something new

I had the strangest conversation ever with a deeply clever friend who is 5e-pilled to hell. I like to have people over to play new one or two shots of different rpgs in the home I share with my partner; I cook dinner and we enjoy a cool new game and tell a complete story with a beginning and an end. One of my buddies pitched a 5e two-shot to me recently, and I turned it down; "Sorry, but I'm done with that game. There are other tables to run 5e on, but my table runs everything else." The results were SO STRANGE. Demands were made that I share why I dislike it, and when I expressed problems with the system (slow-as-balls turn-based-initiative, a generic fantasyland setting that is full of lowest-common-denominator bullshit that is hard to meaningfully connect with, attrition-based resource management in a system that begs you to play it like superhero fantasy) and I got the same reply "An experienced GM just homerules that. Playing it the way it is in the book is a rookie mistake." Eventually we settled on the truth; this guy was so exhausted becoming an expert in the hideous minutiae of Dungeons and Dragons 5e that he has full-on stockholm syndrome; he will never "Move to another system" (whatever that means) because he thinks that getting into any other game would require the same effort to "master" in order to not have a dogshit time. He doesn't know that there are games where you can read the rules once and run them and have a good time. He doesn't know that game design exists. I love telling stories with my friends. I don't know what he loves.

I wish medical transition was seen as the miracle of modern medical science that it is and not some freak experiment that misguided young "girls" and perverted fetishistic "men" do as a vanity project.

making a cross stitch that says "I am funny and he would fucking say that" to hang directly above my monitor

"hey toast you stayed up past midnight because you were working on the fic and not because you were procrastinating by making a hideous pattern for a joke cross stitch" have you never met a writer before

a lesser-acknowledged piece of advice about learning a new skill: you are allowed to enjoy sucking during the "sucking at it" phase. if you're a new writer or dancer or person in general, there is invariably a period where your work just isn't very good. it's frustrating because you have good taste and can recognize other good work, but you can't produce it yet. it can be hard to slog through this if you're only thinking about how bad your work is, BUT it can be fun if you turn this into a bit. deliberately write the worst poem you can. feels great. still learned something. sucking at things feels bad if you try to cover it up, but when you own it, it hurts far less to be witnessed.

Girls if you see this I am stuffing you full of high calorie and fat and protein food. For the boob and butt and hip growth, you see

Make girls fatter today, eat more carbs :)

the nasty trick is that making friends is pretty easy but managing to keep in touch with everyone is next to impossible