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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
thedepressionoftrees
animentality

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leebrontide

One time my dad came to family dinner all excited “you know that show Sherlock? I hear fans are writing whole new stories for it online”

And in perfect unison my sister and I yelled “DAD NO!” So vehemently he stopped in his tracks.

Then a look of dawning comprehension on his face.

“Oh, this is like Kirk and Spock, isn’t it”

And I died right then and there.

renthony

My mom was into fanfic back when it was still all in handmade zines passed back and forth in-person. My mother is the one who first told me what fanfic was. My mother used to print her favorite fics out on our home printer and stick them on the shelf to read again later. My mom had an Ao3 account before I'd ever heard of Ao3.

Fanfic is not some new millennial/gen z thing that nobody over 35 knows about. It's really not that weird for middle-aged folks and elders to be into it. The folks who were writing Spirk fic in the 60s are, like. Still around.

dduane

Yes they are. And some of them have given me actual money to write for them!

It's an amazing world we live in. :)

dad no!
probablybadrpgideas
probablybadrpgideas

100th level spells

Abjuration: Protection from physics. You are no longer affected by gravity, inertia, temperature, etc.

Conjuration: Summon literally every demon (10ft radius)

Divination: Detect whether you are actually a fictional construct taking part in a semi-improvised game narrative or not.

Enchantment: Mind control people so effectively that they were already doing the thing you wanted them to do before you mind controlled them. Some might say this is just you taking credit for people doing things they were gonna do anyway, but what do martials know?

Evocation: BLOW UP THE FUCKING SUN.

Illusion: Send yourself into a fully realistic dream world so you never need to bother with existence again. Good luck with the lich army fuckers!

Necromancy: Animate dead but on all the world's fossil fuels.

Transmutation: Transform the entire multiverse into a no-magic high-tech humans-only world where the real world only exists as a reasonably popular tabletop RPG line.

Universal: Maximum counterspell. Cast on a wizard they forget everything after the day they started wizard school, cast on a cleric or warlock it kills their patron, cast on a druid it causes a global mass extinction and cast on a sorcerer to make all their blood fall out.

D&D spell idea
jadeitepandaproductions
cryptotheism: “prospitianescapee: “This one is pissing me off because there’s cheese in it. I’m not sure there’s a period of Chinese dynastic history wherein the type of dudes likely to be having rap battles would also have been familiar with hard...
prospitianescapee

This one is pissing me off because there’s cheese in it. I’m not sure there’s a period of Chinese dynastic history wherein the type of dudes likely to be having rap battles would also have been familiar with hard cheese. There’d be political fucking implications to that. Fermented dairy products were often seen as uncivilized foods, and were associated in particular with northern “barbarian” cuisine (see: <lactose intolerance in Eurasia>), whereas competitive poetry was viewed as a civilized and scholarly pastime appropriate to civil servants and courtiers. Mentioning cheese in a verse which also references the heavens could be seen as an effort to legitimize the presence of these dangerous foreign elements within Chinese society, and, thus, as seditious. If dairy were to become a common theme in rap battles, it might be viewed as a dangerous sign of poor morale and defeatist thinking among the literati. “Emperor, we have got to move the capital to the south. The scholars are rapping about cheese. It’s all falling apart.”

cryptotheism

Now this is a fucking post

cheese ancient chinese rap battle
animate-mush
thisvegetabledoesntfallinlove

there is, in fact, a "platonic explanation for this" if you're not a coward

thisvegetabledoesntfallinlove

its so fun to see the diversity of tags on this ranging from "they're literally just standing next to each other" to "deep bonds dont have to be romantic/sexual!" to "yeah friends can fuck nasty, platonically. coward." we're all so correct, there are, in fact, a million platonic explanations for this

talking about your future children together and how the other would be the perfect co-parent but that involves this darn social expectation to kiss and marry
thebibliosphere
thebibliosphere

I think I may have successfully taught Holly Mop her first "trick."

I've been verbally 'booping' her nose more often than usual, primarily because she keeps shoving her snout in my face, checking me over for migraines.

So whenever she started snuffling my forehead, I'd ask, "can I have a boop?" and boop her on the snoot.

Well, the boop request has now evolved into me saying, "can I get a boop?" and Holly Mop bopping me on the nose. It started out as her just sort of cracking her tiny fuzzy head against mine, but after realizing this was not conducive to healing migraines, she has now started excitedly licking my nose whenever a boop is requested.

And you can't just say "boop?" No, it has to be "can I have a boop?" and then she'll launch herself at my face and lick me squarely on the nose, tail wagging frantically because Mama has asked for a boop! Holly Mop has booped Mama!! Request fulfilled!!!

You can tell she thinks it's funny too, because she always scoots back lightning fast with this big tongue-lolling grin on her face, just full of all the Shih Tzu chuffs and sneezes as she sits back on her haunches like ho-ho, I got you before you got me, I am so clever.

It's very sweet. I love her.

adorable