No, said Aziraphale, it's ineffable.

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DM in our D&D campaign: You have across a pit of bones!

Me:

F Ø R B Ï D D Ə N

B Å L L P Į T

archaeologistproblems

Hey this already happened to me and it was 3.5 weeks of 9-hour days for three of us to excavate. 0/10 experience, would not care to repeat for the sake of my knees and what remains of my sanity; individual graves and/or primary inhumation mass graves much preferred.

(This secondary grave was approximately the size of a bathtub and contained the remains of at least 55 people, including a single articulated primary inhumation (an adult woman) in a separate coffin at the very bottom. This illustration took me probably 20 hours and contains 8 separate layers of bone traced from several dozen georeferenced photographs. And it’s nowhere near all that we found in the grave.)

archaeologist problems: secondary inhumations archaeologist problems

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Reasons why computer problems seem to mysteriously vanish as soon as a technician shows up:

You were spacing out and skipping a step somewhere without realising it, and you can’t reproduce it when you try to demonstrate it because now you’re paying attention to what you’re doing
It’s an intermittent electrical connection fault that’s being aggravated by movement/vibrations in your desk; you need to check your cables
The act of explaining the problem to someone caused you to figure out what you were doing wrong
The real cause of the problem was somewhere upstream of your terminal device – for example, at the network service provider – and it got fixed at the source while you were waiting
Your computer is in a location with poor airflow and is overheating; waiting for the technician to arrive gave it a chance to cool off
Despite all appearances to the contrary, modern computers actually have very good fault recovery, and most minor problems will sort themselves out on their own if you give it a minute
Magic

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fleur-de-maladie:
“ i think im overqualified for this position
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this is definitely a goth mary poppins outfit though

i am not wrong

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Anonymous asked:

Hello! Looking for help with a quote which I'm really struggling to find (though I have been looking by careful skimming to avoid getting sucked into a reread...), hoping someone else might recognise it! It's a Death quote - he says something like anytime you find yourself thinking it is a big world and you are very small and immaterial, that's the auditors talking. Looking because if anything helps me stand up and fight the depression, it's not letting the auditors win!

poorlydescribedpterrybooks answered:

Hmm, my gut says Thief of Time, but I can’t place the quote.

Y’all got any insight?

-mod chemicallywrit

zincmind

It is indeed Thief of Time, page 379 in my copy:

Lɪsᴛᴇɴ! Dᴏ ʏᴏᴜ ɴᴏᴛ ꜰᴇᴇʟ sᴍᴀʟʟ ɪɴ ᴀ ʙɪɢ ᴜɴɪᴠᴇʀsᴇ? Tʜᴀᴛ ɪs ᴡʜᴀᴛ ᴛʜᴇʏ ᴀʀᴇ sɪɴɢɪɴɢ. Iᴛ ɪs ʙɪɢ ᴀɴᴅ ʏᴏᴜ ᴀʀᴇ sᴍᴀʟʟ ᴀɴᴅ ᴀʀᴏᴜɴᴅ ʏᴏᴜ ᴛʜᴇʀᴇ ɪs ɴᴏᴛʜɪɴɢ ʙᴜᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ᴄᴏʟᴅ ᴏꜰ sᴘᴀᴄᴇ ᴀɴᴅ ʏᴏᴜ ᴀʀᴇ sᴏ ᴠᴇʀʏ ᴀʟᴏɴᴇ.
[…]
Iᴛ ɪs ᴛʜᴇ ꜰᴇᴀʀ ᴀɴᴅ ʜᴀᴛʀᴇᴅ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴍᴀᴛᴛᴇʀ ʜᴀs ꜰᴏʀ ʟɪꜰᴇ ᴀɴᴅ ᴛʜᴇʏ ᴀʀᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ʙᴇᴀʀᴇʀs ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ʜᴀᴛʀᴇᴅ.
‘Then what can we do?’ said Pestilence. ‘There’re too many of them!’
Dɪᴅ ʏᴏᴜ ᴛʜɪɴᴋ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴛʜᴏᴜɢʜᴛ, ᴏʀ ᴅɪᴅ ᴛʜᴇʏ? Death snapped.