Hey you wanna come over and dip bread into olive oil and balsamic vinegar and such?

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Precious Lee's gigantic dragonfly wings are incredible!

"Why are there so many female archers in fiction?"

Please forgive the clickbait-y title! This is a super complex and interesting topic that I barely scratch the surface of here, but I hopefully will be able to do more justice to things like this in the future!

Also, it's not the point of the video, but I had fun with the outfits in this- do you have any faves?

As always, please consider supporting me on Patreon if you can, or watching on youtube if not!

The Hays code wasn’t just about censoring sex and violence; it was also about enforcing gender norms. This is an insightful video.

I’m torn between the blue sundress and the kilt + harness for Best Outfit.

bells hells chaos, volume 5: witchy bitch edition

New more mature way of dealing with being bad at things I thought i would be good at

Sitting whispering to my self " being bad at stuff is normal part of on the way to being good at it" over and over (still angry)

i was thinking about that post comparing Jessica Rabbit as an asexual to Barbie and an asexual and then i thought of the Neil Gaiman post (was it a post?) about Crowley and Aziraphale being asexual and then this happened.

anyways. thoughts?

You are so brave and correct for this

Do you ever become mutuals with someone you share an intense interest with and it becomes this limbo of "I want to be your friend SO fucking bad but I'll eat a shoe before dm-ing first"

Spam-liking their posts wistfully like a medieval knight wearing a lady's favor to battle for he knows he shall never hold her hand

my quality of life has improved tenfold ever since i was introduced to breezewiki, a site that exists solely to remove the bloat from fandom.com wikis. no more ads, quizzes, random autoplaying videos, popups, recommended pages from other sites, or discord server member lists. just the wiki. these things are finally readable again

BreezeWiki is SOOOO good! they even have an instruction manual on their site for adding an extension to your browser that will automatically redirect you to the BreezeWiki version of any Fandom link you happen to visit, which has been an absolute game-changer for me. i’ve literally already forgotten what regular Fandom pages looked like, it’s beautiful.

i just discovered today that they ALSO have a function (if you install the auto-redirect extension) that will usually stop you to let you know if a Fandom wiki you’re visiting has a non-Fandom alternative you can visit instead. for example i was trying to look up a Zelda thing today and was greeted with this message:

so yeah, love the work they’re doing over there! can’t recommend BreezeWiki enough. i wish an inevitable and humiliating death to Fandom and i’m very grateful for intrepid heroes like these folks.

I'm so extremely serious when I say doctors should be put through an extremely extensive reliscensing process every 10 years. Doctors should have their knowledge scrutinized against current medical research and be de-barred at even the tiniest discrepancy. Too many old doctors absolutely refuse to stay up to date on research and dismiss patients because of their personal experiences. Too many people die every year because doctors don't take us seriously and refuse to listen to people who KNOW something is wrong. Too many people are told their problems are nothing and come back in a year or more with serious illnesses and doctors are just like "lol everyone makes mistakes" but doctors mistakes routinely cost people their lives! I'm tired of medical malpractice being swept away under the guise of "mistakes were made."

If lawyers have to take 20-30 hours of continuing law education classes every single year, doctors should have to go through a reliscencing process every 10.

they’re called love handles because. i love the handles. is that anything

they’re called love handles because i handles them with love

Third wheeling (and wingmanning) at canaan house

Gideon The Ninth

Pride and Prejudice + Letterbox Reviews

dont you just love environmental storytelling

cannot stop thinking about some Solstryce Academy freshman in 10-20 years being like, “…and for Transmutation 101 I have Widogast. He seems kinda dry, lecture-wise, but there was a cat on his desk the whole time so, like, pretty good?”

“Oh hell yeah!” says the other student in the cafeteria. “You got Widogast? I’m so jealous. I heard he nearly gets fired or even arrested like every other year for treasonous rhetoric.”

“What.”

“Yeah! Also, the cat. He has like three I think.”

A third student leans across the table to speak in an undertone. “I heard he used to be a Volstrucker.”

“Volstruckers aren’t real,” scoffs Student B. “What’s real is he - ” They lean in and lower their voice even more. “He and Archmage Beck used to be a thing.”

“Bullshit.”

“It’s true!”

“It’s true.” An older student, eavesdropping, leans over from the adjacent table. “I was there when she came and arrested him personally two years ago. They had tension, man. When she handcuffed him…”

“I wish Archmage Beck would handcuff me,” Student C says wistfully.

Halfway through class one day, he stops abruptly in the middle of a sentence, hand with chalk frozen at the board. Then he says, “Do not worry, Jester, I’ll be there as soon as possible. Save your spell slots; I’ll contact the others. Care for Fjord, delay if possible.” Then he puts the chalk down and looks back to the students, as he starts gathering books off his desk. “Class is dismissed - I have a family emergency to attend to. Read Chapter 15 and prepare to discuss it next week - and extra credit to the first person who can find me Expositor Lionett of the Cobalt Soul or her wife, and ask them to come immediately. Tell her Fjord’s old snake friend may be waking up at last.”

He strides out of the room without waiting for a response, books under one arm, drawing bright sigils in the air to cast a wizard’s Sending as he walks. “Old friend, do you have Teleport today, or a circle? Our captain needs urgent help, all of us. I’ll gather the ladies - can you Caduceus?”

The classroom was silent as the professor walked in. Professor Widogast looked much like he always did, though perhaps his hair a little singed, a few bandages placed haphazardly across his arms and one on his neck. He looked at his wide eyed classroom before putting his texts on his desk and sighing; he’d get no teaching done today.

“Alright, questions one at a time please,” he murmured.

Immediately every hand shot up. He pointed to a shorter student near the back, her balance shifting from side to side.

“Sorry, professor, but is it true you actually exploded a ship into a giant sea serpent like everyone’s been on about?”

It was going to be a long day.

#is it true you were fighting pirates? no they were on our side actually#are you a pirate? not anymore#did you kill the snake? not yet but I’m catching up to help after class#what happened to your neck?#*thinks back about Essek kissing him hard that night after they returned high on adrenaline and adventuring excitement*#oh just a run in with a very dangerous mage#students: :O (via @princessamericachavez)

“Did you hear? There’s a blue cat on Professor Widogast’s desk! Not ‘blue’ like how people describe grey cats. ‘Blue’ like bright blue!”

“I went in to check it out, and it smirked at me, I swear!”

“Sure, dude, whatever you say.”

The news traveled quickly through the halls of the Soltryce Academy that morning, finally reaching the assumed owner of the cat later that morning as he made his way to his classroom.

For a man who could teleport, Professor Widogast sure could run.

But by the time he got there, a student curiously peeking through the door could swear that the cat vanished with a flourish of a green cloak, despite no one else being in the room.

The next morning, not one textbook was lacking a dick drawing.

overheard (ok, eavesdropped) by Professor Widogast’s TA a month after King Dwendall’s youngest son enrolled in the academy; never repeated or spoken of to absolutely anyone:

“…he is brash, he is feckless, he does not spare a thought for another living soul save for what they can do for him - and on any matter of import, he quotes Ludinis Dereth without realizing he is doing so!”

“Listen Caleb, I pulled strings to get that brat into your classroom for four hours a week. I soothed feathers. And despite the fact that you and your library friends are constantly trying to undermine my power, I have saved you from getting fired or worse on at least three occasions - ”

“Beauregard has saved me from getting fired, or I have. You have had me arrested twice.”

“And were you charged with treason? This is the life I picked and this is yours. We both know how impressionable young minds are at this age - ”

“Astrid - ”

“So, you have four hours a week. So, Professor Widogast - teach.”