The Undying Empire is a HIGHLY stratified and (literally) ossified class society. At the top you have the Half-Light Queen, beneath her is a circle of advisors and courtiers consisting of her early allies and some of the rival necromancer warlords she essentially bought off back a thousand-ish years

This is a vetted fundraiser for the family of Renee Good, the woman who was killed by ICE in Minneapolis. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

The Weeping War never really ended. Oh sure, the countries involved signed their treaties and made their deals and all went back to trying to screw one another over in more subtle and urbane ways, but you don't spend ten years dug into trenches shelling the same ten yards of ground over and over and

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

Nobody ever forgets the first time they see the city of Cairn. The skyscrapers and smokestacks vying for space among the old bones, the web of cable cars strung between the towering ribs near midtown and the airships navigating perilously between the wires, that colossal, gleaming skull where the

There's an in-universe scholarly debate surrounding the existence of the soul and whether or not the undead are risen spirits or essentially cloned copies, and I'm never going to clarify which it actually is because I think it's a fun, slightly unsettling bit of uncertainty to keep in there.

The tree-stalker is an odd, nocturnal ambush predator endemic to the deep forests of central Dakra. A consummate mimic, it has tall, spindly, multi-jointed legs which easily blend in among tree trunks, give it a high degree of dexterity, and hold the bulk of its body far above the forest floor among

Well for one, dinosaurs are still around. All the classics, all coexisting, all with absolutely no regard for real evolutionary history because it's my world and I do what I want. There's also just a bunch of ancient non-dinosaur megafauna (e.g. quetzalcoatlus, megalodons, mosasaurs, etc.) kicking

Not everyone will find them cute, but I'm personally very fond of the giant (around the size of a very large dog) domesticated trilobites, and just in general I have a lot of fun including weird, extinct animals because this is a world which has just a vastly different ecological history to our own,

I wouldn't call Taris a grimdark setting, per se, but it certainly has a bit of that DNA in there. As regards slavery in particular, in-world it currently exists in kind of an odd limbo between being viewed as generally distasteful while also being fairly widely practiced in a number of distinct

ok quite a specific one, but i love a good airship and i will move heaven and earth to include them in pretty much any setting or story i create.

Well... my setting is for a campaign and the PCs' backstories aren't really mine to tell, so, a selection of other characters. Kathak Brinn - Nonexistent, Kathak is an orphan and never knew xir birth family. Xe does consider Elgin and Corvid (the other two members of xir covert revolutionary cell)

While the Undying Empire of Dalmoore is many things (horrible, unequal, racist, exploitative, classist, imperialist, and so on and so forth) one thing it isn't is misogynistic, largely on account of the fact that it's been ruled by a woman and her inner circle of also mostly women for a millennium.

The Half-Light Queen: They've all been dead for around a millennium, killed by a rival family of necromancer-warlords. That's actually the reason she started down the path to becoming... y'know, the Half-Light Queen, unifier of the peninsula, immortal saint of the Carrion God. A thousand years on

Oh this is a fun one. The Dalish aristocracy has just an absolutely bunkers approach to families. The crux of the problem is that they're all immortal zombies, so nobody wants to write up inheritances because they all plan on living forever and what's even the point of eternal life if you have to

I've not done a ton of work on astronomy as far as stars and constellations and such are concerned, but I do have some fun things going on in the solar system (never mind the fact that the people living on the planet don't know about a lot of it). For instance, Taris' moon is already inhabited by

The puppeteer wasp is a species of wasp that essentially operates like a worse version of real-world parasitic wasps. Where real parasitic wasps tend to be solitary, puppeteer wasps are eusocial and, as you might have gathered from the name, they build their nests in living organisms and literally

Medicine in Taris is... really weird in a lot of ways because the existence of magical and alchemical healing has led to medical theory and practice going down a pretty wildly different developmental path. In strict terms, medical science, as we understand it, is way behind what it would have been

Taris is broadly post-World War 1 in terms of technology, but with my own steampunk and dieselpunk flourishes and a bunch of regional variations depending on different local conditions and circumstances. The Vezdans, for instance, have purpose-built golems instead of motor vehicles for the most part

People on Taris don't really make a meaningful distinction between chemistry and alchemy (both exist, but in-universe it's all just viewed as alchemy. Same with magic and science more broadly, although that's a little more complex because some magic falls under the purview of science, some under

Generally the most extensive infrastructure you get in Taris is about on par with the 1920s and 30s. It's most widespread in Dakra, as that's the continent where most of the horrible colonial empires emerged and where a lot of ill-gotten wealth ended up. Of special note is the Skonite Confederation,

It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.

this heartbreaking piece is very well reported. please read it.

Smashing the first A in ACAB so hard u can feel it in every country on Earth "Police reported that O'Brien "refused to comply and insulted verbally and offended physically, several police officers," alleging that O'Brien called police officers "genocide supporters" and "f*cking Nazis.""

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

so, i've been looking for good cosmic horror erotica for a while as one does (don't question it, i'm extremely psychologically and sexually normal) and i've finally found it in A Game In Yellow by Hailey Piper. very successfully walks a fine line between fear and arousal.

Tom Clancy's Stone Butch Blues

trying something new, i bought a little globe and i'm gonna see if i can paint a map of my ttrpg campaign setting onto it without it looking uh. terrible.

insisting i have to support 99% hitler even when there isn't an election or candidates yet. i just Have to

getting real fuckin tired of cis liberals

STOP BANNING TRANS PEOPLE FOR HATING OUR OPPRESSORS

Charlotte LGBTQ groups condemn Atrium ending gender-affirming meds for youths www.charlotteobserve... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Also just I really cant get over how often cis gays tell on yourselves by clearly not seeing trans women as "real" women. Newsflash the employee not believing shes a woman isnt wrong because shes cis, its wrong cause she like trans women is a woman.

tl;dr - the reason why pro-censorship groups, notably Collective Shout, have influence over the payment processors is because they’re backed by a lobbying group called GOSRN (the Global Online Safety Regulators Network) if you’re looking at the PP censor situation, you might want to look into this.

this is who visa and mastercard lets decide what you are permitted to buy

Several anti-trans bills with sweeping implications are moving through Congress rapidly, with provisions that would fully ban gender affirming care for undocumented immigrants, federal workers, and more. Written by @thefreeradical.org, edited by @madycast.com & @davidforbes.bsky.social Thread 🧵

ICE in Durham, be safe and don't talk to the fucking cops

it is absolutely maddening to me that we have “canceled” upwards of five trans megastars over very ordinary and common human mistakes while bands like whirr and brand new and arcade fire get to come back, stay active and we all just normalize their returns because “anti-woke” or whatever

“just because they’re trans doesn’t mean they get a pass” well cis people are the people in power right now so you should actually care more about what those people say and do than trans people there is no pass but there is a priority setting and a solidarity and grace that is sorely needed

this press release from the IL department of human rights (@illinoisdhr.bsky.social) was issued less than 4 months ago. y'all love sharing @govpritzker.illinois.gov clips on here, right? let me know when he orders UCM to continue treating trans people. i'll wait. dhr.illinois.gov/about-us/idh...

thinking about the dems who said we can't abolish ICE as the Department of Education gets wiped off the map

Our Supreme Court of partisan hacks has finally decided that it's too burdensome to write pages of disingenuous rationalizations for their opinions and increasingly just saying "Because I said so"

The storming of the Bastille 236 years ago was essentially an anti-prison riot that won, spelling eventual doom for all monarchies. When we finally topple the current ruling class and at last abolish prisons and police, people will celebrate for hundreds of years, too. crimethinc.com/tce#lastcrime

Erasure of indigenous people is at the core of this country’s genocidal history, and the ideological premise for its neo-fascist bent. They are extremely comfortable.

NPR had a quick, upbeat mention about how farmwork could function as healthcare with people "prescribed" to do it and it feels maddening that a significant swath of elite opinion seems to be trying to soft relaunch serfdom.

Sounds like ICE killed a guy and then held american citizens hostage at gunpoint until they agreed to destroy the evidence

Please remember this and discuss with your comrades - your calls from jail will likely be monitored and recorded. You should have a set of protocols in place that things can be organized around without being discussed on the phone post-arrest. Have your legal & tactics ready.

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please god stop listening to these accounts