wheres that story about the D&D guy who plays as a bear and has really good disguises and no one knows its a bear and he becomes king and everyone falls for it except one person who rolls for perception and he goes THATS A FUCKING BEAR and gets kicked out of the kingdom
“I cast Friends on the darkness. Hello darkness, my old friend…”
—The Warlock masquerading as a Cleric
“One reason that people have artist’s block is that they do not respect the law of dormancy in nature. Trees don’t produce fruit all year long, constantly. They have a point where they go dormant. And when you are in a dormant period creatively, if you can arrange your life to do the technical tasks that don’t take creativity, you are essentially preparing for the spring when it will all blossom again.”
— Marshall Vandruff, one of the best teachers I have ever had, on artist’s block. Said during a webinar done on Visualarium to advertise his upcoming online course on animal anatomy (source links to webinar) (via pale-afternoon)
You know school memes? Like memes within schools? Like that one teacher who always says a certain thing and everyone knows it, so it becomes a school meme?
I like how people are reblogging this with their school memes in the tags
With today being 9/11, it can reasonably be assumed that, as usual, this site will be deluged with a flurry of “but what about the deaths in the War on Terror?” and general accusations of racism, often from people who were not old enough to remember the outright fear of that autumn day. That’s not conjecture, that’s just experience from having been on this site for five years. But here’s the issue with those posts:
It’s Not About You.
9/11 is not a day to discuss the moral implications of the GWOT. 9/11 is not a day to debate the righteousness of the War in Iraq, or to rail against profiling in airports. This is not a day of debate. This is a day of remembrance, and to take the day in which the United States and over a hundred other nations remember the loss of innocent civilians and turn it into a Post About Me is nothing short of infantile. This is a day where we remember the loss of 2,977 civilians and military/government personnel at the hands of 19 murderers. Not madmen, as these people knew absolutely well what they were doing, but ruthless, calculating slaughterers of innocent lives. We remember the heroism of people like Rick Rescorla and the crew of Ladder 15, who made the ultimate sacrifice so that others may live. This is a day of remembrance, and while we may hold thoughts of this day in our hearts as reasons why we fight, this is not the day to stick a big arrow at yourself saying “look at me!” This is a day for others who can’t be here. Remember that.
