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  • Because the idea of lawful/chaotic NOW draws from the dnd heritage, which has watered down the concepts to ‘follows laws’ and ‘breaks laws’ and sadly, most of these pictured assholes ‘follow’ the laws because their kind got to write the laws. Trump is basically the only exception, and is also basically the only one who is questionably a billionaire.





  • The biggest problem with d&d axes is that people try to pick an alignment and then have their character’s actions come from it (and the resulting frequently induced cross-table talk with the eye-rolling phrase “a lawful/neutral/chaotic good/neutral/evil character wouldn’t do that! You’re X/Y, so you wouldn’t do that!”).

    No real person has every action fall within one of the outlying boxes’ bounds. Actually ‘moving’ yourself from the neutral spot is (supposed to be) beyond most mortals.







  • Dehydration is a common cause for cats to be ‘ill’ and brought to the vet,* so it could be that their piss reeks because they are having to concentrate it so much in the first place.

    *source: a dimly remembered conversation with a vet friend when I asked her why she was adding water to the already wet food for her cat. She said her cat could never be encouraged to drink enough, so it was her way of staving off the annoyance of giving iv fluids to her own animal someday.





  • My mind somehow meshes the ideas from butcher’s dresden books, where your belief in an icon as a symbol of the faith matters more than its actual connection to the religion, and lackey’s high magic (compared to the wild magic) where the collective energy of the populace can be collected and stored to be used. So I end up with this idea where the catholic church has collected a vast amount of energy to be used, and the utterance of latin is the individual’s (in this case constantine’s) personal symbolic link to the catholic church to harness that energy.