Fiona Ghouls & Ghosts

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I never try anything. I just do it. Wanna try me? Currently a bookseller Everchosen of Chaos Mundus Vult Decipi, Ergo Decipiatur

TTRPGs are exhausting because as a field the actual thing worth evaluating (play) requires people who actually play games but the field has a strong preference towards consumers who buy as a form of identity and who are wholly opposed to actually playing games

A couple went on a Fox News podcast and claimed the state of #Massachusetts took away their teen because they won't help the teen transition. But it's actually because the father was charged with beating and threatening to kill the teen and the mother was charged with witness intimidation.

Mass. parents' story about child's gender transition complicated by court records

Joseph Kutzko was charged with assaulting the child in January 2025, not long before the child was removed from the family’s home. Mother Arlene Kutzko was charged with witness intimidation in connect...

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Flyer for our upcoming show at Café 9 in New Haven, CT with Thee Phibbs (PVD), Skin Jump (PVD), and MJ Bones (NHVN) Thanks to Glambat for booking the show. We are playing a set of doom/ethereal settings of UK tradfolk tunes. We will fuck the wind. Come.

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The challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to grapple with the heinous presence—historically and currently!—of racism in weird fiction WITHOUT defaulting to arguing about whether HP Lovecraft was or was not a special snowflake of bigotry

Having watched military propaganda films from most empires, generically considering trying to do a non-partisan ranking of all of them at least into tiers. Like would probably have to add a sorta balance of "is this a good film (technical)" and "does this relate to the depicted military (historical)

“A reliable statewide transit system connected to a modern hub in the heart of the capital city will help Rhode Island grow its economy, expand housing choices, reduce household transportation costs and meet its climate pollution mandates.” Exactly!!!

Why a new transit hub alone will not fix Rhode Island | Opinion

A new transit hub in Providence is a good start but Rhode Island must also reverse service cuts to truly help riders, the authors say.

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I just submitted the final files for SUFFERING THE OTHER, and I should have a proof in 7-10 days. If it looks good (and I expect it will), I’ll order the full print run. That would keep us on track for late September/early October shipping.

Suffering the Other (anthology)

**PRE-ORDER OPEN, EXPECTED TO SHIP IN OCTOBER** A new benefit anthology of dark weird fiction based on the concept of othering -- the process of perceiving or portraying someone or something as fundam...

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It's that expressive potential especially that has interested me as of late. A more complex mechanical vocabulary gives the designer more tools to play with, and allows them to speak with precision and nuance. And it gives players more opportunities to be expressive.

possibly the best evidence that I am not purely amoral is despite having a terminal degree in philosophy, it is because I decided I have too much self worth to become a lawyer, having found all I have to do to call myself a lawyer and choose not to put an esq after my name is pass the bar in RI...

I think sometimes about the fact that among prominent TERFs one literally published (self-justifying) child exploitation material and another hung out with the man who ran an industrial scale child exploitation ring but saying being a TERF means it is likely they are a 'Piers Anthony Fan'