#imagine how terrifying that would be

[timewizard-oldman]

12 year olds are so tiny and i'm not even much older than them

[honourablejester]

I mean, the obvious answer to my mind would be a nation banning enchantment magic. Laws enacted to protect the sanctity of the will, to prevent people from being charmed, compelled or commanded, to prevent the horror of being puppeted by a will not your own. Anyone caught enchanting another person faces immediate punishment.

And then you can have your interesting edge cases. A criminal about to be executed for casting Sleep on some guards, wondering why they’re considered the lowest of the low for persuading some men to take a quick nap when the alternative, that their fellows would have been only too happy to enact, would have been murdering said guards. Enchantment spells offer alternatives to violence, ways to de-escalate situations that might otherwise end in death. Is that so wrong?

But then sometimes it is. How much worse to face an enemy that can paralyse you at a word, leaving you helpless in their hands? How much worse to be compelled to view someone as your friend, only to wake up moments later and realise how they’ve used you? How much worse to be commanded against your will, forced into actions while your conscious mind screams silently behind your smiling face? How much worse to find evidence of doing things that you don’t remember, that were edited from your mind? Aren’t there some things worse than death?

Especially if there is … Because enchantment is useful. Even, or perhaps especially, for the government that outlawed it. Are there black ops that take place? Are there secretive government forces that have permission to use these, the most evil of magics? Because with one spell, Modify Memory, enchantment is perhaps the easiest school to hide.

Basically, if you want to go full dystopia in theme, the enchantment school of magic is 100% your boy. Perhaps the stickiest school, morally speaking, the most complicated to defend, but also one of the most useful. A conflict of principle vs utility.

Banned spells under Wizard Council of Greyhawk:

Otiluke’s Resilient Klein Bottle

Mordenkainen’s Magnificent Motorhome

Tasha’s Hideous Afterlife

Tenser’s Floating Disco

What spells would be interesting to ban in your setting? To be clear, characters still can and probably do use them… but the things that the authorities forbid can tell you a lot about the world. What if the humble Dispel Magic is banned, and only the caster of a spell is allowed to remove it? Or what if Disguise Self has to be registered and tracked ever since the Imposter Duke ruled the land?

[xiaq]

Your first pride story was touching and all but you still married a man.

Yeah, bisexuals do that sometimes.

[tuna-salado]

Yknow what would be a cool New Vegas au? A Courier Six that died when they were shot. A Courier that never takes off their helmet because the head underneath has rotted away. A Courier that chills the hot Mojave air around them anytime they speak. A Courier that is always only slightly transparent to the point where it's only noticeable if you reeaaallly look at them. A Courier that's considered unstoppable because they just can't die twice. A ghost that roams the desert without many people taking the time to notice that they aren't fully human.

I think I've been playing FNV too much but this would be really cool in my mind just saying :D

[zarnzarn]

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athena, scowling as she gets bullied into marrying the people she pined over for the last 1000 years, suddenly realising something: wait a minute

odysseus: what?

athena, frozen: wait a damn minute you know what this gives me rights to do

penelope, also realising: oh fuck yes

odysseus: I don't like the sound of whatever's happening here what are you two fucking talking about?

athena, grabbing the marriage wine and tossing it back, then kissing her new wife and husband and handing penelope a spear as she picks up a mace: we'll be back shortly, you can start celebrations without us.

penelope: do u have anything that can start a fire

athena, pulling out an old contract and scanning it before throwing it over her shoulder: yes. are you scared of heights or can we fly.

penelope: fucking bring it I've waited years for this moment

zeus: where are they going

hermes, picking up the contract: they're going to... Ogygia? Oh fucking shit they're going to fucking kill Calypso- hey, hello, WAIT-

[sergle]

(re: sssniperwolf and jacksfilms) It's laughable that she escalated it that hard. Don't get me wrong, I'm pretty sure stalking him like that is illegal and it's terrifying regardless, but Jack said in a stream (can't remember which one) that he wasn't about bringing up past controversies of hers or cancelling. And now she shows up outside his house (wtf!!!). Like he was willing to only call her out for stealing and freebooting but she's gone and stalked him and Jack doesn't seem like the type of guy to take that shit. Actual WTF moment from her part. wild

omg long post below bc apparently I have opinions: YES!! THAT'S WHAT'S SO INCREDIBLE ABOUT THIS... Jack has been genuinely diligent about keeping things on-topic in his streams, and hasn't brought up any of her other Stuff, or anything Personal. Despite the fact that she kickstarted the whole thing by making it INCREDIBLY personal and attacking his physical appearance... His goal has been to call out and bring attention to content theft, and he's stuck with it. Dude's also cared about this for years, and she's not the first content thief he's criticized. He just hates the way that freebooting has become so accepted-- to the point where youtube praised her for "coming up with such creative video ideas"? Hey! Ew! Dude wasn't trying to get her cancelled though, there was no smear campaign of her character. He's been rallying to get her to CREDIT the creators that she relies on for all of her content. It would set a precedent for all other "react" channels on the platform for one of the biggest channels on youtube to actually give credit where credit is due. Or, god forbid, get permission first? It's not hard. It's already done the job of making some other people who do "react content" self-analyze whether or not their content is transformative, and to maybe care about crediting the creators they rely on for their genre to work. There is a way to make this kind of video that isn't so slimy. And making fun of her lackluster-at-best reactions is so far from even being a big deal. Bc she literally does just sit there and say nothing. Plus, his goal has a clear End built into it: if she started shouting out the creators she takes content from, and put links directly to their pages in her video descriptions, the job would be done! That's what he's asking her to do. Real bare minimum stuff. It legit would have been easy to steer away from the content theft and to also talk about her history of lying to her audience! her ghosting a dying kid with cancer who was a big fan of hers! the fact that she's been arrested for armed robbery! her history of transphobia! He would also get more clicks that way, which is what she claims is his sole goal- to get more clicks. I'll bring it up though! She's been a terrible person the whole time, and has kept a steady course of manipulating her audience of young children and/or, let's be completely honest, simps- into thinking that she's a Wholesome creator. (And now, into thinking she's an innocent victim.) All of the actual effort put in by her has gone toward optics, not the content she puts out. A carefully constructed online persona, for one, but also literal appearances. Jack totally can't say this, bc she already went off the handle and said the only reason he doesn't like her is bc he Hates To See A Woman Be Successful. But I can! That was a cheap shot for her to use that argument when, for once, it's not applicable! Much the opposite, even! Dudes online wouldn't go to bat for her if she didn't look the way she does. And it weakens any case she'd have against him by making baseless claims like that. She banks hugely on being an attractive woman to get her clicks/following. A massive amount of effort is put into her appearance. The makeup, the lip fillers, putting her hair in little pigtails, the chokers and tube tops, the big non-prescription Nerd Glasses, the thumbnails where she has her mouth open in That Expression?

I don't even have to say anything. But making a weird facial expression and putting your hair in pigtails aren't moral failings. Showing up at someone's real life home (whose address you shouldn't even have access to), filming the front of their house at night, doxxing them to your audience of millions of people? Because you were mad at them online? That is fully scary! Yeah girl I'm pretty sure that Jack can press charges! There is absolutely no way to take the moral highground now that she's literally stalked him, and doxxed his home. She tried to goad him and Erin (Jack's wife) out of the house, also, which creeps me out even more-- because what was she planning to do? The fact that she's been arrested for violent crime before does pop into my mind! lmao! Jack was streaming a game at the time that she was outside his home, and these clips of him, his friends, and Erin reacting in real time to what is genuinely a scary situation have been taken down in case he needs to use them in legal action. Shit is legitimately serious!

[0stargirl0]

He for sure knows he’s gorgeous

[starry-skies-writes]

Ok so I rewatching TDP right

And the scene where Runaan is prisoner in Viren’s dungeon, and Viren tries to scare him—

With COINS

RUNAAN KNEW THIS WHOLE TIME

HE KNEW WHAT VIREN DID TO TIADRIN AND LAIN

And now that he’s out, he’s going to ask Rayla about them, and wonder why they aren’t back too 😭😭😭

(And then he’ll have to grieve)

(He’d realised they were never traitors after all— they’d never been anyone to be ashamed of)

[sorrelpaws]

no offense but i genuinely fear that their potential dynamic will go severely underutilized

[dykedvonte]

Can you talk about trans!Curly a little bit more? I'm curios if you have any headcanons and the like

-💀

It's just such a thing in my mind because it adds a truthful sadness and differing aspect to mouthwashing.

If Curly was trans it adds the horror of the horribly selfish thought he could have easily been in Anya's situation. It could've been him but it wasn't and he so conflicted on the pit it put in his stomach that brings and the shameful relief it wasn't. In this scenario he is friends with Jimmy for a long time still. Jimmy likely knew him pretransition. Maybe he gave Curly weird looks then, maybe they never stopped after, maybe they seemed meaner. They are guys now, bros, both of them are. He doesn't really have to worry what those looks mean anymore, Jimmy just has that face with him sometimes. It's recontextualizing a lot of things for him that he was in denial about or too ashamed to admit. How naive he was being and how he let that get another person hurt.

Specifically with Anya, it's he knows the dread and fear she's feeling. He can understand it because he had to live with it for a good portion of his life, he knows it cause he still does, just in a slightly different way. It makes him think of all the times he's been alone with Jimmy, all the times he's been way more drunk off his ass and not remember the night, Jimmy was always with him the next day. Makes him think of the comments he would laugh off both because that's what guys do but because that part of being a girl says to laugh so Jimmy doesn't do something. It's the selfish realization that he was never safe and he's uncertain now too. Mad at himself for forgeting that feeling, espcially since for a long time he would've been considered the only woman on a crew (with all that implies) for a long time.

He should've taken those blinders off, step back into that position for just a moment and it's so much more painful that Anya likely came to him because he should've gotten it. Those thoughts don't leave his mind after the crash when he's in an even more vulnerable position than she was...

[hanakihan]

i remembered this funny french edgelord exists

[geek-with-tea]

TMA in a Rage Room

Tim: Showing off tricks until the Emotions hit and then he's going to town. Sasha: Smashes a few things, but is mostly providing printouts of ugly photos of people her colleagues don't like or are pissed at to tape onto smashable items. Jon: Complains the entire time on the way there, and while he doesn't smash as much as he needs to, he ends up sitting on the way back silently shaking like an overstimulated chihuahua that will bite someone. Melanie: Her idea, she is smashing the fuck out of shit and having a great day. Basira: Provides snacks, tissues and other supplies because she knows her colleagues are a goddamn mess, secretly plans to go back with Daisy tonight so she can get her own temper out. Daisy: Almost gets banned because she runs out of stuff and starts going for the drywall. Martin: Thinks he's going to be the Basira of the group, has an absolute meltdown that results in his room absolutely demolished and him sobbing in the middle. The damage should get him a ban but the rage room staff feel too bad to actually do it. Elias: Uninvited, goes anyway on his own without anyone noticing. Staff only realize he's there when a mild-mannered gentleman is wiping oil and *is that blood* off his gloves, leaving a *completely* unrecognizable room. Was so quiet that they just presumed the smashing was coming from another room.

[wikitpowers]

what if kit can’t swim so when him and ty cross the river he almost drowns, forcing ty to give him a mouth to mouth and saving his life? afterwards, in a wave of emotions, ty would admit that that wasn’t the way he wanted to kiss kit for the first time, causing kit to ask “you thought about kissing me?” and then the two of them would kiss for real; soaked from the water, with hearts pounding, feeling like they are finally home <3

[trash-gremlin]

could you imagine how good spirit animals would be if it wasn't written as a children's series

[greencheekconure27]

Hot take

[itsdefinitely]

i wanna know more about the jerries/jeris

do you want to know the most horrific thing about them?

the lords did nothing to make them the way they are.

yes, the jerry jr was turned into the axeman because of the witchwood, which does what it does because of the lords, but everything leading up to that is just human nature. i see the "girl jeri is nibbly" or "they were influenced by a lord to do the thngs they do" and i need people to understand that that's just. not true. they're just like that. they were taught to be like that by their parents and, more accurately, their church. it's horrifyingly accurate how religion has shaped them into non-functional human beings, who would rather potentially lose their child to the many, many dangers of the literal woods than admit that they had sex outside of marriage.

it's only because it's hatchetfield that jerry jr grew the way he did. there was no lord's intervention in their decision to keep the baby, or to drop out of school to care for him, or to keep him seperated from any other people, or to revolve their lives around the idea that they'd committed a sin and needed to pay by pushing celibacy rather than. i don't know. properly raising their child. it was the way they were taught. the toxic pushing of overexaggerated christian ideals is what molded them. can you imagine being in their place? being a scared teenager and knowing that if you told any of the people you care about most your secret that they would shun you and disown you?

the only people they felt any kind of safe around were each other; of course they're going to be codependent. and even then, they're disgusted by each other for leading them to sin. they're stuck together unwillingly, because without the other, they're alone.