Mayday Strike!
Workers at Amazon, Whole Foods, Instacart, Walmart, Target, and Shipt are asking customers to boycott these services this Friday, May 1st
Support the General Strike! Donāt cross the virtual or physical picket line!
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Oh my god I havenāt posted here in three months.
Iām still alive, just metaphorically lying face down on the floor.
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#How do you get this?
It was a reward for the previous mayoral election. I think it will be available for Fate during the next one.
Var got lessons from the Jovial Contrarian on how to eloquently annoy the fuck out of everyone. God help anyone they decide they want to roast.
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Notability is the absolute most dumbass grind Iāve ever done in a video game, shame on me for deciding to make it narratively necessary for my character to overcap their Watchful
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Notability!!! 15!!!!
[Screenshots show the text for drawing Slowcakeās Amanuensis card and reaching Notability 15 - There is a scattering of typographic eccentricities beside your entry, but who cares? The important thing is that you have a COLOUR PLATE!]
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH
The Amanuensis can KISS MY ASS
Next stop, capping Varās Watchful to 215
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I havenāt been posting because Iāve been playing a lot of Sunless Skies and also trying AGAIN to get to notability 15. This time, this time Iāll succeed.
I extremely love that thereās one Officer storyline with echoes of Weekend At Bernies or at least general ridiculous corpse comedy.
I extremely HATE the Undeparted, which make awful noises and attack in hard to dodge ways and are hard to hit and chase after me.
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Totally unrelated to any of that, howās the font size on my blog? Is it alright for you all? Including the tag size and the colour contrasts? I want people to be able to read it comfortably.
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#one of my good friends writes for failbetter gamesĀ #and is one of the gayest humans i knowĀ #and he's super into likeĀ #adding nb characters into the stories he wrote for sunless skies and stuffĀ #so like YES this is all true :)
Thank you for these great additions to my post :3cĀ
Please let your friend know that I, a rando on tumblr, would like to thank him for his good writing and for furthering the Gay and Trans Agendas
I appreciate the fact that Failbetter Games seem to have incidentally gained a significant queer following for their stuff in the beginning because of the Fallen London gender options along with having dalliances with NPCs open to all player characters, and as far as I can tell, sort of Ran With It and built on that, and now thereās all this lovely LGBTQ representation in Fallen London and Sunless Seas and Sunless Skies
(Partly because of the LGBTQ Sunless Seas and Skies backers who had their characters and own portraits added to the games, of course!)
Itās also great that itās something FBG continue to work on, for example by doing a consultation session on trans and non-binary representation while making Sunless Skies
It seems to me like a very good example of a positive feedback loop between a fanbase and an indie games studio, and itās meaningful to me because itās created a setting that Iām excited to engage with as a non-binary person
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Side note would you believe that I made a Fallen London account in 2011 with the mysterious and indistinct gender option before I even figured out I was non-binary, forgot to use it at all for four years, and then unearthed it and started playing in 2015 after figuring my gender out
I made a non-binary player account under my own name before I realised I was non-binary
Prime trans egg behaviour right there
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I appreciate the fact that Failbetter Games seem to have incidentally gained a significant queer following for their stuff in the beginning because of the Fallen London gender options along with having dalliances with NPCs open to all player characters, and as far as I can tell, sort of Ran With It and built on that, and now thereās all this lovely LGBTQ representation in Fallen London and Sunless Seas and Sunless Skies
(Partly because of the LGBTQ Sunless Seas and Skies backers who had their characters and own portraits added to the games, of course!)
Itās also great that itās something FBG continue to work on, for example by doing a consultation session on trans and non-binary representation while making Sunless Skies
It seems to me like a very good example of a positive feedback loop between a fanbase and an indie games studio, and itās meaningful to me because itās created a setting that Iām excited to engage with as a non-binary person
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This is the only way I was able to find all the ports, so I donāt know how anyone else who didnāt notice that has been managing to get around.
I JUST figured out that Albion is laid out like a giant clock with the ports and wonders and stuff all spaced around London in the middle.
Itās central symmetry based around the Throne of Hours, so if you draw a line from one major map feature through the middle, thereās something roughly at an equal distance on the other side.
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I JUST figured out that Albion is laid out like a giant clock with the ports and wonders and stuff all spaced around London in the middle.
It's central symmetry based around the Throne of Hours, so if you draw a line from one major map feature through the middle, there's something roughly at an equal distance on the other side.
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The great struggle: my desire to play Sunless Skies versus my time, arms, and sore back from sitting at a desk all day at work
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Thanks for offering! I managed to find them in the end, phew. Itās easy to miss, the map is so large.
Me, bouncing up and downĀ āI know who named these rocks!!!ā
@theinsatiableacademic
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THROWS THE DOOR OPEN
Itās my Correspondence Sigil!! I provided a very short abridged version of Varās story to inspire the Failbetter artists with, so more accurately itās Varās sigil.
Thank you to @spoiledchestnutĀ for generously donating me the use of their sigil reward from the Kickstarter to make this happen.
Iām seriously considering getting a tattoo of this someday. It makes me very happy to leave a little mark on a fictional universe I love, too.
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