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Abandoned leaning house in Virginia - wyattxplores

#for me #on houses #places #ough. i want it

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Out of curiosity and also guilt over my own coffee intake. I wanna ask:

Now I'm not talking about when you're studying and so you drink 3x the usual amount or something like that. This isn't me asking what your record is. I'm talking about the most basic, average day, how many coffees you drink?

#usually 1. maybe 2. pre-adhd meds it was more like 5-6 though lmao #polls

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for the past several months, my ttrpg group and i have been playing through various world- and character-building games to prepare for our new scifi campaign. i've never done something like this before so intensely, and i highly recommend it. we've been having a blast. we start the campaign proper this week with Scum and Villainy, so that's exciting!

anyway, i wanted to share a comprehensive list of the games we played during this prep period and a brief summary of what we did with them:

First, we played Dialect: A Game About Language and How It Dies, focusing on a satellite community trying (and mostly failing, RIP) to resist assimilation by the Evil Empire.

Next up was Microscope: a fractal role-playing game of epic histories, to flesh out the thousand-year history of aforementioned Evil Empire;

Next we played Fiasco to explore the events that led to a specific faction leader's power grab (aka. a drama-filled graduation party)

Then we played Dialect again (it's a really good game, okay?!), focusing on some robots who were tasked with taking care of a base full of a Big Bad Evil Guy's secrets for 300 years. (They have his soul on a USB drive now.)

Next up was Heretical Geese, to play through the final exam of a group of assassin students, set in a VR speakeasy;

After that was City Planning Department, to create the city where the PCs live at the start of the game, from the point of view of the slightly unhinged city council.

Then we started focusing on the PCs' backstories, and played three different games (one per PC) to explore specific events that happened pre-campaign. You can read about these in more detail here, but in summary, we played:

Good Society, to explore how one PC chose duty over love 25 years ago;

HOUNDs, to explore how one PC stole a sentient spaceship and tried to escape the empire (it went badly);

A Long Night in the Mech Bay, to explore one PC's relationship and eventual divorce (with the npc who will be the ship's captain).

And then we played Bucket of Bolts to explore the history of the ship the PCs will be adventuring on, and we plan to play i'm sorry did you say street magic in a week or so to create the city where the campaign will really kick off! i'm also planning on doing a part 2 of Microscope at some point, to flesh out even more history, for a day when i don't feel like prepping a regular session.

WHEW. as i said, can't recommend doing this enough. it's been super fun and (from a GM perspective) very little actual work, since most of these games are GM-less and prep-free. involving the players in worldbuilding fosters this really great dynamic where everyone really cares about and takes ownership over parts of the world that have nothing to do with their PCs, and it's really gotten us pumped for the game to come.

#ttrpgs

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we’re bad gods.

[ID: digital illustration of mabel martin (left) and anna limón (right) from mabel podcast. they are sitting face to face with their hands barely touching and a spark between them. behind them is sally’s house with vines spreading from anna’s side, red light shining through the door, and a labyrinth pediment. there is a crown and rabbit jumping over the moon above them and a fairy ring below them with a sound wave or heartbeat line within it. they are framed by an old-fashioned telephone cord, mirror image anatomical hearts, and daturas. a quote from the podcast lines the frame: “-of the house. It means so much to - to Sally. She loves that house more than I can ever […] It’s […] like a religion. People […] n’t - they don’t love like that anymore. […] -s there. Something created. We’re bad gods. We let all our works rot into the ground.”]

*note: i intentionally only included some parts of this, but here is the full quote from episode 7: “Please take care of the house. It means so much to – to Sally. She loves that house more than I can ever convey to you, more than anyone has a right to love anything. It’s like – like a religion. People don’t- they don’t love like that anymore. They don’t even love each other like that anymore, let alone something that just – stands there. Something created. We’re bad gods. We let all our works rot into the ground.”

#OHHHH THIS IS SO GOOD #the phone cord making the frame is SUCH A COOL TOUCH #mabel #art

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alright guys im curious. who were the worst mutuals youve ever had

#im gonna say something and yall need to promise not to judge me for the circles i was running in in high school ok? ok #remember the person who faked having hiv to write h*milton fic--

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watching genly ai fumble a bad bitch before my very eyes

#the left hand of darkness #scenes that are going to haunt me forever and ever

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“It is a terrible thing, this kindess that human beings do not lose. Terrible, because when we are finally naked in the dark and cold, it is all we have. We who are so rich, so full of strength, we end up with that small change. We have nothing else to give. ”

Ursula K.Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

#the left hand of darkness

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me and the bad bitch i pulled by having no shifgrethor

#the left hand of darkness

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Escape from Pulefen Farm

#the left hand of darkness

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my dealer: got some straight gas 🔥😛 this strain is called “ekumenical mission to gethen” 😳 you’ll be zonked out of your gourd 💯

me: yeah whatever I don’t feel shit

me 5 minutes later: dude I swear i just saw a sarf agent in the kemmerhouse

my buddy estraven pacing: argaven is lying to us

#GOOD POST #the left hand of darkness

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exiles

#saw this on my dash a couple days ago + now that ive finished lhod i had to go back and find it again #bc. man. this is so. theyre so #the left hand of darkness

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A closer look at the hand stitching on my green quilt. I’m doing what’s called an orange peel design, using a template I made myself. I’m so happy with it and really glad I took the time to start over

Also this quilt has been bought! Thank you so much to that kind person for supporting my art!

#ohhhh gorgeous #quilting #textiles

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I'm just interesting what's gonna be the result on Tumblr

#the 2 options being 'deep personal meaning' and 'fandom' is so funny. bestie i just like haunted houses so i have 2 houses a key and a ghost #polls

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in light of police across the country cracking down on pro palestine protests with brutal force, it feels like a great time to remind everyone to shut the fuck up around cops. don't make small talk, dont act friendly, don't fucking engage with them!! if you are arrested DO NOT speak without a lawyer present. protest organizers, get into contact with local pro bono lawyers who can be there for your arrested comrades. no matter what, if cops are there, shut the fuck up unless you are actively doing a protest chant. dont tell cops why you were there, dont tell them if you're affiliated with the school you may be protesting at, dont tell them if you came there with anyone, dont tell them anything!!!

#shut the fuck up friday every day

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give me one good brokeback kiss and ill be alright

#literally

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"One mind trying to envision everything that could happen, everything that could go wrong, everything that one ship of humans could ever need to say to another. There is something tender about the tendency toward thoroughness. And then something grave about how the language effloresces, absurdly, into such dark specificity."

#literally hanky code but for ships #<- prev ur so right #linguistics

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A brilliant graphic from protectpalestineorg — 30 universities with the largest endowments in the USA , currently hosting encampments to protest against their institutions investments in the State of Israel. Harvard University contributing the most in Israeli investments, totalling $50 billion.

After a successful hunger strike in February, Darthmouth (New Hampshire) has begun a divestment process.

As of April 28th there are currently no encampments at: John Hopkins (MD), UVA (VA) and Notre Dame (IN).

#hopkins get good challenge #protests #palestine