D&D advice:

Always make sure someone in your party has
- Speak with animals
- Speak with plants
- Speak with the dead

That way your DM gets to voice SOOO many more NPCs than they planned on! Trust me they love this. Don't even ask their permission to take these spells. Just do it. The less preparation they have the better.

“The big question is whether there is a significant revolt from within the author class after the settlement terms are unveiled”
https://web.archive.org/web/20250828033741/https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-settles-copyright-lawsuit-authors/

I think there will be a lot of unhappy authors(indie,trad) whose books aren't copyright registered.

I suspect the quick settlement came when Anthropic figured out how few authors in the pirated database were copyright registered.

#WordWeavers 28: Do you create unique character names, or use "real world" names?

My WIPs are set in an alternate world in the multiverse partly so I don't need to completely invent the planetary geography and thousands of years of literary refs.
They had AN Alexander and A Chinggis. Their Augustus may not have been originally Octavian, and possibly not a Julius. Etc. They had a Karl the Great who was not quite our Charlemagne.

In the story timeline I use name components from our world 1/n

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Egal wie alt du bist.
Eine frisch vom Baum gefallene,
braun glänzende Kastanie,
die du findest,
ist ein kleiner Schatz.

Habt einen schönen Abend, ihr Lieben, 🧡
wo immer auf dieser Welt ihr gerade seid,
und später eine behütete Nacht mit Nähe, Wärme, Liebe
und wundervollen Träumen! ✨

#Abend #guteNacht #Kastanie #Liebe

Perhaps it's time to tap the chart again. Left-handed people were once seen as sinister (the word sinister, from Latin, originally meant "left" or "on the left side") so kids were forced to be right-handed. However, with advances in science it became clear that brains were hard-wired for handedness, and society began to accept it as normal. The number of left-handers rose dramatically, but plateaued at 12% in the 60s and has stayed steady since.

This is a post about trans and non-binary people.