TF Grognon

Image of round ceramic jar with skeleton face on the upright spout. Text reads: "Cultists in the highlands above Lake Onda kept the heads of their sacrifices in ceramic jars. When unstoppered, the jars were said to release foul and fractious forces. "Fewer than twenty jars remain intact. Broken, however, their shards have proven to be potent weapons & arcane artefacts. "Large: 100s Small: 35s Toothpick:15s "Wielded as stabbing implement: DR10, deals D6 damage and foists visions of the sacrifice's last moments on the victim. "Used for magic: Test Presence DR14. Success boosts access to D4 additional scrolls for D6 days; failure incapacitates all scroll use for D4 days."

making up weird shit is awesome but figuring out stats/effects is hard/beyond me

Day 7 - shard

#mörktober

thinking last night about "blogging" again: go back to dreamwidth, I thought, but a new account closer to my current interests (with bonus upside of avoiding [media/AO3] fandom & its proglib zionism).

Comments could be made via OpenID.

Turns out OpenID is basically defunct? idk, argh

Congrats/happy for you!

unusual and lovely midcentury #typography

I'd post this on the subreddit if it hadn't fallen the Slop Lovers (and if I were on R any longer)

just had the wankiest thought about how Twin Peaks concerns the tension/incommensurability between *dream* (submerged elements of consciousness surfacing to play out) and *fantasy* (what one wishes would be truth).

Cooper is seduced by the town as fantasy-fulfillment, can't address the dream facts

I am more than a little fond of games that veer toward poetry-making (blackout, concrete, w/e)

"they knew that their side had lost the debate, because so many of their friends were dead."

IN GUATEMALA, WAS IT ARBENZ, OR CHE, WHO HAD THE RIGHT APPROACH?

just don’t create a moderation list, bluesky said that’s bad

Speaking of the well-deserved death of social media, I've started using Newsblur as my new RSS reader (had to clean up a depressingly large number of dead links, including to sites that still publish but no longer have RSS feeds) and that does still in fact provide a source of good internet

Please do this, it sounds rad as anything

Illustrations of 2 corn-husk dolls, one astride a horse, the other standing. Text reads: "Husk Rider: "A particular skittering whisper behind you, just to the left and down. The Husk Rider is woven from dead discards. Its interior seems hollow, but for the mold-sticky threats and regrets that streak the material. "Some believe a Husk Rider is woven by abandoned children, then set to travel in search of parents who are not likely to return. "A Husk Rider is solitary and prefers to dog the steps of the lonely, the doubtful, and anyone on their last legs. Though prone to sudden crackling disintegration, Husk Riders are unaffected by fire. "Intact specimens fetch 85s. Good luck keeping one intact, though."

It's a skittering, mildewed doll of regret. You could try to sell it, I guess?

Day 6 - Husk

#mörktober #morktober

"We have turned ourselves into disgusting creatures, and for once I don’t mean that as a compliment": what a great line in a really good post

Ahhh, yes, BSG was really compelling there for a while

people who built bsky:
-trans women (bsky protects jesse singal)
-Black users (bsky allows rampant antiBlack racism)
-SWers (bsky to implement hostile age verification in UK)
-organizers and activists (bsky autodeletes anyone in gaza with a pulse)
-artists (bsky dev says AI has rights lmao)

Weird spiral diagram. The text reads: "A music roll from the long-defunct Orchestrion de la méprise, snatched from a Galgenbeck maw: perforated paper made from unknown skin. "When the roll is held to the mouth and one's breath blown through, you cast the noise made by the soul of child saint as it shattered against the void. "Presence DR14. A failure sees the victim rendered blubbering incompetent, and inconsolable for D6 rounds." #morktober - Day 4 - TF Grognon

I just really love the word 'orchestrion'.

Day 4: howl
#mörktober #morktober

I adore LOST, fwiw

Yes, definitely. I tried to make it happen for a couple years recently & just ended up deeply embarrassed about talking to the void

ok, I feel this, too

we all need to do this

if they can suspend someone on a federated (or whatever) server then what's the point anyway, it's still centralized tech fascist bullshit all the way down

if you are a politician and you cannot “ABOLISH ICE” then walk into the ocean

ICE must be destroyed so thoroughly that the law books that made ICE possible are ashes

ICE agents must face honest harsh justice

This rules

chancleta de cartón

A gross-looking sort-of circular diagram labelled "Maw". The rest of the text reads: Maws are spongy depressions of soil or urban cobblestone. They may be mapped, but these documents are unreliable; the sites are not fixed but appear and vanish confoundingly. Whether a bruise on reality itself or the incursion of a bestial reified hunger, a maw is to be avoided at all costs. r Those unlucky or foolhardy enough to fall into a maw's sloppy kiss would do well to pray for a quick death. It won't be painless, but what is? Within a maw are ocacasionally found trinkets, scrolls, assorted gimcrackery. However attractive such "treasures" may seem, a jump into a maw is never recommended.

slightly late, as I always am, but here is what I made for Day 2, "maw"

#morktober

We’ll be homeless on the streets tomorrow.

Please help a dog and her human by boosting our fundraiser and helping us prepare for being and when we become unsheltered homeless. Thank you.

V SNDesiree
C $SNDesiree
gofund.me/79b8c1580

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I know you didn't mean that! Sorry, I skipped a step in thinking/expressing. Just wanted to apologize.