Zadkiel Vaske-Huff
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Big day for Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, where local partners are hoping for donations in honor of 9/25. (Allow me to introduce my dad, Not That Tom Friedman, co-founder of the Imagination Library of Greater Houston)
This week I found out my dad wasn’t just volunteering with the Houston branch of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library— he’s the President & co-founder. Really proud, so please enjoy this clip (& support...
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The only way to do this would be to make you look insane if you were watching it in public.
🌒💀 evelynn 💀🌘@ladyartaud.bsky.social · 4mo agonow that backrooms has proved successful, it's time for a movie of the ultimate "what if a house was wrong" film to be made: House of Leaves. cmon you Hollywood cowards, you know you wanna do it.
Got my tarot-like divination cards I’ve been cooking up for @gamewoven.bsky.social worked into a session last night and, predictably, Ben is better at using them than I am.
Make a band edible: Bruce Springsteen and the Vitamin E Street Band
*puts on flower crown, falls into a faerie circle*@klezmerstyle.bsky.social · 3w agoMake a band edible: Florence (Welch's Grape Juice) + The Machine
I otherwise have no opinions about This is Us, but there’s a shot in the pilot where a cop lights a cigarette in a hospital and that’s where we really see that the scene is taking place in the 70’s. That’s art right there. What a good reveal.
Made a joke about Happy Days yesterday. My partner didn’t know what it was, so I explained it as That 70’s Show for the 80’s. Got me thinking how we’re possibly a few years out of a similar show that has to either engage with or pointedly ignore post 9/11 jingoism and paranoia.
When Whithers tells you that he can perform resurrections for 200gp, your character can say, “That’s outrageous!” I have to assume they mean that it’s expensive. I wish it let you express that 200g to come back from the dead is actually very cheap.
Several years ago, when I was voicing anxiety about my quality as a parent, one of my friends said, “I think you’re a perfect parent for like an 8-10 year old.” Now that I have a 5 year old, that feels even more true.
Brief rant about Zombies, a series of musicals that I haven’t seen but have heard the music from: Look, I get that reprising “Someday” works and is a tradition at this point, but trying it with “We’re Gunna Be Fine” is… like, a big swing to begin with, but WITHOUT THE HORNS? Come on. What the hell.
Has anyone done a god of bad vibes? Like, an actually lawful neutral deity, the stuff they push is ok, well structured, it’s fine, but they’re just really disrespectful. Not callous, just mean.
Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people
Imagination Library is her major ongoing charitable org, but I remember hearing a story about all the smaller efforts she spun up in response to disasters, used to directly give to the effected, and then shut down by disbursing everything that was left to locals. Model direct aid at scale.
Rolling Stone@rollingstone.com · last mo.Dolly Parton's family asked that, in lieu of flowers, fans make a donation to the singer's Imagination Library. Here's what the charity does ⬇️ www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
One of the problems inherent to adversarial structures of governance is the way that all you aren’t allowed to just like things because sentiment is a weakness that political opponents can exploit, so you end up insisting that, for instance, you only like boats because you’ve made them useful.
Gamewoven@gamewoven.bsky.social · last mo.Dork? Hardly. The navy was also a white elephant offering until Dunes secured a partnership that made it useful. Cecil is shrewd as hell just... at a serious political disadvantage.
One of my favorite things about fleshing out @gamewoven.bsky.social lore is spending a conversation explaining how the Administradium uses complex seals to indicate the exact Administratix who sealed something then moving to, “House Dunes uses a single chevron out of shame, but Cecil’s has a boat.”
Once met a guy who was a sadomastochist. Hand to god, never knew there were that many unpleasant ways to chew.
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The ongoing joys of catching up with the modern state of children’s TV: Miraculous is absolutely gorgeous. I’ve heard the writing takes a while to get going, but even early days it’s decent, and it just looks so good.
She’s building momentum and you fucking love to see it.
R. Sera@talonbornestudio.bsky.social · last mo.Homeless girlie update: on a big paperwork streak, mostly in the clear for a few weeks. need to cover a phone bill, a tank of gas, and my panic meds. comes out to 100 but i'm asking around and trying to work to make up the rest before I go home! ko-fi.com/talonborne $robinvbelle @seranabalfe venmo
My kid is argumentative and will frequently negotiate with me or catch me out on technicalities. She’ll probably find the real world very frustrating, but at least if she ever runs into any fey she’ll be well equipped.
I’m pushing the time I wake up earlier specifically to avoid this. If housework isn’t done before 6:45, it’s not getting done.
CocoEagle@cocoeagle.bsky.social · last mo.I cannot express this any better.... the frustration is real
Broken Clocks aren’t necessarily right twice a day if they’re still running, and Catholicism is a clock made of slipped gears, where the second hand occasionally gets stuck and the minute hand will occasionally drop from 3 to 5. Which is why I think it’s extra funny when they’re just bang on right.
Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis@kendrawrites.com · last mo.This is the funniest shit. Florida allows religious exemptions for vaccines. Catholic schools in Florida: we require vaccines. Florida's attorney general, who is Catholic, is threatening to pull vouchers if they don't allow for religious exemptions The Bishops: separation of church & state
Tbh, most people drawn to bard would be happier with the Sorcerer or Monk tool kit reimagined as performance. Or be well served by the straightforwardness of Fighter, come down to it. They would make more thorough use of the game without having to compromise their artistic vision.
Zadkiel Vaske-Huff@zadkielingreen.bsky.social · last mo.Playing Baldur’s Gate 3 in earnest for the first time. Got me thinking about things like, “Bard is a trap for theater kids and would be better cut,” “Warlock is a better alt progression track than full class to force engagement with your patron,” and “Wildshape should not be core to Druid,” again.
Playing Baldur’s Gate 3 in earnest for the first time. Got me thinking about things like, “Bard is a trap for theater kids and would be better cut,” “Warlock is a better alt progression track than full class to force engagement with your patron,” and “Wildshape should not be core to Druid,” again.
Ran our first real combat in @oneshotrpg.bsky.social's Cosmic Century Knights last night for the podcast. During the break we landed on this pull quote "Demands to be played cinematically. Every time I need a rule for something I find it, then it gets out of the way."
Skill issue, if we take the inaccuracy as a contradiction in historical context it creates a fruitful question to be explored through play rather than a problem in need of solving. In bed.
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David J Prokopetz@prokopetz.bsky.social · 2mo agoKink scene rescheduled because halfway through me explaining the scenario my dom asked a clarifying question that uncovered a howling logical inconsistency and we ended up spending the next three hours workshopping the worldbuilding.
Idk, guys, maybe Iran should be worried. I mean, you’ve seen what he’s done to the US economy, and that’s basically the biggest, bestest one.
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 2mo agoTRUMP TELLS FOX NEWS U.S. WILL HIT IRAN HARD ECONOMICALLY
