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Episode 12 came out yesterday! Our witches release some powerful magic on the world to solve one problem... certainly it will be alright for them!

They removed all pull quotes and issued a blanket apology for the misinformation, but no specific apology for the offensive one AFAIK

In this social climate, alleging wrongdoing by a trans woman without doing basic factchecking is irresponsible. You can't put the hate genie back in the bottle when you realize you were wrong.

I hope other journalists watching this unfold take that to heart.

It's good that Rascal has issued corrections clarifying no breach of contract & contextualizing how much everyone was paid. But some of their readers continue to believe Jay didn't pay us — and will likely keep harassing her and spreading the original article's disinformation for years to come.

Coming soon: Spirit Swap: A Slice of Life TTRPG A solo tabletop adventure using Tarot cards.

Launching tomorrow! #zinequest
"Spirit Swap: A Slice of Life TTRPG" is a solo journaling game designed by @noroadhome.itch.io about moving to a new magical city, befriending the people who live there, and learning how to be a full-fledged witch.
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hell yeah, I loved Spirit Swap's setting!

It is not too soon to call ICE "detention centers" "concentration camps" nor is it too late to accurately call "juvie and jails and prisons" "concentration camps" too

I think there should be puppy bowl reunions. let them play again as seniors! give them time to hone their craft...

i think this more than anything is what miller wants. vast detention camps with all of the suffering and death that means.

If discord doesn’t back down from this shitty ai age confirmation thing then idk what i’m gonna do. I’m not sticking around for it even though i use discord more than any other “social media” platform by far. Can I play dnd over Telegram????

Most people experienced the fall of the Roman Empire as: “One day a bridge collapsed, and no one came to fix it.”

So to sum up: Government gives a guy billions to go to Mars, he blows up rockets for a while before canceling with nothing to show because he just learned that Mars is far away. Continues getting money for Moon City. Nasa funding remains at lemonade stand levels.

Ready to discard capitalism yet?

to some extent I'm accustomed to outlets falling prey to TTRPG Lone Auteur Theory and misattributing my work wholly to Jay or Brennan despite them both crediting me at every opportunity... but I suspect most of those pieces are a single freelancer's weekend project

It has certainly been baffling to see Rascal's owners tout that it took six writers six months to complete their Yazeba's article only to turn around and say they were unaware I was a contractor. I'm credited as the book's cocreator and PCG's website "About" page lists all three of their employees.

it drives you insane how much erosion of freedom is justified by concern for kids when the people who actually hurt them will never face consequences

If another outlet decides to pick up this story, I am available for comment.

Chase Taylor-Carter contacted me this morning to rectify Rascal's oversight. While I would have gladly given statements or an interview prior to the story's publication, the article that went to print left me uncertain that any information I gave would be taken in good faith, so I declined.

a couple of times decisions were defended because the journalists aren't experts and so couldn't possibly comment. dog if you're not an expert and don't understand this stuff why are you reporting on it. at least talk to someone who does understand and give their perspective!

It's hard to overstate the degree to which the general public is being lied to about trans people

when you're stoking outrage against a marginalized person, you have to invent a privilege that emotionally negates her oppression — wealthwashing trans women is a go-to tactic, unfortunately

I have fucked up good and proper many times in my life and in RPGdom, and there are folks with legitimate beef, but nobody has ever *mythologized* me as evil the way they do for the queer artists I know who've had commercial success, *especially* Jay.

It's always wild to watch.

"myself? I feel very safe" has become a vocal stim in my household

you legitimately could not get me to care a single bit about "falling birth rates" for a myriad of reasons but especially with the way this society treats women and trans people and children in particular sorry. child abuse is just the norm worldwide. let the birth rates fall tbh

I mean I say that like I don't know the answer: they've adopted the conservative caricature of trans women as "man in a dress" as a totemic symbol of queerness in general, without bothering to ask trans women what we think of caricatures made to mock us, specifically

I urge all of my friends and followers to read this. As a contributor to YBB, I didn't want to muddy the waters with my 2 cents (which is that I had a great, limited exp. with both PCG/SJG, count Jay as a trusted collaborator and friend, and would work with any combination of the 3 again).

• Cutthroat high-powered career matriarch
• Trophy husband in permanent existential crisis
• Rude disaffected daughter & her friend who is also inexplicably here
• Younger sibling named Quinn that they hate

we're sick with RSV, so we're watching white lotus, and I can't shake the feeling that the Mossbachers are based DIRECTLY on the Morgendorffers

As a former journalist, and as someone who has had mixed experiences with Rascal as a developer and artist, this article was absolutely infuriating to read and led to me not renewing my subscription. An unattributed pull quote before a paywall calling someone a fake queer is beyond ethical failure.

The information available ($24k for 10k words) makes YB&B 1st print THE BEST freelance writing payout I've ever heard of in TTRPGs. Even the base $3k for 10k words without bonus or royalties is higher than the top rate I've ever received and, in context of TTRPGs, a rate I'd call excellent.

a response to the @rascal.news article on yazeba's bed & breakfast, clarifying some misunderstandings and (hopefully) providing a clearer explanation of what happened
possumcreek.medium.com/a-response-t...