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the mistake people coming from twitter or reddit make is thinking tumblr is a social media, when it's actually the new pdf

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A Squad of Drow is now available!

Many of you are already familiar with @anim-ttrpgs's Silk & Dagger: A Sensible Drow RPG but if you're not, it's about playing a beautiful woman who has something wrong with her. Well, there's other stuff in there like dark comedy, caves, and clever social commentary, but the insane women bit is what I care about. I made character design zine for it using the manual's tables to generate many women who have something wrong with them, and it's available on itchi.io at the beautiful price of whatever you want. Check it out!!

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GREEN MILK | #008 | save vs despair — mörk borg: a holistic retrospective

:// A little over a month & 14,000 edited & well-considered words later, SAVE VS DESPAIR is complete to read in its entirety.

If you have any interest in TTRPGs or ever wondered what Mörk Borg's whole deal is – this is for you.

I approached it as a writing exercise & design analysis to understand what's so special about this game and art object, and I'm really proud of both this piece and what I learned for my own practice.

If you're invested in the TTRPG scene I'd appreciate it if you shared this with anyone who might enjoy it.

Our artform deserves as much high-quality analysis as we can cultivate, and the fact that I stumbled into writing what is currently the most thorough analysis I could find (which still has huge gaps in its perspective & approach) of one of the most successful games to emerge from the scene in recent years indicates that there is a need to encourage more writing like this.

In a perpetually collapsing digital infrastructure where so much of our design writing is ephemeral and lost to time (I've heard ancient tales of The Forge & Google+ eras, Discord is an unreferencable void & I really hope someone wiser than me is archiving all these podcasts) I hope that longer form writing might represent an opportunity for the ideas we have now to still be accessible (in one form or another) in years to come.

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Too much patting myself on the back? Maybe.

But it's good writing and I think you'll get something out of it.

Personally I learned that cross posting on multiple platforms is exactly as fun as it sounds (I thought the whole point of starting a newsletter was to avoid this crap in the first place) and by the end of the month I just wasn't posting the illustrations I was making or sharing the last 2 (?) individual parts here as they went up after burning myself out on instagram.

So for the sake of my poor microwaved brain, if any of this interests you:

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GREEN MILK | #10 | weird hope engines, a waning light | 🔗

🖼 Bonington Gallery's WEIRD HOPE ENGINES exhibition from Dying Earth Collective and TTRPGs as art in the gallery environment;

🕯 Reading Chris Bissette's Mörk Borg adventure A WANING LIGHT to think about efficient prose & technical writing in the adventure module format;

+ I packed this one with links to further reading if anything in there catches your interest!

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GREEN MILK | #10 | weird hope engines, a waning light | 🔗

🖼 Bonington Gallery's WEIRD HOPE ENGINES exhibition from Dying Earth Collective and TTRPGs as art in the gallery environment;

🕯 Reading Chris Bissette's Mörk Borg adventure A WANING LIGHT to think about efficient prose & technical writing in the adventure module format;

+ I packed this one with links to further reading if anything in there catches your interest!

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You all disappoint me. Not one (1) drawing of a personified tumblr mourning the lifeless corpse of 4chan? Not ome? They were our rivals you sick fucks. Nary a whiff of 1 (one) fix-it AU? Im going to hibernate now..youve pirssed me off

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Aw damn I missed my opportunity to post this screenshot from Dracula (1931) on 4/20

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Winter has arrived on Poob.

Start your 7 day free trial of Poob today, and watch smash hit Martin Scorcese's Goncharov.

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Roughly transcribing something one of our other team members (@ashweather) talked about when we were in a call working on editing Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy together:

"One more thing that makes Eureka mundane is the work it does in between the lines, its refusal to narrow down 'mechanics' to just the modifiers and the numbers on the dice. For one example, let's take disabled investigators - in numerical terms, it's purely a detriment, but there is a concrete benefit to disabled investigators: they necessarily have a different perspective and a different approach than their able-bodied allies. In the course of needing accommodation, they will notice things or reveal things about the locations or NPCs they interact with that an able-bodied character may not have. For instance, if they need a wheelchair ramp, they'll notice if a building doesn't have one, and that may be a clue that the building is not up to code. Since Eureka is so invested in building an environment where those kinds of details really, concretely matter to an investigation, this difference in perspectives provides not only an artistic benefit but also a benefit that matters in such objective, quantifiable terms that I can't call it anything but 'mechanical.'"

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I have a folder called Time is a Flat Circle in which I collect evidence of humanity. Here is most of them.

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Concept art for Treasure Planet (2002)

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Do you have a bluesky in case tumblr trips over an unseen imaginary deceased turtle?

Nah. I don't like the type of posting that Bluesky and other Twitter clones represent. If Tumblr goes down I'd rather start a blog or hang out on Discord with weird RPG trans women.

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river city girls fanart

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Rug Pull Based Global Economy

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Laptops are always so much more Fucked than phones in my experience. A laptop is like a beautiful horse that wants nothing more than to break all of its legs. A decently solid android phone will act normal

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Being presented these two choices right next to each other makes me feel like I'm a character in a Jack Chick Tract or something.