#it was a good session

[enchantedtalisman]

The downside to therapy is that you have to hear hard truths.

[greendragonette]

Ark Survival Evolved: No Engrams Challenge, day 29

Raising another female theri. Their youngest sibling had a misfortune to be male, so I sacrificed him with intention for argy saddle (didn't exactly work as intended). Used spare sarco egg to level ptera. Speaking of which, girl's decent for crate hunting, but I'd like to have another one or two for cargo and swapping. Tried and found two high level males, but lost sight on first when rex attacked me, and aimed badly at the other. Gave up for now, tranqed the first three digit male I saw, plied with prime and kited away a direbear about to stroll too close. Good enough for now, but will have to remember to get him some berries.

Carrying 'chutes paid off; I got way too close and personal to a level 110 rex at Far Peak and couldn't get on ptera, so jumped off instead and whistled follow. Travel took a while, but I landed perfectly safe (and lowered the following distance on ptera; multiple just-barely-out-of-reach situations got on my nerves).

Loot-wise, results are mixed:

-no better armor, although some can work as spares; current one is very decent, but some fur or more flak/riot wouldn't go amiss

-mastercraft sword! Poor penguins >:)

-got carno and shark saddle, plus a few blueprints (sloth, iguano, paracer - I really need more metal now)

-am about to go further with base building, got both materials and ideas for second floor (will be ugly because it's me, still gonna be proud it sucks a tiny bit less every time I try).

-generator blueprint, no fabricator

-no tranq or narc blueprint despite hitting every green crate I can get my hands on; combined with my aim means I'm depressingly low on tranqs and absolutely cannot go for anything with mid or high torpor

-mountains of trash thrown away straight from crate (a gazilionth sea pancake saddle, primitive leather armor, silencer etc.)

-beautiful things I'll never get to use - ascendant pump-action shotgun TnT

So progress is being made, but slowly and requires me to go at problems from new angles. Am gonna sedate dozing ptera a bit before night, build through the dark, and then go tame something while hopefully their offspring grows. Rn debating between tek paras and sharks. On one hand I could use self-growing metal and electronics, but I suspect manual feeding will change my mind on that idea, or a potentially hilarious knock out with a scorpion, and these SOBs are faster and hit harder than sarco, so if I ever get my hands on a high level pair I could potentially get a fishing stick. Would be nice, found a good leech blood place while looking for pteras.

Orrrrr tame a doedic? Anky near the top of a mountain? Another ptera? Something for sure! :D

[misty-missdee]

I'm always so incredibly spent after therapy. Like my innards were all pulled out onto the floor, and now I gotta meticulous put them back.

[monzabee]

i'm in my healing girl era (i cried in therapy today because the tissues looked sad)

[defibrinationsyndrome]

is it even a counseling session if you dont have to fill out a dumbass form at the start with World's Worst Pen and get then sent home with 30+ pages of Fresh-off-the-Aficio wank that you wont read

[onlymagpie]

some stuff from a Dungeon Meshi themed figure drawing session with Zeetstudio!! super fun stuff :3

[astriiformes]

I'm glad to see posts circulating listing some of the significant legislation Tim Walz has supported as governor of Minnesota, but there's one I haven't seen mentioned yet that I think is really important for young voters to know about--the North Star Promise program, aka the reason I can afford to finish my Bachelor's degree.

Some of you may remember me posting about my financial aid offer being a lot more generous this year. That because Minnesota just implemented a scholarship program that makes undergraduate college tuition free for students with family incomes of less than $80,000 attending state or tribal colleges. As in, if after other grants and scholarships have been applied, you still owe money for tuition, the state of Minnesota will pay the rest.

Obviously tuition isn't the only expense associated with being a college student--I still am taking out student loans to help cover things like rent and other cost of living expenses--but it is the biggest one. As a low-income, non-traditional student paying my own way through college (and with a disabled partner who cannot work), I was genuinely unsure if I was going to be able to finish my degree before the North Star Promise program was implemented, and it has freed me from so much stress and worry.

A lot of factors had to combine to make a program like this possible --activists had to push for it, Minnesota had to vote in a Democratic majority in the state legislature to pass it, and we had to have a governor willing to sign the program into law--but it is still significant it was something Walz was willing to put his name on. And I cannot fathom how many lives it would change if he was willing to push for something similar to this at the federal level. So, keeping in mind that we have to vote up and down the ballot as well as keep the pressure on our elected officials to support programs like this once folks are in office, let's make it happen.

[teardropsonsmyguitar]

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[terracottakore]

TUFF GUYS! 💥🪨

[caemidraws]

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[words-writ-in-starlight]

listen I expected literally Nothing from the D&D movie okay, like I can't make it clear enough that I expected the most soulless money grab with a good cgi budget imaginable, I went in having already gone through every stage of grief and landed on acceptance and LISTEN

I fucking CRIED during this dumb RPG movie. it wasn't just "not terrible" it was objectively good with a clever plot and compelling characters and sincere emotional beats. this movie loves D&D so fucking much and it NAILS the "a bunch of goobers try to be cool and accidentally discover The Power Of Friendship And Also Great Violence" classic D&D party vibe. their barbarian's last name is fucking Kilgore and my entire family cried in the theater.

I hope they make twelve of these motherfuckers.

[kamiraaah]

A tutorial by Jamil and Kalim in: How to solve your problems? - 1st step: fight End of tutorial.

Below there is another version of the drawing without the anime vibe/filter and my inspiration image~ EDIT: I FORGOT KALIM'S TATTOO!!

[zhukzucraft]

Everyone: Open Messenger

docm77: To whoever my soulmate is: You are about to take about 5 hearts of damage. docm77: Return to spawn. docm77: We need to talk.

=> Soulmate: Take ~ 5 hearts of damage

Start Over -- Go Back

[four-pointed-leaf]

request for a friend. average tuesday in vaugarde or something

[sopuu]

1 left.

[aulerean]

a bamboozling turn of events