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Fresh Pipe-Cleaner Baby

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unexpected pregnancy fanfic but the person just gets an abortion and it ends

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release me you bastard i am not a yummy gyoza dumpling

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this line delivery has lived in my head for 10 years

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I know it's unfair vilification and stuff but it's also a lot of fun to see old media and stuff where people were SO scared of big animals like lions, sharks, crocodiles and wolves were fully expected to just come and eat you the moment you stepped into their territory. In older media we also made that assumption about gorillas and in still older we thought it'd be whales. But some animals that will actually fuck you up got left behind. Boars will kill you and eat you. They're way more likely to do so than any of those other things actually. Hippos, obviously, got off like bandits always being depicted as cute and dopey. And then there's the squids. Not giant kraken size squids. The eight foot squids that hunt in packs and will fuck you up if you fall in the water at night. I can't BELIEVE people slept on that. It's like all they cared about were the huge deep sea ones we never see. The medium size wolf pack squids were right there.

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Sword and sorcery tabletop RPG which includes a long, rambling list of magic spells with weirdly specific affects and annoyingly particular casting requirements, kind of like if Dungeons & Dragons decided to be about 40% more precious about its magic system, except it's a group worldbuilding game, and one of the first steps is for the group to collectively choose exactly seven of those spells to be the only ones anyone still knows how to cast. All of the spells that didn't get picked might be spoken of in legend, but the knowledge of them has been lost over time. The remainder of the group worldbuilding phase consists principally of brainstorming what a society built around these seven annoyingly specific spells would look like; for example, perhaps the knowledge of their working is jealously guarded, with each of the setting's great nations constructing their entire cultural identity around Their Spell, or perhaps the setting's industrial base is dependent on combining these spells in increasingly unintended ways to form a sort of sorcerous Rube Goldberg machine of production.

(One of the default campaign premises for this hypothetical game would, of course, cast the player characters as a gang of mercenary scholars on a quest to rediscover an eighth spell. Depending on what sort of setting the group initially brainstormed, keeping their intentions under wraps may be strongly advisable.)

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Conlang idea. Nominalizing actions produces one form with four different implications: 1. A simple gerund form, meaning the act as a whole or generally; 2. An instrumental nominalization, a tool used to produce the act / a thing which allows for the act (but does not DO the act--not the agent); 3. A resultative or product nominalization, the thing which is made by the act; 4. A stative nominalization/being in the state of the act.

For example, "enter":

1. Entering, to enter;

2. An entrance;

3. Something which has been entered;

4. To be entering.

Another example with "translate":

1. Translation, to translate;

2. An interpreter (not a translator, too agentive)

3. A translation;

4. To be translating.

One more example with "bake":

1. Baking, to bake;

2. A baking utensil or appliance;

3. A baked good;

4. To be baking.

A final example, "kill":

1. Killing, to kill;

2. A weapon;

3. The killed;

4. In the process of killing.

This does produce funny scenarios where things like "baking utensil" and "baked good" are the same word, which is probably fine in context ("I made baking utensils" is probably not common to say). This is anyway easily disambiguated if needed by saying, like, "bake-NOM thing" to mean "the thing used for baking, i.e., a baking utensil".

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I love it when they draw Batman as utterly ripped; all scars and corded muscle

And then Supes is round and huggable, with moobs for days.

Batman/Superman: World's Finest #35 (DC Comics, January 2025) variant cover by Kris Anka

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(Xユーザーのべーさん: 「リクエストいただいた依頼者様のキャラの、 キャラ選択画面風ドットモーションです デザイン元のお姉さんが、ギザ歯の悪いお姉さんで可愛くて、楽しくご制作させていただきました！ 長らくお待たせしてしまいましたが、 リクエストいただき、ありがとうございます！ #ドット #pixelart https://t.co/nubxt9vrkN」 / Xから)

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I have discovered the truth about chainmail bikinis, and it is imperative those wearing such armor do not think about it too hard or they may inadvertently cross the line between Sexy Hero and Homicidal Pervert.

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HELP i’m sitting at an outdoor cafe and this lady was at another table next to me and the barista called my name and I stood up to walk ten feet to grab my drink and the lady JUMPED up and LUNGED over to my table and took my seat????? i’m not even gonna say anything bc I’m so confused. they’re virtually the same tables with the same views and amount of sunlight etc.

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I will continue to call The Creature “Frankenstein” and no force in Heaven or Earth will impede that.

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Before and after yep hes mustard gravy

Didnt smell good so i poured it down the drain without take a bite