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bro, the me inside your head is kind to you, right? haha? 🤨

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emily gwen, the creator of the sunset lesbian flag that we’ve come to commonly use, still continues to live in poverty.

multi-billion dollar companies have used their design and made profit from it, and yet they have not seen a cent for their creation.

i’ve been friends with emily for years, and i have not once seen them be financially stable the entire time. i’ve seen them homeless, unemployed, starving. right now, they need our help more than ever.

please consider donating to emily’s ko-fi, especially if you’ve used their design to create something and profited from it.

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Mutual Support

Your team provides you with support in your lowest moments and keep you from sinking into the depths of your own problems. Every playbook brings with them some sort of problem which they are not equipped to easily solve. And some of the team playbooks embody this more deliberately than others.

Good Monsters is about a bunch of monsters that have taken up friendship with each other. They are aware of each other's curses and help with making sure there supernatural issues don't run away with them. This team playbook does compound these problems a bit, as each hunter comes along with the problems of the Monstrous playbook and their ... I'm trying to think of a good term... not "normal" maybe "actual" playbook? Official doesn't sound right.

Penumbra House - Good Monsters

Penumbra House is a small estate which houses a small collection of monsters that are trying to keep hidden from the rest of the world. They do what they can to avoid being worthy of attention from hunters.... and this has resulted in them becoming hunters in their own right as they try to keep the area around them free from monstrous predation.

Style: Outcasts

The Monster Sides feature will be added to each individual character.

Core Traits

Team Enemy: Huwawa, a possibly immortal human (?) who created or unleashed your monster sides through dangerous experimentation.

Team Ally: Dr Jeong, monster counsellor. Helps you with the difficulties of being a monster in a human world.

Team Moves: Rite of Empowerment

Team Assets

Normality Wardings: Amulets for each of you that make you appear to be a normal human under casual inspection. They alter your appearance to look human, make you register as human to magic, and can fool scientific tests. However, they won’t hold up against determined and specific attempts to detect your nature.

Self-Management Set Up: Each team member may select an asset to help manage their curse, such as regular blood bank access for a vampire, a place to securely wait out the full moon for a werewolf, or a magical item to manifest solidly for a ghost. These primarily help you in normal life, rather than during a mystery.

Cynthia Actias - The Searcher

Look: Woman with large, red glowing eyes, sheer-black skin, and moth wings limned by reddish bioluminescence. She prefers airy clothing to account for her wings, even when concealed by the normality wards.

Normality Look: A black woman wearing a cape in colors of vibrant whites, blacks, and reds. Her hair is dyed in streaks of white and green.

Charm +1

Cool -1

Sharp +2

Tough +0

Weird +2

Monster Side

Mothman

Curse: Duty - Omen (She must warn people of the future she sees for them.)

Natural Attack: Fated Glimmer (1-harm close magic mark)

Self Management Set-up: She runs a psychic advice website in order to fulfill her duty and support the house.

Moves

Basic Weird Move: Illuminated

First Encounter: Abducted

Moves: Flight, The Things I've Seen

Gear

Laptop

Camera

Binoculars

Historical documents and witness reports of strange events.

Cryptid hunting gear.

Incapacitating spray (0-harm hand irritating)

History

In her researches, she has found numerous records of Oresh and his human disguise across centuries and in several nations around the world.

Tabia and Cynthia most regularly attend Dr. Jeong's therapy sessions. They've been trying to get Keti to join them.

Cynthia is aware that something is stalking Keti. It's some sort of hungry spirit that seeks to claim Keti as a full lamia. Cynthia has warned Keti

Like Tabia and Keti, Cynthia was abducted and forcibly subjected to arcane experiments. In her case she was forcibly projected into the mothman collective mind repeatedly until her mind permanently hooked into their awareness and her body mutated in response. She has gotten somewhat used to how hooked in she is to this other presence, but a lot of it is still a mystery to her. She's been trying to track down cryptid experiences as ways to find a new angle to learn about these entities she's attached to.

Tabia Saliba (Mummy) - The Spooky

Looks: A young woman who looks like she needs to eat more and with skin so dry that it should be a medical problem. Her nails seem longer than they should, but actually it's just that her skin and flesh has recessed a bit. Her eyes are dried out and look like they should be blind. She typically wears a brown hoodie and skirt. She also often is wrapped in medicinal bandages to help her with the itching. She wears a gold headpiece with purple gems.

Normality Look: Slightly better skin tone, still looks painfully dry. Eyes are brown and look irritated but not too bad. She wears a gold and purple headband. She often is seen wearing long-sleeved shirts even in summer. She often has a far-away look to her face.

Charm -1

Cool +1

Sharp +0

Tough +1

Weird +3

Monster Side

Mummy

Curse: Vulnerability (Funerary Incense)

Natural Attack: Desiccated Grasp (2-harm hand infection)

Self-Management Set-up: Lot's of heavily flavored foods, medicated bandages, Medicated bath salts

Dark Side

Hallucinations - Half-in and half-out of the afterlife.

Lust - General demand for physical sensation of all types.

Pain - Her undead nature causes her severe discomfort.

Moves

Basic Weird Move: Medium

Moves: Immortal, Jinx, The Sight

Gear

Big Knife (1-harm hand)

.38 Revolver (2-harm close reload loud)

History

Keti is always willing to wrap around her when she needs satisfy her need for sensation. The snake-woman also never crosses any boundaries, even while Keti's mind is drawn among the dead.

Cynthia is similarly beset by voices from outside herself and understands a lot more of what Tabia has to deal with on a daily basis than the others do.

Oresh has taught her how to use her powers and cut through the spiritual fog she exists in. Both the others help her anchor and be more present, but Oresh opened the initial door for her and is why she's more than a shambling zombie.

Oresh - The Expert

Look: A tall figure covered in white fur, dressed in exquisitely tailored suits. He has a gentle manner of speech and a looming physical presence. He has large yellow eyes set in a face that would remind most people of a gorilla.

Normality Look: An albino man with a head of thick, curly white hair and a well cared for beard. He has unusual, piercing yellows and a penchant for thick, leather boots.

Charm +1

Cool -1

Sharp +2

Tough +1

Weird +1

Monster Side

Yeti

Curse: Pure Drive (Wrath)

Natural Attacks: Crush (3-harm Intimate), Slam (2-harm hand)

Self-Management Set-up: Bonsai collection, meditation room

Haven

The Penumbra House

Mystical Library

Protection Spells

Hidden

Moves

Basic Weird Move: Use Magic

Moves: I've Read About this Sort of Thing, Camouflage

Gear

Cold iron sword (2-harm hand messy iron)

Blessed knife (2-harm hand holy)

Shotgun (3-harm close messy loud)

History

Oresh saved Keti by restraining her and getting her away from where she went berserk before any innocents could get caught up in her rampage.

Tabia is Oresh's student and he's helping her anchor her perspective more reliably. Her attention is still noticeably distracted however.

Cynthia knows that Oresh and Huwawa were once friends and the sorcerer learned his secrets from Oresh and other yeti. She has agreed not to say anything about it unless it becomes important.

Oresh is an ancient yeti whose people originally welcomed the sorcerer known as Huwawa into their midst and taught them the magical secrets that the villain now misuses. Oresh has left his home in pursuit of his former friend, wandering the world. He initially discovered the other three by happening on Keti's rampage against some thugs. From her he learned about Huwawa's nearby facility and they rescued the other people there, with Keti, Cynthia, and Tabia choosing to stay in Oresh's haven.

Keti Ronda (Lamia) - The Wronged

Look: A snake-woman in colors of brass, bronze, and copper wearing expensive clothing and with long sharp nails and heavily scaled arms and face. Her hair is white and green-grey in color and with clearly pointed ears. She is unusually appealing to people.

Normality Look: Heavily tattooed woman with pale skin and white hair dyed in places green. She wears pants and boots in colors of brass, bronze, and copper. She has a radiant smile most of the time.

Charm -1

Cool +1

Sharp +0

Tough +2

Weird +2

Monster Side

Lamia

Curse: Feed (Hearts)

Natural Attacks: Crush (3-Harm intimate), Claws (2-harm Hand)

Self-Management Set-Up: A horrific tree that grows human hearts as fruit.

Loss

Her Prey is her ex-girlfriend Sally Clements, a werewolf who gained her powers from a hellish pact that involved sacrificing their mutual friends. She focuses her hate on those with diabolic pacts rather than specific creatures.

She was too weak to fight and could only watch as they were killed while she was taken away.

Moves

Basic Weird Move: Weird Science

Moves: I Know My Prey (Diabolists), Unnatural Appeal, NEVER AGAIN

Gear

Protective Gear (1-armour)

Sawn-off shotgun (3-harm hand/close messy loud reload)

Hunting rifle (2-harm far loud)

Photograph of her with her friends before they were all taken

History

Oresh saw Keti go absolutely berserk once. She'd been trying to resist her hunger and was accosted by a group of men harassing her. They're fairly certainly the men had ill intentions, but it's impossible to tell since Keti cut them to ribbons and devoured their hearts. The police used this as an excuse to engage in a brutal crackdown on the neighborhood that lasted for weeks.

Tabia also lost people to the same monsters as she is the only "surviving" person out of her friend group from Huwawa's experiments in creating mummies. She's always trying to help Tabia hold more to the living world.

Cynthia helped out Keti in a critical point by helping her uncover the homonculus rituals that Keti now uses to culture hearts to consume.

Keti is angriest and the one most often pressing the others into action. After being handed over to Huwawa, she was subjected to various spells before being fused with the essence of a lamia. She comes across as the friendliest of the four when talking to outsiders. This is mostly due to her lamia-charm but with Cynthia having to deal with the mothman collective, Tiffany having trouble focusing on the world around her at any given time, and Oresh having never been human, this makes her among the most grounded of the lot.

See the Good Monsters in the new books!

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B.R.F.R.O.

To all unwanted entities in this space: Fuck Right Off. To all unwelcomed beings in my sphere: Fuck Right Off. To all hateful processes in my self: Fuck Right Off. To all disruptive methodologies in my heart: Fuck Right Off. From everything in me: Fuck Right Off. From Everything I Have: Fuck Right Off. From all that I seek to build: Fuck Right Off. To everything you are: Fuck Right Off. I see you, you piece of shit: Fuck Right Off. I know what you tried to do. Fuck Right Off. You are not welcome here: Fuck Right Off. You Will Not Survive Me. So Fuck Right Off.

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despite being what we as observers can understand as an extreme example of traditional family + relationship structure, the cullens are notably outcasts in forks. in contrast, bella's father has ties to the werewolves, and states several times that he would prefer bella date jacob. in the events of the story, jacob, an indigenous teenage boy in a jarringly white story, seems to represent imposed normalcy. he becomes more of a sexual threat + subsequent racial caricature as meyer becomes less confident in the reader's understanding that edward and bella are endgame, and is eventually completely destroyed as a character in order to further the idea that choosing edward represents free will for bella (consider imprinting). what we recognize as traditionalism in our world is treated in the world of twilight as something that will forever other you from the rest of the world. the vampires are written as if they are countercultural, even though they aren't. edward even has a whole thing where he says romance was simpler in his time — this is not subtle. all of the cullens are white, pseudoincestuous, and withdrawn from society. does this make sense like do you see what i'm saying here. related: does anyone else think mormonism is scary.

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Trans lesbian feminist Beth Elliot’s response to TERFs who attacked her at the West Coast Lesbian Conference, 1973 (x)

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Okay, I realize this hilariously late for Asexuality Awareness Week (which was last week), but due to unforeseen stressors, it didn’t really get done in time.

Anyway! I’ve wanted to do something like this for a while, and I’m proud of myself of actually getting a six page comic done within a week. (Not that it’s really anything super fancy, but it’s better than nothing lol) I do apologize for the massive ugly text wall that is page four but I had a hard time figuring out how to convey it visually while being kind of pressed for time. oh and the occasional copy/paste, I’m sorry for that too

Enjoy! Click on the separate pictures if the text is hard to read.

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One of the pieces of feedback I'd received on the previous revision of Eat God is that the introductory text didn't clearly communicate what the game's big-picture deal is. I'm hoping this rewrite makes it clear!

(Image transcript under the cut.)

Introduction

Eat God is a game about being on the outside. It revolves around the Folk, beings who stand for every small, funny-looking creature in every game that insists small, funny-looking creatures are morally okay to kill, every goblin and kobold and imp, all reimagined here as members of the same impossibly varied, self-created people. Each player will take on the role of one of the Folk, different from any other, and navigate the world from their knee-high perspective.

Of course, player characters in Eat God aren't just any small, goblin-like critters. They're also God-eaters, practitioners of an esoteric discipline – part existential philosophy, part martial art – that comes with both fantastical abilities and big questions: namely, what does it mean to eat God?

Is “God” the systems of oppression we build to keep others down, and eating God means throwing off those chains?

Is “God” the culmination of an error in our understanding of reality, and eating God means finding another way to be?

Or is “God” just a great big tyrant in the sky, and eating God means exactly what you think it means?

As a God-eater, your journey to find out will take you from place to place, with each destination presenting potential answers, usually in the form of someone being ground under someone else's boot. Owing to your limited outsider's perspective, your interventions may not always help, at least not in the ways you intend, but they'll definitely ensure that those who benefit from the status quo are having a bad time.

Or, in less elevated terms, Eat God is a game about a bunch of gender-ambiguous muppety things with bullshit super powers wandering around causing problems on purpose. If you cause enough, you might even accomplish something.

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Whereabouts do you live, roughly speaking, and what drew you to that place in particular?

I'm in Michigan, and that's as specifically as I will answer that question! We have really lethal lakes.

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Great news for Missouri.

Women will turn out. Grab them by the ballot!

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What’s your thoughts on Delicious in Dungeons Character Designs?

Ryoko Kui is the best to ever do it.

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this tiktok screenshot ruined my life i need to see the serbian pigeon movie so so badly but it doesn't exist it's so foul to make this bad of a point with something so cool and then take it away from me.

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This machine kills AI

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if you think about it, every time we tranquilize animals to transport them safely to another place, we are the sleep paralysis demon

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This could save lives so I thought I’d share!

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