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a tumblr ask post. anonymous asked, If this isn't overstepping, do you have any advice for not falling into defeatism? You seem good at having hope for the future. Superdillin answered, It's NOT easy. The world doesn't make it easy. But take a look at someone you love. Or someone who brings you joy, whether you know them intimately or not. Would you want them to give up? At their lowest moment would you tell them there's no point, and that there's no chance that things get better? Likely not, but it's harder to turn that grace inward. To widen that same concept, make sure you are looking at the overwhelming amounts of people who are helping to make the world better. The food bank operators and the organizers and the caretakers and the volunteers. People who research under-funded illnesses and who vaccinate in their local neighborhoods. People who create art and share it with strangers to feel connection. People who make soup for their sick loved ones and who encourage them to achieve their dreams. None of those people deserve to be told that none of it is worth it. And the world would be worse if a single one of them gave up. And the world would be worse if you did, too.

I got a very moving Ask about avoiding defeatism on the forbidden website, and I wanted to share it because it's something I believe very strongly

Catastrophism is only a myth if you let it be.

I'm team stop making cigarettes cool

Imbibe your stimulants with some pizzazz!

Don't be a coward! Hold a ritual to invoke the fire spirit inside you! MACRODOSE

#hyperbole #sarcasm #reallythough

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#midnightburger

I'm going to be running TSL in December (am reading now😌) and I am thrilled by the immaculate ✨️ VIBES ✨️ of this game!

Fellow GMs; what're your favorite media touchstones for Thirsty Sword Lesbians?

#thirstyswordlesbians #tsl #gm #ttrpg

Why is it so difficult for people to comprehend that context is literally everything?

Revenants are those who disappeared into the shroudlands, lost their souls, and came back changed. Their eyes hold knowledge beyond life, their hearts are heavy, and their purpose is unknowable. They are alive, but just barely. Each is unique, driven by a single purpose not even they understand.

That's a disingenuous way to frame what I said. Thanks for confirming. Good talk!

Good morning!

It's <50°
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Coffee, Soup, Bath, Pay Obeisance to Glormugdalithna kinda day

The preoccupation with power. People who 'miss' the multiplicity and diversity of all things and mistake the simplicity of their view with completeness. They quietly or loudly rail against things they consider not good enough and actively erode the circles they inhabit. Opportunists. Scavengers.

Huh. I just read it as "Stop being supremacist trash about game mechanics" but written from a small business indie game angle.

Yeah! True.

I'm fairly certain that he's just taking a stance against supremacy culture.

Context: "there is nothing inherently better..."

Implies: "someone thinks 2d6 is Superior to 1d12"

Inside of its context, there's nothing wrong with what he said, because supremacy is for fools and tools.

Isometric drawing of The Chapel of Thorns, an adventure for Shadowdark

Working on an isometric map for a #shadowdark adventure. I plan to post the finished product pdf for free download on my website.

#ttrpg #rpg

Oooh!

Now's the time of year where my freelance work slows to a crawl and some of my Startplaying #ttrpg campaign sessions begin getting postponed or wrapping up.

If you're looking for someone to run a new system for you and friends or a writer for your project this winter. Hit me up!

Tone:

I think goblin-core is well established and everyone who it wasn't for has moved on to Gnoll-core.

Tieflings are just Gods Naughty Little Dressup Doll so that's expected...

The funky happily married cishet presenting bi couple could be a part of my group... But they're too busy with Fet,Knitting,Sewing,Quilting,Brewing,Boardgames,reenactment,canning,gardening, and Reading

But they're not normies: a normal marriage must be miserable, either internally or externally. 🤭

I'm cultivating them like a gardener 🤭

No. I think that's a gross reduction of what online TTRPG feeds, FLGS, Cons, etc. Amount to.

They aren't a community, too. That's marketing lingo.

Greed is toxic. Narcissism is toxic. Pride is toxic.

What's toxic is the active incentive towards those traits by moneyed interests in EVERY sector

I ran it back in 2018.

It was... a nightmare.

The art, design, and world building were up my alley

I'm frankly relieved that someone else analyzed it so thoroughly.

Where are my #IWOULDNTBEONLINEIF people?

Because #Iwouldnotbeonlineif there was ANY third spaces to go to for people who have no money or power.

#Iwnboi

"Online community" is not even a community. It's a third space and a shitty one at that. Almost no one went to the internet for socializing by preference!

Many of us went there because our communities were toxic shit holes and third spaces were constantly gentrified.

#tttpg has no singular community.

Can we please stop saying that?

That is marketing jargon to try and make the impersonal parasocial sphere seem cozier, and more connected than it actually is.

It's business lingo to make them seem like they are anything other than terrible sludge monsters.

Truly Terrific Rude Onomatopoeia, Gamers

[Take 3!!!]

Gender is a performance and mind is best experienced behind a rock solid excuse to act weird.

I was disappointed with how disappointed I was by Starfinder. I crashed out.

The concept of national culture is such bullshit and I hate it.

The USA has at least a dozen macrocultures (many more cultures) and we're kept from that knowledge by being CONSTANTLY colonized by marketing and industry.

My experience is that its just bubbling up to the surface and being stirred up.

To all my sisters, getting bullied out there by women; just remember that there is no experience More ubiquitously feminine in the united states than to be bullied by a woman.