Forum mods quickly learn who habitual line steppers are and the answer for them is almost always “no” & it’s fine to swiftly suspend and ban them for anything even questionably close to the line. Wasting your time with semantics is entertainment to them so they should be summarily destroyed imo.

Foods I've had lately: bbq chicken, pumpkin beer, giant burger, mac & cheese-stuffed omelet

Holy fuck, people really got Chotinermania

On kind of a kick lately

Recap of the second Krevborna High session talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2025/09/car-...

It's commonplace now to see advice for DMs like "check in with your players to see if they're having fun," but I don't think I've seen a single instance of players being encouraged to check in to see if the DM is having a good time.

It would be cool if they came up with something that's like a novella, but longer

Don't engage in "elfin behavior," listen to the new episode

Things are going to get weird over here

Me when the manager of a Burger King tells me not to drink soda straight from the machine: CHESS MOVES ARE UNDENIABLE.

I wonder if there are any small presses that would be interested in a fantasy novel about a goth grave robber, her black metal girlfriend, her chipper robot friend, and a pair of psychosexual monster hunters embroiled in a mystery inspired by the Pre-Raphaelites.

HIM should have used the tagline: "You die in football, you die in real life."

Dare I click?

Poetry is legal

Monster-infested mists and a roving fey party house in Krevborna talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2025/09/tser...

Having to sit the fellas down and explain why we're using Daggerheart (or whatever) for the next Krevborna campaign instead of Savage Worlds.

I keep almost calling the Hannibal tv show "Hamilton," which tbh I do think they appeal to the same theater kid energy whether fans want to admit it or not.

People need to be asking the "I didn't agree with everything Charlie Kirk said" eulogizers exactly *what* things he said they *do* agree with.

Surprised it took this long to see someone repost a "what we need now is UPLIFTING, HOPEFUL fiction" turd. Get outta here with that.

Draft Three is dead. Long live...

What's the over/under on Obama releasing a memorial tribute playlist?

"Kids should have to watch public executions" is just straight-up something a Dickens villain would say, and we'd all be expected to realize that guy is a cruel fuckin' weirdo. Dickens would also have had the decency to name that character Mister Slandermost or something.

Bluesky only has twenty employees, but one of them has to monitor Gretchen Felker-Martin full-time. www.uniladtech.com/social-media...

They still publish Sandman.

Some of the best books I've read so far this year. @sillysyntax.bsky.social'a Skin Thief: A diverse set of stories where every single tale is a banger. Flawless collection. Roshani Chokshi's The Last Tale of the Flower Bride: Dreamlike fairytale Gothic full of ethereal menace.

Plus, the Dickens gets a 5+ Feels No Pain save.

I wonder if a right-wing pundit has ever had a sleepless night after they realized that the people they pal around with would be excited to use their death as a rhetorical gambit.

The real Gothic horror is high school (recap of our Monster of the Week game) talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2025/09/krev...

Movie pitch: Jesus gets buried in the Pet Sematary, comes back *wrong*

In light of Epstein's birthday card, if Death of a Unicorn had one major failing, it's that it didn't make the ultra rich family in it much grosser.

Bold of Spirit Halloween to craft their yearly display around conservatives' biggest fear: riding the subway.

One of the weirdest guys we ever had on my discord was a fanboy for the conservative Supreme Court Justices who played all those commie-esque story games. It was a pleasure to eject him over his rah-rah Israel horseshit.

The characters from the MONSTER SQUAD adventure, plus all the available characters in the Expanded Universe talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...

Oh, you stand with Graham Linehan? Prove it--have a stroke in solidarity.

Book 67 of 2025: Hailey Piper, A Game in Yellow A couple turns to reading from The King in Yellow as foreplay, with disastrous results. I loved the obsessive focus on a small cast of characters and the incisive prose. My new favorite of @haileypiperfights.bsky.social's books!

Recap of our latest PLANET MOTHERFUCKER game. Don't worry, they solved racism! talesofthegrotesqueanddungeonesque.blogspot.com/2025/09/they...

Other people's game prep: making maps, planning encounters, devising traps My game prep: "What kind of stuffed animal would this NPC buy this other NPC to cheer them up?"

We need to return to fandoms basically being worshippers of Crom — knowing their religion comes with no benefits and their requests will not be answered.

When the freak is not on a leash

As of last night, I hit my yearly goal of running five different rpg systems: Savage Worlds, MORK BORG, Call of Cthulhu, PLANET MOTHERFUCKER, and now Monster of the Week.

You should never judge an album by its cover, but if its AI then it sucks and fuck you. #metalsky

MANTHRAX: THE WORLD'S ONLY ALL-MALE ANTHRAX COVER BAND!

People will gather round to talk about how no one is taking about a thing, all the while never talking about the thing itself.

I'm currently reading a book I dislike so much that if I were to talk about it here it would probably count as bullying.

Writing a novel has been a lot of work, but it's honestly pretty fun

Local antique store is really cooking lately

One cycle ends, another begins! Finished revising draft #2 of my novel, now I can start on draft #3.

Why it sound so sexual

I would much rather explain the existence of lesbians to a kid than the existence of Snoop Dogg.