#I love humans sometimes

[coping-via-clint-eastwood]

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

My DM for our weekly DnD game recently moved to California. It’s been sad and we miss him. He DMs now via Zoom and we’ve got a really nice set up so he feels very present. Today while DMing he had us rolling investigation in a library. He said the books title was Is Sex Necessary? When we all seemed puzzled he prompted, “You two should know… Is Sex Necessary?”

My girlfriend and I were stumped. “We should know or our characters should know?” I asked.

“You!” He insisted.

We looked at each other in bafflement repeating “Is Sex Necessary!?” “Is Sex Necessary…?”

“It’s on your bookshelf!” He exclaimed. So we went over to investigate and sure enough, a slim volume stood on the shelf titled Is Sex Necessary? The whole group, all four of us, clustered around to inspect the book.

It honestly didn’t occur to me to investigate the book for clues, I opened the cover hoping to see a hint as to its origins, and inside found a paper note with my DMs distinct handwriting that proclaimed, “Secret! Do not open!”

It turns out he planted notes in several books over two months ago specifically for this eventuality. Each note had a hint for defeating beholders (which he knew we were gunning to fight after being extorted by one) and were sprinkled through many books. He’d say, “An earth genasi explorer wrote this account called Feet of Clay,” and I’d go pull down my Terry Pratchett book of the same title. Or “A sea faring elf wrote about their study of leviathans in Ship of Magic,” and I’d grab my tattered Robin Hobb to find another note.

It was really cute and immersive and it made him feel a lot closer finding all the little notes he left in our home.

[i-looove-dillydallying]

I want to live my life as a love letter to all the forgotten strangers who, through small actions and tiny gestures, raised my faith in humanity.

[dragons-library]

I love seeing what fanfic writers put as content/trigger warnings, it’s hilarious and beautifully human

You have your typical trigger warning and things that make sense, then You have petty warnings about characters they hate 😂, you have the “idk maybe someone is triggered by this?” Kinda tags, and then things like “non consensual rescue” “improper use of grizzly bears”

[diomedea-epomophora]

it's 9:44 pm, and my neighbour is playing some form of brass instrument outside their house

they do this every night, at around this time

i don't know what instrument they're playing, but i think it sounds a bit like a trumpet

i don't think i've met them, and if i have, i probably didn't know it was them

and every night they play the instrument, and it echoes around a bit, and eventually, muffled and thin, it gets to where i am

and i like to sit and listen to it

they might not be the best at it, and it might be drowned out sometimes by the sound of cars and crickets,

but i think there's something about things like this that's

nice

one day i'll leave, or they'll leave, or they'll die, or god knows what else

and it won't be there, every night

but it'll still be there, in my memories, at least

i'll forget about it, yeah, but it might be something i occasionally bring up in conversation,

or something that i remember out of the blue and think about for a moment, before sending it back off into the archives

and there's. something special, in these ordinary moments, these little things that pass by so fast to make room for the more important things,

and so i sit on the crooked chair on the balcony, and i listen to the sound of their music

this is going to be a nice memory to forget, one day

i wonder if they know that

[wisteryuu]

I'm drinking wine out of my cauldron mug and eating gummy bears while watching east coast new years celebrations and my cats run around, it's a weird new years eve but maybe not in a bad way 💫✨🥳

[coping-via-clint-eastwood]

@addictedtostorytelling I love you, so much.

On Friendship.

[just-french-me-up]

sometimes i start feeling bad about spending time on my hobbies, thinking about how inconsequential they are and wondering if i'm wasting my time

but then

but then i find out about goddamn Monthoux building an entire fucking CLAY AND CEMENT CITADEL IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FOREST?????? FOR FUN??? JUST??? LIVING HIS BEST LIFE BUILDING WHAT IS ESSENTIALLY MINAS TIRITH FOR ANTS????

just???? GET A LOAD OF THAT GUY????

he is so precious to me, may the monthoux spirit bless you with endless passion for your inconsequential hobbies! Be the main enjoyer of your art! Do it because it fills you with joy!

[charlesthefrog]

my favorite thing about last week before i forget: i was sitting in the passenger seat coming home from a movie and i decided to put our popcorn tin on my head. my dad said, “the pagliacci people think you’re very funny.” i looked up from under the tin rim and there were two people on a date sitting at the window. the girl was covering her mouth and laughing at me. i waved. she waved back. i pulled the popcorn tin further down to hopefully make her laugh some more. i took it off as we drove away and she was grinning into her pizza

[giftedpoison]

Nah cause I was working today. And I was stocking the frozen and there were two vendors stocking near me and they were talking. Id wager they were in their late thirties early forties. (But I suck at guessing age so I could be wrong.)

And the one guy says that he's not a gym rat and isn't looking to be but he's excited to start trying the gym in a little more chill way and go to classes to learn how to do it properly (I think I didn't quite catch the class type) and how he got info about a place from a friend who is a gym rat. And then he went on to say how he told some of his friends he was surprised to find that they were very supportive and excited for him. And how he wants to get into meditation at some point but it's down the road for him.

And the guy hes talking to says that he was shipped off to state prison when he was 18 and while he was there meditation helped him a lot to deal with everything because there was a lot to process and it helped him think about how his actions affected things and how he could improve and stuff. And that now he does it every night before bed.

Meanwhile I'm stocking and am hanging on every word trying not to be obvious because I find this conversation fascinating and so wholesome and great. And I hope that guy reaches his fitness goals whatever they are.

[coping-via-clint-eastwood]

how the world should be to each other

Verily, man, this wizard peace is splendid. I just saw a guy clap his hands together and say "spirits o' field and vineyard" or something along those lines, and every one around him was showered in fresh-baked pastries and loaves, had their cups fill with aged wine, and then were soothed by a warm summer breeze. The minstrels didn't even sing his praises, that's what a joyous time this is. And here I've just been casting calming dew and level 2 aura of cheer. I think I just heard "power word: dessert" two groups over. I gotta get over there.

[honiilemonn]

I LOVE WHEN MY MUTUALS TAG ME IN THINGS I ENJOY. LIKE ESPECIALLY MY WEIRD OUT THERE INTERESTS. I LOVE YOU MUTUALS GIVING YOU ALL BLANKIES AND WARM DRINKS AND SNACKS YOU ENJOY

[aethersea]

the question of fic comments is very straightforward actually. readers do not owe writers comments. writers do not owe readers fic. there is no bargain, no transaction, no debt.

fic is a gift. comments are a gift. gifts are exchanged between friends, out of love, not out of obligation.

I write for myself. I post it for others, as a gift, because their joy brings me joy. I read for myself. I comment for the author, as a gift, because their joy brings me joy. perhaps we were not friends before, but we are now, however fleetingly, because we have given each other gifts out of love.

[weidli]

got held up on the way to work today because there was a big snake trying to sun herself on the highway right on the way out of town & the lady in the grey subaru in front of me put her warning lights on & got out to try & shoo her into the grassy sunny verge on the other roadside. & it was afternoon and busy but the logging trucks stopped & waited & the family cars stopped & waited & the long haul truckers stopped & waited for that snake to cross the road. nobody so much as honked. & when the snake was safe the road was backed up in both directions but a fellow in a pickup truck waved at me to go ahead (i was waiting to turn right onto the highway) even though he could have made me wait until the whole long line of cars passed. what i am trying to say is: there is still love in this world. what i am trying to say is: happy pride to me & to that big old bull snake who will live to see another sunrise & to every person on that highway who decided that saving her was worth five minutes of delay

[coping-via-clint-eastwood]

WHAT IN THE PHYSICS

Művészet

[egophiliac]

2025 is the year of the DRAGON SLIPPERS

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

Donna Noble really got in the TARDIS and on trip number ONE like ONLY the FIRST trip she was like we are going to change history to save a single family because that is how it should work so that is how it does and then on trip number TWO on the SECOND trip she was like we are going to destroy an entire culture of slavery because it is right I don't care if we're two people and then on the THIRD trip she was like I am going to be unbelievably brave to save my home and everyone I love and then on the FOURTH trip she was like no living breathing thinking creature is less than a person and how dare you try to dehumanise someone like that how dare you not give her a name and the list GOES ON this woman NEVER MISSED there goes one of the kindest bravest most constant women you might ever meet and she's a temp from Chiswick