Characters Without Stories

I’ve been starting to come back to TTRPGs, been hiding in a hole for months 😂 Playing a Daggerheart short campaign with @thisisvictor.bsky.social and @dngnclub.itch.io that has been a total blast, love playing with these two! Also ran No Thank You Evil for my daughter and husband, such a fun game!

I had to come back on here to share the Spotify playlist I made for my Blades '68 game. So here, in no particular order, are all of the Billboard Hot 100 from 1968 open.spotify.com/playlist/5AF...

Started playing Persona 5 and my husband asked what it was about. Me:“So it’s like magical girls, but not just girls, and it’s like Final Fantasy VII because they summon these personas in battle, but also it’s a high school relationship game that’s about taking down a pervy teacher.” Didn’t help 😂

Went to an elementary school event and the kids had some time out on the playground. There had apparently been a battle fought with chalk about whether the 67 meme needs to die. “67” written and crossed out, over and over again, on the basketball court.

Watched Bob Roberts hours before the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran. It was a prescient gut punch when we watched it, doubly so now. Someone ask Tim Robbins his predictions for the next 40 years of U.S. politics

I counted at least 70 standing ovations and 5 chants of “USA” during last night’s State of the Union. It sucked to watch, it was infuriating, but I think everyone should hear it. It was frightening and we need to know what their priorities are.

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Feels like every new movie I watched in 2025 is about men. boxd.it/R8ZrG

TTRPG killjoys: “you can’t play a version of an established character from TV” Me: “fuck you I’m playing Guinan as an orchid cactus and there’s nothing you can do about it”

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#dispatch I can’t stand him

Shit me too, I’m bereft.

resharing this little award I made for everyone who is "ruining" the #TTRPG space 🤭

Spent some time browsing YouTube to discover new music and discovered these trends: Jazz is back? Almost pop punk Dance moves inspired by David Byrne

"One, two, three, four Tonight I'm gonna be a massive whore" youtu.be/20TDd19oA1Q?...

Saw Wake Up Dead Man yesterday, so good. I just want to highlight the scene with Bridget Everett playing Louise over the phone. Phenomenal acting that made me cry but also the scene is a touching and pivotal character moment.

Just to be crystal clear because the socials are constantly lying: I have not followed you on or joined Lemon8 and I have not joined MetaAI, and I won’t do either of those things in the future.

“There is a risk that the focus on the second strike and specifically the talk of ‘war crimes’ feeds into the administration’s false wartime framing and veils the fact that the entire boat-strikes campaign is murder, full stop.”

Did anyone else play Dredge and think “I need to do a Call of Cthulhu game set on a fishing boat?

Just saw Twinless. Fucking amazing. Dylan O’Brien and James Sweeney do incredible work. Especially after seeing Friendship, this film is so much sharper, deeper, and funnier.

If you liked the movie FRIENDSHIP we need to have words.

My new obsession: soapbox races. The creative racers, the color commentary, the nail biting drama. It’s amazing youtu.be/ZS0nP2IAs44?...

I love the genre mashup. Give me all the Golden Girls/Cthulhus and WWII/Draculas you've got. But I'm also looking for non-mashups. Sometimes it feels like the industry has an allergy. Westerns without magic. Drama without aliens. Detectives without Cthulhu. www.explorersdesign.com/one-genre-ga...

I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Volition #discoelysium

There’s a melancholy that comes from finishing a book for the first time. I just finished a 9 book series, over 5000 pages. It’s overwhelming. I wonder why that is.

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Listen to me make a character that I would definitely interview myself about if that was possible.

TikTok needs to have a report option for sugar baby messages because apparently they aren’t a scam.

So this is how work has been