Yup! The Botany of Desire. Good read.

Focuses on how apples, potatoes, tulips, and cannabis have all been vastly successful at being spread by humans because we find them useful.

Strands #121 “Heat and eat” 🔵🔵🔵🟡 🔵🔵🔵🔵

I was not getting this one until I finally randomly got one of the words. If it had times or told you how many words you guessed, this would be one or my worse showings.

Wordle 1,097 4/6*

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I know, I was just making a joke. I like my animals being a little wild, but that’s how I train mine. I like when they climb onto my shoulders.

Where’s the fun in that?!

Someone else on here - might’ve been you - turned me on to them and now I’ve been alternating between Pinon and Chocolate Pinon. So tasty!

I appreciate you trying to attribute the artist. That’s a good instinct to have, glad to see it in practice!

Assuming a D&D 5e game, I load Kobold Fight Club and click until I find monsters I can build a little story around.

A while back (including enemies from Tome of Beasts) I got Spawn of Akyishigal and Giant Ants, and after a few overland battles they found a beleaguered anthill.

By the next session I had my dungeon made and some lore surrounding it.

The giant anthill had carved its way into an ancient tomb of an orcish warlord who had managed to seal the Demon Lord of Cockroaches with her in an attempt at everlasting life. The actions the players take can result in her rising as a Mummy Lord or in Akyishigal being freed.

All from going “Hey, these enemies work well together.”

Here’s a link to it:

The Mirrored Tomb of Yeskarra

My fighter against an assassin who we suspected killed an NPC in the first session.

We are down in the mud, grappling. I fumbled my sword and he got me good (crit), leaving me quite vulnerable. The other party members were nearby but not in range.

I pulled out a dagger and got a crit of my own, ending his life with less than 5 hp left of my own.

Later that night I realized that dagger I’d killed him with was looted from the NPC’s pack. I’d gotten revenge on her behalf, using her own knife against her murderer.

I took the opposite tack.

You ain’t shit, Pythagoras! You just wrote it down, you didn’t figure it out, you absolute fucking fraud. We’re taking your immortality back!

Some few years ago I had my cat Miles Morales outside and he got spooked by one of our dogs who he knows and trusts.

He fled up a tree in the yard and immediately started panicking and howling.

I positioned myself under him and called out and he slowly began climbing down until I could grab him.

Guess he hasn’t been bit by a spider yet.

My RPG heyday was in and after high school, so 90-94. 1st or 2nd edition.

Add to that injury rules.

Oh, you’ve been shot? It’s going to be nearly impossible to cast a spell or fight back. Maybe realistic but the number of characters I spent multiple hours making only to be wounded within moments of play was… greater than two.

It has been a few decades.

Damnit, now that song is stuck in my head!

All our sci-fi series depict bipedal creatures all over the place.

The rest of the universe just isn’t represented, man. Make more crab fiction and the aliens will visit!

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Like I said, see the vet.

I want that cat to be healthy and seen by a vet but also the owner to be informed and not worry about neighborhood assholes when it might be a bite.

Just see the vet, they’ll examine the wounds and tell you what’s going on.

My wife could be wrong, we have a couple of pics and nothing internal.

BB guns don’t go all the way through. She also knows that from personal experience.

But the abcesses bursting also means the infection has passed and the wounds should heal.

My vet tech wife thinks it abcesses from an older dog bite. She believes there would be more damage from a gunshot.

But an abcess would be a round, symmetrical wound and if it was from a bite it explains why there would be another on the other side. There should also be scabs next to the abcesses from the other two canine teeth.