my current book has great potential but is terribly under-edited. first draft stuff, sentences that contradict the one before, as you know bob dialogue, internal inconsistencies in time and setting. and 2 editors are thanked in the acknowledgements. is everyone just too overwhelmed to work or what

beauty and the beast. i have one of those early dads. he opened the door while the last showing was still on. so there's this murky, moody castle nightscape and some inscrutable being just floating while beams of light shoot out, and the whole movie for tiny me is just building to whatever THAT was

Mark Thompson@markreckons.bsky.social · 3d ago

First film you saw at the cinema. The real first one, not the pretend one you tell people! Mine: The Empire Strikes Back, 1980, Wigan. We were near the front and I can still remember how massive the AT-ATs looked, looming over us out of the snow :) Film, year, where, and whatever stuck with you.

found a circa 2004 stitch n' bitch book while looking for something entirely else and while the patterns are fine (and I may in fact make a few, it's that time again and no worries about AI crap) I cannot imagine a more specific artifact of a more exact moment

when you actually finish a chapstick instead of losing it/melting it/forgetting it in your pocket and washing it, you should get some sort of prize or laudatory token

so after the week of being frozen above the chasm one of my party members saved me with a thornwhip and i have now used the grappling hook i've been carrying all game and the chains left over from when i was a werewolf to hook the roc like an angry trout

Memento Morlys 🍉@aardwyrm.bsky.social · last wk.

update^3 the roc is flying away with me over a yawning chasm

so cozy and I'm gonna make her get up

my first 5 ttrpgs 1. middle school friend's dad's AD&D 2. a short-lived licensed d20 game of thrones thing from before it was a show 3. (new) world of darkness (just rolling them all into one) 4. semi-official playtest of a LARP version of savage worlds-inflected deadlands 5. shadowrun i think?

Pseudandry@pseudandry.bsky.social · 2d ago

My first 5 TTRPGs (Best friend was a Palladium kid) 1. TMNT and other strangeness 2. After the Bomb 3. Palladium fantasy 4. RIFTS 5. Beyond the Supernatural

1. can i write a 3-5 page synthesis paper in a day 2. can i write a paper that is only 3-5 pages at all 3. how bad was my headache last weekend that i decided this was the move 4. oh yeah can i also finish revising a novella before friday 5. i make great choices guys

the patagonian conures are still my favorite of this set, but the competition is steep

Emma LeRae@emmalerae.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Dinosaurs Survived! All 15 designs so far. www.emmalerae.com/store.html

this thing thought I should let her fight a coyote this morning

ranks near the bottom on the infinite list of problems but i do occasionally wanna use the word "grok" in its original sense (of being a pedantic nerd who's also kinda crunchy) and my fingers always freeze on the keyboard followed by a whole-body shudder

among many reasons to dip onto The Classics is the vast, friendly history. how many multitudes have curled up on a cool autumn night rich in cricket songs with the weird tales of Pu Songling and a cup of tea? but only in recent decades have there been like 12 kinds of sleepytime alone

Michael Druker 🇨🇦@mdruker.app · 3d ago

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

aw, it's gorgeous george! has a much more accurate mount these days (and, as the specimen is now identified as daspletosaurus, the name is not so apt as it was for a purported gorgosaurus) but i'm juuuust old enough to remember this guy greeting you as you came in

Phineas, a corpse@phineas.bsky.social · 3d ago

Awesome shot of the Great Hall of the Field Museum in 1978

her shadow in light like this. what manner of beasture

one of my students misheard or couldn't remember the vocab word "haploid" (was written on the paper several times but that aside) and gave her answer as "happy void"

FRIENDS: recommend some trans-authored books (including yours!) in the comments! And if you've never read a book by a trans person, browse the comments and you may find your next great read. No time like the present to stick it to the pieces of shit who think we ought neither to be seen or heard

if I died the day of parent-teacher conferences it would take a long time to notice the difference between that and ironic hell

Caraway the canyon bat is a worm monster. 🦇 #bats #wildanimals #cuteanimals #asmr

I ran a large RPG club at a girls middle school for many years and do have thoughts and advice that I've updated. I’ll thread but also post here: gist.github.com/altercation/... Spoiler: A lot of my advice is not specific to RPGs! cc @montecookgames.com @jonesm80.bsky.social @aardwyrm.bsky.social

Monte Cook Games@montecookgames.com · 6d ago

Calling all nerds! Has anyone successfully run an after-school TTRPG club? Do we have any advice for improving player retention?

we get proper fog around here so rarely. so exciting to be living in the cover of a novel where the ghost of your missing sister leads you ever closer to the dark secret rotting the roots of your family tree.

It is done. My magnum opus. My legacy.

could maybe one of those blankets be for me

my mother has been convinced i am secretly starving and dying since i went vegetarian. just as i thought i'd trained her out of offering to make something for me to come down and have every time she cooks, she caught me with a microwave thingy on a night i have a headache and i gotta start all over

who has not forgotten the occasional cup of tea but i seem to have brewed a pot and had it vanish entire from my mind. i take this as exoneration for that nap i took way too late in the day. clearly necessary

so my school district has decided they have a dungeons and dragons club and are willing to put me in charge of it. i have a long list of stuff to do, but the biggest problem, i know from 3 years attempting to run chess club, is getting them to show up. ideas so far:

Stupid nonsense I am working on

Trying again after being alerted that the submissions guidelines were going to a certain story: My special call for @diabolicalplots.com Diabolical Rot is official open! Submit your human-written Rot-themed stories here! submissions.diabolicalplots.com

i did just get to punch a roc as it flew by. being a monk fuckin rules. just, you know, better when the fight's got less than 15 dudes

Memento Morlys 🍉@aardwyrm.bsky.social · last wk.

fighting 4 snow maidens, 4 wights, 2 vrocks, a witch, and 3 or more vampires in d&d tonight, and also with our party of 6 we have 2 helper npcs, the fallen paladin's undead steed, the artificer's robot, 55 burgers, 55 fries, 55 tacos, 55 pies... i will be taking about one turn per hour, ama i guess

fighting 4 snow maidens, 4 wights, 2 vrocks, a witch, and 3 or more vampires in d&d tonight, and also with our party of 6 we have 2 helper npcs, the fallen paladin's undead steed, the artificer's robot, 55 burgers, 55 fries, 55 tacos, 55 pies... i will be taking about one turn per hour, ama i guess