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Thinking about the werewolf from the hate mail Lemgo council pharmacist David Welman (1595 - 1669) got after being accused of being a werewolf

#that doesn't even look like a canine #are we looking at a werewolf or perhaps a werecow?

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the homestucks could not fight they snapped the stick before making a dent in the piñata

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#speech #I could handle the bathroom stall #engineering college would be a gamble - might be fun might tank my mental health #babysitting… there exist children with whom I could handle it? #and I suppose with most children I could at least keep them alive #but not fun for any of us #skipping - no

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Okay so, got here from a book on animal behavior but: Vulcan stand-up comedy as a competitive activity.

Because most Vulcans don't actually pretend they don't have emotions, it's all about self-regulation, right? And good comedy usually hinges on manipulating the relationship between our faculties of recognition and surprise in various ways, you can get pretty scientific with it.

So Vulcans go to the comedy act, and the idea is the comedian is trying to make you crack up, and the audience is trying to not even crack a smile, and if you do laugh, you lose. Like all in good fun, but Vulcans are both really competitive and really aware of how dangerous that urge can be to a society, so this could actually be classified as highly orthodox Surakian practice.

So of course the comedian has to actually be funny, or there's no challenge and the game is boring.

Which means the really good Vulcan comedians (most of whom tend to extremely dry delivery of their bits) are going to go around playing to packed houses, which mostly sit staring stonily back at them, with occasional breaks when someone loses it and reacts.

And after a show you'll have Vulcans walking out discussing with great approval how very humorous that was, with varying degrees of muted smugness or chagrin depending on if they won or lost.

I bet there are human comedians whose grandest fantasy is being good enough to do a set in Vulcana Regatta and have people going around bragging about not laughing at them.

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#evening or afternoon #for a variety of reasons #including but not limited to #don't want to get up earlier #in the winter don't want to commute with wet hair #in the summer don't want to shower and immediately get sweaty on the commute #in the winter when it gets dark early I can put on my pajamas after I shower and declare myself done for the day #it is relax time now

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i love it when in cql they just Start Saying Numbers, like "oh i fought FIVE THOUSAND men all on my own!" or "you killed more than ONE HUNDRED people!!" ... ive never seen more than twenty extras at a time but go off bestie <3

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#you too can have ruptured eardrums!

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have you ever read a fanfic so good that you wanted to write a fanfic about that fanfic, but was too shy / too intimidated to ask for the author’s permission and too afraid that your writing wouldn’t be half as good as theirs and that it would be an insult to their work that was basically a literal masterpiece, so you just sat there fantasizing about their work and how beautiful it was and how you wished you could just eat it and how you wished canon could write your blorbos half as good as this writer did and how you just wanted to cry because you just loved that fic so much????

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so many pointless arguments about which elf is the tallest, the most beautiful, etc, etc. it's simple.

the tallest elf is whichever elf Tolkien is talking about at the moment.

the most beautiful elf is always luthien and the second most beautiful elf is whoever tolkien is talking at the moment

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My BIGGEST pet peeve when it comes to Tolkien is how people will sometimes characterize Melkor’s rebellion as being about him wanting to do his own thing and rebelling against Illuvatar’s oppressive sheet music.

THERE WAS NO SHEET MUSIC!  Illuvatar wasn’t forcing anything.  The Ainulindale was improv.  Illuvatar just gave them the theme, the idea, the feeling, the starting point.  The Ainur were drawing inspiration from the thought of Illuvatar, sure, and so long as they were in harmony the music played precisely as Illuvatar intended because Illuvatar had created them and knew how they worked together.  But the music of the Ainur before Melkor’s dissonance was quintessentially creative, as well as corroborative.  It was spontaneous, perfect harmony of free individuals perfectly in tune with each other, whose improvisations were constantly building upon each other.

Melkor’s rebellion was not about asserting his freedom of expression, because his expression was already free.  Instead it was explicitly about making his own voice louder and more important than anyone else’s, and subjugating the creativity of others to instead convince or force them to follow him exactly in repetitive unison.  And so, when Melkor’s goal became drown everyone else out, instead of make beautiful music together, his music became less creative, less innovative, and less his.

So it kind of annoys me when people talk about Melkor like he’s all for freedom of expression when he’s pretty much the opposite of that.

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In fairness we don't know that they aren't also doing therapy.

Most psychiatric medication does kind of come down to poking the brain with a chemical stick and hoping it helps. I personally wouldn't be up for homebrew 400-year-old-recipe Concoction… but resistant depression is a tough problem!

Men will literally study Paracelsus, translate 1600s alchemical texts and distill potions for melancholy before going to therapy

#…also I don't see anything indicating this is a man

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Absolutely not, that requires additional physical activity.

Being a little too cold: brrrr i’m a little too cold !!!

Being a little too warm: i am going to kill the next person who makes eye contact with me.

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when a character is written inconsistently because nobody thought about it that hard and you're like it's time for me to get in there.. and think about it that hard

#the important thing to remember here is #even after you have thought about it that hard #and come up with something coherent #canon is still inconsistent #and people interpreting things differently are not being wrong #this is relevant to that other post #unsolicited fandom opinions #unsolicited discursive opinions

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Hmmmm. I generally agree with this, but a few notes after browsing the notes:

I do think that sometimes there is room for debate about whether/how much of/which part of a character's behavior is a facade. I have seen people concluding facade on what I would consider to be minimal or imaginary evidence.

When it comes to not liking a character because of behavior that is part of their facade — I think that's valid, actually. Performing jerky behavior is sufficient to qualify as a jerk.

Far worse, in my opinion, than the famous “he wouldn’t fucking say that” is “he WOULD fucking say that, as part of his facade, but you seem to think he would mean it genuinely”

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i'm conducting an experiment. everyone who's from an english speaking country state your country, regional area and what you call the following images. i need to see something

#u.s. upper midwest #fries; chips; biscuits #cookies; soda; candy #Away Foul Miasma; knit cap or just hat; cotton candy #I'm regionally atypical with the soda I think