Ada(m) Fletcher

"West Marches" is a specific type of game with specific rules. Not every campaign with a large player base and a rotating table is West Marches. When GG was running games, they were sprawling persistent worlds with a rotating player base. I run a 28 player game that's not WM. We need another term.

Fuck public opinion. Fuck peer review. The people who don't ever question what they're told are on the case. Damn everyone else. Because, if one thing is clear, human experience is narrow and quantifiable. There's nothing more to learn, everyone. Pack up and go home.

But, at least a human being with a strong, researched understanding of self can't piss where you don't want them to. Do you have any interest in similarly diving in to learn about yourself or the world? No. No. First grade taught them everything they need to know about existence.

Meanwhile, a ton of people have had Evil made palatable for them. It can't be Evil if they're comfortable with it. They would know. Right? Wouldn't they? And so, the march continues. Children starve to death, good people die horribly.

I feel one of the biggest modern tragedies is the gulps of understanding between Evil and Discomfort. There's a ton of things that make me uncomfortable but, maybe because I've learned to manage my anxiety, I know that just because something makes me uncomfortable, doesn't make it Evil.

i sure do love those 30 seconds after waking up when i haven’t yet remembered about The Things

Florida schools are a mess, but they can build a shiny new Alligator Auschwitz in 8 days. Nice to see Desantis's priorities.

I'm so jazzed about Fantastic Four. They're clearly teaching one of the most important lessons of comic adaptation. It's silly. It's important to know that it's silly. But you can't act like you're better than it. Because that silliness is big part of what we love.

Just finished another Ed Greenwood novel. Swords of Eveningstar. (Huzzah physical books) These things are just character study vibes. Like, hey let me tell you an extremely detailed story about a time some people were cool.

Stockton, CA: Heavily armed masked kidnappers drove up in an unmarked car and pulled a landscaper out of his truck and kidnapped him. When the landscaping company owner asked the men what they were doing, the kidnappers assaulted him and pulled out a metal baton.

It's a strange feeling when the real world equalizes with the one in your anxieties. Is this calm or numbness? Either way, we carry on.

Just trying to go home. Thank God we have community members who care because these assholes sure as shit don't.

It’s not a surprise that the man who purposely incited a violent attempt to overthrow an American election would now purposely incite violence on the streets of Los Angeles as a justification for military force against American citizens.

Not a surprise at all.

Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing

New:

theonion.com/protesters-u...

Sitting on my patio, 1 mile from the federal building. All I hear is birds, lawnmowers, and kids playing at the local daycare. L.A. is fine. Leave us the fuck alone and everyone will go home.

An L.A. Reid: there is no crisis in Los Angeles that ICE didn't cause Four days in Los Angeles and all I saw was SOCAL normality ... until ICE showed up.

My latest in Joy’s House: I’m in L.A. So I can tell you firsthand that the only crises here are ICE, Stephen Miller, Tom Homan, the Fox weekend guy that’s running the Pentagon, and Donald Trump. open.substack.com/pub/joyannre...

I was a pretty big fan of Newsom's until he started entertaining right wing mouthpieces on his podcast and spouting unfounded bullshit on Trans people. However, I will give him the credit due for handling this literal assault on state sovereignty quite well.

🧊, the National Guard, and now the Marines are the Outside agitators. They are not coordinating with the LAPD. This is not about public safety. This not about "liberating" Los Angeles. This is about Trump asserting control. A petty tyrant and his toy soldiers that he can't even be bothered to feed.

I'm proud of L.A.

Glendale to Stop Housing ICE Detainees - MyNewsLA.com Glendale city officials Sunday stated they were terminating an agreement with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Homeland Security to house federal immigration detainees at the Glendale ...

The city of Glendale, in Los Angeles County, announced today that they're quitting an agreement with ICE thad allowed ICE to house its detainees at the Glendale police department.

mynewsla.com/crime/2025/0...

Important thing to beat people over the head with: Trump has turned American cities into warzones and for fucking what? Prices are way up, jobs will be way down, the dollar is worth less, and now the highway is blocked off by cops. Maybe the Great Mythical Immigrant wasn’t the problem after all.

True story bro.

Nothin but the facts

I could really use a good Captain America speech about now.

Los Angeles Chinese massacre of 1871 - Wikipedia

Wild all of this is happening blocks away from where one of the largest American lynching happened a little over 150 years ago.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Ang...

The protest is isolated and peaceful. There is no riot. You are being sold a lie. Recognize this for what it is. #WearetheGhor

Current status in LA: there are no riots.

Members of our community are in danger—the city is not.

lmao

every tough guy wants to dress like a soldier and be treated like a soldier. none of them want to spend days shitting themselves in a shipping crate while someone fires rockets at them in the distance

this isn't exactly what they deserve but it's pretty funny