#50 rules

[theblueprintforsuccess]

50 LIFE RULES THAT ARE GOLDEN.

1. Always stand up while shaking hands with someone.

2. Never make the first offer in a negotiation. 3. Keep their secret if they have faith in you. 4. Return an automobile they lend you with the tank full.

5. Act passionately or don't act at all.

6. Shake hands firmly and stare the other person in the eye.

7. Take a solo trip and experience it.

8. There are clear reasons why you should never refuse a peppermint tablet.

9. If aging is your goal, heed advice.

10. Join the new individual at the office or school for dinner.

11. If you are furious and you are texting someone, complete, read, delete, and rewrite the message.

12. You avoid discussing business, politics, or religion at the table.

13. Set goals and work toward them in writing.

14. Present your case while showing people respect and tolerance.

15. Make a visit and phone your family.

16. Never look back and always learn from your experiences

17. Your personality ought to be one of loyalty and honor.

18. Never give money to someone you know won't be able to repay you.

19. Have faith in something.

20. Make your bed as soon as you wake up. 21. Take a shower and sing.

22. Maintain a garden or a plant.

23. Look up at the sky whenever you get the chance.

24. Recognize and utilize your strengths.

25. Embrace your work or quit it.

26. When you need assistance, ask for it.

27. Instruct someone in a value—ideally a modest one.

28. Express gratitude to the person who is reaching out to you.

29. Show your neighbors kindness.

30. If you brighten someone else's day, it will brighten yours as well.

31. Put yourself to the test.

32 Give yourself a treat at least yearly

33. Look after your well-being.

34. Always give a cheerful greeting.

35. Speak slowly, but think quickly.

36. Avoid speaking while full of mouth.

37. Always maintain a neat appearance, trim your nails, and shine your shoes.

38. Avoid voicing an opinion on topics you are unfamiliar with.

39. Don't treat others badly.

40. Approach each day as though it were your last.

41. Don't ever pass up the chance to keep silent.

42. Give someone credit for their work.

43. Have humility, even if it's not always present.

44. Always remember your origins.

45. Take trips whenever you can.

46. Resign from the step.

47 Take a rainy dance.

48. Keep going after your success.

49. Treat others fairly and defend those in need.

50. Acquire the skill of relishing solitude.

[hornyverymuch]

"we don't need to watch Amok Time, we have pon farr at home"

pon farr at home:

[franticold]

After long days when they're both done with everyone's bs I can imagine the brothers going to Primo's garden to smoke and talk shit together.

headcannon that every Emeritous knew Copia was part of tue bloodline except Nihil. Cause come on bro has the eye and everything. Nihil just believed what sister told him.

close ups and info under cut!

oo! also all the plants are actual poisonous plants that grow around the Mediterranean (at least I think they are based of my limited research)

[itsahotminuteinbetween]

two of many sunspot doodles because my brain decided to latch onto him for some reason

sunspot is by @venomous-qwille ofc! (Feel free to ignore the tag sorry!)

[pekodaiz]

wwarmup

[maythedreadwolftakeyou]

over the last 3 months i have seen myself called (and sometimes blocked for being assumed to be):

a racist/a bigot

homophobic/queerphobic/transphobic

ace/demi-phobic

a fascist

for expressing opinions such as "I found the characters and background stories in Veilguard weaker and less interesting than previous Dragon Age games" and "i miss the amount of tension and conflict that we used to get to explore with the player character depending on their in-game background and life history" and "i did not feel Lucanis' character and romance arc was fully satisfying while I was playing through it".

and since this all started we now have:

seen the entire DA staff laid off from Bioware

heard many now-former bioware devs talking about how toxic the workplace was during the development of DA4

seen allusions to Bioware/EA executives overriding plot/plans that the Dragon Age writers/devs would have preferred

extracted large amounts of cut content from the games that show things like increased emotional response range for Rook, or alternate endings for companion arcs (NOT concept art content, but actual written and even voice-recorded dialogue in the game files), or increased impact from decisions you could make in the game

IN ADDITION to what we ALREADY knew about how many times the game changed direction/leadership changed/the mid-process layoffs, etc.

so can we maybe not keep putting "people who come into the Dragon Age universe from a place of love and were ultimately disappointed with the latest installment" in the same trash bucket as "dudes on twitter who were mad there were trans/nonbinary characters in their AAA game". can we FUCKING as a community acknowledge that there are many reasons someone might not jive with a change in direction other than jumping to "they disagree with me so they must obviously be horrible people, whose opinions shouldn't be counted anyway" (<-if this is your first impulse maybe examine that also).

i am so tired and i am never gonna get an apology for any of it but NOW that a lot of the people who were posting/reblogging these sentiments are hearing/seeing all these other things add up. it's like suddenly now it's "acceptable" to have problems with aspect of Veilguard or want more from it, because the writers/devs have shown they probably did too during it's creation. whereas when I said these things right off the bat (because the only thing we had was the game we got. not the game we can pretend they wanted to make instead) it WASN'T because apparently expressing opinions on my personal tumblr counts as "being mean to/harassing devs who worked hard on the game" or, again, assumed I am a racist/bigot/facist/queerphobic.

you're allowed to still like Veilguard. it's fine i promise. you can love the game if you love it and my not loving it has nothing to do with your own relationship to this piece of media. i am happy there are people who truly can enjoy it without massive Caveats. but i am still seeing like 3-5 posts Per Week express those opinions and it is really destroying my love for the community i once enjoyed.

[artsekey]

It really does look like pivoting to Harris has thrown the Republican party for a loop. She's speaking clearly, concisely, and with wit; if she were to be put in the ring with Trump, it would be a knockout if only because she's coherent.

I'm voting blue regardless, but I've started to feel like I've moved from voting for the 'least bad' option to someone I might actually be more passionate in supporting.

[atomic-chronoscaph]

The Things on Easter Island - art by Jack Kirby and Christopher Rule (1959)

[umbraastaff]

playing D&D with people who use the rules more strictly is so fun genuinely. now i can engage in tactics and character building. whehehe

[icefang111]

as I read an inordinate amount of Re:Zero fanfic I am hit with the funny as fuck realization that, by and large, this is the one fandom where the majority of fics don't offer something different from the main story

We really said yes I know we've had suffering and drama, but what about second suffering and drama?

[zaacoy]

oh, to hold your whole world in your arms

[buried-l0cket]

*shoots your doomed yaoi with a doomed yuri beam*

Sailor Trigun at ALA!!!

[paunchsalazar]

Dean should have been the new new Bobby… I’ll kill myself

[tf2heritageposts]

RULES OF PLAYING HEAVY:

1. you will always have medics climbing on you

2. you will always have medics trying to pocket you and popping uber on you because this is their first time playing medic

3. you probably shouldn’t be getting uber

[bruiisedfawn]

why are humans so fucking insistent on making life as miserable as possible?

[ash-rigby]

I use the phrase "If the spirit moves you'' a lot for an atheist. Gotta admit the Christians ate with that one.