Beth K Crane

Season 4 is finally here!

Episode One of Season Four will be released on our Patreon feed on the 16th March and to our general feed a week later, starting on the 23rd of March! Episodes will go out biweekly, and they'll be a week earlier on our ad-free Patreon feed.

It's GREAT that because I've finally hit a minimum threshold for self-employed earnings I've got to pay next year's taxes too. Just dandy. It's not like my money is tight because I'm self-employed or anything.

Mine is 90% my one friend sharing screenshots of BBC news updates. She is my filter and I am more grateful than she could ever know.

Relistens of Three Men in a Boat are keeping me sane at the moment.

Gonna get ahead of things now and optimistically schedule in "burnout" for March onwards.

I definitely will!

Treating myself to a replay of Control in this trying time.

We Played D&D on a Boat! Adventures Ahoy! Part 1: Tomb of Grief Set sail for something truly special! No Short Rests! is taking Dungeons & Dragons off the table and onto the water with Adventures Ahoy! - an actual play of Tomb of Grief, our level 1 adventure from One Room One Shots, whilst cruising along the River Lee. Back the collection on Kickstarter now! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/one-room-one-shots/one-room-one-shots Featuring an all-star cast from across the UK’s TTRPG community, discover just how easy it is to run a full adventure right from the book, using our free pre-made characters included with the One Room One Shots collection. See for yourself how much story, strategy and atmosphere can unfold in a single location - and all in just one session. Climb aboard, roll initiative and join us for an adventure like no other! The land has become cursed and all signs point to the tomb of an evil king as the source of this dark taint. The players must find a way to break the curse, and learn the truth behind the King's violent acts inside his desecrated tomb! Starring: Dungeon Master - Jordan Carmichael, @ModifiedRoll @alwaysreadytorollgm Torjor Meanfist - Lou Fryer, @OfDiceAndThemPod @iamloufryer Phyrra Stormborn - Ralph Stickley, @OfDiceAndThemPod Dra'osh Moonblessed - Beth Crane, @battlebirdproductions Myeldretharran Parakas - Wren, @StoryWeaveProductions @MasqueWren Crew: Director - Alex Powell Producer - Matt Potter Executive Producer - Matthew Lloyd Location provided by Gareth Wrigglesworth and Lee Valley Boatyard Music: Seven Seas Composer: Alexander Nakarada Website: https://creatorchords.com/ License: Free To Use YouTube license youtube-free Music powered by BreakingCopyright: https://breakingcopyright.com Shadows and Echoes Composer: Jeremy Soule © 2011 Bethesda Softworks LLC, a ZeniMax Media company. The Elder Scrolls, Skyrim, Bethesda, Bethesda Game Studios, Bethesda Softworks, ZeniMax and related logos are registered trademarks or trademarks of ZeniMax Media Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. All Rights Reserved. The Lord Of Frenzied Flame Composer: Shoi Miyazawa Song of Despair Composer: Shoi Miyazawa ELDEN RING™ & ©BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Inc. / ©2022 FromSoftware, Inc. The Airship Armada Composer: Filip Melvan ©Michael Ghelfi Studios

I had the pleasure to run a game for @noshortrests.bsky.social to help promote their #OneRoomOneShots Kickstarter!

You can now catch me running Tomb of Grief for @iamloufryer.bsky.social, @ralphstickley.bsky.social, @bethkcrane.bsky.social & @masquewren.bsky.social!

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An acrylic paint portrait of an older woman with grey, neck-length hair, seen in 9/10ths profile. She has a slight smile and a friendly demeanor.

The same portrait, earlier version

The same portrait, even earlier

Did a portrait painting session yesterday. Think I've hit my stride with it! I'm really proud of this one.

How Hookland Works … Almost everything online and detailed in the Hookland Writer’s Bible and the Hookland Guide publications is available for your free use. You want to use a picture for an album cover, a C.L. Nolan quote for an epigraph or even borrow a village or town for a story – fill your boots. As long as you give due credit to Hookland and in cases where the Hookland material is not created by me, the original creator, the copyright police will never pursue you. Not even if your story is a huge commercial success or your album sells more copies than you can dream about. There’s no charge. You own whatever you do with Hookland. It is a creative playground, a pre-enchanted landscape for anyone to use. You will only ever come a cropper with the copyright police if you use elements of Hookland and don’t give due credit. Everyone who loves and uses Hookland owns everything in the county canon. By not crediting that fact, you are extracting the urine and disregarding a whole community of people. There are two other things to note: Firstly, none of the above applies if you are creating work promoting racism, vile misogyny or homophobia of any sort. You can whimper about creative censorship, but I come from a long line that stands against the promulgation of hatred. You’ll find nothing but bitter curses and refusal in Hookland. Nastiness and nascent-Nazism has consequences, even in fictional realms. Secondly, Hookland is not for the use in works using AI. When it comes to Hookland, AI as it currently stands usually means Arseholes Involved. It’s a thieving, hollowing and unethical beast of a thing. It has no place in a principled, decent society outside medical and scientific research. It has no place in Hookland and never will. Try to mix AI slop and Hookland and I promise you will be haunted. I will always support and try to help/answer any questions for anyone wanting to use Hookland creatively. It is there to be explored, it is there to be played with.

How Hookland Works – you all own it, fill you boots. Now updated to reflect how AI means Arseholes Involved. #Hookland

To the establishment the tragedy seems to be that a mother lost her child far far more than a trans girl lost her life and everything that’s followed has been about suring up the ownership and control parents have over their children

The biggest “block” writers face is time and money and gatekeeping (by the people who can offer money to give you that time.)

I would welcome a day that I didn’t wake up with fourteen great ideas that I simply don’t have the time or money to do properly. AI directly threatens that. It doesn’t help.

Yeah, I don't think I've watched it in a good twenty years but I made so many k'nex robot babies as a kid.

(I don't think it makes the game bad, just not suitable for me in particular!)

Why is Piers Morgan always given so much time and space? Because our media is a relentless circle jerk where people whose main experience is dinner bang on and on about the world they can barely see above their goose pate and Stilton foam

YOUR ENEMIES LAMENT YOUR VERY EXISTENCE. HAVE YOU TAKEN YOUR MEDICATIONS?

Onstage at the Brixton O2 - Coheed and Cambria play in front of a gigantic inflatable skeleton biker (head and shoulders). He's wearing LED goggles, a spiked leather jacket and a spiked, open-faced bike helmet. I'd guess he's about the height of a double decker bus.

There aren't enough giant inflatables at gigs any more.

Just realised the reason I couldn't play Horizon Zero Dawn (I tried!) was that I watched Batteries Not Included about a hundred times as a kid. The majority of non-humanoid robots are friend-shaped to me.

(I also didn't see ET until adulthood)

One day I will have one of these in my actual home, but for now I'm going to have to content myself with telling people that they're incredible and that you should treat yourself.

Falkner writing a pissy letter to the minister going “its been six months and trannies are still legal what gives“ is quite funny tho

The Repair Shop with Werner Herzog:
Guest: "Stunning work, thank you"
WH: "How do you feel seeing this object, a symbol of your dead wife? Though constructed of crude, worthless materials, it has been resurrected like some cheap miracle, mocking your grief and dead wife, now condemned to oblivion."

Taken from Sam Landman on FB but not sure if he is the artist. Graphic saying AI is for losers, reject fascism think for yourself. I can make Art that’s ugly and bad all by myself thank you very much

we fucked up a perfectly good planet is what we did. look at it. it's got billionaires

I have never heard praise for generative AI from someone I respect creatively

English plaque the temporary hospital for scurvy-ridden whalemen who had been trapped in the ice for months

babe what if we kissed outside the temporary hospital for scurvy-ridden whalemen who had been trapped in the ice for months

Final painting - a cockatiel Aarakocra, a species from DND with the head and wings of a bird but a human body. This one is wearing armour and a red undershirt and has a sword.

New painting! Finally made it back to my wednesday painting class. This is for a new maybe-project?
The bird basis for this Aarakocra is Marcus, my late cockatiel. She was my best buddy growing up and now she's a knight.

#Aarakocra #cockatiel #DnD #DndMonsters #DnDCharacters #DnDPets

Taxing the rich is the only option. Their extreme wealth makes everything more expensive for the rest. We need everyone in the UK to know that the answer to "what can be done" is a wealth tax.

Started talking to my cat like he's the protagonist in a point and click adventure game

The beautiful hardback cover and undercover of High Vaultage by Chris and Jen Sugden.

The incredible debut novel from @victoriocity.bsky.social is out tomorrow in paperback and they're giving away a gorgeous signed hardback copy to celebrate! We're not entering (we already have it!) but a) you should enter the competition and b) buy the book!
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Cthulu, but a teenage girl in the 90s, talking on a corded phone on her bed.

Been painting more recently. Seeing as I now have a decent scanner I'm gonna get some more prints up on TeePublic when I have time (so like 2026?)

Anyway, this is Cthuleless.

New pots available now! www.roseschmits.com