Ok, so I was reading this news story:

So far so normal, right? But then:

Like what. And then:

Like, I think Alaska State Trooper Ken Marsh wants to be a romance novelist. 

well would you look at that

One of the best posts

Thank you @t-rexseesyoursins and everyone who got me to 5 reblogs!

studies from Pride and Prejudice (2005)

Self care is taking TTRPG mechanics clearly meant for a Game of Thrones-esque high-drama high-stakes game and playing as goblins named Pin, Little Toe, and Fleck, who are fighting over the last goblin king Sleeg’s infant human son… named Kevin. 

(No one mentions that he’s a human but they are a little suspicious about why Kevin is still a baby while Kevin’s younger sister, Pin, is a year old and already an adult, as is right for goblins.)

this is the only tik tokk ever, actually

The CINEMATOGRAPHY the Drama! The TWIST.

This is the best parody of every Western ever and every time I see it I love it more

A masterclass in how to set up and deliver drama!

So, this is my homepage and I haven’t changed anything for ages, but it automatically updates the logos/screengrabs of my fav pages sometimes.

Why.

Why is Tumblr like this now.

I hate it.

I showed the discord friends the hideous tumblr eyes. Results are as expected.

i maybe made a few adjustments

Today’s TTRPG session has featured, so far:

@danihelman-does-stuff​ 

The Ensemble system by Rusty Quill! It’s still in beta and also a bit of a hack to add werewolf mechanics :D

Serious roleplay ONLY.

The misfit cast of a one-shot of the dialect system my friends and I played last summer. We played as a doomed Martian colony in the years after losing contact with Earth, in a social climate of political dissidence, alienation, conspiracy and religious zealotry. To the surprise of absolutely no one, it ended in absolute fucking tragedy and completely over the top gay angst.

Juno: @in-a-kingdombythesea

The mother of Mars, and the death of them all. Hippie turned cult leader, preaching the colony’s inevitable unity with the red planet, and at the end, brings it by her own hands.

Doc: @hgb94

The colony’s last qualified medical practicioner, and the martyr. Not a qualified therapist, but hasn’t bothered correcting anyone on that. Infiltrates the cult and seduces Juno in a last attempt to stop her plans. She falls in love with Rigby too late, but gets to die in her arms.

Rigby: @nilim

Black market trader and profiteer. Has little loyalty for anyone but her loved ones, and as the state of the colony worsens over the years, goes from making the most out of the situation, to trying to assure the survival of the few people she cares about. In the end, she fails to convince them to flee. She chooses to die with Doc.

Napoleon: @kimabutch

Head engineer, and their last figure of authority. Old friend of Juno, parent figure to Lackey, and carries the weight of the colony as it all starts to come down. In the end, they die in a last attempt to save just one more person, as Juno opens every airlock of the habitat at once.

Lackey:

One of the colony’s three rover pilots, and the survivor. Young, idealistic, and fiercely loyal to Napoleon, but begins to keep dangerous secrets once pulled into Rigby’s opportunism. As conflict grows, she has more more hope and trust to lose than anyone. In the end, she is the one to lead the handful surviving colonists away from the habitat’s hollow remains.

I’ll never be over the parallels between Barrett in episode 11, measuring Sasha’s worth against that of a machine in the most underhand of compliments, making clear that he only sees her as a useful object:

And Sasha’s response to Grizzop in episode 89 saying “you’ve got people who want to keep you alive, so, we’ll do our best” — what Lydia describes as “the most bitter laugh, as a person that has been used as a tool,” taking absolutely no comfort from Grizzop’s words. Sasha is used to being kept alive for things. She was a good, useful thief for Barrett and probably knows that that’s the only reason she survived Other London while kids like Brock disappeared. Rakefine kept her around and tried to make her into this pretty thing for some ill-defined reason, but it wasn’t because he valued her as a person.

And then there’s Sasha’s anger in episode 112 when Grizzop tries to reprimand her for caring more about her adamantine dagger than her own life, telling her that she is “more important than that thing.” Sasha is uncharacteristically furious at this, shooting back at Grizzop that she was doing her job. And as much as I love Grizzop’s sentiment and treasure his words, I can also see why she would respond so poorly to them, given her history. Why Grizzop weighing her life against that of an object — even if he comes down heartily in favour of her, even if this was totally not his intention — might have made her think of Barrett comparing her usefulness, and thus her life, to that of a machine.

Because I think, on some level, Sasha sees her usefulness as her entire worth and the only reason she’s alive. Her life is just, as she said, the “product of countless deaths” — the result of Barrett and Rakefine judging her to be worth more than so many Other London kids because of what she could do for them. She shows again and again during the series that her life means very little to her, even after her friends tell a literal dragon how much her life is worth — something we know touched her deeply, but that part of her brain may have told her was just another instance of her life being useful enough to others to warrant saving. Her life doesn’t really belong to her. It’s always been up to other people whether she lives or dies. 

Her knives, though, her knives are hers. She’s collected them over these past few months as she’s traveled the world, won battles, and made friends, and each one is a symbol of these new experiences. Unlike her friends, there’s no chance they’ll leave her (like Brock left, like Zolf left.) Unlike her life, even, the continued existence of her knives doesn’t depend on how useful she is to other people: they’re stable, fixed things, and they’re truly hers. 

So when Grizzop, in 112, responds to Sasha saying that she was just doing her job with “your job is also to survive” and “caring about daggers is not part of your job,” I think what Sasha understands is another instance of her life (her “survival”) being connected to her usefulness (her “job”). She hears Grizzop (and Barrett, and Rakefine) valuing her life because it’s useful to them, because her life isn’t really hers. And she hears someone disregarding the only things that she sees as her own, the symbols of her independence and growth beyond her old captors. Of course she’s angry and frustrated. 

And of course Grizzop doesn’t understand this, and I’m not even sure there’s much that he, in that moment, could have said or done to help move Sasha away from the way she sees her own life in relation to others (though not shouting would have definitely helped.) Sasha’s growth is a long non-linear in a way that I deeply appreciate. There are times that we see the seeds of Sasha valuing her life in and of itself — her hug of Eren Fairhands after he heals her, her listening to what Grizzop said about planning for the future — but it’s clearly something that takes time. It’s a really thoughtful, complex portrayal of a character, and god, I love Sasha Racket.

the RQG Red String Brigade is absolutely hilarious: even more evidence

(by @nilim, @in-a-kingdombythesea, @uhhhhhhhhh-huh, and me)

I did an art!

So I’m starting Critical Role, with campaign 2 first. Thoughts as I go in this space, I guess

I’m still in the intro announcements but Matt has wholesome energy and I know none of these people but I’m vibing with the blonde woman quietly and methodically organizing her dice

A tiny goblin girl who is apparently a kleptomaniac?? ADOPT.

de-stress doodly thing of my favourites, for yet another Thing i want to do. will i explain? someday! maybe!

Another try at Sasha!

Tired: Jonny Sims is Evil

Wired: Alex Newall is a Monster but we respect his craft

Inspired: Ben Meredith is the true RQ Menace

Time for Grizzop and Sasha playlist quote crimes. Charlie, thanks for putting Battle Cry on your Grizzop playlist and inspiring this, I gave myself feels trying to put it together.  Battle Cry by The Family Crest

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Time for Grizzop and Sasha playlist quote crimes. Charlie, thanks for putting Battle Cry on your Grizzop playlist and inspiring this, I gave myself feels trying to put it together.  Battle Cry by The Family Crest

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