Some of All, All of None

”some force users can touch an object and sense the history in it” literally fucking insane. Do you have any idea what this would do to like. Eight scientific fields. Forensics. Archaeology. Military strategy. You have an instant - albeit finicky - replay button for anything from a crime scene to a 2000-year-old artifact used for “””fertility rituals””” what do you MEAN. How the fuck are they functioning in the temple when every stone has the souls of a thousand years of fellow Jedi imprinted on them. Nobody let them touch a mando, those armor sets are passed down parent to child and only barely reforged to fit. Thats the equivalent of 12d10 psychic damage straight to the prefrontal cortex. What does it feel like for them to touch a painting an artist did of their child? Would they be able to sense the love between photographer and their spouse by touching a photo they took? I wonder if that’s a whole other art form in and of itself in the temple, where artists have to spend the entire duration of the creation process meditating on one specific thing so that another Force user can pick up on the undertones in the force as they see/hear/watch/touch/taste it. “It was made with love” is an actual practical necessity in Jedi temple cooking, because otherwise the food can cause anything from a shit mood to an allergic reaction in the more sensitive younglings and padawans especially. Teenage padawans eating food from outside the temple for the first time on missions and developing a taste for “angry” food or “drunk” food (ie the cook was angry/drunk when they made it) the way some kids who grew up eating beans and rice get really into ghost peppers and shit when they get older.

Doctor Who Christmas special where the Doctor takes an aging tv actor back to the 1960s to see an episode of tv that’s been lost forever because the BBC junked it (he can’t prevent the junking, it’s a fixed point) and ends up fighting alien baddies and in the struggle the Doctor accidentally knocks a whole shelf of film reel into a fire because oh no! Turns out he was responsible for the destruction of the BBC archives the entire time! And then he turns to the camera to wish the viewers a happy Christmas

What are some chronic illnesses that can only occur in a fantasy setting?

Sensitivity to ambient magic - like the thing where peoples’ joints ache before a storm but for being near ley lines or people with a lot of magic built up or other magic reservoirs. - The potential for magic, but where the magic has not yet begun.

going to the bathroom and because i touched my penis i wash my hands very thoroughly and then i walk into the bedroom to immediately put a penis in my mouth. i feel like there's a certain futility here.

we're honestly completely fucked if zombies ever discover the power of working together synchronously using an agile team collaboration framework

First Warioware minigame in Tumblr.

Creator of viral indie web series dies in a bizarre gardening accident; after the sponsoring studio elects to continue the series without them, the fandom must grapple with the awkward realisation that the writing has actually improved.

I'm imagining a world where RPGMaker somehow made it as the de facto codebase for software and you have to navigate your banking app by walking around in a huge room full of NPCs named "make deposit" and "make withdrawal" etc and there's loud as fuck stock music playing

Image comics is putting the first issue of The Power Fantasy online for free and I'm encouraging all of my followers to read it. An incredible parable on mutually assured destruction, the way power warps the world around you, how both cynicism and idealism won't prevent you from doing atrocities, and how Marvel should be writing the X-Men

Years ago, someone said something to the effect that the difference between Worm and Marvel and DC is that Marvel and DC have more characters with continent breaking powers, but Worm has more broken continents. If you liked that aspect of Worm, then you should definitely check out TPF.

such a slapdash little silly comic gettin this much attention makes my head spin…! thank you for everyone being so niceys to me ! i think this might have been the push i needed to post my art online? who knows.

This is admittedly a very specialised peeve, but it annoys me tremendously how "transmit the HTML that will actually produce the web page the user is supposed to see" is regarded as, like, a cutting-edge optimisation in modern web design. Like, no, you don't get to send an empty page, then max out the client's CPU puzzle-piecing together the results of 150 separate AJAX calls browser side. If I type an address into my web browser and the HTML structure of the resulting page isn't deliverable in a single HTTP request, you have fucked up. Start over.

If your framework simply assumes that all 150 of those AJAX calls will succeed every single time and has no graceful degradation path when that's not the case, I should legally be allowed to kill you.

You need to understand that this is my moderate position on this matter. This is me trying to meet people halfway. My actual opinion is that websites and web-based apps should retain the ability to deliver their core functions when the user has both CSS and Javascript turned off.

I know, I know, torment nexus. Very bad. But I do think it's funny that Victoria has Carol saved in her phone as "Parental Unit 1".

Marie Curie's notebooks are crazy once you think about it. They're so radioactive they have to be sealed in a lead box. Imagine a world where atomic theory is forgotten and a dude just goes "yea there's a book that details the secrets of the universe, the machinations of the creation of existence down to its barest essentials, but if you get close to it you fucking die. The more you read it the more your body slowly disassembles into mush." like wat excuse me

"Written by the wizardess Maria Skłodowska-Curie, these ancient tomes detail the arcane forces which killed her. To this day, these texts emanate that same poison. Approach them at your own peril."

3. Brother I Have No Idea What Is Happening Let Me Consult My Trusted Advisor

You know, I made this post with a very specific context (how people see me, a married muslim lady in a hijab, and automatically assume I’m oppressed) but all these additions are absolutely sending me and the notes are delightful so by all means, please continue

This is admittedly a very specialised peeve, but it annoys me tremendously how "transmit the HTML that will actually produce the web page the user is supposed to see" is regarded as, like, a cutting-edge optimisation in modern web design. Like, no, you don't get to send an empty page, then max out the client's CPU puzzle-piecing together the results of 150 separate AJAX calls browser side. If I type an address into my web browser and the HTML structure of the resulting page isn't deliverable in a single HTTP request, you have fucked up. Start over.

If your framework simply assumes that all 150 of those AJAX calls will succeed every single time and has no graceful degradation path when that's not the case, I should legally be allowed to kill you.