I'm trying to get over my fear of the ttrpg discourse machine by adapting Sophie Yanow's gentle comics habit to blogging so I can practice saying things imperfectly. The first post is now available to everyone. I think it's been working well so far www.patreon.com/posts/trying...

why do we call work that is obviously administrative work "housekeeping?" they're different thingsss

I was reading Symposium in the student lounge when I met my husband so I guess there is some evidence that interaction with Plato can lure straight men into relationships with queer women.

Philosophers—the most relentlessly disputatious people alive—in complete agreement for once.

Plato being too woke for a conservative university is by no means the worst thing happening right now, but it is what made me want to go back to bed this morning

do non-vloggers make yearly vision boards? do they do anything for you? they're so ubiquitous online and the collage lover in me is always like 👀 but also it this just toxic productivity culture with a cute homemade aesthetic?

The tech oligarchs figured out that keeping us isolated and outraged makes the most money on social media and that has fucked up our brains so much that even a place that is not algorithmically tuned to outrage us has us falling into the same patterns. real human connection (online or off) helps

I'm rewatching the first run of Kakuriyo and I wonder if romantasy is part of the reason it suddenly got another season? like now non anime girlies are into monster bride stories so there's broader appeal? but also Aoi immediately rejects the whole monster bride premise so who knows

I think of this a lot. Mostly because my favorite thing to say is that knowing who to be mad at is praxis. But it's also difficult for people to know currently because there's no identifiable leadership on the Lefts to clearly articulate this. The fascists constantly tell people who to be mad at.

God what a treasure of a game.

Dorothy Parker to Robert Benchley, December 31, 1929. Happy New Year!

The first four Nancy Drew books are coming into the public domain tomorrow and I full of dread about it. Although this also means I get to read the lost chapters and the versions of the books where I'm pretty sure they gave her a gun sometimes

Cis comedians making great trans jokes is always such a treat

This year I lost two immediate family members, was diagnosed with two chronic illnesses, and dealt with the particularly isolating dysphoria and heartache of treating infertility while being nonbinary. next year will be better, I think, but I will be recovering from 2025 for a long time to come

Today is my last daily verification ❤️ I have tons of resources for how to verify on your own and I’ll also probably make a thread soon on other trusted verification sources- but as always the best thing you can do to verify a family is in Gaza is speak with them

remember when you could go online and search for "good pillow" and you'd get like blog posts reviewing and comparing pillows but now you just get an Amazon page for Good Pillow Great Sleeping Perfect for Single or Couple Great Soft sleepy Dream Pillow for soft Bedtime Relaxation pillow ($97.83)

#Ontario residents! Here's a petition to stop private health clinics from charging extra for important procedures like cataract surgery. #e-6811 #Canada

I love seeing people's media and creative years in review because it's interesting to see what people like and made but also as I am still swimming in like 50 different kinds of grief, I have to suppress the urge to make my own cynical versions. so instead I offer my 2025 in review: I lived bitch.

PLEASE HELP OR SHARE! ive been told i need to move out until the 4th of january, i cant afford moving or getting a new place, got nowhere to go or anyone who could help w this. id like to be able to at least store my things please #help #helpsky #fundsky #urgent #signalboost ko-fi.com/crowleychimera

Finally got around to Starting Old Skies by @wadjeteyegames.bsky.social and while I always expected to like it (I've been playing Wadjet Eye games since I was a teenager, which is a wild sentence) I think this is one of their best. I already have so many thoughts about progress, grief, and overwork

Some local kids write & sell their own newspaper called The Morning Moustache every few months. Last edition, I wrote a letter to the editor about a fruit & veg safari. This edition, they printed the letter & followed up with some replies from the editorial team. An extremely fun correspondence.

We watched it's a wonderful life and I cried about so no we are watching The Bishop's Wife because all the old ladies at work love it and also the man who came to dinner is in it

We lit the Christmas Pudding on fire while singing happy birthday to Jesus. Merry Christmas

Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”

Not only is the terrible for MacIsaac, but this also "it was an AI Hallucination" can now be a lie every public person who is actually a sex offender can tell

take me down to budapest city where the bread is cheese and the roads aren't gritty

Frosty the Snowman 2 remains one of the most topical Christmas movies ever made

So sorry to be annoying but I’m going to need to press about going the trial for my brother’s murder, I really want to be there with my family for some sort of closure, so please share or donate if you can

this is a Canadian petition to uphold charter rights for transgender and minority communities if youre Canadian, please sign it. if youre not Canadian, please share it. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

It is once more time for International Be Nice To Aaron Day! Be nice to an Aaron (or three!) today. For my part, get 39% off my games for the rest of the year in case any Aaron likes games itch.io/s/174690/giv...

Wanted a clean thread to continually share as needed but hey are you annoyed by orientalist and blatantly obtuse games and their white designers? Throw money at an Asian designer and their games! You can find them so easily with the link below! Did you buy Obojima? Feel bad? Buy another game!

This was one of my favourite DIE scenarios from Bizarre love triangles! Such a fun idea that was carried out so well

What are your favourite non AI brainstorming, concepting, or draft starting techniques? I always keysmash on the page for a bit and then write out what I want to say in the most unserious way possible pain bad. discomfort ok. safety tools help discomfort be not pain. then refine from there

Hey everyone I know this time of the year money is tight but I’m trying to raise money so I can be in Atlanta for my brothers murder trial. I’m trying to raise like $300 for a place to stay

What are your favourite non AI brainstorming, concepting, or draft starting techniques? I always keysmash on the page for a bit and then write out what I want to say in the most unserious way possible pain bad. discomfort ok. safety tools help discomfort be not pain. then refine from there

I just want fleece lined compression tights. Why is that so much to ask

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

"A horrific thing happened today. Want to know what the worst person in the world thinks about it?" is what you look like when you post trumps truth social posts on here.

My Christmas Carol Hot Take of the year is that adding a passing note in O Come All Ye Faithful is fine, actually.

A few years ago, Friday asked me "What if we made a book about GMing romance?" That book, brought to you by the brilliant minds and hands of folks from all across the #TTRPG space, is now ready to be on your digital bookshelves and tables! Very very proud of everyone who contributed 💖

We now have 2468 paying subscribers! That's just 32 away from our goal of 2500 by the end of 2025. You can get access to almost two years of amazing tabletop games journalism for just $1 right now! Be one of those 32 absolute heroes!

If you enjoy The Grinch in any form then you probably would fuck with restorative justice bc that dude stole EVERYTHING then the community has him repent by taking part in their celebration so he may better understand what he almost ruined

The LMHU just sent out its yearly food affordability report to the organizations that do community food assistance and in 2024 1 in 3 households were food insecure. So anyway I'm gonna be angry about that for at least the rest of the day

I decided I don't care about the game awards anymore so going onto social media this morning is truly a touches ground something terrible happened here moment I am ready for the new control trailer to fuck me up though

Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918

i have at least two questions

I don't know if I have any followers who think this way but Canada absolutely cannot pretend that what is happening in the States is not in danger of happening here just because it hasn't happened yet. 4 times in one month. All focused on making children's lives worse www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...