#Highly recommend to those interested

[orisretr0]

RHIS

ITS AN AMAZING SHOW, HONEST TO GOD, BUT OP IS COMPLETELY RIGHT ON THE FACT THAT THERE'S SOME SHIT IN THERE. So! Handle it and yourself with care <3 and enjoy

Ppl are heavily recommending scavengers reign and I fully have to agree that it is so so 100% worth the watch it actually changed me as a person. I have NOT seen enough people give explicit enough warnings about the gore and death in it (including towards animals/animal adjacent creatures). I say this as someone who's never gotten uncomfortable with animated gore, I was genuinely triggered by the details of a few scenes. There are also incredibly realistic depictions of some forms of abuse and mental breakdowns/mind breaks. This is not to say it's bad at all, it's so so beautiful and the way it animates these things is immaculate. It handles all of its topics with such precision and care and it's just so good. Just please go into it with the expectation that it WILL make you more than a little uncomfortable and prepare accordingly. If you don't end up that upset, at least you were prepared for it if you did. Be safe while watching I love you all mwa mwa.

[aroaceleovaldez]

tbh my latest biggest theory for why HoO and onwards is such a dramatic drop in quality and consistency is just. Rick stopped making teaching guides.

Like, the Lightning Thief teacher's guide is SUPER in-depth with even stuff like sources about middle grade child psychology and exact specifications of where he's applying that, explaining what different character's goals/motivations are, their dynamics with each other and their environments, etc etc. Even specifying which specific myths certain plot elements are supposed to reference or be about.

That stuff just doesn't exist for later books. There's activity guides and smaller, significantly more simple teacher guides for later books but they don't go into anywhere NEAR the same level of depth. The TLT one is a full lesson plan that breaks down the book at every level and explains what's going on and more or less why Rick did that. The others are all basically just glossaries of terminology and some simple question guides.

And they didn't even use the TLT teacher's guide for the Disney+ show because they clearly aren't adhering to any of what's discussed in that breakdown of the book.

By creating a teaching guide alongside writing the actual book, that's forcing you to document what you're doing, why, your sources, and information about your characters and the story they're in. It's like an even more in-depth version of a series bible. But that's lacking for later books (and etc) and it shows because that level of thought and depth and attention just isn't there anymore.

[fallout-lou-begas]

just realized that with the combination of the mods Lock Those Doors and Forced Entry, murderfreak can now very literally break into people's houses in the dead of night with a fire axe, and then, of course, axe murder and/or axe freak them. this is enrichment in murderfreak's enclosure

[hangmanssunnies]

Normally I like to think of Natasha as my very very pretty princess. However, I think butch presenting but actually high femme Phoenix ...... yeah, she could fix me.

[mariocki]

Pathfinders to Venus (ABC, 1961)

"What a paradise this place is. The way Earth must have been before man spoiled it with sprawling towns and filthy machines."

"If it hadn't been for man's filthy machines we wouldn't be here."

"That's true. And the pity of it is that after us will come rocket after rocket to ravage this planet. They'll gouge the minerals out of the earth, destroy the forests and eventually they'll go to war over it."

[moonchild-in-blue]

I'm gonna be meta for a little bit, but huge shout out to George Lever (Sleep Token's previous producer).

Like, don't get me wrong, I love Carl Bown (he's worked with soo many of my favourite bands and killed it), and I love that Vessel himself got involved in the producing process of TMBTE. The album is amazing, everything sounds extremely clean and professional, and very, very concise.

But George Lever? That guy has a way with music that just... It's very innate. I think One was self-produced (although I'm not entirely sure), but everything else apart from TMBTE was produced by him - and you can tell.

There's this very raw and organic feeling to his work that I think it's quite rare to find nowadays. Especially the drums - I really wish he could've been the one mixing it for the last album because man, he just gets it.

When I first listened to Eden, I remember thinking "man, this drummer is insane". But then I went all the way back to One and slowly made my way to TPWBYT and ket me tell you, Jaws' drum line left me flabbergasted. I know that George and ii have been friends/working together for quite a while prior to ST, so maybe that's one reason why. But they just work so well together, everything sounds so clear and crisp, it feels almost impossible.

This is not to discredit the amazing, fenomenal work done on TMBTE - there's a reason why it's my favourite album and why it gained the traction it did - nor to downplay ii's insane skills (as if one could ever do that, he's just that good). But George's work with ST is just so, so brilliant, and I really needed to put it out there.

It's been a while since I've checked in on him, but it seems he's a bit inactive nowadays? Idk. Whatever the reason why he's no longer working with them, or why he's a bit mia (or was for a while), I wish him all the best, and I'm just so thankful for all his hard work.

[socialmediasocrates]

one of the more funny things that i've seen in bg3 fic, i think because there's a fair number of people playing the game for whom this is their intro to dnd, is the general assumption that astarion wouldn't be able to sire a child

ok genuine question, but how would that happen? is he not undead? because from what i unerstand it can oly happen if the mother is turned while she is csrrying the child.

so while i can't exactly answer why it works, one of the available origins for the dhampir as introduced in Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft is the most straightforward way a dhampir would exist: one of their parents is a vampire. since this is in canon faerun and it looks like candlekeep is canon, i am operating on the assumption that the new ravenloft lore is also canon (would be cool to maybe go to a domain of dread in a future expansion or DLC; a run-in with azalin rex would certainly be challenging for even a party above level 12 and strahd could absolutely be tweaked that way in barovia; it'd be cool to see the grand conjunction come back into the lore but i digress)

now in fairness, there is also precedent in older editions of DND for some intelligent undead being able to reproduce; my best guess is that the difference lies in if the undead in question was resurrected from the grave directly and started at baseline dead or if they were somehow transformed and therefore started from baseline alive (eg vampires, liches, etc) but this is purely conjecture

so, yeah, no, you could definitely have a kid with astarion, the kid in question would be a dhampir which you can read more about at this link if you're interested

thanks for the question!

[anantaru]

'the glory' on netflix really just became my new favorite kdrama, it‘s so engaging and interesting, i‘m on my way to watch the new episodes now + the cast is literally so talented, their acting skills are amazing 💝💕

[kohakhearts]

yeah im thinking about the full version of 1・2・3 again yeah its making my brain a little mushy about The Characters

[paimonial-rage]

I was thinking about this while helping my friend beta something yesterday like… I vaguely remember that at one time, I felt (punctuation) periods were too harsh. They had a sense of finality about them. They were too loud and vibrant. Commas were more comforting to use. They felt softer and not as exact. And then I look at my writing now and there's nothing I love more than a period. I love how sharp it is. I love its finality.

Like I can't understate enough how much a period makes a statement. Like that's what it's supposed to do, yes, but it's more than that. It tells the audience that what precedes is true. It's a fact. And when you yield a period properly, it emphasizes and highlights what is stated. It stands out. It's final. It has weight. It's such a powerful thing that it's addicting to use.

[stcrmborne]

Spear of Thunder & Lightning by KriticalKez.

[kupfergeist]

You know, I considered keeping these in my inbox, make it an aquarium, but I think it's best if I set them free Just look at how shiny they are!! Absolutely lovely little dudes, I love their coloring and frilly fins

[televenus]

thinking about the documentary of a couple's aibo who had been their family dog for years "dying" because parts have become so rare and theres almost nobody who can service some of the older models. i feel like theres so much i could say about this stuff and it makes me so emotional

[void-botanist]

Some other resources that might be worth checking out (not strictly about faeries but related):

The Corpus of Electronic Texts, or CELT, a collection of Irish cultural materials. This includes English translations of Irish myths.

Mary Jones - similar to CELT, and a resource we used for translations in the Irish mythology class I took in undergrad.

An Encyclopedia of Fairies by Katherine Mary Briggs, a British folklorist.

The Folklore of Cornwall by Ronald M. James. Unfortunately this book is harder to access and is often only in university libraries, but if you're interested in piskies it's a potentially very helpful read.

Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall by William Bottrell.

YALL. Holly Black has a list of resources she's used for writing her books on the fair folk. I'm OBSESSED. I love her work and world building. it's so true to the heart of faeries

[kuiinncedes]

c:

[scribblingwhalegirl]

Memories of a Woodland Spectre

Ah, good to see you! Come on in, sit down.

I apologize for the mess; been busy, you know how it is.

Can I get you anything to drink? I've just opened this bottle of scotch. Grandpa loves it!

Listen, I wanted to tell you a story, if you'd like.

I was walking out in the forest where the trees wrap their branches around me, on my way to my thinking rock.

This time of year there's no footprints, at least not from people, and everything's covered in snow, so I'm just trying to find the way on pure intuition. So I pass by this blue spruce with kind of a funny whoville top so I know I'm going the right way, and that's when I see these two bears, and you're going to think I'm out of my tree but I swear to whatever god is around here,

I could hear them.

There was a big one and a little one, and the big one spoke, and the little one listened and nodded, and I froze in my tracks.

These big, majestic, frankly terrifying creatures were right there, and I'm not about to try to speak bear, so I sat down and listened too, because I was there to think anyway and I might as well have something to think about.

The big bear talked about some travellers that came in a big metal box full of metal boxes, all of which spoke languages older than the hills. When she talked about being observed by them, I felt a little guilty- she said they followed her wherever she went, watched what she ate, who she met, and never once even tried to understand her. They could have just asked, of course!

Then she mentioned a little girl who came and talked to her a few years ago.

The girl had explained that those were scientists, and the little bear asked what that was, and the big bear explained that scientists are people who really want to know everything. The little bear asked wouldn't that be boring, and the big one agreed, but she said it was okay because they never knew what she was like anyway. They didn't know how to fish without a metal box, they didn't know how to talk without a box, they even slept in boxes full of sorted groups of each other.

It sounded like the scientists just want to put things in boxes, the little bear said, and I laughed because he didn't know how right he was.

So back to that little girl. The way the bear told it, the little girl explained that not all people are scientists, and some people really like and trust them but some people don't. And she said her dad was a scientist who really liked nature, and she really liked nature too, but she thought the scientists didn't understand.

And the big bear didn't speak human but she listened and listened. Every day the girl would find the bear, and every day the bear would listen, and the girl would say I like you, you're a good friend, and the big bear would reply. I couldn’t understand the word she used, but it was sort of a knowing, patient growl. 

They played and talked and looked at the clouds and the girl and the bear got older, loved, tried new things, told stories, knew each other.               

The little bear had a hundred questions on his face but only asked a careful one: what happened to the girl?

The answer was that one day, the girl came and painted the big bear, and the bear was a good model, and the painting looked beautiful.

She didn't need a box to make art, she didn't even need every colour. She could make colours by mixing the dirt from the forest with the sparkle in her eyes.

After that, she thanked the bear and disappeared for a while. When she came back, she looked sick. Her body was healthy, but her eyes were dark.

I promised, the big bear said, to keep secret what she told me. So I won't disrespect her. But the last thing the girl said in this version of the story was that there will never be a box that could fit either of them.

The big bear said this was good advice, but she wasn't a scientist and she didn't need boxes anyway, so she wasn't really sure what that meant.

The little bear simply looked thoughtfully.

With that, the bears disappeared into the snowy brush.

I never made it to my thinking rock that day. I went home, because I had too much to think about.

Never did fully make sense of it all.

I didn't expect you to have any idea either, don't worry.

You're an artist now, aren't you? Much better line of work than the old neighbours, I don't know what they did but they were so damn loud...

Anyhow, it's nice to see your family back around here, we missed y’all.

Oh, and apropos of nothing, I love that tattoo on your arm. Tell me the story behind those three stars in a row?