One time I ran a one-shot inside of my longer Blades in the Dark game where we played out three factions fighting over a strategic volcanic island northeast of Duskvol by playing King of Tokyo and then playing out a vignette from Firebrands every time someone new took Tokyo or played a card.

After teleporting home, the wizard takes a nap.

Hmmm Middle-Earth… Middle…Centre…Central, Earth…Soil…Plains, MIDDLE-EARTH IS THE CENTRAL PLAINS OF CHINA

Gandalf fears no wolves or wargs because he wields the Dog-Beating Staff.

moons for the taking, as far as the eye can see

Just a reminder that immigrants inside Delaney Hall are on their ninth day of a hunger and labor strike in protest of inhumane conditions and this was Governor Sherrill’s response last night:

doing 19th century hating in 2026 is the sort of innovative hating that wins you Player Hater of the Year

They ended up running down the railroad tracks, pursued by about 50-60 activists and quickly left. Lmao

Go ahead and slam journalists when they deserve it. I certainly do. But also realize that New York Times journalists Declan Walsh and Arlette Bashizi willingly traveled to an Ebola ward in the Democratic Republic of Congo in order to inform the world. Many journalists are heroes. (NYT gift link)

THE SECRET OF THE SNAIL In the art of the classic Rider-Waite-Smith tarot, the Nine of Pentacles depicts a noblewoman alone, surrounded by a decadence of grapes. In her left hand is a hooded falcon, as calm and indifferent to the surrounding world as she... www.greaterrealityarea.net/the-secret-o...

Have you heard our Improvised Musical Actual Play on One Shot?? Playing one of my favorite games ever, Last Train to Bremen by @seaexcursion.itch.io we created a dramatic musical about a doomed band on the run from the devil. pod.link/688242106/ep...

as a child it's common to think you have no accent until you realise you simply have the accent of where you're from. as an american child though it's common to be 40 years old

Galadriel not telling Melian the full story of why they ran away from home while theyr’e chatting in Doriath is basically a teen girl hiding her problems from her cool aunt at the next town over she ran away from home to.

Just restocked 50 free copies of Collectible Trading Moon Game. Get 'em while they last.

Here's official art of him naked and bones.

Once again: German universities were the envy of the world before the Nazis rose to power and took an ideological wrecking ball to the entire enterprise. If you want to know how long it took for German universities to recover… they haven’t.

there's a flute—philosophers have written on this—a most delicate instrument, crafted of silver and bone, and to blow any note upon it would bring the gods themselves to wakefulness and end their dream which is creation, and this flute waits in your future (graduating class starts booing me) what???

This scam is hitting basically every academic with a book out I guess and I would love if more people shared. The one I got about EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED was interested in the open world stuff, and when I looked up the book club they were spoofing it was entirely dedicated to romantasy.

[at the bar] yeah that’s my boy over there. he’s a little evil but he’s cool [sees him making hand signs while muttering an incantation to himself] excuse me for a second

so, this is deeply, deeply horrifying thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-...

Presumably ☺️ Imperarors know best

Jenna Moran has released the first 100 pages of Nobilis 4e on her patreon, which means i need to reread those pages so i can remember what I'm allowed to talk about casually

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

my partner and I hosted a presentation night for our friends earlier this week and I think the subject I chose was both practical and informative:

Daily Memo reporting from Adelanto on the five hunger strikes happening around the U.S.

you, too, can introduce your friends to the wild world of indie rpgs by making up a fictitious nature documentary about some little animal freaks

Bold minimalist cover. Mysterious contents. This kid’s gonna go far.

To be clear, "ignored local zoning" here means, "this land is not part of the city of Vancouver or subject to its jurisdiction," so the Squamish nation can write its own zoning laws. But yes, this is awesome, and the buildings built so far are the coolest looking things in the Lower Mainland.

You might ask: you're online all the time though are you really pooping that much. To which I reply: My body is intolerant to lactose, but my spirit is not.

Life hack: find inexplicable phrases from Moby Dick or Finnegan's Wake, and rehearse them endlessly. When the moment to use them comes - and it will come - you will be ready

updating my berit sheet to have one of her classic bonds + give her a funny contrast to teaching ethics at community college

so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.

An NBC News investigation finds dozens of examples of criminals imitating ICE to rob and attack people www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Now you can keep track of how many billions the AI companies are losing on AI. (Red is spending, green is revenue.) isaiprofitable.com

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Joe Dator and Kevin Maher.

oh man I can’t believe the Enhanced Games are actually happening lol. wow I wonder who would win between an insane person who has dedicated their entire adult life relentlessly training to become the most perfect athlete for their chosen sport and a guy who wanted to skip that part

my favorite one

A waist of time and space

One of the many sources cited in the new papal encyclical is... Gandalf

The historic Alfred Street Baptist Church announced it would fund the Black student government whose funding was cut at Mizzou over DEI restrictions “We take care of our own people,” said Rev. Dr. Howard-John Wesley.

True God of Opposition, Disgust, and Magnificence

Every couple months I check in on the latest Adrian Chiles articles and I’m always absolutely blown away. These are all from the last couple months. The man is operating at an incredibly high level.

hey so lots going on i know but this right here is a whole fucking slow motion ongoing tragedy

Proud to announce that What Should We Have Tomorrow? won an Indie Groundbreaker award for Best Graphic Design! Credit goes to @lostwaysclub.itch.io for the graphic design, and also to @thecinnaminion.bsky.social & @4threset.bsky.social for the art highlighted by and supporting the graphic design!

A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”

being so fr do you think anyone in the local community went to the pancake dinner where the proceeds went to supporting victims of jigsaw

Thomás Sánchez (b.1948, Cuba) Inner Love, 2020. #Acrylics