Rami Malek is really an icon….there he goes playing main character on a critically acclaimed hacker show….there he is alongside Ben Stiller as a cute pharaoh……there he is in some horror game about wendigos and serial killers or whatever Until Dawn was…….there he is as Freddie Mercury…….what can’t this man do
i was sitting with a bunch of cis people at lunch who think i’m cis and they literally had an entire conversation on how “nowadays you can’t tell who’s transgender” while i there wearing a trans pride flag t-shirt
I’m running a pre-bought campaign in a sci-fi setting
Totally not-shady NPC: I’ll need you to retrieve my secret cargo from the abandoned spaceship, but it’s very private, so don’t look inside–
Player: Is it a girl in a box?
NPC: …What?
Player: This is a sci-fi story, and there’s a box you don’t want us to look into. There’s only ever one way that ends, and it’s always with a girl stuffed into a box.
Other Player: Hey, we don’t even know how big it is. It could just be a cigar box.
First Player: Okay, you’re right. It could be a bunch of sex toys. How big is the box?
NPC: It’s… uh… six feet long by three feet wide by three feet deep…
First Player:Ugh. Okay, fine. Somebody pack a crowbar and a spare set of women’s clothing. We need to go get this girl out of her box.
uhhhhhhh…….
One day I’m going to run a sci-fi campaign of some kind and there will inevitably be a girl-sized box that the players are not allowed to open
And when they open it instead of a girl there will be 12 possums that immediately escape and create possum-related mischief until they can be put back in the box.
I love how dog behavior can be so breed-specific. Like, sure, it makes sense to me that broad-stroke things like “this one is more friendly, this one is more alert” can be genetic. But apparently there is a combination of genes that codes for “chase prey animals into a tight herd but don’t attack them.” And a different combination of genes that codes for “run after things, pick them up gently, and take them to a person.” It’s not just training; you can see these behaviors even in little puppies that have never been exposed to the situation before. I think that’s delightful and kind of mysterious.
Indya Moore, Ruth Negga, Kelela, Thandie Newton, and Laura Harrier photographed by Collier Schorr for Louis Vuitton Pre-Fall 2019 by Nicolas Ghesquière.