Nauga's Hovel of Sin and Serpents

Resisting the urge to Um Actually this dragon novel because it has the dragon eggs be like three or four feet wide but there is simply a limit to how large hard-shelled terrestrial eggs can be. No matter how large the animal is, the embryo needs oxygen, and oxygen needs surface area. The larger an object is, the lower its surface area relative to volume, and the less oxygen the embryo can receive. We think of large animals as having porportionately large young because mammalian pregnancy has the unique benefit of allowing for the size of the young to scale with the adult because their oxygen is provided directly through the placenta, and almost all the megafauna remaining on Earth are mammals. But this is not the case for species which lay eggs! For fuck's sake even the sauropods hatched out of eggs barely larger than basketballs! Your hatchling dragon would be impressively enormous if it were the size of a house cat. Stop trying to make me believe that this (ROUND!) dragon egg somehow supplied enough oxygen to develop an infant the size of a large dog or even bigger. If it were possible the dinosaurs woulda been doing it!!!!

I love you /lh. Experts going off on their particular fascinating cool topics and adding unexpected context to things we take for granted is like my favorite thing this was delightful. Talk to me more about eggs and geometry and biology all you want :D

Some libraries can even get you hooked up with social workers and local aid programs. The important thing is investigating what YOUR library can do for YOU.

i'll never not be drawn to the existential horror of angels as beings without free will, incapable of doubt or refusal, and how attempting to "free" them from that state which seems so unfairly cruel from our perspective necessarily requires destroying them on a fundamental level and condemning them to an eternity of suffering. how a halo is a perfect closed loop which interrupting would render no longer a halo but something else, irregular and jagged.

an angel is a beautiful terrifying horse that will break all of its legs attempting to comprehend nuance

Remember: an animal that is growling (or rattling in this case) likely does not want to hurt you. That's their "fuck off" warning, not their kill engine revving up.

if you are only a good cook if you have access to premium ingredients at whole foods or above prices then you arent really a good cook

People on tumblr loooove to talk about restorative justice and abolition when it’s a nebulous concept. It’s lovely to think about someone growing and changing and trying to reckon with the harm they caused but when some people actually see that person, they can’t handle it. God forbid someone says “I did something awful and I don’t want people to hurt others the way I did.” Do you just expect every shitty person to magically disappear from the earth? Do you want them to pretend it never happened?

Given how terrible most recipe websites are i can only imagine how bad spell websites would be

Having to navigate someone's entire life story of how they became a witch in order to get to the part where they actually talk about the gods-damned banishing ritual

the number of 'easy 3 step spell to fly' that at best do nothing, and have a good chance of doing something very bad to you is non zero

Three words "BuzzFeed Spell Hacks"

five minute witchcrafts

Can not emphasize enough that there are IRL articles about spells and witchcraft that read like that. It would not be that much of a stretch to go full recipe blogger.

Trying to figure out if the "moon fed rosemary" is really an important part of the spell or if regular rosemary will work and the author is just trying to get me to spend $19.99 plus shipping

yeah yeah fire-based characters are destructive and angry and violent and evil blah blah blah BORING overdone. more fire as a lifegiver. warm and comforting. fire-based characters as guides lighting the way. personal heater in the cold and dark but don’t sleep too close or you’ll wake up with heat rash. fire sterilizes and cauterizes!! more fire-based healers. plants perking up and flowers turning towards them and they attract moths. fire-based characters who are hearths instead of wildfires!! the core of a home the pillar of a community the key to societal advancement. give them an internal flame that visibly glows and flickers instead of a heart that beats. extinguish that light when they die. etc

Soldier beetle can be a type of Blorbo if you are strong of heart. Rotate it.

if fighting fatphobia is not part of your politics i don't trust you.

we just can't fucking win. any positive video about us will be filled with these comments. you can watch a video of a fat athlete doing exercise that most people in these comments are not even physically capable of doing and yet all of them have the gall to say that this athlete will die in five years. we do not have the privilege of wrecking our bodies. people will say the most vile shit to us for daring to exist in their space. and no matter how much we yell, no one is listening. we're fucking tired. do something about it.

i don't think people really get how in the trenches fat activism is. you'll see on youtube tons of videos along the lines of "this activist died from being ob*se that means fat activism bad" actually. you are literally falling for the same shit the cdc said when it wanted to make ob*sity an epidemic. when skinny people die, we know what caused it. when fat people die, it's because they were fat. and that is why fat people shouldn't be respected. even though it has been proven time and time again that we die because doctors don't respect us enough to find a solution to our illnesses that doesn't involve weight loss. they want us to shrink and that is it. but no one cares. in fact, they want us dead. that's just how it is. they want us to die. and they want us to die from being fat. they don't care. they want us dead.

[image description: screenshot of tumblr tags which say "annnd that is why I also think it is important that fat lib & disability activism should be together as well. #fatness is viewed as a sickness/a group of 'unwell' people who need to either get well or go away from public life #it is such a similar idea and concept. And often fat people are disabled or become disabled due to stress & medical neglect #and in general leftist ideas are all very connected.....as fatphobia has roots in racism classism and misogyny too. #you should just care because fat people's lives are important. but none of these issues exist in a vacuum. #understanding how its connected gives you a better idea of why any of these things happen other than cruelty. ]