One wonders how antivaxxers feel about cootie shots.
06.08.2025 15:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0One wonders how antivaxxers feel about cootie shots.
06.08.2025 15:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0According to my friend: Godzilla symbolizes nuclear destruction, and the idea that you fight destruction with something bigger and more destructive is a very Western one. Peace combats destruction. Mothra represents peace and the natural world, and thus the capacity to heal from nuclear devastation.
08.03.2025 17:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I am unreasonably amused by spelling the word “food” as “füd.”
06.02.2025 01:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Don’t pay the proposed cost if you don’t want to or can’t. I get that. It’s hard out here for everyone. That is very true.
But it is also true that other people are not obligated to absorb the costs of entertaining you. Please engage in some perspective-taking. It’ll make your life much easier.
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All of that, and you’re easily below the proposed minimum wage that everyone knows was proposed so long ago that even if it passed, it would no longer be adequate. Even moreso if it’s an in-person game and all these assets need to be physical.
$20 a session is a STEAL.
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Except that doesn’t factor in the resources a DM needs. Books, for one. And any pro DM running more than maybe two games is gonna need to pay for a VTT subscription. Plus the upfront cost of a computer that can handle running that VTT along with a video chat and some sort of music streaming.
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Because that doesn’t factor in prep time. I find that most good DMs who I talk to can get themselves to a point where an hour of game time equals about an hour of prep time. Meaning that 3 hours of labor is actually six.
So now we are down to barely over $15 an hour.
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Let’s break this down. Say you are going to run a game for 5 players, and each session is going to last…let’s be conservative and call it three hours. At $20 a head, that’s gonna land you at $100 for three hours of labor. So just over $33 an hour.
That does sound high, right?
Think harder.
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It blows my mind that something I hear so consistently in debates around professional DM work is “Paid DMing is fine, but asking for more than $20 a head per game is ridiculous!”
Do…do y’all just not understand math?
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In my overall quest to increase visibility for my art, I did something yesterday that I haven’t done in a long time.
I thought about Tumblr.
Still have no idea if I think making an art Tumblr is worth it. But I did find this on my old Tumblr account.
I still think this is quite accurate.
2024 was a MAJOR object lesson in this, let me tell you.
08.01.2025 13:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An aged elven warrior stands in a defiant battle posture. His spear is held in a low guard, and his expression warns his unseen foe not to step closer. His cloak billows in the wind, as his name appears dramatically in the lightning arcing past him.
Today on my art page I’m talking about the second of my three Fayhaven LARP pieces! Give it a look and a like if you are so inclined!
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An entire fantasy family sits on a picnic blanket in the sun. A young Halfling woman kneels on her human uncle’s chest, having just defeated him in a ball game. Two of her sisters sit nearby sharing tea. The third sister looks annoyed as she patches up an injury on her Dwarf boyfriend, while her boyfriend’s Dwarf cousin stands to the side holding her infant son.
Today on my art page I’m talking about the first of three pieces I recently did for some fellow players at Fayhaven LARP! Give it a look and a like if you are so inclined!
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#larp #art #characterdesign
Today on my art page I talk about a design commission I recently did for a D&D party T-shirt. Check it out if you’re interested!
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I’d never thought about it, but they never produce smoke or muzzle flashes, so the propulsion source can’t be black powder or something similar. So I wondered…what is it?
Well, according to Wookiepedia, it’s a device called a “magnetic pulse accelerator.”
…
THEY’RE USING FUCKING RAILGUNS.
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I just learned something wild about a piece of Star Wars tech.
This is a cycler rifle, most often seen in the hands of the Tusken Raiders. They are fairly unique in Star Wars in that, unlike most blasters, they fire bullets rather than plasma bolts.
But that’s not the wild part.
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Still updating my page. Today we’ve got a rare monster commission I did of a well-known D&D creature.
#dnd #art
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Today on my art page I’m taking about the unique experience that comes about when you learn things about your own character that you don’t expect. Give it a look if you like.
#dnd #art
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Starting to beef up my art profile again. Today I’m talking about armor design. Would love it if y’all gave it a look and maybe a share if you’re so inclined.
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Humanity can’t make our brains work a certain way. But we CAN make our environment better for a wider spectrum of brains. When context is everything, we need to dedicate everything to context.
If you care? Do the work.
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But not all of us like talking about it. And in many cases, not all of us feel safe to do so. In which case, do your research. Learn the generalities and try to keep them in mind. You will never know a person’s whole story. But starting with compassion helps make up for that a lot.
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Second, if you’re a person who cares about this, work to understand the conditions and needs of your neuroatypical peers. That might be as simple as asking. Plenty of us love to talk about our lived experiences and help people to understand how our minds work, and what accommodations help.
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One of my autistic friends struggles a lot with social awareness, but has an incredible mind for numbers and practical, concrete thinking. He now works as an engineer where he doesn’t have to socialize much, and is so good at his job that he can provide for his whole family all on his own.
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So what does one do about this? Well, a few things.
First, if you are a neurodivergent person, one of the kindest things you can do for yourself is find an environment where your traits allow you to be successful.
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So, when we say “neurotypical,” what we ultimately mean is “ideally mentally adapted to the current world.” Much of said world is quite hostile to autistic people, or others with sensory issues. Our approach to education, at least in the US, is hostile to people with ADHD. The list goes on.
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Because here’s the thing: Our brain’s capacity to adapt doesn’t actually care about our happiness. It cares about our survival. On an instinctual level, our brains don’t really understand the modern world. They understand “survive long enough to pass on the genes.” That’s it.
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When you are in a violent or otherwise dangerous situation for an extended period, PTSD’s reflexive hypervigilance genuinely can make the difference between survival and death.
The moment you’re out of that situation, of course, PTSD serves no purpose. But good luck telling your brain that.
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In mental health and neurodivergence, this translates to context. Let’s look at PTSD as an example. The brain doesn’t develop PTSD symptoms for no reason. It does so as a survival response.
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Take the Great White shark, for example. The Great White is an apex predator. Very few things fuck with it, it’s incredibly efficient at what it does. It is HIGHLY adept at the task of being a predatory fish.
But that won’t save it if it finds itself on a mountain peak.
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Evolution and adaptation are basically all about traits. A species develops this or that trait because it helps said species to better survive in its current environment. Barring certain lethal mutations, “good traits” and “bad traits” don’t really exist. It’s all about the environment.
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