This is what I’ve been doing all day
nighttime is going to be fucked up under the trump administration, as he plans to get rid of the weird bug appointed by joe biden to be in charge of it. "the bug is too weird it freaks me out yucky", said the president-elect when asked about the nighttime department. insider sources say he plans to appoint an obscure youtuber known only as "gamer rickey" to the position.
A cute white rat enjoying the beautiful fall colors of a backyard dogwood tree! After so many cats from me, it was time for a rat! Autumn is drawing to a close but the leaves have been so beautiful, really giving me morale.
no, no. you’ve got it all wrong. girls don’t want flowers. all girls want is to look for his coming from the white tower and see him return. all girls want is for the tower guard to take up the call and tell them the lord(s) of Gondor have returned.
Fallen Angel
Vintage Handbags modified with crochet “mold” by Elin Thomas
*emerges from the other room covered in blood* you should see the word document
does it look like this
more thoughts for the pokemon game:
there are six available starter pokemon - all of them are pokemon with the pickup ability! so the starters would be phanpy, teddiursa, aipom, meowth, munchlax and pachirisu
partially because a big theme of the game would be cleaning up litter and building (which requires materials) but also because those specific pokemon feel way more appropriate as 'city pets' than something like a fire breathing salamander
all of them would be locked into not evolving similarly to lgpe, but all their evolutions woupd appear in the core game - including an evolution for pachirisu id like to make
something else i thought would be cute is if the hairstyles available were based off the different starter pokemon
you wouldnt be Forced to match your starter (so you could have a munchlax hairstyle and a pachirisu starter) but it would be an option if you wanted. obviously id like to include variations for different hair textures too
^ my vision (thank you to @bakugames for brainstorming w me heehee)
An intro to doing crosswords for complete beginners
as told by someone who didn’t do any before this year and now has gotten so deeply into them
- A crossword is not a measure of general knowledge or intelligence or skill with words anymore than a Mario game is a measure of how good you are at plumbing. It certainly helps to have the same cultural reference points as the puzzle, but you can brute force your way through a lot of it if you just know how crosswords work
- Easiest on Mondays and then get harder over the week
- The answer is in the same verb tense as the clue (ex. “doesn’t float” is “SINKS” while “didn’t float” is “SANK”)
- If there’s an acronym or abbreviation in the clue, the answer will have one as well (ex. “Toothpaste-approving org.” is “ADA” because that the short way of referring to the American Dental Association)
- If the answer is in written like a text from a teen girl with her first flip phone, the answer will be a common texting abbreviation (TMI, OMG, LOL, LMAO, BRB, TTYL, etc) (ex. three letter word with clue “i can’t believe u told me that” is “TMI”)
- If the clue is in quotes, it’s dialogue and the response should also be dialogue (ex. the clue “‘That’s it for me!’” is “IQUIT”)
- An answer can be multiple words, (see above) so some correct answers can make you second guess yourself because it creates letter combos that seem impossible to be in one English (mostly) word or mess you up bc it’s ambiguous where one word ends and another begins (ex. you have the letters “OWFO” and the answer ends up being “PILLOWFORT” or “UDAT” being “BERMUDATRIANGLE”)
- Treat clues with a question mark like they’re going to be puns that make you groan so think about other meanings of the words in the clue (ex. “Volumes you can hear?” is “AUDIOBOOKS” or “Not fancy at all?” is “HATE” or “Remained under cover?” is “SLEPTIN”)
- Clues that add hedging language line “they could be called…” or one might use this as…” are telling you to think very laterally. These are the ones that make you a little mad when you get them (ex. “They might be said to be dancing or raging” is “FLAMES” or “They admit they might be punched” is “TICKETS”)
- The word “maybe” usually indicates the answer will be an example of the clue, not a synonym (ex. “Pet, maybe” is “CAT”)
- If a person is in the clue and a person is the answer, the answer will be from the same part of name as the clue (ex. Trevor Noah replaced John Stewart on the Daily Show. So the clue “Stewart’s successor on the Daily Show” is “NOAH” while “John’s successor on the Daily Show” would be “TREVOR”
- No word in the clue will be featured in the answer (ex. “What Beyoncé Knowles goes by” could be “ONENAME” but could never be “BEYONCÉ”)
- A answer can be a phonetic spelling of a letter (ex. “Epic finale?” is “CEE”)
- Not every clue is going to be tricky and clever, don’t rule out an obvious choice just because it’s obvious (ex. “Do ___ disturb” is “NOT”)
- Roman numerals pop up a lot but typically only in clues where a Roman numeral makes sense, so “finale of a play?” could be “ACTII” but “Number of Stooges” is not going to be “III”
- There’s a ton of really common clues. If you do enough crossword puzzles you recognize them. (ex. Literally almost anything about oil is going to be OPEC, any variations on “things on a smartphone that someone can download and use” is going to be “APPS”, and anything about a european capital city is probably “OSLO”)
- If a clue can be about a cookie, the answer is almost certainly “OREO”
For folks who are really new to crosswords, the Puzzmo crosswords have some extra features to help support new solvers! For instance, it can indicate breaks between words in answers or notify you of errors after completion (or during the solve, if you prefer).
The NYT Tech Guild is on strike and they’ve asked people to not play the games through the New York Times while they’re striking, so Puzzmo is an especially good option right now!
Edit: literally right after I posted this they announced the strike is ending tomorrow morning (9am EST Tuesday nov 12) lol 🩵
actually the funniest thing that could happen right now would be Biden up and dying of old man disease so Kamala is a lame duck president for two months and technically the first woman president so they have to add a bunch of qualifiers like "first woman ELECTED president" when Hawk Tuah Girl wins in 2032
you know we're all going through it when you've seen this scene posted about 500 different times across multiple social medias
@doctorvondooms your tag is accurate to how seeing these scene feels atm </3