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#like she was in the theatre club at our hs and i always wanted to do theater but my shyness + she was there kept me out
punk-pandame · 2 years
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Excuse me a girl in your hs wrote WHAT
in reference to this post
YOU HEARD ME
(story under the cut)
okay so in high school there was this girl myself and a bunch of my actual friends were "friends" with but like, not by choice. she was just in like, most of our classes with us and did drama club with a bunch of us. and yes i know all theatre kids are crazy but she was like. waaaaaay out there. like, idk-how-she-grew-up-into-a-functional-person level of whacky. and she had like, a deep and unabaiting obsession with me since like, fuckin kindergarten man. she swore she didn't like like me but she was constantly on top of me (literally! in my lap!!) and always making innuendos when i was around and like, idk generally being a tiny terror. and it did creep me out but also it was like, i literally could not get away from her cause we were into all the same shit and hung out with all the same people so i was just like okay fine i have another weird homoerotic friendship ig (i wasn't out on any level back then) and just dealt with it.
so anyway when i got with my now-husband back in like sophomore year part of me was really worried she'd like, go full "pumped up kicks" on everybody, but she like... actually took it pretty well? she was like OMG YES I LOVE THIS FOR YOU I LOVE YOU BOTH SO MUCH MY FRIENDS ARE IN LOVE YAY and we were just like oh well that's a pleasant surprise considering most of our other friends were like, weirded out by it because i was like, the first in the group to date anyone and they didn't know what to do about it and it was like a whole thing. ANYWAY. anyway. turns out she DIDN'T take it super well cause one of our friends was hanging out with her once and she'd left wattpad open on her laptop. and they found out she was writing super out-of-character, highly exaggerated, and frankly badly written fanfics ABOUT ME AND DIOT. but that wasn't it. she wound up including all the other couples that started to form in the group too. it was like, toward the end of the school year that it was discovered and already had fuckin... 13? 14? chapters. i think it ended up being 21 by the time it all blew over. idk if she ever wrote more, she could still be writing it for all i know, but it was like. more than it ever should have been.
but yeah basically the way we all decided to deal with it was by having dramatic readings in a circle in each other's basements and laughing at each new installment as soon as it dropped. cause like... how tf else do you cope when something That Weird is going on.
best part, though, is when someone (idk who) let it slip to our funny little author what we were doing.
SHE WANTED IN ON THE CIRCLE TIME READINGS
and the actual best part?
SOMEBODY FUCKIN INVITED HER
SHE DID A READING OF HER UNPOSTED LATEST CHAPTER FOR US, LET US EDIT IT ON THE SPOT, AND POSTED IT
i haven't spoken to her in ages but i still have her on social media cause i was so curious about what kind of adult she'd turn out to be. somewhere in college she became well-adjusted enough to become a teacher and help with the productions for our old drama club so good for her akdjsghajks
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ierogenvy · 3 years
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#dont mind me#personal#there was a tiktok meme asking about where is ur bully now compared to u#and like. the only thing i had i consider a bully was my exbff from middle school that was probably my first crush#and like. shes fine. shes hot. she put out an album. she seems to have good friends that arent from our high school#and it makes me nostalgic to look at her instagram and know that if she had never done anything to me we would probably still be best friend#shes the kind of person i would become freinds with in class#and i miss her? the relationship we couldve had and maintained ? but it went into the shitter bc she decided to tell (many) eople that i was#having anonymous sex w people out of state in 6th grade. all behind my back. at first i  had given her permission#but i didnt know what shw was going to do when i told her i wanted to be popular. i didnt even conceive that shed do that to me#my parents made me stop being in contact w her and i left the gifted class bc she was in it. in 7th grade i talked to her a few times.#but after that i literallly did not talk to her until high school graduation. she was behind me and i told her her hat was acting up#like she was in the theatre club at our hs and i always wanted to do theater but my shyness + she was there kept me out#i never had a class with her again either#which idk if the administration knew about waht happened or if thats just how it played out#and i still rmr all this stuff about her. abot the stuff we talked about ! and for what !#i dont need to know her birthday. or the username from her old stardoll account. or exactly how to spell her name bc so many people would ge#get it wrong. why am i upset about this now its been close to ten years#probably bc if nothing bad had ever happened i wouldbe had the same best friend for 12 years insted of feeling like i have to make a brand#new friend every school year. we probably met in 3rf grade but we became friends in 4th grade#well thats enough. goodnight every1#and just a note this isnt even about comparing where we are in life its missing a person thats been out of#my life longer than they were ever really in it bc i can see them flourishing and i know we couldve been really good friends#if things had turned out differently
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sinewho · 7 years
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No.6 major fic rec list
Hello people:D
It seems 2 (two) human beings might be interested in a recommendation fic list. SO HERE IT IS   Things to have in mind:   .It was supposed to be short but I ended up mentioning 97 fics, sorry   .I used 10 categories (highschool, college, modern setting, Kingdom / Fantasy Au / Magic, Miscellaneous Aus, Post-series, canon, reunion, Life Swap and Gender Bend) . Links in bold are fics that are definitely a must. You MUST read them because of how good they are, I tried to highlight 2 or 3 in each category and rating, so you can go to those first   .The rating of the fic is next to the name for easy choosing. Plus some small commentary I added on my favs. .Have in mind that some of this are not finished and a pretty large amount might be abandoned, but read them anyway because they are still great   .There’s a little list at the end with my favorite authors, I would recommend everyone to read ALL of their work, but some of those works might be in other categories. . Feel free to reblog with your own contributions!! I definitely need more awesome fics to read :3
Keep reading for the long-ass list
High School:
Reminiscing on the Past, Looking Forward to the Future (Not Rated)
Shion was digging through a box when he found a small teddy bear and note that Nezumi had given him, many years ago. He reminisces on the past, and decides to finally let Nezumi know how he felt. 
My Gypsy Boyfriend (Not rated) This is MY FAVORITE hs au, go for it, no regrets guaranteed
Shion is drawn to the new kid. Nezumi is both beautiful and intriguing. He's also a gypsy, and a loner that most people avoid...But Shion isn't most people. He’s a persistent airhead who won’t take no for an answer. 
locker notes (Not Rated)
Shion and Nezumi are in their last year of high school with unspoken crushes that only come to light when Nezumi slips a note in Shion's locker. 
shall i compare thee to a high school play? (Not Rated)
Shion is Romeo, and Nezumi is Juliet, and maybe it's just a high school play, but Shion means every single one of his lines to his best friend and only hopes he can keep his true feelings disguised as an act. 
that one where nezumi's an idiot and shion has a cute laugh (G)
“Literally all I wanted was some fucking Doritos.”
Love All, Trust A Few, Do Wrong To None (T)
Shion is the perfect student. He is currently attending a prestigious academy and leads a comfortable, quiet, ordinary life with his mother and best friend in Lost Town. However, a mysterious and dangerous transfer student lurks on the horizon, and little does Shion know his life is about to be turned upside down.
Re: 2 a.m (T)
To: Nezumi
Sub: Sorry in advance
Sent at 1:44 A.M.
Are you awake?
Eyes only for you (T)
This is a world where people are born with two different colored eyes, one is their natural eye color and the other is their soul mate’s natural eye color. When a person makes eye contact with their soul mate, each person's eyes lose their soul mate’s color and become a pair of their own natural color.
Melodic Minor (M)
Rock Band AU set in 1997
School Bells (M)
In an AU Nezumi is a third year who goes to a rich boys school where he aimlessly waits for when he can leave. When he meets a mysterious boy with red eyes named Shion he thinks, maybe, he has something to look forward to everyday.
Meet Me At The Stage Door (M)
Theatre geek Nezumi doesn't think he'll enjoy watching ballet. Boy, is he wrong.
The Rat and Red Eyed Boy (M)
Shion didn't expect for this year to be any different from his others. He had always been the 'weird' kid and got teased for the red mark that traveled along his body. Little did he know his life would change after meeting a certain boy. Nezushi high school AU where Shion's scars are also sensitive to touch.
College / Roomates
drunk and smitten (Not Rated)
Really just a drabble - Shion breaks into Nezumi's apartment in the middle of the night, completely drunk and thinking it's his own home that he's let himself into. 
no more nor less (G)
Nezumi has decided to confess his feelings to Shion after Safu suggests he should. He meets Shion in the library to study Shakespeare, and...?
In Which Shion Is Found To Be Gay (G) soooo cute omg
Exactly what it says on the tin.
I Might Just Love You!  (T)
Nezumi was the first to bear witness to his roommate's dilemma. He knew this was going to be an issue-Not everyone was capable of knowing a beautiful sight once they've seen one, and Shion surely was a beautiful sight, but nonetheless. No one ever said dealing with an infectious disease as a college freshman was going to be easy. Luckily, Nezumi's there every step of the way.
Roommates Before Lovers (T)
Shion needs a place to stay while attending university, and who better to room with than Nezumi, the kid he remembers from that bus ride all those years ago? But things in their apartment don't go as smoothly as expected, because both are hiding secrets about their past from each other, causing things in the present to get...complicated.
The best laid plans (T) ok listen, this fic is great ITS SO GREAT
In which Shion doesn’t know how to meet people, and Nezumi is a Shakespeare snob. Also road trips. 
A college Journey (T)
Nezumi and Shion are randomly assigned to be roommates in their first year of college. Their first meeting goes pretty roughly, but romance soon develops between them. But will it be able to last through the tough times ahead of them?
College Clusterfuck (M) 
Shion's a stoner. Nezumi's a drunk. Inukashi understandably kind hates them both. (High)jinks ensue. College AU.
More than Enough (M)
The lives of Nezumi, Shion, and their friends in college. Or, just another NezuShi College AU with too much fluff.
Corruption (M)
"You're going to be fun...to corrupt." Nezushi AU. Street musician Nezumi, college student Shion.
Who said college life wasn't fun? This is a ongoing series of at lest 14 works -as of today- rating from G to E and my favorite college au, for real, its great. Please read it. PLEASE READ IT ITS AMAZING 10/10
Just one week had passed since the first lectures and already he had two assignments due for the next week so that meant that there was only one place for Shion to go, the library.
Modern Au / or more things that are not precisely high school or college
You are My World (Not Rated)
Have you ever loved someone with a fierceness you didn't know about until something happened that made you realise just how much it would affect you should that person be taken away from you? Shion was just about to find out what that felt like. 
Smile (G) (13 y/o cute dorks)
Shion won't smile properly with his braces and Nezumi notices. Middle School AU.
Paperback Lover (G)
Nezumi doesn't visit the local bookstore for the cute white-haired boy that works there. He's only here for the books. No, really.
Dance with me (G)
All it takes is a club and a lot of alcohol, and Shion becomes a regular Casanova.
MotherTruckers (T) nezumi is a mean trucker, how great is that?
Living in Alaska is difficult for recent college graduate Shion, especially considering his degree's emphasis in... plants. But when he stumbles into a job as an ice road trucker and finds himself partnered with a grey-eyed man named Nezumi, Shion decides maybe Alaska isn't too bad after all. Nezushi, Trucker AU
Im in love with my Bodyguard (T)
The year is 1947. Nezumi had just gotten fired and is given a job as a bodyguard.But who does he need to protect? and who is this Shion?
Our Day In Summer (T) Super lovely, full of fluff
Shion is stuck in a monotonous job as a simple company employee, and has no real aims in life. One day, he meets Nezumi, a street musician and aspiring artist, and things in his life begin to change.
Codex (T)  (trans!nezumi)
Shion finds a rat in a bookstore.
Any Helpful (T)  (trans shion and trans nezumi)
Safu is asked for assistance by Shion. She ends up helping Nezumi too.
The Visitor (M)
Shion was just about to leave him. Not for good, but at least to teach him a thing or two. The only problem is, he's sure they can reconnect after the accident damages his lover.  
Empty Fantasies (M)
Eve is the best drag queen in Tokyo. When Shion is dragged to his show for Safu's birthday, he finds himself drawn to the man. When they keep running into each other, they can't shake the feeling that they've met a long time ago.  
A time for everything (M)
Shion will never fall in love again. 
All the Pretty Little Animals (E)
"Shion is dragged by his friends to a strip club. There, he meets Nezumi (bonus for drag!)"
Kingdom / Fantasy Au / Magic
the lost prince (Not Rated)
The royal family was massacred 15 years ago, but the kingdom has always held out hope that the lost prince would return. Meanwhile, Nezumi has been acting strange, and Shion isn't sure why his best friend of 14 years keeps giving him these looks that escalate one night to more than just an expression Shion cannot explain.
three wishes (Not Rated)
Shion finds a genie's lamp, and when he rubs it, he's more preoccupied with falling for the cranky genie that comes out than making his allotted three wishes.
Evening Song (G)
A continuation of the centaur AU for all you perverts out there who wonder how Nezumi and Shion are gonna get together even though Nezumi is a centaur and Shion is an elf. Written in the style of a classic fairy-tale by Andrew Lang.
A Centaur Named Mouse (G)
Nezumi is a centaur. Shion is a wood elf. They are dorks. Kissing happens. It's cute. The end.
Yes, your majesty (T)
There once was a king. There once was a prince. There once was a curse.  Now there once was a mouse. Fairytale 
darkness as it turns into light (T) (harry potter crossover)
Safu always says Nezumi appositely asked the Sorting Hat to put him into Slytherin, to better uphold his bad boy looks and his look-at-me-in-the-wrong-way-and-I-will-take-your-eyes-out attitude. Most of the time, Shion can’t but agree.
The Prince and the Rat (T)
 Shion is a prince in a castle, waiting to be rescued, Nezumi is the handsome knight in shining armor, Safu is a sassy tag along friend (like donkey), and Elyurias is an overprotective wasp mother. (The Shrek AU nobody asked for)
cognitive dissonance (M)
A strange night in the rain at twelve years old was the beginning to a future Shion never could have imagined. A future which involved foreign promiscuity, betrayal, dogs, love, loss, and a whole lot of bravery.
Ghost (M)  (OMG SO BEAUTIFUL AND SAD)
Shion can't remember how he died and Nezumi doesn't want him to. Everything seems fine until a plague is mentioned and Shion becomes determined to find out. Will it bring them closer together or part them even more? ... Song fic, but actually it's more of a poem but yeah, hmm character death?
i begin to understand why god died (M) the angel thing is really cool
I was human when my heart was stolen by him, and I was human when I longed to be by his side. This fact won't change, no matter what name I decide to give to these feelings.  --It was sometime around 1,200 A.D. when he met Shion. 
Be Cruel to be King (E) The best kingdom au, 71k words full of fluff and some fights and great things haha
In the kingdom of Seis, King Rikiga rules cruelly. When he takes a former baker as his wife and makes her queen, her son Shion is named as heir to the throne, with one ultimatum; become a good leader before he turns 18 or be banished to"West District" to live forever in poverty and exile. Sadly Shion has no idea how to be cold hearted like Rikiga, but he meets someone who can help.
Miscellaneous AUs
books and mind reading (Not Rated) From all 27 Danielle’s work in my opinion this is the best, full of angst and fluff. Top 5 best fics ever for sure
Shion can read minds, an ability more overwhelming than he was prepared for when he moved from his small hometown to the city for university. In the city, he meets Nezumi, whose mind is much different than anyone's Shion has read before. Shion breaks his own rule by telling Nezumi he can mind read, intending on never seeing the man again - an intention that, of course, does not quite pan out. 
The Dead Horse Shanty (Not Rated) 
"Oh, poor old man, your horse will die, we'll drop him down to the depths of the sea. We'll send him down with a long, long roll, where the sharks will have his body and the devil have his soul." Nezumi, pirate ship cabin boy, is unprepared for the addition of a hostage onto his to-do list. He is even less prepared for the raging storm that will maroon them on an island together.
their wicked minds (T)
Shion is a Senator in the Intergalactic Imperial Senate, and Nezumi is a bioengineered super soldier assigned to be his bodyguard.
The Forest of Tranquility (M) 
Shion, a young ecologist, is allowed to leave No.6’s protective wall for the very first time in his life. During his research the young man rescues a silver-eyed beauty, unaware that this fateful encounter will hold him captive in the core of the Northern forest. “You shall not leave again!”
Courtship Rituals (M) 
Nezumi is a courtesan in the West Block, Shion is a student from Lost Town who conveniently loses his way and gets caught up in Eve's graces. She offers him possibly the most memorable moment of his life, and he's so close to giving in, but Eve is too much for an innocent Shion to handle. But can a relationship blossom between two that are so different?
Post-series
On the Clock (Not Rated) 
Post-series bakery shenanigans. Warning for general offensiveness on Nezumi's part. 
We Shall Dance Again (G)
A journey forward; a journey back. This was how Nezumi had changed.
Quietly (G)
In which Shion has a surprise for Nezumi and Nezumi plans for the near future.
Communication Breakdown (T)
[Post-series, post-hypothetical future reunion.] Shion has issues maintaining a work/life balance. Nezumi takes issue with these issues.
First Snow's Kiss (T)
After a fight with Shion, Nezumi sets out to make it the Christmas Shion always wanted.
Statistical Outlier (T)
[Post-series] Shion, sex, and statistics. And Nezumi.
Together (T)
Shion isn’t really sure how to act now that Nezumi’s returned. There’s time between them that won’t ever return, but he’s so glad to have him back. Domestic as hell.
Junior is curious (M) Funny and cute and sexy, this one has everything
"Ah, so you've seen them making a baby too?"
Shion's Birthday (M)
Nezumi has planned the perfect evening for Shion's birthday. It will be romantic, thoughtful, sweet, and most importantly, it will end in mind-blowing sex! Of course, even the best laid plans rarely go accordingly.
Good morning, Love (M)
All pretence of sleep was gone from his voice hearing the excuse Shion made to get up this early on a Sunday sounded ridiculous enough to get most of his attention. There was no way that Nezumi and their warm bed was going to be abandoned because of some damn sewer pipes. He was going to make sure of that!
nothing gold (M)
if Nezumi stayed.
Captivate (E)
"He pulled his brows into a frown and twisted in his seat to regard Shion with one slate-colored eye, noting the soothing, benign curve of his pink lips and how it was utterly belied by the stark heat in his eyes." In which Shion Insists and Nezumi is doomed to fail.
Étude (E)
"I'll show you," Nezumi grins. He disentangles his arms so he can cup Shion's head with both hands. "Again."
Still (E)
Nezumi decides to give up a little control.
To The Simple Two (E)
Shion has a proposal. Nezumi has a counter-proposal. Fluff and porn ensue.
Here's Everything I've Always Meant to Say (E)
There's a first time for everything.
In Knots (E)
Shion had never seen Nezumi wear a tie before.
Akame (E)
Stage Fright (E)
Sion lacks appreciation for the finer points of playing dress-up.
About Shion's topping and embarrassed Nezumi (E)
Little humor story from Nezushi daily life. It can be treated like a standalone story or part of my "Not Perfect" universe. It's about idea of Shion getting banned from being on the top by Nezumi.
Reunion
Chances and Choices (T)
After the fall of No. 6, Nezumi left Shion with the promise of coming back. After ten years, fate decided to let their paths cross once again.
Revolution (T)
Six years have passed after Nezumi's departure. Even though the progress of the Restructural Committee is like an untamed wave of changes and improvements, some people are unsatisfied and more than tired Shion thinks he has failed. Will he ever be able to look in these beautiful grey eyes again? Or will his guilt consume him?
Revolution EX: In a starlit night (M) (tecnically postseries but oh well)
It’s a starlit summer night. A busy one at that, since Nezumi and Shion move into the attic of an old ivy-clad red clinker house, which is completely surrounded by nature. What a perfect place to care for their deep, invisible scars the past had carved into their souls… A sequel to Revolution.
When Constellations Collide (M) (this is actually in evey categroy)
Everything felt easier in the dark, Shion thought. Now he was starting to understand why Nezumi preferred it. 5 + 1 times Nezumi and Shion share a bed.
Summer Days (M)
Four years have passed since Nezumi left Shion behind. Both of them are living a solitary live… Will they find their warmth again? - This is a story about hot summer days in the Western District. Reunion. Home, Sweet Home. And of course lemony boy's love!
The Sun in Jericho (M)
Ten years have passed since Nezumi left No. 6 at his back. He's seen much of the world and even found a place to call home, but his thoughts keep returning to a promise he made when he was too young to be making such heavy promises. So he decides, somewhat on a whim, to keep it. It's only to appease his conscience, of course; this decision has nothing to do with his curious inability to get a certain person out of his mind. Nothing at all.
No Man is an Island (M)
It's been 4 years, 22 days, 5 hours, and 21 minutes since the last time he kissed Nezumi.
Redeemed  (M) 
Their Five Stages (M)
Denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Where the five stages of grief become the five stages of reunion for Shion and Nezumi. Rated M for the last chapter. 
Not Perfect (M) I actually had to edit the post to add this one bc I FORGOT wtf is wrong with me I love this fic im officially the worst, however i dont think there's anyone in the fandom that haven't read it. SORRY DEAR AUTHOR 
 The four years passed after Wall fell. Shion is losing fight with his health and loneliness. Will Nezumi's return help him? It’s been said that life is full of ups and downs.
In Memory Lock'd (E)
I Loved Ophelia (E) I love this one, my favorite reunion so far
Some things are found where you least expect them. Shion and Nezumi are challenged to deal with their feelings for each other and live with the scars from their pasts.
And so we meet again… (T)
Incandescence (M)
Shion is drawn to sharp things.
Canon
affectionate (G)
Shion can’t be entirely certain on whether or not Nezumi is, or has ever been, affectionate, but he can say with confidence that he has a way to check.
Beside You (T)
Shion gets worried when Nezumi catches a cold, much to the other boy's annoyance.
but let's not talk of love or chains (M) This one is so incredible good, im not even kidding
Nezumi promised Shion they would reunite. He never said when, or how long he would stay. Five years later, he’s still figuring that out himself. Nezumi returns before he’s ready and finds that Shion has grown up without him – but for some reason, Shion still welcomes him back. In which Nezumi is forced to reconcile his conflicting fear and love, the pain in his past and the uncertainty of his future, and decide if freedom is worth the price of belonging nowhere at all.
Surrender (M)
Shion & Nezumi have a fight that leads to a very memorable night. Their emotional connection is so beautiful, I thought their physical one should be too. <3
The Most Beautiful Thing That Ever Was (E)
After everything has happened, we are left wondering what Nezumi and Shion's relationship has become. Nezumi has always teased Shion about being naively moronic, but what if Shion ends up teaching Nezumi a thing or two about the matters of the heart? And what about the way in which he presents his lesson?
Life Swap
In the Shadow of No. 6 (T)
No. 6 is no utopia. After twelve years suffocating under the city's constant surveillance, Nezumi is determined to escape. But just when he manages to crawl out from under No. 6's watchful eye, he finds himself the captive of a West Block terrorist group. 
Beyond the Shadow of No. 6 (T)
Continuation of In the Shadow of No. 6; a glimpse in the days of those left behind, 4 years later.
Fateswap (T)
Nezumi grows up in his village... sort of... while Shion is captured and taken to the Correctional Facility at a young age. How will events play out with the roles reversed? And what will happen to the third option? 
Fateswap Beyond (T)
The post-script to the Fateswap universe you've all been waiting for. Contains light smut.
Gender Bend
Inner Beauty (G)
It starts with a question that's innocent enough: "Can I braid your hair?" 
Small Mercies (T)
Rikiga dotes on Shion. Nezumi does not approve.
Behind Closed Doors (T)
Shion has no fashion sense. Nezumi decides it's time to go shopping.
Domesticity (M)
Shion makes hamburgers and fries, she's pretty tired of soup afterall.
Authors (with a lot of amazing works that Im to lazy to list)
Nezumiprefersdanielleovershakespeare
Enflashings
Triste
Ahiku
Secretagentfan
Elanra
Vox
There are some authors that I’ve read and loved but I cant for the life of me remember their name, I will edit this post if I remember 
I hope my long-ass list is helpful :D
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margaretrosegladney · 4 years
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Contribution from Rose Gladney via email:
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“I was born April 17, 1945, in Shreveport, Louisiana, grew up in Homer, La.,   parish seat of Claiborne Parish, where my parents, grand parents, and great grandparents lived and had graduated from public school.  I have 3 sisters(one older, 2 younger) and 3 younger brothers. 
Social life in our town of fewer than 5,000 focused around church -worship services, choir practice, youth groups (primarily Baptist, Methodist,  1 Presbyterian, 1 Catholic, 1 Jehovah's Witness), racially segregated public schools (grades 1-12) , 2 movie theatres in 1950s, a small golf course and Country Club ( whites only), school football, basketball, baseball (boys only). In sports, girls played basketball only. Softball was only on school grounds during recess.  At age 10, I liked softball and my dad took me to see the Homer Oilers play baseball one summer evening; but I found it very slow and boring.  What I most enjoyed was horseback riding. One of my favorite childhood memories is of riding with my father in  pastures on my paternal grandparents' farm.  In my early teens I had my own horse and enjoyed trail riding through woods and on back roads. I was never afraid of riding alone, until one day my aunt, who was Clerk of Court, told me not to ride off a certain dirt road near the farm because the sheriff suspected bootleggers had a still in the woods there and I might get shot!
 As the daughter and granddaughter of teachers and medical doctors, I was expected to do well in school and did; graduated from Homer High School 1963 with honors, was active in choral music, oratorical contest, academic rallies, organized Interfaith council to have prayer meetings before school, always  expected and  prepared to attend college. Attended church summer camp regularly and my in teens, I thought I would marry a doctor and he and I would be Presbyterian missionaries. Only later did I realize my sense of "calling" to be a missionary had more to do with a desire to see the world outside my home, and though I was often "homesick" when I left Homer to attend college in Memphis, and then U. of Michigan, and then U. of NM, I really wanted to change the world I called home.
  When President Eisenhower ordered federal troops to  enforce desegregation of Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas, I was in 7th grade. On the playground at lunch, discussing with classmates, I said I didn't think my parents would object to Negro students coming to our school ( I was thinking of the daughter of our family's maid with whom I had played as a young child).  That discussion continued in the classroom, and the teacher (football coach) said to me, "If that's what you think, why don't you go on over to Mayfield."  ( the school for Blacks in Homer).  I was embarrassed and in tears, and will always remember thinking, I would get up and walk out right now but I don't know where Mayfield School is!  Actually, Mayfield School was not so very far away,  only a few blocks from where my maternal grandparents lived; but I had never been to that part of town.  That's what it meant to grow up white and female in a racially segregated town in the 1950s. Year later, talking with my brother who was 7 years younger than I and who was the last of my siblings to attend and graduate(1970) from Homer High School, I learned that he knew exactly where Mayfield was.  He had played football with some of the first Black students to attend Homer High School, and as a white male, he could  go anywhere. As a white female teenager I was not supposed to go alone to town (only 2 blocks from home)on Saturday afternoon because that was when Blacks came to shop. When the public schools were desegregated, my parents, aunts and uncle, helped build Claiborne Academy; my mother taught there, and my younger brothers and sister were graduated from there (1972, '74, '76).  
 By 1961 Louisiana law required all high school students to take a 6 weeks course in Communism. I had  attended a school sponsored "Anti-Communism" crusade in Shreveport, but thought that Marx's Manifesto had some good ideas, and when I attended a Presbyterian Missionary conference in Montreat, NC and stood in line for supper next to African-American girl from Arkansas who  asked, do you believe in integration? I did not know what to say.  I wanted to say yes, but I had been taught that racial integration was part of Communist plot!  So I answered, I don't know.   
At  Southwestern (now Rhodes College) in Memphis, I continued to be active in Presbyterian youth group, and was asked to teach a Sunday school class in than African-American Presbyterian church, but was afraid to do so because I thought my parents would not approve. Likewise, I knew that older  white students were actively involved in challenging all white segregated Presbyterian churches in Memphis to welcome Black worshipers, but I was afraid to do so. By my senior year in fall of 1966 I was assigned to the racially desegregated  Humes High School  for 6 weeks practice teaching in tenth grade English. I was no longer ambivalent;  despite my parents' beliefs and commitment to racially segregated schools, I believed in public school desegregation.
 I'm not sure that all these details are necessary for your Wiki article, but when you ask how I got to sue the U. of AL for tenure, it's hard to leave out the connections between my growing awareness of what Lillian Smith called "sin, sex, and segregation"  and what others now call social constructions of gender/class/race.   So, I will  carry on. Parts of what I've told you already, only came to me because someone else in Michigan or New Mexico asked me what was I taught about race, or sex, or gender roles, or class -- none of which I had really thought about until I began at first to challenge and then unravel these concepts and realities which are so rarely examined before they have been unconsciously absorbed.
 YET....Here goes more.  At the U. of Michigan, I was immediately made aware that I am a SOUTHERNER -- which to most non- Southerners means WHITE and Talks Funny.  I was one of 4 resident advisers in Jordan Hall, a freshman all female dorm in 1967-68. The other 3 RA's - 2 white and 1 black - all midwesterners. Jennifer, African American whose parents had fled the South to live in Michigan, told me when she first learned that a white Southern girl was going to be an RA on third floor, she thought how could she get to 4th floor without being on the elevator with me. We all became good friends, and although Jennifer invited me to her wedding (a few years later), she told me she would never visit me when I moved back to Memphis. I said they all had "Easy Rider's Syndrome" i.e. all southerners are white racists.  I learned about Black Power and read The Autobiography of Malcom X  because Jennifer had his picture on her dorm room door. But after my parents came to visit me and sat with us at the RA's table in the dining hall, my father told me never to bring Jennifer home with me because it would upset his mother.  I did not believe him, but I did not challenge him then.  His real feelings came out again when after completing my M.A. in English at U. of Michigan, I applied for and accepted a position in Memphis. to teach tenth grade English at the all new Northside High School. Built  to be the  Memphis City public school model in terms of curriculum and racial composition (50/50 black and white; academic and vocational curriculum), by fall 1968 white flight had left Northside High 97% white student body with 70% white faculty. My father warned me not to invite any black students or faculty to my home, lest I be raped.  When I replied "I could just as easily be raped by a white man", my father said, "Well I would prefer it."
Summer 1969
Recommended by Northside H.S. principal, attended seminar at Memphis State U. “Teachers of English to Culturally Deprived Children,” where I met some of the most experienced and highly qualified African American teachers in Memphis city schools. From them I learned also dissatisfaction with policies of Memphis City school board,( only one black member), failure to promote blacks in upper levels of administration. Became friends with Eloise Forrester, a teacher in Albuquerque, attending the seminar because she could leave her daughter with her mother in Alabama. Eloise was a lifesaver for me when I moved to Albuquerque for graduate work in AMS, 1970. I returned to Northside HS, ready to implement new ideas in my classroom; soon impatient with what I considered unnecessary record keeping, At first faculty meeting, sat with two colleagues, Bernice Burton and Frances Gandy, heard about organizing meeting of AFT. Attended, saw several of teachers I had met thru that summer seminar. Chosen to be one of organizers, so that it would not be seen as an all black union. From then on, to the white faculty I was on “outside” a person of suspicion , naiive, sure, didn’t really know what I was into, yes, but did know more about racism in school system and police brutality on the streets where our students lived in North Memphis. Marched and supported “Black Fridays” by wearing black when students boycotted schools to protest . Ultimately testified in court in support of reinstating students who had been expelled for protesting. The students were reinstated and I was informed I would not be rehired. I challenged that, knowing I could afford to do so because I had no family to support and didn’t have to stay in Memphis, as other activist teachers did. School board met, Southwestern college students protested in my favor outside while  that school board meeting was going on. Board decided to reinstate me , dock me 2 weeks pay, and send me to one of the oldest black schools in Memphis, (Manassas) where principal was known to be very strict with teachers. That was my first law suit. I won, but chose to go to grad school rather than to Manassas High.
 At UNM 1970-74. PHD in American Studies. Went there because I was interested in studying AF- AM lit. A professor had told me no such thing as African American lit, all protest lit., but if that’s what you want, look into American Studies. Went to NM, one of the oldest AMS PHD programs, and because got scholarship there, teaching freshman English. In 1970 Women’s Studies was just beginning. First WS course taught for credit at UNM was offered through the AMS Dept, spring 1972, Women in Literature. I audited it: first question, “Are you a feminist?” Sure, I believe in women, I’m a feminist. You are from the South, you must read Lillian Smith, Killers of the Dream. That’s how I was introduced to LS. Reading KOD, weeping, told my roommate, “This woman is writing my life.” Here was a white Southern woman who could have been a younger sister to my maternal grandmother, yet she was explaining and challenging everything I was trying to understand about racism, and sexism, and she had chosen to stay in the South and challenge all its taboos, and she had managed to live and write there.She showed me it is possible to live in place you love, with people whom you both love and whose beliefs and values you see as only destructive and dehumanizing. But, I could not write my dissertation on Lillian Smith… no, her life was too large. Also, felt I had to confront my own immediate struggle with my family’s commitment to maintaining racism through building segregated private schools to avoid public school desegregation and thereby destroying public school system. My dissertation, “I’ll Take My Stand: Southern Segregation Academy Movement” was an oral history of the development of white segregated academies in Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and Virginia.
 After graduating with PHD in AMS, May 1974, I began teaching at U. of AL summer 1974 with joint appointment in American Studies and the New College. Although I drew on my dissertation research in teaching, I always managed to use Lillian Smith’s work in my classes. I continued using and encouraging students to use oral history as a tool to examine our culture, and especially the lives, history, and contributions of women of all classes, ethnic, religious backgrounds. My first published work drew from an undergraduate’s oral history interview with Sallie Mae Hadnott, an African American leader in school desegregation movement in Prattville, AL. See, “If it was anything for Justice,” published in the Women in South issue of Southern Changes, 1977. In that same issue, historian Jo Ann Robinson published article on LS, containing a footnote referencing the need for oral history of Laurel Falls Campers. Unlike my dissertation, that was a project I thought I could really enjoy. With Robinson’s encouragement, I contacted Lillian Smith’s sister Esther Smith and Paula Snelling, with whom LS had developed Laurel Falls Camp and published the magazine, first called Pseudopodia, then North Georgia Review, and finally South Today. Thus began my scholarly work on Lillian Smith. (do you need  a copy of my vitae for selected publications between 1977 and 2016? )
In 1978, my original joint appointment in New College and American Studies was changed to a full time appointment in American Studies in the college of Arts & Sciences specifically to allow additional time for research and publication. Although as required, I had published articles in reputable scholarly journals, I was denied tenure in May 1982. I will attempt to attach copies of the court’s decision and published coverage in local newspapers. You may have already read it as a published federal case.
Although the Judge ruled in my favor on basis of breach of contract, rather than on issues of sex discrimination, many women employees (faculty and staff whom I did not know personally) told me afterwards that they felt I had stood up for them.
 After I was granted tenure, I began editing Smith’s letters, a project which took another 10 years, in part because Smith family members were offended by my naming her relationship with Paula Snelling as lesbian. I have expressed my feelings and thoughts about that process best in the published article, “Personalizing the Political/ Politicizing the Personal: Reflections on Editing the Letters of Lillian Smith.” Carryin’ On: an anthology of Southern Lesbian and Gay History, Ed. John Howard (NYU Press, 1997), 93-103. After the Letters were published, I was promoted to associate professor. 
 Throughout my teaching career at the U. of AL I was active in development of Women Studies and African American Studies programs. For 29 years I offered a course called Women in the South, emphasizing the history, experiences and works of women of all classes, races, sexual orientations. Through several African American women students in that class, I was introduced to the work of Alabama native, dramatist and poet Billie Jean Young, and subsequently wrote the Introduction to her Fear Not the Fall Fear Not the Fall, Poems and A Two-Act Drama, Fannie Lou Hamer: This Little Light published by New South Books, 2003.
 All of my published work, and especially my writing about and editing the work of Lillian Smith is possible only because I have the love and support of Marcia Winter.
 Please let me know whether you need any further documentation.”
 Rose Gladney
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Aaaah, what does Jon Snow know, anyway?
(The answer is “nothing”.)
But we know that we’ve themed our Changeling: the Lost 2nd Edition Kickstarter to change from season to season, week to week. This week, we’re finishing up Winter, and next up is Spring and all the growth that promises.
But right now, Winter rules and with it a post-Thanksgiving sense of lingering thankfulness.
Maybe it was attending PAX Unplugged in my hometown of Philly a couple of weeks ago just two blocks from the hobby store where I bought the original D&D Monster Manual, then a wonderful family Thanksgiving, and then getting back together with an old friend and gaming buddy from our college years after ten years yesterday, but I’m in the mood to tell you about how I got into this tabletop gaming thing of ours while expressing some thanks.
(Feel free to skip to THE BLURBS! and the Updates, if anything pre-White Wolf causes your eyes to glaze over. This is pre-history, dude.)
      Half Damned art by Michele Giorgi
      Here’s the preamble: I started serious tabletop gaming in my sophomore year of HS (Central HS in Philly, class 239) by walking into the Strategy & Tactics Society where about a dozen guys were playing board games like Squad Leader and Wooden Ships and Iron Men.
You want to see where checking off heatsinks in BattleTech came from? That’s your game; you checked off hull, rigging, etc. Also probably influenced Star Fleet Battles.
Anyway, I was amazed because I had never met anyone who wanted to play Avalon Hill and other tactical boardgames. Besides myself. So I stayed and played, and within a couple of weeks I heard that Robert was coming back, and he was ready to DM.
I had no idea who this guy was, or what a DM was, but this was apparently big news to the group who were into this new style of gaming called Dungeons and Dragons. A bunch of the other gamers in the club were not happy with it; it wasn’t real gaming, they said. Apparently, we had all been waiting for Robert to get his hands on a book of new rules called Blackmoor. Sure, whatever you say.
Well, I did sit in on the session when Robert returned, and while my Halfling Thief was hardly an original fantasy character concept, I was enthralled by this combination of improv theatre and wargaming where I could discover the world that started on sheets of graph paper that Robert scribbled on in response to our questions – a tree here, a pool of mud there – but was so much bigger and richer in my mind.
And Robert was amazing. The way he worked with each player to include their ideas, but kept his conception of this world of his constant, was like watching a narrative grow. Like sitting next to Moorcock, Tolkien, or Leiber, and suggesting ideas. I didn’t know anything like this existed! So my first Thanks go to Robert, my first DM, who inspired me to start my own campaign world not six months later.
A bunch of us took turns DMing as Robert faded away towards graduation, and not just D&D, but Boot Hill and Traveller as well. How we laughed as our intricately planned space military characters died in character creation! Good times.
    Enemy Action art by Andrew Trabbold
      But I DM’d D&D specifically, and began a consistent world that I fined-tuned over the Summer vacation, so that when we resumed playing in our club after school, and I had enough players that we could divide them into the good, neutral, and evil, teams, they all started in The City With No Name that sat astride the east/west and north/south trade routes nexus – and their adventures affected the city and the world.
Two years the gaming club guys played in that same world, many of them running through multiple characters. I graduated, went to art school twenty minutes from high school, so I returned to DM for the club some afternoons. Many of the folks who learned tabletop RPGs from playing these sessions became friends and we got together outside of the club, especially as they graduated and went to college too.
Meanwhile, I started DMing, same world, for a group of students at art school and their friends once a week. A bunch tried it, thought it was fun (or not) but didn’t keep up with it. But a core group loved it, and became the nucleus for a weekly gaming session that went on for twelve years. (I did not run all of those games, and we did miss some weeks, but it was mostly my D&D world).
And here is the next Thanks: I’m thankful that our group was mixed genders and races and that there was never an issue with prejudice within our group. There were affairs and jealousy and grudges and other human interactions, but for whatever reason I was lucky to have a group that saw this weird hobby as something that everyone could partake in and play in whatever way they felt good playing.
We had Mickey with her crafted storylines for her characters like Kwik the duck monk (Mistress of Kwak-Fu), and the brutish DW the half-ogre and his evil intelligent two-handed sword who did his thinking for him. Danilo with his “what’s next?” questions, and chaotic characters like Elmer who reincarnated into a troll. Jodie, who read every D&D book and magazine she got her hands on and knew all the gaming tricks for Yain Yarwa (Y-Squared) elven thief/assassin, and Isis, illusionist were-tiger. Chaka with his intricate strategies and plans that could take months to come to fruition, and Ed, who wrote up our sessions as chapters in a novel featuring his character Farcist, half-orc renegade.
In fact, our group only stopped playing because I moved to Georgia in 1992 to take over all Art Direction at White Wolf. We had been to hell and back together in our personal lives, and except for one guy who deserted us during those times, the group stuck together. When I moved, they were the ones who drove the rented vans with all my worldly goods down to GA.
Which brings me to now and several decades later. Because as of last year, most of the old crew have started to get together once a quarter. Sometimes for game night, sometimes for a movie, once for a wedding; always so we can talk with each other as only old friends can. Our kids are heading out into high school and college or into their own lives, and there is time again to get together with those people whose characters were once an adventuring party, but whose real lives have bonded even more tightly. My third Thanks goes to them.
So fourth Thanks: for forty years (this month) of this RPG hobby that set me on a career path and allowed me to make friends all the way through those times. My good gaming friends from high school and college and my WW friends and all the people I’ve befriended since then. Folks I’m simply glad to see at conventions, folks on-line, and those who have stood with me facing the hordes of hell.
Kind of getting inspired here; I may even start running my D&D world again…
Many Worlds. One Path.
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Our story so far: We funded in about a day, and have already blown through nine Stretch Goals and went past 200% funding before last weekend! The goals include the two novellas: Autumn and Winter, an art budget increase, two new sections for the Kith and Kin book that we’re calling the Book of Kiths, the first sections for the CtL2 Companion: Entitlements and Freeholds, and we added another 2 PDFs to our CtL 1st Edition PDF reward. And we’re just on the verge of adding another Kith section to that book!
We’ve also revealed excerpts with notes from the developers, and half the book text has been shown to backers so far.
Come along as the seasons change and we reveal the next chapters of the core book text to backers!
Next, our Trinity Continuum Kickstarter will start in early January!
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Chronicles of Darkness: Strangeness in the Proportion (Kindle, Nook)
Vampire: The Requiem: Silent Knife (Kindle, Nook)
Mummy: The Curse: Dawn of Heresies (Kindle, Nook)
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I love her, she’s family, but I don’t love what she is.
– Antonio Ramírez, dhampir
This book includes: 
• An exploration of what it means to be one of the Half-Damned, dhampir, revenants or ghouls.
• Mechanics for creating Half-Damned characters.
• Information for creating and running chronicles using the various Half-Damned character types, both with vampires and alone.
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      Legacy of Lies, the V20 Dark Ages Jumpstart, goes undead in PDF and physical book PoD versions on DTRPG:
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TWO PRINCES. BITTER RIVALS. AND A COTERIE CAUGHT BETWEEN THEM. 
Marcus Verus, the vampiric Prince of Chester, secretly prepares to go into torpor. Should his plans be made public, the Prince knows the wolves — both real and imagined — would launch an attack, threatening all within his domain.
That’s where you come in.
Legacy of Lies includes:
Basic rules for players and Storytellers
Introduction to the Vampire: The Masquerade Dark Ages setting
Introductory adventure
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Take up the panoply of legendary heroes and lost ages, and awaken the world-shaking might of their Evocations. Before the dawn of time, the Exalted wielded god-metal blades to cast down the makers of the universe. In an ancient epoch of forgotten glories, Creation’s greatest artificers forged unimaginable wonders and miracle-machines.
Now, in the Age of Sorrows, kingdoms go to war over potent artifacts, scavenger princes risk everything to uncover relics of the past, and the Exalted forge great arms and armor on the anvil of legend. These treasures are yours to master.
Discover the mystical power of the five magical materials and the secrets of creating your own Evocations. Wield weapons of fabled might and don the armor of mythic heroes, making their puissance your own. Claim Creation’s wonders: the miraculous tools of the Chosen, living automatons, flying machines, hearthstones, and more. And unleash the mighty warstriders, titanic god-engines of conquest and devastation, to once more shake Creation with their footfalls.
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Set one contains one card each of every trick in the game, as well as every condition. It also has a set of initiative cards to track player and non-player character actions during combat. Sets two and three (covering artisan and shepherd spells) coming soon!
      What dark secrets do the eldest vampires hold? Find out in Thousand Years of Night for Vampire: The Requiem! PDF and physical book PoD versions available on DriveThruRPG.com. http://ift.tt/2sV8lZR
You may think that with a multitude of people coming, going, dying and running away, we’d be tired, done, or ready to give up. Instead, I find myself restless, looking for the next thing.  There’s always a next thing, and I for one am not yet ready to die.
– Elder Kincaid, Daeva Crone
This book includes:
• Detailed instructions on creating elder vampires, including how to base chronicles around them
• A look into the lives of elders, how they spend their nights, who they work with, and why including their roles in both their clans and covenants
• New Devotions, Merits, and Rituals for elder vampires
• The kinds of creatures that pose a threat to elder vampires, including Inamorata, Lamia, Sons of Phobos, a new elder conspiracy, and more!
      Is a life of running and hiding a life worth living? We say yes. There’s always something between the running and the hiding, and those moments of grace make it all worthwhile.
The Huntsmen Chronicle Anthology is a perfect companion piece to Changeling: The Lost, 2nd Edition. These stories spin tales of the Lost, of those abducted and enslaved by fairies. Those who escaped, but whose captors will stop at nothing to find them. These fairies summon forth the Huntsmen, primordial hunters who understand nothing but pursuit and capture. The Huntsmen are unstoppable monsters, and the Lost can only look to each other for respite, rare comfort, and rarer trust.
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          A Land Where Legends Walk
Drawing enthusiastically on Greek mythology, the revised and re-imagined Scarred Lands nonetheless retains its place as a modern fantasy RPG setting. This is a world shaped by gods and monsters, and only the greatest of heroes can expect to be counted among them. The most populous continent of Scarn, Ghelspad, plays host to vast unexplored regions, hides unsolved riddles from ancient cultures, and taunts adventures with the promise of undiscovered riches hidden among the ruins of older civilizations.
Yet the myths of the Scarred Lands are relatively recent events. The effects of the Titanswar still ripple through the world, and the heroines and villains of many of these stories are part of living memory, if not still living.
The Award-Winning Fantasy Setting Returns
Scarred Lands has been a favorite fantasy setting since the release of the Creature Collection for the d20 System in 2000. In subsequent years, over 40 titles were published for Scarred Lands, making it one of the most fully supported fantasy RPG settings ever and the premiere product line of Sword & Sorcery Studios.
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  Heroes, Villains, and Others in Between! 
This tome is a revision of the original book by the same title, originally published for use with 3rd edition rules for the world’s most popular roleplaying game. In this revised edition of The Wise & the Wicked, all the same characters have returned (and we’ve added some new ones, too!), for use with the Scarred Lands Player’s Guide. 
Champions of Gods and Titans 
The Wise & the Wicked introduces a rogue’s gallery of the Scarred Lands’ movers and shakers, characters who carry out the will of the gods or the fallen titans. These non-player characters can be friends, enemies, or simply convenient resources for the player characters in your game.
Inside, find villains such as King Virduk of Calastia, the Black Dragon, along with his wife, the beautiful (and black-hearted) Queen Geleeda; the Grand Vizier to King Virduk, the wicked warrior-mage Anteas; and the sinister general of Virduk’s northern armies, Archduke Traviak the Steel-Fisted. At the other end of the spectrum, meet the gracious Lady Ariniel, the Swan Knight, champion of Madriel; Kimer the Shatterer, bearer of the Earth Sword of Scarn and tenacious foe of the titanspawn of the north; and King Thain the Just, the Aleking, ruler of Burok Torn. And many others beside!
Here you’ll find a fascinating compendium of characters from the Scarred Lands, but easily transported into campaigns set elsewhere. In addition, find multiple appendices full of new magic items and artifacts, class archetypes and prestige classes, new feats, new creatures and races, and more.
Available in Pathfinder and 5th Edition versions! PDF and PoD formats available NOW!
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            CONVENTIONS!
This weekend, Matthew Dawkins, Dave Brookshaw, and Eddy Webb are going to be at Dragonmeet in London. https://www.dragonmeet.co.uk/ Expect plenty of playful class warfare as these three mix it up, represent Onyx Path, and generally redefine the term “hooligans”.
  Planning ahead for 2018, we’re heading back to Midwinter Game Convention in Milwaukee, January 11-14, where we’re going to be bringing a big crew of many of your favorite Onyx Path designers and we’ll be running demos and making some special announcements at the show!  http://midwintergamingconvention.com
    And now, the new project status updates!
DEVELOPMENT STATUS FROM ROLLICKING ROSE (projects in bold have changed status since last week): No changes this week.
First Draft (The first phase of a project that is about the work being done by writers, not dev prep)
M20 Gods and Monsters (Mage: the Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition)
M20 Book of the Fallen (Mage: the Ascension 20th Anniversary Edition)
C20 Novel (Jackie Cassada) (Changeling: the Dreaming 20th Anniversary Edition)
Deviant: The Renegades (Deviant: The Renegades)
  Redlines
Hunter: the Vigil 2e core (Hunter: the Vigil 2nd Edition)
They Came From Beneath the Sea! Rulebook (TCFBtS!)
  Second Draft
WoD Ghost Hunters (World of Darkness)
Tales of Good Dogs – Pugmire Fiction Anthology (Pugmire)
Exalted 3rd Novel by Matt Forbeck (Exalted 3rd Edition)
Night Horrors: The Tormented (Promethean: The Created 2nd Edition)
Monarchies of Mau (Monarchies of Mau)
  Development
Signs of Sorcery (Mage: the Awakening Second Edition)
SL Ring of Spiragos (Pathfinder – Scarred Lands 2nd Edition)
Ring of Spiragos (5e – Scarred Lands 2nd Edition)
Scion: Origin (Scion 2nd Edition)
Scion: Hero (Scion 2nd Edition)
Trinity Continuum Core Rulebook (The Trinity Continuum)
Trinity Continuum: Aeon Rulebook (The Trinity Continuum)
GtS Geist 2e core (Geist: the Sin-Eaters Second Edition)
  WW Manuscript Approval:
  Editing:
Ex Novel 2 (Aaron Rosenberg) (Exalted 3rd Edition)
Pan’s Guide for New Pioneers (Pugmire)
Dragon-Blooded (Exalted 3rd Edition)
Kithbook Boggans (Changeling: the Dreaming 20th Anniversary Edition)
The Realm (Exalted 3rd Edition)
  Post-Editing Development:
Changeling: the Lost 2nd Edition, featuring the Huntsmen Chronicle (Changeling: the Lost 2nd Edition)
  Indexing:
    ART DIRECTION FROM MIRTHFUL MIKE:
In Art Direction
Cavaliers of Mars – New art getting assigned.
Ex3 Monthly Stuff
Scion Origins
Ring of Spiragos
Changeling: the Lost 2
Trinity Continuum – Assigned art notes for pieces for KS.
Pugmire – Vinsen’s Tomb
Ex3 Dragon Blooded
Pugmire – Pan’s Explorer’s Guide (or whatever) – Sending notes for this over to Laubenstein, Syme, Loboyko, and Alida this week as soon as I finish going through them.
  Marketing Stuff
  In Layout
Beast PG
Pugmire/Scarred Lands Community Content – working on the logo.
Book of Freeholds – To Mark
DtD Enemy Action – With Josh
Pugmire Fetch Quest – Working on sample designs for more playtesting.
  Proofing
Wraith 20 – Final layout proof to WW.
W20 Changing Ways – First proof.
  At Press
Beckett Screen – Shipped to shipper.
Scarred Land PGs & Wise and the Wicked PF & 5e – To fulfillment shipper. PDF and PoD physical book versions on sale at DTRPG.
Changeling: the Dreaming 20th Anniversary Edition (Changeling: the Dreaming 20th Anniversary Edition) – Deluxe Edition cover and Screen in the works. Waiting for Deluxe cover and the Screen proofs.
Prince’s Gambit – Print and Play version updated. Getting specs from printer.
M20 Cookbook – Files uploaded and processing.
CtL Huntsmen Chronicle Anthology  – Layout waiting for errata.
V20 Beckett’s Jyhad Diary– Inputting errata.
C20 Ready Made Characters – Ending Backer PDF errata gathering.
Ex 3 Arms of the Chosen – Advance PDF on sale on DTRPG, gathering errata.
Pugmire Artisan Cards – PoD proofs ordered.
Pugmire Shepherd Cards – PoD proofs ordered.
Pentex Indoctrination Manual – Being sent to backers this week.
VtR Half Damned – Advance PDF on sale this Wednesday on DTRPG.
  TODAY’S REASON TO CELEBRATE: To reference last week’s TRTC, the new version of MST3K has been picked up for a second season! (While you may think this is just a casual aside that speaks of another’s cultish nerd interest…consider how interested a person might be in a revival of a project with a hard-core group of vocal fans, if that person revives game lines with hard-core vocal fans on a regular basis. They did a great job at it, there is always much to learn from that.)
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