hurting ur friend with a really sad headcanon like 

[Image ID: A sad face made out of a colon and parentheses correcting to a smirky face in grey predictive text off of the sad face’s parentheses. /End ID]

Mod Remi is off to Hacker Summer Camp*

What this means

If you (or someone you know) is going to be at BSidesLV or DEFCON34, hit the readmore and learn how to acquire swag!

*The OTW is not tabling at these conferences - it is just Mod Remi and their bag full of stickers and badge ribbons.

<3 Mod Remi

DAY 1 OF HACKER SUMMER CAMP!

Here are my accessories! I will be wearing these for BSidesLV AND for DEFCON34 (but I'll make another announcement when defcon starts)

Mod Remi REVEALED.

Find me at DEFCON today and get some OTW stickers! (I will likely be running around but usually return to the second floor on the left side)

Fanwork Friday: Dagon (fanzine)

Happy Fanwork Friday! We’re spotlighting the award-winning fanzine Dagon, which centered around the Cthulhu Mythos and Call of Cthulhu RPG, then broadened its scope to include other H.P. Lovecraft and weird fiction works. Over its seven-year run through the 1980s, it enjoyed contributions from several notable horror writers and Lovecraftian scholars.

According to creator Carl Ford, the first issue was made for friends, with ten copies printed in total. By the zine’s final issue, that number had grown to around 500. Regular columns included Mythos fiction recommendations, writings by Call of Cthulhu designer Sandy Peterson, and reader-suggested improvements for the RPG.

Have you read Dagon? Were you there for its run? We’d love to hear about it on Fanlore!

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[ID: A Project Hail Mary illustration. The artwork consists of a 5x7 grid, with smaller illustrations inside the squares. The smaller illustrations include: the xenonite Tau Ceti system; the Hail Mary drawn across three blocks; Grace’s bicycle helmet; Adrian’s green auroras; the Blip-C capsule; the crocheted Earth; the small xenonite figure; Rocky drawn across three blocks; the Petrova Line; the rainbow from Grace’s blanket; the shoreline on Erid; the Taumoeba collector; the green Skittles pack; and Astrophage as seen through a microscope. The squares differ in background colors. There are “empty” squares that reveal Grace on a red-orange background from beneath the small illustrations, only his side profile visible. He’s smiling softly. The overall artwork has an off-white background. The text above the grid reads “PROJECT HAIL MARY” and the text below it reads “LIFE IS REASON.” There are stars at each corner of the artwork. END ID]

Protip you can do this with writing too

[Image description: a two-panel comic titled “My Art Evolution”. In the first panel, labeled “Past”, a beelike person frowns at a drawing of a happy sun and says “Oh no. It isn’t perfect no one can ever see this”. In the right panel, labeled “Present”, the person holds up the same drawing, and with a sly jokester expression (which includes a nose), says “He he. Who wants to see my new eye crime”. /End description.]

Do you ever lie awake wondering how the heck Gimli knows what a nervous system is

Clearly dwarves have medical knowledge far more advanced than that of the other races.

His Majesty Dr. Gimli, son of Gloin, Neurosurgeon, M.D.

gimli trying to explain his studies to legolas, a flat-earther

#*scroll down* #*remember that middle earth is canonically flat for elves and round for everyone else* #*scroll back up & smash that reblog button"

tired: legolas took gimli to valinor with him because they were bffs/in love/etc. 

wired: legolas took gimli to valinor to prove the world was flat after arguing with him about it for decades

Sorry it’s what to elves

So, in Tolkein lore, the world was originally flat, with most of the land in the middle (hence Middle Earth).  But the Numenorians (men who were rewarded with their own Atlantis-equivalent island for service in the first big war against Melkor, but eventually Power Corrupts etc) tried to invade the uttermost west which was basically Elf Heaven.  To put an end to that sort of thing, the creator of the world Bent The World and made it a sphere…but left elves able to treat it like a flat disk.  So elves can sail west and reach Elf Heaven, but a man or dwarf or hobbit who sails west will eventually wrap around to the east coast of Middle Earth.

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repeating this to myself forever and ever

[image description: cartoon of a person crying in front of a laptop. There's an arrow pointing to the laptop that says "empty word doc) and another arrow pointing to the tears saying "author tears." The main text says "Just write it down! You can make it good later." end id.]

what exists beyond?

Your friend’s unpublished fic idea is kind of a dead wife

i also want to read this guy’s dead wife

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forever thinking about those posts from japanese 4chan equivalent where everybody was having mealt downs about the cut pokemon, but there was this one guy saying “mr. basculin made it!” and this other replying with “y tho”

why is this so funny!!! is it the “[Good news]”, the implications that all other pokemon are extinct now, OP referring to basculin with a very polite “san” or the other guy feeling like basculin doesnt even deserve to live

[ID: A screenshot of the forum post op was talking about in the initial post. The image is low res and depicts Japanese text (translation: [Good news] Mr. Basculin, is still alive.) followed by an image of the two variants of Basculin and a response below that also in Japanese (translation: y tho). end ID]

I loooove ominously giggling when I'm getting my friends into smth new. They ask me a spoilery question and I get to do this