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[image description, copied & shortened from alt text: a digital drawing of four characters from my sci-fi ttrpg campaign, standing in a row. from left to right: Noci, they/he, a lanky person with dark hair, wearing vest robes with a cowl, standing with hands in pockets; Han'ae, ae/aer, a tall muscular soldier with dark hair in a bun, dressed in tactical gear and standing with crossed arms; Rose, she/her, a tall thin woman with light wavy hair pulled back, wearing a dress with a slit up the front, smiling and relaxed; and Pallor, zie/she, a short thin person with straight black hair in a bob, wearing a bolero jacket and high-waisted pants, standing with hands on hir hips. The drawing is done in black and white with lined hatching for most of the shading.]

ready for duty!

my new scum & villainy campaign (aka Choir) starts in full swing this friday! so to celebrate, here's the crew of invariant ship designation brevity, ready for their first job. they're just a few extremely loyal (for now :)))))) representatives of the evil empire. i'm sure they won't cause any problems at all!

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there needs to be a gender neutral word for niece/nephew that a) doesnt make explicit reference to them being your siblings kid b) doesnt sound fucking stupid

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life is so ruthless so i must love you as hard as i can. basically

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[GIF description: GIFs from the episode "Beer Bad" of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Willow and Oz are in the Bronze. Oz sets down cups on the table in front of Willow, saying, "Hey, you got a table." Willow jokes, "I had to kill a man." She takes a sip from her cup as Oz says, "Well, it's a really good table."]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003)

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A Constant Hum (found in a derelict factory)

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[image description, copied & shortened from alt text: a digital drawing of four characters from my sci-fi ttrpg campaign, standing in a row. from left to right: Noci, they/he, a lanky person with dark hair, wearing vest robes with a cowl, standing with hands in pockets; Han'ae, ae/aer, a tall muscular soldier with dark hair in a bun, dressed in tactical gear and standing with crossed arms; Rose, she/her, a tall thin woman with light wavy hair pulled back, wearing a dress with a slit up the front, smiling and relaxed; and Pallor, zie/she, a short thin person with straight black hair in a bob, wearing a bolero jacket and high-waisted pants, standing with hands on hir hips. The drawing is done in black and white with lined hatching for most of the shading.]

ready for duty!

my new scum & villainy campaign (aka Choir) starts in full swing this friday! so to celebrate, here's the crew of invariant ship designation brevity, ready for their first job. they're just a few extremely loyal (for now :)))))) representatives of the evil empire. i'm sure they won't cause any problems at all!

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[GIF description: GIFs from the episode "The Zeppo" of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Xander is sitting in a turquoise convertible, wearing sunglasses, stopped next to Buffy and Willow outside of the high school. Xander asks, "You girls need a lift?" Buffy asks, "What is this?" Xander says, "What do you mean, what is it? It's my thing." Willow asks, "Your thing?" Xander insists, "My thing!" Buffy asks, "Is this a penis metaphor?"]

#raise your hand if buffy summers represents you in this moment

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[GIF description: GIFs from the episode "Lovers Walk" of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Spike and Joyce are inside the Summers' kitchen, and Angel is standing outside on the back porch. Spike and Joyce simultaneously react to Angel's presence. Spike is smirking and Joyce looks frightened as she says, "Oh, my god. Get out of here!" Intensely, Angel says, "Joyce, listen to me." Joyce replies angrily, "You get out of this house or I will stake you myself." From slightly behind her, Spike grins at Angel and points to Joyce's neck tauntingly. Then Spike says to Angel, "You're a very bad man." Angel says, "Joyce, you can't trust him. Invite me in." Spike mimes biting Joyce's neck as she continues to stare at Angel fearfully.]

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there's no greater betrayal than finally starting to read a book you've had sitting for months on your shelf or your desk or your nightstand and then finding out it's bad. like. i gave you a fucking home.

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[image description, copied & shortened from alt text: a digital drawing of four characters from my sci-fi ttrpg campaign, standing in a row. from left to right: Noci, they/he, a lanky person with dark hair, wearing vest robes with a cowl, standing with hands in pockets; Han'ae, ae/aer, a tall muscular soldier with dark hair in a bun, dressed in tactical gear and standing with crossed arms; Rose, she/her, a tall thin woman with light wavy hair pulled back, wearing a dress with a slit up the front, smiling and relaxed; and Pallor, zie/she, a short thin person with straight black hair in a bob, wearing a bolero jacket and high-waisted pants, standing with hands on hir hips. The drawing is done in black and white with lined hatching for most of the shading.]

ready for duty!

my new scum & villainy campaign (aka Choir) starts in full swing this friday! so to celebrate, here's the crew of invariant ship designation brevity, ready for their first job. they're just a few extremely loyal (for now :)))))) representatives of the evil empire. i'm sure they won't cause any problems at all!

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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.

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✨A gentle lamb bleats in a single call, sweetly, meekly. The wind carries its voice through the fluttering of leaves and over mountain tops, across meadows where baby deer dwell under the shadow of their mothers.

Precious lambs you are, Sweet whispers...✨

[IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Two beautiful dark skinned sisters who are twins are seen looking softly at the viewer, resting in a meadow like area. They are wearing long white dresses. with short puffy sleeves on their shoulders. One sister relaxes her head on her sister's lap while the other supports her sisters head. A little baby lamb also lay beside the twins, one ear up while the other ear is down. The lamb's white wool almost blends into the white dress's the sisters are wearing. In the background,the sky is a soft shade of baby blue, no clouds are visible. And there is a mountain in the background that stretches to both sides of the picture and a few trees at a distance.]

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Hello fellow sloppy bisexuals how is not putting away the laundry going

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one thing about me is that I'll never move on, if I said goodbye to you 10 years ago I still miss you today

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pet portrait commissions for eSIMs for gaza!

this is a donation drive for eSIMs for gaza. if you either:

donate an eSIM or multiple eSIMs to the project for a cost of at least $20 USD, or

donate to crips for eSIMs for gaza for $25 USD or more

email me proof + a picture of your animal and i'll draw it for you!!

(not limited to your own pets, may include other people's pets or the squirrel you saw last week, etc)

more info here 🇵🇸✊

examples:

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Todaybor Day Is World Tapir Day

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The ink bottle lying on your desk... begins to crawl away..???