Altastrofae

Just conducted my first Session 0 as a DM for a D&D 5e campaign. And it went well. One player left in the middle because I’m doing a high stakes risk/reward type of crunch for my game and he was looking for something casual. Like death is a real threat but anything deadly my players will know they’re taking that risk going in, and can run away from a fight if it’s looking bad for them. But that wasn’t the game he was fixing to play so I only have 4 players now which is fine. 

Hopefully my players have fun.

Rewatching Season 5 Episode 14 “Canterlot Boutique” and I realized something weird about how the conflict of the plot is depicted 

When Rarity makes the change to the dress, Sassy Saddles says the problem is that “they all have to be the same” but the problem when Rarity tries to give it to the client is that she ordered something completely different. So even Sassy doesn’t get the problem.

If Rarity instead took charge of her own damn business, and released that dress as “Princess Dress Deluxe” or “Princess Dress Aurora” or something similar, it would’ve done great because the people who want it would be buying it and not just having it thrown in when they ordered the original. 

Sassy is an asshole here still but that was a dumb decision or Rarity’s part from a customer service perspective.

I hope this ruined your day

My week has not been great, and my morning has been awful for the second day in a row 

but I’m fine, yeah totally. It’s cool. People just love being assholes 

Cursed thought, and any of you who play... really any ttrpg will probably hate what I'm about to describe. For this reason I am spoilering it, and warning you all as this is kinda body-horror-y.

If i was GMing a horror setting I would 100% use this without telling my players. I don't think I'd do it to a player, but I would have it be part of an encounter or a story element.

Dude, my past self was so cringe. Seriously wtf was wrong with me back then? Something was up with my head, and I cannot tell you what it was. Probably just teenage hormonal shite.

I'm about to go to bed, but tomorrow (technically today because it's past midnight) is my birthday, and I'm participating in Session 0 of a D&D campaign with some friends. I have put together my first ever druid, and I have packed so much flavor into this character. She's a variant Centaur I homebrewed, where the horse half is a deer half, and she smaller and weaker like deer (ran it by our DM, she said it's fine, and this is the only part I homebrewed) and reflavoring the star aspects of Circle of the Stars to be not about stars but still much more about the traditional nature stuff. I'm super excited to play her, I wrote a whole damn backstory and everything. Gonna be fun day tomorrow.

Was reading my old posts on here
And realized that while I seemed happier in some ways, I was also very cringe
idk if that's just blissful innocence or if I just got more sad over the years

But maybe I should be more outgoing like this past me was. That's one thing that me got right anyways. Just be less weird this time lmao
 

Passive-Aggressive Solution to People You Hate: Part One
Put a few hand warmers under someone's pillow but still inside of the case
So when they go to flip the pillow onto the cool side
IT WILL STILL BE WARM

My business is now official, it shouldn't be too long before I can start marketing, and getting my first clients
I need to do a few things first but that shouldn't take more than a few days

Update, I'm in the process of establishing a proper divination business
Next Wednesday I'll be having a business advisor I've been talking to walk me through establishing my business name as an LLC (Limited-Liability Company, for those not living in the US, apparently it's exclusive to this country as a business model)

The LLC registration comes with a fee of $99, but that is fine since I should at least make that much back in sales and then some
I could be a sole proprietor and that has no fee, but then, because the business would be registered with my Social Security number, that means I have no liability protections, and my personal assets would be at risk in the case of a lawsuit or an audit, and we don't want that, so the LLC has alot of advantages, and I believe it even has some tax exemptions, so thats cool

I do have a name for my business picked out, its subject to change until Wednesday but I will not say it here just yet, but I do really like the name, and it will probably be sticking around

And as for reading in house at that store I mentioned, I have no been contacted because of complications the owner of the store had, I don't know when they'll be contacting me now, so that is put on hold. That's fine though, that just gives me more time to focus on my personal business

I might be getting a gig as a card reader at a local metaphysical shop nearby, I got in touch with the owner and they're gonna hit me up in a few weeks! Very excited! 

Firstly


Seconly, I have a niche Norse Mythology Meme to share randomly

Behold, social commentary on the American education system, while simultaneously being an educational resource
Is bootiful

After the sun comes up, I'm going to be doing something I have never done before
The sun is not up in my part of the world just yet, but I want to do it during daylight

I don't talk about my interest in the occult here often, but I am going to be putting together a money bowl, and a money bowl is a bowl that you set up in order to get more money. You might throw in some crystals, herbs, write a petition throw that in there, whatever. I have quite a few crystals that are good for this, and I figured why not. I've never done any kind of money spell, and considering I do not have a job, I wonder just how effective it would be. 

Not putting a whole lot of thought into timing. Its a waxing gibbeous right now, I would have preferred a crescent but I'm a few days late on that. However, as of last night, the moon is in Aries, so that is a good aspect for what I'm doing. I have aventurine and tigers eye I will be throwing in. I will probably write a petition. Throw all that in a bowl, with some cash, a few coins, and see where that gets me. I'll probably be small like... I want my money doubled in two weeks. Yeah, I want double what I put in that bowl to be whats left in that bowl after two weeks

I forgot to mention that, confirmed yesterday, I officially have contracted the virus

That sounds like I enjoy it, let me say it is not fun

Also, its kinda weird this was compared to the flu, this definitely feels different from a flu. 
Right now I'm not feeling many of the symptoms, sometimes its alot worse
Just a small headache and sore throat now

But it has been as much as like chest pain, really bad coughs, really bad headaches, stuffy nose
That sounds like a flu listing it off, but actually having it does not feel like a flu. Like when I have the flu I feel like throwing up, and chest pains are never part of that equation. And conjestion hasn't really been an issue
Maybe thats just my case, and other people experience something closer to a flu, but for me, definitely feels like a completely different thing

But yeah now I'm in quarantine until the 18th
I don't have a job so thats not too big a deal, but still worth mentioning

Lelouch from Code Geass:
   [ moves his king as soon as he can in chess game ]
   " If the king doesn't lead, how can he expect his subordinates to follow? "
   [ somehow wins that game ]

Every Chess Grandmaster Ever:
   " That... that's not how this works. Thats not how any of this works. "

Considering updating my old Ponysona


Very androgynous regardless but I feel my sona is due to be updated to a mare. Might put something in Requestria later

I just bought Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind in 2021
Mostly because I've never played it and alot of people think its one of the best elder scrolls games
I also read about what the game is like, and I love the sound of alot of the differences, and have a feeling I'll enjoy it more than Skyrim

Me when crystals

Hey look at my dope head shelf, very aesthetic 

I have not been keeping up with the MLP Fandom
Can someone explain to me why and how people are managing to take a political stance on A New Generation?
No spoilers, I haven't seen it yet
But thats also why I have no context for how My Little Pony can possibly be political

"What is better? To be born good, or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?" 
- Paarthurnax, Skyrim

I want to dissect this because it's one of those things that sounds wise on a surface level, but there's more to it than that.
So the first thing I want to touch on is "evil nature"
This is a subjective statement. One could best define evil in this context as either
A ) anything the individual sees as a fault within themselves
OR
B ) anything that can be objectively argued as harmful to the people and world around you

With that in mind, let us apply this to the "overcome" portion
How does one overcome these things. Suppression isn't healthy, we know this. That's one way of overcoming.
And we know Paarthurnax is doing exactly this, because in another line he says that he constantly suppresses his instinct.

Now Paarthurnax does this because he believes in peace, and other dragons believe in conquest, to destroy in order to gain power, and to ultimately serve the strongest Dovah, in this case, Alduin, who wants to literally destroy the world, his name even means "World Eater"
So this falls under B, it can be objectively argued as harmful for him to act on these instincts

So now we are left with a moral dilemma.
Is Paarthurnax right for suppressing this instinct, or is being born with this instinct indicative of dragons being inherently evil?
In the game you get an option to kill Paarthurnax, and at its core this is the moral dilemma you are presented with. Is a dragon worthy of death regardless of the effort applied to suppress his instinct?

This is why I love philosophy

So My Little Pony actually taught me something today
I watched "Apples to the Core" but from the Japanese dub of the show
And I noticed they don't call their family "Ringo" or Japanese for Apples
They say "Appuru"
And I was like "that's not the word they use though"
So I looked into it, and apparently its used only when its a proper noun, so because its a family name they say "Appuru" and that is also what they call Apple the tech company in Japanese

Which I suppose that makes sense, theres no reason to be translating a family name. I just... I expected it 
But I suppose thats just as silly as to expect Applejack to be called... Ringojakku, but she is also Appurujakku, just the same, because thats her name

Idk for some reason that just made me question my sanity for a moment and I thought it was interesting enough to share