Another convo with my DnD players
Player: Hey, we had a complex social encounter with bandits who I didn’t kill!
Me: “I have a very large axe” is not complex.
Player: It was a hammer. The axe is smaller.
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the signs as quotes from goncharov (1973)
aries: “somebody’s gotta fix this fuckin’ clock, every god damn day it’s clickin’ and fussin’ and layin’ eggs, i’m sayin’ you can’t get a good timepiece ‘round these parts…” (mario monologues for several more minutes on neapolitan clocks)
taurus: “i wouldn’t let my dog eat the scraps from your table.” “then at least have the good manners to take yourself and your dog around the corner so i don’t have to watch you die.”
gemini: “i need to put on better lipstick before responding to any of these lies.”
cancer: (over the telephone) “the priest isn’t coming. …yeah. yeah, he heard about the atrocities.”
leo: “you promised me…you promised me this plan could still work.” “that was before you shot me. twice.”
virgo: (uttered while using a broken heel to pick the boathouse lock, with a totality of hate) “this one is for you, you dead, sick, son-of-a-bitch.”
libra: “the good turn rich. the rich turn bad. the bad turn dead, and the dead turn up again asking for your loose change.”
scorpio: “we should obviously begin with the knife.”
sagittarius: “the signs were there from the beginning, sofia. you knew, and you held them up before me and i shut my eyes.”
capricorn: “whom will you haunt, goncharov?” “you, andrey, if i have my pick. myself, if i do not.”
aquarius: “katya is not the sort of person to permit herself to be held close and whispered sweet nothings to. she’s the sort of person to keep at a cautious but accessible arm’s reach and addressed only in matters of dire emergency, when all hope has been lost. rather like an ancient idol, if you think about it.” “dear god, man, it’s no wonder your marriage is on the brink of ruin.”
pisces: “bad news boss. he’s got a second fucking ice pick.”
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Anaïs Nin, from Incest: From a Journal of Love
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Astronomers report: for perhaps 2 billion years, a black hole has been singing.
Kate Angus, from ‘Theosophy’ (via aegeane)
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Commander Vimes didn’t like the phrase ‘The innocent have nothing to fear’, believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like ‘The innocent have nothing to fear’.
Terry Pratchett (via beornwulf)
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and if there’s one thing that life taught me
was that if you put back the pieces you broke in someone,
they’d cut you.
Shahed AK Erhoma (via wnq-writers)
Source: wnq-writers.com
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a compilation of some of my favourite composer quotes:
“Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.” - Igor Stravinsky
“I am sure my music has a taste of codfish in it.” - Edvard Grieg
“Never look at the trombones. It only encourages them.” - Richard Strauss
“He’d be better off shovelling snow than scribbling on manuscript paper.” - Richard Strauss on Schoenberg
“I liked your opera. I think I will set it to music.” - Ludvig van Beethoven
“I have written a chorale both sober and suitable. In it I have put everything I know about boredom. I dedicate this to those who do not like me.” - Erik Satie
“ Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour.” - Gioacchino Rossini
“What a good thing this isn’t music.” - Gioacchino Rossini on Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique
“Oh how wonderful, really wonderful opera would be if there were no singers!” - Gioacchino Rossini
“In opera there is always too much singing.” - Claude Debussy
“Bring me coffee before I turn into a goat!” - Johann Sebastian Bach
“Listening to the 5th Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.” - Aaron Copland
“The audience expected something big, something colossal, but they were served instead with some agitated water in a saucer.” - Louis Schnieder on Debussy’s La Mer
“He gives me the impression of being a spoilt child.” - Clara Schumann on Liszt
“What a giftless bastard!” - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky on Brahms
“Handel is only fourth rate. He is not even interesting.” - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
“Bach on the wrong notes” - Sergei Prokofiev on Stravinsky
And, saving the best for last…
“Lick my ass up and down” -Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Feel free to add more! (Also please don’t think that I agree with all of these, I am a huge fan of Symphonie Fantastique and La Mer!!)
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It seems that when you want to make a woman into a hero, you hurt her first. When you want to make a man into a hero, you hurt… also a woman first.
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Remember your personal demons should be afraid of you, because you are their home, their food, and as you heal, their executioner.
Laurell K. Hamilton (via quotebook-in)
Source: quotebook-in
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And we say goodbye to this old year with animosity resting in our hearts.
Anna M (via anna–adore)
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It was November – the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate wind-songs in the pines.
Source: wordsnquotes.com
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He saw it in her eyes. The anguish, the frustration. The terrible nothing that clawed inside and sought to smother her. She knew. It was there, inside. She had been broken. Then she smiled. Oh, storms. She smiled anyway. It was the single most beautiful thing he’d seen in his entire life
-Kaladin on Shallan; Words of Radiance, Brandon Sanderson.
It's been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don't suppose anybody really understands yet.
Jane Goodall
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“Do you want a lawyer?”
“No I ate already.“
“You eat lawyers?” Carrot said.
Brick gave him an empty stare until sufficient brain had been mustered.
“Um..what do you call dem things. They kind of crumble when you eat them?“
Carrot looked at Detritus to see if there was going to be any help there. “Could be lawyers,” he conceded.
Thud! By Terry Pratchett (via theciaonafreelancebasis)
“That’s what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”
Arundhati Roy (via naturaekos)
Source: naturaekos