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The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon (L'éclipse du soleil en pleine lune)(1907) Director: Georges Méliès

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Reading old 80s D&D clones and found the best villain scheme ever.

While everyone is conquering the world or bringing about the apocalypse, the Riddling Reaver (from Fighting Fantasy) is planning to use an ancient artifact to alter the universe. If he succeeds, rather then everyone's moral status being easily placed into one of nine unambiguous categories, Morality will be grey, blurry and impossible to uncontroversially define. At one point someone starts panicking about the terrible possibility of having evil people who don't know they're evil.

"This fuckers going to implement moral complexity in your game and it's up to you to stop him!" is such a high-concept extrapolation of the concept of an alignment system that I can't help but love it. The villain is coming in with postmodern accounts of intersubjectivism and someone needs to stop him reading them to the GM.

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YALL

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The 2023 Gender Census is now open!

[ Link to survey ]

The 10th annual international gender census, collecting information about the language we use to refer to ourselves and each other, is now open until 9th May 2023.

It’s short and easy, about 5 minutes probably.

After the survey is closed I’ll process the results and publish a spreadsheet of the data and a report summarising the main findings. Then anyone can use them for academic or business purposes, self-advocacy, tracking the popularity of language over time, and just feeling like we’re part of a huge and diverse community.

If you think you might have friends and followers who’d be interested, please do reblog this blog post, and share the survey URL by email or at AFK social groups or on other social networks. Every share is extremely helpful - it’s what helped us get 40,000 responses last year.

Survey URL: https://survey.gendercensus.com

The survey is open to anyone anywhere who speaks English and feels that the gender binary doesn’t fully describe their experience of themselves and their gender(s) or lack thereof.

For the curious, you can also spy on some graphs and demographic data for the incoming responses here.

Thank you so much!

[ Link to survey ]

Image credit: Avery at Tradescantia Hub

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Campaign 1 Episode 85: 

This was iconic and I couldn’t resist. 

#critical role #I love how that both killed and resurrected Liam #liam o'brien #laura bailey #travis willingham

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Critical Role Ask Game

satyr: how did you discover critical role

dragonborn: when did you start watching

human: what is your favorite main campaign

elf: what is your favorite side campaign

dwarf: what is your favorite one-shot

tiefling: who is your favorite female player

gnome: who is your favorite male player

halfling: who is your favorite dm

half-elf: who is your favorite guest player

goliath: who is your favorite campaign 1 character

changeling: who is your favorite campaign 2 character

genasi: who is your favorite campaign 3 character (so far)

goblin: who is your favorite non-main campaign character

aasimar: what is your favorite location in exandria (or out of it)

eisfuura: who is your favorite npc

wizard: what is your favorite party name

paladin: what is your favorite friendship

monk: what is your favorite canon relationship 

druid: what is your favorite non-canon ship

bard: what is your favorite “how do you want to do this?”

rogue: what was a moment that made you cry

fighter: what was your favorite funny moment 

paladin: what was your favorite badass moment

cleric: what is your favorite battle

barbarian: who is your favorite villain

ranger: who is your favorite animal companion

warlock: what is your favorite critical role merch 

sorcerer: what is your favorite sam commercial skit

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Gonna redraw this as Loquatious and Laerynn

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Here is a free pdf of the players handbook

Here is a free pdf of xanathars guide to everything

Here is a free pdf to monsters manual

Here is a free pdf to tashas cauldron of everything

Here is a free pdf to dungeon master’s guide

Here is a free pdf to volo’s guide to monsters

Here is a free pdf of mordenkainen’s tomb of foes

For all your dnd purposes

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this is so so important to me and mine, and I'm asking you to Do Something so I'll respect your time and keep it brief

in the UK, if 100k sign a a government petition it will be brought to Parliament and debated. y'all know this country is suffering from some 80s-style bigotry right now, and this is one symptom: almost 200k fuckholes have come together to force the government to discuss whether it is 'appropriate' to tell children that queer people exist. this is a big symbolic victory for them. and i am burning with fury.

please, if you're from the UK, sign this counter-petition so they can at least see how much of a minority they are. simply put, the attempt to put these bastards in their place isn't gathering enough steam. there are barely 2000 more signatures now than there were this morning (27th January 2023), and that isn't enough. i refuse to let these people feel even a moment of victory or satisfaction. please help.

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hey if you're a UK resident can you sign this petition and if not please rb to spread the word

this is an official UK government petition that they have to respond to if it reaches 10,000 signatures

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overly specific dnd meme that could also be about godhood if you think about it

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Here is a free pdf of the players handbook

Here is a free pdf of xanathars guide to everything

Here is a free pdf to monsters manual

Here is a free pdf to tashas cauldron of everything

Here is a free pdf to dungeon master’s guide

Here is a free pdf to volo’s guide to monsters

Here is a free pdf of mordenkainen’s tomb of foes

For all your dnd purposes

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Strangers in Lively Town

Took me half a year to complete 🤪

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Critical Role Ask Game

satyr: how did you discover critical role

dragonborn: when did you start watching

human: what is your favorite main campaign

elf: what is your favorite side campaign

dwarf: what is your favorite one-shot

tiefling: who is your favorite female player

gnome: who is your favorite male player

halfling: who is your favorite dm

half-elf: who is your favorite guest player

goliath: who is your favorite campaign 1 character

changeling: who is your favorite campaign 2 character

genasi: who is your favorite campaign 3 character (so far)

goblin: who is your favorite non-main campaign character

aasimar: what is your favorite location in exandria (or out of it)

eisfuura: who is your favorite npc

wizard: what is your favorite party name

paladin: what is your favorite friendship

monk: what is your favorite canon relationship 

druid: what is your favorite non-canon ship

bard: what is your favorite “how do you want to do this?”

rogue: what was a moment that made you cry

fighter: what was your favorite funny moment 

paladin: what was your favorite badass moment

cleric: what is your favorite battle

barbarian: who is your favorite villain

ranger: who is your favorite animal companion

warlock: what is your favorite critical role merch 

sorcerer: what is your favorite sam commercial skit

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it's fucked that mead is a real drink that you can buy from a store and you don't actually need to brew it in your own dwarven wooden barrel or be invited by small mice into their larder to try. it's also fucked that grog is a real drink that wasn't made up by pirate orcs, and also is just watered down rum instead of, like, a bubbling green slop with stink lines coming off of it. does this make sense