ScyStorm's Q&A

If you’re ever unsure about an animal’s level of okayness with something that’s happening, there are three spot-check questions you can ask, to common-sense your way through it:

1. Is the animal capable of defending itself or making a threatening or fearful display, or otherwise giving protest, and if so, is it using this ability? (e.g. dog snarling or biting, swan hissing, horse kicking or biting)  2. Does the animal experience an incentive-based relationship with the human? (i.e. does the animal have a reason, in the animal’s frame of reference, for being near this human? e.g. dog sharing companionship / food / shelter, hawk receiving good quality abundant food and shelter and medical care from a falconer)

3. Is the animal a domesticated species, with at least a full century of consistent species cohabitation with humans? (Domesticated animals frequently are conditioned from birth or by selective breeding to be unbothered by human actions that upset their feral nearest relatives.)

In this situation, YES the eagle can self-defend, YES the eagle has incentive to cooperate with and trust the human handler, and NO the eagle is not a domesticated species, meaning we can expect a high level of reactivity to distress, compared to domestic animals: if the eagle was distressed, it would be pretty visible and apparent to the viewer. These aren’t a universally applicable metric, but they’re a good start for mammal and bird interactions.

Pair that with the knowledge that eagles reserve those chirps for calm environments, and you can be pretty secure and comfy in the knowledge that the big honkin’ birb is happy and cozy.

Memo To The Media: Chick-fil-A Condemns, Discriminates, And Campaigns Against LGBT People

https://thinkprogress.org/memo-to-the-media-chick-fil-a-condemns-discriminates-and-campaigns-against-lgbt-people-3e2dbb7b8056/

why the fuck you would  belittle an anti gay campaign in favor of a chicken’s life if you’re gay is beyond me

“oh ho hum they’re christian so that’s just what they do BUT THINK OF THE CHICKENS”

A little spring comic for all you cacti growers out there. May your plants and Pokémon be healthy in the coming seasons!

Please all be safe, use gloves, or some kind of protection while handing something so pointy. Some of the spines are barbed and don’t come out as easily as you’d like them to.

EDIT: I’ve gotten questions as to why sleep powder works on cacnea, it’s because it has very few spores in its system. It’s got no ability to learn or use sleep, poison or other powder based attacks and thus has no natrual remedy in its system for such things. Pokemon who know or can learn the attack are unaffected normally, but those who can’t learn it are just as susceptible as any normal Pokémon species would be. Least this is my head cannon haha

Galaxy brain indicates intelligience of something (can go in either direction)

Pooh indicates level of refinement and/or pretentiousness

Only two and a half hours apart.

As an artist, I really want to stress that PornHub was absolutely on it when Tumblr banned The Tiddy, being more than eager to let artists know that they can, in fact, have image galleries on PornHub.

because people favor white history!

notre dame got immediate coverage and attention, even though notre dame will be okay. even though the art has been saved and spared, even though it has happened before and will happen again

when the national museum of brazil burned in september, there was hardly any coverage. even though the majority of what had taken hundreds of years to collect had burned. even though the national museum of brazil was home to art from pompeii and egypt as well.

am i saying that what has been burned and demolished at notre dame isnt devastating? no. absolutely not.

The fire destroyed over 20 million relics. You read that right. 20 MILLION. Dinosaur fossils, mummies, and indigenous artefacts. More than 90% of the items the museum held were destroyed.

Notre Dame can still be repaired. It was already renovated 2 centuries ago. Notre Dame can be rebuilt. The historical items the Museu Nacional held CANNOT be replaced. The museum was absolutely DESTROYED.

The Declaration of Independence of my country was signed at this very museum. Throughout the fire, museum employees ran inside to rescue as many items as they could.

A lot of Latin America’s history fully VANISHED in this fire. This was a huge hit for us. Y'all care so much about white history and are freaking out over Notre Dame, when an event that destroyed much more history got no attention whatsoever from the international community.

Unfortunately, the native peoples who spoke these languages were mostly killed, meaning that when records of their languages were destroyed, their entire CULTURES were gone. Imagine that.

Not to mention the dinosaur fossils that were destroyed. The native American mummies.

Veronica(Spell blade:)“It’s my magic book. Whatever you do, do not read it, or else face the wrath of an angry writer.”

Bronze-gutter (Dwarf Defende and Friend who has been with us since the beginning, and knows that I don’t use a spellbook for spells due to being a spontaneous caster): -He takes me to the side one day, and asks-: is this about The Lich? (Ironically we never did learn his actual name).

Veronica: Partially. Its more about revenge really.

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Time passed and most of our party changed out mostly except for Veronica and Bronze who managed to stay alive through the several hell gauntlets worth of campaigns that the DM could throw at us, we’ve gone through three to four sets of other party members by the time we reached this point, an army has been amassed by the big bad, and at this point the DM has completely forgotten about the books significance. Only making note due to my diligence to it, and assumes its a spellbook. So he sends one of The Lich’s henchmen to steal it. Successfully so.

Veronica: I check my spellbook(she had purchased an actual one to do the page filling on just in case of such an occasion), is it there?

Dm: It seems over the night one of the lich’s henchmen, knowing that you were preparing to assault his castle has stolen it. Sorry you should have put some security on it or something, I’ve warned you in the past about that.

Veronica that is okay, does he read it? After all its emanating very powerful magic, which he may benefit greatly from.

Dm: Hmm? Sure he’ll read it.

Veronica: Hes reading this in the army the lich raised right?

Dm: Yes why? Is there something thats going to- oh… -finally remembers what Veronica said all the way back then- The revenge plot..

Veronica: -smirks, and pulls out a sheet, a worn sheet thats covered in numbers, as well as her dice calculator on her laptop.- I’ve spent years working on this book. Every day filling it with explosive runes with remaining spell slots. Thanks to all that effort, is time to see how much damage this finally does. There are 1200 fine typed explosive runes on each page, theres 100 pages total, and each of those deal 5d6 of force damage.“

Dm: Ohhhhh god.

Bronze-Gutter(having caught on a while ago): -chuckling at this point-

“That averages out to around 600,000d6 of force damage.”

Dm: Well… good job… -clearly defeated at this point- you blew up a third of the lich’s army in one shot, and due to causing magical armagedon with that book, I’m going to say you’ve effectively recreated the mourninglands with explosive runes only. There is now a hole to the plane of force in the material realm, which is blasting apart the general area for the next few years, due to that being similar to a gate spell, now psionics, who drew their powers from that plane are going to start trickling in alongside a number of outsiders… Living spells that consist of explosive runes will form across this devastated zone, making the place a death trap for future generations to come. You will go down in history as the writer of the apocalypse.“

Bronze: -can hardly breathe from how hard he is laughing- Oh goddesses, Veronica what in the blazes did you do?!

Veronica: -Almost completely straight faced, with the slightest hint of a smirk.- I told you guys not to read my book, it had a rather explosive plot line.

The rest of the party but Bronze slowly backs away from Veronica, the later of which claps her on the back, “Can’t imagine the poor saps face. He probably knows that was meant for him, oh my…-he breaks down laughing a bit- If there was ever any doubt about it before, I think you’ve won my heart this time Veronica completely.

Veronica: No one fucks with my friends and get away with it, thats just how things are Bronzie, you know that.

Wizard in our party: how much did that take for you to make that thing?!

Veronica: 100 gold for the book, and years of dedication to filling a book with explosive runes.

Wizard: I can wish 20,000gp worth of items with a 10,000gp diamond, I’ll wish for 200 more books of explosive runes!

DM: BY THE NAME THAT IS ME, NO! VETO! DENIED! NO WAY IN HELL IS THERE GOING TO BE MORE OF THOSE BOOKS.

Everyone is furries.

Every single one of us.

You either live your truth, or you die lying to yourself.

Don’t wait.

Just checking in, hope things are going well

How’s Tumblr doing from your end?

I know you must be overworked, you didn’t even have time to make an April Fools joke this year.

You’ve been blogging a lot about Net Neutrality, that’s good, it’s nice to see that you think censorship is bad and shouldn’t happen.

It really sucks when big corporations wanna take away freedom from its customers so they can make more money, huh?