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One of those days
I’m not a classicist, but I suspect one of the reasons so many of the Greek gods are portrayed so unflatteringly was less because they were seen as villains than because they represented their domains. Of course Zeus sometimes misuses his power, that’s what a king does. Of course Artemis’s wrath is wild and painful, that’s what nature can be. Of course Hades snatched away a young girl from her mother’s arms, that’s what death does. This is one of the reasons callout posts for some gods comparing them negatively to ‘nicer’ gods are kind of missing the point.
in regards to my latest reblog, it's not just that "brazil court asked elon to do something about the hate crimes on twitter and he refused"
it's that brazil court, and brazilian twitter headwaurters? or somethihng? were suspending accounts who were spreading hate and electoral campaing fake news and etc. But elon was like nooo free speech. and Un-suspended the neo-nazis that we had banned.
and the court was like you can't do that, and thats mostly how the situation started.
It was elon who did the first shitty move, at no point did brazil court reach out to him first, as far as i recall
Fandom olds: "Kids today have no idea how hard it was being in fandom back in the day! You wouldn't last a second in the hard, cold, unforgiving environments we made fandom in!"
Also fandom olds, in your inbox: "I saw one person who ran a zine being a dick and now I think all is lost. I'm considering not posting any of my work to the internet anymore."
As someone who has had someone leave a 3k long series of comments talking about how they wished they could paralyze me and carve me open, forcefeed me my own intestines, carve off my breasts and then fuck each hole repeatedly... let's just say I find myself pressing X to doubt when fandom olds talk about how hard the bad old days were. They can't have been that bad. One person charging once for a zine breaking you completely indicates, to me, someone who grew up without much adversity.
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Why do you guys always send me this nonsense?
The thing people were afraid of in the old days was losing their kids in the divorce because they got caught writing gay stories.
Or losing their government job and chance at retirement money due to a morals clause.
Or, yes, enraged stalkers sending threats like that.
Or, hell, being outed as queer and getting a baseball bat to the head.
I'm a big fan of wizards-as-programmers, but I think it's so much better when you lean into programming tropes.
A spell the wizard uses to light the group's campfire has an error somewhere in its depths, and sometimes it doesn't work at all. The wizard spends a lot of his time trying to track down the exact conditions that cause the failure.
The wizard is attempting to create a new spell that marries two older spells together, but while they were both written within the context of Zephyrus the Starweaver's foundational work, they each used a slightly different version, and untangling the collisions make a short project take months of work.
The wizard has grown too comfortable reusing old spells, and in particular, his teleportation spell keeps finding its components rearranged and remixed, its parts copied into a dozen different places in the spellbook. This is overall not actually a problem per se, but the party's rogue grows a bit concerned when the wizard's "drying spell" seems to just be a special case of teleportation where you teleport five feet to the left and leave the wetness behind.
A wizard is constantly fiddling with his spells, making minor tweaks and changes, getting them easier to cast, with better effects, adding bells and whistles. The "shelter for the night" spell includes a tea kettle that brings itself to a boil at dawn, which the wizard is inordinately pleased with. He reports on efficiency improvements to the indifference of anyone listening.
A different wizard immediately forgets all details of his spells after he's written them. He could not begin to tell you how any of it works, at least not without sitting down for a few hours or days to figure out how he set things up. The point is that it works, and once it does, the wizard can safely stop thinking about it.
Wizards enjoy each other's company, but you must be circumspect about spellwork. Having another wizard look through your spellbook makes you aware of every minor flaw, and you might not be able to answer questions about why a spell was written in a certain way, if you remember at all.
Wizards all have their own preferences as far as which scripts they write in, the formatting of their spellbook, its dimensions and material quality, and of course which famous wizards they've taken the most foundational knowledge from. The enlightened view is that all approaches have their strengths and weaknesses, but this has never stopped anyone from getting into a protracted argument.
Sometimes a wizard will sit down with an ancient tome attempting to find answers to a complicated problem, and finally find someone from across time who was trying to do the same thing, only for the final note to be "nevermind, fixed it".
i’m “the petrol of sun of flowers”
If you are the kind of person who stays up late and you lose your absolute fucking mind around the same time every night (anxiety, paranoia, suicidal thoughts, etc), then that is your body telling you that you need to sleep. Listen to your body. Go to bed.
damn ok lake superior
no language should be mocked other than french
Today my Advanced Clinical Pathology professor trailed off in the middle of class and said, “If I seem distracted, it’s because last night I was talking with a friend and she asked ‘Who’s that chick in Titanic?’ but all I heard was ‘Chicken Titanic,’ and ever since then I’ve been thinking about a chicken on the bow of the Titanic like Kate Winslet, wings held high. It’s all I can think about.”
I Owed this like a month ago...Better late then Never! Stay classy you handsome tadpole
candice accola gif hunt.
Under the cut, you will find #275 small/medium, HQ gifs of Candice Accola as Caroline Forbes. None of these gifs were made by me. a huge thank you goes to the awesome makers. All the credits go to them and I don’t claim any of their work as my own. A like or a reblog would make me very happy because it took me hours to finish this hunt.
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Fanart for thatoverthinker's adorable alien OC I couldn't resist drawing them after seeing it's cute wobbly ears. Instagram doesn't let me fit the full vertical picture but let's ignore that for now Ssktgfffgkk. Also check out @thatoverthinker 's art while you're at it it's great 💙💚 #alien #lookathim #notmine #fanart #cute https://www.instagram.com/p/ByTTVOniLX1/?igshid=whzt8tmhyuif
Also not in theme with the blog but in 2007 I was very disappointed when I saw My Chemical Romance because they didn't play either of my favorite songs from them, Honey This Mirror Isn’t Big Enough For The Both of Us and Vampires Will Never Hurt You. VERY glad to see they pulled one out on the current tour.
Omg I can't believe it, after seven long years, my French lessons are finally paying off.
My French teacher would be so proud--
Very adorable drawings op!
Juste envie de dessiner un peu de mini macaque et j’ai du temps à perdre aujourd’hui, donc….dessin.
