Sunshine on a Cloudy Day

ok I was just telling my sisters about the Vito Russo test and I was trying to say "one of the founders of GLAAD," but instead I said "one of the flounders of Gad" which is an extremely fun phrase to say. So of course we imagined the live action Little Mermaid remake but with Josh Gad as Ariel, and he spends the whole movie managing his swarm of Flounders (who of course include Vito Russo). And actually this movie would pass the Vito Russo test because now Ariel is gay for Eric, but being gay is not his primary character trait; his primary character trait is managing all his Flounders and their various fish problems. It's called "The Flounders of Gad" and they go on quests and stuff. And none of them are actual flounders, they're all different types of fish who are just named Flounder -- except Vito Russo, who is a flounder named Vito Russo.

MDZS AU where Jiang Cheng realizes that Lan Sizhui is the Wen orphan that Wei Wuxian took care off during the Burial Mounds arc, decides that's close enough to qualify him as Nephew, declares that no Nephew of His (much less a surrogate son of Wei Wuxian's) is going to be raised in the Cloud Recedes, and immediately launches into a custody battle with Lan Wangji.

But since neither Jiang Cheng or Lan Wangji can acknowledge that Sizuhi has any connection to Wei Wuxian, both begin steadfastly and stubbornly insisting that he is a Cultivator of peerless potential and skill and he belongs in their sect thank you very much, and would clearly be very unhappy in the other's. This confuses the hell out of the already mystified Cultivation world, who had barely adjusted yet to gossiping about Sizhui being Wangji's illegitimate child by mysterious love affair.

(Eventually the common consensus in the rumor mills is that both JC and LW where in love with Sizhui's mother and both believe themselves to be Sizhui's real father.)

(LW couldn't care less what gossips say, but JC has to bite his tongue till it bleeds to avoid telling anyone the truth in a fit of anger.)

(It was Nie Huaisang who put that rumor out in the first place, partly to troll JC, partly because, in a way, it's a little true.)

do you guys wanna see the most perfectest png of my cat

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Local King carries his hampster everywhere

procreate moshang rkgk

God I love “We’re enemies, but we’ve been enemies for a long time, which is sort of like being friends.” Great trope.

Especially when it comes with a side of “this OTHER enemy isn’t being your enemy in the right way. I will help you defeat them, so that I can go back to being your primary enemy, your correct enemy.”

I LOVE when children who juuuust barely understand ten percent of something find somebody (a toy or a smaller child, usually) who understands zero percent and they’re like “come hither and I shall take you under my wing and teach you my instant wisdom.”

i was at a little park fest thing today and someone was there with their cats who were trained to hang out in a stroller?? like they were SO chill it was amazing. the cats were obviously enjoying themselves and were very well trained to stay right in or under their catmobile.

until, that is, i rolled up in my wheelchair and one of them turned and saw my vaguely stroller-like contraption and *immediately* jumped out of his cat-approved-stroller to climb around on my chair like OH WOW WHEN DID WE GET ANOTHER WHEELEY THING YAY! :D

i was like sir you are not supposed to be here and he just looked up at me like oh yes i am ! i must stay in wheeled contraption !!! and he was wearing a lil bowtie so i could not argue with him

[id: the Is This a Bird meme edited so that a stock photo of a gray tabby cat with a bowtie is the one gesturing at the It's Free Real Estate meme that has a disability symbol of a person in a wheelchair edited on to it. end id]

#cat: wow a new stroller just for me! and there’s even a warm lap to sit on!! #clearly a superior mode of transportation #omg once i saw a woman in joann fabrics and she had a stroller with her #and inside was a single white duck that she kept showing different fabrics to #like some kind of tiny textile king (via @arwcn )

the U-turn these tags took just punched me in the face i NEED a fabric duck in my life to help me make shopping decisions ALL HAIL THE TINY TEXTILE KING

"But how can you justify a player character with a (non-disinherited) noble background in a dungeon-crawling fantasy game" well, the most obvious approach is a fantasy setting whose nobility practices cognatic primogeniture where, instead of "first son inherits, second son goes into the military, third son becomes a priest", it's "first son inherits, second son goes into the military, third son becomes an adventurer". From the player's perspective, it handily explains why the title comes with little material support from the family; from the family's perspective, there's an unspoken understanding that most of the spare heirs will be eaten by a dragon (or whatever), thereby simplifying the inheritance situation, and the few survivors will become great assets.

(There is, of course, the possibility that a surviving third son, having grown powerful and understandably harbouring some slight resentment, may return, kill his elder brothers with dark magic, and take over the dynasty, but in practice this almost never happens.)

... couldn't Adventuring just be the fantasy equivalent of "Father send me to the War against the French to learn command and bravery". Except it's dungeons, magic and monsters.

Unfortunately not. One of the reasons it was traditional for the second son to go into the military is because it carried a warrior's prestige without being especially dangerous in practice; any noble family of means would be able to purchase them an officer's commission that would keep them off of the front lines, and you don't actually want the second son to be in constant mortal peril, because you need a backup heir in case the eldest son dies unexpectedly. Being an adventurer – at least as depicted in most fantasy dungeon-crawler settings – carries too much real danger to play that role.

@aceofdivinechlorophyll You know I would die for Meng Mo????? I would! Everyone go read Inappropriate Use!!!

I’ve been playing a lot of Slay the Princess and I am incapable of escaping the svsss brainrot so!! Fuck it! Binghe Princess!! 👑 🗡️

I drew it in pencil and then digitally colored it just like the artist for the game 🛐 So so fun

I had to set up a printer to scan the pencil drawing snfjg

what he means: my first girlfriend sacrificed herself for the good of her people, and she didn't think twice about it. i saw firsthand what it meant to truly protect those you love, and in that moment i also experienced what it meant to be loved enough to be protected. but i wasn't ready. i didn't have enough time to say goodbye. she was gone before she fell back to me, and i knew it even before i looked for a pulse that wasn't there. she was heavy, until she wasn't, because i saw death happen in a way i never thought it could when her body vanished from my arms. i now know what it feels like to kiss a spirit, and it's the last touch i have of her. she sacrificed herself because she believed it was her duty, an expectation she felt she needed to face, and it should never have happened. but she got dragged into a war that we brought to her home. there was nothing i could do to protect her from its devastation, and i blame myself for her death.

what he says: my first girlfriend turned into the moon

the best fanfic is the one the author had fun writing actually.

the second best is the one the author used to work through some issues.