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pistols at dawn and fish fingers for tea

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battlecrazed-axe-mage:

probablyfunrpgideas:

kavatprime:

Two universal constants of high fantasy living:

  • If something falls into ruin a necromancer will move in 100% of the time
  • There is a critical mass of gold that will summon a dragon. If you keep accurate records and stay below it you’ll be fine

I’m sorry, sir, if you don’t renovate your summer keep and live in it at least one month out of the year, we’ll have to charge you with Negligent Dungeonization of Property. The old cellar laboratory might have belonged to your uncle, but if you aren’t going to use it, something will.

The players are a squad of government investigators, trying to prevent monsters from claiming new habitat. It’s mainly negotiation but sometimes people have an interest in attracting dangerous entities for their own purposes.

I love this so much!! GIVE 👏 ME 👏 DUNGEONS 👏 WITH 👏 BACKSTORIES

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Anonymous asked: I just saw your tag on the post about Lando, and I can't believe I've never run across Lando Calrissian: New Republic Politician in fandom before, because YES, that makes SO MUCH SENSE and would be amazing! I'm really looking forward to seeing how you write Lando in DAV. And just more generally, thanks for being such an awesome person! You bring compassion into the world and joy to a lot of people. That means so much. <3

fialleril:

I am, sadly, pretty unsurprised that I’ve never seen politician!Lando in fandom before, because in general the Star Wars fandom (and the Expanded Universe) seems to characterize Lando largely on the basis of a single statement from Han Solo about him.

Han tells Leia that Lando is a card-player, a gambler, and a scoundrel, and the Expanded Universe took that and absolutely ran with it, and, possibly because of the EU, fandom has taken it as gospel truth, too.

But the thing is, that’s only what Han says about Lando. It’s not at all what we actually see of Lando on screen.

The Lando of ESB is, in a word, responsible. That’s how he characterizes himself, a bit ruefully, and it’s borne out by his actions throughout the movie. He’s clearly been a very successful businessman for a while now, and he’s just as clearly respected and liked by the people of Bespin. He tells Han and Leia that he’s one of the few gas mining operations that’s still independent, and he’s clearly proud of this fact. He’s just as clearly invested in the work that’s being done on Bespin. He doesn’t just own the operation. He very obviously cares about it, and about the people who work for him. His decision to give Han, Leia, and Chewie up to Vader is ultimately an effort to save as many people as he can, made because he knows he’s caught between a rock and a hard place but, no matter how much he cares for Han, he is the administrator of Cloud City and the lives of everyone there are dependent on him. He’s responsible for them, and he’s willing to risk himself to protect his people. Only after he’s done all he can to protect them does he allow himself to try to help Han and co.

And when we see Lando again in ROTJ, he’s joined the Rebellion and been commissioned as a general. A general. For a guy who, so far as we know, has held no prior military rank, and who joined the Alliance maybe a year ago, that says quite a lot. Clearly, he’s committed himself to this rebellion - and he’s proven himself, both as a rebel operative and as a leader. From what we see of his interactions with his fighter squads, the other rebel pilots seem to both like and respect him.

So maybe Han is right, and at one time Lando was a card player, gambler, and scoundrel. But that’s clearly in his past, and the Lando we actually see on screen isn’t a scoundrel at all. He’s a respectable and respected businessman and city administrator, with an impressive military record and quite a few well-placed connections in Alliance leadership. He’s shown a definite aptitude for administration and civic leadership, and always puts the people he serves first even at great risk to himself.

In short, he’s excellent material for political office.

Lando Calrissian for Republic Chancellor 2018.

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sharp-tender-shock asked: Okay: William Carlos Williams’s “This is just to say” in the style of Horace

greenjudy:

elucubrare:

Time is fleeting: the rich man grasps not his gold

Nor does beauty linger on a face;

But you, Corinna, keep ice from the Apennines

In your kitchen, and with it dark plums.

I have eaten them, Corinna, and beg for forgiveness:

I seized them, since they were sweet and cold.

:)

@foxghost of interest?

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finnglas:

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v-diggety:

did U GUYS KNOW, that the way stores get the balloons off of the ceiling is with ANOTHER balloon, w tape on the top??? and they just dont cut the string so it’s like super long and u gotta aim it right n reel it in. i just found that out today when i DID IT and it’s been the best working day of my life i had a blast blowing up balloons and fetching some off the ceiling. i had so much power? and NO ONE ELSE in my department likes that job so now it’s MY job when need be

omg so I work at a museum and one of our buildings has a) very high ceilings and b) a bizarrely sensitive alarm system that will go off if anything touches the ceiling. Because of this, helium balloons are considered public enemy #1 and are strictly forbidden from entering the museum. But just in case an illicit balloon is successfully smuggled in, the museum has acquired a fucking b.b. gun for the express purpose of shooting down rogue balloons.

lawful good vs chaotic good

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chaotic evil

You people are all extra. We just waited for ours to deflate eventually, at which point they would float softly down and scare the shit out of whatever cusomer or employee they landed on.