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so tired of complaining i just don’t anymore so i can be in denial around my friends

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i wish my interests weren’t constantly shot down by my family because i can’t monetize them. like yeah this would be awesome to make money but i also just want to be here and have fun in the short time i am on this earth. grins through gritted teeth

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haunted by-you

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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".

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by: 花景色

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hitting the shit that makes me want to give out my discord to mutuals

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my watch thinks i’m sooo active but i actually just have crippling anxiety and my brain thinks it’s going to get eaten by a tiger 24/7. when my brain isn’t doing that i’m jerking off which my watch also considers working out.

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To The People I Pass On The Train At Night - Jordan Bolton

My first book ‘Blue Sky Through the Window of a Moving Car’ is now available to pre-order! Get it here - https://smarturl.it/BlueSky

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Living mirrors illuminate the water 🪩

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delicious identity disorder

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never stops being funny when people irl are like “wait, you’re GAY? but you don’t act like it i would’ve never known” because irl i look like average masc white guy w a beard which doesn’t strike people as gay ig? and then when people online see me they’re just as shocked because they say “i was expecting a twink, why are you a grown ass man”

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sorry for being mia i moved mostly to bsky

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I didn't sleep at all but I feel amazing I can feel the dragon energy coursing through my veins

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Fan fic writers act like they’re a marginalized class and not tumblr search result terrorists

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don't ever look up what your childhood friends are up to now!!!!!!!!!! like girl you're a nuclear safety engineer. i put on matching socks today. we played tag a thousand years ago.