So I went to Disney about a month ago and i got to meet aurora. she asked me and my mom if there were any “princes’” with us today. When I told her that I leaned more toward princesses she looked over at Cinderella sighed and replied with “yeah me too” and I think about that a lot.
new rule: you get to change your name whenever you want, for free, and any documentation with your dead name on it instantly changes to match
the catch? you have to let a baby or toddler choose your new name for you.
question do i get ANY INPUT AT ALL, at least in the form of interviewing babies to figure out what baby would be the best namer? i at least want to get a “RAINBOW FAIRY PRINCESS!!!” or “purple” baby and not a “FARTS!!” baby
There is a jury of a dozen or so babies who get called for Naming Duty and the shitty boring babies get excused, while the remaining babies get to brainstorm and veto their way through a series of names until you are left with three to five good options choose from.
If you can’t choose between the finalists, there is a (randomly appointed) Grand Vizier Baby who will choose for you.
Something I find incredibly cool is that they’ve found neandertal bone tools made from polished rib bones, and they couldn’t figure out what they were for for the life of them.
“Wait you’re still using the exact same fucking thing 50,000 years later???”
“Well, yeah. We’ve tried other things. Metal scratches up and damages the hide. Wood splinters and wears out. Bone lasts forever and gives the best polish. There are new, cheaper plastic ones, but they crack and break after a couple years. A bone polisher is nearly indestructible, and only gets better with age. The more you use a bone polisher the better it works.”
It’s just.
50,000 years. 50,000. And over that huge arc of time, we’ve been quietly using the exact same thing, unchanged, because we simply haven’t found anything better to do the job.
i also like that this is a “ask craftspeople” thing, it reminds me of when art historians were all “the fuck” about someone’s ear “deformity” in a portrait and couldn’t work out what the symbolism was until someone who’d also worked as a piercer was like “uhm, he’s fucked up a piercing there”. interdisciplinary shit also needs to include non-academic approaches because crafts & trades people know shit ok
One of my professors often tells us about a time he, as and Egyptian Archaeologist, came down upon a ring of bricks one brick high. In the middle of a house. He and his fellow researchers could not fpr the life of them figure out what tf it could possibly have been for. Until he decided to as a laborer, who doesnt even speak English, what it was. The guy gestures for my prof to follow him, and shows him the same ring of bricks in a nearby modern house. Said ring is filled with baby chicks, while momma hen is out in the yard having a snack. The chicks can’t get over the single brick, but mom can step right over. Over 2000 years and their still corraling chicks with brick circles. If it aint broke, dont fix it and always ask the locals.
Some of the new items from my fave D&D NPC’s refurbished Slightly-Cursed Items Shop, in which she sells my players items ranging from effectively useless to legitimately deadly – but always entertaining. Feel free to use these tragedies!
UH SCUSE an first of these things sound EXTREMLY ROOD
It’s been pointed out many times that by doing this, he would be trolling his own team.
When a McCree on your own team uses Dead Eye, he says “Step right up”. You only hear the “It’s high noon” from an enemy McCree. But only his team can hear his voice chat.
he also says the wrong time like “It’s 9:45″ in McCree’s voice
The Chaos Bitches 