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the stuff going on at columbia campus rn is genuinely incredible

#news #palestine

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You grab that kid, I'll get the other one!

#WELCOME TO SPIRITS AND SUCH #mp100 #mp100 fanart

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Do as I say and not as I do

#YELLING ''OH FUCK'' REPEATEDLY AT VOLUME #mp100 #mp100 fanart

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#mp100 #polls

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Some of you might remember Teen & Wolf, the Lasers and Feelings hack that @freelanceplatypus and I designed with our beautiful brains a while back. It's a joy to announce that, after playtesting, editing, thinking up better jokes, and editing again, a full version with an illustrated rule book is available for free to download!

The gorgeous cover you see in this post was illustrated by @soymikki. One million thanks to Mikki, as well as to Rachel @snailparent and Cass @ambientmagic, the best playtesters we could ask for.

Please enjoy the game! Let us know if you've played it, tell us all your teen werewolf stories, and keep howling at the moon!

#hey i was just thinking fondly of our l&f hack ahain #*again #PLAY IT pls pls pls #Teen and Wolf #Teen & Wolf

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the rest of this blog post is about the chicago cubs but these first two paragraphs are extremely powerful

#writing

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[ID: Mob Psycho 100 fanart. The first shows Mob with his head shadowed and eyes glowing like he's in ???% mode, staring down imposingly at a frog which sits below him and is glowing with Mob's aura.

The second shows Mob speaking via Tumblr post by @/morganalefays to Dimple, Ritsu, Reigen, Teru, Tome, and Serizawa. He says with a neutral expression, "no offense but im going to get better and i'm taking all of you up with me." End ID]

People love him for his nice kindness

#friendly boy swag :) #mp100 #mp100 fanart #text post meme

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If indie ttrpg people made a normal sport like Tennis they would probably call the points something ridiculous like Love

#free #us designing the plato's allegory of the cave reverse dungeon crawl #ttrpgs

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gorgug you have to watch out. your rage is too mathematical and precise. your critical hits too frequent. theyll kill you gorgug

#gorgug!!! #d20 spoilers #fhjy #dimension 20 #fantasy high

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Monster Tidbits - Dryad

#i do love this tidbit #he's thinking of his daughters in that last panel!!! #dungeon meshi

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did some math based on adventurer's bible stuff about average sizes of tallmen & half-foots & the canon heights of the characters and. chilchuck is the half-foot equivalent of 6'5

#YEAH #egregious self promotion #dungeon meshi

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what's everyone's favourite corpses/mummies/human remains/etc?

#SO GLAD YOU ASKED #old croghan man because he looks like geodude #huldremose woman is high on the list also #also jeremy bentham's head #ancient corpses tag #i love asking people this i always learn something new when i do

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It frightens and discourages me how pervasive "tribal" stereotypes and imagery are in the fantasy and adventure genres.

It's all over the place in classic literature. Crack open a Jules Verne novel and you're likely to find caricatures of brown people and cultures, even when the characters are sympathetic to the plight of the colonized peoples - incidentally, this is the biggest reason I can't recommend 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea to everyone, despite Captain Nemo being one of my favorite fictional characters of all time.

You can't escape it in modern cinema, either. You'll see white heroes venturing bravely into jungles and tombs to steal from natives who don't know how to use their resources "properly." You'll see them strung up in traps, riddled with sleeping darts, forced to flee and fight their way out. Hell, Pirates of the Caribbean, a remarkably inclusive franchise in many other ways, had an extended sequence of the white heroes escaping from a cannibal civilization in the second film.

And when fantasy RPGs want a humanoid enemy, the "bloodthirsty natives" are the first stock trope they jump to. World of Warcraft is one of the most egregious examples, with the trolls - blatant racist caricatures with faux-voodoo beliefs, cannibalistic diets, Jamaican accents, and a history of being killed in droves by (white) elves and humans - being raided and slaughtered in nearly every expansion.

It doesn't matter how vibrant and distinctive the real-world indigenous, Polynesian, Caribbean, and African cultures are. It doesn't matter how much potential these real civilizations offer for complex and sympathetic characterization. Anything that doesn't make sense to the white western mind is shoved under the same "savage" umbrella. They're different. They're strange. They're scary. They have to be escaped, subjugated, eliminated, ogled at from the safety of a museum.

Modern writers, directors, and developers don't even seem to realize how horrifying it is to present the indigenous inhabitants of a place as "obstacles" for non-native protagonists to overcome. "It's not racist," they say, "because these people aren't really people, you see." And if you dare to point out anything that hurts or offends you as a descendant of the bastardized culture, you're accused of being the real racist: "These aren't humans! They're monsters! Are you saying that these real societies are just like those disgusting monsters?"

No, they're not monsters. But you chose to design them as monsters, just as invaders have done for hundreds of years. Why would you do that? Why can you recognize any other caricature as evil and cruel, but not this?

This is how deep colonialism runs.

#fantasy #racism

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I was born hungry

#golden jackal song by the mountain goats playing at top volume #dungeon meshi #dunmeshi fanart #gore cw ?

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I hope your vibrator runs out of battery halfway through and that the charger is on the other side of the room. And also that you die

#nsfw text #the mountain goats #WHEEZE

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turn up that fucking hurdy gurdy

#i can't hear the hurdy gurdy

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a small bit of character development that makes me emotional but i dont see talked about very much is mob going from “just sort of humoring tome’s attempts at finding telepaths without really putting much effort into it and mostly using it as an excuse to hang out with her” to “putting 100% of his effort into finding this girl her telepath and helping her meet aliens” post broccoli arc. like after him dismissing dimple’s life’s dreams led to all that? of course he would…

#aaah true!! #mp100