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Joseph Hartman (he/they) - Writer of upcoming fantasy novel Dragon Descent, and developer of soulslike RPG Deadbeat! https://linktr.ee/jahartman
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Don't shy away from darkness to make your story more palatable to people. Darkness is where strong emotions lie, and where the conflicts that *really* matter take shape. Without darkness, the light is everpresent and bland. Moments meant to shine are just moments.

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Stories are allowed to resolve with failure. Characters are allowed to do wrong. Bad consequences are better than convenient ones.

submitted 23 hours ago • 3 comments

The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 1 day ago • 120 comments

by the way these are literally the exact same dumbass motherfuckers, not like them, the literal exact same fucking guys, saying government is inefficient and you should cancel it to give them all the governments money so they can provide you services instead

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The unsurprising absurdity of parents saying that it's their religious right to dictate what their children are allowed to learn. No amount of desperate sheltering will stop your gay kid from being gay or your trans kid from being trans. The only choice you have is how miserable you make them.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Never forget which companies and institutions rolled back programs dedicated to helping vulnerable people as soon as possible. They want to treat all that as a 'trend', as if it can all be rolled back and they can pretend it's the 90s (at best) again.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Fuck you, Ziff Davis.

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we seem to have started another day with this administration where even its fiercest critics refuse to name white supremacy's role in all of this. RFK JR isn't dumb. He is a white supremacist trying to justify starting up work camps and child separation. Call the thing what it is.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Sam Nordquist, a transgender man, was murdered in New York after being tortured for more than a month by five people. He was 24 years old. Please do not forget his name. www.cnn.com/2025/02/15/u...

submitted 7 days ago • 12 comments

Alright so, here's MY stupid idea what a better government might look like: More reps. Like WAY more. They each represent fewer people. That way dumb ideas are harder to force through the legislature. One rep per like 100 people.

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

happy presidents day

submitted 6 days ago • 40 comments

For example: "+5% chance to Critically Hit" "The last round in your magazine deals double damage." Absent any other context, the first design has some guaranteed Efficacy (it increases damage), but the second design has much higher Curb Appeal (reading the sentence makes you imagine a story)

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

@juliusgoat.bsky.social

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rp'ed for alt

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Hey when dealing with Nazi disinformation, remember that repeating it only cements it in people’s heads, even if you actively debunk it. RFK: antivax brainworm word salad! You: RFK is pro mass death. Don’t repeat any of their messaging even to prove it wrong.

submitted 6 days ago • 16 comments

Not to get political or anything, but if the US is to make it out of this, every single right wing think tank like The Heritage Foundation and The Federalist Society needs to be dismantled in its entirety, its source of funding seized, and its existence criminalized so as never to take root again.

submitted 6 days ago • 48 comments

Them: "Are you okay with losing friends over politics?" Me: "I'm willing to lose friends over morals. HUGE difference."

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Unable to win arguments about facts or history, white supremacists always go with censorship. Ignorance is their best friend.

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments