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I'm slowly working my way through dice inspired by our favorite cast of maladaptive pixel friends. This is my Shadowheart chonk!

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Just pulled this raw set today, inspired by Drolta Tzuentes from Castlevania: Nocturne! I'm not usually a big pink dice person, but I'm lowkey obsessed with these (and her) Who should I do dice for next?? Literally everyone on the show is on my list

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all things that are, are ours. but we must care. for if we do not care, we do not exist. if we do not exist, then there is nothing but blind oblivion. and even oblivion must end someday. grant me just a little time for the proper balance of things. to return what was given. for the sake of prisoners, and the flight of birds. what can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the reaper?

Rowan's unusual build requires a ton of d8s, so I made these to go with her standard set. I chose the quote--spoken by Death in Terry Pratchett's REAPER MAN--because of this party's unusual relationship to death in their own world. And I rendered it in all lowercase, rather than all capital letters, because Rowan feels so small in comparison to Death. Talking about these makes me tear up a little! Hope you like them.

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Last Thursday I ran the first session of a new V:tM game and one of my players, while trying to find the accent for his character, landed on "Disaffected Gangrel Kennedy." I have never laughed harder in my entire life

Sometimes I rly feel like the wod Fandom needs to remember that while the wod is dark, it's also goofy as fuck and it's ok to laugh at it and point out how ridiculous something is.

Wizards killed an old vampire with space lasers. There is an evil company which puts demons into burgers. During the war in Atlanta someone replaced the round business table where the lasombras were arguing with a reflective square table which increased the body count during the meeting.

It's ok to laugh. We don't need to be defensive of our fav game.

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My personal dice. I made these for my bard, Rowan Boer. They have swirls of purple ink, violet colorshift, dried flowers, and of course, scraps of scorched paper. These have Terry Pratchett quotes, because... well, he just got bards, I think. Here's what they say: pyramid d4: The worst thing you can do is nothing. shard d4: Words in the heart cannot be taken. d6: Nothing is louder than the end of a song that's always been there. d8: No one remembers the singer. The song remains. d10: If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's. d%: Words have always had the power to change the world. d12: One day, all of us will die but--and this is the important thing--we are not dead yet. d20: But this didn't feel like magic. It felt a lot older than that. It felt like music. This set is super special to me for a lot of Big reasons. I also have a set of 10 d8s for this character that I'll share soon.

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Update is live! To celebrate my move and my big beautiful new studio, you can use code NEWSTUDIO for a sweet li'l discount at checkout. :)

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If you see this on your dashboard, reblog this, NO MATTER WHAT and all your dreams and wishes will come true.

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Look, on the one hand, here's a cross-section of the enshittification of the internet, careless infosec, and why an internet-connected sex toy is a horrible horrible HORRIBLE no good very bad idea.

On the other hand, this image is just, /chef's kiss

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Shipwrecked. This is definitely the coolest petri set I've ever made, and they don't even read petri from a lot of angles. I used transparent teal resin and black and metallic inks--and the metallics did a lot of weird stuff that I just love. They'll be available when I update my shop this month.

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Settle a bet.

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kids remind me, often, of the things i've taught myself out of.

i have a big dog. he looks like a deer. he is taller than most young children. while we were on a trail the other day, a boy coming our direction saw us and froze. he took a step back and said: "i'm feeling nervous. your - your dog is kind of big."

goblin and i both stopped walking immediately. "he is kind of a big dog," i admitted. "he's called a greyhound. they are gentle but they are pretty tall, which is kind of scary, you're right. their legs are so long because they are made for running fast. i am sorry we scared you. would you like us to stand still while you move past us, or would you feel more safe in your body if we move and you stay still?'

"oh. i didn't know that about - greyhounds. i think i ... i want to stay still," he said. at this point, his adult had caught up to us. "i'm nervous about the dog," he told her, "so i'm - i'm gonna stay still." she didn't argue. she didn't make fun of him. she just smiled at him and at me and held his hand while goblin and i, with as wide of a berth as we could make, crept our way through.

behind us, i heard him exhale a deep breath and kind of laugh - "he was really big, huh? she said it's because greyhounds have to go fast."

"he was big," she said. "i understand why that could have made you a little scared."

"yeah. next time i - next time do you think i could maybe ask to touch him? when - i mean, next time, maybe, if i'm not nervous."

later, going to a work event, in the big city, i stood outside, trembling. my social anxiety as a caught bird in my chest. i took a deep breath and turned to my coworker. she's not even really my friend yet. i told her: "i feel nervous about this. i am not used to meeting new people, ever since covid."

she laughed, but not in a mean way. she said she was nervous too. she reached her hand out and held mine, and we both took another deep breath and walked in like that, interlinked. a few people asked us - together? - and i told the truth: i feel nervous, and she's helping. over and over i watched people relax too, admitting i feel really kind of shy lately actually, thank you for saying that.

the next time i go to an event, and i feel a little scared, i ask right away: wanna hold hands? this feels a little dangerous. i hesitate less. i don't hide it as much. i watch for other people who are also nervous and say - it's kinda hard, huh?

i know, logically, i'm not good at asking for help. but i am also not good at noticing when i need help. i've trained myself out of asking completely, but i've also trained myself to never accept my own fears or excuses. i have trained myself to tamp down every anxiety and just-push-through. i don't know what i'm protecting myself from - just that i never think to admit it to anyone.

but every person on earth occasionally needs comfort. every person on earth occasionally needs connection. many of us were taught independence is the same thing as never needing anything.

each of us should have had an adult who heard - i feel nervous and held our hand and asked us how we could be helped to feel safe. no judgement, and no chiding. many of us did not. many of us were punished for the ways that we seemed "weak".

but here is something: i am an adult now. and i get nervous a lot, actually. and if you are an adult and you are feeling a little nervous - come talk to me. we can hold hands and figure out what will help us feel safe in our bodies. and maybe, next time, if we're brave, we can pet the dog that's passing.

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Dragon's breath.

Finally set up and working in my new studio!! Here's a set with red-gold colorshift, black ink, heat-burnished gold foil, and blue-violet colorshift ink.

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what if star wars was an illuminated manuscript

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Hello! I'm getting a bit more attention than I'm used to lately so I thought I'd introduce myself. I'm Jo, and I make stuff: you'll see a bunch of dice here, occasionally drawings or paintings, probably some cosplay or other assorted sewing projects. I also keep bioactive vivariums, so there will be pictures of plants and possibly isopods and herps. I'm a SFF writer, but I don't post about that much, unless I start doing that, so BEWARE Fandoms include Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Star Wars, D&D, World of Darkness. Hope you enjoy, my ask box is always open! Let's be friends :)

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24x18x36 bioactive vivarium in progress. I think I started this one at the end of February, and it's coming along! Next step is to populate the cork bark with moss and build a "rock" bridge for arboreal basking. Not married to this idea, but I think it will be home to a green anole someday soon-ish. (This is a redemption arc for me, green anoles were my first reptile as a kid and I didn't have the tools or resources to care for them properly, so I'd like to give one a super great life now.)

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I've been rolling something around in my head.

If everyone receives Minimum Basic Income, what happens to all the relationships where one of the individuals no longer has to depend on the other(s) to survive?

Just let that marinate for a moment.

Not just the economic landscape but the social landscape could be transformed.

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girls will be boys

boys will be girls

fascists will be shot