DnD Free Time Event Concept: your party finds a Tree of Communication with numerous fruit pods which allow for up to thirty minutes of recorded messages when plucked from the tree, messages which can then be listened to when the pods are manually split open
hoping to gain fame as musicians/poets/public speakers they all decide to practice a few routines and do a Pod Casting, to give away at the nearest town on a PWYW basis
Pods are numerous but the trees are generally deciduous so they can really only put out One Season’s Worth Of Pod Castings on an annual basis. If they simultaneously record and send the pods down the river to reach lower villages they can do a Live Stream
when your otp has an honest talk only in dire situations, like when they’re running full tilt being carried by the wind shouting at the top of their lungs
(the movie made this flying thing so romantic, but the book version is basically ‘howl and sophie scream into the wind as it slams them back to the castle’)
the lack of qpoc movies is astounding. this is a small list but i have searched for these movies from everywhere i could possibly, and watching them is a bigger dilemma. please add onto this list, especially the mlm section.
[ note that i only exclusively watch wlw movies being a brown nb lesbian so im a bit lacking in the mlm movie recs ]
thelma [ brown wlw is the love interest ]-itty bitty titty committee [ brown wlw ] – mystère à la tour eiffel [ black wlw ] – a perfect ending [ brown wlw ]
i know nothing about that fate thing u guys like but i know can make guesses like george washington or thomas edison is in it and is an anime girl and probably be at least almost right
they turned napoleon into a bear
never thot i’d say this but napoleon is more than welcome to turn me into a bottom
This is a big part of why everyone was so happy to see Black Panther do as well as it did.
But it really shouldn’t be like this.
Some movies bomb. Some movies do well. It’s the nature of the business.
But it never means “Yeah, well, one movie starring mostly Asian actors flopped, so let’s not do another movie starring mostly Asian actors.”
Never saw anyone refusing to do movies with white people after John Carter epically bombed.
weird how there are like 8 different movies with whitewashed leads that bombed astronomically and yet ppl keep doing it and no one is out here like “idk guys I guess whitewashed movies just don’t work”
You can really tell who’s never experienced poverty and food insecurity when it comes to discussions around food costs and how unhealthy food is cheaper. Some fucker always comes in with the price of like… lettuce or… apples. And it’s like yeah bitch but can you work an 11 hour shift after eating some salad and an apple!?! Find me something cheaper, and more filling than the broke ass staples of boxed mac and cheese, hot dogs, noodles, bread, beans, and rice. I’ll wait.
It also ignores the mental toll that poverty takes like maybe your home made veggie filled recipe isn’t crazy expensive but it also involves prep time and cooking time and organization in terms of fresh food that a lotta poor people can’t manage.
Not to mention if you can only afford to get to the store once every couple weeks via bus or cab then you can’t keep fresh veg on deck.
But ya know.. poor people are just dumb and lazy.
One of the most telling conversations I ever had about food budgeting when you’re poor was with some dude in the comments section of an internet article, who within the span of a single conversation, insisted that people needed to buy shelf staples in bulk, and also that poor people should use public transportation to save money (ignoring, of course, that lots of rural places don’t have public transportation).
I had to point out to this guy that he was basically saying that poor people should be, somehow, transporting loads of bulk goods home with them on buses. Basically meaning you make multiple trips to carry home heavy shit, probably bringing it back with you to an apartment or house that doesn’t have a pantry, meaning your living space is gonna be cluttered with boxes of instant pot noodles or bags of flour/salt/sugar/etc, crates of canned goods and mega packs of things like ketchup or beans.
I was amazed that it had never occurred to this dude, that a lot of the things he was suggesting didn’t mesh well as a complete picture of how to live. Don’t have a big home or kitchen, but have enough storage space to stock a full pantry, don’t have your own vehicle, but buy your groceries in bulk, do your own cooking but work two or three jobs at a time, etc, etc. And you can bet that if he actually had to share a bus ride with someone sitting there with a gigantic sack of flour in the seat beside them, he’d probably complain about them.
But what if your childhood was shitty and traumatizing and you were meek and quiet as a kid so get a sweet little kitten and eventually as you grow and realize your worth and become more confident that kitten slowly grows into a lion.
Usually, when I bring kids their Companions, it’s a happy day.
Most parents like to throw parties for their children. Make it a big ‘lifetime milestone’ type deal. Sometimes, if there are a lot of birthdays on the same day, they do events at the local schools. I never really have to call ahead – people know I’m coming. The roster at the head offices keeps a running record, and Deliverers like me pack up the Untouched Eggs (wearing gloves, of course), and set out to cover their area for the day. I work six days a week, and sometimes I take emergency runs if I’m nearby and another district is overwhelmed. Overtime is common, but so are short days, when only a small number of kids are hitting ten.
It’s a job that has me travelling a lot. i go wherever there’s the most need for Deliverers. We don’t like to be late; tenth birthdays are an important matter. But I like being on the road. It lets me see a lot of the country.
So you guys took the plot of the golden compass and added a person who delivers the daemons….just wanted to point that out there
Actually, not quite!
The plot of a story is the progression of events throughout it. So the plot of the Golden Compass, for example, is all that stuff about kids getting separated from their daemons and the intrigues with Mrs. Coulter and the mystery of the ‘dust’.
Magical animal companions is, in actuality, a concept. This story has a similar concept to the Golden Compass, but the plot is the part that’s completely different. Funnily enough, though, people are often more adept at spotting similar concepts than similar plots. Probably because concepts are like clothes and plots are more like skeletons – you’re more likely to see one at a glance than the other.
Also, good news – if you like concepts like these, there are way more stories than just His Dark Materials that employ magically bonded animal companions as an element or even central crux of the tale! The concept in fact owes it roots to the mythology of the Familiar, which is probably why Pullman named his magical companions ‘daemons’ in HDM (though I don’t know for certain). If you enjoy such things there’s a goodreads list that’s got some recommendations for other stories with takes on the concept, too (His Dark Materials is also on there – some people don’t realize there are more books than the Golden Compass because they only made the one movie, but there are! They get increasingly theological, though, just as a head’s up).
This particular take is indeed very close to daemons, though, especially with the elements of the animal companion’s shape being determined by something in the child’s nature. But I mean, the prompt presented an interesting twist on it, and I don’t know enough about His Dark Materials to just straight up write fanfiction for it, and wouldn’t want to wrestle with the same theological themes either. So instead I did this.
Sort of like how Phillip J. Pullman wrote His Dark Materials to be ‘Narnia but with the opposite attitude on religion’.
That’s kind of how people come up with stories, in a large number of cases. And I’m mentioning this because there are a lot of people on this post saying some variation of ‘this is just The Golden Compass’, and it makes me worry. Nearly every story out there is some variant of another tale, someone else’s take on this or that concept, this or that archetype. If you shy away from an idea you like just because it’s been done before, you’ll never find yourself exploring any creative inspiration, but the truth is – it’s all been done before.
So just do it anyway. Some people will like it. Happily, a lot of notes on this post can also attest to that! And i don’t think fiction necessarily needs any aspiration greater than the hope that some people will like it.
(GIF from pokemon, another series which has a very similar concept, since kids are given a pokemon at the age of ten to start their life’s adventures!)
weird how there are like 8 different movies with whitewashed leads that bombed astronomically and yet ppl keep doing it and no one is out here like “idk guys I guess whitewashed movies just don’t work”
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