Elf Herself

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I'm here for: Fanfic talk, lawsplainers, social media meta, paganism, scifi fandom, ttrpgs, indie publishing, and doc formatting. The doc formatting community is especially weak but I have hopes.

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Excerpt from an article with highlighted text But how would he pay the guards once even his crypto was worthless? What would stop the guards from eventually choosing their own leader? The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival. Or maybe building robots to serve as guards and workers – if that technology could be developed “in time”.
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Time to remember the best voting advice I have heard — Voting isn't marriage — it's public transport. You are not waiting for "the one" who is absolutely perfect. You are getting the bus. And if there isn't one going exactly to your destination, you don't stay at home and sulk — you take the one going closest to where you want to be.
List of 6 randomly generated titles Playful Magic The Wild Flower Star of Twilight The Mage's Stars The Sex of the Sky Memory in the Truth
A conversation on Tumblr drakensberg says The reading comprehension and overall common sense on this website is piss poor poupon replies How dare you say we piss on the poor birkasan2018 follows with What's wrong with being poor you classist (angry emoji)
Screenshot of a tweet by Michel Migurksi quoting Frank Wilhoit Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in nay place or time
The Location Cherrywindle ferry Natures Road (p. 160), Bridge (p. 156), Island (p. 157) Description The Cherrywindle ferry is always busy, but especially so at this time of year. The Cherrywindle River is broad, deep, and swift, but the ferry links the markets that are a half-week’s travel on one side, with the farms and workshops that are a half-week’s travel on the other. A pleasant little boat-house stands on one bank, with a chimney poking out of the second story’s roof, where the large Cheerywindle family of shrews, who own and run the ferry, live. Heavy pilings support the ramp that currently leads not to the deck of the ferry barge, but simply to the surface of the river. The Cheerywindle family is a large one, but their cozy home above the boathouse always seems to have room, and after all, at almost every hour of the day and night, some of them are out crewing the ferry in its chronic trips back and forth carrying foxes and chickens and goods from shore to shore. Normally, at least. But not today. Today all hands are trying to figure out how to find the ferry on the bottom of the river, fetch it ashore, and repair whatever took it to the bottom, while the crowds on either shore continue to grow, and to grow louder. Folklore The year that was too busy to pull the ferry ashore for mending. The waterstrider that raced down-stream. The goldfish daemon and its promise.
Tags from an RPG Trader game Paranormal Urban fantasy Modern + 2 more genres Casual Teen / Young adult Low prep + 3 more audiences Playing cards Journal Coins A4 Solo Journaling Rules-light + 1 more playstyle Campsite English The parts that say +1 or +2 more are shaded differently, and they're not clickable to expand.
Two logo images: patagonia, with a black mountain skyline silhouette with a blue-and-orange sky in the background, vs pattie gonia, with the name in the same font (no spaces between the words) and the same mountain silhouette, with a rainbow sky background.
Screenshot from a blog post: Notwithstanding the foregoing, it is possible that your use of the modified eye-in-hand logo for Second Life, even as parody, requires license from Linden Lab, especially with respect to your sale of goods with the parody mark at http://www.cafepress.com/getafirstlife/. Linden Lab hereby grants you a nonexclusive, nontransferable, nonsublicenseable, revocable, limited license to use the modified eye-in-hand logo (as displayed on http://www.getafirstlife.com/ as of January 21, 2007) to identify only your goods and/or services that are sold at http://www.cafepress.com/getafirstlife/. This license may be modified, addended, or revoked at any time by Linden Lab in its sole discretion.
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31 day song challenge card, with a different song prompt for each day. Examples: Day 1, with a one word title. Day 2, from this year so far. Day 3, less than 3 minutes long, etc. At the end, it says, use the hashtag #Davids Month of Music (with no spaces)
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Screenshot of KWS's 3 age verification options: Last 4 digits of SSN (via Verated), credit card charge (small fee that gets refunded, via Stripe), ID scan (via Veriff)
A line-art box made in microsoft paint; it has three holes to let in air for the sheep inside. The sheep is not visible, but artist assures you it is in the box.
Tweet from A.R. Moxon, showing a user picture of Groucho Marx: Meet me in the middle, says the unjust man. You take a step toward him. He takes a step back. Meet me in the middle, says the unjust man.
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Screencap of a search result from Quora. Question: "Is it possible to skip the first chapter (prologue) of a novel and still..." Jan 7 2024 Answer: "By definition, the prologue is what comes before the story begins, and is therefore not a part of the actual story."
Tweet from @babadookspinoza, Jan 17 2021: The Fight for 15 has been going on so long that $15/hour is no longer a living wage anywhere in the US.
Nielsen Ratings newspaper clipping from February 6, 1995. Top shows are the 8 pm hour: Monday - Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (NBC), 22.4 million Tuesday - Full House (ABC): 20.9 m Wednesday - All Star/Bloopers (NBC): 21.0 m Thursday - Mad About You (NBC): 22.6 m Friday - Family Matters (ABC): 19.7 m Saturday - Dr. Quinn (CBS): 16.9 m Sunday, 7 pm: 60 Minutes (CBS): 24.2 million
Close-up on an elderly man's right ear, showing a clear crease in the lobe extending diagonally downward from the face.
Chart: World population by level of child mortality over time (1800-2013), showing global average child mortality rate of: 1800: 43.3%; 1950-1960: 19.5%; 1990: 7.4%; 2013: 3.4%
Screencap of "Magic Mouth" power from the Neopets TTRPG beta rulebook. A highlighted section shows that it requires a bit of honeycomb and jade dust worth at least 10,000 Neopoints. A comment says, "Can we please try a little harder than just slapping D&D spells, complete with their 5e material components, straight into Neopets? The bulk of this Powers section is ripped directly from 5e and it feels bad."
Screencap of "Dimensional Leap" spell from the Neopots TTRPG beta rulebook; it requires a "metal rod attuned to a particular plane of existence worth at least 250,000 Neopoints." A comment points out, "Taking your spells straight from D&D 5e leads to things like this - Neopets does not have other planes!"
Table with a simple breakdown of PbtA results: 2-6 as failure, 7-9 as success, 10+ as great success, with a third column showing mechanical results for each
Photo of an Altoids tin with tiny D&D dice and a pencil, and four tiny gamebooks that will fit inside it, and a tiny deck of cards.
Bar graph results of a D&D character class test, showing 95% cleric, 90% monk, 90% wizard, and 80% paladin as the highest scores. Others are 70% rogue, 65% warlock, 60% druid, 55% ranger, 50% fighter, 40% barbarian, 30% bard, and 20% sorcerer.
Tweet from David Burr Gerard on June 8, 2020: Future historians will be asked which quarter of 2020 they majored in.
Trump standing in front of an array of microphones at roughly waist height. He has one hand raised, and is leaning forward in the classic "lewy lean" pose.
Tweet from cancela lansurby (@ gossipbabies) saying, Working at any office is like "Ok we're transitioning to Salarya, but payroll is still in Bullforg—did you see my Noosecock post? Submit your timecard on Fireplayce then jizz me on Smackdog. Do NOT upload to Crackerz without Yammer approval."
Trade offer meme, with "I receive: Moneys; you receive: Cool Stuff" and bottom text "We trade, yes?"
Screen cap of article title: File Not Found, with subtitle, A generation that grew up with Google is forcing professors to rethink their lesson plans. By Monica Chin, illustrations by Micha Huigen September 22, 2021 5 am PDT Tags: Tech, Report, Laptops
Image of a parking lot and street, with outlines around the entrance to a Target and a bus stop - all the way across a very large parking lot, more than a block's walking distance.
Search for the words "proship DNI" on the People tab - the results are empty and it says "No results found for proship dni"
Screencap of text says, "Options I've been thinking of: Heir's sister/cousin - someone with a vested interest in seeing him succeed, in addition to presumably" - at this point, the text changes to light grey, indicating Gmail's suggestion: "having vested interest in seeing him succeed, in addition to presumably having vested interest in seeing him succeed."
Tweet from Sally Claire (@klujypop) My fave tutor at uni had a great journalism 101 lesson: If someone says it's raining & another person says it's dry, it's not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out the f**king window and find out which is true. 8:36 pm 14 july 2018
Screenshot of a tweet by Michel Migurksi "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in nay place or time" —Frank Wilhoit
Screencap of part of the download page for He Fucked the Girl Out of Me, showing the Gameboy Rom version, the Web Gold version, and the HFTGOOM BONUS PACK, but below it is just the share-and-follow links.
Screencap of an AO3 search, showing there are 384,084 Works in the Original Work tag.
Tweet from @babadookspinoza, Jan 17 2021: The Fight for 15 has been going on so long that $15/hour is no longer a living wage anywhere in the US.
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Screenshot of a chat with tech support at Adobe: User: So - Adobe itself provides no direct tech support for Adobe Digital Editions? Reply: I do completely understand your concern however we do not have direct support for Adobe Digital Editions.
Tweet from jasonlk taking about replit AI: The unit tests were what was going to save my sanity. I can’t spend 2-4 hours a day doing only functional QA myself, every day. I need the unit tests and scripts to test: - Dashboards work - Data properly called - Internal APIs functioning - Email functioning (it breaks a lot) - External APIs functioning - Database functioning - Algo functioning - Background processing functioning - Etc. I literally cannot do some of this at all myself. Even the parts I can do, it takes forever to test it all. I have no answer. Jul 19, 2025
Two photos of Trump, both showing him leaning forward from the waist in a setting where standing straight would be appropriate.
Tweet from Sally Claire (@Klujypop at twitter, July 14 2018): My fave tutor at uni had a great journalism 101 lesson: "If someone says it's raining & another person says it's dry, it's not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out of the f**king window and find out which is true."
Hawk, a good-looking man in cheap fantasy movie clothes, is removing his armored vest because Voltan, a robed man wearing a steel helmet, is behind him with a sword. His shirt rides up over his leather pants, showing his midriff.
Newspaper clipping with a headline that reads, "I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so I can do laundry and dishes." It has a photo of a dark-haired woman with glasses, and below the headline it says, "Author and videogame enthusiast Joanna Maciejewska nails it (although bathroom cleaning goes ahead of laundry and dishes)"
Excerpt from article, with some highlighting: These divisions are sometimes changed during the game, for instance the game master role might move from participant to another, or some participant might be given the decisive defining power within certain areas or events of the game. Player-participants are also often given more power than declared in rule three.
Screenshot of a tweet by Michel Migurksi "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in nay place or time" —Frank Wilhoit
Screencap of a blog post: I say “finish the process,” because we are already most of the way there. What distinguishes the Third World from the privileged industrial minority of the world’s nations? Third World nations import most of their manufactured goods from abroad, while exporting mostly raw materials; that’s been true of the United States for decades now. Third World economies have inadequate domestic capital, and are dependent on loans from abroad; that’s been true of the United States for just about as long. Third World societies are economically burdened by severe problems with public health; the United States ranks dead last for life expectancy among industrial nations, and its rates of infant mortality are on a par with those in Indonesia, so that’s covered. Third World nation are very often governed by kleptocracies – well, let’s not even go there, shall we?
Tweet from A.R. Moxon, showing a user picture of Groucho Marx: Meet me in the middle, says the unjust man. You take a step toward him. He takes a step back. Meet me in the middle, says the unjust man.
Screencap of a Tumblr post from thedoubteriswise: nothing funnier to me than when Al does math wrong. like I get why it happens, it's a language model that's treating the numbers you feed it as words rather than integers and then giving you an answer based on how those words typically appear in a block of text instead of actually performing a calculation. but the one thing computers are genuinely incredible at. you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did, look at it it's got hallucinations
a 3x3 grid showing characters from the defunct MMO Glitch: A crab with headphones, the Scion of Purple, a smuggler near a portal, the ghost of Gwendolyn, the Hell Bar bartender, the yoga frog meditating with eyes closed, a mushroom-shaped street vendor from the Ilmenskie mines area, Rube carrying his box of trade goods, and the spirit of Esquibeth on her quest.
Screenshot of folders on a computer: Genre-Fantasy, Genre-Horror, Genre-ModernAU, Genre-Mystery-Spy, Genre-Other-Multi, Genre-PostApoc, Genre-SciFi, Genre-Solo, Genre-Superhero, Genre-Weird
Screencap of tumblr post - drarry saying: someone messaged me to let me know that Hannibal and Will's age gap was problematic and I was just sitting there like… Really… that's your first and most pressing issue with Hannigram, Really response by wtfannibal: they're cannibals, susan
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Bloom County comic: Meet Deathtöngue, showing "Wild" Bill Catt, Singer/Lead Tongue; Hodge-Podge, Drums; Opus Croakus, Rhythm Tuba, and Steve Dallas, Songwriter/Manager.