Honestly? Probably still work 4 days a week, but have one more to do projects with. That’s really all I’d need.

NEW MEGHAN CROSS LETS GOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Even if it wasn’t an absolute crock of shit and the measles weren’t coming from inside the house, we’d fix it by vaccinating against measles here and abroad. Like, if you don’t want Americans catching diseases that haven’t been eliminated in other countries, smart money is killing the disease there

Odd characterization question for y’all: How’s your character’s singing voice?

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen Dan DiMonte and the Bad Assets Goosetown My old director’s Master’s Recital Wizard of Oz with a live orchestra Sioux City Rockestra opening for Smashmouth at the opening of RAGRBRI 2011

Kind of a bummer they went with “Zootopia 2” instead of: 2ootopia Zoootopia Zootoopia Zootwopia ZootopIIa

The important thing to know about The Bowerborn Gods is that they are more human than they are god. They are born and become themselves if they’re allowed to, not made as they were meant to be. They hold no special ability beyond their domain. A Bowerborn may be among us and we haven’t noticed.

Continuing our series of "what if D&D but not?" games of In This World. I am continually astounded how we can make a setting I want to play a whole campaign in every 25 minutes less. And then another. And then another. #InThisWorld

I want to name my god of funerals Eol, but I’ve already been roasted for my naming conventions being generally hooked around lightly obfuscating something obvious already this week. But also, Eol (pronounced EE-yol) is also just kind of a nice name and I’m bad at coming up with names.

And doctors are still paid as the result of daily LABOR. They're WORKERS. They're rich. But they're not The Rich. This is not a high hurdle to get over, but I see people fall over it every day. If you're equating doctors with Elon Musk, you are 100% not ready to be having these conversations.

IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII cannot wait for this game.

Doing some character creation on a draft copy Cosmic Century Knights by @oneshotrpg.bsky.social and @worldstoforge.bsky.social. I had 3 other character plans and shelved them all because hot damn, CCK has some juice.

Longslop is like… that 13hr Bionicles recap. And it’s good, I don’t regret spending that time. Defunctland isn’t sloppy. Like… that’s just low-budget documentary making, how dare you.

I like to make my first cut with Hanlon’s Razor because intentions can be hard to gage. And some people are driven by malice and either don’t recognize it or won’t admit it. But eventually, you just have to accept that people can be both stupid and mean.

Moxon’s Shaving Cream: “Never exonerate malice simply because it is also stupid.”

Tabletop Tabletoptalent Benjazzer(award winning) Min/maxamilion OneadditionalTforTalent (AKA AFourFourtyScreamer) is a cool guy who does cool things and I’m fortunate to know him and his dreadfully cumbersome full name.

OK, this is GREAT. One world, multiple systems building it out. I went all the way back to the start and was pleased to see Quest on the table. This table were really fun in that, but when they switch mid story to Skeletons? They really ate with that one. Rated and reviewed. #APSWAP

Since some ghouls are already pushing it as a talking point, we should probably all familiarize ourselves with ephebophilia (sexual attraction to post-pubescent minors) as a bad thing. It’s technically distinct from pedophilia, and equally horrifying.

PORN IS ART, PORN IS GOOD, PEOPLE MAKING PORN IS A SIGN OF A HEALTHY SOCIETY

Piece of world building I really appreciate: The timeline for Trench Crusade includes the entry “1889 - Church Space Program commences.” There’s no further elaboration because what else do you need? That’s it. It’s hilarious and portentous and just a perfect sentence.

Not for nothing, GW’s run pre-release versions of 3 different games - Oh Captain, My Captain, Before the Flood, and Bitter Litany. They’ve all been absolute bangers.

Now that @gamewoven.bsky.social’s wrapped on The Bitter Litany as set in a continent-spanning empire, a part of me wants to revisit the game, but set in a small town. Make that level of grandiosity expressed in the most minute way possible. The Prince rules a thousand people, each house a few dozen.

I relistened to Shaun’s video about the decision to drop the Atomic Bombs, and one thing that hit me was him talking about how Japanese leadership hadn’t had nukes dropped on them, peasants had. The plan was for the populace to die anyway, they just weren’t dying in useful ways.

This one is special to me. It’s a story where a person we briefly alluded to is told a story expanding lore from another game… it’s a very me kind of project. I’m not really sure what it’s about. It’s about gods and mortality and doing things and talking to lovers. open.spotify.com/episode/18pM...

Imagine waking up naked in bed and she’s not there, but you can hear her out the window singing into the dark. You snuggle into the pillows and just listen for a while.

Several months ago, Johnathan from Some More News said, “Some weeks we have evil news and some weeks we have stupid news.” Stupid news is a nice break sometimes, and I hate that we’re here but here we are.

I’ve been thinking about this a lot, breaking down our main factions into smaller constituencies. Because I want us to deal with populations and peoples in addition to organizations and nascent states as we move into a popular uprising.

racist tradcath has to be seen, I think, as its own form of heresy

Me making @gamewoven.bsky.social lore: The Bowerlands did not begin to form a collective state-like identity until recently. Partially motivated by the births of the New Gods, a lot of the legwork has been done by the Hydrangeas, a mutual aid network founded by Dre while raising Andus.

Useful for Cuomo to say that this was an election about the future identity of the Democratic Party in his concession speech. You know. Because he lost.

I think my least favorite thing about musical theater is that the public consciousness only has space for one musical at a time, so I mostly have to hear about Wicked or Hamilton and not like Waitress or Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder.

Elmo has dressed as Monkey D. Luffy from One Piece for Halloween.

Dumb theory: Multiverses are in vogue because we’ve gotten used to existing in a world that has to contend with multiple extremely distinct versions of reality coexisting, and it’s fun to do that with like wizards and dragons and shit rather than definitions of humanity and criminality.

Guillermo del Toro said “I don’t ever make eye candy, I make eye protein” and that goes hard tbh

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Someday, in like 2080, someone is going to make *Don’t Listen to Me: The Joe Rogan Experience,* a biopic about how a gormeless fuck was the cornerstone of the atrocities committed in the End of America.

makes me weep to think of the gifts robbed from us because unaffordable housing has made it difficult for people to pursue their passions and hobbies

reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book

Designer: all right Mr. Del Toro here’s those Frankenstein’s monster designs, real sexy just like you asked for. Del Toro: (nodding) this is exactly as sexy as I asked for.

Incredible stones to be throwing from the guy whose kid has seemingly learned more practical life lessons from The Simpsons than him.

Fully unrelated trivia: Freshman year of college, Godwin’s daughter and I lived 1 floor apart and ran in overlapping circles for a few years. One time, she absolutely schooled me and her at-the-time bf about why Trayvon Martin was important.

Not to construct a house of hypotheticals, but if men could get their shit in order enough that women could trust not to be assaulted for doing this, and if said men could be trusted to self-reflect and get better at sex by holding themselves and each other accountable, ‘male loneliness’ would end.

Leomon x Ogremon is extremely cannon in @acrosstheplanespod.bsky.social, and it’s a huge bummer.

Restating my opinion that 99% of Protest Discourse is because people don't know there are two broadly different kinds of protest (rallies and direct action) and they have different requirements to be effective (and "don't be cringe" is not a requirement for either, actually)

I loved every second of this conversation with James, and I hope you do too!

Rage, rage, against the dying of the light Inside those first few letters that have been dead for years and you told your boss about it and they told their boss who said they’d get someone out to fix it and forgot so now you’re mentioning it again but they won’t fix it because they won’t remember.

Please Mister Adams Media (an Imprint of Simon and Schuster) LET JAMES MAKE MORE OF THESE THINGS they are SO useful and SO transportable and SO fun!

Look at how much life we lead with so little. How we can muddle through from cradle to grave on a sliver. How if the middle gave us everything from a percentage of a percentage of the people they envy, we’d have twice as much as we do now and might not come calling for them.