im like if a wizard was a girl
At least we have jacking off
Approximate death toll of Stalinism by each country, from 1924 to 1953.
im laughing so hard. WHAT does stalinism even MEAN in the context of THIS MAP
youre laughing… joseph HUSSEIN stalin unhinged his jaw and ATE all these people like delicious m&ms and yuor laughing…..
RHETORIC [Heroic: Failure] - Alright, here we go. We're devoting all your available brain cells to coming up with a question about Dorley. To coming up with the question about Dorley.
- (Whisper.) "Are Sisters of Dorley TME?"
- Oh god, that's bad. Surely I can think of something better.
serenaoculis asked:
was reading up on silk and dagger. am i just not enlightened enough yet to understand that half of all good worldbuilding starts with the author getting really, really horny
prokopetz answered:
It helps to understand that Silk & Dagger is very specifically parodying how dark elves are depicted in the Forgotten Realms, a Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting which is a. essentially a romantic fantasy setting awkwardly pretending to be high fantasy because D&D players aren’t ready for that conversation, and b. principally the brainchild of Ed Greenwood, a Canadian fantasy writer who has a decent shot at claiming the title of the horniest man alive. Like, this a parody whose source material is a fictional setting whose idea of challenging villainous queer-coding is having nations ruled by buxom middle-aged sorcerer-queens with interesting ideas about rehabilitative justice spanning the entire alignment grid. What Silk & Dagger is making text was just barely subtext to begin with, is what I mean to say.
Yeah Silk & Dagger is way less horny than a lot of OG Forgotten Realms lore regarding drow that it's riffing off, but it is a lot more up front about being sort of a sex-comedy.
We asked ourselves "What kind of conditions would produce a society and individuals actually like this?" and then "What would develop as a result?" And the answer is this.. sexy dominatrix libertarian nightmare world.
Yeah ever since I've heard that Ed Greenwood gave a lore dump about how breast milk tastes like for each race in the forgotten realms I definitely agree with the title of "horniest man alive" like wdym tiefling breast milk tastes spicy and like cinnamon rolls like wtf
What. Okay, no, I have a complaint.
Tieflings breast milk doesn't taste spicy and like cinnamon rolls. Like this ain't even me baulking at the idea that different forgotten realms kith get to have differently flavored breast milk. That's the premise: I can buy into near any premise long enough to write 200 words about how wrogn the execution of the idea is.
So, of all the core kith in the Forgotten realms, Tieflings are one of the most diverse, sporting 10 different variants (Elves have 14, Humans have a rather undeserved 11 (tho discounting variants outside the FO, they drop to 4 and 0 respectively), and tied with dragonborn).
And given the nature of the teifling variants is whole-ass who the origin of fiendish blood is, which conveys a difference betwixt variants large-enough to in my opin make them seporate kith by a standard definition, with Tiefling being an umbrella term for these different disperate Kiths designed by the writers to convey a shared political reality of unfair and prejudical treatment steming from the fiendish origin these people had no say in choosing and aren't in anyway affluenced by. SURELY, this is a group which would, lineage depending, sport more than one flavor of breast milk.
Like, I can buy Asmodael Teiflings have cinnimon flavor'd breast milk. That's whatever. But at the very, at the very least, Levistean teiflings' breast milk ought to have cool minty undertones and aftertastes like a shamrock shake.
Underrated JRPG feature is when one party member uses some non-weapon object as a weapon, but you still upgrade your stats by buying weapons, so now every weapon shop in the world needs to carry parasols of increasing lethality
This post inspired by how Genis in Tales of Symphonia canonically uses a ball and cup toy (kendama) because he's a kid
ALTBut because everyone in the game also gets an Ultimate Evil Super Cursed Ancient Weapon, the game has to find a way to make an Ultimate Evil Super Cursed Ball and Cup Toy. You know. For evil children.
ALT
crazy how foil is wildbows rare female character in worm fumble. shes a lesbian with a weapon that can kill god but she just somehow lacks a certain je ne sais quoi swag to her. id say its the cop thing but other wildbow characters dont have that issue so who knows what it is. imagine how much id like her if she did have je ne sais quoi to her though. She has a weapon that can kill god
once per every calendar year i remember that flechette has one of the coolest powers in worm
#i still think the big issue with Foil and Parian is that wb just fundementally didn't care about them and just didn't try as hard there#you can write essays about why other female characters are compelling but Lily isn't#but at the end of the day the most concise statement you can make on parian and foil#is that they're the Only members of the undersiders without last names#even Aiden was given a last name#like they're behind fucking AIDEN in how willing john charles mcrae was to spend time with them#and spend time with their moods/desires/particularities/etc.
yeah like they have screentime but they do not have the Zest seen in even a singular like bonesaw interlude where wildbow was clearly cooking with heat aka intense interest in exploring their personhood . and i do think they come off like there was a genuine attempt to put thought in and make them good lesbians but the kind of. Distance and unfamiliarity with how to approach exploring them fully as people shows. And wow it is really confounding that they're in the same book as amy dallon. How did he manage that.
a different author could write sylvester and it could make a good book and wildbow could write any other lamb as protagonist and it could be a good book but wildbow can't write sylvester and make it a good book
does anyone else miss the version of twig that never existed or was going to exist where lillian was the protagonist and sylvester dies offscreen for her character development in like arc 10
MEEEEEEEEEE. beautiful world where twig engages with the core conceit of its setting in any capacity whatsoever
i want to see lillian be complicit in evil things and grapple with the nature of her liberal change-the-system-from-within medschool dreams at the age of 14...i wanna see her describe fucked up made up science things to us viewers.....i wanna see her have a homoerotic doctor/experiment relationship with mary........
this is ideology eating itself it's so amusing to me.
Like what kind of manufacturing base do you think America has right now? we're going to bring Factory Jobs back to Detroit, girlies. It's going to work, because we're Fighting Woke. Woke will Die and its death will usher in a new age of American Prosperity. By way of. Uh. Oh. Oh no. Is it supposed to do that?
"We're going to get companies to build factories in the US!! We're going to bring manufacturing back here!!" Are you?
Trump heard that Biden set money on fire with the CHIPS act and said. We can do that but with everything.
Most intelligent graduate of the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.