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[piningpercussionist]

I feel like Kim and Roxie would have a cat that's an absolute fucking bitch to everyone but them and I felt like you needed to know this

(I should be revising rn and I'm thinking about this bitchass roxipine cat the brainrot is real)

Oh my god... just like my cat for real.....

(The bastard herself; I tried to find photos where she looked upset/angry but there are. So fucking many photos of her to parse through I cannot understate.)

Anyway. Y e s. I am ascribing to this.

[ryllen]

it almost feels like he was waiting for me

[griancraft]

Hi guys, this is sort of my official "please, for the love of god, listen to Skyjacks with me” post because I’m losing my mind and all the content I can find is from the latest stuff right now, and I don’t want to spoil myself. I want to be able to talk about this with people!!!! I will make a watch (listen) party discord if there is enough interest. Just give it a chance; you won’t regret it. Also, some information may be wrong or outdated. I’m on episode 11 out of over 200.

Skyjacks is a ttrpg podcast about sky pirates in a world where there was a catastrophe about 200 years ago that left the sea unsafe to sail and maybe even damaged the entire world to the point where civilization is scattered and in small groups. There is very casual queer rep, and it’s casual to the point where it really just fits into the world perfectly.

A brief summary of the premise of the first episode will hopefully get you hooked. I’m really bad at summaries, but I promise it’s a billion times better than how I talked about it here:

Captain Orimar Vale is dead, and a mutiny will be on Gable, Jonnit, Travis, and Dref’s hands if they are unable to keep up the ruse of him being alive. To do this, necromancy (deeply forbidden magic) is performed by the Dref, the ship's doctor, to turn him into a semi-functional zombie. Captain Orimar is famous for his abilities as a captain; to replicate this will take great skill.

As they run out of supplies, they make a desperate decision: port on the land of one of Orimar’s scorned lovers or deal with the growing uneasiness of the rest of the crew. They haven’t seen their captain healthy in months, and whispers about his health are starting. However, greater danger will await them when they take to the skies again, lurking just beyond the clouds…

And more propaganda as to why I think you guys will like it:

There are unique and interesting gameplay mechanics they use to tell a really cool story, and if you like Hermitcraft or any other sorta storytelling-based SMP, I promise you’ll like it. Like. If you liked Boatem from Hermitcraft 8, you’ll love the characters in Skyjacks. The players are exceptionally good at playing their characters, their humour is unmatched by anything similar I’ve had the pleasure of seeing, and the story is prioritized, which I think is an amazing choice.

Best part? It’s still ongoing after, like, 5 years. Some people have left, but a good chunk of the OG cast has stayed. Not that leaving is bad, because holy crap, 5 years is a long time, and stories have to end at some point! It’s a good way of getting into something and knowing there is still a shit ton of content to be explored.

The music is good. The story is good. The characters and humour are amazing. The lore of the world is sprinkled throughout, and as you learn more about the world, the more excited you get. It’s incredible so far, and if you decide to listen to it, I will actually love you forever and ever. My boyfriend is on episode 190, and he finds it so funny every time I go. Oh my god, this is so cool.

Link to the podcast, but in a playlist (up to 180). So it’s in order and easy to find, since it’s a part of something else from the oneshot network:

[nobodysuspectsthebutterfly]

it my birthday

happ birthday

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[tiddiesoutwhenthetisout]

not me curling my laptop charger wire the way you curl band equipment cords HAHAHA god i miss it

[monster-noises]

When still living in the same city as her there is always a chance that you will run into a person you Do Not want to see, and even if you recognize her but you are not sure she saw you and you only walked by her it can Still absolutely Tank your mood for the rest of the day.

[radiance-p]

Hi guys AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA FINALLY I'm uploading this

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YES Ik this meme hasn’t seen the light of day since 2022 but liKE GUYS HEAR ME OUT I Was listening to this song the other day on spotify and i remembered my one amedama meme i made in 2022 and I decided to make this out of pure impulse and… the rest is history lol

alSO DuskyRadiance is me DuskyRadiance is not impersonating me I’m not impersonating DuskyRadiance ok DuskyRadiance is just my gacha/animation meme youtube channel please don’t spread false rumours pls and ty 😢

Anyways I don’t wanna yap TOO Much here i’ve already yapped enough here and on the yt upload of this so bye bye

[dandyshucks]

also my counselor basically told me i should just buy the pkmn game during my appt with her this morning 😭😭 she is probably right but i did already buy csp when it was on sale a couple months ago (and like... dollar store felt and fabric fdsjkl) so it feels like that is ... my one(ish) frivolous/non-necessity purchase for. the year. i guess. thats insane actually what am i doing omfg head in my hands. esp now that i have this kitchen volunteer position where they give me a little bit of money under the table FSDJKL, and i'm going to get set up with the food bank next month and hopefully make myself apply for welfare finally so umm.... maybe.... maybe i can purchase bideo jame..... i want to run around alola and see my favourite bug boy.....

[okamiz36]

You know the brainrot hits when you draw the same character in the same pose too many times ina row. *currently drawing my RP character Okami yet again*

[sentient-cloud]

Ugh plans for disability pride month include I have a doctors appointment and maybe I’ll finally bring up my pain (horrifying, especially as a fat person and especially with a doctor who still hasn’t put me on my adhd meds I previously had yet. Maybe I’ll also ask about those because help.) trying to get a therapist and also. Making that phone call begging the state to not cut my assistance benefits and to believe me when I say i don’t work due to health + mental health reasons at the moment (negative hopes)

[doubletrucks]

back on my talking in the tags bullshit like it's 2015 🫡

[you-have-made-a-fatal-error]

need to shell out for a new laptop before the end of the year - for a lot of reasons but mainly bc support ending for win8.1 makes fixing the current beast rather pointless :/ (and. admittedly. there is a lot to fix. she's old and she has suffered.)

but my current beastie is from the last gen of laptops with a disc drive and the thought of using an external/usb disc drive is enough to make me cry tears of blood

[dogcollarpunk]

her btw : )

[delta-piscium]

writing is just finding out a word is apparently spelled like that despite having written it correctly many times before

[crescentmp3]

hmm! *thinks about the little prince really hard

[nobodysuspectsthebutterfly]

It's interesting, because GRRM is writing a world where rational thinking has been overcoming superstition, perhaps due to the diligent efforts of maesters who want the world to be that way. Whereas in our world, despite the great efforts of scientists and skeptics, superstition and pseudoscience have led to a more and more "demon-haunted world" (per Sagan), or "the crazy years" (per Heinlein).

However, because it's fiction, the world of ice and fire truly is magic. But the maesters believe that "perhaps magic was once a mighty force in the world, but no longer." Some maesters go further than that, dismissing even older stories of magical power. TWOIAF has multiple history bits where its maester writer gives both a legend of magic, and a scientific rational explanation. For example:

The Breaking, where per legend the Children of the Forest created the Hammer of the Waters to break the Arm of Dorne into the Stepstones and flood the Neck, splitting Westeros from Essos and nearly splitting the North from the rest of the continent; the maesters' explanation is climate change leading to the melting of polar ice caps and rising sea levels

that the CotF could speak to ravens and have them repeat the words to send messages, whereas maesters believe they merely understood raven behavior and ravens are incapable of true speech

that the Others were no more than a tribe of northern First Men (ancestors of the Free Folk), and that the Night's King's corpse queen was no more than a woman of the Barrowlands

Yandel frequently mocks the legend saying only a child or a fool (or a singer) would believe it, yet we know the legend is true. (ADWD shows straight up how the raven thing is accomplished via skinchanging.) And the maesters' skepticism is surely about to get a dramatic rude awakening when Euron does whatever the hell he's doing on the Citadel doorstep, not to mention the return of both dragons and the Others.

So I think it's kind of interesting, and maybe a bit worrisome, that one of GRRM's themes appears to be "ignore scientific rationalist skepticism; it's legends and old wives' tales that are the real truth." Obviously it's because ASOIAF is a fantasy series with a lot of horror elements (that trope is extremely common in horror), and of course it was less of a real-world issue in the 90s when GRRM got started, than now during such a surge in antiscience movements. But it still feels just a bit head-tilty to me when climate change is brought up only to be the punchline of a joke. Especially when the Others are a metaphor for climate change in the first place...

love how over magic westeros is. like dragons have just about faded from living memory, the descendants of the valyrians who everyone knows were capable of the wildest shit are like.... literally still living, there are trees with faces left by the fairy people who used to live all over the land.... and they're just like yeah but that was ages ago I sure couldn't imagine anything like that anymore. don't talk crazy. meanwhile in the real world my aunt is giving me rocks she bought for £2 to cure my mental health