Queer and Pleasant Danger

I was so worried. I rushed in to check if my bop shoo-bop shoo-bop still had a bop in it, and it looks like it's okay, but I am kinda terrified to look in on my dip do dip-di-dip.

With kind commentary by a horse! 🐴

Hooray for Bluesky farm friends! 💚

A snowy forest with aspen trees, a glowing Lucia tomten-esque lady with a wreath of holly and candle on her blonde head, riding side saddle on a goat. A scared-looking kid hides from a Krampus. My phinevis dying.

Happy Krampus Night!

I think it might be fun for a couple of sessions, probably, but I think I have been spoiled for year-long campaigns, with grand world-building, and huge scope of narrative, and a LOT of actual role playing, and the One Ring system doesn't feel AS suited for this?

Um.

There is! But this mechanic, and the Counsel mechanic, make things seem a bit too, um, constrained to me?

And I kinda dislike the "convince me this is a good skill to apply to the problem, and see if you have an item that ties to it for an extra die" mechanic as well.

Urgh.

I dunno.

Thank you. This is very good advice. 💚

My gaming group is considering moving to the One Ring TTRPG. The books are BEAUTIFUL, and I love the setting of Middle Earth, but from the little I've played, I don't know if I love the play mechanics all that much? I don't know if I think it's "fun".

I need to try to be brave in voicing my dissent

Exact same, except I was on the "weird little boy" to "weird big woman" pipeline.

I feel it's maybe a little less stressful?

Being trans disqualified you from being involved or having any say at all in the nyt coverage of trans people. That was true 5 years ago, and it’s true today.

It’s the definition of prejudice.

The most interesting part of this story isn’t that the pipe bomber is MAGA. That was blatantly obvious. What should interest folks is that the FBI and DoJ hid that fact from you, and still haven’t made a statement. This info is coming from sources on the condition of anonymity.

Friends, I think some you might have fun/make contacts/show off a little in this thread?

I dunno, man. That one kid brought Steve-O Submarino.

This is burned into my cerebral cortex.

This IS my childhood.

Trans and intersex people face sexual violence 12x more than other inmates.

Watch rape protections for women be rolled back next.

This is an utterly needless, sadistic, and horrifying executive act.

There’s a rapist in the White House.

Wendigo has my vote.

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This broke my heart and made me laugh at the same time.

Here's some old stuff I found while I was looking for other old stuff
#throwbackthursday

I don't think she's read much along those lines.

Fingers crossed a full treatment comes out.

If not, this is amazing enough to make me feel like I gave been blessed to have seen it.

Lead: We'll have 144 AG12s to weld today.

Me: Gross.

Lead: Why?

Me: Oh! 144. That's a gross.

Lead: Is that a Mario thing?

Me: Um?

Lead: I didn't see that movie.

Me: It's... not Mario.

Lead: Then-a-why are you a-talking that way?

Me: Are you messing with me?

Lead: ARE YOU MESSING WITH ME?

Pffft. The moon? Again? Seriously?

Get your act together, SKY.

“Down there,” he said, “are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any iniquity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathesomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don’t say no."

Rereading the Watch books from Discworld and remembering why they should be even more widely read…

Good morning!

I am terrified to finish it, because I want things to end well so badly for these characters.

I like it immensely! I think you might enjoy it as well? I keep expecting REALLY awful things to happen, mostly because of the last book I read, but so far nothing too hideous has transpired.

It has a few parts that are frustrating to me, but that's only because they are slightly realistic.

A lineup of B&W character sketches including Alopex and Leatherhead.

More fizzled TMNT pitch sketches! RIP Alopex spin-off series 😢

And I think I just figured out a pretty important plot point to Woodworking. If it is what I think it is, it feels... Hmmm.

I dunno.

It's weird how much I like Abigail in all her sweariness and standoffishness. I know I won't ever be, but sometimes I wish I was less conciliatory.

Just read The Knockout Queen by Rufi Thorpe. It was pretty dark. Lovely and thought-provoking, but dark.

Reading Emily St. James' Woodworking right now, and TKQ's Michael feels VERY similar to W's Abigail, but I think the tone of Thorpe's book has blinded me to how funny Woodworking really is.

The cheek!