ifeelprettyandwittyandgay

[ifeelprettyandwittyandgay]

my apologies siobhan thompson i was not familiar with your sapphic swag

[ifeelprettyandwittyandgay]

now i've watched a fair amount of d&d i've started to pick up on the differences between dm style i think

like brennan IS all the bad guys. every game he dms is brennan vs the players. he makes npcs and battles that make his friends throw things at him and he smirks the whole time. he makes them tell him their worst fears and then he makes them do it. and it's awful and amazing and really funny

matt IS exandria. his characters and battles never feel written or constructed, they just feel like things that already existed in the world. it's all about verisimilitude with him, and he's amazing at it. he tends to fade into the background and let the players react to the story and it makes everything he does incredibly cinematic

aabria dms like she's just another player at the table reacting to the story, right up until someone gets lulled into a false sense of security and tries to fool around and THEN she throws a curveball by making them deal with the consequences of their choices. she's like oh you think that's funny?? then i'm about to be hilarious, bitch. and she keeps getting away with it bc she's just that good!

basically, brennan's an evil bastard, matt's the world, and aabria's the queen of consequences

or:

brennan - fuck

matt - around

aabria - find out

[ifeelprettyandwittyandgay]

someone please take these apps away from me

(I have to assume someone already did this better, but that doesn't stop me from doing it worse)

[ifeelprettyandwittyandgay]

The wildest thing about Burrow's End, is that if Viola had used her Divine Sense even once, she would've had the most horrifying realisation

#ohhhhh #that would have been insane #burrow's end

[ifeelprettyandwittyandgay]

"can i just say, the church that i went to, the woman who sang in the christian rock group was SO hot, she was also a pharmacist" ASDFLKJASDFL EMILY…………

[ifeelprettyandwittyandgay]

naddpod loves to posit the question what if you did everything right and you still failed. what if the people who came before you did everything they were supposed to and the world still feels so bleak. what if people tried, really tried, and it still didn't work. what if heroes fall, what if heroes become the same thing they sought to destroy, what if heroes become petty and bitter and isolated. what if people had to keep trying to care in a world that doesn't, and that battle between the two never ends. naddpod also loves to posit the question what if this man-sized frog had human teeth.

[ifeelprettyandwittyandgay]

Submitted by @sky-the-snail-fanatic

#french spanish latin #same prev choir amkes you sing in lots of languages

[ifeelprettyandwittyandgay]

Okay look. Stephanie Meyer contributed four (4) cool things to the contemporary fantasy genre, which I shall now list here in the hopes of getting it out of my system. In descending order of importance:

1. Writing a story about a girl who wants something. Plot driven by a woman’s (non-vilified) desire. Truly dreadful execution but still a good idea, sort of a literary incarnation of the “he a little confused but he got the spirit” meme.

2. The fact that when Bella becomes a vampire she can still breathe but “there’s no relief tied to the action” which I remember verbatim because it fucking slapped. The idea of human physical sensations being partially defined by our mortality and the sensations still exist after you become undead but your experience of them is fundamentally different because you no longer need any of it? Extremely cool. The closest Meyer came to taking an interesting stance on vampires being dead.

3. Werewolves are immortal but they can literally stop whenever they want. That shit’s hilarious. Curse of immortality who.

4. The fact that vampires don’t sleep or get tired so their communally-raised baby doesn’t have a crib because she is always in someone’s arms. That was extremely cute and there’s a different, better book contained somewhere in that specific concept.

[ifeelprettyandwittyandgay]

I just watched Headless, and oh my god, you guys!!! It's amazing! The characters are great, the story is captivating, and the vibes are unmatched!!

I'm so happy i finally watched it, it made made my day 

Go watch it if you haven't seen it yet!!

[ifeelprettyandwittyandgay]

Let me tell you the story of a very dumb 90s kid (and the not-so-bright adult that kid grew into).

I, like a lot of 90s kids in US, read The Boxcar Children in 3rd grade. I got supper excited when I found out it was a series and probably spent more on them at Scholastic Book Fairs than my parents did on my braces.

But there was something that always confused me about the first book. In the original Boxcar Children book, the kids are given a ride by a couple who drive a horse and buggy. And there are frequent references to water fountains for horses and generally that horse-drawn transportation was a mainstay.

And then at the end of the book, the rich grandfather shows up and he’s driving a station wagon.

Now, you would think that even if 8-year-old me was confused about this, adult me would have assumed the book took place in a time where automobiles were only just coming into use. The couple at the beginning were poor bakers who had to use a cart and rich Mr. Alden could afford a fancy car.

And on a certain level, I understood that was probably the case.

But here’s the thing. The edition I grew up reading looked like this:

What about this entire cover even remotely says “this book is set in 1924”?

I’m furious. Because if someone had handed me an edition that looked like this:

Then obviously my 8-year-old brain (and subsequent adult thembo one) would know this book was set MORE THAN 70 YEARS PRIOR.

I do think they used some of the original illustrations on the inside. And maybe that should have provided context, but honestly I think it just made me more confused.

But also, they were still coming out with new Boxcar Children Mysteries and I was regularly blowing all my Scholastic Book Fair money on these:

Which again, all 90s looks for the kids on the covers and all illustrations on the inside were also super 90s.

I also think that something that contributed to my initial confusion was the fact that I didn’t think station wagons were that old.

I was picturing this:

Not this:

I do now know that most of those old kids mystery series were rebooted and rebranded every generation. Nancy Drew books even got regular rewrites to make her closer to whatever that decade would think a cool, stylish, liberated teenage girl look like. But when I was just a kid, I came up with my own explanation:

I decided they must be Amish. Think about it— we never knew what happened that drove the wedge between Old Mr. Alden and his son. What if the kids’ dad fell in love with an Amish girl, renounced his claim to the family fortune and ran away to marry her? Then they died and the children found the society too harsh and repressive and ran away to escape!

But also… I am more than a bit embarrassed because it took me 25 YEARS to wrap my head around something from a book they teach 3rd graders.

#absolutely iconic

[ifeelprettyandwittyandgay]

[ifeelprettyandwittyandgay]

what is your eye color. what is your favorite color. what is the color that appears most frequently in your wardrobe. what color is your favorite blanket. what color is your water bottle.

#blue #neon green #navy blue #black #purple

[ifeelprettyandwittyandgay]

[ifeelprettyandwittyandgay]

normalize reading a book without caring if the spine breaks, folded cover, misspelled annotations and just ruining the book completely as a form of art

[ifeelprettyandwittyandgay]

baby, why don’t you come over? 🍷

[ifeelprettyandwittyandgay]

[ifeelprettyandwittyandgay]

F.C.G. || Fresh Cut Grass || Faithful Care Giver