Theboywiththegreenbandana

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

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
lawfulgoodness

greek-mythographer asked:

who even are you. like what did you write

neil-gaiman answered:

I have no idea. Let me see if anyone else in this ask place knows.

str0kethebigtree

he was in arthur.

telebisou

you’re thinking of Jill Eikenberry; I think this guy was an astronaut of some kind

asingerofdreams

that’s Neil Armstrong, I thought this guy was in How I Met Your Mother

neil-gaiman

That’s Neil Patrick Harris. I think this might have been the playwright who wrote The Odd Couple.

merinnan

That’s Neil Simon. I think this is the musician who wrote Sweet Caroline.

hils79

That’s Neil Diamond. I think this is an astrophysicist

oneiriad

That’s Neil deGrasse Tyson. I think this is a river in Egypt.

omgpurplefattie

That’s the Nile; I think this is the Irish guy who made the movies “The Crying Game” and “Interview with the Vampire”.

stripedsweatergirl

No no no, that’s Neil Jordan. I think this is the English author who helped write Good Omens.

aphony-cree

You’re right! This is Terry Prachet’s tumblr. Good job everyone

cuddlydemons

ok I love this meme but like

Neil Gaiman actually was in Arthur.

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neil-gaiman

This is true.

borinquenaqueer

what were you doing in a falafel

kipplekipple

Let a man live

ladytabletop
curlicuetruth: “naamahdarling: “bogleech: “kittydorkling: “jenroses: “ shinnegamitensei: “ this site has one setting ” I’m laughing, but there’s a super useful corollary, which my husband calls “the Red Balloon.” He was a defense lawyer and had a...
shinnegamitensei

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this site has one setting

jenroses

I’m laughing, but there’s a super useful corollary, which my husband calls “the Red Balloon.” He was a defense lawyer and had a fair number of drug addicts come through, and there is a thing where if you’re like, on your first offense, they’ll do a thing where you can go to treatment and if you complete it they’ll take the conviction off your record. 

And he would tell his clients, “Look, everyone’s going to tell you not to do drugs. They’re going to say it over and over again. And it’s like, if people tell you not to think of a white elephant, you’re going to think of a white elephant. But the trick to not thinking about a white elephant is to think of a red balloon. So you need to find your red balloon. For some people it’s yoga. For others it’s woodworking. For some people it’s scrapbooking or gardening or any of a long list of things to do. They focus on that, it’s a lot easier to succeed in ignoring the white elephant.”

So yeah, “watch yourself” is one thing… but the better idea is to watch something else. (Even if it’s fanfic about werewolves fucking.)


It’s a form of productive dissociation, and is super, super helpful.

It’s easy for me to get bogged down in how much pain I’m in… but some of the most painful periods of my life have also been the most productive, writing-wise, because writing is one of my red balloons. 

kittydorkling

There is a phrase I use A LOT in my parenting and my son gets very sick of it, but it’s true:

The thing you practise is the thing you get good at.

You may not intentionally be practicing “being grumpy” but if you don’t put effort into practicing “not being grumpy” then I’m afraid that’s what you’re doing. It’s hard! It’s really hard! Sometimes, for some things, it’s pretty much impossible and that sucks!

But being carefully aware that you are going to get good at the things you do most of is a good way to be more careful of what those things are. If that makes sense.

bogleech

You gotta appreciate sometimes how tumblr works in such a way that everyone who wants to reblog this interesting or useful psychological advice is also forced to reblog the thing about werewolf fucking

naamahdarling

Because we want to feel better but also think fucking werewolves really might help.

curlicuetruth

have you considered werewolf fucking as an alternative to drugs

ladytabletop
kotaku.com

D&D Player Mods Hundreds Of Monsters Into Playable Characters

Your bread-and-butter Dungeons & Dragons party won’t include a manticore, a gargoyle, a hyena or a sentient fungi, but maybe it should. One D&D player spent a year and a half converting every single creature in the D&D Monster Manual into playable characters, and now players can live out their dreams of being a great fire beetle who slays dragons.
Cecilia D'Anastasio
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Your bread-and-butter Dungeons & Dragons party won’t include a manticore, a gargoyle, a hyena or a sentient fungi, but maybe it should.  One D&D player spent a year and a half converting every single creature in the D&D [5E] Monster Manual into playable characters, and now players can live out their dreams of being a great fire beetle who slays dragons.

There are hundreds of monsters in D&D’s Monster Manual, many of which don’t really lend themselves to the Lord of the Rings-esque adventures that traditionally star humanoids.  Most dungeon masters won’t let players stray too far from that model.  It’s hard to wrap a plot around a rag-tag team of dire bats and oozes, and it’s hard to make sure a party’s stats are balanced when it contains both a faerie dragon and a mastiff.

Creator Tyler Kamstra’s new 283-page homebrew mod “Monstrous Races” offers ways for players to embody any of D&D’s monsters using stats, role-playing notes and everything else you’d expect to see listed next to the “Human” race in the D&D Player’s Handbook.  To play a basilisk, for example, players can attempt to petrify a creature with their gaze as an action.  This is helpful, since basilisks don’t have hands, rendering them incapable of holding a sword.  To play a banshee, or an undead spirit of a female elf, Kamstra recommends that players covet beautiful objects and remain within five miles of anywhere the banshee lived while alive.

This “Monstrous Races” mod is the sort of wonderful thing that, back in D&D days of yore, would exist as a titanic document in some far-flung basement, only to be enjoyed by a handful of players.  We can at least thank the internet for giving us playable purple worms.

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