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"How To Be That Girl" // Ryoko Kui

Here's the full short story for anyone who wants to read it! It's explicitly a trans story 💖

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you know you need to get back to non-gmo grassfed organic canon when the group chat AUs start turning into stuff like the characters hiking the Appalachian Trail. but will I? Non.

“that character would never hike the Appalachian Trail.”

That’s even better. Imagine the most outdoors-adverse person alive. They’ve never peed outside. They would rather be drawn and quartered than eat camp food, and they’re also broke.

Now what is it going to take to get them into a situation where they’re spending 5 months and several thousand dollars to hike over 2,000 miles? Likely with 2-3 other people they cannot stand.

This is perhaps your greatest challenge yet, but I know with some creativity and elbow grease you will find a reasonably in-character excuse to put them in the most hateful situation they could possibly imagine

& it will be so funny. And horrible. And maybe they’ll fall in love < 3 They’re at least getting trenchfoot.

Hi, I’ve been thinking about this comment for about three and a half minutes now because it’s had me so confused, and I think I know what’s going on but I don’t want to make an assumption so I am asking so genuinely:

This post is about the Appalachian Trail, a hiking route established in the 1900s, which roughly three million people visit yearly, and one option is to thruhike it, meaning going from one end to the other without stopping, which many of my friends have done.

Are you thinking of the Oregon Trail?

To be entirely fair, it's 1000% in-character for any D&D party to fuck up what road they're on and not notice until they're all standing in the waters off Key West and finally pass the knowledge check to remember that Oregon does not have gators.

I am well aware the Appalachian Trail ends like two whole states before Florida but it's also 1000% in character for any D&D party to triple down on a mistake.

i may not be gods strongest warrior but there is all sorts of bullshit that he makes me deal with and i hndle it not very well usually

The fact that Eve was able to sneak away long enough to eat the apple means that she had ample unsupervised time. We don't know what god did with Lilith's body. All I'm saying is that it's possible Eve ate Lilith.

God had to ask Satan about it and he was like I didn't even tempt her she just did that on her own. It was pre-apple too, so Eve was still free of sin.

remember to make your mark on history so you have a chance of being turned into a cute anime girl hundreds of years after your death

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Yeah, uh, "purity" is not a term I would use for raw unfiltered ice that's been part of a pack for unknown years. "Full of fucking who knows what" is more like it.

This is very much giving me Broad Street Pump energy.

Something that gave H.P. Lovecraft nightmares is the work of my favorite artist. In "At the Mountains of Madness" he specifically mentions "the strange and disturbing Asian paintings of Nicholas Roerich."

This is what Roerich's paintings look like:

#hp lovecraft thought penguins were grotesque and horrifying#he was not a difficult man to frighten

I'LL NEVER BE OVER THIS

"I like it when the rules get out of the way of roleplaying" well I don't. I like it when the rules get in the way of roleplaying. They have to actively impede roleplaying. If the rules are allowing for any roleplaying at all, they are bad rules.

No but seriously the thing in quotes is such a puzzling statement to me, because like obviously I don't adhere to a reductive definition of roleplaying where it's like "roleplaying is when dice are not being rolled," but like... the rules can actually facilitate roleplaying! In fact, many good rules do! If you find that rules are impeding roleplaying you may be using the wrong rules and should perhaps consider different rules!

(and no I don't think D&D's rules in any way get in the way of roleplaying because they're combat-focused because combat and roleplaying are not mutually exclusive. In fact, D&D has a lot of mechanics that facilitate roleplaying in combat.)

I mean, idk. It feels like such an empty statement. No one actually enjoys rules that get in the way of roleplaying. What that statement is actually trying to say is that the speaker finds certain rules detrimental to their enjoyment in a roleplaying game. The rules are not actually detrimental to the actual act of roleplaying (no, seriously, they aren't!), you've just misidentified "not liking the outcomes certain rules produce" as "the rules getting in the way of roleplaying."

The solution is not necessarily getting rid of rules, but either a) accepting that there is value in the types of outcomes and narratives that the rules actually produced or b) looking for a game with rules that produce the types of outcomes you want.

Anyway I'm killing you all with my mind powers

I think this stems from the fact that a lot of people - especially people who only play D&D have a small reference pool of systems - don't seem to understand that rules and mechanics actually can support different kinds of storytelling, even within the same genre.

Like, let's take Masks and Sentinel Comics, for example. Both are comic book inspired superhero RPGs. But Mask's rules have mechanics that directly relate to relationships and power dynamics, as well as the way people see your character - including your character themselves. Meanwhile, it has almost no actual mechanics that are actually about the characters' superpowers.

Sentinels, on the other hand, is all about the powers. It has a system that makes it so that more potent powers can only be used when the situation gets dire during a fight. This immediately creates a different play dynamic wherein the focus is put on the characters using their cool powers to beat up bad guys.

So, if you wanted to play a superhero game in order to explore the way having superpowers impacts someone's life and relationships, you should play Masks. If you want to emulate a bombastic popcorn action flick, you'd go for Sentinels. If you try the other way round, you're doing the equivalent of shoveling snow with a soup ladle - yeah, it's technically possible, but the thing you're using was not designed for this activity.

call me lactose the way I make bad bitches stomachs turn

call me lactose the way they keep coming back for more of me anyway

TIL the first known case of “dying from laughing” involved the greek man called Chrysippus, who, after giving figs to his donkey, cried out “Now give the donkey a drink of pure wine to wash down the figs”, had a fit of laughter afterwards and died.

via reddit.com

pretty funny i guess

had to be there

Translation is always tricky, but I remember this slightly different:

Figs were an imported delicacy at the time, and the donkey just managed to eat them (without being given any on purpose). Seeing a donkey eating several times their own value in figs, the philosopher looked to his servant who might have been standing there either in shock, despair, or both, and said something along the lines of “Oh don’t just stand there. Get him some (undiluted) wine to wash the figs down with”. With (undiluted) wine also being an expensive drink.

I feel like that context makes it funnier. Basically like standing in front of your burning mansion with a butler, meeting their eyes, and telling them that you still feel a little chilly and ask them if they could put on an extra log or two.

idk what’s funnier, the burning house situation, or being the butler as you watch your master laugh so hard at his own joke that he fully fucking dies.