Faith, Trust, and Fanfic Smut ************************

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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Some more Imodna thoughts:

Marisha was (if we take her at her word, which why not) trying to play an unromanceable PC. Just didn’t think of it. Wasn’t expecting it. Obviously as a player picked up on what Laura was putting down but was trying to dodge it as best she could.

But Laura Bailey is the ttrpg equivalent of a Dragon Age modder. Ain’t nobody non-romanceable without explicitly being Aro, or exclusively into men.

And over 65 episodes, Marisha crafted a story about a girl who thought she was too monstrous for love. One who didn’t let herself think of it. One who was more afraid to lose what she had in a best friend than to let it be anymore.

And Laura just played Imogen as a dumpster fire sapphic failgirl in love with her best friend from the start. And one who couldn’t make the first move, because she’d forever have to hear Laudna’s thoughts rejecting her. So That Burn Was So Slow.

But burn it did. And things built up perfectly. Imogen had the protection of the circlet, meaning she’d only have to endure heartache not a constant bombardment of thoughts. For one of the first times, Laudna was the jealous one. And after weeks apart. Weeks of not seeing each other. It was the push they needed.

And Laura gave Marisha the chance to say no. It would have been heartbreak and drama and they would have done a hellova good job with that. But Marisha made sure that Laudna not only initiated the second kiss, but fuckin pranced around when they reunited with the group and that’s super important to show Laudna accepting of and happy with that change. That chance.

Anyway I have a normal amount of feelings about this.

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You wouldn’t think that flamingoes are extremophiles just from looking at them. It’s like somebody tried to build the vertebrate equivalent of that fungus that lives inside nuclear reactors, and ended up with a gangly pink dinosaur with a spoon for a face.

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For everyone in the comments asking how flamingos are extremophiles:

Flamingos can survive in low oxygen, high altitude, high temperatures, low temperatures, high alkaline, they can and will drink boiling water and they can be completely frozen at night and still get up the next morning

Don’t fuck with flamingos

revretch

….. Didn’t know most of that

iamthekaijuking

Huh… so that’s why zoos don’t put them somewhere warm during winter.

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Oh yeah, this leaves out what I *did* know about them–they can also survive hypersalinity. That is, water so salty it kills practically everything else–water so salty it burns your skin.

American flamingos just drink that shit

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(animal death) this is a real undoctored photograph (*though the body was stood up for the shot) of a dead flamingo on the surface of lake natron, a lake so salty and so alkaline that it’s naturally carbonated like soda and would eat through your stomach lining if you drank from it.

When this photo went viral years ago, most people assumed this poor flamingo must have been killed by the lake.

It is actually the lake where 75% of its global population are hatched. This is a photo from the same lake:

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Some species of flamingo actually subsist almost entirely on a diet of bacteria! In other words, there is a species of dinosaur that eats only bacteria and lives in lakes so toxic they would kill almost anything else—and it is best known to the average person as a kitschy lawn decoration.

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Earth is an amazing place.

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Draculaura says "Now, some monsters think that all vampires are from Transylvania, like my dad. But my mom was born in Taiwan!"ALT
Holding up a picture of her mom, she says "When I'm on my mom's side of the vamp family, we speak Mandarin." She demonstrates and says "Nǐ hǎo! Wǒ de míng zi shì Draculaura!"ALT
Draculaura finishes and says "And that's my Scare-itage!" Everyone claps and she bows.ALT

Half-Taiwanese Draculaura

[ID: Gifs of Draculaura giving her Scare-itage presentation from Monster High (2022) episode Creature Clash.

  1. Draculaura says "Now, some monsters think that all vampires are from Transylvania, like my dad. But my mom was born in Taiwan!"
  2. Holding up a picture of her mom, she says "When I'm on my mom's side of the vamp family, we speak Mandarin." She demonstrates and says "Nǐ hǎo! Wǒ de míng zi shì Draculaura!"
  3. Draculaura finishes and says "And that's my Scare-itage!" Everyone claps and she bows. End ID]
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ofdarkestdesires

Here’s the reason why Ludinus is full of shit.

Because of course he’s full of shit, but exactly how he’s full of shit isn’t super obvious. He goes about saying the gods are evil puppet masters, and in some regards he’s right—in some pantheons, in some specific viewpoints, in some specific cults, some of the gods are in fact puppet masters.

But that’s not his true purpose.

Between his flowery language and his cultish sermons on the god-eater, he let slip his one true belief that has been guiding everything in his mind. He believes that if you gain magic by any manner other than by studying and claiming it for yourself, you’re doing it wrong. You’re cheating.

He saw the destruction of his world at the hands of the gods—betrayer and divine alike—and saw it as a symptom of living in a world where people cheat the system. Where deference to a god gave them power. And if you took away their god, they would lose their belief, and they would lose their power.

And if everyone who cheats for power loses, that leaves only the ones who claimed power for themselves the “right” way to rule.

This isn’t about freedom. It’s about submission. It’s about forcing a hard reset, back to the Age of Arcanum, back to an era where the mages held power, and the only limitations to their marvels—and their cruelties—were the beings that created them.

Only this time, those beings are gone.

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maybe i'm just a grumpy english major but i feel like a lot of the "lol people think shakespeare is pretentious but actually his plays are just dick jokes and swordfighting" posting can verge into "lol what if the curtains are just blue" territory. yes shakespeare plays are full of those things AND they are also profound and complex and thematically rich. people spend their careers analyzing them for a reason, actually. it's not just dick jokes all the way down. and sometimes people spend their careers analyzing the dick jokes. stop trying to pick one side of the dichotomy between high and low culture. it's both. it can be both.