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For a hoard worthy of a dragon, there’s Dragon Bagon dice 

And if you’re a guy and you notice some creep is following or stalking a girl, and that she’s obviously uncomfortable or panicked, go ahead and say hi, long time no see, pretend to be her cousin, and tell her discretly you noticed there was a shady guy. Ask her if something’s wrong, if she feels unsafe, if she wants your help (very important - she may not trust you enough, no one could blame her, don’t take it personally). (and don’t you dare take advantage of the help you offered for a flirt opportunity, that would make you no better than the creep)

guess who got a new dice bag!! he's one of @waywardmasquerade's dragon bagons and is so cute look at him

he can hold about 100 dice and is really soft and well made :3

here's where you can buy your own! they also come in black/red and purple/green

@waywardmasquerade recently launched their manufactured Dragon Bagons!!!! They come in three colors; Rainbow, Green/Purple, and one I have to show you Red/Black!!!

These ferousiosly Cute bags first launched on a Kickstarter and are now available on their Etsy for $49 NZD(35 USD)

The bags are 8in tall and have an 8in wingspan!!They can hold up to 100 dice comfortably or a couple small MTG decks!

They’re soft and plush and easy to use, there’s a drawstring that keeps it closed so you don’t have to worry about your dice and other goodies falling out.

Make sure to feed them regularly or they may have to go on the hunt for goodies of their own!!

You can find the bags and other cool stuff on Waywardmasqyeredes Etsy!!!!

And you can enter Here to win one and a set of handmade dice by me!!! (Link is not yet active)

Bagthulhu is lonely (and hungry) now that everyone is staying home, so we’re calling on loyal cultists of Bagthulhu to write letters to their cuddly overlord and he’ll reply to as many of them as he can with sage advice, anecdotes, encouragement, and demands for tribute. Letters can be sent by reblogging this post, or via PM. Please include the tag #dearBagthulhu. If you would rather your name/username/other details not be included when the reply is posted, please let us know with your letter.

Note: You do not need to be following us or to buy/have bought anything to write to Bagthulhu.

Many creators are not posting during this walkout and is asking for people not to use YouTube unless it’s related to the UK election (if you live the UK and still want to participate in the walkout but need to use YouTube to stay on top of election info I think there’s a UK one from the 13th-16th too!)

Anyway fuck those new terms and I’m gonna be deleting my YouTube app on my phone until the 16th.

Reblogging for the additional info on the alternative dates for people in the UK. Good luck Storming the Castle, I mean: With the Election!

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In case anybody doesn’t know about Woody Allen:

Woody Allen was accused in 1992 of molesting his girlfriend Mia Farrow’s daughter, Dylan Farrow, when she was seven years old. He later married Soon-Yi Previn, Mia Farrow’s then-teenaged daughter. He was Mia’s children’s father figure for many years.

This case is extremely controversial for a lot of reasons, but I’ll just list some of the facts:

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Dylan’s claims have been consistent her entire life. She said that the molestation began when Woody Allen took her into the attic of Mia Farrow’s home.

Woody Allen had been in therapy for “inappropriate behavior” with a child psychologist before the abuse allegations were ever presented to the authorities or made public.

Seven-year-old Dylan Farrow’s pediatrician was the one who first reported the molestation to the police.

Allen initially said that he had never been in the attic where the molestation allegedly took place, but his hair was found in the attic, so he changed his story and said that he had been in the attic just a few times. The investigation later concluded that his account of that day was not credible.

Ronan Farrow, one of Dylan’s brothers, who today is the journalist who wrote the infamous Harvey Weinstein exposé that helped spark the #MeToo movement in Hollywood, has said that he remembers witnessing Allen “climbing into her [Dylan’s] bed in the middle of the night” and “forcing her to suck his thumb.”

Three other adults besides Allen were present in the Farrow home the day Dylan was molested. A babysitter told police and gave sworn testimony that Allen and Dylan went missing for 15 to 20 minutes. Another babysitter told police and also swore in court that on that same day, she saw Allen with his head in Dylan’s lap facing her body, while Dylan sat on a couch “staring vacantly in the direction of a television set.” The third adult, a tutor, told police and testified that on that day, she’d found that Dylan was not wearing underpants under her sundress after disappearing with Allen.

Multiple employees of the family testified that Dylan used to be terrified of Allen, and that Dylan once locked herself in a bathroom for four hours when Allen came over to their house.

Allen refused to take a polygraph administered by the police during all four court cases about Dylan’s molestation. Allen lost all of these cases.

In his 33-page decision, Judge Elliott J. Wilk found that Allen’s behavior toward Dylan was “grossly inappropriate and that measures must be taken to protect her.”

You can read Judge Wilk’s full original court ruling here.

Woody Allen was never prosecuted in a criminal trial - some claim he was never prosecuted because there was no evidence, but the state attorney, Frank Maco, said publicly that there was probable cause to press charges against Allen for child molestation, but declined to do so due to “the fragility of the child victim” and the toll the trial process would’ve taken on her.

Read Dylan’s story, in her own words, here. 

Woody Allen has famously said about his relationship with Soon-Yi: “I was paternal. She responded to someone paternal. […] I was happy to give her an enormous amount of decision-making, just as a gift.”

So, here’s a list of celebrities who love Woody Allen, worked with him, and/or have defended him:

Jeff Goldblum — defended him

Kirsten Stewart — repeatedly defended him

Cate Blanchett — defended him

Stephen King — called Dylan a “bitch” after her 2014 article was posted

Emma Stone — worked with him post-2014 and expressed her love for him/his work

Blake Lively — worked with him post-2014 and said that Woody Allen is “empowering to women”

Kate Winslet — defended him and said: “I think on some level Woody is a woman. I just think he’s very in touch with that side of himself.”

Jesse Eisenberg — expressed his love for Woody Allen and has worked with him, both post-2014

Richard Ayoade — repeatedly called Woody Allen one of the greatest directors of all time and implied “art” is more important than real life victims

Diego Luna — worked with him post-2014 and has said he doesn’t regret it

Javier Bardem — defended him

Diane Keaton — defended him

Adrien Brody — defended him

Scarlett Johannson — repeatedly defended him, and has been called his #1 fan

Zach Kornfeld (of the Try Guys) — said he loves Woody Allen (post 2014)

Alec Baldwin — defended him

Louis CK — defended him

Miley Cyrus — worked with him post-2014

Selena Gomez — worked with him post-2014

Elle Fanning — worked with him post-2014

Justin Timberlake — worked with him post-2014

Jude Law — worked with him post-2014

People who worked with him before Dylan’s 2014 article which made the case much more well known, and have made no comment for or against Allen since:

Owen Wilson, Tom Hiddleston, Larry David, Meryl Streep, Colin Farrell, Rachel McAdams, and Hugh Jackman.

And here’s a list of celebrities who worked with Woody Allen but later regretted doing so, or have publicly said that they support Dylan Farrow:

Susan Sarandon — said “He sexually assaulted a child” on stage at Cannes

Ellen Page — called working with Allen “the biggest regret of my career” and said she supports Dylan

Natalie Portman — said that she supports Dylan, that men should support and believe female victims “not because you have a daughter, not because you have a wife or a sister, […] but because we’re human beings,” and is also one of the only celebrities to say she regrets signing the Roman Polanski petition

Reese Witherspoon — said she supports Dylan

Shonda Rhimes — said she supports Dylan

Oprah Winfrey — led a discussion about Woody Allen and Time’s Up and supporting Dylan

Hayley Atwell — “I stand in solidarity with his daughter and offer an apology to her if my contribution to his work has caused her suffering or made her feel dismissed in any way. It’s exciting that I can say this now and I’m not going to be blacklisted.” (Atwell’s first film, in 2007, was a Woody Allen film)

Michael Caine — “I’m a patron of the NSPCC [National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children] and have very strong views about pedophilia. I can’t come to terms with it, because I loved Woody and had a wonderful time with him. I even introduced him to Mia. I don’t regret working with him [in 1986; five years before the first allegations], which I did in complete innocence; but I wouldn’t work with him again, no.”

Freida Pinto — said she would not work with Allen again, “Because I don’t know how some people can get away with it.” 

Colin Firth — said he would not work with Allen again

Evan Rachel Wood — said she would not work with Allen again

Timothée Chalamet — expressed regret for working on a Woody Allen film and pledged his salary from the film to RAINN, Time’s Up, and the LGBT Center in New York

Greta Gerwig — “If I had known then what I know now, I would not have acted in the film. I have not worked for him again, and I will not work for him again. Dylan Farrow’s two different pieces made me realize that I increased another woman’s pain, and I was heartbroken by that realization.”

Rebecca Hall — said she regrets working with Allen, and: “My actions have made another woman feel silenced and dismissed.” She also donated her salary to Time’s Up.

David Krumholtz — said “I deeply regret working with Woody Allen on Wonder Wheel. It’s one of my most heartbreaking mistakes. We can no longer let these men represent us in entertainment, politics, or any other realm.”

Griffin Newman — said he “believes Allen is guilty,” regrets working with him, and called himself a coward for not quitting the film he worked on with Allen

Peter Sarsgaard — said he would not work with Allen again

Mira Sorvino — wrote an open letter to Dylan, saying: “I cannot begin to imagine how you have felt, all these years as you watched someone you called out as having hurt you as a child, a vulnerable little girl in his care, be lauded again and again, including by me and countless others in Hollywood who praised him and ignored you. As a mother and a woman, this breaks my heart for you. I am so, so sorry.”

Joaquin Phoenix — said he had no idea about Dylan’s letter when he worked with Allen in 2014, but: “If you were a part of supporting something with someone that did, in fact, cause pain, how the fuck would you feel? You’d feel shitty.”

Marion Cotillard — said that if she were asked to work with him again, she would do much more research and that before working with him in 2011, she had not heard of his allegations

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👻💀🎃🦇🎃My favorite time of year! 🎃🦇🎃💀👻

volume IS very much a part of the american hospitality tradition, and Nobody Leaves Hungry is important. but you have to recognize that it’s not how we cook for ourselves, it’s how we welcome guests and strengthen community ties.

so in order to give you a celebratory experience and make you feel welcomed, family restaurants make the portions big enough that even if you’re a teenage boy celebrating a hard win on the basketball court, you’re still going to be comfortably full when you leave.

of course, that means that for your average person with a sit-down job, who ate a decent lunch that day, it’s twice as much as they want or more. that’s ok. as mentioned above, taking home leftovers is absolutely encouraged. that, too, is part of american hospitality tradition; it’s meant to invoke fond memories of grandma loading you down with covered dishes so you can have hearty celebration food all week. pot luck church basement get-togethers where the whole town makes sure everybody has enough. that sort of thing. it’s about sharing. it’s about celebrating Plenty.

Many restaurants have branded bags and boxes with the restaurant’s name on them.

When Americans eat crap, it’s often more about food deserts and a complete lack of reasonable public transportation than about our restaurants having insane portions.

A food desert is an area with no supermarkets or grocers where the only place that sells food is a convenience store with twinkies. It’s very common to not live within walking distance of a place that sells ingredients. In the suburbs, it’s normal to not only live outside of reasonable walking distance of food but also for that distance to be a huge highway with nowhere you’re legally allowed to walk. From conversations with friends, this sounds relatively uncommon in most countries. Every place has some farms in the middle of nowhere, but US style suburbs aren’t the norm.

Meanwhile, at least in some areas, we tend to have a lot of storage space, so it’s common to go to the supermarket only occasionally and stock up for the week/month with things that will keep. We’re not usually buying 800 servings at once because we’re actually going to eat all that right now.

The first thing I usually do when I get a burger is cut it down the middle and decide which half I’m going to eat, and which I’m going to save for a rainy day. Then, I divide the side-food in a similar way (be it fries, vegetables, or whatever). If I’m visiting the south, known for its hardy portions (texas, alabama, etc), I’ll actually divide it further, eating (for example) only half (or less) of the burger, and none of the fries– which means it becomes 3-4 days of lunches… for the family I’m staying with. Yes. You can give your leftovers to someone else. In fact, it’s considered really kind, if they like that kind of food. And since they’re usually the ones that took you to the restaurant, it may even be their favorite type of food.

Food is really a sign of affection, in every possible way, from the trope of “mother’s day means serving mom breakfast in bed” to “cutting the wedding cake is one of the most important wedding photos” to “one of our holidays literally has kids running up to every house in town in costume to ask for candy” to “BBQ sauces are a generationally-passed-down tradition.” 

https://maximumfun.org/shmanners/leftovers

When we got home, there was a lasagna on our front porch from one neighbor, a bag of groceries (complete with a rotisserie chicken, which you can get in grocery stores here) from another, and a third had left a sticky note saying Mrs. Santos got there with food first but if we needed dinner the next day the Woodruffs would be happy to cook for us.

That’s how we neighbor: our surrounding peers saw a child strapped to a hospital gurney and went “her parents can’t possibly be expected to COOK today” and immediately provided not one or two but THREE meals and the fixings for another. These weren’t basic meals, either. A lasagna can easily be a $30 dish. Groceries in a farming community in 2000 were a lot cheaper than they are now, but still—there was probably a good $15-20 of fresh meat and veg and milk in that shopping bag. They not only made sure we ate, they made sure we ate well.

When I was in high school my freshman year, we had a house fire that gutted the interior of our home. Thankfully, due to insurance, we were covered for it, but it meant that my working-class folks with tons on their plate had A MOUNTAIN of post-fire shit to deal with.

Our parish (church community) organized a brigade of families to rotate bringing meals every night for two weeks after we got moved in to a rental house so that mom and dad had time to get back on their feet, especially with two kids, one a high schooler involved in a bunch of extra-curriculars. That way they didn’t have to worry about cooking meals for a little while, AND they made more than necessary for one meal.

I’m also pretty sure that any nice leftover (we’re talking stuff that doesn’t look like the leavings on somebody’s place) went to the food bank to go out as soon as possible. The women running the kitchen would usually push covered dishes with whichever foods were left that wouldn’t keep as well on any stragglers who hadn’t left towards the end.

When my grandfather died there were dozens of cooked meals that appeared. It’s a very brittish thing too (I’m half brittish). You bring food to help others, even if it’s all you can do. You share food to bond with others.

It’s also a HUGE thing in Te ao Maori (the indigenous culture here). Sharing food is a major element not just of hospitality but of community. Hangi is a traditional Maori style of cooking (and it’s gloriously tasty I might add), and it’s often used in special events, to welcome, educate, celebrate, mourn, and be together. If you do something centred around Maori people, food is expected, it’s just part of the culture. Once upon a time, your Mana (honour, spiritual status, authority, there’s no direct translation) was influenced by your ability to give gifts to others, especially in return for gifts they gave to you. This wasn’t limited to food, but it would be considered incredibly bad form not to feed guests to a marae (meeting place of the local iwi (tribe) which includes a meeting house, dining area, and sometimes adjacent burial places and other buildings and important places) though food is not taken into the meeting house itself.

The restaurant-portion-leftovers element is not such a big thing over here to my knowledge though, and sending leftovers home with guests after a meal varies a lot depending on how well you know them. The better you know them the more likely you are to send leftovers home with them. The sharing of baked goods is more common than leftovers after a meal. Sharing a box of home made biscuits or a cake or a slice is common. My brittish grandparents would arrive to stay with us and they’d bring a literal suitcase full of baked goods (my Nana was a pastry chef), AND they’d bake more while they were there.

Breaking bread together is a basic human thing. It’s baked into our cultures the world over. It just takes different forms.