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Ukrainian War Tapestry

Cotton & Brass

Designed in 2022, stitched from December 2022 until March 2025, hanging bar designed between March 2025 and August 2025, hanging bar made October 2025

Inspired in by the Bayeux Tapestry, Afghan War Rugs, & President Zelenskyy's vyshyvanka with the little tank on it

Will be sent to President Zelenskyy/the Ukrainian government

Detailed descriptions & notes on each panel and the hanging bar below the read more

As we discussed in our post yesterday regarding Outlaw Hearts, we're working to evolve and grow our own take of what Powered by the Apocalypse means. The cornerstone of this is encouraging the Play to Find Out element of PbtA design. Part of this is enforcing, promoting, and rewarding Players who play to the narrative hooks and strengths of their characters. This has taken the form of the Heart system that gives Outlaw Hearts its name. The Heart system is a stat-less system that rewards Outlaws, the titular characters of Outlaw Hearts, for being the best Outlaws they can be. Outlaws select a Crew Role and a Playbook at character creation. Both these choices come with a list of Drives, narrative hooks that enshrine the narrative positioning that the Playbooks and Crew Roles embody. The Captain, a Crew Role, for example might select "lead a dangerous charge at the head of the crew". Whenever they would do this in game, they earn a token they can spend to improve their rolls. This token is called Ambition. The mechanic looks something like this at the moment.

Heart and Ambition

Outlaws select two Drives from their Crew Role and two from their Playbook. 

The Outlaw may select one of these four Drives to award 2 Ambition when fulfilled in the scene. This is called their Central Drive. 

All other Drives selected at character creation award 1 Ambition when fulfilled in the scene.

If an Outlaw would gain an Ambition but cannot increase their Pool, they may either restore one Stress or mark Potential. 

An Outlaw may, at the start of the Session, swap out a non-Central Drive for another Drive of their choice they have access to. They may only do this once per Session.

An Outlaw’s Drives from both sources form the basis of an Outlaw’s Heart. An Outlaw may earn other Drives after character creation but cannot exceed 5 Drives at any one time. During play, an Outlaw may have their Heart and their Drives called into question. Depending on their fiction, this may mean that one of their Drives becomes Locked or Affirmed.

Locked Drive: A Locked Drive cannot be fulfilled for the duration listed when it is Locked. An Outlaw may always unlock a Drive by increasing their Stress by 2. If this pushes you over your Maximum Stress, you mark Exhausted instead. 

Affirmed Drive: An Affirmed Drive always rewards an Outlaw an additional 1 Ambition when it is fulfilled the first time in a scene. If the Affirmed Drive is an Outlaw’s Central Drive, they get +3 instead of +2.

Ambition is a form of currency that Outlaws generate by embodying the goals and desires that brought them out into the Cosmos in the first place. Outlaws cannot have more than 5 Ambition at any time in their Pool. 

IN THE SOURCE you’ll find a total of #126 HQ GIFS of TAYLOR SWIFT as HERSELF in the videoclip I CAN DO IT WITH A BROKEN HEART (2024)! All of these were made by me, so don’t claim as your own. Please like and/or reblog if this helped you in any way! Thank you!