first of all cringe, second of all red flag

I've joked in the past about how I want an Arthurian adaptation set in one of those bits of the Middle Ages where nobody has any working infrastructure and all the kings and lords are flat broke but they're still trying to make it work, but it occurs to me that a high fantasy version of that would also be kind of awesome. The High King in his grand palace (shitty hill fort) sending his Holy Knights (a dozen guys and a donkey) on a perilous journey (a half-day's march) to face the Dread Necromancer's undead scourge (exactly six zombies). The Necromancer's immortal death-knight champion (a skeleton in a hat) comes out to meet them astride a terrible hornèd beast (a reanimated cow because they couldn't find a dead horse).

I know you have issues with comparing everything to Terry Pratchett but this legitimately sounds like something Rincewind and Twoflower would encounter for like 10 pages, then would be referenced offhand 20 books later in a Watch book

Well, yes – the early Rincewind stuff mostly consists of him randomly wandering into somewhat mean-spirited parodies of various pre-existing fantasy genres, thereby causing Discworld fans who have no literacy in fantasy media beyond Pratchett to spend the rest of their lives loudly mistaking those entire genres for Discworld references.

it sucks that the overwhelming majority of medical messaging around salt/sodium is "evil poisonous substance that you're definitely already eating way too much of," because like. you do still need it. (trust me, as a POTS-haver, I've had to completely rewire my own brain about salt.) and you need more salt when the entire northern hemisphere is hot enough to fry an egg on. ever tried sucking down the recommended 64oz of hydration per day entirely as water, only to find you're peeing constantly without any of the purported benefits of being "hydrated"? assuming you don't have another medical condition that causes frequent urination, your body probably needed more salt/electrolytes to be able to hold onto that water and make use of it. if there was ever a time to keep a sports drink/pedialyte/etc within constant reach, it's when the heat index is 110°F/43°C.

Southern folks salt their watermelon for a reason I suppose

sorry for the delay in responding to your message. I was walking around the house with unclear intentions

Maybe if I just work harder, this empty cup will pour again

Maybe the cup needs a bit of time to rest and refill?

Maybe the cup needs to lock the fuck in???

you are not an endearingly rude and unfriendly cartoon character you need to be nice to people

one of the other things that rules about tam lin is that janet is the only character who does anything

@wastrelwoods just walked in the room with no preamble and said "NOT TRUE! tam lin falls off a horse twice"

''what if you regret it'' then you will expirience regret - a normal and unavoidable part of the human expirience.

BREAKING NEWS: screenshots from your phone not an appropriate format for submitting work in college classes.

The one thing I will say for AI is that it's made me much more appreciative of homebrewed bullshit

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I like the idea in fantasy that humans are better at maintaining things long term because they set up societies or professions to do it whereas dwarves and elves and stuff are like “just get bob to do it he’s got a good few hundred years left” and then bob doesn’t teach anyone else how to do it