lights all askew in the heavens

You know how medieval villages near disused Roman aqueducts would just gradually dismantle the aqueduct for worked stone rather than quarry their own? I want to play a tabletop RPG with a classic shitty-little-village-with-ancient-ruins-under-it dungeon crawling setup that's basically that. You're not going down there to loot gold and magic swords: you're looking for pieces of sorcerous infrastructure you can pry loose and repurpose to meet the village's everyday needs. Give me the fantasy equivalent of those rural English taverns that don't have indoor plumbing but do have flatscreen TVs.

there seems to be a fundamental disagreement between microwave oven manufacturers and the producers of microwave meals over whether the customer should know the wattage of their microwave or if such details should be abstracted away from them

"trump dying won't fix fascism" neither would a big steamy bowl of pad thai but I still want it

Do you wanna go watch the sunlight pierce the leaves of the forest with me?

@woodlanddyke

[city founded by a twin who committed fratricide] we should have two equally powerful heads of state i think

#what if we gave a german shepherd meth? (via @madtomedgar)

the thing about job searching is i see all these job postings and im like i dont wanna do any of this for any of you

I like to think there's an Ankh-Morpork show (perhaps a live stage show) that's a combination of Great British Bakeoff and Forged in Fire where they bake dwarf bread and then attack a ballistic dummy with it.

survival mechanism they don’t emphasize enough is memorizing a poem. you memorize a poem you have a little lift raft for a variety of situations