden hues #male v #masc v #tag: a study in hands #(hell yeah I'm taggin' it) #my screenshots #breezy's queue #☼ #I got carried away and this became a photostory jskdnjkfg #I wont apologize because just look at the bbs :'') #this set was pure excuses to stare at goro's hamds <33 #also vaughn's love language is touch and just feeling goro's handies and warmth of his skin just sends him into orbit #no re-entry #lost in space for an eternity

[ahdriking]

Porsche's many faces of pleasure ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

#kinnporsche #look im not saying i made this as an excuse to study his face #but im also definitely saying that #also playing with colours and compression #look this isnt a bad thing to have handy #for... entirely ethical purposes #ahdris gifs

[nostalgia-tblr]

Right I'm not saying Odin's not had a terrible amount of colonialism and war going on over his however-long-it's-been reign but when Thor wants to lay waste to Jotunheim and Odin tells him off for this it's not just hypocrisy at work, because the Odin of the timeframe of that movie seems sure that this would be Wrong not just politically bothersome and yet he also doesn't really explain to Thor why things are different now and putting that together what you have is this: Odin can't explain his own apparent change of heart without revealing that "oh yeah your brother's a Jotun," even though he must be fairly sure that this information would stop Thor's xenophobic bloodlust in its tracks as effectively as it did his own.

#thor (2011) #mcu tag i guess #he's had plenty of time to think of a handy excuse that doesn't give anything away but in that reality things are less dramatic generally #like in the reality where when Odin fainted Frigga (remember her?) explained their thought process and expressed their love etc #and you know what now i wonder *when* sylvie got told she was adopted cos it *could* be not long before she wandered off-path #i think we've all assumed she just always knew? but if not the TVA come cos she's still playing valkyrie-saves-ppl AFTER she knows the trut #which would mean SHE did nothing 'wrong' - the point of divergence was her parents failing to traumatise her sufficiently and spark off #a spiral into villainy for her. which then also means they DID fuck up her life by not fucking her up enough. oh the irony :(

[blushft]

it's late. have some ian riley comments that i think about a lot.

comments made about barney:

he is not that good of a pirate

canon ADD!

who knows what he does online..!

barney only buys beers for freeman...

even ian knows he's dumb.

things that he's said (that i think barney would say too and/or make me feel unwell):

other comments that i thought were cool/funny:

what's coming? i don't know.

based. this one made me smile.

i dunno either, man

that's all i have for now, but there is so, so much more..

#and when i get around to fully archiving everything mindverse-wise my niche trivia knowledge will come in handy! #<- i WILL do this. at some point #for now excuse the poorly sized images ^_^ #oh! i also tried adding img descriptions/alt text. let me know if i did it right. #ianriley #barney's mind #mindverse #barmey calhoun #think thats all the tags #im giggling i love ian riley comments #theyre so funny

[sivsii]

a pumpkin pate for ur Halloween pleasure :D

#Critical role #bells hells #pate de rolo #critical role fanart #original art 2022. #man the urge to draw pate cutesy despite how Cursed and Gross he is cannot be beat sdjg #tbf I will have hundreds of kids coming to the door tn so I do have to keep it pg anyway #a handy excuse 😌

[herebecritters]

Sorry if ship questions are getting repetitive but I’m just curious about your opinion on one of my favorites, Handy and Petunia. The episode they had together (I Nub You) was really cute! Also your Flippy and Flaky stuff is cute too, that’s another one of my favorite ships!

Nah it’s fun! People like their ships, trust me I get it ahehehe /gen

But you just gonna come in here and throw some lady and the tramp bullshit at me???

Well GOOD cus I LOVE it! >:U there’s a lot of fun potential with those two, they make me laugh while also being really cute. I Nub You is one of my favorites.

#happy tree friends #htf #htf handy #htf petunia #handy x petunia #petunia x handy #thank you so much for giving me an excuse to draw them ahehehehe #asks #gush n mush

[kiwi-smoothi]

I did a bunch of shit math before work to figure out the carrying capacity and lift strength of the Bg3 companions because I'm a fucking d&d nerd and this is what I do with my free time.

Wyll, Gale, Astarion, and Halsin do not need high strength stats. They are magic weilders (astarion is an arcane trickster so he counts but rouges are not a beefy class either). I know, it's really funny that Boo has a higher strength stat than Halsin, but Boo is the companion of a ranger, a class that has strength as one of its main ability scores and also he's not actually a hamster.

Assuming we're playing by d&d 5e rules, the players handbook states that the carrying capacity of a character is |Strength stat x 15| meaning: Gale, Wyll, and Astarion all having a strength of 8, times that by 15, they can comfortably carry 120 pounds while fighting, running, rolling, jumping, climbing, walking, all that fun stuff.

However, that means their lift weight is different because that 120 only applies to how much they can carry in their backpacks before it's too heavy for them to comfortably move around. Their lift, push, and drag is different. The player handbook says they can push, lift, or drag things up to twice their carrying capacity, meaning their lift is 240. This does encumber them, but that's still how much they can lift. They do move 5 feet slower tho.

Wanna know how much Halsin can carry and lift by d&d stats? Of course you do, you want Halsin to be a beefcake so bad it makes you look stupid.

His carry capacity is 150. His lift is 300. Fitting for a man who can turn into a bear.

Minsc? 180, 360

Karlachs carry capacity is a startling 255 if we go with her 17 strength and times it by 15. Meaning her lift is a horrifying 510. Superhuman. This woman could snap you like a fucking twig. Good for a barbarian.

Lae'zel shares a strength stat with Karlach so she shares her carrying capacity and lift, push, drag weight.

Shadowheart can carry 195, can lift 390. Good for a cleric lifting corpses and shit.

For Minthara check karlachs, they share stats again

For Jaheira, check Halsins, they both have a 10 in strength stats.

So, yeah. Use this for whatever you want.

#excuse my shitty math #im queer i did my best #but i hope this comes in handy for someone #hope people also get an idea of what strength stats translate to as well #just cause the number isn't double digits #doesnt mean theyre weak by any means #just means theres people who are stronger #like some horrific motherfucker with a 20 str #300 carrying capacity and 600 lift btw

[andy-clutterbuck]

6x07 | Heads Up

#excuse me sir please put your forearms away thank you #Rick Grimes #* #rg #S6 #keep me in the dad™ shirt pocket #dad™ pocket tees have no business looking that nice #but here we are #per usual #stop doing that with your mouth #form an orderly line to cosplay as his duty belt #bout to refurbish my legs as a hula hoop #hot suburban dad in the backyard #thinking he's being handy but he's really not #*me peeking over the fence* #ARM VEINS #oh...there's bram stoker knocking again

[kazieka]

blaming all of my flop posts on expired melatonin going forward

#lindsey shut up #handy excuses

[victorluvsalice]

-->And so the group returned home, where the weather was actually halfway decent. I had Smiler and Victor resume their interrupted flirting, with Smiler getting frisky and going in for the kiss before getting a drink from Victor’s wrist (as they were QUITE thirsty at this point). Alice went and collected some of the wild chrysanthemums growing by the path to the barn while I pulled her photos and her and Victor’s paintings out of their inventories – the paintings went up into the attic rec room, to be framed and put on the wall next to the couch and the microphone, while I ended up selling most of the pictures, keeping just one small one to put in the digital picture frame. Seriously, that thing is useful when it comes to small picture storage... Anyway, I sent her upstairs to look at her own painting while Smiler finished their dinner and Victor went to have his (some more pumpkin spice waffles, as I’d shoved all the food back in the fridge once they got home) –

And then I looked at the back porch, and saw NPC Ericka Wada heading to the grill to do some herbalism. O.o Uh – when did you get here and why are you using the grill? I quickly had Victor send her home, then had him clean up the herbalism pot with his own dishes once he was done with his dinner. The fuck, game – at least require me to invite people in before they start using my grill and nearly burn my house down again!

-->Anyway – Smiler ended up heading to the attic to have a chat with Alice, and I figured while they were up there, that they could practice their comedy and tell a few jokes on the microphone. I had Victor transportalate up there to join them, and he and Alice watched and enjoyed Smiler’s performance (they both got the moodlet “Briefly Amused,” so it wasn’t a real WINNER, but they did laugh, so...). I ended the impromptu comedy hour around 10 PM, after which Smiler went back to their robotics station in the barn to make a computer chip; Alice went to the kitchen to have some more focaccia for dinner; amd Victor went to the second floor blue-and-white bathroom to mop a slime creature before using the toilet. I happened to notice at this point Victor was VERY close to getting a Talent Point from his magic usage, so I had him transportalate down to the greenhouse and cast Floralorial on that troublesome dahlia plant. Which – did actually seem to finally clear the glitch-weeds, when not even shift-clicking would. O.o Fingers crossed people! It also got him the Talent Point, which I promptly spent on “Hexproof” to protect him from all curses. :) I then pulled all of Alice’s super-vitality fertilizers out of her inventory (she didn't notice, she was busy playing laser pointer with Kelly in the back entrance mudroom) and put them into Victor’s so he could sprinkle them on all the oversized crops (though admittedly it looks like they’re all gonna be normal-sized crops this time), before noticing another specter outside the greenhouse and sending him over to give them a Potion of Good Fortune. They appreciated it and left Victor a forbidden candy jar, but as we already have three (one in the kitchen, one on the back porch, and Alice has the third in her inventory), I had Victor just straight-up sell that to an oddity collector. There's only so many oddities these three can collect after all!

-->And then – okay, I didn't get any pictures of this, but you'll see why I didn't in a second. After selling the candy jar, Shadow ran up to Victor whining about a ball – I figured “okay, let’s play fetch with the dog, I already have Alice playing laser pointer with the cats” (she'd moved onto entertaining I think Shock on the front porch by this point) and had Victor grab the ball in his inventory –

Only for Shadow to run away as another NPC showed upon the front porch for no good reason. *sigh* I had Alice send the person on the porch (Maya, I think her name was) away once she was done with the laser pointer, and waited for Shadow to finish her business so I could try to get the game of fetch back on. She headed upstairs and into Smiler’s room and approached their desk –

And then did that horrific glitch thing where pets try to stand up like Sims but their legs get all thin and distorted and their heads end up going backwards. O.o It only lasted for a moment, but as you might imagine, it triggered another MCCC error. (I think the dog was trying to play with one of the chatterbots on Smiler’s desk – maybe the NPC wanted to do that and the game got confused?) And kind of killed my desire for fetch. XD Fortunately, at that point I realized that it was actually after midnight in the game and decided it was a good time to wrap things up with the trio, saving and closing.

And that was the gang's Summer Tuesday! Nice, productive day for them – I’m glad to see that their snack business is doing pretty well. :D And I have to admit, it’s a little more fun to take the food stand around all the different worlds than just do the same thing over and over at the grocery store. But I still want to sell everything in their store before I do anything different with it. :p Next time we hit this save, though, the trio will be heading to Chestnut Ridge for SimCity Founding! We'll see you then!

#sims 4 #the lazy save #victor van dort #alice liddell #smiler always #I do love the picture of Smiler and Victor laughing together #while Alice looks with a 'you doofs' look #it's so them XD #and yes that new slideshow picture frame is coming in handy #whoever thought one of my favorite fucking packs would end up being MOSCHINO STUFF?? #everyone made fun of it but the photography-related stuff is actually useful shit #(I mean most of the clothes are horrible but still) #(and this does not in any way excuse Journey To Batuu EA) #but yes look at how BRIGHT Victor and Alice's paintings look against the rec room wall #like windows into another world #love it :) #and apparently Smiler is okay at telling jokes but could use some improvement #perhaps I should consider this as a side project for them #also I find it a bit amusing that I got a candy jar from the specter after shilling them earlier #like they're good but we don't need four XD #and no no creepy pictures of the glitch pet #I hate when animals do that #please fix whatever coding fun lets those horrors happen EA #queued

[reginrokkr]

𝐗𝐗𝐈. Last night I had an eureka moment when thinking about the possibility that those who abandon their gods are immediately cursed to turn into hilichurls at some point. This led me to think back of Khaenri'ah and that either some or all of them were branded as the greatest sinners and then I remembered that in actuality, Sumeru did introduce us to six cardinal sins —mentioned in one of Cyno's stories— that to be fair, might apply to more than just what was happening in the nation of wisdom at that time. A bit of research in combination with an excellent wording from a subreddit makes for a far more comprehensive list of sins:

✦ Sin of creation —to tamper with human evolution—: Evolution and creation in the face of the gods.

✧ Sin of immortality —to tamper with life and death—: Tampering with life and death in the face of the gods.

✦ Sin of arcane —to delve beyond the universe—: Discovery of fate / destiny and arcane knowledge in the face of the gods.

✧ Sin of genesis —to investigate the origin of words—: Exposing divine lies and beliefs in the face of the gods.

✦ Sin of omission —to revere gods without acts of devotion—: Failure to perform a divine request in the face of the gods.

✧ Sin of reason —to attempt the forbidden and fear none / to divulge secrets without a hint of fear—: Divulging divine secrets without fear in the face of the gods.

To tackle what first brought me to think about the six cardinal sins when wondering what sin the people who are prone to turn into hilichurls at some point, I believe that the most suitable one for their particular case would be the sin of omission. While I can't tell for sure about all the people who travelled from the seven nations to Khaenri'ah, when thinking about Sal Vidagnyr, these people's sin was to question the gods when they said that they would benefit from a good life and they wanted to know what would happen after the years they said that this would extend. In answer, the gods fell in silence and stopped guiding humans (it's also possible that it coincided with what happened around the Apocalypse era) and these people pursued the heavens to see for themselves if the concept of divinity was real to begin with, only for the civilization to end in disaster as a result. By taking this example into account, the loss of faith in gods altogether and their pursuit of a land devoid of their gaze could suffice for these people as well as their descendants to be branded with the curse of wilderness.

If we're to bring all of these to Khaenri'ah and what limited knowledge we have of that kingdom, just by reading these sins alone is enough to come to the sound conclusion that, if they didn't commit all of them, they did most of them:

The sin of creation is self-explanatory by thinking about Gold alone with her creations of monsters. So it is the sin of immortality with the pursuit of transcendence, but also if we think that at least Gold lived for several millennia since the Crimson Moon dynasty. As for the sin of arcane, it was mentioned in a certain weapon description that astronomers branded as heretics discovered the truth of the false sky and the source of fate with it. The sin of genesis is what makes me doubt the most if taken in the literal sense of looking into the origin of words, but exposing lies told by gods themselves is something we saw the Abyss Order pursuing, specifically if we think back about Enjou and his desire to achieve Before Sun and Moon, as they believe that the world didn't start with gods. Lastly, the sin of reason checks too just by considering that Khaenri'ah was actively pursuing Forbidden Knowledge and in some descriptions of Abyss Order monsters, they seem to have an obsession with divulging certain truths very well concealed.

#◟༺✦༻◞ analysis within the ley lines ichor ┊study.┊ #excuse my out of nowhere rambling #this was a justified big brain moment #amidst one of my mid-sleep wakings #ironically I had listed these sins in a reference post #see why do I post these #they come in handy later down the line #because things are eventually tied #and this in particular I think it is #anyway all of this is to say #that this sin could align with the curse of wilderness #and that it's justified to call Khaenri'ahns the greatest sinners #according to these

[yore-donatsu]

👑🤚🤫

#Dead Cells #Fanart #Illustration #video game #indie game #DC the King #The King Conrard #HotK #Hand of the King #Handy #my headcanon #No real context for this illu #Just to shut the King up after a long day #Handy who takes the lead ?! To shut the King ?! Just whoa #This is so unusual from him who's always loyal like a good puppy #That doesn't displease the King #On the Contrary #♥ #Also an excuse to draw his bright green eyes #Yeah yeah headcanon stuff always #n★ save #Sorry n★t Sorry

[clochanamarc]

aisling exists exclusively so i can have her adopting and hiring everyone in my comfort shows that got cancelled.

#( OUT OF SOULS. ) #( me: ur adopting in.ej gha.fa and also wee jo.hn from of.md ) #( aisling is a v meaningful and immense character but lbr she's also a handy excuse to save my beloveds from cancellation )

[corelliaxdreaming]

I’m exploring the idea that executive dysfunction may be at least part of why I’m having such an awful time with work attendance. Scrolling through through the tag, it’s hella relatable content: issues with personal hygiene, keeping my apartment clean, dishes piling up, not to mention flashbacks to basically failing out of college for the same attendance-related issues. Thing is, I’m not sure I’m “allowed” to use that term if I don’t identify as adhd/autistic (and I’m not looking for anyone to diagnose me based on this post, thank you). I do have delightful amounts of anxiety and a history with depression though.

But like, god, I need help, and actual therapy just isn’t in the cards for me right now. At least partially because, wouldn’t you know it, when you’re missing lots of work your financials take a big hit?

So basically I’m just looking for advice on how to actually get myself to work in the morning. A lot of the stuff I’ve seen in the tag isn’t particularly useful for that since it’s a lot about home tasks that can be done in steps or spread out with breaks. Getting myself to work and then being there for twelve hours at least feels different. (Though it is the getting myself there that’s the main issue.)

I’ve tried things like bribing myself with stickers on a calendar and rewarding myself for streaks, which doesn’t seem to work consistently. I’ve tried accountability with my partner, but then I mostly just feel guilty and avoid talking to her when I fuck up again. I get everything ready the night before so I have clothes and lunch ready to go and just need to grab them.

I’ve already gotten fired for this once, and I’m well on my way to having it happen again, and I don’t know what I’ll do if it does. Again, I know a post like this ain’t a replacement for “real” help, but I’d really appreciate any tips/tricks/advice anyone might have for me. Please.

#executive dysfunction #personal #neurodivergent #mental health #katie whines about work #should probably mention that my sleep schedule tends to be shitty but I have trouble when I’m fully rested too #it kinda feels like if I didn’t sleep enough/well that’s just handy as an excuse to myself #lol this is a scary post to make

[lilly-white]

I just got an email from a big indie author who was completely promoting AI artwork for cover art, like......... “it poses ethical issues, of course, but in the meantime it’s such a cheap way to make covers yourself! And not have to nurture your art skill for years!”

I feel like in the indie author community there’s this prevalent “pirate life for me” attitude and though I am not a paragon of virtue myself, i just wish there could be at least a small benchmark of quality and work ethic or something? If you’re a TINY bit interested in AI artwork then you’ll know it functions off an enormous database of stolen artwork & can reproduce artists’ styles who never consented for their work to be used in such a way, so you SHOULD NOT be supporting it, if you want to support artists. But for many of us indie authors our main preoccupation is not “producing art & supporting the arts”, it is instead cutting costs as much as possible to maximise benefit - even if that means throwing fellow artists under the bus, or pushing out absolutely baffling packages of tropes we call “books”???

Would we be happy if a novel-writing AI came along that could generate just-about-legible books? Maybe some of us would be. Because for some it’s not even about what you’re fucking saying at all, it’s literally just about pumping out as much barely good-enough shit to get to that 50k/year you’re so desperately after. And I know this is the “pedantic take” that every indie hates, but come on, we’re creatives too as well as business people, you can’t just go on pretending you aren’t frustrated as shit with people who take the “minimum viable product” concept as far as this?!

So yes your Midjourney cover looks like shit and I’m not gonna buy it. Sorry you couldn’t stoop to pay an artist

#writer life #writing tracker #indie adventures #ai art #'we can't all hone our art skills' yes you can though. YOU CAN PUT IN THE FUCKING WORK #don't justify yourself with these weakass excuses for your own incompetence #'it's an ethical problem but it's so handy' this was literally the tone of this newsletter #so i'm replying here instead of to him lol because like #i'm a coward #and also i feel like i can't talk about ethics when we are all using Amazon to get paid #but to make my fucking books i learned how to write. learned how to draw. learned how to use indesign #some of these jokers are like. paying ghost writers + using AI covers + formatting with free software that does everything for you #and then patting themselves on the back so proud to call themselves 'author' #WHAT DID YOU LEARN? #HOW DID YOU GROW? #you did not #you're the same idiot but richer #'worker smarter not harder' fuck you