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PREORDERS ARE NOW OPEN!

Broads and Broadswords is a celebration of women and nonbinary people with swords, from strapping blacksmiths to sapphic sea creatures, sheroes, they/them heroes, and of course, the ubiquitous knight in shining armor. This zine collects almost fifty pages of original color illustrations and comics from thirty independent artists in a perfect bound book, available in both digital and print format.

Digital Copy only: $9 USD

Physical Copy: $19 USD (includes digital copy)

Domestic Shipping: $5 USD

International Shipping: $20 USD Broads and Broadswords is a charity zine, and proceeds will go to the Transgender Law Center.

Apparently there's a gritney now?

This is the last week to buy Fidelity and our last giveaway! A hearty thank you to @emiltons​ for making this possible, this week we are giving away TWO Color Hardbacks! Check out the rules below.

Rules

Follow me and reblog/retweet this post before the end of the week, October 16th. Each account gets one entry.

However, if you share your comments about the story (by reply, reblog, quote retweet, etc.), I will give you a second entry. This doubles if you also have a Twitter account. This will increase your odds of winning!

Please have your DMs open. I will walk you through the process if you win. To select winners, I’ll use a random number picker and announce them on October 16th.

One giveaway will go to Twitter and one to Tumblr.

Please check out everything The Transgender Law Center is doing to support their communities and donate directly if you can!

⚡GIVEAWAY TIME⚡

This week I’m going to giveaway E V E R Y T H I N G  digital that’s available in my shop - that’s $200 worth of tabletop goodies! Scroll to the bottom to see the full list of everything you can win ✨

HOW TO ENTER:

1. Follow me on tumblr!

2. Reblog this post!

3. Get extra chances to win by entering via my Twitter (@_r_n_w_) and Instagram (@_r_n_w_)

Each platform will have THREE randomly selected winners who will be notified via DM - that’s NINE WINNERS in total!

Ends 4pm GMT 21st August 2020

Good luck to everyone entering!! 🎲

WHAT YOU’LL WIN:

Players Pack

Complete set of 12 Class Specific Character Sheets (minimal & classic style)

Equipment Packs - The Full Set

Basic Weapons - Item Card Pack

Full Spell Card Set

Character Journal : Digital Edition

The New & Improved 5e Character Sheet (minimal, classic and fey fayre style)

Full Multi-Classing Pack (minimal & classic style)

Game Master’s Pack

All of our one-shot adventures:

The Tremor Train,

Spike Patch Grove,

The Fey Fayre

Game Master’s Kit Deluxe (minimal & classic style)

“When someone asks me about violence I just find it incredible. Because what it means is that the person asking that question has absolutely no idea what Black People have gone through, what Black People have experienced in this country...”

When you go to a haunted house, it may seem like you’re being funny by trying to scare the actors or jump out at them when you go through a second time, but guess what? ITS NOT FUNNY.

You pay us to scare you. It is your choice to go, so don’t fucking go through if you’re going to ignore the rules and get too close to the actors as a ‘joke’.

These bruises happened because over the course of 4 hours, several people ignored the instructions that CLEARLY stated that they were to wait in the front room until told otherwise. Rather than listen, they ran into the next room and slammed into me- effectively throwing me into the wall. This didn’t only happen once. It happened ten times at LEAST.

Then we had this asshole who thought that once I ‘died’ for the haunt, he could pretend to kick me to see if I’d moved. I, being used to people abusing me- jumped back and slammed my head into the concrete wall.

YOU ARE NOT FUNNY BY BEING RUDE AT A HAUNTED HOUSE. WE ARE PAID ACTORS THAT YOU CHOOSE TO COME AND SEE PERFORM. YOU PAY US TO SCARE THE SHIT OUT OF YOU, SO DONT HIT US WHEN WE DO

I work at a Haunted House every October, and have been for the past few years. Our house in particular is staffed by Volunteer workers who are either earning credits for Graduation, or people who know the Family that owns the haunted attraction. In our City, we’re one of two Haunted Houses, so while we open in late September, we tend to get incredibly busy during the month of October and often work from 6pm until 2, 3am on weekends. 

We do not get paid to help out. Due to our location, we get a lot of drunk guys coming through, and a lot of ‘funny’ teenagers. In my several years working there, I’ve seen Actors get grabbed and thrown, stomped on, kicked, bitten, everything. A lot of the Actors at this attraction are young teenagers, Middle and Secondary School students, so this kind of abuse is terrifying and potentially emotionally scarring.

There’s a position half-way through the house we call ‘Psych Ward’, and it’s essentially a jump scare. The scare is a corner-room, boxed in with walls and broken windows, that the Actor pops out of and shouts and taunts the people going through. October, 2012, a couple were going through the Psych Ward corner and the scare went off as per usual. The girlfriend of this couple got very startled but laughed it off and continued on. The boyfriend, however, back-tracked and went up to the broken window and punched the Actor in the face for scaring his girlfriend. The Actor, who I’m going to call Tracy, had a black eye for a good two weeks solid and the couple had to be escorted out of the house and were banned from the property. Ever since we’ve ruled that Veteran Actors (someone who’s been there for 3+ years) are the only ones allowed in this particular Scaring Spot.

He paid to get scared and then got violent when we delivered.

There are so many stories I can tell of ignorant customers banging back on scares and injuring the Actors inside, grabbing props from the actors and hurting them with it, destroying props because they thought it would be ‘funny’. 

I just want to raise awareness that the ACTORS ARE STILL PEOPLE. We’re instructed to get the best kind of scare out of you, sometimes with no pay at all (like this particular attraction), so please respect our work.

I work at a haunted hayride and a guy tried to dropkick me in the chest and knee me in the face because he thought it was funny.

I got in trouble for breaking character to tell him to fucking stop.

Ive been hit so many times this season it has left cuts and bruises. Back in 2015 I was fucking choked and dragged behind a wagon because a lady was drunk and her son had to pry her hands off me because IM NOT ALLOWED TO TOUCH YOU OR FIGHT BACK.

Most recently, a customer groped my breasts and twisted my fucking nipples. Apparently, she did it to AT LEAST twenty other actors.

THAT IS SEXUAL ASSAULT YOU ASSHOLES. ITS NOT OKAY.

Most recently a customer fucking kicked me and sent me to the goddamned hospital.

WHEN YOU GO TO A HAUNTED HAYRIDE / HAUNTED HOUSE, REMEMBER YOU LITERALLY PAID US TO SCARE YOU.

THE ACTORS ARE REAL PEOPLE.

If your family or friend(s) force you into a haunting, be upfront as best you can and tell actors as they come up “please do not scare me i am too anxious / scared” and 9.99/10 times we will listen and leave you alone. just communicate with us even though we most often cannot communicate back.

We may be playing monsters, but we are NOT monsters.

Also, please remember to keep your hands off of us during your haunting, and also please try to step in or speak up if you see people trying to touch us, assault us, or talking about planning to touch or hurt a staff member.

We cannot do anything and will most likely get in legal trouble for touching you in defense.

I mean they should know you’re…justacting.

You paid for a ticket which means you consented to be scared!

💛🕊✨🕯☀️🕯✨🕊💛