#lighten the load

[phatburd]

Current state of affairs.

#got a cool new keyboard case for my tablet #lighten the load #and a vanilla latte

[sadeskies]

#lighten the load #poetry #sade sky

[chantireviews]

LIGHTEN The LOAD: Ghosts Along the Oregon Trail Book 2 by David Fitz-Gerald - Historical Fiction, Oregon Trail, Mystery

  Once on a grand adventure to a new life with her husband and young family, Dorcas suddenly finds herself the sole shepherd for her children into the unknown, in David Fitz-Gerald’s historical fiction novel, Lighten the Load. Owner of a fully loaded wagon, in a train of travelers on the truly wild western trail, Dorcas must give every decision her full attention. She faces immediate…

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#Chanticleer 5 Star Book Review #David Fitz-Gerald #Ghosts Along the Oregon Trail #Historical Fiction #Lighten the Load #Mystery #Oregon Trail

[harlivies]

 “You aren’t worried about your position?” “I like this position. It’s quite comfortable.”

#rhaenicent #alicent hightower #rhaenyra targaryen #hotdgif #hotdedit #hotd #house of the dragon #brb gonna go eat some concrete to feel better #and what if i say that part of the reason why alicent ended up marrying viserys #and birthing his children #was to try and lighten the load on rhaenyra's shoulders #then what #of course her father forced her into that position #but alicent often rationalizes these things to give them meaning #ahem duty sacrifice #and rhaenyra often made it seem like she didn't really want to rule #but rather fight and explore what have you #so what if she really thought she was helping #by giving viserys a different option #my 13th reason #anyway back to the normal tags ig #mine: new #2023 #mine: gif #mine: gifs #mine: hotd #hotd: the heirs of the dragon #mine: rhaenicent #mine: rhaenyra targaryen #mine: alicent hightower

[feral-and-or-horny]

I need..my professors..to chill the fuck out. I don't even have time to be horny

#after tomorrow my workload this week lightens up #but i am so tired. #they keep being like #this is an upper level class!! you should be prepared for the work load!!! #which yeah sure #i don't disagree #BUT ALL OF MY CLASSES ARE UPPER LEVELS #AND IM HAVING TO READ 3-5 ***BOOKS*** EVERY WEEK #AND WRITE THOUGHTFUL DISCUSSION POSTS #AND WRITE ORIGINAL STORIES FOR MY ***THREE*** WORKSHOPS #IM EXHAUSTED #BUT I AM KICKING ASS #my post

[nightlightbrothel]

Continued from Here

Seeing that their client was a little shy and flustered helped to ease both girls a little more. They had turned to face him fully now, and Mythra noticed him staring at their breasts. "See something you like?" She bounced her chest a little, aiming to tease him.

Pyra giggled. "Don't mind her too much. She's Mythra, and I'm Pyra. What should we call you?" She knew that some clients liked to remain anonymous when using these kinds of services, while others like to be called things like 'Master' or 'Daddy.' Or, if they were on the more submissive side, Mythra could come up with a demeaning nickname for them...

@pocketsizxxxedlawyer

#pocketsizxxxdlawyer #I'm Heated Up (Pyra) #I'll Lighten Your Load (Mythra)

[thelassoway]

Ted Lasso S01E01 Pilot || Ted Lasso S03E03 4-5-1 & S03E07 The Strings That Bind Us

#Ted Lasso #Theodore Lasso #Jason Sudeikis #Coach Beard #Brendan Hunt #*mine: gif #*mine: TL theory #*mine: nonsense #I thought about reformatting this caption but the Us all alone/it is all about the us #they carry their own baggage but really they need help from others to lighten the load #I'm thinking about Kenneth telling Roy to ask the Earth to help carry some of my burden..... #that mini cooper can hold/handle #metaphor on top of metaphor #something something about those 5 characters all in a parking lot at night or something #also the scene of Beard in the back later on. he really is just matched/mashed up with his baggage #technically Beard does load Ted's bag and in gif 2 here Ted is loading Beard's bag. so they are helping each other #tbh I don't know what I'm doing with these gifset ideas.... #me @ me I should stop these #to the 8 people who reblog this I greatly appreciate y'all

[heybiji]

hi!!! i just wanted to say i really love all of your MASKS stuff. i'm something of a newbie when it comes to the TTRPG community, but MASKS seems to be not very well-known and i think that's a real shame. i'm a huge fan of old-school superhero-adjacent stuff, especially the silver- and bronze-age ones!

by the way, i was wondering if you'd be willing to share some tips for a first-time GM? you don't have to if you'd rather not! i just figured i'd try asking since i was planning on GMing a MASKS campaign for some of my friends later, but despite my decade's worth of roleplaying experience i've never been in a TTRPG campaign nor a GM (or similar) role before

Thank you so much!! I was just lamenting about how I felt bad for the MASKS tag because it is now flooded with all my npc nonsense hahah so this is really nice to hear.

It's awesome you're planning on running a MASKS game for your friends!! There is an indispensable post on twitter I saw that has a LOT of great tips for running MASKS that I recommend checking out. But for my own personal tips that are just me things, here's what I got. Sorry it's gonna be extremely long-winded, it may take a few months to read through it.

(Note: I am also hugely into RP and probably put more into it than what is necessary, especially with MASKS which is meant to be able to be played out of the box. It was definitely not played out of the box in our case because I require a lot out of myself and everyone else to feel good about running something. if anyone else wants to continue seeing me as a normal human being please don't click the Keep Reading)

Since you're running it, make the world interesting to you. If the world runs around themes you're personally interested in then you'll have a much easier time coming up with answers on the fly. For me, themes I'm interested in that lend themselves well to a superhero world: money, power, family, celebrity, media, the 24 hour news cycle and the desensitization of violence. Because I'm interested in this stuff anyway, wrapping a world around them makes it much simpler for me to figure out how the world ticks and thus how the characters fit into it and how the world reacts to them, and I am DESPERATE to find out how the characters react to all the questions and expectations the world is imposing upon them.

Make sure your players have a good grasp of the tone of story so they can make characters that gel well within it. For me the tone is a lil more adult because I'm not personally into younger morality tale stories in tone, it's pretty grounded, and I think comedy and tragedy work hand in hand so I lean into them.

Talk. A lot. Talk about the characters, talk about the world. MASKS is fun because it's a LOT of talking and figuring out the narrative together. It's not a lot of crunchy mechanics, it's all around seeing how the characters react to the world narratively, all hurt and comfort and emotions which (for me) requires people to have a good grasp on their characters and the world. I like to give my players "homework" where I ask them a question involving their characters in some way like "what hero did your character look up to as a child?" so they get to come up with past heroes, or "How does your character feel about _____?" etc etc. The only fans are gonna be your table and fans love to talk so be the biggest fans of the PCs!!

Figure out your framing. I know in MASKS they suggest framing it like a comic book, and basically talking about the frames on screen. For me, because I'm more into movies and tv than comics, I frame it like that. So I have an active "camera" in play during sessions and will ask things like "would anyone like to grab the camera?" to encourage the players to put the character into a scene or "what does the audience see as the camera focuses in on your character in this emotional moment?" There is a LOT of playing up to the camera and framing the sessions as episodes of a show, so it's like, okay, you have several options but what is going to be interesting for the audience to see? I find this encourages the players to have their characters take bigger swings and feel comfortable letting us into how their character is feeling because it all looks GREAT on camera. The camera loves it. The PCs are the story after all.

Because I frame it a show, I also like to play individual ending songs over the "credits" at the end of each episode. So I asked my players to make playlists for their characters so if I feel an episode had a lot of emotional focus on one character in particular, I can play one of their songs at the end of the episode! I also made a general MASKS playlist with a bunch of songs from the era we set it in (2004) to pull from. It's a fun little addition that I really enjoy and that I hope makes it all feel more special.

The Dino Donut Effect: create landmarks in your world. (OK THIS IS GONNA BE LONG BUT WORK WITH ME HERE) They don't have to be locations, more solid landmarks of the story that the characters can refer back to and lean on to make the world feel more "real." I call it the Dino Donut Effect because in our world the thing that made everything click into place was talking out the backstory of one of the PC's figuring out they had the power negation ability. We were talking one night trying to figure it out; we wanted the character to fall out of a building and be caught by a flying superhero and accidentally turn off their powers, so they toss the kid to another flying supe whose powers also get turned off. But we were like... holy shit what is the height of a building needed that can handle this much action in the air without them hitting the ground in 3 seconds. So after a long night of talking about terminal velocity and looking at Splat Calculators we figured out the height of the building, and we needed them to crash into something that wouldn't fuckin kill them. The first suggestion was a truck full of bananas. Nah. We landed on a giant balloon that could take the impact. And the balloon became a giant T-Rex holding a donut that was the mascot of the city's beloved decades old donut shop Dino Donut. And so we decided that one of the two flying supes grabbed onto the kid and the other and flew into the giant balloon to try and keep them all alive, which destroyed the balloon, which was a city institution, and there was a crowd of children there that day that saw their friend Dino Donut die. Killed by a superhero. The balloon deflated loudly so it sounded like Dino Donut was screaming in agony. All the kids were traumatized (screaming crying throwing up), the city was furious because everyone loved Dino Donut, it was constantly in the news cycle, and it ruined the career of the supe that "killed Dino Donut." AND THEN THEY REPLACED THE DINO DONUT BALLOON WITH A LAME "UPDATED DESIGN" DINO DONUT STATUE which everyone hates and people consider to be a memorial to the old Dino Donut. ANYWAY, the Dino Donut effect is that now all the PCs have one single incident to refer back to that they all have feelings about. A couple of them were there that day and heard Dino Donut scream, one is now the protege of the disgraced superhero that killed Dino Donut so she feels uncomfortable talking about it, there's the kid that was saved that day but was sworn to secrecy by the supe so no one would find out about his power negation ability, and then there's the kid that wasn't there because she's an alien that just arrived to earth and now the kids have to explain the incident to her with all their varying opinions. Now the PCs' meeting spot is at a Dino Donut. Having this one solid incident that is both funny and kind of goes into the themes of the world has been an absolute treat. Creating "landmarks" like that in the world has done so much and now I'm like okay I'm gonna try to do this moving forward with any other thing I run.

anyway these are my extremely specific to me tips. my RP standards are kind of high which makes me a bit of a terror but also when the flowers bloom from it it feels GREAT. i'm not sure if this will help but hopefully there is something there that can be useful!

MASKS is fun and simple once you get the hang of it, though, so I'm sure whatever you do you and your players will have a lot of fun! especially if you're someone who is into RP which is the background I'm coming from too; MASKS is extremely narrative! i'll be looking in the tag for your game hehe

(The Day Dino Donut Died art by JD)

#masks: a new generation #ttrpg #text post #biji text #i am so sorry this is incredibly long but i just really really really like RP SLKDGM #also another tip: make the npcs hot #hot npcs are great okay #this is the advice from someone who has run checks notes 2 episodes of MASKS #2 episodes but like 7 sessions in total because what it is time management #i've also known my players for a many years and we met in an RP group so i felt more comfortable being this level of intense with them #otherwise i would have tried to be a lil more laid back and normal........... #but also as the GM you're going to be doing a LOT of work so it's fair to ask your players to do some work too to help lighten the load! #have fun!!!! MASKS is a lot of fun!!!

[lavender-phannie]

I think we are all clowning hoping for a festive ditl cause there’s no way these boys had time to leave the house while filming gamingmas

#I mean maybe they did #maybe the editors helped lighten the load more #dan and phil #SORRY TO BE A DOWNER

[manofthepipis]

This is silly, but I was doing a gratitude journal last week, and you kept popping up in it because I think about keeping neo so much (I read the last chapter around 5 times since it came out. Haven’t gathered my thoughts enough to make a comment yet but clicks is genuinely concerned about spamton and he does not get it. They’re both so wrong about each other. it’s the communication breakdown babyyyy. but that’s neither here nor there). Point is I thought you may want to know you are making me feral and I’m loving all of it

that just absolutely warms my heart to hear!!! <3 <3!! i'm rlly happy my lil fic has left so much of an impact enough to make it into your gratitude journal (i have one of my own so this is even more stellar to me :'D!!!)

they're both so wrong about each other you're right like they just don't get the other's position due to their own feelings/experiences on what happened. obviously spamton got the rougher outcome of what happened but clicks shutting everything down emotionally/ignoring spamton's existence for all these years doesn't make a very happy addison. to top it all off, to see the outcome of his absence is even worse when he's the first who chose to leave spam to his own devices :')

it's the communication breakdownnnn and they sure do get to it in the next chapter don't you worry

#it's 12k+ so far?? how did that happen #they're assholes to each other and then they're assholes to each other again #and they say mean things #but then they talk #can't say much more than that #all ik is that there's not many funny goofy events next chapter rather just angst :') #i'll sneak in one or two goofy silly bits tho just to lighten the load #also sorry it took so long to get to this ask anon!!!! #busy busy #asks #fanfic

[astro-inthestars]

GUYS HELP PLEASE

#rennikorambles #this is for my homework please #god i need help #lighten my load dear god please #suggest some ideas :(

[jon-withnoh]

The thing they don’t tell you about leaving behind your entire social network to move and „take an opportunity“ is that starting from scratch in a new town is fucking hard. Working 40 hours is fucking hard. Having to use your limited freetime to feed yourself, keep on top of chores, rest and try to make friends is fucking hard. Doing all of this alone is fucking hard. I have nothing left to give right now and it doesn’t matter because if I stop taking care of myself no one else will. There’s no one I can ask to come by and help me with the dishes. There’s no one to sit in silence with because I need company but can’t do words. I have wonderful friends both irl and on this site, but sometimes that’s just not enough. Online support can’t replace someone coming over to bring food or help me clean. And most days I can handle that. I’m very good at taking care of myself. But right now it’s too much.

#mental health stuff #life stuff #delete later #maybe #honestly I’m not ashamed of feeling this way #I’m doing something difficult and daring and goddamn impressive #I just wish I had people around me to lighten the load #also please do not give me advice #i don’t need any

[e-louise-bates]

One week left of classes.

One week of finals.

And then, finally, I will have a degree. And I can take a nap (wait, no I can't--the teens are making gingerbread houses with friends that Saturday and then Carl and I are attending a Christmas party ... I can maybe nap after Christmas).

#finished my final project for one of my classes today #will work on the final project for another class this week #which will definitely lighten the load during finals week #three classes a semester doesn't sound like a lot until you're also working and parenting and spouse-ing and friend-ing and housekeeping #I am enjoying the countdown #my own little mini-advent celebration

[tony-andonuts]

So fucking overwhelmed and burnt out man

#the cook called in so theres an office person cooking and i think she left #without cleaning up any of the cook stuff #andlike #I DONT HAVE THE TIME AND STRENGHT FOR THIS IM IN SO MUCH PAIN AND I JUST WABTED TO GET HOME BEFORE 8 #but of fucking course not 🙄🙄🙄 #i really wish people valued my time #bc i bend over backwards for EVERYONE andlike #ppl tell me how much they appreciate me #but like pretty pls if you appreciate me then plsplspls lighten my load and keep in mind that im literally some 21 year old #just dont fycking step over me like for real i wanna be kind and lovijg but i cant continue if i dony get a fucking break #tony speaks #tony vents #i guess

[syn0vial]

i do love how fetts have a tendency to gravitate towards cheery, playful types. jango had zam and boba has beviin. gotta have their Emotional Support Jokesters.

#fettposting #boba fett #jango fett #zam wesell #goran beviin #look when you're a fett you NEED someone to lighten the mood amidst the Horrors #that's why jango died actually #he killed his load-bearing comic relief friend and the horrors got 'im #boba learned from his dad's mistakes #pretty sure he'd prefer to die for beviin than the other way around

[kissofthemis]

LARGE

#rosa rambles #Sorry for inactivity mental health has been silly goofy (bad) #but I am getting help at work to lighten the load! :)