Rick Riordan finally snapped and released emails he sent to The Lightning Thief movie makers….
I can’t stop laughing
I C O N I C
yes, I’m a DM, yes, I love writing, no, I don’t know how distance works. Is that building 100 feet away or 40 feet away? Should you be able to see something ten minutes down the road? Is 1,000 feet long? Is 30?? Is 6??? Could you walk across the continent in 2 weeks or 2 years? I hate this. I hate travel. I hate measurement. Fuck you.
Stone Cloak
Wondrous item, uncommon
This strange
cloak seems to be made of stone and covered in moss and mushrooms. Upon closer
inspection, the cloak is made of high-quality cloth and radiates faintly with
arcane energy.
Using
an action, you can speak the cloak’s command word and pull it around your body.
The cloak will then shift and to anyone looking at it appear to be a rock. The
transformation is almost perfect but can be spotted with a DC 15 investigation
check.
While inside, you can see clearly outside of the rock and if you don’t move, the illusion will last. However, once you do the illusion drops and it returns to a cloak once more. This power can be used 5 times a day and regains all uses at dawn.
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The two ADHD moods:
- I can’t do it
- I can’t stop doing it
The two types of ADHD time:
- now
- not now
the two ADHD memory modes:
-I literally cannot recall the words that just came out of my mouth
-I can recite the opening paragraph of every single magic treehouse book
laser gun gator boys
Okay as adorable as this looks, I’m pretty sure that’s a distress sound? A “mommy help me I’m scared come save me!” sound?
This video is from Dragonwood Wildlife Conservancy, and they are yearling (last year’s babies) Cuban crocodiles. Good news for you, this isn’t actually a distress call! According to @kaijutegu (and her giant bookshelf full of reptile resources), the laser sounds are an affiliative social call that young Cuban crocodiles use to communicate with their parents. They normally stop making the noise at around two years old, which is approximately when they start dispersing from the family group.
See, Cuban crocodiles are a super social species - and one of the few where the fathers stick around and provide paternal care for the babies! In the wild, babies would regularly interact with both parents, including when they provide food. This call is basically the type of vocalization that the babies use to communicated with their parents.
These crocodiles are being hand-raised as part of a private-sector breeding and reintroduction program (because the parents are so protective of their offspring that if you left them the babies to raise, you’d never be able to safely get close to them), and so they’re responding to the guy in the video the same way because he’s constant known safe individual and also the provider of food. He’s not a threat - his presence is a good thing, and he’s worth interacting with because it normally means food. You can also tell from their behavior and body language that they’re not stressed: some of the crocodiles are actively climbing on him and interaction of their own volition, but the ones that aren’t don’t show any indicators of hyper-vigilance. If that were a distress call, every crocodile that heard it would be alert and on edge looking for the threat. Distress calls tend to only happen once or twice, because in the wild continuing to make noise makes a baby more vulnerable: so these crocodiles wouldn’t be continually vocalizing if they felt threatened. There’s no snapping or gaping or freezing, all of which would be behavioral indicators of distress or discomfort. (Here’s a video of a baby nile crocodile being harassed by photographers which will give you a visual reference for both freezing and gaping.)
So, hey, this is certifiably cute - and good for conservation!
living with mental illness is like,, everyone is going forward.. and I’ve made… the smallest of progress over two damn years… and sometimes, I’m even going backwards
Logical inconsistency is a pillar of anti-choice ideology
I was born with one kidney; I’m OK now but I’ve had kidney issues in the past and I’m at a much greater risk of needing a transplant.
Every single time I’ve asked a “pro-life” person if they would be willing to suffer a little inconvenience to save my life, they have a laundry list of excuses.
Ultimately the discussion reaches the same conclusion each time: “it’s my body and I don’t want to.”
There’s a lower mortality rate associated with live organ donation than pregnancy and childbirth. Unlike an embryo, I am a sentient human being who is able to look them in the eye and plead for my own life.
Nine out of every ten people on the transplant list need a kidney - an organ that a living donor can give with relatively minor long-term limitations. If every “pro-life” person got tested for compatibility, the transplant list would disappear overnight.
