just your friendly neighborhood harpy

@harpydora.bsky.social

otherwise known as s. gates/august (they/them). voice and podcast dad for @ftlcast.bsky.social among other things.

Hey friends, in case you haven't heard, we're up for a CRIT Award for Best Legacy Podcast! Seeing as how our 8th birthday is coming up TOMORROW, it'd mean a lot to us if you voted for us in this category!

CRIT Awards@critawards.bsky.social · 3w ago

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I may or may not have written some Project Hail Mary fanfiction about how that human and that rock alien are in love. >.> Just some G-rated unadulterated fluff for my favorite alien spider and his leaky space blob. #grocky #gracerocky archiveofourown.org/works/88360471

By Any Other Name - harpydora - Project Hail Mary (2026) [Archive of Our Own]

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(2/2) Some systems are skateboards; the changes that would be needed to entirely remove the risk of wiping out and cracking your head open on the pavement would also remove the affordances that render them fit for purpose. Sometimes you need to accept the risk and put on the damn helmet!

I also find the framing that Rules Are Toys can be a useful way to think about player safety tools. I don't disagree that many TTRPGs could stand to pay more attention to their players' emotional safety than they do, but I do disagree that the need for external safety tools is a failure mode. (1/2)