#squigly-protractor

HECK YEAH

all of my dice usually show up at any given session because these days almost all the DnD I’m playing is skype-in DnD and/or very close to my house and it’s just. Satisfying to constantly stack and re-stack and organize dice as the play happens as a way to keep my focus, well, focused 

actually, surprisingly right now??? there is a very very good webserial called A Practical Guide To Evil that is a hell of a lot of fun (it is....an incredibly realistic take on what a DnD fantasy world where people can pretty fucking easily figure out that some people are PCs would look like in-world, if that makes sense? there are Heroes and Villains and it is possible for people with the will for it to gain Names that give them powers but they then are....more affected by Fate and bound by narrative tropes. and this is just all accepted as a part of the way the world works/an experiment by the Gods. the premise of the story is “and then after three hundred years of flying fortresses and sentient tiger-armies being repelled by stalwart Heroes, a new generation of Villains came along that got genre-savvy and suddenly oops took over half the continent, welcome to the previous Kingdom of Callow now province of the Dread Empire of Praes twenty years later.) but they do some absolutely amazing rep of just, like. bi people, asexual people, trans people, polyamory/being as devoted to your friends as you are to romance, and, uh, there are some m/f pairings in there that I am Actually Legit Invested In

that's actually something that's increasingly pissing me off, people who think "parenting style" is something sacred and that criticizing them for it is the highest order of disrespect, particularly if their reason is that the person isn't a parent. parents aren't a minority demographic whose experiences can't possibly be understood, so talking about them isn't derailing some big conversation. also yikes they have four kids I hope they're ok

“XS”

yes but

I have not personally counted years/dates or tried to make sense of the timeline, but a lot of other people have. Here and Here. 

Forget about the year itself; too many events and holidays specific to particular months have happened for the series to take place in any particular year. Also, plot relevant cases have gone from 90s technology of floppy disks and cassette tapes and no cell phones, to flip phones, to current tech like smartphones. 

Which is Duke and which is Harold?