Have you ever wished that your TTRPGs had more teenage angst in them? Do you love playing Lasers & Feelings but prefer fantasy & magic over science fiction & lasers? Do you just want to add another indie RPG to your endless list of games to play? Introducing...

Kisses & Curses is a free (with optional donations) game, based in the Lasers & Feelings system! It includes bonus mechanics for personal relationships and social status, to support that teen drama feeling, as well as all the standards Lasers & Feelings rules. I'd love it if you checked it out and/or had a go at playing it :)

It’s all real.

People who honestly think there shouldn’t be a proshot release of theater shows because then people wouldn’t go to the theater anymore are so fucking dumb holy shit how dumb do you have to be did people stop watching footbal games because it also airs on tv? did people stop going to concers because you could get the dvd? holy shit just let poor people have a taste of the thing too god damn it

I should add, as an opera fan, this is something opera got over long ago. I can access proshot recordings of practically every major opera production of the last 30 years, because most of them got official dvds. And that didn’t kill opera. Tickets for opera productions can often be gotten for cheap too. Operas, despite their reputation are actually really good about accessibility, at least in terms of cost.

But broadway musicals? The community that are mostly having this debate? My options are buying a ticket (for a large sum, plus a plane trip to New York), a sound-only official cast recording, a shaky low-fi bootleg video or a hollywood movie adaptation if I’m lucky. Tickets for musicals on broadway and the west end are often sold out and for large prices, and I doubt proshot recordings would put any major dent in that.

Also I can’t go into a crowded auditorium and probably won’t be safe to do so for years because people think Covid-19 is sooooo over

So it’d be nice to have a chance to experience a watered down version of shows ballets plays or etc. because I liked them and there’s so many I might not get to see

I can't stop thinking about the news out of Palestine. Israel is sieging al Shifa hospital. Videos of people's limbs being severed off are haunting (graphic video tw). The hospital has ran out of fuel and 39 babies in incubators are fending for their lives by themselves, because Israel has stationed snipers around the hospital and is shooting all medical crew that walks into their sight.

First, the narrative was Israel would never bomb hospitals. Now, the hospitals are Hamas bases. Then, we respect journalists. Now, we have a fucking kill list of journalists because they are Hamas collaborators. First, we are not letting fuel in until the hostages are released. Now, we are not accepting the hostages back because that would stop our ground invasion and let Hamas win. And I could go on about every single lie they're making up. If you look up "Hamas rape" on google, the first link leads to Times of Israel saying Israel has found no forensic evidence of sexual violence, and only one eyewitness testimony out of 3.5k people attending the rave. If you Google "Hamas beheaded babies" the top links say they have no evidence for the claim besides word of mouth from extremist soldiers. Israeli extremists think about the ugliest goriest scene they can make out in their sick heads, tell that to a international journalist and they run away with it like it's gospel.

And children are being killed in the name of these lies. Thousands are being displaced in images that remind me of the pictures of Tantura 75 years ago, with their hands up so the tanks don't shoot them. Amputees are leaving the hospitals in wheelchairs hours after their surgeries because they are being shot at. Elders who survived the Nakba on 48 are having to walk towards Southern Gaza on foot (imagine walking from one end of your city to the other on foot), displaced again. People are cheering for the haunting images of white phosphorus bombs being dropped over Gaza. Gazan workers who were arrested in the West Bank are being thrust back into the bombings wearing numbered labels.

This is not normal. We are seeing the early stages of the settler colonial genocide of an indigenous population. Native leaders who have visited Gaza say its refugee camps look eerily like reservations. We can stop this. For the first time we are able to see wide scale accounts from the hands of the people suffering the genocide, and Israel is so scared of it they have cut all communications in Gaza.

This is our litmus test. I think we have never seen more clearly, with Palestine, Armenia, Congo and Sudan how colonialism has made our world a rotten place to live in.

The South African apartheid collapsed due to boycotts. We have to do everything in our power to stop Israel's hegemony. Even talking to a group of friends about Palestine changes the status quo. There's no world where we can live peacefully if Israel accomplishes their goals.

basically every day i feel like i have to post this meme i made a while back

— Unknown

Crotator-Tot Pattern

This Pattern does NOT have to be done in Half Double Crochet, that's just my personal preference because i don't like Single Crochet lawl. (I'm just poor artist so its also a cost saving management.

This is the first pattern i've ever written, so there will be mistakes because of that and because i've only been crocheting for 2 years ;))K

This Pattern Takes...about 4-5 Hours to complete.

This pattern may NOT be used for profit, there MUST be a donation to your local animal shelter.

For this Particular Tator Tot I used a 3.125mm hook and Impeccable yarn by loops and threads in color "Pumpkin" and Caron 1 Pound in "Off White"

Ear 2x: Chain 7 Sc 5hdc sc Leave tail to attach to head

Head: R1: Hdc 6 magic circle R2: Hdc-inc R3: 1 Hdc hdc-inc R4: 2 Hdc hdc-inc R5: 3 Hdc hdc-Inc R6: Hdc ((2 Hdc change color, 2 Hdc change color) R7: Hdc CC 6 Hdc CC R8: 3 Hdc Hdc-dec R9: 2 Hdc Hdc-dec ((Place eyes and nose on and start attaching ears and the bed head floof then stuff the head)) R10-end: Hdc-dec Leave long tail to attach

Body:

R1: 6 Hdc magic circle R2: Hdc-inc R3: 1 Hdc Hdc-inc R4: 2 Hdc Hdc-inc R5: 3 hdc hdc-Inc R6: CC Hdc 6 CC (4hdc hdcdec) x5 R7: CC Hdc 8 CC *hdc* R8: CC Hdc 10 CC (5 Hdc Hdc-dec) x5 Hdcdec R9: CC Hdc Hdcdec 3 Hdc Hdcdec 3 Hdc R10: *Hdc* R11: CC 10 Hdc CC 3 Hdc 2 Hdcdc Hdc 2 Hdcdec finish row ((Stuff body now)) R12: Hdcdec CC 4Hdc Hdcdec 3Hdc CC Hdc Hdcdec R13-end: Hdcdec until closed

Arms x2: R1: 6 Hdc in MC sl st into first Hdc R2: *Hdc-inc* R3: 4 Hdc-Dec 4 Hdc R4-7: Hdc R8: sl st shut Leave long tail to sew on

Leg x2 R1: 10 HDC in MC R2: *Sc * R3: 2 SC-dec SC Sc around until desired length ~5-6 rounds

Bonkers: (using embroidery thread OR halving worsted weight (4 strand into 2 strands) ((Requires some finesse )) R1: 20 Hdc MC R2-4: hdc (repetitive testing on arms/legs to make sure they fit, increasing and decreasing as needed)

Constructing the Crotator-Tot

Attach each part of the body to its respective spot (I find it easier to put the tail on straight after the legs are on)

to add the fluff, wrap yarn around your fingers and cut, then tie around stitches. to make fluffy ((Carefully!)) Comb out the yarn

Genuinely how did we get to the point where the mental illness most known, above all else, for being fatal to its sufferers, became one of the least regarded as a serious problem

If there was a worm or a bacterium that ate away the pleasure centers of your brain until death seemed appealing, everybody would be pissing themselves in fear of it all the time. But because it's just a thing brains can do on their own (as if that isn't even scarier), people are like "yeah yeah everyone has it shut up"

'recovering' or 'healing' by starting to hate your former self + shame or mock others for being the way you used to be isn't actually very healing. you can acknowledge + be grateful that you have changed without transferring all your self hatred/shame onto others.

Those people who constantly reblog your stuff but you never really talk:

I do notice my regulars. You guys are the best.

“Regulars” makes me feel like a bar-tender…

Wiping down my dash at the end of an evening, I see your read-more, over-hear your rant in the tags, so I pour you a drink.

“…what’s troubling you, kid?”

It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday As the regular crowd tumbls by There’s an old fandom queen blogging next to me And her little gray tags catch my eye

She says tumblr I’m feeling like shit today can you send me some posts for a smile can we talk about slash, can you fill up my dash so I won’t have to think for a while

Laa dahdah didee dah La dahdah didee dah dadum

Fill up my dash, you’re my followers Fill it with pictures and fic Yeah we’re all in the mood for some memery And occasional pictures of dick

Now Jill is a centaur novelist And she writes of her girlfriend and wife She reblogs from Toni, who’s in My Little Pony, And probably will be for life.

As the staff implements wretched changes And we think of how aliens bone We are writing a lot about loneliess: It’s much better than writing alone.

AND sometimes we blog about politics

And sometimes we blog with a beer

And when I proudly boast that I’m older than most, 

They say ‘gross, what are YOU doing here’. 

*wild applause!!

As you may have heard, Gallaplacidia will be taking down her work from AO3 and the Gallapod. However, she said in her announcement email that saving and sharing her work is fine with her, so I've archived it all here.

Here you'll find:

If you love her work, I'd highly encourage you to download all of it for yourself. Please let me know if you find any errors in my labeling. Otherwise, enjoy!

Access the archive here.

HEY if you're into comicbooks (or want to be) then you should definitely check out this bundle of Image comics, it would be just the first nine volumes of Saga, but it also has Sex Criminals, Motor Crush, Moonstruck, over a hundred issues of Spawn, I Hate Fairyland, and a bunch of other super notable well-loved comics, at a pay what you want rate.

it's only available until the 18th, so pick it up before it's too late! it also helps to support both myself & charity, and you even get to choose which proportion of the money goes where, it's super cool and transparent 💕

This is amazing!

How the Doctor and the Master act after regenerations, and seeing each other again.

“this pillow works better if your a back sleeper” bitch I’m a rotisserie chicken sleeper I don’t stop turning until sleep rips me forcefully from this world

if I lie here

if I just lay here

I’ll probably fall asleep so leave me alone