#adventuring

[nfasth]

[blogfanreborn777]

Dungeons & Dragons Curse of Strahd by Jedd Chevrier

[thebohemianloner]

Abandoned Farmhouse Ruins • Mount Pocono, PA

[accio-bagel]

something something high ground

[victusinveritas]

Quite possibly the only acceptable reason the climb Mount Everest is to do this...presumably while blaring "Free Bird" or something.

[undead-knick-knack]

Veth, you gotta put this marriage down. It's already too late 😞

[ectoplasmfear]

Honestly, the way that the cast and the fandom remembers Kalvaxus is really funny to me because... he was not that guy. Kalvaxus was strict but never quite mean. He had a very no nonsense approach to his job, but had to do a lot of the more stable parts of administration considering the other person involved with the day to day running of the school was Arthur Aguefort, a deeply unpredictable hubristic cokehead with all the power in the world.

The Bad Kids - more specifically Adaine - said that she really liked the school and thought he was a really good vice principal - the episode where it was revealed he was evil. When he saw Fabian randomly hit Gorgug, he told Gorgug that he shouldn't apologize for being randomly assaulted. When he handed a ticket to Adaine, he hesitated because Adaine was clearly on the verge of a panic attack. He gave Jawbone a job. He was genuinely trying to help the Bad Kids after Aguefort did some typical Aguefort shit and killed himself in front of them. He absolutely presented himself as a very helpful adult authority figure who maybe wasn't nice but he came off as trustworthy and largely fair.

Is any of that his true "deep down" personality? Obviously not. He's a banker, a libertarian, and an imperialist conqueror. He'll allow a few select students to be influenced onto this path. He can't say he approves of the Harvestmen being at his school but they're a good expendable workforce that he can discard afterwards to prove that despite being fiscally conservative, he is an ally and he is trans inclusive. He takes his little pleasures. Murdering Riz's father. Poisoning Aguefort, making him too stupid to see what his right hand is doing. Conspiring with his horrible capitalist bank that doesn't give out pens or lollipops. Investing in stocks, consorting with gangs of creepy tieflings. And when the mask is off he lets forth a storm of viciousness, hate, malice, verbal cruelty. Which is pretty par for the course for being stuck with teenagers for five hundred years, tbh.

But again, he has been doing this song and dance for five hundred-ish years, playing the role of the helpful authority figure. Dragons - particularly chromatic dragons like Kalvaxus - are infected with an absolutely massive ego, a destructive sense of pride that compels them to dominate, collect, amass, always amass wealth. It's baked into their immortal souls. They go to places, they commit violence on things there, and then they collect their rewards. It's a vicious cycle, and not dissimilar to the violent destructive cycle that adventuring tends to follow.

So when you take his ability to ever conquer, destroy, rule, devour, amass wealth.

Being good. At this stupid fucking JOB. That he HATES. Teaching teenagers. That he HATES. At a school. That he HATES. With only one man who knew what he was really like, the real him, only one man he didn't have to deceive, and it's the INSANE COKE SNORTING MOTHERFUCKER KEEPING HIM HERE.

[littlepawz]

Aleksander Doba, a Polish adventurer, was the first person to "row" the Atlantic from Europe to New York, completely alone and without assistance. In 2017, at age 70, he kayaked 5,000 miles from the port of Le Conquet, France, to the shores of New York, braving storms, strong currents and the loneliness of the ocean for 110 days. His feat demonstrated an astonishing level of physical and mental endurance, inspiring generations of adventurers. Prior to this last kayaking expedition Doba won the gold medal at the Open Academic Polish Championships in Whitewater Kayaking when he was 57 years old and defended the title the following year.

Doba died while climbing Kilimanjaro on February 22, 2021. According to eyewitness reports he felt well the entire journey but after reaching the top asked for a two-minute break before posing for a photo. He then sat down on a rock and "just fell asleep". He was 74 years old.

[strawberry-rose80]

I don’t know what to post anymore

[briry18]

Horimiya Audio, minute I heard it I couldn't get the image out of my head.

OC created with Rinmaru Mega Anime Character Creator on Doll Divine.

[nfasth]

[blogfanreborn777]

Castle Never Hallway by Chris Dien

[thebohemianloner]

Abandoned railway tunnels • New Jersey

[prettyplumpkitty]

Ten favorite shots (out of many!) of our weekend trip to Cleveland last weekend.

[projectsuperheavy]

Chiang Mai, Thailand - April 22nd, 2024.