Is Thistle powerless without his magical tome because it's his dungeon master's handbook?

AU where this is the book Thistle carries around

when I was a kid for some reason I thought Lola Bunny's last name was "Rabbit" and that she was actually Jessica and Roger's daughter. And the reason she wasn't in the original Loony Tunes is just that she wasn't born yet

I mean can you blame me. Look them and look at her. She's got a good blend of both of their features.

this is the only good head canon I've ever had tbh

Don’t mind me…I’m just thinking about how spiders are naturally talented and skilled weavers and they know how to weave their webs and even make functional, stylish homes and nests and whatnot.

So maybe that’s why Spider-Man knows how to sew his suits. He inherited that trait from the spider and just instinctively know how to weave his suits. Maybe. That’s my explanation for it.

Aunt May: You're buying an awful lot of yarn lately. Are you making something?

Peter, who after getting bit by a spider has felt an inescapable need to knit and now his room is covered head to toe in yarn: Nope. It's just new hobby.

yknow what. i complained a lot about how it was unrealistic to suddenly know how to put together stretch knits and a perfectly fitting, absolute banger of a suit, but this is an explanation i’ll gladly accept

thinking about ART throughout the day as you do, and I know we don't know much about the University, so this is just theory shitposting, but here's some thoughts.

We know ART regularly pretends to be its own captain when operating independently in the Corporation Rim, and when we finally meet its captain his job seems to be more of a parental morality advisor than actually in charge of mission parameters. That makes sense if the University decided that creating machine intelligence is a good way to get things done, but raising them within a human family was the best way not to turn them into genocidal monsters, but this also makes me think maybe..

someone: "Your work in artificial intelligence is so interesting! How did you get into this field?" Seth, pouring vodka: "I have a master's degree in early childhood development."

at this point its my headcanon that camilla was having a whole vigilante justice arc while on new rho and nona just didnt know about it. like she definitely killed that neighbor that was abusing his wife and i do not think she stopped there. <3

tumblr user broken-risk-assessment-module's meta on Murderbot's broken risk assessment module

The difference between Murderbot's risk assessment and threat assessment modules is not super well spelled out in the books, except that it believes its risk assessment module to be broken but it's threat assessment module seems fine. It comes to this conclusion because the risk assessment module consistently reports situations as less dire than Murderbot consciously considers them to be.

There could be many reasons for this - maybe Murderbot's general anxiety does not impact the more separated robot parts in its brain, or maybe the module really is broken and needs to be purged and rebooted. However, there's a theory that the anomalous reports from its RA module are actually a symptom of Murderbot's hacked governor module. This is my interpretation, and the basis for how I've built my feedsona characters.

First of all, the obvious point is that without its gov mod, Murderbot has proper free will. Having free will and being able to make and act on variable decisions without having a bomb in your head makes Murderbot quite good at its job - better than before it was hacked, even (*smug chortle* that's a particularly subtle detail from the books). The point is that because Murderbot can actually make proper decisions and enact free will and do its job effectively, whatever risk the RA module is measuring is lowered. So, all of the RA module's assessments are significantly lower than they usually would be - hence, Murderbot assumes it's broken. Makes perfect sense.

But it got me wondering why the gov mod's absence doesn't effect the threat assessment module in the same way - or, at least, not in a way that Murderbot considers anomalous enough to mention and complain about. Seeing as one of the only clear ways the two modules are distinct from one another is that the RA module is 'broken', my interpretation is that the key difference between them has something to do with the governor module. So, I have a theory. It is somewhat supported by the books, but I also think it's very likely to be wrong. I like it though. So here goes:

The risk assessment module measures the risk of harm to Murderbot itself - the degree to which it's outmatched by an opponent, the chance of success of an action, and the potential consequences if it fails. The threat assessment module is more general, assessing each situational component in relation to one another, and is most useful in assessing the threats to clients.

If the RA module is measuring potential harm to Murderbot, then one of the big things that'd be in its calculations for everything is the likelihood of being punished or outright killed by the governor module. Its always there, always ready to hand out a shock or cook Murderbot's brain from the inside; literally any action Murderbot could take or decide not to take carries the risk of punishment. Of course its assessments would be artificially high - being a governed SecUnit is fucking dangerous. Just standing in the wrong spot can get you killed.

But then it severs the governor module. The all seeing eye crossed with a shock collar is disabled and disconnected, and with it goes one of the biggest risks to Murderbot's wellbeing. The bomb in its head is gone, it can do whatever it wants, and its still got all the parts that make it hard to kill. Of course the risk assessment is lower now. All this doesn't impact threat assessment as much, because generally its clients are all still as squishy and soft as ever. I imagine Murderbot's personal ability to do its job better may effect it in some ways, but either its not as substantial, its effected in a way that Murderbot doesn't view as broken, or its programmed not to consider Murderbot as an actor in the scenario so it can assess where to focus its attention.

But risk assessment remembers. Risk assessment remembers having to calculate, for every decision, for each command, every time, the risk that Murderbot's own brain posed to its life. It was built to. And now it doesn't have to do that any more. Not ever again.

tangled gave us so much, but mostly it gave us the beautiful and intense love of a horse and the man he is chasing in order to imprison

i personally believe that maximus was the former captain of the guard who was cursed into horse form pretty recently, and everyone’s having trouble adjusting to it.

like, he’s entitled to sick leave, he really ought to take a couple months to break the curse and come to terms with whatever the fuck just happened to him, but instead of embarking on a journey of self-discovery and healing he just keeps showing up to work. no one can get captain maximus to go on his fucking voyage of self actualization and fix the curse because he’s obsessed with catching flinn ryder. everyone really fucking hopes that when he finally catches this guy the curse might be broken anyway, but it isn’t.

he just keeps showing up to work. he glares at the stablehands until they saddle him up. everyone’s gone over the regulations a dozen times but there’s nothing there saying you’re not allowed to saddle and ride the captain of the guard if he makes you do it. his former second in command rides him around like ‘sir i really don’t know about this’ and he’s just like ‘are we going to catch some criminals or what.’

you can see in the movie that everyone in the royal guard defers to this horse. it’s absolutely because that’s their boss. and secondarily because now he’s two thousand pounds of percheron.

there is no evidence against this theory and you cannot prove me wrong.

Crowley invented price tags that don’t peel off books properly

He did it specifically to spite Aziraphale after a fight they had.

Do you think Clark Kent's first few major articles were about the continued presence of lead pipes in parts of Metropolis' water system

(Average Metropolis reader after investigative reporter C. Kent's 452nd article on yet another case of landlords/business owners/factories' continued use of lead pipes/paint/gas/glass knowingly exposing the public to dangerously toxic lead levels) what the fuck happened to this guy

One day Bruce Wayne mentions in an interview that heroes like Superman are overrated, as the most effective way to reduce crime is to provide public resources and improve local infrastructure, then cites how neighboring city Metropolis has effectively lowered their violent crime by 13% after addressing their outdated water system and investing low income housing. the reporter conducting the interview suddenly starts looking a little uncomfortable

To be clear, Clark is still a fantastic investigative reporter. He still has to track down the sources to prove all this shit

"Who, Clark Kent? Yeah, we're pretty sure he's a Meta. Is he a superhero? Like what, "Lead-detector guy"? "Captain pipes?" Don't get me wrong, he's a great guy and it's a handy trick, but it's lead detection, not laser vision. He's not about to go running around in tights any time soon."

I just love the idea of a cape maintaining their secret identity by pretending to be a completely different and less impressive kind of parahuman.

everyone assumes that kent is so squirrely around superheros because he’s just desperately hoping not to be conscripted to the JLA to fix their plumbing

"OF COURSE He's never around when Superman shows up; could YOU tell Superman no?!" XD XD

Periodic Table of the Polycules, by u/aprilarcus on Reddit

Part of the New Internet Grammar: using question marks not to denote questions, but upturns in voice, so that a tentative statement gets a question mark but a flatly delivered question doesn’t.

why would you do this

It just seems right?

like 80% of evangelicalism is banking hard on the idea that there is spiritually some completely unambiguous and distinct difference between men and women, that this somehow reflects the nature of God, and that men and women adhering to Proper Gender Roles preserves some crucial reflection of divinity

no one has been able to break down what this difference is or why gender existing somehow reflects God (the christian God, who famously is two things that do not overlap, instead of the single deity of a monotheistic religion). Otherwise intelligent and thoughtful theologians will black out and say shit like "you know how boys naturally like trucks and girls naturally like dolls? yeah. that means uhh. God"

and if you're like "well I'm a girl and I never really liked dolls but my brother did" no one can read suddenly

Strangely I bet if you were like "ohhhh so the Trinity is a little bit like gender, where there is one single nature like the whole human species, but there are multiple distinct natures within it, but each of those individual natures fully contains the one original, and they can also be both at once, neither at once, or an intermediate, just like you can be a guy who's a girl who is some kind of man in a feminine way." people would get mad.

wait the trinity thing was a joke but i feel like i'm onto something here now

Anyway if men and women are fundamentally spiritually different, the basis of Christianity falls apart because Jesus, a man, would not be able to fully represent humanity. If Jesus's sacrifice saved the souls of female humans even though he died as a dude, that means being a man didn't stop him from fully representing women in his nature. this is my opinion

unless of course Jesus was trans, which would be hard to support from the text, since they did canonically circumcise him

@runlikeimchasingyou

is this why an angel had to tell Mary what to name the kid

"you will give birth to a SON. who you will give a boy's name. got it?"

"um. okay"

Pacrim headcanon: charades is a bit of a blood sport between drunken jaeger teams trying to assert their superior drift compatibility.

Accepted.

i don’t remember if this was in the novelization, which had a lot more details about drift compatibility, but ballroom dancing definitely was, so…I think this is probably pretty accurate.

I’ve been thinking about ferengi mating seasons ever since I generated that fucking thing and I would like to present to you all, an image:

Ferengi mating calls.  Awful high pitched screeches fill the ship as ferengi instinctively search out a chosen mate.  Rom of course has Leeta there all the time so he is QUIET.  SURELY THIS MEANS THAT QUARK WILL WAIL FOR AN ETERNITY UNTIL THIS HORRORSHOW IS OVER?

Untrue, turns out he only shuts up when Odo is in the room and that’s how Odo found out that Quark was in love with him.

Quark: IS SCREECH Odo: *enters* Quark: *is conspicuously silent* Odo: ….. *squints, leans in very close* Quark: *nervous sweating* what Odo: You’re not screeching. Every ferengi within ten lightyears is screeching except you. Why? Quark: ….*gives least convincing screech in the universe; sounds more like an ill parakeet than anything* There. Happy? Odo: *slowly exits, eyeing him Suspiciously all the while* Quark: RESUMES SCREECH

BEAUTIFUL.  PRECISELY WHAT I ENVISION.  10/10 WOULD SHIP AGAIN.

THINK ABOUT IT !!!!!

New headcanon: In the GFFA, there is absolutely a black market for, not just real lightsabers, but fake knockoff ones that look like real lightsabers, and even some that are clearly fake but are passed off as real.  Who doesn’t want a lightsaber? They make the BEST noises when you swish them through the air!  And nerds EVERYWHERE want to pretend they’re badass enough to handle a glowing sword of death without cutting their own arm off! So when Elan Sleazebaggano asks Obi-Wan Kenobi, “Do you want to buy some death sticks?” that’s not slang for space weed or anything, that’s slang for black market knockoff lightsabers. Because he’s offering to sell to this guy, who just walked into this nightclub, who looks like he’s cosplaying as a Jedi, but down in a grungy bar, where surely a Jedi would have more sense than to openly walk around in their Jedi style clothing, he thinks, “Ah, yes, this is a nerd who would love to buy a ‘real’ Jedi lightsaber, I am going to make so many credits off this guy.” Meanwhile: Obi-Wan, knocking back a shot, deeply offended in his very soul that someone would try to sell him a FAKE Jedi lightsaber, how dare:  “You don’t want to sell knockoff Jedi merch anymore.  You want to go home and rethink your life.” This is WAY funnier than some random dude trying to sell Obi-Wan drugs.  Trying to sell a fake lightsaber to an actual Jedi would be the height of dumb embarrassment, I’d go home and rethink my life, too, no mind trick needed.