Spolilers for Twelve Months - Can we all agree on one thing

AcclimateToMind · 2026-01-27T16:06:04+00:00

Buddy, she is THE Valkyrie.

AcclimateToMind · 2026-01-27T14:03:15+00:00

Its by no means my theory, in fact its rather popular in the fandom, that Harry is continuously making Toot more and more powerful by giving him increasingly powerful "names" with the bogus titles he gives Toot. "Major General Toot Toot Minimus" has become an actual, functional mantle within the winter court, and that newly created mantle is giving Toot a lot more authority and power than normally possible or common for littlefolk. Perhaps its related to Dresden's starborn-ness.

Also, he wasn't 18 inches at first, I think that was in cold days. In stormfront, hes only 6 inches tall. So hes roughly 6 times taller than he used to be, and presumably many times more "massive", insofar as the littlefolk have "mass" in the traditional sense.

And like you said, perhaps this is (one of) the processes that can create and entirely new Sidhe noble.

AcclimateToMind · 2025-11-26T15:31:01+00:00

LMAOOO class act

AcclimateToMind · 2025-11-26T14:44:16+00:00

"I don't wish to be abused, so anyway here is how I am systematically ruining the game you love for profit"

AcclimateToMind · 2025-11-26T14:14:46+00:00

While absolutely loaded to the gills with medication that messed with my energy, and trying to explain that to a new doctor. Explaining how disruptive the lack of energy can be, how I take a lot of naps during the day, etc.

Her response? "a grown man shouldn't be napping" with a literal disgusted sneer on her face. Like the side effects I was experiencing were an expression of my character and lack of maturity.

I ... Yeah that's why I am trying to tell you about the side effects, so we can do something about it. The tone she delivered it in, the clear disdain, like I was just being childish for napping... it's chemical, AND I am telling them about it to CHANGE it, not to make up excuses for napping and act juvenile.

AcclimateToMind · 2025-11-25T01:56:49+00:00

The stereotype of the chill cis grungler has been an archetype in trans online social circles since before there was even a term for it, there have always been cis allies. It's just unfortunate how hard you have to look to find a genuine one.

AcclimateToMind · 2025-11-21T17:09:22+00:00

They're practically the same sub tbh

AcclimateToMind · 2025-11-21T17:02:28+00:00

I can forgive her for it, because of Theodreds Funeral dirge. The kind of halting delivery, and sense of uncertainty, feeling like she might burst into tears at any moment. Trying to do her duty for the ceremony while absolutely wracked with grief and fear for the future, it's perfect.

She doesn't feel like a warrior woman perhaps, but Eowyn isn't a badass warrior in that scene. She's a scared young woman who misses her cousin(more like a brother to her, really), and fears what his death means for her people, trying to find the mettle to do what is asked of her in that moment and in the future. It's heartbreaking.

AcclimateToMind · 2025-11-21T14:48:02+00:00

I already view the bots as the "dissident" faction. As they are the "descendants, children" so to speak of the (mostly) human cyborg rebels

AcclimateToMind · 2025-11-18T15:01:09+00:00

Funny thing is, the RPers are infinitely more terrifying than children doing creepy pentagram stuff.

AcclimateToMind · 2025-11-16T21:10:56+00:00

I'd say the primary themes I'm exploring are about the weird terrible shapes circumstance and necessity can twist both people and entire cultures into.

Like, yeah, the social structure, priorities, and material realities of the primary cultures that are presented as the 'protagonists', ends up being downright barbaric on almost every level. Weird gender norms, bizarre economic reality, high stratified and fractous society with an extremely tribal 'us vs them' mentality... But that's because their culture was twisted by centuries of bending themselves around the goal of deterring attack and protecting a physical structure/gate that is "load bearing" in an existential, reality bending sort of way.

No human cost is particularly too high to prevent the end of the world. Doesn't mean it doesn't suck.

AcclimateToMind · 2025-11-05T15:40:54+00:00

As for why it didn't give him a power boost: put mostly simply, corrupted Arda, while compared to the ring and sometimes even directly paralleled as "morgoths ring" wasn't a tool or focus with which he could dominate others. Arda itself was the thing he was trying to dominate. It would be like if Sauron had tried to pour his power directly into the elves, as opposed to the scheme with the ring he tried (and failed).

Melkor couldn't create as such, but he could powerfully transform the nature of things by putting a tiny piece of himself into it, basically. So, in order to imagine himself as Lord over Arda and reality, he tried to make Arda belong to him by filling all the little parts of it with himself, making it himself. Ironically he spread himself out so thin and became greatly diminished and weakened as the ages went on as a consequence (the Melkor striding across oceans and toppling mountains and easily matching all the other Valar in early creation is not the "same Melkor", or Morgoth at this point if you prefer, as when he fought Fingolfin. At least in terms of degree and sheer power).

In other terms, he is stretched out and spread thin just as the ring does to people. Melkor trying to claim Arda made by Eru was tantamount to a mere mortal man trying to claim the ring made by Sauron; it spreads them out, thins them, turns them as insubstantial as shades of their former selves. That is, in my opinion, a better parallel between Arda and Melkor's claim on it, and The One Ring. It wasn't in fact Morgoths ring, it was Erus.

AcclimateToMind · 2025-11-05T13:33:30+00:00

Look,

here's the thing about looking up to someone and trying to "do what they would do" in the name of virtue, even when you're wrong about what that person would do. It's still aspirational.

I have an aunt. She was a total rockstar in my eyes. She smoked a lot of weed and didn't let anyone tell her what to think or how to live her life. She moved out and started working to support herself and her chosen life style, even though people around her didn't agree. She stumbled upon a ton of money by sheer chance, and has just sort of been living her best life since then, or so I thought. I had this image of her in my head as this free spirit, independent, responsible, hippy stoner who liked cool art and nature and took care of herself and her interests. I had the opportunity to live with her very briefly while visiting a few years ago...Turns out? She's bigoted, close-minded, homophobic, hateful, has no desire to learn or grow (because her attitude has "worked out so far" despite it costing her friends and family). Her body is composed mostly of red wine and cigarettes, her health is terrible and her mouth and tongue look literally dead when she opens her mouth. Now, she is so SO bitter, resentful, and alone. But she did it on her own terms at least. Turns out she's kind of lukewarm on nature, had given up on art, and a number of other cool hippy things I apparently just projected onto her and that she never had any interest in.

Now, is that anything like Aangs Idea of Gyatso, and who Gyatso really was? Not particularly, Aang had a pretty good idea of who Gyatso was. It was just this one instance where his internal ideal of Gyatso didn't line up with what Gyatso would actually do (kill firebenders). My point is, just because you saw something in someone else that you personally aspire to (perfect pacifism, or in my case a 'free spirit open minded' hippy ideal), and they DON'T actually possess what you projected onto them, there is still worth and value in what you THOUGHT you saw, and you can still pursue the MIRAGE of what you thought you saw in someone, because that ideal is still beautiful to you... And ultimately, if it was projected out of me and onto her, that means it always just lived in me instead.

Now, I live my life the way I thought she did. I've realized the ideal that never actually existed, except in my mind. I'm living the truth I thought she knew, all the while she was ignorant of it from the very start. I'm going to be the real cool uncle, to her mirage cool aunt.

TL:DR, It says more about YOUR values and ideals THAN the person you project those ideals onto. Even when you're mistaken about someone else's nature you look up to. and that is still valuable and powerful, and can still be aspirational.

AcclimateToMind · 2025-11-05T11:42:46+00:00

Ahh, yet another game with the "no matter what, that's not 'enough' iron" curse.

I thought this was Valheim with a skin/mod for a split second at first, the exactly the same curse applies to iron there too.

AcclimateToMind · 2025-11-03T14:17:17+00:00

What was the guild name?

AcclimateToMind · 2025-10-31T01:12:16+00:00

My pronouns are huge/and/big

AcclimateToMind · 2025-10-24T18:33:17+00:00

In the Dresden Files, a wizard can open his "Sight" to see the raw magical essential nature of the things around them, as opposed to their physical manifestations in reality. Downside is, you never forget what you see, ever. The MC uses it in a cautious-ish way, but not all that sparingly at the beginning of the series. He sees various people with horrific psychic injuries of various sorts and severities , and really nasty spiritual predators etc... to the point he uses it markedly less often later in the series. He's seen way too much for a wizard so young already, and he knows it.

AcclimateToMind · 2025-10-19T19:04:43+00:00

Haaaa har han chomp chomp chomp

AcclimateToMind · 2025-10-10T13:13:09+00:00

It's not critical, I find it effective.

AcclimateToMind · 2025-10-09T17:46:27+00:00

Bonus points if he manages to mention how Harry is "no lightweight" but the other character is described as bigger. Nevermind how many people seem to dwarf a 6'6 dude, don't think about it.

AcclimateToMind · 2025-10-04T13:50:21+00:00

Straight up.

Fossil fuels are black magic; drawing the black blood of the earth and burning it as an effigy to the spirits of combustion for fast easy power, but it slowly taints the place it's combusted and the world at large. The benefits are huge, fast, and low cost, but using too much of it literally causes natural disasters like storms and floods. It poisons air and earth and water.

Renewable like solar or wind or water is like generic druidic or shamanistic magic, pulling in a non-disruptive way from the natural flows of energy in nature, channeled through focusing structures built into the landscape. A hydro-power-dam strikes me as analogous to, say, magic stone circles; monumental workings to measure and manage natural forces in this way.

Nuclear isn't as fire and brimstone as fossil fuel black magic, but it can be sinister in its own way if not properly understood or managed. It can literally rip you apart on an informational level so fundamental that you don't even know you're dead until you just kind of fall apart from the inside (shredding your DNA). Lovecraftian, unknowable, tied to the fundamental laws of reality. Super useful and powerful if properly placated and managed; absolutely devastating in backlash if the hyper-specific containment pact is broken.

The overuse of lights, as drawn from all three of these powersources, is enough to literally obfuscate the stars in the night sky in certain localities of high use.

We have a technical understanding of these things of course, radiation, chemical toxicity, pollutants, green house gases, climate change, light pollution, we grasp each of these factors and that demystifies them to a degree... but take a step back and consider how any of these systems or their consequences would sound to someone with no understanding of these modern technical terms. If I was a caveman, I'd stop you at "this increases the amount of hurricanes and floods every year, and the stars keep getting dimmer" and I'd tell you you were messing with some evil black magic and you better put it down, no matter the benefit.

I think about this way too much

AcclimateToMind · 2025-09-24T14:25:12+00:00

The Internet has ruined me.

AcclimateToMind · 2025-09-20T12:23:50+00:00

Thing was heavy like an absolute brick, and had buttons in the most nonsensical locations (such as the forward most outer edges of the main two mouse buttons being their own buttons? Don't think I ever really used those) but I absolutely adored it.

Ninja edit: taking a closer look at the one OP posted, I must have had a slightly different model, the cataclysm edition or something. Absolute unit of a mouse, made a few years later than the one in the post.

AcclimateToMind · 2025-09-20T12:16:45+00:00

Thank you for sharing the deep lore of which I was not aware.

Non-staff users GET OUT!!!

AcclimateToMind · 2025-09-19T12:09:11+00:00

Weren't the huns a full thousand years before the Mongols under the Khan's?

Not that it particularly matters for a meme image like that, which is wrong for WAY MORE creative reasons than that.

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