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joining the war on kids reading any book they want on the side of kids reading any book they want. simply you will be fine. it's even good to be confronted with things you don't understand and even find upsetting, uncomfortable and difficult. it's a surprise tool that will help you later.

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“how would you feel if someone blocked you just because they found you annoying?” then i wouldn’t have to interact with someone who thinks i’m annoying? i don’t see a problem

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My condolences. I fortunately managed to dodge buying outright but did spend about a year hooked on the lore. Praying for you in this time.

If I said I could feel the moment my ADHD claimed MtG would that make sense? It wasn't like "oh, something clicked" but like watching a kindergartener bite a Gusher for the first time (very American references so sorry) and seeing their pupil dilate. Anyway this is what's wrong with me for the next year so good luck

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I’ve been debating the best sort of setting to bridge the Gap between Pathfinder 2e and Starfinder 2e, where all classes can work, and I think I may have settled on a sort of World-Wars Era Dieselpunk vibe.

The trouble is in the technology classes, ‘cause the Operative and Soldier can’t get ammo in a Pathfinder setting, and in a Starfinder setting the Alchemist and Inventor feel like they’re deliberately ignoring common tech. (Character idea: an Inventor from Absalom Station who’s treated exactly like the kind of classic car buff who would build his own Model-T, but now he’s using it to run people over)

Dieselpunk/Fantasy I think lands nicely in the middle, where you’ve got machine guns, rifles, maybe some more exotic weapons with a more clunky aesthetic; but a guy mixing weird concoctions in beakers and throwing them at people doesn’t feel completely out of place.

The only class this might leave in the dark is the Technomancer, although there were some early analog computers used in WWI, such as Arthur Pollen’s (stupendously named) Argo Clock, which was used for firing solutions on warships. I can’t find any actual specs on the thing but presumably it was the sort of gizmo you needed a warship to lug around, so that should lead to some interesting reflavoring. A great clunking assemblage strapped to the back of an overburdened mage-sailor, their spells inscribed on sequences of punch cards.

Everything else I think works out alright. Flying aces, gas-masked jackboots marching alongside diesel-guzzling machines of war, esoteric orders and cults—endless mazes of trenches instead of dungeons! The sky always right above your head and yet just as constraining as a tunnel deep beneath the earth.

Actually could be a fun way to explore the themes in Tolkien, given how much of his work was influenced by his time in the Great War.

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two million people starving to death because it's geopolitically convenient and we're all expected to go about our day normally like the casual cruelty on display for the past two years has been so insane to me like i'm not even trying to make a point it's just truly something i can't wrap my mind around

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you actually don't have to go on dating apps to find girlfriends. many beautiful women are waiting for you on rocks out at sea

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Just to clarify, there's a bill that would STOP credit card companies from controlling who's allowed to spend money on porn or "risque" (read: queer) content. If you don't think big business should be able to tell you what to spend your own damn money on, call your senators and reps to let them know! It's the Fair Access to Banking Act, H.R.987 in the House, S.410 in the Senate.

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He nailed it

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The fact that im getting raw dogged by life everyday. Don’t have any medication to take the edge off. Nor any addiction, I don’t even got a religion or spirituality to fall back on. Im facing this life stone cold sober every goddamn day??? Why???

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in this fantasy world, theres no homophobia or sexism! but the governments are still patriarchal monarchies and everyone still adheres to the standard nuclear family, two things that have absolutely no relation to homophobia and sexism whatsoever

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"hello anarchists how will you deal with [systemic problem] under anarchism"

"wouldn't happen"

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Toying with a quill that was around the house, and a weird idea

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Superman: Red & Blue #5 - “De-Escalation” (2021)

written by G. Willow Wilson art by Valentine De Landro

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been stewing on an analytical approach to fiction which I call "is this book afraid of me?" and in order to answer this question you determine how hard the book is trying to make sure you don't come after the writer on twitter

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anyway just a reminder for the myth lovers out there

king arthur was welsh. merlin was welsh. camelot was in wales. the lady and the lake she pops out of; welsh. excalibur; magic inanimate welsh object. etc.

on the way to see family, i drive past a lake that in which is welsh legend, is the last resting place of excalibur.

i’m just saying in my experience a lot of these legends had been so anglo-fied in the past and it’s like, all this cool shit is celtic welsh legend.

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booty shorts that say "I'd rather be in Ankh-Morpork, which is really more of an indictment of the here and now than an endorsement of one's personal safety and happiness in Ankh-Morpork" on the ass in very small font

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"The word pandemonium was coined by John Milton as the name for the Parliament of Hell" is an all-timer etymology. Oh yeah did you hear that Mrs Higgins's dogs got loose at the village fête? It was like a vast golden edifice in which fallen angels debate their strategies for vengeance against god, yeah.