#i wish they manufactured more

[grayghostofthenorth]

Goldscheider Wien Porcelain (1923) Rare

[natjennie]

what's weird about the fantasy high drama is that like. it seems to me like people forget d&d is primarily a) a game you play with your friends and also b) luck based.

I mean it's fine to say that "nothing felt like a challenge" and "they just dominated everything and there weren't any stakes" but like. it's not as if they weren't up against huge threats. they lost the mall fight. the last stand was an onslaught of enemies. they fought a dozen dragons from an airship. the fights were hard. they're just really good. they've had very good dice luck in general this season and are all very high level and highly specialized. fig is gonna beat deception and performance checks. adaine's gonna figure out the arcana. riz is gonna succeed investigations. like. for some reason their strategical competence and wisely picked abilities are. a downside? a disappointment?

the thing about d&d that you need to remember is it's first and foremost a game. it's mostly random and it takes you down weird paths and you're playing to have fun with your friends. the dice are literally telling the story that it's their time, it's their year. they've struggled enough. they've trained enough. they're good at what they do. and in my post about the academic/domestic/personal stressors being the focus, d&d doesn't have any other system to work them out than rolling different skills. that's what d&d is. brennan set specific challenge levels for different tasks and the players strategized to prioritize which abilities they were strongest in. the challenges were there. and the players rose to them. they were both smart in their delegation of responsibilities and lucky with their dice rolls. of which, both are foundations of d&d.

don't mistake them being good players and getting lucky with there being no hardship. just because they smashed through the wall, that doesn't mean the wall wasn't strong. they were just stronger.

[andr0nap-wf]

i wish warframe had more splatoon lvls of worldbuilding when it came to mundane things

[cookinguptales]

I find shows where you watch people build stuff very soothing, so I'm currently going through all of the home-building shows that I can watch through HBO Max now and like

WWDITS has ruined me! thoroughly!!!

these are all from discovery+, I think, so they all have that HGTV house renovation vibe to them, and I just. I keep expecting one of them to get eaten by a vampire or something. Go Flip Yourself completely rewired something in my brain. lmao help.

[llatimeria]

just doing some thinking about the adderall shortage

[rms-mauretanic]

If gas isn’t 10 fucking cents to the gallon the moment Trump imposes those tariffs I am going to become the most annoying person on the planet. When the price of eggs inevitably starts ticking up, I don’t care if it’s just inflation, I will be thanking Donald Trump just like they used to do with Obama. You want a 1950s society, we better fucking get 1950s prices with it.

[antisocialxconstruct]

Just kinda... putting this out into the universe for right now, but I've been thinking really hard about getting my old enamel pin collections back in circulation, as well as maybe releasing them as stickers as well (for a budget option and also for things you can't put enamel pins on). I had to throw out basically all my remaining stock when I moved (which... oouugh it still hurts), so I might essentially run a "reboot" kickstarter to get another batch of Dire Hounds made and then try again to get the full Grimalkins set funded. A few things this would let me do:

update the templates for slightly cleaner manufacturing, and update the backer cards with accurate artist info because man that was really bothering me

like I said, hopefully get the second half of the Grimalkins produced so they're a proper six-pin collection like the first one

network! Now that I'm in a big city I think I honestly might have better luck with consignment stores and craft fairs than I ever did with only an online shop, and more visibility can only mean good things.

I'm also still definitely planning to make idog merch, and beyond that I'd potentially love to lean even further into the cyberpunk and y2k aesthetics to really hone my Brand™, but obviously that requires original thought and creative effort while getting the dogs and cats remade just requires pulling the old AI files off my poor aging iMac.

[tacticalhimbo]

i can't believe i didn't even write it in my caption... but the side profile pic of diana was exclusively taken to point out the fact that she DOES indeed still have freckles (re: her appearances in the comics) and that i will die a freckled diana burnwood truther.

absolutely imagining that the reason they aren't as prominent, aside from like... art style differences, is that her makeup blots them out (which i have experience with too.. i hate wearing foundations for that reason; it's why i prefer bb cremes) and makes them appear fainter/outright erases them 😔

but back to the photos. look at this

doesn't look like much, yeah? wrong-

those aren't just pores, babes! those are freckles :} very faint (again, foundation blotted) freckles!

and if you've no idea of diana's comic appearance, i'll pull images across all volumes of birth of the hitman by christopher sebela; art by jonthan lau and ariel medel because that's like... the biggest comic line (and only one? i'm not sure of all the hitman literature out there tbh)

(this is from 1998, also dublin)

(note: that's soders)

(when she meets 47... 🥺)

bonus: this scene from issue #2 that literally shows how makeup covers her freckles

anyway stan freckled diana or else 🔫

[yuu33]

The dolls of my dream for the past 3 years, I finally have the 20cm version aaaaaa

Truly love @/rivershirt (twitter) goyuu arts and dolls 💙🧡

Bonus: Bc Yuuji's hanfu outfit had a mishap, now waiting for seller to do an exchange before I can cloth Yuuji in matching red so..........

Gojo having naked Yuuji / he just undressed Yuuji eheheh

[leodeserti]

IM GONNA SEE SUDA51 IN THE FLESH THIS WEEKEND AHHHHH

[lancecharleson]

Honest to god fuck Apple, fuck the government officials who created FOSTA/SESTA over 5 years ago, fuck every single person who bought this site off the original creators and proceeded to spend the rest of the previous decade making all the wrong decisions, but more importantly, fuck Matt Mullenweg and Automattic.

Man deadass took a site that was, once upon a time back in the 2010s the best, most welcoming, most educational, social blogging site on the internet, and turned it into a fucking data mine for techbros to plunder, all while driving off queer users and staff.

It is depressing seeing the place I grew up on turn out this way.

As always though if you wanna find me I mostly use Discord, but my new socials are... My Bluesky here:

and my Cohost here:

[j-esbian]

i’ve gotta admit that, 4 years in, im still real fucking tired of people who act like Everyone In the World Had To Stay Home 24/7 when the covid pandemic started, bc as best as i can tell, that was mostly like. white collar workers and students

[luckystrike-x]

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[historymakesmeangry]

The Monkees walked so kpop bands could run

[cats-in-the-clouds]

it’s all been said before but the whole pronouns thing for some people is getting so ridiculous it’s honestly just sad

[the-acid-pear]

I hate this concept of "expectations" we need to do something about that