#within the boundaries

[9franklin3]

I’m Imagining I’m Becoming Someone Else

[pangur-and-grim]

This is gonna sound weird but I had a very vivid fever-induced dream about Pangur. I was standing in a lake surrounded my forests and mountains at night. The moon was so bright but there were no stars. And then Pangur came over the mountain but she was so long like Falkor Neverending Story and she had so many legs and big sad eyes downturned like a 20s movie star and big purple eyelashes.

She was circling around me in the sky like some majestic sky worm and said in a voice that sounded like Helen Mirren “it’s 20% off on Wednesday”. I kept asking her what was 20% off but she kept saying things like “it’s a good deal for a Wednesday” and “you should take the offer while it’s hot”.

So anyway I’m taking that as a sign to buy something stupid that’s 20% off on Wednesday thanks Pangur

this seems like an elaborate way of getting me to do a 20% off sale but okay, I'll bite!

Pangur says "use the code 'GoodDeal' at greerstothers.shop"

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Good Morning, World.

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[konigsblog]

i need to write a soapgaz threesome where they're both owners of a bar, and let you stay afterwards because you're too drunk to walk yourself. who knows, maybe they'll have their fun with your drunken self for letting you stay after hours... :(

[thetarttfuldickhead]

A week or two after the Dubai Air protest Sam happens upon Jamie lounging listlessly on a bench in the otherwise deserted gym. He’s not doing any exercise, just sitting there and staring out into nothingness with a curiously vacant look on his face.

Sam hesitates, hovering in the doorway. He’s come for a little bit of extra weights before heading home, and he hadn’t expected anyone to be here this late, least of all Jamie. It’s been a long day and Sam’s not sure if he’s up for dealing with the (possibly) reformed bully right now. Even if they are edging towards friendly, and even if that’s no small thing given what’s come between them before, there’s still an undercurrent of charged uncertainty to their interactions, a stilted hesitancy to their cautious politeness and careful attempts at casual camaraderie.

Jamie hasn’t explicitly told Sam that he’s sorry for the things he’s put him through. Sam has decided that he will not let his decision to give Jamie another chance be contingent upon this. It’s very tiring, being angry and resentful of the other’s presence: so much easier to accept the taped up logo for the peace offering it was, and let that be Jamie’s apology.

(If it rankles, it only rankles a little.)

Reminding himself of his decision to let bygones be bygones, and that they won’t ever get anywhere if they don’t actually learn to talk, Sam steps into the gym. Asks as he would any other glum-looking team mate he’d unexpectedly happened upon, “Are you all right, Jamie?”

Holds himself ready, holds himself steady, if Jamie should bare his teeth and bite, now that there’s no one around to see it.

But Jamie only starts a little, like he hadn’t noticed Sam or he’s surprised to be voluntarily addressed. “Uh, yeah. Yeah, I’m good, man. Great, you know. It’s just… I’m a bit tired, I guess.“ He pauses, then his face suddenly collapses and he gives Sam the most plaintive of looks. “It’s just so fucking exhausting being nice all the time. I don’t know how you do it, mate.”

Ah. Sam tactfully doesn’t say that it’s usually no effort for him and that he doesn’t really understand how it could possible come that hard for anyone.

He also doesn’t point out that not actively being mean to people isn’t quite the same as being nice.

Because Jamie is trying, isn’t he, even if it’s painfully evident that he still needs to try, that it doesn’t come quite naturally.  

“Bit like when Spike had that chip in his head and had no choice but to team up with the good guys, isn’t it?” Colin had muttered a few days after their wayward striker had re-joined them, and yes, Sam had had to agree: it is a bit like that.

But there’s no chip in Jamie’s head (Sam is pretty sure). He’s here of his own free will, trying to be a good team mate and a better person because he wants to be. That has to count for something, doesn’t it?

Sam is pretty sure his dad would say it does. Sam wants to be the sort of person that lets it count.

And Jamie is looking genuinely dejected, in a way that has Sam feel a small surge of something that isn’t affection but isn’t too unlike it either. A little bit of pity mingling with amusement; enough that he’s moved to brave sitting down next to Jamie.

“Well, I have had more practise,” he says lightly. “I bet you will be really good at it if you give it a bit more time.”

“Yeah?” It’s offered casually, but there’s no disguising the faint hope in it. Sam can feel Jamie watching him out of the corner of his eye.

“Of course,” he says, and then, feeling bold, “You are Jamie Tartt. Aren’t you good at everything?”

A pause, and Sam holds his breath, praying that Jamie will understand that he’s being teased rather than mocked—

Then Jamie snorts, a sound halfway to a chuckle. “Yeah, man,” he retorts, bumping his shoulder against Sam’s, very carefully. “I’ll be the fucking best at being nice. Swear down, I’ll be so good I make you look like Geezer Scrooge.”

“That, I’d like to see,” Sam says drily; says sincerely. Standing, he nods towards the weight bench. “Do you think you can be good enough not to let me be crushed to death while you spot me?”

For a moment, Jamie looks taken aback, and Sam braces himself for a snide retort to his presumption – but it doesn’t come. Instead Jaime’s face clears, and he gives a sharp nod.

“Course, mate,” he says, and rises to follow Sam.

[thepeacefulgarden]

[zhukzucraft]

bit of a weird question (and maybe already answered explicitly or implicitly - sorry if so!) but are you cool with us shipping the quadruple life cubitos within the quadruple life context and in the notes of the quadruple life posts and so on? I wouldn't want to ever like, @ you in a QL fanart ship thing or something, only for it to be awkward and uncomfortable for you, so just double checking real quick ^^;

i would love to get tagged in all and any fanart!!! it's my greatest treasure

and while i'm not planning for QL to get explicitly shippy (i mean... no more so than Double Life itself got xD), i don't have a problem with people interpreting it as romantic or building upon it

[hella1975]

it's been pointed out on here before that a lot of terf arguments are actually rooted in sexist idealology that feminists fought and died to unnormalise decades ago and that's its own kettle of fish but one thing i also find very frustrating about this so called 'radical' feminism is that it's so... defeatist? like the moment you categorically label an entire section of society as Bad and Inherently Evil then there's also the implication that nothing can be done about it, and it completely takes all accountability away. saying all men are evil is just another way of saying boys will be boys. he raped her because he's a man. he hit her because he's a man. he didn't listen because he's a man - it's almost offensively oversimplified. there's no point trying to fix this issue in society because men are just Like That, okay! so now what? it's not like they're going anywhere, so you just accept that 50% of the population are evil and will forever treat you terribly and there's nothing to be done about it bc they're biologically predisposed to it? like is that fr the argument here? you're soooo radical for that

[quoigenicfromhell]

Can we have the conversation about the culture within certain system communities about how it's accepted that a system host is basically godking/life manager for their other headmates

[rickybaby]

Is an RB podium bad for F1?

[lyss-butterscotch]

If finding academic loopholes so that i dont have to find 100 people to interview like the rest of my peers for my thesis is a gymnastics art, id be doing pirouettes and backflips.

[siena-sevenwits]

So, I got a profanity filter on one of my browsers because I can find that kind of thing sensitive, but also, I teach. I need to know if there's any strong language on a page I'm planning to share with my students. My solution is that I went into the filter and customized it so all the swears are ok with me but also recognizable as replacements.

My browser now talks like a cross between a rather old-fashioned Brit and a Brandon Sanderson novel. "Lord Ruler!" "Oh my giddy aunt!" "Those blighters!" "Stormin' garbage!"

[moonssugar]

its weird that everyone loves transgenderfication beam jokes and "all my friends were closeted before we all came out one by one in middle school" jokes and "he's a woman to me" jokes and "transition could fix them" jokes but god in heaven forbid one (1) transfem makes an egg joke with her friends now we gotta denote every thermonuclear bomb at once (harass and suicide bait transfems until they deactivate)

[vitanithepure]

That's an interesting tidbit of information. Does this mean Elminster took Gale as an apprentice? Or do I have to imagine little Gale just run after him each time Elminster visited Waterdeep and practiced his puppy eyes until he agreed? That would explain why the adult Gale is such a master of the art of pleading with his doe-eyes.

Either way I really enjoy those little things we can learn about the characters doing the origin runs. And the amout of roleplay that can be thrown into it by the player. Just look how absolutely different the same scene can be and how it can set a totally different mood for your playthrough:

[system-of-a-feather]

This goes out the recent anon, while we have gone through RAMCOA, we don't talk about it on this blog and we don't actively interact with the community for our own self care and healing.

As a result our understanding of topics regarding it are limited to our personal experience and what is necessary for our specific individual case and recovery.

[thepeacefulgarden]