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23 / Trans Lesbian / TTRPG + SFF literature enthusiast / leftist / writer 🌿 (she/her)
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How did gluten free beer get so solved? Gluten Free anything else is a miserable affair, but gluten free beer is great. An ale that doesnt want to hurt me :)

Every day, i think about this one witch illustration from an adventure in knock! 1 - This is my transition goals

Deleted a post not because i was blatantly talking about erotic photography [i have no shame] but because i misspelt photography twice [i am trying to make a "career' out of writing, unfortunately]

Wow this is so cool

An "art of the osr" coffee table book could go so hard

If anyone feels adventures are under-discussed, I’d like to draw attention to my Bathtub Reviews which discuss adventure modules at length and regularly idlecartulary.com/category/bat...

another Taschen banger - The Book of Miracles A full, faithful reproduction of the German 16th-century manuscript of supernatural phenomena, and one of the most spectacular discoveries in Renaissance art. Blending Bible stories, folklore, and apocalyptic visions www.taschen.com/en/books/cla...

My number one ttrpg advice to people is: do not leave when the game is over. Let it settle down, talk, chill, debrief. Otherwise, you will quickly burn yourself out.

Horror roleplaying is incredibly underrated

i want to play mothership grrrr. One of my players got a new job w night shifts that decimated our ability to do sessions and now im going crazy (amidst the solo and duo stuff i still need group games esp mothership)

Hiking is great and amazing but hiking "fashion" is made by the devils. I get its practicality first but like...its so offputting. At least lets add some patches for personality.

Ufton woods pool and flowers from my garden #sketchbook

I just happy im coherent, having not slept in 24 hours [i have been finishing up on Monsters, Aliens and Holes in the Ground by Stu Horvath. Such a great book. I will miss just cracking this open and having a read over a beer in the evenings tho]

My red flag is i find discussions [or discourse if you please] in ttrpgs really exhilarating and fun [when not outright rude] although im aware many others find this stuff tedious to even see happen.

BTW fuck anyone who starts calling story games or anything like it "Improvisational theatre games" and discarding them as not "real" ttrpgs. Attacking the diversity of experiences in the hobby is gatekeepery, antagonistic, and stifling: Cross polination of design schools leads to great games.

i dont understand how people write without paragraph indentation omg

I hate that when i try to log into my bank on my laptop it requests i confirm it with the app IF MY PHONE WASNT DEAD I WOULD JUST USE THE APP

woo!

things like fonts and word spacing are genuine infohazards. once you start thinking about that stuff you obsess about it everywhere and it makes you crazy. why is all text different yet normal except for the stuff I format

Nasi goreng is by far the best breakfast

In the floaty feeling of having just finished an incredible book.

Great thread! The idea ive been toying with is that the players are suspects in a "locked room" murder, and therefore are suspects. The aim is to clear themselves of the crime first and foremost while also creating character relationships, with solving the murder one way to do that!

Goodreads is rancid, and storygraph is so overconcerned for stats that are complete nonsense. Why can't books have one good logging site [tho neither do i want to see reviews or ratings, ew no thanks]

Since there was interest, You Will Die In This Tape is a spinoff of my TTRPG/postmodern horror game You Will Die In This Place (liz-shrikestudio.itch.io/you-will-die...). I put it together in a weekend, hoping to recoup some art costs. I'll have some copies at Norwich Games Con in August.

Some people get lost that language is about communication; if i say i am a game designer, i dont care if you agree or not, i dont care if that's "literal" or not. But it conveys a sense of what i do, of how i engage an artform. Just as when i say i am a writer.

Something about this is that a lot of ttrpg performances [actual plays ect] emulate, or follow already established narrative styles - ie. Character arcs. Where as i do feel there is an under-utilised performance space more similar to warhammer battle reports ect. "Actual actual plays".

i don't think most cis people know what it's like for every fun or happy or meaningful moment you experience to be overshadowed by some tragedy affecting your fundamental personhood in some way within 48 hours on either side of it

Darkest Dungeon WLWeek || 02 - Sisterhood #ddwlweek2025 #ddwlweek

I seriously geek out over writing (mine and that of other writers). I don't want to do it faster. I want to slow down and luxuriate.

I wish i didn't have a petrifying fear of snakes. I'd love to have a pet one

FBC Firebreak kinda sucks, really dissapointing but amidst matchmaking issues the game is just...boring and pretty generic, and the aesthetic leaves a lot to be desired with none of the...style or weirdness of control. Also kinda misses the entire appeal of the FBC.