Curls from the North

got a good thing going where these bandits give me a half share of whatever loot they pull from adventurers i send their way & the best part is i don't even need to lie or anything since every hero is born with the unshakeable belief in their ability to win a fight against ten guys at once. just gotta say "we've got bandit trouble in the west, let me mark it on your map" and a week later i get $15 from Wulfric the Hound on cashapp

I've failed to read rooms I was alone in

never forget hardwon getting kissed by mateo the hot druid and immediately coming around on him because his lips were soft

they're hiring me at the extra virgin olive oil factory as the oathsworn knight who protects the chastity of the olives

many dishonourable knaves in the notes of this post

Merle Highchurch in a shirt that says "I'm not the STEP DAD, I'm the dad that STEPPED DOWN."

"Fantasy authors don't know how long a thousand years is!!!!!! Knock a zewo off the end!!!!!!!111!!!1" Did you know that it's never too late to learn whimsy and joy

And it's doubly ridiculous when people apply it to Lord of the Rings. Sure, a lot of fantasy does it for the Vibes -- which is a perfectly valid reason to do it that does not invite any criticism actually -- but in LotR there is a specific reason why Gondor has existed for four thousand years and hasn't had an industrial revolution and it's because Tolkien was extremely aware of and actively making a point about the large scale ecological harm brought about by large scale industry and technological progress for the sake of progress. Most of Tolkien's cultures are in a position where they could have kickstarted an industrial revolution whenever, but never did because they value trees and rivers and nature and natural beauty more than the small advantages granted by wide-scale production. And they did keep developing and advancing in some ways. Gondor canonically has a cure for cancer. Like Gondor's medical science is so much more advanced than IRL medical science. They didn't stop developing, they just developed differently and with different values. You know who's having an industrial revolution? Saruman. Discussion questions: what do we think Professor Tolkien's opinion on the industrial revolution is? Do we think that most of his cultures not having had one was perhaps an intentional choice driven by one of the core themes of his work? Are we going to examine at all our own preconceived notions that an industrial revolution is some kind of inevitable natural occurence, like puberty but for society?

Bonus discussion questions: what does the view that an industrial revolution is "like puberty but for society" say about the 19th-century models of thought that Professor Tolkien is critiquing? How does this tie into anti-imperialism elsewhere in the work?

I like it when characters are really close friends but theyre like. Bad at friendship. like theyre not great people . theyre not necessarily always good to each other. But they are friends!! Incredibly close friends at that!!!! They're Just Not GOOD At It

everything reminds me of them…. the trinyvale triplets

Realizing that squid have an ink sac and an internal shell called a pen so we’re living just a few short evolutionary steps away from calamarigraphy and honestly there goes the rest of today

*comes out of Wikipedia, hair disheveled and body red, wearing a towel, smoking a cigarette, with clear kiss and bite marks* So, I've been reading about nuclear propulsion in spaceships,

Some people might think I’m an optimist but I’m not. I’m a realist that’s going to try to increase the good things in this world if it kills me.

I roll up to my name cloak ceremony with the following suggestions: the wizard Socialism. The wizard Sacrilege. The wizard Sexy. I am forcibly removed from the Citadel.

i'm engaging in the ancient tradition of pretending there's an ancient tradition to engage in

Lucretia is the most fun character in the world because she is set up exactly like the guy who has been a villain all along, but instead the big reveal is that she's your best friend. And she loves you and thinks you're hilarious.

i know its cliche to say but lup adventurezone really is the character of all time like. she's an elf, she's a wizard, she's dead, she's a ghost, she's a bounty hunter for the raven queen. her spirit lived in a magic-eating umbrella for a nebulous number of years. she's an astrophysicist. carbo-loading breakfast then blowing up an abandoned dmv was her best day ever. she has a twin brother who's memory was wiped of her existence. she's in love with a white guy named barry bluejeans. she planned a heist on a casino to get back at someone who owed her fifteen dollars. after being released back into the world the first thing she did was dunk on her brother's love life. she speaks mongoose. and she's trans. do you get it.

constantly amazed and delighted by all the new ways caldwell finds to inflict deep psychological torture on murph, but “they need to get a third. and the third…. is a bird” might be his best yet