There's good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.

agnostic bad driver: no one knows where all these dents and scratches came from

When I was in college I had a professor who was an expert on detective fiction. He had a longstanding beef with the idea that "Murders in the Rue Morgue" was the first detective story. He thought that it seemed way too polished to be inventing a new genre, and also that the whole orangutan business had the vibe of someone subverting preexisting audience expectations and maybe engaging in a bit of stealth parody. With the help of some student volunteers, he went trawling through old magazines and newspapers and found hundreds of detective stories from the early 1800s that just hadn't garnered enough individual attention to be remembered. This was because most of them sucked balls. He created an online archive of them, so you too can read these mostly terrible stories.

So I didn't make my gnomes murderous fungus people, but I did draw on the ork ability to make their technology work because they believe it works. Gnomes are describes as tinkerers who build fantastical technology, but this somehow never impacts the world's technological level. I decided that in my world, large numbers of gnomes living together can make their technology work just by nature of being there. Take a gnome invention away from gnomes and it will suddenly malfunction, explode, or just be a hunk of scrap. This also scales with the number of gnomes present. A small village could create some interesting gizmos like what you get from the rock gnome pc stats. Meanwhile my world's biggest gnome city is a bizarre place made of towers where buildings were just plopped on top of each other with no thought for stability or safety and remain standing despite being completely structurally unsound. They are connected by haphazard bridges and cable cars and the city is alive with the sound of clockwork robots and the flapping of ornithopters. Its a place of nonsense and even though its part of a larger empire, the empire lets it be pretty much autonomous because they're afraid that if they step in, the whole place might collapse or explode. Artificers in my world were the result of an attempt to make gnome tech that everyone can use and that wont explode if there aren't enough gnomes around

the queer liberation library (US only, doesn't verify your location however) literature translation institute of korea

and out of the darkness - you you you you you

Bonus little dude, he a part of a diagram explaining some lore but it doesn't make a ton of sense without knowing other lore from this AU I haven't shared.

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this is the kind of thing where the asshole that files nuisance lawsuits over piddly little inconsequential ADA things or HOA Karens could actually use their powers for good,

So a wizard and an ancient construct walk into a tavern.

Phenomenal spare wheel cover I walked past the other day