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ok potential unpopular take here but I actually quite rarely see people treat a "found family" in actual play as the nuclear family structure - sure, there might be individual cases of parental or sibling-like comparisons (and yes, usually when that happens it is more of an indicator of what ships someone wishes to eliminate than any actual familial behavior). What I DO see is people slapping on that label to desperately try to justify why a party sticks together when there is conflict among them (or not using that label and questioning why a party sticks together when there is conflict among them) and it's like. did you know that you can work with people with whom you disagree.

what gets me is this weird "why does group stick together???? but don't like each other???" fan response happens a lot in actual play and while yes, the structure of many ttrpgs does assume the party doesn't split up, the idea of "group where not everyone likes each other but they have individual reasons to work together" is...not uncommon? In fact it's really common? They have this in fucking Marvel movies. It's typical of fantasy adventure fiction (while LOTR is far from the only influence on D&D, it certainly is one of them, and like, Boromir and Sam join the fellowship for very different reasons)! I don't even have a name for this trope because it's just a thing that happens all the time because it's so obvious it feels weird to question it. "We all need to get to this city for vastly different reasons and the road is dangerous alone and while we may not like each other much, killing each other or splitting up would probably make it harder for us as individuals to achieve our goals" is not a difficult concept to grasp. Nor is "we all need money and were hired for this job and asked to work together", which you may recognize from Having A Job from Real Life.

there are a lot of reasons why someone might become transgender but the most common one is to acquire more powerful sword techniques

really losing my patience for any 'feminist' statement to the tune of 'we need feminism because women fill a fundamentally different and necessary role than men and will be better at doing x y or z'. like actually i think we need feminism because it is an unbearable death of the spirit by inches to exist in a world where you are not seen as a fully realized human being because of a single cultural determination, and because a world that enshrines such things creates systems that are fundamentally sick to the core

reading about the participation of children in rituals as a form of play in ancient greece and came across an incredibly charming story from julius pollux's onomasticon where a flood prevented the adults from reaching a sanctuary to sacrifice a ram to heracles, and the children solved the problem by....sticking a bunch of sticks in an apple to give it "legs" and "horns" and offering it as a sacrifice instead. it's such a charming thought and i can perfectly picture kids these days also pretending at sacrificing an apple "goat" at recess

oh yeah rice cooker get that hot steam aaaaaalll over those wooden cabinets oh yeah my little steam slut

hey kitten. daddy needs to talk to you. your kink blog is great, but you are not highlighting the words correctly. kitten. stop highlighting. this is shit. did you seriously highlight that period. kitten.

one of my favourite funny little things about this website is when you make a post like 'killing you to death with a spear formation' and somebody reblogs it tagged #q #spear formation like i'm so happy to know you're keeping your dedicated spear formation tag well curated babe keep it up

explained to an 8 year old that once a fruit is ripe you only have so much time until it rots so you have to eat it soon and she said so i'll never be able to keep it perfect like this forever? no and there are about a million pieces of art for you unrelatedly