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The Cybernaut is here for the second day of August Adipose! She came through cyberspace to take part in the festivities!

insta | website | prints | august adipose

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Bats and sycamore leaves*, a woodblock print by an unidentified Japanese artist ca. 1900. From the Taubman Museum of Art collection on JSTOR, featuring 1,701 freely accessible images of artworks, no login needed!

*What kind of leaves did you think they were, huh?

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Yes this is a twilight ttrpg, No it doesn't have any of the mormon shit

Genre: Romance, Drama, Supernatural

Touchstones: Twilight, Riverdale,

What is this game?: Monsterhearts is a TTRPG about navigating teenage romance as a monster

How's the gameplay?: Monsterhearts is a PBTA game, if you're familiar with them then it'll likely be familiar, no grid, roll 2d6 + stats to determine things, -6 is a fail, 7-9 is a success, 10-12 is a big success, characters have special abilities they activate when they have sex with players generally reaffirming some sort of toxic trait they have, and when characters "die" they become their "Darkest self", a dark shadowy version of themselves which makes their worst perceptions reality

What's the setting (If any) like?: Modern day, but with monsters! (or not with monsters actually, a lot of the playbooks double as just allegorical, but also cmon if you're playing this you're playing with the monsters)

What's the tone?: Monsterhearts has that sort of Dark queer romance vibe, its hard to really describe but if you've watched like, any CW show you get the picture

Session length: Leaning short, the game is more narrative focused than anything

Number of Players: 3-5 players

Malleability: Its fairly malleable, you generally need to stay within a semi-modern day setting with vampires and ghosts and shit, but otherwise you can go nuts

Resources: Character sheets are provided, this is not a complex game so thats more than enough

So this game's a classic, its really really good and if you haven't read it you're doing yourself a disservic

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Commission

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Photographer Debbie Parker captured this lightning strike in West Virginia. - Author: sco-go

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New commission to celebrate the end of a long campaign; this is Renee and Amara, queens looking over their kingdom!

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Daily Check in 08/05/2025 MasterCard got REALLY Spicy with me today. As soon as I mentioned Itch io and Steam to the first rep he HUNG UP. The second one I called was apologetic and filed my complaint ticket, but WOW. They are getting really tired of these calls. Which means KEEP IT UP! PayPal was much less spicy with me today, and filed a complaint ticket for me and offered to send me a list off all the stuff they won't process. Which is really just a list of the things they require APPROVAL to process, which is very different. Lot of false information going around over there and they're back to playing dumb about the situation with Itch io and Steam. Which means we need to keep the pressure on. Strip still refuses to take the call, and Visa just read the script and hung up as usual, though I was able to make me direct me around the sight a bit first. They even

directed me to their website where they have a fun little article about the situation called "Combating Illegal Adult Content." https://corporate.visa.com/en/about-visa/visa-network-integrity.html You'll need to scroll down a bit to find the article. When I asked what illegal content they were combating, I was directed to send them an email about that question and they finished the script and hung up.

Keep calling and keep asking questions! Don't let their excuses go unchallenged. This about about "illegal activity" this is about censorship and we can only fight it by making our voices heard!

Cheat Sheet provided by @dieselbrain.bsky.social‬

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Solomon Island Prehensile-tailed Skink (Corucia zebrata), family Scincidae, endemic to the Solomon Islands archipelago

Arboreal, herbivorous, crepuscular.

The largest known species of skink, they can grow to a total length of 32 inches (81 cm).

Live-bearing, they provide parental care for the young, after birth, as well. Females are known to be fiercely protective of the young.

They are actually social, and live in extended family groups.

This has been scientifically proven to be one of the best lizards, and I love them.

photograph by Tara Biron

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Lancer order for one of my patrons. A Death's head named Partisan piloted by Saint.

Very fun to work on.

Visit my Patreon to see all the progress work, It's only $3 a month.

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The demonization of actual charities/orgs in favor of individual GFMs has done nothing but stripped marginalized people of their privacy + dignity by forcing them to become internet celebrities in order to get their needs met as opposed to an org that could privately help them if said org had the funding!!!! Also it’s why people feel the need to go as far as to fake their own kidnappings just to get traction! Not to mention it’s just made the lives of grifters so much easier

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every major structural social problem right now is basically "we don't have enough skilled workers on the ground" and the reason is always "well we've been intentionally underpaying and understaffng them for decades to increase corporate profits" and somehow the news always just mentions the "shortage" without digging into the cause

air travel is a mess? shortage of air traffic controllers - for some mysterious reason

logistics a mess? shortage of truck drivers - for some mysterious reason

public transit can't meet demand? shortage of bus drivers - for some mysterious reason

We even mysteriously have shortages of doctors, nurses, teachers... FOR SOME MYSTERIOUS REASON

FUCKING PAY PEOPLE AND HIRE ENOUGH STAFF

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If you've ever thought to yourself "I basically know who this person is" about a stranger from reading their posts or watching their youtube videos, I guarantee you're wrong. Yes, even if you've been following them for a long time. Knock it off.