scone butch

i do think it's important to realise even if you like the books that when white supremacists really like LOTR they aren't mistaken about the work or misguided or foolishly failing to comprehend the text. they are identifying something very much present in the work that aligns with and expresses their beliefs about the world and connecting with it

Now explain it to a Japanese samurai from the year 1218

"do you know how waterwheels grind up grain in a water mill using the force of running water? We found a way to create a huge source of force that runs all the time and can transfer its force over long distance. I can tell you in more detail, but that's the basics. Now that is a chime that has a mechanism that one can press instead of having to open the door to let you know that you are waiting to be let in. It requires the transferred force to make the mechanism work and that wire is how we transfer the force to the chime."

i love these sort of posts because they feel like a vision of a kinder and more thoughtful world that I wish more than anything was the mainstream instead of the exception

I'm still thinking about the guy who saw me realize my wheelchair wouldn't fit in the elevator because he (also a wheelchair user) was already inside it and immediately quipped, "This elevator ain't accessible enough for the both of us."

Since tumblr is rightfully loving this one, I feel obligated to mention that I ran into the same guy again on the last day of the convention and told him Scribe was really entertained by this, and he said that the night before he'd also really gotten one of the hotel waitresses, who informed him he could take a seat wherever and he replied "Oh, no thanks, I brought my own"

One of my pathfinder2e games I have a Kholo (Gnoll) character but I decided there wasn't enough history about Kholos and made up this cobbled together idea about a mostly nomadic people but with some small settlements here and there, with a strong oral history and a reverence for the caretakers of written stories. There's this whole ritualized exchanging of dirt between different groups, a kind of symbolic sharing of travels, but also literal because it's full of complex scent information. The whole thing with Kholo using ancestral bones for rituals or magic extends to hunting and eating, where even the bones of a kill get honored for what they did in life. There's all these fragments of lore around making Kholo scary and threatening, but I wanted to turn around after inadvertently making a near full on pacifist Kholo.

Some of it was done out front, but a bunch of stuff developed organically from role play and the fragments of suggested culture I could tease out from the game resources, plus my own background. And now all she wants to do is convince every single antagonist she meets that they can do better in life. Which technically ends up as me trying to convince the DM to let me make every enemy into a new ally.

tHERE ARE MEMES IN THOSE HIEROGLYPHICS

that one post with all the edgy anime boys in a therapy waiting room but it's lain, rei, madoka, anthy, etc.

unbelievably pissed that this is going around again without the addition i spent countless minutes putting together