I wish there was some clear, efficient and polite way to express "please do not suggest any ideas that specifically circumvent the limitations that I have just specified". Like if someone says that they don't want kids, and on top of that clarifies that they can't have kids anyhow, it's not clever, productive or useful to go "oh, but you could always adopt! :)" without knowing whether they even could if they wanted to.
Because sometimes people who can't have biological children, and do not want any children, also are not mentally, physically, or financially eligible to adopt them. Also if someone gives you advice that specifically circumvents the limits you just dictated, and then gets upset and insulted when you shoot down their suggestions of how they think you could still do the thing that you can't, won't, and wouldn't want to do, it should be socially acceptable to just grab the nearest blunt object and beat them with it.
Sherlock Holmes having a universal ace experience -- expressing disinterest and immediately getting called an inhuman robot.
Fun quick way to make character pairs with a working dynamic: take a standard trope character type, then make another one that's the complete opposite in every defining way, and then make them buddies. Let's take the character trope of The Gentle Giant. Oh wow what a twist, this huge mean-looking burly guy is actually a docile sweetheart. Boring. But now consider: he's got a buddy who's real fucking tiny, aggressive and mean as shit.
Like this big looming guy is facing some tough guy who's blocking the way, looking for trouble, like "move aside and nobody gets hurt." And the other guy is scoffing like psch or what? You're gonna deck me? You might be big but I can tell you're no fighter.
And the big guy is like "no. You better move or I'm gonna sic my little buddy on you."
OK GUYS IVE ALWAYS KNOWN ABOUT READRIORDAN.COM BUT NO ONE EVER TOLD ME YOU GET UPDATES FROM THE CHARACTER'S LIVES??
From the Spring Break Update Article
PERCY GETS BETTER GRADES THAN ANNABETH????!!!! WAS PERCY JUST....GASLIGHTING US THAT HE GOT BAD GRADES IN SCHOOL? WHAT NEW LEVEL OF UNRELIABLE NARRATOR IS THIS?
"oh yeah annabeth is the top of my class, i just manage through school😁🥰" WHAT THE ACTUAL--
PERCY IS DUMB TRUTHERS HAVE LOST THEIR ONLY DEFENSE???
(obligatory beep boop percy being called smart alert)
We never really talked about it but The Ugly Ducking that grew up to be a beautiful swan was still probably pretty fugly from a duck’s perspective
French onion soup rats 🧅🐀
one of my fave DnD things is how, during character creation, people start talking in first person without realising. they start out like ‘well, she’s a paladin’ and within ten minutes their fists are clenched as they shout ‘MY SISTER DESERVED WHAT SHE GOT AND IF YOU DISAGREE I’LL KILL YOU TOO’
one of the most infuriating things about becoming an adult is when you realize that it actually is 10x easier to solve problems by making a phone call vs literally any other communication method
we seriously need to stop conceding to the personhood trap when it comes to abortion rights. is a fetus a person? thats a spiritual question. i dont care about the answer. should another person dictate what someone can do with their body? simple answer: no.
I don’t like being referred to as a boy