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for people who are unaware of why the riots in minneapolis started happening, here’s the facts:

• it wasn’t george floyd’s protesters who started reacting violently; it was the cops.
• the protest was peaceful until the cops showed up in riot gear, and started using water cannons, followed up by tear gas and rubber bullets. i got videos from friends who were there, of people screaming and running away from the cops shooting the water cannons, rubber bullets and throwing tear gas at them. they were even shooting at the protesters dragging people away to get medical attention.
• speaking of medical attention, dispatch refused to provide any medical attention to the protesters. people literally had to drive their bleeding friends to the hospital because they refused to send ambulances.
• cops are using non-lethal weapons in a lethal way. they shot rubber bullets into people’s heads and injured them. there’s dozens of photos of protesters with bleeding head wounds from the rubber bullets.
• multiple people used police scanners and heard that there were undercover cops pretending to be violent protesters who were throwing rocks and whatnot at the police, with dozens of eyewitness accounts confirming that information.
• the person who instigated all the chaos last night (it was a fire at an autozone) with the looting and burning buildings is highly suspected to be an undercover cop pretending to be a protester, because the video of him keeps getting taken down. protesters tried to stop him but couldn’t because he had a hammer and they were scared for their safety.
  
• the cops jammed cell phone towers and cut live streams to interrupt broadcasts and to prevent people from seeing what was really going on and who actually started the violence.
• the cops lied about protesters being armed and about throwing rocks and are literally trying to continue the violence happening and yet no one is holding them accountable for that.
• and during all this, the cop that murdered george floyd still hasn’t been arrested. he has had more than ten complaints filed against him and was involved in three other civilian shootings in the past. and yet he’s still out free along with his three other buddies involved, probably sitting on his couch while all this chaos is happening.

so don’t get it twisted. the cops just want to change the narrative to make it look like they’re the wounded and righteous party, when they’re the ones who started reacting violently in the first place and are still acting violently. so don’t you ever forget who started this tragedy and murdered someone, and who are continuing to react to the situation with violence. 

quick update

• news outlets have mainly been reporting on the burning buildings and looting instead of the people still peacefully protesting. mainly showing black people looting, and not the dozens of white people and others who looted places either. they also aren’t really showing everyone who’s cleaning up (especially all the black people cleaning up) or the protesters who have tried to stop the looting (especially the black people who’ve tried to prevent the looting). they’re painting a nasty narrative. so here’s a gofundme page for a black man who’s been trying to clean up with some helpers and give people water, food, etc during their cleanup.
• cops are still using tear gas, rubber bullets, pepper balls, etc against peaceful protesters. i watched a facebook friend go live last night and they were peacefully protesting and still got hit with tear gas. so don’t let the media and cops fool you into thinking that they’re only using those means with the looters or people acting violently. if you’re a protester, you’re a target. so to anyone out there protesting, please be careful.
• the governor called in and got the national guard involved with all the rioting and protests, which are starting to move away from minneapolis into the surrounding cities. he also held a press conference this morning, saying that he “recognizes our generations of pain and anguish, but order must be restored”. here’s an article about it.
• cops arrested a reporter and his crew live on cnn. they ended up releasing them. but the fact that they’re arresting reporters for doing their jobs and who are really trying to show what’s going on, should concern you. the fact they were arrested before the man who murdered george floyd is disturbing. here’s an article about it.
• if you don’t think the federal government or cops just want to resort to violence against the protesters, well, think again! last night, trump and the white house made this tweet (click view to see it once you get to the page) about the situation saying that military is on the governor’s side and they’ll resort to killing protesters for looting. here’s an article about it.
• and again, while all this is going on, the cops involved still haven’t been arrested for murdering george floyd, despite some of them having a prior history of doing not so stellar things during their careers as cops. in fact, the man that killed him (derek chauvin) has cops protecting him at his house. they’re protecting a murderer to protect their own, and have made their stances clear on the matter.

justice will not be served until all four cops are put away behind bars. they murdered an innocent black man senselessly, and deserve to rot in jail. don’t stop fighting until they’re locked away where they belong.

another quick update

• derek chauvin has finally been arrested for murder 

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we joke about “irl kin drama” but as someone who’s experienced probably the closest thing to that i can say with personal experience to back me up that it’s honestly better it stays confined to the internet

to elaborate: it’s the fall of my high school graduation year, and for our final text my english literature teacher tells us we’re going to be studying hamlet. you can probably guess where this is going, but i’ll set the scene for you anyway.

there are two (deeply closeted) gay people in my english literature class: me, and this girl whose name i can’t remember but who i had an intense rivalry with because i hated her for other reasons than being gay but she was the only other gay person i knew and it bothered me that we couldn’t kiss because i loathed the sight of her but i still daydreamed of making out with her against the lockers sometimes.

anyway, now i’ve established i’m a certified fucking weirdo, the drama: as you can probably guess, both of us immediately identified with hamlet and, in typical english literature gay fashion, had strong opinions on the subject of his character and how it should be interpreted (the most important thing being that he was Very Fucking Gay). this would have been fine on its own, however i have already mentioned our rivalry, and that was where the problem lies. you see, both of us were so desperate to be ‘the hamlet gay’ of the class, and not just in a reading his lines when the teacher called on people way.

so what ensued was basically an increasingly ridiculous contest to prove we understood hamlet better than anyone else in the class, to the point that we both attempted to basically become him. i spent the majority of my final year in high school in a deep depression wearing black pants and sweaters and reading very pretentious philosophical texts i didn’t give a shit about (while listening to mcr on my phone, which is never mentioned in the original shakespearean texts but which i choose to believe was only left out because it wasn’t relevant to hamlet’s story), begging my parents to let me dye my hair blonde or at least get a bob cut, and seething with jealous rage every time the teacher picked her to play hamlet instead of me, which made things REALLY awkward when i was inevitably picked to play horatio since i was the only other person passionate enough about the play to be worth choosing to deliver his lines, since as we all know hamlet was Big Gay for horatio and neither of us were willing to break character and let the other win.

anyway then we graduated and i never saw or thought of her again until now but kinning hamlet irl for nearly a year was the first thing that made me realize that i might not be cis so i think i won.

let me just say if this was a confessional you would get excommunicated so fucking fast.

you say that like you think it isn’t a compliment

manywinged:

we joke about “irl kin drama” but as someone who’s experienced probably the closest thing to that i can say with personal experience to back me up that it’s honestly better it stays confined to the internet

to elaborate: it’s the fall of my high school graduation year, and for our final text my english literature teacher tells us we’re going to be studying hamlet. you can probably guess where this is going, but i’ll set the scene for you anyway.

there are two (deeply closeted) gay people in my english literature class: me, and this girl whose name i can’t remember but who i had an intense rivalry with because i hated her for other reasons than being gay but she was the only other gay person i knew and it bothered me that we couldn’t kiss because i loathed the sight of her but i still daydreamed of making out with her against the lockers sometimes.

anyway, now i’ve established i’m a certified fucking weirdo, the drama: as you can probably guess, both of us immediately identified with hamlet and, in typical english literature gay fashion, had strong opinions on the subject of his character and how it should be interpreted (the most important thing being that he was Very Fucking Gay). this would have been fine on its own, however i have already mentioned our rivalry, and that was where the problem lies. you see, both of us were so desperate to be ‘the hamlet gay’ of the class, and not just in a reading his lines when the teacher called on people way.

so what ensued was basically an increasingly ridiculous contest to prove we understood hamlet better than anyone else in the class, to the point that we both attempted to basically become him. i spent the majority of my final year in high school in a deep depression wearing black pants and sweaters and reading very pretentious philosophical texts i didn’t give a shit about (while listening to mcr on my phone, which is never mentioned in the original shakespearean texts but which i choose to believe was only left out because it wasn’t relevant to hamlet’s story), begging my parents to let me dye my hair blonde or at least get a bob cut, and seething with jealous rage every time the teacher picked her to play hamlet instead of me, which made things REALLY awkward when i was inevitably picked to play horatio since i was the only other person passionate enough about the play to be worth choosing to deliver his lines, since as we all know hamlet was Big Gay for horatio and neither of us were willing to break character and let the other win.

anyway then we graduated and i never saw or thought of her again until now but kinning hamlet irl for nearly a year was the first thing that made me realize that i might not be cis so i think i won.

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The Anatomy of a mermaid

yes, thanks.

i hate when people draws mermaid’s tail like it was some sort of goddamn suit on normal human legs like this:

it just doesnt work

yeah we wouldnt want to make our mermaids too unrealistic

this asks more questions than it answers. they don’t really have vestigial legs, like those aren’t even motile fins, so why do they still have fully formed hips, why hasn’t the pelvic bone changed significantly? and where did the tail come from?

[proto whale]

[orca skelly]

whales as we know them evolved from land animals that went back out to sea, and it’s all spine all the way down to the tail fin. the pelvis is vestigial to the point of being tiny and unrecognizable, and the rear leg structure is //gone//. and by the time they evolved all that, their forelegs had turned into proper fins and they didn’t have hourglass figures, because they built up walls of insulating fat and blubber where it was needed most - around the vital organs.

[walrus skelly]

which brings us to the walrus. as you can see the skeletal structure and the external appearance are fairly ursiform - the rear legs are basically still in there forming the tail, and the pelvis is intact, and above that it may as well still be a land animal. if mermaids did exist, as hominids who went back out to sea, and if they hadn’t evolved into basically dolphins, then a walrus skeletal system, complete with vestigial thigh bones inside a kind of muscle skirt, and with significant fat and blubber deposits //on the main body// would be most likely. which is to say, mermaids with human torsos and seagoing lower bodies would waddle around on their tails, have clearly defined thigh structures, and would be a hell of a lot rounder above and about the waist than they’re usually depicted.

which begs the question, then, if you see a mermaid and it’s a skinny little thing with a slinky waist and an eel-like tail and a perfect bosom and a coy smile, //why does it look like that//? because whatever that is? it is not a land animal that readapted to the sea. it is not your distant kin. it is a sea creature that adapted //to get your attention//.

maybe it’s all an illusion, a frilly mane, an hourglass shape, and narrow antennae that mimic the shape of human arms, waving lonely sailors into the water, only to realize too late the bioluminescent patterns of lipstick and pert breasts are to distract from what lies behind them - viselike jaws and row after row of stiletto teeth.

or maybe it’s all soft tissue, the gelatinous bell of a jellyfish folded into a pleasing shape, luring the unwary down to be caught up in a tail that is nothing more than thousands of barbed lines of stinging neurotoxin cells.

or it could be that the tail goes deep into a shadowy well, and the beautiful woman is a mask for a single enormous jaw, the internal skeleton just the endless spine and ribs of a vast and hungry sea snake.

or, perhaps most terrifyingly, the face is real but not the face of the eyes looking out of it - a human mask for an intelligence both cold and calculating, wearing an inviting smile to bring you within reach of the dagger behind it’s back. waiting to slice the skin off of you because it needs a new disguise, because it is shaped like you but does not look like you, because it must pass as you so it can go among you, so that by starlight it may go on land and into town, where your kin are sleeping, unsuspecting.

Jesus Christ back up a minute buddy

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I am reading scholarly works about Jane Austen and having hearteyes about obscure details in the Pemberley chapters of P&P that indicate Mr. Darcy’s sustainable land management praxis.

Okay, let’s talk about Pemberley!

Austen, as a rule, doesn’t spend many paragraphs describing locations. There’s often information to be gleaned from their names (Sense and Sensibility is full of lurking references to sexual scandals and Mansfield Park to slavery), but Longbourn just means “long stream” or “long boundary,” Netherfield means “lower field,” and Rosings’ original owner was a redhead. Meryton, a pun on “merry town,” is kind of fascinating, given the installment of the militia and the threat to stability and serenity they represent. Partying and shenanigans. Possibly a Shakespeare ref.

Longbourn barely gets any description at all. From the get-go, everyone who lives there is obsessed with other places, with getting out (except Mr. Bennet, who never wants to leave his library, never mind the house). Lady Catherine deems it small and mildly uncomfortable, which is in keeping with the theme of confinement, but also it’s Lady Catherine talking. Netherfield can’t tell us much about Bingley, who is only a tenant. Rosings is expensively, ostentatiously modern and gaudily furnished, though it has a handsome park that Lady Catherine and her stifled daughter never set foot in but Elizabeth and Darcy both frequently escape to during their stays.

So it’s notable and wonderful that Austen goes out of her way to describe Pemberley as an old-fashioned, highly successful, working estate. Its practical old Anglo-Saxon name means “Pember’s clearing.” A pember is a man who grows barley. Darcy most likely still does. As Elizabeth and the Gardiners approach and tour the house, they notice and admire its beautiful surrounding woods, and then when they wander outside, the specific word Austen uses is coppice woods. A coppice is a woodland filled with tree species that grow new shoots from their stumps when you chop them down. Darcy probably has oaks on a fifty-year cycle as well as faster-growing species such as hawthorn and hornbeam for firewood, timber and cattle fodder. Coppice forestry is functional and sustainable, and provides habitat for beasts and birds.

Darcy is the anti-John Dashwood (Dashwood, srsly), the brother in Sense and Sensibility who inherits Elinor and Marianne’s childhood estate of Norland, whose wife immediately starts making plans to hack down trees (not even coppice trees, but big, gorgeous, venerable hardwoods) to make way for a folly. Jane Austen hated follies. Also, it ought to be noted that timber was so valuable in Britain at the time that estates often had inheritance clauses that detailed who was and wasn’t allowed to chop down what.

Darcy’s a food producer and land conservator, prefers nature over fussy, ornamental landscape design, his servants and tenants like him, he gives money to the poor… and… he’s a trout fisherman! He shoots, too, as do Bingley and Hurst and Mr. Bennet, but it’s a particular mark in his favour that Austen singles him and Mr. Gardiner out as anglers. It’s a pastime that signifies a taste for contemplation and quietness and appreciation of nature, as blissfully described in The Compleat Angler; or, The Contemplative Man’s Recreation, a hugely popular travel book first published in the 1600s and reprinted often for 18th C libraries. The plot of The Compleat Angler is about the conversion of a hunter (pastime of the ultra-rich) to a fisherman who learns to love the peaceful sport. We receive ample evidence elsewhere that Darcy is a man capable of swift, decisive action and formidable effectiveness. But at Pemberley, Austen takes care to show us how he’s balanced.

Most of the information in this post comes from Margaret Doody’s Jane Austen’s Names. 

I didn’t know any of this!  I always thought it was a bit odd how her viewing the estate changed her views of the man himself, as if it was about how big the place was.  Instead it was how he cared for the land / people.  Fascinating!  Completely missed that.

It’s literally his character reference! Most women at the time had to marry for financial security, yet marriage was horribly risky, because divorce was almost impossible. If you married someone you didn’t know well, and he turned out to be lazy, irresponsible, or abusive, you were stuck. 

This is why so many Austen heroes are mature, almost frumpy men the heroines have known for years. Local fellows with family ties. They don’t offer breathless romances; the happy endings they offer are happy because they are safe.

Darcy is not a local boy. Darcy is not a fully formed, baggable Austen hero when he proposes at Hunsford, not just because he’s rude af, but because Lizzy doesn’t know him well enough yet. She has no real way of knowing how he would treat her. Austen sends Lizzy to Pemberley not to dazzle her with Darcy’s wealth, but to provide her with good, hard evidence of his treatment of the people under his protection, including his tenants, his sister, and the intelligent, dignified housekeeper who has known him since he was a toddler.

Character references established, we may proceed with the romance.

(n.b. He doesn’t know her either, until she’s rejected him. He proposes, despite his giant pile of reservations, because he’s so horny for her he can’t stand it (at least, to his credit, he’s turned on by her brains as much as her hot little bod), but only after her refusal does he realize how completely he has failed to understand this woman or make himself worthy of her. He falls in love for real only after she has demanded that he live up to his own high standards. Refreshing, ain’t it?)

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There is nothing funnier to me than poorly redrawn trollfaces made around the time everyone was mocking people who made rage comics

This post is a gift.

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Today’s problem

what do chairs for dragons look like.

big comfy piles of pillows

Well, that don’t work in the scene I’m doing it’s too cute not to draw.

DAWWW SO CUTE :>

they use human chairs but really badly

same

Wait elongated chairs y’all. Eight chair legs instead of one, they can lie down majestically and put their chins on the table like they were always meant to.

@basiliskfree

I’m not sure if this is silly or a good idea lol

it’s not polite!

you’re a dragon manners mean jackshit nothing

excuse you dragons are pillars of nobility and composure

you’re a dragon. who’s gonna stop you? hmm? the dragon politeness upkeep taskforce?

I mean other dragons are really the only thing a dragon fears

Date a dragon who uses big comfy piles of pillows as chairs 

Date a dragon who tries to use chairs for humans but has trouble 

Date a dragon who uses elongated chairs made just for dragons 

Date a dragon who is a pillar of nobility and composure 

Date a dragon who rests their chin on the table 

I love this post way too much not to reblog it.

AaaaAAAAAAAAAA

The cutest damn things Ive ever seen

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a solution: giant beanbag chairs

Draw that in a separate post also these

I just lay on the floor. Maybe with something soft under me.

Just…
Idk
Try

If I don’t reblog the dragon chair post, assume I’m dead.

@shiraglassman have you seen all these?

your basement - are you fucking kidding me right now? no. absolutely not. it doesn’t matter if you live in a one-room studio flat or an enormous spooky castle. have some originality. a fucking basement. i’d be insulted.

rating - 1/10. there are worse places, but i can’t think of many.

a fast food place - while there’s something to be said for the energy of whipping out a ouija board in a subway or making a pentagram out of mcdonald’s bbq sauce, you’d hardly be the first person to try, and i’ve found that most places have ways of dealing with this sort of thing that usually involve your speedy removal from the establishment. not the coolest friday night you’ll ever have.

rating - 4/10. it’s all fun and games until you get thrown out on your ass, and making life harder for people in retail is never a good look.

a fancy restaurant - slightly more dignified than your local burger king, and most upscale places have candles, which are better for summoning. you might find that the setting gives off mixed signals, though. after all, if i found myself in a nice place surrounded by candles, i might just think it was a date. unless that’s exactly the vibe you’re going for, of course ;)

rating - 6/10. you might think you’re willing to risk it all, but will that change when the hordes of hell answer your call?

gothic victorian mansion - oh, fuck yes. this place has excellent demon-summoning vibes. try it on a dark, stormy night in your living room with the enormous fireplace and windows so that lightning flashes across your face as you chant the verses from the likely cursed ancient tome of forbidden arcane knowledge you found in the secret passageway behind the bookcase in the library.

rating - 9/10, it’s practically perfect but it ain’t cheap, and renting a mansion just doesn’t have the same style as owning it

the woods - like the spooky mansion, it has the vibes going for it. you might also summon a few large predatory woodland creatures with your bloody sacrificial offering though. good thing you brought that ceremonial dagger.

rating - 8/10 would risk getting mauled by a wild animal again

waffle house parking lot - i don’t know what to call the Energy that comes with squatting in an empty lot at midnight setting up a fiery pentagram on the asphalt, but it’s definitely something powerful. just watch out - what you think is a successfully summoned and bound demon may turn out to be an angry feral raccoon.

rating - 10/10. even if you don’t manage to summon a demon, you’re bound to have an Experience. after all, it’s not about the eldritch horrors you unleash upon the world, it’s about the memories you make.

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Size comparison of Y’gathok, the Ceaseless Hunger and Bjorn, our level 20 Goliath Barbarian.

Hey quick question: why the FUCK do you have that

Imagine, from out of nowhere, your dm casually slapping this thing down on the table like any other encounter.

“Yeah, the fight will start in a sec, uh…I’ll give inspiration to whomever helps me get this fucking box out of my car.”

https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/7asxci/oc_ygathok_the_ceaseless_hunger_final_boss_of_our/

This is the reveal of this ridiculousness during their game

Please watch this reveal video it’s kickass

FUCK ME  the reveal video

“CHRIS??????”

“Um, I don’t think our plan is gonna work.”

Always reblog Y'gathok

DM:*Pulls out Y’gothok* *Turns on “Open Your Heart” by Crush 40*

Wow that DM really goes above and beyond

Reblogging Ygathok because it’s been one year since we fought him!!!! It just popped up on my timeline today!

Happy one year anniversary, our precious Old God boi!!!

One year ago today, this boy was revealed.

And for you guys, I have great news: I have the stats of Y’gathok complete and a general design for “how to use him” done. However, an adventure guide is incoming to teach you how to integrate him into any of your worlds!

Goddamn. That’s how you DM with style

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God I was REALLY fucking hoping I’d be able to avoid having to make this post but here I am.  If you guys remember my last crowdfunding post, I needed help paying my upcoming electric bill bc my job search (which has been ongoing since before my move) has so far turned up nothing.  I really don’t want to make this too long but basically, I’ve been looking for a job for three plus months and despite so many applications and some interviews here and there, I’ve had absolutely no luck.  The money that I managed to raise/save up last year before my move in December was enough to cover three months and when March comes, I will need $600 for the rent.  I have no job currently and no alternative streams of income so in order to keep from becoming homeless again I really need your help.

This area of the U.S. has scant if any renters’ protection laws so I have pretty much zero wiggle room in terms of time frame and it’s very important that this goal is met before March 7th.  It’s also the absolute dead of winter and it just keep getting colder so I losing my apartment in this weather is the absolute last thing I need.  My car isn’t in this state currently so I don’t even have that to sleep in and even if I did, in this weather is would 100% kill me. I don’t talk about it often on here because I’m so glad to be past it now but my housing crisis last year was literally one of the most stressful and harrowing periods of my very young life!  I hate thinking about it and I still live in terror of ever experiencing that again.  It had a seriously negative effect on my physical and mental health and I would be beyond appreciative if I could have y’all’s help in keeping me out of another situation like that.

I’m collecting enough for two months so I can have a little peace of mind while I keep searching for a job.  If everyone who follows me donated just $1 I would have more than enough to stay safe and housing secure for a very long time so please consider donating!  If you can’t donate for any reason, you’re being just as helpful by reblogging this post!

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