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DnD Character Concept: A Cleric who insists stubbornly and earnestly that their obviously evil patron deity (I'm thinking Lolth or Asmodeus but really any Evil Greater God would do) is actually Good and Benevolent and Just and dismisses all evidence to the contrary as slander from rival deities. Their proof to their claim? Using their divinely granted powers for the most intensely Good tasks and quests they can find: feeding the hungry, protecting the weak, curing the sick- all done in the name of their Terrible Dread Lord and without any expectation of compensation or string attached.

The deity in question is all "???" but keeps granting the cleric power because all that free worship and influence from the people who now pray to them is nice, and hey if the cleric wants to put in the leg work to launder the deity's reputation what reason do they have to say no?

Only it turns out that the cleric is actually playing 4D chess because of the way faith works in Faerun (and most DnD settings). As more and more worshipers start believing The Terrible Dread Lord is actually a Good and Kind and Noble god they start to be influenced by that to become Good and Kind and Noble. Slowly but surely they find themselves warping to match the perception of the masses. It starts by just giving a few random blessings out of what they think is pity, or maybe sending a sign to help someone who is lost on what the deity insists is a whim....but it snowballs until you have Lolth smiting down slavers or Asmodeus sending out devil's to drag down a tyrant to the depths of hell and then they realize 'oh oh no' but by then it's to late: the religious reform movement within their flock is too massive and been ignored for too long as benign. They can't just turn around and smite their own followers- not only because it's tacky but because they feel... compassion and responsibility for those that look to them for guidece.

And then you have the cleric, who at level twenty is literally their most powerful agent and also the high priest of this out of control heresy smugly sipping their tea because, because they where right all along. Their faith in their deity is vindicated- after all what is faith if not believing in something so strongly, against all evidence, that it becomes truth onto itself?

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Imagine being SUCH a sore fucking loser your shitty “ live action” slop you keep pumping out lost to speedy blue hedgehog now you threaten to buy the company

CEOs like this need be tossed to the orcas at sea

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MY TA SHOT SOMEONE IN THE FOOT AND THE PROFESSOR WAS SO FUCKING QUICK LMAOOO

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I was reading something about Whitestown, Indiana and my eyes nearly popped out of my head thinking it was one of THOSE comically racist towns. Nice to know, at least the name, wasn’t that.

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Pride & Prejudice (2005), dir. Joe Wright

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I made a Worf motivational poster

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I think we as a society tend to forget that the movie "Freaky Friday" starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Mark Harmon hinges entirely on the narrative's assertion that Chinese people have magic powers

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every time i look at websites for benjamin moore, sherwin williams, etc. i wonder what qualifications you'd have to have to be the guy who names the paint colors. i think it's my dream job. imagine:

i enter a building, where a single $8000 lounge chair sits in the direct center of an otherwise empty ultra modern room with impossibly high ceilings. i take a seat. within seconds, a hoard of identically dressed people approach me, one of them delicately handing me a single paint swatch.

i examine the color. pale green. i squint for a moment. furrow my brow.

"memories of spinach," i proclaim. unsure murmurings from the crowd, but i raise a hand to silence them.

"nay........ ruminations upon kale," i amend, and the murmurings become excited. there is a smattering of applause.

i go home. one hundred thousand dollars have been deposited into my bank account.

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although current magic: the gathering designers claim that black mana is not evil, the traits associated with it, both mechanically in game (sacrificing your own creatures and killing others', etc.) and in the narrative (ambition, selfishness, power), demonstrate that it is an antisocial force at least. the decision to associate the Swamp as a source of power for black decks is part of a long history in European cultures that reviles swamps, bogs, and other wetlands as evil places. this mindset contributed to the mass destruction of wetlands across the world until very recent scientific endeavors showed how important wetlands are. in reality, wetlands are extremely complicated, unique, and environmentally crucial ecosystems which exist in myriad forms on every continent save antarctica. to combat colonialist thought, i propose a radical change to the mtg paradigm by replacing the Swamp basic land type with one that truly represents a spawning ground for evil: the Parking Lot.

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THE MYTH OF "CONSENSUAL" ATTACHMENTS

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Reblog for sample size, etc. etc.

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shadow the hedgehog is cool. gunblades are cool. vampires are cool. scythes are cool. white hair is cool. we need to stop lying about what is not cool

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"people show their true colours in life threatening situations" no, they show you what they act like when they're mortally terrified, an emotion notorious for literally turning your entire brain off to the point where people who go into those situations as a profession need to be literally trained on how to not have that happen

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I wrote another short story and this one is very short so it is definitely normal. It has no space to be weird.

How to escape the well

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currently obsessed with british murder mystery tv shows where all the murders happen in the same town in every episode and everyone's just like oh yep there goes another one, just another day in shirefordtonstead

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detective activities

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What the fuck was I going on about