Did You Have A Nice Dinner? Did You All Sit Down To A Nice Dinner While You All Presumed I Was Dead?

Art by Riikka Auvinen

couldnt stop laughing after seeing this in my rewatch of acofaf

hey props to the people who do all the stuff for the dome

first the flowers and fireworks and backgrounds for acofaf, now the wild ink splotches and rain for Neverafter? they are doing a fantastic job

Nana Morri, the Fatestitcher, for @CriticalRole. She’s very eager to show you all her curious trinkets and treasures in her collection. Just a nice old lady!

look, I know I've talked about this essay (?) before but like,

If you ever needed a good demonstration of the quote "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic", have I got an exercise for you.

Somebody made a small article explaining the basics of atomic theory but it's written in Anglish. Anglish is basically a made-up version of English where they remove any elements (words, prefixes, etc) that were originally borrowed from romance languages like french and latin, as well as greek and other foreign loanwords, keeping only those of germanic origin.

What happens is an english which is for the most part intelligible, but since a lot everyday english, and especially the scientific vocabulary, has has heavy latin and greek influence, they have to make up new words from the existing germanic-english vocabulary. For me it kind of reads super viking-ey.

Anyway when you read this article on atomic theory, in Anglish called Uncleftish Beholding, you get this text which kind of reads like a fantasy novel. Like in my mind it feels like it recontextualizes advanced scientific concepts to explain it to a viking audience from ancient times.

Even though you're familiar with the scientific ideas, because it bypasses the normal language we use for these concepts, you get a chance to examine these ideas as if you were a visitor from another civilization - and guess what, it does feel like it's about magic. It has a mythical quality to it, like it feels like a book about magic written during viking times. For me this has the same vibe as reading deep magic lore from a Robert Jordan book.

She’s your favorite isn’t she

From Critical Role C3E40

You know that Bell’s Hells are family because they keep trying to kill each other.

Jester, Joy ☀️

Can you find the hidden 🍆 ?