Farewell, To The World I Once Knew

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
seananmcguire
the-anchorless-moon

Dnd is a good game here's an incomplete list of things my players have used disguise self to do:

1. turn into an npc they watched get dragged to hell in order to freak out another pc

2. turn into a villain while the villain is in the room in order to freak them out with their own face

3. Turn into a villain while the villain is in the room in order to confuse her goons

4. Turn into another pc in order to trick that pc's mom

5. Turn into a different pc in order to confuse villains about their capabilities

Things they have not used disguise self to do:

1) disguise themselves

smallswingshoes
intactics

my favorite bit of "rich people are Like That" ephemera that I picked up from my Russian literature binge was from a noble character who was complaining about his serfs neglecting their duties, specifically the duty of staying up all night long slapping the pond water in order to prevent the frogs from croaking so that the nobleman could enjoy his sleep at his country estate with its adorable pond. whenever I hear wealthy people's complaints in this day and age the majority of it automatically filters to "the fucking serfs won't slap the pond anymore and it's honestly so destructive and cruel of them to deny me my beauty sleep like this" type statements

princesssarisa
princesssarisa

People with one Jewish parent and one non-Jewish parent: how do you identify?

Jewish (Jewish mother, non-Jewish father)

Jewish (Jewish father, non-Jewish mother)

Half-Jewish (Jewish mother, non-Jewish father)

Half-Jewish (Jewish father, non-Jewish mother)

Not Jewish (Jewish mother, non-Jewish father – I disregard halakha)

Not Jewish (Jewish father, non-Jewish mother)

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I just thought I would ask this question, because in my recent poll about Judaism and Halloween, a few commentators haven't cared for the fact that I identified myself as "half-Jewish."

I identify this way because my father is Jewish, but doesn't practice the religion, while my mother is a practicing Methodist. I had a "small-c" Christian upbringing, since my mom took me to church with her while my dad went to work on Sundays, but I never became religious, and I was still exposed to Jewish culture and celebrated Jewish holidays with my paternal relatives. I don't want to discount that part of my heritage, and I know that if I joined a Reform synagogue, I would be accepted as 100% Jewish. But because I don't practice the religion (or any religion at the moment), "half-Jewish" has always felt the most right to me.

owlmylove
specimen-jar

Funny how when shows talk about the Sentinelese island people, with a focus on how they shoot arrows at boats and helicopters, they never mention how in the late 1800s the British royal navy rolled up and abducted six Sentinelese from their homes to force them into being friendly, during which two of the captives died, and when their plan wasn’t working the brits gave up and set the survivors [who by the way were kids] loose on a different part of the island with a bunch of random shit as gifts and called it a day. hmmmm i wonder why the Sentinelese are so violent towards outsiders hmmm how strange and mysterious their customs are 

spudmcloughlin
lunar-wandering

fun fact!! it turns out that now when u make a new blog, tumblr forces you to follow 3-4 people before you can change your icon or modify your blog in any way!! this, of course, means that, yes, some of the "potential bots" many of us have been automatically blocking could have possibly been genuine new users who were only just seconds in to having an account!!! tumblr is literally screwing new users over!!!!

lunar-wandering

people asking me how i know this: i tested what it was like to make a new blog now

some notes:

  • you don't need an actual email to create an account. as long as you put "gmail.com" or some other valid email site at the end of a series of words/numbers, it will allow you to make an account. it will say "all cool tumblr users verify their emails", but will not actually force you to do so. this is, likely, why there's so many bots. (prettttty sure this was a thing beforehand as well and it astonishes me that they never changed it)
  • you have to follow 5-6 tags. they'll give some general basic tags (like "art" and stuff) and then subcategories of said tags. for example, "gaming" is a tag you can follow, and "genshin impact" is a subcategory of it.
  • when you pick your username, it gives you the option to use a randomly generated/default username. this is where all the more recent bots have been getting the Good Names from. i spun the button a few times, things like "shadydinosaurcat" were what it came up with. Yes, this does mean some of those "obvious bots" might've been real people who just couldn't come up with a name.
  • you are forced to follow 3-4 blogs that post in the tags you previously followed. you are given the option to follow all of them without checking their blog. (...i kinda forgot to do so but i don't think you can check their blog outside of the very small preview it gives?). as previously stated, you cannot actually access tumblr/your blog appearance before doing this.
  • there is no explanation given on how to add a header/icon, or change your blog title.
  • the for you page is the default. y'know how on our dashes it's ordered "following", "for you" "based on your likes" or whatever? for new users, "following" and "for you" are swapped. there is currently no way to change this.
gelgelada

Oh, whoops.

spudmcloughlin

Anonymous asked:

Hello there! Could we have a cursed fact about turkey vultures? Thanks,

bunjywunjy answered:

you’ve probably heard that most vultures have bald heads so they don’t get all yuck while going about their daily business.

(their daily business is sticking their entire head into rotting carcasses)

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and this is true, but maybe you didn’t know that turkey vultures in particular have a moveable neck ruff!

so when it gets cold, they can just-

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zip it up.

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comfy cozy!

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And it isn’t JUST turkey vultures. This is a shared skill among every new world vulture.

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Ah, what a nice warm day.

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Whoops! A cool breeze! Time to zip up my hoodie!

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Just a vulture being a vulture.

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Uh oh! Turtleneck time!

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When you’re meeting the boys for dinner at 6 but have a fashion walk at 7.

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Rarest turtleneck in the continent.

And yes, they absolutely do deploy the turtleneck in colder weather just like humans might. Some species are more often seen with it deployed and the opposite is true for others.

ashedink

Oh this makes much more sense. I’m not sure why, but somewhere along the line I became convinced that it had to do with reaching maturity, like how bald eagles don’t get their white head and tail until they’re about five years old.

But this. That’s what I look like on a cold, wet winter day, too.

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If they feel a single rained drop they pull their turtleneck up. They hate rain on their bare little head and necks. They crave umbrellas.

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You aren’t wrong to associate it with age though. Juvenile vultures tend to have the turtleneck deployed almost always. Andean condors also get a larger caruncle and more prominent flaps of skin when the turtleneck is not activated as they age, so it is more emphasized when adults are going bare necked