Alternative cursed monarchies for your fantasy RPG settings:
In an effort to transform the kingship into a pure meritocracy, a mighty enchantment was wrought to ensure that only the most skilled citizen of the kingdom could wield the power of rulership. Being somewhat absent-minded, the wizard in question neglected to specify most skilled at what, so past monarchs have included the kingdom’s best baker, the kingdom’s best shoemaker, and the kingdom’s best mom; how the spell judges comparative excellence at completely unrelated skill sets is as yet poorly understood.
A century ago the king jokingly designated his favourite housecat as his heir, and was promptly killed in a hunting accident before he could rescind the order. Unfortunately, the king ruled by Divine Right, which actually passed to the cat, and thereafter to the cat’s descendants. Efforts to teach the current monarch to designate a human heir have failed because, well, it’s just a cat, albeit a cat whose commands – insofar as its human attendants are able to understand them – are divine law.
The throne is enspelled so that the current monarch is obliged to rule with compassion and justice, with even the slightest impropriety resulting in unbearable suffering. The royal succession is carried out primarily by means of tricking foreign visitors who don’t know about the curse into accepting the crown – whereupon the newly-ex-monarch promptly runs away before they can change their mind!
if you find bones in the forest, sit a bit and listen. they are old and have some good stories to tell. maybe they’ll teach you a spell or two, or explain where the water on our planet came from.
if you find bones by the ocean, run. don’t look back. run, faster, faster. the sea may love you but there are nights where she knows neither mercy nor science, and the bones warn you only once.
boi if you find bones call the police i hate this website so much
That’s what you do for HUMAN bones. Don’t go calling the police over deer bones or something.
I got in trouble for wearing a wig to work today because it wasn’t convincing enough and my boss said its fluffiness would be a distraction.
I took it off, but because I didn’t style my hair with gel this morning, it was full-on “Eraserhead meets Flock of Seagulls” and I received many judgmental stares.
I’m not sure if I’m happy or disappointed you didn’t include photos.
Yeah, the actual hair is a lot more interesting than the wig.
The Indian kangaroo lizard is a species of lizard in the family Agamidae. The species is endemic to southern India. From snout to vent O. beddomii is about 4.4 cm long with a tail of about 7.6 cm. The preferred habitat of O. beddomii
is moist leaf litter on the forest floor of both evergreen and
deciduous forests, but it may also climb onto low tree trunks and
shrubs. The common name, Indian kangaroo lizard, is derived from the lizard’s
habit of running on its hind legs with the body held upright.
i went diving a few days ago and encountered some good boys ™ that i knew you would appreciate. both of the green morays were like 6 feet long and very angery, but the spotted moray was more shy – @rrecollection
Look at those beautiful boys™ !! I’m so jealous! I would love to go diving!
I love the face on the spotted guy he’s like “HhhMmmMMmmmmm… 8/ ?”
Morays are awesome fish. They aren’t aggressive fish, not really, they won’t go at you unless you get close to them and threaten their space. If you watch ‘em from a distance, they don’t mind you.
Anybody wanna hear about my already-here Cybertronian OC who I’ve recently learned is an almost-priest of his own accidental sorta-religion?
Alternately, you wanna hear about Hijack, a newbie OC who’s spent most of the war being chucked at people so he can grab onto and control them?
Hi recently went fishing in my area and these where some of the fish I caught. All the fish returned to the pond safe. – @chi-zilla4470s
Those are some nice looking boys! I love the blue color on the first one!
The first looks like a longear sunfish. Great wet pets, they don’t get much larger than that and are very smart fish with nice colors. They adapt best to captivity if caught as tiny fry, though. The second, I’d say maybe bluegill. The catfish are probably bullheads.
In the future, consider not photographing fish while they’re hanging from the hook, it causes more distress and damage. Bringing a shallow container to put water in is also a good idea, you can hold fish sideways in the water to get pics while they can still breathe, and it reduces damage to their slime coat. Dry surfaces rub off the protective slime coat and increase the chance of parasites or diseases getting ahold. Kudos for catch-and-release, though!
though looking at the comments the folks who live in the red part think this is why the electoral college has got to stay. because they like getting 3.5 votes per capita.
Tyranny of the few is a pretty sweet deal if you belong to the few.
“Why should the coast’s vote count more?” BECAUSE THAT’S WHERE THE PEOPLE ARE AND THIS IS SUPPOSEDLY A DEMOCRACY.
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