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The Patreon-exclusive fireside chat for Ep. 5 of Solari is out NOW!

It's time to retire the robe.

Meet our next main character for Worlds Beyond Number: The Official Graphic Novel!

Erika Ishii tells us all about the young witch Ame who loves collecting, playing in nature, and is filled with wonder.

Only 2 WEEKS until launch so sign up NOW for updates on the Worlds Beyond Number:

Some of yall may have heard some of the shit that has been going on right now. I'm gonna give a quick run down of some of the stuff that has been happening. Note, this is not all, and it may never be all as much as I will try to update this.

(I am going to try and compile and briefly explain these as much as I can. There may be misinformation. Please inform me if I got something wrong.)

(This will also be updated with additional information and new topics added.)

1) Racist Chinese Dolls.

There are these dolls in China that are being called "Natasha" baby dolls. These dolls are not only very obvious caricatures of black people, but they are being advertised as a "stress relief" in which the people who buy these abuse it in various ways.

This links to a video of a compilation of the various "uses" of the doll. There are more in the replies of the tweet. (Another link to the same tweet just incase)

2) The Mocking, Abuse, and Dehumanization of Black Children.

Apart from the aforementioned doll, there are apparently people going around mocking, abusing, and dehumanizing black children.

Some people have compared black children to the doll.

Others have been going into African countries and have found ways to mock, abuse, and dehumanize black children for clout.

(Source 1 + Full Video) (Source 2)

There are more videos surfacing.

3) Black people are going missing.

Black people, especially children and teens have recently been going missing at an alarming rate. Some of these same people are turning up dead, deaths being ruled as "suicides."

While it generally unknown why many of these people are going missing, many suspect that their disappearances, deaths, and even lack of coverage is rooted in anti-blackness.

The following is a list of black people that have been reported missing as of recently. Please note that this is not a complete list (it may never be completed due to the fact that many of these disappearances will still occur as time passes) this may contain inaccurate information. Please inform me if that is the case.

By the time you see this, some of these people may have already been found either alive or deceased. This post will be updated overtime.

It is also heavily encouraged that you reblog this with more links to recent cases of missing black people if you are aware of any that aren’t included on this list.

Alexis Shaver

Payton Diver

Nasir Tacuma

Ka’Laya Cooper

Makaila Monae Adam

Moriah Kerre Smith

Uchechi Chijindum Nkemdirim

Victeria Uriah Spear

Rilen Wade (Found. Is Safe)

My wonderful children are finally getting a graphic novel?? And we get to see the wonderful world they live in?? Ay nako, The Children's Adventure is so important to me because it lets you see how Aabria, Lou, and Erika made decisions that informed how they interacted with the world later in WWW. And Brennan! Him yes-anding the world around these kids and building lore to support their world views is what made the children's adventure possible!

I can count on one hand how many ttrpg campaigns made a difference in my life and how I think about situations, and WWW and The Children's Adventure is two of them. The absolute emotional roller coaster that these two campaigns bring you on is amazing; Suvi's introduction IS TRAVELING THROUGH WAR, juxtaposed with a cut to the cottage with Ame waking up to a rooster screaming in her face?? Holy shit. And the sincerity with Eurulon meeting Sir Currin, the respect they have for each other helps build the stepping stones for how Eursulon goes about surviving in the mortal world (and it also lets brennan set up what I think to be the coolest showdown ever).

The graphic novel would help push it to a bigger audience that has no interest in podcasts! Or just to people who don't know about World's Beyond Number and stumble across the podcast online because they saw the graphic novel.

It might take time. More than has already passed, but it will get better.

than has already passed, but

it will get better.

It's not a great movie — but not in the way you think.

It really isn't a great movie. Like not the kind of film you walk out of thinking "this permanently changed my brain chemistry and I need three business days to process it" (like Project Hail Mary was at least in my case). It's by no means a masterpiece or the pinnacle of cinema — far from it.

But it's also not a bad movie. I can't even compare it to anything specific because I left with no bad impressions or any urge to nitpick, really.

It's a good movie — no more, no less… and that's okay. It's a small, fairly grounded, linear story, quite intimate and centered — surprisingly enough /s — on the Mandalorian, a.k.a. Din Djarin, and Grogu. That's it. And we got exactly what was on the poster and in the title. Did it feel like a long episode of the series? Yup. Is it a bad thing? Nope — in fact, it would have been bad if the film tried to cover everything around Din and Grogu, spreading itself too thin.

I'm a fairly undemanding casual viewer who loves grounded cinema and the found family trope, and I'm quite happy with what I got. After a hospital visit and having a huge bucket of sweet popcorn with enough sugar to send a rhino into a diabetic coma — it was genuinely enjoyable.

✊🏾Black men deserve respect.

✊🏿Black men deserve to feel safe.

✊🏽Black men deserve to grow.

✊🏾Black men deserve to thrive.

✊🏿Black men deserve to love.

✊🏽Black men deserve to be themselves.