#The Discard Pile

[whovian223]

Friday Night Shots - The Shelf of Shame

Friday Night Shots - The Shelf of Shame @gmtgames @Pandasaurusgame @HBuchanan2 @Volko26

Yes, I know it’s Saturday. But after a day of having a hole punched in our wall and then another day of long driving (which was great and I picked up a couple of awesome-looking games, but it was long), I wasn’t in the mood to write anything last night. The rum flowed better tonight, though this is still going to be a fairly short post compared to some of mine. So welcome back to the bar!…

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#A Distant Plain #Bezier Games #Brian Train #Castles of Mad King Ludwig Collector&039;s Edition #COIN Games #Dinosaur World #GMT Games #Harold Buchanan #Kenneth Tee #Liberty or Death #Minerva #Pandasaurus Games #People Power #Plantagenet: Cousins&039; War for England #The Discard Pile #The Last Hundred Yards #Volko Ruhnke

[runimanio]

They should make a Wendigomon card in the TCG that deletes a tamer on the board when it's played by evolution as a reference to Survive

#I don't play so idk if that would be exploitable or something #I forget his name but print the Joe stand in guy from survive too and give him a effect that activates when he sent to the discard pile #Digimon #digimon tcg #digimon survive #digimon survive spoilers #Wendigomon

[humanitys-strongest-bamf]

Not sure if this is widely known in the fandom lol, but there is canonically a plant "iron bamboo" in the SNK universe, which is what their blades are made out of. It's featured in the Before the Fall spin off series (which okay, I'm not sure how canon it's considered), and I just looked at the wiki which mentions that the current blades are made of "ultra hard steel" which is a mixture of the bamboo and other metals.

All that to say, yes, I think they're biodegradable 🤭🤭

new aot discourse is arguing over whether the blades are biodegradable or not

#kat chats #i did not know this!! #i'm glad paradis is environmentally conscious LMAO #although with the rumbling everything got fucked up anyway 😭 #again i just found the idea of piles upon piles of discarded and broken blades everywhere hilarious

[fleet-off]

welcome to the four days a month where all emotions get a x6 modifier 😊 have fun!

#personal #honestly? not all bad tho #i've quietly teared up about how much I love my friends four times this morning #and last night i emotionally rewrote a difficult conversation for lapping at the edges 3 #now is the rewrite any good #or will it go in the old draft pile with the other 20k-ish discarded words for this year-late 3k-word chapter? #this has yet to be seen

[vee-crytraps]

Damian: Son of Batman

im healing my younger self my reading stuff on my list but I'm not known for keeping my thoughts to myself!!! This comic was meh BUT we had some good times I guess?

Damian calling Tim ugly buT ALL OF YOU LOOK THE FUCKIN' SAME SO??

Also?? I never would have guessed the origins of Alfred the cat being that Alfred literally dies in front of it, and then Damian starts to hear the cat talk to him in Alfred's voice??? and last but not least

Talia Al Ghul's Long Skirt Girlie debut It feels like this comic STARTS with a lot of context missing, because it's not a standalone, and it a part of a larger universe like many lil runs are. BUT SPARKNOTES: Bruce and Damian are investigating the scene of a murder, several human corpses lay among a pile of dead joker fish. Bruce, looking for clues, accidentally triggers a bomb- which kills him. Damian goes to his mom and grandaddy for help avenging his father, they both tell him to fuck off. They tell him he's chosen to be Bruce's lil baby and now he has to suck it up and be Batman. Damian continues to be Robin with no Batman (Dick is dead in this universe), but abandons his no-killing rule. He immediately starts murdering anyone who takes credit for the death of Batman. Some undetermined amount of time later, Bruce rocks up to the bat cave as Damian is going out to do more murder and decides to beat his ass. No one stays dead in comics, unless you're Uncle Ben. Or Martha and Thomas Wayne. Damian stabs Bruce almost fatally, and he gets put into a coma. Damian dons his trench coat batman fit (Batman 666 type beat) and decides to obey his father's rule. He gets pretty fucked up in a fight with Mr. Pyg, and Alfred dies from the exertion of dragging a wounded Damian to the med bay. This cat that's been vibing in the bat cave stats talking to Damian in Alfred's voice and convinces Damian to go to Bruce for help looking for the Joker. The "Joker" (someone who admits to not being the real Joker as he's retired) has kidnapped the wounded Bruce, drawing Damian into a trap where a ton of villains start...you guessed it, beating his ass. Damian is able to turn the tide of the fight and free his father after ripping open the "Joker's" chest. It doesn't kill him, but then the real Joker rocks up with a gun and shoots the imposter in the head. If all of this sounds boing, it totally was! The coloring of this comic was lovely though. I'm a sucker for that pale watercolor art-nouveau shit!!!

Ultimately, this will not be considered for the Girliepop Batman Universe. Even with Talia's TikTok ass fit

#v.read #gbu discard pile

[zero-body]

2/100 days of productivity

So, today was exhausting. Here's what I got done:

Helped my partner pack - they've left town to go back home today, it was a stressful morning :/

Attended a math methods class - it's familiar material but a different TA, much more rigorous in terms of proofs than the last one, we haven't touched a single problem in three hours

Borrowed some materials for my new classes from the college library - a couple of problem workbooks, to make up for the new TAs teaching style

Sorted all my notebooks and folders - this took multiple hours since I've not actively done it in three and a half years

#I really wanted to get started with actually studying but the whole day got away from me #tomorrow will hopefully be more chill so I can do that #also i found a bunch of books I've slowly taken from my college libraries discard pile and that i havent touched since #so im taking them back tomorrow #physics #physblr #zero100dop #100 days of productivity

[bean-cookies]

A drawing from August 2022 - I call these siblings "The Curse" (because of what they say about tieflings... "one is a curiosity, two is a conspiracy, and three is a curse" 😉). Here we have (from left to right) the master strategist, the one who needs the rules explained to him (again), and the cheater. 👿👿😈 This is the moment right before they start bickering loudly.

#art #digital art #fantasy art #tieflings #dungeons and dragons #sibling rivalry #where did that ace come from? I already played the ace of hearts! #check the discard pile #dnd characters #dnd #oc art

[plantdad-dante]

Book #127 - The Seven Deaths Of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

(first time read; full spoilers, but also, why would you waste your precious Earth time on this book)

On the one side... The body hopping time loop could have been really interesting. It really could. A nice, tight murder mystery (which, the murder was a bit convoluted and relied a little to much on "oh, this person is just evil, has always been evil, how did you not guess that this kid (that was murdered nineteen years ago) was killed by a ten-year old in a weirdly elaborate murder plan for a ten-year old to develop", but once it actually got going (which... two thirds of the way through is no time to kickstart your plot) it was fine? Even interesting at times? Shame I had to wait for Aiden to bodysnatch a cop for it, but at that point, I was willing to just take what I could get).

And on the other side of things... The mindwipe time loop murder solving prison thing could have been so cool, too? There is a cyberpunk takedown of the prison industrial complex waiting inside this book and I am so frustrated that it barely gets any attention at all??? Like. Either commit to this bonkers insane idea and fucking say someting with it, or do your Agatha Christie imitation and don't bother with world building. Why would you want to do both?

... And on the third side, this is literally all I can to say about this book without sounding off the walls insane. I tried. In conversations with friends, I really tried. But I couldn't do it.

What the fuck was going on with Anna? Was she a terrorist? A supervillain? What the fuck do you mean, she tortured the sister and made the world watch? Did she livestream it? How did no one manage to arrest her during that? What the fuck is going on?

Also, why would you completely kill your own point like this? Yes, Blackheath is horrible and bad and torture and cannot produce anything good. But also, Anna and Aiden are defenitely 100% better people now, and get a nice redemption sticker and a new life. Are you kidding me? Or are you mad? Why are they friends, how did any of this happen, why is she constantly kissing him, is this a joke?? Are you taking the piss? Or is this book just a stupid prank, like the literary equivalent of 52 pick-up? How can something so boring leave so many questions unanswered. I am very sure that Gold says "ah yes, I prepared this and this off-page" multiple times in the end and I just yelled "bitch, when" every time, because... ??????

Also, Aiden was one of the mosty hypocritical, holier-than-thou, self-absorbed assholes I ever had the displeasure of inhabiting the mind of (yes, I know, ironic given what I'm going to complain about but still). He could not stop nagging his hosts for completely human behaviour and feelings and bodies. To be honest, I had dnfed this book a few years back, because I had gotten to Day Four and Aiden was just relentless in fat-shaming Ravencourt, spending literal pages on how disgusted with him he was, and I just couldn't do it. I picked it up again now in the vain hope that maybe at least the murder was good, once the book would finally get to it, but by the time it did it the tension was so used to eating ground dirt that it just kinda stayed there - flat at zero for the rest of the book.

Also, any book where you learn the protagonist's name either 120 pages in, or from the blurb on the back, deserves to be thrown into a time machine to assemble back into a tiny tree and some printer toner, for the crime of annoying the shit out of me.

In summary: no tension, every plottwist until about pg 350 delivers itself as an anticlimax, the world building sucked, the characters sucked, Aiden especially I want to throw into a woodchipper, and The Plague Doctor may at some point have sounded like a good idea, but his anachronism (this book is set in... the 1920s?? maybe??) and his "cryptic overseer, but make him cringefail" vibe just killed the tone stone dead any time he appeared.

Just read Christie.

#the seven deaths of evelyn hardcastle #stuart turton #honestly I wrote it as a joke but the more I think about it #'literary 52-pick-up' is actually a really good way to describe it #very rambly but I refuse to put more effort in I just want it done #dante's discard pile

[moleshow]

#like mj doctor they killing me #the best and brightest ideas of the 70s were pulled from the discard pile of the 30s. iam so mad

[nachosncheeze]

Random thought but a minor story at the bottom of my news app tells me today is the 20th anniversary of the big East Coast blackout in USA/Canada and hey shout out to the massive international cascading power grid failure for inspiring Helios 👌

#blindspot #blindspot thoughts #blindspot s2 spoilers #(i galaxybrain headcanon that madeline's plan was taken from Shepherd's discard pile) #blindspot s4 spoilers #blindspot s5 spoilers #i guess it left an impression on MG and whoever else in that writers room

[ikiracake]

Super self-indulgent Star Wars: Clone Wars AU idea that I’ll probably never write but I need to get it out of my brain before it eats its way out (full disclosure I’ve never seen a single episode of SW:TCW I just read way too much fic):

It starts out when Cody, frustrated with finding Obi-Wan’s lightsaber on the battlefield again, decides that if he’s going to be hanging onto the stupid thing 50% of the time anyways, he might as well learn how to use it. But he also knows that his brothers are assholes, and if they see him trying to train himself to fight with a lightsaber, they’ll never let him hear the end of it. So he trains in secret, so no one can bother him.

Enter Anakin, fresh off of another argument with Obi-Wan and looking to blow off some steam. He for some reason decides to find a training room on Obi-Wan’s ship rather than return to his own, and in his search to find somewhere where Obi-Wan can’t find him and lecture him more, he stumbles upon Cody. The two freeze, and share a super awkward stare-down.

But then Anakin surprises them both when instead of making some sort of comment on what Cody’s doing, he points out a mistake in Cody’s stance. Cody, bewildered, corrects himself, and somehow he finds himself going through a lightsaber training session with Anakin Skywalker as his teacher. By the end of the session, both men are still a little awkward, but they both found they worked well together, so when Anakin tentatively offers to teach Cody more later, Cody agrees.

Thus begins a rather strange partnership. Cody asks Anakin early on not to tell anyone about what they’re doing, and Anakin figures what’s one more secret to keep from his old master. But pretty soon it becomes clear that Cody’s preferred form is Soresu, because that’s what he’s most familiar with, and he just naturally picked up so much from watching Obi-Wan that it doesn’t make any sense to switch gears now and try to teach him a different form. Only, Anakin’s Soresu is terrible, and he’s really struggling to teach Cody the form. But because he’s starting to grow attached to Cody as his secret student, he decides he’s going to have to swallow his pride and go to the Soresu expert for help. Obi-Wan is baffled, but pleased, when Anakin approaches him out of the blue and asks him to help Anakin become better with Soresu. Over the course of their training, Anakin and Obi-Wan start to bond again, several of the wedges that Palpatine had subtly placed between them coming loose now that they’re interacting more in a less stressful environment. And Anakin turns around and passes on what he’s learned to Cody, who is blossoming as his student.

Everything is going smoothly, until one day during training, Anakin finally realizes that they’ve hit the point in Cody’s studies that a non-Force sensitive should not be able to keep up anymore. Cody is doing flips and dodges and moves that can’t be explained by the standard clones’ better-than-average reflexes. Anakin briefly stumbles, feeling like he’s been hit upside the head by a tank, because holy shit Cody’s Force sensitive.

What happens next is a miscommunication of epic proportions, where Cody and Anakin end up having two completely different conversations with each other.

What is actually said, is this:

Anakin, right after Cody has done a Force-assisted flip: Kriffing hells, you’re using the Force!

Cody: Ha, ha, very funny sir. Everyone knows that clones aren’t force sensitive.

Anakin: Well that’s clearly a lie.

Cody: Sir, the long-necks would definitely have caught something like that, I can assure you. It must be just your good teaching.

Anakin:...wait. Does that make you my Padawan?

Cody: Sure.

What Cody believes is happening is this: Anakin is joking around, teasing him like he usually jokes around and teases Rex. He has grown a bit fond of General Kenobi’s former student now that they’re getting to know each other, and is secretly kind of pleased to be treated like one of Skywalker’s friends. It’s all just a big joke.

What Anakin believes is happening is this: Cody is well aware he’s force sensitive, but has to hide it because he’s scared that he’ll be decommissioned or removed from service if anyone knew. In Anakin’s mind, this explains his desire for their lessons to be secret. But if Cody is force-sensitive, and Anakin is training him, then logically Cody is actually his Padawan. He doesn’t pick up on Cody’s sarcasm, and believes that Cody has accepted him as his master. He’s also missing Ahsoka fiercely, given her recent departure, and that affects his understanding of the situation. 

Now Anakin is even more stressed out because oh shit he just adopted another spontaneous padawan, only this time he has to keep him a secret. He desperately wants to go to Obi-Wan for help, but he promised Cody not to tell, so he can’t go that route. He also knows he needs to register his new padawan with the order to make it all official, but how to do that without revealing who it is and potentially exposing Cody to danger?

He ends up going to Yoda, and tries to vaguely explain the situation without actually explaining anything. Yoda either knows exactly what’s going on down to who Anakin’s new padawan is, or he has no idea at all, but either way he’s a massive Troll in it for the laughs, so he basically just hands over his datapad with the login info already put in so that Anakin can register Cody as his padawan without telling anyone. Cody is officially now a member of the Jedi Order, and has no idea.

After this, shenanigans ensue as Anakin gets more and more stressed out about hiding not only a secret wife, but now a secret padawan who he still needs to train and keep alive despite the fact that they’re in completely different battalions and not always together. Ironically, this new stress actually helps him to cling more strongly to the light; now that he has a clone as a padawan, he’s more cognizant of his men’s lives, and he learns caution in battle, leaving behind his more reckless plans because now he needs to take care of his padawan’s brothers. He also continues his Soresu lessons with Obi-Wan and the first time the form ends up saving his life and the lives of others in battle, he buys Obi-Wan a big mug with “world’s best master” printed on it. He’s too busy trying to juggle all of his responsibilities to visit with Palpatine, and Palpatine starts to lose his influence over Anakin’s mind.

Eventually the whole charade blows up in typical Skywalker fashion - it comes out that Cody is, in fact, force sensitive (the only reason Cody hasn’t actually caught on at this point is that a) Anakin’s training tends to be less traditional and is heavily influenced by war jargon, so the lack of familiar Jedi teaching methods threw Cody off a bit, and b) he’s already stressed out enough about being the Marshal Commander of like a third of the GAR and trying to keep Obi-Wan’s ass alive, he is going to remain blissfully ignorant of any other world-shattering revelations until this stupid war is over thank-you-very-much), and that he’s actually Anakin’s padawan. The realization that Cody’s force sensitive leads the order to search for other force-sensitive clones in the ranks, finding many. The Jedi healers, curious and unable to pass up the opportunity to search for novel markers of force-sensitivity in humans that are the perfect subjects because they’re literally genetically identical, do a bunch of studies on volunteers, and discover the chips in the clones’ brains. Sidious’ plans are revealed and promptly foiled, with Cody personally taking Sidious’ head when he surprises the Sith with a mid-battle switch from Obi-Wan’s Soresu to Anakin’s Djem So. The Galaxy is saved, and the Separatists quietly surrender when they find out that they’ve been duped.

We get our happy ending where clones, both force sensitive and not, have been welcomed into the Jedi order. Anakin proudly watches as Cody is knighted, his twins and Padme invited to the ceremony and watching happily in the crowd alongside Obi-Wan and Ahsoka. He never falls, and the Jedi Order remains strong. The galaxy is at peace.

THE END

(I know it’s stupid and self-indulgent and probably not very in character but what the heck the idea makes me happy at least lol)

#Star Wars #star wars: the clone wars #Clone Wars #sw: tcw #Star Wars AU #There are probably a million plot holes in this idea #*throws one of Obi-Wan's discarded robes over it* #I mean no there's not #I have no idea where this even fits in the timeline other than Ahsoka has just left the order #Other than that it's a massive shrug emoji #*throws my messy pile of garbage into the sea of Star Wars AUs* swim my pretty swim!

[insertcleverurl]

I can design characters but I cannot control which ones or at what times

#pegg rambles #me scrapping my nth settings person design + a comedically large pile of discarded narrator designs

[sorrelchestnut]

from the discard pile: Ed and Stede retirement

I woke up last week with this intro full-formed in my head and had to get it down before I lost it.  Setting it free before it starts to gather an actual story around it like a girl about to text her ex in a bar bathroom.

In the city of St. Augustine, just a few blocks in from the docks, there is a shop.  It's gone through several different hands and sold several different things - shoes, hats, and most recently, fish - but currently it's what's known to locals as The Gift Shop.  This is on account of the sign, which is painted in gaudy gilt on black, and takes up nearly the whole door.  It reads:

THE CAPTAIN'S CABINET purveyor of fine FABRICS, delightful DELICACIES,  curious CURIOS, & FISHING EQUIPMENT such as one might buy as a GIFT for friends and loved ones brought to you by Mssrs DRUMMOND and THOMAS, ESQ

(Old Bill, down at the tavern, once got up the nerve to ask Mr. Drummond what ESQ stood for.  Mr. Drummond, according to Old Bill, only shrugged and said, "Sounds fancy, innit?"

No further questions on the subject were asked.)

Mssrs Drummond and Thomas - or the Captains, as they're most often called, on account of the sign, and on account of how a bit of a respect seems safer, like - are an odd sight even in the hustle and bustle of a port town, not the least because they're rarely seen out of each other's company.  Mr. Drummond wears his silver hair as long as a lady's and his chin as smooth as a gentleman, and his coats are gaudy as gadflies and dyed bright as spring.  Mr. Thomas wears no coats at all, on account of the heat, but he keeps his shirts as white as snow and his whiskers immaculate, and somehow his boots are always shining-black despite the muck and dust of the streets.  Legend has it that the first cutpurse to try his luck against the pair lost two fingers and the contents of his bowels, and fled the city shortly thereafter.  None since have been brave enough to try again.

#fic #discard pile #blackbonnet #our flag means death

[medieval-canadian]

gdi i wish i was a more organized type of person

#looking for pharmacy receipts to claim on my insurance #i know i didn't throw them away when i first got the meds #and i doubt i would have knowingly discarded them without checking if they were claimed #but uhhhhh i cannot for the life of me find them #lmao #personal #whine whine complain complain #me: are they in this random messy pile of papers? no #what about this other random messy pile of papers? no not here either #but hey i did find that card i'd been meaning to send 3 months ago #fuck 😂

[orionangeline]

Hiruzen:

Young Shikamaru:

Hiruzen: dear boy,

Shikamaru, who has been hearing a lot of deerboy mcdeerson the 37th next in line for the antler throne, thinking: you call shika deer boy!? Deer boy like the deers?! Deer boy like his father and father's father from time immemorial?! Ohhh jail for hokage! Jail of one thousand deers!

Young Shikamaru: *throws paper reindeer at hiruzen. One of them has Naruto's booger on it. No one knows which.* Booger deer jail no jutsu!

Hiruzen: ... Wtf

#asuma though giving him near lethal doses of caffeine would get him to do his classwork. it did not. #naruto #naruto crack #the reindeer were for a class holiday thing. yknow busywork for kindergartners #hed rather have paper deer but then hed have to do it himself instead of raiding a discard pile for bioweapons #super ooc but im having fun

[lavender-descendentheart]

Oh nonexistent lord I might rant rewatching the special and their only real defense for not going with LBDs plan is basically but ya can’t judge people by their worst um HELLO!!? Murderers rapists pedophiles this is stupid! She was genuinely correct here! There is no actual argument to be made against her plan besides egh people like living🤓 okay I’m pissed off now they gave my fav a excellent motivation and offed in fucking macaques season and in a hamfisted special for fucking nothing! Bruh she’s legit the equivalent of someone trying to fix everything by appealing to peoples interests then when she gets tired of dealing with bullshit she does things her way and then immediately gets beat into the corner and yeeted into the damn box and is called insane! This is actually making me angry I need to cool off

#lmk lady bone demon #lego monkie kid #monkie kid #lady bone demon #lmk lbd #lmk spoilers #she got murdered for nothing #No counter argument was made at least no sensible one #This wonderful pile of soul calcium was given so much and then immediately discarded in a special that was rushed #Bruh they didn’t even give her her makeup in some scenes #And don’t even get me started on the fandoms treatment of her #Hurr durr she’s so evil and awful! Look in my headcanon she’s mysteriously responsible for fucking everything and oh look by I mean macaque #Fucking blaming her for macaques own issues and dickery #i’m fucking pissed