Realm Tales

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna

About the Author

This is just a simple post about me and some boundaries of mine

Author Info
-I go by Wyrm or Aster
-Pronouns are They/Them
-I am 17 years old, do keep that in mind when interacting
-Any art I post, unless otherwise stated, is mine!

Boundaries/Rules/Guidelines
-If there is something that I should have tagged better in my posts or information that I have gotten wrong, please just let me know and I will fix it
-You are free to headcanon characters however you want as long as these headcanons cause no harm
-My inbox is open for story related questions and corrections
-Please keep sexual asks out of my inbox, it makes me uncomfortable.
-While you may ask personal questions, I will be a lot less likely to answer them
-If you make any fan works, please TAG ME! I would love to see them!

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silly-goofy-mood
raiasintended

hey, can we talk for a second? it’s about your girlfriend. yeah, she’s great. no, yeah, I agree. It’s just that… she seems really devoted to you? Like really devoted. Almost as if you were the sole, fragile line mooring her to the shores of humanity. No, that’s not romant—ugh. Listen. Me and the girls, we’re worried you might be the last good thing to happen to her and that were some tragedy to inevitably befall you, she would tear the gods from their thrones and dye the infinite western seas wine-dark with their ichor. Do you think you could introduce her to a new hobby or something? we don’t want to have to argue over what color “wine-dark” is supposed to be

landofquestsandtales
imsobadatnicknames2

The fact that there’s an actually functional website for the library of Babel is one of those things that fucks me up more and more the more I think about the implications.

imsobadatnicknames2

So, if anyone hasn’t encountered the concept of the library of Babel, the idea comes from a story of the same name by Jorge Luis Borges, which is set inside a seemingly infinite library which contains every possible combination of letters, periods, commas and spaces that fits within 410 pages.

So like… It isn’t THAT out there that someone was able to make a digital version of it. Making an algorithm that randomly generates every possible combination of those 29 characters within that space and making a website that lets you explore those combinations are things that are pretty squarely within the scope of things you’d expect someone to be able to make a computer do.

But it begins to get pretty out there when you start thinking about all the things that are technically contained there (and that someone randomly browsing it could THEORETICALLY stumble upon) just by virtue of being one of those possible combinations of letters, spaces, commas, and periods.

Somewhere in that website there IS a book that specifically mentions me by full name before giving an accurate, excruciatingly detailed, 410-page long physical description of me. There’ also many more books that SEEM to be that but are actually factually inaccurate. There’s also versions of all of those containing every possible combination of every possible typo, spelling mistake, and grammatical error.

Somewhere in that website there IS a book that’s a perfectly accurate prediction of how and when I will die narrated in third person over the course of 410 pages. There’s also a book that contains the exact same events narrated in first person. Not only for me, but for every person in the world. There are many more that claim to be that but are actually inaccurate.

Somewhere in that website there IS a book that’s completely blank except for the world’s funniest dick joke written right at the end of the very last page.

But chances are no one browsing that website is EVER going to see any of that because for every book we would consider useful, interesting, or even intelligible there are millions upon millions upon millions more that are just completely full of gibberish from cover to cover.

imsobadatnicknames2

Every single thing I will ever write (barring punctuation marks that arent periods or commas and the letter ñ) is already contained somewhere on that website.

sevengummisharks

I have a volume from the Library of Babel! it’s one of my most treasured books.


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on the second to last page, about halfway down it reads “OH TIME THY PYRAMIDS” a singular grain of order in the sea of chaos.

The library of babel contains every book to ever exist and moreover it contains all information that can be encoded in a finite string of characters from its alphabet.

I cannot overstate how much I love the Library of Babel. it’s wonderful, it is my heart and soul.

fipindustries

at last we created the perplexing nexus, from the novel “wouldnt it be weird if there was a perplexing nexus?”

wall-e-gorl
kragehund-est

werewolf transformations and magical girl transformations swapped

kragehund-est

"s-stay back! the change... i can't control it!" *horrifying transformation sequence of bones cracking and flesh rearranging, hair growing out, ribbons and flashy jewelry bursting forth from skin, screaming in agony*

alternatively,

"In the name of the moon, I'll punish you!" *lifted up in a rainbow beam of glittering magic. each part of the body bathed in dazzling light before revealing sharp glistening claws, long fangs, and a dark shaggy coat.*

silly-goofy-mood
podcastwizard

dnd jokes that will always be funny no matter what your dm tells you

  • "jesus christ" "who's that"
  • "this is just like (tv show/movie)" "that's my favorite play"
  • referring to famous musicians or actors from the real world as "bards"
  • adding the word "fantasy" in front of modern things (i pull out my Fantasy iPhone and open Fantasy Tinder)
  • "how hurt are you" "on a scale of one to twenty-eight i'd say i'm at about a nine."

feel free to add more

brainrotdotorg

“Why do you wear that one hat all the time?” “It makes me feel about +2 more dexterous somehow”

Subsection of adding “fantasy” in front of modern things: Referring to something or someone from real life as Elven, Dwarven, Orcish, etc. In origin. Ex: “Did you know David Bowie was actually fae?”

turquoisemagpie

“I don’t know why, but I get the really intense feeling that if we just slept for, idk, 8 hours or so - or even just sat down and relaxed for 2 or 3 hours, we’d all feel a lot better and more prepared to deal with the rest of today’s bullshit.”