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so many snow animals are just white puff with dot eyes. amazing design

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Starving and wasting away etc etc

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Hes tall and huge and HEAVY and he is so overly active that he has to maintain an insanely high caloric intake to make sure his body doesnt collapse from the strain of everything. He will eat virtually anything but he is spoiled from the best takeout Gotham has to offer: 11$ shrimp and broccoli from the chinese food spot that closes at 4am- among other things.

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both fish and women love me

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The panda cannot talk while he was a panda, aside from being able to quickly whip out signs with short messages written on them.

And yeah a naked man bursts out of the cooking pot immediately after he says this. (People with Jusenkyo curses revert to their original form when exposed to hot water)

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So I have an infernal Duke I wanna try and make a bit more focused because a lot of his stuff a bit all over the place.

In life he was the court wizard of a queen and also a master poison maker. An expert in poisoning food and drink getting away with it. As a Duke I was thinking some of his abilities allow him to conjure poisoned food, with a special toxin that begins to make people more receptive to him and his abilities. Like imposing a cumulative -1 penalty to Will saves.

He's also a ratfolk,a fancy looking one too. Making him look harmless and easy to trust. Give off a noble fancy rat vibe.

Is this all too weird?

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Nope! Poisoned food works well as a power set--one I've also been thinking about, too! An Infernal Duke would make for a good poisoner, but you may also want to consider a Malebranche, the demigods of Hell in charge of conquering whole worlds, as such a power set is suitable for slowly overtaking a planet's leadership. But if you're going to leave him as a Duke, you'll also have to give him the ability to pierce poison immunity, as other devils are immune to poison! AND the power to either hypnotize or trick people into eating it, since such a powerset really only ever works against someone once.

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Hey, the ACLU is getting people to send letters to your Reps to have Congress pass the No Kings Act.

This act would make constitutional amendments to ensure that even sitting presidents are held liable for their actions. That NOBODY is above the law.

Their goal is 150k messages sent and at the time of writing this they're about 2.1k off from that goal!

ACLU gives you a prefilled message that you can edit to send to make the process easier, and will send it out for you.

This only takes a few minutes!

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Russian handwriting

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Why did Game Freak remove this feature?

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The Smash Bros. cast swapping anecdotes about their various evil doppelgangers and Mario getting into an argument about whether Wario counts.

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How I join skeins

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My fucking cat has figured out how to gently dig his claws into my eyelid and pull my eyes open while I'm sleeping. He does this. It does not hurt. He is remarkably precise and gentle. I however am asleep when it happens and do not appreciate being clockwork oranged by a needy clingy goddamn animal who thinks he needs attention.

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One of my favorite things about learning about traditional textiles is the little ghosts they left in the language. Of course the ghosts are there, now that I know to look for them. Once upon a time, half the population spent a majority of their day making textiles. Spinning, at the very least, has been a part of humanity since the Neanderthals. That kind of knowledge doesn't just disappear.

A heckle was a device with sharp metal spikes, and people drag flax through the spikes to separate out the fibers from the chaff. When you say someone heckled a performer, you think you are being literal but you're speaking in an ancient metaphor.

When my grandpa says "spinning yarns" to mean telling stories, he knows that one's not quite literal, but its vividness is lost to him. There is no image in his mind of rhythm, muscle memory, and the subtle twist that aligns clouds of fibers into a single, strong cord.

When a fanfic writer describes someone carding their fingers through someone's hair, that's the most discordant in my mind. Carding is rough, and quick, and sometimes messy (my wool is full of debris, even after lots of washing). The teeth of my cards are densely packed and scratchy. But maybe that's my error, not the writer's. Before cards were invented, wool was combed with wide-toothed combs, and sometimes, in point of fact, with fingers. The verb "to card" (from Middle English) may actually be older than the tools I use, archaic as they are. And I say may, because I can't find a definitive history. People forget, even when the language remembers.

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Would Discord from MLP be considered a protean lord?

He's definitely the chaotic type.

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Yes. He's even got the serpentine shape going on, AND the ambiguous morality that changes more or less at a whim.

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One of the reasons the walrus-versus-fairy thing was so contentious is that not only did the person who originally posed the question strongly believe the correct answer was obviously the fairy, their reasoning for why the fairy was obviously more surprising was that seeing a fairy would instantly refute the validity of human reason as a tool for understanding the universe and bring your entire worldview crashing down. The sensible response is, of course, to point out that people don't work like that, and realistically nobody is going to see something mildly inexplicable and fall to their knees wailing in existential despair unless we're living in an H P Lovecraft novel, but I'm not gonna lie, I'd probably pay money to read a story about a dude having a full on Lovecraft protagonist breakdown in response to seeing Tinkerbell.