A purple bell pepper is possible . . . Reblog if you agree

I think a lot about Leo’s tendency to push his way into the spotlight despite clearly being a natural in the shadows. Hell, you could argue that his worst moments are when he’s forcing himself onstage, and his best are when he does things no one notices until it’s already been done.

My beloved wife is not just a doctor of acupuncture, they also have a Master’s in both English and German. Language is their jam. To their eternal suffering, I do not have perfect grammar. When prompted they said it’s “fairly acceptable” on a day to day basis.

But I do have quirks that make them quietly grit their teeth. One of them is my indifference to differentiation between “is” and “are”. On multiple occasions they’ve tried to explain to me when I misuse “is,” and generally I can’t even parse what’s upset them. They gave an example of me asking, “Is there pickles in the fridge?” rather than the correct “Are there pickles in the fridge?”

They’ve told me that to pacify the editor in their brain they’ll mentally correct my sentences and that’s usually enough. Tonight it was me saying “There is other narrators,” in reference to a series we’re reading. When they pointed it out tonight it was to say that “are” would have been correct because there’s multiple other narrators.

“No,” I countered, “I was trying to use ambiguous language but there is really only one other narrator, so in my mind I knew that and spoke incorrectly because I knew it was singular but the sentence implied it was plural.”

This incensed them further (I also don’t know the difference between further and farther and the pneumonic is just as unhelpful to me as the one for stalactites and stalagmites.)

What’s funny to me though was that I asked about my use of “kind’ve” that people got worked up over in my 20lb ass post. “Doesn’t that bother you? It’s blatantly wrong.”

“No, that’s just a colloquialism, it’s fine.”

Do you think seasonal allergies stopped being a thing when John Gaius destroyed the solar system, and resurrected humanity with death energy

Yet another huge W for the Emperor Undying! You can't have seasonal allergies in nuclear winter!

I also firmly believe that when he resurrected (a handpicked, very small part of) humanity, he also created new unforeseen allergies and illnesses to go with it. This is why the Seventh House blood cancer—

Giant cornplate post here but I'll get my thoughts out anyways. I really like how even visually Mac and Winn are contrasting yet similar. Winn's main color is yellow and Mac's is purple, which are contrasting colors. Yet, they both wear green. And then both of them having glasses but they're different shapes (circle vs square). and ouuughhoguhgh. theyre good friends. i like them.

connor 😭😭😭😭

mmmm thinking about... every element having a variety of expressions. thinking about an aesthetic of handedness, w/ certain expressions of each element being sinister and others being dexter, while the "root" of it can be used with either. this is also me thinking abt the aesthetics of mages having physical signs of their magic use, that grow and deepen as they become more proficient in casting. marks on their hands and arms. this would probably be agnostic to the mage's usual dominant hand, or maybe it's even that a right-handed mage who focuses mostly on sinister magic will become left-handed over time. ambidexterity is almost as rare in magic as it is irl, since it's usually difficult to be truly equally good at both kinds.

this is working backwards from the typical positioning of the twins wrt each other but i think dexter magic tends to be predominantly active, easily weaponized, very direct. conversely sinister magic is gentler, more easily used subtly for healing or manipulation. or possibly it's the other way round! i'm thinking of it as them casting with their 'free' hand since emmet seems to generally stand to ingo's right, but the thing is they do quite a lot, maybe even most? of their gesturing with the hand closest to the other, so it might be the inverse.

i also do really like the "one giant adventuring party" idea i pitched a lil while ago bc i think that's fun. with protag as the sort of nominal party leader, who is in a sort of weird position of being a very powerful mage who has no idea how to do magic. it's immediately visible from looking at them bc both arms are covered in glowing rainbow swirls, suggesting near-perfect ambidexterity in apparently every magical class, but every time they cast a new spell they're just as surprised by it as everyone else. and their giant party of mostly mages and then 1 or 2 physical fighters (someone pls help me balance teamcomp my squad is dying) is also there trying to help them learn how to actually. do magic not by accident.

The career aptitude test makes me feel like the joker each time I’ve taken it (once for school, another time for an old therapist, and my new therapist had me re-take it). The results are always: Be a doctor, doctor, doctor, teacher, doctor (this time in physics), engineer

omg ik ur out of college n shit so this is irrelevant but i need to air it out. i tutor for the sat and the new digital format is utterly ridiculous. it adapts based on how well you did on the first half of the section to give either more difficult or more easy questions, essentially giving the same score in less questions. the thing is though, the sat inherently is not an aptitude test, but a testtaking test. i have no clue how to approach tutoring for this anymore especially considering i work with primarily fli kids who already struggle to do well on the more predictable format

NOT irrelevant my brothers gonna take it next year and im so pissed at how far down the drain education has gone idk how they could’ve possibly made it any worse than it already was like omg. i’m at a loss as to how i can help support my siblings academically it’s genuinely so ridiculous and somehow even more stacked against them than it was before

whenever i cook or bake something that is apparently hard to make it always goes fine like the first go and it is NOT a natural aptitude i can just read

I am also once again thinking about the incredible potential of a Komahina TLT AU. And realizing there's something fundamentally wrong with me in a way that probably can't be fixed

I love you public history people I love you museum people I love you archivists and I LOVE YOU architectural historians!!!

the most tragic thing about the Wittebanes is that Caleb was born, lived, and died far FAR too early to rock up in the hardware store in jeans, utility belt, steel-toed boots, tanktop, and leather motorcycle jacket and secure her rightful place as Hottest Butch In A Ten Mile Radius

Spoilers for wylls playthru but the tiefling teacher asks u to tell the kids stories... and wyll can say he fought a red dragon (cool af) rode some kinda creature, and slayed an owlbear. Wyll hates most mythical creatures i think, or at least views them as dangerous prey and conquests to be slayed instead of people, even sentient creatures that speak and beg for their lives---but for some reason he especially hates owlbears. Bc he also does not approve of taking in the owlbear cub and says that its dangerous af for a pet and not for him. I know he's staring down the cub when everybody leaves him behind like. Watch those greedy talons you glorified chicken. I see the beast within

And the owlbear cub is like Nya : >

Meanwhile I believe astarion is to cats what wyll is to dogs. He loves dogs so much. I think he would think the perfect dog was the dragon age Mabari. And he would be right! As a child, he wanted a dog he can wrestle with and run around the grounds with, getting into adventures. His dad never let him have a dog, said he should focus on his training and his studies

Big fan of my wyll playthru so far, who knew role-playing as my favorite character in the video game.... in the video game... could be so much fun lmao

incredibly anti-feminist of intsys to make charlotte start with gamble in her join chapter btw!! god forbid a woman has an acceptable hit rate

i want to put yan under a microscope and study her she's honestly fascinating.