concept: a death god that is actually surprisingly supportive and on the side of the good guys, supporting actions and promoting policies that will lead to the kingdom growing and thriving instead of being destroyed, because the more the kingdom grows, the more people there are, and the more people there are the more people will eventually die, and when you’re an immortal god of death, you know there’s no need to rush. you’ll get them all in the end
i like how the responses on this post are cleanly split between “hey this is a great story idea i love it” and “this is absolutely terrifying”
Yes. A Death that is kind, and patient, and inevitable.
A Death that need not fight against you, that will often
fight for you, because why not? It
will gather you home eventually. Why not enjoy you first?
A Death that treasures those who fight it most ardently.
That loves healers and defenders and survivalists and necromancers and mad
scientists and immortal gods. That lets them pour everything they are into
fighting it, denying it, adoring every desperate scrap of strength and will and
brilliance and raw determination poured out against it. That catches you when
your strength is done and all your will and brilliance run out, that gathers
you close beneath a warm, dark cloak, and whispers well done, oh child, you were magnificent, well done.
A Death who will not seek to hasten an inevitable end, who
will chastise those who seek to hasten it for others in Death’s stead, who will
slowly and patiently plot and sow and siphon away from the great monsters of
the world. Because who are they to hasten
Death’s domain, who are they to deny Death its time and its place, who are
they to cut short these vital glories that illuminate it so? Who are they to
presume upon its will, that is so much larger and so much longer than theirs?
Who are they to call, and presume that Death, of all beings,
should obey?
A Death that is not a hunter but a gatherer, who is always
and eternal, who loves you, and can afford to wait. A Death who will fight for you and defend you, who will place
its hand upon those who would speed you to its embrace, who has no need to rush you, only to greet you when
you call.
A Death who is kind.
And patient.
And, before all and above all,
inevitable.
Who are they to call,
and presume that Death, of all
beings, should obey?
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Death is no hunter nor gatherer. But rather a farmer. Do not forget: Death wields a scythe, a farming tool. Death will harvest you when you are ripe. Not a second sooner or later. Death will protect you from vermin, fire, and flood. You are Deaths crop after all.
Oh, and one more thing: Death always completes the harvest.
Please help us escape death from Rafah .. my friend posted here and I’m forever indebted to all of you for your generosity.. we started to lose hope. please help and share .
that scene where a sexy lady at a fancy party pulls out a cigarette and a bunch of men swarm to light it but it’s me at the lesbian biker bar and i need something with a sharp edge so i can shotgun my rolling rock and a half dozen beautiful dukes surround me to offer their six inch stone handle folding knives
Starting a new thread of insane shit I over hear my husband say to our toddler.
“Here, will this rice cake cracker sate your dark passanger?”
2. “Come now my child.”
*bluey the album starts playing*
3. “Oh I am so sorry. You’ve been mildly inconvenienced. How dare I truly”
4. “It is she! Her Majesty, Queen of the Sludge, Keeper of Goo, DJ Baby P (In the House) Dropper of Beats and Clapper of Hands”
5. He is in charge of bathtime and he lifted the ghoul tonight while singing “come with me and you’ll be in a world of baby sanitation” and I laughed so hard I snorted pasta
6. Okay this is more one that he said to me about the toddler but he was home with her while I was at work and I just got this text
7.
“Happy Independence Day Sweetie! Nationalism is a cancer!”
8. This is another one he said to me about her but still it made me laugh so hard I nearly choked
9.
*Penny babbling in the back seat, many la la las coming from her car seat*
“Are you singing us a song? Ah yes the dulcet tones of goblin”
10.
“Listen kid, I can’t let you have the cup anymore because you keep chugging the bath water, so we just have to remove the cup from the equation.”
11.
*penny is screaming, trying to climb back up a big slide at the playground*
“Someday you’ll learn about ,I don’t know physics and the myth of Sisyphus ,and you’ll start making a lot of connections I think. “
12. *Pen is still screaming and baby cussing about not being able to climb back up the slide*
“The problem is that you set goals for yourself that are unattainable by both man and baby.”
13.
“You can keep the cookie container, I don’t care. What kind of father would I be if I tried to separate a small raccoon child from her trash!?”
14.
*Penny is crying because the bucket she insisted on sitting in fell off the couch with her in it. Husband is bouncing her and rubbing her back after assessing that no physical damage occurred, just a bruised toddler ego*
“Oh my poor sweet angel. She fucked around and found out.”
15.
16. “The only three things this child cares about is Elmo, Cooking Videos, and Keith Tryguy”.
17.
“Hey. No! Cup privileges hereby rescinded, bath chugger”
18.
we miss him a lot
19.
20.
“I just don’t know how you and I, the two most indoorsy people to ever exist, managed to give birth to I don’t know , Baby Bear Grylls!?”
21.
“Not that I ever would because I love her and she’s my best friend, but I’m pretty sure if we just gave her one of those old timey kerchiefs on a stick and like sent her into the woods, she’d be fine. She’d come home in a week with berries and woodland friends ready to go to war for her.”
22.
“There’s so many mommy blogs and parenting books but not one of them have ever told me what to do when my child adopts a mad scientist laugh. How do you proceed from there?”
23.
(For context on this one, my in laws have one of these as a coffee table)
24.
Me: *hears a biiiig gulp come from upstairs* HEY IS SHE CHUGGING BATH WATER AGAIN?
Husband: SHE GOT THE PITCHER I USE TO RINSE HER HAIR AND IM AFRAID OF HER SO YES
25.
“ you know how penny can count to 5? She absolutely can not count to 6. We’re going through the numbers on her cube thing right? One, Two, Three, Four, Five and stop. She looks at me like what the hell do you mean keep going we’ve completed counting, this is all the numbers. I point at the 6, cause you know this thing goes to 10 and she is like looking at me like Dad, I got 1 through 5, that thing you’re pointing to? That’s some ancient rune from an unknown civilization and I can’t help you with that”
26.
“You really can do anything you set your mind to Penny Rose, it’s just that what your set it to doesn’t make a lick of sense”
27.
“Oh by the way I need a new pitcher because penny rose, much like a tiny Thor, took her bath pitcher and cracked in on the ground after she attempted to chug it”
28. (In response to penny being in her “I must be nude” phase)
29. Last one today. In response to Penny Rose’s unadulterated toddler rage
30.
“Her legs are so small why she so fast?”
31.
“Who taught her to call us you guys? She knows we’re mom and dad right? She just keeps calling me you guys”
32.
“When I get a sandwhich or a sub I always get chips cause you gotta get P a distraction snack, a dissnacktion if you will”
33.
Can’t get in my feelings when my husband is the court jester appointed to make me laugh
34.
(For context we play a level of Kirby every night as soon as P is out of the tub and into her Jammies)
“Penny Rose you have to brush your hair! You can’t let Kirby see you like this!”
35.
“Penny woke up with morning and said “I’m gonna lay in bed and and shout every word I know with no context at all”
36. “You’re being a real Muffin right now lady”
Oooo drag her
37.
*penny and husband in the distance, Penny is yelling PUSH PUSH PUSH PUSH*
“Girl the word you’re looking for is actually pull. You want to pull the zipper on your Jammies… yes okay yeah you do it. But you’re not doing it. Its pull. Its pull. You pull. You pull. You did it! I don’t know if that deserves applause really. Okay we’re clapping”
38.
This might be niche to us but man I was cracking up
39.
“My wish for P is that someday she finds someone who looks at her the way she looks at bread”
40.
“I know we don’t have food rules but I am going to have to start enacting food laws against food crimes. First order, you can’t shove your fist in the butter. That’s not about eating that’s about human decency.”
41.
Them boys are gonna learn unfortunately
41. (For context my daughter calls herself Penny Woes, because her name is Penny Rose and Rs are hard)
“When the snacks are gone and no one will pick you, these are Penny Woes”
42.
Husband: *goes to steal another fruit snack from P*
Me: stop stealing her snacks!
Husband: it’s the dad tax!
Me: yeah well taxation without representation is illegal.
Husband: she can say whatever she wants to me! And I, much like the US government, don’t have to listen to ANY of it!
43. Alright when we get to 50 I’m starting a new thread. This is getting out of hand
44:
Wednesdays are my favorite days because my husband works from home with Penny and I get a running commentary all morning
45:
“You’ll never defeat Posiedon if all you’re worried about is your dress getting wet!”
Starting a new thread of insane shit I over hear my husband say to our toddler.
“Here, will this rice cake cracker sate your dark passanger?”
2. “Come now my child.”
*bluey the album starts playing*
3. “Oh I am so sorry. You’ve been mildly inconvenienced. How dare I truly”
4. “It is she! Her Majesty, Queen of the Sludge, Keeper of Goo, DJ Baby P (In the House) Dropper of Beats and Clapper of Hands”
5. He is in charge of bathtime and he lifted the ghoul tonight while singing “come with me and you’ll be in a world of baby sanitation” and I laughed so hard I snorted pasta
6. Okay this is more one that he said to me about the toddler but he was home with her while I was at work and I just got this text
7.
“Happy Independence Day Sweetie! Nationalism is a cancer!”
8. This is another one he said to me about her but still it made me laugh so hard I nearly choked
9.
*Penny babbling in the back seat, many la la las coming from her car seat*
“Are you singing us a song? Ah yes the dulcet tones of goblin”
10.
“Listen kid, I can’t let you have the cup anymore because you keep chugging the bath water, so we just have to remove the cup from the equation.”
11.
*penny is screaming, trying to climb back up a big slide at the playground*
“Someday you’ll learn about ,I don’t know physics and the myth of Sisyphus ,and you’ll start making a lot of connections I think. “
12. *Pen is still screaming and baby cussing about not being able to climb back up the slide*
“The problem is that you set goals for yourself that are unattainable by both man and baby.”
13.
“You can keep the cookie container, I don’t care. What kind of father would I be if I tried to separate a small raccoon child from her trash!?”
14.
*Penny is crying because the bucket she insisted on sitting in fell off the couch with her in it. Husband is bouncing her and rubbing her back after assessing that no physical damage occurred, just a bruised toddler ego*
“Oh my poor sweet angel. She fucked around and found out.”
15.
16. “The only three things this child cares about is Elmo, Cooking Videos, and Keith Tryguy”.
17.
“Hey. No! Cup privileges hereby rescinded, bath chugger”
18.
we miss him a lot
19.
20.
“I just don’t know how you and I, the two most indoorsy people to ever exist, managed to give birth to I don’t know , Baby Bear Grylls!?”
21.
“Not that I ever would because I love her and she’s my best friend, but I’m pretty sure if we just gave her one of those old timey kerchiefs on a stick and like sent her into the woods, she’d be fine. She’d come home in a week with berries and woodland friends ready to go to war for her.”
22.
“There’s so many mommy blogs and parenting books but not one of them have ever told me what to do when my child adopts a mad scientist laugh. How do you proceed from there?”
23.
(For context on this one, my in laws have one of these as a coffee table)
24.
Me: *hears a biiiig gulp come from upstairs* HEY IS SHE CHUGGING BATH WATER AGAIN?
Husband: SHE GOT THE PITCHER I USE TO RINSE HER HAIR AND IM AFRAID OF HER SO YES
25.
“ you know how penny can count to 5? She absolutely can not count to 6. We’re going through the numbers on her cube thing right? One, Two, Three, Four, Five and stop. She looks at me like what the hell do you mean keep going we’ve completed counting, this is all the numbers. I point at the 6, cause you know this thing goes to 10 and she is like looking at me like Dad, I got 1 through 5, that thing you’re pointing to? That’s some ancient rune from an unknown civilization and I can’t help you with that”
26.
“You really can do anything you set your mind to Penny Rose, it’s just that what your set it to doesn’t make a lick of sense”
27.
“Oh by the way I need a new pitcher because penny rose, much like a tiny Thor, took her bath pitcher and cracked in on the ground after she attempted to chug it”
28. (In response to penny being in her “I must be nude” phase)
29. Last one today. In response to Penny Rose’s unadulterated toddler rage
30.
“Her legs are so small why she so fast?”
31.
“Who taught her to call us you guys? She knows we’re mom and dad right? She just keeps calling me you guys”
32.
“When I get a sandwhich or a sub I always get chips cause you gotta get P a distraction snack, a dissnacktion if you will”
33.
Can’t get in my feelings when my husband is the court jester appointed to make me laugh
34.
(For context we play a level of Kirby every night as soon as P is out of the tub and into her Jammies)
“Penny Rose you have to brush your hair! You can’t let Kirby see you like this!”
35.
“Penny woke up with morning and said “I’m gonna lay in bed and and shout every word I know with no context at all”
36. “You’re being a real Muffin right now lady”
Oooo drag her
37.
*penny and husband in the distance, Penny is yelling PUSH PUSH PUSH PUSH*
“Girl the word you’re looking for is actually pull. You want to pull the zipper on your Jammies… yes okay yeah you do it. But you’re not doing it. Its pull. Its pull. You pull. You pull. You did it! I don’t know if that deserves applause really. Okay we’re clapping”
38.
This might be niche to us but man I was cracking up
39.
“My wish for P is that someday she finds someone who looks at her the way she looks at bread”
40.
“I know we don’t have food rules but I am going to have to start enacting food laws against food crimes. First order, you can’t shove your fist in the butter. That’s not about eating that’s about human decency.”
41.
Them boys are gonna learn unfortunately
41. (For context my daughter calls herself Penny Woes, because her name is Penny Rose and Rs are hard)
“When the snacks are gone and no one will pick you, these are Penny Woes”
42.
Husband: *goes to steal another fruit snack from P*
Me: stop stealing her snacks!
Husband: it’s the dad tax!
Me: yeah well taxation without representation is illegal.
Husband: she can say whatever she wants to me! And I, much like the US government, don’t have to listen to ANY of it!
43. Alright when we get to 50 I’m starting a new thread. This is getting out of hand
44:
Wednesdays are my favorite days because my husband works from home with Penny and I get a running commentary all morning
45:
“You’ll never defeat Posiedon if all you’re worried about is your dress getting wet!”
I kind of think that the reason why solarpunk hasn’t taken off is because solarpunks don’t like it when you crowd out their aesthetic with anything so vulgar as a plot.
Actually, you know what? Fuck it.
WRITING CHALLENGE: A hard-boiled detective story set in a solarpunk society, circa 2100. Proposed tagline: “It’s hard to be noir when it’s so fucking sunny.”
PARAMETERS:
Science fiction rather than fantasy. Nothing unambiguously supernatural.
The society must be central to the plot: its mores, its modes of production, its culture.
The society must come across as markedly preferable to the one in which we currently live, but it should have its own problems
The society must be an extrapolation from our own. No alternate histories.
PRIZE:
The off chance of actually helping to jumpstart a genre/movement that has been revving its electric motor in place for the last 15 years.
I’ll probably read it at some point if you tag me.
I’m pretty sure open portals are against OSHA regulations
It took me a few moments to realise that these people are inside a warehouse type building and have opened a door to show the wild weather outside they are not in fact outside opening the door of their warehouse to show us the weather they are keeping inside
I’m not like Mad at anyone who does this and I’m obviously not in charge of how anyone else tags shit on their own blogs, whatever, but it’s always bummed me out when my sex Ed posts get reblogged and tagged with 18+, minors dni, etc. personally I actually very much want teenagers to learn about their bodies and safer sex but I guess I’m just the guy who wrote the thing.
by and large I am not an angry man but once I watched a fellow sex educator present to a room full of college students and, upon being gently challenged by one of the students who objected to them describing sex as something that happens between adults, said with very palpable disdain “I don’t want to talk about kids fucking.” and I was so angry about it that I made myself nauseous.
not just teens, either. every couple years I give up my Sundays for a few months to teach sex ed to 4th-6th graders, unpaid. and I don’t do it because it’s always fun or easy or great for my health, I do it because those are human people with changing bodies and feelings who deserve to have someone who gives a shit take the time to talk honestly with them so that they might make less painful mistakes later.
ah, this has gotten notes. now we begin a game of Is Someone Going To Call Me A Pedophile For This.
and the ironic thing is that teaching comprehensive sex ed as young as possible (to an age appropriate extent of course) is like literally the best way to keep kids safe bc it allows them to know if what’s happening to them is wrong. especially since the most likely abuser is a parent. who’s obviously not going to teach them that they deserve bodily autonomy. it sounds icky but teaching kids about sex is what lets them know if they’re being raped, and unfortunately a scarily high amount of kids are preyed upon.
people say folks with adhd struggle with “delayed rewards” aka long term goals and as such we tend to focus more on short term rewards. what they don’t talk about is that at when we Do accomplish long term goals we don’t actually feel anything proportionate to the amount of work we did to achieve it. In my head I suffered for a while and then money spontaneously appeared in my bank account.
Effeminate dentist: You need to brush more on your gums– hold on why am I “effeminate?” What? I’m literally just a normal dentist. A masculine one, even.
Me: (struggling to speak through the dentist’s fingers) youw weren’t shupposhed to shee that
someone needs to say very loudly that peaceful protests are not morally superior to violent riots or any other form of violent resistance. people do whatever works for the specific goal in their situation. if the university students are peaceful it is because that’s what their strategy is. it is not because peace and dancing is the only legitimate response to seeing a child on your phone with half his head blown open.
went to a discussion led by elliot page earlier today and there were many good things said but at one point the other presenter asked him “what’s a cool thing about yourself that has nothing to do with being trans?” and he said “uhh this is all I’ve got going for me” and then paused before adding “if anyone has three oranges, I can juggle”
Children’s oppression and lack of humanization is one topic that makes my insides feel like they’re rotting and I’ll die on the hill of defending them and pointing out how fucking gross it is every single time people act like it’s cool actually to hate a group of people who are the least able to defend themselves in any terrible situation
Y'all will scream “protect queer kids” “protect trans kids” “protect kids of color” then forget all that and proudly stand behind “well kids are fucking annoying in public actually so it’s fine when I talk about wanting to have grocery stores and planes that are child free :)” individualism has killed humanity so deeply
I’m kind of at a point where the “queer spaces” i feel safest in are the ones that have a pet cishet dude or two hanging around
When a space cares a lot about making sure its members are queer enough to participate, you get a space that aggressively polices the queerness of its members. There’s no way around that, it’s pretty much tautologically true. Only by paradoxically not actually caring if you’re queer or not can a group really accept the full range of what queerness can look like.
curious bc i sometimes go to say things to people online before realising i sound literally evil
guys please 😭 this isn’t about being overly blunt or not being able to take back your words in person or a lack of tone tags, its about telling your buddy he dresses like if wallace from wallace and gromit was a faggot
you there. high quality production youtube channel with a team of people. why are your captions autogenerated.
you there. high quality production music video with access to the lyrics already written for you. why are your captions completely disabled all together.
You there. Small YouTube music video with captions beautifully hand rendered and part of the video, not just YouTube captions. Can I kiss you on the mouth.
Police may also feign kettles in order to cause a protest to disperse.
Protests that move quickly are harder to kettle (but are easier to split up as people get left behind).
Something important to note is that kettles are used by police to gather intelligence. Police may tell you that you will be allowed to leave if you provide your name and your address, if you give information about other protestors etc. Police can and will lie to you, do not trust them. Never talk to cops.
Being trapped in a kettle is stressful. Police may decide to arrest a few of you or all of you. Their goal is to gather information and to demoralize you. They might threaten or harass you. Your goal should be to remain calm and to help the people around you remain calm. Remember if nobody talks, everyone walks.
his videos make me feel like I’m awake at 5 in the morning against my will and everyone else at the party is either unconscious or staring at the corner like the blair witch
If you’re having trouble keeping up with what’s going on in Palestine because of US news coverage of university protests, here are some articles you can read and a video you can watch:
While CNN & all the other mainstream media try to paint the university protests as “pro terrorism” (which they’re not, they’re literally anti-war protests.) Palestinians are being slaughtered by the minute.
Please don’t stop speaking about Palestine.
”college kids are out of control” every college with a major protest is getting swarmed by riot police and every person they arrest gets pinned by six cops a person.
Conservatives love to tout the first amendment until people they don’t like use it.
also greg is the most bisexual-coded cartoon dad ever
so greg you’re telling me your conservative family doesnt approve of your musical awakening coming from a naked gay icon in gnc/drag makeup and they want to send you to the military but you ran away and changed your name and ended up with a musical aesthetic best described as indie glam rock dad with a non-binary space alien gf instead? das crazy, tell me more about how straight you are
apparently rebecca sugar confirmed greg is bi at a livestream today
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