reading from Yeats' collection of folk & fairy stories and this priest has walked up to an ambulatory pair of legs ("the legs of a man from the hips downwards") and is getting peeved that it won't speak to him. man, with what mouth?

biggest challenge assembling this list (maybe eventual deck?) of images/moments from my dreams is whether the seven rings and their seven gates (made by seven popes) get one card or more

hate that if i google the current phase of the moon i get an LLM that knows my exact location telling me a completely wrong answer with conference

i think i need to play a Firebrands hack (or the thing itself). there are so many games i need to play

just watched the finale of The Prisoner, which i was watching through with my boyfriend. we did a lot of clapping and laughing in delighted disbelief

hey can broader internet culture please acknowledge that tutorial content being available exclusively as video is at least as much of an accessibility issue as it being only text & still images

but the USA is #1 in what really matters, which is salamander biodiversity

gradually replacing elements of my current rpg project with clocks that feed into different clocks until the whole system just takes one character sheet & one die roll as input and just madlibs you a story about your guy

how would you go about suppressing technological advancement on a planet with a) very limited ability to put boots on the planet & b) more or less unlimited resources. not talking utter depopulation, though methods that make the planet substantially worse to live on are fair game.

wow i am learning to appreciate so much about modern ttrpg books by glancing at cyberpunk 2020. i have been jumping around the book looking for any information about the basic mechanics or resolution and all i know is a combat round is 3.2 seconds and a "full turn" is 10 seconds

it's so fucked up that 'roguelike' now means you get three random upgrades at the end of a level instead of "occasionally the game will generate a gnome with a wand of death and obliterate you (in the event that you havent already died accidentally falling down a set of stairs while overencumbered)"

hey why did The Prisoner randomly have a wild west episode.

working on some bad game mechanics that came to me in a hypnagogic vision for the "you cannot play this game" jam. gonna end up a supplement for or excerpt from a non-existent game. probably i will make this diagram much worse though it's much too clear now

special irregular meeting of furry karaoke in observation of the holiday

brain can't stop producing fan episodes of this goofy show

flat girth theory

the reason god does not intervene in the affairs of the world any longer is he found the daoist case for wuwei very persuasive

back to thinking about a game with core toy 2d10+X vs TN with rollover being a resource you spend for additional effect depending on the action. damage or knockdown on attacks, effect duration or intensity on applying debuffs, etc

always designing & reworking ttrpg magic systems in my brain

This is the line of division / Terminus Est Severian and Thecla from The Book of the New Sun

quince... kili pi wile seli pi kon suwi. idk I try not to stack pi bc idk if people will nest it or not. also just very out of practice at this point. kili suwi pi wile seli probably fine

combining two fruits I haven't used before for a single wine seems like a bad idea but I do not have enough of either persimmons or quince for a full batch of wine... hm

i want the strawberry wine to have at least a little sweetness (my bone-dry first attempt at strawberry wine was... not especially well-received) and while stabilizers and back-sweetening is an option it might just be fun for the strawberry wine to be like 16%

internet saying "you really can't drink the quince wine for at least two years" which is nuts to me. all the other fruit wine is getting worse by that point??

worst wines yet: carrot on the left (could be worse, but pretty bad), metheglin on the right (technically a mead not a wine, just awful, no good at all)

bottled my worst brew yet, a metheglin for my boyfriend who wanted something that tasted bad

idk what it is i keep accidentally finding myself in the position of having to decide whether to tell a vegan that miso soup is not typically vegan or even vegetarian

ouh witch hat anime very pretty

exquisite corpse type game but you are all writing item descriptions in the fromsoft style, only getting to look at one other item in the pool at a time

friend put a bad 70s movie up on discord and it is a completely disjointed and incoherent movie except it REALLY wants you to know that sidereal astrology is real and tropical astrology is fake. it keeps coming up over and over

really a slippery slope to hollow girth theory (nothing has a solid interior, there are only curved surfaces)

Okay. This is a much better quality from NASA's site of Earth. www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

flat girth theory

first go fortifying homebrew. berry port.

I won't ever own one, probably, but I am repeatedly and consistently impressed by the loving & supportive culture of scooter & moped clubs

the ppl from that pub sing largely attend a singing weekend campout thing in October... might have to go

as the pub sing last night dwindled and turned from its slow somber phase into its final comical/rowdy phase, the tiny old woman who earlier sang all of The Twa Sisters sang a hilarious song about a woman stuck in a chastity belt because her husband with the key is off at war

can't stop thinking about the aero spacelines pregnant guppy

watched first 4 episodes of The Prisoner with bf last night. pretty good! i guess my expectations were set pretty low for a show from the 60s though

in the exceeding grace of the irish spirit, the big irish-american holiday doesn't even celebrate a saint from ireland, but from britain, of all places

ah i see to disable AI summaries, a new and obnoxious feature, i need to turn off the monolithic "smart features" setting, which also turns off filtering emails into separate inboxes (main/promotions/updates), a feature i have had for many years, instantly rendering my email inbox utterly unusable.

interesting set here

yesterday i was like what in my daily routine could possibly have caused this new back/shoulder pain?? and then sat down at my computer and died like harry dubois meeting evrart claire

thinking about the color-coded wizards again. might stick them into the setting I've been writing short stories in recently. most recently thinking about popular styles of hat among the hues (pointed vs rounded crowns, heights, brimmed/brimless, etc)

it probably isn't strep; i have none of the usual secondary symptoms & my throat doesn't look like i have strep. we're testing for it, but if i don't, i seem to have developed an unrelated sore throat the same day someone i had made out with the day before developed strep.

it's strep. ugh. but at least that means i can do something about it besides confine myself to my room playing Morrowind

morrowind is great so far. i don't need to know how the stealth mechanics work because people keep leaving precious items out on tables in rooms with nobody in them with doors that close.

oh willie dear, i dare not ask him / he's in his chamber a-taking rest / and by his side a crysteel dagger / to kill the one that i love best