Just Nerd Things

imagine meeting a handsome young man who’s seen as a player and sleeps around a lot and you notice a scar along his arm and ask where he got it. he just look down at his feet and said “i used to be a soldier in world war one”. He’s been sleeping around and hooking up so much cause he’s been trying to find his soulmate for years but hasn’t yet.

Imagine going on your first date with someone and you really hit it off and then the next day you notice a grey hair and call them on the phone excitedly screaming and they both just sit on the phone hysterically crying and laughing.

Imagine sitting in silence with your partner and having them say out of the blue “i feel so old when im around you… but… in a good way” and thats the moment you know that they love you.

imagine having a dog thats 18 in human years and it starts to get gray patches of fur because they loves you so much.

imagine noticing you look older and freaking out but then stopping and getting super confused because “im not dating anyone right now…. which of my friends is my soulmate… WHICH ONE IS IT!?!?!?” and then they hopelessly date everyone they know in order to find out which one it fucking was. it was the pizza delivery guy the whole time. they went on 27 dates that all ended in confusion and heartbreak and it was the god damn pizza delivery guy from a month ago the whole fucking time. 

imagine someone dating their partner for 5 years and then having an affair. only after the affair do they start aging.

imagine nuns who start to age after they ceremoniously “marry god”

imagine people getting surgeries to look older cause they dont want people to think theyre alone.

imagine having parents who wont let you date anyone but they start to notice you aging and then you have to have a terrifying “surprise im gay and i have a boyfriend haha oops” conversation

imagine seeing couples with teenage kids and the couple both looks 18.

It’s called Burning Away.

It’s an LGBT fantasy adventure romance with this soulmate premise, and I finally published it like ten minutes ago!

You want strong female characters? I’ve got plenty of em.

You want ace characters? Yes. He’s precious and I love him.

You want characters that are intersectional?? My protagonist is a lovely black trans woman who’s bisexual (and who happens to be the soulmate that is being hunted by the antagonist in order to stay on the throne forever.)

TL;DR: Here’s the order link for my book about literally all of this.

You pass by a small crowd of hungry children, and decide you’d rather 455 apples go rotten than give them to some snotty brat who isn’t your problem.

It doesn’t matter how hard you’ve worked for your 500 apples, or that you aren’t the parent of any of those kids. in the moment you decide to walk away, it doesn’t matter why they’re hungry, or who owes who what.

You had the opportunity to help people, you had the ability to help people, you had the resources to help people. You had everything you needed to make a small, tiny little difference in someone’s life, and you decided not to.

We want to live in a town with a pretty street to wander down and nice bookshops. Only one bookshop is surviving. We could rent an empty storefront, pay off the rent for several years, install a handful of nice part-time workers with their wages paid for several years, give them running money and tell them: set up a collective to make this shop go. Make a good shop we can visit. It wouldn’t take much to fill a high street with the kind of places you’d want to go into. The local social media is begging for venues, listing what we need: a kid friendly cafe, less sketchy nightlife, more after-hours and weekend activities, attractions. Each one gets hundreds of comments agreeing; nobody has the money to do anything because of the rent. Shops stand empty while hundreds of people ask for amenities, all because of rent. If you were rich there would be no obstacle.

This nation allows communities to take in refugees if a home is provided for two years rent free. We could buy homes and give them to refugee families and then lives could be materially saved and our communities would be richer.

We want to send our kids to nice schools. Money would fix that. Raise teacher wages, provide splendid trips and activities.

When our kids are teens, they’ll rely on peers and listen more to peers than to us. There are a lot of deeply shitty teens around here and some entrenched nasty habits. Honestly, they mostly need stuff to do. Money could fix that.

If you got every shop in town to agree to a voucher scheme, you could give every household in town £500 in vouchers to spend in local shops and for a few hundred thousand pounds you would change an entire year for a town. Every household would have a smoothing of worry: scooping up school shoes and groceries and haircuts and fancy coffees and birthday presents. And the money would be spent twice on the town - once to the people, and once to the shops that need it so badly. Shops could stay open if they were doing this business. Isn’t that clever? The money would be spent twice! Maybe even more!

Despite the grimly well-intentioned environmental communities, the locals would currently be resistant to becoming a Transition Town because of the impression that it’s for snotty wealthy towns. I don’t really know how I could fix that. I could pay someone cleverer than me £30k a year to fix that and get started.

April Fools! 

Iconic.

Matt Mercer told us in a recent tweet who in Exandria are trans and our tower wizard Yussa is one of them!

So to celebrate these news I just had to draw him again.

Cal/Merrin valentines commission for @bimandojedi!