I CAN FIX ANYTHING!

Now I am just imagining an old-timey anatomical drawing of Dream sketched by Hob, with the centaur leaning over his shoulder being like, "Hey, you forgot my second pair of lungs" and Hob freaks out (but like in a Hob way, so mostly just his curiosity turned up to 11). But like MANY years later, he co-publishes his first book, a tome called Caring for a Centaur : Emotionally and Medically where every page has Dream's sign-off and Hob becomes the leading expert on the subject.

This is SUCH a sweet idea ❤️❤️❤️ I picture so many cute footnotes from hob or additional info provided by Dream.

Hob could definitely become the leading HUMAN expert. Hehe.

Who’s to say centaurs don’t also have their own medical texts somewhere ;)

Fun horse fact, did you know that horses synchronize their heartbeat with the rest of their herd?

Some studies indicate horses can do that with humans too.

Analysis:

There appear to be viewers on the opposite end of this strange device. How curious. Beginning mass social interactions.

Hello! Mod is 21, he/they. Y’all can call me Beeps! I’ve been running @kingofsalmonids for a while, but wanted to expand a bit. Realized this url was free and instantly had to snag it. Not quite sure what all I plan to do with this, but let’s find out together!

Recalled Barbie Sunglasses from 2001

In cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), IMT Accessories, of New York, N.Y., is recalling about 70,000 BarbieTM Sunglasses. The frames of the sunglasses can break, allowing the petroleum distillate and floating glitter to leak out. Petroleum distillates could be harmful to children's eyes and skin and could be fatal if ingested. IMT Accessories has received one report of a six-year-old child who received chemical burns in her right eye as a result of petroleum distillates leaking from the sunglasses when she was playing. The recalled sunglasses have a pink tint to the eyeglasses, have floating glitter in the temple of the sunglasses, say "BarbieTM" and "Mattel®" on the left side of the earpiece, and say "China" on the right side.

Iodine can be found almost everywhere in the world. It is abundant in ocean water, and when prehistoric seas receded, the element remained on the land, where it is drawn up by plants, consumed by animals and returned to the soil. This inheritance is kept stable by an ‘iodine cycle’: what is washed out by the rain is replaced by iodine vapour blown far inland. But not in Switzerland. In the last ice age, a permanent ice sheet formed over the Alps. Up to one kilometre thick, its tremendous weight ground against the terrain. It thawed and refroze in stages, and with every thaw, meltwater washed out the rubble. Over the course of 100,000 years, this ice sheet tore the top 250 metres of rock and soil from the surface of the Swiss Central Plateau. At its peak, about 24,000 years ago, it extended across all the northern cantons. It did not reach the Jura or Ticino. In 1964, Dr Franz Merke, a Basel surgeon, showed that the extent of the ice sheet ‘corresponded precisely’ with the prevalence of goitre: Switzerland had been stripped of its iodine. This was a decade after it had finally been proved that iodine deficiency caused the linked medical conditions in the region. Forty years earlier still, in 1914, hormones had only just been defined (in 1905, by Ernest Starling at UCL), nutritional science had barely begun (with Casimir Funk’s 1912 hypothesis on vitamins), and the chemical composition of Swiss soil was unknown. Despite this, almost everything Hunziker argued turned out to be true.

When Gary Gulman, whose last special The Great Depresh premiered in 2019, started in the ’90s, comedians still recycled some material from their specials in their live acts, and creating ten new minutes a year was considered bold. The mind-set was that “you needed to hoard material because it was so precious,” he remembers. Gulman likens the new, unwritten hour-per-year rule to the four-minute mile, which once seemed impossible but then became commonplace. Ronny Chieng — whose last special, Asian Comedian Destroys America, premiered in in 2019 — says it’s challenging, but worthwhile: “You can’t go wrong by pushing yourself as an artist.”

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haha, yes, Kermit plays the banjo! most famously he plays it while singing the rainbow connection, and according to my very quick googling he's gotten into a banjo duel with what i'd assume is a well-known banjo player? sure, why not.

also there are a lot of plushies where he's got his banjo, and its very cute.

(sorry this ask is answered so late and sort of losing its context but) thank you for this info! kermit banjo duel (kermit banjo duel!!) was one of the funniest search i did in recent memory and it was beautiful. banjos are such fascinating instrument!

Could you imagine if Foxy Bro unintentionally made CC snap from the bullying and trauma he put him through?

I can imagine William and Elizabeth trying to stop CC from stabbing Foxy Bro. That or William would, just, not give a shit if his younger son was trying to kill his older brother.

Personally, I can't imagine this happening, maybe its because i have a very set perspective of CC as chris, but CC is, in general, a very small and overly emotional kid

i just can't see CC as a violent person, even with the context being a snapping point. If anything, i think we do see him hit a breakdown point, where he hides under the table and cries at fredbears, Personally? Emotional ≠ Violent to me.

Incredibly dark take though anon! fits the halloweenie spirit!

I consider you an authority on blood magic so I need to ask: do you think the Dark Ritual could be more of an actual ritual with casting and spell components and blood offerings instead of just boning?

I imagine any warden regardless of gender could be Kieran's parent if they only gave Morrigan a bit of their blood to put into the Old God Baby Soup

so, here’s what morrigan says about the ritual (using only the dialogue for a male warden to save time): “what i propose is this: lay with me. here, tonight. and from our joining, a child will be conceived. this child will bear the taint, and when the archdemon is slain, its essence will seek the child like a beacon. at this early stage, the child can absorb that essence and not perish. the archdemon is still destroyed, with no grey warden dying in the process.” the warden may respond “so the child becomes a darkspawn?” and she replies “not at all. it will become something different: a child born with the soul of an old god.”

sorry to rehash all this dialogue but i think it’s just easier to discuss if i have it right there. the premise of the dark ritual involves the conception of a child. morrigan’s use of blood magic here may be magically assisting to somehow ensure the child is conceived (wardens supposedly are unlikely to have children, probably even these fairly freshly recruited ones, not to mention that one of the potential fathers is in his early fifties), but otherwise she’s talking abt conceiving a baby in the expected normal biological way. it’s only when the archdemon is slain that the baby—or, not a baby yet, embryo, is that the word at this stage? less than that? whatever you want to call it—will absorb the old god soul essence. i suspect further magic is necessary to ensure it’s the baby not one of the grey wardens present who attracts that essence, and that that would be the actual ritual part of the whole thing that flemeth taught morrigan, but i can’t definitively say that’s true because morrigan’s not exactly explaining in detail here

anyway, my point being that what you’re describing would be a different and more groundbreaking ritual, where morrigan is capable of conceiving that child without, you know, the usual prerequisite of sex with someone biologically capable of getting her pregnant. in the game, that’s not something she’s presented as being able to do, which is why in the first place she’s making this whole pretty insistent argument for you to let her sleep with a man who depending on your setup she may or may not particularly like. that’s exclusively what she needs from the warden in order to do this ritual, so there can be a child in the first place. now, some people in their canon alter that, much like you’re describing, i know bi romance mods let any warden do the ritual, etc. etc. i don’t go for it personally but i support crimes against canon always and am here for u. so i guess basically i would say, the break from canon you have to add in here to facilitate that is that part of this ancient blood magic ritual knowledge also includes the ability to conceive a child between any two people, regardless of biological sex. it’s not what’s presented in canon as possible, but hey, your worldstate is your worldstate and it’s the fantasy genre. i do however think it would have a lot of knock-on effects as to how the ritual is treated and also that you would have to factor in wider alterations to morrigan’s behaviour to a female warden, which imo is clearly affected in comparison to a male warden not only by her perception of gender but also by her not having them always in her mind as a potential partner for the ritual

I am fascinated by American actors. No, not all of them. Just the ones that people love over there but are virtually unknown to people from other countries. I mean, what a concept! Not everything from the US is universal! Even Americans can have their own secret blorbos, as a treat!

man reading old reviews really is a trip people are interacting with my review of Jackaby, which isnt even that old, and i said "im not a fan of the lovable asshole trope"

EXCUSE ME????? PAST ME????, YES YOU ARE!!!!!! YOU VERY MUCH ARE!!!!!! The problem, actually, is that Jackaby wasn't a lovable asshole, he was just An Asshole

putting these two together bc oh the dynamics here are just so !! delico as the replacement for the sister they both lost, that playing into their mutual guilt & tension between each other, they would die for each other & kill for each other but would that extend to what they become if they ever got erica back. how would that dynamic warp & twist with what erica has become, the traumatic psychosexual connections & all three of them just needing to be together. so fascinating.

an excerpt for an upcoming ask but the delico / erica / yang dynamic & the psychosexual, borderline incest with weird gender & sexual fuckery elements of it is just so. [clenches fist]

I love social media posts that are like “hey just a reminder that [extremely niche argumentative commentary on completely unfamiliar social microtrend]!!!!” I'm like yeah. thank god u reminded me. whew 

Jumpscares myself when I go to get rid of the numbers for notifs and see that an artist I’ve looked up to followed me back