Master of the Deck

@panmalazan

Audiobooks. Multishipper. Fat. Queer. Trash. Smashing characters together like Barbies since 2003. Forever crying about Rand al'Thor. Anti-harassment. Accessibility and Disability rights. ♿ She/her. 30s and falling apart. FUCK AI.

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Master of the Deck@panmalazan· 2d

it's fine. I'm fine.

A giant Jenga tower sits in the grass, balanced precariously many empty slots. The Jenga tower is "my emotional resilience".

A scared looking man is crouched next to the tower holding a bottle of beer, pulling out a brick near the bottom. The man is "dating in my thirties"

Master of the Deck@panmalazan· 11d

A star Trek TOS title page with view of a planet and the Enterprise in the background. Title text is "Two men dry humping on the burning sand"

Master of the Deck@panmalazan· Jun 22

Came here for the mini comments. Was not disappointed. Recent trip last week and there was so much room to spare. This was taken before we stopped at total wine 🤣

Picture of the back of a mini cooper hatchback with a couple suitcases and many bags of things packed in it. There is visibly much room to spare. The caption on the image says "GIRLS TRIP"

Master of the Deck@panmalazan· May 13

I cannot express how in love I am right now. These two silly boys have me by the throat and I was just so obsessed with the idea of tattooed Jamie, and I sent her a story and @wombywoo.bsky.social brought them to life. ♥️🥺☀️🌻 #RoyJamie #commission

Jamie Tartt and Roy Kent stand for the cameras on the red carpet. Roy is wearing his usual black on black on black suit with a shirt and tie, looking dapper as hell, while Jamie is wearing green trousers, white shirt with the sleeves rolled up, and unbuttoned all the way down his sternum. Jamie's open shirt shows off many tattoos on his chest and neck, along with fingers and arm. He has a sunflower right in the middle of his chest, for Roy. Roy is holding Jamie with a hand at the small of his back and looking at Jamie like he's the most beautiful thing he's ever seen, ridiculously in love with him. Jamie has his arm around Roy's back as well and is smiling and gesturing in the direction of the press, clearly proud of himself and his grumpy sunflower.

Master of the Deck@panmalazan· Apr 18

at 35, I too was not ready for diffusing to be the thing that turned my hair from "intellectually I know I've got curls" to "wait they actually do the ringlet thing??"

Closeup picture of my hair, which is black with not easily seen streaks of green, yellow-green, and yellow. It is down over my shoulders and goes about halfway down my chest and it is very curly! Lots of little ringlets and bouncy looking curlicues.

Master of the Deck@panmalazan· Mar 23

had to go back and read it again. the keg full of beer part lives rent free in my head 😂😭

Now when the angel greets Mary, he says: “Greetings to you, Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you.” Well up to this point, this has simply been translated from the simple Latin, but tell me is that good German? Since when does a German speak like that – being “full of grace”? One would have to think about a keg “full of” beer or a purse “full of” money. So I translated it: “You gracious one”. This way a German can at last think about what the angel meant by his greeting. Yet the papists rant about me corrupting the angelic greeting—and I still have not used the most satisfactory German translation. What if I had used the most satisfactory German and translated the salutation: “God says hello, Mary dear” (for that is what the angel was intending to say and what he would have said had he even been German!). If I had, I believe that they would have hanged themselves out of their great devotion to dear Mary and because I have destroyed the greeting.

Master of the Deck@panmalazan· Mar 12

cringe is so much cooler than apathy. I embrace people being excited about good things and supporting them in dorky ways

A brown and white cow stands in the ocean surf, looking content. The text says "I am cringe but I am free"

Master of the Deck@panmalazan· Feb 27

this lady sitting there like "fuck yeah get it girl"

A fat white woman wearing a pink one piece swimsuit sits in the water looking at a fish-man creature holding a skinny white woman who is holding a cigarette. The look on her face is less one of surprise and horror than it is "fuck yeah get it girl".

Master of the Deck@panmalazan· Feb 3

goblins are holding together the fabric of the universe at this point

a fluffy white cat sitting on my lap, point of view me. He has both paws stretched out in front of him, clearly in the midst of making biscuits on my belly, which is currently covered by my panda blanket hoodie.

Master of the Deck@panmalazan· Jan 3

fun story, Fat Squirrel is a very good beer here in Wisconsin. will think of this large fellow the next time I have some!

picture of a can of beer, large glass mug full of beer, and bottle of beer on a table outside on farmland. The labels say "New Glarus Brewing Co.", highlighting that it's employee owned, with the words Fat Squirrel curled over a sketch drawing of a brown squirrel eating an acorn.

Master of the Deck@panmalazan· Dec 27

the blank eyed stare of a killer

screenshot of a larger version of the main smiley face emoji. it has oddly brown hued round eyes that are like looking into the void at the center of a heartless universe

Master of the Deck@panmalazan· Dec 1

@gorskon.bsky.social fun story. I decided to do grad school, and that Makary & Daniel study is CITED IN MY POLICY TEXTBOOK in the section about healthcare quality for the "third leading cause of death" shtick. I thought this was sus, and found your article, among others, very helpful. Thank you.

Screenshot of textbook page. Text reads:

Medical Errors as a Public Health
Concern

Notwithstanding licensure laws and accreditation standards,
medical errors are bound to. and often do. occur. And while
medical errors are obviouslv not a new problem, framing the
issue as a public health problem is a relativelv new
phenomenon, and healthcare providers, public health
professionals, and policymakers have in recent years
committed increased attention to the problem of medica
errors.

The reqularity with which medical errors occur and the
resulting extent of adverse health outcomes and mortalities
indicate that the problem is not confined to one ethnic or
racial population, socioeconomic group, or geographical
aree9 One studv indicates that medical errors in hospitals
and other healthcare facilities may now be the third-leading
cause of death in the United States (Makarv & Daniel, 2016),
behind only heart disease and cancer. This prevalence
suggests that factors such as unskilled or poorly trained
doctors and poor communication svstems within facilities
contribute to more deaths annually than do respiratory
disease, accidents, strokes, Alzheimer disease, diabetes, flu
and pneumonia, kidney disease, and suicide, which round
out the top 11 causes of death (Makary & Daniel, 2016). ne

Master of the Deck@panmalazan· Nov 29

the link preview though "Backstabbing: An official website of the United States government"

an embedded preview of the linked article makes it look like the destination page says "Backstabbing: An official website of the United States government"

Master of the Deck@panmalazan· Nov 22

INTRUDER DETECTED

Master of the Deck@panmalazan· Nov 21

this one isn't showing off beans, but snoot

A white fluffy cat sits on a black cat tree that has become covered with white cat hair like moss. He is sitting with his front paws curled in close to his body and looking up so his pink nose points straight at the camera. There's a little notch in his ear, showing off his alley cat cred (he is not an alley cat, just a jerk).

Master of the Deck@panmalazan· Nov 21

roumd, but with an axe

Gray, black, and White tabby cat sleeping very round on a gray and white couch. A bloody axe plush toy is under his head

Master of the Deck@panmalazan· Nov 17

y'know, why not

a very closeup picture of the face of a very young white kitten with big round dark eyes, slightly blurry. The caption days "tonite we're staying up until 1 billion o'clock"

Master of the Deck@panmalazan· Oct 27

doing dumb shit like highly decorating the interior of my house for Halloween. enjoying silly things. petting the cats.

A fluffy white cat, my silly man Silc of as Ruin, sits on a gray leaf patterned ottoman. He has his legs splayed like he's sitting in a person chair with his paws pressed to either side of his leg. If you are looking closely you can see my WoTCon coasters on a tray behind him!

Master of the Deck@panmalazan· Oct 19

this cat is a whole mood

closeup screenshot of a black cat from one of the revealed witch cards in OP's post. The cat is mid leap with paws akimbo, mouth and eyes wide open.

Master of the Deck@panmalazan· Sep 27

Yes, you can add alt text to videos. You just can't see the alt text without a screen reader, this was also the case on Twitter.

Screenshot of a bluesky draft with the missing alt text warning banner at the top and the alt text button at the bottom, both circled for clarity.

The test video is a sleeping fluffy white cat on his back.

Master of the Deck@panmalazan· Sep 18

With alt text (you can turn on reminders in your settings, it's very helpful)

WIRED article screenshot

Q: Do you worry about safety? Something that we talk about a lot is legal or other
threats from the White House. You have a president who sued CBS, which settled.
Colbert was canceled under what I would describe as suspect circumstances, to
say the least. The administration is looking for media companies to fall in line.
Satire is not immune from that threat. How do you think about The Onion's safety
in this moment, whether legal or otherwise?

A: Well, they're going to come after you eventually if they don't come after you right away. The more you stand up and really puff your chest out, generally the better off you are. This is true of all fascist regimes throughout history: They hate ridicule and they hate people who are unbothered. And to say that you're not scared is insane Everyone's a little afraid. And that's fine. You're supposed to be. They're trying tomake you afraid all day long.

I have 40-plus years left on this planet Earth. I don't want to live like that. I don't
think any of us do. I think it's more about how do you want to wake up every day and tell your kids what you did in this time period. I never thought it was an option to just be like, "All right, cool. I guess we'll just be worse at comedy now." What the fuck are you talking about? That's not what we`re going to do. We're going to stand up for what we believe and what we know is true, and we're going to do exactly what we did before. And I'm telling you right now, when you do that, people might give you a hundred bucks to get your newspaper, because they want that in their house. They want to tell their friends in private that actually, I'm not OK with this.

Master of the Deck@panmalazan· Aug 29

He wanted to just say "Liebe Marie", like greeting a good friend or loved one, an expression of regard, maybe a bit diminutive but more familiar than anything "Mary, full of grace" the fuck does that heavy handed shit even mean, he asks, and why would you expect a German peasant to understand it?

Listen up, I shall say “gracious Mary” and “dear Mary”, and they can say “Mary full of grace”. Anyone who knows German also knows what an expressive word “dear” (liebe) is: dear Mary, dear God, the dear emperor, the dear prince, the dear man, the dear child. I do not know if one can say this word “liebe” in Latin or in other languages with so much depth of emotion that it pierces the heart and echoes throughout as it does in our tongue.

Master of the Deck@panmalazan· Aug 29

Luther, being a scholar and a priest and a bright man and someone who like, read actual books and philosophy and stuff, naturally had opinions about the meanings of things, up to and including how an Angel of the Lord would greet Mary, and didn't want it to translate like she a was a KEG OF BEER

Master of the Deck@panmalazan· Aug 29

I can't just screenshot the whole thing so I beg you to read it, but onto the important bits: translation is to some degree vibes, and Luther knew this. taking something profound from one language to another requires a deep understanding of what is being said so you can say the thing and connect

We do not have to ask about the literal Latin or how we are to speak German—as these asses do. Rather we must ask the mother in the home, the children on the street, the common person in the market about this. We must be guided by their tongue, the manner of their speech, and do our translating accordingly. Then they will understand it and recognize that we are speaking German to them.

Master of the Deck@panmalazan· Aug 29

Furthermore, he considered it his duty to provide faithful translation, and he knew exactly how difficult doing so was. Nuance, intelligence, meticulous attention to detail and the fullness of understanding of not just meaning but tone and intention and context. Also, fuck those donkeys.

If I have made errors within it (although I am not aware of any and would most certainly be unwilling to intentionally mistranslate a single letter) I will not allow the papists to judge for their ears continue to be too long and their hee-haws too weak for them to be critical of my translating. I know quite well how much skill, hard work, understanding and intelligence is needed for a good translation. They know it less than even the miller’s donkey for they have never tried it.

Master of the Deck@panmalazan· Aug 29

Let's start with the start. These fuckers don't even speak German, let alone know the first thing about translation. Classic armchair expert behavior, googled it just enough to find a gotcha they think will work and try to slander my man Dr. Luther. I THINK NOT.

On the first hand, if I, Dr. Luther, had thought that all the Papists together were capable of translating even one passage of Scripture correctly and well, I would have gathered up enough humility to ask for their aid and assistance in translating the New Testament into German. However, I spared them and myself the trouble, as I knew and still see with my own eyes that not one of them knows how to speak or translate German. It is obvious, however, that they are learning to speak and write German from my translations. Thus, they are stealing my language from me—a language they had little knowledge of before this.

Master of the Deck@panmalazan· Aug 22

Quote posts are disabled so have a screenshot. I had to read this, and now you do too.

Screenshot of two bluesky posts by @sarahweinman.com:

"Romantasy basically is what fanfiction made."
Linking a nyt article titled "Why Magic, Dragons and Explicit Sex Are in Bookstores Everywhere"

Reply by the OP:
"We're too close for it now but in due time someone is going to write the definitive piece linking fanfic to fascism."

Master of the Deck@panmalazan· Aug 12

Alt text from quoted image:

Series of tumblr posts and reblogs:

It's Not a Plot Hole, It's Foreshadowing
VS.
It's Not a Plot Hole, It's Just Something That They Opted Not to Spoon-feed You Because It Would Be Obvious If You Thought About It For 20 Seconds
VS.
It May Be a Plot Hole, But It Still Works In Terms of the Story's Themes and Character Logic
VS.
Okay, It /s a Plot Hole, What Are You Going to Do, Cry about It?
VS.
All Works of Fiction Represent Constructed Realities and by Demanding a Lack of Plot Holes, You Are Improperly Importing the Rules of Objective Reality into a Subjective Creation that Must Be Judged Primarily on lts Aesthetic Merits
VS.
Dude, Just Come-up With a Headcanon Like A Normal Human Being
VS.
Is It Really a Plot Hole, or Are the Characters Just Not Making the Choices You Want Them To?

Master of the Deck@panmalazan· Jul 21

you also get to meet the character after whom I named my cat

A white fluffy cat with airplane ears poking his head over the top of my blanket covered leg while I'm laying in bed, he looks irritated that I disturbed his cuddle time to take a picture of him

Master of the Deck@panmalazan· Jul 12

#WoTCon #WoTOnes Let him cook