“Eldritch” this, “Eldritch” that. Is your horror comprehensible? Is your horror explicable? Are there words in any language, symbols in any medium, gestures and expressions and sounds your limited animal body can produce which can sufficiently communicate the horror you beheld? Yes? Then you saw an octopus. Calm down
@headspacedad Is this true? Because I love the concept of bunnies practically flipping the bird
this is TRUE!
Rabbits rely on body language for the majority of their communication. They also rely on manners in a way that would make the Heian Era aristocrats look uncultured. And you don’t get manner dictates like that without ALSO knowing how to be passive-aggressive with them.
Rabbit flops are super vulnerable for a bunny. Their stomachs are exposed and they’re in a position that means if danger shows up they have to waste precious seconds getting up before they can sprint for safety. A rabbit flop means both ‘I’m so happy I can’t contain it’ and ‘I feel so safe I am going to be vulnerable and really let go’. Rabbit owners love seeing it. It means that your bun really does feel that safe around you. It’s a pretty high compliment from an animal that knows everyone’s out to kill them.
However -
it can also be used passive aggressively in the ‘you mean so little to me you’re not even worth acknowledging as existing’. It’s right on the same level as walking into a room and greeting everyone but one person. An enemy rabbit would be a threat. This rabbit? This rabbit isn’t even important enough to be a threat. They’re a nobunny and so I will flop because there is nothing in the area worthy enough to bother being aware of.
To humans it can look very much the same but trust me, the bunnies know exactly which is which.
I really do think that it’s good for the soul to be unironically pretentious about something. Not in a gatekeeping kind of way but in a “yes, it really is that deep and I would love to enthusiastically and passionately explain why” kind of way.
I saw someone the other day doing a read through of MDZS and saying they were having a hard time deciding if they can like JC because he keeps bringing up his dead family to WWX even though it been 13 years. Man, I wonder why some one who’s entire family and everyone that grew up with died might not have let go of that 13 years later. It was just so incomprehensible to me.
there are so many reasons to feel like the way Jiang Cheng talks to Wei Wuxian, especially in regards to the Jiangs, is maybe not ideal but– because it’s been 13 years………!
get over it man, your parents had their corpse bar mitzvah!! their dead bodies can sign up for a neopets account! your sister’s orphaned baby is a whole-ass annoying teen! time to move on!!!
In honor of mermay here’s the stupidest hill I’ll die on: in wangxian mermaid aus wwx should ALWAYS be the octopus of the 2. He’s so octopus coded. He would love to solve coconut puzzles and store objects dropped in his tank to use as tools ok. It should never be octopus lwj and mermaid wwx that’s just not right it should be reversed I’m sorry
Honestly be pretentious as fuck about the stuff you create. Do a press release for your fanfic updates. Do a Q&A about your webcomic. Make fake merch designs for your OCs. Commission “official” book covers. Very few of us will ever get to a stage where something we’ve created Makes It Big but even if you have an audience of 5 people plus a shoelace fucking indulge yourself and pretend!! It’s the only way to live!!
me constantly releasing press junkets about my OCs like they are actual celebrities and i am their PR agent
I think my favorite low level dnd combo is moon druid + any human martial with the mounted combatant feat
oh your friend is a bear? now you can ride the bear
also the bear gets a 7th level rouge feature & you have advantage on um. everything
Idk I just feel like all the min/maxing meta is focused on making your individual sheet as strong as possible when dnd is in fact a team game & shit like this is actually way stronger and more fun for everyone involved