matthulhu.bsky.social
Tired, queer, leftish. TTRPG/history/folklore/mythology/linguistics nerd. Pretty big fan of dogs. He/they.
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Beauty and the Beast, the 1946 French version. Absolutely astounding.
Also The Fabulous Baron Munchausen. 1962 Czech fantasy adventure. Looks incredible. Blend of live action with cut-out animation and stop motion and Gustave Doré illustration backdrops.
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OH yeah Valerie and Her Week of Wonders! I love that movie. It feels the closest to what dreaming is like for me. Except I am not a bisexual Czech girl coming of age
And if you can find it, Dementia. A 1955 almost silent movie that feels the closest to what a nightmares are like
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Werckmeister Harmonies or Come and See if you want to be sad
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The Elephant Man
The Seventh Seal
House/Hausu (this is not what most people consider artsy. but it is. it is the pinnacle of culture. There’s an evil cat painting and a piano eats a girl)
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As a kid of about that age, I freakin' loved The Westing Game, a really fun puzzly mystery book.
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I think the overwhelming majority of people in 2025 are going to be thinking of Elon Musk doing a Nazi salute or the arson attack on Gov. Shapiro's home or the fucking murders at a Jewish event in the capital that took place just two weeks ago
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It's quite specialized for projects that could use some medieval or knightly art, but I highly recommend the public domain medieval images collected on Manuscript Miniatures.
manuscriptminiatures.com
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I'm gonna watch the shit out of this episode
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You might even say "pondering exquisite correspondences"
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Shannon Appelcline's Designers & Dragons series
Stu Horvath's Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground
Dungeons & Dragons Art & Arcana
Lizzie Stark's Leaving Mundania (about LARPing so maybe not what you're looking for but I loved this book)
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Also the Deep Roads in Origins.
Those two are why I only ever finished Origins once.
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I'm confused. None of these is a raccoon.
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"Novantico" is an all-caps font that looks like it's designed to mimic exactly this style, down to the flourishes atop the A.
www.myfonts.com/collections/...
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"Do something," I type, then pause. I remain disquieted. Is this... enough..? I slowly erase my reply.
Then I type, "DO SOMETHING!!!!"
Yes.
That's it.
I hit send, and relief washes over me. I am the 1338th person to say the exact same words to the intern running the account.
I've done my part.
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long-time or notable fans, calling her a "bitch," joking about how the only good thing about her was "she looked good on the pyre," or other weird misogyny directed at a fictional woman.
I love Glorantha, but I've got problems with how it and its fans treat women, including Kallyr. But I like her.
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successes all get attributed to Argrath eventually. Out of universe, Jeff oft posts about how interesting / enigmatic / dynamic Argrath is, and about how Kallyr was a stubborn fuckup, angry and parochial and conservative (despite her fusion of sky and air worship). I've seen so many people, even
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Person: Kallyr Starbrow. One of the most shit-upon characters in all of Glorantha, including by fans and writers. In universe, she gets blamed for the 1613 rebellion failing, mostly by tribes who didn't bother to show up, even though she didn't even start it IIRC. "King of Sartar" suggests her
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Place: Safelster. Squabbling city-states, decadent nobles, syncretic religion, elk riders, unique cults, competing sects of Arkati, secret societies. One city's got a teenage queen who can turn into a horse. Her husband wears full iron armor and a grinning helmet faceplate with spectacles welded on.
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as opposed to the wizard building up to dropping a nuke once a day. But I really liked the idea that you were putting extra effects on enemies that your allies or you could take advantage of on subsequent turns in addition to building up your own momentum for a big kick to the face.
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One class where I think a smaller scale version of this idea was conceptually quite good was 13th Age's Monk, which had opening, mid, and finishing martial arts maneuvers in different styles that you could mix and match. Admittedly, this cycle is a once or maybe twice per encounter type buildup,
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My partner and I bought a place of our own, finally. We painted it all, even the stupidly tall dining room walls, with help from friends. We've got a creek out back, green space to take the dog for a snorfle, squirrels and rabbits and geese and herons, and big windows to watch 'em from. Good stuff.
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I know someone used the Leverage RPG to run the Dracula Dossier, which seems like a good fit, though I'd probably want to tinker with adding stuff from the Cortex Prime book...
I've also seen Year Zero games recommended, specifically Walking Dead and/or Blade Runner, but I'm not familiar with them.
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Thought of half a dozen questions to ask and then after each one remembered, "Oh, right, *they* definitely made him sign an NDA." 😅
If you could go back to an older work and change parts of it with knowledge gained and techniques developed since then, what would it be -- if you even would?
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Nope, that's perfectly clear, thanks! I don't know why Nysalor bothered with those riddles, this just made me Seven *so* hard.
🌕 We 🌗 Are 🌘 All 🌑 Sucking 🌑 Her 🌒 Dick 🌓 Godsday 🌕
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Okay, so, like, for real, though... She totally *is* Entekos, right?
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Gee, yeah, who knows what could happen? Could be anything! If only we had everything Trump's said for years recorded and reported publicly, and if only he had already been president before and showed us exactly what he will do and try to do, letting us judge him by his words and deeds. If only, Jon.
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Chaotic?! OH SHIT