#Calvinball !

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Bill Watterson was watching me for a week while my parents went on vacation. We played Calvinball together.

[musewrangler]

Calvinball payment (when hit with the ball, one must go write three sentences on a WIP)

I got hit twice with the Calvinball. Standing there, minding my own business and CERTAIN mutuals got feisty with the throws.

So—-two bits of WIP

From Men and Empires

“I said nothing, General,” Piett responded, careful to use his title out here on the deck.

“You didn’t need to,” Veers growled. “I can see…Firmus. I own that others would bear this status heavily. But you are mine. And have I not made clear that I do not define you by your position?”

Piett wanted to snarl back. He wanted to fight someone. Hells, he wanted to punch Veers in the face. His fury was hot. And how the Roman could not see why he would be so affected made him want to yell.

And from a whumptober WIP

“If they had asked…I would have…told them everything,” he said, shame burning him with the same intensity as the instruments of his torture.

“You don’t know that,” Lunders said immediately.

Chucking the ball around at @kraytwriter and @winterinhimring because they richly deserve it. @afaroffsong @brievel @chaosgoblinhours @fairytale-lights @kanerallels @klarionthewizard @banachtarskiparadox @tolkienreader1996 @mathmusicninja only if they would like to 😉

[eretzyisrael]

by Seth Mandel

Compared to Israel’s November operation at Shifa, this one has attracted far less press attention (aside from the usual perfunctory stenographic work mainstream newspapers in America do for Hamas). One reason for this is that in November, Israel had to spend time searching the hospital after securing it and committing to the slow process of finding and neutralizing the tunnels. This meant the world spent weeks criticizing Israel before informed criticism was even possible, and then moved the goalposts every time Israel revealed a Hamas war crime in the hospital complex. It was a round of Calvinball. By the time the scope of Hamas’s use of the complex was made clear, the press had moved on.

This time, the press had no excuses even before the operation. Everyone already knows how Hamas turned a large hospital into a war zone. As well, the presence of senior Hamas military commanders makes even the attempt to spin this is an Israeli overreaction look ridiculous. Hamas has been caught in the act, which should theoretically be a headline-dominating story for days. There should be a tidal wave of condemnations from foreign ministries around the world and apologies from medical NGOs and media organizations for having—wittingly or unwittingly—aided a terrorist army’s unprecedented assault on international law and coopting journalists and doctors into undermining the safety and credibility of their peers in other conflict zones.

Ah, but that wouldn’t be Calvinball. The rules adjust, and Israel must adjust with them—and as soon as it does, the rules will change again.

[tuttle-did-it]

Rules of Fizzbin

Rules of CalvinBall

[twisted-monster]

i think this society needs to play a good game of calvinball

i feel like that would fix things

[accessiblecalvinhobbes]

3 Panel Comic - Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson. Calvin is a young boy often in a striped shirt. He has an imaginary tiger friend named Hobbes. When Calvin is along Hobbes is a tiger who stands on his hind feet and talks only to Calvin. Others see Hobbes as a stuffed tiger toy that Calvin carries with him. Panel 1: Hobbes and Calvin are coming out the front door of Calvin's and Hobbes says "It's Saturday! What do you want to do?" Calvin replies "Anything but play an organized sport." Panel 2: Hobbes scratches his head and asks "Want to play Calvinball?" Calvin's eyes are wide and he exclaims "Yeah!" Panel 3: Hobbes is wearing a black mask and carrying a black flag as he runs. He says "No sport is less organized than Calvinball!" Calvin is behind him wearing a black mask and carrying a soccer ball. There are numbers on sticks and hoops for croquet set up.

[spacefinch]

“He���s going back… Back! AANND HE SNAGS IT! TERRIFIC CATCH, FOLKS!!”

Gotta love Ralphie and his sports hyperfixation. If the catching-a-rock-with-a-basket-on-his-head scene is any indication, he would be a pro at Calvinball.

[evilkitten3]

au where instead of an agni kai, azula and zuko play calvinball

[comicgeekscomicgeek]

Joke's on them. They'r gonna be bored and we're here having fun playing Calvinball.

[musewrangler]

Got whacked with the Calvinball because @kraytwriter was feeling violent. 😉

So here we are—-writing the final chapter for I Felt You in My Bones

Piett favored him with an eyebrow raise and then turned, tugging the hem of his jacket and being certain his cap was on straight before he pushed the gently blinking yellow button on the control panel.

“Grand Moff. A great honor,” he said to the life sized blue hologram that flickered into being six feet away.

Tarkin’s skeletal features could have been carved from Praxil granite.

“We’ll dispense with the honor, Captain Piett,” Tarkin said, tones frigid. Piett shouldn’t be surprised that the Moff knew who he was. Few things got past Tarkin. Which was why this conversation they were about to have was so very dangerous.

“I have been informed that you have taken the Rebel Princess into custody. You will immediately place her on a shuttle with your most trusted men and send her to me for interrogation.”

Piett’s gut churned at the horrible anticipation in Tarkin’s voice at that word. But he schooled his own countenance sternly.

“We have her, yes sir. The credit for the capture is due to the Avenger, however, so—”

Tarkin’s lip curled and he waved a long fingered hand. “I’m not here to listen to the details of her capture, Captain. You will follow my order.”

Piett tilted his head gently and blew out through his nose to prepare for his next move.

“Grand Moff. I regret to tell you that I cannot do so. I have been expressly ordered by Lord Vader that he is to interrogate the Princess. I await his return to the ship shortly, in order that that he may do so.”

As bold a lie as Piett had ever told, and one he desperately hoped was true.

Winding up and pitching the ball at @winterinhimring @hollers-and-holmes @lady-merian @laughingphoenixleader @kanerallels @tolkienreader1996 @muse-write @mathmusicninja

Tag! You’re it!

[hypoxic-bean]

Me, thinking about all the heinous things I've done to the LA Times sudoku puzzles: Yeah I play a little Calvinball

[marlynnofmany]

I love how none of these are explained. I want to see a compilation of different people trying to play New Chess, because I bet they'll all be different, and all amazing.

What can the Wizard Tower do? Ohoho, what can't it do?

new rules for chess:

1. Friendly Fire ON

2. Landmines

3. If a player loses both of their bishops, the king can now legally divorce the queen without the papal go ahead. This puts the queen into FRENZY mode.

4. Once per game, a player may change one letter in a piece's name to change its role. The rook is now a book. The pawn is now a PAWG. The queen is now...well...I shan't say

5. Knights are now Horses

6. Horses are immune to landmines

7. Pawns can move back a space if they forgot something

8. A bishop can be combined with an adjacent rook to create the Wizard Tower piece

9. Each player now has 2 rows of pawns

[thmadethis]

Here it is. Another old design that I decided to revamp, clean up and improve. Calvin and Hobbes is in my top three favorite comics ever and it's comedic timing, seriousness and random bouts of imagination are seared into my brain, forever changing the way that I create. Just a boy and his tiger.

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[trek-tracks]

You're telling me you never read the famous Space Bill Watterson comic strip, Leonard and Spock?

[flock-of-cassowaries]

Kade Prunell, s2: What you’re planning to do vis. Hannibal Lecter is illegal, unethical, and will actually inhibit our ability to legally detain this man long-term.

Jack Crawford: WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE THE STUPID SHIT WE’RE GONNA DO IN s3!!!

[thoth-the-scribe]

this is magic the gathering to the uninitiated