Just had an idea for a dnd character whose schtick is that they're the party's accountant that keeps a list of every spell they cast so that they can take it out of the party's earnings at the end of every adventure
Oh so I visited my dad yesterday because I was in the area and usually that's not super fun but not only did he not bring up any Upsetting topics but the last half hour or so of a heist movie showed up while channel surfing and me, him, and his wife just sat there enthralled and then I left after the movie was over
for the single person that asked, MY thoughts on the kiteman part of the harley quinn valentine special comic, are too many thoughts to write down so i’ll just say “silly. funnay.” (i had zero thoughts abt it)
Forgive me for making yet another post about the French Revolution but one small detail that makes me laugh is when, as things started to go seriously wrong, one of Louis XVI's advisers tried to persuade him & Marie-Antoinette to get away from Paris and wait for things to calm down (the idea was "if you lay low and wait, the newly-created National Assembly will vote something stupid and lose popular support" which was a solid plan honestly.) But he was also like "whatever you do, DO NOT go East or South or people will think you'll get help from other monarchies to restore your power and that won't calm things down"
So the King was advised to flee to Normandy, which... is just a short ferry ride away from another monarchy. But that's completely different since it's England. To be fair to the English, the French monarchy had basically bankrupted itself a few years back to send millions in support of the American revolutionaries because it would be a shame not to take advantage of "perhaps the best opportunity for centuries to come to put England in its place" (actual quote by France's minister of Foreign Affairs in 1777)
—still I love the realistic approach of the King's adviser telling him, Sire you can't go near any of our borders rn, it'll escalate the situation, Parisians will know you're trying to get another country to help. Obviously you can go set up camp right across the sea from England though, that's fine since everyone knows the English wouldn't piss on us if we were on fire¹
¹ Perfidious Albion was like "aw no France is in turmoil and possibly weakened :) a shame :)" exactly like France re: them at the start of the US independence war
² they also thought well these backward french are finally following our glorious example and entering civilisation (parliamentary monarchy)
³ and only when the Girondins started being like "let's spread the French Revolution to the whole universe!!! or at least Belgium" did England finally decide "it's been a while since we last declared war on France actually" (but it was too late for Louis XVI)
⁴ That's not how footnotes work sorry. Trying to make my post look fancier
a short placing heavy emphasis on Hungarian Rhapsody No. II is a rite of passage for golden age cartoons. Bugs Bunny did it! Tom and Jerry did it! Daffy and Donald! but one thing Woody Woodpecker has above the competition is that he is held hostage by a group of gangsters and is forced to entertain, lest he get executed. amazing
Looking for Long John Silver's coupons shouldn't give me a Black Sails Crisis™ but here I am and now I have to share my insanity and my fried shrimp with yous 🍤