recovering lurker

life is so much better when you have a work of fiction to obsess over

Anyway a good ship is one where there are people viciously arguing that it's an unhealthy and predatory power dynamic while also violently disagreeing over who the predator is.

In collaboration with 12-Sided Studios, we are thrilled to bring you Thresher, a new actual play premiering Thursday April 24th. This two part underwater epic takes place in a unique world created by Matt Linton and Jacqueline Emerson and homebrewed for gameplay by Jasper William Cartwright, based on Candela Obscura, an Illuminated Worlds game from Darrington Press.

Tune into the premiere on Beacon, Twitch, and YouTube on April 24th at 7pm Pacific, and the finale the following week on May 1st at 7pm Pacific.

Deep in the abyss, in the dark chasms where hidden horrors and ancient creatures lurk, a motley crew of troubled individuals must come together or die alone onboard the S.S. Thresher, a deep-sea submarine. Their mission: to explore the long-abandoned Rán Boer station, a geothermal energy facility resting in the ocean’s unforgiving depths—silent, decayed, and waiting.

As pressure mounts both literally and figuratively, the crew must battle the claustrophobia of a metal tube, the terror of lurking behemoths, and the increasing paranoia of mutinous cabin-mates. Only one thing is certain; from the deep, power rises...

Learn more about Thresher at http://critrole.com/thresher

Meet the Cast

Creators Matt Linton and Jacquelin Emerson Game Master Jasper William Cartwright Jacquelin Emerson as Emily Wodsworth Abubakar Salim as Daemon Adams Mark/Mara “Sherlock” Hulmes as Beatrice “Betty” Callahan Jane Douglas as Valerie “Val” Sutton Noshir Dalal as Hercules De Baudin

Just a reminder that it is not your vet’s job to report if your pet got into recreational drugs. We aren’t snitches, we have no obligation to report drug use. We do, however, want to save your pet so please be honest with us about what your pet got into. It could literally be life and death for them.

i initially read this as a cat picking up a cocaine habit on the street and not being a narc about it before i realised you meant pets accidentally ingesting their owners drugs

hey its me your immune system. looks like we caught somethin here. try sneezing real fast see if that gets rid of it. yeah no dice, huh... alright lemme try filling your lungs with fluid. no yeah i do it all the time dont worry works like a charm. hmmm... still no good... alright well just hold tight here for a minute maybe it just needs time to start working. in the mean time ill go fire up the ol' neuron cooker n see if that helps

HEY its me again. false alarm turns out it was just like pollen or somethin haha sorry i can be a little jumpy is all. ...hey man youre not lookin so good are you okay?

nothing scarier than being a fan of a fic and then becoming mutuals with the author. like hi shakespeare. big fan of your fake dating au

Celtic Miku!!

me after my 15 min break at work

me after sleeping a healthy 8 hours

me at the end of a two day weekend

me after spring break

what i've been up to the past 20 minutes

If tumblr shuts down you can find me in living in a shotgun shack. If tumblr shuts down you can find me in another part of the world. If tumblr shuts down you can find me behind the wheel of a large automobile. If tumblr shuts down you can find me in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife. It tumblr shuts down I'll send myself an ask that says "how did I get here?"

After years of living in the adulting world, I think I’ve come to a realization: Manners exist to guide you to good conduct even when you’re in a bad mood.

When you’re happy, when you’re feeling generous, when you’re pleased with your gift or your service or your outcome, it’s easy to be nice. It’s easy to tip the waiter well when you’ve had a good day. It’s easy to thank the teller or the clerk when you got what you wanted out of the transaction. It’s easy to smile and chit-chat with strangers on the road when you’re in a good mood.

It’s hard to tip the waiter when you didn’t enjoy your food. It’s hard to thank the clerk for their time when you’ve just been told there’s a problem with their account and they weren’t able to fix it for you. It’s hard to think of something nice to say when your aunt gave you a crappy sweater you neither need nor want. It’s hard to be nice to people when you’ve had a shitty day. It’s HARD.

That’s what manners are for. Scripts and phrases that you learn by rote to say when you can’t think of a single nice or good thing to say from your own volition. Yes, they’re scripted. Yes, the sentiment is empty. But the scripts work in every situation, and the emptiness provides a buffer between your own unhappiness and the rest of society.

Because most of the time, it’s not the waiter’s fault that the food you ordered wasn’t what you expected. It’s not the clerk’s fault that your account is overdrawn. It’s not the fault of the barista or the stranger on the subway that you got fired today or your favorite aunt died. But even when you can’t summon a smile or a cheery word, you can still have manners, because they will serve you the same in sunshine or rain.

This is very wise and very well put.

percy being bitchy is vex's idea of an aphrodisiac. he'll be utterly humiliating some diplomat and she'll be doing stretches like welp we're makin another one tonight

nerds forever

good morning soft sad freaks on an unprofitable website

I don’t care if you make fun of Catholicism as long as it’s accurate! The best humour has its roots in the truth.

“You can be mean to me but there are RULES about it” is the most Catholic thing I’ve ever seen.

I walked into that one

Is that a tamping bar or are you happy to see me?