My friend Emily, who did the Hotzone heist game that’s going into production soon and Hc Svnt Draconis (both editions, a sci-fi horror rpg), has launched her new full TTRPG called Gallerie! It’s a very queer, very trans game that I’ve had the pleasure of playtesting over this last year and it’s fucking incredible.
Everyone who backs the project gets a free preview PDF, which includes setting the stage for the world and quick info about the game! It’s a great way to dip your toes in and share the word with your friends!
It’s got everything - time travel, magic painting, strange and alien gods, fantasy, love, horror… and it’s kink-positive as fuck, plus it allows for complete customization of your character no matter what manifestation you choose.
A queer-focused TTRPG that employs art and dream elements to paint narratives about finding yourself and fighting your demons. Community, co
my characters I’ve played so far are: a bee from medieval France who fell through with a human boy he had a crush on
a stoner from 1982 who became a moth man
and a California surfer boy from the 90’s who is basically a coatl
My wife @pocketsizesatan is even playing a house that gained consciousness in the session my spouse runs today!
There is no limit to what you can make. It’s beautiful, it’s deadly, it’s cool as hell, and I think the roleplayers in this community would have a blast with it :3
Please boost this around! I really wanna see this project succeed, because it’s a beautiful and unique game.
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husband just reminded me of that time years ago when we were running a co-op farm in stardew valley
after we got married in-game it did the thing it does and asked us if we wanted to have a baby
we were like yeah sure why not, we're not having kids irl so may as well have a cute lil' virtual baby that costs us nothing and we can turn into a dove at any time
like the very next day we got that super rare 0.8% chance event that we had NO CLUE ABOUT where a freaking alien capsule drops on your farm in the middle of the night and the next day it's like shattered and whatever was inside is running loose
and we just froze and looked at each other like "??? is this our baby???" 😭😔
If you're ever worried about whether your writing is too self indulgent, I just want you to remember that Sharknado had 5 sequels. I'm only partway through watching Sharknado 6: It's About Time, but already they've traveled through time and ridden a pteronadon into a Sharknado so they could use the magic teleportation portal inside of it to travel forward in time to King Arthur's time, where they are currently battling a Sharknado full of fire-breathing dragon sharks with Excalibur, which is a chainsaw sword that calls lightning. You're fine. In fact, be a little more self indulgent if anything.
Theres this thing that happens with a few too many franchises, where the constant need to one-up and raise stakes makes each entry slightly more unhinged than the last. Until you reach a point where what started as a fairly simple/grounded concept has become completely ridiculous(see Dragonball, Fast and Furious).
Sharknado is what happens when you have that tendency of escalation, but your starting premise is 'a tornado full of sharks'
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i started writing a long reply to this post and then it got WAY off track so I copy/pasted it all into a separate post. And in fact maybe I'm gonna make a series, because I've been thinking about this a lot!
Fascinating But Underappreciated Ways Aku Violates The Expected Behavior Of All-Powerful Villains
Part 1: Admitting Weakness
The kickoff point for this post was this quote from Jack vs. Aku:
We all know what's gonna happen: you'll swing your sword, I'll fly away, and probably say something like, "l'll be back, Samurai!" And then I'll flutter off over the horizon,
It's true, but here's the interesting bit: he focuses on Jack attacking him, not him attacking Jack; and he admits that when Jack attacks, Aku retreats.
Here's the other interesting bit: like I just said, it's true. He's telling the truth about how their encounters go. In every single battle, EVERY single battle, EVERY LAST ONE—they fight, Jack gets the upper hand against Aku with his sword, Aku is forced to flee. Jack is never the one to retreat. Aku's not downplaying his competence or painting himself as the victim, he's just factually relaying how their battles inevitably go.
What's remarkable is that he doesn't twist the story to downplay Jack's threat or make himself look like more of an even match with Jack than he really is.
This is a pattern in his behavior. Aku is SO WILLING to admit that he's not the one with the upper hand. No hesitation, no shame, no chagrin.
There's only two exceptions where he acts like Jack is no big threat:
one time he got mad he couldn't get 8-year-olds to like his fairy tales and angrily declared "an almighty, all-powerful wizard" destroyed "a pathetic, little samurai" before storming off
one time he told his scientists "he really doesn't care about a pathetic samurai who wanders around like a mad fool" because he's trying to hide that he's been driven into a deep depression over failing to kill Jack for fifty years.
But the rest of the time?
The moment Jack arrives in the future, Aku freely lets everybody know that he considers Jack an actual threat, one so dangerous he offers bounty hunters more money than exists in the universe if THEY kill Jack FOR him.
Aku is infamously immortal and indestructible—and yet he makes no apparent efforts to prevent his citizens (who hate him) from learning that Jack's sword can kill him. We don't know how fast that info spreads, but at least by the 50-year time skip Scaramouche confidently identifies the sword as "the one thing in the entire universe that can destroy Aku."
More than once he claims nothing can harm him and then is immediately harmed by the sword; each time, there's no denial—no "WHAT?! THAT CANNOT BE!!"—and no fumbling to cover up his error. He just starts inspecting the thing that just harmed him.
Demongo says, "You are a powerful foe. Perhaps too powerful for my master… but not for me." It's possible he only claims to be stronger than Aku when he's safely away from him; but, given how long he seems to have worked for Aku (and given that Demongo must know Aku could easily be watching the battle), it seems likely that they both understand that, by summoning Demongo, Aku's saying "I can't take out this guy, maybe you can."
There's never an "I would have defeated you if it wasn't for—"
Never an "I think you've had enough, I'll go easy on you by leaving now."
Never an "I won't fight you because you're beneath me and not worth it."
Instead, he says, "Soon we will fight. But not until I find a way to defeat you and your sword."
He says, "You might have beaten me now, but I will destroy you in the future."
He says, "No, I will not fight you today. Ugh, I don't feel good..."
Over and over, he's not ashamed to admit—to Jack, to his underlings, to the whole world—that Jack is a threat Aku can't currently beat himself.
And that's SO RARE for a villain like Aku! Big powerful dictator who's used to being worshiped, who makes up big fancy titles for himself, who brutally punishes anyone who who doesn't grovel at his roots? Usually villains like that are WILDLY insecure. Most similar villains would never admit vulnerability. Would be INCENSED if someone dare pointed out they typically lose to the hero.
Instead Aku consistently points it out himself!
It's obvious Aku's got a huge ego. Huge enough to think he deserves to be master of the whole planet. And a world-dominatingly huge ego usually means an inflated ego: a villain fooling themself into thinking they're stronger, cleverer, more competent than they are, and getting outraged when that's challenged. Such villains have to believe they're flawless or they crumble.
But Aku instead seems to have a very realistic view of his capabilities, bases his ego on the belief that what he's got is good enough to be worth such an ego, and acknowledges his flaws and failures without considering that they might detract from his superiority.
It wasn't just Chernobyl, it was decades of Cold War nuclear scare talking about the dangers of radiation and fallout, and the average normie doesn't know or care about the difference between how a nuclear reactor works and a nuclear bomb works ("they're both 'nuclear', right?").
Add in endless sci-fi and post-apocalyptic movies and TV shows and comics and the like where radiation turned people into mutants or whatever and people are primed to be suspicious of nuclear power.
I'm not gonna articulate this well, but there's this phenomenon I keep seeing on the left that I'll call "bean soup rhetoric," wherein someone fails to understand that they are not the target audience for a particular message, or just can't conceptualize why a speaker would craft their message differently to resonate with a target audience that doesn't already completely agree with them.
"The 'God Made Trans People' billboard is stupid! God didn't make me! I'm an atheist!" Okay. The billboard sits along a major highway in Kansas. We can deduce that the target audience is not you—it's the centrist evangelical Christians driving along that road who could probably be persuaded to become allies as long as we choose our words carefully and don't make them feel attacked for not already knowing everything about trans rights issues. Another one I see a lot is, "We shouldn't be talking about how right-wing legislation catches [privileged in-group] in the crossfire when [marginalized out-group] suffers far more!" I know. I agree with you. Which is why you and I are not the intended audience of this argument!
The entire point of rhetoric is to win over someone who doesn't already fully agree with you. In this case, let's say that someone is Jennifer, the moderate center-right mom in your neighborhood who doesn't really know or care about transgender issues but would be absolutely horrified by the idea of her teenage daughter having to submit to an invasive inspection of her body just to be allowed to play soccer. Tell her, "Banning trans students from sports will inevitably subject all student athletes to invasive gender-policing," or "Legal restrictions on gender-affirming care will make it harder for you to access the hormone replacement therapy you take to treat menopause symptoms," and she is more likely to question her existing beliefs and listen to the rest of what you have to say than if you lead with leftist talking points that she already has a calcified opinion about or which she thinks do not personally affect her.
Tailoring the argument to the things she already cares about does not mean we're forgetting that she has more privilege than most—entirely the opposite, in fact. A privileged ally can be extremely valuable. Jennifer votes in every election. And so do all the other ladies at her book club, and church, and in the PTA, and those folks listen to Jennifer. There's a reason both parties were courting suburban women so hard in the last election cycle! If we can find common ground with her on this, if we can get her calling her representatives and talking to her friends and phone-banking and door-knocking and making a stink, that's how the needle starts to move. If I can convince her to take her support away from the candidates who are actively restricting my rights and throw it toward those who want to restore and expand those rights...then I'm sorry, but Jennifer is a more valuable ally to me than the people who agree that the legal boundaries of gender ought to be abolished altogether but refuse to actually do anything except complain online about how both sides are equally bad because the right is trying to force everyone to drink the cyanide kool-aid while the left keeps serving bean soup and they don't like bean soup
A big one is the fact that the immigration crackdown and shutting our doors are having an adverse effect on the economy and agriculture. Not to mention your favorite local restaurant will close and raise its prices.
The purist would tell you that utilitarian argument is bad because it commodifies immigrants, and we should be arguing on ethical grounds.
Except... the argument that "immigration should be supported because it's the right thing to do" is preaching to the choir.
The people you're needing to convince are those who think immigrants are a burden. Of course, you're not gonna convince everyone, but the goal is to shift those margins.
The labor fight doesn't even have to come after, but it's still a separate messaging that its own thing.
‘redditors need to know this’, ‘twitterinas need to know that’… no. you need to know one thing and that is that you are not allowed to complain about werewolf fuckers. this is the werewolf fucking website. grow up and go fuck a werewolf.
This is like someone just informed the newcomers about the devils sacrament taking place every full moon and the devil itself popped up asking “what sacrament?” with a cheshire grin.
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I have reblogged this post on previous Wednesdays without adding anything to it, but I figured to respect the artist it might be a good idea to add a link to the source of the photo.
Anyway, Happy Mama Mia It's-A Wednesday Wrong Fucking Image Wednesday once again.
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