#berrysphase

blorbo (favorite character, character I think about the most): points to my url

scrunkly (my “baby”, character that gives me cuteness aggression, character that is So Shaped): Drou and Gregor in Cordelia's Honor

scrimblo bimblo (underrated/underappreciated fave): Kareen Vorbarra, Harra Csurik, Roic (i still don't know how we got a whole novella from Roic's POV and no first name for him)

glup shitto (obscure fave, character that can appear in the background for 0.2 seconds and I won’t shut up about it for a week): Pym and his family, Lily Durona

poor little meow meow (“problematic”/unpopular/controversial/otherwise pathetic fave): ok my real problematic fave is Ezar but "poor little meow meow" doesn't feel like it suits him...maybe Bothari?

horse plinko (character I would torment for fun, for whatever reason): Kareen again...also Duv and Aral

@berrysphase replied to your post “Oh No: Area Patriarch Writing for Several Pages On What Women Really...”

I am so glad to be encountering this opinion vicariously

berrysphase replied to your post “I am having major brainweasels today, if anyone wants to tell me...”

your brain is in excellent company https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/science-ticker/weasel-has-shut-down-large-hadron-collider

holy... shit.

vardasvapors replied to your post “I am having major brainweasels today, if anyone wants to tell me...”

i also went through catchaspark’s ace attorney tag for a primer

vardasvapors replied to your post “I am having major brainweasels today, if anyone wants to tell me...”

i recently was told of the existence of george mcdonald, idk if this is happy-making for u or not but i hope so

oooh, princess and the goblin? i fully intended to read him... at some point, do you have a place you’re starting with? Also Strong Approve Of AA Delving

aretalogue replied to your post “I am having major brainweasels today, if anyone wants to tell me...”

Trace their paths to divine your destiny

I know there are film adaptations of the tale of the heike but I wish to know if there are film adaptations of THAT SCENE IN PARTICULAR

nezdravo replied to your post “I am having major brainweasels today, if anyone wants to tell me...”

julia child the dog just failed to catch a pill pocket so hard that instead, she bit her own butt

nooooo whaaat??? i gotta start looking for a job in earnest next month (lol tomorrow) and i know linked in is in my future but uggggh i live in terror

so like i know everybody makes fun of LI all the time and obviously. that’s valid. but the tide is definitely turning. in like 2014 it was earth’s lamest website and only total business weebs kept updated profiles and “endorsed” ppl and stuff and now it’s like premium ad space and a pretty useful way to check who you know somewhere and in an astonishing 180, it is now pretty suspicious to have an un-updated linkedin. anyway my point is it is now a fine website, or it was until it introduced business kudos or whatever in HELL im looking at. 

berrysphase replied to your post “nothing will be more disorienting than linkedin prompting you to give...”

nO

 yes

berrysphase replied to your post “nothing will be more disorienting than linkedin prompting you to give...”

this goes up there with the time one of the theoretical physics blogs I read mentioned AO3

ivanaskye replied to your post“its 5am and my gf and i are trying to google a believable theory for...”

we found something tho!!! apparently there’s a possibility that it is.... to comfort baby. when baby stops drinking milk... might still need comfort.., of boob

so REALLY WORRIED TODDLERS are a human-only thing, probably, and the solution was (according to one hypothesis)................ comfort boobies

which as far as I am concerned has very good explanatory potential because humans differ from other apes in many ways including 1) having longer childhoods and 2) being smarter and therefore more ancious

THIS IS THE CUTEST THING esp bc i, too, require comfort boob

thepioden replied to your post “its 5am and my gf and i are trying to google a believable theory for...”

As a biologist: if something seems weird and dumb you can probably blame either sexual selection or genetic drift.

‘it’s sexy’ is an insufficient answer tho :(((( wanna kno......why that kink developed......kinks for Hooge Chest Cysts......

actualmermaid replied to your post “its 5am and my gf and i are trying to google a believable theory for...”

tity good

a compelling point

bamboocounting replied to your post “s— since— since.......? since......when.....is elrond.....a character...”

hfffhdjkshj

berrysphase replied to your post “s— since— since.......? since......when.....is elrond.....a character...”

????????? ?? ?

ivanaskye replied to your post “s— since— since.......? since......when.....is elrond.....a character...”

wh h-how.... could anyone have come to that conclusion.....

nimium-amatrix-ingenii-sui replied to your post “s— since— since.......? since......when.....is elrond.....a character...”

bzuh? who says he's unloved and neglected? he's practically another self-insert?

I KNOW RIGHT????? god i understand why ppl have a special love for characters who ARE unfairly underused and underappreciated by their authors or other fans (this is the fastest way to make me love a character i formerly didn’t care about) but THIS IS NOT ONE OF THEM. also like...........if this is what ur looking for, elros is.........Right There.......

irisseireth replied to your post “s— since— since.......? since......when.....is elrond.....a character...”

More like unloved by Peter Jackson

sdghfyusdgcsdjhcgfsdf THIS IS TRUE and it’s painfully obvious that a large number of silm fans who like to style themselves as More Knowledgable Than LOTR Fans Bc They’ve Read The Silm have never......read lotr......>_>

actualmermaid replied to your post “s— since— since.......? since......when.....is elrond.....a character...”

Struggling to think of who jrrt could have lived MORE than elrond

yeah like.......galadriel? there’s galadriel. 

actualmermaid replied to your post “bamboocounting: @vardasvapors this one was my favorite book cover as...”

Yes!!!!! One of the best Pern books w great cover art!!!!!

eeeeee i’m glad i will keep in mind if i ever finish my to-read list T_T

thelioninmybed replied to your post “can one play magic the gathering with modified tarot cards”

Temperance is OP and should be nerfed

ADD3MANA

ivanaskye replied to your post “can one play magic the gathering with modified tarot cards”

What I keep getting stuck on is which ones are the lands.... I think what you MIGHT have to do is, combine multiple tarot decks into your magic tarot deck hell, and one of the deck’s minor arcana can be lands (used, of course, to play minor arcana from the other decks.) Which doesn’t answer how major arcana fit in UM

what about skirting this problem by making it yu-gi-oh instead of magic the gathering

bamboocounting replied to your post “can one play magic the gathering with modified tarot cards”

how do you normally play it?

VALID POINT

l33tsaber replied to your post “can one play magic the gathering with modified tarot cards”

Conversely, I want to see someone do a tarot spread with the MTG Unglued set.

this is very funny now that ivana explained it to me!!!! i would like this for my birthday

thepioden replied to your post “can one play magic the gathering with modified tarot cards”

As long as one is not a coward

HMMMMMMMMMMMM

simaethae replied to your post “gurguliare replied to your post:                    gurguliare...”

ok but are we really going to have a discussion about pern without mentioning all the magic-companion-animal-facilitated dubcon

i kept trying to rephrase or clarify that but i'm just going to let it stand

THE. WHAT. how is it facilitated. is this like pokemon.

garden-ghoul replied to your post “simaethae replied to your quote “   the descendants of terraformers,...”

mostly fond of "kid me did not have a normal gauge for Too Much Philosophy" because I can so clearly see that being the case

It’s clearly the pinkie which is also and not coincidentally the most exposed but sadly the least conducive to jokes

moringottos replied to your photo “up to our old tricks”

from experience the ring finger is the best to lose and also apparently the easiest to reattach in which case it looks crooked and weird forever but you can do tricks with it and gross out everyone

questionabletimedescisions replied to your photo “up to our old tricks”

I know someone who lost some of their fingers. If you can't reattach, and you're concerned about losing strength, I'd say pointer or pinkie. Apparently the force created between the thumb and the pointer is less than a middle or ring finger. (so unfortunately, If you character needs to keep some strength, I'd suggest not cutting those two, no matter how funny)

It makes me so happy to have friends who will immediately fall over themselves answering a question like this with expert scientific advice and horrific experience.

a truly embarrassing number of my talks have been written at 3 am the night before I have to give them because that is what it takes to get me over the “ugh I don WANNA” hump…   also: go log off and write your talk!    

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