Oh, that is slimy as fuck. 😡

They make you cry?

They’re not hippies. Real hippies tied themselves together across roads to protest the Vietnam war. They chained themselves to industrial equipment to protect nature.

These are not real hippies. They disappoint real hippies.

We’re working on it as fast as we can without getting shot.

I’d say so. Improv comedy groups are hard to find, but you know what isn’t? A Dungeons and Dragons group.

Many people who play D&D are writers themselves. Maybe not famous or published, but it’s a narratively creative exercise. Older and more experienced DMs will happily help you learn how to write a character that is interesting and unique. And as you play, you’ll get a feel for how to write a story that you like.

This is going to sound counterintuitive, but try writing fanfiction.

Fanfics aren’t necessarily the gorgeous polished final works you’d expect to find on a book store shelf. But what they can do is help put you into a certain mindset.

• How to write in character. You already know these characters very very well: their limits, their fears, their challenges, all of it.
• How to describe a place you can see. You know the setting where these characters move and work and live. Taking the time to describe familiar places gives you enough exercise to try describing unfamiliar places.
• How to move the plot. Is this too complicated for one episode? Then it might not be a short story, it might be a long one. Learning when to keep things simple and when to make them intricate.

Believe it or not, fanfiction IS real literature. Everything we “know” about King Arthur? Fanfiction and reboots. Dante’s Divine Comedy? Bible fanfiction. There is no shame in writing it. There’s no shame in reading it either.

He has a fetish. Not even that weird of a fetish, for sane people. Unfortunately, his wife is neither sane nor is she people.

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You know the lady who was in charge of ICE? She shot her dog in the head and bragged about it in her psychotic autobiography.

Apparently her husband has a bimboification fetish. She didn’t know about it until after it showed up on the news.

Completely and totally unrelated question to the topic because your username interests me.

What kind of communist is Tasslehoff Burrfoot?

Putting on my playlist of pirate music.

Broke: “Ugh, I need to sweep, mop, and do the dishes.”

Woke: “ARRR, IT BE TIME TO BE SWABBIN’ THE DECK, YE SCURVY BILGE RAT!! AN’ WASH ALL O’ THE DISHES IN THE GALLEY, OR YE’LL BE WALKIN’ THE PLANK!!”

Edit: Ye asked fer the map to me hidden treasure. Here it be, me hearties!

It means that Lime will rent out their scooters in Israel.

Night. I have a hard time getting ready in the morning, and the last thing I need is to be late to work AND have wet hair the entire morning. But being nice and clean before bed helps me sleep.

Aaahhh. Clean and sleepy. ☺️😪

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A couple of my players have religious trauma, so this is something that one of my players wrote. Out of respect for them, I haven’t changed it.

It’s something that I cherish, having the chance for my players to help create the broader world. It’s something special, having a fictional place that we share and make together.

Annexing how much of New Mexico?

Seriously, are they getting claims in ahead of the impending civil war, or are they just being assholes for asshole credit?

Save two infinity lives. Blow up the trolley.

Ex-cult member here.

The only thing that snaps someone out of that spiral is an internal realization. There’s nothing we as outsiders can really do directly. Engaging with their version of reality (Christian evangelicals specifically) feeds into the prosecution complex and perpetual victimhood that validates their position. It’s a self-defeating tactic to confront them directly.

Focus on positive, normal, consistent interactions. Share your regular, everyday triumphs. If your lifestyle comes up in conversation, express being satisfied with it. Decline going to church with them. Don’t debate their stances on doctrine if you share a root faith. Deflect and redirect. When the opportunity arises, maybe ask a question that invites some introspection about the subtle (but structurally loadbearing) flaws in their worldview. But don’t probe too much. Again, bear in mind, they’re trained to take every perceived attack as a trigger to rehearse their dogma. Be subtle.

And above all, unless they are actively abusing you, don’t abandon them. That’ll seal them in and you’ll never get them back. Continue your hobbies and appointments, and keep a schedule (movie night, for example.) Eventually, they might feel vulnerable enough to express their insecurities about inconsistencies in their worldview. Be gentle with them, as this is a remarkably scary thing for them to even voice out loud.

If they love you–and I mean really love you–no preacher with an ego to preen will ever take them from you.

It’s a start.

Put that paper on the wall in a frame, and keep it as a badge of honor!

I, for one, appreciate this man engaging in the exact grassroots direct democracy that LA prizes. Sometimes, illustrating exactly where the system fails and where the people prevail is the right approach. He did everything right. And when the government failed, he took it upon himself to do the right thing.

There is a kid that didn’t get squished by a truck today. Why would I complain about that?