#they’re very good very recommended

[sunnymoon-sunshine]

Another thought I’ve been having relates back to The Scorching, the history behind it, and how much of a good twist it was to throw out. I don’t know if it was planned or a convenient retcon, but it works on so many levels thanks to the themes already present. It also leads to some interesting theories.

Burn could never have been queen. The first action we see her do in the books is destroy an egg due to hatch within the next few nights. It’s cruel, and most of all, it sealed her fate. The kingdoms were founded on the blood and tears of furious mothers, broken hearted from losing their eggs and determined to keep their broods safe. Burn couldn’t have been queen, because that is not what a queen should be. Thorn takes the throne because she took over a city, created an army, and fought tooth and claw to find and save her lost dragonet, despite the odds.

Glory takes the throne because she is the dragonet who should have been cared for. She should have been seen, noticed, and saved. She wants to be queen not to have the nicest things, but because someone should care when a dragonet disappears. The first dragon she rescues is a dragonet. She is worthy because Grandeur gave up on her dragonets and her tribe, but Glory refused to give up.

Coral isn’t a good dragon; her abuses and her absolute classist nature are abhorrent. However, she is marked by her craze as she watched as so many of her daughters were crushed in their eggs. The horror of losing a child is what marks a queen, in some shape or form. Orca was not worthy of the throne, because before she even challenged her mother, she devised a way to kill every dragonet that could challenge her before they so much as crawled out of their egg.

What one truly has to wonder is when the rules changed. When did it become a rule that to become queen, there had to be a fight to the death? When did mothers find themselves pitted against daughters, sisters, nieces, all for the power of the throne she has? Who came up with the deadly challenge?

One can only wonder.

[panthermouthh]

“I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel.”

[fluffypotatey]

okay so:

the year is 2021. the month is june. the new season of hermitcraft, season 8, has just started, and everything is great! the hermits are all messing around, having fun, building insane things within the first week of the server being active, and generally having a good time. everyone's collected themselves into little factions, pranking each other, and it's all the fun, lighthearted, mostly-vanilla content hermitcraft is known for.

and then the split between minecraft versions 1.18 and 1.19 is announced. the delay of new terrain, and especially of new mobs like the warden, considerably disrupt several of the hermits' plans. but it's fine, they'll figure something out, they're professionals, and it mostly goes unnoticed.

about two weeks later, on november 9th, grian turns to mumbo jumbo in one of his episodes, and asks the famous question that would seal hermitcraft season 8's fate:

"mumbo, is the moon... big?"

suddenly, the fans panic. they search back through videos and streams, and realize that the moon had been abnormally large and stuck in a full-moon phase since october 30th. the Moon Big event has begun.

this is where the roleplay really starts. once the moon's size has been brought up, the hermits start a weird combination of scrambling to figure out why the moon's growing, and how to stop it- but also of ignoring it, hoping it won't be a problem, hoping someone else will deal with it. the moon keeps getting bigger, more hermits start realizing it's going on, and a creeping sense of dread starts to grow. but it's fine. it's fine, right? they do little plotlines like this all the time. they'll figure something out, the moon will go back to normal, and we'll laugh about it when this is all over. it's fine.

and then, blocks start flying away. just floating up out of the ground, and falling right back down! like for a moment, a square meter chunk of dirt has decided it's a ballerina and leaped out of the ground! but it's fine, right? the blocks are coming back. no lasting harm is done. they're going to fix it all... right?

the moon gets bigger. it's growing every day- local hermit weirdguy joe hills measures it every stream. the blocks start flying higher. gravity starts getting... weird, with players getting the slow falling effect at random, and being lifted off of the earth themselves. the players form cults and rituals and whatnot to try and appease the moon, convince it to leave them alone, making plans to escape. nothing works. things keep getting worse, and the moon keeps getting bigger. but it'll be fine. these storylines never leave lasting harm, or at least they never have before. they'll be fine.

and then the blocks stop coming back, just floating into the sky forever. the players have the slow falling effect more than they don't now. the moon is now so big it's visible even during the day, and fills the entire sky at night. they start planning their escapes in earnest, and say their goodbyes. some hermits jump into a void hole in the overworld (it was the centerpiece of their village). some flee to the End, some to the nether, some just fly with elytras and hope they can get far enough away in time. one brave hermit, tango, flies himself to the moon in a futile attempt to blow the whole thing up before it can crash.

but in the end, the moon crashes into the server, and everything they'd built was destroyed. and the whole time, there'd been nothing any of them could've done. season eight was over, a full six months before anyone had expected it to end, and season nine wouldn't start until about three months later. and im still not okay about it.

(here's a cool animatic of the moon's crash! honestly i dont think you need too much hermitcraft knowledge to get the gist)

(also the moon crash happened on the day before my birthday lmao.)

….

holy shit

[st-hedge]

MGSV sketch dump. The brainrot is thriving

[edwinisms]

banging my head against the wall every time I see someone reblogging a post of mine with tags mentioning the ‘unrequited confession���. we have been OVER this it is NOT a case of unrequited romantic love it is completely canonically up in the air as a possibility. listen to jayden revri himself and be enlightened i am begging you

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Walking Practice

weird scifi horror novella

follows an alien who crash-landed on earth years ago, and spends their days hooking up with people to then eat them & gain enough strength to make it through the day

explores existing outside of the binary norm and being seen as other, deep loneliness, and desire for connection

meandering narration, interesting formatting, illustrations

[fisherrprince]

I can feel kh on the horizon somewhere (is it because of the incoming missing link release) maybe. I just feel her presence

[challahbeloved]

I went to the Jewish bookstore today. Here are some titles I didn’t buy, but if you’ve read them, I’d like to know whether you recommend them or not.

In Forest Fields: a unique guide to personal prayer

Not in the Heavens: The Tradition of Jewish Secular Thought by David Biale

On the Road with Rabbi Steinsaltz: 25 Years of Pre-Dawn Car Trips, Mind-Blowing Encounters and Inspiring Conversations with a Man of Wisdom by Arthur Kurzweil

Stop Look Listen: Celebrating Shabbos Through a Spiritual Lens by Nehemia Polen

On Being Free by Adin Steinsaltz

My Grandmother’s Candlesticks: Judaism and Feminism, A Multigenerational Memoir by Diane Schulder Abrams

Festivals of Faith: CONNECT and GROW with the JEWISH YEAR by DISCOVERING Is ESSENCE by Rabbi Moshe Wolfson

Why We Tremble

Inside Teshuvah by Miriam Millhauser Castle

Opening the Gates of Teshuva: A Contemporary Commentary on Rabbeinu Yonah’s Shaarei Teshuva by Rabbi Asher Baruch Wegbreit

Knocking on the Gates of Teshuvah: Comments and Insights Rambam Hilchos Teshuvah by Rabbi A. Levin

Life After Teshuvah: Five, Ten, and Twenty Years Later

Vegetarianism, Ecology, and Business Ethics: Three Essays of Judaic Insights into Contemporary Concerns by Daniel Sperber

[delphiniumjoy]

I should probably reread the Tiffany Aching books now that I’m doing witchcraft.

[blahaj-blastin]

When your favorite animal doesn’t have a dnd race and all the homebrews you can find aren’t quite right and cause you know way to much about the animal in question you make a scientifically accurate homebrew 👍

[palukoo]

I know I’ve made other posts talking about or alluding to this but like. obviously there are like the old hollywood movies in the sort of dyke subtext canon (all about eve, rebecca, johnny guitar, etc) but like. there are so many movies that like 10 people have seen but I have such a clear gay vision or interpretation for it. most of them aren’t even GOOD. and yet!!

like the great lie is the one that haunts me the most (or the women but I think that one is kind of different for me perhaps bc I’ve already talked about it here a lot or perhaps bc I think of it as being more well known and watched than I think it actually is? actually it’s probably that I think it is an overall good and well executed and entertaining movie which isn’t really true of most of these tbh). but I also think a lot about like when ladies meet, or old acquaintance, or sadie mckee, or the shining hour, or the model and the marriage broker, or a woman’s secret, or the bigamist, or craig’s wife, or born to be bad, or separate tables, or even dark victory to a degree. others too certainly those are just the ones that come to mind. for half of these it’s not even like oh these women are gay together it’s just like hey I think she’s a lesbian. and I’m right. but my genius will never be fully appreciated in my day unfortunately.

[lifesver]

How do you handle all the toxic players on TCM? I wanna play but I’ve heard my friends getting some nasty comments from players :(

i would recommend the following strats:

ask them if they want to kiss repeatedly until they shut up. this may disarm them and make them seethe and mald, which is funny

mute all in voice chat and just communicate important callouts through text chat to your team if needed

play with your friends and repeat step 2! then you can’t hear the stupid stuff the enemy team might say in lobby or post-game (:

gg them first. sometimes this also will disarm a pissed off gamer

all else fails or they call you a hurtful slur just tell them to kys (keep yourself safe, in minecraft)

BONUS (thanks rae + renee): have your whole gang start meowing, effectively drowning out the person trying to flame

[artsy-dreamer]

Shoutout to the many Neko Atsume books that never got localized 😔

Some of these are packed with lore you’d never know otherwise… and these aren’t even all the Neko Atsume books in existence!

[not-an-alien-i-swear]

does anyone else have godawful memory when it comes to media or is it just me

bcuz i will read/watch something, admire it, then forget the entire thing a week later. but i won’t forget it enough to be able to reread/rewatch as if its the first time and its just really annoying

for example, i know i read the aurora cycle series and i know it was AMAZING, but i can barely remember anything from it 😭 I DONT EVEN REMEMBER THE MAIN CONFLICT. i am DONE 😔💔

[coconut530]

AMAZING CRANE WIVES ALBUM I LOVED IT A LOT!!! MAD DOG RUSHING RIVER ARCTURUS BEAMING SCARS MY BELOVEDS!!!

ALSO

Was SOOOO not expecting them to drop a single today, of all days. And it FREAKING SLAPS 👏🏼!! BEAT DROPS INSANE

[heres-to-all-that-is-mine]

I know nothing about ieytd but I love your art and all your cool little guys. Could you tell me anything about Chief? 👀

Friend I will gladly tell you Most Things about Chief (that I can remember at the moment, anyway). Okay. Here we go!

Matthew, 36 years old, uses they/them and he/him pronouns interchangeably, and primarily goes by “Chief.”

Due to unfortunate circumstances in his younger years, Chief turned to work for a local criminal organisation. He quickly proved to have some kind of talent for it, and rose through the ranks steadily - until he caught the eye of the new Boss, who immediately became invested in him.

At the current moment, he works as the Boss’ right hand. The Boss quite likes them! Chief… does not like the Boss. However, they’re stuck in their position, and going against the boss in any way is as good as a death sentence, so they play along. Though really, he’s not exactly the “right hand” - he’s more just… the Boss’ favourite. A “pet” is how the more disdainful members of the organisation would describe them, though never where anyone prone to gossip can hear them.

Chief would like nothing more than to get away from the whole organisation, get a normal job, lead a normal life. However, things are too messy and dangerous for them to get away, and there’s so much blood on his hands that he’s not sure he deserves it.

He is a rather charming fellow! Well mannered, charismatic in a sense, suave, flirty when he feels like it. But in truth, they form very few attachments. A few flings here and there, some friendly chatter, yes, but nobody could ever really describe themself as their friend.

There’s one guy who comes close - either a journalist or private investigator I don’t remember. The guy’s kinda new to the job, but quite enthusiastic. He interviewed Chief, when he was just starting out, but didn’t know of the man’s role in the organisation (to Chief’s great amusement.) Since then, the two have developed a strange relationship where he keeps pestering Chief and Chief keeps deflecting and playing around with him.

Anyway arguably the Most important event in his story is as follows;

The Boss has this niece. A sweet young thing always dressed for sunny weather, quick to smile, quick to laugh - they take after their mother, a kind woman who died with her husband in an… unfortunate accident.

Anyway, the niece - her name is Sunny (she/they), and she doesn’t like the Boss. In fact, she doesn’t like the whole organisation! So, rather than be stuck with a man she hates in a situation that horrifies her… she runs away, leveraging the threats of revealing their business to the public against the Boss to keep him from coming after her.

Chief… envies them. They got away safe, to a cozy little place by a sunflower field, with enough money to practically retire. She’s living his dream - and with none of the blood on her hands. He’s happy for them, but… wishes it was him.

The Boss isn’t so happy. She’s dangerous, with the knowledge she has, but more than that she’s his family, and they’re defying him. He’s always had a bit of a thing about defiance. In short, he doesn’t like it. So, rather than let them live peacefully away from all of his business, he sends people after them. Not to harm her, of course! She is his niece, after all. But to… talk to her. Persuade her to come back. It never seems to work, though. She’s quite stubborn about the whole business.

So, the Boss sends Chief! Every few months, he gets a break from their duties to take a nice road trip out to a beautiful countryside in the sun and clean air and lack of violence, to have pleasant conversation with a kind young woman who politely yet firmly refuses to come back each time, and then they enjoy some cake and coffee and chatter about nothing much before he inevitably has to go back.

It’s nice! Pleasant. A good change of pace, from the dark, depressing, violent city Chief lives in. Between the crowded streets, perpetual bad weather and towering buildings, they hardly ever see the sun.

…but the Boss is not a patient man, nor an understanding one.

So, after months and months of refusal after refusal (she’s inherited his brother’s awful stubbornness, it seems), he tells Chief that this will be his last visit. They’re going to ask her to come back once more, and when she refuses - (when, not if, Chief notes) - they are going to kill her.

This is when Chief truly, wholly begins to despise the organisation, and especially the Boss.

Not for the first time, but for the first real time, Chief begins to plan to betray his Boss. It’s more desperation than cunning, a hasty plan due to lack of time, but they plan to run away - and take her with him.

…but when they attempt explain that they’ve been ordered to kill Sunny, there’s a misunderstanding. They freak out, lash out at him, and even as he tries to explain it to them they fight him and hurt him and mostly by instinct—!

…he kills her. It was an accident.

……But he’s killed her nonetheless.

He returns home with the good news, and the Boss praises them for it. In the back of their head, they decide they’re not getting out of this alive, but they are going to bring the whole damned organisation down with them. No matter how long it’ll take. Of course, he can’t act immediately - but he’s hiding his time.

In the meantime, the Boss strikes up a deal with a certain corporation, and manufactures a little accident for his favourite employee.

This is where Chief loses the eye and gains a boatload of new scars, including the one on his mouth and the one on their nose (which happens to also be the one that caused the loss of the eye). As a generous replacement, the Boss secures them a cybernetic eye, which would supposedly assist them in their work in some way. It’s unclear - the thing is only a prototype.

…however, Chief leads a dangerous life. After one too many knocks to the head, they’re starting to see strange things out of the corner of their (right) eye, and one in particular looks (heartbreakingly) similar.

Also there’s a kitty in his apartment building named Pistachio, whom he loves :)