#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

[faceeeeee]

gosh your bfdi designs are PEAK

do u watch any other object shows?

I have watched some more apart from the “Bfdi” branch of seasons but they’re the most popular ones I think apart from the og

[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

[jalboyhenthusiast]

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[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

[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!

[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 👍

[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

[whatareyoudoingwithamaserati]

hoihoi !! i lovelovelove ice nine kills but i need to like expand my horizons lmao can you gimme song recs from other metal people

HELLOOOOO oh my god i absolutely can, you’ve unlocked the autism ramble of all time :] I’m probably going to bounce all over the place when it comes to metal sub genres but hopefully that gives you more room to find some guys you like! Sorry for the long post in advance but I cannot be helped

In This Moment is one of my all time favourite metal bands, and since they have toured with ice nine (and have a collab song!!!) it might be fun to start there! Some of my faves from them include Blood, Adrenalize, Whore, Natural Born Sinner, Dirty Pretty, and Sex Metal Barbie

Then The Devil Wears Prada is a bit more modern metalcore, so their songs can run lighter, but ever since I heard Sacrifice I have been OBSESSED with them. Their latest album is all really good, but standouts to me include Cancer, Salt, and Exhibitor. Chemicals is an earlier song of theirs, but also a really fucking good one

Sleep Token!! Oh my god sleep token. I would honestly recommend their whole discography to you if I could, but some overall faves are Vore, High Water, Distraction, Ascensionism, The Night Does Not Belong To God, Nazareth, and Granite

The Plot In You’s entire Swan Song album is another fucking banger, with standout songs for me being Face Me, Paradigm, and Enemy. Divide, Forgotten, and Closure are also huge faves

Wage War! I got to see them live and it was life changing. Grave is definitely one of their lighter songs overall, but Manic, Godspeed, and Hellbent are also top notch

Motionless in White are also really close to INK - both in that they toured together, and also because one of MIW’s guitarists used to work with INK! I love their entire disguise album (Another Life and Brand New Numb my beloveds), but I also enjoy Reincarnate, Cyberhex, Cause of Death, and Not My Type: Dead as Fuck 2

Bad Omens! Bad omens. There’s not much I can say about them other than they are peak - their entire DEATH OF PEACE OF MIND album is musical genius and a no-skip all around for me. Out of their older music, I also enjoy Never Know, Exit Wounds, Limits, and Burning Out

Architects. Black Lungs, Seeing Red, Giving Blood, and Curse are all really good - they have some fun political themes in their music

IMMINENCE. They make me cry. Frequently. They have no right to be so emotional and heavy at the same time. Absolutely love Infectious, Erase, The Black, Proclaim, Those Who Seek, Come What May, Surrender, and Allieviate

Spiritbox is a band I’m more recently getting into, but MAN are they so damn good. Holy Roller, Sunkiller, Rotoscope, and Angel Eyes are all favourites - Too Close / Too Late is also really good

Slipknot is definitely a more household name, but if you haven’t heard much of them: Custer, Vermillion, Unsainted, People = Shit, Spit it Out and (sic)

Also pretty well known is Bring Me The Horizon - I’ve been really in love with Kool-Aid lately, die4u is an all time fave, and Parasite Eve, 1x1, in the dark, True Friends, Doomed, and Antivist are all up there

Going a bit (a Lot) heavier: Lorna Shore. Musical geniuses. I’ve never heard a man do guttural vocals the way Will Ramos does. Their entire Pain Remains album is SOOOO good (in particular, Sun//Eater and Pain Remains I), but To the Hellfire and Of the Abyss are also life changing

In the same vein as Lorna Shore, Angelmaker. God the things I could say about Angelmaker. Leech is an allll time fave from them, but In Death, Godless, and Dissientient are up there too

Some other faves that aren’t really attached to one band: Jinnslammer by Ignea, Condemned by Stain The Canvas, The End Of All We Know by Bleed From Within, There’s Fear In Letting Go by I Prevail, Insanely Illegal Cage Fight by Dal Av, Ketamine by Fame on Fire, Felt Like Home and On The Inside by As Everything Unfolds, Darkbloom by We Came As Romans, Gaddaar by Bloodywood (anythint by Bloodywood tbh, they’re an underrated gem doing Bollywood-metal fusion), absolutely anything by Dangerkids, on the verge by thrown, Vermin by Carcosa, Pretty In Pink by Scene Queen, お先に失礼します。by Hanabie, Layers of Time by Lacuna Coil, House of Cards by Deadlands, We Got The Moves by Electric Callboy and Fading Away by From Fall To Spring

[vigilantejustice]

working retail truly is just about making dumb jokes, half my job is being like “that’s why they hired me” about being the only one on staff tall enough to take stock off the top rails without the hook + swimwear retail specifically the other half is just me making jokes about being very flat chested to either gas up or commiserate with customers