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MacDrums (drum software from...1987!!)

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Hey, I wrote this❤️

Thanks so much for your kind words.

bundletober #5: the books were wrong

continuing on yesterday's theme of 'games that make you re-engage with books in new ways' today's game for bundletober, the cool series everyone si doing where i talk about . a ttrpg, that i got in a bundle, is the books were wrong by chivu.

the first time i tried to paste this image into my post there were like four lines of space before it i couldn't delete. web site. anyways this is a very short game. one-page, in fact, and none of that duplicitous and scurrilous 'one spread but you call it one page' bull shit. no this is the real deal, one a4 page with barely any formatting to speak of. and it's brilliant.

like the rpgs in lit rpg set, the books were wrong needs a book to play with. unlike those rpgs, it can't be any (or nearly any) book -- instead, it has to be a wiki page for the lore of a fantasy series. which is already a fascinating constraint. i think it could also easily be played with any splatbook or sourcebook for a fantasy rpg -- and would only require minor tweaks for a non-fantasy setting.

they require you to do the exact thing i criticize fantasy and ttrpg lore for not doing all the time, and realize that this lore has a perspective. the books were wrong specifically casts you as an anticolonialist scholar, reading through anthropolohical accounts of peoples and cultures and disputing the colonialist and othering narratives woven into them.

it does this by giving you a selection of prompts to answer while going over different parts of the text you're playing with. the sort of questions that increasingly have been asked in anthropological and historical scholarship over the last century as decolonial perspectives have made their voices heard.

it's a real triumph--taking lazy worldbuilding that often (as i've talked about on this silly little blog) employs the vernacular and format of colonial scholarship and actually engaging with that--not just critiquing it, which is easy to do, but engaging with it and asking you play with it and treat it as malleable. one game like this is worth a million 'um you can just ignore the parts of the lore yo udon't like if you're the DM' disclaimers, in my opinion. it's deliberate, clever, and invites you to do something really cool.

the books were wrong is available for free as a digital download through itch.io

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some sketches

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Pocket Fighter, PS1.

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I started this many moons ago & finally decided to sit down and finish it… wanted to challenge myself with coloring techniques and actually drawing a background for once 🙃

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20+ One-Picture Horror Stories That We Do Not Recommend Reading Alone

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Shitty Animal Companions*

A list of disappointing dogs, bothersome birds, and other awful animal companions.

A crow who steals shiny things for you. Usually, it takes your own things, puts them somewhere else for a while, and eventually (maybe) brings them back.

A fox with extreme balance issues; it has to be carried everywhere, and cannot hunt.

A nearsighted hawk.

A carnivorous deer with bloodlust that tries to take a bite out of anything that moves.

A scarred, intimidating-looking dire wolf that is easily scared off by a smaller dog, a squirrel, a cat, or pretty much anything else.

An owl that you’re pretty sure can talk, but that only says “who” in a human voice.

An invisible dog. It barks at all hours and will only stop if you scratch it behind its ears (wherever those are).

A cat. Just a regular, asshole cat.

A parrot that swears like a sailor and curses like a witch; whenever it speaks you either have to have a counterspell ready or simply apologize to whoever it’s offended.

A clinically depressed horse.

*note: this list does not portray the author’s actual feelings about animals. All animals are perfect good beans and deserve lots of love.

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I’m screaming why does Mamma Mia fit every fight scene so perfectly ajkaslajjddhhajadkjfh

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cinematic parallells - ted theodore logan / neo

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A bear cloak but it has paws for your hands & ears on the hood like one of those bad hats from hot topic 🙃 AND the first CANON art of our resident spell-casting tiefling, Kairon!

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Here’s the final piece from the Avengers Episode! I wanted to draw their female counterparts; Spider-Gwen, Riri Williams, Jane Foster and Shannon Carter. Took a while to figure out and i’m ultimately how everything came together! Enjoy (ﾉ´ヮ`)ﾉ*: ･ﾟ

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Fantasy RPG Races as Dogs

Human:

Elf:

Dwarf:

Halfling:

Half Orc:

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*Get help

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prince of egypt color studies, about 1 hour for each

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Some concept doodles from a D&D one-off where I played as an immolator w/ daddy issues who is totally not based on Zuko from ATLA (and Fuko totally doesn’t stand for Fake Zuko)

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Jesus Eliwood, stabbing your girlfriend by accident was one thing, but that’s just taking it too far.