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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
prokopetz
prokopetz

More poorly thought out yet incidentally useful enchantments:

  • A flying castle full of fabulous treasure. Unfortunately, the flying enchantment was calibrated to the precise weight of the treasure; any significant decrease in weight causes the whole building to go shooting off into the stratosphere, while any significant addition - like, say, the weight of the royal family - causes it to settle to the ground. The treasure has long since been removed to less finicky storage (and carefully replaced with rocks of equal mass), but the castle itself remains in use as a mobile observation platform.

  • A river that flows uphill. Somehow it never occurred to the enchanter that a backwards river necessarily originates in the sea; as a result, the water is saline, rendering it useless for drinking and irrigation and playing havoc with the riverside ecosystem. On the plus side, having rivers that go both directions has been a great boon for inland trade.

  • A forest whose trees bear flawless sapphires of enormous size as fruit. Though intended as a source of boundless treasure, owing to the abundance of the forest’s output and the impossibility of securing its borders, in practice it’s depressed the value of gem-grade sapphires throughout the region, to the point that they’re worth less than common quartz. The ready availability of large, high-quality sapphires has, however, led to enormous advancement in the science of optics in nearby kingdoms.
qtplatypus

Having a river that flows uphill is also a massive source of power.

prokopetz

True, though It’s only a better power source than a regular river if the water comes back down again. As I’m picturing it, it doesn’t; the main course continues uphill until it reaches its “source” high in the mountains, where the water completes its inverted cycle by streaming up into the sky, shedding its mineral content in the process and leaving behind twisting spires of sea-salt dozens or hundreds of feet high.

(The salt-maze is a potentially lucrative target for adventurers, if they can survive the environment, as anything that’s been washed upstream eventually winds up there. Watch out for salt dragons!)

niche-pastiche

Then it’s an incredibly useful source of salt instead. All of that salt in one place, is enough to build an extremely prosperous city around.

prokopetz

Very large salt dragons.

whitmerule
whitmerule:
“ mettatagi:
“ whitmerule:
“ugh it is not a cuttlefish it is just very young and therefore all round and tiny and has short arms also she is literally rearing them from eggs and researching them and giving them medical care and it is her...
whitmerule

ugh it is not a cuttlefish it is just very young and therefore all round and tiny and has short arms also she is literally rearing them from eggs and researching them and giving them medical care and it is her job I suspect she doesn’t need their species mansplained.

mettatagi

1. It has two eyes, while squid have one.

2. It’s pupils are rectangular, a trait seen in cuttlefish while squid have round pupils.

3. Stop with the ‘mansplain’ shit, sexism isn’t a good look on you.


<3

whitmerule

Oh hey, a real person, hi. :)

1. … no? Squid, like octopuses and cuttlefish, are beautifully symmetrical and have two eyes. 

2. actually, I’d call cuttlefish pupils ‘kind of wiggly’ and squids’ circular to ovular, but in any case the angle is too high here to see anything but a dark line which could be anything imo

3. excuse you i look DELICIOUS in sexism

actually, i am guessing this is a bobtail squid but i am not an expert. so I shall stick with assuming the original tweeter is correct. and while @mettatagi herself (thanks for the profile pronouns, btw :)) may be excused the charge of mansplaining on the grounds of gender and of actually having good reasons for saying ‘cuttlefish’, my grumble was directed to the sheer number of people saying ‘this specialist clearly does not know what she is talking about’, rather than to any one individual.

either way it is an adorable brave rock. doing so well. good rock. :)

the-lady-bryan2-deactivated2019

cteranodon asked:

Okay, so I'm /actually/ about to write a porn fic to AO3, and I'm interested in knowing what the difference is between the M rating and E rating. Able to enlighten me?

tinsnip answered:

Mature is ‘and then they made love.’ Explicit is ‘and here’s how they did it exactly.’

To wit: mature.

He looked at the envelope, spread out before him.

God, he’d never been this hungry.

Could he be gentle enough? Slow enough? He didn’t want to damage it, didn’t want to do anything he’d regret… but no, no, it seemed the envelope wanted this as much as he did. It slipped into his hands, it folded as he asked. When it was time for more, the card was waiting, and he somehow knew exactly what to do. He moved with his correspondence in a dance as old as the mail system, and when it was over, he was smiling and the envelope was completely, thoroughly sealed.

Explicit:

The envelope waved its flap in the air slowly, gently, and he could see the faint shimmer of the adhesive traced along its fold. It was like a taunt, a dare: won’t you? And he would, oh, God, he would, lifting the envelope firmly to his lips, licking slowly at first, then faster, more firmly, tasting the envelope’s essence, the faint bitterness, the sweetness to follow—

Oh, he couldn’t help but smile at how it felt in his hands. It was so perfectly folded. Its paper was rough against his fingers, and its crossed folds shifted slightly as it opened for his eager tongue. Yes, yes…

Now the card, and his hand trembled as he lifted it, as he held the envelope, stretching it wide. Would it fit? Oh… oh, yes, it would fit, it slid in smooth and quick and filled the envelope to bursting, oh, made for each other, and he smiled in delight at how perfect it was.

He was ready. Now, now, now: with one swift movement he folded the flap over and he pressed, yes, he pressed the flap down and it stuck, God, it stuck perfectly, and he closed his eyes in bliss.

Afterwards, he stroked the envelope, and thought about addresses.

anarfea

omg THIS MADE MY MORNING.

onethousandhurrahs

well, this is something I didn’t know i needed till I had it.

redscudery

“and thought about addresses” oh my

amemait

I never thought I’d say this but it’s too early for this level of porn.

fira211

MAIL PORN

fozmeadows

someone, somewhere, reading this:

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irridallium

All I got from this post is that op wants to fuck a letter

hawkeyedflame

rule 34 is the law of the universe and God has no power here

brosefvondudehomie

@dangerbooze @blackfiretazz

dangerbooze

@the-lady-bryan

the-lady-bryan

……..I used to make fancy envelopes for personal stationary by hand.

I feel so unclean now.

chronotopes

qpid-deactivated20180201 asked:

top 5 moments julian bashir was a useless twink 💕🙏

answered:

oh my god

1. first contact with garak. a classic

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2. waking up in a strange place, immediately assuming he’s in a nightmare, and just screaming to wake himself up rather than take any action

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3. oh boy it’s time to play raquetball! :-) i guess i’ll just change into my workout clothes. you know, the type that you wear when you work out. i love sports!

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4. hi my name is julian bashir and my favorite holodeck program involves me shooting a man with a champagne cork. also, every woman i encounter falls in love with me. uh oh me and my real spy boyfriend are in trouble! good thing i’m here to save the day

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5. risa

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