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NIMONA (2023)

I don't know what's scarier. The fact that everyone in this kingdom wants to run a sword through my heart...or that sometimes...I just wanna let 'em.

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something they don’t tell you about being autistic is that every character you write WILL end up autistic/autistic-coded whether you like it or not

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TIL that AD&D had sourcebooks for different historical communities (Celts, Vikings, probably someone else). I,don't were they good, but I think that more games shall have little historical textbooks of information specifically for your games. And not only historical, let's make a Traveller supplement that describes real-life fleet and suggests how would space fleet look like

Uh huh! As far as I know there was also a supplement about playing in the time of Charlemagne, the Charlemagne whose closest circle of knights were called Paladins, who went on to give their name to the almost entirely unrelated D&D class of the same name! Rolemaster Classic has a historical sourcebook for Rome!

But I think Ars Magicka is actually the gold standard of this: its sourcebooks are apparently very thoroughly researched, and even though they also feature fake stuff related to the game's unique vision of medieval Europe, based on what I've heard they mostly just act as pretty good historical sourcebooks?

So yeah, I do agree. As bad as some of those sourcebooks can be, we need more of them. Even the D&D 5e sourcebook set during the events described in the New Testament right before Jesus' crucifixion which also might count as heretical but I'm not Christian so don't quote me on that is good simply by virtue of the inherent silliness of putting Jesus in the dungeon game

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day 1534

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My mother in law booked a hotel in the path of totality for the solar eclipse, in the center where totality would last the longest (nearly 4 minutes!). It was really interesting, to watch the world grow weirdly hazy as the moon got closer and closer to completely covering it, but I've seen that before.

The shift from hazy day to darkness above, with 360 degrees of light at the horizon though... THAT was wild. Getting to stare at the sun, a golden halo around a pool of black, the firebird rays surrounding it, the red splash of color from the solar prominence, all with another planet hanging out just below in the sky... Spectacular actually.

I know a lot of photos will be better than my phone, but it's what I had.

My sister in law brought cardstock papers with our names punched into them in holes, so that we could see the crescent shadows during the lead up.

Pretty neat!

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like the idea of unnaturally aged cheese. making my gouda old using dread magics forbidden by the college of sorcery

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Color palette inspiration: scans from The Function of Colour in Factories, Schools & Hospitals (1930). The style & precision of these illustrations is marvelous.

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This is gold this, absolute gold, the most over the top melodramatic hysterical ridiculous thing I’ve ever read

#the gends #for mom #that last commenter really nailed the wedge between us tbh. ouch.

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Which wolf clipart?

this fucker:

I call it Lumpy Kiba and I’ve seen it used for car decals, stickers, clipart, traced with varying degrees of obviousness by artists of all skill/experience levels, I’m pretty sure I saw it in some small local company’s logo once.

here’s the original still from Wolf’s Rain (which is not a lot less weird-looking, but it looks fine in a stylized anime where it’s supposed to be), which I saw early in high school and ever since have had to live with apparently being the only one who knows that all these people just fucking traced an anime wolf.

it’s like the goddamn wilhelm scream of lazy art, once you see it you will never unsee it again, and it’s everywhere. and you can always tell because it’s frankly a pretty mediocre trace of an already wonky-looking wolf, so like. you can tell.

here it is on two different bumper stickers (two of MANY, just google ‘howling wolf bumper sticker’ and at least 70% of the fullbody ones will be Lumpy Kiba):

jewelry:

clipart collections that REALLY show off the Lumpiness compared to silhouettes referenced from actual wolf photos:

random art, including my personal favorite, a watercolor where the artist could just as easily have looked up an actual photo of a wolf but chose Lumpy Kiba instead:

a tattoo:

and THIS mcfuckery where he went through the whole process of sketching and refining to make it look like he was drawing a wolf from scratch (the gods know what you’ve done, jon harris):

anyway Lumpy Kiba is the bane of my existence but if I point it out I sound insane so I’m glad I had this opportunity to curse you all with the burden of this knowledge.

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A woman went viral for being turned down for a next interview for a role, she asks the recruiter what she did wrong, the recruiter tells her they were “concerned about her lack of effort in her appearance.”

She explains she wore a freshly ironed blazer with a collared top. Her nails were painted a professional beige. She got a blowout for her hair, so a professional style. She had on subdued gold earrings.

The only thing she wasn’t wearing was makeup; she states she really doesn’t wear makeup, and only had chapstick on, as her skin is sensitive. Her lawyer mother has already explained she has no legal case against the company for any type of gender-based discrimination.

Just in case anyone wants to ask why feminists still refer to the “pink tax” or rail against more and more elaborate makeup trends being pushed on girls and women.

Women being punished socially for not wearing makeup is still a feminist issue.

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PLOT TWIST: BINGO-CEPTION 😈

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New zine that's free for anyone to print and distribute! Read the whole thing at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the rest of this post.

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Two Women Engaged in Sexual Intercourse in a Neoclassical Canopied Bed. Etching, ca. 1780. via JSTOR

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libby overdrive is her full name

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"if you tell all your friends you love them all the time, then the word love becomes meaningless" well for one yeah i sure hope it does, and for two, if hearing me tell you i love you every day becomes meaningless to you because i say it too often, then you don't believe my love is valuable and also skill issue

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Duck in semi formal wear