#Rich Stump

[oldschoolfrp]

Dungeon 5, May/June 1987: "A powerful air elemental lays waste to the underground fortress of a mighty wizard. Robin Wood has captured the first meeting of the sorcerer with his nemesis in this month's cover painting." Note the artist's name worked into the decorated floor.

Rich Stump's AD&D adventure "Hirward's Task" presents an interesting situation for adventurers -- a wizard's laboratories still populated by his human and kobold underlings, whom the wizard wants protected and unharmed, but who are jumpy and quick to defend themselves due to some rampaging loose monsters.

[icewindandboringhorror]

I made a few new wax seal stamps out of clay (like the ones I did for my worldbuilding stuff forever ago), this time just of random symbols that I thought might look good done in the style of painting over the raised part of the wax or etc. :0c Some of them aren't carved deep enough to really show up that well, but overall they worked okay for being clay lol

[limitedtouredition]

2024.03.22

[blorbocedes]

important content to ME: nico rosberg reviews vegan scrambled eggs

[weallpartyatybcpatricksfuneral]

it's no coincidence that in soul punk the song order goes from a song that discusses selling yourself out to the music industry to a song about alcoholism as a metaphor for burning out and music making to a hidden track about how fame dehumanizes you and makes your very existence cryptic to a song about how greed consumes everyone and how capitalism fucks everyone over.

[pixelatedquarter]

Patrick's Ace Flag Colours Vest From 4 Years Before The Ace Flag Was Even A Thing That Exists my beloved.

Right up there with Pete's Fuzzy MLM Flag Sweater From Well After The MLM Flag Gained Traction Online

[desolatnrow]

x

[savetheghost]

i wish i had a workshop i could fill with tools and materials like a sponsored renaissance man

[exceptmyserotonin]

the studio acapella of america’s suitehearts has me feeling like i’m blissed out and melting away. i love this song sm and getting to hear all the vocal inflections clearly is such a treat 💛

[buabloomed]

Niran would 100% be the one to say he grew up "comfortable" to the question "Are you rich?"

[transingthoseformers]

Wow this coronation event is gonna be a fiasko, probably moreso for the Cybertronian Senate than Optimus and his entourage ngl

[thefrogsennaneverfound]

Twas ever thus! Marie-Antoinette didn't say "Let them eat cake" because she gave so little of a damn that it amounted to cruelty. She said it because, when told that the people had no bread, she genuinely assumed it was just 'cause they'd run out of the stuff so they should maybe try eating cake (actually brioche) instead until the supply was back up and running. Not all wealthy people are inherently uncaring but if they're insulated from our reality they're clueless about how awful the big bad world outside their bubble really is. Many who discovered the truth might still not understand that the existence of billionaires is downright obscene but I'm sure there are those who'd care enough to roll up their sleeves and try to make a difference.

“Rich kids should go to public schools. The mayor should ride the subway to work. When wealthy people get sick, they should be sent to public hospitals. Business executives should have to stand in the same airport security lines as everyone else. The very fact that people want to buy their way out of all of these experiences points to the reason why they shouldn’t be able to. Private schools and private limos and private doctors and private security are all pressure release valves that eliminate the friction that would cause powerful people to call for all of these bad things to get better. The degree to which we allow the rich to insulate themselves from the unpleasant reality that others are forced to experience is directly related to how long that reality is allowed to stay unpleasant. When they are left with no other option, rich people will force improvement in public systems. Their public spirit will be infinitely less urgent when they are contemplating these things from afar than when they are sitting in a hot ER waiting room for six hours themselves.”

— Everyone Into The Grinder

[ghostreblogging]

Ngl this is a short one.

So Danny comes to Gotham. Down on his luck. But lo and behold, he still has access to the kingly vaults! He doesn't have to worry about money!!! He can just buy a small apartment and live out his miserable little life In luxury!

But then he is stopped on a horrible and a dark stump in his plan. How in the 7 hells is he gonna explain it to the IRS ??????

Money laundering????

Can't he just say he found a mysterious big pile of gold and be done with it?

No, Danny . How are you gonna explain the fact that you keep finding mysterious little gold files to the tax man . Jazz says emphatically through a video call . Which is a multi dimensional cuz I can't explain why sam wont just give him the money. And btw the just assume that the vaults has a magic function to give the money to him in the local currency.

Sso from that day onwards Gotham had a new little cafe in a quiet little nook. The prices are super cheap. And it by far has the best fudge in all of Gotham. If you exclude Alfred's.

The gothamites love it. It's a favorite college hangout. Everyone is pretty sure the cafe is a front. Everyone is 100% sure of it. But in this economy who the hell cares. At least it's not nfts.

People can actually benefit from this because we can get like a whole breakfast for like 4 dollars ( an au where like Danny's 2000s world is like super cheap compared to the modern Gotham city and nobody taught the poor boy common prices of this world. Danny's thinking like how do I keep accidentally going into these rich people stores with their ridiculous prices, Ughh guess I'll have to buy this I don't want to go farther) and the quality is good too. The scrawny little twink owner sure as hell does not know much about ingredients prices or did the bare minimum study of business.

Anyway when the bats came sniffing (the scrunkly little guy was innocent blame Fenton luck) and we'll tried to interrogate the owner people actually chained themselves to the front like the worlds most confused save the trees activists.

[soverane]

guys i have a rough sheninglan (shenlanguang?) modern au idea 🥹

[weallpartyatybcpatricksfuneral]

the narrator from As Long As I Know I'm Getting Paid and from Greed are one in the same btw