Calvin And Hobbes - It’s July Already

“Why are so many trans girls into werewolves and robots and slime and monsters?”

Because society views us as monsters. And when you’re viewed that way you have two options.

The first, you can break yourself. You can take a knife and carve off all the corners, take sandpaper and smooth all your rough edges, you can take everything remotely variant about you and you can try and obliterate it in order to make yourself acceptable to people who do not know you and never will.

The second option is that you can say “okay, if I’m a monster I’m going to enjoy being a monster. I’m going to take those rough edges and rough them up some more. I’m going to take all my sharp corners and make them knife edged. I’m going to embrace how weird and broken and fucked up I am and I’m going to make it a part of me. I’m going to love, fight, live, and die as a freak, but I’m going to do it on my terms and no one else’s”

I’m never going to be cis. I’m never going to be straight. In fact I’d rather die than be either of those. So I’m going to take what I am and make it my power instead of my shame.

If you don't block, you don't need to care! :D Make that math for your attackers!

Me, person who's been playing Magic for ten years, hearing about the new rule for attacking/blocking creatures: wait... you can block an attack with multiple creatures?????

awesome

I completely forgot I signed up for this at some point, and just today got it in the mail. I was shocked to see Cave Johnson himself! Thank you so much! I plan to donate way more! This was so cool!

The Third Batch of Cards Has Been Mailed/Emailed!

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The astute among you might have noticed that last week 48% was covered but this week it's only 44%, and might be wondering where the extra 4% went. Let me explain: When more people request a physical card, the total cost spent on cards goes up. If people don't donate to help match the number of requests, the percentage of cards covered goes down. This is why I always mention the need to donate in my posts!

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adventure time slang is weird cuz like. when you first watch the show and hear the slang you're like "oh this is cringy slang but its not like awful" but it gets to a point where the voice actors deliver the slang so naturally you don't even notice it and its just. part of the world's vernacular. I can't think of any other show that's done in-universe slang like this

hmm yes evil librarian

Monster Manual entries often (especially in earlier editions) have throw away lines like "Betentacled Faceslurpers are often hired by evil historians for their ability to recall the memories of every pereon whose face they've slurped", or "Literary Horrors often make their nests among well stocked bookshelves and for this reason evil librarians will employ them as security" and then never elaborate on what these evil versions of regular professions are like.

Fix this by running a game where the entire party is comprised of evil versions of mundane jobs. If they won't tell you what an evil cartographer or archivist even does you'll find out yourself.

The more I learn about baseball, the more interesting it seems, which is weird because I'm not really a sports person

Anyways I wanna share something neat that I learned but I'm gonna preface this by saying that I'm not "into" baseball. I'm just visiting the baseball zoo and reading the little blurbs the have on the cages

With that out of the way, when you swing a bat, your momentum naturally goes with the bat, right? So for righties, immediately after batting, their momentum starts to take them to third base, meaning they have to fight against the bat's momentum before running to first

But for lefties, the bat's momentum is already taking them to first! Apparently lefties can, on average, reach first base a sixth of a second faster than righties

Apparently it also makes a difference in receiving a pitch, since a righty receiving a pitch from a righty will see it coming from behind their shoulder, but a lefty receiving a pitch from a righty can clearly see the ball

Because of this, they started bringing in lefty pitchers to counteract the lefty batters and the result is a sport with 2-4x as many lefties as the general public

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Warlock patron: Corn

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I think I've posted this before but I'm marinating my thoughts on the themes I see in Control again